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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



OCTOBER 23, 1900. 



liver his slock when required and he is 

 generally required to deliver it. Of 

 course there are some small growers 

 here who waste a lot of time in fruitless 

 efforts to sell their stuff, but this evil 

 will remedy itself for such growers will 

 in time eith'er consign their flowers or 

 find some regular outlet for them. 



No, it is" doubtful if Philadelphia 

 will require a cut iiower market for 

 some tim'e yet. The growers must be 

 driven further from town, the stores be 

 more scattered, or we must suffer more 

 from overproduction. 



A long paragrapli. gentlemen, but don't 

 you des'erve it? Can you call a city 

 sleepy whose Beauties sweep JIadison 

 Square Garden and whose roses are seen 

 daily in Boston and in many other eiti'es? 

 Won't the growers whose enterprise has 

 made Philadelphia roses famous give us 

 a market as soon as one is neede<l ? 



Phil. 



CATTLEYA LABIATA. 



We mail you under s'eparate cover two 

 photos of C'attleya labiata. w'hich are 

 quite remarkable. One is a spray of si.v 

 blooms. We have not been able to secure 



It made a few weak growths and small 

 flowers last season, but this year has 

 been a revelation, producing 16 sheaths 

 with 49 flowers. The plioto shows but 

 one-half of the plant, there being nearly 

 as many flowers on the other side. At 

 the time the photo was taken it had 41 

 fully developed blooms. As shown in the 

 photo, this plant is two by three feet in 

 diameter. 



NATHAN SillTII & SON. 



Adrian, Mich. 



[The plant is certainly a grand one, 

 and we present herewith engravings from 

 both photographs. Cattleya labiata is 

 undoubtedly one of the very best orchids 

 for growing for cut flowers in a commer- 

 cial way, but such a specimen as that il- 

 lustrated is not seen every day. We con- 

 gratulate Messrs. Smith & Son on tlieir 

 success with orchids. — Ed.] 



BUFFALO. 



I have not had the pleasure of giving 

 you any news notes for some time, and 

 hardly know where I am at. Our Main 

 St. windows are now very handsome. 

 Adams, Rebstock, Anderson and W. J. 



Six-flowered Spray of Cattleya labiata, the flowers being exceptionally high colored. 

 Grown by N. Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich. 



so large a number from a single sheath 

 Iber'etofore, and do not remember of read- 

 ing that so large a spray had been pro- 

 duced elsewhere. ' 



The otlier, a single plant of remarkable 

 size, which we received direct from South 

 Am'erica a year ago last August, at 

 which time it had about 72 pseudo-bulbs. 



Palmer & Son are all showing orchids. 

 I am afraid if there is too much Labiata 

 displaj'ed in fantastic forms that it will 

 get common and be snubbed. I will say 

 without the .slightest bias for home 

 products that I did not see as fine a win- 

 dow in any city as that daily shown by 

 our W. J. Palmer & Son. I took a look at 



it yesterday and some ladies from 

 the oountry were also admiring it. 

 "What's that purple flower, ma?" 

 "That's what they calls a orchid, Sarah," 

 with the accent on the "chid.'' 



Chrysanthemums are making a fine 

 show. Y'ellow Monarch, Bergman, Glory 

 of the Pacific and a few of the beautiful 

 Polly Rose. 



It was very pleasant to hear almost 

 all classes of florists say that business 

 was much better than last year, and I 

 am pretty sure all our hom'e men would 

 say the same. 



A call at Mr. Billy Kasting's busy 

 place found the great bowler l^usy mov- 

 ing his office to the rear of his long 

 store. This is where it ought to be. 

 Roses were plentiful and fine. Violets 

 coming in as fast as the demand, which 

 has hardly begun, and chrysanthemums 

 were in sufficient supply. The one flower 

 in great demand and scarce was the uni- 

 versal favorite the carnation. It seems 

 to me that the new pinks. Crocker, Mar- 

 quis and Lawson, make the other varie- 

 ties look so small that everybody will 

 want the big ones, but they can't have 

 them unless they pay about double the 

 price of Scott and Daybreak. 



I could not tell you nmch about visit- 

 ors of late, but I know there have be'en 

 several learned and scientific men visit- 

 ing Buflalo, among them Mr. Killen, 

 of New York, Mr. Skidelsky, of Phila- 

 delphia, and Mr. Malloy, of Eoch'ester. 

 .\m sorry to have missed anyone, but no 

 regrets about one gentleman whose name 

 my son could not fathom. He says: "If 

 you sneeze thre'e times and then say 

 vky' it comes near his name." 



I regret I have no time to report prog- 

 ress on the Pan-American, but will get 

 up a good report for your next. I can 

 • inly say that since the coloring is going 

 oil' tlie buildings it is beautiful beyond 

 ccinception. W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Tfae Market. 



After a week of cool weather it sud- 

 denly turned warm again, and this over- 

 >tocked the market with roses, and only 

 tlie choicest stock brings top prices. Sat- 

 urday, good, first-class stock went beg- 

 ging at $10 per 1,000, and some sold 

 even cheaper. Such is the condition of 

 our market just at present. Some 'extra 

 fine Liberties were seen which brought $4. 

 Brides, Kaiserins, Maids, Carnots, and 

 ( Golden Gates are coming in fine, with 

 |irices as stated above. Beauties are in 

 (he same lines and more are coming in 

 than ever before, $2 to $2.50 per dozen 

 for the best, while short stems rate about 

 the same as other ros'es. 



Carnations, too, are coming in fine but 

 not overplentiful. Some of the new va- 

 rieties, such as Ethel Crocker and Gen- 

 evieve Lord, bring top prices — $2. Flora 

 Hill is the b'est white just now. Others 

 like Scott, Daybreak and McGowair, bring 

 $1 per 100. These are coming better each 

 day and will no doubt be more plentiful 

 liiis week. 



Some veiy good home-grown Berg- 



