September 18, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



539 



cool cellar shown in one view has been 

 lined throughout with hollow tile and 

 then cemented. 



MORE "MEMORIES OF ASHEVILLE." 



A friend once said to me, "Do you 

 know that we live one-half our lives in 

 anticipation and the other half in 

 memory?" I believe this to be parti}', if 

 not wliollj' true. From the time it was 

 decided in Buffalo to go to Asheville I 

 lived in ajitieipation of the event. Nor 

 can I say that I was much disappointed. 

 The hotel accommodations were to me as 

 to many, a disappointment and the dis- 

 courtesy of the hotel clerks is something 

 that would not be tolerated by people 

 in this section of the country. 



But the scenery and the mountains 

 were not a disappointment. Of course, I, 

 who have always lived in a prairie state, 

 enjoyed the mountain scenery especiallj'. 

 On Wednesday afternoon, while the bowl- 

 ers were busy making their famous 

 records, a party of us went to Sunset 

 Mountain. Just before the King of Day 

 slipped behind the western mountains we 

 climbed the tower, and we were just in 

 time for there were just a few min- 

 utes left to see him, and then came the 

 beautiful part. Shaded from orange to 

 yellow and from yellow to the blue over- 

 head, the sky was a blaze of beauty. 

 Some clouds floating off to the north were 

 tipped with the colors, and as we looked 

 southward Biltmore could be plainly dis- 

 cerned. 



The sunset at Detroit where the sun 

 made a crimson pathway down to the 

 boat as we steamed across the lake was 

 beautiful, but the glories of this moun- 

 tain simset cannot be surpassed and can- 

 not be transferred to canvas. The Blue 

 Ridge Mountains are certainly rightly 

 named. As we looked off across the val- 

 ley in any direction, the blue of the sky 

 seemed only heightened by the blue haze 

 of the mountains, and the farther away, 

 the bluer they seemed. 



On the afternoon of Thursday we took 

 a car ride out to the Ostrich Farm. After 

 admiring the beautiful plumes on display 



View in the Establishment of Kennicott Bros. Co., Chicago. 



we went out to look at the birds. It is 

 our opinion that the originator of the 

 Delsarte movement must have studied it 

 from an ostrich. After this pleasant trip 

 we rode out to where the gunners were 

 making records for themselves. To me 

 it was quite fascinating to see the ac- 

 curacy with whicli the "pigeons" could be 

 hit at almost .any angle. 



Then the trip to Biltmore was a great 

 pleasure. Everything about this place 

 seems planned to give one the idea of 

 magnitude, which, of course, is true, 

 even beginning with the fortune behind 

 it all. 



About the only scenery which does not 

 fill one's expectations is the rivers. Tlie 

 French Broad, it is true looks pretty as 



View in the Establishment of Kennicott Bros. Co., Ctiicago. 



it finds its way for miles over and be- 

 tween rocks, but the Swannanoa — well, 

 the less said the better. 



And now after we are safely at home 

 the memory of all the pleasant times had 

 in Asheville will stay with us and add 

 to the pleasure in anticipating the good 

 time coming in Milwaukee. 



An S. a. F. Lady of the Last Five 

 Conventions. 



WHO IS GUILTY? 



Our attention has been called to an 

 unfortunate case in which several flor- 

 ists have become involved through the 

 sending out of canna stock not true to 

 name by some party as yet unknown. 



One of our readers ordered a quantity 

 of Black Beauty cannas, and it later 

 developed that the variety sent was 

 some common dark-leaved canna of lit- 

 tle value. Before the substitution was 

 discovered part of the stock had been 

 resold to various customers, who nat- 

 urall_v declined to pay for it when it 

 was seen the stock was not true. The 

 party from whom the stock was pur- 

 chased said he had bought it in good 

 faith as Black Beauty and supposed he 

 had true stock. He at once wrote the 

 party from whom he had purchased and 

 got an evasive answer, intimating that 

 the variety was very apt to vary in ap- 

 pearance when grown in widely sepa- 

 rated localities and they had discon- 

 tinued selling it on that account. 



We are informed by expert canna 

 growers that Black Beauty is a fixed 

 variety, and that the suggestion as to 

 variation is nonsense. It seems to us 

 it is up to the last party, whoever he 

 is, to tell where he got his variable 

 stock. Certainly such work cannot be 

 too quickly nipped in the bud. Some 

 very serious losses have been sustained 

 by the unfortunate victims of some 

 man's ignorance or greed. Who is he? 



Whoever he is he should be made to 

 bear the losses sustained, as they were 

 caused solely by his act. Certainly this 

 is a case for prompt action by the 

 nomenclature committee of the S. A. F. 



