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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Decejibeb 11, 1902. 



work, as they endure a good deal of frost 

 v.ith impunity. The generous panicles 

 of little redl hips of the Japanese black- 

 berry rose (Rosa nuiltiflora), also the 

 vivid orange-colored fruit of CratJEgus 

 pyracantha and the bright winterberry 

 may also be used in the same way, as 

 they, too, are enduring. In the larger and 

 commoner indoor Christmas decorations 

 these hardy shrul)s can likewise be used 

 to fine advantage. Hard frost is quite 

 injurious to the fniits of euonyinus and 

 celastrus; if these, however, are cut early 

 in Kovember and hiuig up in a shed, cool 

 and dry, but above freezing point, they 

 will keep veiy well for Christmas, in- 

 deed the celastrus, both American and 

 Japanese species, when heartly fruited 

 and dried, retain their ornamental char- 

 acter all winter long and big bushy 

 sprays or branches of them can be used. 



The Blind brothers have gone into 

 growing Begonia Lorraine and now have 

 it in veiy fine form; they brought in a 

 little beauty of a plant with them. They 

 liought the small i)lants in the East last 

 July for $15 a hundred, and now hope 

 to sell them for 75 cents to $l.each. 



Mr. E. C. Reineman tohl us 'of some 

 fine Lorraines he saw the other day; the 

 grower told him he kept them very much 

 on the dry side, and in a cool tempera- 

 ture, not over oO to 55 degrees at night. 

 In this way thi-y endured with consider- 

 able impunity- the change from the 

 greenhouse to the city store or the cus- 

 tomer's rot)nis. 



Some of the boys thought tlierc was 

 quite a future for poinsettias here. At 

 25 cents a head they coiild make money 

 out of them, but for a penny less they 

 wouldn't handle them. Grow tliem 

 planted out on benches with good sun- 

 shine and fair heat till in full he.nd. 

 then lower the temperature to stiffen 

 them. Small pot plants and ])ans con- 

 taining a few plants in each are nnuh 

 in demand and now we nnist send 

 East for them. Euphorbia jaequinia?- 

 flora from the Phipps conservatoi'^r was 

 much admired. To grow it in its great- 

 est perfection it should l)e planted out 

 on a bench. 



Mr. Reineman was warmly in favor of 

 our old friends, the bouvardias, for 

 Chri.stmas, and he advised some of the 

 growers to go into it. Tlie Cut Flower 

 Co. said it could sell every bouvardia 

 flower raised in town. It is now get- 

 ting its supply from the South. Some- 

 one lemarked if one man went into it 

 and made money out of it then every- 

 body would go into it. Well, that's all 

 right, then drop it and go into some- 

 thing else before the others get on to 

 that something. This is what Ernst 

 Asmus docs, and he makes money enough 

 to t<'rrify every moose and caribou in 

 Canada; and Julius Roehrs did the same 

 with the cheneille plant. 



Ernest Ludwig is somewhat exercised 

 because the expressmen fail to deliver 

 flowers promptly and then when the flor- 

 ist refuses to take the boxes the express 

 men turn around and sell them to who- 

 ever will buy them and for any price 

 they can get for them ; all they care 

 for is to get enough to pay their express 

 charges, and the poor gi-ower or shipper 

 gets nothing. We will ponder over this 

 until the next meeting, when it and 

 some other like things will be consid- 

 ered. Mr. Langhans, of the Cut Flower 

 Co., however, suggested a reasonable 

 remedy. "Patronize home industries, 

 bu(\^ your Uowers from the commission 

 liouse.s in D our o\yn town and then you'll 



have nothing in the way of expressmen 

 to worry about.'' 



A communication about the high 

 tariff on greenhouse glass and a desire 

 to have it removed so as to bring the 

 glass magnates to their senses and glass 

 down to a reasonable price came from 

 Xathan Smith & Son, of Adrian, Mich. 

 John Bader was loudly in favor of it, 

 but Howard Childs, in view of the fact 

 that the tariff question is not to be 

 touched on by Congress this winter, 

 thought At inexpedient that the club 

 should do anything in the premises at 

 this time. "But when John began tell- 

 ing us about the fine plants he import- 

 ed from Europe and the big prices he 

 got here for them some of us thought 

 that what he lost on glass he made up 

 on plants. For instance, he told lis of 

 a fine imported holly that cost him "six 

 shillings in Eiu-ope he sold to a nian 

 for .*5. Tlien he rej)ented of his bar- 

 gain and offered the man $10 for it. 

 "Oh, no," said the customer, "if you 

 want it back the price now. is $15," i so 

 John let him keep it. P. A. 



BUFFALO. 



The wave of eplu'uicral. or otherwise, 

 prosperity has si)read its wings over this 

 city, as it appears to have done in all 

 other directions. The present state of 

 trade is that there is not enough good 

 stock to go around and often it is a mis- 

 erable scramble to fill orders as you 

 would wish. Talk about the business 

 being overdone; it has not yet begun. I 

 have a goo<l friend in this city in our 

 business, who when I tell him of such 

 mammoth places as the I.ake View Rose 

 Gardens, of Jamestown, N. Y., or the 

 Dale Estate, of Brampton, Ont., puts on 

 a doleful and melancholy air and says, 

 "My boy, it will ruin our business; stuff 

 will be worth nothing." Perhaps he 

 really thinks this and perhaps not. If 

 the former, then it is only a sure indica- 

 tion that he is not progressing with the 

 rest of his kind. 



