;ir,u .,• ^;^^i<i^iiip>.i^iiiif^jiiii|if iiiuifiavinnii^^Jiip^wiiiuiik .^■.^u■^•;•l7J;^l■^^!'»■T«p»yw^|Wl^wI«I'Ipl'w^pl■ mwmp»pm«viw"i»».^i«!»w(. 



March 11, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



39 



gwPt^8^:^t^i^t^t^Ji^t^t^t^i^^t^!^^ig^^ 



i^ CLUB MEETINGS s^ 



i:ysfl;^rrsvir?s>iir^svir/sMr^rrs>(iri«vih«vir!rs>(it(*irc 



aff^B?^iff^?iff^ff^j|g^BrffBri?ig^?^?i"ffl^^ 



STOBM CUTS CHIOAOO MEETING. 



Flowers Tliat Dye in the Spiiug. 



At the meeting of the Chicago Flo- 

 rists' Club at the Hotel Randolph Thurs- 

 day evening, March 4, President Waters 

 did not paint the lily, but he dyed the 

 tulip, likewise the carnation and calla. 

 Before the meeting opened, he dissolved 

 the dyes and put them in vases contain- 

 ing those flowers, with some of the car- 

 nations stuck in calla stems as an ex- 

 periment. Then the progress of the 

 colors up into the blooms was timed, the 

 tulips requiring about thirty minutes 

 and proving most responsive. The chief 

 color was, of course, St. Patrick's. 



In the latter part of the evening, 

 President Waters told how the possi- 

 bility of dyeing flowers in this way was 

 thought to have been discovered about 

 twenty-five years ago by a young woman 

 who accidentally stuck a carnation into 

 tlie inkwell and shortly found a new 

 variety, how a Boston florist had brought 

 out green carnations and how he him- 

 self had carried still further the work 

 of finding what dyes would be drawn 

 up by the flowers and what would not. 



More Members. 



The club's meeting, however, drew 

 color from other things than dyes and, 

 while the evening's storm made the at- 

 tendance a highly select one, it was to 

 be regretted that not more were present. 



Five were elected to membership and 

 twelve names were proposed. The new 

 members are: (J. A. Wrigley, 130 North 

 Wells street; Albert Koehler, 172 North 

 Wabash avenue; H. W. Miller, 324 

 West North avenue; Vincent Neil, 172 

 North Wabash avenue, and Herbert 

 Stone, 4011 Milwaukee avenue. The 

 names proposed were as follows: Charles 

 S. McCauley, Geneva, 111.; W. Lang- 

 hout, 172 North Wabash avenue; Lorenz 

 P. Geiger, 4905 Quincy street; Edward 

 Clody, 3912 North Clark street; George 

 Wienhoeber, 41 South Wabash avenue; 

 A. Hall, 4700 Sheridan road; H. E. 

 Bruns, 3040 West Madison street; Fred 

 Stielow, Niles Center, 111.; C. Clemen- 

 sen, 7801 Exchange avenue; Nick Damm, 

 Jr., Morton Grove; James Paul, 1112 

 Lawrence avenue, and Ernst Weiss, Elm- 

 Imrst. 



A Good Time Coming. 



At the request of Guy French, chair- 

 man of the good of the club committee, 

 the members discussed the question of 

 having a ladies' night and entertain- 

 ment. All were in favor of it and the 

 opinions expressed were concerned with 

 such details as the time and the method 

 of financing, with the trend of sentiment 

 toward holding it in May and having 

 it self-supporting. The matter was left 

 in the hands of the committee. There 

 was also talk of a picnic and several 

 members testified sadly to their memo* 

 ries of the glorious days gone by; Mil- 

 waukee was mentioned with distinct 

 longing. 



As a result of the report of the gar- 

 den committee, the club appropriated 

 $100 for its use. James Morton, chairman 



of the committee, said that it wished to 

 distribute, with the ei-^mpliments of the 

 club, copies of two pamphlets on flower 

 and vegetable gardening to more than 

 1,200 persons whom it had listed from 

 the time of war-gardening as interested 

 in the garden movement. The chairman 

 also suggested that the club offer pre- 

 miums for amateurs at one or two fall 

 garden shows. It was decided that the 

 committee could attend to that matter 

 and that it might be preferable to offer 

 the premi^ims at the show of some gar- 

 den society rather than at a show held 

 by a seed store. Chairman Morton has 

 selected as his coworkers on the com- 

 mittee: Ed Goldenstein, of Vaughan 's 

 Seed Store; Ralph B. Howe, of the W. 

