OCTOBER 4, 1S0«. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



527 



trees are as green as in June. All this 

 speaks volumes for the climate of the 

 great North Star state. 



Robt. Brown, formerly manager for 

 E. Hippard, Youngstown, Ohio, has ac- 

 cepted the position of foreman for L. 

 L. May & Co. 



Dame Rumor reports that another 

 large department store in Minneapolis 

 will soon engage in the florist busi- 

 ness, erecting a range of houses in the 

 near future. 



The Society of Minnesota Florists 

 seems to have died a natural death, as 

 nothing has been heard of it in a long 

 time. 



A. H. Bunde has erected two new 

 houses this season. We understand 

 that A. S. Swanson has also built three 

 new houses, but we have not learned 

 particulars. 



John Xilsen. in business for several 

 years near Ft. Snelling. has sold his 

 houses to Haugen & Swanson, who 

 formerly rented the Lemke houses, on 

 Hague avenue, near Snelling. E. F. 

 Lemke will run these houses this sea- 

 son. 



L. L. May & Co. are displaying a 

 nice collection of Holland and French 

 bulbs and have their conservatory well 

 filled with palms for fall and winter 

 sales. 



Mums have made their appearance 

 in limited quantities, but the main 

 crop will not be in for some time. 



S. B. Dicks, representing Cooper. 

 Taber & Co., and J. B. Comont. with 

 Carter Dunnett & Beale, were recent 

 ■callers on the seed trade. X. Y. Z. 



PITTSBURG. 



Various Items. 



Cut ilower trade seems to be picking 

 up gradually. The stores and markets 

 did a fair business last week. 



J. B. Murdock has a fine storeroom 

 now. with new front, paint and tiling. 



Thos. Ulam & Co. have made a neat 

 store and gained room by making al- 

 terations and putting in a new Ice- 

 box. 



Breitenstein & Flemm's place looks 

 neat and clean with new paint and 

 other improvements. 



The Ludwig firm in Allegheny Mar- 

 ket made quite a show with asters, 

 gladiolus, cosmos, etc. 



The son of Robert Faulk, of Alle- 

 gheny Market, who has been ill with 

 typhoid fever is improving rapidly. 



Roses are coming in better now as 

 we are having cooler weather. 



A few Liberty can be seen at the 

 Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. 



Carnations are not plentiful yet and 

 a good many of them are short in 

 stem. The growers report a good deal 

 of stemrot in the Marquis carnations. 

 Plants out of field sold well this year. 

 A good many orders could not be filled 

 by the local growers. The plants av- 

 eraged smaller this year on account 

 of the dry summer. 



C. Blind, West View, has planted his 



two new houses with chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



J. F. Gibbs has been building at 

 Woodville. 



Burki, at Bellevue, has cut out his 

 crop of Lady Fitzwygram, which were 

 better than ever and about the only 

 ones about here in quantity. Pacific, 

 Bergmann and Merry Monarch will be 

 in in another week. BAER. 



THE "OLD SOLDIERS." 



Editor Florists' Review: It seems 

 that Bro. Scott has formed rather a 

 poor opinion of "Old Soldiers" from 

 the remarks he makes in his reply to 

 the inquiry of L. H. R. in "Review" of 

 Sept. 27, page 496. He says: "I have 

 known retired generals and colonels 

 to have a taste for gardening and keep 

 a gardener, but this Is a true case of 

 the sword and bayonet being turned 

 into the pruning hook and garden 

 trowel. I don't ever remember an old 

 soldier taking to gardening. Their oc- 

 cupation is destructive; the gardener's 

 productive." 



Does Bro. Scott think that the hun- 

 dreds of thousands of true American 

 citizens that took up arms to protect 

 this glorious Union had no other pro- 

 pensities save that of destructiveness 

 and bloodshed, or does he suppose they 

 lost their better qualities of refinement 

 and love for the "beautiful" in nature 

 by a few years' service as private sol- 

 diers in the glorious work of saving 

 the honor and beauty of our star 

 spangled banner? 



