January 15, 1003. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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POTS. 



Standard Pots. We are now lejidy to svipply 

 a superior quality of pots in unlimited quanti- 

 ties. Catalogues and price lists furnished on 

 application. 



A. H. Hews & Co., North Cambridge, Mass. 



Standard Flower Pots. If your greenhouses 

 are within 500 miles of the Capital, write us; 

 we can save you money. W. H. Ernest, 2Sth 

 and M sta.. N. E.. Washington. D. C. 



Flower Pots. Before buying write us for 

 prices. Geo. Keller & Son, 361-363 Hemdon st. 

 (near Wrightwood ave. ) , Chicago. 



Red Standard Flower pots; Fern, Azalea and 

 Palm pots. 



HARRISON POTTERY. Harrison. Ohio. 



Red pots. Write for prices and sample pot. 

 Colesburg Pottery Co., Colesbnrg, Iowa. 



Those RED pots. The right kind. 

 C. C. POLLWORTH CO., Milwaukee, Wis. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Sphafjnum moss of first quality. Can ship at a 

 moment's notice — H bales. $1.50; 10-bale lots, 

 S-G-OO. Z. K. Jewett & Co., Sparta, Wis. 



Sphagnum moss. 50c per bag; $1.00 per bbl. 

 H. M. Robinson & Co., 32 Court sq-, Boston, 

 Mass. 



Fresh 5 bbl. bale, $1.25; 3 bales. $3.25; 5 

 bales. $5.00. H. R. Akers. Chatsworth. N. J. 



Sphagnum Moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Crowl Fern Co., Millington. Mass. 



SQUIRRELS. 



SQUIRRELS FOR SALE. GRAY squirrels. 

 SS.OiJ pair. Fl^inp and small red pine squirrels. 

 $2.00 pair. Send for large catalogue. 



Schmid's Florists' Supply House. Washing- 

 ton. D. C. 



TIN FOIL. 



.Ajnerican l>rand FLORIST B'OIL—TLe stand- 

 ard foil of America. 

 Jolin J. Crooke Co.. 186 Grand St.. New York. 



WIRE~SUPPORTS. 



Model Extension Carnation Supports and Gal- 

 vanized Rose Stakes. Parker- Bruen Mfg. Co.. 

 208 Jersey St., Harrison, N. J. 



WIRE WORK. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work in the west. McKellar & Wlnterson, 



45, 47. 49 Wabash , ave.. Chicago. 



Wired toothpicks. 10.000. ?1.50; 50,000, J6.25. 

 Sample free. For sale hy dealers. 

 W. J. COWEE. Berlin. N. Y. 



Emil Steifens. Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Designs. 335 East 21st St.. New York. 



We are manufacturers — no middleman's 

 profits. 



C. C. POLLWORTH CO.. Milwaukee. Wis. 



Reed & Keller. 122 W. 25th St.. New York. 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



E. H. Hunt. 70-78 Wabash ave. Chicago. 



POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. 



A Banquet. 



The Dutchess County Horticultural 

 Society's banquet last Thursday evening 

 was a great success. At the regular 

 meeting of the society in the afternoon 

 the following officers were re-elected: 

 President, E. Lyman Brown; vice-presi- 

 dent, W. J. Saltford ; treasurer, Chas. 

 Mitchell ; secretary, N. Harold Cottam. 

 The present membership numbers 312, 

 a sufficient evidence of its prosperity. 

 Tlie antagonism to excessive express 

 rates is rampant here and a committee 

 has been appointed to reason in person 

 with the American express officials. The 

 addition made to the regular rates De- 

 cember 1 was 50 per cent. 



The best citizens of Poughkeepsie are 

 members of the Dutchess County Society 

 — assemblymen, lawyers, doctors, gar- 

 deners and many millionaires — among 

 them such well known names as F. W. 

 Vanderbilt, Levi P. Morton, Ogden Mills, 

 C. F. Dietrich and Wm. B. Dinsmore. 

 The menu of the banquet was "high 

 grade," and some would call it "fancy." 

 The list of speakers included President 



Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Governor 

 Odell and Judge Parker, and the in- 

 genious letters of excuse from these gen- 

 tlemen for inability to attend were witty 

 and appropriate. 



Frank Hasbrouk was the toastmaster, 

 and a good one. He quoted from Roose- 

 velt: "Strenuous regrets," "shooting 

 big game," "strained tendon," "riding 

 two horses on the trust question," etc. 

 Cleveland reported "the Monroe doc- 

 trine." "in a condition of inocuous des- 

 uetude," "deep regrets'' — "impossible 

 to get leave of absence from President of 

 Princeton College" — "had to give a lec- 

 ture to the students'' and "yours per- 

 ennially." Governor Odell reported "ac- 

 ceptance of invitation, but had been so 

 busy writing annual message also that 

 the two speeches were mixed up and sent 

 wrong by his typewriter, and that he 

 had so much work ahead to keep the bolt- 

 ers in line he begged to be excused." 

 Judge Parker telegraphed he had a let- 

 ter of acceptance written but held it 

 back, thought it was next Thursday, and 

 asked that the dinner be postponed, etc. 



