February 27, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



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ums for the first annual combination 

 flower exhibition of the Newport Horti- 

 cultural Society and the Newport Gar- 

 den Association, to be held next June, 

 on the grounds of Mrs. John Nicholas 

 Brown. 



A. Schultz has been enjoying an un- 

 usually good business during the win- 

 ter season. 



Large quantities of fine valley are 

 shipped daily by William Jurgens to 

 Boston, New York and Philadelphia 

 markets. 



Conservatories are to be built in fhe 

 immediate future for the Misses Ellen 

 F. and Ida M. Mason, on Walnut 

 street. 



The building of the George W. 

 Weaver Co., which was recently de- 

 stroyed by fire, is to be rebuilt on the 

 same site. The new structure will be 

 a three-story brick. 



A greenhouse 22 x 122, costing $7,000, 

 is under way at the Stuart Duncan 

 estate. 



Work on the three new houses for 

 Stewart Bitchie is being pushed rap- 

 idly. They will be used for asparagus 

 and other greens for the local market. 



W. H. M. 



COOK COUNTY ASSOCIATION. 



The attendance at the meetings of 

 the Cook County Florists' Association, 

 held at the Tavern, Chicago, the third 

 Thursday of each month, is excellent. 

 Fifty-three members and several guests 

 were present February 20, when officers 

 for the ensuing year were chosen, prin- 

 cipally reelections, as follows: 



President — 'A. C. Kohlbrand. 



Vice-president — Allie Zech. 



Secretary — A, T. Pyfer. 



Treasurer — John Zech. 



Sergeant-at-arms — M. Fink. 



Trustees— Walter Scott, E. C. Am- 

 ling, H. N. Bruns, A. Henderson, W. J. 

 Keimel. 



Otto Strobach, E. W. Sieb^echt, John 

 Swanson and Fred J. Eoss were elected 

 to membership and applications were 

 received from Henry Luebbe, Everett 

 E. Peacock and E. F. Kurowski. 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 was designated by unanimous vote of 

 the meeting as the official route to the 

 Minneapolis convention and an invita- 

 tion was extended to all S. A. F. mem- 

 bers who will pass through Chicago to 

 join with the Chicago party. Secre- 

 * tary Pyfer said it is the plan to run 

 a special section of the Pioneer Lim- 

 ited, as it is thought hardly anybody 

 will want to go by any less direct 

 route or ride on a less famous train, 

 since fares are the same. 



The Michigan Central was designated 

 as the official route to the National 

 Flower Show. Train leaves at 12:05 

 a. m., April 4, reaching New York at 

 7 a. m., April 5. 



The exhibits of the evening were es- 

 pecially fine and numerous. They were 

 as follows: 



The Albert F. Amling Co., Maywood, 

 III., showed a vase of a winter-bloom- 

 ing type of the Countess Spencer sweet 

 pea, often called the Butterfly pea in 

 the Chicago market. It was considered 

 by many as the finest vase of sweet 

 •> peas ever seen in Chicago in February. 

 It is said that as yet only two growers 

 have it, but that eventually it is sure 

 to displace all other pink peas for win- 

 ter forcing. 



Scott Bros., Elmsford, N. Y., sent 

 Carnation Wm. Eccles, a large scarlet 

 that has been well received in the east, 



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PRESIDENT OF THE COOK 

 COUNTY FLORISTS' ASSOCIATION 



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A. C. KOHI.BSAND. 



AS a reward for efficient services in the last year, the members of the Cook 

 County Florists' Association have returned A. C. Kohlbrand to the presi- 

 dent's chair for 1913. Mr. Kohlbrand is a Cincinnatian and he will be 47 

 years of age tomorrow, the last day of February, 1913. His entire business life has 

 been spent in the flower trade. He started with the Cincinnati Floral Co., 

 conducted by Davy & King. Later he was with Sunderbruch's and later with 

 Cook's Nursery. He removed to Chicago in 1890 and for a number of years 

 was with Klehm's Nursery, in both the retail and wholesale departments. For 

 the last eleven years he has had charge of the shipping orders of E. C. Amling 

 and the E. C. Amling Co. In the e£lrly days of The Eeview Mr. Kohlbrand 

 achieved fame over the pen name of Fritz Bleumenschneider. He is possessed 

 of a vein of humor that makes him a popular entertainer wherever florists 

 gather. 



where it has been widely shown, and 

 Lady Northcliffe, a salmon pink of 

 English origin. These flowers arrived 

 the day preceding the meeting and 

 Eccles was considered as not at its best 

 for judging, but Northcliflfe was given 

 a certificate. 



From J. D. Cockcroft, Northport, 

 L. I., came Carnation Northport, cerise, 

 that evidently is a traveler, as it 

 showed up in first-class shape and was 

 awarded a certificate. 



James Aldous & Son, of Iowa City, 

 la., sent several promising seedling car- 

 nations. 



The Blackman Floral Co., Evansville, 

 Ind., sent blooms of three seedling car- 



nations, among them an excellent me- 

 dium pink that was awarded a certifi- 

 cate. The flowers had previously been 

 on exhibition at the store of the Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co. 



From Avard Anderson, Moline, 111., 

 came several seedling carnations, among 

 them a promising scarlet of good size 

 that was awarded a certificate. There 

 also was a pink of unusual size. 



The Chicago Carnation Co., Joliet and 

 Chicago, staged a fine vase of The Her- 

 ald, which already has the association's 

 certificate; also a Scott shade of pink, 

 No. 246, that was awarded the certif- 

 icate. With these were excellent vases 

 of White Wonder and Gloriosa. 



