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TheWeekly Florists' Review. 



Mat 15. 1902. 



ORANGE, N.J 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 New Jersey Florieultural Society was 

 held at their rooms in Orange on May 5, 

 President Hayes presiding. Among the 

 miscellaneous business transacted was the 

 consideration of the fall exhibition, the 

 committee reporting progress. They were 

 authorized to address influential persons 

 interested in floriculture, with a view of 

 securing sufficient patronage to make it 

 a marked social. success. 



The society was entertained by Joseph 

 B. Davis, who has recently returned from 

 a cruise of the Mediterranean and Egypt, 

 and his remarks were illustrated by over 

 one hundred photographs of the scenes 

 he visited. The most noticeable feature 

 in plant life in this region was the palm; 

 with the exception of Constantinople and 

 Palestine, the first possessing many fine 

 cypress and the last the olive. But little 

 fine cultivation of bed or border is ob- 

 servable, the labor of the native gardener 

 being taken up by the irrigation so nec- 

 essary in this climate. It was with diffi- 

 culty that flowers for the table could be 

 secured in Constantinople. At Madeira 

 and Algiers magnificent calla liHes were 

 seen growing wild in the borders of ba- 

 nana and sugarcane plantations. 



The only thoroughly organized flower 

 business was in Cairo, which has five flor- 

 ists' establishments, who each raise their 

 own stufif, and roses, violets and carna- 

 tions can be had during the social season, 

 which is a short one — only from January 

 to March. Naturally the prices are high; 

 violets scarce at $2.00 per hundred. The 

 roses raised and sold are Perle, Bride, 

 Kaiserin, Gontier, Safrano, Paul Neyron 

 and Malmaison, all grown in the open 

 and sold at two shillings a dozen, the 

 lowest price. Very dififerent from the 

 Eivicra, where under the same climatic 

 conditions long-stemmed roses sell for 

 4 cents each. J. B. Davis. 



OMAHA. 



1 wish to write a few words of warn- 

 ing to the florists of the country to be 

 on the lookout for a man who went by 

 the name of Fred Smith here in Omaha. 



He is a florist, about 32 years old, 

 German, says he has been in Brazil gath- 

 ering orchids for three years; also has 

 been employed in some prominent east- 

 ern jilaces. He ajijicars to be a pleasant 

 man and a good worker, but proved to 

 be a swindler. He works long enough on 

 a place to get sufiBcient confidence to be 

 allowed to collect money from custom- 

 ers. Then he pretends that they don't 

 pay. Also borrows money from as many 

 as he can and then leaves town. In that 

 way he swindled about a dozen Omaha 

 people. Lewis Henderson, 



Secretary Nebraska Florists' Society. 



MONTREAL. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club has 

 changed quarters from the Natural His- 

 ■ tory Building to the Alexander Rooms, 

 2204 St. Catherine street, and will in fu- 

 ture meet on the first and third Monday 

 evenings in each month. 



Belleville, III.— Dr. A. S. Halstedt 

 will build a new greenhouse and stable, 

 to cost $700. 



The paper has been such a good me- 

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