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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



APRIL 21. 189S. 



the commission men, as they were 

 stocked up to the brim witli flowers of 

 all kinds. The Riessen Floral Co. had 

 the bulk of the trade, having to work 

 all night Saturday. They counted KXJ 

 designs of all descriptions. Jordan 

 Floral Co., Aug. Schuerman, C. Young 

 & Sons and North Floral Co. were also 

 very busy. 



The attendance was somewhat bet- 

 ter at the Bowling Club Monday night, 

 and some of the old faces showed up 

 once again. The usual three games 

 were rolled and some good scores were 

 made. Beneke was high man. with 

 572: Kunz second, with 558; John 

 Young third, with 549. The high sin- 

 gle score was by Beneke. with 224: 

 Kunz second, with 214: Kuehn third, 

 with 200. Mr. Duncan Finlayson was a 

 visitor and rolled with the Ijoys. Next 

 Monday night will end the April series 

 and the ra<'e for the average medal is 

 between Kuehn, Beneke and Kunz. 

 Anyone who wishes to win the high 

 score medal will have to beat 266, by 

 Emi! Schray. J. J. B. 



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TORONTO. 



Satisfactory Easter. 



Not havin,i; retiuned home until the 

 Tuesday after Easter. I am unable to 

 give particulars of the Easter trade 

 here, but, judging by the beaming 

 countenances of those whom I have 

 met, I should say that it had been 

 above the average. Times are cer- 

 tainly improving all over Canada; we 

 are on the up grade again, and though 

 the grade may be light, still it is up, 

 and people feel that it is safe to loosen 

 their purse-strings a little. It is sin- 

 cerely to be hoped that we shall have 

 no more booms, to be followed by their 

 inevitable consequences. 



Personals. 



The jovial, genial and well beloved 

 gardener, .loseph Graham, late of the 

 Asylum, has been moved to the Gov- 

 ernment House, and will for the fut- 

 ure preside over the gardens and 

 greenhouses there. I don't quite know, 

 but I have an idea that "Joe" will not 

 altogether appreciate the change, al- 

 though the salary is larger, and it is 

 decidedly a step-up, but having been 

 at the Asylum for so many years and 

 having made so many improvements, 

 both in the gardens and greenhouses, 

 he had become a part of the institu- 

 tion. He had collected a very large 

 number of plants, too. and took great 

 pride in them. If anybody had lost or 

 wanted some particular variety of 

 anything. "Joe" was sure to have it, 

 and was always willing to give or 

 trade cuttings. Every one will wish 

 him luck in his new sphere. 



Fred Brown, who succeeded Mr. Ar- 

 nold in his store on Queen street, ap- 

 pears to be doing very w-ell, and is 

 more than keeping up the rep\itation 

 of the stand, 



A Visit to Vancouver. 



Floriculture in '\'ancouver, B. C, is 

 very little behind the times. It is a 

 difficult climate in which to grow flow- 

 ers during the winter months, there 

 being so mucli dull, wet weather. Car- 

 nations and roses were being grown 

 on the bench, but, it seemed to me, not 

 with any great success, the difficulty 



being to get the bloom on when it 

 was most wanted, Roses, of course, 

 they must have, but I think the most 

 profitable way of gro\\ring them will be 

 either in pots or on solid benches. I 

 am doubtful if carnations can ever be 

 made much of a success, any more 

 than they can in England. There are. 

 however, any amount of other flowers 

 which the climate there would just 

 suit, and I was rather surprised that 

 other things were not being tried. 



The two principal places were 

 Messrs. "Walker & Robinson and the 

 Vancouver Floral Co. (mana.ged by 

 Mr. Pont. fOTmerly of Winnipeg). Both 

 have nice, clean, well ordered places, 

 and appear to be doing a flourishing 

 trade. 



It was very pleasant to see again all 

 the flowering, evergreen and conifer- 

 ous trees and shrubs which any one 

 who has lived in the old country is so 

 familiar with; hollies, boxes, ivies, cu- 

 pressus. biota, retinospora. thuja, etc., 

 in endless variety; all the tea roses 

 flourishing out-doors and many herba- 

 ceous plants almost unknown in these 

 parts. The climate is aljout the same 

 as it is in Devonshire. England. 



As to the mountain scenery, this is 

 hardly the place to attempt a descrip- 

 tion; it is indescribable, anyway, and 

 must be seen to be believed. "Words 

 are entirely inadequate to express the 

 grandeur and magnificence of it. 



Now is the time to take it in, while 

 the rates are low and you have your 

 Easter pile in the bank. 



Stanle.v Park, at the west end of 

 Vancouver — 950 acres, nearly sur- 

 rounded by water (tidal) — is a very 

 beautiful place, in quite a natural 

 state, with the exception of a road 

 around and paths through it. The 

 trees are principally the Douglas flr 

 and Thuja gigantea, and they are gi- 

 gantic to eastern eyes. The ferns, 

 mosses and lichens found there in 

 great profusion are very fine. It was 

 here I fell in with a Mr. T. Selwood, 

 one of the good, old-fashioned English 

 gardeners, and many, long and very 

 pleasant were the horticultural talks 

 we had together, Mr. Selwood said he 

 had not talked orchids for years and 

 years. E. 



BUFFALO. 



Easter Business. 



The notes I sent you last week. Mr. 

 Editor, were taken or impressed with 

 too much haste and excitement to be 

 of value. Since then, time has given 

 me an opportunity to get acquainted 

 with the facts. It is within bounds to 

 say that the bulk of the business must 

 have been at least 25 per cent, more 

 than at any previous year, I base this 

 on the strength that there were more 

 to do it and all pronounce an increase. 



It is the verdict of all that expensive 

 plants were not the thing this year. 

 Moderate - priced plants sold better 

 than Easter eggs, and very poor was 



