APRIL 12, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



603 



roses and carnations at no tini.' Iniiig 

 in excess of tlie demand; in lait, car- 

 nation.s have been generally short of 



supply. 



Andrew Andersen, of Govanstown, is 

 about erecting two houses, each 100 

 feet long. One for .\nierican Hcaiity 

 roses and the other for sniila.v, l)()th of 

 which he will hereafter make hi.s spe- 

 cialties. 



William Madsen is cutting Vieauties 

 of fine (lower, foliage and .stem.s, fully 

 maintaining the reputation 1«<; has so 

 long bad for successful production of 

 this splendid variety. 



No place we are acquainted with has 

 been so much improved within the 

 past year as Frederick C. Bauer's, near 

 Govanstown, formerly the Hantske 

 place. The greenhouses have been 

 renovated, a water system established, 

 with elevated tank and hot-air pump- 

 ing engine, a dwelling erected and the 

 grounds graded and put in order. Mr. 

 Bauer is full of energy and has varied 

 experience, having been long in the 

 business, his last position being as 

 foreman for Isaac H. Moss. His spe- 

 cialties are carnations, callas and vio- 

 lets, all of which are well done. Ho is 

 a practical minded cultivator, who has 

 a capacity for tliinking out every prob- 

 lem of his business and for achieving 

 results. 



Mr. Moss' place has been a nursery 

 for bright young gardeners. One of his 

 department foremen, Thomas Steven- 

 son, sends in the finest violets which 

 come to the city and is regarded as a 

 wide-awake and progressive all-around 

 cultivator. William Price, another of 

 his young men, recently left him to 

 take charge of the plant houses of 

 Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett, and under 

 his attentive care their contents are 

 said to be making a very creditable 

 showing. 



The young plants of the Liberty rose 

 which are being received by purchas- 

 ers in this vicinity are much larger 

 and more vigorous of growth than is 

 usual with new introductions. We 

 hear of one thrifty florist who bought 

 one hundred plants, potted them up 

 and got enough cuttings to increase 

 his stock to the present time to two 

 hundred and fifty. RIX. 



DENVER, COLO. 



Various Items. 



The Gallup Floral Co., now one of 

 the oldest establishments of its kind in 

 Denver, have a most attractive store, 

 connected with a convenient conserva- 

 tory, on the corner of Fifteenth street 

 and Cleveland place. 



The business is conducted by some 

 of the best men in the trade, viz.: 

 Messrs. Lewis, Gallup, Schultz and 

 Emerich, and although they have to 

 depend largely on other growers for 

 their cut flowers, the windows are al- 

 ways in fine trim. 



A large amount of flower and vege- 

 table seed is neatly arranged in the 

 center of the store in pyramid shape, 



inviting the customers to purchase. 

 One of the wings of the conservatory is 

 .stocked with palms, ferns and Selagi- 

 nella ICiuiliana. Among the ferns are 

 some nice nuiidenhalr, i)teris and cyr- 

 tomiuni, als-o polypodiuni argenteum, 

 which is not generally grown; also a 

 hardy fern with heart - shaped cut 

 leaves, seldom seen here. 



In the other wing of the conserva- 

 tory we find Primula.'^, obconica and 

 chinensis, both in good shape; carna- 

 tions, genista, spirea, callas, Hegonia 

 sempertlorens rosea, and a lot of young 

 maidenhair ferns and seedlings. The 

 conglomeration of the latter, however, 

 hamper the arrangement very much. 

 Mr. Lewis is always the same genial 

 fellow-tradesman. 



Mr. Charles Thiess, who has moved 

 further up on Sixteenth street, into the 

 store formerly occupied by the Colfax 

 Avenue Floral Co., has an abundance 

 of flowers in his window. Charlie is 

 among the best of decorators and is 

 very tasty in arranging floral pieces. 



Calla lilies in the window of Glauber 

 & Webb attract attention on account of 

 their size. Mr. Mehler, the grower, 

 takes the palm. One specimen with 

 stem 11/4 inches thick by 6 feet long 

 and flower 6x9 inches, is a "daisy" and 

 worth mentioning. 



