March 13. inu." 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



531 



this stock. Violets went up a little in 

 price and are selling this (Monday) 

 morning for 40 cents per 100 for Cali- 

 fornias, and 50 cents to $1 for doubles, 

 with plenty of them to supply the de- 

 mand. 



Notes. 



Mr. B. Eschuer, representing M. Bice 

 & Co., Philadelphia, was a visitor last 

 week. Mr. Eschner reports that trade 

 was never better. Charlie Ford, repre- 

 senting A. Hermann, New York, was 

 also a visitor. 



Principal W. J. Stevens and his corps 

 of teachers of Pope School will give the 

 children a course of training in growing 

 plants this spring. Each child will be 

 given some flower seed to be planted in 

 boxes, and prizes will be offered by the 

 teachers of each class for the best box 

 of plants. The children will be given a 

 short talk each week on flower gardening. 

 Principal Stevens says that when the 

 planting season opens no less than 300 

 homes in the Pope School district will be 

 supplied with flowers the coming sum- 

 mer through the interest which will be 

 awakened among the children in home- 

 beautifying. 



Frederic W. Taylor, acting chief of the 

 Department of Horticulture, has a letter 

 out stating that his department desires 

 to hear from the florists of the country in 

 regard to what they wish to do individ- 

 ually in the way of exhibits at the coming 

 St. Louis World's Fair. He asks that ap- 

 plications for such space be made at once 

 so that exhibitors may have just what 

 they wish in the way of area and location. 

 Mr. Taylor also says that it has been 

 freely admitted that one of the greatest 

 attractions of the late Pan-American 

 exposition was its outside flower show. 

 Application blanks will be sent to any 

 one addressing Frederic W. Taylor, Lou- 

 isiana Purcliase Exposition Co., St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



J. F. Ammanu of Edwardsville, 111., is 

 making preparations for extensive im- 

 provements on his place this summer. 



C. C. Sanders will build two new houses 

 this summer, for roses and carnations. 



Bowling. 



The Florists league team went down 

 three times last week before the Impe- 

 rials. Beneke had to stay out of tlie 

 game owing to a bad case of rheumatism. 

 This week will end the league season with 

 three games with the Enterprise, the lead- 

 er of the race. The scores: 



Florists. B K 1 2 ?. Total. Ave. 



Kuebii ... 2 7 l.SO 144 17.') 503 167 2-3 



lipyer 5 6 20(1 179 147 526 175 1-3 



Tosson ... 4 15 105 137 117 359 119 2-3 



Stuitz. ... 4 S 142 144 171 457 152 1-3 



EUisou ... 5 4 153 151 179 4S3 161 



Imperiiilf 



20 40 7SG 735 787 2328 155 3-15 

 B E 1 2 3 Total. Aye. 

 H 34 8.30 783 814 2426 161 11-15 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



Easter. 



We are naturaly hoping that Easter 

 will be as good as, or even a better, 

 flower festival than any that have gone 

 before. Buffalo is well off for material, 

 and if she was not we know of some 

 very large supplies within a hundred 

 miles that will send in any deficiency. 

 I hope to find time to visit most all 

 our growing establishments soon and 

 give you a full report. 



A Visit to Lancaster. 



I did go out to Lancaster last week 

 with Mr. J. A. Valentine, to run through 

 the houses of W. J. Palmer & Son. They 

 look fine. The dozen houses of carna- 

 tions are looking well, and several large 

 houses of Brides and Maids w-ere giving 

 a splendid cut of A 1 flowers. There 

 is a house of Liberty there that is rather 

 the best I have seen anywhere ; of course, 

 2-year-old plants. 



What impressed me as much as any- 

 thing was a bench of Japan longiflorum 

 lilies, the most uniformly healthy I have 

 come across this season, and are ready 

 to pop open at a day's notice. To some 

 eyes they may not have been surprising, 

 but as I remarked last week, you see in 

 so many places this year a ragged, un- 

 even lot and aflSicted with every disease 

 that flesh or lilies are heirs to, except 

 "housemaid knee," a disease confined to 

 Europe, where the scrubbers of floors as- 

 sume a creeping position. The whole 

 place reflects the greatest credit on that 

 modest, smiling, but hard-working young 

 man, Mr. Barney Myers, who you can 

 plainly see has his heart in his work. 



Club Meeting. 



The election of officers of the B. F. C. 

 for the coming year went off very 

 smoothly last Friday night. There was 

 a score of the faithful present and sev- 

 eral of them were from neighboring 

 towns that necessitated a trolley ride of 

 twenty miles and more, which ought to 

 put to shame those who had but three 

 blocks to walk but walked the other way. 

 The club wisely elected as president 

 James Braik, the Assistant Superinten- 

 dent of Parks. His thorough horticul- 

 tural knowledge, broad common sense 

 and energy with which he takes hold 

 of anything that he promises to do, gives 

 the club a good outlook for the future. 

