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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Alulst 2f.. 190'.!. 



(uit altoii'etlior. lint soiii(> tliroo st-ore of 



those ]irt'Sont nt tlie 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 wcf^k: 



JJall, C. 1)., IMiilailclpliia. 

 Urt'itnieyer, IMiil, Detroit. 

 liGi-tormaiin. Jolin. Imliiiiiapolis. 

 Uurtoii, Joliii, I'liiladt'lphia. 

 Carniod.v, J. I).. Kvansvillo, liid. 

 Coles, \V. \\'., Kokomo, InU. 

 Critfbell, 1!. 1'., Cincinnati. 

 Guv, E. W.. 15ollovllle, 111. 

 Hill, E. 0., Hicliniond, Ind. 

 Hunts-man, I'lank. Cincinnati. 

 Kift. Kobort. I'hiladclpliia. 

 Lamborn. Lcruy I... .Mliauce, 0. 

 Lonp, 1). 1!., liufliilo. 

 Mattbi'ws, AY. U.. Dayton, O. 

 McCuUoukIi, Albert. Cincinnnti. 

 McCulldiigb, ,T. Cliaw.. Cincinnati. 

 I'eteison, J. A., Cincinnati. 

 Piersiin, V. K.. 'lanytown, N. Y. 

 lUcnian. A.. Indianapolis. 

 Hitter, U. H., Dayton, 0. 

 Selnilz. ,Iacol), Louisville. 

 Sniitb, n. v.. I'iqna. O. 

 Stewart, W. J.. Hostou. 

 Temple, J. T.. Davenport, la. 

 Vauf,'ban. ,T. C, (."hica^ro. 

 VaUf-'lK'n. Mrs. .1. C, Cliiea;;n. 

 AYaldliart. Alex., St. Louis. 

 Walker, II. G.. Louisville. 

 \V;ilkcr. .Tobn. Y'ounLLslown. (i. 

 \\lii(nal!, C. li.. Milwaukee. 



THE CRACK SHOTS. 



In the guiiiiiTs" coiite.sl at C'inciiiiiat i. 

 August 18, Altiok and lirowii lied for 

 high score, each breaking thirty seven 

 targets out of a ]iossiblc forty-nine. In 

 tile shoot-oil' Altick broke ten straight, 

 while 13rown missed one. so .\ltick got 

 the $55 gun ofl'ereil 

 Charles McCnllougli. 

 the silver cup in tlu 

 five birds, the score 

 Brown, 22; Shaw, 22 

 mussen, 16. In the 

 the ties Brown defeated Whaw and Ras- 

 mussen defeated Rodgers. 



In the contest at twelve pairs the crack 

 shots iinished in the following order: 

 Brown, Rodgers, Altick. 



In the team match against the five men 

 from the local grin cluV) tlie florists were 

 beaten, 101 to 112. The florists' scores 

 were: Altick, 22; Brown. 2.3; Rodgers, 

 L'2: Gardner. 15; Shaw. 19. 



as a prize Ijy J. 



.\ltick also won 



contest ;it twenty- 



icing: Altick, 24; 



Rodgers, 10; Ras- 



sln)ot-olf to break 



HAIL ASSOCIATION. 



President E. G. Ilill occupied tlie chair 

 at the annual meeting of the I'lorists' 

 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, ))ecause of the 

 number and severity of the hail storms 

 last spring. The losses paid amount to 

 $34,028.62, with possibly ,*2,5ii(i still in 

 process of adjustment. 



The re])orL of Treasurer Joseph llea- 



cock showed the following totals: 



Balance on band Sept. 8, 1008 ?21, 160.20 



Total receipts for year ending Aug. 



1, 1909 27. 872. 82 



Total .«41l,0:5.'!.OS 



Losses p:iid Sejil. S, 1908. to AuR. 



