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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



night and nearly all day Sunday. The 

 finest Easter they ever had. Their new 

 rose, Ivory, went like hot cakes. 



J. E. Freeman hit it riglit with every- 

 thing but lilies. Plants of all kinds, 

 and fine ones at tliat, all went and at 

 good prices. 



Z. 1). Blackistone's was a massive bow- 

 er of plants, and well arranged, too, but 

 the next day it looked as if a cyclone had 

 passed through his store. ''Did fine," 

 he says. 



George Shaefer had a handsome effect 

 in made-up plants and did a much great- 

 er business than he expected. 



O. A. C. Oehniler did a fine business. 

 Two days after Easter fire broke out in 

 his place of business and completely 

 burned him out. He has been in busi- 

 nes only a short time and has the sym- 

 pathy of the craft. Fortunately he was 

 insured for enough to completely cover 

 his loss. 



Elmer Mayberry, of F. W. Bolgiano's, 

 says: "We had to close up early Sun- 

 day — completely sold out. Did the best 

 we ever did." 



W. E. Lacy, of the Grant Flower Store 

 did finely; sold out everything. 



The display of J. H. Small & Sons was 

 something rich in the way of fancy 

 made-up plants. From the general ap- 

 pearance the next day they did a great 

 business. 



J. L. Loose says: "We were prepared 

 for the rush and got it. Yes, sir; we 

 had plenty of everything and every- 

 thing went." 



Business since Easter has been fairly 



good. Lilies are a great glut. Too 



many; they will not sell; can't give 



them away. Daffodils are the same way. 



F. H. Kramer. 



A bright dry April would be a great 

 blessing to the progress of work on the 

 grounds, and that, of course, is of more 

 consequence than all the agricultural 

 pnd horticultural industries of this broad 

 land — or we think so. The shrubs and 

 herbaceous plairts, with few exceptions, 

 have come through the winter in good 

 shape and the grass seeded last year is 

 perfect and slowly assuming the welcome 

 tints which gladden the eye. The thou- 

 sands of hyacinths, tulips and narcissus 

 are showing well above the ground, and 

 these in the exhibit department are 

 bound to make the music garden a bril- 

 liant expanse of color during the month 

 of May. The long borders on each side 

 of the Grand Basin, containing a quarter 

 of ii million bulbs, are also showing up 

 finelv. 



BUFFALO. 



The past week we have had most 

 charming weather and hyacinth and tulip 

 beds would take a shower. 



From fuller reports of Easter it appears 

 that everyone did a larger business than 

 last. That was to be expected here be- 

 cause we have many more people in the 

 city than there was a year ago and every- 

 body is feeling better oft". How much 

 the increase was I can't say, but I should 

 think at least 20 per cent. I notice quite 

 a few bougain^■illeas left over — nice flow- 

 ered plants. People are not quite edu- 

 cated up to it yet. We found that out 

 two or three years ago. And there were 

 also all the Ramblers in town that were 

 necessary. 



Take it all together stuff was well 

 cleaned up. There was umI -u.Ii :i •^K-.d 

 demand for roses. Violri :,,, il,, i,i\.. 

 rites. I was told that -- \ Ninhi-Mii 

 sold 20,000, and suppci^ii.;: ih.il Mr. S. 

 took a long breath wlu-n he made tlie 

 statement, and that 10 per cent was 

 added by the one who told it to me, it 

 was yet a large quantity. 



Henry A. Dreer has Mr. Parsons on 

 the ground fixing up his exhibit in the 

 conservatory at the Pan-American, and 

 Mr. Julius Hcinrich is looking after the 

 interests of Peter Henderson & Co., and 

 converting an expanse of clay into a 

 small paradise. 



Mr. Benj. Slug Shot Hammond was 

 here and others, but my time is up. 



Pan-American Progress. 



April in Buffalo, althoufjh it cannot 

 be called a cold month, is very uncertain, 

 and unfortunately this Apiil has been so 

 far a typical one and a little more so. 



beds 



tain-, uith tin' KIr.iiir T.iwir lilliii^ the 

 view to the north with the exquisitely 

 tinted Music, Ethnology, Liberal Arts 

 and Machinery Buildings to your right 

 and left, the grand group of government 

 buildings rounding off the eastern view 

 and the horticultural group the western, 

 it will be a scene, a dream, never before 

 equaled. The ^i.|u;ili, l.;i-iiis in the Court 

 of Fountain- iii inmi ^i the Machinery, 

 and the Ccnn i mI ( \|ii,-s in front of 

 the Liberal Ai i - lliiiMiii'.;. are about com- 

 plete. The one destined for the Victoria 

 will be carefully and thoroughly heated. 

 The exotic nymphaeas also for this basin 

 are being grown in the conservatories, 

 and are already splendid plants and 

 growing at a prodigious rate. Marry ex- 

 Jiibits of conifers and shrubs will be 

 here the moment the ground is sufficient- 

 ly dry. 



