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TheWeekly Florists^ Review. 



July 31. 1S02 



rule, limited to funeral work. Good 

 stuff is scarce. Mrs. Chas. Held, who 

 'has a fine class, as well as an extended 

 clientage, of customers, succeeded last 

 week in getting several hundred hand- 

 some Beauties and Liberties from Wash- 

 ington, after exhaustive efforts proved 

 Baltimore and Philadelphia barren of 

 these varieties. Just now a great staple 

 is the white Cochet rose. This is coming 

 in in great quantities, but generally with 

 short stems. Asters are already abun- 

 dant, and gladoli more in evidence than 

 usual. A good many lilies are seen also. 

 We are having a summer of extraor- 

 dinarily pleasant weather, the days warm, 

 but without the excessive humidity so 

 trying to human patience and endurance, 

 Hiid with nights perfect for rest and re- 

 invigorating. An episode not so agreea- 

 ble was a violent local wind storm on 

 .Sunday, the 20th, which wrought much 

 damage, especially in the city and river, 

 blowing over church steeples, tearing off 

 roofs and upsetting boats. A number of 

 lives were lost. The florists suffered to 

 some extent, but the path of the storm 

 was, fortunately, a narrow one. S. 

 Feast & Sons, at Catonville, lost consid- 

 erable glass, and Black & Bro., Chase 

 street, Baltimore, report damages to 

 their greenhouses to the amount of $.500. 

 The rain was light and there was no hail. 



There is considerable building going on 

 and much renovation and enlargement of 

 plants. John M. Eider, of Brooklyn, 

 Md., is building a new carnation house, 

 30x100 feet, a water tower, etc. F. C. 

 Bauer, Govanstown, is putting up a 

 house for carnations, about 18x7.5 feet. 



It is understood that the delegation to 

 Asheville will reach about twenty mem- 

 bers from this locality. E. 



BUFFALO. 



portant of all, you city diides of the flor- 

 ist trade, don't think you (any of you) 

 are too good to mix with the crowd. Lend 

 this occasion the light of your counte- 

 nance. The date is Wednesday, August 

 6th, and the Bedell House grand stand 

 is the place. 



"Business, there is no business," so 

 we won't enter into it this chapter. We 

 get a shower every day, so we can't kill 

 weeds, but we can navigate the village 

 roads again without high rubber boots. 



W. S. 



The Picnic. 



We are going to have a picnic, and 

 more elaborate arrangements have been 

 made than for any event of that kind in 

 the history of our club. President Braik 

 is a hustler when he takes hold of any- 

 thing in earnest, and when he takes hold 

 of your body you would think Jeffries 

 was around. And have we not a splen- 

 did worker and good all-around manager 

 of anything he works at in our treasurer, 

 Charles H. Keitseh? And there are oth- 

 ers. Now florists of the vicinity, Mr. 

 Stroh, of Attica, and Mr. Wise, of East 

 Aurora, and Mr. Gould, of Middleport, 

 and all the rest of you— come. Don't 

 say you were too busy. I notice in other 

 cities that those men who have time for 

 a little recreation are quite as prosperons 

 as those that go groveling along with 

 their heads on the ground, looking for 

 the dollar 365 days in the year. 



Free Barrels. 



The stores will close that afternoon. 

 We shall go to a most respectable and 

 pleasant place. The supper is promised 

 to be great in both quantity and quality. 

 We shall be in the middle of the broad 

 and rapid Niagara a few miles above the 

 falls, and those wishing to go over the 

 falls in a barrel can do so. The barrel 

 will be furnished by the committee on 

 sports, and if returned in good order no 

 charge for use. The Bedell House band 

 will furnish music for the giddy lads and 

 lassies. The committee on sports has a 

 fine programme. And last, but most im- 



ST. PAUL. 



The event of the week in florist cir- 

 cles was the Twin City picnic held at 

 Spring Park on Lake Minnetonka Tues- 

 day, July 22. Florists and their families 

 to the number of 300 resorted thither 

 and enjoyed a most delightful outing 

 replete with pleasure from morning till 

 night. The committee on sports ar- 

 ranged an excellent programme, most 

 of the prizes being captured by St. Paul 

 as usual. 



Katie Hansen captured first honors in 

 the young ladies' race. Mrs. Fred To- 

 pel was an easy winner in the married 

 ladies' race. Wm. Conner captured first 

 money in the men's free-for-all. E. P. 

 Holni proved the fleetest fat man on the 

 ground, with E. Nagel a good second. 

 In the tug of war the lusty St. Paul 

 team pulled themselves an easy victory. 

