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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JUNE 1C<. 1902. 



serious injury. In some sections the 

 damage is already heavy. 



At Lincoln Park many of the poeony 

 bud.s failed to open. Evidently the 

 weather changes were too much for them. 

 The grass and trees were, however, never 

 finer. The bedding out is completed. New 

 features are beds of palms and erotons 

 and beds of Pandanus VeitcMi and 

 erotons. Both combinations are very ef- 

 fective. 



T>. F. Simonds, of Olive St., supplied 

 a large number of hanging baskets and 

 palms for decorating the grand stand 

 at the Washington Park track. 



Derby day is at hand and a little e?- 

 tra demand for flowers is looked for at 

 that time. 



Mrs. P. J. Hanswirth is still improv- 

 ing but is yet far from eujojang her 

 usual health. 



Though J. A. Budlong has already put 

 up 45,000 feet of new glass this season, 

 he has decided to erect 30,000 feet more, 

 the latest addition to be devoted largely 

 to carnations. 



BUFFALO. 



A very showery time of late has been 

 bad for outside work, yet grand 

 for the carnations, asters and other 

 things in the ground, and I don't 

 suppose it has stopped any body from 

 getting married. There seems to have 

 been an unusual number of thoughtless 

 people taking the fatal step this spring, 

 but very few of them among the prom- 

 inent people, so the flutter they cause in 

 the floral world is small. 



Trade all round has been very good, 

 although just now dropping to rather 

 quiet. Graduations and commencements 

 are yet to come and after that the mid- 

 summer quiet will be here. The plant 

 trade has been good, although not a 

 great increase over other years, and there 

 were more to do it this year. There 

 was an immense quantity of really high 

 class bedding plants raised here this 

 spring. The market was the great dis- 

 tributing medium. Schwert & Berner, of 

 Chicktawaga, and C. F. Christensen, of 

 North Main street, have been sending in 

 car loads of fine geraniums, cannas, 

 coleus and other useful and well-grown 

 stuff. 



The vase business for our principal 

 cemetery, as well as many other ceme- 

 teries, has been as good as ever, with 

 a naturally increased demand. Vases in 

 this city have to be well filled. The 

 standard was set high some years ago 

 and others have to follow suit. It is 

 doubtful if there is much margin of 

 profit. If we did not receive fair pay 

 for care and watering it would not be 

 worth doing. Perhaps another consider- 

 ation in vase and veranda box filling 

 is that in the majority of cases you use 

 what you have and clean up your stock. 

 If you had to fill with just what they 

 ordered it would never do. 



I notice that our Dan B. Long has 

 been honored with the duty of getting 

 up a souvenir for the Ashville con- 

 vention. Mr. L. and Mr. Deake make 

 a good team and no doubt a beautiful 

 little book will be the result of their 

 efforts. 



Mr. A. Eingier, of Chicago, was here 

 a few days ago. Same rugged-looking, 

 ferocious man, and the same old subject 

 on top. 



Our club is in a slumbering state at 

 present, but that is not the fault of the 

 ofiScers. Everybody is too busy and those 



that are not are too indifferent. We 

 will get a move on by August. W. S. 



TARRYTOWN, N. \ 



The free rose and strawberry exhibi- 

 tion given by the Tarrytown Horticul- 

 tural Society in the Lyceum Monday af- 

 ternoon and evening, June 16, was a 

 great success, considering the ditficulties 

 that come with a fickle season. No doubt 

 a better display could have been made a 

 week earlier, but it is next to the impos- 

 sible to predict when outdoor flowers or 

 fruit are to be at their best. Unfortu- 

 nately the rain came down in merciless 

 streams during the evening and prevent- 

 ed many from attending. We have noth- 

 ing but the very highest praise for the 

 efforts of this young and vigorous so- 

 ciety. This exhibition, while not what 

 might be expected in a locality boasting 

 of more wealthy residents than any other 

 in the world, yet even were it smaller it 

 shows the good intent, and we are pleased 

 to state it was the best summer show, 

 and almost the only one, given in oi 

 about New York this year. All honor to 

 the men who thus keep the best that is in 

 horticulture before the public eye. In 

 the name of the Review we offer our 

 congratulations and earnest support in 

 future efforts. 



There were fourteen classes, and the 

 prizes consisted of valuable useful ar- 

 ticles. For best 3 quarts of strawberries, 

 3 varieties, Geo. Middleton won first with 

 grand dishes of Sharpless, Marshall and 

 Henry. Honorable mention was given to 

 Wm. Scott for his Gandy, Brandywine 

 and Marshall. Francis Gibson, Thos. 

 Cockburn and Jacob Knodel also exhib- 

 ited in this class, showing Glen Mary and 

 Nick Ohmer in addition to the varieties 

 named. For the best one quart of straw- 

 berries, "Sharpless," Francis Gibson 

 was first, with splendid exhibits from 

 Thos. A. Lee, Geo. Middleton, Wm. Hart- 

 nett, W. H. Waite and Jacob Knodel. 



