AUGUST 17, 1899. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



295 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



A day is too brief a time for a visit 

 to the "Flower City," Rochester; one 

 of the quartette of beautiful inland 

 cities that cannot be equaled in any 

 land on earth. 



I found the florists busy with fu- 

 neral work, whenever I had opportu- 

 nity of calling. I didn't find much 

 convention enthusiasm in Rochester. 

 This is so unlike their brethren, the 

 nurserymen here, who came by the 

 dozen and score to Chicago in June at 

 their yearly convention. 



But this is the center of the nursery 

 business in this country. Ellwanger & 

 Barry are pioneers, and their name is 

 known from the Atlantic to the Pa- 

 cific. Chase Bros. Co. thirty years 

 ago came from Maine, to inaugurate 

 the system of selling by agents, and 

 today stand at the head of the proces- 

 sion. Between themselves and their 

 branches nearly 2,000 salesmen find 

 employment, and their trees are grow- 

 ing in every state in the Union. One 

 of the brothers, Ethan, has removed 

 to California, where he is the owner of 

 a large orange nursery and fruit farm, 

 and where he grows "roses on their 

 own roots," summer and winter, at 

 Riverside, "the most glorious climate 

 on the footstool,'' as he joyously pro- 

 claims it. Lewis Chase, the senior 

 member of the firm — young at 70 — is 

 rusticating at Squirrel Island, in the 

 Atlantic, not far from Portland. 



W. C. Barry, who was lately elected 

 president of the American Rose Soci- 

 ety, is young and vigorous, and is 

 president of pretty nearly everything 

 horticultural in the state and an en- 

 thusiast in his work. 



Brown Bros. Co. are another young 

 and ambitious house in the nursery 

 line, with offices in Canada and this 

 city. They have a very complete 

 packing shed, a 10-acre lawn filled 

 with every variety of tree and shrub, 

 and a $10,000 office, in which their im- 

 mense agency business is conducted, 

 the most complete arrangement of its 

 kind in America. Brown Bros. Co. are 

 concentrating all their American busi- 

 ness in Rochester and have lately 

 closed their Chicago office. 



You can have no idea of the number 

 of nursery firms in Rochester without 

 looking in your florists' directory. 

 That will "open your eyes." There are 

 dozens of them who employ salesmen. 

 Some of them send boxes of nursery 

 stock far beyond the Rockies. The 

 spring and fall delivery seasons are 

 busy times with these national bene- 

 factors, and the monuments they raise 

 all over this fertile land are standing 

 lung after they meander to the land 

 of perpetual flowers and fruitage. 



They are a happy people these nurs- 

 erymen now, for the "seven lean 

 years" are past; nursery stock of all 

 kinds has doubled in value, the de- 

 mand for it is universal — the very ele- 

 ments last winter took a hand in it and 

 froze enough fruit stock to feed a na- 

 tion; so these children of nature are 

 wearing broad smiles and new clothes 

 and a general air of prosperity that is 

 comforting to see. 



5,000 Begonia Rex and 5,000 Primroses, 



EXTRA 

 FINE. 



POT PLANTS. 



Begonia Rex, assorted, 2&-inch $4.00 per 100 



named 6.00 



Begonia Tuberous, 2%-inch 5.00 



Lemon Verbena, 2^-inch 3.00 



Impatiens Sultana, 2%-inch 3.00 



Primrose, Chinese, 2*A-\n., Extra Fine 



strain 3.00 " 



English Ivv, 2 to 3 (eet $5.00 per 100 



Manettia bicolor, 3-in 6.00 " 



GERANIUMS — 2!i-in. Sweet Scented. 



Mrs. Pollock, Pansv, 4.00 " 

 Mrs. Parker 6.00 " 



ROOTED CUTTINGS. 



GERANIUMS— Assorted $1.50 per 100 



Mixed 1.25 " 



Mars, Happv Thought, 3.00 " 



Mrs. Pollock 2.00 " 



Mrs. Parker 4.00 " 



Silver Leaf, Rose Scent- 

 ed, Ivv 1.50 



Mme. Sallerol 1.25 



Freak of Nature 4.00 



GREENE & INDERHILL, - 



Abutilon Var, Trailing $2.00 per Hm 



Begonia Rex 2.00 



Incarnata Gigantea 2.00 



Flowering 2.00 



Impatiens Sultana 2.00 



Manettia bicolor 2.00 



Lemon Verbena 1.50 



Terms Cash or C. 0. D. 



- WATERTOWN, N. Y. 



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Especially interesting to me is all 

 this, for I lived in this very city and 

 was in this business ten of the happi- 

 est years of my life. "No friends like 

 the old friends," no reminiscences 

 sweeter than those which involve the 

 memory of "enough and to spare," and 

 the inspiration of business confidence. 

 How I would like to preach a short 

 sermon on the text, "Let well enough 

 alone." But what good are sermons 

 to most of us! We have all to learn 

 by personal journeying through the 

 thorny path of experience, and may be, 

 after all, it is best we should. 



But to return to the florists, those 

 artificers in the beautiful. I found 

 Salter Bros, rejuvenating their hand- 

 some store on East avenue and getting 

 ready for a vigorous fall campaign. 



Mr. Keller, Sr., is away with his 

 brother from Bay Ridge in the Cats- 

 kills renewing his youth. The sons 

 have doubled the size of their store 

 on Clinton street and fitted it up ar- 

 tistically. 



Wilson has a whole store to himself 

 now on East Main street, and it is 

 none too large for his business, while 

 Messrs. Schlegel & Sons grow nearly 

 everything floricultural and look after 

 the interests of the "suburbans" on 

 South avenue, as usual. 



Mr. Ogstrom, successor to your old 

 friend George Savage, is much pleased 

 with his new duties and environments 

 and takes especial pride in his orchids 

 and "Victoria Regia." 



Strange to say, Rochester has no 

 distinctive florists' bowling club, and 

 its florists get most of their recreation 

 fishing or down by the lake in sum- 

 mer. 



Salter Bros, are progressive in their 

 devotion to new things and will dab- 

 ble in the new rose Liberty, as will 

 most of the growers I have met from 

 Boston to Denver. AUSTIN. 



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