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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



MAY 18, :S99. 



tained, so Arthur says, $1,000, and his , 

 mother's vahiab'e diamond ring. 



The tenth annual banquet, of the 

 Board of Trustees of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, was held Saturday 

 night at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Many 

 distinguished men from this and other 

 cities were among the guests. The fol- 

 lowing speakers addressed the guests 

 upon the subjects mentioned: C. W. 

 Dabney, Jr.. President of the Uni- 

 versity of Tennessee: "The Duty of the 

 Endowment of Science." J. H. Finley, 

 President of Knox College, Galesburg, 

 111.: "The Country and the Town." 

 Professor J. M. Coulter, University of 

 Chicago: "The Progress of Science." 



The menu was very elaborate and 

 the decorations fine. 



Wild Flower Exhibition. 

 The wild flower exhibition under the 

 auspices of the Englemann Botanical 

 Club was held in the Board of Educa- 

 tion building. There were in the exhi- 

 bition 258 different varieties of wild 

 flowers representing every specimen 

 indigenous to this latitude which 

 bloom this early in the season. Crowds 

 poured into the exhibition from noon 

 until 9 p. m. The greatest interest 

 was manifested by the school teachers 

 and school children, who attended 

 with a view of acquiring as much bo- 

 tanical knowledge as possible from the 

 exhibit. 



Bowling. 



At the bowling club, Monday night, 

 only four members rolled. The weath- 

 er was hot and many stayed away. The 

 large electric fans overhead made 

 things very pleasant for us. The roll- 

 ing was very poor; our best bowler, 

 Charlie Kuehn, was out of form. The 

 highest average in the six games 

 rolled was 142; very poor, indeed, for 

 champion bowlers. The scores were 

 IS follows: 



1 2 3 4 5 6 T'l Av. 

 J. W. Kunz ....136 153 US 138 147 130 854 142 

 J. J. Beneke . . . .100 IDS 140 139 169 160 822 137 

 John Young ....136 1.57 130 12S 128 140 819 136 

 C. A. Kuehn.... 104 120 149 125 155 130 783 130 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



For May business is rather quiet, but 

 the much cooler weather of the past 

 ten days shortened up the supply of 

 carnations and roses and for the past 

 week there have been no bargain days 

 for them. Lilac will be all over by 

 Decoration Day; that shows how 

 things have jumped along. Where 

 decorations are asked for, the pros- 

 pective patron "thinks snowballs 

 make such a delightful decoration." 

 Perhaps they do, but there is not much 

 in it for the florist. There will be a 

 grand lot of .Japan longiflorum in 

 flower for Decoration Day. I hope 

 they will all be wanted. 



The plant men are all busy and their 

 inning will come soon. Buffalo is cele- 

 brated for its zonale geraniums. Some 

 of the drummers tell us they see no 

 such plants elsewhere, and contrary 

 to many of their other utterances this 



one is believed. Messrs. Schiver & 

 Bernard, of Checektuwago, can show 

 you many thousands of splendid 

 plants; and a house at Cold Springs 

 containing 1,400 plants in 4-inch pots, 

 each with two or three trusses, and in 

 twenty different varieties, makes a gay 

 sight. 



There have been several out-of-town 

 gentlemen here within a few days. 

 Mr. McHutchinson on his return trip, 

 Mr. and Mrs. John Speelman. Mr. FYed 

 Atkins and also a few friends from 

 across the water whose names I re- 

 frain from attempting to pronounce 

 for fear of neuralgia. Mr. Henry Wise, 

 of Ea.st Aurora, whom it is always a 

 pleasure to meet, for he is a thorough 

 gardener, talks so sensibly on all hor- 

 ticultural subjects and has nothing "to 

 offer" only good ideas. 



Mr. Geo. McClure, the able landscape 

 gardener, has just completed a fine job 

 at Lockport. George is capable of put- 

 ting the artistic touch on any place, 

 big or little, with a master hand. He 

 is a gardener from way back, and 

 keeps up with the ideas of the times. 

 There is going to be a lot of this kind 

 of work in the future and people are 

 finding out that it pays to engage a 

 man with knowledge and skill instead 

 of the uncouth brute who throws 

 down a few yards of sod, and his col- 

 league, the tree peddler, who charms 

 you with his highly colored pictures 

 of trees and shrubs that "never came." 

