MARCH 23, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



413 



Phoenix Pumila. 



tention of a certain class of flower 

 buyers who are always on the outlook 

 for something new. We fear, however, 

 that the color is not deep enough to 

 make the rose a general favorite, 

 though the name may give it a brief 

 season of popularity. We fear also that 

 a sport from Testout will not appeal 

 very strongly to the average grower, 

 who will have unpleasant recollections 

 of the general unprofitableness of that 

 variety. It is to be hoped that Dewey 

 has not inherited this undesirable 

 characteristic of Testout. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



There was a noticeable shortening 

 of supply the past week and prices 

 have stiffened materially. Many grow- 

 ers seem to be off ciop and this has 

 been supplemented by a stretch of 

 dark weather, broken by only two 

 bright days during the past week. If 



we could have bright weather from 

 now till Easter it would be a great 

 help, but probably not enough to in- 

 sure a satisfactory supply of roses for 

 Easter. The lily situation is very puz- 

 zling and the outlook seems rather 

 less favorable thar last week. Car- 

 nations have been quite scarce lately 

 and this has caused some little sur- 

 prise. It is probable that quite a num- 

 ber are being held on the plants, 

 though this would not seem to wholly 

 account for the present marked 

 scarcity. Bulb stuff is moving rather 

 more freely on account of the scarcity 

 of other flowers. The stretch of wet 

 weather had a dampening effect on 

 violets. 



Club Entertainment. 

 The second annual entertainment of 

 the Florists' Club, given in Handel 

 Hall last Friday evening brought out 

 a large attendance in spite of the very 

 unfavorable weather, and all who 

 came enjoyed themselves thoroughly. 



It was a decidedly floral affair, every- 

 one taking part having huge bouquets 

 passed up to them on concluding their 

 part of the program. The following 

 letter, read by Mr. A. C. Kohlbrand, 

 was greeted with much laughter and 

 applause. 



Shaumburg, Marz 16, 1890. 



Teer Sur:— It gifs me much bleasur to 

 wrot'i you again yet as I haf not wroten mit 

 you since de lats flower shows. But it seema 

 to me (lat my lata ledder was not recelfed in 

 de same spirit in wich it was glfen. It was 

 not Indented to pe funny, und it griefs me 

 such a much to hear dat It caused such much 

 laughingness. De Idees wat I hat In regard- 

 ment to flower shows was not indented as 

 a choke und 1 tlnk It shows wery bat form 

 und very little edimentication for beople to 

 laff at Ideas too far adwanced for delr di- 

 minutif gomprehension. 



Since de lats time wot I wroten mit you 

 I haf i>€en drying some exberimentatlons on 

 my blace to broduce some nowelties for de 

 next flower shows, but the nowelties was not 

 up to my exbectatlons. 



De first ding wot I dried was some crafding. 

 T crafded some pickle-vines on my wloletz 

 blands und it hat a wery becullar effect. I 

 got a goot grop off cucumbers wot schmelled 

 like wioletz und a poor crop of wioletz wat 

 schmelled like cucumbers. But as dere ar« 

 enough wioletz sold in Chicago wot schmeU 

 like cucumbers I didn't dink it worth while to 

 continue exberimentatlons in dot line. 



De next ding wot I dried was someting 

 wich has peen bettering me for a long time. 

 I dried to crow some gold dollars on golden- 

 rot blands. Dis mite haf brooved successful 

 hat not de wetter inderf eared. I hat one 

 bland wich was almost showing ploom, in fact 

 I could count as much as dirty cents in change 

 on de one bland, when one night de wint 

 bio wed de glass from de house oft und all 

 my money froze up. I haf often heard of 

 beople who hat money to burn, but when it 

 freezes on de blants It was dime to stop ex- 

 berimentatlons in drying to crow money in a 

 greenhouse. 



De loss of all de goldenrot blants made me 

 so mat dat I nailed de greenhouses up mit 

 poarts ofer de top und dought I would raise 

 mushrooms, but de woot bucks got In und 

 raised de difel mit de mushrooms. So I 

 dought dot if dey liked mushrooms dey woult 

 not opject to a nice beece of porter-house 

 steak to eat mit de mushrooms, so I went 

 ofter to Krause. de putcher, und bought me 

 for 15 cents a steak wich I blaced in de mush- 

 room ped after fixing it up according to my 

 idees. De next morning de mushroom ped 

 was gofered mit de det podies off millions of 

 woot bucks. De following week I reet In de 

 bapers dot seferal off my gustomers hat been 

 boisened from eating toad-stools. Dat made 

 me mat. I don't raise toad-stools. But may- 

 be my gustomers got some of de barls green 

 wot I hat sprinkled on de steak for de woot 

 bucks. 



Dot settled the mushroom exberimentatlons. 

 I fixed up de greenhouses again und raised 

 some seedling gamations. und among de new 

 warietles I haf got one wat peeds de dirty 

 tousand dollar Lawton all to beeces. It is 6 

 inches across, weighs a pound und 'A. and you 

 can't break de calix mit an axe. " De golor 

 is not mooch, a sort of a brlndle blue. It has 

 not peen gifen a name yet, but my wife wants 

 me to name it after her. Such foolishmenl! 

 How woult it sound for a lady to go in a 

 flower store und ask de florists, "Haff you got 

 any nice Mrs. Fritz Blumenschneider garna- 

 tions?" Ha! It makes me laff to dink of It. 

 If it was cabbitch de name would be more 

 abbroprlate. No, I will wait til some man 

 mit more money dan prains gomes along who 

 woult giff me aboud dirty tousand dollars for 

 de brifllitch off naming It after his wife — 

 or somebody else's wife. Den can de green- 

 houses go zu de dlfll. Den I can start me a 

 nice saloon und get up a bad rebutation, get 

 elected alderman of de wart, und haf a goot 

 time in cheneral. 



Talking aboud time d!s flower pisiness Is 

 noting but a matter oflf time. 



Time to blant de flowers. 



Time to raise de flowers. 



Time to cut de flowers. 



Time to take de flowers to de city. 



Time to trow de flowers out. 



Wishing you a green St. Patrick's day and 

 a busy Easter. I remain vours. 



PRTTZ BM^MKXSCHNEIDER. 



Another very amusing number was 

 the recitation by Mr. C. Balluff. tell- 



