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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



these conditions will continiu' until after 

 Kaster. 



Bulb stock is in fair dcinaml, o-ppc- 

 ially white ar,\l the liffht color- wliiili 

 can be used in funeral work. Iml il 

 coines in in such great quantities that 

 much is left over and we are a little 

 afraid that it will be scarce at Easter, 

 just wlicn we need it most. 



Violets are in about the same fix as 

 bulb stock with prices unchansied from 

 last quotation. Lots of sweet peas are 

 eoniin<^ in just now which find very little 

 sale at 7.> cents per 100. 



Notes. 



Visitors iir town the past week were 

 Joe Kolker. of New York; Arnold Rin- 

 gier. of Chicago ; and Chas. Ford, of Xew 

 York. The latter was called home by 

 telegram stating that his father had 

 died in Philadelphia. All are well pleased 

 with the trade and have booked plenty 

 of orders. 



The Engleman Botanical Club held a 

 meeting last Thursday night at the medi- 

 cal college. Messrs. R. J. Mohr and A. 



Trade Ccnditions, 



Thinji^ do go tough I In the case of 



jilcnt fulness, and in the case of pinks 

 and fine white flowers because of their 

 scarcity. Hulb goods and green material 

 come the nearest to a happy medium, but 

 the only place to look for consolation 

 seems to be Webster's Unabridged. East- 

 er shines before us like an oasis in the 

 desert. Hope, bhsscd relic of Pandora's 



Horticultural Hall. 



Th-c Hurlicultural .Soeii^ly uuist have 

 gone into their building like a lamb. 

 They surely are going out of it with a 

 roaring good exhibition which suggests 

 the old-time simile of the present month. 



It strikes me as an unfortunate thing 

 that the commercial fraternity is not 

 more interested in the doings of this 

 society and consequently better repre- 

 sented there. And if not from an lesthet'c 



but few commercial growers, compara- 

 tively, visited it. 



In the plant classes the leading prize 

 winners were Dr. C. G. Weld, i!a\ard 

 Thayer, Mrs. J. L. Gardner, Mrs. ]!. P. 

 Cheney, Bussey Institution, W. .S. Ewell 

 & Son. E. N. Pierce & Son, H. 11. Rogers, 

 Uoiv. M. T. Stevens, Anson Phelps Stokes, 

 .1. G. Xoyes, Harvard Botanic Garden, F. 

 J. Rea. 



In cut flowers the leading premiums 

 went to Mrs. A. W. Spencer, Col. Chas. 

 PfafT, E. M. Wood & Co., W. 11. Elliott, 

 Jl. A. Patten, F. A. Blake. I'rin Ki-her, 

 BriarelifT Greenhouses, \\ i Wnl. I). S. 

 Carrigan, H. S. Rand, W m Mm, Mi-. F. 

 h. Ames. Gratuities: t jI. (. h.i-. I'lalT, 

 Magna Charta roses; Miss M. S. W alker, 

 vase of roses; Col.' Chas. PfafT. display 

 of roses: Charles Evans, mignonette; 

 Norris V. C-imI.'v. lila.; C. IT.' Souther, 

 antirrhiiMni)-: \li- i: \l. c;ill. I,:i-ket 



of (lower- ; .1:1 

 A. W: Spenee, 



display. 



The (irst scl 



.Mrs. 



lion in the new 



W. J. Dana's Greenhouses, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 



Goss illustrated the movements of 

 plants influenced by light and gravitation. 



W. Jordan reports that he has had 

 quite a fire at his p'ace the ])ast week. 

 causing damage to building and stcjek of 

 about .1i.50. 



C. Young & Sons Co. are very bu-y now 

 with shipping m-ders f(n- plants and seeds 

 in which thev do a large business. 



Beyer. Sciiray. Sanders and Osteitag 

 were kept busy the past week decorating 

 department stores with plants and cut 

 flowers. 



Jessie M. Goode, of the Xational 

 League of Im])rovenient Association, 

 states that shade trees planted this 

 spring will be in nice condition in 1903 

 when the World's Fair opens. Next 

 spring will not be such a favaraWe time 

 and the spring of IOCS will be too late. 

 This is a feature of the city improve- 

 ment that should be attended "to at once. 

