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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Mat 12, 1904. 



with perfect specimens three feet in 

 diameter, flowers iargo and foliage al- 

 most hiding the pots. W. A. Riggs, gar- 

 dener to E. A. Clark, was second with 

 e<iually as large plants, which, however, 

 were a trifle past their prime. Probably 

 nowhere else in America are such superb 

 calceolarias shown as in Boston. 

 . For six show or fancy pelargoniums 

 Mr. Stuart was again in the lead, with 

 large, well flowered plants of Mabel, 

 Lady Duff, H. M. Stanley, Admiration, 

 May Queen and Mrs. Ashley. The same 

 exhibitor received honorable mention for 

 Miss Middletou, a new pink variety. Wal- 

 ter Hunnewell, T. D. Hatfield, gardener, 

 received a cultural certificate for three 

 large and splendidly berried specimens 

 of Aucuba Japouica foemina. Plants 

 berried as these were would sell on sight 

 for Christmas decorations, .fames K. 

 Kothwell, Emil Johansson, gardener, 

 showed two well flowered plants of a 

 seedling orchid. La?Iia Latona (L. Cinna- 

 barina xL. purpurata). The plants were 

 procured by Jlr. Kothwell three years 

 ago. They were awarded a certificate of 

 merit. This orchid was first raised by 

 Messrs. Veitch & Son, of Xiondon, and 

 is still rather scarce in American collec- 

 tions. 



For forty-eight named tulips, Mr. Sul- 

 livan, gardener to W. Whitman, was first. 

 J. B. Shurtleff and Mrs. E. M. Gill se- 

 cured the pansy prizes. L. E. Small was 

 awarded a certificate of merit for his 

 new white carnation, No. 3. This se- 

 cured honorable mention at the spring 

 show. That Mr. Small has a winner in 

 this carnation, is the verdict of all who 

 have seen it growing. Harvard Botanic 

 Gardens, Eobert Cameron, gardener, had 

 an extensive display of named narcissi, 

 tulips, fritillarias, trilliums, saxifragas, 

 aubretias, dielytras, dodecatheons and 

 other seasonable hardy flowers which were 

 much admired. These were awarded a 

 gratuity. There were a number of col- 

 lections of native plants and a fine dis- 

 play of vegetables. 



Horticultural Society Meets. 



Considerable business was transacted 

 at the regular monthly meeting of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society on 

 May 7. Sevei-al new members were elect- 

 ed. An invitation was extended to the 

 American Peony Society to meet in eon- 

 junction with the M. .H. S. at the annual 

 exhibition on June 11. Henry Clapp, for 

 fourteen years chairman of the commit- 

 tee of school gardens, resigned and a 

 letter of thanks was voted to be sent to 

 him for his long, faithful service. An 

 appropriation not to exceed .$700 was 

 voted to the committee on exhibitions 

 with which to procure new glassware. 

 The sum of $200 was voted to be used 

 in special prizes for the coming chrys- 

 anthemum show, when the C. S. A. meets 

 in Boston. The prizes will probably be 

 awarded for fifty blooms of any variety 

 shown in the large china vases of the so- 

 ciety. The prizes to be $60, $50, $40, 

 $30, and .$20. It was announced that 

 .John C. Chappin, of Newton, had left 

 the society $1,000, the interest from the 

 same, to be offered in prizes for roses. 

 The committee on prizes and exhibitions 

 were empowered to issue a schedule for 

 the next spring show, when the American 

 Rose Society meets in Boston, at an early 

 date. Some additional attractive classes 

 will be added. 



Various Notes. 



Doyle made a window decoration of 

 the single dahlia. Twentieth Century, the 



past week. Quite a number of growers, 

 both private and commercial, are trying 

 dahlias in benches. 



Ripe strawberries in pots are being 

 used by several florists for window dec- 

 orations. The plants are not well grown 

 and the fruit rather small, but they at- 

 tract the notice of passersby more than 

 seasonable flowers. 



Shade temperatures running as high 

 as 82 degrees during the past week have 

 caused vegetation to advance by leaps 

 and bounds. Planting of deciduous trees 

 and shrubs has been hurried to a close 

 and evergreens are now being taken in 

 hand. 



The grounds at the Harvard Botanic 

 Gardens are very interesting at present. 

 Spring bulbous plants make a fine show. 

 Some of the better known narcissi, such 

 as Emperor, Horsfieldi, Empress. Sir Wat- 

 kins, Stella, Cynosure, Leedsii, Duchess 

 of Brabant and nigilobus. and many tu- 

 lips are at their best. Numerous rock 

 and other herbaceous perennials are in 

 full bloom. Some fine Forsythia sus- 

 pensa are a mass of bloom although as a 

 rule these are winter killed near Boston. 

 Magnolias are also in fine flower. 



At the next meeting of the Gardeners ' 

 and Florists' Club, on May 17, Carl 

 Blomberg, of North Easton, will read a 

 paper on alpine plants. 