We have much to congi"atulate our- 

 selves upon at the end of the year. When 

 the sun is nearest the earth though 

 its rays are most oblique and we cuddle 

 by the stove after our daily work is 

 done, we have time to meditate on the 

 future of the business, and I have come 

 to the conclusion that if I had thirteen 

 sons, instead of only six, I would make 

 them all horticulturists. Xot that theie 

 is so much money in it as there is in a 

 hundred other professions or trades — 

 not to mention owning all the coal, or 

 petroleum or railroads of the world- — 

 but it is a business or calling that is 

 elevating, educational, ana ever gives 

 your mind food for thought. And so I 

 repeat, we gardeners and florists have 

 much to be thankful for. for never did 

 our virtuous calling have such encour- 

 agement as it has today. Flowers are 

 not a necessity; they are an accompani- 

 ment of a good and refined breeding and 

 should be handled with as gentle care as 

 the new born bab}', or the one you love. 

 But to see them handled in some commis- 

 sion houses you would think they were 

 sides of bacon or whalelwne corsets. Per- 

 haps "familiarity breeds contempt," yet 

 the day will come, and perhaps has come, 

 when all persons handling fiowers will 

 have a real love for the tender things 

 they are handling. 



I took the electric elevated railroad 

 around our city the other daj-, and as it 

 passed over the Kiagara gorge and then 

 circled around twenty miles up Lake 

 Erie to the steel plant, I visited a-bout 



half a dozen of the principal greenhouses 

 of Erie county. T- found Charles GHenth- 

 er on the shore growing the finest of 

 roses, only not enough. Charlie is a 

 gardener of the first water. At my re- 

 quest the train stopped at Wise Bros.', 

 East Aurora, where Henry showed me' 

 some good roses and general stock, but 

 the grand thing about his place was his 

 "Imperial'' violets. Whoever has grown 

 "Marie Louise" will never grow it it 

 they have seen "Imperial." East Aurora 

 is the home of Elbertus Hubbard, far bet- 

 ter known in distant parts of the United 

 States than at home, but unique as his 

 genius is. he has fallen down. "The 

 darty, bad man'' has been flirting with 

 other creatures, if not more useful, newer 

 than his dearly beloved. 



AVe 'seem pretty well supplied with 

 stc^k 'for Cliristmas trade. Louis H. 

 Neubeck has a fine stock of begonias, 

 cyclamen and poinsettias and has made 

 "a "gp^ia'lty at his Corfu place of sweet 

 ■pea's. ■ 



Stephen Rebstock. of Williamsville. has 

 a fine lot of flowering plants. These are 

 mostly grown for his sister, ilrs. R. M. 

 Rebstock. who is doing a fine trade at 

 her Main street store. 



Mrs. T). Xewlands has a splendid stock 

 of begonias, cyclamens and azaleas. 



J. H. Rebstock has the largest stock 

 of Begonia Ixnraine in western Xpw 

 York, having some 5,000 splendid plants. 



It was just called to my mind that opr 

 commission man, W. F. Kasting, might 

 keep a larger supply of first-class stock. 

 X'ow, for instance, take a man like 

 George Fancourt. He sends what he calls 

 first-class stock to the Big City and the 

 seconds are sent to Buffalo. George, we 

 will pav for the best and so will Billv. 



W. S. " 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



lliere has bccu a marked change in 

 the conditions of trade since my last re- 

 port. Business is anythi;ig but first- 

 class, but this is always the ca.se the 

 week after Thanksgiving. The supply 

 of stock at the wholesale houses has im- 

 proved and there is plenty of first-clas.s 

 stock of all kinds in the market just 

 now and i>rices are considerably lower 

 than a week ago. We have enjoyed our 

 first touch of real winter weather, with 

 some snow, which has kept most of the 

 fakirs off the streets. The downtowni 

 stores are fast assuming a Christmas ap- 

 pearance and most of the large houses 

 are already decorated with wreathing 

 and holly. The prospect for a heayy 

 demand for ground pine and holly .is 

 good. 



Chrysanthemums are well cleaned out 

 and in another week will be about over, 

 with the exception of some of the late 

 varieties. With these out of the market 

 lietter prices will be realized for other 

 stock. 



Violets are in fairly good supply, but 

 not nearly enough to supply the big de- 

 mand, and the price is holding up well. 

 Californias and a few doubles are the 

 only varieties in this market. 



Tlie demand for good roses was rather 

 light the past week and plenty were left 

 over after the morning sales. The qual- 

 ity of Brides, Maids, Meteors, Perles 

 and Gates that are coming in is fine. 

 Beauties seemed more plentiful than for 

 some time past and prices remain about 

 the same as quoted last week. 



As yet no Harrisii have made their 



