OCTOBEK 2, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



607 



Franciscea Calycina. 



FRANCISCEA CALYCINA. 



We present herewith an engraving 

 from a photograph of a plant of Francis- 

 cea calycina, which is said to have shown 

 great adaptability as a house plant. It 

 is a native of Brazil. The foliage is 

 thick and glossy and the flowers a pretty 

 shade of blue, each branch bearing from 

 five to nine buds. The plant illustrated 

 had been in full bloom for two months 

 before being photographed. 



The older plants, when apparently 

 through blooming, may be again brought 

 into bloom by cutting them back and in- 

 ducing fresh growth. Tlie culture of this 

 plant is not difficiilt. Good leaf mould 

 serves best for soil and the plants like 

 a shady situation. They winter best in 

 a light cold house until they begin to set 

 buds in the spring, at which time they 

 should be freely syringed. 



Propagation is not so easily accom- 

 plished, but cuttings root very well if 

 the wood is selected from the plants in 

 the right condition through the season 

 of growth. 



BUFFALO. 



A wet week has been very welcome, 

 as after the deluge of spring and siun- 

 raer a month's dry weather baked things 

 up rather hard. 



Business is showing signs of an awak- 

 ening. A great number of the leading 

 stores have had their "opening," and all 

 have called more or less for the florist's 

 art and articles. September has been 

 very prolific of the events when men and 

 women have been and gone and done it 

 for better or worse, and the crop of wed- 

 dings for October is advertised as very 

 large — none yet of any great magnitude, 

 but little fish are sweet, so perch fishers 

 say, and I hope these happy events will 

 do every one of us good. As the cool 

 winds of autumn come and the red and 



golden leaf of the maple flutters to the 

 ground, there is another crop of events, 

 sad where the visitation comes, yet as 

 natural as birth, and which greatly helps 

 the florists' trade, and, as undertakers 

 flippantly remark, "September is a good 

 month." 



The new crop of carnations is coming 

 in and Lawson is the best at this date. 

 I hope carnations will keep up as good 

 a price as they did last year. The chief 

 flower in making the florist's window gay 

 of late has l>een the gladiolus, and none 

 of the innumerable varieties is hand- 

 somer than the beautiful Rochester vari- 

 ety, "1900." Where a pale color is want- 

 ed of course it wouldn't do, but for its 

 brilliant red and white throat it beats 

 them all. Like many, or most other of 

 our florists' flowers, how few varieties 

 are wanted. Half a dozen varieties 

 would very adequately fill the bill, as 

 they do with roses, carnations and mums. 

 Asters have been very fine this summer 

 and I don't know what we should have 

 done without them. Tliey have been in 

 constant demand for all occasions. Good 

 roses are yet scarce, except very fine va- 

 rieties. Mums we have not yet seen in 

 color. 



Sorry I can't give you more personal 

 notes. Am still in the backwoods and 

 shall have a rare batch of "Florist Soci- 

 ety Notes" when I emerge. There have 

 been no births, marriages or deaths 

 within the craft, or we should have heard 

 of them. 



Mr. M. Bloy has returned to Bufl'alo 

 after helping Mr. Neubeck at Corfu for 

 a month. 



Mr. John Hetherington has left the 

 employment of W. Scott and has re- 

 turned to Mr. H. Michel, of St. Louis. 



Mr. Kasting got back from Europe 

 some three weeks ago. We heard him 

 but have not seen him. From the voice 

 over the telephone we should say he has 

 spent much of his time in the environ- 



ment of "Hold Lunnen," as his saluta- 

 tion was, " 'Ow are ye, old boy? Awfully 

 glad to kear yer old familiar." 



Of our dear friends, the commercial 

 travelers, alias drummers, have neither 

 seen nor heard for a long time. The 

 breed is not extinct, we feel sure, and 

 to make amends for their present scar- 

 city they will come dowTi on us 

 later, as the locusts invaded Egypt. 

 I notice by the very interesting New 

 York letters of Mr. J. A. Shaw that one 

 of the very brightest and brainiest men 

 on the road has hung out his own shin- 

 gle, as the M. D.'s say. Mr. McHutch- 

 ison, the much traveled Australian, is 

 bound to thrive anywhere, and if he 

 would take along with him on his initial 

 trip a live specimen of his native Plati- 

 bus paradoxa, his solicitation for a trial 

 order would be irresistible. W. S. 



ONONNATL 



Various Items. 



Notwithstanding the bad weather, 

 which usually puts somewhat of a damp- 

 ener on business, there is no complaint 

 to be heard from this city. 



The Fall Festival, which lasted two 

 weeks, undoubtedly helped the florists' 

 trade, as enormous quantities of cut flow- 

 ers w'cre used on many occasions. There 

 are very few things that wall da'aw as 

 large a crowd as a well-conducted and 

 advertised flower show. This has been 

 demonstrated many times, and perhaps 

 never more vividly than at the floral con- 

 test held in Music Hall last Saturday. 



Three prizes were offered for the best 

 lodge emblems made of flowers. These 

 prizes were to be competed for by the 

 lodges themselves, each lodge entering 

 with its own emblem done in natural 

 flowers. The show was a great success 

 and brought out some of the finest floral 

 work ever seen in this city. Each design 

 was a masterpiece and reflected great 

 credit upon its maker. 



There were fifteen designs entered, 

 which were made by the following flor- 

 ists: B. P. Critehell, Hoffmeister Floral 

 Co., Walnut Hills Floral Bazaar, T. 

 W. Hardestv. J. Baer, H. D. Edwards, 

 two pieces; OttoWalke, H. Glins, F. Ball, 

 R. A. Betz, two pieces; A. Simderbruch's 

 Sons, two pieces; J. A. Peterson. 



The first prize was won by the Scot- 

 tish Rite, design being an altar with 

 open bible on top, made by B. P. Criteh- 

 ell. The second prize went to the Blue 

 Lodge. It was a jewel case with lid half 

 open disclosing the Blue Lodge emblem 

 within, made by T. W. Hardesty. The 

 third prize was a large eagle, the emblem 

 of the order of Eagles, and was made by 

 R. A. Betz. There was not a poor piece 

 in the lot, and the judges, who were 

 II. M. Altick of Dayton, Ohio, John Ber- 

 termann of Indianapolis, Ind.. and C. A. 

 Rienian of Louisville, Ky.. had great dif- 

 ficulty in making their decisions. 



A few blooms of the carnation En- 

 chantress were received by E. G. Gillett, 

 but owing to having been received a day 

 late, they were hardly in a condition 

 to be criticized. For this time of the 

 year they had a very good stem and the 

 flowers were of first-class size. Looks to 

 be a very good grower. 



Tlie W. F. Therkildson Co.. of Ironton, 

 Ohio, has bousrht out the florist business 

 of Mrs. E. Miller, at same place. It wall 

 continue the business, adding largely to 

 the area of glass. 



Mr. Herbert Heller, of the South Park 

 Floral Co., New Castle, Ind., is here 



