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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



FEEfeuARY 11. 11104. 



BUFFALO 



Current Comment. 



Business lias been improving slowly 

 for tlie past two weeks, no flowers going 

 lo waste. Hulboiis stulV is rather slow, 

 ^ood roses rather scarce and first-class 

 carnations are never over plentiful. 

 Kreesia is beginning to be plentiful and 

 the flower buyers like it. When the sun 

 shines brighter and the temperature is 

 higher it will help business all around. 

 \V. ¥. Kasting is now preparing to 

 move into his new quarters. Turn Hall, 

 on Ellicott street. Talk about evolution 

 from the tadjrale to the finished article. 

 Think of the little 4x0 store in which 

 he first did liusiness. then of the commod- 

 ious store which is now his headquarters, 

 then of the large overflow warehouse for 

 his heavier goods and wire work manu- 

 factory, and now he has rented this old 

 German theater, large enough for a na- 

 tional convention of the prohibition 

 party. Surely this will hold him for a 

 time, but he needs lots of room. It's not 

 so much the business that is done, but 

 when there is a full meeting of the Buf- 

 falo florists the hot air that escapes 

 needs a lofty building to be healthy. 



A few \isitors have braved the arctic 

 weather of late, but the few drummers 

 who have arrived are merely the advance 

 guard. The leonine Arnold Eingier. of 

 \V. \\ . Barnard & Co., Chicago, made his 

 usual two days' stay. He is a great fa- 

 vorite among the boys, who eagerly lis- 

 ten to his philosophy and profit by his 

 example. Walter Alott gave us his usual 

 tri-annual call. He reports the Walter 

 Mott Seed Co.. of Jamestown, largely in- 

 creasing its business, especially locally. 

 In the pastoral regions of the' Ix^autifiil 

 counties of Alleghany, Cattaraugus and 

 Chautauqua there should be an immense 

 demand for timothy red top, clover, ruta- 

 baga, not to mentiou brussels sprouts 

 and other epieurian green stufT. We 

 had a call this morning from Nashville. 

 in the shape of Mr. Joy, who had been, 

 taking a trip through the north. Very 

 sorry I did not see him personallv. T, 

 Knight, in the interest of Julius Roehr.,, 

 also favored us with a call. 



This has been a winter of records. In 

 neighboring country towns they have had 

 up to date over eighty- five days of con- 

 tinuous sleighing and' the frigidity has 

 been away below all weather bureau sta- 

 tistics, but that is not all. the first 

 Dutchman arrived on January 20. Al- 

 though from Holland, he had" more the 

 appearance of an English sparrow, 

 small, chipper and persistent. The in- 

 terview lasted but three minutes, while 

 fifteen years ago, just for politeness, it 

 would have lasted an hour and so ha 

 passed on to give someone else the boon 

 of his bargains. 



Xow by long odds the important pari 

 of these notes is to come, serious and 

 important as the above are. (In Wednes. 

 day. February 17, the Buffalo Florists' 

 Club will have a carnation meeting. 

 Many, in fact nearly all the leading firms 

 who are sending out novelties, have 

 promised to send exhibits and (here will 

 be a large display of the leading stand- 

 ard varieties. A competent committee 

 will pass on the merits of the latest in- 

 troductions and. although a certificate 

 from this committee may not be of the 

 same importance as that granted at the 

 great Detroit convention in March, it 

 will have some weight. Local florists. 

 as well as those of western New York 



51 Wabash Avenue, 



H'ORBROS. 



Wholesale Florists, 

 CHICAGO* 



CURRENT PRICE LIST. 



