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The Florists^ Review 



Apbil 18. 1022 



Josepli Manda, reported on its visit to 

 the establishment of Henry Hession, 

 Flatbush, Brooklyn, to see his new car- 

 nation, My Welcome, which had been 

 awarded a preliminary certificate, 

 f^rowing, and the committee recom- 

 mended the award of a final certificate. 



Secretary's Report. 



Secretary Young read his annual re- 

 port, which had been deferred from the 

 J<\'bruary meeting and which showed 

 the affairs of the club to be in excellent 

 shape. Treasurer Rickards read his re- 

 port, wliich showed the tre&sury as hav- 

 ing a fund in all amounting to over 

 $23,000. Percy B. Eigby, for the board 

 of trustees, verified both reports. A 

 rising vote of thanks was passed to the 

 secretary and treasurer for their excel- 

 lent work in the interests of the club. 



John Watson, of Princeton, was pres- 

 ent and made a short address. 



The secretary announced the death 

 of C. J. Van Eiper, of Dundee Lake, 

 N. J., a member of the club, and moved 

 that a committee be appointed to pre- 

 pare memorial resolutions. The motion 

 carried, and President Irwin appointed 

 Edward Sceery, J. G. Esler and M. C. 

 Ford as such committee. 



The following were elected to mem- 

 bership: F. Wittenberg, Richfield, N. 

 J.; C. F. Hagemann, New York; Harry 

 Kapner, Maspeth, N. Y.; Fred Manker, 

 Farmingdale, N. Y.; A. Hotchkiss, Sum- 

 mit, N. J.; Vincent Hession, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., and Henry He.ssion, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. 



The secretary read several amend- 

 ments to the club's by-laws, proposed 

 by the committee on the good of the 

 <lab, and announced that voting on 

 1liem would take place at the next meet- 

 ing. 



There were no exhibits at this meet- 

 ing. J. H. P. 



WASHINGTON CLUB'S BANQUET. 



More than seventy-five local florists 

 and their guests attended the annual 

 banquet of the Florists' Club of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, held last week at the 

 new City Club. The affair was held in 

 the Blue room, which was turned by 

 the florists into an excellent simulation 

 of n woodland, the columns in the cen- 

 ter of the room being entirely covered 

 by branches of dogwood in full bloom 

 .111(1 the walls filled with spring blos- 

 soms, palms and various flowers. The 

 tables were decorated, chiefly with roses, 

 :ind the ladies who attended were pre- 

 sented with corsage bouquets of sweet 

 jioas and forget-me-nots. 



William F. Gude acted as toastmaster 

 ;ind earned much praise for his work in 

 fliat connection. A number of promi- 

 nent congressmen and city officials were 

 iliresent and Mr. Gude called upon sev- 

 <'ral of them for a few remarks. The 

 principal speakers included Representa- 

 tive Kahn, of California; Richard Vin- 

 cent, Jr., of White Marsh, Md., who 

 told of his recent visit to California; 

 Kobort N. Harper, president of the Dis- 

 trict National bank, and Miss Willa- 

 braiidt, assistant to the attorney-gen- 

 eral, the only woman who ever occupied 

 such a ))osition. The decorations 

 elinited iiincli praise from these and 

 other speakers. 



Otto Bauer, who retired as president 

 of the chib, was presented by Mr. Gude 

 with a handsome silver platter as a 

 token of the organization's apprecia- 

 tion of his work as its chief officer. 

 l^'ollowiiig tlie presentation of the pl.-it- 



ter, Z. D. Blackistone made a speech, 

 in the course of which he presented Mr. 

 Gude with a handsome cut glass vase 

 filled with spring flowers and roses, as a 

 token of appreciation of his work as 

 treasurer, which has extended over a 

 number of years. 



The present president of the club is 

 O. A. C. Oehmler, who was installed 

 with appropriate ceremonies. Follow- 

 ing the conclusion of the formalities 

 the tables were cleared away and the 

 remainder of the evening was spent in 

 dancing. T. N. S. 



ON HIS OWN. 



Under the portrait of Earl W. Metz, 

 above which ran the caption, "On His 

 Own," appeared the following in one 

 of the Toledo papers lately: 



"Meet Earl Metz, of the Metz Bros, 

 flower shop, on Superior street. 



"Earl has been 'talking Toledo' for 

 more than fifteen years — ever since he 

 came here in 1906 and went into the 

 florists' business with George A. Heinl. 

