June 22, 1922 



The Florists' Review 



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rists' Club record an attendance of 

 three generations of a member's family 

 at one of its meetings. At the last 

 meeting Anton Schultheis, with his 80- 

 year-old father, and "Spike," his son, 

 vice-president of the club, were con- 

 spicuous among those present. 



The Henshaw Floral Co. is now dis- 

 playing a fine lot of English and conti- 

 nental pottery at its auxiliary quarters 

 in the Eighteenth street market. 



Joseph 8. Fenrich is closing his resi- 

 dence and moving to his summer quar- 

 ters at Bradley beach, from which point 

 he will commute daily to New York. 



J. H. P. 



Sydney B. Wertheimer has just re- 

 turned from a trip abroad, during 

 which he visited the principal European 

 markets. Mr. Wertheimer suggested a 

 number of original ideas to the Eu- 

 ropean manufacturers, which have been 

 admirably carried out, and Wertheimer 

 Bros, promise the trade a number of 

 surprising innovations for the fall sea- 

 son. Mr. Wertheimer states that, in his 

 opinion, chiffons will be none too plen- 

 tiful when the fall season opens, as 

 many of the manufacturers, not having 

 confidence in the advance in raw silk, 

 did not mount their looms, causing a 

 shortage of the finished goods. The silk 

 market has shown remarkable firmness, 

 due, as many explained, to the civil dis- 

 turbances and floods in China. The two 

 mills of Wertheimer Bros, are now 

 busily operating on ribbon and chiffon 

 fabrics for the fall demand. Mr. Wert- 

 heimer states that the advance orders 

 booked from the florists' trade indicate 

 a healthy condition and prospects of 

 exceptionally good fall business. 



dry; in other words, whether or not it 

 needs water. Mr. Rutenschroer has sev- 

 eral other inventions that he is in the 

 process of developing and marketing. 



THE INGENIOUS FLORIST. 



Some trades are operated by rule, but 

 not so the florists' business. Conse- 

 quently the florist is a resourceful man, 

 accustomed to meeting situations as 

 they arise, developing methods as he 

 goes along. One successful invention 

 leads to another. So it is in the case 

 of J. C. Rutenschroer, who recently has 

 been calling on florists in the middle 

 west showing them how to save time 

 tying string, much as in the accompany- 

 ing illustration. Mr. Rutenschroer is a 

 well known grower at Price Hill, Cin- 

 cinnati. He has two greenhouses and 

 a considerable acreage in dahlias, which 

 are his specialty. Invention is a side 

 line, but it comes naturally to him. He 

 has developed half a dozen labor savers 

 for florists. What he calls the "Nu- 

 wa" tie is a container for a ball of 

 twine, with a loop for the fingers and a 

 knife blade conveniently attached for 

 cutting the twine when the knot is 

 made. A patent has been procured and 

 arrangements for manufacture have 

 been made, as practically every grower 

 who has seen the device has ordered 

 from one to a dozen. The ' ' Nu-Wa ' ' 

 basket hanger is another of Mr. Ruten- 

 schroer 's inventions, designed for re- 

 tail trade. It has two unique features, 

 based on well known laws of physics. 

 Hung on a pivot, the basket can be 

 swung outside the porch rail for water- 

 ing. A level, in principle like that of 

 the carpenter's, is located on the upper 

 arm of the hanger, which is so adjusted 

 to the weight of the basket that the 

 evaporation of water is shown on the 

 level, which, therefore, indicates at a 

 glance whether the basket is wet or 



NEWPORT, R. I. 



Horticultural Society. 



The advancing of the date for the 

 June exhibition of roses, strawberries 

 and spring flowers, and a discussion of 

 methods to stop the despoiling of the 

 public parks of this city by thoughtless 

 or malicious persons, were the principal 

 topics that commanded the attention 

 of the members of the Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society at its regular meeting 

 last week. President Dorward was 

 given discretionary power regarding 

 the changing of the date for the June 

 exhibit; the consensus was that the sea- 

 son was nearly two weeks early and 



J. C. Rutenschroer. 



that unless the date is set forward, the 

 display will have passed its zenith. 



