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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 24, 1905. 



Hedge of Spiraea Van Houttei Three Years After Planting. 



When the New York Club sings 

 "Johnny get your gun" next winter, 

 Burnie will now be able to respond. He 

 was u'-A. the only member of the club 

 who carried oflf a prize! 



If Altiek will pull off a fat man's 

 race, quarter mile, next summer and 

 Bryant, Bayersdorfer, Ritter, Lonsdale, 

 Sullivan, Kasting, HeinI, Hallock, 

 Poehlmann, Seidewitz and Foley and all 

 others over 250 pounds will enter, I 

 •would like to present a gold headed cane 

 to the winner. 



Ed. Winterson seems much toned 

 down compared with the hilarity he dis- 

 playe<i in the old days when he killed 

 me in Detroit and he bowled 200. 



Patijck Welch, of Boston, made a fine, 

 impasHioned appeal for justice to his ab- 

 sent friend. He never stabs a man in 

 the dark. 



F. C. Weber and his wife managed 

 their European trip nicely so as to go 

 home ^ ip> Washington and Mrs. Weber 

 took one of the handsome bowling prizes 

 to St. Louis with her. 



I vonder when J. A. Valentine will 

 invite us to Denver? He has more to 

 show us than ever New York or Wash- 

 ingtnii can display. Those wonderful 

 mountains are worth going around the 

 world to see. I hope it will be Denver 

 in 1907. 



Lewis Ullrich takes defeat with the 

 same genial placidity that he will dis- 

 play when victory some day perches on 

 his banner. Everything comes to him 

 who waits. Mr. Kasting can prove it. 



Mrs. Samuel Henahaw tramped up and 

 down the hills at the old bridge like a 

 girl and the gallant Davis, of Orange, 

 chaperoned her. 



Airs. Suder, of Toledo, was more like 

 a lassie of 26 than 62. In fact she 

 says the figures have been changed and 

 the former are correct. She attended 

 every meeting, reception and trip and 

 was never weary. I prophesy she will 

 be at the 194.3 convention. 



Everybody was glad to see W^illiam 

 Scott again in good health and active 

 in all his favorite sports after his se- 

 vere illness and all wish him a long life 

 and a renewal of his youth. 



The ribbon men not only secured 

 prizes for their fine exhibits, but the 

 ladies declared the exhibitors were even 

 handsomer than their display. 



Harry Papworth escaped both the 

 yellow fever and the railroad wreck and 

 looked as if he was none the worse for 

 the rocky road he had to travel. 



A good many complained of lack of 

 acquaintance with Washington water 

 and so indulged too freely in it. Some 

 found satisfactory substitutes. No se- 

 rious illness developed except in the case 

 of L. E. Dake, of Rochester, whose sud- 

 den death on Thursday was greatly re- 

 gretted by all. The sincere sympathy of 

 the convention goes out to his bereaved 

 family. 



The Canadian boys from Toronto and 

 other cities even as far away as Winni- 

 peg, Man., were warmly welcomed. 

 Yearly we are growing nearer to our 

 cousins across the lakes. Some day they 

 will be our brothers. That is manifest 

 destiny. Next year we should have fifty 

 Canadians at Dayton. 



For once Leuty didn't ride his bicycle 

 to the convention. Perhaps he is get- 

 ting ready to go to Dayton in his auto. 



Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Herr have 

 still the youngest member along and 

 he is getting a big boy now. 



There was an unusual elation in W. P. 



Craig's handshake this year. In the 

 early fall he marries Miss Mary C. Fals- 

 teth, of Philadelphia. Now you under- 

 stand. 



Some one broke a bottle of port wine 

 in Manda's valise. After this came the 

 attack of stomach trouble. But I didn 't 

 say Joe drank the wine. 



Philip Breitmeyer and wife were as 

 sweet and modest as if they were not 

 building the finest florist store in the 

 world. 



Those Washington boys are wonders. 

 Such devotion to everybody, such tire- 

 lessness and harmony, such accuracy and 

 completeness of arrangement, such a 

 souvenir, such unselfishness from Vice- 

 President Freeman to the bottom of the 

 membership list. Can we ever forget it all 

 and their unvarying kindness, solicitude 

 and devotion? God bless them. What 

 would the year amount to without these 

 annual reunions, important first of all 

 in furthering the interests of the so- 

 ciety, but best of all to most of us in 

 that we see old friends again and clasp 

 hands in loving welcome and farewell. 

 J. Austin Shaav. 



SPIRAEA VAN HOUTTEL 



Spirsea Van Houttei is an excellent 

 shrub for an ornamental hedge. It has 

 been used for this purpose for a num- 

 ber of years and in every instance, so 

 far as I know, has given the best of sat- 

 isfaction. The plant is extremely hardy, 

 even in Minnesota or Canada; trans- 

 plants readily and grows in almost all 

 soils and situations. The habit of the 

 plant is graceful and beautiful at all 

 times. When in bloom in June in this 

 locality it is a perfect snowbank of 

 bloom, hardly surpassed in graceful 

 beauty by any other flowering shrub. 



The California privet has been largely 

 planted for ornamental hedges and in 

 many localities succeeds admirably. On 

 the Atlantic Coast, where the atmos- 

 phere is saturated with salt, few shrubs 

 or trees thrive as well as under other 

 conditions. Here the California privet 

 flourishes better than most others. But 

 in Indiana and other central states the 

 California privet will not long survive. 

 I have grown it here for more than 

 twenty years, but do not know a plant 

 of it more than three or four years old 

 that is not misshaped and unsightly from 



Hedge of Spiraea Van Houttei Four Years After Planting. 



