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The Florists^ Review 



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FLORISTS OF TEXAS! 



We need you badly, and you need us, 

 in Austin at our state convention July 

 9 and 10. It is a leisure time, and your 

 business for the last year has been a 

 record-breaker; so put up no excuse. 

 We expect you there surely. 



Many things of national importance 

 need our attention and endorsement, 100 

 per cent strong. Our publicity cam- 

 paign, the annual meeting of the S. A. F. 

 in Detroit in August, the embargo on 

 imported stock, the florists' telegrapn 

 service, all need our consideration. Be- 

 sides, prepare yourselves for future 

 events, plainly visible. Many do not 

 consider the valuable work done for us 

 by the S. A. F. and our trade papers. 

 Let us line up solidly and show our due 

 appreciation of their efforts. 



The war interfered with last year's 

 meeting; so it is all the more necessary 

 that much state work be done. Ex- 

 press, freight and train service need our 

 attention. Bring along your book, and 

 tell us your joys and woes. We shall 

 do likewise. Come if you have only 

 500 feet of glass. Florists have made 

 great progress in this state the last two 

 years. We shall expect every florist in 

 the state at Austin. 



H. O. Hannah, 

 Vice-president Texas State Florists' 

 Assn. 



TO BOWL AT DETROIT. 



There promises to be a revival of in- 

 terest in the S. A. F. bowling tourna- 

 ment as a feature of the Detroit conven- 

 tion. Teams from several cities are 

 practicing, including New York, Phila- 

 delphia, Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland 

 and St. Louis. 



The entire top floor of the Recreation 

 building, a famous structure, has been 

 engaged for the exclusive use of the 

 visiting and local florists, and here all 

 the games will be rolled, including the 

 ladies' contest. There are twenty-eight 

 alleys on the floor and they are consid- 

 ered the finest in the west. Being on 

 the top floor of a nine-story building, 

 the maximum of comfort for the bowl- 

 ers and spectators will be enjoyed. 



According to the present plans, 

 Wednesday evening, August 20, will be 

 assigned to the contest. Captains of 

 organized teams should make entries 

 and report to the local chairman, Joseph 

 Streit, at 1366 McClellan avenue, De- 

 troit. 



The program thus far arranged is as 

 follows: 



Grand contest open to all organized 

 teams competing for the grand trophy. 

 Two other prizes will also be given in 

 this contest and a prize to the player 

 on either team scoring the highest aver- 

 age. The individual games will be open 

 to all except those players in the three 

 games of the grand contest and at least 

 ten and perhaps more prizes will be 

 awarded, graduated from the highest 

 down to the number to be later desig- 

 nated. 



The championship contest of three 

 games will be open to the ten or more 

 players scoring the highest points in the 

 individual games and the highest man 

 from each team entering the grand con- 

 test. The ex-presidents' contest will be 

 open to all ex-presidents of the S. A. F. 

 and suitable prizes will be provided. 



Three games will be rolled by the 

 ladies and at least ten prizes awarded. 



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THIS year the Lang Floral & Nursery Co., at Dallas, Tex., comes to its majority, 

 having been born in 1898 as the City Greenhouses, with a golden spoon- — other- 

 wise cash capital — of $250 in its mouth. But from $1,000 business in its infant 

 year it attained $175,000 in the last year, showing how sturdy a grown-up it has 

 become. And the golden spoon is become a capitalization of $70,000, to which 

 has been added a handsome surplus. The four small greenhouses which were its 

 swaddling clothes have grown to 100,000 feet of glass. Mr. Lang is the person 

 responsible for this growth. The spirit by which he accomplished it is shdwn by 

 his optimistic statement that the business will double its size in the next three 

 or four years. Therefore, Texas florists are interested in anticipation of Mr. Lang's 

 opinion on "The Outlook for Next Year's Business," to be delivered at their 

 convention in July. 



SECTIONAL OBEENHOUSES. 



Future Possibilities. 



Greenhouses made in sections of stand- 

 ard size, which would allow the rapid 

 expansion of a house simply by adding 

 sections, are a possibility of the future. 

 This idea is being used in the erection 

 of factories, having become popular dur- 

 ing the war, when it was necessary to 

 increase manufacturing space many 

 times at short notice. The construction 

 division of the army also adopted the 

 idea in its work. 



John M. Taylor, manager of the con- 

 struction information department of the 

 H. K. Ferguson Co., Cleveland, 0., en- 

 gineers and builders, believes that the 

 standardized sectional building will be 

 adopted by all lines of trade in the 



course of time. He deals with factory 

 buildings, as the company with which he 

 is connected confines its operation to 

 that field, but he sees no reason why 

 greenhouse construction men should not 

 find the plan popular with florists. 



Not Temporary Structures. 



' ' A standard building is by no means 

 a portable or temporary building, ' ' says 

 Mr. Taylor. "It is standard because it 

 has been designed to be erected in stand- 

 ard units. The material used is of stand- 

 ard dimensions and made in large quan- 

 tities. It is kept in stock by the con- 

 struction companies, ready for immediate 

 shipment and use. Any size of building 

 may be put up. The number of units 

 used determines this. As an additional 

 advantage, when the business of the 

 man with a standard building expands, 



