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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



MAY IM. IMO. 



Rogers seems to be making a supreme 

 success of her store on Summer street. 

 and her Uiau Knowles is a lianl kopje 

 to outflank, surround, or carry by as- 

 sault. 



President Stickel, of tlie Co-opera- 

 tive Market, has purchased a valuable 

 ten-acre lot, with buildings, at Lexing- 

 ton, for future enlargement of his bus- 

 iness when necessary. 



The Hotel Berkeley, which shelters 

 Houghton & Clark and Norton Bros., 

 will soon come down. 'I'lie inside is a^ 

 total wreck now. 



Arguments for great scarcity of 

 goods for Memorial Day sound the 

 most reasonable. 



Mr. Long, of Marshall & Long, is 

 suffering from an injury to his eyes, 

 caused by a blow from a baseball re- 

 ceived while passing along Huntington 

 avenue. The chief damage was from 

 pieces of glass from the spectacles 

 which he wore. 



Houghton & Clark are smiling in 

 memory of twenty-five large baskets 

 of fine flowers delivered to the new 

 Hotel Essex upon the opening day. The 

 extra chuckle is for the order for a 

 dozen large bay trees to go to the same 

 place. 



A trip to W. .T. Dana's rose houses at 

 Wellesley shows them and their con- 

 tents to be in first-class condition. The 

 most interesting feature, however, con- 

 sists of the four new pattern Chad- 

 bourn automatic ventilating machines 

 just established. They appear like well 

 meaning employes and some of their 

 finalities are worthy of being copied 

 by more intelligent workmen; not. 

 however, the one of consuming three 

 or four gallons of liquUl per day. 



B, T. 



BUFFALO. 



A good warm day is a great treat, 

 and very cool weather is the pre- 

 vailing condition. Coleus would droop 

 away to nothing during these nights, 

 and unless we get a marked change 

 bedding will be very late. Every kind 

 of flower is plentiful at present and 

 fine in quality. The very cool weather 

 accounts for that. Roses have not yet 

 assumed their diminutive size or mil- 

 dewed tinge. W. J. Palmer & Son are 

 cutting three to four hundred fine 

 Beauties daily and have for many 

 ■weeks. Sweet peas have sold well but 

 are getting that crooked neck shape 

 on them. 



Mr. Wise, of East Aurora, had a 

 gardening talk with us oh Friday, and 

 sweet peas was one of the topics. 

 There is always a sincere pleasure in 

 exchanging views with this conserva- 

 tive wise, but witty man. How to 

 keep sweet peas from the glass was 

 one of the subjects. They are by the 

 majoritv grown on the side of a car- 

 nation "bench, and I see no material 

 iniury to the carnations, but the peas 

 soon get to the glass, and then come 

 the crooked stems. We have grown 

 a number in boxes this winter. The 

 boxes are 9x9 and 6 inches deep, and 

 ^tood on the floor at the ends of car- 



nation houses. Here there is almost 

 unlimited head room, and if we r>nly 

 had enough of this accommodation it 

 is an ideal way to grow them, as you 

 get lots of flowers without so much 

 rank growth. 



We are not likely to be overdone 

 with cheap outside flowers for Decora- 

 tion Day. Lilac will be about right. 

 Peonies will not be in. and all kinds 

 of tulips will be gone. Iris will help 

 out some, but they soon look like a 

 flag on a wet day after being cut. 

 The abundance of our indoor cut will 

 be our mainstay. 



The whole floricultural cnmmunity 

 was shocked on Thursday last with 

 tlie sudden and unexpected announce- 

 ment that our Billy Kasting, alias 

 the Hon. Wm. F., Park Commissioner, 

 had been and gone and got married 

 the day before. The announcement 

 sent by mail from the bride's parents 

 says that he will be at home in .June 

 somewhere on EUicott street. That's 

 very satisfactory, for we shall know 

 now where to get the key of his 

 emporium Sundays and evenings, 

 when we have an unexpected call for 

 his wares. It will also be better for 

 his health that he has a home, but we 

 don't like the way the business has 

 been done. It's sort of cute to do it 

 this way. but Billy is a sort of public 

 character and he should have given us 

 ii chance to show our appreciation of 

 bis behavior. It's a mistake. This 

 important event happens only once 

 with the great majority of us, at least 

 in one state, and the happenings at the 

 wedding are something to look back to 

 in years to come, 



1 think this is good news for the 

 grower and not so good for the re- 

 tailer. As a single man Billy was 

 lenient and kind and studied both 

 growler and retailer, knowing the latter 

 must not be squeezed to death, but 

 with the care of the household, the fur- 

 nishings and bric-a-brac, little shoe.-i 

 and hats, baby buggies and doctors' 

