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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



JULY 28, 189S. 



piercing armor plate would be more 

 striking after the recent experience. 



Mr. Patrick, who has a capital bus- 

 iness and is a practical man, intends 

 insuring both in our Hail and Fire 

 Companies. This would have been 

 done earlier but he was not quite de- 

 cided as to Fire Insurance which 

 caused the expensive delay. He is 

 now busy with his force practically 

 rebuilding and will put in a new hot 

 water boiler to be well equipped for 

 the fall campaign. W. M. 



PETER BARR, F. R. H. S. 



When the subject of the accompany- 

 ing picture honored the Quaker City 

 with a visit recently the writer had the 

 pleasure of an interview with the hale 

 and hearty gentleman who, although 

 he has passed the 73rd milestone, 

 thinks he is young enough to begin a 

 tour of the globe, which he expects to 

 complete at the Paris Exposition in 

 ItMJd, and that unaccompanied. This is 

 unnecessary as his genial face will ob- 

 tain him an "open sesame" wherever 

 he goes, excepting Spain, for I am 

 afraid she may have heard how he has 

 so favorably expressed himself to- 

 wards Uncle Sam. 



It is many years since the worthy 

 gentleman climbed the mountains of 

 Spain in search of the golden daffodil 

 which, among the many other well- 

 known bulbous plants, has made him 

 famous. The writer well remembers 

 visits paid to the store in Covent Gar- 

 den when Mr. Barr was the Queen Bee 

 of the hive and congratulates him that 

 he is now able to enjoy the honey 

 gathered there. W. M. 



BUFFALO. 



The Weather. 



There is little floriculture to report, 

 but a good deal of weather. How can 

 you satisfy everyone. For the harvest- 

 ing of hay. oats and wheat, it is ideal, 

 but tor asters, sweet peas and potatoes 

 it is much too Peruvian-like. Without 

 joking, it's warm. When the ther- 

 mometer shows 00 degrees at 10 a. m. 

 under the spreading branches of a ma- 

 ple and four feet above the sod. it is 

 sultry. Such was the state of affairs 

 on Saturday last. On Sunday it was 

 more so, but your correspondent took 

 no atmospheric readings or observa- 

 tions, having retired early in the day 

 to the recesses of a cool cellar, pulling 

 in all the loose cellar after him. and 

 divided his time between liquids and 

 literature. 



Club Meeting. 



In spite of the prevailing torridity. 

 we managed on Friday last to get a 

 quorum of the club together. A sum- 

 mer outing was decided on, and the 

 president appointed Wm. Kasting. 

 Henry Buddenborg and S. A. Ander- 

 son a committee to carry it through, 

 and the three men are just the sort 

 of boys to do it up to the handle. I 

 wish I could announce the date, for I 

 hope there will be a good attendance 

 of our members and friends from 

 nearby towns. 



Then we talked convention, and if 

 all go who then expressed their inten- 

 tion to attend, there will be a better 

 delegation than we expected. 



Early Closing. 



We notice that many cities reported 

 an early - closing movement some 

 weeks ago. I am glad to say we fell 

 in line in that direction as early as 

 anyone, but I am sorry that the move- 

 ment is not unanimous. Whether it is 

 perverseness or greed. I don't know; 

 perhaps a love of notoriety prompts 

 this petty smallness. Whatever it is, 

 the parties are old enough in years 

 and in business to know better. 



Notes. 



It is seldom you And the storekeep- 

 ers sweltering behind their counter:-; 

 just now. W. J. Palmer, Jr., must be 



Peter Barr. 



industrious, so he is helping build 

 some more iron houses at Lancaster. 

 Commodore Rebstock devotes much of 

 his time to the popular lake resort. 

 Crystal Beach, of which he has now 

 the controlling interest. Savie Ander- 

 son is yachting. Andy Adams sits in 

 a nearby cool retreat and rehearses 

 Hiberaian jokes. Henry Millatt is 

 studying entomology among the leafy 

 glades of the lake shore. P. Scott is 

 studying up with great earnestness a 

 new code of signals for catcher and 

 pitcher, while Mr. Buddenborg's chief 

 exertion is to fan himself and study 

 the mortuary column. 



The drummer season has opened 

 with a rush, and the advance guard 

 was represented by several veterans. 

 Placid, playful Mott was the first to 

 arrive, and it was such a long time 

 since we had seen anything of these 



thrifty gentlemen that the meeting 

 was very cordial. Then J. J. Corbett 

 Boas, of Philadelphia. It's queer to 

 see such a heavy man talking such a 

 light article as a paper box. With an 

 intermission of a few hours came Mr. 

 Skidelsky, who finds it very pleasant 

 to represent two such goods firms as 

 W. K. Harris and Robert Craig & Son. 

 The first two were traveling towards 

 the setting sun. So we are sure of at 

 least some attendance at the conven- 

 tion. 



Mr. Hess, of Omaha, gave us a call 

 on Sunday. We regret that it was so 

 brief, but it will soon be renewed. 



■W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Picnic. 



The great event of the season among 

 the florists has come and gone. It was 

 the fifth annual excursion and picnic 

 of the St. Louis Florists' Club and 

 their friends which was held at Belle- 

 ville, 111. 



A special train left Union station at 

 !>::!(• a. m., in all about 2(X) florists in- 

 cluding growers, store and commission 

 men, accompanied by their wives, 

 children, mothers, sisters and sweet- 

 hearts, participated in the outing. The 

 train arrived at the grounds at 11 a. 

 111., and we found in waiting our Belle- 

 ville members who composed the re- 

 ception committee. After an hour or 

 two inspecting the grounds the pro- 

 gram as laid out by the committee was 

 carried out. 



The quoit contest was the first and 

 out of ten entries Mr. C. (Doc.) Mc- 

 Graw, an employee of R. F. Tesson, 

 was declared the winner. The prize 

 was a box of cigars. 



The shooting contest (clay pigeons) 

 was next, with 17 entrees, 10 birds 

 each, Mr. J. F. Ammann and Max Her- 

 zog were a tie, (> each. On the shoot 

 off Mr. Ammann won first prize, a silk 

 umbrella, and Max Herzog second, an 

 elegant cane. 



The 100-yard dash for men under 30 

 years, S entries were made. Henry 

 McGraw came in first and his brother. 

 Doc. McGraw, second: prize for first 

 a fine cigar case; second, a pipe. 



The next was the fat men's race, 1S.'> 

 pounds and over. The entries included 

 Gus. Eggling, Fred. Ammann, C. 0. 

 Sanders and Chas. Juengel. Gus Egg- 

 ling came in first. Fred Ammann sec- 

 ond, and C. C. Sanders, third; first 

 prize a fine pipe, second a cane and 

 third a clay pipe. 



The running broad jump was won 

 by Fred Elbes, his jump being 1.5 feet; 

 prize, a fishing rod. Fred is employed 

 by C. A. Kuehn. 



Carl Beyer was the lucky man as 

 usual winning the next two first prizes 

 in the standing jump and the hop. skip 

 and jump. 



The ladies' egg race came next with 

 ■S entries. Mrs. E. W. Guy came in 

 first. Miss Gutzman second, both 

 prizes being fans. 



Girls' potato race under 14 years of 

 age was won by Miss Tillie Juengel. 



