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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



The meeting, tor some reason, was 

 unexpectedly small, only about twelve 

 members being present. Mr. H. C. 

 Steinhoff, in the absence of President 

 Lehnig, was voted to the chair. After 

 the minutes of the previous meeting 

 had been read and accepted, the only 

 name for nomination was Mr. R. W. 

 Clucas, of the firm of Clucas & Bod- 

 dington Co., who was unanimously 

 elected. 



After considerable discussion it was 

 brought out that about eighteen mem- 

 bers wished to continue their stands 

 during the summer, but as all of the 

 said members were not present, it was 

 decided to adjourn the meeting for a 

 week to meet at the same place, and 

 the secretary was ordered to notify 

 them by letter, stating the object for 

 meeting. After some desultory con- 

 versation it was the general sentiment 

 that the market had been a success. 

 Ex-Alderman Morris, however, drew 

 attention to the fact that the demand 

 for fall plants was increasing, while 

 for spring stock it was decreasing, 

 and suggested that the growers take 

 due notice thereof. 



Among the Wholesalers. 



As to the wholesale cut flower busi- 

 ness, there is very little to say differ- 

 ent from last week. There is practi- 

 cally no business, and if there really 

 was there are practically no good 

 fiowers, and so there you are. The 

 warm weather has caused a perfect 

 "evacuation" of flowers and buyers, 

 and both are few and far between. 

 There seem to be no roses grown 

 around New York for summer flower- 

 ing, and the regular stock is exceed- 

 ingly poor. Coix lachryma (Job's 

 tears) are quite popular in some parts 

 of the city. 



Various Items. 



On the ill-fated steamship "Bour- 

 gogne" Mr. George Sotiropulos, who 

 had a stand at the Broadway ferries, 

 Brooklyn, was among the lost, and 

 carried down witli him 4(H3 (French) 

 napoleons, which he had in a belt at- 

 tached to his body at the time. 



Mr. Edmond Weathered, brother of 

 Chas. B. Weathered, has been serious- 

 ly ill with a complication of ailments 

 at his home in Jersey City. I am hap- 

 py to state, however, from the last re- 

 port there was a favorable improve- 

 ment and the crisis had been passed. 



Mr. Victor S. Dorval, of Woodside, 

 L, I., is erecting a new carnation 

 house, 10Sx2f), and will plant same 

 with the leading old and new varie- 

 ties. 



BUFFALO. 



The quiet of midsummer is upon us 

 with full force. As evidence of that 

 the last time the writer was down- 

 town, which happens seldom, he called 

 into the usually busy mart of W. F. 

 Kasting, on Washington street. The 

 second assistant was bossing a few 

 small boys in sorting over last week's 



stock (nothing is wasted in this es- 

 tablishment). I was met with ihe in- 

 formation that the crowd was "next 

 door" — that fatal next door that has 

 lured so many young (and old men, 

 too) to tarry round its fascinations 

 when they ought to have been behind 

 their respective counters. After push- 

 ing open several swing doors and away 

 back in the recesses of the establish- 

 ment, far from the July sun, seated 

 round a table were half a dozen of the 

 leaders of the retail trade. You may 

 say the very cream of the business. 

 The conversation was ostensibly the 

 war, but an interchange of remarks 

 was subject more to the result of cer- 

 tain number of spots than of shots. I 

 have a sympathy for youth and ex- 

 pressed a wish that everything should 

 continue regardless of the intrusion of 

 age and morality. Such is the state of 

 trade. A few very prominent citizens 

 have recently passed away and it has 

 made the demand for funeral flowers 

 quite brisk in spots. 



There is a great abundance of good 

 carnations coming in. Among the best 

 are those grown by Billy Stroh of At- 

 tica, Wise Bros, of E. Aurora and in- 

 cidentally from Corfu come thou.iands 

 of Genesee with many other varieties. 

 It pays to take care of your carnations 

 for what is there just now to take 

 their place, and the public never tires. 

 The tea roses that are seen look as if 

 they had passed through an explosion 

 aboard the Viscaya, though there are 

 some notable exceptions. 



