JANUARY 26, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



207 



fire claim for the Florists' Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Association, of which he 

 is treasurer. 



Bowling. 



Eight members rolled four games on 

 Monday night. Mr. C. A. Kuehn sur- 

 prised everybody by malting a mag- 

 nificent game of 211, also did Mr. Fin- 

 layson. by rolling the poorest game 

 since he became a member. Mr. Weber 

 also has the name of being a great 

 finisher. The scores were as follows: 



Tot, Av. 



C. A. Kuehn 2U 162 149 134 666 164 



D. Finlayson 115 158 165 ITS 616 154 



C. B«yer 124 130 1S9 173 616 154 



J. J. Beneke 149 157 158 127 691 148 



J. W. Kunz 122 136 173 157 588 147 



F. C. Weber 101 125 162 178 666 141V4 



C. C. Sanders 122 150 151 137 560 140 



F. J. FiUmore 125 161 117 135 638 134^4 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



It is pleasant to relate that business 

 has been rather good, but largely from 

 one cause. It is either "Poor Mr. 

 Longevity has got the grip and I want 

 to send him a few flowers," or else 

 "Poor Mr. Kutoff is gone, what can I 

 send?" It is our business, however 

 sad, and we must cater to it. Besides 

 that, there is fair demand all around, 

 and it is a long time since I remember 

 flowers being so well cleaned up evei-y 

 day. Carnations have been without 

 doubt the scarcest article, and, of 

 course, what you don't have is in most 

 demand; that is Scarlet. Grand roses 

 come into town from many sources. 

 "George of Wilkesbarre. ye know," and 

 Mr. Guenther of Hamburg are quite 

 "in it." 



Like our large cities, our rural com- 

 munity of florists are complaining of 

 the great tumble in violets. There 

 must be more people wise in the way 

 of growing violets. I did not mean 

 that for a pun — quite unpremeditated 

 — but, strange to say, it is Wise Bros, 

 of East Aurora that are producing the 

 genus of Viola odorata. The old silver 

 dollar mark is long since passed and 

 the last one I measured from the 

 greenhouses of Henry was as large as 

 a piece of chalk. 



Plant trade is quiet now, as is pro- 

 per and expected, and the seeming 

 resting mcments of the florist are oc- 

 cupied in ( alculating just how his 

 crops of azaleas, lilies, etc., look for 

 Easter. 



We have had a few visitors this 

 week. Among others, that brilliant 

 man from Chicago, Mr. Ringier, who, 

 I regret to say, after two days' hard 

 work, was prostrated with the grip 

 and had to hibernate a few days in one 

 of our good hotels to recuperate. I 

 trust by this time he is on his road 

 In new pastures and doing business in 

 his own pleasant and original style. 

 Mr. Hutchinson, formerly of the 

 antipodes, but now of New York, and 

 in the interest of Mr. Rhotert, also 

 called, and in his progressive and ag- 

 gressive way passed along. Yes, yes, I 

 had almost forgotten Mr. Lockland 

 Giesy (not Lockjaw Geisy, by any 



means), of Cincinnati. There are no 

 rats dozing in your cellar nor sleepy 

 boys behind your counter "when Giesy 

 comes to bat." A bundle of nerves and 

 vocal power is Giesy, and not a "knot" 

 in a carload of him. Then there was 

 Mr. Henry A. Siebrecht, Jr., of New 

 Rochelle, whose well groomed appear- 

 ance and metropolitan air makes you 

 regret that fortune cast your lot in 

 rural precincts. He called on the Sab- 

 bath, so we could not do any business, 

 but greatly enjoyed a social chat. 



There is weeping and pulling of hair 

 among some of us when we read of 

 the different bowling clubs and scores 

 in many cities and we have not yet 

 organized. I really think our boys 

 must be too intellectual or love vaude- 

 ville too much to give way to such a 

 wooden game. Something is th« mat- 

 ter. However, a meeting of twenty of 

 the most able-bodied takes place this 

 week to select an alley and begin prac- 

 tice, and then you shall have a score 

 occasionally, but not every week. We 

 don't believe in too much bowling 

 scores in a horticultural journal — bet- 

 ter hear oftener how to kill Obnox- 

 ious bacillus. If we don't have time 

 to play much ten pins, there is one 

 great comfort — an old Buffalo boy 

 heads the list of the Chicago scores, 

 and if George Asmus can top the 

 scores of Illinois, what a cinch we 

 have with at least one city. W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Market conditions remain much the 

 same as last week. The supply has 

 probably increased some, but demand 

 has more than kept paci with ii. 