There is still some controversy in 

 regard to the Bermuda lily disease and 

 that it can be overcome, partly, by 

 growing them in a certain way and 

 with proper soil and care. There are 

 many ways of growing lilies, but the 

 writer has always preferred, in this 

 climate, to start them inside instead of 

 keeping them in frames, and the use 

 of bone meal instead of manure as fer- 

 tilizer. The cause of failure may often 

 be traced to the ripening, curing, im- 

 proper packing and handling by the 

 middlemen, which the florists cannot 

 well overcome. They are not improved 

 l)y allowing them to get dry, either in 

 transit or in the pots. 



Colonel Colburn, who for more than 

 ten years has been bookkeeper for the 

 Curtis Park Floral Co., and was well 

 known to all who had dealings with 

 that Arm, died recently. The inter- 

 ment was at Fairmount cemetery April 

 1, and was conducted by the G. A. R. 

 F. A. HAENSELMAN. 



The following scores were rolled by 

 Denver bowlers Tuesday, April 3: 



12 3 Av. 



J. Perry 152 202 208 1S6 2-;) 



P. Scott 159 ISfl 194 180 2-:! 



C. Thiess 157 119 190 155 1-3 



Geo. Zimmer 151 166 119 142 



E. Emerich 129 155 1.35 1.39 2-3 



Fietz 118 lis 141 12,5 2-3 



J. A. Valentine 166 163 165 1-2 



A. N. Benson 113 167 164 148 



PHIL SCOTT. 



BUFFALO. 



My little screed is sure to begin or 

 end with the weather. And this Tues- 

 day morning it is the most weighty 

 thing on a Buffalo florist's mind; about 

 the freezing point, and the old woman 

 is picking her geese, for the feathers 



or flakes are falling fast and thick. 

 Horrors! Can it last? No, impossible! 

 Always remember that the weather 

 was not made for us; we are creatures 

 of the weather, and no one is dishing 

 us out a particularly bad sample; it's 

 just Buffalo weather. 



From the present outlook there will 

 be two important articles In very short 

 supply, viz., lilies and carnations. With 

 carnations it is not unxisual; simply 

 the cut is gone. We are between crops. 

 Lilies, although we have had a fair 

 supply of sun, have had not a single 

 warm day in two months to help them 

 along, and disease has terribly thinned 

 their ranks. In all other plants there 

 will be a bountiful supply, except per- 

 haps of Dutch hyacinths. George Fan- 

 court has sent in to Kasting his usual 

 contribution of hydrangeas, a fine lot, 

 well grown and well colored. 



The retailers on Main street are al- 

 ready making a fine show. W. A. Ad- 

 ams says: "If I can get them I will 

 sell more lilies than 1 ever did," and 

 you know he has the concentrated es- 

 sence of ginger so permeating his 

 whole system that what he says goes. 

 S. A. Anderson has a splendid window 

 and is buying all the attractive plants 

 he can get. 



Over on the East Side, the great Teu- 

 tonic settlement, the popular lady flor- 

 ists are all laying in big stocks of 

 plants. Miss Nussbaum, Miss Rose 

 Rinehart and Miss Kloko can now sell 

 hundreds of nice plants where ten 

 years ago a hyacinth or geranium was 

 the limit. Mr. Buddenborg. with his 

 two stoi-es to catch two nationalities, 

 reports business good and expects to 

 handle many medium-sized plants. 



The feature of last week's and this 

 week's business has been store open- 

 ings. Many of the leading stores made 

 elaborate displays of palms and flower- 

 ing plants, one millinery store giving 

 a rose or a few carnations to every 

 caller, and so they used up in one day 

 over a hundred dollars' worth of flow- 

 ers. All good for business, even if 

 they were purchased a little cheap; 

 somebody got something for growing 

 them. 



I want to acknowledge the receipt 

 yesterday morning (Monday) of a box 

 of flowers from Mr. Valentine, of the 

 Park Floral Co., Denver. Now, these 

 flowers, which were Bridesmaid and 

 Bride roses, Flora Hill carnations and 

 mignonette, must have been in the ex- 

 press car forty-eight hours, and I be- 

 lieve laid twenty - four hours in our 

 local express office, opened up in bet- 

 ter condition than I have seen many 

 flowers arrive after a hundred mile 

 journey. They were simply perfect, 

 fresh and handsome. This is, of course, 

 the most favorable time for transport- 

 ing flowers, but without that their 

 beauty and condition speaks greatly 

 for their growth and simple but perfect 

 packing. As we have a deep interest 

 in anything that is under the care of 

 the Buffalo boys, Phil and Mike, in 

 that distant silvery bright city, we 

 were more than gratified about the ex- 



