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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



JULY G, 1899. 



white and pink ones, are invaluable 

 flowers to the florist who grows his 

 own. We have often got $25 for bou- 

 quets of hollyhocks; that was long ago, 

 hut the utility of the flower remains. 

 The whites come in very handy for 

 funeral work, and the pink ones are 

 useful for the table if taken from the 

 stem and fixed with fern; tamarix 

 makes a good stem for them. Such 

 arrangements are desirable only where 

 •better flowers are scarce, or where 

 frequent change in wanted. As we 

 have stated scarcity of material will 

 more affect those who have to depend 

 on the wholesale market. The grower 

 ■has no excuse for not having an abun- 

 dance of flowers for local trade. If 

 you are near a nurseryman or bulb 

 grower it will be good to either make 

 a contract for say $5.00 worth of 

 showy flowers every week for the win- 

 dow, or else go out to his place and 

 keep posted. Just now there is an 

 abundance of Yucca filamentosa 

 blooms, and if you don't need them 

 for window or funeral work they are 

 grand for decorations. If you can give 

 them a background of purple beech or 

 Primus Pissardii the colors will show 

 out better. 



This is the time when a good tub of 

 hydrangea shows to advantage. It 

 does one good to visit our sea side 

 friends and see these flowers, and we 

 are glad to notice they are more 

 numerous than ever. Those of us who 

 have stores at seaside resorts have 

 their time coming, and so far this 

 year promises to be fairly good. 



In your decorations try hanging 

 baskets; they're handy and show up 

 well; they can either be of permanent 

 or temporary material. The tempo- 

 rary ones can be made up with almost 

 anything. Get a round ball of moss, 

 green it solid, fill the top with bril- 

 liant flowers one color in each, stick 

 some vines (if only clematis or honey- 

 suckle) in the bottom, and you will 

 have a cheap yet most effective de- 

 sign to hang up anywhere. In the per- 

 manent ones Boston fern makes one 

 of the best. We are suffering from a 

 fad of crazy distortions in the way of 

 davallias from Japan. Isn't it funny 

 how we chase after things from for- 

 eign countries? We condemn our rich 

 customers for buying art curiosities 

 abroad, and yet we go mad over trash 

 -ourselves, and would rather put our 

 money into the custom house than in 

 ■the greenhouse. 



Europe may well boast of its superi- 

 or plant market and 'tis humiliating 

 to contemplate that that superiority 

 is fed by our weakness. Where do 

 they sell their thousands and thou- 

 sands of plants we hear them boast 

 about? You'll find the answer in our 

 custom house and you'll see a sample 

 ■of the goods in your own place, and 

 this too on the 4th of July when you 

 :try to blow up earth and heaven and 

 everything that isn't American. Ah 

 well, thank God the red, white and 

 blue flowers we used on the "Fourth" 

 grew here, even that's a consolation, 

 ■and it's another that The Weekly Flor- 



ists' Review is thoroughly American 

 and devoted to American Floriculture. 



Now is the time when you should 

 look forward to some things. Get 

 your grower to put in a small 

 bench of Bon Silenes, Papa Gontiers, 

 Ma Capucines, Countess of Folkestone, 

 or any of the pretty roses which are 

 not common. Mind you it will be a 

 strong card for you next season if you 

 can control any one rose. It gives you 

 an elevating prestige to be able to 

 say to your best customers: "These 

 roses are choice and cannot be got 

 elsewhere; I grow them specially for 

 my trade." There is nothing more 

 tantalizing to your rival than to have 

 him see something in your window he 

 cannot get, and you know some of the 

 tricks he adopts to get them from you. 

 Any grower will be glad to grow some 

 specialty for you, if you give him a 

 fair guarantee. Select something that 

 will please your best trade. We will 

 have the usual monotony in variety 

 next winter; you yourself must change 

 it. There'll come a time when the 

 Marechal Niel will be "all the go" 

 again. Try to induce some one to put 

 a few in. Also some Prince Camille 

 de Rohan, to get in about Christmas. 



And tell your plant man to put the 

 Boston ferns in pans, not pots. They 

 not only grow better in pans but they 

 look better, and are more easily and 

 effectively arranged for decorative 

 purposes; 'tis not necessary to use 

 washtub pans. 



A correspondent informs us that 

 some retailer in New York is pushing 

 a fraud. He is offering a "New" corn- 

 flower at $5.00 a dozen. From inquiry 

 we learn that most of the people em- 

 ploying private gardeners in the vi- 

 cinity of New York have been ap- 

 proached on this "New corn-flower," 

 which is nothing less than the Sweet 

 Sultan (Centaurea sauveolens), intro- 

 duced from Persia over 200 years ago. 

 We cannot too strongly condemn 

 frauds — but it comes back to those 

 who do it. IVERA. 



AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR 

 ART ASS'N. 



The Detroit Convention. 



There was a good number in at- 

 tendance at the annual meeting in De- 

 troit, June 26 and 27, and it was the 

 most successful convention yet held by 

 this young organization. The pro- 

 gram was carried out about as printed 

 in our issue of June 22, with a few 

 changes necessitated by weather con- 

 ditions. The various papers were free- 

 ly discussed and much interest de- 

 veloped. The Detroit Free Press pays 

 this tribute to the earnestness of mem- 

 bers: 



"There has been as yet, among all 

 the national conventions held in De- 

 troit this season, no gathering in 

 which has been manifested plainly and 

 beyond question a spirit single and 

 enthusiastic in the interests of the 

 general welfare, equal to that which is 



shown by the American Park and Out- 

 door Art Association." 



Among those present were: John 

 C. Olmsted, Mrs. John C. Olmsted and 

 F. L. Olmsted, Jr., Brookline, Mass.; 

 C. M. Loring, Mrs. C. M. Loring, 

 Harry W. Jones and J. A. Ridgway. 

 Minneapolis; Warren H. Manning, 

 George R. King, H. P. Kelsey and J. 

 Woodward Manning, Boston, Mass.; 

 M. L. Moore, J. D. Robinson and Wil- 

 liam Beatty, Toledo; R. H. Warder 

 and William Salway, Cincinnati; 

 Lewis Johnson, Mrs. Lewis Johnson, 

 S. W. Clark and Mrs. S. W. Clark. New 

 Orleans; W. W. Parce and C. C. Lang, 

 Rochester, N. Y. ; C. D. Zimmerman 

 and William Scott, Buffalo; W. A. Sin- 

 clair and E. L. Shuey, Dayton O. ; Cy- 

 rus Peck, Newark, N. J.; R. Brinker- 

 hoff and Martin B. Bushnell, Mans- 

 field, O.; O. C. Simonds, M. Wood- 

 worth, M. D., J. J. Bryan, R. J. Haight, 

 Edwin A. Kanst, William A. Peterson, 

 M. Schrader and J. D. Brownell, Chi- 

 cago; Charles W. Garfield and Mrs. 

 Charles W. Garfield, Grand Rapids; 

 John L. Bennett, Philadelphia; 

 Thomas B. Meehan, Germantown, Pa.; 

 Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. Y. ; Lyman 

 R. Love, Kalamazoo; Frederick W. 

 Kelsey and Mrs. A. B. Stanard, New 

 York city; Edward J. Parker, Quincy, 

 111.; W. J. Beal, Michigan State Agri- 

 cultural College; Henry C. Fruck, 

 (iicisse Pointe Farms, Mich.; L. C. 

 Holden, Cleveland, O.; John P. Friske, 

 Frank Eurich, Will W. Tracy, Mrs. H. 



A. Cleland, J. C. Eaton Hanford. John 



B. Benson, Edward C. Van Leyen, R. 

 J. Coryell, P. H. A. Balsley and M. P. 

 Hurlbut, Detroit. 



The following officers and commit- 

 tees were elected for the ensuing year: 



President, Charles M. Loring, Min- 

 neapolis, Minn.; secretary, Warren H. 

 Manning, Boston, Mass.; treasurer, O. 



C. Simonds, Chicago, 111.; vice presi- 

 dent, Thomas H. Macbride, Iowa City, 

 Iowa; Lewis Woolverton, Grimsby, 

 Ont. (Other vice presidents as last 

 year). 



Finance committee — Charles W. Gar- 

 field, Grand Rapids, Mich.; William 

 Scott, Buffalo, N. Y.; J. D. Robinson, 

 Toledo, O. 



Committee on park census and au- 

 diting: Dr. William W. Folwell, Mr. 

 J. C. Olmsted, Mr. Lewis Johnson. 



Committee to consider indebtedness: 

 Dr. Folwell, Mr. Garfield, Mr. Warder, 

 Harry Jones, F. W. Kelsey. 



Committee on checking abuses of 

 advertising: Dr. M. Woodworth, F. 

 W. Kelsey, Mr. Charles W. Garfield, J. 

 C. E. Hanford, F. L. Olmsted, Jr. 



Committee on offering prizes for 

 home grounds: Prof. W. J. Beal, E. L. 

 Shuey, William W. Folwell. 



Committee on park accounts: F. C. 

 Bango, Cleveland; J. A. Ridgeway, 

 Minneapolis; M. P. Hurlbut, Detroit. 



A committee is to be appointed to 

 co-operate with the Pan-American 

 Exposition at Buffalo, 1901. 



The committee on home grounds 

 was appointed after the adoption of a 

 resolution "that a committee of three 



