﻿Afbil 16, 1920 



The Florists' Review 



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CLUB DOINGS 



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CHIOAGO CLUB HAS MOVIE. 



"Wonderland Under Qlass." 



The 8pe<?ial attraction of the meeting 

 of the Chicago Florists' Club Thursday 

 evening, April 8, was the presentation 

 of the 2-reel motion picture, "Won- 

 derland Under Glass, ' ' by the American 

 Greenhouse Manufacturing Co. This in- 

 teresting and instructive movie was 

 shown on that night for the first time 

 in this country. Starting at the office 

 of P. L. McKee, president of the com- 

 pauy, the first reel showed the planning 

 and measuring, the hauling and storing, 

 the punching and riveting, the sanding 

 and painting and all the other opera- 

 tions performed in the company's fac- 

 tory. The second reel showed various 

 types of houses, many interesting de- 

 tails of construction and finally the 

 houses in actual use, both for large-scale 

 jjrowing and for the retailer's display 

 purposes. Actual views were shown of 

 the company's houses erected for the 

 W. A. Eowe Floral Co., and Albert Sen- 

 der, Kirkwood, Mo.; Herman Knoll, and 

 Wm. J. Lemp, St. Louis; Gullett & Sons, 

 Lincoln, 111., and A. N. Nielsen, Inc., 

 and W. A. Amling, Pana, 111. 



A rising vote of thanks was extended 

 to the American Greenhouse Manufac- 

 turing Co. Owing to the small attend- 

 ance, P. L. McKee, president of the com- 

 pany, was requested to allow the Chi- 

 cago Florists' Club to present "Wonder- 

 land Under Glass" again at the May 

 meeting, and he kindly consented to do 

 so. Tickets free of cost will be issued 

 for this occasion. 



Joseph Kohout on Organization. 



-^Another feature of the evening was 

 an exceedingly instructive paper read 

 l>y Joseph Kohout, president of the 

 Commercial Flower Growers of Chicago, 

 on the benefits to growers of organiza- 

 tion, which appears on page 21. 



When President Waters called for 

 comments on Mr. Kohout 's paper, J. E. 

 PoUworth emphasized the desirability, 

 for retailer, wholesaler and grower 

 alike, of stabilizing prices, since the 

 natural operation of the law of supply 

 and demand causes the public to react 

 against the purchase of flowers and thus 

 hurts the whole industry. 



Red Columbia Shown. 



The flowers exhibited at the meeting 

 totaled one bloom. But that one was of 

 a quality which would have made it 

 s^tand alone, even if there had been 

 other exhibits. It was an excellent 

 specimen of Red Columbia, which 

 Joseph Hill had brought up from Rich- 

 mond, Ind. 



This flower attracted the attention of 

 all the growers present, who had much 

 admiration for its appearance and great 

 interest in Mr. Hill's description of its 

 characteristics, which, he said, are just 

 "l<e its parent's. 



New Members. 



In addition to these notable features, 

 the regular business of the club showed 

 progress. L. A. Woodward, 208 South 



La Salle street, and Mr. Paselk, grower 

 with Poehlmann Bros. Co., were pro- 

 posed for membership and the following 

 new members were elected: Charles 9. 

 McCauley, Geneva; William Langhout, 

 172 North Wabash avenue; Lorenz P. 

 Geiger, 4905 Quincy street; Edward 

 Clody, 3912 North Clark street; George 

 Wienhoeber, 41 South Wabash avenue; 

 A. Hall, 4700 Sheridan road; H. K 

 Bruns, 3040 West Madison street; Fred 

 Stielow, Niles Center; C. Clemensen, 

 7801 Exchange avenue; Nick Damm, Jr., 

 Morton Grove; James R. Paul, 1112 

 Lawrence avenue, and Ernst Weiss, 

 Elmhurst. 



Ladies' Night in May. 



Paul Weiss, when asked whether he 

 had anything to add to his "Facts 

 About the Coal Situation" printed in 

 the announcement of the meeting, re- 

 peated with emphasis his injunction to 

 buy early. 



Guy French, for the good-of-the-club 

 committee, announced that the next 

 meeting of the club would be ladies' 

 night; the details are to be an- 

 nounced later. Mr. French suggested 

 that there would be less occasion than 

 usual for drying off plants this sum- 

 mer, since a good demand will result 

 from such events as the Republican con- 

 vention in this city in June and the 

 gathering of the Elks July 5 to 10. Be- 

 tween 5,000 and 10,000 corsage bouquets 

 will be required for the Elks' conven- 

 tion, as well as about 20,000 roses and 

 probably other flowers in proportion. 



