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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 16, 1898. 



This firm is showing a nice line of 

 new baskets for florists, in addition 

 to other supplies. 



Mr. Challenge Keller Bearing Evans 

 is in town. He reports some large 

 orders for ventilating apparatus. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. are receiving 

 some very fine white paeonies. 



Bassett & Washburn are still rushed 

 with orders, and are doing a fine busi- 

 ness. 



The first sumruer visit of the Flor- 

 ists' Club will probably be to the es- 

 tablishment of Rein berg Bros., at 

 Summerdale. 



Reinberg Bros., and Wietor Bros., 

 both report e.xc-ellent business. 



BUFFALO. 



Trade Review. 



The busy planting time is about 

 over, and a profitable and good busi- 

 ness as it is, there is more than one 

 who is glad it is drawing to an end. 

 It is very satisfactory to be rushed 

 with orders, especially in a store, but 

 when all hands are occupied with fill- 

 ing orders at the houses, something 

 is sure to get neglected, and that some- 

 thing is the future crops. 



There are several society weddings 

 this week, but they are running most- 

 ly to palms, laurel, daisies and but- 

 tercups. "It's not because these field 

 flowers are less expensive you know, 

 but they are so much more spring-like, 

 don't you know." We swallow this 

 plausible explanation with a June 

 smile and a skeptical inward impres- 

 sion, but we are not finding fault. We 

 are glad of most anything these days. 



To say that flowers are plentiful 

 would but feebly express it. Paeonies 

 of course are coming in by the car 

 load and are no longer sold by the 

 hundred, but by the ton or weight. 

 The latest quotation, Saturday last, 

 was .fl7..'')0 per ton. Three or four 

 enterprising young men, store keepers 

 of Main street, put carnations down 

 last week to 10 cents per doz. They 

 were largely rubbish but that makes 

 no difference. It pulls the price down 

 for those who really have good flowers. 

 It is strange that those who do not 

 produce a flower are able to sell at 

 this ridiculously low figure. A time 

 will come, and that soon, when only 

 a few decent carnations will come into 

 town. The tropical weather of the 

 past two weeks has forced them out 

 in great shape, and the recent over- 

 supply is the last dying kick with 

 most growers. Roses are plentiful, and 

 quality good; for the very hot weather 

 the locally grown are more than good. 



Omaha Convention. 



Inquiries are passing between the 

 boys, "are you going to Omaha?" I 

 do hope that enough will go to hold 

 up their end for that handsome trophy 

 given by Mr. Evans. Providence was 

 much nearer home, but we had nothin,? 

 but a scrub team, and their bad per- 

 formance demoralized those few who 



can play a little, so poor Buffalo after 

 3 years of championship was relegated 

 to the "also ran. " There are other 

 and far more important reasons why 

 we should go to Omaha. The good old 

 society that has done so much for all 

 of us, should be loyally supported. It 

 is a grand opportunity to get your 

 mind broadened and expanded, and 

 knowledge of the resources of the won- 

 derful expanse of region known as the 

 Mississippi valley can never be gained 

 at less cost and more pleasantly. The 

 officers elected last year did not select 

 Omaha as the place of meeting for ''JS. 

 It was the large majority of the mem- 

 bers who voted for Omaha, so all that 

 voted to go west, are morally bound to 

 travel across the prairies and attend 

 the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. 



New Finn. 

 There is a new firm in town. Mr. 

 Louis H. Neubeck, who has been with 

 William Scott for the past L'3 years, 

 severed his connection last week. He 

 began working for W. S. when a very 

 small boy, so small that when hiding 

 from the boss he was frequently 

 found under a 10 inch pot. It is 

 pleasant to say, that although in fu- 

 ture an opponent in business, there are 

 few more versatile, artistic, and 

 thoroughly honest and competent men 

 in the business than Mr. Neubeck. He 

 will in future be located on the corner 

 of Main and High streets, and the 

 firm is NeubecK & Myers. 



Visitors. 

