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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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The Hit of the Convention 



Certificate of 



Hijg:h 



Commendation 



Awarded by the 



Judges 



The 

 Greatest 

 Novelty 

 in Years 



Going: Like 

 Wildfire 



'JlMBBOPEHIFfOJfA 



Registered 



NOTK: — Infringers will be prosecuted. 



We want the leading florists of every city to write for 

 samples. Don't delay. Originality spells success for the 

 modern florist. 



Wertheimer Bros., 



The 



National Floral Ribbon House 

 550 Broadway, New York City 



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the prizes, all valuable, and every lady 

 present was liberally remembered. Mrs. 

 Wittman put many of the men to blush 

 with a score of 161 in the bowling. The 

 three best prizes for the men went to 

 rank outsiders, but President Schultheis 

 said this was fixed by the big bowlers of 

 the society to show its generosity. The 

 music was continuous and everybody 

 danced. It was nearly 10 p. m, when 

 the happy company started for their spe- 

 cial. The tables were decorated by Miss 

 Mills, and everyone present carried home 

 a stein presented by Hews & Co. The 

 Whilldin Co. distributed tiny flower pots. 

 After the dinner Mr. Schultheis acted 

 as toastmaster and gave a splendid speech 

 of welcome and a history of the society 

 and its harmony and accomplishments. 

 He kept the company interested for an 

 hour with story telling and orations, in- 

 terspersed by the national melodies of the 

 United States, Germany, France, Ireland 

 and Scotland, sons of each being among 

 the membership of the association. 

 Among the speakers were Julius Eoehrs, 

 H. C. Steinhoff, W. J. Elliott, Secretary 

 Siebrecht, John Birnie, A. L. Miller, W. 

 J. Stewart and others. '* ' 





American Institute Show. 



Thfe autumn exhibition at the Amer- 

 ican Institute, which opened September 

 22, brought out the finest display of 

 liahlias ever seen in New York and there 

 was a large attendance. Among the 

 prize winners for dahlias were the fol- 

 lowing: J. T. Lovett, Little Silver, N. 

 J.; Geo. L. Stillman, Westerly, K. I.; 

 A. B. Hathaway, New Bedford, Mass.; 

 W. P. Lothrop, East Bridgewater, Mass. ; 

 Mrs. Jahn, New Bedford, Mass.; W. .F. 



Turner, New Bedford, Mass.; Mrs. Tre- 

 vor, Yonkers, N. Y. ; Howard Gould and 

 many others. The principal exhibitor of 

 gladioli was John Lewis Childs, of Floral 

 Park. Exhibitors of hardy herbaceous 

 plants included J. T. Lovett, Little Sil- 

 ver, and Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford. 



Harry Turner, superintendent for 

 Howard Gould, had grand groups of or- 

 chids and dahlias and the orchid exhibits 

 of Julius Eoehrs Co. and Lager & Hur- 

 rell were specially fine. Mr. Turner also 

 had a splendid group of cclogja and a 

 remarkable specimen palm. 



On roses L. M. Noe, of Madison, was 

 first, and Mrs. Trevor, Yonkers, second. 

 On carnations, the Kennedy estate was 

 first. On violets, Mrs. Trevor was first. 



Fruits were exhibited by Ellwanger & 

 Barry, Rochester; M. E. Tator, Redhook, 

 and many others. There also was an ex- 

 cellent exhibit of vegetables. 



J. T. Lovett 'a dahlias were one of the 

 notable features. 



Various Notes. 



Arthur T. Boddington has secured two 

 floors at 337 and 339 West Thirteenth 

 street. In speaking of this addition to 

 his facilities he said : * ' Each floor is ap- 

 proximately 50x100 feet. This space is 

 cellar and basement, so that it gives us 

 an increase of 10,000 square feet to do 

 business in. We still retain the store we 

 formerly had, which is 25x100 feet, which 

 gives us 7,500 square feet of floor space 

 there, each floor being 2,500 square feet. 

 We have, therefore, more than doubled 

 our capacity. Our store nOw runs 

 through from Fourteenth street to Thir- 

 teenth street. All our business is now 

 concentrated on the two street floors and 



the basement. We have three freight 

 elevators for bringing up heavy goods 

 from the cellar and this will enable us 

 to carry suflBcient stocks of fertilizers of 

 all kinds, and special facilities for carry- 

 ing hardy roses and nursery stock 

 through the winter. The flower and vege- 

 table seed business will be kept in the 

 Fourteenth street store, as has always 

 been done. The rear warehouse, facing 

 on Thirteenth street, will be used for car- 

 rying the stock of bulbs and heavy 

 seeds. ' ' 



At Masur's, in Brooklyn, new mirrors, 

 ice-box and electric effects have added 

 much to the effectiveness of the store. 



It is reported that the Newport season 

 has not been up to other years, there 

 being few large social events. Wadley & 

 Smythe, however, have had some large 

 landscape orders. \ 



It is rumored that Wertheimer Bros., 

 the ribbon house, will shortly establish 

 selling offices in Chicago and San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Good crowds attended the opening sales 

 of the season at Elliott's and Cleary's 

 this week Tuesday, and from now on, 

 every Tuesday and Friday till the ground 

 freezes, the retailers and the suburban- 

 ites will gather under the spell of the 

 auctioneers. 



Hay fever still has its grip on F. H. 

 Traendly. 



Tanner Burke, for nineteen years with 

 Dards, has graduated to the wholesale 

 section and is now with Moore, Hentz & 

 Nash. 



John Scott, of Flatbush, is seriously 

 ill with typhoid fever. 



Samuel Woodrow is fully recovered 

 from his accident of last summer, by 



