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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Septeubbb i, 1902. 



Our Seedsmen. 



1 have bL'eu usk'il to write 



Over mj- eToiiiiiK weed, 

 'Itout blsiiess men so brlj^bt 



Who deal In bulbs iiiid seed. 



1 want to luakc u noise 



To Eive a mighty eheer 

 For all those bustling "boys" 



Who form the lirm of Drecr. 



Then too, for bnndsoine I'reU 

 Who ijulls so strong and well 



Under the brainy bead 

 Of Henry K. Jllcbell. 



Market street near Third, that's 

 Place where Johnson & Stokes 



.Show Spark's early tomat's 

 To all good Jersey folks. 



In gardens we should see 

 Each grand new Kekford pearl. 



For these go to Burpee 

 And ask for Howard Karle. 



Moore, Simon; nor will a 

 List contain nearly all 

 Tliougt, Buist. Landreth, Philler. 

 Waterer, Watson and Maule. 



They love a change — one day 

 The.v'll dine on oyster stew. 



The next at la Franeaise 

 At the Hotel Bellevue, 



Sometimes they're "up" you'll ttiink. 

 But ne'er will they "go down." 



All real good chaps, the pink 

 Of our old Quaker town. 



Notes. 



H, Bayersdorfer & Co. are very busy. 

 The senior partner lias raturned from 

 Europe. 



William K. Harris won three prizes at 

 Asheville, two for shooting anu one for 

 bowling. 



C. F. Knorr & Bro., Fox Chase, have a 

 great reputation for fine tea roses. They 

 have five houses, three of Maids and two 

 of Brides, all in benches with outside 

 walks. The stock is in good condition 



John Savage is rebuilding one house. 



Phil feels that he owes an apol- 

 ogy to Captain Moss and the mem- 

 bers of the Philadelphia bowling' team 

 for not "rooting" for them more. 

 Eeally, gentlemen, the way the scrub tore 

 holes in you was discouraging. That 

 third game in the first match snd then 

 those seven little pins! But never mind, 

 you did nobly, and so we are all proud 

 "f yo^- Phh,, 



Correction. 



Through the accidental omission of a 

 few lines in these notes last week two 

 items were badly mixed. The first para- 

 graph under "Notes" should have been 

 divided into two as follows: 



Richard Lange has given up his place 

 in the city, which has been torn down 

 and removed to Norristown, where he will 

 start in business. 



C. H. Campbell has succeeded his 

 brother in the plant business at .'5601 Ger- 

 mantown, Ave. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Things are really getting summer-like 

 after all! The thermometer is beginning 

 to sit ,up and take notice; the frequent 

 little rainfalls have ceased; the qual- 

 ity of indoor flowers is seriously afl'ected 

 and the voice of the harvest fly is heard 

 in the land. 



Eoses are plentiful . enough but most 

 of them are very poor, Kaiserins and 

 Carnots running the best of anything. 

 Very good white pinks are fairly plenti- 

 ful, but colored ones are rather scarce 

 and prices upon them are reviving. 

 While the white ones sell for a cent to a 



cent and a half, color affects the price 

 to a possible two and a half. 



Earlier varieties of asters are getting 

 lewer and smaller, but arrivals of large 

 later kinds much more than keep the 

 balance of trade on the aster side ot 

 the question. 



Hopes and fears alternate as thoughts 

 bend towards the probable approach of 

 cooler weather, and the probable danger 

 of a warm fall to offset the cool summer. 



Here and There. 



Kichwagen has been tuning up his 

 place to accord with the music of the 

 coming season. His houses were exactly 

 on the line between ancient and modern, 

 and consequently well wcrth modernizing. 

 He has pulled the heating apparatus all 

 over and worked the kinks out of it, 

 thereby hoping to do away with two out 

 of three old boilers; put in more than 

 double the old number of ventilators, and 

 attached latest devices for raising; 

 clewed all up tight, set 21,0011 carnation 

 plants and looks so infernally serene 

 iibout it that I'll bet he has got raonev 

 left yet! 



It is rumored that Mr. Molloy, for- 

 merly on the Boston end of the Waban 

 Eose force, is to take the road again 

 u-ith a similar line. 



The Waban Eose baseball team am- 

 bushed the Brimstone Corners at Natick 

 on Saturday last and nearly annihilated 

 the whole outfit. They must have scalps 

 to burn, but all hands are reticent on the 

 details of the casualty list. A score of 

 i-'S to 5, however, takes the pain out of 

 the place where the Brimstones hit them 

 so hard a few weeks ago. 



