July 28, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



425 



Frame for a Large Floral Design. 



to the report and approved Assignee Bur- 

 ton 's plans on Tuesday afternoon. 



Phil. . 



Aster and Canna Show. 



An exhibition of all the now and mer- 

 itorious varieties of (3hina asters and 

 cannas is invited at the meeting of the 

 Florists' Club of Philadelphia, to lie held 

 Tuesday evening, August 2. All those 

 desiring to send exhibits should forward 

 same prepaid, care David Bust, Horticul- 

 tural Hall, Broad street, above Spruic, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Edwin Lonsdale, Sec 'y. 



A LARGE DESIGN. 



Evei-y once in a wliile a florist gets an 

 order for a funeral piece, which, from 

 the amount of money to be represented, 

 taxes his ingenuity. The head of a de- 

 partment in some big concern passes 

 away, and each one of the employes 

 under him contributes 50 cents or a dol- 

 lar to buy a funeral piece. An order 

 for $100 or $200 or more is not to be 

 sneezed at; neither is it to be treated 

 lightly if it calls for the use of the 

 entire sum all in one piece. Tlie larger 

 the design the more limited in choice is 

 the maker. If fancy stock is vsed a fine 

 result can be obtained and a large value 

 represented, but in the ma.iority of cases 

 this is not satisfactory; size is what is 

 Avanted. A great cross, a )nas3ive column 



or a huge urn meets with the approval 

 of the customer. 



Along this line is the large new design 

 represented in the accompanying repro- 

 duction from a photograph. This was 

 made by Reed & Keller, New York, and 

 stands seven feet high. It is in the form 

 of a draped Grecian mortuary urn on 

 an Ionic pedestal, the drapery being 

 made of wire nettiilg so that it can be 

 filled with flowers. Some of the lead- 

 ing New York retailers who have seen 

 this frame have expressed the opinion 

 that when filled with flowers it could be 

 made the handsomest piece ever made 

 up. Eeed & Keller will show this huge 

 d?sign in their exhibit at St. Louis. 



BUFFALO. 



Excej^t for the inevitable, there is lit- 

 tle business, but as much as can reasona- 

 bly be expected. We find our wholesale 

 house loaded up vAnth flowers and Wm. 

 Kasting is not so busy with flowors as 

 he is distributing Croweanum. 



Those who can get away for a few 

 weeks are taking advantage of this 

 slack time. Jos. H. Rebstock has been 

 handling the ribbons on a coaching 

 ))arty tlirough the highways of beautiful 

 western New York, and a jolly auto- 

 mobile party from Detroit passed 

 through the city recently. Conspicuous 

 as (X'<'ui>ants of the car were President 

 Phil Breitmeyer, Mr. Dilgor and a few 



others. The leonine face and figure of 

 Arnold Eingier has pervaded our quiet 

 city. We can imagine that tho Baron 

 Bonstettin was built along his lines. T, 

 A. Webb haa had his two weeks' vaca- 

 tion at his home in Corfu, He tells 

 me the Dale Estate, where he has charge 

 of a block of carnation houses, had 

 35,000 plants on the beds very early in 

 June or end of May and looking fine. 

 Harry Balsley has been doing his usual 

 midsummer stunt in our town. 



We very much regret that we miseed 

 by a few hours C. H. Totty, of Madison, 

 N. J. We have such a high opinion of 

 Mr. Totty as an all around and bright 

 young florist that an hour's exchange of 

 views would be as instructive as it 

 would be enjoyable. We also missed J. 

 J, Curran, superintendent of the newly 

 started place at Elmira, N, Y., the 

 United States Cut Flower Company. 

 When asked how much glass is already 

 up, Mr. Curran says they ' ' had only time 

 to put up 100,000 feet this season. ' ' This 

 is only a small beginning. If the re- 

 mainder of the million projected feet are 

 to be built out of the profits of the ex- 

 isting glass, it may be some years before 

 completed, but if unlimited capital is 

 behind it we may soon see, in the valley 

 of the Chemung, a plac^e rivaling that 

 of Alderman Reinberg. Don 't be 

 frightened, little man; you will bo mak- 

 ing more money in proportion to your 

 investment than these mammoth places, 

 and we ought to be proud of these men 

 who have the pluck and enterprise to put 

 their capital into the business. It ele- , 

 vates it, advertises it and puts it on a 

 broader base, and it is doubtful if the 

 erection of glass houses is much, if any- 

 thing, ahead of the ever growing de- 

 mand for their product. 



Buffalo haa 3,000 autos, more than 

 any city of its size on the planet. These 

 speedy vehicles will at least show to 

 hundreds of our urban population the 

 beauties of our rural scenery which you 

 never see from a railroad car, besides the 

 fact that the railroad runs through the 

 poorest and most luipicturesque part of 

 the country, at least in tlie east and mid- 

 dle west. On each side of the train the 

 fields and background of woods are 

 made hideous by the mammoth, gaudy 

 signs which the poor farmer allows on 

 his lawn for a few dollars. 



Coming in on the New York Central 

 the other day, I counted the following 

 in lees than half a mile and many of 

 tliem several times repeated: Heinze's 

 Pickles, Carter's Little Liver Pills, Cas- 

 carets. Children cry for Castoria, Men- 

 nen's Powder, Hood's Sarsaparilla, Dr. 

 Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, 

 Cremo Cigars, Sapolio, but I am really 

 ashamed to go on. There were at least 

 a dozen more. In fact, it was only occa- 

 sionally that you got, between these 

 boards, a glimpse of the golden grain, 

 the tropical growth of the com, the deep 

 green, heavy oats, or the refreshing 

 woods of maple and beech. Here's work 

 for the Society for Beautifying Our 

 Countrj'. A farmer allows his barns to 

 1x^ smeared over with the ads of some 

 poisonous concoction containing forty 

 ]>er cent alcohol, and liis wife preaches 

 temperance at tho village meeting of 

 W, C. T, r. W. S, 



YouxGSTOWN, O. — George W. Marsh 

 has bought a ten-acre fruit farm about 

 midway between Youngstown, Girard, 

 Niles and Warron, find removed his 

 greenhouses to it. His address is? now 

 rural route No. 1, Girard, O. 



