The Weekly Florists' Review* 



647 



Flowirs in the church at the President's funeral, arranged by Chas. Lindacher, Canton, O. 



house makes a pleasing impression with 

 its effects in green and white. Business 

 is improving here. 



Charles Mecky, 17th and Erie avenue, 

 has turned nearly his entire place into 

 chrysanthemums. A conservative guess 

 would credit him with from 15,000 to 

 20.000 pots of this queen of autumn. 

 The plants are in sixes and eights, lim- 

 ited to from half a dozen to a dozen 

 flowers each. All are clean and vigor- 

 ous. The varieties grown are White, 

 Mme. Bergman, Ivory and L. Canning, 

 a fine pot sort. Pink, Glory of the 

 Pacific, Pink Ivory and Maud Dean. 

 Yellow, a sort called Jones, Jlajor Bon^ 

 naffon and W. H. Lincoln. One bench 

 is devoted to plants for cutting. Mrs. 

 Henry Robinson (white) and Philadel- 

 phia (lemon yellow) are the varieties. 

 No reds or fancy colors are grown. 



A bench of Kaiserin planted out for 

 stock are growing freely. Stevia ser- 

 rata. azaleas, and poinsettias are being 

 brought forward for Christmas. The 

 place is well worth a visit. The flow- 

 ers are of excellent quality and are ex- 

 pected to be as good or better through- 

 out till' >.M-n||, ^ 



y.. l;. IJmIiih-. fur over fifteen years in 

 cliaiL'r "I tlh liii.lscape gardener's office 

 at Ilniii, uliiiul Hall in Fairmount 

 Park, is dead. A worthy man who will 

 be missed. 



John and W. H. Westcott have two 

 houses of rubbers that have proved ex- 

 cellent stock. 



Edwin Lonsdale has shipped many of 

 his best crotons to New York. 



Wm. J. Baker has been receiving some 

 fine Glory of the Pacific. 



Charles E. Meehan is confined to his 

 home by illness. 



Though informed of the fact at the 

 time the announcement of tlic golden 

 wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Joscjih Kift 

 on Oct. 7 was inadvertently omitted 

 from this column. 



The hustler's arms are sore from some- 

 thing else beside heavy boxes. 



PniL. 



Flowers and Glass. 



I don't know that there have been 

 many social events calling for a lavish 

 display of flowers, but flowers for sad- 

 der occasions have been in great de- 

 mand. Some real good roses are now 

 to be had, Bridesmaids and Brides and 

 Beauty being 90 per cent of all sold. 

 I don't remember that American Beauty 

 was ever in better demand. Golden 

 Gate we hear little talked about. I 

 think if our customers saw more of it 

 there would be a great demand. From 

 the quantity grown in the east, particu- 

 larly round Philadelphia, Baltimore and 

 Washington, there must be a good de- 

 mand somewhere. 



W^e have had rather an extra fine lot 

 of oattleya blooms and they have not 

 gone to waste, yet outside of good de- 

 sign work there is not yet a demand 

 for them and 99 out of every 100 flow- 

 er buyers see more beauty in a rose. 

 There has never in previous years been 

 such fine carnations at this season. 

 How strange it would be not to have 

 Lawson, Crocker, Prosperity and Morn- 

 ing Glory just now. I mention these 

 varieties because whatever their merits 

 later they are now giving us grand 

 flowers and Mrs. Lawson is the king, 

 queen and czar of them all. 



Chrvsantbcmutiis are selling almost 

 ;iro fit to cut, and at 

 liiiios as last year. 

 piirrs should we not 



as fast ;i 

 quite a> 

 Speakiii- 

 ■get at ],■ 



our ftiiwc I 

 years :i'j. 



coke $4..")( 



how about glass? 



dinary double thick such as greenhouse 

 men "use is $0.00 per box for 16x24. 

 It is almost impossible for anyone but 

 a capitalist to build just now and de- 

 mand for greenhouse products will soon 

 overreach the supply. I would like to 

 see the glass trust put it up to $17..50 



a box and that might convert one or 

 two of our hard shell protectionists that 

 trust made articles that can and are 

 sold in foreign markets at much less 

 than in our domestic markets, need little 

 protection. Then there is the man who 

 says "Keep up the price of glass and 

 that will stop building and we will 

 get better prices." That's too barbarous 

 a proposition to need comment. Glass 

 can be made and sold at $3.00 per box 

 with a good profit for all and the other 

 $3.00 is robbery which breeds honest in- 

 dignation and worse. 



I received from the Pittsburg and 

 Allegheny Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club a copy of the resolution they were 

 so kind as to pass on my efforts in the 

 horticultural department of the Pan- 

 American. As it was an entire surprise 

 to me it was all the more appreciated. 

 I have thanked them most sincerely. 

 Such words and actions as theirs will 

 always make me look back at my work 

 here with the greatest pleasure and I 

 hope, pardonable pride, and any worry 

 or friction (and there was only a little) 

 is already forgotten, and I am happy 

 and grateful to the florists of the coun- 

 try one and all. 



Pan-American. 



Hard frosts have at last taken the 

 color from our grounds, and cannas, 

 geraniums, salvias and other gay flow- 

 ers are now but a memory. Yet we 

 arc not looking shabby. The gladiolus, 

 tritoma, anemone, phlox and a few other 

 perennials are still holding up against 

 il,< ■niiiiiiLr winter and these beautiful 



111! il.iy*. tlie pleasantest of all the 



.. i I- \it a good time to visit the dy- 

 ih. ' \|..i-itiiiii, I am thankful to you 

 ami the (idiir lloricultural papers for 

 pul.li-liiirj in lull the premium list of 

 till . In , -antlieinum show, which opens 

 next .Munday, the 28th. 



Jlr. Burt, of Taunton, Mass., has made 

 another grand display of cactus and 

 show dahlias. This is the fourth trip 

 Mr. Burt has made with his wonderful 



