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HOMICULTURE 



December 12, 1908 



Christmas Evergreens 



Kxtra Fine Cut Boxwood Sprays 



Mr, 00 per hundred lbs 

 Princess Pine Evergreen 8.00 ,, 



Laurel Festooning 5.00 and 6.0" per hundred yards 

 ">rinc«BM Pme 6-00 ,, ,, 



Fancy Holly, Extra Fine O n alii y fi.OO per case 



Laurel Wreaths, made up extra tine 



2 00 and 300 per dozen 

 Boxwood "Wreaths, made up extra fire 



5.00 and 9.00 per dozen 



Holly Wreath*, Extra Quality, covered both side 



6.00 per dozen 

 Southern Wild Smilax 3.50 and 7 00 per case 



Branch Laurel 50c per bundle 



Dagger and Fancy Ferns, Extra Quality 1.50 per M 



New Crop Brilliant Bronze and Green Galax 



1 00 per M 



Immortelles, all colors 2 50 per dozen 



A large stock of Florists' Supplies on hand. When you place your order with us you can rest assured that it will be filled promptly, 

 properly and to your satisfaction. We never disappoint, satisfaction guarante d, orders filled at a moment's notice. 



Telephone, Write or Telegraph. Tel. 2617, 2618 Main 



HENRY M. ROBINSON & CO., 



15 Province St. and 9 Chapman Place 

 BOSTON, MASS. 



CHRISTMAS TRADE IN PHILADEL- 

 PHIA. 

 And Some News Items from That 

 Busy City. 



Growers of flowering and foliage 

 plants for the Christmas trade have 

 been busy the past week packing and 

 shipping their early orders. There is 

 a good demand, and the choicest stock 

 is being rapidly picked up in some 

 lines, notably in cyclamens and poin- 

 settias in pots and pans. 



Palms are going unusually well. 

 The Joseph Heacock Company and 

 others making a specialty of this item, 

 are well pleased with trade so far and 

 say the advance bookings are away 

 ahead of last year. Mr. Heacock gives 

 exceptional value in his Kentias, es- 

 pecially in the "made up" pots, which 

 have come to he leaders among the 

 standard Christmas favorites. 



.Dennis T. Connor, of the Lord & 

 Burnham Co., left for Baltimore and 

 Washington on the 7th inst. He re- 

 ports a revival of interest in building 

 and supplies, and a hopeful outlook 

 not only in this territory but further 

 south. 



Godfrey Ai-ehmann is one of the 

 busiest men in town, waiting with his 

 perennial Christmas smile on the 

 crowds who visit his establishment 

 daily from all over the country. All 

 wonder how he can do things so as- 

 tonishly cheap and good, and are often 

 surprised to find that the goods are 

 just as advertised. "When Mr. Asch- 

 mann offers a fiftv-cent aroucaria in 

 HORTICULTURE it is still fifty cents 

 when the customer gets there, and not 

 a dollar as some of his chagrined com- 

 petitors try to make out. 



Ardisias are a little green as yet but 

 will be just right for Christmas, as 

 they color up very quickly. We saw 

 some very fine at Craig's. 



The trade in cut boxwood has as- 

 sumed important dimensions. The 

 Pennock-Meehan Co. seem to be head- 

 quarters for this, if one may judge 

 from the hundreds of barrels, boxes 

 and crates of it constantly being 

 rushed off from the shipping depart- 

 ment. 



Our good friend Anton Schultheis, of 

 College Point, N. Y., must have been 

 getting some good orders from Phila- 

 delphia on his last week's offer of 

 Ericas, etc.. in HORTICULTURE, to 

 judge from the excellent showing 

 many of our wide-awake florists are 

 making of this here. 



Holly, mistletoe, lycopodium and 



other green headquarters, is as usual 

 around Michell's, where Philip Fiend 

 is working night and day to get off 

 the orders. A new idea this year is 

 assorted boxes of berried greens, etc., 

 all ready to take home. Holly is ex- 

 cellently berried and well-colored this 

 year 



CHICAGO'S CHRISTMAS OUTLOOK. 



A series of trips in and about Chi- 

 cago shows that there is plenty of 

 stock for the Christmas market. It is 

 a peep behind the scenes before the 

 curtain goes up. Trade is rather quiet 

 this week as it usually is preceding a 

 holiday. 



