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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



Springs, Ark., was a visitor the past 

 week. 



John Young and family have returned 

 from Atlantic City, where they enjoyed 

 their three weeks' stay very much. 



John W. Kunz has left the employ of 

 H. G. Berning and it is rumored will 

 again try the retail business this fall. 



Otto Koenig spent all of last week in 

 Louisville attending the Sir Knights con- 

 vention. 



Shaw's Garden was open to visitors 

 yesterday (Sunday), it being the second 

 Sunday opening this year. The attend- 

 ance was very large. 



Bowling. 



The members of the Florists' Bowling Club 

 who are to play in the lea&ue games got to- 

 gether on Monday and played five games. The 

 rolling was only fair, but will improve with 

 cool weather. Mr. Trillow, of Chicago, was a 

 visitor and rolled two games. Mr. Sturtz, our 

 new member and who will be on the league 

 team, came nearly being high man. 



The scores are : 



12 3 4 5 Tot. Av. 



J J. Beneke 144 149 182 128 157 760 K2 



J Sturtz 125 121 162 167 179 754 161 



C. Kuehn 132 159 126 181 146 744 149 



P. M. Ellis 157 151 139 447 149 



A. T. Ellison 136 136 133 176 134 715 143 



F C. Weber 96 135 154 1.58 145 688 138 



Theo. Miller 87 143 86 105 84 505 101 



Wm. Trillow 90 96 186 93 



NEW YORK. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New York Florists' Club will be held 

 at their rooms, 19 West Twenty-seventh 

 street, Monday evening next. Fall exhi- 

 bition matters will be the principal busi- 

 ness before the meeting. 



The death of a few prominent citizens 

 this week caused a little activity in the 

 way of funeral designs. Thorley had the 

 majority of the work; they were very 

 busy on Saturday and turned out some 

 very large and beautiful wreaths. Very 

 few designs are seen nowadays except 

 wreaths and bunches. 



However, this little ripple of business 

 was not felt in the wholesale district; 

 where all is patience and disgust; the 

 market is at a standstill almost. Thou- 

 sands of roses are offered at $2.50 per 

 1,000. The select few, and they are few, 

 bring fairly fancy prices. Beauties bring 

 from $3 per dozen down; valley can be 

 had for from $1 to $2.50 per 100; cat- 

 tleyas 50 to 75 cents each for select 

 stock, and anything you like for the gen- 

 eral run of outdoor flowers. 



A letter from Buffalo requests us to 

 inform P. Welch, of Boston, that the 



Bed of Acalypha Macafeeaoa in Lincoln Park, Chicago. 



BED OF ACALYPHAS. 



Among the new features of the bedding 

 at Lincoln Park, Chicago, this summer 

 is a bed of Acalypha Macafeeana bor- 

 dered with Abutilon Savitzii and with a 

 phoenix in the center, of which we pre- 

 sent herewith an engraving from a recent 

 photograph. 



The acalypha makes a bright show and 

 is a welcome change from eoleus for the 

 purpose. 



Fredonia, N. Y. — David Scott, the 

 florist, died Aug. 27, of Bright's disease, 

 aged 65 years. He was a brother of Wil- 

 liam Scott, of Buffalo. He was born in 

 England and came to America twenty 

 years ago. He had charge of one of the 

 finest private places in Buffalo for sev- 

 en or eight years, and afterward did con- 

 siderable landscape gardening, laying 

 out several of the finest grounds on Dela- 

 ware avenue. For the past ten years he 

 has been in business for himself here. 

 The funeral was held last Friday and 

 the burial was in beautiful Forest Lawn 

 Cemetery, Buffalo. 



Boston terrier sfill wanders up and down 

 Franklin street to the terror of the 

 coons; he'd make a good mascot for the 

 old guard, Patrick ; send for him. 



The New York and Flatbush Bowling 

 clubs compete for a prize on the Flat- 

 bush alleys this Thursday night. W. J. 

 Elliott, of Dey street, prefers the bowl- 

 ing green to the bowling alleys; the club 

 he tSlongs to owns a fine clubhouse and 

 green at Communipaw, N. J. He is one 

 of the team rolling against the Boston 

 Club at Boston this week. William is 

 rightly of opinion that the florists 

 should organize a team to bowl on the 

 green. 



Prof. N. L. Britton and Prof. John 

 F. Cowell started on Saturday on a col- 

 lecting tour of the West Indies. 



The new range of glass at the New 

 York Botanical Garden is being built by 

 Hitchings & Co., and will no doubt be 

 finished before severe weather sets in. 

