Mabch 5, 1903. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



569 



retailers, as well as the members of the 

 leisure class, who are enjoying the balmv 

 breezes of the south, H. H. Battles and 

 J. Liddon Pennock heading the stream of 

 tourists. Abram L. Pennock is gaining 

 strength near Jacksonville. Two of his 

 sons, Herbert A. and Henry, have been 

 with him all winter. The latter has two 

 acres of pineapples under cultivation. 

 Another son of A. J., known as the '"Val- 

 ley King," is with them now for a short 

 tinie. 



The Baltimore florists have extended 

 a hearty invitation to their brethren in 

 this city to come to Baltimore on Mon- 

 day, March 9. roll three games of te'n- 

 pins in the afternoon, and join them at 

 their annual dinner in the evening. Greo. 

 M. Moss, to whom the in%atation was 

 sent, proposes to take the 10:20 a. m. 

 train from Broad street station next 

 Monday, and hopes that a goodly num- 

 ber of "our bowlers will go with him. 



The engagement of W. R. Shelmire. 

 formerly of ,*vondale. Pa., to take charge 

 of H. "H. Battles' place at Newtown 

 Square will, it is thought, cause carna- 

 tions to supersede plants as a specialty 

 at this place. 



The Florists' Bowling team defeated 

 the Penn.sylvania Club, their nearest. ri- 

 val for first honors, in three straight 

 games in the Bowlers' League last week. 

 This gives the Florists a score of .32 

 wins to (1 losses, their antagonists hav- 

 ing 22 wins to 14 losses. The score is 

 as follows : 



FLORISTS. 



Totals. 



Moss 175 192 204 571 



Mooney 182 175 140 477 



Yates 175 187 137 4119 



Dunham 191 179 14S 518 



Johnson 175 123 157 455 



Florists S7S S5.S 788 



Penna 7.34 .S38 744 



Joseph Heacock has a large stock of 

 well grown palms. 



John Q. A. TurnbuU has gone to St. 

 Paul, IMinn. Phil. 



BUFFALO. 



L«nt does not make as much differ- 

 ence nowadays to the trade as it did 

 some years ago and quiet little parties 

 go on as usual and other occasions that 

 call for our products, so we expect to 

 sell all we can grow for the next four 

 months at .least. I heard of no over- 

 stock of flowers of late and hope there 

 won't be any. Tulips and narcissus have 

 sold well of late; the demand for these 

 always increases as the sun gets higher. 



I am requested by the secretary of the 

 American Park and Otitdoor Art Asso- 

 ciation to call your attention to the 

 fact that the association meets in Buf- 

 falo, July 7, 8 and 9. I have the 

 pleasure of lieing a member of the asso- 

 ciation and am very glad it will hold 

 its next convention in our city, although 

 its objects and interests hardly appeal 

 to the merely practical florist. It is 

 striving to educate our people to em- 

 bellish the outside of their homes as 

 well as the inside. To beautify their 

 streets and give liberal support to their 

 parks. In fact, every movement that 

 will make our surroundings more beau- 

 tiful and healthful. All this is most 

 commendable, and the florist is at the 

 same work only in a narrower sphere 

 and mostly for revenue. I trust all 

 florists who possibly can will attend 

 some of the meetings and assist as much 

 as possible to make the visit of the 

 association the best in its history. The 

 program of the convention is long and 

 varied. They will on several occasions 

 be the guests of the park commissioners 



and as we have a very large society 

 here known as the "Society for Beauti- 

 fying Buffalo" the visitors will doubtless 

 receive a hearty welcome. 



Last week we lost a veteran florist, 

 Mr. Philip La Tour. He was 65 years 

 of age and perhaps not so generally 

 known to the younger generation of 

 florists. Some 25 years ago he had sev- 

 eral o-reelihouses and office on Washing- 

 ton "street, afterwards removing and 

 building a new establishment on Gen- 

 esee street near the Parade. Some fif- 

 teen years ago he became largely inter- 

 ested in real estate and a large tract of 

 land between Genesee street and Walden 

 avenue was quickly built up through the 

 enterprise of Mr. La Tour. He leaves a 

 widow and several sons and daughters, 

 one of whom is Mrs. Wm. F. Kasting. 



W. S. 



BALTIMORE. 