For best quart of any other variety 

 first prize went to Wm. Scott for Glen 

 Mary. Honorable mention went to Geo. 

 Middleton for Brandywine. The above 

 named also competed, Cumberland Tri- 

 umph being the only variety added. John 

 Humphrey got honorable mention for dis- 

 play of Alpine strawberries, and Francis 

 the same for an excellent brace of cu- 

 cumber Duke of Edinburgh. All the 

 strawberries shown were of excellent 

 color and size. The flavor we are unable 

 to write about. 



David MacFarlane won first for the 

 best collection of outdoor roses, with 

 about 90 vases in as many varietiesk 

 They were a remarkably fine lot, among 

 them being many too seldom seen around 

 New York. Mr. MacFarlane also won 

 firsts for best vase of roses, 12 Marga- 

 ret Dicksons (they were the best we ever 

 saw) ; for 3 varieties, 6 of each, with 

 Magna Charta, Margaret Dickson and 

 Mrs. John Laing; and for 6 varieties, 6 

 of each, with the above sorts and Baron- 

 ess Rothschild, Jacqueminot and Belle 

 Siebrecht. Mr. MacFarlane made a 

 clean sweep in all the rose classes he en- 

 tered, and his blooms were very fine. 

 Wm. Scott, W. H. Waite and L. A. Mar- 

 tin received honorable mention for their 

 very creditable exhibits in above class, 

 and Howard Nicols was awarded a cer- 

 tificate for his 50 fine vases of as many 

 varieties of garden roses. 



F. R. Pierson Co. were awarded first 

 prize for a remarkably fine collection of 



hardy climbing roses, all the well known 

 and some also too little known. Ram- 

 blers were shown to splendid advantage. 

 Dorothy Perkins, Snowball, Meg Mer- 

 rilles and Psyche were particularly fine. 

 All the roses were good. Among the 

 newer element that stood out prom- 

 inently were Jubilee and Mrs. E. Sher- 

 man Crawford. 



The exhibits of flowering shrubs were 

 notable; first prize went to L. A. Martin 

 for 50 vases, among which St^Tax japon- 

 ica was fine. Certificate of merit to F. 

 R. Pierson Co. for a splendid lot with 

 Syringa Pekinensis pendula, a leader. 

 Honorable mentions to Geo. Middleton 

 and Thos. Cockburn for their fine dis- 

 plays. First for paeonies went to W. 

 Hartnett, and for 30 vases of showy 

 herbaceous flowers Wm. Scott won first. 

 Thos. Cockburn set up several large vases 

 of foxgloves. 



The vegetables shown were very good 

 for the time of the year. David Mac- 

 Farlane, Wm. Scott, W. Hartnett, Abe] 

 Weeks, Francis Gibson, Thos. A. Lee, 

 were each deserving of the prize. Jacob 

 Knodel was awarded a certificate for 

 peas. L. A. Martin won first for sweet 

 peas, David MacFarlane a certificate for 

 gooseberry, Hyle's Golden Prolific, and 

 Geo. Middleton certificates for melons. 

 Royal Favorite, and grapes. Black Ham- 

 burg. 



W. H. Harvey and W. C. McGowan 

 were the judges. Another year it is 

 possible that the summer show of the 

 society will be held alternately in the 

 large towns of Westchester county. 



J. I. DONLAN. 



ONCINNATL 



The Market. 



The past week was the hottest of the 

 season, the thermometer registering 96 

 degrees in the shade, making it mighty 

 uncomfortable working under glass. 

 Business started in very much as if our 

 usual summer dullness had arrived, but 

 later on trade picked up and Saturday 

 saw the market cleaned out very nicely. 



The hot weather is making itself felt 

 in the quality of stock cuming in. Roses 

 are smaller, if possible, and pop right 

 open in the ice box, and a good carna- 

 tion is a thing of the past. Lawson is 

 about the best to be had and sells at 

 sight. America has been doing nicely 

 also. Great quantities of Marquis are 

 to be had and are really first-class, but 

 that sleepy appearance knocks it out, 

 as you cannot convince the average buyer 

 that it really is not going to sleep. Some 

 very good Daybreak and Scott are com- 

 ing in from the lake regions and they are 

 better than the fancies grown farther 

 south. 



Some of the best roses to be had are 

 coming from the Lakeview Rose Gar- 

 dens, Jamestown, N. Y., and for the 

 season of the year the stock is fine. It 

 meets a ready demand also and brings 

 the top price in this market. 



Large quantities of Candidum lilies 

 were on the market and in some cases 

 sold at ridiculously low figures. Those 

 that were first on the scene brought from 

 2 to 3% cents per stalk. They are about 

 over now. 



Some fine Longiflorum lilies are to be 

 had and there is a good demand for 

 them at 8 to 10 cents per bloom. More 

 could be sold. 



