FEBRUARY 17, 1S9S. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



505 



Glimpses of the Wholesale Store of Messrs. Bassett & Washburn, Chicago. 



four varieties of anthuriums, which 

 were very attractive. H. T. Clinka- 

 berry, gardener to C. G. Roebling, 

 Trenton, N. J., showed a very fine Cat- 

 tleya Trianae Emily M. Roeliling, very 

 large well formed flower and excellent 

 color, for which he received honorable 

 mention. Mr, J, E, Rothwell, Long- 



wood, exhibited a very fine plant of 

 Cypripedium Sallierii Hyeanum with 

 15 growths and 7 flowers, also Cyp, 

 concolor and Cyp. nitens superbum. 

 W. H. Spooner, Jamaica Plains, show- 

 ed a vase of the good old rose, Gloire 

 de Dijon. 

 A very interesting lecture entitled. 



"New Notions About Old Insects,'' was 

 delivered by Prof. M. V. Slingerland, 

 of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Various Items. 



Mr. P. Welch, of Welch Bros., uas 

 been confined to his home for aeveral 

 days with a severe cold. 



Norton Bros, report good business 

 the past week. They had several im- 

 portant decorations. Housbton & 

 Clarli also report an improvement in 

 the call for decorations. James Delay 

 reports a decided gain in business. 



Mr. A. P. Calder is cutting Cherokee 

 roses in quantity and they find a ready 

 sale. 



The wholesale cut flower market re- 

 mains about the same as last week as 

 regards prices, though there is more 

 demand. Violets are still a drug and 

 are largely handled by the street fak- 

 irs. 



Welch Bros, are receiving consign- 

 ments of orchids twice a week. They 

 include some remarkably fine Cattleya 

 Trianae which meet with ready sale. 



C. H. J. 



BUFFALO. 



Flowers for Valentines. 



Nothing startling to record of late. 

 We hear of a cut in some flowers. 

 "Tulips are 75 cents per dozen, mad- 

 am." "Why, I can get them at So and 

 So's for half a dollar. How much are 

 your carnations?" "Fifty cents, 

 madam." "Oh, dear! you are high; 

 down the street they ask only 35 

 cents." And so it goes. Sometimes it's 

 the truth and sometimes it's pure cus- 

 sedness, and a mean way of getting a 

 thing cheap. The weather is not fine 

 enough, and too little sun to make 

 much of a glut. Violets are getting 

 plentiful, but they are usually all used 

 up, and particularly to-day, for 'tis 

 St. Valentine's day of happy memory, 

 when our hearts palpitated at the 

 postman's knock and our few pennies 

 were spent in some modest little Cupid 

 and the original lines, "The rose is 

 red," etc. We did not have funds 

 enough to buy a bunch of violets lor 

 her, and flowers were very little used 

 then. We now think the most season- 

 able valentine is a box of flowers or 

 pretty plant. 



Business Changes. 



We hear that W. Scott has rented 

 the store at 54tj Main street, two blocks 

 further uptown and a much more com- 

 modious place to do business. W. A. 

 Adams is likely to move into 479 Main 

 street. 



There will be at least three start for 

 Chicago Wednesday, and we hope to 

 make it four. The Nickel Plate is the 

 road selected. 



Various Notes. 



Messrs. Wise, of East Aurora; Hew- 

 son, of the Abbott Road; young Mr. 

 Lewis, of Lockport, and Prof. Cowell, 

 have all been making a pilgrimage to 

 Corfu and Darien of late to see Gen- 

 esee on its native heath. They all ex- 

 claimed, "That is good enough for me." 



