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The Florists^ Review 



OCTOBEE 4, 1617. 



BUFFALO, N. Y. 



The Market. 



There was an oversupply of asters 

 during the first part of the week and 

 many of the florists purchased largo 

 quantities while bargains were to be 

 had, but the heavy receipts continued 

 and during the week there were more 

 asters dumped than there had been 

 since their season started. As many of 

 the asters were of poor quality, there 

 was little call for them except for fu- 

 nerals. Good Richmond roses are just 

 about plentiful enough to go around 

 and inferior Killarneys are more than 

 plentiful. Good American Beauties are 

 extremely scarce. Easter lilies are sat- 

 isfactory and there are enougli to meet 

 the demand. 



There was not much funeral work dur- 

 ing the week, which accounts for the 

 prevailing quantities of second-grade 

 flowers. 



September 22 the first frost of the 

 season visited the low regions, and many 

 of the soft-wooded plants turned their 

 heels to the sun the next morning. 

 Since that date there has been no frost 

 to do any damage. 



Various Notes. 



Stroh's Quality Store is receiving 

 good white mums from its greenhouses. 



L. O. Smith, of Smith Bros., carna- 

 tion growers at Gasport, N. Y., was in 

 the city September 26. Mr. Smith says 

 that the good growing weather of the 

 summer months just about offset the 

 tardy spring period, and that plants 

 were fine at the time of housing. 



William Legg was "bungled up" 

 with rheumatism during the fore part 

 of the week. Mr. Legg says that rheu- 

 matism is the gardener's inheritance, 

 so he is not going to complain. 



P. H. Poore is rebuilding . a house 

 which he is going to plant to sweet 

 peas, which are now fine plants in 4-inch 

 pots. 



The Cemetery Association has prohib- 

 ited the cutting of plants on its 

 grounds. This is a good thing, as some 

 of the florists of the city were wrongly 

 suspected of taking cuttings from vases 

 without the owners' permission. If any 

 of the florists depended on this method 

 of "getting" their stock of geraniums 

 and other plants, they will have to 

 "fork up" some of their coin for spring 

 stock, perhaps for the first time. 



S. A. Anderson has added goldfishes to 

 the line of stock carried at the Elm- 

 wood store. Mr. Anderson had the decor- 

 ations at the Elmwood Music hall for 

 the banquet given to the grain dealers 

 in convention here by the Corn Ex- 

 change September 25. Quantities of 

 dahlias, calendulas, gladioli, asters and 

 goldenrod were used. Forty vases of 

 dahlias were used for the tables. 



F. P. A. 



Wooster, O.— S. C. De Witt, a florist 

 at one time in business here, has decided 

 to start out for himself again at Cleve- 

 land. 



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