The most effective tulips now flowering 

 in the Boston Public Gardens are the fol- 

 lowing: Scarlet, white and yellow Pot- 

 tebakker. Queen of the Netherlands, 

 Keizerskroon, Thomas Moore, Proser- 

 pine, Prince of Austria, Chrysolora, Joost 

 van Vondel, Cottage Maid, Rose Luis- 

 ante, Duchesse de Parma, Bride of Haar- 

 lem and Vermilion Brilliant. 



In your last issue you quote some dep- 

 recatory remarks of Varnum Frost on 

 greenhouses, in which he tells us ' ' the 

 greenhouse men will yet come to grief. ' ' 

 Mr. Frost is an old member of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society and is 

 a good grower of fruits and vegetables. 

 He seems to consider our experimental 

 stations and college professors in some- 

 thing of the nature of humbugs and is 

 not afraid to so express himself in pub- 

 lic. It is only a -aery few years ago that 

 we heard Mr. Frost denounce the spray- 

 ing of apple trees as a humbug and state 

 that he did not believe his trees were 

 harmed at all by being threadbare occa- 

 sionally. Mr. Frost the past two sea- 

 sons has sprayed his apples and now com- 

 mends what he formerly eonflemned. We 

 think his anti-greenhouse views will sim- 

 ilarly change. Mr. Frost is a iirst-class 

 market grower and a successful exhibitor 

 at our Boston shows. W. N. Cr.\i<;. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



Business is dull this week. The supply 

 of flowers has increased enormously, with 

 but little demand for them. Beauties 

 and Edgelys are very fine. They sell 

 fairly well, but many of them at "ridic- 

 ulously low prices. Brides and Maids 

 are falling off in quality; only the best 

 sell. There are immense quantities of 

 really fine carnations on the market. 

 Despite their quality they are almost a 

 drug. Good .judges believe that we shall 

 see a scarcity of flowers in a few weeks, 

 should the present warm weather continue. 

 A'alley and sweet peas are perhaps the 

 strongest varieties on the list, one whole- 

 saler. S. S. Pennock, being obliged to 

 telegraph for two extra shipments of val- 

 ley on one afternoon reeentlv. 



Bedding Plants. 



This week has brought us very warm 

 weather and the fateful May 10," a com- 

 bination which starts the planting season 

 in earnest. Aschmann, Becker, Carpen- 

 ter, Coles, Meckey, Zimmer and other 

 wliolesale growers of bedding plants are 

 busily engaged getting out their plants, 

 which, by the way, does not seem partic- 

 ularly satisfactory to some of the retail- 

 ers, who complain that their customers 

 can buy at just the same prices that they 

 can. This is certainly a condition of 

 tilings that should be remedied. 



New Bowling Trophy. 



Philadelphia is the proud possessor of 

 a beautiful silver cup, offered by F. H. 

 Kramer, of Anacostia, D. C, a grower 

 with 50,000 feet of glass whose product 

 is sold in the Washington market. The 

 cup was offered for competition between 

 the cities of Washington, Baltimore and 

 Philadelphia, each team consisting of five 

 men, rolling three games in each of the 

 three cities, the contest to be decided 

 in favor of the club making the largest 

 number of pins in the nine games. Bal- 

 timore secured the lead in the first series 

 by about 100 pins, Philadelphia came out 

 ahead in the series played in this city, 

 by the very narrow margin of some ten 

 pins, while in the final series, rolled in 

 Washington last Friday, Philadelphia 

 was again victorious by some 300 pins, 

 thus winning the series and the match in 

 clever style. The winning team on this 

 occasion consisted of D. T. Conner, T. 

 Dunlap, W. E. Gibson, W. Graham and 

 B. Starkey. 



Wyndmoor. 



It is a general truth that hard work- 

 ers do not as a rule, look as well as 

 those who do not work hard. The greet- 

 ing, "Why, you can't be working, you 

 look too well," is one of those sajdngs 

 vnih some truth in it, when the dissi- 

 pated and the loafers are omitted. So 

 when you go to see a rose place, at this 

 season of the year, that you have heard 

 about all winter as producing tine stock 

 in great quantities when stuff was scarce, 

 you naturally expect to see a rather 

 rough looking lot of plants. It is sur- 

 prising, however, how many fine flowers 

 Myers & Samtman are still cutting from 

 Beauties and Edgelys that have done 

 yeoman service throughout the entire 

 winter. Their plants were very heavy 

 and full of buds. 



Some of the houses are being ]iut 

 through a course of treatment that should 

 enable them to withstand our trying cli- 

 mate until thrown out. WTiile American 

 Beauty is the rose grown in this immense 

 place," Queen of Edgely has done excep- 

 tionally well, producing some superb flow- 

 ers that will be long remembered by 

 those who saw them at the show. Amer- 

 ican Belle, Liberty and Sunrise are also 

 grown in smaller quantity. A part of 

 the fine range built two years ago is now 

 being devoted to young stock, two 

 benches having been torn out and filled 

 with young Beauties and their cousins all 

 in thi-ifty condition. The place has the 

 reputation of being very prosperous and 

 impresses the visitors as being exception- 

 ally well managed. 



The Buyer. 



It is a well-known fact that most of 

 the purchasing for our retail flower 

 stores, both large and small, is done on 

 the place by the proprietor himself or 

 a member of the firm. This work is of 

 great importance, as on the tact and 



