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Upper row— Carl Witthuhn, Walter Lafterlof, Edward Jacob. H. H. Wilker»on. 

 Center row— Frank M. Johnson, A. W. Herre. R. E. Blachshaw, S. P. Schultze, George Husmann, Uicbard Parker, William Jacob, F. M. Kenyon. 



Seated— A. L. Randall, L. E. Metcalf, W. W. Randall, Carl Wbltlnger. 



Convention of Supplies Department Salesmen of the A.^ L. Randall Co., Chicago, at Easter. 



Cut Flower Co., is on duty after a long 

 and severe attack of rheumatism. 



Samuel Woodrow is busy with land- 

 scape work. His big plant store has 

 proved a^veritable gold mine. 



Frank Hamilton has been appointed 

 superintendent of parks in the Bronx, 

 succeeding J. W. Burgevin. Mr. Ham- 

 ilton will also have charge of the Cen- 

 tral park conservatories. 



J. F. Slimon has resigned his position 

 as manager of Vaughan's Seed Store 

 and accepted the management of the 

 commission house of G. P. Lipp^rt. 



W. H. Kuebler, of BrooMjrn, has 

 fully recovered from his ill|^^ of last 



week. 



Bowling. 



A bowling match for members of the 



Florists' Club took place at the Coogan 



alleys, April 20. An enthusiastic crowd, 



including several ladies, attended. A 



tournament that will insure weekly 



practice is being arranged by Messrs. 



Riedel, Meconi and Verona. The scores 



Monday evening were: 



Player. 1st 2d M Player. 1st 2d Sd 



Meconi 172 171 170 Riedel 153 147 140 



Verona 194 180 178 Don'son, Jr.l68 1.59 160 



Don'son, Sr.l55 148 183 Jacobson ..186 164 03 



Miesem 171 185 131 Tinney 150 143 138 



Hanft 148 145 135 Sclireiner ..116 148 170 



Totals 840 820 797 



Totals 772 761 707 



J. Austin Shaw. 



After fifteen years at 783 Broad 

 street, H. C. Strobell will move shortly 

 to a new location, at 895 Broad street. 

 He acquired the property at this ad- 

 dress some time ago. 



The Baltimore Cut Flower Co., which 

 takes over the Baltimore interests of 

 the Walter R. Siebrecht Co., has been 

 incorporated for $25,000 by Irving 

 Jaflfee, T. F. MacMahon and Walter E. 

 Siebrecht. 



THE RANDALL STAFF. 



The evening before the travelers of 

 the A. L. Bandall Co., Chicago, took 

 the road after Easter, the selling staflP 

 of the florists' supplies department had 

 a little dinner and business talk. One 

 of the staff, Edward Galavan, brought 

 along a camera and a can of flashlight 

 powder. The accompanying illustration 

 is the result. The sales force is com- 

 plete, as shown in the picture, except 

 for the gentleman who was operating 

 the camera and Frank McCabe, J. E. 

 Quallich and Edward Ahles, who were 

 too far afield to spend Easter in the 

 house. 



NEW ORLEANS. 



The Market. 



This year's Easter business can be 

 recorded as fair, but it must be stated 

 that it fell back with some of the re- 

 tailers, in comparison with the record- 

 breaking sales of last year. Not all of 

 the flowering stock was in bloom at the 

 right time, owing mainly to the unfa- 

 vorable weather during March. The 

 Saturday before Easter was threaten- 

 ing and nearly all day on Easter a 

 cold, drizzling rain fell, keeping many 

 buyers from making their customary 

 Easter i)urchasefe. The sale of plants 

 and made-up baskets suffered the most 

 under those conditions. Cut flowers 

 sold well all over town and few of 

 these were left. The Chicago ship- 

 ments arrived in good condition. While 

 some growers catering to the market 

 trade reported a fine business, others 

 complained about it. 



Now that the Lenten season is over, 

 spring weddings and other social func- 

 tions will help the trade along until 

 summer. We had a dry spell of some 



length, but it was broken on the night 

 of April 18, when a heavy thunder 

 storm was followed by a torrential rain 

 which lasted all night. 



Club Meeting. 



The New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety held its monthly meeting April 

 16, at the Chamber of Commerce build- 

 ing. President P. A. Chopin and Sec- 

 retary C. R. Panter were in their 

 places. The attendance was good and 

 the meeting was animated. 



A motion in favor of the awarding of 

 three prizes for plants and cut flowers, 

 to be exhibited at the regular meetings 

 and judged according to points, was 

 carried by unanimous vote. Each firm 

 will be entitled to one entry only. The 

 prizes will be awarded at the end of 

 the year. The president appointed the 

 following committee on awards of 

 prizes: Ed. Baker, Harry Dresel and 

 Richard Eichling. 



The place for this year's annual out- 

 ing will be discussed at the next meet- 

 ing. All the members are requested to 

 be on deck that night, and those who 

 wish to add ginger to the discussions 

 should come prepared with some new 

 ideas as to how and where to celebrate. 



P. A. Chopin exhibited a vase of 

 fine Gladiolus Baron Hulot, indigo blue, 

 the first shown this season. 



Richard Eichling, foreman of U. J. 

 Virgin 's nursery, showed some fine Iris 

 Ilispaiiica, blue and yellow. 



Various Notes. 



U. J. Virgin left April 14 for New 

 York and Chicago, on a business trip. 

 He expected to be back by the end of 

 this week. 



Albert Verlinde, of the firm of Ver- 

 linde & Vander Eecken, will leave 

 about the end of April for his native 

 town, Ghent, Belgium, for business pur- 



