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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



185 



A Vase of Dorothy Perkins Rose Arraoged by August S. Swanson, St. Paul. 



I would like to add that its extreme 

 hardiness makes it a splendid rose for 

 outdoors in this latitude, where very few 

 roses will survive the winter. I have 

 given it the most severe test, having left 

 It in pots on top of the ground and it 

 came out sound to the very tips. It is a 

 rose always clean, no mildew or spider, 

 the foliage standing out green and glossy 

 until very late in the fall. 



Aug. S. Swanson. 



SrEAMER SAILINGS, 



The business of delivering flowers on 

 board outgoing steamers on orders from 

 friends of people en route to Europe 

 has assumed large proportions, but it is 

 capable of still further increase. Here 

 are the principal sailings from New York 

 for the rest of June: 



T»l!'iT „ Steamer. Destination. 



Junp ^l~f^■ ^"'' Southampton. 



June 17— Lucania LlverDool 



June 17-Vaderland . AnTw^ ' 



June 21— Baltic LiveiDW 



June 21-Rotterdam ... Rotte& 



J^e |^?i"^ ?>" oS'^nhagei. 



June ^2~Ja Bretagne Havre 



CI ftlSr^'.'^""'' • Hamburg. 



June 24— Etrurla Uveroool 



June 24— Patricia HambTK 



Junt |*Z^'>'""'elPbla ..:::: .SouThampton. 



jSne it~^'^"'*°d Antwerp. 



JMe «Z5;^?P^*"^ Wllhelm. Bremen. 



JUM ^»*?*?°^^ Liyerpool. 



JuSe »Zf ^^'r**""" RotteVdam. 



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THE COAL TRADE. 



rnj^®, <^oal trade has improved slightly. 

 "P !^^ diamond says of the market: 

 vnn^L ^'■^* *^™® in a number of 



"lonths there is a slightly better feel- 



ing in the western soft coal trade. De- 

 mand is more active and according to 

 the reports of operating and shipping 

 interests there is a slightly larger 

 tonnage moving. For fear that this 

 slight improvement may be exagger- 

 ated and be given more prominence 

 than it deserves it may be well to add 

 that nrices have shown no apprecia- 

 ble advance, but that the altered tone 

 of market conditions is largely con- 

 fined to a heavier movement and a 

 better condition as to inquiries." 



THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. 



In the closing week of May the 

 Societe Nationale d 'Horticulture de 

 France held an international exhibi- 

 tion at Paris, accounts of which are 

 just coming to hand. It is quite evi- 

 dent that a new mark was set for Euro- 

 pean flower shows, both for extent and 

 quality of exhibits. So far as exhibits 

 went, however, the affair was more in- 

 ternational in name than in fact, for 

 there were few things shown from out- 

 side of France. But the French grow- 

 ers were out in force and made a splen- 

 did show, one English observer writing 

 home that the display by the great 

 firm of Vilmorin-Audrieux & Co. was a 

 complete horticultural exhibition in 

 itself. A large number of gold and 

 other medals were awarded to the large 

 number of exhibitors. 



But what most impressed the Ameri- 

 can visitors was the arrangement of 

 the exhibits and the general effect of 

 the whole ensemble. In this respect 

 the show is said to have been superior 

 to the best seen on this side of the 



Atlantic. The building was decorated 

 to fine effect and the plants were ar- 

 ranged on slopes, mounds, and undula- 

 tions of various degrees, rather than 

 on dead levels or monotonous tables. 

 Every group of plants, whether in 

 flower or not, was disposed in a posi- 

 tion where it could be seen to the best 

 advantage; thus most of them were be- 

 low the eye-level, many being on the 

 surface of the ground as a flower bed. 

 Moreover, the pots were hidden from 

 view wherever possible, not by the 

 crowding of plants together for the 

 purpose, but by the plunging. The 

 whole indicated that the managers 

 had had advance information of the 

 exact extent and character of every ex- 

 hibit, something it has been found im- 

 passible to get in the case of our 

 American shows. 



OUR LONDON LETTER. 



Pink and white seem to be the pre- 

 vailing colors this season. At a fashion- 

 able dinner party pink pelargoniums 

 were the feature of the dinner table 

 decorations. Pink roses for ball room 

 decorations are quite the thing. In bed- 

 ding out this year I find pink and white 

 take the lead, and white zonal pelargon- 

 iums are more in demand. 



The highly colored varieties of Acer 

 palmatum or polymorphum are now 

 among the most popular subjects we 

 have, and are used extensively for vari- 

 ous decorative purposes, and the demand 

 has been further increased since Japan- 

 ese gardens have been made a feature. 

 It seems likely that this form of garden- 

 ing is destined to take the place of the 

 subtropical gardens which were so highly 



