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FEBRUARY 2. 1S99. 



Cattleya citrina x Cattleya Trianae. 



And tuere are other crosses of which 

 I failed to make note. It may take 

 seven or eight years for the offspring 

 of these crosses to flower, but surely 

 they will be watched with great inter- 

 est, for strange hybrids must come 

 from two such distinct genera as On- 

 cidium and Coelogyne. All the orchids 

 look flourishing and at home, and they 

 are under the enthusiastic care of the 

 veteran. Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald. 



Another very interesting collection 

 is some 1,200 young seedling dra- 

 caenas. They are yet too small to 

 show distinct character, but there will 

 be a great variety it is already evi- 

 dent. D. nova Caledonica is the pollen 

 parent of all and it is crossed on 

 ■splendens. Bella, Cowellii and a few 

 other of the best varieties. From this 

 collection there is bound to be many a 

 variety of great merit. The houses are 

 looking fine and either to the commer- 

 cial florist or the botanical student are 

 highly interesting. WM. SCOTT. 



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BUFFALO. 



Trade Review. 



Some spells of very fine weather, 

 changing suddenly to bitter winter, is 

 the order of things, and what a dif- 

 ference it makes to business. On fine, 

 warm days we find violets go well, but 

 when your front windows are frescoed 

 with frost, they waste their sweetness 

 on the store clerks. The tulips and 

 dafSes that are seen, although in some 

 cases fairly good, are not up to former 

 years, and we believe, as this is the 

 experience with all the growers, that 

 the quality of the bulbs was much in- 

 ferior to other years. 



The Thrall Company store, on Main 

 street, depend largely on orchids and 

 valley for their window decoration, 

 and very neat and chaste it is. 



Jerry Brookens. of Orchard Park, our 

 old reliable fern man, Is bringing in a 

 very tine grade of carnations. His 

 Daybreak are about up to Lancaster 

 (N. Y.) form. 



I have before now noticed that scar- 

 let carnations are the scarcest this 

 year, and if it were not for Webb's 

 new scarlet Dorothy Sweet, we would 

 be much worse off. I think it is safe 



to say that since the middle of De- 

 cember there has been a steady demand 

 for the few orchids that are offered 

 here. There is no such thing as any 

 going to waste. Their beauty is bet- 

 ter appreciated than formerly, and 

 with the knowledge of their long last- 

 ing qualities, a fairl.v moderate price 

 compared with other flowers in win- 

 ter. I look for a steady increase in the 

 demand. Flowers of all kinds keep 

 well cleaned up and you cannot say 

 anything better for business than that. 



Club Affairs. 



There was a meeting of the club 

 and P. "Longlegs" Scott was made a 

 committee of one to get the bowlers 

 together on some alley this week. 

 There is likely to be two divisions, not 

 because we do not all affiliate, but the 

 older members would like to bowl once 

 a week in the afternoon and the 

 younger men can best get away after 

 work hours. We have over 300 alleys 

 in this bowled-up town and yet the 

 florists as bowlers are getting to be a 

 ragged lot. We sincerely trust mat 

 P. L. S. will attend to the duty which 

 he accepted. 



The most important business of the 

 club was the endorsement of the Pan- 

 American Exposition, which is to 

 take place in 1901. Many a time we 

 trust your correspondent will have oc- 

 casion to speak of this great under- 

 taking, and for the present I will be 

 brief. The lovely city at the western 

 end of Lake Erie is also clamorous to 

 the National Government for recogni- 

 tion to help along their proposed big 

 fair of 1901. It appears that 200 years 

 ago. about 1701. a white man partook 

 of the hospitality of the red man near 

 the city of the straits and called it 

 the founding of the city of Detroit, 

 and the laudable people think it a 

 just cause and opportune time to hold 

 a sort of small World's Fair. Our 

 Pan - American was spoken of two 

 years ago, but the breaking out of the 

 war was good cause for its temporary 

 abandonment. Now it has revived, 

 with fervor unequaled, and there are 

 the most conservative reasons to be- 

 lieve that in or very near to our city 

 line in 1901 Buffalo will hold the Pan- 

 American Exposition, which will be 

 little short, either in attractions, ex- 

 hibits or attendance, of Chicago's 

 World's Fair. In six days our citizens 

 subscribed one million dollars, and by 

 the time your readers see these large 

 figures there will be $2,500,000 pledged 

 to support this worthy enterprise. 



Mr. McKinley stuck a flag into the 

 proposed site in August, 1897, and 

 although the site is likely to be nearer 

 the city than that first chosen, yet our 

 "great father" in Washington is bound 

 to help us. But you will be tired of 

 so much prospective, yet you would 

 not blame me if you knew how for 

 the past week we lived and breathed 

 in the enthusiasm which already ema- 

 nates from the Pan-American. So in 

 1901 all roads will not lead to Rome. 

 but from the Straits of Magellan and 

 the most northern settlers in Canada, 

 and all intervening republics and isl- 



ands of the western hemisphere, all 

 roads will lead to Buffalo. 



Visitors. 



We have had our snare of visitors. 

 Among them Mr. Elliott, the seeds- 

 man of New York; both paper box 

 men, Mr. Boas and Mr. Beatus. and 

 Mr. McCarthy Greenlaw, of Boston. 



W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



White flowers still lead in demand, 

 and in fact there is a shortage of 

 everything except violets and colored 

 bulb stuff. In roses Brides are espe- 

 cially scarce and the only items of 

 which there is enough are Meteors, 

 and the poorer grades of Beauties. 



Violets have suttered badly during 

 the cold snap, there being but little 

 if any sale for them. Large lots of 

 violets were left over last week on ac- 

 count of the cold weather. Sales drop 

 off sharply when it becomes too cold 

 for the ladies to wear violets on the 

 street. 



Harrisii lilies are very scarce. The 

 crops didn't come on well and the 

 heavy call for white flowers made the 

 demand brisk. 



Kennicott Bros. & Co. are beginning 

 to receive the cut of the Novelty tulip 

 and will handle an unusually large 

 quantity this season. 



Bassett & Washburn report their 

 January business as fully double that 

 of January last year. During the cold 

 snap they burned about 75 tons of 

 coal a day. 



Various Items. 



McKellar & Winterson succeed the 

 firm of Vaughan, McKellar & Winter- 

 son, the two first named having pur- 

 chased the interest of Mr. A. L. 

 Vaughan, who retires. McKellar & 

 Winterson assume all the assets and 

 liabilities of the old firm and the busi- 

 ness will be continued without any in- 

 terruption. 



The wholesalers at 88 Wabash ave- 

 nue will all have to move by May 1, 

 as the building is to be remodeled. 

 Kennicott Bros. Co. have taken a three 

 years' lease of the large basement at 

 42 and 44 Randolph street, where they 

 will have several times as much room 

 as at present and an ideal place for 

 the keeping and handling of cut flow- 

 ers. Bassett & Washburn and A. G. 

 Prince &. Co. have not yet selected new 

 locations. 



Three cold waves in succession, and 

 with the thermometer ranging down 

 to 18 degrees below zero at times, have 

 made sad inroads into the coal piles 

 of the growers, and a number of acci- 

 dents are reported. We hear that Hills 

 & Jakobsen, at Maywood, lost two 

 houses of mignoMette and one of Ar- 

 gyle carnations through an accident 

 to their heating apparatus, that H. 

 Schiller had the older part of his glass 

 at Niles Center frozen, and that Mag- 



