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general admiration. The crown con- 

 tained four dozen flowers in all, thirty of 

 which were wide open, the balance in 

 large buds. 



Notes. 



Messrs. Halliday Bros, and Samuel 

 Feast & Sons have both issued very 

 pretty calendars this year as an adver- 

 tising medium. 



Messrs. Fischer & Ekas have a new 

 seedling carnation, pure white, with the 

 habit of Storm King and Lizzie Mc- 

 •Gowan, which bids fair to be a seller. 



A Lexington street florist has money, 

 not "to burn," but for exhibition. He 

 places one dollar bills in his windows as 

 a gentle reminder that violets are only 

 $1 per hundred. There is an example 

 where you "advertise and get your money 

 back." Another good method is to try 

 the Florists' Review. C. F. F. 



BUFFALO. 



Dullness Prevails. 



If it were not for that mournful business 

 metioned last week, and which I hope 

 was distributed among the craft gener- 

 all}', it could be called very dull indeed. 

 For the time of year it is too dull to be 

 healthy. A little drifting business falls 

 on us all the time but there is a sad lack 

 of events which demand any quantity of 

 flowers, p'lowers are in abundance to fill 

 all orders. Carnations of good quality 

 meet with the quickest sales and violets 

 are getting more plentiful. 



A Trip to Corfu. 



Last week's dull routine was enlivened 

 bv a small delegation consisting of the re- 

 tired C. F. Christenson, W. J. Palmer, 

 Sr., Daniel B. Long and W. S. taking the 

 noon train for Corfu, Genesee Co. Chris- 

 tenson is retired from active business but 

 very much with us in spirit and thinks he 

 knows as nmch as the rest of us, but such 

 is the enormous strides and marvelous 

 velocity with which our business travels, 

 aquiring knowledge and experience in its 

 flight, that one who is even seven and a 

 half months out of the business is lost. 

 Too late! he can never catch on again, 

 he will see the express train glide around 

 a curve and be lost to sight and he had 

 better then and there make up his mind 

 to sit on the pleasant bank and live on a 

 "moderate competency." 



Two of the party were invalids of a 

 kind. One had lost a little piece of the 

 natural covering of his shin, the other the 

 same material from his big toe and neither 

 of these injured members have shown a 

 marked inclination to heal, so the two quiet 

 members solaced themselves with quiet 

 converse about the respective merits of 

 the newer carnations, while the other two 

 went on with their wild frolic. A view of 

 a bench of the local new carnation, 

 "Genesee" was really the object of the 

 visit and all were very favorably im- 

 pressed with it. As Flora Hill was grow- 

 ing in the same house, the same soil, 

 same temperature and same attention, it 

 was a good opportunity to pass an opinion 

 which I will leave others to express. 

 After a very enjoyable lunch at the Hotel 



de Thayer, we journeyed on to see Mr. T. 



Webb and his new scarlet carnation, at 

 present without a name, but which pro- 

 duces large quantities of good flowers. 

 Time was short and the boys had to re- 

 turn to town. 



A Delegation from Rochester, 



On Friday a large delegation from 

 Rochester reached town. There was a 

 pair of Baiters, a pair of Kellers, a 

 Schlegel and three other gentle- 

 men whose names I did not accurately 

 get. When such an imposing and im- 

 portant party as that visits our city why 

 don't they notify us? Proper courtesy 

 could then be extended. It appears, how- 

 ever, that the boys at home attended to 

 their wants, and late in the day they ar- 

 rived in the Genesee village and found 

 the writer watering freshly planted 

 lettuce. We were very glad to see them, 

 but regret we saw so little of them. 



Visitors. 



I forgot last week to say that we 

 had, a few days ago, a short visit 

 from Mr. George Stollery, of Chicago. It 

 was only a lay-over for an hour between 

 trains, but the visit was long enough to 

 convince us that Mr. S. is an enthusiast 

 on carnations, and we will sa)' as the 

 "Heilandman" did when he saw the sign 

 post and mistook it's purpose: "God 

 bless the Duke of Argyle." 



Visitors in town of late have included 

 Mr. Henry Wise of East Aurora, Mr. 

 I'Yed Lewis of Lockport, and within a 

 few hours the aristocratic-looking Mr. A. 

