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The Weekly Florists'' Review* 



November 22, 1900. 



son; J. Ht'ulciiiieh, market plants; Bauer 

 & SmiLli, seedling oai nation Elma, and to 

 tlie Beiteimann Bros., for their general 

 display of orehids, mums, ferns, Romans, 

 ete. 



Honorable mention to Stuart & Haugh 



for vase of Avondale carnation; K. VVit- 



terstaetter, for vase of Enquirer, and to 



■ 11. W. Kienian, for Begonia Gloire de 



Lorraine. 



The new rose, Queen of Edgely, ar- 

 rived too late to be staged at the ex- 

 hibition. 



The judges were C. Knopf, Richmond, 

 Ind., and A. 11 Nelson, this city. 



The meeting in the evening was well 

 attended and the question of giving a 

 larger show ne.vt year was discussed, 

 though nothing definite in regard to it 

 was done. Two members were taken in. 



Bert Stanley and Miss Anna Arbker 

 were recently married. 



Trade here is rather dull. Mums are 

 plentiful, but sell slowly. There is little 

 call for roses and carnations, although 

 violets are in great demand. The out- 

 look at present is that there will be a big 

 supply of mums for Thanksgiving. 



Fred. 



WACO, TEXAS. 



The annual chrysanthemum show of 

 the Texas State Floral Society brought 

 out a good display. E. H. Michel, of 

 St. Louis, was the judge. The leading 

 prize-winners were Baur & Smith, Indi- 

 anapolis, Ind.; W. L. Reese, VV. L. Mar- 

 tin, Miss Anna West, J. \V. Barnett, 

 James Wolfe, Chas. Mayer, Miss Anna 

 Wolfe. There were numerous classes for 

 amateurs only and for children. Gov. 

 Sayers opened the exhibition and was 

 assisted by numerous prominent people. 

 The daily press gave the show unstinted 

 praise. 



NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 



The annual chrysanthemum show ex- 

 ceeded that of last year in variety and 

 extent. The leading exhibitors were E. 

 J. Canning, Donald McGregor, A. Parks, 

 H. W. Field and G. W. Thorniley. 



The printed proceedings of the New 

 York convention of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Florists has been issued. 



BUFFALO. 



I have a dismal story to tell you of the 

 weather of late. BuU'alo has had two 

 or three inches of snow, but it has 

 passed away. Every day ifor nearly two 

 weeks it has been snow or rain. Per- 

 haps for horticulturists generally this is 

 not a great calamity, as they have pretty 

 nearly cverytKing housed, 'but for our 

 Pan-American work it is quite serious, 

 much delaying the planting of many 

 thousands of bulbs which are yet to go 

 in. The Indians, with their wood and 

 weather craft, predicted this storm and 

 left their log houses at the Exposition 

 grounds and went home for two weeks, 

 and they say we are yet to have our In- 

 dian summer. May it be so. It is more, 

 at present, a kind of muddy Hood. 



Some ten miles south of Buffalo is the 

 little village of Orchard Park, and the 



florist of that town is Mr. Jerry Broo- 

 kins, a very industrious and enei'getic 

 young man. lie supplies the market 

 with the best sweet peas and many other 

 things, and incidentally early cucumbers. 

 Five feet of snow fell on his houses in a 

 few hours, crushing in two large ones 

 built this summer. His loss is said to 

 be at least $2,000. I don't know that 

 there is any insurance against such a 

 calamity as this and he has the sympa- 

 thy of all the Buffalo men, for Jerry is 

 very popular. 



Business has been fairly good. No 

 large events, but a steady demand. Last 

 Saturday night saw the stores well 

 cleaned up of everything. There are no 

 high class violets yet in and the past 

 two weeks have been the most unfavora- 

 ble for producing good roses. Every- 

 thing is soft. Mr. Guenther, of Ham- 

 burg, is sending in some very fine chrys- 

 anthemums, mostly Jerome Jones and 

 Golden Wedding. Mr. Fotheringham 

 called on his way from Chicago going 

 east. 



I was favored with an invitation last 

 week to visit Elmira and judge their 

 chrj'santhemum exhibit. Elmira is a 

 pretty little city in the Chemung val- 

 ley and is noted for several things. It 

 is the home of the well known politician, 

 David B. Hill, also of the much abused 

 Mr. Brockway, and last, but not least, 

 of Mr. Grove P. Rawson, so widely known 

 floriculturally. I was very courteously 

 treated by that good business man, Mr. 

 H. N. Hoffman, who is the able and 

 business-like secretary of the Elmira 

 Horticultural Society. Their show was 

 held in the play room of a fine church. 

