AUGUST 31, 1899. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



347 



dozen blooms, all the shape of a Chi- 

 nese gondola. The plants are attract- 

 ing much interest from local botanists, 

 who say they are unusually good speci- 

 mens. 



Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Weber, Mr. and 

 Mrs. John Young and Mr. and Mrs. C. 

 A. Kuehn were the last to come hom? 

 from the convention, having spent an- 

 other week in the neighboring towns 

 of Detroit. 



F. W. Pape and C. Bergstermann 

 have leased the greenhouses of Wm. 

 Pape and will take charge Sept. 1. 

 The firm will be known as Pape & 

 Bergstermann, and will do a general 

 florist business. 



Thomson, Anderson & Kennedy 

 are building for the city, in Foic:? 

 Park, a palm house, 20x120 feet. 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



Except with flowers whose destina- 

 tion is the cemetery trade is naturally 

 very dull. Carnations are about gone. 

 Asters help out a great deal and roses 

 are good, what we get of them. If 

 wo had 48 hours' rain it would help all 

 nature, including our outside flowers 

 away from the reach of the hose; and 

 unless you can water copiously you 

 had better not begin. 



The brothers Poor, two young Eng- 

 lishmen, who have started a small 

 place on Delaware avenue, near the 

 cemetery, are growing some fine asters 

 and experimenting with many strains 

 and varieties. May their name be no 

 indication of their success. They are 

 hustlers up-to-date. 



The chief social event in florists' 

 circles is the impending matrimony of 

 Wm. Anderson Adams and Miss Bes- 

 sie Patterson, which will be solemn- 

 ized in this city on Tuesday, Septem- 

 ber 5, at 8 p. m., eastern standard time. 

 The decorations and how Andy be- 

 haved himself will be recorded in a. 

 future contribution. I can say in ad- 

 vance that the future Mrs. Adams is 

 a sweet, amiable girl, and both of them 

 being pure blooded Scotch they must 

 be near the salt of the earth. As ev- 

 erybody knows, Andy is not a large 

 man, but nature has compensated for 

 a tardy distribution of bone and flesh 

 with a very liberal allowance of vim, 

 get up, gall anfl get there, and we pray 

 that these energetic and desirable 

 qualities may not fail him in the great 

 •ordeal he has contracted to pass 

 through. There will be few florists at 

 the execution, but Andy says we shall 

 all have a show when he is in "his" 

 house and warms it up. 



It is very pleasing to hear the many 

 nice things said about Detroit from 

 various sources. Sorry Brother Kift's 

 advice about the picture came too 

 late. The nice comments about Wm. 

 B. are appreciated by that solid young 

 man. He says, "You see papa's blood 

 will tell," and then across the table 

 Havid J. (there is no George as yet) 

 says, cruelly, "Yes, Willie, that's true, 

 and age like blood will also tell." But 

 what is age? As long as John West- 



cott can bowl surely we must keep at 

 it. 



Convention stragglers did not get 

 done until end of the week. Mr. F. R. 

 Pierson was, I think, the last, and 

 very sorry we did not meet him. 



Mr. S. A. Anderson, who was con- 

 fined to the house five weeks with ty- 

 phoid fevei', is again entirely recov- 

 ered, attending to his yacht skimming 

 over the surface of Lake Erie or over 

 the surface of the asphalt pavement 

 on his automobile and incidentally at- 

 tending to his good looking store. 



There are several of us who would 

 like to begin lifting carnations, for 

 it is high time, but outside of the city 

 there has been no rain for at least ten 

 weeks and it is about impossible to 

 puncture the ground till we get a rain. 

 W. J. Palmer has one or two bouses 

 planted and I suppose he flooded the 

 ground a few days before lifting. If 

 we get another season like this we will 

 move to western Nebraska, where 

 there has been more rain than is good 

 for the corn. Our climate has pro- 

 duced corns and dry land crabs. 



W. S. 



CLEVELAND. 



Cut flower trade remains about the 

 same, the only thing doing is funeral 

 work which has been more abundant 

 the past week. Carnations are more 

 plentiful; roses are somewhat im- 

 proved. Japan lilies are a drug on the 

 market, being used mostly in work. 

 Gladiolus are to be seen everywhere, 

 but no sale for them. They go at any 

 old price. Carnations bring 75 cents 

 and $1 per 100; roses $2 to $6 per 100. 

