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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



445 



Prices on carnations have been much 

 as last rpportfd, 1% to 3 cents, ordi- 

 nary Ivinds, and a cent or two higher 

 on fancy. 



Violets not a (|\u'stion of pri<'c, but 

 how to got rid of them. Of course llie 

 best have a slight air of independence 

 about them. 



Bulb goods coming good and going 

 good. Trices right. Lilies showing in 

 the horizon in good shape. Looks like 

 a good cut for Easter, with perhaps 

 not so many per stem as usual, nuik- 

 Ing more decrease than may be ex- 

 pected. 



Probably a little falling off on green 

 material, us smilax is on the ascend. 



So my "accommodating friend" left 

 you in the lurch upon bis advertised 

 account of trade exhibit, (irippe. 

 But your readers who were not pres- 

 ent were losers. Come next time. 



Welch Brothers' team mistook the 

 iron fence around the common for a 

 row of British bayonets a few days 

 ago, and being strongly Oom Paulish, 

 charged furiously through it and clear 

 across the common. Not much dam- 

 age. 



Weather freezy and breezv. 



B. T. 



BUFFALO. 



Since last you heard from Buffalo 

 ■we have had one of those old-fash- 

 ioned snow storms that uncle tells 

 about; three feet on the level is pretty 

 good for Buffalo, but it was far 

 eclipsed by our neighbor, Rochester. 

 Since the streets have been passable 

 business has been fairly good, and 

 judging by one man, very good. "How 

 is business, Mr. Anderson?" "Fine! 

 grand!" Flowers of all kinds are very 

 plentiful and prices have and will take 

 a tumble. Violets particularly will 

 soon be overdone. 



In company with W. J. Palmer, Sr., 

 the best of companions, for he has not 

 those periodical and frequent attacks 

 of thirst which afflict many, we jour- 

 neyed over to Toronto to participate 

 in their first Canadian carnation 

 show. They might have had an im- 

 promptu show before, but this was the 

 first attempt at an exhibit on a large 

 scale, and it was a very successful 

 one. Your Toronto correspondent will 

 doubtless report it in full and I have 

 no wish to encroach on his domain, 

 but will only mention a few things 

 that impressed me. 



Everything was there, new and old. 

 The only absentee was "6G6," and that 

 was not there, much to the regret of 

 Messrs. Dailledouze. It was very no- 

 ticeable that several varieties showed 

 up in better and fresher form than at 

 Buffalo, notably Ethel Crocker, from 

 Albert Herr. The Marquis was never 

 seen larger, brighter or with a finer 

 form and stem. Mrs. Lawson was in 

 magnificent form, and so was the glo- 

 rious Enquirer and Estelle. If these 

 two turn out good growers and free 

 they must displace several varieties 

 now held in high estetm. The scarlet 

 Estelle is a winner. Miller & Sons 



staged Lady Van Home and Lady 

 Minto in fine form and several good 

 seedlings. All the Howers kept well 

 and the show was a success. 



The observed of all observers W'as a 

 vase of the new rose "Liberty." We 

 have seen this rose on several occa- 

 sions and thought that it would super- 

 sede Meteor, which requires so much 

 heat in the winter, but what we had 

 seen of it before gave us but a poor 

 conception of it. Whether these two 

 dozen blooms were the pick of thou- 

 sands we can't tell, but if they were 

 it only shows its possibilities; stems 

 ,'?() inches long, fiowers as large as Am- 

 erican Beauty and color the richest, 

 warmest crimson. As shown there, as 

 far as our commercial roses go, it is 

 Liberty first and the rest nowhere. 



A pleasant reunion of members and 

 their friends took place at the close of 

 the show and as genial Park Supt. 

 Chambers, who was toastmaster, said: 

 "We know how to make a show a suc- 

 cess. Let it be free to the public and 

 you will get lots of visitors." We 

 found that to be the case in Buffalo, 

 but our labor is not all in vain. We 

 are educating the public, our goods are 

 a perfect luxury, and some time and 

 money spent in showing the public eye 

 our beauties is well spent. Patriotic 

 toasts were prominent and the visitors 

 were duly honored. 



If anyone wants to see automatic 

 stoking they should visit the mam- 

 moth establishment of Harry Dale. 

