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OCTOBBB 12, 1911. 



The Wcddy Fbrists' Rtir^. 



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a few days ago, William E. Chappell 

 officiating as auctioneer, $116 was re- 

 ceived in premiums. O. H. Williams 

 made the highest bid, $21 on two stalls; 

 the second highest bid being $20 on 

 two stalls. Those purchasing stalls so 

 far include O. H. Williams & Son, Will- 

 iam Hoffman, F. Macrae & Sons, Wal- 

 ter S. Nichol, Joseph Kopelman, Elmer 

 E. King, George Jansen, Burke Eose 

 Co., Inc., G. H. Gushing, H. A. Bur- 

 lingame, Albert Holseher and John A, 

 Macrae. There have already been half 

 a dozen applicants for the position of 

 manager or superintendent. It has 

 been voted to keep the market open 

 from 7 a. m. until 5 p. m. daily. 



W. H. M. 



The Florists' and Gardeners' Club 

 of Bhode Island held a special meet- 

 ing September 30 to discuss plans for 

 the coming fall show. The Bhode 

 Island Horticultural Society, in a com- 

 munication to the Florists' Club, of- 

 fered the sum of $150 to be used in 

 premiums, as an incentive to have the 

 florists take part as exhibitors. The 

 letter was accepted and a committee 

 consisting of William Hill, Alexander 

 Macrae and E. A. Appleton was ap- 

 pointed to confer with the Horticultu- 

 ral Society, and if satisfactory arrange- 

 ments can be made between the two 

 organizations in the matter of distri- 

 bution of premiums, it was the con- 

 sensus of opinion that the florists 

 should do all in their power to further 

 the best interests of the show. 



The special committee will report 

 at the regular meeting of the club, 

 which will take place October 20. 



DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Last week was quite a busy one for 

 Detroit florists. With the exception of 

 two rainy days, business was pretty 

 brisk. This week opened up with a 

 good day on Monday. 



Chrysanthemums are coming in fairly 

 good supply now in white, pink and 

 yellow. October Frost and Kalb are 

 the white varieties. Bosiere and 

 Unaka, the latter being one of Elmer 

 D. Smith's new .kinds, have opened up 

 the season in pink. Some early pom- 

 pons are also available. 



Boses are not lacking in supply and 

 the quality is good. Carnations are be- 

 coming longer stemmed as the season 

 advances. The dark colored varieties 

 are almost too plentiful, while the lighter 

 shades and white are not equal to the 

 demand. Easter lilies are not nearly 

 equal to the demand. A few gladioli 

 are still straying into the market. 



Various Notes. 



A special meeting of the Detroit Flo- 

 rists' Club was called for Thursday 

 evening, October 12, and held at the 

 Michigan Cut Flower Exchange. This 

 was in order to meet with A. F. J. Baur, 

 Benjamin Hammond, F. B. Pierson and 

 other officers of the American Bose and 

 American Carnation societies to go 

 carefully over the ground and make 

 some definite arrangements for the 

 joint convention to be held in Detroit 

 next January. 



"Backham Florist" is the inscrip- 

 tion on the sign of the new flower store 

 opened up at 422 Woodward avenue 

 October 5. Harry Backham, who for 

 some years has been engaged in the 



retail florists' business in the west, will 

 be in full charge of the store, and this 

 fact alone is enough to insure the suc- 

 cess of the undertaking. 



Bulletin No. 1 was issued by the ex- 

 hibition committee of the Detroit Flo- 

 rists' Club last week, advising the 

 members that arrangements for the 

 show to be held this fall are well under 

 way. Chairman Frank Danzer and his 

 staff are sparing no effort to make this 

 show a splendid success. 



B. Schroeter's new store and con- 

 servatory is rapidly nearing completion 

 and will be ready for occupancy about 

 October 20. This firm has been busy 

 decorating some of the large retail 

 stores for their fall openings. In one 

 instance over 1,000 Beauties were used 

 in connection with baskets and palms. 



The name of Farmer street was re- 

 cently changed to Library avenue; con- 

 sequently E. A. Fetters' address is now 

 114 Library avenue instead of 114 

 Farmer street. Mr. Fetters' delivery 

 auto was struck by a street car Octo- 

 ber 7 and damaged to the extent of 

 about $75, but the driver was not in- 

 jured. 



Harry Breitmeyer, son 'of Philip 

 Breitmeyer, and Miss Marie Bamlet 

 were married October 10. They will 

 spend their honeymoon touring in the 

 east. Harry Breitmeyer is associated 

 in business with his father and was 

 manager of the Breitmeyer building 

 until its sale recently. Breitmeyer 's 

 new store was opened to the public 

 October 7. 



W. B. Brown now rides about in a 

 five-passenger Overland touring car, 

 which he purchased recently. Business 

 has been good with Mr. Brown, as is 



evidenced by the above. 



