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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



August 12, 1800. 



Emile Vercanteren, Melle, Ghent, Bel- 

 gium, is now putting into commerce his 

 new variegated Dracaena Bruanti, under 

 the name of Souvenir de Francois Buysse. 

 It has been awarded silver gilt medals at 

 Ghent, London and Berlin. The metallic 

 green foliage is richly marked with vari- 

 egations in white, orange and pink. The 

 brilliant and unique coloring of the leaves 

 and the constitution of Bruanti make the 

 plant a most valuable one for decorative 

 purposes. 



Caroations for Bedding Out. . 



Carnation enthusiasts in English gar- 

 dening journals have for some time ad- 

 vocated the merits of American carna- 

 tions for summer flowering outdoors, and 

 go-ahead firms catalogue and recommend 

 them as bedding out plants. At several 

 exhibitions this summer, blooms cut from 

 plants grown in the open have been 

 shown. Tlie Perpetual Flowering Carna- 

 tion Society arranged early in the year 

 to bed out a number of varieties. The 

 trial is now being conducted by E. F. 

 Hawes, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 London, and a special committee has 

 been appointed to tabulate the results. 



Bee. 



SLUGS IN A LATH HOUSE. 



Please tell me how to exterminate slugs 

 in a lath house devoted to ferns and be- 

 gonias. A. L. H. 



Corn meal mixed with Paris green is 

 sometimes an attractive bait for slugs, 



capture many of the slugs. A narrow 

 band of dry slaked lime around the wall 

 of the lath house will also prevent many 

 of the slugs from entering the structure, 

 the dry lime being very offensive to them. 



W. H. T. 



NEW DETROIT OFFICERS. 



The Detroit Florists' Club is one of 

 the most active and successful in the 

 United States. It has been the good for- 

 tune of the organization to have the serv- 

 ices, as oflBcers, of some of the best men 

 in the trade, several of whom have been 

 called to perform similar duties in the 

 national trade organizations. At the July 

 meeting Charles Plumb, a charter mem- 

 ber, was called to the chair and Hugo 

 Schroeter and Robert Rahaley, two of the 

 younger members, were elected secretary 

 and treasurer respectively, with G. E. 

 Browne vice-president. 



Charles H. Plumb was born at Egham, 

 Surrey, England, May 18, 1866, and 

 spent his boyhood at Cobham. He com- 

 menced his horticultural career in 1879, 

 working in private establishments. After 

 seven years spent in t^e private gardens 

 of Silvermere, Cobham and St. George's 

 Hall, Weybridge, he entered the Royal 

 Botanical Gardens, at Kew, in April, 

 1886. Here he took the full botanical 

 course, and in September, 1889, was ap- 

 pointed by the British government as 

 curator of the botanic stations of St. 

 Kitts, Nevis, West Indies. Leaving the 

 West Indies for the United States in 

 1893, he immediately entered the employ 



Charlet Plumb. 



and crushed moth balls sprinkled about 

 among the plants are offensive to these 

 pests. Vegetable traps, in the form of 

 cabbage or lettuce leaves, laid among the 

 plants and examined two or three times a 

 day and also in the evening, will help to 



of the park and boulevard commissioners 

 at Detroit. In 1896 he left their employ 

 to enter into business for himself as a 

 florist, at his present location. 



Hugo Schroeter was born in Detroit, 

 October 21, 1878. After leaving school. 



in 1905, he entered the employ of the 

 Edison Illuminating Co., working at the 

 electrical business for three years. In 

 1908 he began working in his father's 

 greenhouses, where he put in several 

 years, finally ending up in the store tad 

 of the business, where he has been ever 

 since. About four years ago he uas 

 asked to become Detroit correspondt ut 

 for the Review, which position he I as 

 filled most acceptably ever since, lie 

 says he must confess that it is this asso- 

 ciation with the Review which has gi\\;n 

 him whatever fitness he may possess lor 

 holding the office of secretary of the 1 e- 

 troit Florists' Club. In tne year 19 'i2 

 he accepted a position with Siebrecht & 

 Sons, in their New York store, and th^^n 

 went to Newport, R. I., where he put in 

 a season among the four hundred, al.-,o 

 in the employ of the Siebreehts. It wos 

 in Newport that he met the young lady 

 who later became h is^jv ife, and, Mr 

 Schroeter adds, they 

 pily ever since. ' ' 



Robert M. Rahaley 

 troit, born October 29, 

 in life as a bookkeeper for the Calvert 

 Litnographing Co., of Detroit, in 1898, 

 and left there after four and one-half 

 years' service to enter the employ of 

 the Michigan Cut Flower Exchange as 

 bookkeeper seven years ago. When the 

 park commissioner, Philip Breitmeyer, 

 now mayor of Detroit, appointed William 

 Dilger to the office of superintendent of 

 parks and boulevards four years ago, Mr. 

 Rahaley was appointed manager of the 

 Michigan Cut Flower Exchange, which 

 position he is now filling. Last April 

 he decided to take unto himself a wife 

 and is now managing two concerns. Mr. 

 Rahaley is quite a diplomat and his pleas- 

 ant smile acts as does oil upon water 

 when the growers, retailers and fakers 

 fake opposite views of a situation. 



George E. Browne, the new vice-presi- 

 dent, is 39 years of age and has green- 

 houses at Greenfield, Mich., where he 

 grows mainly carnations and mums for 

 the Detroit market. 



The club's new officers will be in 

 Stalled the first meeting in September. 



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OBITUARY. 



John Snyder. 



John Snyder, 58 years old, who for 

 more than twenty years operated a flower 

 store at 921 Walnut street, in Kansas 

 City, died at 3 : 15 o 'clock Thursday morn 

 ing, August 5, from injuries sustained by 

 being thrown from his market wagon 

 near his home. Seventy-second and Oak 

 streets, the previous afternoon. Mr. Sny- 

 der had sold some produce from his gar- 

 den at the city market and was returning 

 home when another wagon collided with 

 him and he was thrown violently to the 

 ground. Concussion of the brain resulted 

 in hemorrhage and Mr. Snyder scarcely 

 regained consciousness. 



The dead man was born in Germany. 

 Since giving up the flower store on Wal- 

 nut street five years ago he visited that 

 country, staying nearly a year. He had 

 lived in Kansas City thirty-five years. 



Besides his widow, Emma Snyder, three 

 children survive: John and Mamie Sny- 

 der, of Seattle, Wash., and Henry Snyder, 

 living at home. 



Funeral services were conducted from 

 the home at 2:30 o'clock Sunday after- 

 noon, August 8, by the Rev. Louis J. 

 Schwartz, pastor of the Lutheran church. 

 Burial was in Forest Hill cemetery. 



