FEBRUARY 16, 1S99. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



295 



KROESCHELL BROS. CO. 



Chicago. March 12. is9ti. 

 Messrs. Kroeschell Bros. Co., 

 Chicago, 111. 

 Dear Sirs :— The boiler we received 

 from you has given perfect satisfac- 

 tion, and think we save about 25 per 

 cent, of coal, comparing it to fire box 

 boiler that was doing the work before. 

 Respectfully, 



Geo. Wittbold, 



Per L. \V. 



Chicago. Nov. 4, 1896. 

 Mr. Chas. Kroeschell. 



Dear Sir: — Hurrah for McKinley, 

 sound money and sound boilers ! The 

 boiler I got from you is excellent. I 

 think I could not get a better one in 

 the United States. 



Yours truly, 



John Fuhrmaxn. 

 1647-1653 North Clark St. 



Asheville. March 20. ISilH. 

 Kroeschell Bros. Co., 



Chicago. 111. 

 Gentlemen:— In reply to yours of 

 the 11th: So far we are perfectly sat- 

 isfied with the boiler bought from you 

 last summer. We are only heating 

 about one-half the space that you say 

 it will, so we have not given it a very 

 severe test, but it has saved us at 

 least 15 per cent of fuel over last win- 

 ter. Our foreman says that the sav- 

 ing is nearer 20 per cent than 15, and 

 he thinks that the saving will be even 

 greater when the boiler is properly 

 loaded. Yours very truly, 



Idlewild Flor.alCo., 

 324 Charlotte St. Asheville. N. C. 



Send for Catalogue. 



Improved Greenhouse 



Boiler. 



29 to 59 Erie St. 



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Notes. 



Flowers have been in good supply; 

 bright (lays have accompanied the cold 

 spell and those conditions are very 

 favorable to the production of flowers; 

 but frosted windows and frosted ears 

 and noses are not conducive to brisk 

 sales, and the bulk of the business has 

 been "for the last sad rites." 



I paid a short visit to Mr. John C. 

 Pickleman, of French street, last week. 

 John's stock looks well all around, 

 chief of which is an immense lot of 

 lilies for Easter, both Bermuda Har- 

 risii and longiflorum. Mr. Pickleman 

 is convinced in his own mind that 

 shifting a lily from a 4-inch to a 6- 

 inch when a few inches high retards 

 its flowering time by two or three 

 weeks. His theory is that it starts the 

 plant into more vigorous growth, and 

 maturity or flowering period is thus 

 delayed. I have not noticed this, but it 

 is well worth close observation for 

 even two weeks on a longiflorum is of 

 great importance when Easter is on 

 Anril 2. 



There have been few visitors and no 

 drummers for the past two weeks, so 

 Mr. George Watson, of Philadelphia, 

 will please notice that I am deprived 

 of my stock-in-trade joke. 



Mr. G. L. Grant, publisher and edit- 

 or of the Florists' Review, passed 

 through town on Monday, lingering a 

 few hours with the craft. He was, of 

 course, on his road to Broad street, 

 Pennville. 



Mr. Fred Stokes, late of Buffalo, now 

 of Pittsburg, where he represents Mr, 

 W. F. Kastlng in the commission busi- 

 ness in that hustling metropolitan-like 

 city, paid his old friends a visit a few 

 days ago. He looks and talks and acts 

 like a man whose business prospects 

 are on the rise. To quote him. he 

 says: "Buffalo is a beautiful city, but 

 Pittsburg is the town for business; it 

 makes me think of London." Then he 

 says: "The first few weeks in Pitts- 

 burg is like a dog in a bowling alley, 

 lonesome and of little use; but now 

 friends and business are increasing 

 every day." If he conducts his busi- 

 ness as Mr. Kasting does here, the 

 Pittsburg branch is assured of success. 



Bowling. 



In spite of the weather there was a 

 large attendance at the bowling alleys 

 on Friday last. I think we have the 

 best appointed alleys to practice on in 

 the country. There are easy chairs to 

 recline in (a hundred of them), the 

 walls are hung with paintings of the 

 old masters (bowling masters I mean), 

 sliding doors to prevent intrusion from 

 the vulgar public, and our able presi- 

 dent has introduced an excellent law — 

 there can be no treatins, but if one 

 feels that they, as Mrs. Gamp would 

 say "must have a drop of that 'air 

 nutriment which water requires," they 

 must take a solitary walk through the 

 folding doors, and if more than once 

 during the evening, the captain has to 

 slide open the door and bawl out, 



"Come, McClure; it's your turn," that 

 man has to pay a double week's dues. 



Our sporting correspondent will give 

 you a full account of the wonderful ( ?) 

 .scores. W. S. 



PITTSBURG. 



The blizzard played ha-voc with bus- 

 iness the past week. The city was at 

 the mercy of the cold weather and 

 sales fell as low as the temperature. 

 Figuratively as well as literally speak- 

 ing, this was *hfi greatest frost ve 

 ever experienced. Shipments from ail 

 points were delayi'('. and all were to 

 some extent injured Vy the severe cold. 

 Friday, the 10th, was the coldest day 

 recorded. 



Reports from various points around 

 Pittsburg show the temperature to 

 have dropped as low as 22 and 24 de- 

 grees. Mr. Theo. F. Beckert. of Glen- 

 side, reported 28 below. 



Dunlevy & Sons report the loss of a 

 portion of their violets. Chas. Koenig 

 had a load of decorative palms frozen. 

 Mrs. E. A. Williams also had some 

 decorative plants frozen. L. I. Neff's 

 Penn avenue store was damaged to the 

 extent of $300 by fire, caused by a de- 

 fective flue; loss fully covered by in- 

 surance. T. P. LANGHAJSIS. 



RATON. COLO. — James Bowdrey has 

 secured the greenhouses here and will 

 continue the business. 



