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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AUGUST 11, 1898. 



last part he saw was Canada, and prior 

 to that Middlesex, England. His flow 

 of English is superb and his descrip- 

 tive powers are grand. One quotation 

 will suffice, but the delivery I cannot 

 convey to you; it is as smooth as the 

 best quality of syrup trickling from a 

 bunghole. "As you go down Tottenham 

 way you can hardly believe the sight 

 there— Tommy Rockford with 35 acres, 

 his brother Joe with 15, and others as 

 large. Believe me, sir, it is like look- 

 ing on Lake Ontario — it's a sea of 

 gloass." W. S. 



TORONTO. 

 G. & F. Association. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Associa- 

 tion after four months' rest will meet 

 again at the usual place on Tuesday 

 the 16th inst. The executive committee 

 will meet this week and arrange a sui- 

 table opening program. It is expected 

 and to be hoped that there will be a 

 large turn out. 



Remember the fee is only $1 a year 

 more. It is worth that alone for pri- 

 vileges in connection with the Chry- 

 santhemum Show, but the fact of the 

 profession being united in cne body 

 and meeting to discuss events past, 

 present and future, etc., is worth more 

 than can be seen with the naked eye. 



Hort. Society. 



The meeting of the Horticultural 

 Society on Tuesday last was attended 

 by many of the school children who 

 have been given chrysanthemum 

 plants to grow for the show. They 

 were asked to attend in order that 

 they might receive further instruc- 

 tions as to their cultivation. After the 

 meeting they were each sent home 

 happy in the possession of a bunch of 

 flowers, some of the boys having 

 brought a lot down for that purpose. 



An arrangement was made at the 

 meeting that the members of the so- 

 ciety should meet at certain public 

 gardens on certain days. Last Friday a 

 goodly number met at the Horticul- 

 tural Gardens where Mr. Watkins of- 

 ficiated by pointing out the special 

 beauties under his care and by 

 answering in his usual lucid and in- 

 teresting style the innumerable ques- 

 tions put to him. After spending 

 about an hour there the party moved 

 over to the Normal School gardens 

 where Mr. Ewing officiated in like 

 manner with variations. 



The president. Mr. Ross, accom- 

 panied the party but was too much 

 taken up with some American ladies 

 who had come over to visit and to 

 whom he was showing the lions of 

 the city to take in the whole show. 



Next week Exhibition Park and the 

 Central Prison gardens will be visited; 

 the week after Parliament Buildings 

 new greenhouses and grounds and 

 Government House, then the Steele, 

 Briggs Seed Co.'s place. 



Notes. 



The first cricket match of the sea- 



son will be perpetrated at Exhibition 

 Park on the 10th inst. D. V. and W. 

 P. 



The weather is still very dry but in 

 spite of it all the flower beds in parks 

 and gardens are looking really fine, 

 as good as I ever saw them and they 

 are now at the zenith of their glory, 

 I suppose. 



The annual excitement on the ap- 

 proach of the Industrial Exhibition 

 is awakening. The show promises to 

 be bigger and better than ever. Some 

 of the brethren are expected on their 

 way home from Omaha and as the 

 Canadian Horticultural Association 

 will hold its convention during the 

 second week they may reap some ad- 

 vantage by staying over. Certainly 

 they will be cordially welcomed by all. 

 The exhibition is held from August 29 

 to September 10. Plants are entered 

 the first week and remain all the time; 

 cut flowers are entered the second 

 week. Our old friend, Capt. McMaster, 

 has given out that he will present a 

 silver medal to the best table of deco- 

 rative plants. E. 



ST. PAUL, MINN. 

 Midsummer dullness still prevails. 

 Nearly all stock is very scarce and 

 hard to obtain. All of the growers 

 have summer roses planted and aro 

 cutting a fair crop, but the supply at 

 times is wholly inadequate. In whites 

 Kaiserin is the favorite, and is truly a 

 grand thing. Meteor is now very fine. 

