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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



j i'-.i i 



hol- 



ding and outdoor gardening kept up to 

 the end of the month and in extent I 

 should think satisfied everybody in that 

 line of business. For the past two weeks 

 everybodj has been running to every- 

 body else for geraniums in Bower. They 



pasi 



plfto buy'' Nei 



roundine. tl»' ',.-' 



grass plot in fr 

 tious dwelling hi 



ing plants then' I 

 manil. and yet tl 

 great hulk (if the 

 it i- to the thousai 



its go. 

 ittages, 

 and a 



U. 



aember the school grad- 



ever before to have I n 



in- the florists as it has 



A Visitor. 



T have missed the many visitors of 



late. Too bad. Peter Crowe, of CJtica, 



however, honored us with a call in our 



rural retreat, where we had a liveh dis- 



= '• 



Buffalo is a summer resort itsell and 

 we do nut notice any great exodus of 

 mi i people. There i- no excuse to be 

 robbed at the seashore or eaten to death 

 by mosquitoes in the woods. Unfortu- 

 nately in all our cities the people who 

 live in crowded, sweltering Btreets, and 

 tu whom a month in tli«' country would 



have spacious lawns and shade trees and 

 cool verandas and hammocks and all 

 else material that heart could desire, in- 

 cluding an automobile, leave their happy 

 homes for fashion's sake, whether they 



did once," he said, "and had to dyna- 

 mite it when I wanted t.i break it up." 

 But that's no criterion, readers, foi 

 when Mr. Crowe stands on one leg, then 

 is a pressure of seventy live pounds ti 

 the square inch, reckoning his foot to !>■ 

 eleven inches Inn;.' and three and one-half 

 broad. Mr. Crowe tells me he is selling 

 large blocks of hi~ splendid adiantum, 

 which he has poetically named A I rowe 

 anuni. 



Notes. 

 T regret very much to have to reporl .1 



-el ion- .liiidellt to Jus. II. KehstOCk. li.' 



was driving in the park with his wife 

 and little -1. n when hi- horse became 

 frightened at an auto and before Joseph 

 could bring him down the carriage was 

 upset ami Mr. Rebstock's leg broken. 

 Mr-. Ihl.-toik and son escaped with a 

 few bruises. This is a had time of year 

 for Joe to he laid tip. for lie i- president 

 of a line of excursion steamers and the 

 summer resort of Crystal Beach mi Lake 

 Erie's < lanadian shore. 



We must expect the midsummer dull- 

 ness to in' upon n- now. but fortunately 



W. S. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market. 



laving delightful 



a'jain. 11 

 somewhi 

 last yea 

 to brae 



\e used up a great 

 Prices are low.' hut 

 ,on. the stock seems 

 ither lively and the 

 e not getting every- 

 flgures, as they gen- 

 uine!'. 



goods he wants now and at a little bet- 

 ter figure, probably, although he must 

 noi gamble too heavily on that part of 

 it. 



Goods are scarce, and yet. I think 

 they aie doing well indeed when we con- 

 sider the run of weather we have had. 

 (ai nations seem to he coming a hit bet- 

 ter, perhaps on account of the few little 

 glints of sunbeams we have had lately; 

 but ins,.., are coming in a fully worse 

 condition than any time since a year 

 ago or more, when' so many were badly 

 mildewed. Two or three growers have 

 them now very good indeed, but the 

 majority arc badly mildewed, small and 

 out of order generally. 



Death of R. Haley. 



[. They are left 

 •ath of' the litts- 

 11 from a build- 

 week ago, upon 

 sustaining such 

 iday, the 28th. 



and short stem- isideialilv less. Good 



Beauties wholesale- at from $L50 to $2.50 

 per ilo,cn. ( arnati. lis in 1 1 iT- fancy va- 

 rieties sell at $3 per 100 and the com- 

 moner sorts at from $1.50 to $2. Other 

 stock is 1 heap, of coins,., hut the best of 



Various Notes. 



D. H. Lenox has been in town for the 

 past few days. Mr. Lenox is one of Los 

 Armeies' well known nurserymen and he 

 is up in this part of the world in quest 

 of stock tor next season. He reports 

 everything I ming in Southern Califor- 

 nia. 



W. P. Fuller & Co. report their sales 

 ot greenhouse glass a- very heavy this 



The Alameda County Horticultural So- 

 cietj held its regular meeting hist Wed- 

 nesdaj night. There was .1 good at- 

 tendance on hand and the proposition to 

 hold a fall flower show was debated at 

 considerable length. A committee was 

 appointed to sec what arrangements 

 could lie made. G. 



number 

 ttion in 

 ited for 



. n 



seen 



d. John New man. W. \V. Tailby 

 nan took part in different or- 

 ,11s of the parade. Air. Lassman 

 that part bannered "Hooker's 

 ;ade." 



J. S. Manteb. 



NEW YORK. 



if the last 

 1 the worst 

 oudav. The 