 bills, his nature will be hardened, and 

 the higher the price the more commis- 

 sion for him, is likely to be the domi- 

 nant thought. 



We must congratulate the handsome 

 and smart Miss Anna La Tour, for Mr. 

 Kasting is bound to be a success in 

 life. He has the right style in his 

 make-up to go ahead and he has gone 

 not a little ahead these past four 

 years. He has the great blessing of 

 being able to say "No" as easily as he 

 says "Yes," and this is the first mean 

 trick we have found him guilty of. 

 Perhaps he thinks he has been all 

 square. We don't. We do not expect 

 to be consulted for advice, but his 

 friends in the trade should have had a 

 chance. 



The average novel and melodrama 

 ends with the young couple getting 

 married, all trouble is over and noth- 

 ing but kisses, ice cream, molasses 

 candy and fun is before them. What a 

 horrible delusion, although not a delu- 

 sion, for every sane man knows better. 

 Reality begins and the dream is over. 



Be boss. Billy: be boss of everything 

 outside the house, and let your darling 

 be boss inside. Never walk the floor 

 with the baby; 1 never did; it's en- 

 tirely superfluous. They don't need it. 

 Many other hints I can give you, but 

 they shall be transmitted verbally. 



I know I voice the sentiments of 

 your many friends when I wish you 

 the greatest joy and prosperity and 

 hope that, although you have promised 

 to devote your whole self to the hap- 

 piness of another, you will still be the 

 same Billy Kasting. Von will not get 

 fo!-giveness for this sneaky behavior 

 till you have a thundering good house 

 w^arming, and then you will get 

 warmed. W. S. 



Pan-American News. 



The past two weeks have brought 

 about considerable change in the 

 landscape work of the grounds. Many 

 hundreds of large trees, mostly maples, 

 elms, poplars and horse chestnuts, 

 have been brought to the grounds and 

 planted. The lake connecting the 

 canals is almost completed and the 

 banks planted with a large assortment 

 of shrubs. In the music garden have 

 been planted several thousand hardy 

 roses in masses of 500 of one variety. 

 Two thousand of these are an exhibit 

 liy Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester. 

 With the careful planting they have 

 received and the heavy enriched loam 

 they are in they should make a splen- 

 did show in 1901. 



Mr. Rudolph Ulrich, the landscape 

 gardener, is the busiest of men. The 

 grounds surrounding the Service or 

 Administration Building are s:eded. 

 sodded and planted and have already a 

 most finished appearance. Work is 

 progressing rapidly on all tho most im- 

 portant buildings. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The stagnation noted last week still 

 continues, owing to the unsettled af- 

 fairs of the street railway strike. The 

 public will not ride on the few cars 

 that are running, and those buying 

 flowers will buy in their neighborhood, 

 and. of course, the down-town florists 

 suffer most, as the only orders they gst 

 are by telephone, and trade over the 

 counter is out of tha question. 



The florists around the cemeteries 

 claim they have all they can do, but 

 miss the customer who buys a few 

 plants and takes them over to the 

 cemetery. With the West End florists 

 it makes little or no difference, as 

 their trade don't as a rule, ride in 

 street cars. The South End florists 

 miss their street car trade very much 

 for their plant trade. 



Prices on cut flowers, in ciuantities. 

 are practically unquotable at this writ- 

 ing, as trade with both wholesaler and 

 retailer is worse, if possible, than ever. 

 Plenty of roses, carnations, sweet peas, 

 paeonies and Harrisii. Oallas and oth- 



