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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 3, 1904. 



clergyman demanded a quantity of flow- 

 ers on Monday. One of the largest 

 pieces, a chair, was made up by Mrs. 

 E. A. Williams. A. W. Smith had an 

 immense broken column and VVm. Loew 

 two large panels of pink roses. 



Ernest Fisher of Castle Shannon, is 

 cutting some very fine carnations. He 

 consigns his stock to G. & J. W. Ludwig. 



From present indications the supply 

 of lilies in this market will be sufficient 

 to meet the Easter demand. The ones 

 that are are now being sent in are of 

 very good quality. 



John Foss, Etna, Pa., reports his Eas- 

 ter stock in tine condition. John knows 

 how to force hyacinths to perfection. 



I. S. Ci-all, B. L. Elliott, John L. Wy- 

 land. Fred Burki and Edward Blind left 

 for Detroit to attend the carnation con- 

 vention. 



At the Pittsburg Eose and Carnation 

 Co.'s plant, the new house of Kaiserins 

 planted for summer blooming is doing 

 fine and the cut is daily increasing. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flo\ver Co. is ship- 

 ping hardy cut ferns to Chicago and bo.\- 

 wood sprays to Canada. 



Superintendent George W. Burke, of 

 the bureau of parks, and Foreman John 

 W. Jones, of the Phipps conservatories, 

 are rushing the work of preparation for 

 the annual Easter flower show at the 

 conservatories. The bulbs are all being 

 forced in good shape and the exhibition 

 this year will be as fine as usual. 



Visitois : J. W. Glen. Kittanning, Pa. ; 

 Arthur Langhans, Wheeling, W. Va. ; G. 

 L. Huscroft, Steubenville, Ohio. 



Hoo-Hoo. 



NOTES ON VARIETIES. 



The follon-ing notes on commercial 

 varieties will be found of interest at this 

 time, when planting plans are being pre- 

 pared for next season. 



Adam Liub & Sm, Hugaonsville, N. Y. 



Wliite Cloud is doing fine with us and 

 always did. It must be that the soil has 

 a great deal to do with it. Our soil is a 

 sandy loam. Night temperature is from 

 50 to 53 degrees. G. H. Crane is a lit- 

 tle slower than in former years, but 

 shows up good this past seven weeks, with 

 a temperature of 53 degrees. Lawson has 

 been exceptionally fine all winter with 

 a temperature of 55 degrees. Enchantress 

 is all that was claimed for it. It is a 

 good bloomer, has a fine stem and still 

 better, a good commercial variety. Tem- 

 perature 50 to 52 degrees. Queen Louise 

 has done good according to the size of 

 plants last fall. Temperature 53 de- 

 grees. Her Majesty has thrown some 

 fine flowers, but wants to be grown cool 

 to obtain best results. We grew this in 

 a temperature of from 46 to 48 degrees. 

 Next year we wiU trv Flamingo, Mrs. 

 W. A. Patten, Nelson Fisher, Gov. Wol- 

 cott and Louise Naumaun. 



TORONTa 



Trade during the last week was con- 

 siderably better than the week previous 

 and Saturday made a good finish, and a 

 great quantity of cheap stock was cleaned 

 up. Of course we note that the price 

 was pretty low on some stock, especially 

 bulb stock, tulips and daffodils retailing 

 at 10 cents per dozen and carnations at 

 15 cents. Of course the best stock 

 brought better prices but this oversup- 

 ply of cheap stock helped to hold down 

 the prices considerably. 



At time of writing, the fiercest storm 



of the season is passing over Toronto and 

 the general prospects are that it will 

 demoralize the trade for a few days at 

 least. 



Mr. T. H. Milligan, who took over the 

 greenhouses in connection with the 

 Mimico Industrial School last fall, has 

 opened up a store on Queen St., West, 

 and reports business very satisfactory for 

 a beginning. 



We had a call during the week from 

 Mr. E. H. Wright of Ottawa, who came 

 through, doing a little pastoral visiting. 

 He reports business very good during the 

 winter, and as the opening of parliament 

 takes place in a very short time, he ex- 

 pects that will boom the florists' trade in 

 Ottawa and will put a "Garrison" finish 

 on a good season 's business. D. J. 



ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



We are in need of sunshine, as we 

 have scarcely been able to take a look 

 at the sun this winter. It has made cut 

 flowers of every description very scarce. 

 The ruling price for carnations has stayed 

 at $2.50 to $3 per 100 for common stock, 

 some of the poorer grades bringing $2, 

 with fancies from $4 to $6. Most of the 

 carnation growers are getting excited 

 over the stiff prices, as I scarcely know 

 of one who does not intend to increase 

 his glass this summer, ^ome of them 

 will almost double their places and a 

 good many of the market gardeners are 

 going to plant carnations instead of let- 

 tuce next season. The scarcity has been 

 felt most by the small retail men, as they 

 had to refuse orders because they could 

 not obtain flowers without buying them 

 at the retail price. One of the retail 

 men remarked to me the other day that 

 if things did not change he would have 

 to go out of business. 



