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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



MAY 17, 1*)*. 



the flare and glare which so often ac- 

 company the marriages of today. Her 

 wishes were respected, and the prepa- 

 rations at the church and home were 

 visions of delicacy and loveliness. 

 Bride roses and asparagus were the 

 predominating materials used at the 

 house. 



The sale of the plants of William W. 

 Spence drew a ci-owd. but the prices 

 realized were beggarly. Fine palms 

 and other plants, which, as the adver- 

 tisement truly declared, had received 

 the care of a lifetime, went for a few 

 dollars. Few of the trade were pres- 

 ent; indeed, there was not much in the 

 collection to attract them, and the 

 great size of many of the specimens 

 unfitted them for most amateurs' use. 



It was a pleasure to see William H. 

 Perot a purchaser of many of the or- 

 chids. This gentleman was for years 

 the president of the Maryland Horti- 

 cultural Society and by his spirit, zeal 

 and influence promoted its activity 

 and usefulness. At the very head of 

 the merchant princes of Baltimore, 

 esteemed for his commercial integrity 

 and high sense of honor, he was an 

 ardent lover of gardening in its every 

 department. He not only admired 

 plants, but had a nice and discrimi- 

 nating knowledge of them and of their 

 cultivation and care, and the ability 

 and disposition, as his many business 

 cares permitted, to give time to their 

 practical manipulation with his own 

 hands. His collection of orchids was 

 for a time the most extensive and val- 

 uable in this vicinity and his beautiful 

 country place on Charles street was 

 long and remains the local Mecca for 

 all lovers of rare and fine trees, vel- 

 vety lawns and well kept hedges. 



Some splendid American Beauties 

 sent last week by Henry Weber & 

 Sons, of Oakland, Md., to the Florists' 

 Exchange here might well make our 

 local growers hide their diminished 

 heads. The stems were three to three 

 and a half feet long, the foliage abso- 

 lutely perfect, no spot, no Ijlemish, of 

 texture like leather, and of dark, rich 

 green color, and the blooms bright, 

 large and faultless. Whether it is the 

 mountain air or the skill of cultiva- 

 tion, they were models of floral 

 beauty. 



The firm of Fischer & Ekas, it is un- 

 derstood, is about to be dissolved. 

 These young men have worked hard, 

 gained a reputation for themselves 

 and estat)lished a flourishing trade, 

 notwithstanding some hard knocks of 

 Fortune. ,Tust on what lines the 

 change will be made is not publicly 

 known, but both have the good wishes 

 of many friends in the trade in the 

 change to ensue. RIX. 



DAYTON, O.— Ritter & Co., the seeds- 

 men, are preparing to build a ware- 

 house at their greenhouses and will 

 give up the city store, transacting all 

 business from the office at the ware- 

 house. 



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