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The Weekly Eorists' Review. 



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Seasonable Stock. 



I BEGONIA REX, 3-'"- pots, in good assortment, $6.00 per 100. 



I ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS NANUS, l^rJio^T' $7.00 per 100 



I VINCA MAJOR VARIEGATA, field-grown, extra strong, $6.00 per 100. | 



'f NEW GERANIUMS, including Jean Viaud and other choice sorts. *^ 



I Stock plants of all the BEST CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Jf SEND US LIST OF WANTS FOR PRICES. 



I Nathan Smith & Son, - Adrian, Mich. 



Mfntlnn Thp Review when you write. 



FRITZ ON FLOWER SHOWS. 



[Read at the anuual banquet of the Chicago 

 Florists' Club by A. C. Kohlbrand], 



SlIAUMBURG, Nov. 11, 1900. 



Tear Frient: I haf much sorrowrafiit 

 dat I was not aple to call on you to see 

 today while mit de town in, but you 

 know how it is it. When a fellow comes to 

 town he chenerally get.s mixed out mit 

 some old comrades und he can't tear 

 himself away already. It happened so 

 mit me today und gonsequenctly off it 

 is it dat I half me such a headache like I 

 nefer hat, und I hat to make my esgape 

 mit de tirst drains for home. 



De show dis year is wcry nice wat dere 

 is off it, but not so goot as we are used 

 mit seeing in Chicago. De quality is all 

 right but as for quandity it comes not 

 up to ray exbecdation. What de madder 

 is it? Has dat olt feeling off rivallry diet 

 out? De exhibition don't seem to dis- 

 blay dot olt feeling of enerchy und win 

 or die like dey used to do in former 

 years. 



Dou you remeniper de olt flower shows 

 in Cincinnati years ago when we used 

 to work from 7 in de morning undil 7 

 in the morning und nefer kick if we 

 could only get a bremium or two? Do 

 you rememper some of dc gontrapshuns 

 we used to make up? Wat woult dey do 

 mit a fellow dese days if he was to 

 make up a lot of bedsteds, stofes, billy 

 goats und oder dings too numerous to 

 explanation? Do you rememper how 

 we used to sit up all night und stem up 

 eupatorium, balsams, alternanthera und 

 ageratum und oder loose chewing, und 

 make designs for flower shows? 



I must laff wen I dink off de first 

 dinner tal>le wat was to pe exhibited, 

 und de florists had not de least idee off 

 wat was wanted, und when he brought 

 to de show a peautiful ham made mit 

 bink und white balsams, und alternan- 

 thera all around de outside. Und de 

 sausage mate also mit bink and white 

 balsams, und de watermcllon mate in 

 de same way mit ivy leafs for outside 



ROSES 



Archduke Charlt-s 



Agrippina 



Bride 



r.ridesmaid 



Baldwin 



]iun Silene 



Clara A\'atson 



C. Soupert 



Christine de Noue 



Catherine Mermet 



Climbing Wootton 



Meteor 



Kaiserin 



Perle 



Malmaison 

 Dr. Grill 

 Devoniensis 

 Duchess de Brabant 

 Duchess of Albany 



Ki-nest Metz 

 Etoile de Lyon 

 Enchantress 

 Folkestone 

 Francois Kruger 

 Golden Gate 

 Gus. Tripelitz 

 Geo^ Bancroft 

 Henry M. Stanley 

 Kaiserin 

 Mme. Camille 

 Mme. Lambard 

 Marie Guillot 

 Mme. AVatteville 

 Mme. Welche 

 Mme. Schwaller 

 Mme. Jos. Schwartz 

 Maman Cochet 

 Mrs. Dcgraw 



EXTRA STRONG 2 YEAR OLD ROSES, 

 CHEAP, TO^^MARE .ROOM. 



2r),000 Roses of the following varieties, strong, healthy 

 plants, potted in i and 5-inch pots. . i^ 



Meteor 



Media 



Marie Van Houtte 



Mme. Margottin 



Malmaison 



Papa Gontier 



Pink Soupert 



Perle 



President Carnot 



Princess Venosa 



Princess de Sagan 



Queen's Scarlet 



Safrano 



Snow flake 



Sombreuil 



I>a France 



Bamarque 



La Princess Vera 



La Pactole 



Mosella 



Hermosa 



Marechal Niel 



Maid of Honor 



Mme. Abel Chatenay 



Mrs. Robt. Garrett 



Mme. Cecile Eerthod 



Souvenir de Wootton 



Striped La France 



Sylph 



Solfaterre 



The Queen 



Trlomphe de Pernet Pere 



Reine Marie Henriette 



Victor Hugo 



White Maman Cochet 



Marechal Niel 



La France 

 Yellow Rambler 



Price for a general assortment of the above, aod not less than five of a kind, $i 00 per 100 ; $30.00 

 for 500; $35.00 for lOUO. We have a quarter million of fine thriftv roses in 2H-in pots at $2.50 per 100 : 

 $20.00 per lOf 0. The above prices are for cash only. We would ask that purchasers remit by money 

 order, express order or bank draft, as it costs 2')C each to collect personal checks. All stock guaran- 

 teed true to name. No charge for packing, which is done in a light and thorough manner. 



R. H. MIRPHEY & SON, IRBANA, OHIO. 



Mention Th(* RpvIpw whpn you xprttA 



cofering. De dinner table looked like a 

 Dutch ])icnic, only de keg of beer was 

 missing. 



Talk aboud Dutch picnics, do you re- 

 memper old II — , de brewer? He always 

 reminded me off a Dutch picnic, keg und 

 all. I took him homo one night after 

 lie hat been oud all day gollecting, und 

 Ive was pretty sick by de time he reached 

 home. We obened de front gate und as 

 he walked mit de yard in he fall ofer his 

 dog. You oughd to haff' heart him hol- 

 ler, "Himinel! Donnerwettcr! Wat is it 

 dot a chentleinan can't come home al- 

 ready mit out falling ofer all de dachs- 

 hunds in de country, und preak his 

 genick falling up de steps, or worse still 

 to haf his wife chew de rag aboud staj'- 

 ing oud late when all de time he is tent- 

 ing strigtly to business. It always 

 seemed to me dat when chentlemen were 

 made und dogs were made de maker got 

 dem mixed oud und called de dog de 

 chentleinan und de chentloman de dog. 



"A dog don't haf to go all around town 

 trying to goUcct a few bad debts und 

 work like a slafe from morning till night, 

 und efery dime he gollects apoud $4 for 

 a barrel of beer sphend $0 ofer de bar,, 

 und when he comes home at night sick 

 !iiit the day's work he don't fall ofer any 

 dogs und preak his genick or haf his 

 wife chew de rag for two hours. It's 

 wrong, all wrong. In my obinion a dog 

 leads a chentleman's life und a chentle- 

 inan a dog's life, und efcn in death de- 

 dog has dc adwantage ofer a chentleman. 

 When a dog dies he is deat, dot seddles 

 it, dey trow him in a hole nnd push de- 

 hole in after him und dat is de end off it, 

 but when a chentleman dies he must go- 

 to Blazes yet. Yours, 



Fritz Blumenschneider. 



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