AUGUST 2, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



269 



BUFFALO. 



The most salubrious of weather 

 with frequent rains has put us m good 

 shape and temper. When almost all 

 other cities are sweltering at 95 de- 

 grees, we are enjoying a temperature 

 of 80 degrees. 



Gladiolus, mostly of the Crozy type, 

 make a conspicuous show in the store 

 ■windows, and asters are very good 

 and plentiful. When you get the order 

 there is no difficulty in filling it. 



Neubeck & Myers have had a very 

 fine lot of Japan lilies, rubrum and 

 album, most useful for bunches. Reb- 

 stock has frequently a fine window 

 display of gloxinias, but they go 

 rather slowly. Anderson makes occa- 

 sionally a grand window of Boston 

 ferns, and Palmer & Sons are always 

 attractive with a novelty or a splendid 

 show of water lilies. The remaining 

 Main street florist, Andy Adams, runs 

 to big collections of sweet peas, taking 

 funeral orders, and talking politics. 



Andy has all the attributes to fit 

 him for an ideal ward politician; an 

 attractive delivery, with the agility to 

 sit on the fence and drop either side, 

 as circumstances suggest. ,Tust as 

 well that as any way. Go for your 

 friends; parties are fictitious and fal- 

 lacious at best. 



I called in yesterday on Mr. Dennis 

 O'Connell to ask his opinion of how 

 big a hall we should need to hold the 

 convention of the S. A. F. next year. 

 I found Mr. O'Connell deep into the 

 pages of Huxley's "The Evolution of 

 Ethics," which he takes up as a re- 

 lief from his heavier reading. "Pri- 

 vate Morals of the Eleventh Century 

 Saints" and "Bubbles from Babylon" 

 are his favorite studies. "Ah. ma bye. 

 ye'll make misthake if yees don't hire 

 the biggest hall in town; they'll come 

 here tin thousand strong." .And Den- 

 nis is right. We hear from every part 

 of the country the wish that the con- 

 vention will be held here in 1!)01. and 

 we are not going to disappoint these 

 sensible people. Apropos of tliis, youi- 

 enterprising Chicago contemporary 

 sent out a circular letter inviting ex- 

 pressions of opinion on the subject. 

 They were doubtless flooded with 

 strong indorsements for Buffalo, but 

 of course only allowed one or two of 

 that kind to appear and discreetly se- 

 lected a few lukewarm epistles and a 

 few poor lonel.v ones that squarely op- 

 posed Buffalo either from the narrow 

 view that some other town would save 

 them car fare or the writer was bilious 

 and warped. 



Ben (it's a shame I don't know his 

 other name, but he has been a long 

 time with Mr. Rebstock and we al- 

 ways called him Ben) has gone to 

 Denver to succeed Mr. Michael Bloy 

 as foreman of the Park Floral Co. 

 Ben is a first-class gardener and a 

 fine worker and is bound to succeed. 

 Too bad that the altitude did not suit 

 Mr. Bloy. He left Denver and Mr. 

 Valentine, his most worthy employer, 

 with mutual regrets. 



At last we have got a bowling team; 



eight men were selected, and from 

 them six will be chosen: 20 games 

 will be played during the next two 

 weeks and the two lowest will go as 

 rooters and to see that John Westcott 

 keeps on his own alleys. There is a 

 good deal of one family, but that can't 

 be helped. Beginning with the young- 

 est, the eight men are: D. J. Scott. 

 Carl Reasch. W. B. Scott, W. Webber. 

 W. F. Kasting, James Braik. G. Mc- 

 Clure, and old man Scott. The latter 

 in Omaha form with "A little piece of 

 the top." How proud I will be to 

 give you the scores of our first day's 

 practice, although I have no wish to 

 scare the other teams. W. S. 



DENVER, COLO. 



Various Items. 



Trade is quiet and good stock scarce. 

