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The Florists^ Review 



.\r<asT !t, litlT. 



(if his iiiti'icst iimi the iiaiiie of tlic for- 

 |i(n:ition was cliaiiircd to llu<;(j tScliroctcr, 

 Inc. At tliat tiiiii' the corporation was 

 <ariviii<; a coiisidcraliit^ load of dt'l)ts 

 and Mr. Scdiroctcr states that it has not 

 boeii })ossibk' to lijihton tliis to any 

 >,froat extent exiH'pt as lie has raised 

 money oil his {personal credit. ''Among 

 our many creditors," says Mr. Schroo- 

 ter, "were some who made it possible 

 to accom])lisli what we did, and to these 

 1 wisli to say tliat I ri'jfret very much 

 that tlii'y should be losers throuj^li their 

 continued kindness." No court action 

 has been taken; the business simply has 

 l)een discontinued. 



A. B. Barber, F. J. Ritzenthaler, C. E. Russell and F. A. Fricdiey, of Cleveland, Vacationing. 



body 111' the trade." luasnuKdi as tliis 

 is a mild criticism ot' the jiolicy adojded 

 by the boaril of directors ol' the V. 11. A., 

 a few wolds of exjilanati(ui may be 

 necessary. 



The 1-". II. A. is an association which 

 is jturely mutual and is oj)eratcii without 

 pr(dit to any one, Iiecause insurance is 

 effected at actual cost. Allow me to asl<, 

 for example, if the Editor of The Rc- 

 \ iew were altruistic eiunioh to hand 

 out his aihertisements without jprofit, 

 liow much money \vould he be \villinij; 

 to appropriate to advertise the fact? 



To my mind, the directors oi tlie F. II. 

 A. have adopted a wise policy in usin;j; 

 the m()ne\ ]d;iced in their trust for the 

 beiietit of F. II. A. meinbers, rather than 

 use it ill iiiducin<j (jtliers to share the 

 l>enefits Avhich the members have been 

 wise enough to s(>curc. 



Equitable adjustments, jiromjit pay- 

 ment of losses and methods of promotion 

 that have never conllicted with the in- 

 surance laws of any state, have given 

 exceediiii^h- s;itisfactory results. 



John G. Esler. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



All tlio>r contemplating going to \ew 

 York for the S. A. F. convention should 

 get in c(unmiinicat i(Ui with \V. 11. Eiss, 

 vice-jiresident for Western New York, 

 508 Washington street, Buffalo. Ar- 

 rangements will be made to haxc a 

 special car leaxf F.ulT.'ilo Monday, Au- 

 gust L'O, whi(di will take car(» ol' those 

 going frfuii Buffalo, also any who are 

 going from the surrouiidiiiL; towns and 

 from Rochester. 



LADIES' S. A. F. 



A meeting of the oftic(M-s and board 

 of directors is called ?iT the Hotel ^Ic 

 Alpin, New York city, the headtpiarters 

 of the society, Tuesday evening, .\ugust 

 21, Ijy order of tlie president, Miss Fiil- 

 mer, and Mrs. J. G. Hancock. (hairni;in 

 of the board. 



Mrs. f'has. 11. ^faxnai^l. Sec 'v. 



AMERICAN GLADIOLUS SOCIETY. 



The ei^lltll annual exliildtioii and con- 

 vention of the American Cladiolus So 

 ciety will be hebl August 2?, to 2C. in 

 the Museum buildiiii:. New York Bo- 

 tanical fiarden, I'.i(Uix ]>arl\. New York. 

 The exhibition will be given under the 

 auspices of tlie Xew York Botanical 

 Garden, the lloit ii-iiltural Society of 

 \ew ^■o|•k rind the New York Florists' 

 Club, eaidi oiyani/.atioii having contrib- 

 uted to the |iri/e fund. Tn a<idition to 

 tlu' ixeiieral pri/e-, maii\- special ]ui/es 



are offered. Schedules may be had on 

 ajiplication to the secretary of the Hor- 

 ticultural (Society of New York, New 

 York Botanical Garden, Bronx park. 

