AP0U8T 13, 1914. . 



The Florists' Review 



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services were rewarded with a silver 

 medal and he continued in this posi- 

 tion until 1903, when he was appointed 

 by the French government to lay out 

 the French garden exhibit at the 

 world's fair at St. Louis. He had full 

 charge of all the work and again re- 

 ceived a medal for his efforts. At the 

 close of the exposition Mr. Bourdet 

 thought highly of the opportunities in 

 St. Louis for one of his vocation, and 

 established the Bourdet Floral Co. As 

 a grower of pot plants Mr. Bourdet has 

 few equals. He has been a member of 

 the Florists' Club for the last ten years 

 and enjoys a wide acquaintance among 

 the trade. 



The nominee for vice-president, W. S. 

 Wells, entered this existence in 1885 at 

 Oxford, O., and not long after entered 

 the florists' trade, for his father was a 

 grower. At the death of the latter, 

 Mr. Wells took over the business and 

 disposed of it in 1908. He was associ- 

 ated with H. Schmidt & Co., in his 

 home town, until 1911, when he went 

 to St. Louis to take up work in the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. While 

 there he was elected secretary and 

 treasurer of the Engelmann Botanical 

 Club and still holds these offices. In 

 1913 he left the Garden to establish 

 the Wells Floral & Landscape Co. The 

 hustling qualities which have made this 

 undertaking a success should prove a 

 valuable asset for an officer of the St. 

 Louis Florists' Club. 



Jules Bourdet. 



Lincoln, Neb. — C. ,H. Frey and fam- 

 ily are at their summer home on Peli- 

 can lake, Nisswa, Minn., where fishing 

 is good and neither heat nor war news 

 worry. 



jriowth at the bottom of the plants 

 trimmed off, but this should not be 

 <loiie until the plants have well started 

 to make strong shoots, as the plants 

 until that time require all the foliage 

 to support them. W. J. K. 



ST. LOUIS CLUB ELECTS. 



The date of this issue is the day on 

 which the St. Louis Florists' Club cele- 

 •iiates its twenty-seventh anniversary, 

 r'"r it was in August, 1887, that this 

 thriving organization first saw the light. 

 Jt has grown to be a strong and husky 

 stripling in the nearly three decades 

 ■<in(e its beginning, and today is known 

 iis one of the livest organizations in 

 t"«> country. To keep up the reputa- 

 t'oii of the club and continue as it has 

 '•^fi'iii, the florists of St. Louis make a 

 J'oar.h each August for the most hust- 

 ""« members of the trade in their town 

 "'"■n the annual election of the club 

 'oiiu's due. 



onu's ,iHe. This year the old stand 

 J'>/. •'. J. Beneke and W. C. Smith, an 

 • '*'l'>'<ted to continue as secretary an( 

 oh''^'"'^'" respectively, and for th« 

 ' '»'!• two offices, president and vice 



Wells 



'nt, Jules Bourdet and W. S. 



respectively have been placed in 



"o'Miiiation. ■ 



„,;'"'''** Bourdet is a native of France 

 stl . i'^*^" from the vear 1869. He 

 • j<il.'d to learn the florists' trade-when 

 lias Vn ^'^ years old and by this time 

 iirH' ^*'^ ^"® points of the business 

 ill '.' ..^'^'^ V heart. After working 

 l„. ,, '{^"^ greenhouse establishments, 

 ill I "P landscape work in Paris 

 si,,„, •'•'• In 1900 he undertook a 

 tli(. ■ ^^^ work in connection with 

 '""^Prsal exposition at Paris. His 



W, S. Wells. 