 Asters and gladiolus Jiave begun to 

 show up. also dahlias. Wilmore bring- 

 ing in some very fine ones. 



There is quite a little stir on in 

 building, some adding to their places, 

 while others are satisfied to >reniodel. 



Michael Bloy, who has had charge of 

 the Park Floral Co.'s greenhouses for 

 several months, resigned his position 

 on the 21st of last month and has gone 

 back to Buffalo. Mike liked it here, 

 but said that it was "too high^ for 

 him. His place has been taken by 

 Ben Boldt, who hails from the same 

 town. 



There is a little bowling going on. 

 but not as a club. There are one or 

 two who may get to the convention 

 and get in that individual tournament 

 or roll and want to keep their "wing" 

 in shape. Too bad we cannot have a 

 team entered when you look over that 

 handsome lot of cups. My I but there 

 will lie a time. There was just a lit- 

 tle rivalry at Detroit, but that 

 shouldn't be a marker to New York 

 if they can get all the teams entered. 

 There will be "blud" sure. With the 

 modest Philadelphia team, blowy Chi- 

 cago, unlucky New Yorks. fair and 

 square Flatbushers, St. Louis quitters, 

 and boasting Buffaloes, all well repre- 

 sented, what a race it will make. It's 

 hard to pick a winner, but give me two 

 guesses with the team in shape and I 

 think I have it. Give Bill- Kasting 

 fi-ee use of his voice and half the race 

 is won. 



Diath of Chas. F. "Webb. 



On Thursday, July 26th, there passed 

 away one of Denver's brightest young 

 men, Mr. Charles F. Webb. He was 

 a graduate of the Denver High School 



class of '93, and on leaving school en- 

 gaged in the florist business. It was 

 but a short time Ijefore he was taken 

 in as a partner in the firm of Glauber 

 & Webb. The firm remained so, and 

 enjoyed a flourishing trade up to the 

 time of Mr. Webb's death. Charlie, 

 as he was familiarly known by all 

 who knew him, v/as a Denver boy, be- 

 ing born here twenty-sev^n years ago. 

 He had never traveled out of the 

 state, and it was on the eve of his 

 departure on an extended trip east 

 that he was taken ill. He was ill but 

 three days when he died. He will be 

 sadly missed by the tjrade, for he was 

 a friend to everyone. 



The funeral, which took place on 

 Saturday, was largely attended by the 

 craft. ROCKY. 



ST. PAUL. 



The picnic of the Twin City Florists' 

 Club is a thing of the past, but it will 

 be long remembered by all who took 

 part. Lake Park, Lake Minnetonka. 

 an ideal place for picnics, had been 

 selected by the committee, and we had 

 fun by the carload. The Minneapolis 

 boys, having much the largest num- 

 her present, took nearly all the prizes, 

 but in base ball and in the "tug 

 of war" they weren't in it for a 

 minute. The St. Paulites went home 

 feeling very proud of having among 

 them such strong fellows as Billy 

 Fleischer, who pulled at the end of the 

 rope like a Texas steer. 



The pansy growers had some un- 

 pleasant competition this spring. A 

 former vegetable grower took a notion 

 to grow pansies for wholesale trade. 

 A commission firm sold them to 

 everyone for 12 to 15 cents a basket 

 of a dozen plants. The regular florists 

 had to follow siiit in order to move 

 tlieir stocks, though they had former- 

 ly got 20 to 30 cents per basket. The 

 regular growers suffered, of course. 

 But it was very funny to see the bas- 

 kets of pansies piled up amongst 

 sweet potatoes, Limburger cheese, 

 dressed and undressed calves, chick- 

 ens, pigs, and other things of the 

 sort, and the flower store keepers go- 

 ing around picking out their pansies 

 from this queer collection. C. B. 



NEWTOWN. PA.— H. W. Weiland has 

 completed a new house 128x22, using 

 the Jennings gutter and greenhouse 

 fittings. 



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