April 13, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



39 



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Plant Combtnationt that Can be Offered at Popular Prices are the Big Sellen During the Easter Rush. 



Indiana held its monthly meeting at 

 Terre Haute, April 11, and had the ban- 

 ner meeting of the year. The day was 

 an ideal one and members came from 

 all directions. At no meeting in years 

 was every section of the state so well 

 represented. The visitors were met at 

 the station by several of the Terre 

 Haute florists in their motor cars and 

 driven to the Deming hotel, where the 

 crowd congregated. From thence we 

 made the rounds of the retail stores, be- 

 ginning with the Reiss store. This is 

 one of the newer stores and everything 

 looks spick-and-span and thoroughly 

 up-to-date. From there we went to N. 

 B. & C. E. Stover's store. Mr. Stover's 

 Grand Rapids friends will be pleased to 

 know that he is doing a fine business 

 and is in splendid health. Then we went 

 to the J. Heinl & Son establishment. This 

 is perhaps the oldest retail establish- 

 ment in the city and ranks among the 

 oldest and best in the state. Everything 

 is thoroughly modern and shows that 

 the junior Heinl is capable of carrying 

 forward successfully the business so well 

 established 'by his father. Of course Mr. 

 Heinl, Sr., was on hand to bid the 

 visitors welcome in his own genial way. 

 Perhaps the strongest magnet in draw- 

 ing the members to Terre Haute was the 

 new Davis greenhouses. For about a 

 year we have had the wonders of this 

 place preached to us, so that everyone 

 was anxious to get a glimpse of the big- 

 gest houses in Indiana. Well, to use the 

 expression of some of the members, 

 "they are some houses." Two of them 

 are completed and in operation, cucum- 

 bers being grown exclusively, the Davis 

 strain. The enormous dimensions of 

 these houses were almost beyond com- 

 prehension by many and the perfect 

 construction was a delight to all. Mr. 

 Davis is extremely modest about the 

 whole thing and seems to think it noth- 

 ing unusual. Perhaps it isn't, for a 

 Davis. 



The Business Session. 



We had lunch and the business ses- 

 sion in the great service building, where 

 they are packing some hundreds of 

 dozens of cucumbers each day. After 

 the usual formalities of welcome and 

 a nice talk by the president of the local 

 Chamber of Commerce, President Vesey 

 proceeded to the routine business. Per- 

 haps the most gratifying part of this 



meeting was the addition of seventeen 

 new members. They were: J. Cowan, 

 Ed. Cowan, Thos. Stevenson, N. B. 

 Stover, Edgar Weber and Wm. Dinkel, 

 of Terre Haute; Geo. Blackman, Evans- 

 ville; C. B. Sayre, La Fayette; A. L. 

 Dunkel, Brazil; H. Richmond, Sullivan 

 C. Hack and Wm, Smith, Indianapolis; 

 Wm. Barnaby, Columbus; R. Newcomb 

 and F. McCabe, Chicago, the latter 

 • two being elected to associate member- 

 ship. 



President "Vesey announced the fol- 

 lowing committees to arrange for the 

 A. C. S. convention in Indianapolis next 

 January : 



Entertainment — O. E. Steinkamp. I. Berter- 

 mann, Jos. H. Hill, Geo. B. Wiegand. 



Reception — J. Bertermann, H. Junge, H. Rie- 

 man, O. R. Oause, J. Hartje. 



Decoratlqn— H. L. Wiegand, H. Pabnd, 0. 

 Schwomeyer, A. P. Reynolds. 



Membership — W. W. Coles, F. Heinl. F. Dorner, 

 W. J. Vesey, J. A. E5. Haugb, E. G. Hill. 



Table displays — F. H. Lemon, C. C. Thomas, 

 Chas. Pahud, C. H. Bookedis, John Rieman. 



It was decided to have the competi- 

 tion for the carnation trophy at the 

 A. C. S. exhibition instead of at the 

 annual meeting of the state association. 



President Vesey also announced the 

 Winona outing committee. They are 

 J. D. Connor, Jr., Wm. Terrell and Fred 

 King. 



After ad.iournment we made the 

 rounds of the greenhouses — first to 

 those of the Terre Haute Rose & Car- 

 nation Co., then to Cowan Bros., then 

 to F. Wunker & Sons, and finally to 

 Heinl & Weber. At each place a gen- 

 eral line of stock is grown for the 

 stores and each showed some excellent 

 Easter material. 



Those present were: 



O. E. steinkamp, A. F. J. Baur, H. L, Wie- 

 gand, J. Hartje, J. Grande, A. Kempe, Karl 

 Hack, J. A. Grande, Jr., Robt. Bails. Morris 



The Chicago Store that Made This Got Twelve Dollars for It. 



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