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1 'he Weekly Florists' Review. 



JANUARY 11. 1900. 



BUFFALO. 



Directly after Xew Year's business 

 came down with that horrible soft thud 

 that has left us flabliy and mushy. 

 It is quite down to the uormal. and 

 in fact almost the abnormal on the 

 wrong side, so it is no use going into 

 any description of business. The sup- 

 ply is on the increase and prices are 

 reasonable. We expect very soon that 

 there will be a flood of violets. Since 

 New Year's day the market has been 

 what anyone but an Esquimau would 

 call ideal weather, charming for the 

 plants under glass, to the poor man 

 minus an overcoat, or the coal bin. 

 Even Mr. Zimmerman's turkey seems 

 to enjoy it. for his eycas tail is taking 

 on a more amorous color. 



Mr. Zimmerman's place has been so 

 well advertised of late, both in the 

 trade and daily journals, that the pub- 

 lic fully expect Mr. Zimmerman to 

 mount his turkey and parade the 

 streets on Washington's birthday. The 

 motive power that inspires this won- 

 derful advertising will be fully capa- 

 ble of imparting locomotion to this 

 extraordinary ornithological mon- 

 strosity. 



Mr. Joseph Rebstock was the only 

 one who had to resort to an annex 

 during the holidays and possibly Jo- 

 seph would not have bothered about it 

 but there happened to be a vacant 

 store within twenty feet of his own. 



Mr. S. A. Anderson has put in a 

 very fine floral refrigerator; you can- 

 not any longer call these elaborate and 

 beautiful receptacles for flowers "ice 

 boxes." Savie tells me that this cost- 

 ly adornment to his store is not so 

 much the result of profits of his busi- 

 ness as his saviugs by stopping home 

 nights during the nine or ten months 

 of his married life. 



Palmer's store is particularly, bright 

 these days. Few stores in the country 

 have a brighter or more attract- 

 ive appearance. There is something 

 clean, bright, novel and catchy every 

 succeeding day. It is not the mass or 

 wealth of flowers that produces this 

 effect, but the genius of "the way in 

 which it's done." 



Schwert & Bernart of Checkta- 

 waga. are sending in some very fine 

 primulas these days and there is a 

 lot at Cold Springs also of more than 

 oi'dinary merit. They are an inexpen- 

 sive plant, but they suit the public 

 well, and large quantities are sold. 

 Plants will soon begin to be asked for 

 by a largo number of people, not for 

 presents, but for the sake of having 

 them, in their homes, 



Buffalo has taken a sad drop in 

 sports and it looks at this writing as 

 though we would not even have a team 

 of bowlers in New York, which will 

 be the greatest tournament in the his- 

 tory of the society. They are a poor 

 lot of sports here and little of the 

 fraternal feeling. The defeat at De- 

 troit last summer broke their heart; 

 but that is not all — it drove one into 

 politics, a much worse game to com- 

 bine with business. Another elon- 

 gated youth' gets disgusted with the 



play of his team. An older man is 

 afraid he is only good for a friendly 

 game on the alleys he knows, and suf- 

 fers with stage fright at John West- 

 cott's peculiar rooting tactics. An- 

 other bald head finds the weight of 

 the pen more congenial to his declin- 

 ing muscle. And a large numljer t)f 

 young men who could hold up the 

 credit of our club are either so keenly 

 following the scent of the dollar or 

 the admiration of their young wives 

 that not any hour can be spared for 

 a game of bowls. Chicago is bowling 

 mad. not the florists particularly, but 

 all classes; thirty or forty leagues, 

 three or four hundred alleys and ten 

 thousand bowlers. For once Buffalo 

 was ahead of Chicago, for we had the 

 epidemic four years ago. Every cor- 

 ner had a bowling alley, but never in 

 such fast numbers as Chicago, be- 

 cause, as the man said who stuttered 

 worse in New York that he did in 

 Washington, it's a la-la-lar-larger 

 place. W. S. 



DENVER, COLO. 



The following scores were made Jan. 

 2. 1900, by the Denver Florists' Bowl- 

 ing Club: 



1st. 2d. 2d. av. 



Robt. Kurth 204 194 ISB 193 



John Berry 122 20S 222 1S4 



Chas. Franz 200 181 155 179 



Al. Mauft 194 174 13.3 167 



Ed. Emerich 125 176 177 15a 



Chas. Mauff 143 160 154 li)2 



John Ferriss 134 156 151 147 



Ed. Grey 164 16S 99 144 



Geo. Zimmer 154 123 156 144 



A. A. Ben.son 136 147 14S 144 



Geo. Brenkert 131 138 122 130 



Ed. Johnson 122 lOO 136 119 



Wm. Donman 106 119 111 112 



Burt Humiston SS 85 69 81 



G. A. Z. 



CLEANING GLASS. 



I notice one of your correspondents 

 wants to know what will take the dirt 

 from his glass. Soft soap vigorously 

 applied with a broom with help him 

 out. W. L. SMITH. 



IF YOU HAVE any surplus stock to 

 sell offer it in our classified advs. The 

 cost is slight and your offer will come 

 under the eyes of all possible buyers. 



Send lor 

 Price List. 



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 STORE. 



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 Wentworth Avenue, 

 CHICAGO 



FOR INFORMATION of real practi- 

 cal value The Florists' Review stands 

 decidedly at the head. 



WANT ADVERTISEMENTS. 



Advertisements under this head 10 cents a line, 

 an average of seven words to the line. 



FOR SALE — Cut flower store worth $200; will sell 

 for $75 cash, on account of sickness; Kood design 

 trade: call at once. 124 E. Chicago Ave.. Chicago. 



fpOR SALE— First-class well established florist busi- 

 ness, located m Western Iowa, in live city of 5.000 

 inhabitants, and fifteen thri\ing cities wiihin 40 mile'; 

 good R. R. connections; good home market, good ship- 

 ping trade, no competition; six large houses, all new, in 

 htart of city; full of stock in excellent condition: will be 

 sold very reasonable if taken at once; good reason for 

 Felling; do not write unless you mean business. Address 

 Iowa, care of Florists' Review. 



V\I ANTED— A first-class, all around greenhouse man; 

 ' ' state experience as propagator and potter. Write 

 Geo. A. Kuhl. Pekm, 111. 



WANTED— Young man, one who has had charge of 

 section rose houses under foreman ; salary 520 00 

 to 525 00 per month, board, etc. Address B. P., care of 

 Florists' Review. 



WANTED— Young man to do general greenhouse 

 work; S12 00 per month, board, etc. Address 15, 

 care of Florists' Review. 



WANTED— Young man with some experience in 

 rose and carnation growing and general florist's 

 business. Address Pixley, care Florists' Review. 



SITU.ATIOX WANTED- As foreman of good sized 

 establishment near Chicago where merit and suc- 

 cessful work will be appreciated; either cut flower grow- 

 ing or general stock; salary 575.00 a month. Address 

 A. M., care Florists' Review. 



SITU.\TIOX WANTED- An experienced grower 

 of roses, carnations and general stock to take charge 

 of commercial place and section: well recommended. 

 Address J. C, care Florists' Review. 



WANTED— Situation by al)-round grower to take 

 charge : state wages ; references. Address Grower, 

 care of Florists' Renew. 



..FOR SALE. 



Three greenhouses, 20 x So ft. each, in good condition, 

 steam heat Houses to be taken off the place after 

 spring trade is over. Good stock of plants on hand. 

 Will sell very cheap. Write for particulars. 



John Lieber, Marj'^'iHe, Nodaway Co., Mo. 



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