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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Madame Bergman. H. II. Battles will 

 be cutting chrysanthemums from his 

 new place at Newtown Square this 

 week. John Kuhn, of Olney, will also 

 be cutting this week; the variety is 

 Yellow Monarch. 



Various Items. 



Myers & Samtman. of Wyndmoor, 

 have' turned almost their entire place 

 into a Beauty growing lilaiil. The 

 houses appear to have bien planted a 

 little later than last season, the firm 

 believing that early Beauties do not 

 pay well and arc very subject to spot. 

 Their plants are all in clean, healthy 

 condition and growing rapidly. They 

 have been cutting from some of the 

 houses for a montii past taking only the 

 strongest shoots. 



Low benclies with walks around the 

 outside of the house are liked here. 

 There are, however, still a couple of 

 side benches. These are planted in Sun- 

 rise, which present a beautiful sight, 

 the bright green of the older foliage 

 contrasting effectively with the rich red 

 of the young shoots. The flowers resem- 

 ble somewhat a blushing Sunset. It ap- 

 pears to be an ideal side table variety. 

 The firm are very enthusiastic over its 

 future prospects. 



Walter P. Stokes, of Johnson & Stokes, 

 has 16,000 feet of glass and several 

 acres of cultivated ground adjoining his 

 residence at Moorestown, N. J. The 

 houses are devoted chietlv to palms and 

 ferns. Kentia BelmcnvAna and Ficus 

 elastica, botli imported, abound in vari- 

 ous sizes. There are many Boston ferns 

 in good condition, also small ferns for 

 ferneries of the hardier varieties, chiefly 

 pteris; they are in seed boxes and 2 

 and :!-inrh' imt-. Ailiaiifinn rimcotum 

 1,1 M>1,' t.M.- i- 11, thrifty 



!-. .Ill' |iluiii;ed in 

 louse eacli is de- 



planted cml ,1,1 

 condition. Ala, 

 bers, as well a- 

 frames outside, 

 voted to roses and to carnations. 



About an acre outside is planted in 

 scarlet sage of several varieties now in 

 full glory.' Cannas, too, are numerous; 

 of the best known sorts Mme. Crozy, 

 Florence Vaughan and Queen Charlotte; 

 among other less known varieties were 

 Betsv Stokes, J. C. Schmidt, President 

 Carn'ot. Mile. Bredt, and Baron de Poille. 

 There was a pretty collection of hardy 

 pinks, among them "a double star variety, 

 Dianthus stellans. Violets, asters, 

 daisies, chrysanthemums, ' hydrangeas, 

 and many other popular plants are cul- 

 tivated in quantitv. 



J. E. and H. F. 'Mergenthaler, of East 

 Washington Lane, Germantown, have 

 added Ave houses this summer, doubling 

 their plant. Beauties, Brides, Maids 

 and Kaiserins comprise their stock, all 

 planted out for cut flowers. The houses 

 are light and substantially built. When 

 everything is finished the place will be 

 a very complete one. 



Louis Couehe. violet specialist, is 

 bringing in single violets. He also has 

 two houses of carnations this season. 



Charles Kienele, for fifteen years with 



Charles Fox, will go into business with 



his brother Rupert, 17th street above 



Chestnut, on October 15. 



Correction. 



In last week's account of John Bur- 

 ton's place it was incorrectly stated 

 that La France was grown. It should 

 have been Safrano. Also the patent 

 valves were for steam, and not air 

 valves. 



Piping. 



The points of general interest brought 



out 1, 

 were : 

 sold 1 

 ket ,> 

 pi])e 

 poor 

 that 



C. J. Raiucar"s address last week 

 That cast iron pipe is sometimes 

 florists at 25 per cent over mar- 



ce; that the quality of cast iron 

 not affected by its color; that 

 pe wastes ooal through friction: 



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BUFFALO. 



Various Items. 



Last week wo had a very slight frost 

 and again last night, or rather the 

 morning of the 7th, a niiuh lianlii 'nie. 

 But as I have often nnli,,,! uhm pi mts 

 are gradually accustuiiic-,1 i^- it they 

 will stand more than lliey will u lien 

 a hard frost comes suddenly and it is 

 remarkable what little harm has been 

 done to the general appearance. Yet 

 it has about settled outside flowers and 

 now we will have to fall back on the 

 production of our houses. Perhaps it 

 is only imagination, but it seems to 

 me that these flowers from under glass 

 are altogether superior to those pro- 

 duced outside, however choice they may 

 be. 



Business has been remarkably good of 

 late and well distributed. Roses are 

 coming in in good quantity and a few 

 are of good quality, but for every good 

 Bride or Bridesmaid that comes to town 

 there are fourteen very poor flowers. 

 There are some fine carnations on the 

 market. Several of the new varieties 

 are giving us the best flowers. Those 

 who grumble about Lawson being so 

 short stemmed can hardly find fault 

 this fall as flowers of high quality can 

 be had. Ethel Crocker seems a magnifi- 

 cent early fall flower and Prosperity 

 gives us the longest stem and the best 

 of bloom. At this time of the year it 

 will pass for white. 



