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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JANUABY 10, 1006. 



• BUFFALO. 



The Market. 



I am sorry to say that nearly all par- 

 ties pronounce business as very quiet. 

 A few days after New Year's the bot- 

 tom seemed to drop out of festivities, 

 and little social gatherings and dinner 

 parties demanding but a few dozen roses 

 or carnations is what we have to de- 

 pend on. Carnations are plentiful, 

 violets more than abundant, but good 

 roses not at all overdone. Tulips are 

 just arriving and welcomed as a change. 

 The weather has been against business 

 and that seems general. Every variety 

 is served up once a week. You need 

 skates for the sidewalk on Monday, 

 snow shoes on Tuesday, waterproof rub- 

 bers on Wednesday, Eskimo apparel for 

 Thursday, umbrellas on Friday, a mix- 

 ture of the foregoing on Saturday and 

 such a howling blizzard on Sunday that 

 you can't possibly attend divine serv- 

 ice, so you make your wife attend just 

 to keep up appearances. 



Various Notes. 



We had a well attended meeting of 

 the club last Friday and the final de- 

 tails of the Sweeney flower show were 

 completed. The company gives the 

 Florists' Club $1,100 in premiums. It 

 will be held four days, commencing 

 Tuesday, April 11. The classes are al- 

 most entirely devoted to such plants as 

 w© offer for Easter and there is a 

 chance for everybody. Surely this 

 ought to bring out a large display. 

 Every local grower as well as store man 

 should be represented. Charlie Keitsch 

 is manager, so all looks fair. 



We had the pleasure of talking over 

 the phone yesterday with E. G. Hill. 

 Wonder what he thought of our de- 

 lightful climate? We would have much 

 liked to see the good man and his 

 Bichmond rose. Mr. Clucas, Jr., was 

 also in town and that excellent commer- 

 cial traveler (drummer is too vulgar a 

 word in this case) Harry Bunyardj 

 "God bless me, oh, yes indeed!" 



I forgot to mention that at our club 

 meeting Dan'l B. Long was appointed a 

 committee of one to solicit subscrip- 

 tions to the McKinley memorial fund 

 and he has promised to go at the work 

 promptly and with his usual energy. Mr. 

 Altick will think Buffalo has been very 

 negligent over his worthy object, but 

 in truth the one expected to take up 

 the work has had all the vim and en- 

 ergy taken out of him for the past three 

 months. W. S. 



EASTER LILIES. 



I have a lot of Easter lilies in 6-inch 

 pots, from five to seven inches' high, very 

 thrifty looking. They have been kept 

 in 60 to 65 degrees night temperature, 

 bottom of pots full of root*. I want 

 to have them in bloom by or a little 

 before Easter. Shall I shift into 7- 

 inch pots and keep at the same temper- 

 ature, or shall I increase the tempera- 

 ture and shall I use liquid manure? Is 

 bone meal any advantage mixed with 

 soil? H. M. M. 



Considering the late date of Easter 

 you have your lilies too far advanced. 

 It is not a good plan to reduce the 

 temperature on these lilies, as they will 

 often become stunted. The only time 

 I like to remove them to a much lower 

 temperature is after the buds are turn- 

 ing white. They will open then in a 



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very cool house. However, in your case, 

 don't let the night temperature exceed 

 .55 to 58 degrees or they will assuredly 

 be too early. Don't shift any more. A 

 6-inch pot is plenty large enough. Weak 



..VIOLETS.. 



Write for the lowest price on Violets. We took 

 1st Dremium at the World's Fair, Chicago and 

 Joliet Flower Shows. We can give the ri«ht 

 price as we are growers. 



ELI CROSS, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



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liquid manure once a week will help 

 later on and a half-inch mulching of 

 good loam with some bone meal added 

 will help. Don't apply that until 

 March 1. W. S. 