 Everything is in lively demand ex- 

 cept some grades of re'd carnations, 

 and violets are not so active as to be 

 desired. The heavy call for white 

 flowers continues. Demand has re- 

 mained steady, too, without any of 

 the aggravating irregularity noted at 

 one time. Prices are a little stiffer on 

 most everything. 



Many of the large growers seem to 

 be off crop and the scarcity of all 

 roses, especially white ones, is very 

 marked. 



Chicago buyers don't seem to prop- 

 erly appreciate the Princess of Wales 

 violet. Kennicott Bros. Co. had some 

 superb ones Tuesday from a Cincin- 

 nati grower, but though they are said 

 to retail at $5 per hundred there, they 

 failed to find a purchaser at a decent 

 price here. 



A lot of superb Bridesmaids were 

 noted at Amlings on Tuesday. The 

 hundred blooms in that pot would be 

 hard to beat, and all were on fine long 

 stems, the longest being 42 inches in 

 length. They were bought by C. A. 

 Samuelson. 



Tulips are in, but they go slowly, 

 especially the red ones. 



Bassett & Washburn report a short- 

 age of Harrisii, as well as of all roses. 



E. H. Hunt received the first sweet 

 peas of the season on Monday. They 

 were Blanche Ferry and had 12-inch 

 stems. The grower has a big crop 

 coming on. 



Club Meeting. 



At the last meeting of the Florists' 

 Club there was a large attendance and 

 an excellent display of flowers was 

 made. 



A leading attraction was the new 

 carnation Pink Beauty, of which Mr. 

 Jacob Rusler had on display a vase 

 of magnificent blooms and a splenuid 

 plant. It is a seedling from Day- 

 break and Tidal Wave. The flowers 

 are of very large size and remarkably 

 full, color lighter than Scott, fra- 

 grant, and excellent stem and calyx. 

 It was awarded the club's certiflcate 

 of merit. 



Mr. Rusler also displayed a buncn 

 of La France violets. He is much 

 pleased with this violet, the flowers 

 of which are as large or larger than 

 those of Princess of Wales, and he 

 finds that it blooms even freer thau 

 California, with the added value of 

 a fine strong stem. 



Mr. F. Hills displayed a vase ot 

 finely grown Argyle carnations and 

 some excellent mignonette, for which 

 he was given honorable mention. 



A vase of the new carnation Evans- 

 ton was also on exhiuuion. Alto- 

 gether it was quite a young flower 

 show. 



Mr. T. C. Joy, of Nashville, Tenn., 

 was a visitor. He had called at Rich- 

 mond and Lafayette and told of the 

 new carnations he had seen at Hill's 

 and Dorner's. He was very favor- 

 ably impressed with a majority of the 

 new ones, and especially with Ameri- 

 ca and G. H. Crane. 



Mr. William Wallace told about the 

 seedlings being grown by F. Calvert & 

 Son at Lake Forest, one of which is 

 an absolutely pure yellow, without a 

 speck of any other color. In his own 

 experience he had found tha;. a satis- 

 factory constitution was most apt to 

 be secured by crossing a single flow- 

 ered plant with pollen from a double- 

 flowered one. He had found tobacco 

 ashes (from the fumigator) an excel- 

 lent fertilizer for carnations, and be- 

 lieved it added materially to strength 

 of stem. 



Mr. Sanders spoke of the remarkable 

 free blooming qualities of Evelina and 

 Evanston, as lately noted by him. 



Various Items. 



Archie Spencer is studying up on 

 the subject of a higher education for 

 young ladies. The young lady in 

 which he is especially interested ar- 

 rived on January 18, and will call 

 him "papa" when the education has 

 progressed sufl^ciently. 



Ernst Asmus, West Hoboken, N J 

 and Paul Dailledouze, Flatbush N Y ' 

 were in the city last week and 'visited 

 the establishments of leading growers 



