August 16, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



767 



coming in and were quite a help fo the 

 trade last week. 



Greens of all classes are abundant, 

 except galax. 



Alexander Waldbart, Jr., aged 31 

 years, was probably fatally injured last 

 Friday morning by falling from the 

 second story window of his home. He 

 sustained internal injuries in addition to 

 minor hurts. 



Gttb Meeting. 



The St. Louis Florists' Club held its 

 regular meeting August 9. The atten- 

 dance numbered thirty. The meeting was 

 opened by Vice-President John Steidle, 

 President Ammann being delayed. The 

 trustees reported that they had $38 left 

 from the picnic, which was placed in the 

 entertainment fund. 



Fred H. Meinhardt, who has charge of 

 the transportation to Dayton, reported 

 that the St. Louis delegation will number 

 twenty-five and will leave Monday night, 

 August 20, at 8:15 over the Vandalia 

 road, arriving at Dayton Tuesday morn- 

 ing at 8 a. m. 



Applications for membership included 

 the following: Edwin Denker, of St. 

 Charles, Mo.; Chas. FuUgraf and G. H. 

 Pring, of the Missouri Botanic Garden; 

 Wm. C. Young, Frank Vennemann, of 

 Kirkwood; C. W. Wors, F. Hettemann 

 and Fred Alves. 



The secretary was instructed to extend 

 the club's sympathy to the bereaved fam- 

 ily of the late James Hartshorne, also 

 to the Chicago Florists' Club in the loss 

 of one of its foremost members. 



The election of officers was then pro- 

 ceeded with. Prof. H. C. Irish, of the 

 Missouri Botanic Garden, was elected 

 president. John Connon, of "Webster 

 Grove, was elected vice-president on the 

 third ballot. Emil Sehray and J. J. 

 Beneke were the candidates for the office 

 of secretary, and J. J. Beneke was 

 elected. Mr. Sehray, who has faithfully 

 filled the office for the last fifteen years, 

 moved to make the election unanimous. 

 For treasurer there were four candidates 

 and after three ballots A. G. Bentzen 

 was elected. Fred Meinhardt, the pres- 

 ent treasurer, was not a candidate for re- 

 election. "Wm. C. Smith was elected 

 trustee. 



The president then called for remarks 

 from the visitors. They were George M. 

 Kellogg, Dr. A. S. Halstead, "W. C. 

 Young and Emil Denker. 



The discussions for the next meeting, 

 September 3, were announced, as fol- 

 lows: "Growing Choice Chrysanthe- 

 mums for Cut Flowers, ' ' by Emil Sehray, 

 and ' ' Growing and Forcing Bulb Stock, ' ' 

 by E. "W. Guy. 



Various Notes. 



"Visitbrs last week were George M. 

 Kellogg, of Pleasant Hill; Dr. A. S. 

 Halstead, of Belleville; Emil Denker, of 

 St. Charles, all of whom are going to 

 the convention with the St. Louis dele- 

 gation. Mrs. A. C. Canfield, of Spring- 

 field, and A. C. SterDS, of Philadelphia, 

 also were callers. 



Hugo Gross, of Kirkwood, is a happy 

 father. It's a boy, and Hugo was so de- 

 lighted that he missed the last club meet- 

 ing, 



Arnold Scheidegger, of Kirkwood, has 

 buiJt for Phil Goeble, and for A, P. 

 Erker, each two new houses for violets 

 and carnations. Mr. Scheidegger is him- 

 self a grower. 



George Jacobson, of Meramec High- 

 lands, will build two new houses this sum- 

 mer and will go in for forcing bulb 



Prof. H. C Irish. 



stock. Bedding stock always has been 

 his specialty. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. C. "Weber and daugh- 

 ter left Tuesday for a river trip south. 

 They will be back in time to go to 

 Dayton. 



Mrs. Smith, mother of "W. C. Smith, is 

 visiting her son-in-law, H. V. Hunkel, of 

 Holton & Hunkel Co., Milwaukee. 



Fred Alves, of Angermueller 's, is at 

 Niagara Falls. He will be back in time 

 to let the boss attend the convention. 



Beyer Bros, again have the decorations 

 for the big Schwabenfest at Lemp's 

 park. This big annual affair always 

 comes in the month of August. It pre- 

 vents one of the boys from attending the 

 convention. 



Henry Lohrenz, who is making im- 

 provements at his Park avenue place, 

 says he will be too busy to attend the 

 S. A. F. meeting this year. J. J. B. 



PROF. H. C IRISH. 



Prof. H, C. Irish, who has just been 

 elected president of the St. Louis Flor- 

 ists' Club, was born on a farm near 

 Janesville, Eock county. Wis., April 

 22, 1868. After the death of his par- 

 ents, in 1884, he moved to Spink county, 

 South Dakota, where with a brother he 

 ran a farm for four years. In 1888 he 

 entered the South Dakota Agricultural 

 College, graduating in 1891. His ex- 

 penses while at college were paid by 

 teachiog school during the long vaca- 

 tion and by working a few hours each 

 day in the horticultural department 

 under the direction of Prof. C. A. Kef- 

 fer, now of the "University of Tennes- 

 see. After graduating he taught school 

 one year and then did postgraduate work 

 at the Iowa State College of Agriculture 

 and Mechanic Arts, specializing in bot- 



any and horticulture under Prof. L. H. 

 Pammell and the late J. L. Budd. 



The year 1894 was spent in practical 

 nursery work with C. L. Watrous, of Des 

 Moines, la. In the autumn of 1894 he 

 went to the Missouri Botanic Garden as 

 horticultural assistant, occupying that 

 position until the beginning of 1903, 

 when he was made superintendent. The 

 early part of the years 1896 and 1898 

 was spent in special and postgraduate 

 work at Cornell University, with Prof. 

 L. H. Bailey, leave of absence having 

 been granted by the garden for that pur- 

 pose. 



Prof. Irish has contributed articles on 

 various horticultural topics to the press 

 and monographed the genus capsicum, 

 and garden beans, these two being pub- 

 lished in the reports of the Missouri 

 Botanic Garden. He is a member of 

 several national horticultural bodies and 

 also many state horticultural societies. 

 He has been secretary of the St. Louis 

 County Horticultural Society and the 

 Engelmann Botanical Club, of St. Louis, 

 and is secretary of the preliminary or- 

 ganization of the National Council of 

 Horticulture. J. J. B. 



Indianapolis, Ind. — C. A. Doswell, of 

 Lake Winona, gave an interesting talk 

 on landscape gardening before the Ma- 

 rion County Agricultural and Horticul- 

 tural Society Saturday, August 4, at 

 the home of Frank P. Johnson, near the 

 state fair-grounds. 



Dayton, O. — Thoughtless people have 

 been despoiling the outdoor S. A. F. ex- 

 hibits at the fair grounds of their flow- 

 ers. It resulted in a warning being pub- 

 lished in the daily papers, threatening 

 prosecution for grand larceny, and the 

 depredations ceased. 



