January 21. 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



413 



groiiiuls during the season, similar to 

 those held during the Pan-Amerieau at 

 Buffalo. 



The Eiesseu Floral Company is mak- 

 ing a fine show in the Broadway store 

 windows. The eompany reports plenty 

 of funeral work sini-e the holidays, 



J. W. Duuford, of the St. Louis Car- 

 nation Co., reports that they are having 

 great success with their sale of rooted 

 cuttings. 



The Ellison Floral Co., at Grand and 

 Olive streets, has very attractive win- 

 dows in the new quarters and is making 

 splendid displays for the public. 



C. Young & Sons Co. is making prep- 

 arations for the spring seed trade. They 

 do a large sliipping business in plants, 

 seeds and bulbs during the season. 



John W. Kunz, formerly in the retail 

 business here, liut now" in the employ of 

 Uncle Sam, has a team of bowlers com- 

 posed of letter carriers and has sent 

 a challenge to the florist bowlers for a 

 match game to be played the latter part 

 of this month, three games to be rolled 

 on the florists ' alleys and three on the 

 postoflioe alleys. These games promise 

 to be very exciting. 



Visitors: — Charles F. Meyer, New 

 York; W. J. Hussey, Dayton, O. ; J. B. 

 O 'Neil, Chicago. 



Bowline. 



The two teams got at each other again 

 Monda.v night, this time team No. 2 win- 

 ning two out of three games played, by 

 close scores. Carl Beyer and A. Y. Elli- 

 son being absent, Fred Meinhardt made 

 the highest single score, 221. Following 

 is the complete score: 



Te,im No. 1. 1st. 2d. 3il. T'l. 



.1. J. Beneke 157 1811 183 52li 



Theo Jliller 146 130 142 427 



r. C. Weber 136 17.3 169 478 



1\ M, Ellis 1.30 1.3S 113 3S1 



<i. R. Beneke 147 168 141 456 



Total 717 79S 748 2262 



Team Xo. 2. 1st. 2d. 3d. Tl. 



C. A. Kuelin 155 ISS 182 520 



\V. Adels IHl 142 162 405 



F. H. Meinhavdt 116 161 221 498 



.T,)bii Young 128 118 1.31 .375 



I^ed Weber 13il 132 125 3.87 



Total 720 7:)4 821 2275 



The clubs will, on next Monday night, 

 bowl on Fred Worden 's new alleys, cor- 

 ner Nineteenth and ilarket streets, and 

 continue until further notice. 



J. J. B. 



BUFFALO. 



State of Trade. 



Old Zero and business go along stead- 

 ily with Old Zero in the lead. This 

 cold weather horse got the start at the 

 drop of the flag on November 17, led 

 to the first turn and up the back stretch 

 and is now going good near the rail. 

 At the half it has several lengths the 

 best of it under a strong pull. Per- 

 haps when rounding the upper turn the 

 track will improve and give Business 

 and other heavily weighted horses a 

 chance and, as the home stretch will not 

 be reached till spring, we hope Easter 

 Morn, Happy Nuptials, Glad Tidings, 

 Baby Mine and others will beat Old 

 Zero for the money as well as place and 

 show. Old Zero has been in training 

 now so long and so constantly raced that 

 we look for an early break-down and 

 ^^•heu they go under the wire my pro- 

 phetic vision allows me to see the end of 

 the race as follows: Fond Anticipation, 

 first, by a nose; Industry, second, onlv 

 beating out Coal Bill by half a length. 



The winner is owned by Mr. Vernon 

 Optimist and is by Credit, dam Inde- 

 pendence; second dam. Good Intentions. 

 The latter good mare was brought over 

 on the Mayflower in the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, year not certain. Icicle, Snowdrift, 

 Cold Chills, Light Draft, Frost, Freeze, 

 Slush Ice, Glacier, North Pole and Polar 

 Bear also ran. The winner wa.s ridden 

 by the famous jockey, Snowden, who 

 won the English Derby on Blair Athol 

 in 1864, The great horse Frost ran a 

 most consistent race, being fourth. He 

 is by Gonipers, dam Strike, by Loafer, 

 and has been running with great promi- 

 nence on the Chicago tracks, but is ex- 

 pected to increase his speed at St, Louis 

 the coming summer. And now, virtuous 

 reader, if you want a key to this allegory 

 write to .Tohn Thorpe, Phil Hauswirth or 

 W, F, Racing. 



We think business has slightly recov- 

 ered from the slumber that overtook it 

 after New Year's and, as the sun shines 

 brighter, all feel alike a little brighter. 

 There is no lack of flowers of any kind. 

 A recent call at the emporium of W. F. 

 Kasting showed us flowers in abundance, 

 still none going to waste. Some very 

 fine Bride and Bridesmaid roses from 

 Brant Bros., of Utica, were conspicuous 

 for quality in every respect. Daffodils 

 and tulips are now plentiful and violets 

 also and in good demand. 



Various Items. 



