OCTOBIB 12, 1011. 



The Weekly Florfets' Review; 



season, with George C. Sims in charge. 

 Mr. Sims had the floral decorative 

 work at the Steeplechase, Coney Island, 

 during the summer. 



Charles E. Hobinson, of Peekskill, 

 N. Y., was in the city last week. He 

 was for many years with the F. B. 

 Pierson Co., at Tarrytown, 



Mr. Dreyer, of Whiteatone, has re- 

 turned from his European honeymoon 

 trip, having spent two months in 

 France, Germany and Switzerland. 



- J. B. Shields, Dalton, Mass., was- a vis- 

 itor this week. 



W. E. Marshall is back from a month 's 

 western trip. 



George Scott now is manager of the 

 John Scott estate, Flatbush. 



Lewis Scbmutz and Mrs. Schmutz have 

 both been suffering with rheumatism. A 

 street has just been cut through the 

 Schmutz property and been a source of 

 income. 



McKinney had the decoration for the 

 Druggists' Association at the Waldorf 

 this week. 



George Crawbuck, Jr., son of the man- 

 ager of the Greater New York Florists' 

 Association, is salesman for the Portland 

 ^one '_Ca, of which his father is treas- 



An informal dinner was tendered J. K. 

 M. L. Farquhar, October 9, by Messrs. 

 Bunyard, Traendly, Totty, Nugent, Bick- 

 ards, Miller, Schenck, Sheridan, Young 

 and Stewart. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club reorganized Octo- 

 ber 6. The oflScers are: President, 

 C. W. Scott; vice-president, A. Ka- 

 kuda; secretary, treasurer and captain, 

 Bert Chadwick. The dues are $3 

 monthly in advance, and the hour of 

 meeting 6:30 p. m., as a convenience 

 for the wholesalers and the out-of-town 

 members. The present membership is 

 ten and it will be limited to twenty. 

 The scores October 6 were: 



Player Ist 2d 8d 4tb 



A. J. Manda 95 



J. B. Nugent Ill 



Al. Rickards 153 



Holt ;.> 147 134 



Scott IZt 125 123 113 



Kakoda 147 139 152 181 



Shaw 153 163 139 180 



Voang 164 146 158 174 



W. Rickards 157 1S4 156 181 



Manda /..178 215 156 154 



Chadwick 257 194 172 195 



J. Austin Shaw. 



On the S. S. President Grant, from 

 Hamburg, October 2, the Greek- 

 American Florists' Supply Co. received^ 

 according to the manifest, "ten pack- 

 ages plant parts." 



NEW YORK'S SHOW CHAIRMAN. 



^harles H. Totty, who has been 

 named as chairman of the committee to 

 have charge of the third national flower 

 show, at New York, in 1913, is a resi- 

 dent of Madison, N. J., but to all in- 

 tents and purposes he is a New Yorker, 

 for Madison, floriculturally, is counted 

 a part of New York, for it is the great- 

 est city's greatest rose growing center. 

 Mr. Totty is an px-president of the New 

 York Florists' Club and one of the most 

 active workers in 'it, as he is in all 

 trade affairs. He has had wide experi- 

 ence as an exhibitor and his selection 

 as head of the organization that is to 

 undertake to push yet higher the mark 

 set «t Boston was a most happy one, 

 and one that augurs well for thetauc- 

 cessful consummation of the big under- 

 taking. 



Charles H. Totty. 



This is a young man's age, and Mr. 

 TMty is only 38 years old, having been 

 bohi^ in Shropshire, England, in 1873. 

 Although none of his family ever was 

 connected with our trade, his chief de- 

 light, even as a boy, was work in the 

 garden. At the age of 13 years, having 

 absorbed a good part of the education 

 afforded by the common schools of 

 Shropshire, the lad went to work in 

 the gardens of a Mr. Sheringham, where 

 he stayed three years, in accordance 

 with the recognized apprenticeship sys- 

 tem. Then a year in the nurseries of 

 Messrs. Dickson, of Chester, was sup- 

 posed to provide sufficient horticultural 

 knowledge to launch him as a full- 

 fledged journeyman gardener. After a 

 year at Norris Green, a noted fruit- 

 growing establishment near Liverpool, 

 he came to America in 1893. A year 

 and a half was spent on the estate of 

 Mrs. Thompson, at Canandaigua, N. Y., 

 after which the young man located at 

 Madison, having found employment on 

 the H. McKay Twombly estate, under 

 the Buperintendency of Arthur Herring- 

 ton, to whose precept he says he owes 

 much for the direction given his 

 thoughts and desires. After eight years 

 there he left to go into business for 

 himself as a wholesale cut flower and 

 plant grower and bought the James 

 Hart greenhouses at Madison, which he 

 since has remodeled, enlarged and made 

 one of the noted places of the town. 

 After six years here he added by lease 

 the Twombly place over which he had 

 presided as foreman. 



While Mr. Totty was acquiring an 

 all-round knowledge of the business, he 

 specialized on chrysanthemums, and, 

 while from his place now come some of 

 the best roses and other stock reaching 



the New York market, still it is for his 

 success with chrysanthemums that he 

 is most widely known. Almost from 

 the start of his business he has made a 

 feature of the trial of all new sorts 

 and the dissemination of such novelties 

 as he approved. The sorts sent out 

 number scores. He has handled in 

 America the Wells-Pockett sets of re- 

 cent years, as well as many good Amer- 

 ican sorts. For a number of years Mr. 

 Totty has contributed Chrysanthemum 

 Notes to the columns of The Review, 

 certainly the most widely read notes on 

 this flower which have appeared in 

 America and probably in any other 

 country, for skilled growers everywhere 

 recognize that they are among the most 

 important contributions in the whole' 

 history of the somewhat voluminous 

 literature of the chrysanthemum. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Not for some months has there been 

 so good a market as at present. Out- 

 door flowers are practically gone; the 

 few arriving lack quality and cut little 

 figure. A sharp frost October 7 put 

 an end to dahlias, which, for a week 

 or two, had been made considerable use 

 of in window displays. Roses are not 

 quite so abundant. Some large grow- 

 ers are off crop. Such as are coming 

 in bring a little better price all around, 

 and the continued cool weather is im- 

 proving their quality. The color of 

 Killarney is as noteworthy as its in- 

 creased size, and the flowers of the 

 two champion yellows, Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward and Lady Hillingdon, are well 

 up to midwinter quality. Carnations 



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