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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



MAY 31, 1900. 



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I PRICE LIST. 



m ROSES. 



m Beauties, long per doz., $3.00 



B " medium " 1.50 



1 •■ short ■• 1.00 



B Brides and Maids per 100, 4.00 to .'i.OO 



m Meteor " 4.00 to 5.00 



S Perles " 4.00 



^ Roses, seconds " 3.00 



m CARNATIONS. 



S Standard sorts, select per 100, $IM 



g Fancy, select " 2.50 



p MISCEI>I<ANEOUS. 



= Paeonies per doz., $ .50 



B Harrisii $10.00 per 100 ; " 1.25 



g Callas 10.00 " " 1.50 



H Migonette " .25 



g Forget-MeNots,$2.00perl00; " .25 



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I WALTER S. HEFFRON, Manager. 



M Quotations are Subject to Change Without Notice. 



M Regardless of prices quoted all stock will be billed 



S at lowest market rates. 



I ALL SEASONABLE FLOWERS. 



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Valley per lOO. $3.00 g 



Sweet Peas " .50 m 



Marguerites .50 s 



jasmines " 2.00 g 



Fansies S>0 m 



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-Asparagus per string, $ ,50 g 



Galax, green and bronze per l,lljt>. l.fjO s 



per 100, .20 ■ 



Ferns $2.00 per 1,000 ; .25 s 



Ferns, Maiden Hair, choice " .75 = 



Sniilax perdo.^. 2.U0 s 



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America had her Washington, than 

 ■whom the world has seen no greater 

 general, yet he, like all the rest, was 

 ignorant of what he loved the most — 

 the cultivation of the flower. Go with 

 me if you will into the church where 

 tapers burn and vestal choristers sing 

 their hallelujahs to the first gardener 

 and Creator, the great Jehovah, and 

 what is the first tribute we lay upon 

 the holy shrine? Sweet flowers, em- 

 blematic of Christ's purity and love. 

 Follow me to the festal wedding, and 

 what do we behold? The same tribute 

 to this holy and sacred ofliee— flowers. 

 Go further with me to the homes of 

 the dead, who sleep their long sleep 

 In their tents of green, and what do 

 we see? The same loving tribute— 

 flowers. And so on, through all the 

 phases of life; in joy or in sorrow; 

 in darkness or in sunshine; the one 

 great monitor that speaks our love 

 and our grief, our sadness or our 

 pleasure, is the same sweet creation 

 of the gardener's handiwork — flowers. 

 This love of the beautiful opens ev- 

 ery day a wider and more useful fleld 

 for the gardener. The flower is not 

 a simple fad to be cultivated for a 

 few days and then cast aside. They 

 were on earth when the sons of morn- 

 ing sang together; they will gladden 

 the eye until the resurrection. Thus 

 the gardener is the happy Instrument 

 through which this love of flowers is 

 perpetuated. 



Practical men are made poetic by 

 the beauty which is about them, and 

 this love for the flowers grows upon 

 them and is transmitted to their chil- 

 dren. Hence societies are formed, and 

 the gardeners vie with each other to 

 create new and beautiful ideas in the 

 cultivation of flowers. Witness the 

 constant rivalry for supremacy at the 



flower shows throughout our land. The 

 struggle for prizes as a reward and 

 recognition of their efforts. The cynic 

 will say: "Of what use are they?" 

 "What do they bring?" "What are 

 they worth?" "What is a ribbon 

 worth to a soldier?" High thoughts, 

 bright dreams, the ambition to create 

 and improve. 



It is the desire of every true g.ir- 

 dener to succeed, and every success 

 brings a betterment of his condition. 

 It does not come without care and 

 thought. Before anyone can be an 

 artist in his art, he must first be a 

 workman at his trade, and it is only 

 by giving close attention to this di- 

 versified and comprehensive study 

 that these possibilities are acquiie:!. 

 Thus many men are florists, but the 

 want of thoroughness in their early 

 studies is always apparent. This 

 thought should be an incentive to 

 stimulate the gardener to renewed ef- 

 forts for the mastery of his profes- 

 sion. 



Every great epoch in the history of 

 the world brings with it a usefulness 

 for flowers. Let me cite one example, 

 the conflict between the North and the 

 South. When the war was over, in 

 the South, where, under warmer skies 

 and more poetic temperament, sym- 

 bols and emblems are better under- 

 stood than in the practical North, the 

 mothers, widows and children of the 

 confederate dead went out to decorate 

 the graves of the fallen. With what? 

 Was it with gun and sabre? No. 

 Was it with insignia of heraldry? No. 

 With what, then? With simple flow- 

 ers, casting them, unconsciously, alike 

 upon the unmarked resting places of 

 the federal and confederate dead. Oh, 

 what a revolution of feeling did this 

 create in the hearts of the people of 



the North. It aroused feelings of am- 

 ity and friendship. It allayed sec- 

 tional animosity, and it gave birth to 

 a general day of decoration. And 

 what has been the benefit to florists? 

 Hundreds and thousands of gardeners 

 are employed throughout the length 

 and breadth of our land, engaged in 

 the cultivation of these beautiful 

 gems, that our honored dead may 

 sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers. 

 Flowers, sweet flowers, they will 

 ever continue to play their part; will 

 bring joy to the sorrowful; happiness 

 to the afflicted. They will glaiiden the 

 heart of the bride; they will be sweet 

 emblems of love to the departed. They 

 are indigenous to all climes; on the 

 summit of the snow-clad hills, greet- 

 ing the first sun of the early morn; in 

 the wild wood where the foot of man 

 has never trod. They are in all homes 

 and places. There is not in the his- 

 tory of the world one other creation 

 that bears the same relationship to all 

 our moods; that expresses our 

 thoughts; that conveys the echo of our. 

 hearts: that has the same influence 

 upon society; that enriches, ennobles, 

 and cultivates the good within us, as 

 this noble effort of the gardener's 

 handiwork — flowers. 



DETROIT, MICH.— The death is an- 

 nounced of David Ward at his home at 

 Orchard Lake, 30 miles from this city, 

 aged 77 years. He leaves an estat; 

 estimated at $30.0i>0,00i:i. accumulated 

 largely in the lumbering industry. He 

 was the father of C. W. Ward, the 

 well known florist of Queens, N. Y. 



NAPERVILLE. ILL.— J. J. Rohr & 

 Son contemplate enlarging their glifs 

 surface. 