 W. Barnard Co.; John Degnan, of A. 

 Henderson & Co., and Everette R. Pea- 

 cock, of the Everette R. Peacock Co. 



Tragic Transits. 



In addition to the flowers which 

 President Waters used as colored illus- 

 trations of his remarks, there were ex- 



irnVERY now and then a weH- 

 ■S pleased reader gpeakt tlie word 

 which is the means of brifiginj; a 

 new advertiser to 



Such friendly assistance is thoroughly 

 appreciated. 



Give us the name of anyone from 

 whom you are buying, not an adver< 

 tiser. We especially wish to interest 

 those selling articles of florist's use 

 not at present advertised. 



FLORISTS* PUBLISHING CO. 

 330-^ Caxton Bldg. Chicago 



hibited several vases of carnations, 

 seedlings of the Joy Floral Co., Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., which had requested that 

 the club score the seedlings. But un- 

 fortunately the blooms had been dam- 

 aged in transit and, at the suggestion of 

 C. W. Johnson, it was decided that jus- 

 tice could hardly be done the flowers, 

 which Guy French had seen growing in 

 Nashville and considered distinctly 

 meritorious, by scoring these particular 

 specimens. It was hoped that Mr. Joy 

 would send another exhibit of these car- 

 nations. L. F. Kirchner, of Defiance, 

 O., had sent an exhibit of the salmon- 

 pink sport of Enchantress Supreme, 

 which, however, arrived in such condi- 

 tion that it did not seem fair to show 

 them. 



Introducing the A. F. G. A. 



The storm-caused absence of Vice- 

 president Pyfer and of Joseph Kohout, 

 president of the Commercial Flower 



Growers of Chicago, was greatly re- 

 gretted. In Mr. Kohout 's absence. Sec- 

 retary Lautenschlager outlined the de- 

 velopment of what is to be known as 

 the American Flower Growers' Associ- 

 ation, which was recently launched in 

 Chicago. He showed how the relation 

 between production and publicity, 

 through the need of disposing of what 

 was produced at the best possible prices, 

 would make this new organization a 

 particularly energetic and powerful sup- 

 porter of the national publicity cam- 

 paign. The growers will work through 

 this association as the retailers have 

 been working through the F. T. D. 



In giving his financial report, the sec- 

 retary said that the total receipts of 

 the evening were $434.51, as compared 

 with $280 at the last meeting. Of the 

 $434.51, $187.51 was the refund from the 

 convention committee. He said that the 

 back dues now totaled $395, but that 

 that was a reduction, since January 1. 

 of $150. 



NEW YORK CLUB MEETS. 



Discuss Show Arrangements. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New York Florists' Club was held at 

 the club's rooms in the Engineering So- 

 cieties' building Monday evening, March 

 8, with a large attendance of members. 

 President A. M. Henshaw occupied the 

 chair, and the proceedings lasted until 

 a late hour. 



Charles H. Totty, for the flower show 

 committee, reported that the final meet- 

 ing of the committee had been held that 

 afternoon and arrangements for the 

 show were found to be completed. There 

 was no reason, he said, to expect any- 

 thing but a most successful exhibition. 

 A. L. Miller announced that Governor 

 Smith, Mrs. Smith and the official staff 

 would pay a visit to the show on the 

 afternoon of March 17. Manager Her- 

 riugton reported that exhibits sufficient 

 to fill entirely the two floors of the 

 Grand Central Palace had been as- 

 sured. If an entry for a large group or 

 garden were now to come in unexpect- 

 edly ho would be at a loss to determine 

 where it could go. Three rose gardens, 

 a display of acacias of 500 square feet, 

 rock gardens, borders, groups and 

 plenty of miscellaneous exhibits would 

 form a material part of the exhibition. 

 One exhibitor alone had made fifty or 

 more entries, from large groups all down 

 the line. Secretary Young reported that 

 more trade space had been reserved than 

 had been the case at any flower show 

 ever held in the country, altogether 

 about $16,000 worth. In addition, over 

 $4,600 worth of space in the official pro- 

 gram had been sold. The ladies in 

 charge of the tea garden were working 

 energetically and were planning some 

 elaborate features, among them a grand 

 l>all for the Navy Club Friday evening, 

 March 19, which would make for good 

 publicity. 



The Annual Dinner. 



Roman J. Irwin, chairman of the an- 

 nual dinner committee, reported ar- 



