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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 5, 1906. 



Queen, Boston Market, White I^awson, 

 Flamingo and Fiancee are aliSo grown. 

 The last named showed its usual burst- 

 ing propensities. Some good seedlings 

 were also in evidence. 



Easter lilies are grown here in im- 

 mense numbers, and 35,000 pots were in 

 splendid condition for Easter. It was 

 a magnificent sight to stand and look 

 over the long houses filled with these. 

 Probably no other place in America 

 grows more or better lilies than that of 

 Peirce Bros. To move such numbers by 

 hand would be a tremendous task, so a 

 most ingenious truck system is used in 

 the houses. Several of these when load- 

 ed are placed on a large cable car which 

 is run through the wide, covered shed 

 connecting all the houses and hauled ex- 

 peditiously to the packing rooms or 

 teams. The numerous lily teams had 

 just had a new coat of paint and looked 

 spick and span for the strenuous Easter 

 trade. 



Asparagus Sprengeri fills a number of 

 houses. A batch of 3,500 cyclamen just 

 potted look promising for another sea- 

 son's crop. Chrysanthemums in benches 

 are grown to the number of 60,000. 

 Spiraeas are grown for Decoration day 

 trade and 10,000 clumps had just been 

 boxed. Tomatoes also are largely 

 handled, also azaleas. No part of the 

 big plant is ever allowed to stand idle. 



club for courtesies extended, and called 

 on Messrs. E. 0. Orpet, T. J. Guy, 

 T. H. Westwood, J. A. Pettigrew and 

 others for short addresses. Three vocif- 

 erous cheers for the Peirce Bros, ended 

 one of the most delightful and profitable 

 field days the club has yet held. 



W. N. C. 



THAT DAYTON PICTURE. 



That picture of the group photo- 

 graphed at Dayton, published a couple 

 of weeks ago, was a dandy. The presi- 

 dent is certainly a handsome man and 

 is brim full of satisfaction, as he de- 

 serves to be. The ex-president is looking 

 like a patriarch, venerable of appear- 

 ance, and what you would expect the 

 future senator of Oklahoma to be. Mr. 

 Hallock looks just what he is — a solid, 

 good, sensible man, who is exactly the 

 sort to guide the destiny of our great 

 society. Mr. Elliott, of asparagus fame, 

 has aged, like many of us — cool, sober, 

 industrious and earnest in all under- 

 takings. 



George Asmus has the appearance we 

 have all seen at the Fort Erie races 

 when a "ten-to-one shot" poked its nose 

 in front and he had put on a "ten 

 spot." Confidence and good nature are 

 blended in that sweet smile. As to 

 "Grandpa" Hauswirth, in the back- 



Indoor Railroad of Peirce Bros., Waltham, Mass. 



(E. Allen Peirce at the brake, Herbert A. Peirce standing ) 



The new battery of steam boilers, the 

 vacuum pump for drawing on the re- 

 turns to improve circulation, the 80-foot 

 chimney and the splendid draught it 

 gives were not overlooked. 



An adjournment was next made to 

 the packing shed, the president and some 

 others essaying the journey via cable 

 car. Eefreshments were served. Presi- 

 dent Wheeler voiced the thanks of the 



ground, you would hardly think that this 

 retiring young man, who might be mis- 

 taken for an oflBcial of the Y. M. C. A., 

 is possessed of so much latent sport, 

 which needs but a slight incentive to 

 develop into fiery action. 



Whoever has passed the last hour be- 

 fore retiring for the night with Phil 

 Hauswirth, George Asmus, Fritz Bahr 

 and Ed Winterson cannot forget it 



ever. Do they lie like infants entering 

 balmy sleep, worn out by the exertions 

 and excitement of the day? Not so as 

 you can notice it! They are more as 

 you can imagine the witches of Shakes- 

 peare, in "Macbeth," having only one 

 hour on earth, making the most of it in 

 a saturnalia. We have passed through 

 it once and lived, but could never be 

 tempted again. Our constitution has 

 been impaired ever since. 



Secretary Stewart is getting white 

 and it becomes him. He has grown old 

 in the service of the society, and when 

 he feels like shedding the mantle of care 

 it will not be easy to replace him. 

 Steady-going Vice-President Altickhas 

 a retired position in the group. He 

 ought to be more conspicuous, for his 

 ability, integrity and thoroughness are 

 to help largely in making the Dayton 

 convention a great success. Mr. Altick 

 is one of the best trap shooters of the 

 country, and when he says "pull" the 

 inanimate clay target is as good as 

 shattered. Another instance that you 

 cannot become illustrious or popular un- 

 less you have a large infusion of sport 

 in your blood. Live pigeons Mr. Altick 

 does not kill. Like W. K. Harris and 

 your humble servant, he does not allow 

 bis better nature to shoot at a bird sit- 

 ting on a branch of a tree or a poor 

 tame dove trying to find his way home. 

 W. K. Harris once wrote me two beau- 

 tiful stanzas on this subject. This was 

 some six years ago. The first verse was 

 most touching. The second is preserved 

 for future perusal because I could not 

 decipher it, but I gloat on its beauty, 

 and shall carry it to paradise or Tona- 

 wanda. 



Mr. Traendly looks what he is, a good- 

 natured, manly man, worthy of the high- 

 est honors the society has to offer. We 

 don't know Mr. Traendly as intimately 

 as we do others of the committee, but 

 we do know that he is a jolly good fel- 

 low and of the right kind. I am told he 

 is able to give Pat O'Mara a good an- 

 swer back, and that takes more than 

 Chicago gall. 



The young man of the cash register 

 company is, it will be noticed, quite 

 youthful. Such is the order of the day. 

 Big corporations look for youth. There 

 is no doubt youth has the vim, energy 

 and alertness, but for all that the mole- 

 cules in the gray matter mature at a 

 late period of life, and I don't see that 

 he is any more intellectual looking than 

 the men engaged in the glorious calling 

 of horticulture. 



If this party were to take a trip 

 around the world with their matsons 

 and maidens, you could easily imagine 

 the respective duties each would be as- 

 signed: Vaughan would be the treas- 

 urer. Kasting would see that there was 

 plenty to eat. Traendly would secure 

 vaudeville attractions. Elliott would 

 see that all behavior was decorous. Hal- 

 lock would say, "God bless you, my 

 children; have all the fun you like." 

 Altick would tell us they needed $50,- 

 000 more to complete the McKinley 

 monument, and only 35 cents to com- 

 plete the Grover Cleveland statue. 

 Stewart's duties would be to find stray 

 ladies of the party who had lost them- 

 selves in Canton or Algiers. Phil Haus- 

 wirth would give tips on the races in 

 any city where races were on, and George 

 Asmus would visit the several ambas- 

 sadors of leading countries and inform 

 them that he was from Chicago. 



Wm. Scott. 