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A large force of men has been busy 

 for the last month undermining J. F. 

 Sullivan's store. When the work is 

 completed Mr. Sullivan will have a 

 deep, spacious basement, which will 

 give him much additional room. The 

 rear of the store will also be rebuilt 

 to give more daylight and the 

 whole store is being redecorated. 



The Winton Motor Car Co. recently 

 delivered to Frank Holznagle one of 

 its 1912 six-cylinder cars, finished in a 

 beautiful deep shade of blue. 



Mrs. Albert Stahelin may be seen 

 almost any day driving in from Bedford, 

 bringing the morning's cut of carna- 

 tions, mums and greens to the Michi- 

 gan Cut Flower Exchange, per automo- 

 bile. This gives her a pleasant morn- 

 ing's outing and saves one man's time. 

 Even when her hubby is along Mrs. 

 Stahelin, who is a good driver, runs 

 the car. 



A handsome new electric delivery 

 car bearing the name "John Breit- 

 meyer 's Sons, The House of Flowers," 

 appeared on the streets of this city last 

 week. This is the first electric auto 

 used by a retail florist in this city. 

 H. S. 



SEDALIA, MO. 



Archias Floral Co. had the decoration, 

 September 30, for the dinner given Presi- 

 dent Taft and as the guests left the club 

 little Marian Archias presented the Presi- 

 dent with a large bouquet of Mrs. Taft 

 roses. At the state fair September 30 

 to October 6, Archias Floral Co., Chas. I. 

 Pfeiffer and Andrew Dygard, the latter 

 of Nevada, were the principal exhibitors, 

 capturing the premiums. 



OBITUASY. 



Clement Denaifle. 



Clement Denaiffe, head of Denaiffe 

 & Son, engaged in seed growing for the 

 wholesale trade at Carignan, Northern 

 France, died August 31, aged 76 years. 

 His ancestors before him for two gen- 

 erations had been seed growers, but 

 it was under the administration of 

 Clement that the Denaiffe plant grew to 

 the proportions it holds today. 



Clement came of a family of thir- 

 teen children. His father was a hard 

 working man, and owing to the neces- 

 sities of a then modest business all 

 the children were obliged to hustle and 

 assist in the fields and otherwise. 

 Clement obtained a good education at 

 the College of Metz, graduating at the 

 age of 18. After considerable time 

 spent in traveling over Europe, study- 

 ing the methods of other seed growers 

 and in acquirii\g a knowledge of the 

 seed business proper as conducted by 

 the large city seed stores, he entered 

 his father's establishment. In 1889 he 

 fell into sole ownership, at which time . 

 he owned a fine farm of 200 acres at 

 Carignan and had some twenty experi- 

 enced workmen. Four years later, in 

 1893, he erected warehouses at the rail- 

 road station at Carignan and purchased 

 more land, the splendid farm of 400 

 acres at Presles, near Carignan, to pro- 

 vide for increasing business. Subse- 

 quently, from time to time, he increased 

 his acreage and the capacity of his 

 warehouses, and at his death there were 

 engaged in the office alone forty-five 

 clerks, and in the different warehouses 

 some eighty-five other employees. He 

 paid great attention to improving va- 

 rieties and originated a number of ex- 

 cellence. One of these, a certain let- 

 tuce named the Denaiffe, has attained 

 great popularity in America under the 

 title of All Seasons. 



In 1893, Clement Denaiffe was cre- 

 ated Chevalier du Merite Agricole, and 

 in 1897 the French government made 

 him Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, i 

 a distinction rarely conferred on an 

 agriculturist or horticulturist. In 1890, 

 the National Board of Trade of France 

 was attracted to him by the reputa- 

 tion of his productions and gave him 

 an order to supply about 1,500 agricul- 

 tural associations throughout the 

 French republic with their require- 

 ments, which order was repeated regu- 

 larly every year thereafter. 



Mr. Denaiffe was a man of charm- 

 ing personality, correct and straight- 

 forward in his business methods, and 

 a tireless worker. He was hard at 

 work in his office all day only three 

 days before the sudden illness which 

 culminated in his demise. The fun^vkl 

 was the largest ever held in that part 

 of France, being attended by many in- 

 dividuals in every walk of life. Henry, 

 a son, succeeds him as'^he head of the 

 house, and Maurice, a grandson, as 

 junior. 



J. A. McKee. 



J. A. McKee, a prominent nursery- 

 man of King's Mountain, Ky., was 

 claimed by death at the age of 82 years. 

 The body was taken to Cynthiana, Ky., 

 amd interred in Battle Grove cemetery 

 October 4. One son, John B, McKee, 

 and a daughter, Mrs. Annie Bjjrris, of 

 Georgia, survive. 



