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AnausT 11, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



5J9 



men of the bowling and shooting com- 

 mittees, are hard at work at this writ- 

 ing, completing all their arrangements, 

 which they say will eclipse any attempt 

 at former meetings. 



Henry Ostertag's decorating commit- 

 tee will be at work by the end of this 

 week, decorating both halls. This com- 

 mittee are all experts at the art of dec- 

 orating and something fine may be ex- 

 pected. 



Superintendent Kuehn and his assist- 

 ant, Mr. Meinhardt, are spending most 

 of their time at the exhibition hall, re- 

 ceiving exhibition goods. Everything is 

 in readiness for the exhibitors and most 

 of them have sent word that they would 

 be here on Saturday to begin work on 

 their exhibits. 



Secretary Stewart, of the S. A. F., 

 in a letter writes that he will be here 

 on Sunday night and will be at the 

 convention hall early Monday morning. 



The finance committee, of which Otto 

 Koenig is chairman, has completed its 

 work. They report that they have plenty 

 of funds on hand for all expenses, which 

 is a very important matter. 



Frank Ellis is working overtime with 

 his hotel committee, but they are equal 

 to the task and all applications for 

 rooms are promptly complied with. As 

 Mr. Ellis says, "They can't come too 

 fast for us." 



The souvenir book is out and now in 

 the hands of the S. A. F. members. If 

 anyone is overlooked, he should advise 

 J. J. Beneke, 1220 Olive street. 



Bowlins:. 



The last games before the convention 



resulted as follows: 



Stars. 1st 2d 3(J T'l 



Beneke 167 174 234 675 



Kuehtt 174 159 124 457 



Miller 145 138 165 448 



Beyer 133 162 130 425 



EUiaon 200 137 200 537 



Totals 819 770 853 2,442 



Scrubs. 1st 2d 3d T'l 



Ellis 137 101 105 345 



Meinhardt 136 141 135 410 



Weber 188 136 143 467 



Gerlach 113 120 87 310 



Beneke, Jr 120 149 121 390 



Handicap 125 125 125 375 



Totals 819 772 714 2,297 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



There is nothing in the business here 

 worthy of much moment, yet it is fully 

 equal to, perhaps a little ahead of, cor- 

 responding periods of other years. Our 

 climate is so salubrious, enjoyable and 

 invigorating that everyone feels good. 

 No heat prostrations and no mosquitoes. 



John Esler, of Saddle Kiver, N. J., was 

 telling me, in a letter last week, that he 

 had a Buffalo friend staying with him 

 over night recently. On inquiring how 

 he slept, the Buffalo man said: "Nice- 

 ly, but what a lot of automobiles you 

 have here. They were passing all 

 night." John replied, "My dear sir, 

 they were not automobiles; they were 

 mosquitoes. ' ' 



Carnations are at the very lowest point. 

 It is just as well; it gives the public a 

 rest. Asters are in abundance. Sweet 

 peas are still fine and in good demand, 

 and what glorious shades of color we 

 have in them now! I suppose we owe 

 this largely to Mr. Eckford, whom the 

 writer, then a little boy of 10 or 12 

 years, knew very well, when Mr. Eckford 

 was a fine, broad-shouldered young man, 

 gardener to a Dr. Martin, a* pioneer in 

 dentistry, at a pretty place called Pur- 



Asters at the Establishment of Davis Bros,, Geneva, IlL 



brook, in the county of Hants. Dr. Mar- 

 tin would look in your mouth for $5, pull 

 a tooth for $10, or supply an artificial 

 one for $50, or a whole set for $1,000. 

 No wonder he could keep a first-class 

 gardener. But excuse my being remin- 

 iscent; 'tis but a falling of the sunset 

 of life. 



There are so few gladioli grown locally 

 that we are never overdone. A flower 

 that is most useful now is the lancifolium 

 lily. The auratum is used in large de- 

 signs, where taste and smell are not too 

 fastidious, but the album and roseum are 

 beautiful anywhere you put them. Louis 

 H. Neubeck, in his most attractive place, 

 has a fine show of these lilies. 



