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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



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season, with George C. Sims in charge. 

 Mr. Sims had tlie floral decorative 

 work at the yteei)UM'hase, Coney Island, 

 during the summer. 



Charles E. Kobiiison, of Teekskill, 

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

 was for many years with tlie F. Ji. 

 Pierson Co., at Tarrytown. 



Mr. Dreyer, of Whitostone, has re- 

 turned from his iMiroiicaii honeynioon 

 trip, having spent two months in 

 France, (Jermany and Switzerland. 



J. K. Hliieids, Dalton, Mass., was a vis- 

 itor this week. 



VV. E. MarsliaJl is hack from a montli 's 

 western trip. 



(U'orge .Scott now is manager of the 

 .John Hcott estate, Flatbnsii. 



Jjcwis Sclimnt/ and .Mrs. Sciimnt/ have 

 both been sutl'eiing ^vitli riienmatism. A 

 street lias jnst been cnt tlirough the 

 Schmntz jiroperty and been a source of 

 income. 



McKinney jiad the ilci-oration for the 

 Druggists' Association at the AValdorf 

 this week. 



(Jeorge (rawbuck, Ji., son of the man- 

 ager of the (ireater New York Florists' 

 Association, is s:ilesm;in for tlie Portland 

 Stone Co.. of wliicii his father is treas 

 urcr. 



An informal dinner was tendered J. K. 

 M. L. Farcpihar, October 0, by Messrs. 

 Bunyard, Traendly, Totty, Nugent, Hick- 

 ards, Miller. Sclicnck, Sheridan, Young 

 and Stewart. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club reorganized Octo- 

 ber <). The oflicers are: President, 

 <y. W. Scott; vice-president, A. Ka- 

 kuda; secretary, treasurer and captain, 

 Bert Chadwick. The dues are .$.'{ 

 monthly in advance, and the hour of 

 meeting ():,'50 p. m., .as a convenience 

 for the wholesalers and the out-of-town 

 members. The j)resent membership is 

 ten and it will be limite<l to twenty. 

 The scores October (i were: 



I'laycr Isr I'.i 'M 4tli 



A. J. MaiKiu !)r, . . 



.r. U. Nugent Ill .', 



Al. Uickards 1.^;; 



Holt 147 l.U 



Scott 12:! 12'< 12:! it;! 



Kakuda 147 ]:{!• }r>2 isi 



•Sliaw 1.^,;; k;;; i.«) iso 



VoiiiiK l.-,4 140 1.5;i 174 



W. Kiok.Tiils l." 1*4 l.'iG 181 



MaiKla 17s 215 l.'iG l.')4 



riiadwipk •_>r.7 194 172 195 



J. Austin Shaw. 



On the S. S. President (irant, from 

 Hamburg, October 2, the Greek- 

 American Florists' Supply Co. received, 

 :iccording to the manifest, "ten pack- 

 ages plant i)arts ' " 



NEW YORK'S SHOW CHAIRMAN. 



Charles 11. Totty, who has been 

 named as chairman of the coiiimittee to 

 have charge of the third national flower 

 show, at New York, in I'.M.'!, is a resi- 

 dent of Madison. ,\. .1.. but to all in- 

 tents and purposes he is ;i .\ew Yorker, 

 for Madison, florii iiltuiall\ . is counted 

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

 est city'rf greatest rose growing center. 

 •M^r. Totty is an cx-|)resi<ifiit of the Xew 

 Vork Plortsts' Club and one of the most 

 active workers in it, as he is in all 

 trade affairs. lie has had wide experi- 

 ence as an exhibitor an<l his selection 

 as head of the organization that is to 

 undertake to pusli yet higher the mark 

 set !rt ' Boston was a most happy one, 

 and one that augurs Avell for the suc- 

 '■easful consummation of the big under- 

 taking. 



Charles H. Totty. 



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

 Tott)' is only 38 years old, having been 

 born in Shropshire, England, in IST.S. 

 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 

 ho stayed three years, in accordance 

 with the recognized ap|)renticeship sys 

 teni. Then a year in the nurseries of 

 Messrs. Dickson, of Chester, was sujt 

 posed to provide sufficient horticultural 

 knowledge to launch him as a full 

 fledged .iourneyman gardener. After a 

 year at Xorris Green, a noted fruit 

 growing establishment near Liverpool, 

 he came to America in 1893. .\ year 

 and a half was sj^ent on the estate of 

 Mrs. Thompson, at Canandaigua, X. V.. 

 after which the young man located .at 

 Madison, having founcl employment on 

 the ir. McKay Twombly est.ate, und.-r 

 the superintendency of Arthur Herring 

 ton, to whose jirecejit he says he owes 

 much for the direction given his 

 thoughts and desires. After eight years 

 there he left to go into business fur 

 liimself as a wholesale «ut flower and 

 l>lant grower and bought the .lames 

 Hart greenhouses at Ma<lison, which he 

 since has remodeled, enlarged .and made 

 one of the noted places of the town. 

 After six years here he added by leasi^ 

 the Twombly place over whi(di he had 

 ]iresided as foreman. 



While Mr. Totty was ai'ipiiring .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 rea(diing 



the New York market, still it is for his 

 success with chrysanthemums that ho 

 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, 

 certaiidy 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 

 liteiature of the chrvsanthemum. 



The Market. 



Net for some months has there iieen 

 so good a niarkt>t as at present. Out- 

 door llowers are practically gone; the 

 few arriving lack (piality and cut little 

 figure. A sbarj) frost October 7 put 

 an end to dahlias, which, for a week 

 or two, hiiisl- Ix'en iiiaile considerable usi^ 

 of in window displ.ays. K'oses are not 

 (piite so abundant. Sonie large grow- 

 ers :ire off crop. .Such as are coming 

 in bring a little better jirice 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 Iloucrs of the 

 two champion ycdlows, Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward and T.ady ITillingdon, are well 

 u]> to midwinter ipiality. Carnations 