Anton Then, who grows both plains 

 and cut flowers, has fine poinsettias 

 and cyclamens that are in extra shape 

 for Christmas. 



Frank Beu grows cut flowers only, 

 having about 50,000 carnation plants. 

 His pompon chrysanthemum, Mrs. 

 Frank Beu, which received mention at 

 the Flower Show, is still in excellent 

 condition and Mr. Beu expects to cut 

 blooms for the holidays. It is full, of 

 a very deep yellow, and makes an ideal 

 pot plant. 



Mr. Collins of the Parkside Green- 

 houses will add to the Christmas sup- 

 ply with cut poinsettias and nice 

 azaleas and cyclamens. 



At Sinner Bros, it looks now as if 

 Richmond rose would be especially 

 fine for the holidays. Mr. Sinner con- 

 siders Victory, White Perfection and 

 Aristocrat three of the best carnations 

 for general purposes. He finds Aristo- 

 crat will stand more unfavorable con- 

 ditions in the field than Lawson. 



N. C. Moore Co. have only a small 

 plant but will have some good carna- 

 tions and green stock. 



The Geo. Wittbold Co. is offering 

 among other things exceptionally fine 

 Lorraine begonias. Mr. Witt bold 

 thinks the outlook for the winter is de- 

 cidedly good. 



At Sam Pearce's place on the North 

 Side we find the azaleas are unusually 

 advanced for this time of the year and 

 poinsettias. lilies, Roman hyacinths 

 and Paper Whites all in excellent 

 shape. 



Ernest Oechslin has a well estab- 

 lished business at River Forest. He 

 grows plants only and his Christmas 

 stock consists mostly of cyclamens and 

 poinsettias. It would be hard indeed 

 to grow too many of these plants for 

 the Chicago market at the holiday 

 season. 



Benthey & Co. say that the prospects 

 for a fine cut of roses are very promis- 

 ing. Brides, Bridesmaids and Killar- 

 ney roses will be in good crop. The 

 supply of Beauties will be limited; 

 carnations will be of excellent quality. 

 Extra fine mignonette is in sight as 

 well as sweet peas. 



A look in at Wietor Bros, plant 

 shows there is plenty of good stock 

 here. They specialize in roses and car- 

 nations. 



Zeck & Mann grow roses and carna- 

 tions. Richmonds and Killarneys 

 promise to be especially fine for 

 Christmas. 



Frank Oechslin has his stock in 

 prime condition for Christmas. The 

 poinsettias number well into the thou- 

 sands and both in pots and pans are 

 even better than usual. Azaleas are 

 very good. Simon Mardner, Verva- 

 eneana, Hexe, Mme. Petrick and 

 Deutsche Perle are the leaders. Cycla- 

 mens are at their best, strong and well 

 covered with bloom. Primula obcon- 

 ica and Lorraine begonias, ardisias, 

 cherries, peppers and oranges are ex- 

 ceptionally fine. Mr. Oechslin is not 

 given to much talking but he is very 

 optimistic over the Christmas outlook. 



Bassett & Washburn expect a re- 

 cord breaker in their new red carna- 

 tion, O. P. Bassett, as they have 

 benched 50,000 plants and they are in 

 full bloom for Christmas. Giganteum 

 and Formosa lilies are here in plenty. 

 Beauties will be of fine quality but 

 very scarce. In mixed roses Killarney 

 and Richmond will be most in demand. 



Peter Reinberg is cutting from ten 

 to fifteen thousand of the new rose, 

 Mrs. Marshall Field, per day and ex- 

 pects also to have a big supply of 

 Beauties for Christmas. 



J. A. Budlong grows for cut flowers 

 only. His place is well stocked with 

 'Maid, Bride, Richmond, Killarney and 

 Beauty. In carnations, Mr. Budlong's 

 Enchantress, White Perfection and 

 Aristocrat promise a big crop for 

 Christmas. 



Poehlmann Bros, are cutting twenty 

 thousand carnations daily; twenty-five 

 to thirty thousand lily of the valley 

 are ready and no end of lilies. It 

 looks now like a big cut of Richmond, 

 Killarney and other tea roses. A few 

 chrysanthemums will be left of the 

 Merry Christmas variety. 



Vaughan & Sperry, Percy Jones, Ed. 

 Winterson and the rest of the commis- 

 sion men are all ready for big things. 

 Charles McKellar specializes in orchids 

 and promises a rich assortment. 