1. 1909 01.(128.62 



ICxpenses 2,907.81 



Iiivestuienls 4,;!09.47 



.Mis<Mdlaneous 12.50 



r.alance on band .Vuf?. 1, 1909 7,114.08 



Total $40,033.08 



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 slated that the asso- 

 ciation has in its existence paid over 

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

 The association now has 1,605 memlDers, 

 with insurance in force on 31,816,138 

 square feet of glass. The states that 



The Editor is pleased 

 when a Reader 

 presents his ideas 

 on any subject treated in 



04Kr 



As experience is the best 

 teacher, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 ezchanee of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are broueht out 

 by discussion. 



(toocJ penmanship, spelling and 

 grammar, though desirable, are not 

 necessary. Write as you would talk 

 when doing your beet. 



WK SHALL BE GLAD 

 TO HEAR FROM YOU 



have more than a million square feet of 



double thick glass insured are: 



Illinois .1,271,940 



rennsyivania 2,738,526 



• •bio 2,108,.^0« 



Indiana ],270..''.3O 



.New Jersey 1, 178,148 



.M issouri 1,098,701 



.Minnesota 1,005,430 



Curiously enough, Xew York, with 

 more greenhouse establishments than any 

 otlici- state in the I'nion, has insur.'ince 

 on only (i93,3sl s(|uare feet of d(udile 

 thick glass, in sjiite of tlie fait Statisti- 

 cian Kslcr has record of imi juiii storms 

 in the state since June 1, 1HS7, when his 

 otiice began keeping tab. In the same 

 time Kansas has bad 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 .T. 1". 

 Ammann and chose A. M, Herr and Fred 

 Burki directors in place of Fred Dorner, 

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

 re-elected: E. (i. Hill, president; J. (i. 

 Esler, secretary, and Joseph lleacock, 

 treasurer. 



COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



[.\ synopsis of an illustrated lecture by 

 <). r. Heekley, of Ilarrisburg, I 'a., d.livered 

 liefore tbe Society of American I'luii-is ai Cin 

 cinnati August IS, 1900.] 



Mr. McFarland briefly sktnrlie/l The 

 scientific side of the Lumiere nntochiome 

 system of color photography, and re- 

 ferred to previous processes wiiicji iiad 

 liceu attempted. 



After stating sonn^ of ihc hiws of 

 light, as apjdicd to ()ur ]M'icc|>t ion of 

 colors and tlie fact that wliilc 

 made up of three jjrimaries. le. 

 and blue, he said that the l.uniiirr 

 oi'iginated in l-^rance after in;iii\ 

 i'.\])erimentation. 



The aulochroine j)lat(' is r(iM;|i 

 a layer of transparent si;iir|i 

 line as to l)e jireseut on each plate to 

 the number of some ii\f millions to the 

 S(|nare inch. Tliese transparent dots 

 lia\e been colored in the tiiiee jainiaries 

 ami ;ire intermixe(l. When depositdl on 

 the jdate they gi\e to it. \ie\\ed at a 

 distance, a light gray aiqiearance. and 

 at a sullicient distance, white. N'iewotl 

 closely through a microscope, cneli dot 

 apjiears separately. 



This dot is tht; essential part of the 

 Lumiere invention. It is covered liy the 

 ordinary [)hotographic enudsion. and in 

 the process of color photography tie- 

 plate is placed in the camera in icvi i^o 



fContinued on itase 2'.i.] 



ILlilt IS 



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process 



years ' 



.sed of 



lots so 



OBITUARY. 



Olaf Benson. 



Olaf Benson, of Chicago, ilieil at his 

 summer home, at Higman I'ark. Benton 

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

 72 years. 



Mr. Benson was the landscaiie garden 

 er who laid out Lincoln Bark. Chicago. 

 He was ajipointed sujjerinteinlenr of 

 Lincoln Park in 1865 and held tho posi 

 tion for seventeen years. He is surxived 

 by a widow and six children, four girls 

 and two boys. Services were lield at 

 lligman Park, Augtist 19, and the body 

 was tln'M brought to <'hica<ro for burial. 



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