 New York. 



The annual meeting of the American 

 • iladiolus Society will be h(dd at the 

 .Museum building, Bronx park, at 2 p. ni., 



August 24. 



11. Youell, Scc'y. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Fort Recovery, O. The Fort Keco\ 

 ery Dahlia Gardens, Ijecause of Hood 

 losses and otlu'r rexcrses, filed a volun- 

 tary jietitiou in bankruptcy .luly 28. 



Detroit, Mich. — Hugo Sidiroeter, Inc., 

 has closed its store. The business was 

 started a few years ago as the Schroeter- 

 Stalielin Co,, the interested parties being 

 Hugo Schroeter, son of 1*>. Sidiroeter, 

 one of the oldest and most highly re- 

 spected Detroit florists, and A. .1. Stahe- 

 lin, a highly successful young grower 

 at Ke.jfield, Mich. The luisiness did not 

 realize the hopes of the founders and in 

 th(> course of time Mr. Stahelin disposed 



FOUR CLEVELANDERS AT PLAY. 



After you have worked hard all win- 

 ter, spending ten or more hours in the 

 store, hustling out boiupiets and de- 

 signs, and being on the job seven days 

 a week, and then, when summer comes 

 and you have a eliance to take a vaca- 

 tion, you go on a fishing trip with some 

 good fellows, and have excellent luck, 

 ■'ain't it a grand and glorious feel- 

 ing?" 



The faces of the four Clevelanders 

 shown in the accompanying illustration 

 pro\e conclusively that they were feel- 

 ing grand and glorious. They were at 

 Fine lake, which is ne:ir Youngstowii, 

 ()., and assert that during their stay 

 they caught thirty-six black bass and 

 1 is' bluegills. 



The barefoot fisherman is A. B. Bar- 

 ber, of the Jones-Kussell Go., and sec- 

 retary of the Cleveland Florists' Club; 

 the two iji the center are Frank J. Kit- 

 zeiithaler, of Knoble Bros., and Charles 

 K. Kussell, of the Jones-Hussell Co.; the 

 other is Frank A. Fricdiey, who needs 

 no introduction. 



Needk'ss to say that these four re- 

 turned to Cleveland full of energy, and 

 icady for a strenuous season. Work, 

 they say, is worth while when at the 

 end of the season there waits such a va- 

 cation as this one. 



INDOOR SWEET PEAS. 



There is no advantage in sowing the 

 early indoiu' sweet [icas before the mid- 

 dle or end of August. If started too soon. 

 the intense heat half ruins them, and 

 while the flowers may be had as early 

 as October, they are not specially 

 needed so early in the season, when 

 mums and other flowers .are abund.ant. 

 From Thanksgiving onward, however, 

 the market takes to them morc^ kindly. 

 < hristiDas Fink Spencer S(dls as wcdl as 

 anything, .and if its white companion is 

 also grow 11 you will ha\e two rt'ally good 

 \arieties. It i< true that the old gran- 

 dil'.ora \arieties will bloom earlier and 

 more abnuclaiitly, but their llowers will 

 not <'((inmaiid the same prices as the 

 Sjiencers. 



Tt is no use trying to grow sweet peas 

 in small, narrow, dark and stuffv houses. 

 Cive them a hcuise as roomy as possible, 

 w ith jdenty of head room, and remember 

 that they succeed best in solid b»>ds 

 which have been well enriched with 

 rotted cow or horse manure. Start the 

 seeds in flats or jians of clear sand. 

 I'lant these (uit carefully four inches 

 apart in the rows, and if y(ui are grow- 

 ing any new or expcnsi\e sorts go to the 

 trouble of potting off the seedliiig.s 

 singly in 2'-_>-iiHdi pots before jdanting 

 out. You ar(> sure, then, to lose none. 

 Of course, you can sow them directly 

 in the rows, but good winter sweet pea 

 ^{'V(\ is costly, and I think it true econ- 

 omy to start them in sand and trans- 

 jdant them later. Sand gives a better 

 oerminatiou than loam. 



