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July 16, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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where the Florists' Club holds its yearly 

 outings. 



Jos. Levy and family are away for 

 their holiday in the Catskills. John Selig- 

 man and wife, of the same firm, will 

 enjoy their outing in Sullivan county, as 

 usual. 



Grandpa Nugent is entertaining his 

 daughter and baby on their annual visit 

 from South Dakota. Mr. Nugent 's son- 

 in-law, at one time in his employ, is now 

 president of a mining company, at Gold- 

 field, Net. 



Bowling. 



As usual, a number of visitors attended 

 the Friday evening contest at Thumm's 

 alleys, July 10. The averages continue 

 good, and Irwin made the best score 

 of the season to date, 231, The follow- 

 ing are the best scores of July 10: 



Irwin 121 164 141 127 231 



Berry 129 170 162 171 129 



Scott 1S8 144 ICH) 165 149 



Marshall 145 145 140 162 156 



O'Mara 124 138 125 154 127 



Traendly 130 128 132 



Shaw 126 130 119 143 129 



Zangen 70 111 140 90 ... 



J. Austin Shaw. 



CHNONNATL 



The Market. 



Everything is moving along slowly and 

 quietly, in the regular summer rut. There 

 are few good flowers coming in and the 

 demand can hardly be noticed. Lilies 

 and Beauties are about the only flowers 

 that there is any call for, and they are 

 scarce on this market. The weather con- 

 ditions have been against outdoor sweet 

 peas and the quality of those coming in 

 is poor, as they have such short stems. 

 A few good carnations are seen, and also 

 a few roses, of which the Kaiserins head 

 the list. Brides and Maids are so poor 

 as to be scarcely available even for fu- 

 neral work. 



Asters are coming more plentifully and 

 the quality is better, but there is no large 

 call for them. Only white ones are in 

 80 far. Colored ones would sell better 

 just now. There is quite a lot of valley 

 on the market and it is of good quality, 

 but. it sells cheap ahd poorly at that. 

 Outdoor flowers, such as sweet alyssum, 

 candytuft, feverfew and like varieties of 

 flowers for funeral work, sell well, but 

 at the usual low prices. 



In greens we are well supplied, having 

 good quantities of smilax, plumosus in 

 strings and bunches, and also Sprengeri. 

 Hardy ferns are fine now. We still have 

 leucothoe sprays, and both green and 

 bronze galax. 



Qub Meeting. 



A regular meeting of the Florists' So- 

 ciety was held in the club room July 11 

 and was well attended. 



E. G. Gillett reported that the Con- 

 vention League had agreed to help out 

 the florists in case we secured the S. A. F. 

 convention in 1909. They were anxious 

 for the convention to come here. The 

 report was received with a great deal of 

 enthusiasm by the members of the so- 

 ciety. 



Strenuous efforts are being made to 

 have a large delegation of Cincinnati 

 florists attend the convention at Niagara 

 Falls and, owing to a happy coincidence, 

 it is possible for the florists of this city 

 and those near-by to take advantage of 

 an excursion rate which happens to be in 

 force from this city at that time. E. G. 

 Gillett stands ready to give full informa- 

 tion to all who desire it, as to this rate, 

 and I would advise all those who intend 



to go from this district to address him 

 at 114 East Third street, and he will ex- 

 plain to them how they can save from $5 

 to $7 on the rate. 



One of the important things which 

 came up was the indorsement by the 

 society of E. G. Gillett for the office of 

 vice-president of the S. A. F., and they 

 intend to work to this end with all of 

 the energy which they possess. Not only 

 do we want the S. A. F. to come to this 

 city in 1909, but we also want to have 

 one of the officers of said society in this 

 city and we will work to that end to the 

 best of our ability. 



Various Notes. 



The tickets for the florists' outing are 

 now ready and can be purchased at any 

 of the wholesale houses or from any of 

 the picnic committee. From the way 

 things look now, the outing will be a 

 great success this year. Everyone seems 

 to be right in for it and is anxiously 

 waiting for the day to arrive. Do not 

 forget to purchase your tickets from 

 some florist, for we do not get any credit 

 from tickets purchased at the boat land- 

 ing. 



The time for vacations is at hand and 

 preparations are noted on all sides among 

 those who are fortunate enough to be 

 able to get away. Nick Weber and fam- 

 ily are getting ready to leave July 20, 

 for their annual trip to Milwaukee, Chi- 

 cago and Benton Harbor,^ via Lake Mich- 

 igan. They will be away two weeks. 



Fred Gear is planning to go to At- 

 lantic City shortly, returning to Niagara 

 Falls in time for the convention, from 

 which ho wants to take a trip down the 

 St. Lawrence river. 



C. E. Critchell has been on the sick 

 list, having been confined to his home 

 for several days during last week. 



Charles Brunner has purchased twenty- 

 two acres of land on Foley road, near 

 Fischer avenue. This land adjoins E. 