I was speaking to a friend yesterday 

 about his summer business and although 

 not on the main street where the Pan- 

 American would be so likely to affect 

 him, he said that his business of July, 

 August and September has been at least 

 double what it was last year and I be- 

 lieve that has been the case with all of 

 us, and that is all the harm the Pan- 

 American has done us. 



Last week was nomination for our 

 local officers who are to run the ma- 

 chinery of our local government; far 

 more important to our tax payers than 

 the question of high tariff or free trade, 

 free silver or gold standard or any other 

 national question. Municipal govern- 

 ment is purely business and as much as 

 possible should be lifted out of party. 

 We don't ask a man who is to run our 

 business whether he is a republican or 

 democrat and why should w-e care what 

 the man is who is going to take care 

 of our streets? Thank all things above 

 and below that every day the independ- 

 ent or thinking vote is growing larger 

 and larger. Yet there are wards of our 

 city where a yellow dog would be elect- 

 ed if nominated because they are so 

 strongly partisan one way or the other. 

 You will say "We're all right; look 

 at our beautiful city. What if taxes 

 are high, business is good." Y'es, we 

 get along. But not with the help of 

 our rotten political organization, but 

 in spite of them. 



These few remarks are preliminary to 

 saying that members of our craft are 

 dabbling or about to dabble in politics. 



S. A. Andei\son has 

 bonnet which will, 

 into n fi 

 henr,.. n, 

 Billv Ka- 

 Of 111.- - 



II bug in his 

 1, if not killed, evolve 

 I butterfly two years 

 liar commission man, 

 |iircd to be comptroller 

 \. but it was not to 

 h,-. an, I n.iu -A.' Ir ]!.■ that William will 

 ~iil,-i,l,' int.. i!ii ian . ,,r liis large busi- 

 iM'-- a II, I ,|i >i|, , ,,i 1 1 1 111' uang. Now we 

 lliiiik the a\,iaj,' il,,ri-i has fully as 

 much intelligence and honesty as is to 

 be found in any other trade or profes- 

 sion and we all ought to help nominate 

 the best man for our ward and city and 

 state legislature and he that is indif- 

 ferent and does not attend the caucus 

 is not doing his duty as a citizen and 

 can find no fault if boodlers are nom- 

 inated. But for heaven's sake let us 

 elect to our oflxces, and above all to our 

 board of aldermen, the very best men 

 that can be selected. They should be- 

 men who have been successful in busi- 

 ness, with an abundant competency, 

 who will give their time and even their 

 money to help good municipal govern- 

 ment. It should and will some day be 

 a great honor to be an alderman of a 

 great ward in a great city and there 

 are any amount of splendid men willing 

 to serve if the taxpayers will ask them. 

 At present how horribly different it 

 is. But I have great hopes of the fu- 

 ture. Party organizations are for bring- 

 ing spoils to the party and every soul 

 knows it. 



Pan-American Exposition. 

 The frosts have much marred the 

 beauty of the grounds but scarcely any- 

 thing is sufficiently hurt to need its 

 removal. J. Fay Kennell keeps up his 

 wonderful show of gladiolus. His seed- 

 ling "1900" is a wonder for lasting. A 

 table of orchids consisting of about 

 thirty plants of Cattleya labiata has 

 attracted a great deal of attention in 

 the north conservatory. They are re- 

 markably large flowers. They were 

 grown at the establishment of W. S. 

 at Cold Springs, who has in his em- 

 ploy William Hewson, an orchid grower 

 of the first water who, as I have had 

 occasion to remark before, handles an 

 orchid like some men handle geraniums. 

 Usually speaking orchid growers have 

 to put on their glasses, look at a plant 

 fifteen minutes and turn it round a 

 number of times. There is none of 

 that nonsense about Mr. Hewson's treat- 

 ment of a cattleya, or any other orchid. 

 Mr. H. F. Burt has brought another 

 magnificent display of dahlias. They 

 include about 300 show flowers all 

 named and 400 of the cactus type, many 

 of which are also named. Mr. Burt's 

 second shipment much exceeded in qual- 

 ity his first, and for that he has to 

 thank a copious rain a few days before 

 the flowers were cut. I think it would 

 be instructive and interesting to your 

 readers if I were to give you what 

 Mr. Burt considers two dozen of the best 

 show varieties and two dozen of the 

 best cactus varieties for the commercial 

 man, and here they are: 



Show Varieties: John Walster, pure 

 white; Virginale, light ground tipped 

 purple; Harrison Weir, center a prim- 

 rose, outer petals orange; John Ben- 

 net, yellow tipped with red; Mabel 

 Stanton, yellow ; Primrose Dane, prim- 

 rose yellow: Arthur Eawlings, dark 

 scarlet; William Eawlings, crimson 

 maroon; Muriel, yellow; Dr. Keynes, 

 orange buff; Norma, pure buff: Colonist, 

 dark fawn; Joseph Ashby, shaded or- 

 ange; Philip Ladds, yeliow; Florence 

 Frante, light ground tipped with pink; 



