APRIL 13, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



499 



erymen all report large orders for 

 fruit, shade and ornamental trees, also 

 all kinds of hardy shrubs. 



Variou? Items. 



The chrysanthemum show commit- 

 tee will meet this week Thursday at 

 2 P. M., just before the opening of the 

 meeting of the Florists' Club, which 

 takes place at 3 P. M., to work on the 

 preliminary list for the show. 



Visitors in town last week were Joe 

 Rolker. of New York; S. S. Skidelsky, 

 of Phila.. and Everett Guy, of Belle- 

 ville, 111. Rudolph Kuehn, late of 

 Stillwater, Minn., was also a visitor. 

 Rudolph is not related to our Charlie. 

 He is now in business at Hot Springs, 

 Ark., and from his talk is doing very 

 •well. 



Riessen Floral Co., on Broadway, 

 made their usual fine Easter display 

 last week, which attracted a great 

 deal of attention. 



Beyer Bros, have been very busy 

 of late with decorations, having no 

 less than five in one day. They report 

 Easter trade in plants very good, but 

 the weather was not to their liking. 

 F. C. Weber, George Walbart, Mrs. 

 Ayers and Luther Armstrong, the 

 West End florists, have very attrac- 

 tive windows, making fine displays 

 with blooming plants and fine cut 

 flowers. Easter trade with them was 

 better than ever. 



Bowling. 



A few of our bowlers went out to 

 roll a few games on what we call a 

 dinkey alley, 36 inches wide, just to 

 see the difference in the bowling on 

 -our 43-inch regulation alley. They 

 rolled three games and John Kunz 

 made 289 in one game and Kuehn had 

 an average of 258 in the three games. 

 They have been throwing bouquets at 

 themselves ever since. 



The Bowling Club rolled its usual 

 five games Monday night. The follow- 

 ing scores were made: 



12 3 4 5 Total. Av. 



J. J. Beneke 155 170 126 123 137 710 142 



C. A. Kuehn.... 123 184 107 14S 138 700 140 



J. W. Kunz.... 132 142 141 155 103 673 135 



Emu Schray ... 163 135 123 110 121 652 131 



<;. C. Sanders.. 142 104 154 122 ... 522 130% 



John Young 114 127 140 96 477 119 



F. J. Fillmore.. 112 125 95 81 137 550 110 



S. S. Skidelsky 102 S5 101 286 95 



J. J. B. 



A NEW IDEA IN POTS. 



We present herewith engravings of 

 a new idea in the use of pottery in 

 growing plants, that originated with 

 Mr. Harry Balsley, of the Detroit 

 Flower pot manufactory, Detroit, 

 Mich. The small one Mr. Balsley calls 

 a violet protector, and the idea is to 

 plant the violets in this bottomless 

 pot, inserting same in the soil to the 

 point indicated by the dotted line, 

 ■which will carry the violet plant about 

 two inches above the level of the soil 

 in the beds, thereby insuring against 

 over-watering. And the flare of the 

 pot is to prevent the foliage and flow- 



ers from lying over on to the surface 

 soil of the bench. Mr. Balsley believes 

 that this would insure all the ad- 

 vantages of sub-watering without any' 

 of its disadvantages, and would avoid 



the possibility of plants being attack- 

 ed by fungous diseases. 



The larger one is designed for the 

 use in planting carnations on the 

 bench with a similar purpose in view, 

 the bottomless pot to be inserted into 

 the soil to the depth indicated by the 

 dotted line. 



A number of growers who have in- 

 spected samples of these devices seem 

 very favorably impressed with them, 



and the system seems at least worthy 

 of a trial. Samples were shown at the 

 last meeting of the Chicago Florists' 

 Club, and were very favorably com- 

 mented upon by those who examined 

 them. 



NEW YORK. 



Easter Echoes. 



Easter echoes, and Easter wreckage, 

 too, are things we still hear and see in 

 and around New York. It is pleasant 

 to note that there has been neither 

 suicide nor failure among the florist 

 fraternity owing to Easter trade. Most 

 of the boys seem to be well pleased 

 and the few who may not be ought to 

 be, for the experience gained. "We'll 

 grow plants instead of cut flowers for 

 next Easter," is often heard from some 

 disappointed rose grower. Well, you 

 might with profit, that is, if you are 

 careful what you grow. The New York 

 buyer knows a good thing at a glance 

 and is not slow to pick it up. Growers 

 need not wait for Easter, good flower- 

 ing plants will go with a rush at 

 Christmas, and now is the time to 

 think about it. When ordering roses 

 for pot culture don't chew the price 

 down; pay a fair price and get the 

 best you can. Roses in pots will be in 

 demand at Christmas, with a lot more 

 good things. 



In most of the store windows tired 



looking remnants of Easter plants, 

 such as lilies, azaleas and genistas, are 

 still to be seen, though many of them 

 are destined to soon find positions 

 from which they may peer at the 

 blushing brides. Yes, upon weddings 

 are the eyes and the hopes of the flor- 

 ists centered. It is wonderful how the 

 most isolated grower gets full of the 

 glowing descriptions of most of the 

 fashionable wedding notices of today; 

 he sees that "the home of the bride 

 will be decorated with a hundred 

 thousand American Beauty roses"; and 

 consequently a tremendous rush and 

 scarcity of stock, whereas, alas my 

 friends, the mother of the fashionable 

 bride has given the order to the poor 

 open-mouthed Greek at the corner to 

 send her ten dollars' worth of spring 

 flowers to put around the room. "Why 

 do you put such lies in the paper 

 about the decorations?" I recently 

 asked a society reporter. "Because 

 the editor wouldn't publish our story 

 if we didn't make it sensational," he 

 replied. 



The recent Vanderbilt-Fair wedding 

 was not over elaborate in point of 

 floral decorating. Nothing particularly 

 new was introduced, though the 

 "Dewey Rose" was there and pretty it 

 looked. The principal feature of the 

 decorations was an avenue of tall 

 standard Bay trees which had been 

 transformed into standard rose trees 

 by putting a wire screen cap over the 

 heads and sticking therein long 

 stemmed Bridesmaids. The Sloane 

 wedding was remarkable only for one 

 thing: The decorations around the 

 altar fell down as the bride entered 

 the church; this should be a caution to 

 florists hiring inexperienced help. 



Usually right after Easter there is a 

 general hurrah of receptions and din- 

 ners among society folks which call 

 for more or less flowers; this time, 

 however, there seems to be very 

 little business doing, and the thou- 

 sands of all kinds of stock keeps 

 a coming more than regularly. 

 Harrisiis which were intended for 

 Easter are coming in in great quanti- 

 ties and sell for 3 or 4, Valley 1 to 2, 

 Tulips Vz to 1, Daffodils 1 to IVa, roses, 

 all varieties, 1 to 5, Beauties from 25 

 for top grade down to jests for the 

 small grade, Carnations V2 to 1, fancy 

 grades 2 to 5, and so on. The Jefferson 

 Birthday Dinner to be given by the 

 Democratic Club, promises to be O. K. 

 from a decorative point of view. Thor- 

 ley will have charge of the floral part 

 and it is said will use a great many 

 thousand short American Beauties on 

 the tables. 



Florists' Club Notes, 



The tired looking crowd of boys who 

 attended the Florists' Club's meeting 

 tonight showed plainly that there is 

 an element of energy and enthusiasm 

 missing; nevertheless toward the end 

 of the meeting a few of the old debat- 

 ers began to dig up theories, but alas 

 those who were not scientists began to 

 dream. The chairman of the bowling 

 section reported that there would 



