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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JULY 12, 1900. 



DENVER, COLO. 



Trade is very quiet, but tlie market 

 is not overstoclied. just enougti com- 

 ing in to go round. Good roses are 

 scarce and bring a good price. A few 

 good Beauties sliow up daily and find 

 ready sale. Sweet peas are a little 

 overdone. 



Mr. Jakobsen passed through this 

 week on his way to Colorado Springs 

 to take up a position with Mr. Clark. 

 Mr. Jakobsen left here last March, 

 where he had charge of the Park Flo- 

 ral Co. greenhouses for ten years. He 

 went east, but found the Colorado cli- 

 mate too much to leave behind. Oth- 

 ers say she is a pretty little thing, but 

 I don't believe it. He looks too wise. 



The Florists' Club held a meeting 

 last Friday and considerable business 

 was transacted. Things look promis- 

 ing for a good show. 



Summer vacations have started and 

 several of the boys and girls are plan- 

 ning trips to the mountains. A very 

 beautiful place to go — when there arc 

 no lakes around. A few, though, will 

 wait a while and spend theirs at the 

 convention. 



The Park Floral Co.'s Outing. 



On the Fourth of July the Park Flo- 

 ral Co. treated their employes to a pic- 

 nic. Every employe was out and that 

 with wives, children, sweethearts and 

 some without sweethearts made up a 

 good big party. We took the train to 

 Golden and there were met by wagons 

 which conveyed us to the grounds of 

 the Denver Lookout Mountain Resort, 

 Land, Transit and Improvement Co., a 

 pretty long name, but it takes a long 

 while to get there througli tlie moun- 

 tains. A good track had been laid 

 out and officials were appointed on the 

 way up, so everything was in shape 

 when we landed. 



Sam Lundy was judge and his deci- 

 sions were never questioned, while Mr. 

 Valentine handled the gun like an ex- 

 pert; you couldn't beat the gun a 

 foot. The boys were called first and 

 they ran a 75-yard race, which was 

 won by Harry Berry, with a handicap 

 of 2 1-2 yards. The old men were on 

 next to do a turn of 50 yards and John 

 Berry turned up the winner after a 

 hard run. But that wasn't John's first 

 run in a week; he'd been in secret 

 training. 



The ladies next the scorer called and 

 four fine ladies toed the line. There 

 was no way to get a line to handicap 

 them, so they carried weight. Non- 

 winners of races this year were al- 

 lowed five pounds otf and winners of 

 a race to pick up two pounds addi- 

 tional. As Lady Page had earned 

 brackets in every start, she was heav- 

 ily weighted and crossed the line a 

 winner "all in"; Miss Simpkins acted 

 badly at the post and when she did 

 get off went away on the wrong foot, 

 and it seemed to be in the way all 

 the way down. Next we had the 90 



yards dash, open to all employes, and 

 was a handicap. Mr. Valentine did 

 the handicapping and brought the fin- 

 ish down very close. There were 

 twelve entries divided into three heats 

 of four men each, the winner of each 

 to run a final. Don Scott won the first 

 heat off the 5-yard line; Phil. Scott, 

 scratch, and C. Mossholder, on 18 

 yards line, ran a dead heat in the sec- 

 ond, and Geo. Plews won the third 

 heat off the 12 yards line. In the 

 final Plews won. Phil. Scott second and 

 Don Scott third. Time, 9% seconds. 



Then we had the peanut race next, 

 but although the program did not say 

 so. it was supposed to l)e for the la- 

 dies. When the race was over John 

 Berry, it was found, had won. ' The 

 judge said: "John, 1 thought you were 

 a man." "I am," said John. "Well, 

 then. Mrs. Sked gets the prize," said 

 the judge. 



The sack race was a feature, as only 

 one of the men had run a sack before. 

 Geo. Plews was on to the game and 

 won easily. 



The three-legged race called out 

 three teams and the team that looked 

 the best took a tumble soon after 

 starting, they forgetting that they 

 were tied. Plews and Harry Berry ran 

 well together and won the race, Sco't 

 and Bloy taking the tumble. The day's 

 sport was ended by throwing the base- 

 ball and Phil. Scott took the bun by 

 making the longest throw. 



