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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 16, 18S8. 



thus driving the business all of a heap. 

 However I suppose a Britisher would 

 find something to grumble at with the 

 best o£ seasons; at least that is the 

 character generally given him. but I 

 expect we all are "tarred with the 

 same stick," with more or less tar. 



The cut flower trade may be said 

 now to have "gone up Salt Creek." 

 Of course there is always a something 

 doing, but the something is compar- 

 itively infinitesimal and does not add 

 to the bank account to any extent. 



Mr. J. H. Dunlop has been laid up 

 with erysipelas, brought on I hear 

 from handling poison ivy while out 

 in the brush with his daughters pick- 

 ing wild fiowers. I believe he is about 

 again though not fully recovered. 



Canna "America" looks as if it were 

 going to be a good one. and it does 

 not scorch. It is a dark-leaved variety 

 with flame colored flowers. 



The market men still continue to do 

 a good business and will probably 

 keep it up for a week or two yet. 



The local seedsmen report an excep- 

 tionally good season. E 



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BOSTON. 



Review of the Market. 



The reaction which always follows 

 Decoration Day has this year been 

 continuous, and everything is down to 

 a summer basis; plenty of goods, 

 scarcity of buyers, with a general 

 complaint of no business. Roses are 

 going very slowly; quality reduced, 

 owing to warmer weather, and sell 

 from $2 to $o per hundred, while 

 Brunners and Jacks, of which a few 

 are coming in, bring .fl per dozen. 

 Beauties still hold their own, being 

 the principal flower used for wedding 

 decorations, and are held at last quo- 

 tations, |1 to $4 per dozen. 



Carnations might be called "the 

 fakir's flower," they being buyers now 

 of the larger proportion of what is 

 brought in, and make their own 

 prices; 50c to $1 per hundred seems to 

 be the ruling flgures, while a few 

 Bradts and Kellers are selling for $3. 



The market for valley is improving, 

 out-of-door cutting having ended;' 

 prices from $2 to $3. Lilies plenty; 

 selling at $6. Sweet peas are getting 

 scarce and easily bring T.jc. Paeonies 



are in demand for decorations. Odds 

 and ends, such as stock of spiraeas, 

 feverfew, etc.. are plenty, and it is a 

 case of sell for about wuat you can 

 get. 



The Plant Trade. 



Generally, this week in this locality 

 is the winding up of the plant busi- 

 ness, but this year will be the excep- 

 tion, and it looks now as though it 

 might hold out until the 1st of July. 

 All growers are rather discouraged, as 

 everything in the plant line is moving 

 very slowly, and it now looks like a 

 case of getting stuck. At the market 

 the general reply to the question. 

 "How is business?" is, "There is 

 none," and this state seems to be uni- 

 versal all around. 



There are quantities of plants being 

 sent in to auction, but the conditions 

 are the same there, and where in for- 

 mer years the trade has been heavy 

 buyers, you can now hardly see one of 

 them there. Retail buyers are getting 

 the benefit, buying at their own fig-, 

 ures. 



The Rhododendron Exhibition. 



The annual exhibition of rhododen- 

 drons was a decided success and some 

 magnificent flowers were shown, the 

 finest display being that of H. H. 

 Hunnewell. occupying one long table. 

 He staged I'i.") diiferent varieties, set- 

 ting them off with some high-colored 

 azaleas. He was awarded a gratuity 

 for display. James Comley. of Lex- 

 ington; Kenneth Finlayson, T. C. 

 Thurlow, and John L. Gardner also 

 made fine exhibits and captured all 

 the prizes for both rhododendrons and 

 azaleas. T. C. Thurlow also showed 

 paeonies, obtaining first prize for both 

 officinalis and the tree paeony. He 

 also got third for a display of hardy 

 ornamental trees and shrubs. John L. 

 Gardner was awarded a first prize for 

 a nice collection of German iris. The 

 usual exhibits of native plants were 

 made and prizes were awarded to Mrs. 



D. T. Richards and Miss Doran. Mrs. 



E. M. Gill obtained first prize for a 

 vase of flowers, and Hattie B. Winter 

 second. 



H. A. Dreer, of Philadelphia, ex- 

 hibited some new vareties of water 

 lilies, which attracted considerable at- 

 tention. John L. Gardner made a flne 

 display of orchids arranged for effect, 

 and was awarded first prize. J. S. 

 Bailey also had a flne show of orchids, 

 including an elegant specimen of Cat- 

 tleya Gaskelliana, while Kenneth Fin- 

 layson had four large pans of exceed- 

 ingly well done Cypripedium Law- 

 renceanum, receiving a gratuity. 

 News Items. 



Our genial seedsman, Mr. John Far- 

 quhar, has started for Japan and will 

 have new material with which to en- 

 tertain the club when he returns. 



The nurserymen report a very dull 

 season, a large falling off of business 

 compared with former years. 



Bill Anderson, who has been sales- 

 man for Fred Matthieson, of Waverly, 

 for the past five years, takes a vaca- 



tion of a couple of months, and will 

 sail on June 3i> for Scotland, his first 

 visit home in eleven years. 



Weddings are plenty, but not of the 

 elaborate kind, although both Delay 

 and Doyle each had a good one this 

 week. 



Gustave Le Carpentier, of Auburn- 

 dale, has gone on a visit to his old 

 home in France. 



Mr. Pierson, son of A. N. Pierson, of 

 Cromwell, Conn., has been a visitor 

 this week. P. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Bedding Notes. 



I>ast week pretty well finished up the 

 bedding in this city. There will be a 

 few pansy beds to refill, a few ceme- 

 tery lots to brighten with plants, a few 

 belated borders, or here and there a 

 box or vase, and this work is over for 

 LVJS. 



It is strange to see how coleus, once 

 so popular, have been more and more 

 neglected, until now only about one- 

 tenth the number grown a few years 

 ago are raised, commercially. They 

 are still largely used in the parks. 

 The price has fallen so low that there 

 is no margin of profit for the whole- 

 sale growers. The prettiest effect I 

 have seen in coleus this season is a 

 bed of mixed fancy varieties, planted 

 in three long, straight rows, without 

 design, simply with a thought for col- 

 or in the arrangement, the background 

 being of honeysuckle. 



A great many choice plants have 

 been used during the week in outdoor 

 work, which made the richest effects 

 when skillfully used. Crotons have 

 been in brisk demand and stand at 

 the top of this class. Pandanus Veitchil 

 and Dracaena terminalis are both very 

 popular when well colored. 



Boston fern has made its debut this 

 season as a decorative plant outdoors. 

 A pretty vase effect is made with a 

 well grown fern of this variety as a 

 center with geraniums and vines, such 

 as thunbergia and German ivy. This 

 should stand in a partly shaded posi- 

 tion. 



In the last Review I was made to 

 say that many cannas are sowed in 

 the fall, whereas I intended to say 

 that they were stored in the fall by 

 the people who had them planted in 

 their beds the previous spring. 



Cut flowers have been in fair de- 

 mand, there being many weddings 

 during the week. It is getting pretty 

 hot for good stuff, even with plenty of 

 mud wash on the glass, and quality is 

 declining. 



Outdoor sweet peas are coming in in 

 flne shape; average price about -iij 

 cents a hundred. Jacques and paeonies 

 are about over. The latter have been 

 used in large quantities. 



With the Growers. 



The large rose growers are hard at 



work cleaning and refilling their 



houses. They have many to do and 



must begin in good time in order to 



