



rri^f. 



12 



The Florists' Review 



Apbi^. 17, 1913. 



One of the Views of the Tweoty-sixth Annual Banquet of the New York Florist*' Qub, Hotel Astor, April 10, 1913. 



retary he - was not considered by the 

 judges. Their awards were: 



Certificates of merit to H. F. Michell 

 Co., Philadelphia, for Geranium Helen 

 Michell and for hybrid freesias. 



Honorable mention to Schloss Bros., 

 New York, for ribbon, chiflfon and cor- 

 sage novelties, bouquet holders, table 

 decorations and figured chiffon. 



High commendation to Kroeschell 

 Bros, Co., Chicago, for new pattern 

 boiler. 



High commendation to King Con- 

 struction Co., North Tonawanda, N. Y., 

 for flat rafter house, for iron eave plate 

 and for arrangement for eave plate and 

 drip pan. 



High commendation to Houtsch & Co., 

 Germany, for greenhouse boiler. 



Honorable mention to J. G. Neidinger, 

 Philadelphia, for device for keeping 

 and showing short-stemmed flowers. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOBISTS. 



A meeting of the Society of American 

 Florists was called for April 10, in New 

 York, but no quorum developed. Presi- 

 dent Farquhar announced, however, 

 that he had taken cognizance of the 

 proposal to establish a national trial 

 ground for roses at Washington by the 

 U, S. Department of Agriculture and 

 that he had appointed W. F. Gude, W. 

 R. Pierson and F. E. Pierson as a com- 

 mittee to represent the S. A. F. in the 

 matter and to do what seems best to 

 further the project, either in the name 

 of the society or in conjunction with 

 such other organizations as may be in- 

 terested. 



THE LADIES ENTERTAINED. 



The entertainment of the ladies stead- 

 ily becomes a more prominent feature 

 of air national florists' gatherings and 

 at New York last week the local com- 

 mittee, headed by Mrs. Frank H. 

 Traendly, saw to it that the many 

 visiting ladies were not permitted to 

 find time hanging on their hands. The 



ladies were shown about the city, there 

 were numerous luncheons and April 9 a 

 large theater party was given at the 

 matinee at the Hippodrome, to see the 

 circus and "Under Many Flags." 



TESTS EXPLOSION THEORY. 



I agree with Emil Buettner, of Park 

 Eidge, 111., who, in The Florists' Ee- 

 view of April 3, declared that green- 

 houses and other buildings are not 

 crushed in a wind storm, but that most 

 of them explode. I have tested the 

 correctness of the theory recently. We 

 had a heavy wind March 12 and I no- 

 ticed that the roof of one of my houses 

 danced up and down a great deal; in 



fact, so much that the purlins jumped 

 off the pipe supports, being held by 

 split tees. As I have believed in the 

 explosion idea, since I saw buildings in 

 the St. Louis cyclone that had fallen 

 outward, I opened up the vents about 

 three inches, and the dancing of the 

 roof quit at once. 



We had a little side show of oui 

 own March 23, the night of the Omaha 

 cyclone. The wind was blowing at the 

 rate of forty-eight miles per hour. My 

 brother, who was on duty, opened up the 

 vents three inches or more, and the 

 house in question stood as firm as an 

 oak. Let us hear from others. 



Theo. Ewoldt. 



^^"^^-^^^ 



f¥ 



NEW YORK FLORISTS' 



¥i 



^ CLUB'S ANNUAL DINNER ^ 



SEVEN THIRTY SHARP. 



Amid surroundings of exceptional 

 brilliancy and with an attendance that 

 included many of the most widely 

 known men in the trade the country 

 over, the New York Florists' Club sat 

 down to its twenty-sixth annual dinner 

 April 10. Not only was the scene one 

 of exceptional brilliance and animation, 

 but the dinner also was the largest ever 

 held by any florists' organization in 

 America. There were 600 present. The 

 National Flower Show was, of course, 

 responsible for the unusual number of 

 guests, the dinner being the principal 

 feature of the entertainment offered the 



flower show visitors. There were nearly 

 as many ladies as gentlemen and thoir 

 presence was one of the most pleasant 

 features of an occasion that was graced 

 by the attendance of the flower of the 

 flower trade. 



The Hotel Astor was selected, not 

 for the similarity in sound to the nam* 

 of one of our principal summer flowers, 

 but because the hotel is in itself an en 

 tertainment, one of New York's show 

 places, sometimes referred to as one of 

 the brightest of the glowing lobster 

 palaces, with facilities unexcelled for 

 handling so large an affair. 



The cards said "seven thirty sharp' 



