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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Ocionim 16. l'M2. 



love tlie sport to come wlien they please 

 and feel independent. 



Mr. C. F. Hei-tanzel, gardener to W. 

 L. Stow, of Roslyn, L. 1.. has returned 

 from a two months' trip to France, 

 Germany and his old home, Berne, 

 Switzerland, where he was born. He 

 studied Italian gardening while away 

 and expects to illustrate many of its 

 features in his work on the big estate 

 at Roslyn, wliere he presides. 



J. A. Millang has been connected with 

 the "Cut Flower Co." since its com- 

 mencement, and manager nearly four 

 years. He reports a constant increase 

 in the volume of his trade and refers 

 proudly to some extra Brides, Maids and 

 Mrs. Oliver Ames which have for the 

 last six weeks come in large numbers 

 from the houses of John N. May, Sum- 

 mit. N. J. 



\Vm. Plumb came up from Oyster Bay 

 Monday in greatly improved health to 

 attend the elub meeting in New York. 



Samuel McClements, of Pittsburg, is 

 in the city, and Robert Craig and Mr. 

 Fancourt, of Philadelphia. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BUFFALO. 



The agony is over and the mums are 

 here in abundance and are taking well. 

 The first we cut was Polly Rose on Oct. 

 5th. There are several sports of Glory 

 of the Pacific, but Polly Rose is the best. 

 I believe it originated with Mr. David 

 Rose, and no doubt a Polly could be 

 found in the family. We thought Wil- 

 lowbrook was going to supersede Polly, 

 but in our opinion it will not. Aiid 

 soon flowers of every shade oan be cut, 

 and to blend with the yellow and bronze 

 we have the glorious tints of the autumn 

 foliage, of which the maple is the most 

 beautiful. I see that the most cultivat- 

 ed English admire our word "fall" as so 

 much prettier than the awkward sound- 

 ing autumn. It is certainly easier said 

 and descriptive of the tragedy of the 

 vegetable kingdom. 



Hereafter we wall forget that we ever 

 used the awkward word when speaking 

 of the most beautiful season, for af- 

 though it is said by the poet that "In 

 the spring a young man's fancy gently 

 turns to soft boiled eggs," it is so shoit. 

 so muddy and we are in such a hurry 

 that we do not enjoy spring. IBut many 

 weeks of fall are given us, and if j-ou are 

 not satisfie<l with the glorious treat of 

 the fields and forests, the pumpkin in 

 the corn stubble and the meadow lark in 

 the clover, the Baldwin and Northern 

 Spy bending the branche.s, and many 

 sweet sounds and sights, you ought to 

 be confined to the house and the only re- 

 creation granted to be a two hours inter- 

 view a day with your wife, and the sub- 

 ject to be strictly confined to the faults, 

 failings and eccentricities of the hired 

 girl. But that is too great a punish- 

 ment even for a criminal, and we should 

 have mercy and say just let it be solitary 

 confinement. 



I am glad to know, from what I hear 

 of business, that it is first-class, and 

 promises to be even better. With peace 

 and industry restored, which must come 

 soon, the florist can look forward to a 

 fine winter's trade. The people who 

 spend money Mith us are all feeling well 

 off, and let us hope that all industrious 

 dasses will have a dollar to spare for 

 the refining hixuries of life. Work is 

 plenty in every line. 



Mr. .John Thorpe, of Chicago and Kan- 

 sas City, sent me the preliminiary sche<l- 



ule of the Kansas City flower show. It 

 came in two flat cars and I borrowed the 

 use of my neighbor's bai-n to unroll it. 

 It's prodigious; it's pluck. No one 

 but sincerely hopes that Uncle John 

 will again score a gi'eat success. Any 

 city of 200,000 people can make this big 

 venture a success, if you can only make 

 the people think it's the thing to attend. 

 And as for a city of a million, if one in 

 twenty of its people patronized the show 

 it would be a success. I have heard on 

 the best of authority that at the Edin- 

 burg, Scotland, chrysanthemum show, 

 42,000 people have attended in one day, 

 and "Auld Reekie" has but something 

 like 300,000. There will be something 

 doing also in New York and Chicago,! 

 and we hope to see some of them. My 

 address from the 30th to Nov. 5th will 

 lx> Suite A, Waldorf Astoria, New York 

 City. W. S. 



CHICAGO. 



At a meeting of the executive commit- 

 tee of the Horticultural Society, held last 

 Monday afternoon, the various sub-com- 

 mittees reported. Mr. E. A. Kanst was 

 selected as superintendent of the show 

 to be held at the Art Institute November 

 11 to 15. The society contributed $50 

 to the Florists' Club's fund for enter- 

 taining visitors at the annual banquet 

 during the exhibition. It was announced 

 that some interesting special prizes 

 would be offered by the Foley Mfg. Co., 

 of Chicago, the manufacturers of green- 

 house material. Tliey oft'er three prizes 

 of $25 each for the best chrysanthemum 

 plant, the best vase of American Beauty 

 roses and the best vase of carnations. 

