• ' ' :VV- :> ■'■"r^ « "..•'~''^ Vy-'^^ ■ 



■yfrW^^'' 



210 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUMB 23. 1804. 



The republican national convention has 

 filled the city with strangers and it is 

 booming certain lines of business at a 

 great rate, but is not affecting the flor- 

 ists' trade to any appreciable extent. 

 Hauswirtb, in the Auditorium, gets a lit- 

 tle extra and so do others on Michigan 

 avenue, but in general the ' ' big guns ' ' 

 are too busy with politics to have any 

 time for social affairs. 



Bowlingf. 



On Tuesday evening the bowlers fin- 

 ished their try-out for places on the St. 

 Louis team. The following is the record 

 for the evening: 



Player. Ist 2d 3d 4th 6tb 



Hauswirtb 147 177 154 164 168 



Aamus .^ 144 133 148 167 179 



F. Stollery 144 180 170 165 197 



Scott 163 157 172 134 135 



G. Stollery 173 177 136 144 187 



Steyens 158 159 140 187 166 



Degnan 125 155 163 148 17a 



F. P 100 128 107 132 06 



The following are those who partici- 

 pated in the requisite number of games 

 to qualify, with their averages. The 

 first five will constitute the team, with 

 the others as substitutes: 



Player. Gaines. Total. Av. 



F. Stollery 25 4,402 17(» 



•^snjus 30 4,029 164 



Sterens 27 4,291 160 



|<»". 30 4.657 165 



g«^luff •• 25 3,850 154 



Hauswirtb 26 3,846 164 



I>eKnan 26 3,772 161 



Four straw hats were offered as prizes 

 in the contest, Fred Stollery and George 

 Aamus winning in the straight match 

 and P. J. Hauswirtb and John Deg- 

 nan in the handicap, it being stip- 

 ulated that no player could wiii 

 more than one prize. The handicap was 

 arranged by George Stollery, as follows: 

 F. Stollery, scratch; Asmus, three added 

 to average, Balluff and Stevens five,. 

 Scott ten, Hauswirtb and Degnan fifteen, 

 Huebner twenty and E. F. Winterson 

 twenty-five. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



The market remains in a condition of 

 inactivity. The temperature approaches 

 100 degrees again and while the supply 

 is not excessive it is far in advance of 

 present requirements. The quality of the 

 rose stock is unsatisfactory, mildew be- 

 ing much in evidence. Little improvement 

 is looked for before the end of August. 

 Lecakes & Co. have completed the work 

 of placing 10,000,000 of galax leaves in 

 cold storage. Their lilies from their owji 

 pond in Connecticut are in demand. 



The Slocum Disaster. 



No greater catastrophe has ever oc- 

 curred in New York than the burning of 

 the General Slocum and no tragedy has 

 ever been less excusable. Over a thou- 

 sand lives have been sacrificed. Whole 

 families have been swept out of exist- 

 ence, dozens of survivors are insane and 

 gloom covers the city. The only florist 

 who has suffered the loss of loved onee is 

 August Schmidt, of Aveoue B, whose 

 mother, wife and baby are among the 

 missing. He has the universal sympathy 

 of the trade in his bereavement. 



Qob Outing. 



The New York Florists' Club has 

 made every preparation for its excursion 

 on Wednesday, June 29, and as the boat 

 engaged is absolutely safe and special 

 precautions as to safety will be made, 

 it is hoped none who had arranged to at- 

 tend will be absent. Everything prom- 

 ises a large attendance and the commit- 



tees have worked hard to provide all the 

 requirements for a happy reunion. The 

 Isabel will leave the dock at East Thirty- 

 first street at 9:45 on Wednesday morn- 

 ing. If any have not secured tickets the 

 treasurer, Charles Schenck, of 44 West 

 Twenty-ninth street, should be at once 

 notified so that ample arrangements 

 may be completed for the dinner at the 

 grove. Those who desire to compete for 

 the various prizes are requested to give 

 their names and addresses to President 

 Traendly, as the number of contests 

 provided for will make system a neces- 

 sity if they are completed. The list of 

 contests and the prizes offered, with the 

 names of the generous donors, are given 

 fully in the souvenir program. 



William V. Cleary, of Cleary's Horti- 

 cultural Hall, Vesey street, has offered a 

 special prize for a special event at the 

 outing, a $35 suit of clothes for grow- 

 ers only in a unique race wherein fifty 

 flower pots are used, each having hidden 

 numbers from 1 to 50. The winner is 

 the man whose pots aggregate the larg- 

 •est amount when the total of the num- 

 bers is found. It is a race in the dark. 