Then Attornej' Frank B. Lown a.s- 

 sumed the toastmaster's duties. His 

 Biblical comparisons were very humor- 

 OU.S, and his references to the "job lot 

 of speaking material," the society was 

 obliged to "gather in from the highways 

 and byways" because of the absence of 

 the great men expected, were very hu- 

 morous. 



He introduced the first speaker, Hon- 

 orable A. Lee Wager, of pihinebeck, as 

 "wise, good, modest, not beautiful, but 

 the author of 'Beautiful Snow!'" He 

 kept the company in a continuous roar. 

 His wit was original and spontaneous. 

 It was the speech of the evening. To 

 hear extracts from it can give no idea 

 of its eloquence. Richard Connell, the 

 editor of the News-Press, was the second 

 speaker, and was loaded to the brim with 

 Washington and Rip Van Winkle stories, 

 closing with an eloquent peroration on 

 the beauty of the rose, the spotless lily 

 and the inevitable law that makes us all 

 "sweet slaves of sweet perfection." 



Deputy Attorney General Wood gave 

 a short, profound, humorous and wise 

 address on "Farm Mortgages," and Presi- 

 dent E. Lyman Bro^vn, of the New York 

 State Hospit^al. waxed eloquent as sub- 

 stitute for Judge Parker. The toastmas- 

 ter introduced him as the "champion 

 fruit gatlierer," referring to the one hun- 

 dred members secured by him in a single 

 day, and every one a peach! Mr. 

 Brown gave some interesting data as to 

 the society, its large membership and 

 successful fall exhibitions, John J. 

 Piatt, editor of the Poughkeepsie Eagle, 

 closed the evening with a most interest- 

 ing historical speech concerning the rati- 

 fication of the Union and the constitu- 

 tion, declaring that the first salute ever 

 fired to the "United States of America" 

 was on Market street, Poughkeepsie. 

 Tlie patriotism and enthusiasm of the 

 banqueters were aroused by the stirring 

 references to the glory of the old days, 

 when almost from the very spot whereon 

 he stood the cannon's mouth sent forth 

 the voice of tlie nation's birth! 



Old-timers told me it was the Ijest ban- 

 quet of the society and it was certainly 

 most creditable and enjoyable to all who 

 attended. 



Items. 



W. G. Saltford, of 288 Main street, is 



the leading florist of the city, his hand- 

 some retail department being in charge 

 of his sons, George and Arthur, which 

 accounts for much of the Vassar College 

 trade. Mr. Saltford's residence and 

 range of 30,000 square feet of glass are 

 on the banl<s of the Hudson, about a 

 mile from the center of the city. The 

 entire output is handled by the retail 

 store, with the exception of the violets, 

 which are shipped to Mr, Saltford's 

 brother, Mr. George Saltford, the whole- 

 saler of West Twenty-ninth street. New 

 York. The residence commands a charm- 

 ing view of the Hudson and the Catskill 

 Mountains. Vassar College is close at 

 hand, with its 1,000 young ladies, which, 

 when the commencements and dances ar- 

 rive, brings the chappies from all over 

 the country and depletes the flower sup- 

 ply in a jiflFy. Mr. Saltford gets many 

 an order from brother florists all over 

 the land when the "sweet girl graduates" 

 leave their alma mater and receive their 

 diplomas. 



In 1905 he will place his new carna- 

 tion, "Fair Harvard," on the market, a 

 wonderfully strong gi-ower, often 3J 

 inches in size, and like the Gen. Jack 

 rose, a counterpart of the Harvard Col- 

 lege colors. 



Poughkeepsie has three other florists 

 within its borders, who do a fine trade — 

 Lynch, Fricker and the Haggerty Floral 

 Co. It is a beautiful city of 3.5,000 in- 

 habitants, delightfully situated on the 

 Hudson, high and dry, with glorioiV 

 views, grand estates, rich in Revolution- 

 ary remembrances, and boasting posses- 

 sion of one of the finest bridges in the 

 world. But its horticultural and agricul- 

 tural achievements make it pre-eminently 

 interesting to the florists of this coun- 

 try, and its "Society" is a credit to tlie 

 county and a lesson to the country in 

 tlie line of what harmony and co-opera- 

 tion can accomplish. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



JoLiET, In. — The greenhouses of Lud- 

 wig Schmidt were completely destroyed 

 by fire January 8. Mj-. Schmidt, who 

 had been sleeping in the office during the 

 severe weather, barely escaped with his 

 life. 



Lake Charles, La. — W. E. Teall, 

 proprietor of the Lake Charles Green- 

 houses, has completed two houses, one 

 20x80 and one 10x70, to replace the 

 ones burned down some time ago. 



It is REPORTED in the daily press that 

 the Pennsylvania P^ailroad is preparing 

 to make a very free use of plants and 

 shrubs along its right-of-way, especially 

 between New York and Pittsburg. 



Batavia, III. — Wm. Clark is prepar- 

 ing to rebuild his greenhouses that were 

 recently destro3-ed by fire. 



Lancaster, N. Y. — Samuel B. Smiley, 

 the fiorist. died suddenly of heart disease 

 January 9. 



Fitted and Handsome Fancies. 



The " DAISY " Oval Tag, No. 401. 

 " CLUSTER OF ROSES ■ Tag, 3 kinds. 

 LABELS, "RED ROSE" and others. 

 Low Priced. Samples Free. 



DAN'LB. LONG, Publisher. Buffalo, N.Y. 



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