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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBEU 30, 1913. 



Dahlias are gone. Jack Frost's visit 

 there last week ended their career in 

 Maryland. Bouvardias, tritomas, sweet 

 peas and cosmos have all been plentiful, 

 but nothing else seems to count while 

 the overwhelming mum flood continues. 



Various Notes. 



The annual exhibition of the Horti- 

 cultural Society of New York begins 

 at the Museum of Natural History, 

 Friday, October 31, and continues for 

 five days. 



The National Association of Garden- 

 ers will meet at the Museum of Na- 

 tural History Monday afternoon, No- 

 vember 3, and the annual banquet will 

 be enjoyed at the- Hotel Endicott the 

 same evening. 



The chrysanthemum show of the 

 American Institute will be held Novem- 

 ber 5 to 7 at the Engineering build- 

 ing, 33 "West Thirty-ninth street. 



The next meeting of the New York 

 Florists ' Club will be held Monday eve- 

 ning, November 10. This will be the 

 annual ladies' night and the most im- 

 portant and enjoyable evening of the 

 year. Nominations of officers for the 

 coming year will be announced by the 

 committee. 



The John Scott place in Flatbush was 

 inundated last week by the bursting 

 of a 4-foot water main. The city prob- 

 ably can be held responsible for the 

 loss, which was considerable. 



This week's obituary column records 

 the sudden death of Emil Author, of 

 Bobbink & Atkins, formerly with Sie- 

 brecht & Son and the Kosery. 



Jean Barndeer, of New Eochelle, a 

 landscape gardener, had a narrow es- 

 cape from asphyxiation last week. 

 When he was found in a gas-filled 

 room, his heart had stopped beating 

 and he was not breathing. He contin- 

 ued in that condition for an hour be- 

 fore artificial breathing brought him 

 back to life. 



Henry B. Siebrecht and Florence 

 Gardener were married October 21. 

 They will spend three weeks in Pan- 

 ama. 



The New York and New Jersey Plant 

 Growers' Association took their trip 

 to Long Island Tuesday, October 28. 

 Those present were Messrs. Siebrecht, 

 Sr., Siebrecht, Jr., Dupuy, Miller, El- 

 der, De Forest, Boehler, Lange, Zeller, 

 Madsen, Christensen, Schoelzel, Win- 

 nefeld, Baumann, Dressel, Langan, 

 Schultheis, Traendly, Dreyer, Shaw, 

 Sperry and Dressel, Jr. The places vis- 

 ited were those of Messrs. Siebrecht, 

 Langan, Schultheis, Dupuy, Keller, 

 Dreyer, Marquardt, Miller, Scott, Wag- 

 ner and Schmutz. The next outing, 

 to visit the Jersey growers, will be 

 held Friday, November 7. The so- 

 ciety meets November 10, at Secretary 

 Siebrecht 's office in Long Island City. 

 Plants everywhere were found in grand 

 condition. Scott's loss by flood 

 amounted to from $15,000 to $20,000. 



Schloss Bros, will move January 1 to 

 31 and 33 East Twenty-eighth street, 

 between Fourth and Madison avenues. 

 This change of location was made neces- 

 sary by the firm's increasing business 

 and the new place will have double the 

 space of the present headquarters. 



Peter F. McKenney, of Forty-second 

 street and Fifth avenue, decorated Oc- 

 tober 22 for the Brinkley wedding at 

 Brewster, N. Y., and also for one at 

 Delmonico 's. 



Siebrecht & Son have remodeled their 

 store on Fifth avenue. The greenhouses 



at New Eochelle are now largely de- 

 voted to the growing of orchids, mums 

 and carnations. Of the latter. North- 

 port, Mrs. Ward and Rainbow are the 

 favorites. 



The attractive daily decoration of 

 Wadley & Smythe 's window is the work 

 of Carl Oberheitman, who has been at 

 the firm's Newport branch this sum- 

 mer and who has just returned from 

 a two weeks' vacation in the Adiron- 

 dacks. 



Bowling is enjoyed every Wednes- 

 day by the Butherford Club ftnd every 

 Thursday by the Astorias, but the New 

 York Florists' Club lacks sufficient in- 

 terest and energy to form a club of its 

 own, notwithstanding its winning of 

 the championship at Minneapolis. 

 Frank Verona, C. C. Trepel's financial 

 manager, has challenged any member of 

 the New York club to a match for $50. 

 His average for twenty games is 232. 

 Donaldson and Riedel are thinking seri- 

 ously of accepting the challenge. 



Myer, of Fifty-eighth street and 

 Madison avenue, is again at his desk, 

 fully recovered from his recent opera- 

 tion. He has a force of twenty men 

 employed and has a branch store on 

 Fifty-ninth street, which he now uses 

 for' palm storage. 



Walter Mott is in the city this week 

 on his return from a two months' trip 

 all over the sunny south, which has 

 been continuous since the Minneapolis 

 convention. 



