Sbptbmbbb 19, 1901. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



481 



The Home Grounds of a Landscape Gardener. 



sand bcnutiful gladiolus, the tables were 

 decorated principally with these flowers, 

 with asparagus and ferns strewing the 

 tables and among them beautiful nyin- 

 pheas of many shades. For once we 

 borrowed some exhibitors' palms, and 

 fine kentias and latanias from Messrs. 

 Henry A. Dreer and F. R. Pierson made 

 the marble palace very beautiful. A re- 

 ception to the Pan-American officials and 

 clerical staff followed in the Government 

 Building, and beneath two splendid 

 arecas loaned by Mr. George Troup of 

 Forest Lawn the President grasped the 

 hands of four or five hundred people. 



It is dreadfully presumptuous of me 

 to call this a trying and useless function, 

 still we think it is trying with this small 

 crowd, and what must it be at a public 

 reception. To have heard this noble, 

 gfiod man talk for even five minutes 

 would make you better acquainted with 

 the man than to be hustled past him, as 

 must of necessity be the case. After a 

 visit to the Fails of Niagara the fol- 

 lowing day the public reception began 

 in the beautiful Temple of Music, and 

 there the lamentable crime occurred of 

 which all the world knows and has been 

 told in minute detail far better than 1 

 can. After days of buoyant hope and 

 even confidence of the President's rec^ 

 ery the bad turn came and in twenty- 

 four hours William McKinley, the 

 martyr, had passed away and our city 

 sheltered the leading men of the nation. 



Your readers will be interested to 

 know of the flowers that were sent to the 

 house of mourning. We believe there 

 was a sense of delicacy that forbade a 

 too effusive display of floral tributes, 

 and those sent were mostlv. but "ot n' 

 from foreign representatives. The re- 

 mains were removed from the hnu?e o 

 John G. Mi'burn at 12 noon on Sunday 

 and taken to the City Hall, where from 

 2 to 11 p. m. a multitude passed through. 



The waiting crowds stood in line up- 

 wards of half a mile distant from the 

 hall. Our beautiful Delaware avenue, 

 down which the funeral cortege went, 

 never before held such a mass of people. 

 For two miles and a half people stood 

 ten deep on each side of the street. No 

 nobler avenue exists and no sadder pro- 

 cession ever passed its verdant lawns 

 and lovely houses. 



Many loose flowers were sent to the 

 Milburn home on Saturday and the de- 

 signs were sent on Sunday morning. Th" 

 undertakers had entrusted to S. A. An- 

 derson the decoration of the rotunda of 

 the City Hall, and it was well done. A 

 large lot of beautiful palms were used. 

 The daily papers as usual gave a most 

 erroneous description of the floral trib- 

 utes, pillows of immortelles being men- 

 tioned. There was no pillow there, much 

 less of immortelles. 



As near as I can ascertain, and the 

 first four I can vouch for because they 

 came from the writer's own place, there 

 werfe a five-foot wreath of Kaiserin roses 

 and valley from President Diaz, of Mex- 

 ico; a three-foot ivy wreath with large 

 bunch of valley from the Mexican am- 

 bassador; a four-foot wreath of pink 

 roses and valley from the Mexican com- 

 mission to the Pan-American ; large 

 bunch of American Beauty roses from 

 employes of Cary Safe Co.; a wreath 

 of American Beauties from Senator M. 

 A. Hanna ; wreath of white roses from 

 Col. M. T. Herrick; bunch of lilies from 

 He'en R. Gould, Tent No. 8, Daughters 

 of Veterans; wreath of roses and carna- 

 tions from the Chilian commission ; a 

 fine wreath of roses and purple asters 

 from the Cuban commission ; an anchor 

 of pink and white roses from George B. 

 Cortelyou, the late President's private 

 secretarv; from Chiefs Geronimo, Blue 

 Horse, Flat Iron. Red Shirt and 700 

 braves of the Indian Congress, a wreath 



of purple asters. This wreath was 

 marked with a card which bore on Hs 

 face side in Sioux tongue the Indians' 

 tribute to the departed. On the reverse 

 side was Geronimo's eulogy of President 

 McKinley. A few other pieces there 

 might have been. 



Although beautiful in quality and fine 

 in execution, you will notice there was 

 great simplicity in the designs and an 

 entire absence of Gate Ajars and Rock 

 of Ages, etc. We suppose in Washing- 

 ton and Canton there will be many mag- 

 nificent tributes from the exalted people 

 of the earth. This (Monday) morning 

 at 8:30, over the Pennsylvania railroad, 

 departed for Washington President 

 Roosevelt and the remains of the much 

 loved William McKinley, and so ends 

 for Buffalo this most sad tragedy, ex- 

 cept to deal with the wretched man 

 whose twisted brain led him to such a 

 foul deed; but that will be entirely out 

 of the realms of floriculture. 



Pan-American Notes. 



Out of respect to the illustrious dead 

 the gates were closed tight on Saturday 

 and Sunday. We are open today, Mon- 

 day, and there is a big crowd on the 

 grounds. Opinions difi'er widely as to 

 whether our attendance will suffer or not 

 from the sad events of the past ten days. 

 The preponderance of feeling is that it 

 will make no difference. We trust not, 

 and we think not; why should it? The 

 Pan-American was never more beautiful 

 than at this moment. The mixed plant- 

 ing which surrounds almost every side 

 of the large buildings, the pergolas and 

 the courts, have now grown to a stately 

 height, and the material used, if com- 

 mon, such as hemp, ricinus, eannas, 

 helianthus, etc., make a fine appearance. 

 I remark with pride occasionally to a 

 visiting brother florist that however 

 stately and grand the architect may 

 plan and build, the softening tints of 

 green of our plants are indispensable, 

 and without the foliage (the flowers 

 could be dispensed with ) the finest build- 

 ings look cold and naked. 



The flower garden is in its prime. The 

 eanna beds, if I can be allowed to say 

 it, are a little better than good, and 

 so are many other things. The herba- 

 ceous borders and beds of Henry A. 

 Dreer have for months been beautiful and 

 interesting. Mr. Arthur Cowee is still 

 keeping up a grand display of the Groff's 

 hybrid gladioli. John Fay Kennell, of 

 Rochester, has made a large display of 

 his grand gladiolus "1900" and a few 

 other varieties. This variety of Mr. Ken- 

 nell's seems to be a very fine commercial 

 flower and admired by all. Its bright 

 scarlet with clear wh!te throat is very 

 striking. James Vick's Sons have made 

 a grand display of asters in many va- 

 rieties. Mr. P. Bissett, gardener to Mrs. 

 G. G. Hubbard, of Twin Oaks, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, sent us a fine exhibit of 

 nympheas, nelumbiums and Victoria 

 flowers. We expect to have a largp 

 dahlia ex-hibit lasting ten days. Flowers 

 are coming from many parts of the 

 country. 



Visitors within the next two weeks 

 vAW see a very large specimen of the 

 Agave Americana, or Century plant. A 

 pair are flowering, but one was injured, 

 while one has sent up a spike like a 

 telegraph pole some forty feet in height. 

 Century plants in flower are not as com- 

 mon in our northern states as dande- 



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