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SHP7BMBEE 13, 1006. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review* 



1059 



Earl Rogrers, 1. r. Boy Ciirrle, c. H. Currle, c. f. Alllater Currie, 8 b. Paul Baerman, r. f. 



Fred Biinck, 9. a. Theo. G. Hanf, p. Geo. Leoffler, 1 b. W. B. Currle, 3 b. 



The Baseball Team of Currie Bros. Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 



and hereafter we expect to find more 

 smiles in making the rounds. 



Qub Meeting. 



The florists' club held its regular 

 monthly meeting last Tuesday evening, 

 with gladioli as the subject for dis- 

 cussion. ,The Cushman Gladiolus Co. 

 showed two vases of mixed seedlings, 

 one vase Dahlia Sylvia, one vase of red 

 and yellow seedlings. Cowee showed his 

 Gold Medal collection in three sections, 

 light and white, pink and red, and blue 

 and purple, also Jane Dieulafoy, Eosel- 

 la, Scarsdale, Baron Hulot, and Mephis- 

 topheles. These collections and varieties 

 were discussed from the gardeners' and 

 fanciers' point of view, the many odd 

 and striking colors being noted and due 

 credit being given to each, and memo- 

 randums being made by some of those 

 present of the best of them for their 

 own collections. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. showed 

 a collection of Frank Banning 's stock 

 which they are receiving every day, con- 

 sisting of America, Augusta, and 

 "1900," which they consider their best 

 commercial sorts; also Mr. Banning 's 

 pink seedling No. 12, Madame Monneret, 

 pink seedling No. 2, yellow seedling No. 

 1, and Octoroon, all of which were good. 

 One extensive grower remarked that it 

 was worth a trip to the meeting to see 

 the yellow seedling. 



After duly considering all the exhibits 

 Mr. Heineman was called on for con- 

 vention news, and spoke in a complimen- 



tary way of everything he saw there, 

 especially of the treatment of the soci- 

 ety by the National Cash Register peo- 

 ple. He also called attention to the 

 efforts of this concern in trying to edu- 

 cate their people, especially the children, 

 in everything pertaining to gardening 

 and floriculture by instructing them and 

 offering prizes for their various gar- 

 dens. 



Our president, John Jones, of Schen- 

 ley park, then took the floor and gave 

 an account of his trip to Europe, where 

 he visited Wales, his old home, England, 

 Germany and France, looking into all 

 the private gardens and parks. He told 

 many amusing incidents and experiences 

 he had while seeing the sights in the 

 countries whose languages he could not 

 speak. His grand finale was that they 

 are not in it with us, especially where 

 it takes effort and hustle to accomplish 

 anything, and neither do they get the 

 artistic effects in bedding which we do; 

 but he finished by saying he had a con- 

 versation with a lady who told him that 

 Americans were excused for thinking that 

 Americans were more artistic in their 

 styles of planting, because they did not 

 have their tastes sufficiently cultivated 

 and could not appreciate foreign work. 



William Falconer, who had been at- 

 tending the cemetery superintendents' 

 convention, was called on for a report 

 and in his modest way said, "Well, 

 there is not much for me to say except 

 that after being around visiting those 

 beautiful places, one comes back home 



and is ashamed of one's self, and feels 

 that it is necessary to dig in and im- 

 prove what we have." However, one 

 who has visited Allegheny cemetery and 

 seen the improvements in the last few 

 years will hardly see wherein Mr. Fal- 

 coner can find anything to be ashamed 

 of. 



The meeting was then closed to give 

 the members an opportunity to dispose 

 of some good apples which Mr. Banning 

 was thoughtful enough to pack in one of 

 the boxes with his flowers. 



Various Notes. 



David Fraser, gardener for H. C. 

 Frick, is still in Europe, and from re- 

 ports is busy looking up everything new 

 on the other side in the plant and plant- 

 ing line. As David never misses much 

 we await his return and suggest that 

 all members of the club attend the next 

 meeting and hear his report of what 

 he saw. Hoo-Hoo. 



CURRIES* BALL TEAM. 



The accompanying illustration is from 

 a photograph of the nine employees con- 

 stituting the baseball team of Currie 

 Bros. Co., Milwaukee. They are opeti 

 for a game with any florists' team. 



The Review has pleased me very 

 unirh. — C. R. Kidd, Utica, Mich. 



I WISH you good will. Your paper 

 lias done me a lot of good. — Thomas 

 DuPKA, Seattle, Wash. 