The annual sale of the choice of stalls 

 in the Boston Flower Market will take 

 l«laoe Saturd.iy, September 13, 1902, at 

 9 o'clock a. m. By vote of the board of 

 directors, no bids will be received from 

 persons in arrears for rent. All premi- 

 ums bid for stalls at this sale must 

 He paid on or before Cktober 1, 

 Ut02, or no lease will be issued, and the 

 stall ■will be let to other parties. 



J. S. JIaxtek. 



BUFFALO. 



Very beautiful suiniiifr weather has 

 blessed us for the past two or three 

 weeks and it seems to have come when 

 most people were taking their summer 

 vacations. Perhaps, after all, it was a 

 warm wave from the south that made 

 .\sheville so blistering, and the warm 

 i-ame nrrth, for we have had many hot 

 days since then. The correspondents of 

 our contemporaries report little doing in 

 our city, and they are doubtless right, 

 anu we don't expect much for a month. 



Mr. Kasting is expected home from. 

 Europe about the 7th, and to learn that, 

 1 visited his emporium. It was loaded 

 down with asters and only the very best 

 are of any value. 



Eudolph Boettger, of Eggertsville, just 

 outside the northern city line, is the king 

 of aster growers. It must be Semple's 

 strain, but Buddie has saved his own 

 seed for several years and it's not all in 

 the seed ; culture has much to do with his 

 .success. He sends them into town vrith 

 .3-foot stems, and white, pinK and pur- 

 ple flowers 6 and 7 inches in diameter. 

 This naturally puts the fairly good 

 listers in the shade. 



Charlie Ouuthei', of Hamburg, is send- 

 ing in his usual fine cut of Kaiserin 

 roses; thev are first class. Also a few 



good Carnots; more of the latter should 

 be grown for summer. 



Beauties are coming from the east 

 about as fast as we want them, and car 

 nations have at last dropped out of sight. 

 There has been an abundance of the 

 lancifolium lilies, roseum and album, 

 and most useful they all are for the oc- 

 casion where flowers are most often used 

 at this time. 



There was quite a flutter through 

 almost all grades of society last Satux 

 day. It was Buffalo's first Derby Day 

 and society patronized it. We have now 

 a first-class race course, will have high 

 class racing and are gradually getting 

 more and more metropolitan. This new 

 ' ' Kenilworth ' ' race course is on the 

 northern boundary of the city and within 

 sight and easy walking distance of th-.' 

 poor house, so when broke you have not 

 far to go. I am afraid nearly all the 

 florists attended except one. He was at 

 Corfu helping dig a ditch to convey 

 water from one range to another. 



Mr. Louis H. Xeubeck has been ver\ 

 energetic in getting bis place in order 

 at Corfu. The extensive place needed 

 considerable fixing, but Louis' energv 

 and all around ability ■will soon put 

 things straight. He has lately had the 

 valuable services of Mr. Michael Bloy. 



I was ashamed of Buffalo's delegation 

 to AshevUle. It's true I can mention 

 some pretty large towns in this state 

 that did not have one single representa- 

 tive, but those cities will never be identi- 

 fied so closely with the national society. 

 We had the convention; twice been hon- 

 ored with members of the executive com- 

 mittee; once, if I remember rightly, 

 a president; have won bowling trophies 

 so numerous that the fire insurance on 

 them is now a tax on the club, and with 

 all these honors we can only .send two 

 old men. Men and boys, you should 

 sacrifice some of your pleasures for duty 

 ana loyalty to a noble cause. 



A few Sundays ago in the early morn- 

 ing of a lovely day I had the pleasure ti. 

 share the comfortable seating capacity of 

 Capt. Braik's buggy while he drove over 

 almost the entire park system. I have 

 watched our parks since the first spade 

 was sunk into the swamp in the fall of 

 1870. Though, like all the parks of the 

 country, there is more or less politics 

 injected into their management, as long 

 as the actual superintendent is kept at 

 the helm with his heart and energy in his 

 work, as has our James Braik all will go 

 well with us. Never in the life of our 

 parks have they been in more superb or- 

 der. The bounteous rains, 'tis true, put n 

 color and freshness on grass and tree 

 and shrub, but with all that, there wa< 

 a neatness and good order pervading 

 all that has never been surpassed. 



The flower gardening in our parks i.s 

 but a very secondary consideration, and 

 here it is confined to public squares or a 

 concourse of easy access to the multitude. 

 The Parade, the Front, the Circle, the 

 Zoo, and the small city parks are where 

 the gaudy colors are introduced, and 

 there they are entirely appropriate. Here 

 and there you will find a poor forlorn 

 little bed of geraniums, a mile from any 

 neighbor, absurd in its loneliness and 

 surroundings. These will disappear in 

 time, and are purely the remnants of 

 former recent mismanagemec*^ 



You could not afford me space, Mr. 

 Editor, to mention, even, the many 

 jioints of interest. The lily pond at the 



