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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBBB 13, 1910. 



soaked with water, they will show little 

 signs of wilting. A night temperature 

 of 55 degrees is ample. 



SFBINOFIELD, O. 



Club Meeting. 



The annual banquet and installation 

 of officers of the Springfield Florists' 

 Club was held at the Bookwalter hotel 

 Monday evening, October 10, with twen- 

 ty-five members about the festal board, 

 all having evidently come with well 

 sharpened appetites as a result of ardu- 

 ous greenhouse labor of the day. 



Cigars having been distributed, the 

 retiring president, Eoger H. Murphey, 

 of Urbana, assumed the role of toast- 

 master with a few felicitous remarks, 

 concluding with references to his sum- 

 mer vacation trip to Michigan, which 

 naturally led him to call on one who 

 had been described to him by the pro- 

 prietor of a fishing tackle store in 

 Michigan as a "fussy little old man," 

 who proved later to have been John M. 

 Good. Mr. Good related numerous 

 amusing incidents of his vacation trip, 

 with some excellent and original fish 

 stories which involved several other flo- 

 rists present. 



George H. Mellen was next intro- 

 duced, and spoke interestingly of the 

 accomplishments of the club and men- 

 tioned severaf subjects on which there 

 might be room for advancement. 



• ' The Good of the Club ' ' was assigned 

 to George L». Leedle for an impromptu 

 talk. Mr. Leedle stated that in his 

 younger days, when he had studied 

 such literature as "Mother Goose," one 

 of the paramount questions had been, 

 "Who killed Cock Robin?" But the 

 modern parallel along this line among 

 our fraternity is, "Who killed the 

 Springfield flower show?" As a means 

 of maintaining a regular and lively in- 

 terest in the work of a club, a definite 

 plan for the year was advocated, such 

 as a paper or talk on some favorite 

 subject of interest to the profession, to 

 be prepared by various members for 

 each regular meeting. Leman Bradford 

 followed witn brief remarks endorsing 

 the recommendations of the preceding 

 speakers. 



As chairman of the entertainment 

 committee for the last year, Opha Jack- 

 son related seme of his experiences. The 

 work of this committee has been some- 

 what perplexing, by reason of the fact 

 that the former large "wet" majority 

 has swung to the "dry" column. 



Christian Binning told of his start- 

 ing with the Storrs & Harrison Co., at 

 Painesville, O., twenty-eight years ago, 

 at which time Robert George said to 

 him that the florists' business was 

 "played out," but later developments 

 have shown that it had not yet begun. 

 Mr. Binning was of the opinion that 

 what he heard at the annual gatherings 

 of the S. A. F. was of little practical 

 benefit to Springfield plant growers and 

 shippers, and that their interests were 

 more closely allied to those of the Amer- 

 ican Association of Nurserymen. He 

 expressed a belief that we should effect 

 an organization of all of the catalogue 

 houses of the country as a National As- 

 sociation of Plant Shippers. 



Roy McGregor proposed the question 

 as to whether the club should be a 

 business or a social organization. 



The most recent new member of the 

 club, Charles 0. Youngstrand, spoke 

 from the standpoint of an outsider, or 

 purchaser of our stock. Mr. ^ oungstrand 



came to Springfield as a newspaper 

 man, and when told of the immensity of 

 the local plant business, and especially 

 the rose growing, he naturally asked, 

 "Where are the roses?" comparatively 

 none being visible to the passing ob- 

 server. Later on he discovered that 

 all were too busy propagating and 

 growing to give any attention to plant- 

 ing for ornamentation. He recommend- 

 ed an annual outdoor rose show, pro- 

 «vided the local soils were such as to 

 ' make this feasible. 



Joseph Campbell claimed to be abl^ 

 to grow roses and to eat fried chicken 

 with any of the crowd, but when it 

 came to speech making he was down 

 and out. 



Frank E. Good spoke of the fact 

 that a new rose is frequently tried in 

 an inadequate way and discarded as 

 worthless, while it might have proven 

 a valuable addition to the list if it had 

 been properly tested. He predicted 

 that his firm would soon have a trial 

 ground where every rose, tender or 

 hardy, would be given a full chance 

 to dembnstrate its merits. Mr. Good 

 also spoke of the average heating sys- 

 tem in local houses, which he believed 

 to be to some extent antiquated and 

 wasteful of fuel. 



Ward Welsh, who is known to the 

 members as "the farmer of Mud Run," 

 rose to his feet with a pompous air 

 which gave rise to great expectations 

 on the part of the listeners, and then 

 gravely announced that he had "lost 

 his little speech, which he had placed in 

 his pocket." 



A definite program for the year, with 

 something interesting for each meet- 

 ing, was urged by C. L. Reese. 



Charles Unglaub mentioned the grow- 

 ing and exhibition of specimen plants 

 as something which might add to the 

 attendance and interest, whereupon Mr. 

