Decembeb 6, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



)55 



CHHYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Q)fninitteei. 



New York, December 1. — Mile. Jeanne 

 Bosette, rose-pink and silver reverse, 

 Japanese incurved, exhibited by the E. 

 G. Hill Co., scored ninety points com- 

 mercial scale. 



Philadelphia, December 1. — Mile. 

 Jeanne Kosette, rose-pink, Japanese in- 

 curved, exhibited by E. G. Hill Co., 

 Scored eighty-six points commercial and 

 eighty-seven points exhibition scale. 



Ci;icinnati, December l.^Mlle. Jeanne 

 Rosette, pink, Japanese incurved, exhib- 

 ited by E. G. Hill Co., scored ninety 

 points commercial scale and ninety-one 

 points exhibition scale. 



Philadelphia, November 26. — Sport of 

 T. Eaton, white, Japanese incurved, ex- 

 hibited by J. S. Stremler, Princeton, Ky., 

 scored eighty-one points commercial 

 scale. 



In a note from A. B. Cartledge, chair- 

 man of the Philadelphia committee, he 

 states : ' * The variety shown was so 

 entirely different from Eaton we won- 

 dered if the raiser could have been mis- 

 taken in any way. ' ' I wrote to Mr. 

 Stremler and in reply he says he found 

 the variety in 1904 among his Batons 

 and does not know where it came from, 

 except it be a sport of Eaton. He sent 

 two flowers to the E. G. Hill Co., who 

 said they thought it was Mrs. Jerome 

 Jones. Would the E. G. Hill Co. please 

 give their views in the matter? 



David Frasee, Sec'y. 



TABLE DECORATION. 



The illustration on page 154 is from 

 a photograph made at the Toronto ex- 

 hibition early in November and shows a 

 dinner table decoration by John H. Dun- 

 lop. It was an oval table, with the cen- 

 ter-piece and candelabra at the ends. 

 The center-piece was of cattleyas and 

 Asparagus plumosus. Strings of aspara- 

 gus on the board led out tp points be- 

 tween the plates. The corsage bouquets 

 also were cattleyas. 



THOMAS H. WESTWOOD. 



The newly elected president of the 

 Gardeners ' and Florists ' Club of Boston, 

 Thomas H. Westwood, has been a staunch 

 supporter of that organization for years. 

 He has filled the office of vice-president 



Thomas H. Westwood. 



on several occasions, and while he had 

 no aspirations for a higher one, his 

 many friends felt that one who had been 

 a loyal worker so long was entitled to 

 the highest office. 



Mr. Westwood, like so many more gar- 

 deners, is a Scotchman, and a native of 

 Kirkcaldy. For quite a number of years 

 he has been in charge of the beautiful 

 Forest Hills cemetery, where bedding out 

 is always well done. The club is bound 

 to prosper under Mr. Westwood 's guid- 

 ance. W. N. C. 



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SEEDSMEN'S 

 COLLECTION BUREAU 



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FAQLITIES OFFERED FLORISTS. 



History of the Bureau. 



With a view to improving the mark- 

 edly bad credit conditions existing in 

 the seed trade some years ago, the 

 Wholesale Seedsmen's League, in 1901 

 establ ished a credit bureau; a depart- 



^k'^'^'^P^P^'" '^ ^y ^- S. Powell, of Boston 

 who addressed the Society of American Florists 

 at the Dayton convention, but whose remarks 

 because of the lateness of the hour. dW not 

 8,Kr ^^^ discussion the importance of tte 

 r^el nf ^^K "i *° demand. Mr. Powell Is mai^. 



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ment which they intended should be to 

 the seed trade in its entirety a protect- 

 ive-credit, mercantile and collection 

 agency; one which should be maintained, 

 if need be, at an expense to themselves, 

 and which should be conducted entirely 

 for the furtherance of the interests of 

 the members of the seed and allied 

 trades. It was designed that this bu- 

 reau should handle as a collection agency 

 all the bad accounts contracted by the 

 members of the league, should keep a 

 record of the undesirable buyers who do 

 not pay their bills, and should at stated 

 intervals report to the trade their names 



as a warning against taking on business 

 with them. 



This, then, was the inception of the 

 present Bureau of Credit of the Whole- 

 sale Seedsmen's League, a bureau that 

 has now for five years worked untiringly 

 in the interests of the trade, and which 

 has proved itself to be a most valuable 

 adjunct to every firm privileged to make 

 use of its facilities. 



While in the beginning the Bureau of 

 Credit was intended to limit its opera- 

 tions to the members of the Wholesale. 

 Seedsmen's League, it proved to be such* 

 a practical help to the members of that 

 organization that the advisability was 

 discussed of extending its operations to 

 embrace that portion of the seed trade 

 not represented in the membership of 

 the Wholesale Seedsmen's League. This 

 move was thought so well of that in 1903 

 the directors of the league brought the 

 bureau and its work to the notice of the 

 American Seed Trade Association, invit- 

 ing the members of that body to make 

 use of its facilities. The advantages 

 were so plainly manifest to the officers 

 of the American Seed Trade Association 

 that they promptly accepted the offer 

 and took the steps necessary to admit 

 their membership to the use of the bu- 

 reau's services. That was some three 

 years ago, since when the bureau has 

 worked for members of both the Whole- 

 sale Seedsmen's League and the Ameri- 

 can Seed Trade Association, covering 

 through their combined memuership prac- 

 tically the whole seed trade. 



Florists Membership Sucfgested* 



Now, it has long impressed the di- 



