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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Decembeii 16, 1897. 



will be in short supply for the holidays, 

 at least among local growers. Roses that 

 have been off-crop and were coming on 

 again for the holidays, are certainly suf- 

 fering as to prospective quality at that 

 time. Carnations as said before, are 

 now in short supply; there will be small 

 opportunity to accunuilate much between 

 now an<l the time of need without excep- 

 tionably favorable weather. Chrysanthe- 

 mums do not seem to have held on quite 

 as late as usual and have nearly liisap- 

 peared from the market. Romans of 

 course, as well as narcis.sus, w-ill be on 

 han<l to help out, but outside of these 

 and various greens and some odds and 

 ends, the outlook for a large supply is 

 certainlv not ven.- brilliant. In flowering 

 plants, azaleas, Deutsche Perle, Simon 

 Mardnerand Vervaeneaua, with the usual 

 cyclamens, primulas, begonias, poinset- 

 tias and Marguerites comprise the list. 



A Graham it Son are cutting some very 

 fine carnations. Flora Hill, Jubilee and 

 Pingree. The same firm have half a 

 * house of chrysanthenmms, Lincoln, Je- 

 rome Jones, Niveus, Eda Prass, Maud 

 Dean and V. H. Hallock, that are in good 

 condition for Christmas. 



Bowling. 



The bowling club held an extra meet- 

 ing on the evening of December 6 for the 

 purpose of entertaining the ladies and in- 

 cidentally eating various good things pro- 

 vided for the festive occasion. There was 

 a large attendance and everybody had a 

 gorgeous time. Nemo. 



BOSTON. 



Boston Florists' Club. 



The last meeting for 1897 was held on 

 Tuesday evening, December 7th, with 

 only a few members present. The busi- 

 ness of the meeting was unimportant in 

 character, but a very able essay was read 

 by Mr. Andrew H. Ward, one of the firm 

 of large manufacturers of artificial ino- 

 dorous concentrated plant food, which he 

 spoke of so minutely that it seemed there 

 was little room left for any discussion, 

 only one or two questions being asked 

 and very easily answered by the lecturer 

 to the satisfaction of all as it brought no 

 further discussion. A vote of thanks was 

 given Mr. Ward which ended the meet- 

 ing. 



It is reported that Mr. Herbert Du- 

 maresq, of Chestnut Hill, has entered in- 

 to contract with the firm of Lord & Burn- 

 ham, horticultural builders, for the 

 erection of some new" greenhouses which 

 are already under course of construction. 



Visitors. 



Mr. John Barclay, of the firm of Wm. 

 Elliott & Sons, New York, paid a com- 

 mercial visit to our township and seems a 

 congenial and well read man. We trust 

 he may do a good stroke of business 

 here. Mr. Littlefield, from Worcester, 

 was here during the carnation show and 

 was representing several of the western 

 growers as well as the home exhibitors. 



Results From a Flash Light Photo, 



Welsh Bros., City Hall florists, while 

 having a photograph taken of their new 

 and extensive refrigerator, for the exclu- 

 sive use of our new issue of the Florists' 

 Review, had quite an experience about 

 TO A. M. Saturday morning. The refrig- 

 erator extends acro.ss the lower end of 

 their store from Chapman street to Prov- 

 ince street, a length of probably 100 feet. 

 To enable the operators to obtain a good 

 and effective production the manager in 

 charge deemed it advisable to put in an 

 extra charge of magnesia powder to gain 

 desired effect, and when all was ready 

 and the word given to touch the matter 

 off, the effect was surely instantaneous, 

 and with the flash came an e.xplosion 

 which was as the report of a cannon and 

 the shock was felt very much over the 

 surrounding neighborhood. With the ex- 

 ception of damaging two windows and 

 otherwi.se flattening somewhat one or 

 two of the members of the firm and some 

 of their employes, no serious damage was 

 done. .\ lot of palms anil nephrolepis 

 that were in the window that was broken, 

 to all ajjpearances some hours afterwards 

 were not in any way injured, and no dam- 

 age seemed to have been done to anything 

 except breaking the glass by the concus- 

 sion. 



City Improvements. 