 But the president alone cannot make the 

 club, so now boys lend your help and 

 weight in every way you can and you 

 will never be sorry for it. 



The vice-president is F. G. Lewis, of 

 Lockport, who deserved the honor. The 

 other ofiicers were re-elected, as it is 

 futile to try to get a more faithful and 

 efficient secretary than Wm. Legg, a 

 financial secretary than Emil Brueker, or 

 treasurer than old war horse Charlie 

 Keitsch. The executive committee are 

 John F. Cowell, Wm. F. Kasting and 

 W. Scott. 



The program that followed was 

 much en.joyed and President Braik got 

 everybody to stand up and say some- 

 thing and .all did with more or less volu- 

 bility. The exquisite puns on the names 

 of the members by Louis H. Neubeck 

 was the gem of the evening. The most 

 serious and serviceable thing done was 

 the motion of Mr. Charles Guenther, as 

 follows: "The Florists' Club of Buffalo 

 tender to the florists of Indiana their 

 congratulations on the splendid arrange- 

 ments and manner in which the Carna- 

 tion Convention was carried out in every 

 detail, and our sincere thanks for the 

 grand and cordial hospitality extended to 

 the visitors." Carried with a cheer. And 

 then we parted determined to make our 

 chib a real living being for the next j'cor. 



Death of Mrs, Wise. 



1 much regret to have to announce the 

 rather sudden death of Mrs. Fred'k Wise, 

 of East Aurora. She left behind two 

 small children. Mr. Wise has the sym- 

 pathy of all of us. 



We SaJdom Bowl. 



I don't think the pages of a Florist 

 and O. H. journal should be very mucli 

 encumbered with bowling scores. It's all 

 right when it's a national convention or 

 two prominent cities have had a match, 

 then we are interested, but merely prac- 

 tice rolls are of no interest outside of the 

 club that is doing the rolling and they 

 know what they have done. It's not scien- 

 tific enough to go into print. It's merely 

 a good muscular, good natured, jolly, 

 noisy game, and without congenial so- 

 ciety not worth a cent. 



Buffalo and some of its individual 

 bowlers have cut quite a figure in the 

 national tournaments, but the glory 

 seems departed and when at home we are 

 a disjointed, non-sociable lot of dubs, 

 and it requires a great effort to get 

 six of us together. There alighted in 

 our city last Saturday, much to our sat- 

 isfaction, that breezy young colt from 

 the Eockies, J. A. Valentine, of Denver, 

 and we had two evening's bowling. J. A. 

 has had the bowling microbe for some 

 years and it's a steady and consistent 

 attack, but not violent. When the bowl- 

 ing bacillus enters the brain it's by no 

 means an indication that the cranium 

 has space to spare or that its previous 

 matter is addled or light in quantity or 

 quality; not, in the least, for I have 

 noticed among my acquaintances that 

 some of the best endowed mentally have 

 succumbed to violent attacks of "Bolo- 

 mania." For instance there is our own 

 good and weighty Capt. Braik, who 

 would sacrifice almost all other earthly 

 pleasures for a game. John Westcott, 

 Robert Kift and the shrewd George An- 

 derson consider it an esential and im- 

 portant duty of life to bowl. Pat O'Mara, 

 with his head full of business and ad- 

 vanced moral philosophy, loves to join in. 

 I could cite a hundred cases to prove 

 that the brighter a man is at his calling, 

 whatever it may be, the better he is at 

 his favorite pastime, and there are any 

 amount of instances showing that a very 

 bright mind is often able to excel in 

 any games of skill that they tackle. 



These few introductory remarks, Mr. 

 Editor, are my excuse for asking you to 

 print the scores of a game we had last 

 Tuesday evening. Mr. Valentine played 

 a brilliant game on Saturday night but 

 on Tuesday night he fell down, and going 

 home borrowed the score which I had 

 kept on the back of a postal card. He 

 is a crafty coyote from over the divide, 

 but I will spare him this time and from 

 memory here is the score that he made 

 when he laid us out, not when we laid 

 him out: 



J. A. Valentino 160 191 186 172 



W. F. Kasting — — 180 170 



G. McClure 190 181 223 204 



M. Bloy 132 163 140 174 



W. Belsey Scott 1.52 178 ISO 171 



D. L. ditto Ill 117 138 140 



.\leck ditto 147 136 164 ISO 



R. Burns ditto 140 124 138 135 



O. Goldsmith ditto 12rt 117 111 122 



Old Man ditto 164 144 189 210 



Unfortunately the other members of 

 our family were out of town. But, oh, 

 boys! if those Palace Alleys had only 

 been built when you were all here! There 

 are as good perliaps in other cities, there 

 cannot be better. They are a glorious, 

 smooth, glittering dream. 



W. S. 



McKiNLEY, Pa. — C. Haenni's Sons 

 are arranging to build two new houses, 

 one 25x175 and the other 8x175. The 

 order for the material has beeen placed 

 with the John C. Moninger Co., Chicago. 



