NOVEMBER 9, 1899. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



589 



mignonette. $2 to $3; smilax. 15 cents; 

 asparagus. 35 to 5K cents; adiantums, 

 75 cents to $1. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. Wm. Warren Crawford, son of 

 Robert Crawford, Jr., was married to 

 Miss Marie Elizabeth Park on Wednes- 

 day evening, November 1st. Mr. Craw- 

 ford and his bride will make their 

 home with his parents. As William is 

 the oldest son his father naturally 

 looks upon him as being his principal 

 assistant. 



The H. A. Dreer Co. are enlarging 

 their office and packing room at River- 

 ton, their present quarters being too 

 small for their increasing business. 



There promises to be some keen 

 competition at the coming chrysanthe- 

 mum show to be held in this city. The 

 entry list at present shows that great 

 interest is being taken, although the 

 weather has not been as favorable as 

 it might have been. We have had con- 

 siderable heavy, foggy weather to con- 

 tend with, which always affects the 

 blooms more or less, and in some cases 

 they damp off entirely. R. 



won the first, but fell to pieces in the 

 second. Following are the scores: 



NEW york! 



1. 2. 3. 



A. Burns 12S 139 116 



P. O'Mara 134 1 37 155 



F. Traen.llv 1"! 179 168 



T Roohrs 99 ITS 142 



T Lang 151 ir.l 106 



C. Si h. u<k 151 144 



NEW YORK. 



The New York Florists' Club will 

 meet at their room. Twenty-seventh 

 street and Broadway. Monday evening. 

 November 13th. Nomination of offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year will take 

 place at this meeting. On account of 

 the convention there is expected to be 

 a lively fight for offices this year. It 

 is hoped the best men will win. for 

 much will be expected of them. 



The Bowling Club will meet in the 

 afternoon. 



Business is fast becoming better. The 

 National Horse Show is on for next 

 week, and though it is not what it 

 used to be from a floricultural point of 

 view, still violet growers are keeping 

 a strong and ill-smelling reserve for it. 

 We are informed that cypripediums 

 are to be 12% cents this season. The 

 growers have combined to keep it so. 

 It's a good price and we hope they 

 can get it. 



Cleary's auction of Japanese dwarfed 

 trees on Wednesday and Thursday of 

 last week was a great success; 250 

 plants were sold and $4,rKK> was real- 

 ized on' the sale. All of the plants 

 brought enormous prices, $700 being 

 paid by Mr. Pope for a Retinospora 

 obtusa nana 5 feet high; $20 to $40 

 were paid for — well, never mind. All 

 the growers around here are going 

 into this line of business; if you've 

 any old stumps in your nurseries twist 

 their necks and advertise them. 



Bowling. 



The third series and deciding games 

 between the Flatbush and New York 

 teams took place at Siegel's alleys, 

 Sands and Washington streets, Brook- 

 lyn. Saturday evening. November 4. It 

 was a very exciting contest. Flatbush 



Totals 613 936 



S32 



FLATBUSH. 



1. 2. 3. 



P Rilev 155 117 1 Hi 



A. Zeller 122 105 131 



L. Schmutz 127 101 86 



J. Ravnur 151 IT 115 



E DaiTledouze 140 H8 HO 



D. Mellis T ' A 157 



Totals 



696 



074 



745 



This entitles the New Yorks to the 

 championship of these parts. They ex- 

 pect to tackle the Philadelphians be- 

 fore the days get longer. There was 

 quite a large gathering to witness th? 

 struggle and what between black cat; 

 and fancy rolling hilarity fizzed all the 

 time. Mr. John Weir's twists occa- 

 sioned uproarious applause. It woul 1 

 not be fair not to record these scores 

 because the boys worked hard enough 

 to get them. The alleys and the 

 marker got blamed for all the low fig- 

 ures. "Keep your eye on the 'board;' 

 never look at the pins." that's what 

 experts tell us. 



BLACK CATS. WHITE ONES. 



