The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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The Garden ot Hardy Plants in Lincoln Park, Chicago, with the Phloxes in Bloom. 



who wanted to go to Milwaukee had not 

 heon away sampling the golden fluid, 

 ana the spokesman said so much about 

 the Milwaukee golden fluid, they per- 

 haps would have won. But the first two 

 days of the convention we saw too many 

 under the influence of this golden fluid, 

 and I and a number of others voted for 

 Asheville, N. C, and we feel we did right, 

 and too much credit cannot be given Mr. 

 McCloud for his noble address, and the 

 flght he made. 



I also see Mr. Grove P. Eawson (who, 

 by the way, was not present because, he 

 says, he had other fish to fry, and who 

 must have forgotten that he could have 

 salted or pickled them so they would 

 have kept if he wished to attend the 

 convention; or, still better, he could 

 have brought them along, as we had a 

 special train and could have had a fried 

 fish dinner and no doubt given Brother 

 Rawson a vote of thanks for his floral 

 fish dinner) and he also refers to Mr. 

 William Scott, our past president, as 

 Brudder and Great Scott, and says he 

 had changed his tune and ought to be 

 spanked, etc. Now, Mr. Scott is no nig- 

 ger, nor was he a nigger in the fence in 

 the matter of Asheville, as the conven- 

 tion at large voted him a set of en- 

 grossed resolutions, which shows what 

 they think of his noble work for the 

 S. A. F. in the past and at the Pan- 

 American exhibition. 'As to the presi- 

 dent's reception, Brother Rawson quotes 

 some good ideas, if they are carried out, 

 that is name a press committee who 

 would have published in all local papers 

 a notice of the convention ahead of time 

 and invite the public, as also supported 

 by Mr. James M. Lamb, of Fayetteville, 

 N. C. 



Now, the whole thing looks like the 

 cow who had a good pail of milk and 

 then kicked it over, and afterwards was 

 growling because she did so. Now, the 

 spirit that each member should have and 

 express at the present time is, success 

 to Asheville, N. C, convention in 1902, 

 and then success shall crown our S. A. F., 



as we have elected men we can trust 

 with the management of our society, and 

 who will not make it a trust or a clique 

 club. 



So now, brothers who feel so sore be- 

 cause they lost Milwaukee, from now on 

 pull oflf your coats and work to make 

 Asheville convention in 1902 a success 

 and it will rebound with good to our so- 

 ciety and ourselves, and I am sure all 

 will be found in line when the conven- 

 tion meets, and will say we who voted 

 in 1901 made no mistake, but will want 

 to go there soon again. So, yours for 

 success for the S. A. F. and the 1902 

 convention, with a big tiger. 



Henri Beaulieu. 



Woodhaven, N. Y. 



BUFFALO. 



The writer is hardly able to judge how 

 business has been for the past week as 

 it has been a very much broken up one 

 for him. Good flowers are none too 

 plentiful. Asters seem to be of an in- 

 ferior quality, and this is general with 

 all the growers of the neighborhood. 

 Plenty of gladiolus are coming in and 

 sweet peas are still to be had. It is to 

 be hoped that we shall soon have better 

 roses. With the exception of Kaiserin 

 they have been very so-so for some time 

 past. Some enterprising man ought to 

 plant half an acre of Cochet, for it seems 

 to be the ideal rose for summer use. 



I find that all the florists did not 

 come to the convention, for there has 

 been a good sprinkling arriving right 

 along. The attendance at the Pan-Amer- 

 ican for the past two weeks has almost 

 reached the desired point, and yesterday. 

 Labor Day, there were nearly 104,000. 

 President's Day comes on next Thursday, 

 when the crowd is bound to be large. 



We have had some very copious rains 

 this past week, which, although it is 

 rather damaging to the flowers, is keep- 

 ing the grass and everything green. 1 

 would particularly like visitors to see 

 the aquatic basins in front of the Man- 



ufactures Building and the other in 

 front of the Machinery Building. The 

 basin containing the hardy nympheas 

 and nelumbiums is now remarkably fine. 

 There are some sixteen varieties of 

 nympheas in boxes, each containing some 

 ten to twelve plants and it is a beauti- 

 ful sight in the early morning, when 

 they are at their best. 



Messrs. Groff and Cowee are still keep- 

 ing up a magnificent display of their 

 gladiolus. They had on exhibition some 

 10,000 blooms one day last week when it 

 was photographed and I hope soon to 

 send the florists' journals copies. In 

 the grounds the dahlias are coming into 

 bloom. These I was somewhat nervous 

 over but they are doing splendidly. The 

 herbaceous borders are still very attract- 

 ive. I wish I had time to send a list of 

 all that is to be seen in them and \v^U 

 endeavor to do so later. There are some 

 things there not generally known that I 

 believe would be valuable to florists. 



The cannas are now at their very best, 

 and I can scarcely believe more brilliant 

 beds have been seen elsewhere. Tarry- 

 town is a magnificent sight and so is a 

 bed of Dwarf Florence Vaughan, the ex- 

 hibit of J. C. Vaughan. Even the 

 tuberous rooted begonias, of which so 

 many are sceptical as an outside bed- 

 ding plant, are very fine. One variety 

 exhibited by Henry A. Dreer, called Duke 

 Zeppelen, is as brilliant as a bed of 

 geraniums and much more pleasing. 

 Beds of asters are also very gay. One 

 of the most interesting beds on the 

 grounds is a large irregular group of 

 grasses, the exhibit of H. A. Dreer. It 

 cont.iins the Arundo Donax (its varie- 

 gated form), several species of eulalia 

 and Pennisetum. A very striking bed 

 is a large circular one of Tritoma Pfitz- 

 erii. Altogether I believe that the 

 grounds have never looked better than 

 they do at the present, and I cannot but 

 wisli that every florist in the country 

 had one quiet walk through it, for I do 

 think some things are doing about as 

 well as it is possible to do. W. S. 



