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August 30, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



91 



The ex-presidents of the New York 

 Florists' Club gave a luncheon on the 

 evening of August 21 to some of the 

 prominent members of the S. A. F. from 

 out of town. Those in attendance were 

 F. E. Pierson, W. F. Gude, John West- 

 cott, Eobert Craig, E. G, Hill, Frank 

 Traendly, George Asmus, Charles 

 Critchell, Charles H. Totty, A. L. Miller, 

 John Canning, Henry Weston, Joseph 

 A. Manda, W. H. Siebrecht, Sr., Philip 

 F. Kessler, W. A. Manda and A. Her- 

 rington. There were much jollity and 

 felicitation. The principal speakers 

 were Robert Craig, John Westcott, E. G. 

 Hill, W. F. Gude and George Asmus. 



Mrs. A. L. Miller entertained a party 

 of sixteen ladies with an automobile 

 ride August 22, with tea at Hotel Shel- 

 bourne, Coney Island. 



Mrs. F. H. Traendly entertained a 

 party of ladies August 22 on a trip to 

 Long Beach, L. I., with tea at the Hotel 

 Nassau. 



A large party visited Cromwell, 

 Conn., August 24 as guests of A. N. 

 Pierson, Inc. 



C. L. Baum, of Knoxville, Tenn., 

 drove to the convention in his car, be- 

 ing accompanied by his two youngest 

 sons, a friend and the driver of his 

 store truck. The distance one way is 

 nearly 900 miles. They got through with 

 no more trouble than one slow leak in 

 a tube. 



Five half-barrel tubs of hydrangeas 

 in splendid flower, supplied by F. R. 

 Pierson Co., Tarrytown, graced the en- 

 trance to the trades' display and added 

 greatly to the first impression of the 

 show as the visitors mounted the grand 

 staircase. ^ 



Although there was no general enter- 

 tainment program, there were many 

 hospitalities carried out by individuals 

 and business houses. The most elaborate 

 of these was the excursion party con- 

 ducted by Hitchings & Co. More than 

 100 of the visitors met at the Pennsyl- 

 vania terminal the morning after the 

 convention closed and were escorted to 

 Elizabeth, N, J., where they were met 

 by automobiles and taken to the Hitch- 

 ings factory. After seeing how green- 

 house materials are turned out on seven 

 acres of floor space, luncheon was 

 served at the splendid new club of the 

 Elks. Thence the autos made the trip 

 through the delightful hills and dales 

 known as the Jersey Berkshires to Mad- 

 ison, where the Hitchings people are 

 just finishing a splendid range of five 

 steel-frame houses for the Duckham- 

 Pierson Co. The houses are 61x500, 

 each house containing 30,000 rose 

 plants. For these houses 4,800 boxes 

 of glass were used. There are fifteen 

 miles of pipe in the heating system, 

 although most of it is out of sight in a 

 tunnel. Three 200-horsepower boilers 

 are connected to a stack 140 feet high. 

 Erection was started May 15 and the 

 range practically completed and plant- 

 ed in three months. Short stops also 

 weare made at the establishment of L. B. 



Coddington, at Murray Hill, where there 

 are 140,000 feet of glass in roses, and 

 at President-elect C. H. Totty 's, where 

 tlic mums are a sight worth any 

 grower's envy. The return to Elizabeth 

 and New York was made in the evening 

 at the end of a day of delight. 



There was general satisfaction with 

 the elimination of all general enter- 

 tainment. The New York precedent 

 will be followed at St. Louis for the 

 combined flower show and convention, 

 because the time will be fully occupied, 

 and at Detroit, because that city was 

 selected without invitation, so it is 

 probable the frolic features have been 

 cut out for good. 



The feature of the trades' display 

 was the showing of florists' supplies, 

 the feature of the florists' supplies was 

 the high quality of the merchandise and 

 the feature of the quality was the fact 

 that the stock all was made in America. 

 One of the slight compensations for the 

 war is the fact that America has be- 

 come independent of Europe on this 

 class of merchandise. 



When the middle-western visitors 

 went over to the wholesale cut flower 

 section and found $2 apiece was being 

 asked for eattleyas it created even 

 more talk than did the humidity in the 

 atmosphere. 



ANOTHER SOCIETY PLANNED. 



A letter has been mailed to all flo- 

 rists in northern Iowa and southern 

 Minnesota, which is self-explanatory. 

