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The Florists^ Review 



NOVUMBllB 11, 1920 



petition was keen in the table decora- 

 tion for the Stuyvesant Fish cup. 



Notable among the exhibits was a 

 new pink-rose on the order of La France 

 and also a pink Francis Scott Key, 

 exhibited by the F. R. Pierson Co. This 

 firm was awarded the certificate of 

 merit for its beautiful exhibit of roses, 

 chrysanthemums, ferns, palms, etc., and 

 won prizes on cut blooms of roses, car- 

 nations and chrysanthemums. 



The judges on the first day were T. F. 

 Eastwood, Garrison, N. Y. ; Alex Mac- 

 Kenzie, White Plains, and George Mid- 

 dleton, Tarrytown. On the second day 

 they were William Whitton, New 

 Eochelle; E. Beckett, White Plains, and 

 Duncan McGregor, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. 



The exhibition was well attended and 

 fully appreciated by all the visitors. 



Aside from the F. R. Pierson Co., 

 which captured a number of awards, the 

 prize-winners were chiefly the garden- 



ers of the private estates in this vicin- 

 ity. Among them were Alex Anderson, 

 gardener for Henry Sidenberg; A. 

 Sttachan, for William B. Thompson; 

 J. W. Dowlan, for S. M. Lehman; George 

 Malral, for William Mitchell; C. A. 

 Williams, for Mrs. J. I. Straus; A. Mac- 

 Donald, for D. E. Oppenheimer; M. J. 

 Senley, for Mrs. Charles Mallory; Wil- 

 liam Graham, for John D. Rockefeller; 

 James MacDonald, for Mrs. John H. 

 Hall; Frank Baiano, for W. H. McGee; 

 Robert Macon, for Stuyvesant Fish; 

 Peter Stobie, for Charles de Rham; 

 James Linane, for Mrs. F. H. Allen; 

 Charles J. Wood, for Mrs. Stanley Mc- 

 Cormick; Edward Kane, for F. P. King; 

 J. A. Grant, for Mrs. Thomas Lake; 

 John Maclntyre, for R. C. Colt; Wil- 

 liam Smith, for Robert Mallory; Stuart 

 McKendry, for John J. Riker; W. Will, 

 for Clarence Whitman; A. H. Brown, 

 for G. E. Tripp. 



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MEMPHIS MEETING 



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TENNESSEE FLORISTS. 



Will Meet at Memphis. 



All roads lead to Memphis next week 

 for Tennessee florists, where the seventh 

 annual convention of tlie Tennessee 

 State Florists' Association will be held, 

 November 17 and 18. The arrangements 

 have been practically completed and the 

 program should make the convention 

 one of the best in the history of the 

 association. This is the first time the 

 Memphis florists have entertained the 

 convention and they are anxious to 

 make it a success. Nothing is being left 

 undone that might add to the comfort 

 and entertainment of the visiting 

 florists. 



The meetings will be held in the 

 Board of Commerce building. One of 

 the important features of the conven- 

 tion will be the commercial displays. 

 Display space is being furnished free 

 of charge by the Memphis florists. 



Program of Addresses. 



W. Cleveland JolKjson, chairman of 

 the arrangement cdiiifrrittce, Memphis, 

 will call the iTiceting to order and, after 

 the invocation, W. 11. Englehart will 

 introduce the mayor of ^Memphis. The 

 mayor's address of woleome will he fol- 

 lowed by the annual address of President 

 A. J. McNutt, of Kuox\'il!p, Tenn., and 

 by tlic report of the secretary-treasurer, 

 Professor U. M. Bentley, of Knoxville. 

 The program of subsequent addresses is 

 as follows: 



NOVEMIiKH 17. 10:00 A. M. 



"Birthday KIowits." liy Viiicpiit .1. (iorly. of 

 Griiiini & (iiirlv. ."<t. I.miis, Mo. 



■Fliiwcr Shop .Xrrnnpc'inont," bv R. I. 