 After that he was with Mrs. J. B. Free- 



Earl W. Metz. 



man until 1!H.'), when the firm of Metz 

 & Batoman ojm iied a shop in the Ohio 

 building. 



"Then, in 1!>18, the shop was moved 

 to the present location, on Superior 

 street. Early this month the firm 

 changed from Metz & Bateman to Metz 

 Bros. Earl and his brother, Clyde J. 

 Metz, are the proprietors. 



"Earl is a live wire and busy To- 

 ledoan. He is a member of the Ex- 

 change Club, Commerce Club, Masonic 

 order, Zenobia Shrine, Macabbees and 

 the Mauraee River Yacht Club. 



"He is married and has three young- 

 sters, all boys. Jle resides at 870 Ogden 

 street.' ' 



Paris, Tenn. — Mrs. S. J. Ronton is 

 building a Moninger house 21x100 feet 

 ;ind adding .-i built-in refrigerator to 

 her equipment. 



Salina, Kan. — Edward Tatro. having 

 received assistance from some of his 

 friends, will rebuild his range and con- 

 tiini(> in business. 



OBITUARY 



Michael H. Walsb. 



M. H. Walsh, of Woods Hole, Mass., 

 one of America's leading rosarians and 

 the introducer of a large number of 

 beautiful and desirable climbing and 

 hybrid perpetual roses, died suddenly 

 at his home April 10. Mr. Walsh, who 

 was of Irish ancestry, was born at 

 Wrexham, North Wales. He gained 

 much practical experience in Wales and 

 at Chester, England, including a stay at 

 Dickson's celebrated nurseries, before 

 coming to America. He made a spe- 

 cialty of hardy roses. For some time 

 he gained experience in and around Bos- 

 ton and later located at Woods Hole, 

 near Falmouth, on Cape Cod, as head 

 gardener to the late Joseph S. Fay and 

 later the Misses Fay, who had a splen- 

 did rose garden and grew about every 

 desirable new variety which was obtain- 

 able. 



Some twenty-five years ago, Mr. 

 Walsh started in business on his own 

 account, although still maintaining 

 charge of the Misses Fay's beautiful 

 garden. The rose shows of the Massa- 

 setts Horticultural Society for many 

 years had wonderful displays of Mr. 

 Walsh 's roses, which were a whole show 

 in themselves, and at the spring shows 

 his ramblers were for several years con- 

 spicuous features. 



As a hybridist Mr. Walsh was one of 

 the greatest America has produced. In 

 addition to some hybrid perpetuals, like 

 Jubilee and J. S. Fay, Mr. Walsh raised 

 a large number of distinct and strik- 

 ingly beautiful ramblers, most of which 

 are still popular here and even more 

 popular abroad. Some of these are 

 Debutante, Sweetheart, Milky Way, 

 Lady Gay, Wedding Bells, Minnehaha, 

 Hiawatha, Excelsa, Maid Marion, Bon- 

 nie Belle, Carissima, Evangeline, Juan- 

 ita, Lady Blanche, Lucile, Mrs. M. H. 

 Walsh, Nokomis, Paradise, Snowdrift, 

 Snowball, Summer Joy, Urania, Trouba- 

 dour and Winona. His introductions 

 among hybrid teas were Lillian Nordica 

 and Flush o' Dawn. 



Numerous gold and silver medals wore 

 awarded to Mr. Walsh for his introduc- 

 tions by the American Rose Society and 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, as well as the National Rose So- 

 ciety and the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety, of England. Mr. Walsh was one 

 of the early recipients of the George 

 Robert White medal of honor, award(vl 

 by the Massachusetts Horticultural So 

 ciety for distinguished service to hor- 

 ticulture. 



About twenty years ago the New- 

 York, New Haven & Hartford railroad 

 burned down a building with a tarred 

 roof alongside Mr. Walsh 's rose gar- 

 dens, and the smoke, charged with creo 

 sote, caused great damage to his plants, 

 which included manv valuable seed- 

 lings. He brought 'suit for $25,000 

 against the railroad. The case w;i« 

 tried before an auditor and among Mr. 

 Walsh's witnesses were J. K. M. Tj. 

 Fnrouhar, A. H. Fewkes. W. H. Elliott. 

 W. N. Craig, Lawrence Cotter and Rob- 

 ert Cameron. The railroad company 

 paid $20,000. which was accepted as a 

 settlement. This sum is believed to be 

 the heaviest damages paid in any simi- 

 lar case. 



During the last few years of his life 



