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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



AUGUST 3, 1899. 



butted the glass in their houses they 

 would never butt another." Now to 

 hear that provokes an irritation of the 

 epidermis; it's beyond the smiling, 

 nearer the boiling point. Those good 

 gardeners are no more an authority 

 on butted glass than they are on the 

 most feasible way of altering the 

 course of the river Euphrates. The 

 little piece of butted glass at the Bo- 

 tanic Gardens was never laid right, 

 it's a botch all round, but it must not 

 be condemned because there and in 

 many places they went about laying it 

 entirely ignorant of the first knowl- 

 edge of the system. 



It is not necessary to butt glass in 

 a botanic garden or in a private place 

 or near a city or large town where 

 you will get much smoke, but for the 

 commercial man away from smoke I 

 can only agree with Mr. Dale and a 

 little more so. I have only ten houses 

 butted but would no more think of 

 lapping glass in future than I would of 

 heating with brick flues. None of you 

 had better condemn or praise butted 

 glass till you know how to lay it and 

 have given it a fair trial. 



To Detroit. 



We are so glad to hear that Boston 

 and New York arrive in Buffalo on 

 the Monday night and will travel 

 hence by Wabash, which leaves here 

 at 12:15, middle of the night. So there 

 will be time to shake the dust off out- 

 side and wash it off inside if by neg- 

 lect any has been allowed to lodge in 

 the vocal organs. I trust we will have 

 a good many to join the party and that 

 Gov. Westcott will bring his numer- 

 ous brigade this route. 



Various Items. 



The papers a few days ago an- 

 nounced the safe arrival at Antwerp 

 of the ship containing the live body of 

 Mr. C. P. Christenson and son. How 

 we do look forward to the verbal de- 

 scription of the voyage and the im- 

 pressions of the liquids, cigars, etc., 

 of his native Denmark. We think we 

 can hear him saying to the natives, 

 "Oh, my dear boy, they do not measure 

 out the stuff to us in dear old Amer- 

 ica; they give us the bottle. Your ci- 

 gars? I guess not. I thought you had 

 good tobacco. Yes, my child, it is 

 cheap enough the Lord knows, but give 

 me our old Buffalo three for a quarter, 

 they're good enough. Yes, I like your 

 gin all right, but your whiskey is what 

 we Yankees call forty-rod. I have not 

 seen the sun shine since I was here; 

 is it always so dull? And the palace 

 gardens that I used to tell the boys so 

 much about; they look so small. Well, 

 well, we must be going. Come, come, 

 my boy, where is that place I called 

 in yesterday where they had such good 

 mineral water, etc." 



Mr. J. Austin Shaw is in town. How- 

 soft the summer breezes rustle the 

 poet's locks; his verse is ever cheery 

 when toiling among the pots. 



Mr. Mott, of Riverton, of a more pro- 

 saic dollar and cents build, has been 



and gone; and left his usual lot of 

 ferns and palms among the craft of 

 the city and surrounding territory. 



The bowling club meets Wednesday 

 afternoon to practice and select the 

 teams to carry off the numerous hand- 

 some prizes at Detroit. They will be 

 exhibited at one of the retail stores on 

 their return from Detroit, and it is a 

 question whether we should lay them 

 out on a piece of black velvet or sus- 

 pend them with silver wires. In jus- 

 tice to the small boys in the crowd, 

 hanging them up would give all the 

 best view. W. S. 



TYING ROSE STAKES. 



Your correspondent A. O. T. in his 

 rose notes in the Review for July 20 

 recommends tying stakes to wires 

 running lengthwise of the beds. Now 

 I should like A. 0. T. to try my sys- 

 tem of fastening rose stakes, publish- 

 ed in your late prize competition. We 

 have found it a practical thing here 

 and I'm sure A. 0. T. and other up-to- 

 date rose growers will find it the 

 same. The washers can be got very 

 cheap and the extra cost over string 

 is more than counterbalanced in time 

 saved besides having a firm and neat 

 job. HARRY McNAUGHTON. 



