Febeuary 12, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



443 



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Tribute of Milwaukee City Officials to the Dead Firemen. Designed by Jas. Cbacona. 



color. Kveiy where the effect of climb- 

 ing roses was elalioratcd, corridor, 

 stained glass roof and windows. Liberty 

 being used for this purpose with cape 

 smilax. At the church a natural arch 

 of palms was made in the altar, bunches 

 of lilies and wliite roses with ribbons 

 on the newel posts and pews and a great 

 bank of lilies, viburnum, marguerites 

 and white azaleas reached to the organ 

 loft and complete<l one of the finest ef- 

 fects of the year in church decoration. 

 J. Austin Shaw. 



ME-WAUKEE. 



I suppose nicist uf the readers of the 

 Review are aware of the calamity which 

 nened to our fire department at a 

 recent fire. We lost our gallant chief 

 and thre<' of his men through the bre;ik- 

 ing of a carboy of nitric acid. The in- 

 halation of the fumes was fatal many 

 ao\irs later, although no ill effects were 

 noticed imnunliately after the tire. About 

 ten more men of the various companies 

 are not as yet prono\inced out of dan- 

 ger. The chief and his three assistants 

 were given a public burial. The bodies 

 were placed in the large lobby of the 

 City Hall, where thousands of people 

 gazed up<jn the remains and paid their 

 last respects. 



The floral tributes were Ix'autiful and 

 the casket.s were comi)letely covered with 

 flowers. Tne rotunda was heavily decor- 

 ated with black drapery and palms. 

 Upon the railing of the second floor 

 was a big cluster of lights and in the 

 center the words "The Last Call." 

 Among the striking floral emblems were 

 a large cross about eight feet high, made 

 mostly of lilies and valley, from the city 

 officials, and four alarm boxes made of 



red carnations, with inscription "45," 

 signifying the last call bo.x, which were 

 tributes from the fire de]M»rtment. The 

 police department sent four large stars. 

 The Canadian government sent an im- 

 niens<' wreath with inscription "Can- 

 ada's Sympathy for a Hero." The Press 

 Club sent a large wreath of lilies and 

 roses with inscription "30," which sig- 

 nifies in a telegraph or. newspaper office 

 "good night" or "finished." 



There were also many fine pieces sent 

 innn the chiefs of various cities, as well 

 as a great many from the fire under- 

 writers, newspaper offices, private cor- 

 jKirations. friends and relatives. In fact, 

 the entire sides of the rotunda were 

 banked with flowers. The work of mak- 

 ing up most of the pieces was pretty well 

 divided. Jo.seph Cbacona, Currie Bros.. 

 I'eter Kapsalis. William Edlefsen and 

 McKenny & Fox all made some very 

 large pieces as well as numerous smaller 

 ones. The market florists also had a 

 liberal share of the work. 0. C. P. 



BOSTON. 



TheMarkeU 



Fifty per cent more goods coming in 

 and 2.5 per cent less call for them sizes 

 up our situation very nicely. Reasons 

 for increase of stock are readily seen, 

 b»it who can account for the sudden 

 changes in demand, which take place 

 simultaneously "from ilaine to Omaha, 

 as Jlr. McCarthy once expressed it •'. 



Quality of goods is improving natur- 

 ally, except perhaps in the case of roses. 

 This crop seems quite variable among 

 the different growers, but hardly aver- 

 ages up to a proper standard. 



The bulb men are having the best time 



of any one this winter. Tlieir stock 

 seems to be in unprecedented demand 

 all along and none of them has hardly 

 lost a flower. They do it very simply, 

 too. I think .John Fee is one of the best 

 of them, and they are all good men, 

 too. 



His place is more readily reached, so 

 I took it in. It is but a short nickel out 

 on a Forest Hills underground elevated 

 car, just off the west coast of Franklin 

 Park, among the wild breakers, 

 formed by the finest si^cimens of Eox- 

 bury pudding stone you ever saw. It is 

 therefore a grandly picturesipie place. 



I was surprised to find his necessary 

 glass acreage so small. He grinds 300,- 

 000 bulbs through a mill of 3,000 feet 

 of glass ground with i»uhaps half as 

 much vault space, now containing hun- 

 dreds of flats stacked away, with their 

 contents coming out for all the world 

 like chickens from an incubator! 



These stand almost still, however, un- 

 til a new grist is wanted in the "mill," 

 when same are harrowed over, when from 

 ten days to six weeks' time is necessary 

 to produce full fledged "pullets," accord- 

 ing to the season of the year. He cuts 

 an incredible amount from a small space, 

 run cool on a small coal bill, markets 

 his crop awfully easy because he does 

 not try to follow the ups and downs of 

 the market very much. 



For thirty years ho has as.soeiat«d 

 with those grim old pudding-st(me bould- 

 ers, naturally absorbing some of their 

 rugged characteristics. He is one of 

 those men a conscientious man can speak 

 highly of without feeling he has said too 

 much, and you will always find him 

 where you leave him. 



Now dou"t tumble all over yourselves 

 going into the bulb business t)ecause it 

 looks so easy. Fee and his competitors 

 have the traffic well in hand and a man 

 must be a cuckoo indeed to l»'at them 

 at their own game. 



■J. S. Manter. 



dNONNATL 



The Market. 



All kinds of flowers are scarce at 

 present, excepting perhaps Harrisii lilies 

 and lily of the valley. The supply of 

 violets is growing less and the price is 

 advancing. Roses are sold about as soon 

 as they are unpackeil. the wholesaler 

 having none left to put in the ice-box. 

 In fact, were it not for bulbous stock, 

 tue ice-boxes would be cuipty most of 

 the time. Carnations arc in fair sup- 

 ply, but the demand is very much in 

 excess of it, especially for whit«. Nar- 

 cissus are substituted" for them in many 

 cases, also white tulips. 



American Beauties are scarce in all 

 giades, but there are prospects for an 

 increase in supply shortly. A great many 

 orders are being hooked for St. Valen- 

 tine's day, especially for violets. 



Thomas Windrum. D. Sundenbniph, 

 W. Murphy. R. Witterstaetter and W. 

 K. Partridge made up a ])arty of Cin- 

 cinnati florists and journeyed into In- 

 diana last week. They visited Rich- 

 mond and Xew Castle, and from their 

 report of what they saw the trip was 

 ttell worth the trouble. W. K. Partridge 

 and R. Witterstaetter took a side trip 

 to La Favette. 



There is a bill before our Board of 

 Public Service calling for a $1,000,000 

 Iwnd issue, to be used in extending our 

 park .system. Should this bill pass it 

 would he a great thing for Cincinnati. 



