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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



MARCH 23, 1S99. 



ihiiili ur are si'<'i'iihoins and fools in 

 Buffalol We are certainly not swind- 

 lers for we paid l)et'ore delivery. Does 

 this man of Boston imagine that we 

 think he retails snch Jlowers as he sent 

 us for $5.00 per dozen! It he does he 

 is in a dream. With due respect for 

 the patrons of a high class Boston 

 store, we don't believe they are fools 

 enough to pay the half of five dollars 

 for any such flowers as we received. 



We have the pleasure of knowing a 

 great many Boston floi-ists and have 

 great regard for their hospitality, 

 ■warm-heartedness and good will 

 to all the trade, to strangers 

 within their gates as well as 

 their daily associates. But with 

 gratitude to them all this piece of 

 hoggish effrontery and gall should be 

 exposed, and I trust, Mr. Editor, you 

 will send this to type just as I have 

 penned it. as you kindly d-o mosi, vt 

 my remarks. 



P. S. I have presented iho receinted 

 bill to the Buffalo Historical Society. 

 The remains of the flowers nave been 

 sent to the Zoological Society to deco- 

 rate the wolf's cage. 



WILLIAM SCOTr. 



THE FLORISTS' REVIEW 



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PHOENIX PUMILA. 



The Date palms include several 

 very handsome species, there being 

 probably about a dozen true species 

 and in addition to these a number of 

 varietal forms. 



The size of the different species also 

 varies greatly, the largest of all be- 

 ing probably the common date P. dac- 

 tylifera, which sometimes reaches a 

 height of 120 feet, while the subject of 

 our note, P. pumila, belongs to the 

 other extreme, and is said not to ex- 

 ceed three or four feet in height 'when 

 fully developed. 



This is by no means a common 

 palm as yet, and may be described in 

 a general ■way as a dwarf and slender 

 P. rupicola, the stems being quite 

 thin and the leaves having some re- 

 semblance to those of Cocos Wedde- 

 liana. 



In common with several other mem- 

 bers of this genus, P. iMmila is in- 

 clined to throw out additional shoots 

 from the base of the plant and it is 

 quite possible that this characteristic 

 could be utilized to advantage in 

 made-up plants tor decorative use, 

 just as we often see Cocos Weddeli- 

 ana treated now, were it not for the 

 scarcity of this phoenix up to the 

 present time. 



P. Pumila is a warm house plant 

 and cannot be considered as a rapid 

 grower, in fact their comparatively 

 slow growth is an objection to many 

 of the phoenix form from a commer- 

 cial point of view, the transition pe- 

 riod from the simple undivided leaves 

 of the seedling to the graceful pinnate 

 foliage of the characterized plant oc- 

 cupying so much time that it becomes 

 a period of impatience in the mind of 

 most trade growers. 



Of course it is pleasant and educa- 

 tional to watch plants grow, yet most 

 of us desire to see them cover the 

 successive laps of progress with much 

 greater despatch than is shown by 

 the phoenix in general. 



W. H. TAPLIN. 



ADMIRAL DEWEY ROSE. 



This new rose is a sport from Mme. 

 Testout P^nd is apparently identical 

 with that variety except as to color, 

 which is a very light pink. Flowers 

 seen in a New York store were cer- 

 tainly very attractive and drew the at- 



