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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 26, 1909. 



out altogether. But some three score of 



those present at the original meeting 



have maintained their loyalty to the 



present day. Of the ones known to have 



been at the first meeting, the following 



were noted at Cincinnati last week: 



Ball, C. D., Philadelphia. 

 Breltmeyer, Phil, Detroit. 

 Bertermann, John, Indianapolis. 

 Burton, John, Philadelphia. 

 Carmody, J. D., Evansville, Ind. 

 Coles, W. W., Kokomo, Ind. 

 Crltchell, B. P., Cincinnati. 

 Guy, E. W., Belleville, 111. 

 Hill, E. G., Klchmond, Ind. 

 Huntsman, Frank, Cincinnati. 

 Klft, Robert, Philadelphia. 

 Lamborn. Leroy L., Alliance, O. 

 Long, D, B., Buffalo. 

 Matthews, W. G., Dayton, O. 

 McCullough, Albert, Cincinnati. 

 McCullough, J. Chas., Cincinnati. 

 Peterson, J. A., Cincinnati. 

 Plerson, F. R., Tarry town, N. Y. 

 Bleman, A., Indianapolis. 

 RItter, H. H., Dayton, O. 

 Schulz, Jacob, Louisville. 

 Smith, H. P., Plqua, O. 

 Stewart, W. J., Boston. 

 Temple, J. T., Davenport, la. 

 Vaughan, J. C, Chicago. 

 Vaughan, Mrs. J. C, Chicago. 

 Waldbart, Alex., St. Louis. 

 Walker, H. G., Louisville. 

 Walker. John, Toungstown, 0. 

 Whltnall, C. B., Milwaukee. 



THE CRACK SHOTS. 



In the gunners' contest at Cincinnati, 

 August 18, Altick and Brown tied for 

 high score, each breaking thirty-seven 

 targets out of a possible forty-nine. In 

 the shoot-ofP Altick broke ten straight, 

 while Brown missed one, so Altick got 

 the $55 gun offered as a prize by J. 

 Charles McCullough. Altick also won 

 the silver cup in the contest at twenty- 

 five birds, the score being: Altick, 24; 

 Brown, 22 ; Shaw, 22 ; Eodgers, 16 ; Ras- 

 mussen, 16. In the shoot-off to break 

 the ties Brown defeated Shaw and Eas- 

 mussen defeated Eodgers. 



In the contest at twelve pairs the crack 

 shots finished in the following order: 

 Brown, Eodgers, Altick. 



In the team match against the five men 

 from the local gun club the florists were 

 beaten, 101 to 112. The florists' scores 

 were: Altick, 22; Brown, 23; Eodgers, 

 22; Gardner, 15; Shaw, 19. 



HAIL ASSOCIATION. 



President E. G. Hill occupied the chair 

 at the annual meeting of the Florists' 

 Hail Association at Cincinnati, August 

 19. The association has had a busy year 

 and has been of greater value to the mem- 

 bers than ever before, because of the 

 number and severity of the hail storms 

 last spring. The losses paid amount to 

 $34,628.62, with possibly $2,500 still in 

 process of adjustment. 



The report of Treasurer Joseph Hea- 



cock showed the following totals: 



Balance on band Sept. 8, 1908 $21,160.26 



Total receipts for year ending Aug. 



1, 1909 27.872.82 



Total $49,033.08 



Losses paid Sept. 8, 1908, to Aug. 



1, 1909 34,628.82 



Expenses 2,967.81 



Investments 4,309.47 



Miscellaneous 12.60 



Balance on hand Aug. 1, 1909 7,114.68 



Total $49,033.08 



The losses paid in the year number 

 158 and represent a breakage of 215,665 

 square feet of single thick glass and 231,- 

 827 square feet of double thick glass, 

 according to the report of Secretary John 

 G. Esler, who also stated that the asso- 

 ciation has in its existence paid over 

 1,400 losses, amounting to over $161,000. 