 Binning produced two fine specimen 

 blooms of Dahlia Grand Duke Alexis, 

 which were passed around and greatly 

 admired. 



A local campaign for lawn improve- 

 ment was favored by Harvey N. Siegen- 

 thaler, who proposed a plan for the 

 selling of plants and shrubbery by 

 bright young people from our high 

 school and college, under the guidance 

 of a commission of citizens interested 

 in botanical matters and civic beautifi- 

 cation. 



Carl Glenn, the retiring secretary, ex- 

 pressed a feeling of relief from the 

 duty, stating that he was there to learn 

 rather than to teach. 



C. Pearl Bethard, secretary-elect, 

 thanked the club for the honor con- 

 ferred on him, and expressed regret at 

 the abandonment of the flower show 

 project, remarking that "we will have 

 one next year." 



In relinquishing the office of presi- 

 dent, Robert Murphey added a few well 

 chosen remarks and introduced the 

 president-elect, Charles W. Schmidt, 

 who spoke of the advantages of getting 

 together in a feeling of mutual confi- 

 dence and cooperation, one of the pe- 

 culiar features of the local floral busi- 

 ness being that all are to a large ex- 

 tent interdependent in the matter of 

 replenishing exhausted supplies of 

 stock. Reference was also made to the 

 comparatively few flowers planted by 

 the Springfield public, in spite of the 

 fact that the best advantages on earth 

 for buying in almost every conceivable 

 line are right at hand. 



On motion of John M. Good, a reso- 

 lution was adopted for the appointment 



of a committee to revive the project of 

 removing a portion of the cement from 

 the esplanade and planting the spaces 

 with flowers, the florists to supply the 

 necessary stock for a period of five 

 years. Mr. Binning and Mr. Young- 

 stran4 joined in advocating some plan 

 for supplying the local papers with lit- 

 erature along the line of instructing the 

 public what, when and how to plant. 



Ge Dale. 



PITTSBTTEO, PA. 



The Market. 



There has been quite an improvement 

 in trade this month, but it is not regu- 

 lar. One day every one is buying and 

 the next day there is nothing doing. 

 However, the general volume of busi- 

 ness will foot up all right. There are 

 plenty of flowers of all kinds — Beau- 

 ties, roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, 

 dahlias, gladioli, lilies and violets. No 

 scarcity of anything. 



Various Notes. 



Breitenstein & Co. have retired from 

 the retail cut flower business. This is 

 the second retailer to quit this fall, 

 leaving only three large stores in the 

 downtown section of the city. 



A street car struck the auto in which 

 Samuel McClements and his son were 

 riding Sunday, October 9, on their way 

 to church. The son was thrown from 

 the machine and his hand was badly cut 

 with glass from the broken wind shield. 

 Both were badly shaken up, but consid- 

 ered themselves fortunate to escape So 

 luckily. 



De Forest Ludwig is taking a sciefn- 

 tific course at Cornell. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. is cut- 

 ting some extra fine roses at its Bakers- 

 town greenhouses. This company has 

 been busy getting things arranged in 

 its new home. 



Visitors were: Mr. Edlefsen, of the 

 Edlefsen-Leidiger Co., Milwaukee, Wis., 

 and L A. Oldham, Cambridge, O. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



ORANGE, N. J. 



The fifth annual dahlia show of the 

 New Jersey Floricultural Society was 

 held in Lindsley hall, October 1. There 

 was a large attendance and the show 

 was the best of the kind the society 

 ever has held. Among the outside vis- 

 itors were Charles McTaggart, with W. 

 E. MafShall & Co., New York; George 

 W. Strange, with W. A. Manda, South 

 Orange, N. J., and William Tricker, the 

 water lily specialist of Arlington, N. J. 



Walter M. Gray, of Maplewood, N. 

 J., captured the silver cup donated by 

 Hitchings & Co., which was awarded for 

 the best sixty dahlia cut blooms. Will- 

 iam Reid, gardener for S. M. & A. Col- 

 gate, was awarded the second prize cup, 

 donated by James Laing, of Orange. 

 Albert F. Larson, gardener for A. B. 

 Jenkins, won the third prize cup. These 

 gentlemen were the principal exhibit- 

 ors for prizes, with Max Schneider also 

 capturing a number of firsts. 



William Tricker made a fine display 

 of outdoor roses and received a cul- 

 tural certificate. Other certificates were 

 awarded as follows: To Walter Gray, 

 for Souvenir de Gustave Doazon; P. A. 

 Conners, for dahlias; Albert F. Larson, 

 for dahlias; D. Kindsgrab, for dahlias; 

 Edward Merrit, for dahlias; Charles 

 Ashmead, for dahlias; William H, Eeid, 

 for dahlias; Max Schneider, for celo- 