 You would be much surprised at the ex- 

 cellent quality of the flowers displayed. 

 No doubt the Elmira correspondent will 

 give you an account of who took the 

 premiums. I am not able to say who did, 

 but I will swear they were dealt with 

 impartially. There was a silver cup for 

 the best seedlings, not dii=seminated, and 

 here again "Timothy Eaton" took the 

 tup. There were no less than seven or 

 eight entries in this competition, two 

 others of which (both yellow) were very 

 good, but Timothy Eaton is a wonder. I 

 wrote up this new variety last year and 

 can say no more about it now. I believe 

 that it can yet be grown larger and finer 

 than is done at Bracondale. I was ably 

 assisted in judging by a volunteer, and 

 that was Mr. C. W. Rockwell, of Brad- 

 ford, Pa., whose mature judgment was of 

 great value when it came to a fine point. 

 There was a very fine vase of carnations 

 (Gov. Roosevelt) and a vase of Queen of 

 Edgely roses. These novelties attracted 

 great attention. 



They seem to have the knack in El- 

 mira of interesting the society people. 

 There was quite a good attendance of 

 the ladies of the city, but like most of 

 our shows this year they were sadly han- 

 dicapped with bad weather. I was very 

 glad to make the acquaintance of Mr. 

 John B. Rudy. I have an idea that he 

 gobbled up most of the first prizes for 

 chrysanthemums. He is gardener to 

 Hon. J. Sloat Fassett, who has a princely 

 place in the suburbs of Elmira, which 

 he calls Stratmount. It is sixty acres, 



lying close under one of the high hills, of 

 which this region mostly consists, for 

 it is the foothills of the Appalachian 

 mountains. 



I don't know that I have seen a much 

 finer residence than Mr. Fassett's. The 

 garden and grounds are in keeping with 

 the magnificent mansion. I called it a 

 princely place, and so it is, and our 

 country is going to be embellished with 

 many such places. Mr. Rudy is not an 

 Irishman, as his name would imply, but 

 an Alsatian. He is an all-round garden- 

 er. Not a carnationist, nor a rosarian, 

 nor a great grape grower, but he is an 

 all-round man, and it was quite a pleas- 

 ure to see his place and have a talk. It's 

 not every man who can grow first-class 

 roses, prize chrysanthemums, fine cycla- 

 men and splendid ferns all in the same 

 house, as he does. 



1 had a look around the Hoffman es- 

 tablishment, which is quite extensive; 

 mostly devoted to cut flowers. They also 

 have a large nursery. Mr. Richard King 

 is their grower. He wears a wide hat 

 and has a little of the wild west appear- 

 ance, but he is a good and earnest gar- 

 dener for all that. Mr. King, Mr. Rock- 

 well, Mr. George Fancourt, of Wilkes 

 Barre, and our Billy Kasting met in El- 

 mira some time last year and had a sort 

 of a night of it. They expected that W. 

 S. would also put in the same sort of a 

 time, but I was very sorry that I could 

 not see it that way. My time was lim- 

 ited, having to leave for home on the 

 same evening and I had no opportunity 

 to visit Mr. Rawsmi, but I saw the man 

 himself, and he looks fat and rugged and 

 more like an Alpine climber than a 

 florist. 



I had the pleasure there to meet Mr. 

 Higgins from the little town of Avoca, 

 some twenty miles north of Elmira. In 

 this little city there is a colony of gar- 

 dening enthusiasts. They are all ama- 

 teurs and their specialty runs to sweet 

 peas. From the thoroiigh culture and 

 the magnificient flowers they produced 

 I should say that no such sweet peas are 

 grown anywhere. It is a fact that when 

 the Rev. Mr. Hutchins visited them last 

 summer he was surprised at the quality 

 of the flowers. They have also taken 

 some national prizes from this locality. 

 They have all promised to take an ac- 

 tive part in the exhibit of sweet peas 

 which we intend to have on a large scale 

 at (he Pan-American Exposition during 

 the last week of July. W. S. 



BALTIMORE. 



Trade and Personal Items. 



Trade has not developed much activity 

 so far, and whilst weddings have been 

 numerous there have been few with 

 elaborate floral displays. There are 

 signs that the chrysanthemum is declin- 

 ing somewhat in popular favor; at least 

 there is not the general exhibition made 

 of it on the streets and in the windows 

 such as was seen a few years ago. The 

 finer classes, however, have gone off fair- 

 ly well, but for inferior flowers, or, at 

 least, say for smaller flowers, the de- 

 mand has been light and uncertain. On 

 Saturday a brisker business prevailed. 



