SEPTEMBER 20. 19110. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



471 



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Clematb Paniculata. 



of any real gardener who has charge 

 of glass. While it is necessary and 

 proper to be an expert at potting and 

 shifting and moving plants, that is 

 only the mechanical part of the busi- 

 ness. It is the part that you can be 

 ever so proficient in and yet be a fail- 

 ure in successful growing. For sev- 

 eral months in the summer and again 

 for three or four months of winter 

 conditions are about stationary as far 

 as weather goes and little watchful- 

 ness is needed. Now things are quite 

 different and now is the time that 

 your sliill will be tried. We have 

 warm days, cool nights, some days 

 cloudy, some still very bright, cutting 

 winds and every kind of weather to 

 contend with. Thought, watchfulness. 



wideawaKe care of all your charges is 

 the valuable part of the business just 

 now and for weeks to come. 



I write this because I see occasion 

 for it around me every day. You can 

 get workmen to work, but you can't 

 get them to think, at least about all 

 the fine points. So don't pore over 

 some hard work and fail to notice the 

 many fine points of shading, syring- 

 ing, airing and watering that are so 

 important at this busy lifting, shift- 

 ing and growing and resting time. 

 WILLIAM SCOTT. 



CLEMATIS PANICULATA. 



Continued experience with this 

 splendid hardy climber simply empha- 

 sizes its usefulness, and it is doubly 



valuable to the florist, for he may not 

 only sell many small plants, but can 

 use the blooming vines in decorations 

 with magnificent effect. Every florist 

 should have at least a few specimens 

 of this clematis on his place. Plants 

 can be had at low prices, as this spe- 

 cies is easily propagated. 



A glance at the accompanying en- 

 gi-aving will show what a magnificent 

 thing this clematis is at its best 



BOSTON. 



Park Street Market. 



Plenty of goods of all kinds and a 

 great super-plenty of carnations. Out- 

 door goods, especially asters, are of 

 a poorer quality on account of the 

 remains of the Galveston gale passing 

 over New England to its burial place 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



Prices perhaps have now varied but 

 have fallen away rather than gaining, 

 as might have been expected: Ameri- 

 can Beauties, ?2 to ?20; Liberty and 

 Meteor, $1 to $4; Kaiserins, $1 to |6; 

 Brides and Maids, 25 cents to 14; 

 Perles, $1 to |2 per 100. Carnations 

 and asters, 25 cents to $1 per 100. 

 Tuberoses, $2 per 100. Adiantum, 50 

 cents to $1 per 100. 



All kinds of red roses are now im- 

 proving and some growers claim that 

 the Liberty will be all right soon. 

 Kaiserins are naturally getting some- 

 what inferior and other kinds are 

 getting a little off crop. Of course 

 the roses and asters quoted at 25 

 cents per 100 are of very inferior 

 quality. 



A few fancy kinds of carnations are 

 coming in, but are of poor quality, 

 the larger part of the cut being of the 

 most ordinary kinds, but of good qual- 

 ity. 



There is a fairly good supply of 

 outdoor goods of a mixed nature 

 coming in irregularly and selling at a 

 low figure. Sweet peas seem to be out 

 of print. 



Green material is represented by a 

 steady supply of adiantum and hardy 

 ferns and a slightly variable supply 

 of our two leading kinds of asparagus 

 and smilax. 



Various Items. 



Not much change is expected in 

 either the wholesale or retail working 

 parts of the city proper the coming 

 season. N. S. Wax has added a "Co." 

 to the firm and given their little 

 place on Winter street a thorough 

 renovation. New ice-chest and coun- 

 ters, tiled floor and window and lots 

 of paint and varnish make it into the 

 daintiest little place in the city. 



Wax Bros, intend to utilize the 

 whole of their store, one-half of 

 which has been rented for other pur- 

 poses. 



Houghton & Clark have been prac- 

 tically closed up in Boston for two 

 months on account of the remodelling 

 of the whole building. They will soon 

 reopen with much' enlarged and im- 



