MARCH 16, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



379 



(March 17.) Admission will be free 

 to florists and their friends. Tickets 

 may be had of any club member. A 

 most attractive program has been ar- 

 ranged and an enjoyable evening is 

 assured. The farce-comedy, giving 

 views of a commission house in action 

 promises to be a gem. 



PROGRAM, 



Solo — "Because I Love You, Dear" 



Wm, J. Coxe 



Song — "Let Me Kiss Tour Tears Awa.v".. 



Miss Esther Isles 



Recitation Miss Kennicott 



Solo— "Ben Hur" Miss Root 



Skirt Dance Miss Nettle Paul 



Selection Club Quartette 



Solo Chas. Balluff 



Recitation C. Kohlbrancl 



Cake Walk Misses Annie and Nettie Paul 



Piano Solo Fred Hill 



Selection for Violin and Piano. ..Misses Grant 



Selection Club Quartette 



Piano Solo Maudle AVestman 



One Act Farce "Wind-up," Make it Live- 

 ly." Scenes in a Wholesale House. 



Reinberg Bros, will have a lot of pot 

 roses for Easter. 



A large force of carpenters is still 

 at work at E. H. Hunt's. Bassett & 

 Washburn and Prince & Co. expect to 

 move in shortly after Easter. 



McKellar & Winterson are offering 

 genuine peat imported from Germany, 

 for azaleas, ferns, etc. It is very dif- 

 ferent from what is gathered here and 

 called peat. 



Lloyd Vaughan has taken the west- 

 ern agency of Hagemann & Meyer, 

 Philadelphia, who represent some of 

 the largest bulb growers in the world. 



Mr, A. Lange had a vase of the 

 Mrs. Lawson carnation as a window 

 attraction this week. 



Bowling. 



Following are the scores and aver- 

 ages made in the medal games last 

 Friday evening; 



1st. 2d. 2d. 4th. Av. 



A. Henderson 147 132 157 133 142 



Geo. Asmus 143 162 136 113 138 



a. Stollery 138 147 127 ... 137 



■G. L. Grant 13S 144 140 129 136 



P. J. Hauswirth 123 141 14S 132 136 



<C. W. McKellar 145 130 120 145 135 



J. S. Wilson 136 131 136 ... 134 



E. F. Winterson 121 121 152 141 133 



F. Stollery 124 130 126 ... 126 



Jas. Hartshorne 124 100 137 ... 120 



W. Kreitling 100 135 117 



Jno. Degnan 12S 111 106 115 115 



The results of the medal games to 

 date are as follows: 



Points. Gaines. Av. 



Geo. Asnius 3,038 20 151 



John Zech 282 2 141 



J. S. Wilson 2,672 la 140 



G. Stollery ,' 1,511 11 137 



P. Stollery 1,463 11 133 



G. L. Gram 1,595 12 132 



P. J. Hauswirth 1,955 15 130 



E. F. Winterson 2,182 17 128 



C. W. McKellar 2,153 17 126 



C BalluB 1,010 S 126 



A. Henderson 2.504 20 125 



J. Hartshorne 1,349 11 122 



Jno. Degnan 912 S 114 



W. Kreitling 1.812 16 U3 



A. Lange 1,675 14 112 



H. C. Rowe 853 8 106 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Various Notes. 

 The Florists' Club held its regular 

 monthly meeting in the club room at 

 Horticultural Hall, Tuesday evening, 

 March 7th. W. P. Craig, President of 

 the American Society, read a paper 

 entitled "Latest Facts About Carna- 

 tions." 



Mr. Cook, representing J H. Sm-slt 

 & Sons, of Washington, was among 

 the visitors in town the past week. He 

 was in search of large palms as well 

 as flowering stuff for Easter. 



The retailers report trade as being 

 somewhat better the past week, with 

 lots of funeral work on hand. Also 

 some orders from the seaside resorts. 



There was little or no change in 

 market prices. Bulbous stock is very 

 plentiful in all lines except in Easter 

 lilies, which are mostly all sold or at 

 least the orders have been already 

 placed for them. Some of the large 

 growers report being sold out of aza- 

 leas also. 



Mr. "Walter Mott is the proud pos- 

 sessor of another young daughter. 

 However, Mr. Mott has not as yet been 

 able to welcome this little visitor as 

 he is off on an extended Easter tour. 



BUFFALO. 



Business Conditioos. 



This quiet Sabbath of March 12 has 

 been a soft, warm day like unto June, 

 but unlike it in the respect that be- 

 fore another revolution of our sphere 

 a Western blizzard will be upon us, 

 with its beautiful Montana attributes 

 of wind, snow and ice. 