The landscape department is still 

 propagating with all possible speed and 

 'many hundreds of sash are now covering 

 hot beds that contain hundreds of thou- 

 sands of bedding plants to be used in 

 the courts, at the lia«p nf many of the 

 buildings, in fmnl ni the Pergolas and 

 in every avail;ililc -|i..i where color of 

 flower aritl fulta-r .an liuiher embellish. 

 As I have often had occasion to mention, 

 this is no White City, and the charm and 

 delight of the coloring of the buildings 

 is beyond my descriptive powers. Am- 

 herst street, the only paved street that 

 crossed the acquired ground, would be no 

 longer recognized by the oldest inhab- 

 itant. On each side of it magnificent 

 palaces; crossed by canals: in long 

 stretches, planked and paved ten feet 

 above its old level: bordered by tall Lom- 

 liarily pnplars. and where the old street 

 i- -till lift at its original grade, cov- 

 ■ ;.'i Willi a foot of soil which will be a 

 lio|ji,,il jaiflen profusely dotted with 



Wiiliin- :i h'A <la\-s the fence dividing 

 the ar,|iiiir.| Li-nnd from Delaware Park 

 has hern mil i\,,|. Buffalo people knew 

 the effect of tliis. but the stranger whose 

 attention was not drawn to it would havr- 

 no idea of the enhancement to the whole 

 Exposition, Here are l.'iO acres of a 

 true park whose landscape features are 

 unsurpassed. Although electric foun- 

 tains, electric launches and innumerable 

 lights throughout the grounds will make 

 it a fairy scene on sunvmer evenings, 

 great and beautiful as is the whole de- 

 sign of the Pan-.\nierican. the transition 

 from the artificial to the natural as 

 you enter the park is delightful and a 

 feature that no previous exposition has 

 had the good fortune to possess. 



The schedule of the classes for the se- 



ries of flower shows which will be held 

 throughout the sunnuer is being issued in 

 very tasty pamphlet form, and all those 

 who are interested in these exhibitions 

 who do not receive a copy will be gladly 

 furnished the same by forwarding their 

 request to me at the Horticulture Build- 

 ing, Pan-American Exposition grounds. 

 William Scott. 



PITTSBURG. 



Cltib Meeting. 



On Thursday, the 11th inst., the Pitts- 

 burg and Allegheny Florists' and Gard- 

 eners' Club held its regular monthly 

 meeting at the rooms of the Pittsburg 

 Cut Flower Co., 504 Liberty street 

 There was a good attendance and a 

 spirited meeting. There- are seventy 

 eight members in good standing. 

 Hyacinths. 



There was an exhibition of hyacinths 

 from Schenley Park and of new carna- 

 tions from Mr. C. W. Ward, of Queens, 

 L. I. The hyacinths were representatives 

 of a large collection donated by Henry A. 

 Dreer, of Philadelphia, to the park last 

 fall. The best yellow was Ida. La Gran- 

 desse was voted the finest white, and 

 L'Innocence and Queen Victoria found 

 much favor. Alba Superbissima while a 

 good white was disapproved because of 

 its tendency to green tips. Baroness Van 

 Thuyll, a long time standby white, was 

 repudiated because of its tendency to 

 "spit" its flower spikes, and Madame 

 Vander Hoop isn't innocent in this line. 

 King of the Blues was the deepest and 

 finest of its color, and it makes big 

 spikes. Charles Dickens came next and 

 is easy to grow. Grand Lilas and Queen 

 of the Blues gave most pleasure among 

 the paler blues. 



General Pelisseur was the finest of the 

 deep reds, but it doesn't hold its color 

 long. Lord McCauley and Gertrude were 

 fine among the deep pinks, and Charles 

 Dickens 'the biggest and heaviest among 

 the pinks; Gigantea, a full flower and 

 lovely pink, was much esteemed, and be- 

 cause of their pretty pink sliades some 

 leaned heavily to Fabiola and Norma, 

 but these were deficient in size. The 

 he>t of the doubles were Grootvoorst. 

 ,,1,,; ,1,1 I.,, 'I', ,111 ilWiivergne, white, but 



I ,,i ,,, , ',, I'lii-lmrg florists are 

 >,,,iiiiij .,1, l,\ ,,, iiilh-. They claim there 

 isn't enongli money in them. They get 

 only $1 to°$1.25 adozen for nice plants 

 in "four-inch pots in bloom, and after 

 paying for bulbs, pots, etc., there is so 

 little profit* in the venture that sev- 

 eral ozpressed themselves emphatically 

 againat growing them again. They make 

 niore money from other flowers. 



Carnations. 



lican for once and wore Teddy in the 

 lapel of his coat, even John Bader, a 

 pronounced Democrat, declared the car- 

 nation was all right anyway and asked 

 for another bloom, iMr, Reineman be- 

 lieves it is the best crimson in the mar- 

 ket, Gus Ludwig said the color is used 

 verv little in Pittsburg because there is 

 never enough of it at one time in the 

 market for a full decoration. Mr. Blind 

 spoke well of it. as he saw it grown in 

 the east. But llarrv Fenn captured the 



