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The Florists' Review 



June 11, 1914. 



was especially delighted with Galves- 

 ton, with its picturesque streets and 

 gardens. He says all the florists south 

 are prospering and predicts a great fu- 

 ture for that country. * * Young man, 

 go southwest," is his echo of Horace 

 Greeley's admonition. 



G. H. Sinclair, of Holyoke, Mass., 

 was a recent visitor. Other visitors 

 were 8. J, Mitchell and George M. 

 Cosh, of Houston, Tex., on their way to 

 Europe, and JEdward Tufnail and Erie 

 G. Sutton, of Reading, England. 



William Plumb, superintendent of 

 horticulture for the Panama exposi- 

 tion, has visited Baltimore, Washing- 

 ton, Albany and Philadelphia in the 

 interests of the show, and Is doing 

 some hustling. "Everything," he says, 

 * ' indicates a huge success. ' ' He was 

 a guest at the meeting in Albany last 

 week of the state commission of the 

 Panama exoosition. 



C. C. Trepel has been enjoying a 

 week's rest at Kiamesha lake, in the 

 Catskills. 



Julius Roehrs will leave for his Eu- 

 ropean trip immediately after the three 

 days' outing of the New York and New 

 Jersey Plant Growers' Association, 

 June 23 to 26. 



The flower show next M.arch prom- 

 ises well. Secretary Young declares, 

 over $4,000 worth of space having been 

 sold, a guarantee fund pledged of near- 

 ly an equal sum and the good work 

 only just begun. 



John Miesem is in Germany, but will 

 return in time for the S. A. F. con- 

 vention. 



Much discussion is going on here over 

 the Sunday closing movement for July 

 and August in the wholesale cut flower 

 district. The majority are strongly in 

 favor of it. 



Theo. Outerbridge, of Bermuda, pro- 

 prietor of beautiful Sunnylands there, 

 was a recent visitor. 



The auction sales of plants, etc., by 

 the MacNiff Horticultural Co. often 

 continue until after 7 o'clock in the 

 evening. 



Secretary Bunyard announces the dis- 



tribution of the schedule for the Sweet 

 Pea Society's show for June 20. The 

 sixth annual exhibition will take place 

 June 27 and 28 at the New York Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



George C. Siebrecht has just in- 

 stalled a new, large and modern icebox 

 in addition to other facilities. 



Myer, at Madison avenue and Fifty- 

 eighth street, has a 21-year lease of 

 the ground, 20x50, on which stands the 

 4-story house he has purchased. Mod- 

 ernizing of the front begins at once. 

 A 15-foot basement is to be added. 



The early closing movement finds 

 favor with the majority of the seeds- 

 men. During June, July and August 

 5 o'clock daily and 12 o'clock Satur- 

 day seems to be the rule. 



Thomas Collie, with Burnett Bros., is 

 enjoying a visit at his old home in 

 Scotland. 



Frank Verona, for some years super- 

 visor and right-hand man with C. C. 

 Trepel, has secured the cut flower and 

 plant department of Schellenberg & 

 Co., Philadelphia, and will take charge 

 September 1, remaining with Mr. 

 Trepel until July 1. Mr. Verona is a 

 young man of excellent character, en- 

 terprise and experience. 



Emil Glauber, of Denver, was in 

 New York June 8 on his way to Eu- 

 rope for a vacation. A. J. Guttman 

 decorated his stateroom with carna- 

 tions, roses and peonies. 



The plant growers' outing to Dela- 

 ware Water Gap, for three days next 

 week, is already an assured success, the 

 reservations exceeding last year's 

 total. 



The MacNiflF Horticultural Co. will 

 hold its last auction of the season 

 Tuesday, June 16, a trade saie of large 

 proportions, from a big private estate 

 of Glen Cove, L. I. J. Austin Shaw. 



The front of the store of Wertheimer 

 Bros., on East Twenty-fourth street, is 

 a good advertisement for the firm and 

 for the trade, as the windows are orna- 

 mented by large and well-filled boxes of 

 geraniums and vincas. It is the most 

 attractive showing in the neighborhood 



and an object lesson to others in the 

 textile trade. 



Max Schling has ordered a new plate 

 glass body for the auto recently in dis- 

 astrous collision with a brewery truck. 

 The Occident, while costly, has proved 

 an excellent advertisement, as the pub- 

 licity has served to emphasize the 

 Schling method of giving service with- 

 out thought of expense. 



The craft in New York will be spe- 

 cially interested in the article on an- 

 other page of this issue, "Ward Starts 

 Pacific Nursery." It is the latest 

 project of C. W. Ward, of the Cottage 

 Gardens, who has of late made his 

 headquarters at Eureka, Cal. 



PIERSON ON THE JOB. 



F. R. Pierson is president of the 

 village of Tarrytown, which has figured 

 conspicuously this week in the news- 

 papers of the country because of in- 

 vasion by a large body of I. W. W. 

 agitators, making a demonstration at 

 the Rockefeller mansion. According to 

 one report, "by order of Village Presi- 

 dent Pierson a length of hose has been 

 attached to each hydrant in the busi- 

 ness section of the town and manned by 

 three firemen. If trouble starts, police- 

 men will be assigned to guard each 

 squad of firemen while water is poured 

 into the ranks of the invaders. ' ' 



Among the threats that have been 

 reported to the Tarrytown authorities, 

 are that Mr. Pierson would better 

 watch out or his big greenhouses will 

 be given a shower of stones. 



When Upton Sinclair and a commit- 

 tee appeared before the village board 

 to demand a permit for street meetings, 

 "We have a love for free speech," Mr. 

 Pierson declared, "and we object to 

 being advertised as opponents of free 

 speech. If you go hire a hall, you can 

 have all the free speech you want, but 

 not on our streets." Those who know 

 Mr. Pierson can imagine the positive- 

 ness with which he said it. 



SALESMAN A SVENOALI. 



The photograph reproduced herewith 

 was taken in the evening by flashlight 

 in the service shed of the Robert Craig 

 Co., in Philadelphia, and shows Leonard 

 J. Sieger, the popular salesman, enter- 

 taining an audience of the workers with 

 an exhibition of his hypnotic powers. 

 In front of Mr. Sieger is one of his 

 subjects stretched rigid at full length. 

 On his left is another, imagining he is 

 doing something, I know not what. The 

 photograph was given me by William P. 

 Craig as nu example of what Mr. Sieger 

 could do in placing people "under the 

 influence." When asked under what in- 

 fluence, Mr. Craig replied that Mr. Sie- 

 ger had developed remarkable powers 

 of hypnotism under Professor Somebody 

 and that these exhibitions given to 

 amuse his friends were quite equal to 

 anything Svengali had ever done. Ho 

 really deserves notice, this Leonard 

 Svengali Sieger, Mr. Craig asserted, so 

 etrong a power does ho possess. This 

 solemn asbertion seemed convincing rea- 

 son why the picture should be presented 

 to The Review's readers. Phil. 



L» J. Sieger, the Hypnotic Salesman of the Robert Craig Co., at Work- 



Malta, O. — W. C. Scovell reports that 

 although he had an unusually heavy 

 stock of geranium plants this season, 

 he could not meet the demand. His 

 Memorial day trade was heavier than 

 in previous years. Outdoor flowers 

 were scarce in this locality. 



