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with his plants. The boys around 

 town say that he sleeps with his 

 plants. "1 can hardly liolicve ii." He 

 has got married lately. 



Mr. John Carbone, of HerUcley. is 

 supplying .J. Suelberger. Seventh St., 

 Oalsland, with some very fine l)looms 

 of Minnie Cook carnations. 



R. Gill, Washington St.. Oakland, 

 has been making a fine display of o\it- 

 door grown Helle Siebreclil roses. 

 They go rapidly a.t wholesale, Mr. 

 Frank Pelecano, the Kearney SI. flor- 

 ist, getting the bulk of them. 



J. J. Pouyals, florist, 1211 INilk St., 

 San Francisco, had a runaw.iy Dec. 

 10. A collision between his horse and 

 wagon and a cable car resulted disas- 

 trously to the liorse, whicli bad to be 

 killed, and caused a panic among the 

 passengers in the car, besides injuring 

 a policeman, a boy and the driver, 

 .Joseph Konigsberg. The horse dashed 

 against the side of the car. smashing ■ 

 two of the windows, and the horse in 

 its struggles to rise liicked the police- 

 man on the liiiee. knocking him out. 



J. N. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The florists report an old-time 

 Christmas, some of tlie leading ones 

 have been working night and day fill- 

 ing orders. Both flowering and foliage 

 plants sold well and there was a big 

 trade in oranges, Jerusalem clierries 

 and fruited ardisia. Begonia Gloire 

 de Lorraine took the lead in flowering 

 plants, with the prices ranging from 

 $2 to $8 each. Plants of good shape 

 and well flowered, in S-inch pots, sold 

 readily at $8 each, retail. This is 

 without a doubt the best novelty in 

 the way of a flowering plant yet in- 

 troduced and we believe it is here to 

 stay. It fiowers continuously from De- 

 cember to May. 



Joseph Kift & Son, who were the 

 first to introduce them in this city, 

 made a specialty of filling Parisian 

 baskets. Their gardener, Wm. Spott, 

 deserves a great deal of credit for the 

 taste he displayed in arranging them. 



Prices. 



Beauties, $3 to $9 per doz.; Brides, 

 Maids, Kaiserins. Meteors and Golden 

 Gate, ?6 to $12; Gontiers, $4 to 58; 

 Perles, ?4 to ?10; Liberty, $15 to $51); 

 cypripediums. $15; carnations. 52 to 

 $5; hyacinths, $2 to $4; va.Iey, $3 to 

 $5; narcissus, $2 to $4; violets, single 

 75 cents, double 75 cents to $1.50; 

 mignonette, $3 to $4; smilax, $15; as- 

 paragus, $50; cuneatum, $1. 



Pcnna. Hort. Society. 



At the meeting December 19 the so ■ 

 ciety decided to hold a spring flower 

 show March 20, 21, 22 and 23, upon 

 lines similar to that of last season. 

 The committee on establishing pre- 

 miums is composed of Edwin Lons- 

 dale, W. Atlee Burpee. John G. Gard- 

 ner, John Westcott, W. K. Harris and 

 John McCleary. 



Letters were read from the Depart- 



mcnt of -Agriculture at Washington 

 and the Division of Pomology, asking 

 for i)botographs of Horticultural Hall 

 and the officers of the society, to have 

 place in the department's exhibit at 

 the Paris Kxposition, and advising of 

 arrangements in progres.^ for supple- 

 menting the show there of apples of 

 1899 with the early fruits of 1900 in 

 their season. 



■ Secretary Rust reported i)reiniums 

 offered by Henry P. Michel 1 for t'ompe- 

 tition at each of the monthly meetings 

 of 1900; also at the March and Novem- 

 ber shows. 



Fourteen new members were elected 

 and fourteen others were proi)Osed for 

 membership. 



The exhibit of the meeting was of 

 seedlin.g orchids from the houses of 

 George B. Wilson. West Philadelphia, 

 shown by the gardener, Alphonse Per- 

 recot. One, the Cyp. 'G. B. Wilson," 

 was grown by the exhibitor. The 

 judges. Edwin I^onsdale. J. D. Eisele 

 and J. McCleary. recommended a silver 

 medal for the Cattleya Percivaliana 

 alba, a certificate of merit for the Cat- 

 tleya cross of grandiflora and Eldorado 

 alba, and honorable mention for the 

 others; also a vote of thanks for the 

 superb display. 



