The Weekly Florists' Review* 



715 



Group of Cibotium Scheidei by H. A. Dreer at the New York Show. 



short one, leaving very little worth hav- 

 ing for late sales. George W. Childs, 

 the best red variety, has made its ap- 

 pearance and will be welcomed by the re- 

 tailers for the Pennsylvania-Harvard 

 football game on Saturday next at 

 Franklin field. The wholesalers speak 

 confidently of there being enough red 

 roses and violets to supply the demand 

 on this occasion. 



The other features of the market are 

 the improved demand for tea roses, which 

 are selling better than at any time this 

 fall, and the continued brisk demand 

 for white carnations. 



Various Items. 



Jack Frost pretty well demolished 

 the outdoor stock this week, barring 

 possibly the muslin covered dahlias at 

 Atco, N. J. There is a general feeling 

 that the season has finally opened in 

 earnest with very bright prospects all 

 along the line. 



The first team of the Florists' Bowl- 

 ing Club defeated the second team of the 

 same organization in the tournament on 

 the academy alleys by something over 

 100 pins on Friday of last week. 



The return match between the New 

 York and Philadelphia teams will take 

 place on Tuesday next at the alleys in 

 Horticultural Hall. The New Yorkers 

 are betting that they won't lose a game, 

 but there will be no diflSculty in getting 

 takers among the representatives of the 

 Quaker City, who are confident that 

 they will more than succeed in wiping 

 cut the disastrous defeat in Gotham on 

 October 22. Phil. 



BUFFALO. 



Now the Pan-Am. is over, society in 

 its old normal condition will assert it- 

 self and I hope it will be a gay season. 

 Flowers are plentiful and quality good 

 but business has been rather dull for the 

 past week. Chrysanthemums are not 

 going to waste nor yet in very great de- 

 mand. 



We had two well known figures here 

 to see. the dying gasps of the Pan-Am., 

 Mr. Peter Crowe, on his road home from 

 Denver, where he had been to see Son 

 William and George Fancourt, of Wilkes- 

 barre, lately arrived from "Old Lunnon, 

 don't yer know." George is always 



fluent, but abundantly so now, and he 

 has so much to tell you of the superiority 

 and well dressed people of his native 

 soil as well as the immense horticultural 

 places. I had the good fortune to be 

 able to introduce both of them to Mrs. 

 Carrie Nation who decorated them with 

 her little gilded hatchet. She looked at 

 George and said, "You need it," but she 

 wanted to embrace Peter for she was sure 

 he was a temperance man and his weight 

 would be grand as a battering ram to 

 demolish a grog shop. Mr. Crowe may 

 not be fastidious but he objected to any 

 intimacy, for Mrs. Nation is one of the 

 most repulsive featured of Eve's daugh- 

 ters. 



Pan-American. 



The closing hours of the Pan- Am. were 

 wild. While the dignified president was 

 making a feeling and pathetic speech just 

 prior to the final extinction of the won- 

 derful light, fifty thousand hoodlums of 

 all grades of society and both sexes, lost 

 their heads and rioted over the ground 

 destroying what they could not carry 

 away. I don't want to reflect on the 

 management but it could have been bet- 

 ter. It could have been quelled by a 

 few sharp examples early in the even- 

 ing. I am so thankful that nearly all 

 exhibits in my department were packed 

 and gone and no one sufTered, but it's 

 an experience that I was not prepared 

 for. Professional show men may be, but 

 they are a class by themselves. 



Just allow me to say that the guards, 

 so called, or policemen, about 250 of 

 them, have been nothing but ornamental 

 loafers from the day they were appoint- 

 ed. They were smarter looking and bet- 

 ter drilled than the Columbian Guards, 

 but useless for the protection of 

 property. Their chief industry was 

 to see what they could lav their 

 hands on and " eliin with the 

 girl at the trinket booth. There were 

 a few exceptions, but very few. The be- 

 havior of the crowd when conventional 

 rules no longer governed their nctions, 

 was nothing more than one more illus- 

 tration of the great truth that the most 

 civilized race of man is nothing more 

 than a brute with a veneer of civilization 

 spread over him and alas, her. 



I hope I won't be bothered with Pan- 

 Am. business now that it is over. The 



awards in the whole of the horticultural 

 department went to the grand jury last 

 week and should soon be published, and 

 the awards sent to the recipients. Noth- 

 ing has been neglected that I am aware 

 of and tomorrow your humble servant 

 IS going to the Adirondack Mountains 

 with a 30 calibre Remington, where, in 

 10 days, he expects to bag 1 bear, 3 deer, 

 2 wild cats and a barrel of feathered 

 game, and if he does not get the first 

 named animals he will try to bear with 

 the rest. ^V S 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



Mum is the word now, and they are 

 coming m by the wagonload; but so soft 

 are they, owing to the hot weather, that 

 It IS almost impossible to ship them any 

 distance. Store men say that they do 

 not "hold up" in the show window, and 

 a mum that will not hold up in a show 

 window certainly will not be satisfac- 

 tory in a private house. Even such 

 varieties as E;.binson, Appleton, Ba3.,ett. 

 etc., nave no staying qualities this sea- 

 son. 



Eight here I would like to say a good 

 word for little Ivory. Little thouali it 

 IS, It has proved its sterling worfh to 

 '.he grower, the reiailer and, in fact, to 

 everyone interested in flowers, and it 

 has sold side by side with varieties more 

 tlian twice its size, and for more money. 

 From $4 to $8 per 100 was obtained for 

 this little gem, and when you con-ider 

 how many more of them can be grown in 

 the same space in comparison with the 

 larger varieties, it is not hard to see 

 which pays the better. The b.-st Ivorv 

 were re,;eiyed from George Bayer. Jf 

 Toledo, Ohio, and they show that vari- 

 ety with a 30-inch stem and a flower 

 that will compare with the best of them. 



Everyone reports that business was 

 all that could be desired for the month 

 ot October, the increase over last year 

 licing all the way from 10 to 30 per cent 

 ■ibis 13 encouraging, espceiallv when you 

 consider the unfavorable wea'ther. It ^s 

 needless to say that with cooler weatlier 

 the outlook for November could not be 

 better. 



The following are the prevailing 