 Japan lilies, short, $2; long, $5 per 

 100. The dry weather has almost fin- 

 ished the sweet peas. Asters are more 

 scarce and bring 75 cents and $1 per 

 100. Tuberoses $5 per 100. Orchids, 

 Cattleya, retail at 75 cents and $1 each. 



Mrs. J. M. Gasser has returned from 

 her trip up the lakes. She was the 

 guest of Mrs. Phil Breitmeyer during 

 the convention and cannot say enough 

 for them for the courteous manner in 

 which she was entertained. 



The local club took care of the flor- 

 ists passing through our city. The 

 committee met the Pittsburg delega- 

 tion and took them to the Weddell 

 House for dinner. The party numbered 

 about 60. The Cleveland florists did 

 their duty as entertainers in Detroit. 

 Every florist who did not have a girl 

 with him entertained some fellow's 

 girl. Miss M. Schmitt recovered the 

 box she left at the Cadillacwhich she 

 thought lost. It contained a valuable 

 collection of insects, one of which she 

 claims is the famous kissing-bug 

 caught by Mr. G. Goo of Cincinnati, 

 O., at Water Works Park. Miss Bes- 

 sie Miller of Lynn, Mass., had a nar- 

 row escape on Belle Isle. She became 

 frightened and almost overturned the 

 rig she was riding in; only for the 

 timely arrival of Mr. Prunne from 

 Philadelphia, was an accident avoided. 

 The rear guard of the Pittsburg dele- 

 gation passed through our city this 



morning. Mr. C. C. Ludwig and wife, 

 Fred Burki and wife, Fred Hinkel and 

 wife and Link Neff visited our stores 

 and saw some of the sights after which 

 all delegates and some local florists 

 proceeded to the depot and after Jim 

 Murdock and Snow Randolph were 

 awakened we all shook hands and 

 wished them God-speed and a safe 

 journey. Mr. Gasser was rather disap- 

 pointed as he had made all arrange- 

 ments to receive the boys Sunday 

 morning. He had a committee at the 

 dock to escort them to his Lake ave- 

 nue home, but John Breitmeyer would 

 not hear of their leaving Detroit until 

 Monday; they will never know what 

 they missed. Some representatives 

 from New York, Canada, Indiana, and 

 Pennsylvania enjoyed Mr. Gasser's 

 hospitality. 



It has just been announced that 

 some large decorations have been let; 

 in the near future there is a good time 

 coming. 



Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams have 

 just returned from a two weeks trip. 

 They took in the convention. 



Mr. Thrall from Jamestown, N. Y., 

 was $. visitor this week.' He tells us 

 his company will open a wholesale 

 store in New York this fall. 



O. A. C. O. 



DETROIT. 



The long looked for convention has 

 come and gone but to remain a pleas- 

 ant memory of the past, and the boys 

 are feeling good over the result, for 

 with one or two exceptions they think 

 all went well. One feature of the en- 

 tertainment for which they feel re- 

 gret was the supper at Star Island, 

 so many having to wait so long before 

 being permitted to satisfy their hun- 

 ger. But the management was not 

 to blame. The proprietor had prom- 

 ised the Detroit Club to run three long 

 tables the entire length of the dining- 

 room and to seat 500 at once, and in- 

 stead of doing as he agreed he only 

 seated 240 at one time, but we made 

 the best of it, and if some were not 

 satisfied they must lay the blame 

 where it belongs and not at the door 

 of the Detroit Florists' Club. 



By the time this reaches your read- 

 er's the writer will be enjoying himself 

 and taking a much needed rest on the 

 waters of Lake Superior. The bowlers 

 are already talking of what they will 

 do in New York next year, for they 

 propose to begin taking nervine at 

 once to the end that they may have 

 a sufficient quantity with them. 



J. Austin Shaw has so far recovered 

 as to leave for his home. He feels 

 that he had a very narrow escape and 

 says that hereafter he will only take 

 a bath once a year, and then all by 

 himself. Anyone wishing a copy of 

 the photograph of the members of the 

 S. A. F. taken at Detroit can secure 

 one by addressing G. A. Rackham, 

 Detroit. RAG. 



The weather is very hot and dry. 

 Grasshoppers and black bugs are eat- 