 It is hoped that a meeting can l^e held 

 in Mason City, on account of its central 

 location, early in September. The let- 

 ter follows: 



On account of the general increase In the cost 

 of labor and all materials used in the florists' 

 business it has occurred to the A. N. Kinsman 

 Co., of Austin, Minn., tlie Lake Shore Green- 

 house Co., of Albert Lea, Minn., and the Kemblo 

 & Goodman Co., of Mason City, Iowa, tliat an 

 association^ of the florists of northern Iowa and 

 southern Minnesota could only result in mutual 

 benefit at this strenuous time. Tlie Iowa and 

 Minnesota druggists, coal dealers, clothiers, etc., 

 iire nil members of their organizations, working 

 together for the common good, and there is cer- 

 tainly no good reason why the florists should be 

 tlic last to join the ranks. 



The florists of Nebraska and central Iowa 

 organized about the first of the year and have 

 already secured wonderful results In adopting 

 uniform agents' commissions, prompter payment 

 of accounts, discontinuing tlie payment of tele- 

 phone charges and the prepayment of express 

 charges on flowers consigned to agents. These 

 are only a few of the things we have in mind 

 and on whicli uniform action will increase your 

 profits. 



If you were a member of such an association 

 you would at all times be in touch with other 

 members and could dispose of your surplus stock 

 to better advantage and buy closer to home. 



This communication is being mailed to all flo- 

 rists in our territory and we will be glad to have 

 you join us. Will you do so and will you attend 

 tlie first meeting? A meeting will be called early 

 in September and it is our earnest hope that the 

 benefits to all will be far-reaching. 



Kemble & Goodman, 

 A. N. Kinsman -Co., 

 Lake Shore Greenhouse Co. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Portland, Ore. — The business con- 

 ducted under the name of Floral Studio, 

 at 346 Alder street, has been ordered 

 discontinued by the courts. The liabil- 

 ities are placed at $2,000, with assets 

 aggregating about one-fourth that 

 amount. R. L. Sabin has been appointed 

 receiver. 



THE TRADE IN TRAINING. 



Florists Prepare for Wax. 



Each week sees more members of the 

 trade in the various training camps 

 where the soldiers of Uncle Sam are 

 learning the rules that govern modern 

 warfare, preparatory to going to the 

 battle-fronts in Europe. While many 

 names have been enrolled on The Re- 

 view's roster of those in the trade who 

 have volunteered, or have been drafted, 

 there are undoubtedly others who have 

 gone. Of these The Review would like 

 to hear. 



Back from War Zone. 



George W. Crawbuck, Jr., son of the 

 New York wholesaler, returned last 

 week from Europe aboard one of Uncle 

 Sam's sea fighters, and was home for 

 a few days before resuming his duties 

 as a member of the navy. 



Two Go from Denver. 



Eugene Ardeldt and Zeal Nefif, mein- 

 bers of the staff of the Broadway store 

 of the Park Floral Co., Denver, Colo., 

 have joined the army and are,p_qw in 

 Colorado training camps. Mr.' Ardeldt 

 is a member of the engineers' corps at 

 the rifle range near G6lden, Colo., and 



Mr. Neff is with the cavalry at Camp 

 Baldwin. 



Goes to Fight For France. 



Andre Bourdet, of St. Louis, Mo., son 

 of Jules Bourdet, vice-president-elect 

 of the S. A. F., has departed on the first 

 lap of his journey to the trenches in 

 France, the country in which he was 

 born. He left St. Louis August 2."? 

 with the Fifth Missouri regiment for 

 the training camp at Nevada, Mo. 

 With him went Ray Young, also the sou 

 of a St. Louis florist. Both of the young 

 men are members of a machine gun 

 company. 



Brock Is Busy, 



The race war at Houston, Tex., has 

 brought national prominence of a not 

 altogether desirable kind for the man 

 wlio had charge of the S. A. F. con- 

 vention garden of 1916. Clarence L. 

 Brock, at that time head of the park 

 system, and Vice-president Kerr's 

 right-hand man in the convention 

 preparations, has since become Chief of 

 Police and is in charge of the officers 

 whose treatment of colored troops pro- 

 voked the uprising. Chief Brock is a 

 member of the S. A. F. and a member 

 of (lie conyention ,g9.r.dcn committee un- 

 til December 31, 1918. 



