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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



N()vi;mi'.i:u s, I'.ioo. 



eliasers. Whether these special sales are 

 a benefit or an injur}- to the trade in 

 ]^lants aliler pens tlian mine must dis- 

 cuss, but like the (Jrcek, the ""bear"' has 

 come to stay ami imist Ije reckoned with 

 accordiniilv. Piiir,. 



A FLORAL FLOAT. 



We present herewitli an enyruvinj;- 

 from a ))holograph of tlie lloral tloat of 

 Messrs. Berfermann ]?ros., Indianapolis, 

 Ind., that appeared in the recent in- 

 dustrial parade in that city. 



The float was l(ix8 and the outside 

 canvas was painted to represent a jjar- 

 den wall. At the corners cornucopias, 

 surmounted by doves, were tilled witli 

 selected flowers, asiiaragus and sniilax. 

 In the center, above all, was a very large 

 handle basket of American Beauties, the 

 body of the float being fllhxl with Bos- 

 ton ferns. The horses carried festoons 

 of greeii wreathing and roses finished 

 with ribbons. 



A cart filled with large latanias and 

 vines, the wheels covered with c.ycas 

 leaves and ivv, followed the float, the 



Hut the supply of nuiterial is surely 

 shortening and consequently tliere is but 

 little surplus and saUsmen are coming 

 nearer to obtaining their asking price, 

 which has not yet advanced nnu'h. l^l'ial- 

 ity of crops is not good, ainuist nothing- 

 coming in in first quality shape as com- 

 pared with what wc sometimes need at 

 this date. 



Our short supply seems to (ill the light 

 demand all right so far, but one good old- 

 lime day's work would clean out every 

 ice chest in the city. We hardly know 

 how to look at things. Whether all this 

 lack of business is due toi weather and 

 tlie approach of the election cannot be 

 decided. We can only hope so and that 

 both causes will come to a conclusion at 

 the same time. 



Various Items. 



Tailby is far and away the champion 

 arrival on ])aper white narcissus. He 

 has been bringing in some fairly good 

 ones now every day for nearly a week. 



Fellows ISrothers are floating down a 

 lot of giM.id clirvsanthcmiHus from their 

 New Hampshire roofs and a very ingc- 



Floral Float by Bertermann Bros., Indianapolis, Ind. 



horse being decorated in same style as 

 the others. 



Following the cart came a wheelbar- 

 row filled with tools, soil, plants, etc. 



All the attendants were dressed in 

 gray suits, trimmed with green, and 

 straw hats. Two w-ere on horseback in 

 advance of the float. 



The whole was pronounced the fir.est 

 display in the parade, besides being a 

 much to be desired relief from paper 

 flowers and similar abominations. 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 



The situation here is getting altogether 

 too serious to joke about any longer. 

 The only ijoint in favor of the grower is 

 that the weather conditions keep the coal 

 .expenses way down, thus keeping com- 

 jiany with his .spirits and supply of cash. 



nious mechanical arrangement for liidd 

 ing the stems in place and also tn 

 strenuthcn the sides of the boxes^ which 

 they invented and use, is well worth ex- 

 amining and copying, 



M. B. Bunker is to occupy a store on 

 Beacon street, near Zinn's. It is sup- 

 posed he will vacate his jjlaces in the 

 Parker House and at the Touraine. 



The new hortii-ultural hall on JIass. 

 avenue is developing, being now well 

 above the sidewalk. The promise now is 

 to have it finished in Jlay and put on a 

 fine exhibition in June. 



A friend of mine has just returned 

 from a pleasure trip to the Bahamas. He 

 has an interesting story to tell which 

 proves those islands to be more tropical 

 than I had supposed, roses and many 

 other blossoms being in full bloom; ole- 

 ander hedges twenty feet high in blossom 

 lialf the year; ten-foot lantanas, a field 

 weed, and so forth. He speaks of I he 

 lily crop as being just planted. 



guill-driver "I'hil," of Philadelphia, 

 sj)eaks of an equally broad-brinnned 

 and broad-minded retailer of the 

 ""i|uaint old tjuaker City," who 

 tliinks the grower of mixed stuft' 

 like bouvardia, heliotrope. mign- 

 onette, etc, will be a success this winter, 

 and then spoils the whole argument by 

 saying that disease makes the growing of 

 some of them unsuccessful. The grower 

 nuist make a specialt.v of something, un- 

 derstand it well enough to grow it to per- 

 fection and always have a supplj-. And 

 he cannot do this on a mixed croj). 



If he grows a mixed crop he must com- 

 pete with speciali?ts on some of them 

 probably and they will fully as probably 

 reach the best buyer about five minutes 

 ahead of him. It is a science to grow 

 even the simplest crop to its very best 

 and one that can occupy any anan's whole 

 attention. 



P. L, t'arbone has just returned from 

 a four-months' outing, which this year 

 took the form of a trip through Eng- 

 land, Germany, Switzerland. Austria, 

 Italy and France, Why is not that about 

 the right kind of a vacation and why do 

 not more of u^ ""vacate"" that way? 



J, S, M.\NTEK. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Shaw Banquet. 



The covers were laid for 100 guests 

 .11 the nth annmil banquet which took 

 place at the ^Mercantile Club last Satur- 

 <lay night as provided for under the will 

 of Henry Shaw. The tables and room 

 «ire handsomely decorated with palms 

 and cut flowers by Emil Schray. Those 

 ]iresent were mostly local florists, nur- 

 serymen and market gardeners. 



Among the florists present were Pat- 

 rick O'ilara, of New 'V'ork; Wni. Scott. 

 of Bufl'alo; A. S, Halstedt and E. W. 

 Guy, of Belleville, III.; C. C. Sanders, Ca- 

 lew Sanders. Carl Beyer, F, J, Fillmore, 

 K, H. ilichel. K. T. Tesson, J. J. Beneke, 

 Theo. Miller, P. J. ilohr, W. J, Dunford, 

 JIa.x Herzog, Emil Schray, John Connon 

 and F, H, Meinhardt. 



Ex-Gov. D. R. Francis, ex-Gov, N. J. 

 Coleman, Prof. Wm. Trelease, Prof. 

 Irish, Prof. Whitten, Mr. Jared G, 

 Smith, Julius C, Birge and A. Nelson 

 were also present. 



Professor William Trelease. director of 

 Shaw's Garden, jiresided as toastmaster. 

 He opened the speaking with a short 

 address, saying tluit the great philan- 

 thropist had intended that the garden 

 should be for the benefit and advance- 

 ment of local gardeners and that he was 

 anxious for them to use it to the fullest 

 extent, Mr. Patrick O'Mara, of New- 

 York, president-elect of the S. A. F., 

 responded to the toast '"The Society of 

 -\merican Florists," and Julius C. Birge 

 responded to '"The Man with a Home." 

 The next to respond was Jared G. Smith, 

 of the seed and plant department of the 

 I'nitcd States. J. J. Beneke responded to 

 '"The Chrysanthemum Show"; William 

 I Scott, of Bufl'alo, N. Y., director of flori- 



