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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



and give some heat, with some long lit- 

 ter in reserve to throw on the glass 

 when needed. When repotting from 

 3-inch to 4-inch the geraniums can be 

 brought out and placed in the frames, 

 partly plunged and set the right dis- 

 tance apart. They make fine, short, 

 sturdy growth in this way and are not 

 occupying valuable space inside. Some 

 of the newer varieties are well worth 

 trial. J. 0. E. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The week preceding Christmas has 

 passed quietly. There has been but lit- 

 tle demand for flowers and growers seem 

 content not to hurry delivery of goods. 

 Indications are that large orders have 

 been taken for Sunday and Monday de- 

 livery. 



Green material of all kinds is moving 

 rapidly. Nothing is getting out of con- 

 dition except it may be bulb material, 

 prices on which have not advanced and 

 probably will not do so, but on the more 

 important crops the figures have been 

 steadily growing and have probably not 

 yet reached their maximum (Saturday 

 p. m.), except in the case of violets, 

 which have touched $2.50 per 100, and 

 I do not think will exceed it. 



Best American Beauties are being 

 quoted at $18 per dozen, and a few Me- 

 teors and Liberties will bring $4, as 

 reds are quite scarce. A few very choice 

 bridesmaids and Carnots are spoken of 

 at $0. Carnations from $3 to $8 per 



citizens in street trees and other plants 

 was proven at a banquet of the Welles- 

 ley Club a few evenin<;s sineo, which I 

 attended by the covni,>\ .f \V, .f. ll.ina. 



In widening a shijrl -■■li' i' iln' iii.nii 



street of Wellesley, \u~\\\ , . I. In .ii.a |..i 

 its beauty as well" as tni n^ w.altli mikI 

 respectability, a few trees have bi'cn sac- 

 rificed and a committee appointed to ex- 

 amine the whole length of the street 

 raised something of a protest by recom- 

 mending the removal of more of them 

 for different reasons. It looks lucky for 

 that committee that they did not remove 

 them before explaining fully why this 

 should be done. One leading citizen told 

 plaintively of the removal of trees al- 

 most as valued as his best and oldest 

 friends, and actually threatened to leave 

 tovm if more were taken away! The 

 town carries a "tree warden," who can 

 talk as well as saw and chop. He votes 

 with the committee, as do most of the 

 club after things are properly held up to 

 them. 



Maiden. 



The smaller greenhouses around the 

 Hub are more liable to produce sur- 

 prises than the larger ones. One hears 

 so much of the latter that they some- 

 times fail to come up to expectations. 



Burdened with this thought I occu- 

 pied a stray- hour by a trip to the es- 

 tablishment of E. D. Kaulback & Son, 

 Maiden. 



In an almost secluded corner of the 

 city upon a street almost entirely owned 

 by Mr. Kaulback, although well popu- 

 lated, lies their range of ten houses, each 



Bringing material for a decoration in a Mexican city. 



100. Lilies are not too numerous to 

 bring $2.50 and $3 per dozen. 

 Various Items. 



W. W. Tailby fluttered blithely down 

 the stone steps on Park street upon Dec. 

 17 with a pot of yellow jonquils in one 

 hand (the very first of the season) and 

 the best box of Roman hyacinths in the 

 city in the other. Five minutes later L. 

 H. Mann followed with a dozen cut 

 blooms of jonquils and a day or two 

 later a small bunch of double ones were 

 in. It is said "Troubles never come 

 singly," but jonquils do, and they will 

 soon prove themselves "troubles," too. 



The widespread interest of our best 



100 feet long. They build rather cheap- 

 ly, planning to rebuild at least one 

 house each year rather than to make 

 general repairs upon them all. Is there 

 not an element of philosophy in the 

 plan? In connection with the two rebuilt 

 this season they use the first specimens 

 of the new iron gutter, which comes 

 in 5-foot sections, that I have seen. They 

 speak very highlv of it. 



Chief among the plant life of these 

 ten houses are their 0,000 lily bulbs, 

 each with a sprout from 3 to 10 inches 

 high. A feature Mr. Kaulback notices 

 about those is that more of them than 

 usual are throwing two shoots instead 

 of the preferable plan of throwing one 



stronger one. We wondered if that pe- 

 culiarity is general. The laiger part 

 of this crop is wholesaled, it being the 



l''i-..li.ilil\ ih.' n.\i 111' -I interesting 

 |.,il\ii.- I- ilir liirjr -ii|ipU .it boxes of 

 ;.ll kin.U ..I liiiM. ^ I- 111 till' eoia stor- 

 age vaults. Til.-. .,,.■ I.n their retail 



comes an immense -"|'l'l\ "i all kinds ot 

 house plants of all sizes from the slips 

 in the long propagating shed, to rubbers 

 fifteen feet tall. There is also a depart- 

 ment of bedding material and a large 

 section is used for growing cut flowers 

 of many kinds. 



Mr. Kaulback is an exceedingly pleas- 

 ant man to meet, and although all hands 

 were particularly busy, he made my call 

 a very pleasant one. 



I also made an official examination 

 (if their store in the busiest part of the 

 city. I found it in first-class shape in 

 every way. Here the son, Fred, dis- 

 penses the product of the houses and 

 is quite a regular visitor to the whole- 

 sale establishments of Boston. 



The near-by store of John Walsh & 

 S.iii \\a- in i.|ually yuud trim, being run 

 111 111.- -am.' \v:iy wiih greenhouses, to 

 p,.itiall\ -ii|i|il\ til. -t.iek. situated in 

 Si,-nrliaiii, N.itinally, Mr. Walsh in 

 111- p.i-iiMii as manager of the Park 

 -tn. 1 Mil it. I. makes a good Boston 

 I . I'l . -. Ill ,ii i\ . . And does the telephone 

 aeLunniK.Jale any one much more than 

 it does the busy suburban florist? 



The smaller, but perfectly shipshape 

 place of Mrs. Newcomb was also in- 

 cluded in my visit. We do not need 

 to extend best wishes to the retail flor- 

 al establishments of Maiden ; they will 

 have their well-merited success whether 

 we do or not. .1. S. Manter. 



MEXICAN DECORATIONS. 



In the accompanying engraving from 

 a photograph kindly sent us by Mr. 

 W. L. Eock, Kansas City, is seen a man 

 bringing in material for the decoration 

 of an enclosure in a Mexican city in 

 which a bull-fight was to take place. 

 The material seems to have !:;ood length 

 "1 -t.Mi .111,1 ill.' 1.1111. li i- laili.a- larger 



!..■ ml. I. -I 111^ I.. kiio« Hhat would 

 happen to the man if a strong wind 

 should spring up and caress his long- 

 stemmed stock. 



To nnrtliern eves the bareness of the 

 street sim m-, ~ii:in.j.'. Init the Mexicans 

 generall) |.liiit ili.ii trees and plants 

 inside th. n . n. L.-m e^, and not in the 

 street. On a hot day eggs could prob- 

 ably be roasted in that street without 

 a fire. 



RAIN WORMS. 



I am growing carnations in solid beds 

 and find rain worms very troublesome. 

 They consume the manure and render the 

 soil stiff and hard. Will some one tell 

 me how to get rid of these pests? 



Southerner. 



To rid his soil of rain worms, I would 

 advise Southerner to use slaked lime. Get 

 some fresh lime and slake it with water 

 and let stand until thoroughly cooled. 

 Sprinkle enough on the soil between the 

 plants to make it white all over, then 

 rake it into the soil about one-half inch 

 deep and give the bed a good watering 

 with clear water. Put on about as much 



