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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



AOGUST 2, 190«. 



Nurseries, Saturday, July 28. The Thorn 

 Hedge team won by the score of thirteen 

 to twelve in a ten-inning battle. The 

 feature of the game was the playing of 

 Frank Gaul, Henry Farmnun, Martin B. 

 Farmer and George Laverty. William 

 Stevens played a fine game behind the 

 bat. After the game the players all en- 

 joyed Mr. Battles' hospitality, which 

 closed a pleasant day. 



BUFFALO. 



The Market 



Business has not been so dull as usual 

 all this midsummer season. The design 

 business has kept many hundreds busy 

 through the shortened hours, for we all 

 close at 6 p. m. through July and Au- 

 gust, and I have not heard of any vio- 

 lator of this agreement. 



Asters are abundant. Sweet peas sell 

 well and the Lilium lanci folium, album 

 and rubrum, are in their prime, and cut 

 a big figure in all designs. 



With the exception of one or two light 

 showers, not enough to hinder the flight 

 of a butterfly, we have had several weeks 

 of dry, hot weather. It is ten years 

 since we have had such real summer 

 weather, and it is mighty good for the 

 great staples of life, wheat and corn, and 

 eventually pork. 



Varioui Notes. 



The store boys are taking their vaca- 

 tions, but I would have to draw on my 

 imagination to tell you how Billy Greever 

 is enjoying his by attending to his new 

 baby. 



Andy Adams is shooting bullfrogs on 

 the marshes bordering the broad, blue 

 Niagara. 



Roland Cloudsley is spending all his 

 leisure hours designing a motor boat, 

 which will be launched in the spring of 

 1907, and with which he expects to emu- 

 late the performance of the famous 

 "Maid of the Mist," and go through 

 the whirlpool rapids at Niagara. The 

 writer declined the honor of holding the 

 wheel. 



S, A. Anderson and W, B. Scott are 

 watching the barrier at Fort Erie, and 

 those who sleep near them are often 

 startled by a sudden cry of "They're 

 oflf!" 



Miss Rachel Rebstock, ever industrious, 

 thinks, like the late Russell Sage, that 

 vacations are not necessary. J. H. Reb- 

 stock is busy with the great steamboat 

 traflBc of his summer resort. Crystal 

 Beach, on the lake. 



There have been few visitors of late. 

 I forgot to mention a visit from Mr. 

 Wilmore, the celebrated dahlia and hol- 

 lyhock grower of Denver. He is a fine 

 example of a western man. 



The veteran, George McClure, has 

 sailed for Rotterdam and then old Sco- 

 tia. He has taken Mrs. McClure along; 

 she will prevent him from sampling his 

 native stimulant, "mountain dew," so 

 invigorating in that cool, damp climate, 

 and dangerous and demoralizing in this. 



Louis Neubeck is so busy filling fern 

 dishes and attending to other business 

 that he has not had time to call a meet- 

 ing of the Florists' Club for many 

 months. There was a great excuse for 

 his apathy last year, but none this. We 

 want to talk over the national conven- 

 tion, and also the annual picnic. 



The Dayton Meeting. 



How many will attend the Dayton 

 convention is a guess. There should be 



a good number, for have we not the pres- 

 ident? From loyalty to him, as well as 

 to the society, all should go who possi- 

 bly can. It is selfish not to. The stay- 

 at-homes don't realize what they miss, 

 or the benefits they have reaped from 

 the work of men who have unselfishly 

 given their time and money to the so- 

 ciety. We regret that there was any 

 friction or misunderstanding in the Day- 

 ton Club. Somebody blundered, per- 

 haps not intentionally. It is corrected, 

 and let us hear of nothing but harmony 

 and brotherly love, at least till we re- 

 luctantly say good-by to our Dayton 

 brothers. 



There is likely to be a spirited but 

 friendly fight for several of the prm^ 

 cipal offices, and that always amuses the 

 crowd. Vote for the men you think 

 will do the most good to the society and 

 not for personal reasons. When you 

 meet men from the mouth of the Missis- 

 sippi, the banks of the muddy Missouri, 

 the far away Rockies, and the wheat 

 fields of Manitoba, it makes you ashamed 

 of your fellow townsman who had but 

 eight hours' ride in a Pullman car and 



We wish to express our apprecia- 

 tion of 



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as a trade getter; our sales have far 

 exceeded our expectations and we 

 find our shipments have covered the 

 entire country, from Maine to Ore- 

 gon and from New Brunswick to 

 Texas. 