To overcome the utter disregard for 

 public property, in parks, playgrounds 

 and even in some of the cemeteries, by 

 the public and particularly by the 

 youths of the city, it was suggested that 

 the members of the society do what 

 they can to bring about a change; also 

 that tlje cooperation of the Chamber of 

 Commerce and of the Boy Scouts be en- 

 listed. 



James E. Knott, Jr., of the farm 

 bureau, gave an interesting and instruc- 

 tive talk on the peach tree borer, ex- 

 hibiting live specimens and telling how 

 to control them by the use of the para- 

 dichlorobenzene treatment, which it is 

 alleged has been proved here to be both 

 eflicacious and inexpensive. 



On exhibition at the meeting was a 

 vase of the beautiful thornless, red 



climbing rose, Zefferin Deuhin, for 

 which a cultural certificate was awarded 

 to the grower, James Hooper, gardener 

 to Mrs. Theodore Kane Gibbs. 



Various Notes. 



After J. J. Whitty had bid $150 for 

 the greenhouses, the entire estate com- 

 prising the former summer home of 

 Gordon McKay, on Marine and Ruggles 

 avenues, containing 108,978 square feet 

 of land, was sold at auction last week 

 to C. A. Dingey, of Boston, for $26,- 

 222.80. The estate at the last assess- 

 ment had a tax valuation of $82,000. 



J, G. Leikens, Inc., of New York, has 

 leased the store at 110 Bellevue avenue 

 for this season. Robert A. Clifford is in 

 charge. 



Oscar Schultz is giving his green- 

 houses, on Houston avenue, a general 

 overhauling. 



John S. Martin reports an unusually 

 busy season in landscape and outdoor 

 work. 



Fred P. Webber had the decorations 

 for the commencement exercises at St. 

 George's school last week. 



Albert Lawrence has been bringing in 

 some remarkably fine strawberries from 

 his farm in Portsmouth. 



Henry Irwin and Donald H. Thomp- 

 son are serving as petit jurors in the 

 Superior court. 



Wenham the Florist has opened his 

 Bellevue avenue store for the summer. 

 The store is that formerly occupied by 

 Bunyard, of New York, but has been 

 thoroughly renovated and redecorated 

 in blue and white. W. H. M. 



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embarrassments. 



New York, N.'^,^— Samuel Seligman, 

 who was adjudged^^bankrupt February 

 27, has asked for a tVii discharge, and 

 a hearing on his petition has been set 

 for Wednesday, July Tft, at 10 a. m., in 

 the United States DistriH^coUrt, in the 

 United States Court House and Post 

 Office building, Manhattan. 



Chicago, 111. — In the court action 

 June 20 regarding the change of receiv- 

 ership of the Continental Seed Co., the 

 resignation of the ancillary receiver 

 was accepted by Judge Ryner upon the 

 agreement of all concerned that 'the re- 

 ceiver 's report was satisfactory and 

 with the provision that objections can 

 be entered within sixty days. The final 

 settlement of lawyers' fees and the ap- 

 pointment of a new receiver was to oc- 

 cur later. The Continental Seed Co. 

 went into receivership about two years 

 ago, with liabilities of $1,000,000 and 

 assets of $100,000. 



Memphis, Tenn. — The property of the 

 Memphis Floral Co. was sold at auction 

 Thursday, June 15, in chancery sale. 

 The fixtures, glass, boilers, trade name, 

 delivery truck, lease, claims and ac- 

 counts were sold for $2,500 to a man by 

 the name of S. Kabakoff, who makes a 

 business of buying whatever is offered 

 for sale in the courts. No information 

 is available as to whether he may have 

 been bidding for someone else. Cred- 

 itors will get little, if anything, since 

 there was a first mortgage of $2,000 and 

 a second mortgage of $1,500, trustee 

 certificates of over $2,200 and court 

 costs in addition. The last two items 

 are paid out of sales first; so it appears 

 that the holders of the two mortgages, 

 as well as the unsecured creditors, will 

 lose all. 



