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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 7, 1902. 



Carnation Miss Alice Roosevelt (Mrs. 

 LawsonxEldorado). Color, white, dot- 

 ted and splashed vpith carmine to center 

 of each petal. Flower, 3% to 4 inches 

 across, full, edges fringed, clove fra- 

 grance. Foliage, glaucous. Stems stiff, 

 two feet high. 



Wm. J. Stewart, Secretary. 



BOWLING AT ASHEVILLE. 



Detroit Trophy. 



Tqtal 

 Year. Place of Meeting. Won bv. Pins. 



1899 Detroit Phila. ' 926 



1900 New York Buffalo 1,021 



1901 Buffalo New York 883 

 Conditions of Detroit Trophy — Great- 

 est number of pins in any one game. 

 Cup to be won twice before awarded 

 finally. Winning club each year to have 

 name engraved on cup with number of 

 pins and place of contest. If, after 

 four years, the cup has not been won 

 twice, it is to be awarded to the club 

 having made the highest number of pins 



I A prize for the greatest number of 

 spares in three games. 



Individual Rolling;. 



The "Watson" Trophy, gold badge. 

 For highest total in three games. Given 

 by Geo. C. Watson, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 and to be known as the "Old Man's 

 Eace. " Open to all 55 years of age or 

 over. 



The "Berkowitz Medal." For highest 

 total in three games. Given by Paul 

 Berkowitz, of Bayersdorfer & Co., Phila- 

 delphia, to be known as the ' ' Young 

 Man's Race," open to all 25 years of 

 age or under. 



A. B. Cartledge, 

 Robert Halliday, 



Committee. 



PETROLEUM FOR FUEL. 



Several inquiries recently received in- 

 dicate that eastern growers are becoming 

 alarmed over the continuation of the 

 coal miners' strike and are casting about 

 for a substitute for coal in ease of ne- 



View Near Asheville, N. C. 



during that time, from amongst clubs 

 having won the cup. 



Lord & Burnham Cup. 



Team making the highest total in three 

 games. To be won twice before being 

 finally awarded. 

 Year. Place of Meeting. Won by. Score. 



1900 New York Buffalo 2,775 



1901 Buffalo Phila. 2,560 



Hitchings Cup. 



Team making highest score in third 

 game, to be won twice before being 

 finally awarded. 

 Year. Place of Meeting. Won by. Score. 



1900 New York Buffalo 1,021 



1901 Buffalo New York 883 



Team Contests. 



The H. Bayersdorfer & Co.'s gold 

 medal, valued at $20, for highest aggre- 

 gate individual score in three games. 



Halliday Bros. ' gold medal, value $15, 

 for second highest aggregate individual 

 score in three games. 



A prize for third highest aggregate 

 individual score in three games. 



The William J. Stewart Prize, value 

 $15, for greatest number of strikes in 

 three games. 



cessity. Petroleum was in each case the 

 alternative that occurred to the inquir- 

 ers. 



In order to be able to answer these 

 inquiries intelligently, we interviewed 

 Messrs. Bassett & Washburn, who 

 some years ago heated their large 

 range at Hinsdale, 111., with petroleum 

 fuel, but later returned to coal. They 

 say that with the crude oil at 70 to 90 

 cents a barrel, the oil has some ad- 

 vantages over coal, but that when the 

 price gets above the dollar mark, it is 

 too expensive to use. They found that 

 from three to three and a half barrels of 

 oil was equal in heating value to a ton 

 of best grade steam coal costing about 

 $3. They found Lima and Pennsylvania 

 crude oil the cleanest and best for the 

 purpose. 



They ceased using it because the Stan- 

 dard Oil Co. stopped selling the crude 

 oil. The company would extract the 

 naptha and benzine and sell what was 

 left as refined fuel oil and' asked a high- 

 er price. This "refined" product was 

 a thick, gummy substance very apt to 

 clog up the pipes and burners and its 

 price was prohibitive anyway. They still 

 have their apparatus on hand, but would 

 not recommend any one to install one. 

 In fact the cost would make it out of 



the question for an ordinary grower to- 

 put one in as a temporary expedient at 

 least. 



While the burners themselves are not 

 very expensive, there must be a stor- 

 age tank of 500 bbls. capacity that must 

 be at least 100 feet away from the fires. 

 Then a standpipe must be provided to 

 carry the oil to a height and then to the 

 fire and this must have an accompanying 

 steam pipe to warm the oil and mix 

 steam with the oil in the burner. Two 

 expensive pumps must be provided at 

 the fire and there must be a tank wagon 

 to convey the oil from the car to the 

 storage tank unless the user has a 

 switch track alongside of his tank. And 

 there must be a costly pump to get the 

 oil from the tank car to the tank wagon. 

 Altogether an investment of about $1,000 

 must be provided for. With pure crude 

 oil at 70 to 80 cents a barrel it would 

 pay on a place of some size, but net 

 under the present conditions of oil sup- 

 ply- 



They have made their coal contract 

 for the coming season at about the same 

 figures as last year. Good smokeless 

 coal is being offered now in Chicago at 

 $2.75 to $3 per ton. They believe east- 

 ern growifrs who are nervous about the 

 situation would do better to put in a 

 supply of smokeless steam coal, being 

 careful to keep it under cover, than to 

 attempt to use oil. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market- 



All the wholesalers who do a shipping 

 business are fairly busy. Vacations are 

 in order, which gives the reduced force 

 a bit of hustling some days. New crop 

 roses are generally rather short in stem, 

 but have nice flowers. Asters are plenti- 

 ful and easier in price; $1 per 100 buys 

 pretty nice stuff, though a few bring 

 more. Carnations can still he had of fair 

 quality in limited numbers; the outdoor 

 grown blooms are improving. Tuberoses 

 and gladioli are good and plentiful. 

 Kaiserins are the mainstay in roses. 



A New Departure. 



M. Rice & Co. have added a ribbon de- 

 partment to their florists' supply busi- 

 ness. John Turnbull, late with S. S. 

 Pennock, is in charge. Mr. Turnbull 

 says that the firm will have a shade of 

 ribbon to match the Liberty rose that will 

 prove a feature in this line. The Ameri- 

 can Beauty ribbon, a sort of combina- 

 tion shade, is very pretty. These two 

 shades are of great importance in a rib- 

 bon assortment, and the firm is confident 

 they have a strong card. Mr. Rice is 

 enthusiastic about the improved crepe 

 paper he is now handling. It comes in 

 two shades of color, making a harmoni- 

 ous finishing touch for the various 

 blooming plants in which two colors pre- 

 dominate; for instance, the gay flowers 

 and green foliage of the poinsettia can 

 be enhanced by the same colors toned 

 down in the crepe paper covering the 

 pot. 



Marketing Cut Flowers. 



A small meeting, composed chiefly of 

 growers believed to favor the plan of 

 a cut-flower market, was held in the sec- 

 retary's room at Horticultural Hall on 

 Thursday evening of last week. Those 

 present were: George Anderson, J. W. 

 Colflesh, William K. Harris, Joseph Hea- 



