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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



921 



Easter Display in the Show-house of Mr. E. Wienhoeber, Chicago. 



The Joseph S. Fay estate made a 

 fine exhibit ot pansy blooms, being 

 awarded three prizes and a gratuity. 

 N. T. Kidder showed pelargoniums 

 and received first prize. Edward .J. 

 Mitton. of Brookline, was awarded a 

 gratuity for a fine specimen hanging 

 plant. Citroderia Fulgida. He also ex- 

 hibited a well-grown plant of a very 

 old favorite. Saxifraga sarmentosa. 



J. E. Rothwell exhibited a plant of 

 the exquisitely colored Phalaenopsls 

 llarrittae. originated by crossing P. 

 grandiflora and violacea. and sup- 

 posed to be the only plant of this va- 

 riety in America. A single flower of 

 a seedling Cypripedium Lawrence- 

 anum, exhibited by C. G. Roebling. 

 Trenton. N. J., was awarded a certifi- 

 cate. 



The usual exhibit of seasonable 

 wild flowers was made by Mrs. P. D. 

 Richards and others. 



Wm. Nicholson, the carnationist of 

 Framingham. received a prize and a 

 gratuity for tomatoes, which he grows 

 as a crop to succeed chrysanthemums. 



News Items. 



The stallholders of the market are 

 exhibiting their patriotism by deco- 

 rating the ceiling and columns with 

 bunting and flags. 



The creditors of Geo. Mullen, who 

 did business under his wife's name as 

 J.. Mullen, have most of them signed a 

 paper accepting twenty-five cents on 

 the dollar. 



C. J. Harvey, florist, of Highland- 

 ville, has gone out of business. 



Mark Harris, who failed directly 

 after Easter, is offering his creditors 

 25 cents, but is doubtful if they will 

 accept it. 



W. J. Kennedy, former manager of 



the market, has been appointed as- 

 sistant to Supt. Doogue, and will be in 

 charge of Boston Common. 



The store fittings ot the late firtn ot 

 L. J. & W. J. Doogue will be sold at 

 auction on Tuesday. May hK by N. F. 

 McCarthy. They originally cost 



$.">.(« Ml. 



Among visitors to the Hul) this 

 week are G. W. Smith, of Fall Rivei-. 

 Mass.. and Mr. Herrman. of basket 

 and metallic design fame, of New 

 York. P. 



BUFFALO. 



Supply and Demand. 



There is nothing very new in the 

 horticultural little world in which we 

 revolve. One more new store on Main 

 street. The proprietor of the store, 

 which Mr. W. A. Adams vacated on 

 the 1st, must have seen a delegation 

 of stalwart policemen giving "Andy" 

 an order for a badge or button occa- 

 sionally for a defunct copper, and 

 doubtless thought it was all profit, s > 

 he has started in. It's a pity: they 

 are certainly too thick on our chief 

 thoroughfare. 



Mr. Kasting reports roses plentiful, 

 but carnations he could dispose of in 

 much largei- quantities. Messrs. 'W. J. 

 Palmer & Son have a brilliant show 

 in their window nowadays, a change 

 almost every day. The last time 1 

 saw it. it was ."mmi Meteor roses and 

 L'.iHMi Daybreak carnations. 



J. H. Rebstock makes a tasty show 

 with large vases of Beauty roses and 

 a fine lot of well-grown gloxinias. 



S. A. Anderson has been East, and 

 we shall doubtless see the result of 

 his journey very soon. 



Carnation Genesee. 



1 must beg permission to say just 

 another word or two about our favor- 

 ite carnation Genesee. I wish all my 

 friends could see it. A bed l"J-'> feet 

 long and 7 wide; not one plant died at 

 transplanting time; not a dry or yel- 

 low leaf has been seen, and from No- 

 vember it has been steadily produc- 

 ing, but never looked as it now does; 

 flowers and buds standing up li^e a 

 field of wheat; not a bursted calyx to 

 be seen. One thing abour this carna- 

 tion, it is of all varieties I have yet 

 seen the easiest to support, but I am 

 going to have the bed photographed 

 and let you see. This little outburst 

 of praise for a crop of my own is 

 merely because I sincerely admire it 

 and am proud of it. A real gardener 

 admires his products aside from the 

 pecuniary view. Ladies often remark 

 "How you must enjoy your business 

 among these beautiful flowers," and 

 for a joke they get the reply, "Yes, 

 ma'am, we can see the dollars stick- 

 ing all over them. " But this is not 

 so. A true gardener and good (?l 

 man would like to get the dollars and 

 leave the flowers nodding in their 

 beauty on the plants. 



A 'Visit to Philadelphia. 



In company with our retired florist, 

 the noble Dane. C. F. Christensen. and 

 Wm. S., we found ourselves some ten 

 days ago trying to get into an 

 upper berth of a Lehigh Valley sleep- 

 ing car with the assistance of the por- 

 ter, and to the great annoyance of the 

 man below we at last got to our re- 

 spective resting places. It is not far 

 from the Grand Reading depot to 

 Green's hotel, where you would be 

 hard to please if not suited with tlieir 

 layout in any line that a traveler is 

 looking foi-. 



No. 714 Chestnut street is just 

 across the road, and half an hour's 

 chat with Mr. 'Wm. Dreer was very en- 

 joyable. The ferry runs frequently 

 and so does the train, and in a few 

 minutes you are at Riverton. It is 

 six or seven years since I was there; 

 what a change! I am not going to at- 

 tempt to write up all I saw. but it is 

 really a wonderful place, and how to 

 build and heat palm houses seems to 

 be not only solved but brought to 

 great perfection. Two acres of Kentia 

 Belmoreana and other tilings in pro- 

 portion will give one a good idea of 

 the extent of the place. 



As an attractive sight for a visitor 1 

 think the lily ponds would please tlie 

 majority. The two or three acres of 

 well-kept lawn, as level as a tennis 

 court, and dozens of the sunken, ob- 

 long ponds or tanks, each devoted to 

 a species or variety, is also a sight 

 worth seeing. The sight in Ju'y or 

 August must be absorbingly beautiful. 

 The impression of this vast quantity 

 of nympheas of every shade, especial- 

 ly in the dewy morn, must be solace 

 for the most wearied soul. No wonder 

 Mr. Eisele said. "When tired and wor- 