 (Jn-sliiiiii, of tho ('. \. Dnhl Co.. .\tliintn, (la. 



"Thp Cost of Doinfr ISnsiiioss." tiy Herman 

 Kliolilr. of Knohlo liros. Co., CU'VchuKl, (). 



"Tlic T'.cst Method of CollectinR." by Ira AV. 

 Hiirper. of the A. W. Smith Co., I'ittstmrKh. Ta. 



"National riilili<ity." liy (JeorRO .\snius, of 

 Schiller's, Chicago, and Major O'Keefe. of Bos- 

 ton. Mas.s. 



"I.<"iil riiblirlty." hy W. H. Enfflehart, presi- 

 dent of the Idlewlld Greenhouses, Memphis. 

 Tenn. 



XOVKMREU 17. 1:.*?0 P. M. 



Report of committee.". 



Klection of otiicers. 



.•^eleetion of nieetinp place for next rear. 



"Doinpts of the F. T. D.," by Karl P. ISaum, 

 Knoxville, Tenn. 



"The F. T. D. News," bv M. Blov, Detroit. 

 Midi. 



"A Talk on Bedding Roses," by Samuel Crow- 

 ell. Roseacres, Miss. 



"Substitutes for Debarred Blooming Plants," 

 by Carl Ilasenbiirger, West Mentor, O. 



"Progress of Floriculture in Tennessee for the 

 Last Kitty Years," by Ed Truitt, Franklin, 

 Tenn. 



"Value of Floral Articles in the Publlo 

 I'ress," bv Louis J. Tackett, of Fort Worth, 

 Te.\. 



"Travel Talks on the Orient," by A. Miller, 

 of tlie American Bulb Co., Chicago. 



NOVEAfBER 17, 7:4.') P. M. 



"Lily Culture in the South," by Prof. R. N. 

 Lobdell, of the Mississippi Agricultural College. 



Slotion pictures of Hollywood Gardens, Seattle, 

 Wasli., and Gudc liros. Co., Washington, D. C, 

 and advertising slides of I'enn the Florist, Bos- 

 ton, Mass. 



NOA'EMBER 18, 0:00 A. M. 



"HentinK and Cooling Systems," by Fred Lnu- 

 tenschlager, of Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago, 

 111. 



"Greenhouse ronstruction — the Best Adapted 

 to the South," by Harold Joy, Nashville, Tenn. 



"Florists' Problems In Europe," by Sidney 

 Bayersdorfor, of H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



"Should Florists TSe Artlticial Flowers?" bv 

 H. G. Bramm, Bristol. Tenn,, and Fred C. 

 Weber, St. Louis, Mo. 



At 10:30 a. m. November 18 there will 



be an intermission for conference and to 



permit an inspection of the exhibits. 



Before the noon adjournment, however, 



the convention will be called to order 



for announcements. At 1:15 p. m. the 



members and delegates will assemble 



for a trip through Memphis greenhouses 



and nutseries. 



ST. LOUIS GROWERS' MEETING. 



I'lans are being made for a meeting 

 of the growers of the St. Louis district 

 at the Planters' hotel, St. Louis, Tues- 

 day, November 16. This meeting has 

 been called for the purpose of organiz- 

 ing a permanent branch of the National 

 Flower Growers' Association. Plans for 

 including the growers of central, west- 

 ern and southern Illinois with those of 

 Missouri in one large organization, will 

 be discussed. 



This is the largest meeting of grow- 

 ers ever called in St. Louis and all the 

 growers of that district are urged to be 

 present. J. F. Ammann, secretary of 

 the National Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion, announces that growers who will 

 not be able to be present at the meeting 

 may become members of the organiza- 

 tion upon written application. 



The Illinois committee in charge of 

 the meeting is as follows: C. E. Gullett, 

 W. J. Hembreiker, Philip J. Daut, F. L. 

 Washburn, James M. Cole and Walter 

 A. Amling. The Missouri committee is 

 as follows: L. Jules Bourdet, W. A. 

