JTNK 21, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



121 



up trellises and over the entrantes to 

 many fashionable houses, contesting 

 with each other as to which can pro- 

 duce the most bloom. The nursery- 

 men all say that orders are already 

 coming in heavily for this rose for fall 

 planting. 



Business has fallen off some in the 

 past week, yet most of the florists are 

 making neat window displays of sweet 

 peas, hollyhocks, gladiolus and other 

 outside grown stock. 



A visit to Samuel Murray's green- 

 houses found him and his full force of 

 help making preparations for planting 

 indoor stock. A fine lot of Asparagus 

 Sprengeri, ferns and Lilium auratum 

 plants are just cojning in, and one pot 

 of lilies numbered as high a.s forty 

 buds and blooms to the plant. 



Mr. Murray always did show great 

 skill in plant culture, and says his 

 business demands double the stock of 

 two years ago. H. J. M. 



THE BROOKLYN BARD. 



J. Austin Shaw is in Chicago this 

 week, representing Jackson & Perkins 

 Co., Newark, N. Y., to whose interests 

 he is now devoting his whole atten- 

 tion. His address until further notice 

 will be the Great Northern Hotel, Chi- 

 cago. 



Mr. Shaw attended the nurserymen's 

 convention last week and on F'riday 

 evening attended the meeting of the 

 Florists' Club, where he posted the 

 boys concerning the New York con- 

 vention, and as usual drifted into 

 rhyme, a few verses of which appear 

 below: 



It isn't any wonder that a traveler loves to 

 come 

 And see the "Windy City" just as oftali as 

 he can. 

 For you fellows all combine, I know, to mal<e 

 him feel "to hum," 

 And if he don't appreciate you— well, hi's 

 not a man. 



But I must not be personal, and I know you*\<- 



not the time 

 To listen any longer to this bit of eastern 



rhyme. 



So I'll just close with warm and cordial, lo\- 



ing invitation 

 To the whole of you to come in August down 



to gay New York, 

 The greatest city — barring this," you'll say, 



"in all the nation," 

 And while you're there I'll promi.'^e you 



you'll never have to work. 



We'U take you to old Coney's Isle, and also 



on the Bowery gay. 

 And let you climb the needle and meander 



down Broadway; 

 "We'll show you buildings — dozens of 'em— 



that can "touch the sky," 

 And ladies beautiful, although you may find 



some of them too shy. 



We'll wine you and we'll dine you at tliis 



glorious convention. 

 And do a lot of other things to you 1 nnel'nt 



mention. 

 And to this "feast of reason" and this fount 



of restful fun, 

 I teU. you, now you're welcome, and we w.ani 



you, every one. 



MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



Mr. H. \V. Koorner has returned 

 from a trip to Paducah, Ky., where he 

 was called to attend the funeral of his 

 father. 



GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



The weather has been very favor- 

 able lately for carnation growing, both 

 bedding out and inside planting, which 

 is now under way. Retail trade has 

 been the best ever known; shipping 

 trade has also been flrst-class. We 

 have been having warm days and cool 

 nights, with an occasional shower to 

 keep vegetation on the move. The 

 quality of roses is deteriorating, there 

 being but little first-class stock on the 

 market, but plenty of medium to poor; 

 the latter finds its way to the dump. 

 Carnations are a glut and of none too 

 good quality. Commencement exer- 

 cises are using up large quantities of 

 flowers, but the effect on the huge 

 mass is not sufficient to clean it up. 

 Although quality is poorer, prices are 

 the same as my last quotations. In 

 another week the resorts open, com- 

 mencemeats will be over and the fra- 

 ternity can take a rest, if they are not 

 putting up too many new houses! 



G. F. CRABB. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



The Pan-American. 



It has been my first visit to the Pan- 

 American grounds and what I beheld 

 there I shall not attempt to describe 

 in detail. 



Suffice it to say that the grounds 

 are assuming "shape and form," that 

 an army of men, following the direc- 

 tions of the ingenious Great Scott, is 

 transforming a waste into a fairyland. 

 Landscape gardening, as will be dem- 

 onstrated upon the Pan - American 

 grounds, will in all likelihood attract 

 as much attention as any other great 

 achievement of the century coming to 

 a close. And who will question the 



moral aspect of an art that has for its 

 aim the Improvement or the beautify- 

 ing of rugged nature? Verily, a great 

 moral lesson will be brought home to 

 the thousands upon thousands who 

 will visit the Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion. 



What has attracted my especial at- 

 tention is the fact of the perfect sys- 

 tem introduced, thus making it possi- 

 ble to carry on this enormous work 

 with clock-like regularity. No confu- 

 sion of any sort. Mr. Scott seems to 

 have succeeded at the start In im- 

 pressing upon his men the importance 

 of obeying orders. In this respect, and 

 be it said to his credit, he has fully 

 demonstrated that, besides possessing 

 the qualifications required of a man 

 holding so important a position, he is 

 also an executive of a high order, a 

 general who is bound to lead to vic- 

 tory. S. 



OCEANIC, N. J. 



A well attended meeting of the 

 Monmouth County Horticultural So- 

 ciety was held June 16 at Red Men's 

 Hall. 



It was decided to hold a chrysanthe- 

 mum show this fall and the exhibition 

 committee will announce the date next 

 meeting. 



Prcf. H. C. Walling, the new editor 

 of the society's paper. Busy Body, en- 

 tertained the members with his witty 

 paper, for which he received a hearty 

 vote of thanks. B. 



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