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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Mabch 16, 1911. 



A BBOOKLYN BANQUET. 



The Greater New York Florists' Asso- 

 ciation achieved a distinct success with 

 its first annual dinner, held at Eaub's 

 restaurant, Brooklyn, N. Y., Thursday 

 evening, March 9. The attendance was 

 largo, the decorations beautiful and the 

 fraternal spirit pronounced. All the 

 Brooklyn wholesalers were present, and 

 many prominent growers and retailers. 

 Addresses were made by David Mellis, 

 president of the association, and by J. B. 

 Nugent, president of the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club, by A. L. Miller, president oi" 

 the New York and New Jersey Plant 

 Growers' Association, by J. V. Phillips, 

 the veteran retailer, and by Mrs. Phil- 

 lips, president of the Ladies' S. A. F., 

 also by members of the press. An ex- 

 cellent vaudeville entertainment was pro- 

 vided and dancing followed. The com- 

 mittee in charge consisted of Messrs. 

 Wilson, Jahn and Phillips and only eight 

 days were consumed in planning and 

 holding the banquet. Those present 

 were: 



MESSnS. AND MESDAMES. 



Charles Weber, 

 J. H. Pepper, 

 Cbas. E. Koch, 

 Geo. H. Blake, 

 Chas. Smith, 

 A. L. Miller, 



McRea, 

 H. H. Jahn. 

 O. Hlltman, 

 David Y. Mellis, 

 A. J. Guttmann, 



Henry Weston, 

 Wm. H. Kuebler, 

 — Marquardt, 

 C. Bonnet, 

 Charles Hnber, 

 Robert G. Wilson, 



.Tohn Carlisle, 

 Wm. A. Phillips, 

 .T. V. Phillips, 

 Geo. W. Crawbuck, 

 V. W. Under. 

 MESSRS. 



M. J. Hersch, David Dean, 



Charles Millang, .Tames F. Smith, 



J. S. Cain, Carl Woerncr, 



George H. Kenney, John R. Crawbuck, 



Louis Goodman, W. H. Gallaer, 



Eugene J. Keenan, S. S. Butterfleld. 



John Koning, John B. Nugent, Jr. 



— Haynes, Robert McCoUougb, 



Frank Dexter. George I. Laird, 



J. Austin Shaw, — Kellar, 



Louis Kuebler. (Jeo. W. Crawbuck, Jr. 



John J. Schwartz. Wni. E. F. White. 



MESDAMES. 



Delia Sporwin. 

 MISSES. 



— Irving, 



B. Hefligh, 



— Mellis, 



— l-rlf<l, 

 .\gne8 Sperwin. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



We have an express strike and a warm 

 wave, with greatly increased shipments, 

 to add to the burden of an already over- 

 crowded market. The retail demand lias 

 been light since Lent began and gives 

 no promise of recovery before Easter. 

 The supply of first-class American Beauty 

 ro&es has been short for weeks. For the 

 best 60 cents to 75 cents was easily ob- 



tainable last week. All other roses have 

 fallen, some grand Killarney and Maid 

 going as low as $6 per hundred March 

 13. In roses, the week holds out no en 

 ci.uragement to growers. The best car- 

 na'iions could be purchased at $2 per 

 hundred the early part of this week, uud 

 in large quantities $10 per thousand was 

 the limit of the buyer's offer. For the 

 accumulations of both roses and carna- 

 tions any fair offer of the street men is 

 accepted. 



There is only a limited demand for 

 orchids, and prices are made attractive 

 by the wholesalers, with tardy and dis- 

 couraging responses. Cattleyas are csm- 

 ing in great variety; in one shipment 

 from a Jersey grower I counted fifteen 

 varieties. Lilies are abundant and in 

 large quantities 8 cents was the best 

 offer obtainable March 13. In some of 

 the wholesale stores the enormous sur- 

 plus presages an abundance for the rap- 

 idly approaching Easter season, now less 

 than four weeks distant. There is plenty 

 of valley and an oversupply of all kinds 

 of bulbous stock, especially of daffodils, 

 the southern shipments having already 

 begun. The sweet pea arrivals also are 

 enormous and the demand for any but 

 the best of them is nil. Unless there 

 comes a spell of exceptionally warm 

 weather there will be no shortage of vio- 

 lets for Easter, as seemed possible a 

 few weeks ago. As low as $1 a box was 

 accepted for the accumulations March 13. 