The party was then trailed over to 

 a lofty peak, where lunch had been 

 spread. It was a magnificent layout, 

 ably gotten up by Miss Page and Miss 

 Simpkins. They had picked out a 

 pretty spot and our view was good for 

 a pretty lookout anywhere we gazed. 



Before returning home the party 

 gave three rousing cheers for Mr. Val- 

 entine and hoped every one would be 

 on hand for another picnic another 

 year. ROCKY. 



BALTIMORE. 



'Various Items. 



For the past two weeks we have 

 been plunged here into the dullest ex- 

 perience of midsummer dullness, yet 

 not absolutely unrelieved by brilliant 

 flashes of floral demands hard to 

 meet. Good stuff is in the vocative. 

 and lately two Charles street florists 

 duplicated to me the same story with- 

 in half an hour that each had spent 

 the whole morning in endeavoring to 

 secure an elusive two dozen good 

 white roses. White roses, and roses 

 of every hue known to the trade, are 

 sadly deficient, if any regard to qual- 

 ity is maintained, but there is abund- 

 ant supply of carnations and sweet 

 peas, good, bad and indifferent, and 

 mostly bad. 



The windows of the stores are tak- 

 ing on their summer look. They are 

 fresh and neat and attractive in dress 



of ferns and palms, but destitute of 

 color, save occasionally a vase of car- 

 nations, or occasionally a bunch of 

 Beauties. 



There does not seem to be any 

 marked enthusiasm developed here 

 so far over the approaching con- 

 vention, but Mr. Richard Vincent, 

 who is the vice-president for Mary- 

 land, Is doing yeoman's work in 

 trying to secure an attendance of 

 our florists. Mr. Charlie Siebold 

 is also actively soliciting aid from 

 Ijowlers of known skill, and it is re- 

 ported that Messrs. Moss. Binder, Lehr, 

 Halliday and Richmond will not be 

 found sulking in tlieir tents when the 

 bugle calls for the conflict. 



Some of our craft are preparing for 

 their deserved vacations. On the 10th 

 Mr. Robert L. Graham and his wife 

 left for a well won journey of pleasure 

 to Boston. Newport, Narragansett Pier 

 and Atlantic City. Others will follow 

 them, as is usual, in trips of lesser ex- 

 tent. 



Planting is proceeding with a rush 

 and every one is full of the prepara- 

 tive and customary work of the sea- 

 son. RIX. 



OCEANIC, N. J. 



Below will be found some extracts 

 from the paper read before the last 

 meeting of the Monmouth County 

 Horticultural Society by Prof. H. C. 

 Walling, editor of the society paper, 

 "Busy Body": 



Pills Did'nt Germinate. 



One of our nn'niber.s \ouches for the fol- 

 Inwing story: 



My father wa.s one day presented with 

 a few sweet pea seeds by one of the 

 members of this association. He was 

 told that they were a new and very 

 choice variety and should be given great 

 attention and care. Papa wrapped the 

 seeds carefully in a piece of brown paper 

 and placed them in his pocket. When he 

 reached home he dug up a choice spot in 

 the garden, carefully fertilized it, plant- 

 ed the small black seeds land carefully 

 surrounded the bed with poultry wire to 

 Ijrevent the chickens from destroying 

 the young plants. 



Every day for a week or ten days he 

 watched tor the appearance of the choice 

 plants but they did not appear. Happen- 

 ing to meet the donor one day, he asked 

 him if his (the gardener's) seeds had 

 sprouted and was surprised to hear that 

 they were up and growing nicely. That 

 is strange, father said. I planted my 

 seeds with the utmost care and for some 

 imknown reason they did not come up. 

 Some three or four weeks later, my 

 father took a small piece of brown paper 

 from his pocket and when he unwr.apped 

 it found, to his great surprise, the sweet 

 pea seeds which he supposed were plant- 

 ed long before. This led my father to in- 

 vestigate the matter, and the non-ap- 

 l>earance of the sweet peas was soon ex- 

 plained. In the same pocket in which 

 the seeds were placed was another piece 

 of brown paper containing a number of 

 small black pills. These father had care- 

 fully planted and had waited patiently 

 to .see them sprout. 



Ferris Wheel Greenhouses. 



^\■hit 'U'illiams, a great thinker" and in- 

 ventor, conceived this idea for building 

 greenhouses. As real estate in and 

 around Oceanic is so valuable, he thought 