 During our busy time we have had 

 several visitors, chief among whom 

 were Mr. Edw. Wheeler, manager of 

 the rose houses of Mr. Sage, at Red- 

 rock, Pa., and Mr. G. L. Graham a rose 

 enthusiast of Bradford, Pa. Both of 

 these gentlemen saw the city very 

 extensively, for they were behind 

 Billy Kasting's speedy road horso, 

 "Wilted Rose" 2:13-J4. Very recently 

 Mr. W. M. Mann, of Guelph, Out., and 

 his brother Robert Mann, of Orange- 

 ville, Ont., gave us a call, and last, 

 Mr. Park commissioner Harry Balsley, 

 has been roaming round. We were 

 glad to see them all, for with an in- 

 significient exception they had nothing 

 to sell; in fact, "tother way." W. S. 



NEW YORK. 



Club Meeting. 



The first ladies' night of the club 

 was a brilliant affair from all points 

 of view. About 75 members and their 

 friends were present. 



After the minutes had been read and 

 accepted, the several committees made 

 their reports. Mr. Secretary Young 

 asked for more time to confer with 

 the New York Gardeners' Association 

 in regard to holding a fall show, and 

 it was unanimously extended. The 

 exhibition committee then made their 

 report. 



A letter was read from Mr. Alex. 

 Wallace, the state vice-president of 



the S. A. F. A. O. H., with regard to 

 visiting Omaha, calling attention to 

 the fact that the time was nearing, 

 and that it was an exceptional oppor- 

 tunity to visit the west and get ac- 

 quainted with our western brethren, 

 to make new friends and new custom- 

 ers. 



The Exhibit. 



W. A. Manda showed his new ever- 

 green hybrid roses, named as follows: 

 Gardinaeflora, Evergreen Gem, Jersey 

 Beauty, all of which received the 

 club's certificate. He also exhibited 

 the new yellow calla Elliotianum. 



F. H. P. Imbert exhibited some well- 

 grown fancy and new caladiums, 

 which received high commendation 

 and the club's thanks. 



N. Butterbach, Oceanic, N. J., show- 

 ed some Lilium longiflorum, which 

 w'ere accorded a vote of thanks. 



Mr. Rudolph Fischer, Great Neck, 

 L. I., was unanimously elected a mem- 

 ber. 



The Lecture. 



President Plumb introduced the lec- 

 turer of the evening. Prof. Elson, of 

 Boston, who introduced his subject, 

 "Music and Flowers." by the follow- 

 ing remarks: "In all ages and all 

 climes men have been particularly in- 

 clined to connect music with flowers." 

 It commenced in China nearly 4,000 

 years ago, and in Egypt, and the old- 

 est picture in the world depicts a 

 musical party holding a lotus in their 

 hands. 



He stated that our own song, the 

 "Star Spangled Banner," was founded 

 on the air of a Grecian song to the 

 "Myrtle and Venus and the Vine of 

 Bacchus;" in fact, the majority of our 

 songs today were founded on floral 

 metaphors. He quoted Wordsworth 

 as being the poet who had drawn the 

 affinity mostly between prose and 

 flowers, styled him the "Florists' 

 Poet," and said the poem, "Thou Art 

 a Flower," truly a florists' song, had 

 been set to music over a thousand 

 times. Prof. Elson, who interspersed 

 his lecture with a fine rendition of 

 early song and flower lore, concluded 

 by saying that, "When music and 

 flowers are thoroughly understood, the 

 grower and commission man will, like 

 the lion and the lamb, lie down to- 

 gether and all will be harmony. They 

 will fall on one another's necks; the 

 flower grower and the plant man will 

 be in unity, and all join in the chorus, 

 "Lo! There Cometh Yet the Greek, 

 the Greek." 



At the conclusion the Professor re- 

 ceived quite an ovation, and Mr. May, 

 in a felicitous speech, seconded by Mr. 

 Henshaw, tendered a unanimous vote 

 of thanks from the company present, 

 which was accorded by all standing 

 and applauding. 



Great credit is due to the committee 

 composed of A. L. Don, W. J. Stewart 

 and J. H. Troy for the excellent ar- 

 rangements, and it was the consensus 

 of opinion that "it was the best thing 

 that ever happened." 



