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MARCH 23. 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



23 



Last week they appeared with violets of 

 •especially poor quality, but the bunches 

 were large and only 20 cents was asked, so 

 that quantities were sold. 



Club Meeting. 



The Colorado Florists' Club met Tues- 

 day evening, March 14, at the offices of 

 the Park Floral Co. An effort had been 

 made to get some of the members to give 

 a five-minute talk on any subject that 

 they wished, but most of those on the 

 program got stage fright, or something 

 ■else, and failed to respond. G. A. Eolin, 

 when called on, told of his experiences 

 here in the early days, and from that 

 time up to the present. Mr. Eolin evi- 

 dently spent a great deal of time on his 

 paper, and deserves credit for it. E. S. 

 Kennedy read an article on a visit to the 

 cliff dwellers in Aztec, N. M. J. A. Sked 

 tried to get some information in regard 

 to growing Easter lilies, but all were 

 silent on the subject. Even those who 

 have been successful refused to tell the 

 secret, and Mr. Sked is still in the dark. 

 Geo. H. Cooper had charge of the music, 

 Mr. Valentine having loaned his Victrola 

 for the occasion. A quartette was or- 

 ganized, and we expect to have some good 

 singing at future meetings. 



The meetings of this club will hereafter 

 be held on the first Tuesday in the month, 

 instead of the second Tuesday. 



Various Notes. 



Thos. Chapman has obtained the final 

 patents on a device with which he has 

 boon working for years. It is an orchard 

 lighting apparatus, to be used in the" 

 spring when there is danger of frost. 

 The orchard thermometer can be set at 

 any degree, and when the temperature 

 drops to that point a gong is sounded in 

 the farmer's house, or at some other con- 

 venient place, and in ten minutes an 

 orchard of ten acres can be lighted by 

 simply throwing a switch, which causes 

 an electric spark to travel quickly from 

 one smudge pot to the next. Mr. Chap- 

 man is justly proud of his success, and 

 expects his invention to net him a great 

 many dollars in the next few years. 

 When his expectations come true, he is 

 going to retire from the florist business. 



John Emsbach, who for the last twenty 

 years has been with the Elitch-Long 

 Greenhouses, has given up his position 

 there, and is now working for the Park 

 Floral Co. 



A Ford torpedo runabout, fully 

 equipped, will be given away June 12 by 

 the Park Floral Co. 



W. H. Grimes has gone into the 

 geranium business quite heavily this 

 spring. Just now he has 30,000 geraniums 

 in 4-inch pots. 



J. A. Jensen has entered the employ 

 of the Park Floral Co., and will have 

 entire charge of the landscape work. He 

 was formerly with John Withers and 

 Theodore Wirth. 



The only Denver florists who will at- 

 tend the National Flower Show are J. A. 

 Valentine and Emil Glauber. They left 

 Denver last Sunday evening, Mrs. Valen- 

 tine going with them as far as Omaha, 

 and from there to Minneapolis, Minn., to 

 visit lier father. Before returning 

 home she will go to Blue Island, 111., to 

 be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. 

 Rudd. 



Visitors: C. A. Espelin, Fort Collins, 

 Colo.; Ed. Johnson, Wm. H. Evans and 

 John Berry, Colorado Springs, Colo. 



M. E. J, 



R. W. Wilson. 



MILWAUKEE. 



The Market. 



While business reinainetl good the 

 greater part of last week, it was not 

 active enough to keep pace with the sup- 

 ply. Especially was this true with vio- 

 lets, valley and bulbous stock. Roses 

 were quite plentiful and moved pretty 

 well. Good carnations held their own. 

 while the poorer grades were at the mercy 

 of the buyers. The demand for white 

 carnations for St. Patrick's day was 

 ahead of any previous year. Owing to 

 the spring openings at the different de- 

 partment stores, asparagus strings moved 

 well. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Currie left for ^lon- 

 treal March 19, for a short visit. From 

 there they intend to go to the National 

 Flower Show at Boston, at which city 

 Mrs. Currie will make a month 's visit. 

 Mr. Currie will return in about a fort- 

 night. 



Nic Zweifel, of North Milwaukee, will 

 stage some of his white seedling carna- 

 tion, No.- 274, at the Boston show next 

 week. 



The Aug. J^\ Kellner Co. came in for 

 their share of the spring openings of 

 several of the large department stores. 

 With the spring-like weather they are 

 daily booking orders for outdoor work. 



Bowling. 



March 19 the Chicago bowlers and 

 rooters put in an appearance and, with 

 ideal weather, the whole affair moved on 

 without a hitch. On arrival the guests 

 were tendered an automobile ride in the 

 cars of H. V. Hunkel, W. A. Kennedy. 



Nic Zweifel and Fred Holton. After 



dinner, which was taken at the Charlotte 



hotel, the auto trip was continued till 



2:30, at which time they landed at the 



bowling alleys at Eleventh and Prairie 



streets and got right down to business. 



The line-up and scores were as follows: 



Chicago. 1st 2d 3d Chicago. Ist 2d 3d 



Huebner ..15.5 188 117 Graff 151 IM IKt 



A.veis l.^."? 124 142 Loman 125 147 107 



Schultz ...1S8 153 l.")5 DreiKi-l 125 i:i3 i:{5 



.r. Zech 177 1C8 157 (Joeiisch ...145 167 185 



\. Zoth 1.-5 18:5 144 Wonzcl 152 i:j2 157 



Totals SOS sUi 715 Totals G98 7;!2 747 



.Milwaukoc. 1st 2d IM Milwaukee. Ist 2d M 



Husch 21(1 17« Ki9 Currie 155 128 134 



Zlm'mau . . Ui5 141 155 Nohos 152 1:13 135 



Ilolton ...142 147 154 Pohl 124 129 113 



Kellnor ...l.U 145 157 Zweifel ...167 130 168 

 Iluiikel 140 180 139 Leldlgei- ...155 224 126 



Totals 791 784 744 Totals 688 753 744 



The following bowled just to roll the 

 time away: 



Chicnuo. 1st 2d 



Wintersoii 94 94 



Katzsel 144 146 



Miss Pagi'ls '75 85 



Miss Smltli .-i7 87 



Oestrelchei- 94 124 



Milwaukee. 1st 2d 



Hunkel 1.56 212 



Leitz 120 84 



Julius 145 112 



PoUworth 128 123 



Hare 138 159 



Totals 464 536 Totals 687 690 



Other members of the Chicago party 

 who did not bowl were Mrs. and Miss J. 

 Huebner, A. C. Kohlbrand, Harry Lub- 

 liner, Joe Trinz and Edw. Ollinger. The 

 party left in the best of spirits on the 

 7:30 over the Chicago & Milwaukee elec- 

 tric line. 



While speaking of the return match, 

 the locals deemed it wise to wait till .ifter 

 Easter in order to give all concerned a 

 chance to attend. E. O. 



Kenosha, Wis. — Lewis Turner's green- 

 houses and dwelling were badly wrecked 

 when the powder mill exploded at Pleas- 

 ant Prairie March 9. 



