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SfiPTDMBER 17, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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house, next to the office, and fifty were 

 present when President Young called to 

 order. After routine business the fol- 

 lowing names were presented for mem- 

 bership: W. H. Ossic, Louis Mourer, 

 Julius Koenig, J. H. Kahrs, L. A, Giger, 

 O. H. J. Landel, T. F. Barrman, L. W. 

 Spangler, L. W. Schviever, Sr., and L. 

 W. Schviever, Jr. Two members were 

 reinstated to membership. J. J. Burke 

 was elected to membership. 



The president then called upon C. C. 

 Sanders and J. J. Beneke to take charge 

 of the installation of the new officers. 

 Henry Ostertag, trustee, was the first 

 officer installed, followed by Secretary 

 Bentzen, Vice-president Denker and W. 

 C. Young, who was reelected president. 

 Treasurer Weber has not as yet returned 

 from Europe. He will be installed in 

 office at the next meeting. All the of- 

 ficers made speeches on taking their re- 

 spective chairs, the address of President 

 Young being quite lengthy. W. C. 

 Smith was requested to read a paper at 

 the next meeting on "In What Way So- 

 cially Can the Members of This Club Be 

 Brought Closer Together?" 



There was quite a discussion on the 

 advisability of the club holding six even- 

 ing meetings and six afternoon meetings 

 during the next year, which was finally 

 left to the trustees to report at the Octo- 

 ber meeting. 



Before adjournment Mr. and Mrs. 

 Ammann were called before the meeting 

 and presented with a handsome cut-glass 

 water set. It was a complete surprise. 



An excellent lunch was served. 



On the way home the younger mem- 

 bers had a good time in the smoking-car 

 and initiated Mr. Burke and several 

 other new members in regular form. 



Various Notes. 



Adolph G. Fehr, of Belleville, 111., re- 

 cently spent a day in the city, buying 

 supplies. Mr. Fehr reports his summer 

 trade good, with a great deal of funeral 

 work. 



C. Young & Sons Co. have issued a 

 handsome fall catalogue and orders for 

 bulbs are coming in daily. 



W. C. Smith & Co. have finished their 

 improvements, which give them much 

 more room. 



Mrs. James Young served as a good 

 Samaritan last week, when a motorman 

 was crushed in a collision in front of 

 her home, 5508 DeGiverville avenue. She 

 made him as comfortable as possible 

 until the city ambulance came to remove 

 him to the hospital. The spectators 

 were loud in their praise of Mrs. Young 

 for her efforts to comfort the in j urea 

 man. 



Dr. A. S. Halstead, president of the 

 St. Clair Floral Co., Belleville, 111., has 

 invited all the florists to attend the 

 county fair at Belleville this week, Sep- 

 tember 15 to 18. He says that his com- 

 pany will make a big display of deco- 

 rative stock at the fair. 



Kichard Frow & Sons are building two 

 new houses at their new place in Nor- 

 mandy. They will run the old place on 

 the Natural Bridge road until next sum- 

 mer, when the property will be sold for 

 building lots. 



William Winter, of Kirkwood, is run- 

 ning for school director and it is the 

 wish of all local, as well as the Kirk- 

 wood florists, that he be elected. 



John Steidle, at Central, will have a 

 fine cut of roses, carnations and violets 

 this season. Mr. Steidle 's entire pro- 

 duction is handled by Fred C. Weber. 



J. W. Dunford, of Clayton, has fine 



prospects for carnations and violets, 

 which are mostly consumed at his retail 

 establishment, the Gallagher Flower 

 Shop. 



Henry Felter, on Lexington avenue, 

 will have a fine lot of pot chrysanthe- 

 mums, as usual, this fall. 



F. H. Weber and Mrs. Weber have re- 

 turned from their trip to Germany and 

 report that they spent a most enjoyable 

 summer abroad. J. J. B. 



OBITUARY. 



William Butcher. 



Stj-icken with heart trouble while rid- 

 ing his bicycle September 9, William 

 Butclier, of Providence, E. I., 73 years 

 old, fell heavily to the street and died a 

 few minutes afterwards at the Ehode 

 Island Hospital. 



Mr. Butcher was one of the oldest and 

 bfst-known florists at Providence. He 

 had just left his greenhouse at 38 Pit- 

 man street when he was seen to sway and 

 then pitch headforemost over the handle- 

 bars of his bicycle. A passer-by went to 

 his assistance, but finding that he was 

 unconscious summoned an ambulance 

 from the hospital. Mr. Butcher was 

 taken to that institution, but died before 

 he could be removed to a ward. 