 Ringier of Chicago. Mr. R. has natural 

 ability enough to be Senator from Ohio, 

 but prefers a more honest livelihood, 

 selling bulbs, seeds, Indian produce and 

 other necessities for a reputable firm. 



We expect a revival of business in the 

 near future W. S. 



TORONTO. 



Election of Officers. 



At the annual meeting of the Horticul- 

 tural Society, held last Wednesday, at 

 which about seventy-five members were 

 present, the following officers were 

 elected; President, J. McP. Ross; ist 

 vice-president, H. Lucas; 2nd vice-presi- 

 dent, Mr. Tyrrell; directors, Messrs. J. 

 Chambers, Vair, Utiey, G. Manton, Wat- 

 kins, Collins, Ewing, Simmers and Mills; 

 secretar)' and treasurer, Chas. Chambers. 

 These annual meetings have very little of 

 the horticultural about them except the 

 members, but the above appears to be a 

 strong team and should be able to give a 

 good account of themselves on the second 

 Wednesday in iSgS. 



Business Conditions. 



From the remarks of a correspondent, 

 signing hinuself "Toronto," in your Chi- 

 cago trade contemporar\-, it might be 

 gathered that roses were losing their 

 popularity in this city, but this I don't 

 think is by any means the case. Carna- 

 tions are, no doubt, very popular with 

 the masses and tbose who have little 

 money to spend on flowers, as also -with 

 the higher classes. There is a good 



demand for them, and they are better 

 than the cheap, flabby, weak-stenmied 

 roses, of which many are to be seen 

 about. But it does not follow that these 

 same people would not buy good roses if 

 they could afford it. In the spring, after 

 Easter, when there is a glut and they are 

 sold in large quantities on the market, 

 people are falling over each other to get 

 them. Roses are still popular, and 

 depend upon it they always will be; tliey 

 have their ups and downs like every- 

 thing else, and under the present means 

 of cultivation it is doubtful if the average 

 prices covering the year could be lowered 

 to any extent and leave any profit. 



Collections are reported to be much 

 better this year. A College street florist 

 told me }'esterday that he has had very 

 little trouble, where in former years he 

 would have had to wait six months for his 

 money. This, I suppose, may be taken as 

 a sure sign of better times; it takes a long 

 time though for them to filter down 

 through all the various strata of society, 

 and poor public gardeners never feel 

 them at all in their salaries; only in an 

 increase of work are they felt by him. 

 Pity the poor public gardener! 



Trade has been a little slacker this 

 week, and prices have comedown a notch 

 or two. Bulbous stock is beginning to 

 arrive in variety. A few daffodils are to b; 

 seen, hyacinths in pots, tulips, etc. 



CLEVELAND. 



Resume of the Market. 



Business has lieeu very good of late all 

 around, no flowers of fair qualit\- going to 

 waste. In fact there has been rather a 

 scarcity in good grades right along, more 

 particularly in carnations, which have not 

 been as good so far this season as in other 

 years. Owing possibly to gloomy, cloudy 

 weather or to some more occult cause, 

 the plants as a rule show a good deal 

 more rust and bacteria than usual and the 

 blooms are considerably smaller and 

 weaker in stem than they should be. 



Roses have been in good demand but 

 as a rule a little off in quality. Bulbous 

 stuff, in the form of tulips in the varie- 

 ties Proserpine and Yellow Prince 

 mostly, with a few Dutch hyacinths and 

 single Von Sion narcissus, is beginning to 

 come in. The tulips are pretty good in 

 quality although still a trifle short in 

 stem. They sell at from 75 cents to$i a 

 dozen retail. Roses bring from about $4 

 to I7 a hundred, wholesale, according to 

 variety and grade. Carnations run in 

 price from $1 to $3, fair ordinary stock 

 bringing about I1.50 per hundred. The 

 I3 grade is not much seen and the dollar 

 stutt ought not to be seen at all. 



A Visit to Mr. Eadie's Establishment. 



Having important business lately in 

 connection with certain clay pigeons on 

 the premises of James Eadie, the oppor- 

 tunity to inspect the rose houses was 

 taken advantage of. The houses are all 

 even-.span structures and most of them 

 are solid beds underdrained and heated, 

 having two beds in each house with a walk 

 through the center and at each side of the 



