JULY 19, 190(1. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



221 



advice, for fate is against liim th's 

 time and lie always knows enough 

 to do the wise thing. 



Mr. Fred W. Kelsey of New York is 

 in town. Sorry I did not see Mr. 

 Ludwig of Cxomwell, Conn., a gen- 

 tleman who superintends such a place 

 as Mr. Pierson has is worth talking to. 



Pan-American News. 



Frequent heavy showers have been 

 a great help to the trees, shrubs and 

 grass. The large area situated be- 

 tween the Elmwood avenue and the 

 Park entrance, which has been laid 

 out in hundreds of beds mostly to re- 

 ceive exhibits, is now assuming a 

 most beautiful appearance. Under 

 the energy and skill of Mr, Ulrich, 

 what was a few weeks ago a most 

 forbidding waste of clay is now cov- 

 ered with a velvety lawn. 



No expense is spared in preparing 

 the beds for exhibits. They are exca- 

 vated 15 inches and filled in with rich 

 soil. The banks of the lakes and 

 grand canal are as green as beautiful 

 grass can make them. The Sunken 

 Gardens, which lie between Horticul- 

 tural Hall and the United States 

 Building, are nearly completed ani 

 have a most grand effect. There are 

 two sets of them, each 800 feet long. 



The extent of the landscape features 

 begins now to be evident and they are 

 most lavish and diversified. Wherever 

 shrubbery will adorn, it is planted, and 

 between the shrubs the ground will 

 be covered with herbaceous pants. 

 To supply all these Mr. Ulrich h:is 

 raised immense quantities of the lead- 

 ing sorts. W. S, 



BOSTON. 



Florists here do not amount to 

 much nowadays, but we keep up the 

 forms of business. The city retail 

 traffic is probably more broken up pro- 

 portionately than tlie suburban trade, 

 delegates from which come to Park 

 street every morning, buy what they 

 want and go home quickly. He usu- 

 ally pays just about what he wants to 

 and leaves loads of goods on the grow- 

 er's hands for which he can not even 

 get an offer. The street man is hand- 

 ling fruit. But the flower business 

 shows a steady growth from year to 

 year. More goods come in, more goods 

 go out and more goods are left. Not 

 so many are wasted, however, as there 

 is now almost a system by which the 

 residue is distributed among the city 

 hospitals. 



Prices depend much upon the good 

 nature of the parties making the deal. 

 Pretty hard work to get more than 

 six cents for a rose or to buy them for 

 less than half a cent, and pinlis range 

 from almost nothing to a cent. Sweet 

 peas are on their highest ebb and can 

 be bought by the boxful for a scanda- 

 lously low price, which remark holds 

 good for a large line of outdoor goods. 

 Asters are beginning to get trouble- 

 some, but prices are kept up to one 

 or one and a half cents yet. It looks 



as if they will become more numerous 

 this year than ever, Paul Richwagen 

 leading with 7-5,000 plants and several 

 others coming in second with about 

 halt that number. 



Absolutely no news. Houghton & 

 Clark have reopened their Newport 

 branch, putting one of their good men 

 in charge. - B, T. 



RIVERTON, N. J. 



Ball Game by the Benedicts and Bachelors. 



The benedicts and bachelors of the 

 establishment of H. A. Dreer Co., at 

 Riverton, crossed bats, for the first 

 time this season, on Saturday, July 

 7th, and as it was the first of a series 

 it was strictly on its merits. In spite 

 of the energy manifested by the bach- 

 elors they met their defeat by the 

 score of 17 to 14, which they attribute 

 largely to the presence of ex-Umpire 

 Duffy, notwithstanding he never said 

 "Beans." 



Walter Mott proved himself a real 

 artist at umpiring, although he did in 

 one or two instances get balls and 

 strikes confused, which would not have 

 happened had he availed himself of 

 the supply of Dreer's Bush Limas. 



Too much cannot be said of Rice's 

 catching. He proved himself fearless 

 behind the bat, but for some reason 

 could not find the ball when he came 

 to bat. His great trouble was in mis- 

 judging the length of the bat; he evi- 

 dently thought it as long as that much 

 regarded whitewash brush from the 

 fact that he struck at balls that went 

 way wide of the mark and was called 

 out by Umpire Mott. 



Fatty GriflSnburg proved himself a 

 hard hitter but a poor sprinter, 



Betz outrivaled Watkins at holding 

 down first bag and Schuler made some 

 grandstand plays at shortstop. 



As a fielder Ruppert has no equal, 

 but he is a very uncertain batter; how- 

 ever, this is quite natural, as it is 

 very seldom you find both qualities 

 in one man, 



Peterson and Flynn, battery for the 

 bachelors, put up a great game. Rog- 

 ers took them off the bat with impu- 

 nity; in fact, his playing has to be 

 Been to be appreciated. 



Karins, receiving poor support from 

 the outfield, was knocked out of the 

 box in the third inning, which occa- 

 sioned the substituting of Sim. The 

 change proved very effective, as the 

 bachelors found it very diflScult to lo- 

 cate the leather. 



McDermott put up an unusual poor 

 game, due, no doubt, to lack of prac- 

 tice. 



Fred Vetters proved himself the real 

 article on third base by playing an er- 

 rorless game. Jim Flynn, an old re- 

 tired player, started in with good in- 

 tentions, but was obliged to retire at 

 an early stage of the game owing to 

 his inability to run the bases. This 

 he would have overcome had the re- 

 freshments been served before the 

 game; however, he redeemed himself 

 by filling, without an error, the posi- 

 tion of water carrier. 



The fielding of Stenographer Ru- 

 bricht was the feature of the game, 

 making several phenomenal catches 

 from deep center field. 



After the game all hands partook of 

 light refreshments provided for them 

 by Chas, Stratton, which was served 

 on the banks of Pompass creek. Peter 

 Heiner acted as master of ceremonies 

 and to while away the time related 

 some of his thrilling adventures on the 

 Pacific coast, from the effects of which 

 he has not yet fully recovered. 



J. J. K. 



THE EAGLEIPLUM. 



We have received from Messrs. Ba- 

 ker Bros., Fort Worth, Texas, some 

 fruits of their "everbearing and never- 

 failing" plum, the Eagle. They were 

 of good size and excellent flavor. They 

 advise us that the orinigal tree now 

 has its 28th successive crop and that 

 ripe fruit can be gathered during from 

 six to nine weeks. 



KALAMAZOO, MICH.— The Kala- 

 mazoo Nursery and Floral Co., the or- 

 ganization of which was reported last 

 week, and of which W. C. Cook is 

 manager, have purchased 28 acres of 

 ground adjoining the city limits upon 

 which they will at once erect four 

 houses, 100x10, for propagating pur- 

 poses, to be followed by a cut flower 

 range later. They intend to grow ev- 

 erything but fruit and shade trees. 



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