W Sebrechtl58 137 A. Siiaw .. '- 

 \V Marshall. 131 12S' A. Langjahr. 84 -1 

 A L°Mou t.104 16S J. Penman... 126 102 



\y St. -wait I'.i l::i J. We r 04 92 



J 'Donlan ...US 141 S. Butteifd 147 110 



T Lang 157 L Schmutz.. .. 112 



C. Sc.henck.. ..137 T. Roehrs ... 133 



F. Traendly. .. 126 P. O'Mara 12s 



A. Burns 138 



J. I. DONLAN. 



BUFFALO. 



The Pan-American is progressing 

 Except the portion of the park to be 

 used for the big fair it is all surround- 

 ed with a 9-foot board fence finished 

 off with barbed wire, and an immense 

 enclosure it now seems. Two rows of 

 Carolina poplar and two rows of gold- 

 en barked willow are planted in a con- 

 tinuous belt near the fence. So when 

 the fair opens the visitor will see no 

 unsightly fence but the whole outline 

 will be a pleasing bank of foliage. Ex- 

 cavation for the lagoons and canal is 

 almost complete, and the Administra- 

 tion building will be complete in nine- 

 ty days. 



The propagating houses are complete 

 and this winter will be in the) care of 

 Mr. George McClure. The management 

 is fortunate in having a man of his 

 ability and energy to start the floricul- 

 tural department, for since he has 

 ceased entirely and forever the agree- 

 able but enervating function which ne- 

 cessitates the old saying of "Here's to 

 ye," he has proved what we always 

 knew he was. one of the best gardeners 

 that ever crossed the herring pond, 

 and possesses the inestimable blessing 



of knowing that there is much to learn 

 every day. Of all unfortunate crea- 

 tures out of jail the most to be pitied 

 is the man who learned it all when he 

 was 30 and needs to learn no more. 



What with politics and flowers, Kas- 

 tings' commission house is a busy 

 place now; from 7:30 till 10 a. m. a 

 visit there is very enjoyable and you 

 are not so liable as in summer to meet 

 the talkative woman. We used to run 

 against her, figuratively speaking, in 

 summer mornings of June. 



O gentle dame, of more or less un- 

 certain age, why will you talk so 

 much? A man who chatters incessant- 

 ly about his own doings is a dreadful 

 nuisance, but it's far worse in a wom- 

 an, young or old. You can cut it short 

 with a man and turn on your heel, or 

 if you are larger than he is suggest 

 pointedly that he dry up. or shut up, 

 but when the fountain is enveloped in 

 petticoats you must smile and suffer. 

 Oh girley, matron, or dear grandma, 

 why will you do it? You have a love- 

 ly sphere in life and the admiration of 

 the rougher sex is dear to you at all 

 ages, but the very thing to drive it 

 away is this everlasting chin. You 

 may" smirk and grimace and lessen the 

 visible diameter of your optics one- 

 half, but it's of no avail if you keep 

 emitting sentences of hot air. It nei- 

 ther attracts nor pleases or fascinates. 

 It bores and repulses. But bad to en- 

 dure as is the talkative woman in busi- 

 ness or acquaintance, fancy the suf- 

 fering wretch of a husband who has to 

 sit silent and hear his wife entertain 

 their friends. 



Mr. Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-the 

 Avon said "the shallows murmur 

 while the deeps be dumb," and doubt- 

 less it is largely true of human nature. 

 But there are great exceptions, for 

 some men are so blessed with intellect 

 and resulting knowledge and with it an 

 exuberance of spirit that they can be 

 ' always saying something bright, 

 whether in the family circle, the bar- 

 ber's chair or on the platform. Sweet, 

 cute little remarks from your wife or 

 somebody else's wife, are much appre- 

 ciated, but the continuous clatter of 

 commonplace talk from a woman is 

 only good for one purpose, it makes us 

 realize that although poor we have 

 much to be thankful for. Had we to 

 drag out the miserable existence that 

 some men are doomed to pass, we 

 should fly the state and look for a sit- 

 uation as janitor at a deaf mute fe- 

 male academy. W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 

 The market is improving. Demand 

 is good and there is enough to go 

 around at ruling rates. In a word, the 

 market is in a very satisfactory con- 

 dition. Quality of stock is improving, 

 though some of the roses seemed to 

 have had a touch of mildew, and life 