 The pots are placed twenty-five yards 

 from the starting point and only one 



1^; 



^3?R/ifir 



'* I regard the Florists* Review as 

 a wonderful salesman ; I sold all 

 my stock through The Weekly 

 Florists* Review." 



JOHN W. FOOTE. 



Maiden, Mass. 

 June 20, 1901. 



can be carried at a time. Every grower 

 with grit and ability to run will strive 

 for the new suit and John Scott, Louis 

 Schmutz and David Mellis are among the 

 entries to date. This will be one of tho 

 most interesting events of the day. 



Various Notes. 



J. K. Allen and wife leave on Wednes- 

 day of this week, via the steamer Ma- 

 jestic, for a trip to Europe. This is 

 the first visit of the veteran wholesaler 

 to the old country and he well deserves 

 it. Mr. and Mrs. Allen will return about 

 September 1, after visiting England, 

 Scotland, Ireland and France. He has 

 the Kew Gardens, Covent Garden mar- 

 ket, Windsor Castle and King Edward on 

 his list and Killarney • and the blarney 

 stone for side trips before he returns. 

 His visit is largely in behalf of the new 

 library to be erected at his home town, 

 Kearney, N. J,, and his appointment as 

 commissioner and ofScial inspector on tbo 

 continent is an honor of which he has 

 good reason to be proud. The business 

 will be in competent hands during his 

 absence. 



Joseph Fenrick will open a wholeeale 

 cut flower store at 48 West Thirtieth 



street, next door to James McManus, on 

 July 1. Mr. Fenrick has been in the em- 

 ploy of Ford Bros, for many years and 

 has an excellent reputation. 



Elliotts ' palm sale on Tuesday brought 

 out a large attendance and prices realized 

 were very satisfactory. Next Friday 

 will likely close the auction business for 

 the season. 



The veteran Charles K Allen is enjoy- 

 ing the St. Louis exposition. Mr. Waiter 

 has returned with glowing deecription* 

 of its beauty and grandeur. The major- 

 ity of eastern florists will, however, wait 

 for the convention. The Baltimore & 

 Ohio railroad seems to please all who con- 

 template the trip and a large and happy 

 party of, it is hoped, close to 100 will 

 make the journey from this center. 

 Many ladies will attend from New York. 



S. B. Wertheimer, of Lion & Werth- 

 eimer, has returned from his western 

 trip and visit to the fair at St. Louis. 

 He speaks very highly of the efforts be- 

 ing made by Brother Beneke and his 

 staff of faithful lieutenants towards 

 making the S. A. F. convention a great 

 success. 



John P. Cleary celebrated his thirty- 

 first birthday on Monday of this week. , 



George M. Geraghty, once of Denver, 

 and lately with Thomas Young, Jr., will 

 summer at Rockaway Beach. 



James Carroll, of Thorley's, will sum- 

 mer as usual at Atlantic Highlands. 



James Eraser, of Morristown, N. J., 

 superintendent of Cedar Court and th© 

 father of gardeners, was in the city 

 Monday. Tuesday, the longest day of 

 the year, he celebrated his "steenth" 

 birthday. 



Charles Millang has returned from a 

 business and pleasure visit to Buffalo. He 

 speaks highly of ithe Buffalonian's hos- 

 pitality, especially of "Billy" Kasting. 

 Mr. Millang is handling a large stock of 

 lilies and Brunners. 



Mr. and Mrs. A. Guttman and family 

 will spend the summer at Woodclift Inn, 

 Freeport, L. I. 



Bowling. 



The new alleys of the New York Club 

 are proving very satisfactory and the at- 

 tendance grows as the time for the St. 

 Louis convention approaches. Last week 

 tho scores were: 



Guttman 1.'6 133 



I^ng: 156 156 



Thompson 124 190 138 



Oibbs 140 119 128 135 



5haw 123 134 153 117 1» 



lames 179 125 148 137 169 



O'Mara 130 137 146 185 18« 



J. Austin Shaw. 

 FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners* Chronicle. 



Under glass, nature is only of partial 

 help, it is mostly art that does it; and 

 there seems to be a growing notion that 

 this art is not suflSciently paid for. 



Lysichitum camtschatcense, which 

 is native to northern California, has 

 been grown at Kew for a number of 

 years. In a boggy portion of the rock 

 garden it has barely held its own but 

 a plant in a moist position in the Him- 

 alayan house flowered this year for its 

 second time. 



Rhododendron racemosum is one of 

 the most beautiful of all the rhododen- 

 drons, the largest plants at Kew being 

 about two feet high, of loose spreading 

 habit, and densely covered with a mass 

 of bright pink flowers, each of which 

 was about an inch in diameter, and 

 sweetly scented. No doubt the plants 



