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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



309 



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CAR/NATION 



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A CROSS BETWEEN 

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A similar experience met another cf 

 his roses. This was a satiny pinlv 

 seedling of unknown parentage, but 

 which he named after an amateur ro- 

 sarian of his vicinity, who paid the 

 munificent price of 50 cents for the 

 first plant sold, Charles Getz. This 

 variety is a magnificent pillar rose, 

 making in fertile soils and in good 

 seasons growths of fifteen feet. It was 

 rechristened the Climbing P^rance and 

 sent out anew. Some of the first batch 

 of plants are still growing on its origi- 

 nal site. This has been found a most 

 desirable stock on which to bud other 

 sorts. Jeanne d'Arc. the white seed- 

 ling of Gloire de nijon, makes sujierb 

 flowers so treated, and magnificent 

 blooms of Etoile de Lyon are obt-iined 

 when thus managed. 



This venerable German finds pleas- 

 ure, as well he may, in recalling these 

 incidents, and. though he no longer 

 originates new varieties, he is con- 

 stantly occupied with the problems 

 and details of cultivation, and, like 

 that sturdy, grand old Scotchman, 

 Robert Halliday, and that equally 

 rugged Englishman, Samuel Feast, his 

 deeds do follow him as do his chil- 

 dren's children, lo! to the third gen- 

 eration, in this gardener's calling, 

 which blesses and beautifies the earth 

 and broadens and ennobles men. 



Opportunity permitting, some future 

 page of the Review may contain a 

 passing notice of other roses which 



had their origin in this city, and of 

 their producers. 



The Gardeners' Club, it is stated, 

 has had an enlai-ged income this year, 

 with corresponding opportunities for 

 usefulness. A good spirit prevails, no 

 narrowness or bigotry marks the pro- 

 ceedings, and on all sides information, 

 suggestion, counsel, are given as free- 

 ly as asked. Many young men have 

 come into the club, always a factor of 

 progress. The last chrysanthemum 

 show was not a success. The public 

 failed to evince appreciation of the 

 efforts of the cultivators and the guar- 

 antors of the fund to prevent loss bore 

 the brunt of the struggle. In fact few 

 of the later exhibitions, however at- 

 tractive, have been successes finan- 

 cially. Some years ago quite a hand- 

 some bank account had accumulated, 

 but later efforts in the show line ex- 

 hausted it, and it is probable that for 

 some time to come few shows except 

 those of a single afternoon or evening 

 ■\vill be held. 



The club meets in a handsome and 

 commodious hall, but some think a 

 permanent club home which could be 

 open every evening would be condu- 

 cive to its well being. The organiza- 

 tion is a social and beneficial as well 

 as a trade society. Once or twice a 

 year dinners are given, with guests 

 present from abroad: there is an occa- 

 sional smoker, and each summer an 

 excursion or picnic. This all contrili- 



utcs to better a( nuaintance and more 

 ■sociability amongst the membership. 

 In case of death the deceased mem- 

 lier's family receives a sum propor- 

 tioned to the members then on the 

 active list. Two benefits have been 

 paid within the past six months. A 

 reference and circulating library is 

 maintained, and all the gardening pa- 

 pers liept on file. A permanent club 

 liouse, to meet up-to-date require- 

 ments, would now, however, have to 

 !)(• very convenient to a good bowling 

 alley! " 



For the week ending today (12th) 

 the demand in this city for flowers 

 has been unusually lirisk, and it would 

 be a fair representation of the market 

 to say that in roses the supply lias 

 s<arcely kept up to the demand and 

 carnations have not been over-abun- 

 dant. We do not give any quotations, 

 lor tile grading here is not equal to 

 that of Boston or New York. But who- 

 ever here has had merchantable stock 

 has had no reason to complain of the 

 market. 



During the recent cold "snap" a sec- 

 tion of one of the boilers of Messrs. 

 Fischer & Ekas gave way. P'ortunate- 

 iy it was their reserve boiler, and so 

 far no loss has resulted. These young 

 men who by their intelligence, indus- 

 try and energy stand in the van of our 

 growers have had a series of misfor- 

 tiuies. The blizzard of February. 1899, 

 found them short of fuel — by no fault 

 of theirs. A few months later a large 

 section of their plant was destroyed 

 by fire. But there is no let-down in 

 them, and their friends all hope the 

 tide has by this time turned strongly 

 in their favor. 



It is reported that one firm here 

 gathered 150,000 seed of Asparagus 

 plumosus nanus last year. 



Messrs. Richard Vincent, Jr.. & Son 

 have one of the largest glass ranges 

 in this part of the country, covering 

 about two and one-half acres. They 

 are reducing the quantity of flowers 

 heretofore grown, building more 

 houses, and producing vegetable 

 plants by the million. Their heating 

 apparatus is a model of efficiency, a 

 battery of three of the largest size 

 steam boilers of a popular make being 

 in use. The senior of the firm has just 

 returned from a visit to the New York 

 trucking centers, where he booked or- 

 ders by the wholesale. RIX. 



THE BOTTOMLESS POT. 



We hear oome very unfavorable re- 

 ports by violet growers on the Bal3- 

 ley bottomless pot and suggest that 

 they be experimented with in homeo- 

 pathic doses only. 



The general report is that though 

 the plants grow well in the pots they 

 are much harder to care for. do not 

 come in bloom so early as those plant- 

 ed out on the bench and are not so free 

 after coming into bloom. 



DETROIT. MICH.— The proj?ct of 

 conservatories for Clark or Palmer 

 Park is being agitated. 



