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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



March 17. 1904. 



manufaoture of his letters and novelties. 



The Tree Planting Association is agi- 

 tating the idea of extensive tree plant- 

 ing in the streets of New York from a 

 health standpoint. 



Madison seems quite like old times 

 again, -nith Arthur Herrington home from 

 his English voyage and William Duck- 

 ham recovered from his long and severe 

 illness. 



John I. Raynor's lieutenant. Mr. Smith, 

 has added to the prospective wholesalers 

 of Twenty-eighth street. The boy and 

 mother are doing well, and Mr. Smith 

 can now attend to his bowling duties with 

 renewed courage. 



The Easter show and sale at the Her- 

 ald Square exhibition hall has been 

 abandoned. The growers did not take 

 to the idea. 



S. R. Wiley has opened an attractive 

 store at 9.52 Madison avenue, an excel- 

 lent location. 



Bowling. 



The Bowling Club will have another 

 prize night contest JIarch '2S. Every 

 member of the trade is invited to come 

 and bring a prize to the value of $1 

 or over. High man gets first choice of 

 the packages. Following are the scores 

 made last Monday : 



Lang 132 " 172 1S2 



Bums 148 127 186 186 



Gibbs 141 153 150 124 



Nugent 93 88 99 S5 'Kl 



Bennett 126 1.33 153 120 124 



Mansfield 160 170 138 141 14ii 



Haffner 186 173 145 161 13s 



SiebrePht 17(1 162 148 164 1S7 



ButterlJeld 130 158 116 205 123 



Shaw 116 124 146 131 1.32 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Business in cut flowers continues ex- 

 tremely dull. Flowers are coming for- 

 ward in increasing quantities, with a very 

 light demand. There is little prospect of 

 any betterment before Easter and the 

 present season promises to be far from 

 a lucrative one for members of the craft. 

 The weather continues very cold, in 

 marked contrast to a vear ago, and plenty 

 of snow and ice still remain. Fuel bills 

 will cut a big hole in profits and the 

 winter of 1903 and 1904, with its severe 

 cold and seventy-three days ' continuous 

 sleighing, will not readily be forgotten. 



Roses are coming in of better quality, 

 particularly in the case of Beauties, ,$40 

 per 100 being top price for them. Brides 

 and Bridesmaids are $6 to $10 for the 

 best. Meteors are cheap, nothing bring- 

 ing over $4, while Liberty has varied 

 from $2 to $10 according to quality. A 

 few Golden Gate, Morgan, Mrs. Oliver 

 Ames, Perle and some nice hybrids are 

 seen, the latter principally Jacqueminot, 

 Magna Charta, Brunner and Mme. Gab- 

 riel Imizet. 



Carnations of ordinary grades are 

 worth about $10 per 1,000. Fine Lawsons 

 are sold for $2 per 100. Fair Maid and 

 Enchantress bring $3, although some have 

 been sold lower. ■ Very few bring over 

 $3. Large quantities are being handled 

 by the street fakirs, who also have a 

 full line of roses, violets and bulbous 

 stock. 



Double violets seldom reach over i-- 

 cents per 100 and $1 secures 300 of the 

 finest Princess of Wales. These are 

 placed on the market in very large quan- 

 tities now. Bulbous stock continues de- 

 cidedly ' ' druggy. ' ' Pansies, daisies, 

 myosotis, wall flowers and other flowers 



suggestive of spring are becoming more 

 in evidence. 



Opinions vary as to the supply of 

 lilies for Easter, but there will proba- 

 bly be an ample supply for the demand. 

 Prices are still problematical. Disease 

 appears to be very rife still, especially in 

 the Bermuda stock. Some years ago L. 

 candidum was quite considerably grown 

 for the Boston market, but owing to dis- 

 ease was dropped and is now rarely seen. 

 During the past few years some of the 

 private gardeners have taken this in hand 

 and with north of France bulbs have 

 no disease whatever and the spikes carry 

 from eight to fifteen flowers. It would 

 pay some of our enterprising florists to 



The Kramer Trophy. 



grow batches of this finest of all white 

 lilies for another reason. 