 The association now has 1,605 members, 

 with insurance in force on 31,816,138 

 square feet of glass. The states that 



Tbe Editor Is pleased 

 wben a Reader 

 presents his Ideas 

 on any subject treated In 



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As experience Is tbe best 

 teaober, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 ezobange of ezperlenoes. 

 Many valuable points 

 are broucht out 

 by discussion. 



Oood penmaDBhip, spelling and 

 grammar, though desirable, are not 

 necessary. Write as yoa would talk 

 when doing your best. 



WC SHALL BE GLAD 

 TO HEAR FROM TOU 



have more than a million square feet of 

 double thick glass insured are: 



Illinois 3,271,946 



Pennsylvania 2,738,526 



Ohio 2,108,506 



Indiana 1,276,630 



New Jersey 1,178,148 



Missouri 1,098,701 



Minnesota 1,065,430 



Curiously enough, Nicw York, wdth 

 more greenhouse establishments than any 

 other state in the Union, has insurance 

 on only 693,381 square feet of double 

 thick glass, in spite of the fact Statisti- 

 cian Esler has record of 106 hail storms 

 in the state since June 1, 1887, when his 

 office began keeping tab. In the same 

 time Kansas has had 124, Illinois 122, 

 Iowa, 115 and Missouri 105. 



The losses paid by the Florists' Hail 

 Association since its organization is an 

 indisputable argument in favor of hail 

 insurance, and the fact that the excessive 

 losses of the last two seasons have been 

 paid without the levy of an extra assess- 

 ment is a matter of just pride for the 

 officials of the association, and one for 

 congratulation by its members. 



The Hail Association re-elected J. F. 

 Ammann and chose A. M. Herr and Fred 

 Burki directors in place of Fred Dorner, 

 Jr., and E. D. Smith. The officers were 

 re-elected : E. G. Hill, president ; J. G. 

 Esler, secretary, and Joseph Heacock, 

 treasurer. 



COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



[A synopsis of an Illustrated lecture by 

 0. P. Beckley, of Harrisburg, Pa., delivered 

 before the Society of American Florists at Cin- 

 cinnati August 18, 1909.] 



Mr. McFarland briefly sketched the 

 scientific side of the Lumiere autochrome 

 system of color photography, and re- 

 ferred to previous processes which had 

 been attempted. 



After stating some of the laws of 

 light, as applied to our perception of 

 colors and the fact that white light is 

 made up of three primaries, red, green 

 and blue, he said that the Lumiere process 

 originated in France after many years' 

 experimentation. 



The autochrome plate is composed of 

 a layer of transparent starch dots so 

 fine as to be present on each plate to 

 the number of some five millions to the 

 square inch. These transparent dots 

 have been colored in the three primaries 

 and are intermixed. When deposited on 

 the plate they give to it, viewed at a 

 distance, a light gray appearance, and 

 at a sufficient distance, white. Viewed 

 closely through a microscope, each dot 

 appears separately. 



This dot is the essential part of the 

 Lumiere invention. It is covered by the 

 ordinary photographic emulsion, and in 

 the process of color photography the 

 plate is placed in the camera in reverse 



rContinued on pace 29.1 



OBITUARY. 



Olaf Benson. 



Olaf Benson, of Chicago, died at his 

 summer home, at Higman Park, Benton 

 Harbor, Mich., August 17, at the age of 

 72 years, 



Mr. Benson was the landscape garden- 

 er who laid out Lincoln Park, Chicago. 

 He was appointed superintendent of 

 Lincoln Park in 1865 and held the posi- 

 tion for seventeen years. He is survived 

 by a widow and six children, four girls 

 and two boys. Services were held at 

 Higman Park, August 19, and the body 

 was then brought to Chicago for burial. 



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The S. A. F. Gunners at the Northern Kentucky Gun Club, Dayton, Ky., August 19, 1909. 