Those people who condemn the Car- 

 not rose should remember that for 

 summer it is most beautiful. A few 

 hundred plants lifted from a rose 

 house bench in February, placed in 

 flats and kept in a cold frame till 

 middle of April, well cut down and 

 planted in .5 inches of soil on a bench 

 occupied all winter with carnations, 

 have proved a great boon. There was 

 a crop within 7 weeks from planting 

 and now there is another much better 

 than the first and how beautiful the 

 large beds are. This corroborates the 

 remark of that brainy man E. G. Hill 

 when he said: "President Carnot is 

 a grand summer rose." A house of it 

 for summer should be quite as valua- 

 ble as one of Kaiserin Augusta. 



The beautiful varieties of delphini- 

 um, and many of them are grand, have 

 helped to decorate §tore windows, but 

 pond lilies and mud turtles are on the 

 decline. 



What a pity we don't get more vis- 

 itors just now when we could show 

 them our unequalled Delaware. North 

 Linwood, Richmond and many other 

 avenues. 



Its a good plan to step into your pa- 

 trons' grounds occasionally, especially 

 if they have paid their bill and ad- 

 mire your handiwork among their 

 flower beds. It shows you take an in- 

 terest in their welfare. Some of our 

 florists should stop a moment and no- 

 tice a bed of tuberous begonias en the 

 corner of Delaware and Summer. Talk 

 about a bed of geraniums, glorious old 

 plants as they are, these begonias are 



as a Mozart symphony is to a "Hot 

 Time in Town Tonight." 



The only stranger who has had the 

 good sense to visit us lately was young 

 Mr. Bell of Franklin, Pa., son of the 

 well known W. T. His 6 feet of clean- 

 ly developed, enthusiastic youth was 

 much enjoyed for a very brief time 

 and then he stepped aboard the "Black 

 Diamond" of the Lehigh system to in- 

 vestigate the age of the anthracite de- 

 posits of Scranton. Pa. 



Scranton is near Wilkes Barre and 

 that reminds me of "Bag him my boy 

 George." The last time (about 2 

 months ago) that friend Fancourt was 

 in Buffalo, himself and his better half 

 (true in this case), Mrs. W. S., and 

 Mr. Kasting sat in the Tifft house at 

 dinner. At the next table, within a 

 few feet, sat Youssuff, "the Terrible 

 Turk." a name he never earned in his 

 own country, for his was a mild, placid 

 disposition. Some flippant New York 

 newspaper boy gave him that name. 

 The unconquered wrestler seeing two 

 such strapping girls with such an at- 

 tenuated support began to make lumi- 

 nous eyes away from his 3 pounds of 

 underdone beefsteak, but no harm re- 

 sulted. The Turk threw his man that 

 night over the footlights and any other 

 old place. And where is he now? 

 Verily the love of gold was his ruin. 

 If he had not had several thousand 

 dollars in gold round his ample waist 

 he might have swam and saved him- 

 self from the horrible scramble when 

 the Bourgogne went down. There is 

 something terribly sad about his end, 

 and I trust the pigmies that he dash- 

 ed to the floor in his marvelous 

 strength will be men enough to shed a 

 tear when reading of his jntimely 

 death. Poor giant. I trust nothing 

 more ferocious or disturbing than the 

 harmless codfish molests his restin.g 

 place. 



The only event among the florists 

 outside of business is the purchase 

 by S. A. Anderson of the beautiful 

 sailing yacht "Daffordil." This yacht 

 can sail two and a half miles an hour 

 if the wind is in the right quarter. She 

 is 22 feet, with her overalls on, 30-inch 

 beam and draws 4 feet of water, but 

 "Savie" says if I will go for a cruise 

 he will endeavor to draw something 

 else. Her main sail is 60x32 feet, her 

 baboon is triangular 17x10x3. Her 

 spanker, used only in a storm, is 18.3x 

 11. He boards her in a cove of Can- 

 ada on the north shore of Lake Erie. 

 As far as crew is concerned, she is out 

 of commission, but there is juit room 

 for me, for my love and my love's sis- 

 ter. 



Mr. Wm. Belsey sailed for Liverpool 

 on the Allen line about the second of 

 the month. William believes in enjoy- 

 ing the fruits of his labors before it is 

 too late. May his wanderings over the 

 South Downs and other scenes of his 

 boyhood be blessed with good health 

 and a clear head. W. S. 



IF YOU HAVE anything to sell to 

 the trade, offer it in an adv. In The 

 Review. 