Otiicers were chosen as follows; 

 President. Jas. M. Rhodes, Ardmore; 

 vice-presidents, Henry F. Michell, Rob- 

 ert Craig. George Goebel, M. D., Edwin 

 Lonsdale; treasurer, Sidney W. Keith; 

 secretary. David Rust; botanist. Thos. 

 Meehan; entomologist. Dr. H. C. Mc- 

 Cook. D. D. ; chemist. Dr. Persifor Fra- 

 zer. Executive council, John Westcott. 

 Dr. J. Cheston Morris, Moses Paxson, 

 W. K. Harris. Chester Davis, Thomas 

 Long and John McCleary. 



FLAT BUSH, N. Y. 



Flatbush growers practically all sold 

 out of flowering plants and say it has 

 been the best "plant Christmas" on 

 record. 



Charles Zeller & Sons, who have for 

 many years made a specialty of small 

 orange trees, say they could have sold 

 twice as many as they had ready and 

 that was over 800 trees. They were 

 grand this year and every store of any 

 account had some. 



Carl Woerner, manager for Mrs. 

 Meissner, reports splendid business, 

 not alone in flowering stock but also 

 in palms, ferns and general decorative 

 plants. 



Louis Schmtitz made a great strike 

 with primulas and his remarkable nov- 

 elty, the new "Pepper." It has been 

 a busy season with him. 



David Mellis wishes it came oftener. 

 Business has been extremely good 

 with him, to be sure. His decks are 

 ready for Easter now. 



As to the cut flower growers. Daille- 

 douze Bros., as usual, have had a very 

 busy time of it. Their carnations 

 have been superb. Their new carna- 

 tion, "6G6." has been bringing the 

 highest price on record for carnations 



in New York; it is certainly the larg- 

 est we've seen. 



Clem Wocker reports business en- 

 tirely satisfactory. His carnations 

 have done well so far. 



To strangers visiting New York we 

 would say, spend a day among the 

 Flatbush growers; you will learn and 

 see something new, meet the best na- 

 tured lot of boys in the country, and 

 if you hapjx'u to be there on a Thurs- 

 day night you'll have a good time on 

 the alleys. On the evening of Decem- 

 ber 28th the club will roll for the 

 "mysterious prizes." which contests 

 always provoke the utmost hilarity. 

 The following were the scores rolled 



December 21sl: 



Official. Unofficial. 



1.. Sclimutz 115 151 113 121 



)•:. DaUledouze 172 1(19 



H. OaillPilouze 105 108 



c. Wocker SI 115 149 123 



P. RUey 125 164 156 145 



P. nail'ledouze 117 150 



C. Woerner 113 130 124 146 



Papa Zellor 79 IIG m 94 



.\. Zeller 1^ 1" 



S. lluttorfield Wl 107 114 ... 



A Scwalsbach 153 143 



.T nonlan W3 154 133 



J. I. D. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOQETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



BOSTON, DEC. IG.— Nathan Smith & 

 Son. Adrian, Mich., exhibited Superba, 

 a silvery pink Jap. Inc., which scored 

 commercial scale 88 points. 



CINCINNATI, DEC. 16. — Superba 

 before this committee scored commer- 

 cial scale 91 points. 



PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.— Ant. C. 

 Zvolanek, West Hohoken, N. J., exhib- 

 ited Miss Florence E. Denzer, a light 

 pink Jap. Ref.. which scored commer- 

 cial scale 83 points. 



BOSTON. DEC. 20. — Miss Florence 

 K. Denzer before this committee scored 

 commercial scale 86 points. 



ELMER D. SMITH, Sec'y. 



TORONTO. 



The annual meeting of the Toronto 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Association 

 took place in St. George's hall, De- 

 cember 19. The treasurer reported a 

 balance on hand of $105, and a mem- 

 bership of eighty-five. The election 

 of officers resulted as follows: Presi- 

 dent. W. Jay; vice-president, W. 

 Grainger; secretary, W. Jay. Jr.; as- 

 sociate secretary, E. Collins; treas- 

 urer. G. N. Mills. Executive commit- 

 tee: Thos. Manton, W. Manton, G. 

 W. Goodier, Alonzo Watkins, F. 

 Brown, John Chambers, W. Woods. 



CLEVELAND. 



Christmas trade was generally sat- 

 isfactory. There was a large increase 

 over last year in both plants and cut 

 flowers. 



J. M. Gasser reports quite a demand 

 for good cattleyas and other orchids. 

 Also for violets. He alone disposed of 

 10,<iOO, and ran short. 