Bride t5 00 to 



Ivory 5 00 to 



Liberty 6 00 to 



Golden Gate 6 00 to 



Perle 5 00 to 



Carnations, good 2 00 



fancy 3 00 



extra fancy 6 00 



$8 00 

 8 00 



15 00 

 8 00 

 8 00 



All other stock at lowest market rates. The above prices are for select stock. Extra select or 

 Inferior stock billed accordingly. Prices subject to change without notice. 



and western Pennsylvania, should take 

 advantage of the opportunity to see the 

 man.y varieties which otherwise they 

 cannot see unless they go to Detroit or 

 visit their birthplace. Support the ofli- 

 cers of the club w-ho are getting up this 

 exhibit more for your benefit than their 

 own and, come one. come all. The ex- 

 hibition will be held at 3 p. m. at Turn 

 Hall and the meeting at 8 p, m,, when 

 a paper will be read by an expert on 

 some of the latest phases of carnation 

 culture. Address all flowers "BufTalo 

 Florists' Club, care Wm, F. Kastinj, 

 Buffalo, N. Y." 



We will conclude by saying that if 

 an.v local or nearby florist has any w-ell 

 grown flowers of an,v variety new or old. 

 it is his duty to make an exhibit and 

 lielp along the good cause. You are get- 

 ting a view of the new varieties ex 

 tremely cheap. W. S. 



STEAM AND HOT WATER. 



Having had very poor results from my 

 heating apparatus. I have decided to 

 change from water to combination steam 

 and water, ily houses, two in number, 

 are each 24x123, thirteen feet to riilge, 

 joined together with glass partition. The 

 south wall is five feet liigh, with two 

 feet of glass; the north wall six feet 

 and double boarded. The east gables are 

 glass to within two feet of the ground. 

 The boiler room and shed across the west 

 end are two feet higher than the houses, 

 breaking the coldest winds. We use solid 

 beds. The piping consists of fourteen 

 runs of 2-inch pipe in the south house. 

 used for roses, and twelve runs in the 

 carnation house. It is piped on the 

 gravity system, with high point and ex- 

 pansion tank over the boiler. To use 

 steam in cold weather, how does the 

 piping need to be changed? The connec- 

 tions to the boiler, both flow and return, 

 are .S-inch. Some of the coils are one 

 flow and three returns, and some two re- 

 turns. I heat my dwelling from the 

 samff system, with radiators, taking 

 water in at the top. I suppose it will 

 be necessary to take in at the bottom 

 with the new arrangement ? W. L. F. 



The piping system described for both 

 greenhouses and dwelling will work well 

 with steam. It will only be necessary 

 to place check valves in tlie returns near 

 the end of each coil and to place a globe 

 valve and a check at each end of a suffi- 

 cient number of the pipes in each coil 



Peter Reinberg 



51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. 



WHOLESALE 



Cut Flowers. 



LARGEST GROWER 

 IN THE 'WORLD 



l.OOO.OOO SQUARE FEET OF QLASS 



Current Price List. 



Per Doz. 



AM. BEAUTIES, ex. long stem $5.00 



30 in, stem 4.00 



24-in, ■ 3.00 



20-in. " 2.00 



15-in. ■■ 1.50 



12in. stem 1.25 



Short stem, perl0O.$6.0O-8.0O 



Per 100 



CH ATENAY. extra select $10,00 to $15.00 



medium 6.00 to 8.00 



LIBERTY, extra select 10.00 to 15.00 



medium 6.00 to 8.00 



SUNRISE, extra select 8.00 to 10.00 



" medium 4.00 to 6.00 



BRIDE 5.00to 8.00 



BRIDESMAID 5,00 to 8.00 



GOLDEN GATE 5,00 to 8,00 



PEKLE 5.00to 8.00 



CARNATIONS 3.00 to 4.00 



ROSES. OUR SELECTION 4.00 



All flo'wers are perfectly fresh 



and properly packed. 



Mo charge for P. i, D. on orders over $5 00. 



to reduce the radiating surface in the 

 houses so as to admit of the use of low 

 pressure steam. That is, assuming that 

 the boiler is at a proper depth below the 

 level of the return pipes. 



Each of the houses should have at least 

 four of the return pipes provided with 

 valves at each end so that the.v can be 

 thrown out of service. In the severest 

 weather only two returns in each house 

 need be put out of use : all the remaining 

 pipes will be necessarv to maintain the 

 temperature with steam at .5 pounds pres- 

 sure. L. C. C. 



Chatham. X. Y. — R. E. Shuphelt is so- 

 journing at Fruitland Park, Fla. 