I, too, am an "old soldier" (a pri- 

 vate), and now a florist and fancier, 

 caring very tenderly for fine plants, 

 flowers and pets. E. S. Nixon, who 

 was a successful florist for 25 years in 

 Chattanooga, Tenn. (now deceased), 

 was an "old soldier" fa private), and 

 there are thousands of other "old sol- 

 diers" (privates), who after their glo- 

 rious service returned to their happy 

 homes and took up the "pruning 

 hook" and "garden trowel," and be- 

 came calm and peaceable tillers of the 

 soil, watching with tender delight the 

 germinating of the seed, the swelling 

 of the bud, the expanding of the flower 

 and perfecting of the fruit. Thousands 

 of other "old soldiers" (privates) have 

 become cultivators and trainers of the 

 young and tender minds of the rising 

 generations of America. 



Bro. Scott, get acquainted with the 

 "Old Soldiers." C. O. HUNT. 



St. Elmo (suburb of Chattanooga), 

 Tenn. 



[We feel sure our correspondent has 

 misinterpreted Mr. Scott's remarks. 

 We could not see that any reflection 

 was cast upon the old soldiers. And 

 there are soldiers and soldiers. The 

 volunteer who freely offers his services 

 in behalf of his country when the life 

 of the latter is endangered is unques- 

 tionably entitled to all possible honor. 

 But such a soldier as Napoleon, who 

 drenched the soil of Europe with 

 the blood of the people for the further- 



ance of his own ambitions should re- 

 ceive execration instead of the adula- 

 tion poured upon him and his achieve- 

 ments. While we may admire his mil- 

 itary genius, just as we may admire 

 the nerve and dash of the highway- 

 man, we should not overlook the fact 

 that the wars he waged were to feed 

 the fires of his ambition and for no 

 good purpose. And he is a type of 

 soldier that has existed since the hu- 

 man race began. But the conditions 

 that made Napoleon's career possible 

 have happily passed away. "The high- 

 er and broader education" of the peo- 

 ple mentioned by Mr. Scott would 

 make impossible the repetition of such 

 a life of bloodshed. Ed.] 



PEORIA, ILL. 



This is Com Carnival week in Peo- 

 ria and a little livening up of the 

 business is looked for. 



A run through the various estab- 

 lishments finds stock looking well. I 

 noted several houses of well grown 

 Boston ferns at Geo. Kuhl's, at Pekin. 

 They were very stocky and have a 

 rich" dark foliage, being also in azalea 

 pots, which is an advantage. His 

 roses looked exquisite, especially one 

 house of Perles. He has 10,000 cut- 

 tings of Liberty in the propagating 

 bed, and they are growing the usual 

 amount of other rose cutting stock 

 this winter. 



Cole Bros, are cutting some very 

 fine Beauties and report their inten- 

 tion of piitting up shortly 25,000 ft 

 of glass for roses to supply their in- 

 creasing demand. 



C. Loveridge is cutting the best roses 

 seen here, from his second year plants. 



There are prospects for good violets. 

 J. C. Murray is picking some very fair 

 Princess of Wales. 



Mums are very late this year and it 

 will be some time before they will be 

 seen around. 



Mr. Kuhl arrived home from Dakota 

 looking very well and finds the change 

 beneficial. 



F. Lockyear is in town and Is look- 

 ing for a place to open up a flower 

 store. J- R- 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



J. H. H. Boyd, Gage, Tenn., whole- 

 sale price list of tree and shrub seeds 

 and seedlings: Phoenix Nursery Co., 

 Bloomington, III., price list of trees, 

 plants, shrubs, etc.; H. P. Kelsey. 

 Boston, Mass., Kelsey's list of hardy 

 American plants and Caroline moun- 

 tain flowers: S. Wilks Mfg. Co., 53 So. 

 Clinton St., Chicago, water heaters, 

 steam generators and steel tanks; 

 Pinehurst Nurseries. Pinehurst. N. C, 

 pamphlet telling "How to Make Tree 

 Seeds Grow," also trade list of woody 

 and herbaceous plants and other orna- 

 mentals: Ellwanger & Barry, Roches- 

 ter. N. Y., catalogue of Holland bulbs, 

 roses and specialties for fall plant- 

 ing: Jos. Bancroft & Son, Cedar Falls, 

 la., fall catalogue of plants and bulbs. 



