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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Ai u'st r,. v.ih:;. 



of the Plender Nurseries, 1230 North 

 i -i \ili street. 



Edward Reid is improving his facili- 

 ties by adding a room for roses to his 

 basement. The idea is to have a natur- 

 ally moist atmosphere with plenty of 

 air. Ice can be used when necessary. 

 The room is neatly fitted up with ad- 

 justable shelves and should prove a great 

 addition. Electric lights will also be 

 added. 



Herman Schoenfeld has finally moved 

 inti Ills new and commodious store on 

 thi east side of Seventeenth, below 



Tt was canna night at the Florists' 

 Club meeting on Tuesday. Antoinc 

 Wintzer read a paper on new and meri- 

 torious varieties. Convention matters 

 were discussed, A good delegation from 

 this city is promised, leaving Monday, 

 August 17, at 8:40 a. m.. over the Penn- 

 sylvania railroad. 



Wm. Graham is preparing to open a 

 store at 10S South Thirteenth street. 

 Phil. 



BUFFALO. 



The Picn c Spoiled. 



This is the "day of our discontent." 

 We were to have a picnic this afternoon 

 and Emile Brucker, the amiable and yet 

 cut*' and industrious right bower of W. 

 F, Kasting's wholesale emporium, and 

 who is the chairman of the committee, 

 says that 150 tickets were sold. If so, 

 and it is so, what a time we would have 

 had, but it is raining, not cats and dogs, 

 but large drops of liquid that annoy the 

 belated harvester of hay and wheat, 

 make the ground admirable for lifting 

 carnations, spoil the track for harness 

 trotters, do great benefit to the corn 

 crop and beat down the ripening oats. 

 All vegetation luxuriates and yet it is 

 inclement for church and other picnics. 

 Our picnic was not classed as a church 

 picnic, and yet I dare to say that there 

 would have been more sanctity and good 

 morals displayed in its fulfillment than 

 at most so called church picnic*;, where 

 the principal object in view for priest 

 or pastor is revenue for the institution, 

 medieval faddist and crankology. 



Business is now at its lowest ebb and 

 it 's no use kicking. We have no ocean 

 vessel trade, or only an occasional order, 

 and then it must be wired to New York 

 with the full confidence that our corre- 

 spondents will try to fill the order, but 

 with some trepidation lest there will be a 

 missing link somewhere. There are more 

 than ten steamers sailing out of Buffalo 

 every day, besides schooners, barges and 

 numerous other craft, and they carry 

 lots of people, but no flowers are sent 

 them as they leave the muddy waters of 

 Buffalo Creek. Their friends know, of 

 course, that although they cannot get 

 the equal in quality (?), they can get 

 common flowers in Erie. Cleveland, De- 

 troit, Sault Ste. Marie. Milwaukee or 

 i bdeago if they go to any of those 

 places, and if they go to the far west- 

 ern end of the big lake, then Duluth can 

 supply the simple roses that will be 

 wanted! 



To the Convention. 



I had one lone friend ask the water 

 route he could take in the ride to Mil- 

 waukee. Some people have the bump of 

 geography but poorly developed. If 

 they only have enough to eat and drink 

 around them, they are not interested in 

 the point.", of the compass or the relative 

 positions of big rivers, lakes, states or 



cities. They trust to other people's look- 

 ing out for those things, and they are 

 below, or above, their consideration. Mil- 

 waukee is on the west side of Lake Mich- 

 igan, eighty miles north of Chicago, 

 which is almost at the foot of the lake. 

 The big, fine steamers sailing from Buf- 

 falo go to Cleveland, Detroit and Du- 

 luth. To get down to Milwaukee from 

 the big steamers Northland and North- 

 west, you would have to change or rath- 

 er take another steamer at the Straits of 

 Mn-kinac and then sail 200 miles or 



more south on Lake Michigan along the 

 shores of Wisconsin before you reached 

 the familiar smell of hops. "This would 

 be lovely with a young bride, likewise 

 an old one, but it is good only for those 

 who have nothing else to do, or nothing 

 but their time to spend. And again, I 

 take the liberty to say that a really 

 pleasant way from the east to Milwaukee 

 is to take the Detroit boat at Buffalo on 

 Sunday evening at 5:30, arriving at De- 

 troit at about 8 or 9 o'clock Monday 

 a. m., join the Detroit boys in thei] 

 journey across their beautiful state to 

 the shores of Lake Michigan, and then 

 another lake ride into Milwaukee, arriv- 

 ing there early on Tuesday. And possibly 

 the same steamer calls at Chicago, but if 

 it does not, you will only have escaped 

 some temptations "too awful to speak 

 of." W. S. 



