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The Florists^ Review 



JUNB 15. 1922 



All three were present and were intro- 

 duced to the members. 



On motion of Secretary Young, the 

 matter of securing new quarters for the 

 club was referred to the board of trus- 

 tees. 



Mr. Miller spoke of the great service 

 rendered the flower shows by Frederick 

 R. Newbold, treasurer of the joint com- 

 mittee, and moved that some token of 

 appreciation of his services be presented 

 to him. It was decided that a commit- 

 tee be appointed, with John Scheepers 

 as chairman, to consider and act in the 

 matter. 



A committee, consisting of A. T. De 

 La Marc, F. H. Traendly and John 

 Young, was appointed to prepare me- 

 morial resolutions on the death of Pat- 

 rick Welch, of Boston, a much respected 

 member of the club. 



Harrie Mueller, of Wichita, Kan., was 

 a guest and made a short address, wel- 

 coming the club's members to the Kan- 

 sas City convention. 



Pennock Talks on Travels. 



Mr. Pennock 's lecture was descriptive 

 of his work in Germany in connection 

 with the Friends' Relief, which was 

 given charge of the dispensation of food 

 provided by the societies, whose head 

 was Herbert Hoover. The food was pre- 

 pared and distributed' only to under- 

 nourished children and mothers and ex- 

 pectant mothers, and over a million 

 meals a day were furnished for many 

 months. He showed about 125 pictures 

 on the screen, several of them depicting 

 rose gardens in Germany and France, in 

 the latter the Bagatelle gardens and the 

 garden of M. Gravereaux, both near 

 Paris. The lecturer was, on conclusion, 

 given a standing vote of thanks. 



Exhibits. 



The Springfield Floral Co., Spring- 

 field, N. J., exhibited a handsome vase 

 of hybrid foxgloves and Madonna lilies. 

 C. F. Bertanzel, Roslyn, N. Y., showed 

 five pots of a new white garden pink, 

 whicli had been named Mothers' Dav. 



J. H. r." 



LANCASTER, PA. 



Club Visits Dreer's. 



The Lancaster County Florists' Clul) 

 June 8 held an automobile run to Henry 

 A. Dreer 's, Riverton, N. J. Ten machines 

 filled with members and friends partici- 

 pated. The party met at Elmer J. 

 Weaver's, on the Lincoln highway, at 

 6:30 a. m. En route a stop was made 

 at Alfred Campbell's, at Strafford, Pa. 

 It was a decided treat to be shown over 

 Mr. Campbell's place, for everything is 

 .iust topnotch for mid-June — Laddie car- 

 nations with midwinter quality, pot 

 hydrangeas, Ricard geraniums in^-inch 

 size, acres of hydrangeas for next sea- 

 son outdoors and large plantings of big. 

 branching Laddies under Skinner irri- 

 gation. It was interesting to note four 

 beds. 200 feet long, of Laddie, which 

 have been flowering in the same soil for 

 three consecutive years, in which they 

 will be kept another season. Seldom do 

 we meet one filled with so much enthu- 

 siasm as Alfred Campbell and his able 

 foreman, "Joe." A visit here is al- 

 ways instructive. 



With Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Weaver 

 in the pilot car, we drove through Fair- 

 mount park on the Wissahickon drive 

 along the Schuylkill river, and then 

 over the Roosevelt boulevard, ttit'iK-e 



taking the ferry at Tarcony over the 

 Delaware river to Riverton. 



After lunch, under the care of our 

 genial friend, J. D. Eisele, we were 

 shown through the famous Dreer estab- 

 lishment—acres and acres of palms and 

 ferns, in all sizes from tiniest seedlings 

 to fully matured show plants. The herba- 

 ceous gardens were a glow of color and 

 in the water gardens many rare lilies 

 were showing their first blooms. The 

 potted garden rose section of this place 

 is a most extensive one. A bench of 

 new, unnamed seedlings showed many 

 beautiful blooms and a bench of the 

 new yellow. Souvenir de Claudius Fer- 

 net, was the admiration of all. The 

 past season has been the banner year of 

 this establishment. 



The next meeting of the Lancaster 

 Florists' Club will be held June 22, at 

 the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Strick- 

 ler. H. K. R. 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



The Market. 



There seems to be plenty of activity 

 in this market, but much stock is being 

 moved at low prices. Each day last 

 week the market was overloaded with 

 roses and carnations. Daily shipments 

 of ])eonies arrive and the quality has 

 been fairly good. 



American Beauty rosea were in de- 

 mand last week at fair prices. Valley 

 and orchids are moving well, because of 

 June weddings. Gladioli are becoming 

 the jnain factor in the market, and the 

 demand ,i"st about meets the supply. 

