iNOVEMBEI! 15, 1(10(1. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



721 



continues in full bloom all the summer, 

 anj is of a nice habit in growth. One of 

 the objections a<;ainst many of the hardy 

 plants is that they grow onto such big 

 loppy things before the summer is lialf 

 over and take up too much room for a 

 border. Strong growers are best planted 

 among shrubs ; they liven them up dur- 

 ing the period when they are mostly out 

 of bloom and they do better in that situa- 

 tion. 



BUFFALO. 



All hands report business as very fair. 

 There is an ample supply of flowers. A 

 good many chrysanthemums are sent in, 

 but homegrown stock beats them. Car- 

 nations are getting more plentiful. Vio- 

 lets are precarious both in supply and 

 demand. Thanksgiving is really the be- 

 ginning of the good violet trade." Palmer 

 & Son are showing some fine Liberty. 

 Their cut of all the other leading rose.; is 

 very fine. 



Mr. C. F. Christenson has his fine new 

 place all complete and is cutting a lot of 

 remarkably fine carnations, mostly 

 Bradt, Crane, White Cloud and The Mar- 

 quis. Chris is in great trouble: "My 

 dear boj', I don't know what to do; that 



d d water is killing everything." 



Chris drilled a well some 40 feet and 

 struck a stream that turned out in vol- 

 ume a second Niagara, but when exam- 

 ined by the c-ity chemist is said to con- 

 tain lime, salt, gypsum and other things 

 injurious to plant life in excessive quan- 

 tities. It will corrode the pipes in his 

 heating system and also the pipes in his 

 horse. It is not fit for beast or man, but 

 the latter is not likely to take much un- 

 diluted. I am glad to say that although 

 it truly leaves a white, scaly covering on 

 some of the foliage, yet it can't be dele- 

 terious for everything, for his carnations 

 and roses grow and are growing grandly. 

 Mr. Christenson is now building large 

 cisterns imder his benches and saving 

 the. water from the roofs, and we sin- 

 cerely hope lie will get over all his 

 trouble and be very prosperous, as a good 

 gardener deserves. 



We have had several visitors, but j'our 

 correspondent has missed some of them. 

 Mr. Dimmoek, of England, was here, and 

 so was Mr. J. E. Dalgleisli, of Washing- 

 ton. Mr. Lloyd Vaxtghan dropped in yes- 

 terday on his road to Cliicago. 



I visited Toronto last week. Their 

 show, both of plants and flowers, was 

 good, but they struck a bad time for 

 weather and that, with the homecoming 

 of Canadian soldiers from the Transvaal 

 and the parliamentary election, the peo- 

 ple were too excited to attend such a 

 peaceful gathering as a flower show. The 

 roses were most excellent, of all kinds, 

 but not any better in their class than 

 were the carnations; they were the best 

 I have seen anywhere this fall. 



There is one variety that was the gem 

 of the lot and which all must grow; it 

 is Morning Glory. It will surely dis- 

 place Daybreak, or any of its class, for 

 the color is as good and it is three times 

 as large and a beauty to grow. 



I took the time to run up to Bracon- 

 dale and see 2,000 blooms of the immense 



white chrysanthemum Timothy Eaton. I 

 passed my opinion on this wonderful 

 llower last year. 1 hope Miller & Sons 

 will exhibit it at every show. Mr. Millei 

 some three or four years ago raised sev- 

 eral carnations and named them after 

 Canadian ladies of title — Lady Minto. 

 Lady Van Horn and Lady Laurier. Now 

 I saw these growing by the thousand, 

 not a few llowers at a show, and I cannot 

 pay them any greater compliment than 

 to say that Mr. Jliller need not buy any 

 of the new varieties in their colors. Lady 

 Laurier is a fine pink, and I could see 

 that it was just as free as Scott. Van 

 Horn is just as free but darker. When 

 you get a good thing don't push it along 

 always, but stick to it. 



■ I was sorry my trip to St. Louis was 

 so hurried. I would like to have shown 

 Brother Beneke how to make strikes, but 

 1 only had llic Sunday there and yuu 

 know how strictly they keep the Sab- 

 bath in that great city just across the 

 Mississippi. Through the kindness of 

 Mr. Tesson I saw much of the residence 

 portion of the city as well as his fine 

 range of glass. I greatly enjoyed meet- 

 ing so many of the craft at the Shaw- 

 banquet. 



I wish Buffalo had had a Mr. Shaw. 

