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NOVEMBKR 16, li<05. 



The Weeicly Florists' Review. 



149S 



ferings with rare patience and his hope 

 and good nature were always in evidence. 

 A widow and one son survive. 



Qub Meeting. 



President Traendly occupied the chair, 

 Monday night. The attendance was en- 

 couraging, considering the threatening 

 weather, many ladies being present on 

 the last evening of the year devoted to 

 the fair sex, and altogether over seventy- 

 five of the members and their wives and 

 families arrived before the program 

 ended. Messrs. Coyle, Hansen, Hoff- 

 meyer and Ernshaw were elected to mem- 

 bership and nominations included the 

 members of the J. M. Keller Co., A. E. 

 Froment and L. W. C. Tuttle. A com- 

 mittee was appointed to draw up suita- 

 ble resolutions on the death of Wm. 

 Ghormley. 



The report of the nominating commit- 

 tee, A. S. Burns, chairman, was read, 

 and the following members nominated 

 for the club's offices: For president, 

 John Scott, C. H. Totty; for vice-presi- 

 dent, J. H. Pepper, R. Koehne; for 

 treasurer, C. W. Weathered, L. B. Craw, 

 L. W. Wheeler; for secretary, John 

 Young, S. S. Butterfield; for trustees, 

 Julius Roehrs, Jr., J. K. Allen, J. B. 

 Nugent, C. H. Totty, Robert Simpson, 

 John Birnie, A. H. Langjahr. 



The exhibit of mums, carnations and 

 novelties was extensive and creditable 

 and the hearty thanks of the club were 

 enthusiastically tendered the enterprising 

 exhibitors. The committee on awards, 

 Patrick O'Mara, chairman, made its re- 

 port as folloAvs: 



A. A. MacDonald, Somerville, N. J., 

 exhibited a magnificent assortment of 

 chrysanthemums from the Duke Farm, 

 including Merza, Mrs. E. Thirkell, Jean- 

 ne Nonin, Mrs. Swinburne, Guy Hamil- 

 ton, Mary Inglis, W. R. Church, Dr. 

 Enguehard, Gen. Hutton, Brighthurst, 

 Matthew Smith and T. Carrington, cer- 

 tificate for culture". Louis Dupuy, 

 Whitestone, L. I., Bouvardia Huniboldtii 

 graudiflora, Chrysanthemum Mme. Jean- 

 ne Nonin, certificate for culture. 



F. R. Pierson Co., Variegated En- 

 chantress, judgment .suspended until the 

 committee visit the greenhouses at Tar- 

 rytown. R. C. Pye, Nyack, Carnation 

 Senator Crane, a large handsome pink, 

 also to be visited by the committee. 

 Robert Craig, from the Cottage Gardens, 

 and Victory, from Guttman & Weber, 

 for exhibition only. Theo. Hentzenberg, 

 seedling carnations, also to be visiteil by 

 the committee. 



A vase of sweet peas of fourteen va- 

 rieties by A. C. Zvolanek, Bound Brook, 

 N. J., to be passed upon later by the 

 committee. Among them were handsome 

 white, lavender, yellow, blue and purple 

 varieties and a splendid pink, named J. 

 K. Allen. Mr. Allen is handling all of 

 Mr. Zvolanek 's shipments and some 

 {rrand cypripediums from Mr. Towell, of 

 Paterson, N. J. 



After the business session of the dub 

 the evening was devote<l to a musical 

 feast, followed by a collation in >. agent's 

 bef-t style. 



Prof. Hopwood presided at the piano 

 and sang songs of his own compositio'.). 

 Mrs. John P. Cleary, Mrs. Fogey and* 

 Miss Nugent sang sweetly and were 

 heartily encored and added greatly to the 

 pleasure of the evening. Messrs. Plumb, 

 Scott, Nugent, Wallace, David Smith and 

 Butterfield wore all in fine voice. 



Various Notes. 



A new wholesale house opens this week 



William Ghormley. 



at 08 West Twenty-ninth street, to be 

 known as the Dutchess County Violet 

 Co. Although intending to handle all 

 kinds of cut flowers, violets will be the 

 specialty. The members of the firm are 

 Wm. Gaston Donaldson, of Barrytown, 

 N. Y.; C. A. Plumb and M. A.'^Purdy, 

 of New York City. Mr. Plumb will be 

 the New Yprk representative and Mr. 

 Purdy, who has had considerable expe- 

 rience in the wholesale cut flower busi- 

 ness, will be the manager. 



Slinn & Thompson are among the 

 largest handlers of violets in the New 

 York wholesale market, daily average 

 now over 30,000. On their staff of ship- 

 pers are some of the best of the Rhine- 

 beck expertp. 



It was the Thos. Young Co. that had 

 the first wedding in the new St. Thomas 

 church. The John Young Co. is not in 

 the retail business, as incorrectly stated 

 in my last letter. 



Reed & Keller liavc a great line of 

 novelties and inventions for the Thanks- 

 giving and Christmas holidays. 



Arthur T. Boddington reports a fine 

 demand for his Easter flowering glad- 

 ioli. 



Thomas H. Jackson, at one time in 

 the flower business on Lexington ave- 

 nue, is now in charge of the Cut Flower 

 Exchange and is making a reputation 

 that the officials of the market are proud 

 of. Millang, Bonnet, Smith and Sie- 

 brecht are on deck daily from six to six 

 at the Exchange, and seem to be always 

 busy. 



Harry Hoffmeyer met with a painful 

 accident last Monday, the breaking of a 

 large jar of mums cutting his arm seri- 

 ously. 



Donohoe, on West Twenty-ninth street, 

 liad the family orders for the funerals 

 of C. Gray Dinsmore and Mrs. Demming 

 last week. Palls of violets, valley and 



white roses alone aggregated over $1,000 

 in value. 



The Department of Parks of the City 

 of New York has awarded the contract 

 tor the following greenhouses to John A. 

 Scollay: Two orchid houses, one aquatic 

 house, one stove house, located at Pros- 

 pect park, also two plant houses, 15x200 

 each, at Forrest park, and the installing 

 of a new steam heating apparatus in the 

 offices of the Park Department for the 

 Borough of Brooklyn, in the Litchfield 

 mansion. The above work embodies using 

 four of the largest size Scollay Invinci* 

 ble boilers. 



Very few New Yorkers attended the 

 chrysanthemum show at Philadelphia last 

 week. Henry Dailledouze was there, and 

 C. B. Weathered. 



The lady who dropped her opera 

 fj^lasses on President Traendly at the 

 Wier-Smith festivities in a Brooklyn 

 theater last week gave as her excuse for 

 nervousness her discovery of the hand- 

 somest man in the audience and the 

 modest wholesaler blushingly forgave 

 her. But it was a narrow escape for the 

 genial ' * Prex ' ' and his " O ! such a head- 

 ache " had an excellent reason all the 

 week after. He is now convalescent. 



The election brought some ducats to 

 the retail florists, quite a demonstration 

 being made in honor of some of the win- 

 ning candidates. Over in Brooklyn Davy 

 Meliis proved his title to the ' ' floral 

 blaeksniith ' ' in the horse-shoe line with 

 some elaborate effects. 



Friends of Thos. Sharkey, of the Thos. 

 Young Co.. will be glad to hear of his 

 recovery from a severe illness of several 

 weeks ' duration. 



Prince Louis, of Battenberg, and his 

 sliip are the lions of the week. Monday 

 he attended the horse show and society 

 and the plebeian host crowded the big 

 garden to the walls. He is a great card 