 All this work will be to the permanent 

 benefit of St. Ixiui-, if carried out as 

 it should be, and will transform the city, 

 giving St. Louis a charm that will re- 

 dound to its credit. .1. .J. 15. 



Lincoln, Xeb. — The wife of C. B. Kel- 

 ler, the florist, died JIarch 13 of pn.u- 



"IF IN DOUBT," consult the Flor- 

 ists' Manual, by Wm. Scott. It covers 

 the whole field of commercial floricul- 

 ture and you can quickly find' in it the 

 experience of a practical man bearing 

 upon the doubtful point. 



The best, and the cheapest— the 

 Review's classified advs. 



point of view, why do they not material- 

 ize there strictly from a financial point 

 of view? An even hundred cash prizes on 

 IKitted plants, ranging from $1 to $2.5 

 laeh. and fifty-five cash prizes and two 

 medals for excellence in cut flowers, is 



tic zeal of ili. -.ihmiu ilnwcr lover and 

 the lover ci l;ii-i..ri im -i i-i'. and you ob- 

 tain pr.-en. ,,, n, I, ,,„:-. Sixty - eight 

 prizes on liuii iii.l \ e-.i jhles also add n 

 mite to llir -iiiuieiii, ,,,id that part of 

 this sprin.j'- rslnl.ii i..ii - all right, too, 

 but was 1i;m.II\ |im li i i|.:ili d in by per- 

 so'ns of interest (n rr.nl. i- ni ihl- item. 



Neither do my (.in-tn i- li^ure by 



any means amon'4 tin |i.in,,| |.!.iiits. In 

 the cut flower dcpartuieiu we do much 

 better. Here the E. M. Wood Co. put in 

 a magnificent display of five different 

 varieties of roses, ably seconded by W. I- 

 Elliott, tlie Exeter Rci>e ConserCatories, 

 .lohii I'ritehard. .Tolui .Mel'arland. the 

 l>icr-on>. of S,ail,nrougl.. and several pri- 

 vate growers. Nene of I hem. however, 

 had tile nundiei' of varieties nor the num- 

 ber of points to show the .judges that the 

 Wood Co. placed. I am inclined to think 

 their Brides and Plaids never were 

 equaled. 



The carnation department was fronted 

 by Messrs. Pattern. Fi-her and Pierson, 



be f,.uild ...' li,„.'l,ini.he.M|' ^'..\.^.. 



ha;i will be the ic.-e and slrawberrv show, 

 June 20 and 21. 



W. J. Dana's Place. 



Noting a marked improvement in the- 

 output of this place, I took occasion to 

 go out to see if I could find "by what 



iiiiLrhty inai;!!-." ;t-s Otliel!o says, this was 



I'eiu'j l.iiiijlii •ilioiii. Hard work and 

 -I I III .ill. Ill inn III liii-iiiess were the only 

 iii'jr.ili.iil- I ie,.i.jiii/ed in flu' lotion he 



first-class range of 1 . - i-li u.u iiig 



something like 40.000 te, i . i jl.i-- >ery 

 nicely located on the sdiiiIhih -l.ipe .if a 

 Wellesley Hills incline, of which he 

 takes most excellent care, largely cover- 

 ing pink roses and white roses, hut also 

 containing more varieties of plants than 

 growers for the city market usually fos- 

 ter. His plants are first-year grafts, 

 not now so large, perhaps, as they might 

 be, but putting on a |ii...liL:i..ii-. ui.'wth 

 that makes one think .I I;.-!... and 



sin-ce the plants will be 1. fi in U» ji least 

 one more year's work. They arc going 

 to be heard from right away. 



Mr. Dana is his own grower, pipe fit- 

 ter and general managei-, having reached 

 remarkable etficicney in each respect 

 when his few years' experience in this 

 line of work is considered. His heating 

 arrangements ar^ of his own plan and 

 work admirably. He tises a sixty-horse 

 tubular boiler harnessed up with a fine 

 sixty-foot chimney, to wbiih he gives 

 half the credit. Facilili. - fm li.pii.i ma- 

 nuring are very comjilei.' :iiiil f in auto- 

 matic" ventilators assi-t III iliiii .l.|iart- 



