JULY 'X 19U'J. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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KANSAS CITY. MO. 



Various Notes. 



The usual decline in trade which 

 the florists experience at this season 

 of the year is here with a vengeance, 

 and those of the craft who have the 

 time and can afford the expense are 

 either taking or planning their vaca- 

 tions. A few have gone to Excelsior 

 Springs, a local resort, to escape the 

 heat and bustle of the city and to 

 drink "Celery Compound," while oth- 

 ers of a sporting nature take leave for 

 short intervals to frequent some near- 

 by stream in search of frogs and to 

 fish. 



We have many florists here who 

 have never been in the metropolis. 

 There are some who would like to go 

 but have not the "wherewith-all"; too 

 many outstanding accounts is the ex- 

 cuse given by some for not going, and 

 it now looks as though Kansas 'City 

 will be slimly represented at the con- 

 vention in New York next month. 



Funeral work constitutes about all 

 the business being done at present, 

 and the qTiality of flowers is so infer- 

 ior that the most skillful florist find., 

 some difficulty in arranging even a 

 good average design. 



We are having good rains twice and 

 three times a week (oftener if needed), 

 but the extreme heat which sweeps 

 over this part of the country every 

 few days plays havoc with both in 

 and out door blooms. 



Your correspondent visited several 

 of the local growers last week and all 

 seemed well pleased with the condi- 

 tion of their young stock. 



Robert Brown & Son will give more 

 attention to the growing of cut flowers 

 hereafter, and have planted their roses 

 three weeks earlier than in former 

 years. A bed of asters of vigorous 

 growth promise good results in the 

 next two months. There is an increas- 

 ing demand here for rose stock and 

 more of it should be produced. 



Albert Barbe's place shows that he 

 has expended considerable money this 

 summer, building new houses and re- 

 modeling. He has discarded the Woot- 

 ton rose, which always did so well 

 with him, and substituted Meteor, ow- 

 ing to the better keeping qualities of 

 the latter. The buying of young stock 

 from outside growers has proved so 

 unprofitable that he intends producing 

 all of it himself in the future. 



Miss Hayden, who has been with 

 Samuel Murray for the last nine 

 months, is spending her vacation 

 among friends in Chicago. She has 

 promised to bring back all the latest 

 ideas in floral art. 



A young man, Geo. L. Stiles by name 

 and stylish in appearance, was a visi- 

 tor here last week. He and his broth- 

 er are in business together in Okla- 

 homa City, and he expressed great sat- 

 isfaction of IJie state of trade in his 

 territory; money is more plentiful, 

 crops never better, and he promises a 



good square meal to any florist who 

 may chance to come his way. 



H. J. M. 



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.\mong the Latins and Greeks the rose was dedicated to Cupid or his mother, who 

 excelled all rivals as does I he rose. It was also said to be the transformed body of a nymph, 

 Apollo giving the vivifying power of his beams. Bacchus bathing lier in nectar, Vertumi- 

 nous lending the perfume, Pomona the fruit and Flora the diadem nf flowers. 