There is not much building going on, 

 but a good deal of fixing up. S. A. 

 Anderson is making great changes in his 

 admirably located store, which, when 

 completed, is expected to be "a gem of 

 purest ray serene." H. Keitsch & Son 

 are having a new store especially fixed 

 and adapted for their business. 



Among the visitors of recent date who 

 favored us with a call was Mr. Kclsey, 

 of South Orange, importer of trees and 

 shrubs. Mr. Kelsey spent last summer 

 in Europe, comparing the landscape art 

 of England and the continent with that 

 of the United States and it is inspiring 

 to hear him say that our native but trav- 

 eled artists will evolve a style embrac- 

 ing the best of European, yet distinct- 

 ive and superior to any. This is most 

 joyful to hear and it means the employ- 

 ment of thousands of men of skill as 

 well as labor, the exercise of art and 

 the "beautifying of our country. How 

 can a man whom fortune has favored, 

 spend his wealth better than by turning 

 the Avilderness into a place of beauty f 

 Where there was one such place twenty- 

 five years ago, there are today 100 and 

 they are ever on the increase. Fifty 

 acres of beautiful grounds is a better 

 educator than the study of the dead 

 languages. 



Mr. Creighton, of the Henry Dreer 

 Co., called on his passage to the Mis- 

 sissippi, also namesake Scott, of Chicago, 

 who has just finished seeing that the 

 firm 's Bermuda lilies were properly dug 

 and packed. 



Our club had a fairly well attended 



meeting last week. Our delegation will 

 leave for St. Louis on the Wabash, Mon- 

 day, at 1:30 p. m., arriving in St. Louis 

 about 8 a. m. Tuesday. We are trying 

 hard to get a bowling team together 

 but, if we succeed, will scarcely be a 

 competitor. It will be made up of " has 

 beens" and "never wases. " As the 

 writer has often said, it's the duty of all 

 florists who possibly can to attend these 

 national conventions. You do not re- 

 alize, many of you, how much our good 

 society has done for you all, and if at- 

 tendance demands self-sacrifice you 

 could not exercise it at a better time. 

 The man who says "The S. A. F. don't 

 do me any good" is blind, ignorant and 

 selfish. He has been a beneficiary of its 

 usefulness and good work for a number 

 of years, but too bigoted to see the truth. 

 Then there's the mammoth exposition. 

 If you only spend two or three hours 

 within its gates, as the writer expects to, 

 it's a great satisfaction in years to come 

 to be able to say, "Oh, yes, I saw the 

 St. Louis Fair. ' ' However, big as it is, 

 I consider it very secondary to attend- 

 ing out national convention, reviving old 

 acquaintances and making new ones. 



The H. A. Meldrum Co. has liberally 

 added more dollars to their chrysanthe- 

 mum exhibition and the premium list has 

 been published and mailed by Manager 

 Keitsch to all likely exhibitors. 



The Kasting Cup. 

 Just had a look at the Kasting cham- 

 pion challenge cup. It is a beauty! It 

 is a startler! It is a darling! The 

 finest thing we have ever seen, worthy of 

 the most fierce fight. W. S. 



Medina, O. — Hammerschmidt & Clark 

 are completing one of the best built 

 greenhouses in Ohio, one room 36x27 and 

 three rooms 10x36. Carnations in the field 

 are fine and housing under way. 



Des Moines, Iowa. — Lizzie Brandt- 

 man and George E. Brandtman have 

 given a chattel mortgage covering green- 

 houses and greenhouse stocks, located in 

 Grant Park, to H. M. Rollins to secure 

 a claim of $3,056.47. 



The instruction in the last Review 

 alone pays me for many years ' subscrip- 

 tion.— S, Dumber, Elgin, 111. 



