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AUGUST 22, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



27 



The Supply Houses had the Front of the Upper Floor. 



with the Rose Society in March and the 

 national flower show in November Chi- 

 cago was asking a great deal". John 

 Weatcott spoke for Niagara Falls, and 

 so did several others, with the result 

 that after Mr. Breitmeyer had with- 

 drawn in, favor of Niagara Falls the so- 

 ciety voted to have the secretary cast a 

 unanimous ballot for that city. 



J. K. M. L. Farquahar, for the com- 

 mittee on change of name, reported that 

 after considering all phases of this im- 

 portant matter the committee had voted 

 to recommend that steps be taken to 

 change the title to Society of American 

 Horticulture. F. E. Palmer, of Brook- 

 line, endorsed the committee's action 

 and put it in the form of a motion, 

 which was seconded by Bobert Craig. 

 The matter being open for debate, the 

 warmest discussion in the recent annals 

 of the society was precipitated. Some 

 speakers favored brwkaening the title to 

 include everybody and others replied that 

 such action would carry the society away 

 from the original idea of a trade body. 

 F. E. Pierson moved an amendment mak- 

 ing the title Society of American Flo- 

 rists and Horticulturists. Patrick 

 O'Mara seconded this motion. This pre- 

 cipitated still further debate and as the 

 time was pressing and almost everyone 

 wanted to be heard on the subject, fur- 

 ther consideration was postponed to 

 Thursday morning, 



Wednesday Eveninf's Session* 



Broad Street theater was crowded 

 Wednesday evening to listen to an illus- 

 trated lecture by J. Otto Thilow, of the 

 Henry A. Dreer Co.,' on * * The Flora of 

 Yellowstone Park." Mr. Thilow proved 

 himself a second Burton Holmes as a 

 travel lecturer, and held the close at- 

 tention of his big audience for nearly 

 two hours, with interesting description 

 and bright stories of his trips through 

 the great national park, where he met 

 the omnipresent Pat O'Mara and caught 

 some snap-shots of him which were 

 thrown on the screen along with the many 

 beautiful pictures of the wonders of 

 nature with which Mr. Thilow illustrated 

 his lecture. He concluded his talk on 

 the park flora with flowers of speech in 



connection with portraits of leading 

 members of the society, thrown on the 

 screen. 



Hall Association. 



The Florists' Hail Association held 

 its annual meeting and listened to re- 

 ports of officers on 3 most prosperous 

 year. Two directors were elected and 

 officers reelected. 



Rose Society. 



A meeting of the American Rose So- 

 ciety was held on the steamer en route 

 to Dreer 's. The purpose of the meeting 

 was to afford a chance for the Chicago 

 people to confer with the eastern mem- 

 bers as to the details of the show in 

 Chicago next March. Vice-president 

 Breitmeyer presided. 



Ladies' Auxiliary. 



The ladies' auxiliary held two meet- 

 ings to complete its organization. At 

 the first meeting a committee on by-laws 

 was appointed and at the second these 

 were adopted. Mrs. W. J. Vesey, of 

 Fort "Wayne, was elected president, and 

 Mrs. C. H. Maynard, of Detroit, secre- 

 tary. 



The Trip to Riverton 



The afternoon of Wednesday, set apart 

 for a trip to the establishment of Henry 

 A. Dreer, at Riverton, was showery, but 

 it did not spoil one of the most inspiring 

 entertainments that the society has ever 

 enjoyed. The host had chartered the 

 big steamer, Columbia, for the trip up 

 the Delaware and, in spite of the heavy 

 rain which fell just at the announced 

 hour of sailing, the fcoat carried nearly 

 a thousand people and an orchestra. It 

 was an interesting sail, past the big 

 shipyards and the gun club's grounds 

 at Wissinoming, where the convention 

 shooting tournament was then in prog- 

 ress, the gunners firing a salute as the 

 steamer passed. Arrived at the green- 

 houses, a bountiful luncheon was par- 

 taken of, in the big packing shed, the 

 refreshments being served by white- 

 aproned greenhouse employees. William 

 F. Dreer, head of the institution, was 

 introduced by President Stewart and 

 spoke briefly of the pleasure it afforded 



them to have the opportunity of enter- 

 taining the convention. He said he 

 wanted to say a word for the other of- 

 ficers, to whom, he said, credit is due, 

 rather than to himself, for whatever was 

 found to be worthy of commendation. 

 The two honrs which followed were too 

 short to afford opportunity to see the 

 half of the interesting things in the 

 great range of glass, the rain precluding 

 much examination of the acres of stock 

 in the fields. The place always is spick 

 and span and probably a greater variety 

 of stock is ^rown here, and all grown 

 well, than in any other florist's estab- 

 lishment in America. Considerable out- 

 door stock had been cut and was at- 

 tractively displayed under cover, and all 

 through the place the guests were seen 

 taking notes of varieties for future 

 guidance, everything being carefully la- 

 beled. The return was by steamer at 7 

 o 'clock. 



Except for the luncheon at Bayers- 

 dorfer's the trip to Dreer 's was the only 

 visit to a place of trade interest as a 

 feature of the regular program. But 

 there are many hospitable growers about 

 Philadelphia and they all had a number 

 of visitors, who came singly and in par- 

 ties. 



At the establishment of the Robert 

 Craig Co., Forty-ninth and Market, the 

 visitors found a superb stock of all the 

 leading varieties of foliage plants. Ficus 

 pandurata, grown in cedar tubs, for hotel 

 and restaurant decoration, was a strik- 

 ing feature. These plants are so dura- 

 ble that they can be used almost any- 

 where advantageously. Well colored cro- 

 tons were another specialty, exceptionally 

 well done. Dracsena terminalis was in 

 fine shape, well colored and thrifty. 

 Among the flowering plants, cyclamens 

 in the frames were most promising. Five 

 houses at this place were devoted to 

 William P. Craig's Nephrolepis Amer- 

 pohlii, which is an exquisite thing with 

 a bright future. 



The Joseph Heacock Co., at Wyncote, 

 showed visitors as pretty a lot of ken- 

 tias as one could wish to see. They are 

 all home grown from seed grown on the 

 place, clean and in thrifty condition, in 

 all sizes, from the seed-pan up to fin- 

 ished specimens suitable for a large dec* 



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