PIPING NOT PRACTICABLE. 



I send a plan of my greenhouses and 

 proposed method of piping same. If I 

 have anything wrong, will Mr. Gibbons 

 please correct it? J. B. 



Referring to the inquiry and diagram 

 of J. B., the plan proposed is not prac- 

 ticable; in the first place, the system 

 of circulation is not desirable for the 



Trade and Personal Notes. 



Since the writing of our last notes 

 from this point two weeks ago we have 

 had violent contrasts of weS-ther, af- 

 fecting markedly the production and sale 

 of all sorts of cut flowers. First was 

 an almost Arctic snow storm, with the 

 mercury below the zero mark for four 

 successive mornings, an experience alto- 

 gether unique here, so far as the mem- 

 ory of your correspondent goes. Since 

 that time we have had hea^■y rains, and 

 on Satvirday last a warm storm from the 

 south, the temperature going above 70 

 degrees. Today (March 2) it is clear, 

 cool, crisp and dry, with overhead an 

 azure vault of heavenly blue which no 

 Italian skies can equal. 



On Wednesday of last week. Ash Wed- 

 nesday, closely observed by a niunber of 

 churches as a day of fasting and solem- 

 nity, trade fell off vei-y much and it may 

 be said, so far, not to have fully revived. 

 At the same time the receipts of cut 

 stuff are gradually but certainly increas- 

 ing. Towards the close of the week the 

 effect was to create the first glut which 

 has been felt here dujing the winter. 

 This was especially true of carnations. 

 Naturally, prices were affected and many 



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Heating Plan Submitted For Correction. 



houses 74 feet long; it were better if 

 possible to sink the boiler deep enough 

 to make an entire circulation beneath 

 the benches; in the second place, the 

 hot water main leading from the boiler 

 is too small for the purposes showm. It 

 should not be less than 3J-inch pipe 

 and the return to each side of the boiler 

 2i inch; again, the method of making 

 the coils, running, as he shows, 6 lines 

 of li-inch pipes 74 feet long directly 

 into the headers at each end, is defect- 

 ive, as there will be a variation in the 

 expansion of the pipes which will result 

 in serious buckling of the pipes and ul- 

 timately to splits or it will result in a 

 breakage at the headers. Provision for 

 spring must be made at least at one 

 of each coil. 



Your correspondent does not state 

 what temperature he wishes to maintain 

 nor does he state how much of the build- 

 ing is of glass, but assuming that there 

 is glass on the roof only and that he 

 desires to maintain a temperature of 

 55 degrees, the coils should contain 

 about 90 inches, measuring the circum- 

 ference of all the pipe; whereas the cir- 

 cumference of the coil of six li-inch pipes 

 on each side of the house together with 

 the overhead main measures less than 

 80 inches, showing an apparent short- 

 age of heating surface necessary under 

 the most favorable conditions. 



Henry W. Gibbons. 



New York. 



mediocre flowels receded from their rath- 

 er inflated values to more normal figures. 

 But good stuff has, as is usual, held its 

 own and was in steady request at fig- 

 ures showing no decline. 



There is an outlet in this market for 

 large quantities of flowel-s which prob- 

 ably is not felt in all cities. Reference la 

 made to the hospital supply. Baltimore 

 is the seat of one great public institu- 

 tion, the John Hopkins Hospital, the 

 fame of which is, at least, national, and 

 there are other sanitariums, private or 

 quasi-public, which are conducted by men 

 of eminent skill and wide renown in cer- 

 tain lines of surgical 'or medical prac- 

 tice, so that to these establishments are 

 drawn patients from all over the coun- 

 try. The friends of these people are pro- 

 fuse in their offerings of flowers which 

 mark delicately and'appropriately sym- 

 pathy for and* interest in the sufferers. 

 The stream of cut flower boxes into the 

 various institutions is perennial, one 

 florist informing me a few days ago that 

 he averaged at times a dozen boxes a 

 day! 



The steamer trade here, except during 

 a comparatively brief season in the 

 spring, amoimfs to very little, most of 

 the steamship lines carrying few passen- 

 gers. Nor is there the rage for compli- 

 menting theatrical favorites with floral 

 gifts which exists in some other quarters. 



During the past few weeks there have 

 been several funerals which demanded 



