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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Kastii' lilii's arc ^mwn licic in iiii- 

 i.'K'Usc iiiiinlici -^. mill ,".."1,(100 pots woi'c in 

 splcinlid iMUhlil inn l\ir Kasirr. 1 1 \vns 

 :i inaLiiiilir.iii M^^hi {o staml ami kiuk 

 "MT till' loii^ liniiscs lillt'tl with tlies<'. 

 I'nili:i My im otlicr ]>l;ico in Aniorica 

 ;:r(i\\> iiiMiT ,,r ln'iii'i- lilies than tiiat of 

 i'lin-.' i'.id-. To move .sm-li imiiibers by 

 ii.auil wniild 111- a trcineniKnis task, so a 

 iiiosL jii^ciiious truck sy.xtL'in is used in 

 the honsis. .Several of these uhen load- 

 I'd arc ], laced on :i l.aryc cable ear which 

 I.- riui ihi'ouyh llie \\idc. covered shed 

 '■"iiiicri iiiL;' ail the houses and hauled OX- 

 pcdiThiii-ly to the packing rooin.s or 

 icanis. The numerous lily teams lunl 

 iu-l had a new cnat of jiaint and looked 

 s|.i.-k and span J'oi' the strenuous J'laster 

 I rade, 



.\spar;it:us Sprenueri fills :i nunibei' ni' 

 houses. A batch of ;'i..")00 cyclamen just 

 potted lni)k ]ii'omisiii^ fur .-inother sea- 

 son '.s ciii|i. Chiy.santhi'iuums in benelies 

 are l:rll^\ll to the number of ()0,00u. 

 Sp.iracas .ne ;^rown for iH'coration day 

 I rade and lit. 000 eluni|is had just lieeu 

 iioxcil. TiPiiiatfX'S also arc lari^ely 

 handled, al>-o azaleas. Xo juirt of the 

 big- plant is ever allowed to stand idle. 



c lull fnr couitcsies extended, and called 

 nil Messrs. !•;. (). Orpot, T. J. Guy, 

 'i'. U. West wood, ,J. A. I'ottigrew and 

 iithcis fnr sliiut tiddresses. Three voeif- 

 iinii^ ( hccis for the Peiree Bros, ended 

 niic n\' the most delij];litfiil and profitable 

 licld d;i\s the club lias yet held. 



W. N. C. 



THAT DAYTON PICTURE. 



Th.it jiii'lure 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 exjiect the 

 future senator of Oklahoma to be. Mr. 

 llallock looks just what he is — a solid, 

 good, sensible man, wlio 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 bad put on a "ten 

 spot.'' Confidence and good nature are 

 lilended in that sweet smile. As to 

 ' * Crandp.a " llauswirtli, in the back- 



Indoor Railroad of Pcirce Bros., Waltham, Mass. 



' K. All. 11 Pili'ci- at III.- iir.ik. 



The new liattery of steam boilers, the 

 vai iium pumj) for drawing on the rc- 

 1 III IIS to impKivc circulation, the 80-foot 

 chimney ainl the splendid draught it 

 gi\es were not (ucrlnokcd. 



.\n adjournment was next made to 

 the jiacking shed, the president and some 

 others essaying tlie journey \ia cable 

 car. Ifofroshments were served. Presi- 

 .j.iit W'hiclcr voiced the thanks of tlie 



lli-ili'it A. I'ciice --taiKlinu' . 



ground, you woild hardly think th.'tt thi.s 

 retiring young man, who might be mis- 

 taken for an oflicial 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 

 llauswirth, George Asmus, Fritz P.ahr 

 and Ed Winterson cannot forget it 



ever. Do they lie like infants entering 

 balmy sleep, ^vorn out by the exertions 

 ami 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 iinjiaired 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 Altiek has 

 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. JNIr, Altiek 

 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. Altiek 

 does not kill. Like W. K, Harris and 

 your humble servant, he does not allow 

 his 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 T 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 Fat 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 matrons 

 and maidens, you could easily imagine 

 the re.'=!pective 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 liless you, my 

 children; have all the fun you like." 

 Altiek would tell us they needed $.50.- 

 OOn more to comjilete the McXinley 

 monument, and only .">." cents to com- 

 plete the Grovcr Cleveland statue. 

 Stewart's duties would be to find stray 

 ladies of the party who had lost tliem- 

 selves in Catiton or Algiers. Phil llaus- 

 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 fliat he was from Chicago. 



W'm, Scott. 