Business is only so so, very con- 

 servative, and our worthy townsman, 

 Mr. D. B. Long, would be better able 

 to correctly report it in his abbre- 

 viated commercial style which would 

 read doubtless this way: "Prices firm; 

 a weakening of prices is scarcely 

 noticeable in any staple article and an 

 upward tendency along all lines is 

 characteristic of the week's opera- 

 tions." Whenever we are blessed with 

 fine days we notice a marked increase 

 in the transit trade. 



The buds that have survived this 

 terrible winter and in their little 

 selves contain the flower and fruit of 

 the future are not the only thing that 

 feel the warmer sun and' lengthened 

 days of spring. All nature, including 

 ourselves, is exhilarated when signs 

 of spring approach. The notes of the 

 first robin sitting on a nearby apple 

 tree which is usually heard here this 

 month (you generally hear it when 

 in bed when you ought to be up) or the 

 first chirp of a toad in some neighbor- 

 ing pond or stream, is sweeter music 

 than a Sousa march or Melba's song. 

 And this joyous, frisky, want-to-do- 

 something kind of a feeling pervades 

 all animated nature and in thousands 

 of cases it takes the laudable and vir- 

 tuous trend to go and buy a plant. 

 There will be lots of it this spring. 

 The terrible winter has frozen many 

 a plant that a good matron had 

 watched over for years, dividing her 

 heavenly care and patience between 

 the canary and her geraniums. 



I visited several of our friends 

 within a few days, including J. H. 

 Rebstock, W. Belsey, J. C. Pickleman, 

 Wm. Legg, Mrs. Newlands and Neu- 

 beck & Meyers. It is my impression 

 that not for many years have lilies 

 been so scarce. It is not alone that 



Easter is very early and the winter has 

 been a "corker," but the lilies we 

 have early enough are a yellow- 

 streaked, knock-kneed, Cuban-patriot 

 looking lot of things. The disease is 

 well spread and all are afflicted. In 

 other Easter stuff there will be plenty 

 for everybody. 



Notes. 



The Buffalo delegation returned 

 home from Detroit; no interview yet 

 with the Professor, but Mr. Billy 

 Kasting says he thinks it was a most 

 industrious meeting and the only evi- 

 dence to the contrary is that he also 

 reports that the Ananias Society held 

 two sessions. 



We were not a little startled re- 

 cently to see suddenly within a few 

 feet of us Mr. George Saltford, of 

 Poughkeepsie. He had been too many 

 days away from home to retain ihe 

 odor of violets, but an hour's caai; 

 about them and kindred subjects was 

 much enjoyed. 



The veteran Mr. John Breitmeyer, 

 of Mt. Clemens, gave us a short ti;ll. 

 We are glad to see one who has 

 worked so hard and done so much for 

 the business be in the happy position 

 of "taking it easy." 



The only visitor of late who strolled 

 as far as Cold Springs was Mr. Walter 

 Mott. Mr. Mott represents Henry A. 

 Dreer, Inc., of Philadelphia and Biv- 

 erton, N. J. Mr. M. has visited our 

 city before, when I am not certain, 

 but it was since the war and he prom- 

 ised to come again. 



I have to record with regret that on 

 Tuesday, March 7, Miss Eliza Denton, 

 of Fredonia suddenly died while sit- 

 ting in her easy chair. She had re- 

 ceived a severe injury some three 

 weeks previous by the fall of a lump 

 of ice from the roof of her greenhouse 

 shed, but was entirely recovering from 

 that. The papers said it was heart 

 failure; a heart that had beat for near 

 tJO years with justice, love, fidelity and 

 enthusiasm for all her fellow creatures. 

 Miss Denton was a unique and remark- 

 able little woman. In horticulture she 

 was an enthusiast. She loved flowers 

 and their cultivation if ever they were 

 loved; for their sweetness and their 

 character more than for what they 

 were worth in money. Besides her 

 greenhouse she cultivated several 

 acres of almost unequaled fertility 

 and on this raised seeds of many of 

 our most popular annuals. The "Ris- 

 ley Flat" smilax was one of her indus- 

 tries. She was a good, sweet little 

 woman and many others could be bet- 

 ter spared. W. S. 



QNCINNATL 



Club Meeting. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Cincinnati Florists' Society was held 

 last Saturday evening. The weather 

 being favorable there was quite a 

 number of the craft present. The vi- 

 siting brethren were Theo. Bock, 

 Hamilton, O., and E. G. Hill, Rich- 

 mond, Ind. The latter gave us an in- 