How a city grows! Unless you take 

 a trip to the rural districts how little 

 you know of the source of the immense 

 supply of plants that are sold in our 

 markets, not only in the spring but 

 throughout the year. Very recently on 

 a visit to George Urban, at Pine Ridge, 

 we had a chance to see several of these 

 places. First let me say that this most 

 versatile and brainy gentleman has three 

 houses, the construction of which it 

 would pay many a florist to inspect. 

 Hollow brick for walls, with weather 

 boards on the outside. Benches of tiles 

 lying on iron pipes. Supports of benches 

 4-inch tiles. Edges of benches a mix- 

 ture of coal ashes, sand and cement. 

 Iron gutters, in fact, nothing to decay 

 or be replaced in the visible future and 

 the contents as thriving as the structures 

 are substantial. It 's strange to hear a 

 man who drives a trotter on the snow 

 in 2:08, manufactures 1,000 barrels of 

 flour every day, attends to a dozen bank- 

 ing and large industrial interests and 

 consorts with the leading spirits of the 

 state on state and national affairs, yet 

 can discuss with the keenest judgment 

 the relative merits of Mrs. Nelson, Cress- 

 brook, Boston Market, Gov. Wolcott and 

 all the rest. He has also got hot water 

 heating clown to an exact science and bv 

 having more pipe and boiler capacity 

 than he needs in the coldest weather 

 his outlay of fuel is about one-half that 

 of the average commercial florist. 



Schwerdt & Berner's place is in the 

 town of Checktowaga and is a beehive 

 of industry. They have been very suc- 

 cessful and deserve to be, for they are 

 workers. Boston ferns, azaleas, lilies 

 and a general Easter stock was most 

 in evidence, and then most quietly oc- 

 cupying not much space just now are 

 20,000 geraniums. They had killed a hoc 

 the day before, so we had cider and 

 sausage galore, but neither is necessarv 

 to keep up the perennial vivacity of the 

 energetic Schwerdt, 



Next we went to Bauman Bros., at 



Pine Ridge, who have their five up-to- 

 date houses filled with current and pros- 

 pective crops. This is another firm that 

 does most of their work without ex- 

 pensive help and pays 100 cents on the 

 dollar. 



And then we went to the old Eapin 

 place, surrounded by a dozen cemeteries. 

 Cities of the dead that hold the dust of 

 the faithful, also the Jew. the Gentile, 

 the skeptic and up-to-date German phil- 

 osopher who was a materialist in his 

 prime, but as the sunset of life cast shad- 

 ows over his intellect realized that there 

 was something ' ' beyond. ' ' The Eapin 

 Greenhouses are rented by Messrs. Col- 

 lins & Forbach. Mr. Rapin ran this 

 place for years on a sort of a go-as-you- 

 please system, but now that ' ' Conny ' ' 

 is boss a change has come over the scene 

 and Mr. Conny F. has done marvels un- 

 der most unfavorable circumstances and 

 has made more out of the houses than 

 I thought was possible. If you want to 

 see a man who is everlastingly good 

 tempered, then an interview with Mr. 

 Forbach will cure you of the blues, but 

 who would not be perpetually happy 

 with such a sweet, pretty, little wife as 

 Mr. F. calls his own, W, S. 



THE ROSE SOCIETY. 



Ed. Review: — As tlic time for the an- 

 nual show of the American Rose Soci- 

 ety, in Philadelphia, approaches, I am 

 compelled to ask, through your columns, 

 of the rose growers of this country: 

 ' ' What are .you going to do to help the 

 one flower that has been the foundation 

 of your fortunes?" Are you going to 

 trust to the efforts of others to do that 

 which you should do yourselves? Do 

 you expect others to do all the work 

 and you reap whatever benefit may ac- 

 crue? If you feel that way, and think 

 that it will eventuate anything, why, 

 go ahead and, when too late, find what 

 a small hole you will have to crawl out 

 of when asked why the rose society 

 died. Are you any less interested in 

 the rose than carnation men are in the 

 carnation? Do you think that the rose 

 will take care of itself better than the 

 carnation can? Do you think that be- 

 cause it is older it can stand neglect 

 better? Is this a good way, as business 

 men, to advertise your wares? Is it that 

 you think there will be none who need 

 education on the rose subject? Or do 

 you think that they will find others out- 

 side of our business who will prove effi- 

 cient teachers? Can you aft'ord this in- 

 difference? Can you sit down and let 

 others pass you in the race? Brother 

 rose growers, think of these questions; 

 see' if .you are doing your business jus- 

 tice. And I trust you will make up 

 your mind to exhibit at this show and 

 "by being present, aid the society and 

 siiow others that you are suffieieutly 

 interested to devote a little time and 

 some money in the cause of the rose. 

 Benjamin Doekance. 



YotJR paper does the work, all right. — 

 J. C. Schmidt, Bristol, Pa. 



D0YLE.STOWN, Pa. — Warren B. Madi- 

 son, professor of horticulture at the Na- 

 tional Farm School, has accepted the 

 position of horticulturist in the new de- 

 partment of agriculture at the Mount 

 Hermon School, Mount Hermon, :^Iass., 

 to which place he will remove about 

 February 15. 