 There are ))lenty of outdoor flowers, 

 such as sweet williams, daisies, etc. 

 Easter lilies and callas have been mov- 

 ing slowly. 



Various Notes. 



^^ost florists here report that business 

 now is ahead of what it was last year 

 at this -time. 



E. C. Tipton, C. C. Phillips, Edward 

 Xiggel. of the McCallum Co., and Jo- 

 seph King, of the A. W. Smith Co., have 

 returned from a week 's fishing trip in 

 Forest countv. 



A. W. Smith, of the A. W. Smith Co., 

 has been ill for several days, but is 

 rapidly improving. 



Thursday, June 29, Miss Mary O. 

 MacDonald, of Glenshaw, Pa., and Fred- 

 erick Kochcr, Jr., of Bakerstown, Pa., 

 will be united In marriage. The cere- 

 mony will be performed at 7:4.') p. m. 

 in tiie Sandusky Street Baptist church, 

 north side. Mr. Kocher is connected 

 with the Pittsburgh Cut Flower Co., 

 at Bakerstown, as a rose grower. 



H. J. H. 



GERANIUMS DISEASED. 



T am sending you a few leaves of 

 diseased geranium foliage. Please let 

 me know how T can combat the disease. 

 The leaves turn vellow. Will spraving 

 lielp? ■ C. D.— Mo. 



Probably your treatment of your 

 geraniums has not been quite correct. 

 Keeping plants too crowded and damp 

 and spraying overhead will soon cause 

 diseased foliage to appear. Keep your 

 plants spread out more; remove the 

 deail and decaying leaves, and water 

 somewhat more sparingly. Geraniums 

 are not aquatics and resent being kept 

 wet. They succeed much the best when 

 run a little on the dry side, no matter 

 whether in ])ots or planted outside. 



You may have noticed that outdoors 

 they are always seen at their best dur- 

 ing long spells of dry weather. Air 

 the plants freely; keep a dry atmos- 

 phere; wet the leaves as little as pos- 

 sible and your plants should soon show 

 improvement. C. W. 



Mishawaka, Ind. — The Flower Shope, 

 conducted by R. McGowan and Arnold 

 McGowan, is having good business and 

 expects it to increase. Therefore three 

 greenhouses, 25x100 feet, are now being 

 built. 



OBITUARY 



G. V. Van Zanten. 



Announcement has been made by the 

 firm of Van Zanten Bros., Hillegom, Hol- 

 land, of the death of G. V. Van Zanten, 

 the oldest partner of the company. Mr. 

 Van Zanten passed away Wednesday, 

 May 24. The deceased was known to 

 many both abroad and in the United 

 States, by whom he will be missed. 



J. H.. Broxey. 



The Review lost one of its earliest 

 and most regular subscribers May 24 

 when J. H. Broxey, of the Carrmonte 

 Greenhouses, Dayton, 0., died by his 

 own hand. Mr. Broxey was well known 

 and well liked by his many friends in 

 the trade. He had been ill for some 

 time and the belief is that he became 

 despondent toward the last. 



FRIEND OF THE SOUTH. 



In the passing of Patrick Welch, the 

 florists of the south lost one of their 

 best friends. I was just wondering 

 how many florists of the south know 

 who was largely responsible for the 

 S. A. F. convention going from San 

 Francisco to Houston. When this con- 

 vention was given to Houston, we did 

 not have a single representative in San 

 Francisco. Mr. Welch wired me, ask- 

 ing if Houston wanted the convention. 

 I immediately got busy and had sev- 

 eral telegrams sent to San Francisco. 

 Houston was selected, even though New 

 Orleans and New York had representa- 

 tives, who put in nominations for 

 the convention, but were defeated. 



My firm conviction is that our suc- 

 cess was due to the influence and loy- 

 alty to the south of our good friend, 

 Patrick Welch. He had long been an 

 advocate of the southern convention. 

 He also believed that the convention 

 should be taken to the various sections 

 of the country. 



There hangs in my ofiice today a pho- 

 tograph of Mr. Welch, with this in- 

 scription: "Mr. Pat Welch, past-presi- 

 dent of the S. A. F. and a stanch friend 

 of the florists of the south." 



We have lost a good friend, a hard 

 worker and a man whose judgment 

 could be depended upon. I feel the loss 

 of a personal friend, because, when he 

 was elected president, he saw fit to 

 name me one of the board. All this 

 culminated in the convention going 

 south, and I was eventually elected 

 president of the S. A. F. 



The florists throughout the country 

 feel the great loss of one of their most 

 substantial friends and members. 



Robert C. Kerr. 