 Club Meeting. 



President Nugent has the commend- 

 able habit of opening the club's meet- 

 ings promptly at 8 p. m. March 13 for 

 the legislative committee P. O'Mara 

 reported his visit to Albany with 

 Messrs. Pierson, Powell, Kasting, Vick 

 and others. C. H. Totty gave his ex- 

 periences with a sijmlar bill in Jersey, 

 for a grant of $30,o5D for greenhouses 

 at New Brunswick Experiment Station. 

 The bill already has received the ap- 

 proval of the house. He urged all Jer- 

 seyites to lend their influence in its 

 favor. 



Robert Young reported for the outing 

 committee: The date, June 28; the 

 place, Wetzel's; the boat, the Isabel; 

 the tickets, men, $4; ladies, $2; chil- 

 dren, $1; prizes only for ladies and 

 children; no souvenir program. 



W. E. Tricker, Jos. J. Broezert, 

 Charles Knight and S. Whitfield were 

 elected to membership and L. W. C. 

 Tuthill proposed. The resignation of 

 Fred Weir, U. G. Scollay, M. A. Bowe 



and A. L. Don were accepted with 

 regret. 



Messrs. McConnell, Kessler Bros., 

 Wiesman, Zeller, Schmutz and Schultheis, 

 Jr., were appointed a decorative com- 

 mittee for the club's banquet, for 

 which Mr. Weathered reported most of 

 the seats sold. The club voted to en- 

 tertain the English tourists at the ban- 

 quet and Messrs. O'Mara, Shaw and 

 Traendly were appointed a committee 

 to • meet them on the arrival of the 

 Mauretania March 17. Mr. Vincent, of 

 White Marsh, will also be in New York 

 to welcome them. 



W. H. Siebrecht, Jr., reported for the 

 market committee, H. A. Bunyard for 

 the transportation committee, W. F. 

 Sheridan for the committee on resolu- 

 tions. 



Of the exhibits Charles Weber's 

 vases of Brooklyn carnation and Seed- 

 ling No. 2 were highly commended; 

 Beacon and Alma Ward carnations 

 from Wm. Eccles, Oyster Bay, received 

 a cultural certificate; Howard Gould 

 carnation and Seedling No. 513 from 

 the Cottage Gardens, each received a 

 cultural certificate. A. Zvolanek, Bound- 

 brook, staged sweet peas in nearly 100 

 varieties, including winter-flowering 

 Spencers, and received certificates, 

 commendations and thanks of the com- 

 mittee. Lewis P. Lord, of Minneapolis, 

 was a visitor and showed his frost- 

 proof plant box, which was awarded a 

 certificate of merit. The award com- 

 mittee reported on a visit to C. H. 

 Totty, February 24, to see his new car- 

 nation, Wodenethe, which scored nine- 

 ty-three points and received the club's 

 certificate. Also the committee visited 

 the plant of P. A. B. Widener, Ogontz, 

 Pa., William' Kleinheinz, gardener, to 

 see his new carnation. Dimple Widener, 

 which scored eighty-eight points and 

 was awarded the club's certificate. 



Messrs. Bunyard and Miller gave 

 short addresses on the National Flower 

 Show and the National Sweet Pea So- 

 ciety. John Birnie read a practical and 

 interesting paper on "The Benefit to 

 New York Floriculture in the Estab- 

 lishment of the New Plant Market." 

 I. S. Hendrickson read a paper on 

 "How Can the Gladiolus Be Made a 

 Popular Florists' Flower?" James T. 

 Scott spoke eloquently on "Why Flo- 

 rists Do Not Take More Interest in the 

 Nursery Branch of the Business." 

 Frank McMahon spoke of the damage 

 the trade sustains from leaking gas 

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Banquet of the Greater New York Florists' Assodatioo, Brooklyn, Match 9, 1911. 