 It is only another case of the survival 

 of the fittest. 



Last week was a very exciting time 

 with thousands of our residents. There 

 was a hard fight over the selection of 

 the site for the Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion of 1901. I would say that the great 

 unthnking portion of our leople want- 

 ed it located on the water front. It 

 would be of no interest to your read- 

 ers to hear of the many arguments for 

 and against the several sites. I will 

 simply say that thousands who never 

 saw a large fair or exhibition clam- 

 ored for the water front. Those who 

 have attended the fairs of the world 

 know that except at Chicago the water 

 front never was a feature, and at the 

 World's Fair not one in a hundred 

 knew or cared about Lake Michigan. 

 Like John Thorpe's fox terrier who 

 could hang with his teeth fifteen min- 

 utes at the end of a rope, it was unob- 

 served by the vast majority. With all 

 this mistaken enthusiasm for the un- 

 desirable the directors knew better, 

 and the Pan-American Fair will occu- 

 py three hundred acres just north of 

 the park and embracing some of the 

 best and newest parts of the park. It 

 is an ideal situation in every way. By 

 raising the water in the already im- 

 proved Scajaquada creek a beautiful 

 lake will be made. There is little out- 

 lay needed, for the whole surroundings 

 are fine. 



Very strange that the so called Ca- 

 nadian fly should be brought forward 

 by the opponents of the "Front site" 

 as a serious objection. It was by no 

 means a serious objection, but this 



troublesome little insect got lots of 

 notoriety from the discussion. Strange 

 that everything we have in common 

 with our kinsman across the Niagara 

 river that is objectionable and a nui- 

 sance should get the prefix of Canada. 

 To pronounce this pretty name similar 

 to the agriculturists who reside on the 

 banks of the river on both sides, you 

 must drop the lower jaw, drop the 

 lower eyelids if possible, give a gasp 

 and you will emit a sound that you 

 might spell "Kaanade." The thistle, a 

 bad, bad weed, and this shortlived noc- 

 turnal moth that springs from the 

 river in blinding swarms, drives into 

 your ears, down your neck, or against 

 an electric light and dies, is supposed 

 by our most patriotic citizens to be a 

 special product of Canada, cultivated 

 and distributed to annoy the people 

 who live to the south of them. Time 

 was when we could give them New 

 York boodle aldermen, defaulting bank 

 cashiers and a choice assortment of 

 all kinds of criminals ,but that day is 

 past, each nation, in that line, must 

 carry its own burden. W. S. 



ST. PAUL. 



Trade is fair. The warm weather 

 the latter part of April brought out 

 an abundance of blooms. Nearly all 

 sold, however, and while prices 

 dropped on the poorer grades, the first 

 class ones sold at good figures. Dur- 

 ing the past week the weather has 

 been cooler and the crop has dimin- 

 ished. White flowers are in good de- 

 mand, with the supply about exhaust- 

 ed each night; violets aie all gone; 

 roses plentiful; carnation.-; not equal 

 to the demand; bulbous stock is quite 

 abundant but sells slowly. The plant 

 trade is not very active. Pansies are 

 in good demand, but other bedding 

 stock is not. Carnations at 25 cents 

 per dozen is a frequent sign, especial- 

 ly for Saturday sales. 



Notes. 



C. D. Elfelt, a pioneer citizen and 

 florist, died at the hospital about two 

 weeks since. 



Shipping trade, both in cut flowers 

 and plants, is reported excellent. Dec- 

 oration Day trade promises exception- 

 ally well, inquiries both for plants 

 and cut flowers are numerous. 



Fred Buckendorf, son of Wm. Buck- 

 endorf, of Minneapolis, was killed in a 

 recent engagement with the Filipinos. 

 The Twin City bowlers have discon- 

 tinued their weekly games until July 

 first. 



James Souden, foreman for L. L. 

 May & Co., has the sympathy of the 

 trade in the bereavement caused by 

 the death of his youngest child, a 

 bright and winsome baby girl of 18 

 months. 



The Society met in Minneapolis, 

 May 13, with a very light attendance. 

 Both speakers of the evening were 

 absent, and the members present in- 

 dulged in an informal talk on the sub- 

 ject: "The Cost of Growing Bedding 

 Plants." 



Funeral work has been in good de- 



