November 28, 1901. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



worth, the help of the frowsy boys in 

 crimson. Violets bobbed up to $1.2.5 and 

 $1.50 during the week and althuuoh Sat- 

 urday's supply was enormous, still more 

 could have been sold, showincr Yale had 

 many "true-blue" followers. Carnations 

 hardly held their ground during the week 

 but prices did not break. They are really 

 not over plentiful and prices must ad- 

 vance on everything, practically, with 

 the decrease of chrysanthemums. Buy- 

 ers can feel quite sure of lilies and pa- 

 per white narcissus, and hyacinths are 

 waking up. 



Various Notes. 



The week in ((ucstinn records the birth 

 of the most important change in the re- 

 tail arrangement of the city that has 

 ever taken place, probably, in the same 

 length of time. James Mcilulkin. for 

 years one of T. F. Galvin's strongest 

 men and the general manager of the 

 Back Bay store ever since its establish- 

 ment, has severed his connection with 

 Mr. Galvin and is to begin for himself 

 in the large store near Park square, for- 

 merly occupied by James Delay & Sons. 

 He makes the store very much larger, 

 however, by annexing the store on Park 

 square formerly occupied by the Craw- 

 ford Shoe Co., the removal of a parti- 

 tion being all that was necessary. All 

 this makes a bold move which under 

 wrong management would make a gigan- 

 tic failure. But Mr. McMulkin does not 

 believe in wrong management and I hear 

 of no one predicting anything but suc- 

 cess. 



An old gentleman upon hearing of the 

 burning of a certain barn, remarked, 

 "No doubt done by some one chawing 

 tobacker," which was the strangest re- 

 sult of that bad habit on record until 

 last week, when Al Hutson from the 

 oblique greenhouses on the hills of 

 Brighton, went downtown to get a load 

 of tobacco stems. While in the store 

 some one lifted his imported overcoat, 

 silk muffler, gloves, etc., not even stop- 

 ping to leave for Hutson the four or five 

 dollars he had just placed in the little 

 pocket. In a great hurry to teach him a 

 lesson of humility, forbearance and en- 

 durance, as well as to call his attention 

 to the evils of pride and the use of 



The Philadelphia Market. View in Geo. M. Moss'. 



tobacco. The "no money" down cloth- 

 iers would lie my salvation in such a 

 case. J. S. Manter. 



BUFFALO. 



Business, except for the funerals of 

 some prominent citizens, has been rather 

 quiet on the whole. Teas and dinners 

 are becoming more frequent and weddings 

 of the third and fourth magnitude are 

 daily occurring. Of course I speak of 

 them relative to their importance to the 

 florist; to the contracting parties they 

 are always of the first magnitude. 



We were very glad indeed to see our 

 friend, Andy Adams, hustling last week 

 .with some great big designs. He needed 

 a step ladder to put in the words "Will 

 See You Later," in some of the largest 

 pieces so that will give you an idea of 

 their immensity. 



I said last week that the local supply 



The Philadelphia Market. View in Fred Ehret's. 



of violets was poor. I find that Harmon 

 & Burr, of Darien, Genesee Co., are on 

 lop again with a fine lot and we are 

 lejoiced to know it for they are Worthy 

 men and continually industrious. Like 

 olliers they have had their trouble for 

 two or three years and the little black 

 tly has been the cause. That little black 

 Hy is the cause of much profanity and 

 scarcity of violets. • It needs a lot of 

 fighting. 



Every day I live the truth impresses 

 itself more that nearly the greatest part 

 of what we call gardening is a continual 

 persistent and courageous fight against 

 the hundred and one insects and fungi 

 that want to live on our cultivated plants. 

 How and when to plant, to tie, to syringe 

 and water, the temperature for night 

 and day, is all simple, you can learn it 

 by heart in a few days, but the energy 

 to keep down mildew, aphis, spider, mice, 

 rats and moles requires an all round man. 



Buffalo, alas, can not have a chrysan- 

 themum show. We tried it three years 

 ago for the last time and it cost a few 

 of us one dollar apiece and a bad cold, 

 so now we sit calmly down and read of 

 the shows in other cities. In place of a 

 united or public exhibition where all 

 could if they would join in, our florists 

 have been giving shows of their own. We 

 have not heard that it needed any extra 

 car service to accommodate the public 

 on these days but no doubt they were 

 all attractive and brought a good many 

 deadheads to the respective stores. Zim- 

 merman started in at his Chippewa street 

 place, giving a flower and a Wiener to 

 all callers. Rebstock was next with 

 a posy and a smile. Anderson fell in 

 line with a blossom and a text from 

 the Bible, and W. J. Palmer & Son 

 made a fine show and gave the callers 

 some sweet music. 



You can't say anything against these 

 shows, or alleged shows, because many 

 other classes of business have their open- 

 ings. Y'et I like the public exhibition 

 better and wherever it is held in any city 

 all should join in to the best of their 

 ability. It is selfish and small not to do 

 it. It is simply that you think more 

 of your own advancement and gain than 