 F. Dowdney secured first money in the 

 shooting contest, with Hans Berg a close 

 second. St. Paul had a walk-away in 

 base ball by a score of 9 to 4. H. Berg 

 won an easy first in the boat race and 

 scored high in the bowling contest. 



P. Clausen, of Albert Lea, and Mr. 

 Epps, foreman for L. J. Stuppy, of St. 

 Joseph, Mo., were the outside visitors. 



J. O. .Zimmerman, of Pueblo, Col., 

 was a recent caller. He is spending a 

 vacation here, this being his former 

 home. 



Carl Peterson hns erected two houses, 

 16x120 feet, on Stryker avenue, and is 

 now glazing them. In addition to grow- 

 ing carnations for the trade and bedding 

 plants for his retail business, he will do 

 landscape work, having had several years' 

 experience in that line in European 

 countries. 



Ludwig Anderson will superintend 

 the building of the new houses being 

 erected by Holm cf- Olson, having been 

 engaged by them as foreman. 



Notwithstanding the incessant heat, 

 trade has been fairly active and flowers 

 pretty well cleaned up each day. The 

 shipping trade in funeral flowers is es- 

 pecially good. Asters are becoming very 

 plentiful and are of good quality. Sweet 

 neas are abundant and of extra choice 

 quality. ^^- ^-- "• 



CLEVELAND. 



It was a very quiet affair, each and all 

 providing their own lunch and partaking 

 of it at their own pleasure. 



Some passed the time at the bowling 

 alleys, while others played pedro to pass 

 the time away. 



Various Items. 



There will not be many from here 

 who will attend tne convention, only 

 three or four having expressed their 

 intention of going, there being but very 

 little interest shown here regarding it. 

 The F. E. Williams Co. has remodeled 

 several of its houses and has them all 

 planted to roses, which are looking very 

 fine indeed. This firm is going in very 

 strong for flat houses, putting a 14-foot 

 and a 12-foot rafter on a hcuse 25 feet 

 wide on centers. 



A. Schmitt, of Glenville, has been de- 

 laj-ed in his rebuilding by the freight 

 handlers' strike in Chicago, being unable 

 to get his lumber shipped. He will re- 

 build three of his houses this summer. 



K. Addicott & Son have taken down 

 two houses and are rebuilding them at 

 right angles to the way they used to 

 stand. 



John Smith & Son are building a vio- 

 let house and alsoi a show house for 

 palms and ferns, attached to their store. 



The J. M. Gasser Co. is hustling its 

 new houses and expects to have the best 

 arranged plant in this section when com- 

 pleted. 



Some of the florists here expect to 

 house their carnations early this year; 

 the stock outside with most of them is 

 looking very well, except on the low land, 

 where some have been drowned out. The 

 stuff that has suffered most has been 

 the small seedlings, which were beaten 

 down by the heavy rains and could not 

 get up again. Carnations have held out 

 well this year, and although rather small 

 now, there is still a good demanjj for 

 them. 



Eoses are very small and of poor qual- 

 ity. Asters are now becoming quite a 

 prominent feature and, in fact, are about 

 the onlv flower that is available that can 

 be called good. Gladioli very good here 

 this year, some growers showing some 

 very fine ones both in size and color. 



Tenep. 



Busiaeis Quiet. 



Business is at a standstill and has 

 been for some time except for a little 

 funeral work now and then. The mem- 

 bers of the craft are busy tearing down, 

 repairing and rebuilding. 



The Club's Outing. 



The Florists' Club gave its annual 

 picnic last Tuesday, the 22nd, at Euclid 

 Beach Park. About twenty-five mem- 

 bers gathered there with their families 

 and spent a very pleasant afternoon. 



THE CORFU BELL. 



Our Country Estate is Adjacent to a Swamp. 



The Cnrfu tolls the kntU of parting dny. 



The pilling frog is all the music left for me. 

 The hard worked florist plods his homeward 

 weary way, 

 .\nd sleeps ind dreams of crops that are to 

 be. 



Now fade the glimmering sash hars from the 

 sight. 

 And all th9 swamp a solemn stillness holds. 

 Save where ten million skeeters buzz their buzz.? 

 flight. 

 ,\nd leave ns but a skeleton of punctured 

 holes. 



William of Normandy, alias William 

 the Conqueror, alias William the First, 

 he that conquered the savage Saxon at 

 Hastings, instituted the Curfew Bell, 

 when everybody except his chums had to 

 be indoors and lights out at 8 p. m., 

 Greenwich time. We think that would be 

 a good thing yet for all people under 25, 

 and i\e have also found that the modern 

 spelling is incorrect. It should be Corfu. 

 Of course Thomas Gray, in his immortal 

 classic, was not aware of this, even if it 

 did take him fourteen years to compose 

 his matchless poem. Froggy. 