 The Botanic Garden is a great boon to 

 the city at large and to the gardening 

 fraternity especially. I was glad to see 

 our Buffalo bo^-, Mr. George MeClure, 

 have an important charge in the cardcn 

 and filling it so capably. W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Winter weather lias at last arrived and 

 the lower temperature, coupled with dark 

 days, has reduced the supply, especially 

 of roses, the cut of which has been re- 

 duced at least 50 percent. But even with 

 this big reduction in supply there was 

 jilcnty to meet all demands up to Wed- 

 nesday of this week, when a shortage be- 

 gan to be noticeable in roses, on which 

 prices have stiffened some. In fact, 

 prices are a trific firmer all around except 

 on mums, which still drag at prices much 

 lower than those of last year. 



The brisk demand usually noticeable 

 at this season has not yet materialized, 

 though it may begin any day now that 

 the election excitement is over and the 

 long open fall has been terminated by 

 the arrival of real winter weather. 



There is considerable guessing as to the 

 supply for Thanksgiving Day trade. 

 Some look for a shortage at that time, 

 but others think demands will be fairly 

 well met. There is no denying, though, 

 that the warm weather this fall has 

 drawn heavily upon the resources of the 

 plants, and that they will be inclined to 

 rest if present weather eondifinns con 

 tinue. 



Annuil Banquet. 



The annual banquet of the Florists' 

 Club was held in the Egyptian banquet 

 hall of the Auditorium Hotel Thursday 

 evening of last week. About 80 sat down 

 to the table, which was in the form of 

 an oblong, with the diners seated at the 

 nuler side only. On the inside the table 



cloth reached to the floor, and along it 

 at intervals of three or four feet were 

 pinned long-stemmed chrysanthemums 

 with the flowers extending a few inches 

 above the surface of the table. The ef- 

 fect was excellent. Inside of the square 

 (or oblong) formed by the tables the 

 carpet was covered with white cloth, 

 over which sprays of asparagus had been 

 scattered, and in the center was a huge 

 silver bowl filled with specimen chrysan- 

 themums. At the center of each table 

 at the ends of the oblong were placed 

 tall trumpet vases of mums and at the 

 centers of the tables at the sides were 

 low mounds of the same flower, these be- 

 ing arranged on the edge of the table 

 toward the hollow square. Other flow- 

 ers and foliage were used on the cloth. 



The decoration was most creditable to 

 Messrs. P. J. Haus.wirth and John Gorm- 

 ley. who arranged it, the flowers being 

 contributed by Messrs. W. N. Kudd and 

 E. liuettner, and the plants bv tne Geo. 

 Wittbold Co., and Walter Retzer & Co. 

 The boutonnieres were Enquirer carna- 

 tions, kindly sent by Mr. R. Witterstaet- 

 ter. Cincinnati, for the purpose. 



The dinner was first-class, sustaining 

 the well known reputation of the Audi- 

 torium Hotel, and with the coming of the 

 colTee and cigars President McAdams in- 

 troduced Mr. J. C. Vaughan as toastmas- 

 ter. 



President-elect O'Mara, of the S. A. 

 F., was first called upon to respond for 

 the national society. He spoke of its 

 inception and growth and tire many prac- 

 tical benefits that had resulted, men- 

 tioning especially the Hail Insurance So- 

 ciety, reduced postage rates and special 

 express rates, and the trade press. He 

 was followed by Mr. J. N. Aiay, who, in 

 speaking of the interdependence of those 

 in the trade, one upon the other, brought 

 down the house by his statement that, 

 ''The wholesale man lives upon the 

 grower to the fullest extent."' 



Mr. E. G. Hill spoke of the "Unlocked 

 Door," meaning the giving to all brother 

 craftsmen of the information gained by 

 experience as contrasted with the secret- 

 iveness of the early days. He felt that 

 a great work was being done in educat- 

 ing the people into attending the flower 

 shows and that its great value to the 

 trade could hardly be estimated. Mr. 

 John Thorpe, once known as John Chry- 

 santhemum in the early days because of 

 his advocacy of the mum, said that his 

 prophesies had been nearly realized and 

 felt that the extreme would yet be 

 reached. 



Brief responses were also made bv W. 

 N. Rudd, G. A. Rackham, G. L. Grant, 

 J. J. Hess, J. C. Rennison, C. C. Poll- 

 worth, Wm. Edelfsen, P. J. Hauswirth, 

 John Reardon, Geo. Woodward, E. Buett- 

 ner, M. Heller, E. F. Winterson, C. M. 

 Dickinson, Geo. A. Kuhl, G. F. Crabb. 

 Edgar Sanders and Harry Balsley. 



The speeches were interspersed by 

 songs by the club quartette, composed of 

 Messrs. C. W. McKellar, E. F. Winterson, 

 E. H. Kissell and Chas. Balluff. They 

 gave the compan.y some w-arm ones and 

 responded to frequent recalls. Chas. Bal- 

 luff also favored the compan}' with a rec- 

 itation in Italian dialect describing the 



