JUNE 22, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



75 



House of Begonia Gloire de Lorraine. 



every appearance of producing good 

 seed, but up to the present the germi- 

 nating power has been absent. 



Many of the Bryanston specimens 

 are fully three feet high and as much 

 through, very bushy, and a perfect 

 mass of bloom when in perfection. To 

 prolong the flowering season after the 

 flowers are developed the plants may 

 with safety be removed to a cooler and 

 drier atmosphere, say from 45 to 50 

 degrees. As shown in the accompany- 

 ing illustration, reproduced from a 

 photograph, a batch is housed in one 

 of the vineries, where they have been 

 the admiration of everyone who has 

 seen them. For winter decoration the 

 plant is everything that can be de- 

 sired, and this mode of culture, which 

 is adopted at Bryanston, evidently 

 suits its requirements. — A. Outram. In 

 Gardeners' Magazine. 



BUFFALO. 

 A decided drop in business has come, 

 noticeable all along the line. The 

 weather has affected quality of flowers. 

 Very soon Japan lilies and mud turtles 

 will be the principal stock in trade. A 

 sure sign that real summer is here is 

 the presence of Kasting, Adams, Bud- 

 denborg and Anderson rooting for our 

 losing ball team. Mr. Anderson is on 

 a canoeing trip to Rochester and will 

 shoot the lower falls Sunday next, 



weather permitting. Mr. Henry Bud- 

 denborg has branched out and bought 

 the business on Broadway carried on 

 for some years by Mrs. M. Klockow. 

 Mr. Budd has by no means given up 

 his store on Elk st. Oh no! His fertile 

 brain and energy want further scope 

 and as Mr. and Mrs. B. are not blessed 

 with what the old "Gardeners' Chron- 

 icle" used to call "Incumbrance," 

 meaning the natural result of the mar- 

 riage state, children, they can divide 

 their energies in the daylight hours 

 and run both places. 



We hear from friends and travelers 

 that the East is suffering a great 

 drought. Sorry for them. We are get- 

 ting that way somewhat in this neigh- 

 borhood, but the country still looks 

 beautiful, re-freshing and pure as J. 

 Austin Shaw's poetry, and as a fine 

 man remarked yesterday "the best cli- 

 mate in the world." The resident of 

 Borneo or the savage of the upper 

 Amazon may think his climate is just 

 the best, I know the Eskimo does be- 

 cause Mr. Blubberski told me so, but 

 there must be some zone of the world 

 that is best suited to the perfect de- 

 velopment of man with the physical 

 and mental finely blended. Whether it 

 be a wide or narrow zone we care not; 

 we think we are right in the center of 

 it. But opinion is not based so much 

 on the biped production of this zone 



as the good natured exhilarating feel- 

 ing that our charming balmy breezes 

 infuse into our vitality. 



When I looked into the store of W. 

 A. Adams a few days ago, I spied Mr. 

 Barker, Editor of the American Flor- 

 ist, in confa-b with his correspondent. 

 Mr. B. Looked well but said he was 

 glad to escape the heat and dust of the 

 Eastern cities. Mr. Hiram Jones of 

 Elizabeth, N. J., called on us and we 

 are very glad to talk to anyone who is 

 posted on ornamental gardening. Mr. 

 Bogue, the nurseryman of Medina, 

 happened to be in and soon the con- 

 versation got thickly mixed with Colo- 

 rado Spruce, Austrian Pine and Sam- 

 bucus aurea. The writer grumbled to 

 Mr. Jones that our nurserymen do not 

 transplant their evergreens from little 

 seedlings till they are sold, 3 or 6 feet 

 high, making the moving and sale of 

 them very precarious. Mr. Jones re- 

 plied that American nurserymen are 

 transplanters nowadays and find they 

 can get a good price for the trans- 

 planted stock, a price that more than 

 pays them for their labor of moving. 

 Mr. Bogue then asserted that Mr. J. 

 could not tell him of five nurserymen 

 in the country who transplant, at 

 which Jones came back at him with 

 half a dozen good firms quicker than 

 I can write their names and so one of 

 the three of us had to shut up. We 



