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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



NOVEMBER 10, 1898. 



There is as much art In the arrang- 

 ing of a window box of shrubs as there 

 is in arranging a basket of roses; but 

 we are getting away from our first aim 

 and that is merely to give a list of 

 the best suited to our northern cli- 

 mate. A good specimen spruce looks 

 well in a green tub, so does hemlock 

 and pine. Small junipers, Irish and 

 Swedish, are fine for each side a win- 

 dow box and almost all the arbor vitae 

 will stand. Retinospora squarrosa and 

 R. ericoides often get frostbitten, but 

 they are pretty in the fall: all the 

 other retinosporas will keep well. The 

 cupressus and thuyopsis rarely with- 

 stand the severity of our climate. 

 Trained box is a fine shrub and is re- 

 liable. Aucuba japonica is very pretty, 

 but is not hardy; it's all right for 

 cool houses or such places suitable to 

 bay trees. 



Window boxes and vases should be 

 filled with as much care as if plants 

 were being planted in your garden to 

 grow. It is useless to let them dry 

 out and imagine the plants will live 

 or even keep their color just because 

 the weather is cold. Now is a good 

 time to do this work, and don't fill 

 your vases with too many varieties of 

 plants. You will often make a better 

 effect with only one; in boxes it is 

 different. Ivy and Euonymus radicans 

 and E. Radicans var. are about the 

 only vines to use. IVERA. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Business improved wonderfully last 

 week. It seemed as if everyone had 

 put aside pleasure with the putting 

 out of the electric lights in the Court 

 of Honor and had gone to work. Only 

 our business is so closely allied to 

 other pleasure that it would be more 

 accurate to say that people had given 

 up sightseeing and had settled down 

 into their usual way of life. Prices 

 have become firmer, the increase in 

 business and decrease in supply being 

 responsible. From now on we may 

 look for steady advances until Christ- 

 mas. 



The best Beauties bring $2.50 a doz- 

 en; fine stock, $2, and 75 cents a dozen 

 for shorts. Brides are fine at $3; Me- 

 teors, Maids and Kaiserin, ?4, the lat- 

 ter sometimes liigher. Carnations, 

 good ordinary, $1 to $1.25; Flora Hill 

 and a few fancies, when good, $1.50; 

 Valley, $4; violets, single, 50 cents; 

 double, $1 per 100. Orchids are very 

 scarce at $6 a dozen. 



Chrysanthemums are scarcely in 

 their glory yet, although show week is 

 here. The season is late; $2 a dozen 

 is about as much as the best will 

 bring, and $2 a 100 is about the least. 



Qtib Notes. 



The club met on Tuesday evening. 

 Albert M. Herr read a paper full of 

 ideas about the coming Carnation So- 

 ciety meeting in this city. The club 

 nights are looked forward to as an oc- 

 casion for meeting fellow workers 

 which is both interesting and pleas- 

 ant. 



The prospects for a good show this 

 week are, Secretary Rust assures his 

 friends, very bright. Everybody, both 

 great and small, ought to lend a hand 

 and send something, and then there 

 would be no doubt of a glorious suc- 

 cess. 



Exhibition of Germantown Hort. Society. 



The Germantown Horticultural Soci- 

 ety held its annual show in Associa- 

 tion Hall on Monday, November 7th. 

 The committee of arrangements, con- 

 sisting of Henry Diehl, Edwin C. lel- 

 leit, George Redles, Jr., and Albert 

 Woltemate, thought that for this sea- 

 son a purely local show would be wis- 

 est, and offered a small list of pre- 

 miums, which brought out a very fair 

 exhibit. The cut flowers of chrysan- 

 themums were a feature. The winning 

 25 included Pennsylvania. Viviand Mo- 

 rel, Trilby. Pink Ivory, Mayflower and 

 Philadelphia. Mrs. Perrin was the 

 best pink. A very fine bronze was 

 shown. 



The collection of marantas, cala- 

 diums, anthuriums and ferns shown 

 by William Wilkie, a new exhibitor, 

 was very fine. The ferns were good, 

 including those brought by Robert Le 

 Boutillier from .lamaiea. The show 

 was a fortnight too soon for Martin 

 Nixon, the new chrysanthemum in 

 whose honor a special prize had been 

 offered. The plants were large, but 

 with the flowers undeveloped. 



The oddity of the show was a pump- 

 kin. The vine had run twenty feet to 

 a rich asparagus bed and then pro- 

 duced an enormous fruit which John 

 Holmes said must weigh 75 pounds. 

 Some one thought nearly 100 pounds; 

 the local press said 200 pounds. One 

 hardly dare weigh it now. 



In chrysanthemums in pots, M. 

 Bracken, gardener to Henry L. Town- 

 send, was first on specimen white, yel- 

 low, red and any other sort; first on 

 three plants, three varieties, 10-inch 



pots; H. Dougherty, gardener to S. 

 Green, second. 



The prize offered by A. Woltemate 

 for ten plants, 6-inch pots, three 

 blooms each, brought out twenty nice 

 plants; first, John McGowan; second, 

 A. Woltemate. 



In cut mums, twenty-five blooms in 

 variety; first, John Sibson, gardener 

 to Mrs. Thos. McKean; second, A. 

 Woltemate. 



Six blooms, white; first, John Sib- 

 yon, with Mrs. Twombly; second, A. 

 Woltemate. Six yellow; first, A. Wol- 

 temate; second, J. Sibson. This was 

 reversed on six pink and six bronze; 

 first, A. Woltemate. 



J. Welsh Young was first on twelve 

 American Beauty and on twenty-five 

 Brides and Maids. 



Chas. Leisy, gardener to B. A. Van 

 Schaick. was first on carnations. 



A. Woltemate was first on collection 

 of flowering and decorative plants and 

 won the special prize offered by Jos. 

 Kift & Son for best arranged twenty- 

 five blooms of chrysanths. 



H. Diehl, gardener to the Misses 

 Steel, was first on twelve, and second 

 on six specimen ferns; first in this 

 class going to Frank Smith, gardener 

 to the Misses Nixon. 



The Nixon prizes for best plant, new 

 chrysanthemum Martin Nixon, first, 

 John McGowan; second, M. Bracken. 

 Six cut blooms, same; first, Frank 

 Smith; second. John McGowan. 



Special premiums were awarded to 

 M. Punch, gardener to R. Le Boutil- 

 lier, for rare and odd ferns, for a pret- 

 ty plant Saintpaulia ionantha in bloom 

 and the famous pumpkin; to Patrick 

 McGowan, gardener to C. J. Wister, 

 for collection vegetables; to M. Brack- 

 en, for grafted chrysanthemums, six- 

 teen sorts, and for group chrysanths; 

 to W. Wilkie. for collection stove 

 plants and ferns and several others. 



The judges were John Holmes and 

 Geo. Redles, Jr. J. W. Y. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



What can we write about of inter- 

 est? The market, did you say? Ah, 

 yes, let us. The great national horse 

 show will be here next week, and al- 

 ready violet growers are saving their 

 violets for it. Consequently we are 

 getting poor violets in now, with the 

 prospect of getting worse next week. 

 What good are stale violets, anyhow? 

 Better to be satisfied with a fair aver- 

 age, because it's a good thing. If you 

 want to pickle your violets please soak 

 them in violet cologne and prevent an 

 epidemic. 



About mums — well, taking them all 

 in all, the mums seen on the market 

 so tar this year have been merely 

 passable, nothing to boast about, and 

 the prices have been good, if not very 

 good. Years ago we used to buy them 