H. E. Wilson is doing a fine business, 

 as it is on the increase every day. They 

 have been working almost night and day 

 at funeral work and are bringing up a 

 nice lot of cut flowers from their green- 

 houses. 



Miss Callaster has sold out her carna- 

 tion plant to a man who expects to erect 

 another house this coming season. 



H. M. 



TARRYTOWN. N .Y. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society was 

 held on February 23 and was very largely 

 attended. The monthly prize, given this 

 month by F. Gibson, was won by H. T. 

 Kastberry, gardener to the Misses Mas- 

 ters. Dobbs Ferry, for the best bunch of 

 fifty violets. Other competitors were 

 President Ballantyne. Vice-President Jos. 

 Bradley. I. Bryan and others. Mr. Bryan 

 exhibited a very fine bunch of Princess 

 of Wales, each flower measuring two 

 inches in diameter. A splendid vase of 

 the new Daheim carnation, shown by the 

 F. E. Pierson Co., attracted a great deal 

 of attention, with its massive and heavy 

 flowers of the deepest and most beautiful 

 shade of crimson scarlet, measuring over 

 three inches across. Mr. Pierson tells us 

 that one good feature about it is that it 

 never bursts the calyx. A. Brown and 

 Fred Koenig, of Tarrytown, were elected 

 active members. 



Francis Pammer, of Tarrytown, one 

 of our most prominent landscape garden- 

 ers, gave a very instructive illustrated 

 lecture on his travels through Europe last 

 summer. Coffee and sandwiches were 

 served and the entertainment of the even- 

 ing commenced with songs and recita- 



tions by Messrs. Scott, Lee, McFarlane, 

 Malony and others, accompanied on the 

 piano by Mr. Walquist. This was the 

 first entertainment given after the reg- 

 ular meeting and every member seemed to 

 enjoy himself and everyone agreed that 

 it will be a very good way to get a bet- 

 ter attendance and bring the members 

 closer together. Each will try to do his 

 best at the next sociable evening, which 

 is in May. T. A. L. 



LONDON, ONT. 



Iq the first week in January I took a 

 trip to London, Ontario. It was three 

 days after the very disastrous fire in 

 which the chief of the London fire brigade 

 lost his life. I called at the chief's house 

 and found a large number of beautiful 

 floral pieces made up by the London 

 craft, also a number of fine tributes sent 

 from Toronto, Berlin and other places. 



The first greenhouse establishment vis- 

 ited was that of the old and well estab- 

 lished firm of J. Gammage & Sons. As 

 on many former occasions, I found the 

 roses, carnations, palms, the large line 

 of potted plants and bedding stock in fine 

 condition. Owing to the big demand for 

 Christmas and New Year's festivities, as 

 also to the very dark weather in Decem- 

 ber, blooms in the rose houses were very 

 scarce. The carnation houses made a 

 very good showing of bloom, notwith- 

 staneling the very heavy cut. 'Two styles 

 of houses, radically different in their 

 construction, are used in growing carna- 

 tions. One the old, wide style of houses, 

 with elevated wooden benches, the others 

 very narrow houses, not more than ten 

 feet wide and not over three feet high 

 at the gutter line. A path runs through 

 the center of each house, and on either 

 side of this is a solid bed. There are no 

 tile used in the bottom of these beds, the 

 soil for growing the carnations resting 

 on a natural cushion of sand. Here is an 

 object lesson for those of us who are un- 

 decided as to whether carnations will 

 thrive best in solid beds or on raised 

 benches. From what I saw here, from 

 what I have seen at other places and 

 from the little experience fjainea at my 

 own plant, I am convinced that solid beds 

 are best for those houses and those plants 

 that we desire to cut a heavy crop from 

 in the spring and summer, and raised 

 benches, including brick and tile benches, 

 for plants and houses from which we de- 

 sire to do our heavy cutting in the fall 

 and winter. Lawson, Glacier, HiU, White 

 Cloud, Crane, Roosevelt, Golden Beauty 

 and many others were in fine condition, 

 but in my opinion Enchantress is empress 

 of them all. Why I entertain this high 

 opinion of Enchantress, I will communi- 

 cate at some future date. 



The next place I visited was that of F. 

 Dicks. This gentleman is a carnation 

 specialist. The houses are not of the 

 most modern construction, but they are 

 well built, well kept and form a compact 

 block of greenhouses and, like those on 

 the Gammage place, are heated by steam. 

 What was said about Lawson, Glacier, 

 Eoosevelt, etc., holds good here also. In 

 addition to these a number of houses of 

 Cerise Queen and Queen Louise and extra 

 heavy crops of buds impressed me most 

 favorably. Very little else in the plant 

 line excepting carnations is to be seen 

 on this place, but the neat and cleanly 

 appearance of the houses, the healthy and 

 thrifty condition of the plants testify to 

 the fact tbat Mr. Dicks is a most expert 

 crrower. H. L. Janzen. 