 These are sweepstake prizes, and may 

 be won by exhibits entered for other 

 prizes, so dovible prizes may be won in 

 each case. 



The vases of Enchantress, Lillian Pond 

 and Murphy's White carnations shown 

 at the last meeting of tlie Florists' Club 

 won much favorable comment from those 

 who saw them. 



J. A. Budlong has begun the erection 

 of two more new houses, each 27x100. 

 These are for young stock. He is also 

 installing three Sohorsepower boilers 

 to heat the range &f ten new housete 

 erected this summer, each 27x200. 



Mr. Eli Hobbs has transferred his busi- 

 ness to a corporation known as the E. 

 Hobbs Co., recently incorporated with a 

 capital stock of $2,500. 



Asked if frequent shipments by grow- 

 ers were as essential this week as last, 

 Mr. E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott Bios. Co., 

 replied emphatically "Yes," and point- 

 ing to a lot of callas said: "The shipper 

 of that stock usually sends in Mondays 

 and two other days in the week. This 

 week he waited till Tuesday. On Mon- 

 day we had to chase all over for callas 

 and couldn't fill a shipping order satis- 

 factorily for lack of callas. Tuesday 

 there was no call and we couldn't force 

 a sale on what we were hungry for the 

 day before. If consignors would keep 

 the dealers better posted as to what to 

 expect in the waj' of stock they could 

 always do much better for them. The 

 dealers are fre<iuently deluged with 

 stock totlay that they have been obliged 

 to decline advance orders for the day 

 before." 



Peter Reinberg is cutting some fine 

 white chrysanthemums that have brought 

 as high as $3.50 per dozen. 



E. H. Hunt is receiving blooms of 



the new pink rose Helen Gould and they 

 find considerable favor with buyers. 



Recent visitors: Wm. Murphy, Cin- 

 cinnati; L. F. Darnell, Cleveland; Henry 

 Smith, Grand Rapids, Iowa; Mrs. A. L. 

 Glaser, Dubuque, Iowa; Mr. Rice, of Rice 

 Bros., Minneapolis. 



McKellar & Winterson have raised a 

 fine crop of metal flowers and designs of 

 same. 



Peter Reinberg is interested in the new 

 Columbus Breweiy and has been elected 

 vice-president of the company. 



Brant & Noes large range of glass 

 at Forest Glen, eighteen houses in all, 

 most of which are 300 feet long, are all 

 planted entirely to roses, and the stock 

 looks well. 



Although Meteors are their stronghold, 

 they have the middle benches of nine 

 houses, also north benches of three oth- 

 ers, planted to Beauties, and this is the 

 first year they have run any Beauties 

 over. Beginning June 1 the benches in 

 one house were gradually dried off until 

 July 1, when the plants were severely 

 pruned and tied down to induce breaks 

 from the bottom and sides of stems. 

 As much of the soil was removed as could 

 be done without injury to the roots, and 

 the remaining soil was given a coating 

 of air-slacked lime, the benches thor- 

 oughly watered and then refilled with 

 a compost of cow manure, sod and bone 

 meal; again thoroughly wetted, after 

 which regular watering was gradually 

 resumed as the weather permitted. The 

 plants threw a good quantity of bud- 

 producing stems and have given a large 

 proportion of medium-length stems, with 

 some fancies and firsts. 



Of the nine houses planted to Meteors, 

 three have been run over for the second 

 3'ear. Two of these were pruned quite 

 generously, tied down and treated as the 

 Beauties were, and produced heavily dur- 

 ing the entire summer. 



Their experience witli Liberty is lim- 

 iued, having hut a few plants. Tliese have 

 been carried over one year and give 

 promise of doing well. They have been 

 cutting from them for al)out six weeks, 

 but as the number of plants is small, 

 they are not able to compare it witji 

 Meteor, grown on a large scale. So far 

 they do not feel like displacing Meteor 

 for it. as Meteor produces so much more 

 heavily. 



Their Brides and Maids, all from 

 young stock, look exceedingly well. a = 

 does everything about the place, which 

 shows the care and attention devoted 

 to it. 



Ml". A. J. Clark, of Portland, Ore.. 

 passed through this city Wednesday on 

 his \my home from the east. 



Edgar Sanders is still improving, 

 though not able to move himself yet. 

 He enjoys seeing his friends, which helps 

 to pass away the time. 



Attention Bowlers. 



A meeting of all the bowlers in the 

 trade is called for Thursday, October 23, 

 at S p. m., at ilcKellar & Winterson's, 

 45 Wabash avenue, to formulate plans 

 for a winter campaign that will result 

 in the selection of a winning team at the 

 national tournament at Milwaukee next 

 year. The presence of all interested in 

 the game is requested, whether club 

 members or not. 



Prepare advs. now for our special 

 Thanksgiving number, to be issued Nov. 

 13. 