NEW YORK CLUB MEETS. 



Mossman Speaks on Orchids. 



The monthly meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club was held in the 

 club's rooms, in the Engineering So- 

 cieties' building, Monday evening, April 

 12, with a good attendance despite the 

 bad transportation conditions due to 

 the railroad trainmen's strike. 



J. P. Mossman, superintendent of the 

 orchid growing establishment of Clem- 

 ent Moore, Hackensack, N. J., read a 

 most interesting paper on "Raising 

 Orchids from Seed." 



In the short discussion which fol- 

 lowed, Joseph A. Manda asked the 

 speaker whether in raising hybrid or- 

 chids he had found that the hybrids 

 could be brought into flower at the 

 same season as the species. The reply 

 was that it had been found that some 

 hybrids had como into flower two or 

 three weeks earlier than the species. 

 Mr. Manda explained that he had made 

 the point before the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board in Washington that hybrids 

 could not be depended upon for a crop 

 of flowers at the same time as the 

 species. For instance, brassocattleyas 

 could be flowered three or four times. 



S. G. Milosy spoke of difficulties in 

 tho flowering of cattleya seedlings and 

 remarked that it would be necessary to 

 have a separate house for each varie- 

 ty's seedlings. He believed it would 

 take about ten years to work up a stock 

 of cattleyas to make the plants of com- 



mercial value. On the motion of P. F.. 

 Kessler, Mr. Mossman was given a ris- 

 ing vote of thanks for his paper. 



Committee Reports. 



Roman J. Irwin, chairman of the din- 

 ner committee, reported that the club's 

 annual dinner, March 17, was a com- 

 plete success. There were sixty-eight 

 guests and 375 tickets were taken by 

 members. On motion of Max Sehling,. 

 the report was approved and a rising 

 vote of thanks was given the committee. 



Secretary Young, for the flower show 

 committee, made a preliminary report 

 which, he said, was almost conclusive, 

 the final report awaiting settlement of 

 matters which might necessitate but a 

 slight difference in the final report. 

 Chairman Havemeyer and Treasurer 

 Newbold had made an audit in detail 

 of the accounts, which showed that re- 

 ceipts in all were $61,540.22, which, 

 after running expenses, premiums and 

 war taxes amounting to over $5,000 

 were deducted, would leave a balance 

 of about $9,000 for division between 

 the club and the Horticultural Society 

 of New York. The report was, on mo- 

 tion, received amid applause. 



The transportation committee pre- 

 sented a report on travel arrangements 

 for the Cleveland convention of the 

 S. A. F., covering two routes, but no 

 action was taken and the matter wa» 

 held over until the next meeting, when 

 a third route is to be presented. 



New Members. 



The following were elected to mem- 

 bership in the club: J. N. Champion, 

 New Haven, Conn.; D. A. Laird, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y.; K. H. Zeevat, New York; 

 H. Berkowitz, New York; J. M. 

 Nitschke, New York; H. M. Cooke, 

 Plattsburg, N. Y; F. A. Heffner, Hobo- 

 ken, N. J.; M. J. Watson, New York; 

 Herman Mamitsch, Rockville Center, L. 

 I.; A. H. Brown, Greenwich, Conn.; H. 

 Bergman, Far Rockaway, N. Y., and 

 D. A. Dawson, New York. 



The following were nominated for 

 election at the next meeting: T. E. King, 

 Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y.; Wm. A. 

 Finger, Jr., Hicksville, N. Y.; Alonzo J. 

 Bryan, Washington, N. J.; W. Stanley 

 Murtfeldt, Newburgh, N. Y.; Samuel J. 

 Clark, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; T. A. Weston, 

 New York; Axel C. Palm, Portchester,. 

 N. Y., and J. P. Mossman, Hackensack, 

 N.J. 



Flower Markets Discussed. 



Max Sehling addressed the meeting 

 at some length on the subject of the 

 flower markets which Park Commis- 

 sioner Gallatin was trying to establish 

 at Columbus Circle, Union Square and 

 other points. Mr. Sehling appeared to 

 see in these markets a means for the 

 disposal of the surplus stock of growers ^ 

 of plants and flowers without detriment 

 to the interests of the trade, and also 

 for satisfying the demands of the poorer - 

 classes, a love for plants and flowers 

 among whom he thought it desirable to 

 cultivate. A long discussion followed, 

 the consensus appearing to be that no 

 grower could be found who would be 



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