JlARCil 24. 1:1114. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



919 



Plenty of EASTER Flowers at NIESSEN'S 



Yon will find this Headquarters for Everything pertaining to Cut Flowers. 



CARNATIONS 

 VALLEY 



PANSIES 

 BRIDES 



LIBERTIES 

 MAIDS 

 STRING AND 

 BUNCH PLUMOSUS 



GIANT DAISIES 

 WILD SMILAX 

 NOVELTIES 



Fresh STOCK and Careful PACKING too. 



LEO N I ESSEN 



1217 ARCH STREET, 



ALL 'PHONES. 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Cut flower coiulitioiLS contiime niiioli 

 the .same, Lenten dullness being general. 

 Flowers of all kinds are very abundant. 

 Extra fancy carnations in some cases 

 fetch $4 to $5 per 100, but ordinary 

 grades sell a^; very low rates. White 

 varieties are selling best. The Queen 

 seems to be the most popular "bread-and- 

 butter" variety, although Boston Mar- 

 ket and Wolcott are' favorites. Violets 

 are very abundant ; 3-5 cents per 100 

 seems to be top notch for the best singles. 

 Greenhouse-gi'own stock is coming of 

 ;X)orer color and will soon be ovei;'. 

 Frame-grown flowers arc of splendiil. 

 dark blue color. 



Various Notes. 



ilann Bros., of Randolph, have been 

 bringing in some nice Crimson Rambler 

 plants for the past three weeks, being 

 the first in the market with this popu- 

 lar rose. 



Wm. E. Bowditch, of Dorchester, has 

 sustained a serious loss to his stock at 

 his Grove Hall greenhouses, amounting 

 tc several thousand'; of doHars. as 1.000 

 pots of Easter lilico were among the 

 stock destroyed. An escape' of illumi- 

 nating gas is believed to be the cause 

 and action will probably be taken against 

 the Dorchester Gas Light Co. 



Lucius H. Foster, the disseminator of 

 the well-known sport of the Boston 

 fern, is seriously sick at his Dorchester 

 home. 



Samuel Neil, of Washington street, 

 Dorchester, has a fine house of Boston 



Jlarket carnation, which he claims as 

 the best of its color for the retail florist. 



S. Hoft"man. 92.5 Boylston street, has 

 opened up at Norton Bros.' old stand on 

 Massachusetts avenue, and will ofjerate 

 both stores. 



It now looks as though quite a num- 

 ber of growers would not be in time for 

 Easter with their lilies. Sweltering 

 heat, syringing several times daily with 

 warm water, dosing with nitrate of 

 soda and other jirocesses are being used 

 to hurry them. 



E. N. Pierce &, Sons will have the 

 largest lot of lilies for this market : their 

 quality is excellent. The same firm is 

 si.">ecially noted for its fine lily of the 

 valley, grown in large quantities. 



W. W. Edgar, as usual, has a grand 

 lot of acacias, azaleas, metrosideros. 

 Rambler roses, lilies and other pot stuff. 



Crimson Ramblers will have rivals this 

 season in the new pinks, Dorothy Per- 

 kins and Farquhar, which several grow- 

 ers are handling. It takes about two 

 weeks longer than Crimson Rambler to 

 flower them. 



Wax Bros., on Tremont street, always 

 have their large windows very prettih- 

 arranged with choice stock. This firm is 

 doing an increasing business. 



M. H. AValsh, of Woods Hole, has an 

 extensive exhibit of his Rambler roses 

 at the spring show of the Jlassachusetts 

 Horticultural Society this week. Many 

 of the plants are in tubs and are fineh- 

 flowered. 



The Boston Ciardeners' and Florists' 

 Club will have a carnation night at its 

 next meeting on April 1!), Lexington 

 day. Peter Fisher will open the dis- 

 cussion. At the May meeting "Alpine 



Pl.ints" will be treated by Carl Blom- 

 berg. The increasing attendance at the 

 clul)'s meetings will necessitate largeT 

 quarters very soon. The next field day 

 of tlie club will be at Wellesley. about 

 the middle of .June. 



Ice and snow are gradually disappear- 

 ing, but it will not lie possible to com- 

 mence outdoor operations before April 1. 

 Snowilrops. winter aconites and crocuses 

 in warm locations give the first sugges- 

 tion of spring. The ground has been 

 frost-bound since November 18. 



At the Harvard Botanic Gardens Rob- 

 ert Cameron always has a number of in- 

 teresting plants in bloom. At jjresent 

 one house contains a fine collection of 

 primulas, cyclamens and cinerarias. Aca- 

 cias in variety, ericas and other hard- 

 wdudcd sul)jects are making a good dis- 

 l)lay. In the way of orchids, numerous 

 dendrobiums, chiefly forms of D. nobile, 

 are to be seen in the stove house, where 

 a finely grow-n lot of specimen foliaged 

 plants and nepenthes are to be found. 

 In the cactus house the large specimens 

 ]ilanted out are making splendid growth, 

 ifundreds of seedling cacti, some of the'ni 

 of flowering size, fill a long shelf in a 

 cool house. W. N. Craio. 



LATE CHANGES. 



Owing to the large amount of adver- 

 tising carried in this issue it was neces- 

 sary to send several forms to press ear- 

 lier than usual. Late corrections re- 

 ceived are: 



Hy. Ernst & Son, omit pansy plants. 



S.' AVhitton, make verbenas $4.50 per 

 1,000. 



W. T. Buckley Plant Co.. omit white 

 geraniums and Glacier carnatiors. 