Thos. F. Galvin's windows on Fifth 

 avenue are a dream. The genial Bos- 

 tonian is much gratified with the recep- 

 tion accorded him in his metropolitan 

 debut. Manager Bridgman has been 

 three months superintending the details 

 of this enterprise. The roof conserva- 

 tory will soon be ready for inspection. 



H. M, Robinson, of Boston, was one 

 of last week's visitors. 



H, H. Jahn, of Brooklyn, has had a 

 splendid fall trade with weddings, sev- 

 eral of them out of the city. He has 

 been a large buyer at the plant auc- 

 tions lately. 



C. F. Meyer is visiting his southern 

 trade. Bert Chadwick, of this house, 

 is in the west. Business is reported 

 excellent. 



A. Kakuda, of the Yokohama Nursery 

 Co., will be back from Japan this week. 



Harry A. Barnard, of Stuart Low & 

 Co., sails next Wednesday, November 5, 

 for England. 



C. H. Totty is maintaining his repu- 

 tation for successful chrysanthemum 

 culture, the stock he is sending to J. K. 

 Allen being as good as any he ever 

 grew. 



Wertheimer Bros., who now are nicely 

 settled in their new uptown location, 

 comment on the number of out-of-town 

 visitors in the last few weeks, saying 

 it exceeds anything within their recol- 

 lection. 



Charles Albert Traendly, son of 

 Frank H. Traendly, was operated on 

 for appendicitis October 14. The oper- 

 ation was a success and he is rapidly 

 convalescing. J. Austin Shaw. 



Washington, N. J. — Several new 

 greenhouses are being put up by Alonzo 

 J. Bryan, the toal cost of which will 

 be about $20,000. 



, New Bedford, Mass. — ^Wm, P. |»ierce, 

 who has been in business on Union 

 street for over thirty-seven years, has 

 moved to 610 Pleasant street. 



OBITUARY. 



Edward Le Boy Pierce. 



The many florists and gardeners who 

 have had business dealings with A. H. 

 Hews & Co., Cambridge, Mass., who 

 have a nation-wide constituency of 

 buyers of their flower pots, will regret 

 to learn of the death, October 16, of 

 Edward Le Roy Pierce, the youthful, 

 courteous and ever genial president of 

 that company. 



Mr. Pierce was born in Barre, Mass., 

 in 1877, and was 35 years and 9 months 

 old at the time of his death. He en- 

 tered the employ of A. H. Hews & Co. 

 thirteen years ago, fresh from the 

 Worcester Polytechnic School. After 

 Mr. Hews' death and the formation of 

 a corporation in 1904, he was made 

 vice-president, succeeding to the presi- 

 dency in 1910. Under his able admin- 

 istration the firm has made rapid head- 

 way, and was never more prosperous 

 than now. He was a member of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Bos- 

 ton, and found time occasionally to at- 

 tend its meetings. A few years ago- 

 the club had a delightful field day at 

 the North Cambridge potteries, being 

 most kindly entertained. 



Of late years Mr. Pierce's health has 

 been far from good, but by occasional 

 southern trips and by taking good care 

 of himself he managed to pull himself 

 along. Finally, as his health became 

 more and more impaired, he entered 

 the New England Sanitarium at Mel- 

 rose, two weeks before the end came. 

 Bright 's disease was the cause of death. 



The deceased was worshipful master 

 of Charity Lodge, A. F. and A. M. He 

 was held in high esteem by his business 

 associates, by his Masonic and other 

 friends and by all with whom he had 

 any relations. His employees feel his 

 loss keenly. Funeral services were held 

 October 19 at the chapel of Mount Au- 

 burn cemetery. Rev. F. E. Marble, 

 assisted by the Rev. Mr. Reed, of the 

 Belmont Unitarian church, officiated. 

 The pall bearers were heads of the dif- 

 ferent offices and departments in Bos- 

 ton and New York. There was a pro- 

 fuse display of floral souvenirs. Mr. 

 Pierce leaves a widow, mother and 

 brother, but no children. 



W. N. Craig. 



B. B. Stoddard. 



R. B. Stoddard, for many years in 

 the nursery business at Sterling, HI., 

 was found dead in his bed by his 

 daughter when she went to his room 

 to awaken him Saturday morning, Oc- 

 tober 18. He died sometime during 

 the night and probably of old age, as 

 he was 85 years old. He had retired 

 the night before apparently in his 

 usual health. Mr. Stoddard had been 

 a resident of Sterling since 1863. The 

 funeral was held at the home Monday 

 afternoon, October 20. 



Emil Anthor. 



Emil Anthor, one of the force of 

 Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J., 

 and formerly with Siebrecht & Son and 

 the Rosery, dropped dead from heart 

 disease Monday, October 20, while en- 

 gaged in planting boxwood for the 

 firm. He was a man of good char- 

 acter and ability, and leaves a widow 

 and a large family to mourn his un- 

 timely end. Among the floral designs 

 sent in sympathy was a handsome 

 wreath of mums and orchids from Sie- 

 -Br^ht & Sdfi. ^ .. '' 



