File:Red Jacket Monument, Forest Lawn Cemetery (from Pauls' Dictionary of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and Vicinity).jpg

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Title: Pauls' dictionary of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda and vicinity a descriptive index and guide to the various institutions, public buildings, societies, amusements, resorts, etc., in and about the city of Buffalo
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : Peter Paul Book Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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b successfully enter-tained the Society of American Flor-ists in annual convention in August,1889, and conducted the Chrysanthe-mum Shows and Floral Exhibitions inthe years of 1890, 1891 and 1892 re-spectively. Regular meetings are heldon the second Tuesday of each month. Flour Mills.—The following state-ment shows the names and capacityof the mills of Buffalo and vicinity,and the number of barrels of flourmanufactured during the year 1895,from information derived from theowners of the several mills specified : Capacity Barrels Name of Mill. 24 hours. Mfd. Banner 600 118,730 Buffalo City 600 91,000 Marine ... 200 15.916 National and Globe 1,000 140,250 Queen City .... 300 28,000 Urban Roller 1,000 262,561 Cataract, at Niagara Falls, N. Y 600 144,200 Central, Niao:ara Falls, N.Y. 2,000 238,650Niagara Falls, at Niagara Falls, N. Y 2,000 233,966 Tonawanda Roller, at Ton- awanda, N. Y 200 31,250 Total 8,500 1,304,523 Flowers.—Florists establishmentsare mostly found on Main Street. The
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RED JACKET MONUMENT 6i FOR prices of flowers vary very much withthe season, being usually cheapest inJune and most expensive at the hoH-days when the demand is greatest.There are a number of hot houses andgreeneries within the city hmits too,where flowers are sold. One at Mainand Balcom Streets, where transfersare made from the Cold Spring cars tothose running to the Park and ForestLawn. Visitors to the cemetery canobtain flowers here conveniently andthey will be fresh when placed uponthe grave, not having been carriedfrom the heart of the city. Chrysan-themum Shows and Floral Exhibitionstake place from time to time and localexhibitors are warmly praised for theirfine specimens. Flowers are not soldon the streets much in Buffalo exceptearly in Spring, when Indians swarminto town with bunches of arbutusand sassafras to sell, or later in theseason when boys stand about thestreet corners and sell water lilies. Foresters, Independent Order of.— The different Courts meet inBuffalo as fol

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