The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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bulb show alone was worth coming a long 

 way to see. 



The roses and carnations came on the 

 second day. Adonis won the. presitLent's 

 $50 cup as the best carnation not yet 

 disseminated. The Marquis, Prince Hen- 

 ry and Mrs. Van Rensselaer all made a 

 fine appearance. There were three su- 

 perb vases of Beauties and one of Liber- 

 ty. There were two vases of Mrs. Ames 

 and one each of Ivory, 'Balduins, Miss 

 Alice Roosevelt and Ulrich Brunner. 

 The rose table was very effective, all the 

 blooms being good and the colors pret- 

 tily varied. Curiously enough there 

 were no Brides or Maids. 



The winners of prizes were mainly 

 private gardeners. 



West Philadelphia. 



"William K. Harris has an enviable 

 reputation for Easter plants, and, in 

 fact, for everything he grows. He had 

 a great house of genistas, beautifully 

 shaped plants full of bright yellow flow- 

 ers, the color intensified by being well 

 hardened. His hydrangeas were half 

 pink and half blue, a house or so of each. 

 The lilies were reduced in numbers by 

 the dread disease. Rhododendrons and 

 bougainvilleas were very fine. There 

 were doulile spireas and a great quan- 

 tity of daffodils, single and double, very 

 evenly flowered. Also tulips and bleeding 

 hearts. Last, but not least, the azaleas 

 were extremf'ly fine. 



Sharon Hill. 



Robert 8cott & !Sun had two large 

 houses of lilies, divided into four grades, 

 the highest of $15 grade being taken 

 first. Their Ramblers, mentioned last 

 week, were the most perfect ever seen 

 in this city. These are the only Easter 

 plants grown, tne rest of the place be- 

 ing devoted to roses. A large house of 

 Brides and Maids is in full crop for 

 Easter. Beauties are producing some 

 fine, long-stemmed flowers. Liberty 

 looks well. Three new houses built last' 

 fall and used for Easter plants and 

 young stock will be planted in Liberty 

 this summer, grafted plants of this va- 

 riety being preferred here to own roots. 

 There is a very fine stock of young 

 Kaiserins grafted, and of Beauties on 

 their own roots. 



The glass devoted to testing Alex- 

 ander Dickson & Sons' rose seecllings is 

 iif deep interest. There are two or three 

 varieties that may be heard from next 

 season. It is curious that one variety, 

 which, when grown outdoors at Belfast, 

 bore flowers brighter in color than Amer- 

 ican Beauty, here, under glass, produces 

 blooms of a dull shade of pink, most un- 

 desirable. Another variety of strong 

 growth which never came blind at Bel- 

 fast has never flowered here, although 

 it grows tremendously. The variety Rob- 

 ert Scott seems unlikely to fully meet 

 iiur market requirements, though a fine 

 flower of exquisite color. 



An immense quantity of small roses 

 are grown for Burpee & Co.'s shipping 

 trade. Gardenias are being tried and 

 •■hould produce a fine crop of bloom in 

 ■huie. This place bears abundant evi- 

 dence of prosperity and reflects credit on 

 Mr. Scott and his foreman, Mr. Munro. 



Notes. 



John Burton expects to add a house 

 to his new place this summer for Me- 

 teors. 



John I. Hcibeck, Oxford. Pa., will 



build three new houses this summer; it 

 is understood that they are for carna- 

 tions. 



Simon Brothers, Wilmington, Del., 

 are building three houses, to be devote^i 

 to carnations. Two are 175x110 and one 

 l-'liOxia 



William H. Vance, Wilmington, Del., 

 expects to move his six houses of carna- 

 tions this summer to a new piece oi 

 ground, and will add another house. 



Correction: It was J. J. Habermehl's 

 Sons who sent samples of their Easter 

 stock to S. S. Pennock's spring opening, 

 and not J. B. Habermehl, as incorrectly 

 stated last week. 



The employes of a leading cut flower 

 commission house in this city object to 

 a recent statement in a contemporary 

 that business has been dull around the 

 wholesalers. They say they have been 

 just as busy as they possibly could be, 

 often working until late in the evening. 



Henry A. Dreer Co. had some fine 

 blooms of the yellow daisy Doronicum at 

 the exhibition last week. 



Wishing all fellow laborers a full re- 

 turn for their toil at this Easter season, 

 and that these lines may find an echo 

 in some hearts. Phil. 



FOR SOME ONE. 



, I wdiHlpr wh.v { toil jiwa.vV 



My heart replies; "For snnie oiie! ' 



Wli.v m.i.v I iii'Ver rest a tla.v ? 

 Because — because of "some one." 



I hear the tramp of nian.v feet. 



I hear the raeket in the street. 



But over all I hear the sweet — 

 Sweet little laugh of "some one." 