Mr. William Doogue, our city forester, 

 who is so well known for his startling 

 surprises in adorning and beautifying our 

 parks and squares, has his experienced 

 gardeners working in Copley Square lay- 

 ing out beds on a very elaborate scale for 

 planting bulbs — tulips chiefly— of which 

 it is calculated to take over 40,000, and, 

 being so late in the season, was a more 

 difficult task to procure than the laying 

 out and planting would be, he having 

 tried all the dealers at home, in New- 

 York and Philadelphia, and accidentally 

 found just what he wanted with F. R. 

 Pierson Company, of Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 which I have no doubt was as great a relief 

 to them to rid themselves of their surplus 

 stock as it was to Mr. Doogue to find 

 them. The park system will undoubt- 

 edly be a very attractive feature next 

 spring and a pleasing ornamentation to 

 the residents in this neighborhood as 

 well as the thousands who ride past in 

 the cars daily. The planting, as I im- 

 der.stand Mr. Doogue, is to be done in all 

 solid and bright colors which will har- 

 monize with the surrounding buildings. 

 The beds are all laid out in a scroll pat- 

 tern, which must be a very attractive 

 issue, it being a break from the old line 

 of solid beds. 



Trade Items 



A new florist store has been opened on 

 Main street, Worcester, by Messrs. Potter 

 & Coussins, who it is said are a very en- 

 terjjrising firm and will look out for their 

 share of the patronage of that city as 

 well as the neighboring community. 



Charles Ingram, of Reading, Mass , has 

 contracted with tht' wholesale firm of 

 ^^'elch Bros, to take the whole of his cut 

 of Fisher carnations which are first class 

 in flower with clean and healthy foliage, 

 and it is said to be the best stock in the 

 neighborhood. 



Wholesale Notes. 



The flower market here has been much 

 on the principle of the preceding week 

 and prices ruling much on the same 

 lines, but with the approach of Christmas 

 it is the general voice that prices and 

 business will jump. 



Florist Versus Gas Company. 



This was an action brought for trial 

 by Cj'rus P. Dorr, florist, Laconia, N. H., 

 against the Winnepesaukee Gas & Elec- 

 tric Company of that place, and I consid- 

 ered it might be verj' interesting, and of 

 some value to j-our readers, as many in- 

 stances have come under my notice where 

 damage has been done by escaping gas 

 permeating the ground, sometimes for a 

 considerable distance, and eventually find- 

 ing its outlet; in this instance it happened 

 to find its liberty in a greenhouse where 

 it caused great havoc among the plants. 



The case was brought in the Belknap 

 County Supreme Court, and tried by 

 Judge F. N. Parsons at the adjourned 

 term of the September court. A verdict 

 was found for the plaintiff in the sum of 

 I763.00. C. H. J. 



ST. LOUIS. 



Club Meeting. 



The regular monthly meeting of the St. 

 Louis Florist Clul) was held last Thursday 

 afternoon at 3 p. m., with President Hal- 

 .stedt in the chair and twenty-five members 

 present. The large attendance was owing 

 to the final report made by the executive 

 committee of the late chrysanthemum 

 show. The committee made a report 

 showing a loss of about ;f4oo, and stated 

 that the special prizes would be paid out in 

 full ju.st as soon as they could be collected; 

 also the Shaw prizes. The club prizes 

 will be paid as per rule fifteen in our pre- 

 mium list of rules governing the exhibi- 

 tion. The committee could not make its 

 final report, and was given until next 

 meeting to do so. Those who were given 

 certificates of merit will receive them by 

 January i, 1898. 



Applications for membership were 

 made by Andrew Meyer, Jr., and Fred. 

 Foster. 



William Trillow, of Belleville, 111., had 

 on exhibition a fine late yellow seedling 

 chyrsanthemum not named which was 

 awarded a certificate of merit by the 

 committee. 



The chair then appointed a committee 

 of three to make arrangements to enter- 

 tain the Chicago Florist Club members 

 who would visit us December 12th. The 

 committee was as follows: J. J. Beneke, 

 Al. J. Bauer, and Will. C. Young. 



The secretary then brought forward the 

 bronze medal and certificate sent to the 

 St. Louis florists from the World's Fair. 

 The secretary was instructed to give same 

 to the Missouri Botanical Gardens. 



Question Box. 



The question box brought on quite a dis- 

 cussion on the question of "How to run a 

 flower show successfully." One member 

 of the committee named a few of the 

 backbiters who did everything they could 

 to harm the show. The committee worked 



