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The Florists' Review 



25 



quality is quite poor. The best are 

 bringing $1.50 per hundred sprays. 



Gladioli from outside are late, and 

 good stalks are bringing from $6 to $10 

 per hundred. Callas are in moderate 

 supply at $1 to $2 per dozen. The 

 Hupply of miscellaneous flowers is in- 

 creasing, but, on the whole, clearances 

 are satisfactory. Gentaurea imperialis 

 and cornflowers move pretty well, and 

 other herbaceous flowers, such as coreop- 

 sis, gaillardias, calendulas, daisies, 

 snapdragons, sweet Williams, gypso- 

 phila, myosotis and delphiniums, meet 

 an ordinary demand. 



Club Meeting. 



The monthly meeting of the New 

 York Florists' Club was held June 14 

 in the club 's rooms, in the Engineering 

 Societies' building, with an attendance 

 of about 100. President A. M. Hen- 

 shaw occupied the chair. 



J. Otto Thilow, of Philadelphia, was 

 the speaker of the evening and gave his 

 famous lecture, "A Trip to the An- 

 tipodes and the Pacific Islands." The 

 lecture was illustrated by a large num- 

 ber of beautiful slides, the majority of 

 which covered horticultural subjects. 

 In the course of the lecture the audience 

 was taken to the various islands in the 

 Hawaiian group, the flora of which was 

 described most ably, as well as the life 

 of the inhabitants. From Honolulu it 

 was but a step to Samoa, the flora of 

 which was also illustrated. Some mag- 

 nificent views in and around Sydney 

 and Melbourne, Australia, were greatly 

 enjoyed and the lecturer's description 

 of the subjects showed a familiarity 

 with conditions and customs possible 

 only to a deep student of nature. At 

 the close of the lecture Mr. Thilow was 

 given a rising vote of thanks. 



The transportation committee report- 

 ed that, at a meeting held that after- 

 noon, arrangements had been completed 

 for travel to the Cleveland convention 

 of the S. A. F. Through tickets over 

 the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 

 railroad to Buffalo anfl thence by boat 

 to Cleveland would cost $21.73, includ- 

 ing a parlor car seat and an upper berth 

 in a stateroom on the boat, or $22.23 

 with a lower berth. With a 2-berth 

 stateroom the cost would be $23.88. 

 The party would be scheduled to leave 

 New York in the early morning, arriv- 

 ing in Buffalo in ample time to take 

 the boat leaving there at 9 p. m. 



Secretary Young read resolutions 

 drawn up by A. T. De La Mare, C. B. 

 Weathered and himself, as a committee 

 appointed for the purpose, upon the 

 •leath of Patrick O'Mara, for many 

 years a most prominent member of the 

 (•lub and a former president of the or- 

 ganization. During the reading the 

 members stood with bowed heads. Res- 

 olutions upon the death of Maurice 

 Fuld, prepared by Max Schling, J. G. 

 Scheepers and C. Lowther, were read 

 by Mr. Lowther and were similarly re- 

 •eived. 



The following were elected to mem- 

 bership: Lawrence C. Knapp, East 

 Orange, N. J.; Carl Donhauser, Asto- 

 ria, L. I.; Richard F. Nause, Staten Is- 

 land, N. Y.; George I. Okkerse, New 

 York city; William Farrell, New York 

 I'ity; Louis Bacos, Brooklyn, N. Y.; 

 Richard W. Young, Clifton, N. J.; A. 

 Lehman, New York city, and Paul A. 

 Winter, New York city. Mr. Donhauser 

 and Mr. Okkerse, being present, were 

 introduced to the gathering. 



Mrs. Henrietta Suder. 



[Obituary on paKC 27.] 



A letter from Wallace R. Pierson, 

 Cromwell, Conn., was read, suggesting 

 that the club appoint five members who 

 were growers as delegates to represent 

 the club at the forthcoming meeting of 

 the National Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion, to be held in connection with the 

 convention of the S. A. F. in Cleveland. 

 On motion of Secretary Young, the 

 president was directed to make such ap- 

 pointments as early as possible. 



A letter from Miss Evangeline Booth, 

 of the Salvation Army, was read, re- 

 questing the support of the club in the 

 way of a contribution to the fund which 

 the army was seeking to collect by 

 means of a drive then in progress. 

 President Henshaw called for subscripn 

 tions from members and about $60 was 

 collected. It was further asked that 

 the trade papers take notice of the mat- 

 ter and request that other subscriptions 

 be sent in to Secretary Young, who 

 would see that they were added to the 

 sum collected that evening. 



The exhibits included sixteen vases 

 of peonies, a fine, representative collec- 

 tion, shown by John Lewis Childs, of 

 Flowerfield, N. Y., and awarded a sil- 

 ver medal; five vases of bearded iris, 

 also shown by Mr. Childs and awarded 

 a vote of thanks, and two collections, 

 one of fifty-four varieties of iris and 

 the other of new peonies, shown by 

 T. A. Havemeyer, Glen Head, L. I., 

 N. Y., and highly commended by the 

 committee. 



The next meeting of the club will be 

 held Monday, September 13. 



Various Notes. 



The schedule connnittee of the na- 

 tional fiower show met at the S. A. F. 

 ofiices Tuesday, June 15, and ar- 

 ranged the first preliminary scliedule 



for the sixth national flower show, to 

 be held in Cleveland, March 25 to April 

 1, 1922. S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia, 

 was present as representative of the 

 American Rose Society, which is co- 

 operating and will hold its annual show 

 in combination with the big exhibition. 

 Copies of the preliminary schedule will 

 be available early next month. 



At the subscription dinner given in 

 New York in honor of C. H. Totty, of 

 Madison, N. J., John Canning, super- 

 intendent of Heatherdell Farm, Ards- 

 Icy, N. Y., invited all present at the 

 dinner to be his guests at a dinner at 

 his residence on the estate Saturday, 

 June 19, also in honor of Mr. Totty. 

 The party journeyed to Ardsley by motor 

 and train, arriving there early in the 

 afternoon. The greenhouses and gar- 

 dens were inspected, and other features 

 of the big estate enjoyed. At 5 o'clock 

 the party sat down to a splendid dinner. 

 The hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Canning, and, 

 it may be said, the small Cannings, left 

 nothing undone to insure the pleasure 

 of the guests. The party included W. 

 H. Siebrecht, Sr., Chappaqua, N. Y.; F. 

 R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y.; F. H. 

 Traendlv, P. F. Kessler, J. H. Pepper, 

 Walter F. Sheridan, C. B. Weathered, 

 Leonard Barron, A. M. Henshaw, F. W. 

 Payne, manager of the Grand Central 

 Palace; Joseph A. Manda, J. G. Scheep- 

 ers, Arthur Hcrrington, B. Hammond 

 Tracy, of Wenham, Mass.; George Hil- 

 denbrand, Charles Weber, Henry Wes- 

 ton, Alex McKenzie, C. Luchenbacher, 

 A. F. Faulkner, Wni. Duckhani and the 

 guest of honor, C. H. Totty. 



Visitors: Major P. F. O'Keefc, Bos- 

 ton, Mass.; .John N. Champion, New 

 Haven, Conn.; Carl Reck, Bridgeport, 

 Conn. J. H. P. 