His T\-ork is never hard to do 

 Who thinks all day of some one: 



He labors well whose heart is true — 

 Ant] fondly true — to some one I 



Men strive for wealth — men bravely go 



Where danger is for fame, but oh ! 



The sweetest joy a man may know- 

 Is just to toil for some one! 



BUFFALO. 



Supreme Court of BulValo, Part 2 — 

 "Murphy against Indiana Bridge Co." 

 John G. Milburn, counsel for the de- 

 fense. .Turor waiting to be called and 

 earning double pay. by serving the people 

 and writing for pay at the same time. 



Ijast week our avenues and orchards 

 were joyous with the song of the robin 

 and a dialogue I heard between two of 

 the latest arrivals amused me. The 

 brightest breasted of the two remarked 

 to his more sombre but sweet looking 

 companion: "I think I met you last 

 year somewhere in this tree. You are 

 looking very pretty." The reply was, 

 as near as I could make out, with her 

 head bowed but slightly on one side: 

 "I have been watching you all winter 

 on the Gulf coast and you have been 

 fairly good, but don't pretend to be a 

 stranger. If you mean business drop 

 your taffy, come off your perch and let's 

 go to work." But a cold spell came 

 and, alas! work and all domestic indus- 

 tries were suspended and poor red- 

 breast was hiding beneath a brush jiile. 



St. Patrick's day and its green em- 

 blems seems to have been more generally 

 observed than in years past, but I don't 

 believe it means much to the florist. J. 

 H. Rebstock had green callas, green car- 

 nations, green roses, in fact everything 

 about the store, except the proprietor, 

 was green. 



It is not so easy to say how the stock 

 for Easter is going to be. Witbcmt men- 

 tioning any names, I would call it spotty. 

 I hear of more than one grower whose 

 lilies can be called "nix," and I am in- 



clined to think that this important plant 

 will be in brisk demand, but of other 

 plants there will be an abundani-e. W. 

 J. Palmer has a splendid lot of lilies. 

 C. F. Christensen has a good, clean lot, 

 and there are a good many hundreds at 

 Cold Springs. 



Carnations were coming in very fast 

 until the cold spell shortened them up. 

 Roses got down to bargain counter 

 prices, but that is over for the present. 



It was reported that W. F. Kasting 

 had rented Convention Hal! as a dis- 

 tributing point for plants received from 

 many points, but that is not so. It is 

 as large a hall but one more adjacent 

 to his cut flower house.' W. S. 



CEMCINNATL 



Easter Prospects. 



With Easter scj near, our market is in 

 ajiything but a satisfactory condition. 

 Still, I suppose it is caused more by the 

 holding back of stock than anything 

 else. That carnations are going to lie 

 'way short is easily seen by everyone. 

 Every mail' brings orders that it will bo 

 impossible to fill and disappointed cus- 

 tomers form one of the hardest nuts foi- 

 wholesalers to crack. 



Fortunately the supply of bulbous 

 stock will be ample and of extra good 

 (|uality. There will be enough for every- 

 (Uie, as this market is well supplied in 

 this line. 



At the present time it looks as if roses 

 will be about equal to the demand, and 

 if this is the ease it will help out the 

 carnations a good deal. 



Harrisii arc likely to be in larger sup- 

 ply than at first anticipated and some 

 verv good .stock can be baa at $15 per 

 100. 



There will be a great supply of vio- 

 lets, mostly in double varieties, and willi 

 good weather there will be no trouble in 

 disposing of them. All in all, we are 

 looking forward to the best Easter ever 

 experienced in this vicinity. 



Various Items. 



J. A. Peterson is holding an auction 

 this week at which ])lants and cut flow- 

 ers are being sold to the highest bidder 

 without reserve. 



Last Tuesday the temperature fell to 

 8 degrees above zero. A strong wind 

 was jjlowing, making it very hard to 

 keep up temperature in greenhouses, 

 Geo. Murphy suffereil the loss of a house 

 of carnations that were in fine shape for 

 Easter, by freezing. 



On Saturday, in the .Tabez Elliott 

 flower market, nearly all the stands were 

 occupied and a very good trade was re- 

 ported. Easter is the harvest time for 

 the florists in this market, and on Sat- 

 urday next its fifty-odd stands will ..e 

 one mass of bloom. The sight is equal 

 to a flower show and draws immense 

 crowds of people. 



ilr. Schramm,,, of Schramm Bros., 

 Marietta, O., was a calier this week, 

 also Mr. ,T. F. Herdigen, Aurora, Ind., 

 Mr. Weltz, Wilmington, O., and Miss 

 White and Miss Troupe, of Lexingtim, 



Ky. 



A Visit to Richmond. 



The writer ■went over to Richmond, 

 Ind., on Saturilay last and called on 

 the E. G. Hill Co. Gaiety was a mass 

 of buds and blooms and certainly could 

 not have been in better shape. Of 



