JANUARY 25, lOftO. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Decoration by John Breitmeyer & Sons, Detroit, 



Mich. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Florists' Exchange of this city, 

 the one clearing or commission house 

 here facilitating sales of cut flowers 

 by growers to retail dealers, held its 

 annual meeting on the Sth. The re- 

 port of its operations for the business 

 year showed an aggregate of about 

 $30,000 — a wholesome growth for the 

 year. The house, which was a very 

 modest venture at the start, has made 

 steady and encouraging advances. 



Begun without intent to serve as a 

 money-maker, it has proved an efH- 

 cient agency for distribution of the 

 products of the flower growers of this 

 vicinity, and includes among its regu- 

 lar patrons about forty producers and 

 practically all the retailers of this city, 

 besides others at distant points. It is 

 a noteworthy fact that in this city of 

 over half a million population, and 

 where nearly four hundred firms or 

 individuals do a retail business, there 

 is no other wholesale florist or com- 

 mission house. 



The success of this institution is 

 largely due to its manager, Mr. Alex- 

 ander Scott, who combines correct 

 business principles, suavity of manner 

 and an inflexible integrity which is 

 known and recognized by all men. He 

 is a brother of your well known con- 

 tributor, William Scott, and the physi- 

 cal resemblance between them is 

 marked. 



Apropos of the distinguished Buf- 

 falonian, it may be in place to record 

 that the ire evoked in Baltimore a 

 year or less ago by his critical, not to 

 say caustic, comments in the Review 

 on trade conditions in this city, all 

 disappeared as the dew before the ris- 

 ing sun when his genial and charming 

 personality was projected into our cir- 

 cle at the annual dinner during the 

 chrysanthemum show, and that he left 

 the Monumental City not only for- 

 given for past sins, but beloved for his 

 very faults— it he has any. 



In the trade about this center the 

 White Maman Cochet rose has made 

 a mark for itself and is being largely 

 grown — so largely, indeed, that it has 

 in a great measure superseded the 

 Kaiserin grown under glass for sum- 

 mer use. Like its pink type, it seems 

 to revel in hot weather, has a fine 

 form, abundant substance, and stands 

 up much better in making up than 

 roses grown in the house. 



A curious incident is related of the 

 discovery of this sport from the pink 

 Cochet by Mr. John Cook, of this city, 

 which is deserving of being put on 

 record. Visiting one of his houses 

 where he had on a bench about four 

 hundred Maman Cochets in 4 - inch 

 pots, Mr. Cook saw from the head of 

 the path that amongst them was a 

 white flower. His mental suggestion 

 was that a Kaiserin had gotten into 

 the batch by some mistake; but short- 



ly afterwards he saw that it was a 

 sport. From the shoot which gave the 

 white flower ha secured four cuttings, 

 and of these the upper two gave white 

 flowers and the lower two pink ones. 



Of Mr. Cook it may be said that, 

 whilst he cannot be classed any longer 

 among the young men, he is yet alert, 

 active and enterprising, and no mem- 

 ber of the trade keeps more fully up 

 to the requirements of the day, or has 

 any more thorough respect for his fel- 

 low men of all professions. His work 

 of producing new varieties of roses 

 goes on unremittingly, and, indeed, is 

 followed more almost by habit, or for 

 recreation, than as a matter of busi- 

 ness; but doubtless he finds ample 

 commercial rewards when he produces 

 such sorts as his seedling roses Sou- 

 venir de Wootton. Mrs. Robert Garrett 

 and Baltimore. He is now giving at- 

 tention to carnations, and for many 

 years has been hybridizing fruits of 

 several families. 



Mr. Cook worked first in this city 

 for the late Robert Halliday, whose 

 grandsons are still in the front rank 

 of florists of this city, and later was 

 gardener for J. Howard McHenry, one 

 of the amateurs of an era when the 

 highest skill was demanded in his 

 service and who appreciated the prod- 

 ucts of the gardener's genius and toil. 

 Entering business for himself, Mr. 

 Cook has gained steadily in every way 

 — in reputation, in material prosperity 



