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LILIES FOR YOU 



The Same High Grade for Easter that we 

 Have Been Furnishing in Years Past 



Packed in Boxes of Twenty-five Pots each, nicely Crated over 

 the Top. Our Packing is undoubtedly the BEST IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



Prices in Case Lots, 12 I-2c. per Flower. Five or more cases 12c. 

 per Flower. Ten or more cases lie. per Flower. Order Early 

 so that we may be able to Ship them Direct from ttie Greenhouses. 



And Don't Forget 



that we carry a full line of fresh flowers, all varieties, and the 

 largest stock "of Florists' Supplies in New England. 



N, F. McCarthy at co. 



Wholesale Florists. 84 Hawley St., BOSTON 



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the greenhouse department of Storrs 

 & Harrison Company at Painesville, 

 Ohio. A long jump from Richmond 

 out the "wireless" is no regarder of 

 mileage. Mr. George says that Dreer's 

 variegated-foliaged Bougainvillea "W. 

 K. Harris" is finding great favor with 

 the ilorist trade by reason of Its fine 

 decorative effect when worked in 

 among green foliaged plants. (Fol- 

 lowing apparently on the same lines 

 with its illustrious namesake.) Mr. 

 George imparts the pleasing news 

 that palms, after an extended dull 

 period, have been enjoying a nice ac- 

 tive demand during the last few weeks. 

 He has nothing but words of i)raise for 

 Baby Dorothy rose, which he regards 

 as a ranking companion to Baby Ram- 

 bler, but sees no future for Anny Mul- 

 ler, which is "simply awful" for mil- 

 dew. 



The "begonia mite," that trouble- 

 some insect microscopic in size but 

 prodigious in destructiveness, has 

 been doing lots of mischief among the 

 Rex begonias at Storrs & Harrison's, 

 but the remedy seems to have been 

 found in placing the plants in the 

 palm house and giving them an abun- 

 dance of moisture. Among the bed- 

 ding plants worthy of more general 

 use are tlie .\ralyphas MiUoniana and 

 bicolor compacta, the latter being the 

 newer one and characterized by more 

 lance-like foliage with variegation of 

 clear-white and more drooping habit, 

 Mr. Ge<^rge says that Verschaffeltii. 

 Golden Bedder and Beckwith Gem are 

 still far away beyond the demand for 

 all the other coleusps ,and although 

 old, retain their leadership over every 

 type of newcomer. 



A NEW FACTOR IN THE PLANT 

 TRADE. 



The new enterprise of the Fruit Auc- 

 tion Couipany in New York city where- 

 by they inaugurate a. series of daily 

 plant trade sales throughout the sea- 

 son, coiidiicteil on lines similar to the 

 wholesale fruit sales, lirings Lo view 

 many ix.'ssibiiities of paramount sig- 

 nificance to the plant trade and which 

 may mean, eventually, almost a revo- 

 lution in tlie methods of marketing 

 horticultural products. The innova- 

 tion will be watched with eager inter- 

 est by ihr trade and the effect of the 

 establishing of this new and compre- 

 hensive cutlet for the plant products 

 carefully noted. That, with enhanced 

 facilities for distribution, the magni- 

 tude of the plant sales of New York 

 could be many times multiplied, "e- 

 quires no proving to those who know 

 how far short our American cities fall 

 in plant consumption as compared 

 with European cities. The methods 

 which have so enormously developed 

 the fruit trade of the metropolis stand 

 well to exert a similar influence on 

 the i)lant traile. The superb equip- 

 ment of the I'^ruit Auction Compa.ny's 

 buildin.g, their groat financial strength 

 and the resourceful qualifications of 

 John P. Cleary for taking charge of 

 this pai-tirular department, are a guar- 

 antee that the new scheme will be well 

 tried out. 



CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES. 



A delegation from the Worcester 

 Market Gardeners' Association visited 

 Fitchbur.g, Mass., on March 28 and 

 spent a most profitable day Inspecting 

 the gre-?nhouses of James Heslani and 



William Proctor. Cucumbers in all 

 stages of development were seen. A 

 collation was served at noon by Mr. 

 Heslani. 



Chicago Florists' Club meets the 

 third Thursday of each month. Out of 

 town visitors are always welcome. 

 Four new members were added to the 

 club at the last meeting. 



The April exhibition of the Worces- 

 ter County Horticultural Society was 

 held on the Jst inst. Every class 

 called for was represented. H. F. A. 

 Lange, E. W. Breed and A. E. Harts- 

 horn were the principal prize winners. 



The Houghton Horticultural Society, 

 Lynn, Mass., at their recent business 

 meeting, decided to offer better prizes 

 for competition at the fall show. 

 Plans for summer outings were also 

 completed. 



The Twin City Florists' and Gar- 

 dener.s' Club has sent out cards beai'- 

 ing the wholesale and retail prices re- 

 spectively of the various spring bed- 

 ding plants in which the members are 

 interested, the prices having been 

 adopted as a standard by the club at a 

 meeting on February 18. 



At a meeting in New York on Sat- 

 urday, April 4, the committee on or- 

 ganization of tlie proposed new or- 

 chid society recommended that further 

 activity in organization be deferred 

 for the present, and that those inter- 

 ested accept the suggestion of the New 

 York Horticultural Society to associate 

 themselves with that society and act 

 as a special orchid committee, it being 

 understood that at a later date the 

 movement for an independent society 

 would probably be resumed. 