KANSAS CITY. 



No Show This Year. 

 Kansas City will not have a flower 

 show tins fall. The executive committee 

 of Convention Hall has been considering 

 the question, but when a number of citi- 

 zens, who had supported the show liber- 

 ally in the past, were asked to subscribe 

 again, the success met with was insig- 

 nificant compared with that of 1901 and 

 1902, as they had all been heavy losers 

 in the flood. The abandonment of the 

 flower show for this year, according to 

 Fred S. Doggett, president of the Con- 

 vention Hall directory, does not mean 

 thai no flower shows will be held in the 

 future, as the expectation is that next 

 year a bigger show than those of 1901 

 and 1902 will be held. The flower show 

 will be continued as a permanent affair 

 and. barring another flood or some other 

 calamity, it will be held each year in the 

 big hall, and we will be glad to see all 

 tli" growers come and win our prizes. 



Various Notes. 



The stock of roses and carnations is 



very poor. Sweet peas are about gone 



and gladioli have been of great assist- 



~ome good asters are now 



ance ti 



being shown in some of the stores, but 

 there is nothing doing except funeral 

 work. 



Miss Alma Beeler has returned from a 

 trip through the eastern states. 



W. L. Rock and family have returned 

 from a four weeks trip. L. M. S. 



NEW YORK. 



The 



sale and re- 

 of all kinds 



The Market. 



The gladiolus time has come and this 

 flower is "king for a day" and prob- 

 ably for several weeks, with asters i.nd 

 dahlias laying claim to sovereignty and 

 the quantity of shipments growing con- 

 stantly until the flooding of the market 

 is inevitable. At the 

 of 50 cents per 100, which 

 for ordinary stock, there 

 an undecorated window. 

 from Cowee and Childi 

 A general condition of 

 hope prevails in both w 

 tail trades. Of good floi 

 there is not an oversupply and the out- 

 look is encouraging. 



Newport's season to date is a brilliant 

 one, and is yet in its infancy. Daily 

 shipments to this great center of fash- 

 ion and fads, and artistic competition 

 among the "400" or "600" are large 

 and increasing. The best is none too 

 good for the lavish displav made there, 

 and Siebrecht & Son, Wadley & Smythe 

 and J. Hodgson, are reaping a bounteous 

 harvest. All report the best season to 

 date of their experience. 



Various Notes. 



The suggestions made as to bowling 

 prizes in our last issue meet with general 

 approbation and I have no doubt Mi. 

 Pollworth has had many interesting do- 

 nations from leading firms for the pur- 

 pose, which he will announce. 



Anything that can be suggested look- 

 ing to a division of the crowd that will 

 journey from New- York to the conven- 

 tion, via the West Shore Railroad seems 

 singularly inopportune at this late date, 

 when it is realized that the real charm of 

 the trip is in its associations, and in the 

 fact that a sufficient number insures 

 special accommodations clear through to 

 Milwaukee without change of cars. It 

 is true the fare and a third can be se- 

 cured from other roads, but thereby 

 changes of cars become necessary, and 

 after the New York Club has officially 

 selected a road, and after this road has 

 provided specially for its patrons, even 

 to the sending of an official chaperon, it 

 would seem best that all should harmon- 

 iously unite in making the social feature 

 of the trip an . assured consummation, 

 which with a divided delegation will be 

 an impossibility. The call for berths 

 made to Mr. Sheridan has been very en- 

 couraging already, however, and the at- 

 tendance, as is always the case in our 

 yearly journevings. will be larger than 

 anticipated. We left here forty-nine 

 strong for Asheville last year. We 

 should certainly double that when the 

 noses are counted on Sunday, August 16, 

 at 1 p. m., at which hour our special 

 leaves for the "City of Inspiration." 



The Milwaukee Club's souvenir has 

 arrived and is a beautiful production, 

 ■ rod it able to the club and to the artistic 

 publisher, Mr. Pollworth, a brother of 

 the society's vice-president. The sending 

 of this work by mail so long in advance 

 is most unusual and commendable, and 

 its influence should add largely to the 



