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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_50_2 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Ski'TEMBkk 7, ltt2'J The Florists^ Review 27 Z. D. Blackistone, chairman; William F. Gude, Otto Bauer, Albert Schnell, A. E. Gude, George C. Shaffer, J. Harry Ley, Henry Witt and Arthur Elliott. Further information will hu published, to keep the public advised on all nccos- sarv details. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. lia.l. nnd The Market. Stock is in ample suj)ply and the demand has boon fairly i> to $:( pcf hunilrcd. Some good asters, in lar^c (;iiant itics. are to be had; poorer stock is all tun plentiful. The prices range from $1 In $■"), according to quality. The gladiolus market is tightening uj), and the blooms bring from $4 to $(>. liilies are scarce in all \arieii(s bring .$20 per hundred. A better sui)ply of dahlias is to bi T)el)))iiniums, V)uddl(>ia, gaillardias other garden flowers are availalije. Various Notes. The Indiana states fair, whicli is beiiiL; held this week, shows jirosjtects ot' an unusuallv large and attractivi' floral dis play. The I'ahud Floral Co. has rei'.n tered the rac(^ this year after an ab sence of several years, fleorge II. Rlackman is judge and A. I". r>anr is assistant to S. W. Taylor, the depart meat director. Irwin Berterinann lias Just retiniieil from a trip through Colorado, maile after the S. A. F. convention. Mr. and Mrs. Leu Elder have just returned from Junction City, where they went to attend the funeral of Mi. Elder's uncle. M. Br.andlein has roinph'ted the re biiihliiig of his place. The houses .'ii flowers in the ganleiis. Asters and gladioli are plentiful now :ind r\v cheap. Fred P. Wolfinger reports th;il funeral work forms the bulk of traile just now, Mild that there is not so much of this ,•!> there often is. The inanageinent of the Greater New.Ilk dahlia and tlower show, whiih will be hel.l Sejitember Fl to )i\, pl;in- to iii.ake this the big;^est e\ rut ot' it- kind in the history of New .ler^ey. It will bi' the first annual show of its kiihl :ind will be held on the ni;iiii floor of the <;i(d.e Indemnity building, in W:ishing ton (ilace. About two-thirds of the ex- hibits will be provided by dahlia .-ind "ther flower growers in all iiarts of the
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CLEMENS C. POLLWORTH. FEW men ,it 1'I \e;iis of .ige .lie at the head of a leailing luisiness. Fewer men .at that age have founded a successtiil enterjirise. ^'et ('. ('. Follworth, of Milwaukee, .at his majority w;is herabled by :i leading Milwaukee newspajier .is the iiro;iiietor of the largest rose growing est.ablishment in Wisconsin. In that same year Mr. I'ollwortli was idected \ice juesident of the S. A. F. ;in<l was pri'si dent of the .Milwaukee Florists' Club. With so brilli.ant a start, Mr. I'ollworth has jiever slackened his ii.-ice; he h.is kept "coming and he has ludd m.any impor- tant posts in trade oig;ini/.;it ions, as well as in local business and f r;iterii;i! circles. 'J'oday his wholesale sujiply house in Milw.aiikee ;ind his large greenhouse establish- iiieiit on its outskirts are known throughout the coiintiy. More recently, Mr. roll- worth has been ,i director of tlire(l acc-ept aiice of sicoiid jil.ace and his jnomise of earnest support to his Mii-cesstiil contestant. The .ad in i r.able spirit of sport sin.anshi ;i he dis)ilayed inadi- many lem.-irk. with a ii t ici p;it oi y intent, that •'anolhei vear is i-oiiiiii". ' stall. I here will .also lie exhibits froin New ^'o;■k. I'eiinsyh ani.a, .Maryland. Mass.K hiisetts and Connecticut. The displ.ay will occu;iy about 2li,niiO sipiarc' t'eet of lloor space, subdivided into two l.iige h.alls. High ceilings, larue .aicln.! windows .-iiid natural light will in.akr ide.al conditions for a floral exhibition. Two hundred men and women of New .irk and vicinity will s;ioiisor the Greater Newark d.-ihlia and tlower show. The nllicers of the organization whicdi is pl.inning the show are as fidlows: I'lcsi dent, Charles A. Gould; treasurer, Fred .1. Hodson; assistant treasurer. Harold F. S.aclis; secret.ary and managing director. Fred S.achs; vice-iiresidents, Louis V. .\ronson, ('(doiiel Lewis B. liallant vne. William Bittles, M.ayor Br(diii;iosed of men :iiid another coiiiposeil of women. .\inong the iiieinb(>rship of these commit tees will be included many of the most proiniiient tlower growers in \(nv .Jersey. The exhibitors will iiodude commercial ■^lowirs, .am.ateiirs, g.arden clubs and pri- N.ate g.ardeners. D.ahlia. ros(>, gladiolus, eosinos and aster growers will be repre- sented. The juilgiiig of exhibits will t.ake place at noon, Sejiteinber l.'(. No one but the judges and the necessary ofTl- •ers will be alhwcfi in the exhibition

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