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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



247 



NEPHROLEPIS WITTBOLDII. 



Wo present hoi'pwitli an engraving 

 fi'oni ;i photograiih i)f this splendid 

 nfw tern tlial originated with the Geo. 

 Wittl)old Co., Chicago. After having 

 watched this new t'eiu for a year or 

 more, we are convinced that it will 

 take a high position among commer- 

 cial ferns. It possesses all the desir- 

 able characteristics of the Boston fern 

 and is decidedly more ornamental. As 

 will lie noted by a glance at the sec- 

 ond picture, in wliich a frond of the 

 Boston fern and N. Witlboldii are 

 photographed side by side, the new 

 fern has a frond much broader than 

 the other and the undulation of the 

 margins of the pinnae add very much 

 to its beauty. 



The past year's experience has 

 proven that it is as tough as the Bos- 

 ton fern, grows as rapidly, and can be 

 as quiclily increased, a point of very 

 gieat importance in a commercial fern. 

 It, was found among some small i)lants 

 of the Boston fern, but seems to be an 

 entirely distinct species. 



BUFFALO. 



Business has been only fairly good, 

 and spotty, not continuous all along 

 the line. Carnations are now plentiful 

 and so are violets. Very fine roses 

 are coming from George Fanconrt and 

 other quarters. 



It is just worth mentioning that the 

 agreement into which we all entered in 

 December and which was given good 



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Nephrolepis Witlboldii. 



and conspicuous notice in the daily 

 papers, had precisely the liesired ef- 

 fect and met with the admiration of 

 other lines of business. Not a beggar 

 have we had since, and although the 

 volume of business done is not so 

 much, there is just as much change in 

 the till. 



Next to being at the wonderful New 

 York banquet was the pleasure of in- 

 terviewing Messrs. Riidd. Cowell and 

 Palmer on their return. It must have 

 been a dandy. Our Buffalo man. Cow- 

 ell. absented himself, we are told, and 

 the reason was he had left his full 

 dress suit at home. What a pity. He 



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really looks better in a good business 

 suit. Claw hammer coals look best 

 accompanied by an extrei ely bald 

 head, Mr, Rudd's subtle and impres- 

 sionable intellectuality seemed indent- 

 ed with that southern story of darky 

 hospitality and grateful reciprocity 

 which we further retailed at a business 

 men's smoker on the following day, 

 and its recitation was appreciated by 

 the rector of our parish. Thank you, 

 Mr. Carmody. 



In company with Mr. Henry Wise, 

 of East Aurora; W. .1. Kasting and W. 

 J. Palmer, ,Ir., we visited last week 

 the houses of Palmer & Son, at Lan- 

 caster, Their dozen houses of carna- 

 tions are in splendid form, stems and 

 flowers of the finest quality, Whi'.s 

 Cloud. Flora Hill. Daybreak. Bradt. 

 Joost. Jubilee, are the leading varie- 

 ties grown, but besides these there are 

 two varieties that the firm hold in 

 the highest estimation; these are two 

 sports of Daybreak, one a grand white 

 and the other a pink, not so dark aS 

 Victor, Mr, Palmer grows his carna- 

 tions in a heavy clay loam, and this 

 seems the stuft to produce a great steni 

 and substance in the flower. The roses 

 are looking well, but the Beauties are 

 rather shy of bloom. Princess of 

 Wales violet is here largely grown and 

 the fir-ii says they sell well. In a long 

 violet house the plants in a solid bed 

 are fairly good, while those grown in 

 the Balsley bottomless violet pot are 

 no good; this is strange, as \ve hear 



