August 30, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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over 150 badges were issued to new 

 members whose names were not in the 

 book. 



During Col. Castle's eulogy of the all 

 but unanimous choice for president, a 

 non-member at the rear of the hall with- 

 drew in high dudgeon. He said he 

 wanted Roosevelt to run again. 



Lion & Co., the New York ribbon men, 

 had a display at the Algonquin hotel 

 but would have done more business had 

 it been at the fair-grounds. 



Nearly every exhibitor who was pres- 

 ent at Washington says his Dayton sales 

 footed up a better total, and some went 

 so far as to say that more actual busi- 

 ness was done than at any previous S. 



A. F. convention. 



But one and all they protest at the 

 admission of the general public, as was 

 done by thousands on Wednesday and 

 Thursday evenings. Not only was the 

 hall so packed as to preclude doing busi- 

 ness, but exhibitors were compelled to 

 protect their displays to prevent every- 

 thing being carried off by souvenir hunt- 

 ers. When we consider that Pennock 

 had on a small stand probably $2,500 

 worth of ribbons the force of the last 

 objection readily may be seen. 



John Westcott was master of cere- 

 monies at a little blow-out given by H. 



B. Beatty at the Algonquin hotel Thurs- 

 day evening. The silver cups won by 

 the Philadelphia bowlers were filled with 

 champagne and a fine lunch was spread. 

 During the evening the need of the 

 family of the late James Hartshorne 

 was brought up and the hat passed. 

 Mr. Beatty put in a 100-dollar bill and 

 the sum fealized was $265. 



F. A. Herendeen came all the way 

 from Geneva, N. Y., in his automobile 

 and kept the machine busy giving his 

 friends a spin. 



George Asmus lost a diamond stud 

 that cost $225. It is supposed to have 

 been in a shirt sent to the laundry. 



The Wittbold watering device was 

 noted with interest by the many visitors 

 at the plant of the Miami Floral Co. 



The call for a meeting to organize 

 a canna society was not productive of 

 results. 



L. H. Kyrk, of Cincinnati, bought the 

 entire exhibit of Kice & Co. 



By Wednesday the visitors began to 

 scatter, many making one-day trips to 

 near-by cities. Cincinnati was visited 

 by many and scores went to Bichmond 

 to see the Hill places. 



Kroeschell's big boiler did not reach 

 Dayton at all, but a model served to 

 enable Fred Lautenschlager to take two 

 orders. A Kroeschell No. 11 will be in- 

 stalled in the White House conservatories 

 at Washington. 



John Laver, of Erie, the sickest of 

 the many who felt the ill effects of the 

 heat and the peculiar water, was taken 

 to the Miami Valley hospital on Wednes- 

 day and got along nicely -despite alarm- 

 ing rumors. 



11. M. Altick's 4-year-old son fell 

 Friday and broke his left arm. 



SOME RECOLLECTIONS. 



The Dayton Sessions. 



Although by no means recovered from 

 the four days' Turkish bath at Dayton, 

 I want to comment on the many de- 

 lightful features of the twenty-second 

 convention of the S. A. F., now only 

 a pleasant memory. 



The president's address was brief, but 

 full of practical suggestions, and I do 