 In pink, Testout is the only variety 

 grown here for summer, and is very 

 much in favor. Perle and Sunset are 

 grown only in limited quantities. Car- 

 nations are very scarce. There are no 

 good blooms to be had. Our growers 

 should plant some carnations for sum- 

 mer blooming. 



Owing to the continued drouth, 

 which was only broken last week, 

 sweet peas and other outside stock are 

 not as plentiful as earlier in the sea- 

 son. We were treated to a perfect 

 deluge of rain, accompanied by ter- 

 rific lightning, on Friday, the 5th. 

 While we have not heard of any dam- 

 age to stock or houses, still plants on 

 low land must have suffered, as over 

 three inches of water fell between 3 

 a. m. and 8 p. m. It will be beneficial, 

 however, to all outside stock, and 

 came just in time to be of value to 

 carnation growers, otherwise lifting 

 the plants in the field would have been 

 accompanied by loss. 



Everybody is busy and quite a num- 

 ber are getting ready to go to the con- 

 vention. Carnations are being housed. 

 Roses and mums are all planted and 

 are doing nicely, and if the Twin 

 Cities should hold a mum show this 

 fall, it would he a hummer. 



Chris Hansen has purchased three 

 lots opposite his present range of 

 houses and has broken ground for a 

 violet house 11 by 120 feet. 



Carlsen & Lauritsen, of the Warren- 

 dale greenhouses, have built a small 

 rose house this season and are making 

 much needed repairs to their boiler 



room. Their stock is in prime condi- 

 tion, being mostly roses for winter 

 blooming. 



C. Bussjaeger, in addition to build- 

 ing three new houses, which are now 

 completed and planted, is putting in a 

 new boiler. 



Fred Schultze is also putting in a 

 new boiler. 



H. J. Puvogel, on Summit avenue, is 

 also in line with a new boiler. 



A. S. Swanson has built one new 

 house, but is so far distant I have not 

 yet called and learned particulars. 



The florists of the Twin Cities will 

 go to Omaha over the M. & St. L. rail- 

 road, leaving Sunday night, August 14. 

 Low rates have been secured and the 

 entire trip can be made at a small ex- 

 pense. For further particulars, ad- 

 dress S. D. Dysinger, with L. L. May 

 & Co., St. Paul. From present indica- 

 tions there will not be less than fifteen 

 to attend from here, and this number 

 may be increased to twenty or twenty- 

 five. I hope all will go who can pos- 

 sibly do so. Read Brother Shaw's de- 

 scriptions of the sights and go and en- 

 joy an outing at a small expense. 



Recent callers: Mr. Sim, with H. A. 

 Dreer; Mr. Currie, who was on a fly- 

 ing trip; Mr. Roach, representing J. 

 B. Rice & Co.. and several others. 



0. Olsen, of Holm & Olsen, is spend- 

 ing his vacation in New York. 



C. Anderson, formerly the Hill flor- 

 ist, is now with Dr. Schiffman, our re- 

 nowned orchid king. X. Y. Z. 



GARDENERS' SCHOOLS IN RUS- 

 SIA is the subject of No. 159 of the 

 advance sheets of consular reports is- 

 sued by the Bureau of Commerce, De- 

 partment of State, Washington, under 

 date of July G. The information given 

 relates, however, more to schools de- 

 voted to the study of agriculture than 

 horticulture. Though rather behind 

 other European countries in the mat- 

 ter of schools of the sort, Russia is 

 evidently awake to their value and 

 they are increasing both in number 

 and usefulness. 



TAKE YOUR WIPE with you to the 

 convention if you possibly can ar- 

 range to do so. She probably needs 

 an outing even more than you do 

 yourself. Take another wedding trip 

 — to Omaha this time. It will do you 

 both good. You may be sure the ladies 

 will be well taken care of by the local 

 committee. 



EVERY ONE in the trade has a 

 chance to earn one or more of the lib- 

 eral prizes offered elsewhere in this 

 issue of The Florists' Review. 



OUR CONVENTION NUMBER will 

 be issued next week and will contain a 

 full report of the Omaha convention. 



LAST CALL for advs. for our Con- 

 vention Number to be issued next 

 week. 



ALL ABOARD for Omaha! 