 This range of houses will complete the 

 finest range of show houses on the con- 

 tinent. They are at present occupied by 

 a miscellaneous collection of plants given 

 by citizens and institutions. Some very 

 severe criticisms have appeared in the 



dany press concerning these plants, and 

 some have been kind enough to say we 

 were the author of these criticisms; we 

 didn't write them. We are rather in- 

 clined to praise the efforts of the few 

 men who have succeeded in accomplish- 

 ing so much for New York. 



We would not have a Botanical Gar- 

 den here were it not for the work of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club. A mistake is 

 made by having science appear too prom- 

 inent at these institutions, but we are 

 sure all the country will yet be proud of 

 these gardens; only keep politics and 

 ornamental humbugs out of it. Botanical 

 gardens need the friendship and patron- 

 age of florists, not their indifference or 

 antipathy. J. I. D. 



TORONTO. 



The first week of our Industrial Fair 

 has been ushered in and escorted out 

 with anything but favorable weather, 

 particulaVly the last days being very wet 

 and disagreeable, curtailing the attend- 

 ance considerably. Nevertheless, those 

 who had sufficient courage to face the 

 elements were rewarded, for things are 

 looking better, with more of them, as a 

 rule, than at any of the recent annual 

 exhibitions. However, the first week is 

 principally just extra time, as it were, 

 previous to the grand rally of the sec- 

 ond week, when we look for an attend- 

 ance in the neighborhood of 100,000 

 daily. 



The pot plants have been staged and 

 awards placed on them according to 

 merit. I might mention, previous to 

 giving a summary of the classes, that the 

 judge must have found considerable dif- 

 ficulty in passing upon a number of 

 groups, for had he closed his eyes and 

 placed the cards he would not have gone 

 very far wrong; it very often occurred 

 that the first and second were so nearly 

 equal that only after very careful con- 

 sideration could the awards be made. 

 Following are the awards: 



Fifty distinct varieties foliage plants: 1st. 

 Exhibition Park: 2nd, Central Prison: 3rd 

 Manton Bros. While the Exhibition Park and 

 Central Prison both had undoubtedly very fine 

 exhibits, the particularly tine colored crotons 

 of the former won the decision. 



Group of plants arranged for effect (about 200 

 square feet): 1st, Horticultural Gardens: 2nd. 

 Manton Bros.; 3rd. Government House: 4th. 

 Grainger Bros. The group by the Horticul- 

 tural Gardens was very fine and easily de- 

 other three were worthy 



their 



xhib 



Twelve cultivated terns: 1st. Exhibition Park; 

 2nd, Central Prison; 3rd, Horticultural Gar- 

 dens: 4th, Manton Bros. The first two were 

 particularly fine lots of plants. 



Six adiantum ferns: 1st. Exhibition Park; 

 2nd, Central Prison; 3rd, Manton Bros. 



Specimen fern: 1st. Central Prison; 2nd, Hor- 

 ticultural Gardens; 3rd, Manton Bros. Exhibi- 

 tion Park was disqualified for having a made- 

 up plant, which was a Farleyense and very 



New and rare plants never before exhibited in 

 Toronto: 1st, Central Prison (Tradescantia 

 Victoria): 2nd, Horticultural Gardens (Hibiscus 

 Manihot); 3rd, Exhibition Park (high colored 

 croton). A peculiar part of this class was that 

 the first and second were made-up plants and 

 were not disqualified. 



Orchid prizes were taken principally by the 

 following in order named: E-xhlbltion Park. 

 Manton Bros., Horticultural Gardens. Exhibit 

 poor; too early; not up to previous years. 



Twenty-four ferns, 12 varieties. 6-ln. pots: 

 1st, Government House; 2nd, Exhibition Park; 

 3rd, Horticultural Gardens. Very close judg- 

 ing was necessary in this class. 



Caladiums. fancy: 1st, Exhibition Park. ; 2nd. 

 Horticultural Gardens; 3rd. Grainger Bros. 

 First two were very well grown plants with 

 good coloring. 



Twelve foliage plants: 1st, Central Prison; 

 2nd. Exhibition Park; 3rd, Government House. 



Three specimen palms: 1st, Exhibition Park; 

 2na, Manton Bros.; 3rd. Central Prison. 



Twelve palms. 9 varieties. 1st Exhibition 

 Park: 2nd. Central Prison; 3rd, Manton Bros. 

 A beautiful lot of stuff. 



Twelve palms. 8-in. pots: 1st, Central Prison; 

 2nd, Exhibition Park. 



Twelve palms, 6-in. pots: 1st, Exhibition 

 Park; 2nd. Manton Bros. 



