AUGUST 3, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



215 



Views in Clark Park, Detroit. 



rupicola, or some of the others, for 

 instance P. reclinata and P. canaden- 

 sis, are fine when large for either cool 

 or hot places. We have successfully 

 grown phoenix where 'twas impossible 

 to grow anything else, right over a hot 

 radiator. Plenty of water and frequent 

 syringing was all that was necessary. 

 Latania borbonica is being supplanted 

 by the Boston fern, but there will al- 

 ways be a call for them where space 

 has to be filled or shade wanted. The 

 Boston fern is one of the best plants 

 grown, for you can use it anywhere. 

 Good plants were scarce late last sea- 

 son because growers were too anxious 

 to dispose of it. 

 Asparagus Sprengerii will be popular 



the coming season, especially in the 

 form of hanging baskets. It's a grand 

 thing, and don't be afraid if you have 

 a good stock of it. The only trouble 

 with this plant is we don't get the 

 vines long enough; the plant requires 

 strong feeding. Get A. Sprengerii with 

 3 or 4 foot vines and it surpasses any- 

 thing in the decorative line. Don't 

 have your plants in too big pots, use 

 careful 'judgment in this respect, be- 

 cause your plants look poor in big 

 shoes, and then they are hard to hide 

 and difficult to handle. Growers should 

 in a way be as careful to give the 

 retailer what he wants, as the retailer 

 must be in supplying his customer. 



IVERA. 



BUFFALO. 



Butted Glass. 



It is hardly worth while speaking of 

 business as there is little except what 

 is wanted for the inevitable, and that 

 with some firms is the leading article. 

 Asters are coming in but not extra in 

 quality. Carnations are getting fewer 

 and small. There are enough good 

 roses to go around. Mr. Guenther, of 

 Hamburg, N. Y., is sending in some 

 fine Kaiserins and Meteors from his 

 model and modest beginning and his 

 butted glass. 



Speaking of butted glass. It was 

 amusing to see a contemporary ask a 

 number of florists their opinion of 

 butted glass. The gentlemen who 

 were consulted stand high in the pro- 

 fession, are first class men in every 

 respect, but they have no knowledge of 

 how to lay butted glass. If any one of 

 them ever gave it a trial it was in 

 a small and prejudiced way. The only 

 exception to that was the testimony of 

 Mr. C. W. Ward, who told me he had 

 butted glass on several of his houses. 

 Most probably he did not lay it the 

 right way or he would not be now al- 

 tering it. 



Why was not John H. Dunlop asked? 

 He has ten times as much butted glass 

 as all of those put together who were 

 asked. It would have been fair and a 

 saving of words and a better guide 

 to prospective builders if the great ma- 

 jority who were asked had replied in 

 this way: "Don't know, never gave it 

 a fair trial." Harry Dale, the only 

 man of the lot who was in favor of 

 butted glass, comes out square and in 

 no mincing manner. Says Harry in 

 part, "Anyone laying lapped glass in 

 this district would be looked upon as 

 a back number. I have tried both 

 ways and I know that butted glass 

 has saved me hundreds of dollars, the 

 almighty kind." Well done my bloom- 

 ing, auburn, honest, modest but clever 

 Canadian. That little paragraph is 

 worth a column of windy stuff from a 

 man who assumes to tell you how to 

 lay butted glass and yet condemns it. 

 And remember, this is the evidence of 

 a man who has 175,000 feet of glass, 

 has many thousand feet of the long 

 span to the south whose north side is 

 the most unfavorable style for butted 

 glass, and who is located in the cold 

 icebound, snowdrifting town of 

 Brampton, Ont. And I, who won't 

 pretend to know, have been told by 

 the best growers and largest commis- 

 sion men of the country, that Mr. Dale 

 grew the finest roses on this continent. 

 I like the word continent so much bet- 

 ter than country, for we are all the 

 same, or should be. 



I was amused a few days ago wheh 

 two men entered my store and said 

 they intended to build and were look- 

 ing for points. They had been out to 

 our Botanic Gardens, but had not 

 found the amiable professor at home, 

 but the gardeners there had kindly 

 given the advice "that if these men 