V. J. OLDS. 

 Union Qty, Pa. 



July 30, 1906. 



then did not grasp the opportunity to at- 

 tend. Go to Dayton and cheer for your 

 townsman, Billy Kasting, the eloquence 

 of Robert Craig, the wise talk of Gur- 

 ney Hill, and the remarks and advice of 

 their more or less eloquent or wise com- 

 rades. 



Then there is the social side, and the 

 sports. The sports are all right in their 

 way, and are greatly enjoyed by those 

 who bowl or shoot, but a large element 

 does neither, and it includes some of our 

 hardest workers and most clever men. 

 Without doubt the sports bring many to 

 the convention city, and personally I 

 like to see a certain amount of innocent 

 sport in every man's character, but it 

 is entirely foreign to the objects of the 

 society, and anything relative to the 

 games or the prizes should never be 

 injected into the deliberations or time 

 of the sessions. It is a featu/e that can 

 be conducted and managed entirely out- 

 side the work and business of the con- 

 vention. A member whom I know re- 

 marked on the platform at St. Louis two 

 years ago, while distributing some prizes, 

 " If a man can 't shoot or bowl, or does 

 not love these sports, he does not amount 

 to much." I have communed with the 



author of that flippant, silly remark 

 many times since, and know that he 

 greatly regrets its utterance. Many a 

 man says a foolish thing when on his 

 feet, on the spur of the moment, that 

 he deeply regrets afterwards. 



Consideration of our leading com- 

 mercial flowers has been pretty well 

 thrashed out, but now we are ornamental 

 horticulturists. There is a wide and 

 splendid field to be yet explored, and 

 the knowledge is sadly needed by an 

 army of young men who call themselves 

 florists. 



Mr. Kasting's Qub-house. 



The only holiday W. S. has had this 

 summer was a day and night with Presi- 

 dent Kasting at his club-house on Grand 

 Island, on the bluflfs of the majestic 

 Niagara river. The club is called the 

 Half-past Twelve Club. I did not learn 

 whether it is twelve p. m. or twelve 

 a. m. The fishing was poor, wretchedly 

 poor. It appears that several ^ sea-ser- 

 pents in Lake Erie had swallowed all 

 the fish, so there were none to swim the 

 waters of cool Niagara. One bullhead 

 and four 3-ounce perch were the result 

 of three days' fishing by three men and 

 two women. Never mind, our friend 

 William had an ice-box and a corkscrew 

 and such contraptions, so we got along 

 finely. There was also a bunch of charm- 

 ing young married ladies, and if their 

 husbands had known enough to stop in 

 the city, we should have willingly put 

 up with the absence of bites and con- 

 sidered ourselves far better off than the 

 multitude of Israelites in the desert, who 

 had only two loaves and five small 

 fishes. These husbands are often of- 

 ficiously in the way. W. S. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



The general summer depression is felt 

 all over the city, and especially in 

 our business. The weather is hot and 

 there is practically nothing doing. Here 

 and there they have a batch of funeral 

 orders, and there it ends. It is also 

 a hard matter to obtain really first- 

 class stock. 



Plenty of good asters are coming in 

 and are selling fairly well, especially 

 the white and purple, with $2 per hun- 

 dred the top price. Sweet peas are 

 poor and the hot weather Avill soon put 

 them out of the market. A few good 

 white carnations are coming from the 

 fields, but anything like good pink or 

 red is out of the question. 



Gladioli are a great glut. All light 

 colors bring $2 per hundred. They are 

 mostly used for window decorations. 

 Roses are better; still first-class stock 

 is limited to a few hundreds. Firsts 

 and seconds are plentiful ; in fact, more 

 than the demand calls for. In greens 

 the market, as usual, has everything one 

 wants. 



Qub Picnic. 



The Florists' Club's yearly outing, 

 held Thursday, July 26, at Ramona 

 park, was a successful and most enjoy- 

 able affair. The party numbered over 

 200, and only for a big storm at 1:30 

 p. m., which lasted nearly one hour, 

 fifty more would have come. After that 

 the sun came out and dried the grounds, 

 and a delightful afternoon was sj)ent in 

 dancing, fishing and boating. At 2:30 

 the trustees, Messrs. Beyer, Weber and 

 Fillmore, started the games back of the 

 dancing pavilion. 