 Witterstaetter's place and, in fact, en- 

 tirely surrounds it. Mr. Brunner expects 

 to go in heavily for outdoor hardy stock, 

 beginning to plant at once, and in the 

 course of a year he will erect a large 

 range of glass, making a specialty of 

 roses of all kinds for cut flowers and 

 plants. He is associated at present with 

 his brothers, their plant being located on 

 Fifth avenue. Price Hill, where for many 

 years they have done a flourishing and 

 profitable business. This firm has made 

 a specialty for many years of forcing 

 hybrid roses and teas for the spring 

 plant trade, and the quality of their out- 

 put is known throughout the country. 

 With this experience to back him, Mr. 

 Brunner is already assured of success in 

 his new undertaking. He will continue 

 with the old firm for the present. 



Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Critchell announce 

 the engagement of their daughter Grace 

 Davis to John C. Tracy, of Chicago. The 

 wedding will take place at the home of 

 the bride's parents, August 5. They 

 also announce the engagement of their 

 daughter Katherine Eaton to Dr. Robert 

 W. Morris, also of Chicago. The date 

 of the wedding will be announced later. 



H. E. Mitting, formerly carnation 

 grower for W. K. Partridge, has pur- 

 chased the establishment of the Wilming- 

 ton Floral Co., of Wilmington, 0., and 

 will continue the business, making a spe- 

 cialty of fine carnations. 



Park Superintendent J. W. Rodgers is 

 now making his rounds in an automobile. 

 After two years he has been able to 

 persuade the board to get one for the 

 park department. 



J. F. Pogue has bought out the busi- 



ness of Huntsman & Co., located at 609 

 Walnut street, and will continue it in. 

 his own name. Mr. Pogue was the part- 

 ner in the business, but finally decided 

 to buy out Mr. Huntsman's interest in 

 the store. 



B. P. Critchell has been put to con- 

 siderable inconvenience, as well as loss, 

 by the breaking of a sewer in his local- 

 ity. The contents of the sewer mixed 

 with the water which he was obliged to 

 use for watering, and as a consequence 

 he has lost large numbers of aster plants 

 which were bidding fair to produce a 

 large crop of fine blooms. 



C. J. OHMiE. 



OBITUARY. 



Rudolph Reynden. 



Rudolph Reynders, of Oil City, Pa., 

 was struck by a Lake Shore passenger 

 train, at the Main street crossing, Sat- 

 urday night, July 4, and was fatally 

 injured. He was carried into the passen- 

 ger station and later taken to the hos- 

 pital, where his death occurred shortly 

 after 2 o'clock on the following morn- 

 ing. 



Mr. Reynders was born in Lancaster, 

 Pa., September 18, 1865, and removed to 

 Oil City twelve years ago from Buffalo, 

 N. Y. He secured employment in the 

 National Transit shops, and with his 

 savings started the greenhouses near the 

 St. Joseph and Grove Hill cemeteries, 

 which have been a success from the start. 

 On November II7 1897, he was married 

 to Miss Rose Good, of Oil City, who, 

 with two children, Katherine, aged 6, 

 and Harry, aged 4, survive. He is 

 also survived by his aged father, H. W. 

 Reynders, of Lancaster, Pa., and by 

 two brothers and three sisters, John, of 

 Kingstown, and Bert, Helen, Mary and 

 Mrs. James Amstett, all of Lancaster. 



He was a member of the C. M. B. A., 

 of the Modern Woodmen of America and 

 of the Knights of the Maccabees. 



Carl R. Pfennig. 



Carl R. Pfennig, a florist and land- 

 scape gardener of Jamaica Plain, Bos- 

 ton, Mass., died Saturday, June 27, at 

 the City hospital of pneumonia, after a 

 brief illness, aged 54 years. He leaves 

 a widow and one son. 



Mr. Pfennig conducted a florist's 

 business at 380 Ashland street, and had 

 resided in that neighborhood for many 

 years. He was a member of the German 

 Order of Harugari. 



Mrs. Alfred Pahud. 



Adele J. Pahud, wife of Alfred Pahud, 

 of Indianapolis, died July 6, after an ill- 

 ness that had lasted for more than three 

 months. She was buried the following 

 Thursday in Crown Hill cemetery, with- 

 in a few hundred feet of the home she 

 had occupied for nearly twenty years. 

 For years she had taken orders for flow- 

 ers that were laid on the graves of those 

 buried at Crown Hill. 



Mrs. Pahud was 53 years of age. She 

 was a woman of much sweetness of char- 

 acter. A year ago she and her husband 

 celebrated their silver wedding anniver- 

 sary. The event was attended by many 

 Indianapolis people. Mrs. Pahud was a 

 native of Alsace-Lorraine, France. She 

 came to Indianapolis a young woman 

 twenty-six years ago, and, six months 

 after her arrival there, was married to 

 Alfred Pahud. 



She is survived by her husband and 

 three children, Louise, Alfred and Harry 

 Pahud. ' 



