December 10, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



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CHRISTMAS SPECIALTIES 



All Guaranteed for Quality as in Past Seasons 



HOLLY. Single case, $5.00. Two cases, $9.00. Five or more cases . . $4.00 a case 

 MISTLETOE. Extra fine berried. Very fine. Per lb., 35c; in 10 1b. lots, 30c per lb.; 



25 lb. lots, 25c per lb. 

 BOXWOOD. 15c per lb. incase lots of 50 pounds. Each case contains full 50 lbs.; usually 



the case wcis'ht is included and you pay Boxwood value for old lumber. Watch out. 

 VELVET POINSETTIAS. We hold the agency for New England for Anderson's Velvet 



Poinsettias. Price with leaves and long' stems, $2.50 per dozen. With short stem and 



no leaves, $1.75 per dozen. Per gross, with leaves, $27.00; without leaves, $21.00. 



HOLLY WREATHS. Per 100 $12.00 to $15.00 



LAUREL WREATHS. 12 in. Frames $18.00 per 100 



LAUREL ROPING . . . 5c per yard HARDY FERNS, best qiiality ever of- 

 fered $1.25 per 1000 



GALAX, $7.50 per case of 10,000; per PRINCESS PINE .... 8c per lb. 



1000 $1.00 



PARTRIDGE BERRIES and GLOBES. CHRISTMAS BELLS. 





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SEND FOR QUOTATIONS ON ANYTHING YOU NEED NOW OR FOR ITHE HOLIDAYS 



In. f. McCarthy & co. ! 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



TEL. MAIN 5973 

 and 5974 



84 Hawley St., Boston 



of promise noticeably a pink, No. 150, 

 and a red, 169. The former lias stood 

 the test three years and the latter two, 

 Sangamo, sent out last year was show- 

 ing up well. It is smaller but of good 

 color and extremely prolific. Princess 

 Charming here deserves its name, even 

 tetter color than Enchantress, Pink 

 Delight was not found to do so well 

 here as in the East, The Chicago 

 Carnation Co, are this year growing 

 134,000 plants, 



A Model Plant. 

 Since the Thompson Carnation Co.'s 

 plant at Joliet, 111., has come safely 

 through the long siege of litigation, a 

 summer spent in improving it has 

 made this place one of the finest near 

 Chicago. An ice machine of 5 tons 

 daily capacity has been installed, 

 their own electric plant supplies 

 abundance of light, cement posts re- 

 place all wooden ones and all the car- 

 nations under the 108,000 sq. ft. of 

 glass are of the very best commercial 

 varieties. This company have an es- 

 tablished reputation for the quality of 

 their rooted cuttings and over 100.000 

 well-rooted cuttings are ready now. 

 All the cut flowers they sell under a 

 season contract. 



Chicago Florists' Club. 



For account of meeting, December 1, 

 see page of Club and Society news. 



Personal. 



Visitors: E. Nagel, Berne, Ind.; R, 

 T. Latham, Minneapolis, Minn,; Alois 

 Frey, Crown Point, Ind,; W, P. Craig, 

 Phila., Pa,; S, W, Pike & Son, St. 

 •Charles, 111,; H. E. Philpott, Winnipeg, 

 Man.; Mr. Taylor, representing "Nico- 

 lume," Louisville, Ky. 



CARNATIONS AT TEWKSBURY, 



MASS. 



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Ever since Albert Roper modestly 



handed out his Fair Maid to an eager 



carnation world and later followed it 



with his invincible Bay State, Tewks- 



bury has held a position of no small 



importance in the carnation men's 



band wagon. We went up to Tewks- 



bury a few days ago to see what 



sensations were being framed up for 



future exploitation, and, as usual, felt 



PEIRGE BROS. 



WALTHAM, MASS. 



AZALEAS 



CYCLAMEN 



FERNS 



AND OTHER 



CHRISTMAS 



PLANTS 



For particulars address 



PEIRGE BROS 



WALTHAM, MASS. 



well repaid for the trip. Roper has 

 two sterling things, at least. One is 

 a big white seedling — a perfect 

 flower with a tall, willowy stem, which 

 he thinks will be good enough to put 

 on the market. It so closely resem- 

 bles Shasta that we doubt whether 

 Mr. Roper himself could separate the 

 blooms if these two varieties were 

 mixed together in one bunch. It is 

 / four years old. The other favored 

 candidate is a red, deeper in color 

 than Beacon, a splendid high-centered 

 bloom, and, like all Roper's seedlings, 

 fragrant. He says it is the most 

 prolific variety he ever grew. He was 

 prepared to send it out last year and 

 had 20,000 already sold but he got the 

 plants into some bad soil and a case 

 of stem rot developed so he decided 

 to withhold it until the trouble 

 should be eradicated. There is no 

 sign of stem rot this year and every- 

 thing looks promising for an early 

 introduction. There is another white 

 — a seedling from a seedling — now 

 three years old. in which he places 

 great hopes. 



This establishment is full of seed- 

 lings which Mr. Roper has been grow- 

 ing for varying lengths of time and 

 been marketing without name. Many 

 of these, while lacking in the size re- 

 quired to win out at the exhibitions, 

 are splendid market sorts and very 

 profitable because very prolific. He 