 The only manual labor from the time 

 the coal is put into the coal shed in 

 the fall till it is dumped as ashes into 

 wagons for carting away, is taking out 

 the ashes from under the fires and 

 shoveling them into a hopper. The 

 coal shed or cellar looked to me as big 

 as the hold of an ocean steamer, but 

 Harry says it only holds thirteen hun- 

 dred tons. Everything on the place 

 looks fine, particularly of course the 

 leading article, roses. A 600-foot house 

 of Maids in fine order is certainly a 

 great sight. Mr. Dale, like .lohn Dun- 

 lop, has all the latest built houses, 

 ventilated by the hydraulic automatic 

 system, and they greatly approve it. 



Mr. Dunlop's place is in most excel- 

 lent order. Strange that both he and 

 Harry Dale can grow such magnificent 

 roses under butted glass! Two houses 

 of Beauties at Dunlop's are particular- 

 ly fine, 5 and 6 ft. stems and scarcely a 

 blind one. You see here in this great 

 field of glass two roses that are no 

 longer generally grown, and yet both 

 are beautiful and distinct, viz., Woot- 

 ton and Morgan, both grand roses 

 when well done and not difficult to do. 

 He says the demand for them is ex- 

 cellent, and so it ought to be. How 

 is it that Carnot and other hybrid teas 

 show a decided inclination to want to 

 rest during midwinter, while Wootton, 

 which is American bred and the most 

 perfect of hybrid teasi, is the freest 

 possible rose the year round? 



There are many things about both 

 these large places that are worthy of 

 mention, but space fornlds. Among 

 them is the thought, Where does the 



enormous cut of these places go? Can- 

 ada is not all backwoods and there are 

 hundreds of small towns and cities 

 that look to Brampton and Toronto 

 for their supply. At each place there 

 was a gang of men with sharp knives, 

 grafting plump flowering wood on 

 Manetti stocks. Other strong grafted 

 plants were being shifted into 4-inch. 

 They both agreed that for a strong, 

 vigorous growth and early crop the 

 grafted plants far surpass the ordinary 

 cuttings. 



On my return I found that a half- 

 tamed Buffalo bison hwd attempted to 

 gore old Sam Degraw, and that Sam 

 in return had seized him by the horns 

 and nearly twisted off his woolly (?) 

 head and now he is quite tame and 

 seeks for perfect peace and reconcilia- 

 tion, w. S. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market- 



The supply is about the same as last 

 week in volume and everything is mov- 

 ing freely except weak stemmed car- 

 nations, particularly colored ones. In 

 fact, there is little call for short 

 stemmed colored flowers of any kind. 



Business has kept up remarkably 

 well since Lent began and the season- 

 of sackcloth and ashes seems to have 

 had no appreciable effect on the gen- 

 eral call for flowers. 



Tulips are plenty and are moving 

 fairly well, though at low prices. Vio- 

 lets are in the dumps in spite of the 

 fact that weather conditions are fa- 

 vorable, and we hear dealers express 

 the fear that many people are tired 

 of them. Prices now range from 30 

 to 50 cents a hundred, while some are 

 cleaned up as low as 5 cents a bunch. 

 Double daffodils seem to average 

 rather poor in quality. They sell, but 

 at low figures. There are a good many 

 callas in the market and demand is not 

 very brisk. 



In Beauties, medium lengths are in 

 best demand and it is found difficult 

 to move the extra long at the extra 

 price. 



Benthey & Co. are receiving some 

 fine Princess of Wales violets that sell 

 well at a good price. 



Kennicott Bros. Co. show a fine lot 

 of mahonia leaves. This Is an admir- 

 able decorative material and will cer- 

 tainly be widely used when well 

 known. 



Variouf Items. 



The Schiller greenhouses at Niles 

 Center have been purchased by Mr. 

 John Brod and they will be in future 

 conducted by his son. 



Sam Pearce has an unusually fine 

 lot of Easter plants. Lilies and Crim- 

 son Rambler roses are in extra good 

 shape. A lot of carried over azaleas 

 are remarkably good. He also has a. 

 splendid lot of spring stuff in fine con- 

 dition. 



Mr. N. H. Gano, for some years past 

 with Peter Reinberg, at Summerdale, 

 has removed to Martinsville, Ind. 



