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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 11, 1917. 



THE FLORISTS' SUPPLY HOUSE OF AMERICA 



OUR NEW FALL 



CATALOGUE 



IS READY. 



If you have not received it, send for it. 



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good a variety that it would be hard to 

 have too many. To his surprise, these 

 reclaimed King Humberts in many cases 

 came with green foliage and yellow 

 flowers. What do you think of that? 



The general effect of these vast 

 fields of modern cannas was superb. 

 The range of colors, the size of flowers 

 and the freedom of bloom on such vigor- 

 ous plants was satisfying. A list of the 

 varieties seems more the province of 

 the catalogue than tlie narrator. They 

 were the result of careful, intelligent 

 selection from the lists of the best hy- 

 bridizers of this country and abroad. 

 This country comes first today in tire 

 hybridizing of the canna. More good 

 varieties have been made in America 

 than in all the European countries com- 

 bined. To continue growing old-time 

 sterling varieties, such as Florence 

 Vaughan and Charles Henderson, is a 

 crime. Fine as these varieties were 

 in their days, they cannot now come 

 within sight of the magic circle that 

 surrounds the thirteen. These improved 

 varieties have placed the canna of to- 

 day in a class by itself, as an outdoor 

 decorative plalit that is cn])able of ]>ro- 

 (lucing magnificent effects. 



The October Meeting. 



Tlic brief statement of facts that 

 api)eared last week does not cover all 

 that was of interest at the October 

 meeting of the Florists' Club. The 

 men of today were there in force; not 

 the men of yesterday, or those of to- 

 morrow, but the men of today, who are 

 battling witli the unusual difficulties 

 that beset us. It is also interesting to 

 note that the men of today elected a 

 progressive candidate as their secre 

 tarv, in preference to a i)opular con- 

 servative. In other words, the younger 

 element triumphed over the older — a 

 most unusual thing in the club. 



There was an atmosphere of business 

 about the gossip of the meeting. For 

 instance, you heard one tell a grouj) of 

 interested listeners that Harry Faust 's 

 foreman had decided to rent George 

 Anderson's place at 11 o'clock that 

 morning, and at 11:15 he had redc- 

 cided that there was nothing doing. 

 Whether this was mere gossip or not, 

 matters little; it describes the spirit 



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of the lobby. You can have it further 

 by listening to the next group, who are 

 animatedly discussing whether The Ee- 

 view should be boycotted because Sen- 

 ator Knox's gardener had subscribed 

 and tried to buy carnation plants at 

 wholesale, first thoughtfully securing 

 ;ind i)lanting the plants, and tlien pro- 

 ducing The Review wlicii ;isked to pay 

 the retail price. 



The api)ointnient of a strong com- 

 mittee to further the $.")(),0UO publicity 

 f«nd in this state was announced from 

 the S. A. F. in New York. Our secre- 

 tary took a lot of trouble to give me 

 this committee, but somehow it slipped 

 in and then slipped out. I remember 

 that Charley Grakelow was one; that 

 j)romises well; and Arthur Xiessen, who 

 pushed the scheme; and tlie president 

 of the club; and Henry F. from one 

 seed house, and .T. Otto from the other. 



John P. Habermehl added social as 

 well as financial strength, while the 

 seven — yes, there it is — is completed 

 l>y the secretary, Fred Cowperthwaite, 

 a most energetic worker. 



Tliere was an exhibit of more than 

 ordinary interest, a vase of lovely pink 

 roses from Teddy Towill, of Roslyn. I 

 ])resume that Teddy is proud papa, 

 thougli lie did not say so, but only 

 looked it, and that the rose is the cele- 

 l)rated cross between Maryland and 

 something, and that it is to knock Lady 

 Alice Stanley all to smithereens. It is 

 a lovely rose that warrants the deep 

 interest taken in its future. 



I don 't remember anything more ex- 

 cept that the lodge atmosphere clung, 

 the speaker addressing his audience 

 from an open space in the center of 

 tlie room, which seemed extremely 