 Rowe, W. J. Pilcher, C. E. De Wever 

 and Joseph Deutschmann. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY, 



Reports on New Varieties. 



The committees of the C. S. A, exam- 

 ining the new varieties of muma have 

 submitted reports on the following: 



At Chicago, HI., October 30, No. 271-22-17, 

 white, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith & 

 Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 87; 

 form, 19; stem and foliage, 20; fullnesB, 20; 

 total, 96. 



At Cincinnati, 0., October 30, No. 271-22-17, 

 white, pompon, submitted by Elmer D. Smith & 

 Co., Adrian, Mich., scored as follows: Color, 

 35; form, 18; stem and foliage, 16; fullness, 20; 

 total, 80. 



At Boston, Mass., October 23, Mrs. Wm. 

 Kessler, yellow, Japanese incurved, submitted 

 by Jacob Hauck. Bloomfleld, N. J., scored as 

 follows: Color, 18; form, 14; fullness, 8; stem, 

 15; foliage, 12; substance, 12; size, 8; total, 87. 



At Philadelphia, Pa., October 16, Mrs. Wm. 

 Kessler, yellow, Japanese incurved, submitted by 

 Jacob Hauck, Bloomfleld, N. J., scored as fol- 

 lows: Color, 19; form, 14; fullness, 9; stem, 

 13; foliage, 12; substance, 14; size, 9; total, 89. 



At New York, N. Y., October 23, Mrs. Wm. 

 Kessler, yellow, Japanese incurved, submitted 

 by Jacob Hauck, Bloomtleld, N. J., scored as 

 follows: Color, 17; form, 13; fullness, 9; stem, 

 13: foliage, 13; substance, 14; size, 7; total, 86. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Chicago, 111. — The trustee of William 

 Langhout, or Wiebren Langhout, bank- 

 rupt, has succeeded in paying a total 

 dividend of thirteen and seven-tenths 

 per cent on his debts. The Central 

 Trust Co. of Illinois was appointed trus- 

 tee in bankruptcy October 22, 1918. The 

 final meeting of creditors was held at 

 the oflBce of Sidney C. Eastman, referee 

 in bankruptcy, October 21, 1920, and 

 the report of the trustee was there read. 

 The total receipts were $11,737.30 and 

 the fees of Ringer & Wilhartz, attorneys 

 for the trustee, not including expenses, 

 amounted to $2,500. This included 

 charges for a lengthy legal dispute with 

 the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 

 railroad. The total dividends paid 

 amounted to $3,894.14. The principal 

 creditor was Van Zonneveld Bros. & 

 Philippe, Sasseiiheim, Holland. Three 

 employees of Mr. Langhout claimed 

 wages. A partial list of creditors and 

 amount of claims is as follows: 



Richards & Sons, Chicago $ 541.48 



A. Henderson & Co.. Chicago 521.33 



W. I... Palinsky. Chicago.. 123.26 



Van Zonneveld Bros. & I'hilippo, Sas- 



senheim. Holland 24,700.98 



W. W. Rarn.ard Co.. Chicago 8.00 



Ix)ui8 Geyler Co., Chicago 101.40 



,Tohn Lang, Cliicngo 108.6S 



Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago 47.80 



Anton K. Truka, Chicago .! 70.40 



American Shipping Co., Chicago 1,871.64 



William Zastrow. Chicago 36 00 



Anton Then, Chicago 175.00 



The total liabilities were in the 



neighborhood of $28,000. 



Milton, Del. — Charles G. Jones, whose 

 business name is Jones, the Holly 

 Wreath Man, says there will be a scar- 

 city of holly and boxwood this season 

 and that orders to date indicate a de- 

 mand in excess of the supply. 



Paris, France.— William T. Usinger, 

 who has been in Europe representing 

 American firms, is temporarily discon- 

 tinuing his work here, after having vis- 

 ited the principal centers of supply, and 

 is returning to the United States. 