Mr. Butcher was born in Yorkshire, 

 England, and came to this country in 

 1866. He leaves a widow, but no chil- 

 dren. He had no other relatives on this 

 side of the water, it is said. He came 

 to this country at the request of ex- 

 Governor William Sprague, one of the 

 three surviving war governors, who placed 

 him in charge of the greenhouses and 

 conservatories belonging to the extensive 

 Sprague estate on Young Orchard ave- 

 nue. Providence. After the failure of 

 the Spragues, in 1873, Mr. Butcher en- 

 tered business for himself. He was one 

 of the original members of the Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Club of Ehode Island 

 and was iaentified with the Ehode Island 

 Horticultural Society and was a promi- 

 nent member of the Masonic fraternity. 



Emil Johansson. 



Emil Johansson, Brookline, Mass., 

 whose acute illness was reported in last 

 issue of the Eeview, died September 12 

 of brain fever. Mr. Johansson was a 

 native of Sweden and had been in Amer- 

 ica about fifteen years before taking 

 charge of the well-known orchid collec- 

 tion of James E. Eothwell, of Brookline. 

 He was for some years in charge of the 

 orchids at the Lincoln park collection, 

 Chicago. He worked for two or three 

 years for E. G. Uihlein, Chicago, and 

 before coming to America was with San- 

 der & Sons, St. Albans, England. The 

 deceased was a first-class orchid grower, 

 and since coming to Boston, his 

 exhibits of cut orchids, as well as 

 groups arranged for effect, have been 

 among the star features of the exhibi- 

 tions at Horticultural hall. He was an 

 expert raiser of seedlings, many fine nov- 

 elties having received silver medals and 

 certificates. 



He was a member of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society and during the 

 present year had efficiently acted as one 

 of the members of the plant and flower 

 committee. He was also an active mem- 

 ber of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 and one of the committee on awards for 

 some years, as well as one of the execu- 

 tive committee for the present year. His 

 geniality and gentlemanly demeanor en- 

 deared him to all who came in contact 



with him, and his early death is sincerely 

 mourned by a large circle of friends. He 

 was 36 years of age and had not mar- 

 ried. 



Funeral services were held Monday aft- 

 ernoon, September 14, from the chapel 

 of Newton cemetery, when many of his 

 old friends in the Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists' Club attended. The attendance 

 would have been much larger had it been 

 possible to get adequate notices to the 

 membership in time. W. N. Craig. 



Charles E. Richardson. 



Charles E. Bichardson, for sixteen 

 years treasurer of the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society, died September 14 at 

 his home in Brookline, Mass. He was 72 

 years of age and well known among those 

 who attended the meetings and exhibi- 

 tions at Horticultural hall, Boston. He 

 held office up to 1906. The funeral was 

 held September 16 and largely attended. 



ST. PAUL. 



The Market. 



The weather last week was the wann- 

 est of the year. A big cut of roses 

 has accordingly resulted. Carnations are 

 also coming in a little more freely, as 

 well as asters and other outside stock. 

 While trade has been excellent, still the 

 supply has kept ahead of the demand. 



Various Notes. 



The St. Paul Dispatch gave an aster 

 and dahlia exhibition last week, for 

 amateurs. This brought out a number 

 of contestants and there was keen rivalry 

 in some classes. Some fine flowers were 

 shown and a much needed interest evoked 

 in this class of flowers. The judges were 

 Mrs. A. S. Swanson, O. J. Olson and 

 Mr. Mather, of L. L. May & Co. This 

 is the third flower exhibit of the sum- 

 mer given by this paper, which is to be 

 commended for its enterprise in pro- 

 moting them. 



J. J. Karins, of H. A. Dreer's, and 

 C. S. Ford, of Philadelphia, were callers. 



Holm & Olson are showing some fine 

 white chrysanthemums. They are the 

 earliest ever seen in this market. 



X. Y. Z. 



BOZEMAN, MONT. 



The writer has traveled through all the 

 principal cities in the United States, but 

 has failed to find a place where they can 

 grow sweet peas as good as in Bozeman. 



On a visit to M. Langohr, on South 

 Tracy street, I found an up-to-date 

 place of eight greenhouses. Three houses 

 are planted -to carnations, one to roses, 

 Bride, Maid, Gate and Eichmond, one 

 to mums and the others are in violets 

 and general plants. Mr. Langohr re- 

 ports business picking up, but not so 

 good as last summer. 



W. H. Tracy & Co., Mendenhall street, 

 have added two houses to their plant 

 and are breaking ground for another 

 50-foot house to be built this fall. Mr. 

 Tracy is comparatively new in the flo- 

 rists' business, having started about 

 three ye&rs ago on a small scale. He has 

 now got about 8,000 feet of glass plant- 

 ed to carnations, mums, asparagus and 

 general greenhouse stock. This firm also 

 has a large mail-order business. 



Mack. 



I WOULD rather miss three good meals 

 than miss one copy of the Review. — E. 

 Point, Leipsic, 0. 