Various Notes. 



At Horticultural Hall on March 12, 

 Arthur Cowee, of Berlin, N. Y., spoke 

 on the gladiolus, devoting considerable 

 attention to Meadowvale Farm, where 

 seventy acres of gladioli are grown, 10,- 

 000 bushels of bulbs dug and over 100 

 hands employed. Mr. Cowee declined to 

 state wliat fertilizers he used in his field 

 to produce good bulbs, but said a mix- 

 ture of three parts bone and one part 

 ashes was good. There will be no lecture 

 at Horticultural Hall on March 19 and 

 26, the hall being let for an automobile 

 show for the former date and the spring 

 show occurring on the latter. 



A delegation of twenty-five from the 

 Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 visited the Oakes Ames and F. L. Ames 

 estates, at North Fasten, on March 8. 

 Further excursions on field days will be 

 held during the season. 



The annual grand spring exhibition of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 will open March 24, closing on the 27th. 

 Everything points to the show being the 

 best held for many years. E.xhibitors 

 from outside the state will be particu- 

 larly numerous. Special features will be 

 orchids, hard-wooded plants, bulbous 

 stock, cyclamens, cinerarias. Rambler 

 roses, etc. Many of the new carnations 

 will be shown. 



At the last meeting of the Boston Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club, on March 16, 

 there was a large attendance. Several 

 new members were elected. The lecture 

 of the evening was by Irving T. Guild, 

 on landscape gardening. 



At Prof. C. S. Sargent's estate, in 

 Brookline, Mass., there is at present a 

 magnificent display of imantophyllums, 

 big specimen plants in large pots and 

 tubs carrying a dozen or more spikes 

 each of their gorgeous, orange-colored 

 flowers. 



The death roll among shrubs promises 

 to be an unusually lengthy one this sea- 

 son. Evergreens have suffered severely, 

 many being killed outright. Deciduous 

 shrubs are also badly killed, the much 

 planted California piivet again being 

 cut to the ground. 



Bostonians are sorry that the carna- 

 tion convention is not coming to the Hub 

 in 1905, but will welcome it in 1906. 

 W. N. Craig. 



BALTIMORE. 



Bowling Contest. 



The Philadelphia and Washington 

 bowling teams journeyed to Baltimore 

 on Monday night to play in the three- 

 cornered match for the silver cup offered 

 as a prize by F. H. Kramer, of Wash- 

 ington. The boys from the capital put 

 np a good game, but Philadelphia played 

 better and Baltimore bowled best, so 

 that the handsome trophy will stay with 

 them. 



After the contest the visitors were en- 

 tertained by the Baltimore craftsmen. 

 Elaborate preparations had been made for 

 the event. At the conclusion of the re- 

 past E. A. Seidewitz took charge as 

 toastmaster. The principal speaker was 

 E. Morgan, president of the first branch 

 of the city council. Responses were also 

 made by Captain Ernest, of the Wash- 

 intrton team; Captain Gibson, of Phila- 

 delphia ; Captain Seybold. of Baltimore, 

 and others. It was an occasion long to 

 bo remembered. 



Following are the evening's scores: 



Washington. 1st. 2d. 3d. T'l. 



Shaffer 12S 171 134 433 



Cooke 99 176 146 421 



McLennon 229 129 165 523 



Sherman 135 141 1.S0 456 



Ernest 141 163 115 419 



Totals 732 780 740 2252 



Philadelphia. 1st. 2d. 3d. T'l. 



Gibson 16.3 123 137 423 



Dunlap 164 185 203 552 



Starliev 140 182 164 486 



Graham 161 139 146 446 



Connors 190 194 108 582 



Totals 818 823 848 2489 



B.Tltimore 1st. 2d. 3d. T'l. 



Richmond 168 122 168 458 



Halliday 145 209 176 530 



Boone 134 146 143 423 



Kreh 224 201 180 605 



Seybold 193 173 183 549 



Totals 864 851 850 2565 



