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Skpxbubcbb 16, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



13 



New York and New Jersey Plant Growers' Association at Tlieir Second Annual Clam-bake, September 9. 



The inflow of chrysanthemums has be- 

 gun. From now on they will begin to 

 dominate the market. The prophecy is, 

 no high prices for them this season. 



The street is beginning to talk violets. 

 Some of the wholesale^ nabobs are visit- 

 ing a score of their growers by auto in a 

 day, where formerly a week was consid- 

 ered none too short a time for the annual 

 missionary work. There will be much 

 striving for supremacy this year. There 

 seems to be a prospect of the survival of 

 the fittest. Things are seething here in 

 wholcsaledom, and plans and methods 

 .md farsightedness are worthy of a Har- 

 riman. It may be years before we shall 

 see such conditions again. It needs a 

 Steady hand to guide the ships this year 

 into smooth waters. 



Plant Growers' Outing. 



The second annual clam bake of the 

 New York and New Jersey Plant Grow- 

 ers' Association, at Whitestone Landing 

 September 9, was a great success. There 

 were handsome prizes for bowling, shoot- 

 ing and a new pot game for the ladies. 

 The prize winners among the thirty-five 

 ladies who rolled five frames were : 



Mrs. Alchmann 71 



Mrs. BroUsky 05 



.Mrs. Brulin 60 



The thirty-eight men bowled ten frames 



and the three winners were: 



Mr. Smith ICl 



H. B. Slebrecht 10 i 



<". K. Drury 147 



The shooting contest resulted as fol- 

 lows: 



I'". Murquardt 70 



•I. Miest'm OS 



»'. K. Drury '.\'. .\'. ... .'.'.'.'.'.'. «.! 



In the pot game Mrs. A. L. Miller, 

 Mrs. H. C. Steinhoflf and Mrs. W. H. 

 Siebrecht, Jr., were the winners. 



A. L. Miller was chairman of the com- 

 mittee that arranged the outing. Miss Mills 

 was chairman of the ladies' committee. 

 H. Scholzel was floor manager, Louis 

 Schmutz sergeant-at-arms, Miesem and 

 i^eller had charge of the men's bowling, 

 Dressel and Scholzel of the ladies' bowl- 

 ing, Roehrs and Siebrecht of the shoot- 

 ing, and Steinhoflf and Wagner of the 

 ladies' flower pot game. 



Attendance was by invitation. Among 

 those present were: 



Messrs. and Mesdames : A. L. Miller, 

 l-rederick Marquardt, Anton Schultheis, 

 William Pankok, John Miesem, Bruhn, 



Brodsky, Herman Maenner, Herman 

 Scholzel, Alfred L. Zeller, John Bimie, 

 Frederick H. Dressel, Louis Dupuy, Louis 

 Schmutz, Peter Wagner, Herman Schmidt, 

 J. H. Fiesser, Julius Eoehrs, Jr., William 

 H. Siebrecht, Jr., Herman C. Steinhoff, 

 J. H. Kempner and Wittmann. 



Messrs: Anton Schultheis, Jr., J. Aus- 

 tin Shaw, William J. Stewart, Frank 

 Manker, Louis Dupuy, Jr., Gerard Dreyer, 

 Schumacher, Charles K. Drury, J. G. 

 Whildin, Smith, Henry B. Siebrecht, 

 David Mackenzie, Otto V. Zangen, Henry 

 Dailledouze, Oscar Boehler, William El- 

 liott, Frank Traendly, Krecker and 

 Briggs. 



Mesdames: Aichmann and H. H. Lo- 

 renz. 



Misses: Schultheis, Maenner, Scholzel, 

 Zeller, Dupuy, Elizabeth Mills and Stein- 

 hoflf. 



The Schwaben Volksfest Show. 



The floral exhibition of the Schwaben 

 Volksfest celebrated its thirty-third an- 

 niversary at the new Coliseum park, 

 Brooklyn, last week, concluding its work 

 Sunday evening, September 12, with an 

 attendance of over 10,000, as many at- 



tending also on Labor day and the pre- 

 ceding Sunday. The famous fruit and 

 flower tower was erected at a cost of 

 $400 by Fred Marquardt, of Middle Vil- 

 lage. Since 1894 August F. Schrader. of 

 Elmhurst, has been superintendent. The 

 show was under the auspices of the 

 Schwaben Sangerbund, and is similar to 

 the harvest festivals in Germany. The 

 next exhibition of the society will be 

 November 7. The following were the 

 prize winners, and their artistic groui' 

 ings were the best features of the exhibi 

 tion : 



A. F. Schrader, of Elmhurst, was first for 

 bed of golden privet and bed of sedum. 



Charles Koch, of FIntbush, was first for bed of 

 rnnnas and bed of salvia and second for folia^'.- 

 plants and bed of begonias. 



Herman Maenner, of Maspeth, was first for 

 bed of coleus. 



Fred Marquardt, of Middle Village, was first 

 for beds of heliotropes, ficua, begonias, and g«'- 

 raniums, and second for a bed of cannas and also 

 received a special prize for a carpet desigi'. 

 lyre. 



John Dreyer. of Middle Village, was first for 

 group of conifers and miniature landscape and 

 third and fourth for carpet bedding. 



John Baumann, of Middle Village, was first for 

 carpet bedding, bed of foliage plants, and ha] of 

 salmon geraniums, and second for carpet beddinu. 

 be<l of scarlet geraniums and bed of white 

 geraniums. 



[Continued on page 23.] 



Long Island Growers and Others at Base of Volksfest Tower. 