[We reprint herewith the engraving 

 and description referred to by Mr. 

 McNaughton. — Ed.] 



Rose stake tyer. Place a half-inch 

 rubber washer (can be cut from a 



Method o( Fastening Rose Stakes 



half-inch hose) behind horizontal 

 wire, bend over top and bottom of 

 washer, push stake through the two 

 holes thus made, stick end of stake 

 into soil. If your washers are small 

 enough your stake will be secured 

 with sufficient firmness. If the wash- 

 ers are a little large, or you need an 

 extra firm tie, push stake nearly way 

 through, give it a half turn and then 

 stick into soil and your stake is posi- 

 tively immovable. S. 



HYDRANGEAS. 



A subscriber asks: "How shall I 

 treat my hydrangeas in pots? I have 

 some now in 3-inch pots. Should they 

 be pinched and repotted so as to have 

 them nicely in bloom by Easter time? 

 Should they be shaded or not?" 



The hydrangea has been written up 

 at length by more than one pen in the 



columns of The Review. It is late 

 now to have fine plants for Easter, 

 but you can begin at once. They want 

 no shade, not the slightest. Pinch out 

 the leading shoot at once and shift 

 them into 5-inch pots. If they are well 

 rooted in the 3-inch they will take a 

 5-inch; if not so strong, shift them 

 into a 4-inch. 



Give them a good rough loam with a 

 fourth of rotten manure and plunge in 

 a frame outside with room for them to 

 grow. And let the sun and light all 

 around them. Leave them there un- 

 til after the first few light frosts and 

 look in the columns of the Review 

 for future instructions. 



WM. SCOTT. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



During the fore part of the week the 

 demand for all classes of flowers was 

 quite unexceptionable for this time of 

 the season; during the last two or 

 three days, while the trade can hardly 

 be called slow, there was quite a 

 different feeling. 



Roses, outside of Beauties, are in 

 ample supply for the demand, with the 

 quantity of real first-class stock re- 

 duced to a minimum. 



Brides and Maids run anywhere 

 from $2 to $8 per 100; Kaiserins, 

 good quality, will go as high as 12% 

 cents; Meteors about the same. Beau- 

 ties are scarce and are all sold as fast 

 as they come in at prices ranging from 

 75 cents to $3 per dozen. Carnations 

 have been good property for some 

 time, and are not over plentiful; ?1 

 per 100 is the average figure ; peas are 

 also in a short supply as compared 

 with former seasons, 15 to 20 cents per 

 100 is the price; asters are good prop- 

 erty, selling quickly at from 75 cents 

 to |1.50 per 100; odds and ends plenty, 

 put up in 25-cent bunches. 



The Saturday Show. 



The exhibition this week was de- 

 voted to hardy phlox, antirrhinums 

 and natives, and considering the un- 

 usual dry season, was quite good. For 

 a collection of 12 named varieties of 

 perennial phlox, 1st prize was awarded 

 to W. N. Craig; 2nd, Geo. Hollis. For 

 antirrhinums, thirty vases, not less 

 than ten varieties, 1st, E. J. Milton; 

 2nd, John Jeffries. For collection of 

 hardy native flowers. 1st, Mrs. W. S. 

 Eager; 2nd, Miss Alice Grinnell; 3d, 

 Miss Edith Noyes. Gratuities were 

 awarded to Mrs. E. M. Gill and E. C. 

 Lewis for displays of seasonable 

 flowers; to W. N. Craig for collection 

 of cannas and sweet peas; to Mrs. 

 John L. Gardner for perennial phlox, 

 and to Rea Bros, for a collection of 

 perennials. 



The News. 

 Chas. Malone, of Galvin's Tremont 

 street store, is enjoying a short vaca- 

 tion at Narragansett Pier, while Jim 

 McMann has taken a cottage at 

 Hough's Neck. 



