May 18, 1918 



HORTICULTURE 



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r IN/lemorial Day 



ROSES, CARNATIONS, SPIREAS, PEONIES, STOCKS, CANDY- 

 TUFT, FEVERFEW OF BEST QUALITY 



Other Seasonable Flowers at Right Prices. We Aim to Please 



Our stock is from the best growers in New England and is carefully selected and examined before being shipped. 

 We ship throughout New England, New York State and Canada. We give a service that is recommended as 

 the best. 



Being well experienced, we anticipate the requirements of our customers, and can supply them with the flow- 

 ers they want when they w-ant them and at the right prices. 



Try Us Once, You Will Again 



278 Devonshire Street, 

 BOSTON, MASS. 



Telephones, Fort Hill 1083, 1084 and 1085 



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Among some of the new Lilac varie- 

 ties and hybrids we mention a few 

 that are meritorious. 



Claude Bernard is a rapid grower, 

 and has cluster of semi-double, clear 

 maroon flowers, and is among the earl- 

 iest to bloom. Diderot has single, 

 compound, erect clusters of claret-pur- 

 ple flowers, roundish in outline. 

 Emlle Gentil bears thyrses of large 

 size, with, double, over-lapping flowers 

 of a cobalt blue shade. Mont Blanc 

 should Become a popular Lilac. The 

 single, large flowers are disposed In 

 branched panicles, and are pure white. 

 Good white Lilacs with large flowers 

 are always in demand. Paul Thirion 

 Is a late double flow-ering Lilac, with 

 upright panicles, and the blossoms im- 

 bricated. The color might be described 

 as purple-rose, and the unfolding buds 

 have a beautiful carmine tinge. 



Lonicera Korolkovii, variety flori- 

 bunda, is a gem. It is not new in this 

 country, but is rare in gardens. It 

 forms a wide, spreading, graceful head 

 6-8 feet In height and 12 feet in spread 

 of branches. The leaves are light 

 green or greyish green, elliptic in out- 

 line. The numerous light pink flowers 

 In great profusion are very attractive 

 about the first week in June. 



Ix)nicera syringantha Is a bush 

 Honeysuckle that has been in cultiva^ 

 tlon for a good many years, but it Is 

 still rarely seen. It is usually upright 

 In habit, with slender branches, and 

 does not seem to exceed 4 or 5 feet in 

 height. The small leaves are deep 

 blulsfa-green. The blossoms are re- 

 markably dainty, and are pale, rosy- 

 lilac, with a pleasing fragrance. A 

 variety of this species known as 

 Wolfil Is more beautiful than the type. 



NARCISSUS AMONG FERNS. 



BEDDING PLANTS 



IN PRnviK rONDITION. 



Double AlysBnm. 2 In. $2.50 per 100 

 Dracaena IndivUa, Z In, $2.50; 4 In. 



$15.00: 5 in. $25.00 per 100. 

 Fmerrew, 2 In. $2.50; S In. $5.50 per 100 



Fuchsias, S in $5.50 per 100 



Heliotrope. S in $5.50 per 100 



MarKuerltes, Mrs. Sander and Boston 



Market, 2 in $3..'.0 per 10<I 



Mare:. Sinele. 2 in S2..%0 per 100 



Vlnea Variecata. 2Vi in. $2.50; 3 In. 



$5 00; 4 In. $10.00 and $12.00 per 100 



Ivy Geraniums, 2 in $2.50 per 100 



Verhena Seeillines, Pink, White and 



Bine, $1.25 per 100. 



Cii^'i v'ith ry,f,'r. f'lfa^e. 



WEBSTER FLORAL CO., Inc. 



Webster, Mas" 



Our illustration shows a somewhat 

 novel use of narcissus among tender 

 ferns as a spring adornment under a 



garden arbor. The combination was 

 very effective. The photograph was 

 taken at Lancaster, Mass.. at the 

 Bayard Thayer residence. 



NURSERYMEN DEMAND REDRESS. 



A conference in reference to the 

 shipment by express of nursery stock 

 from this section was held at the 

 rooms of the Chamber of Commerce. 

 Geneva, N. Y., on May 2. 



It was attended by representa- 

 of the city with President W. W. 

 Grant presiding. H. C. Haycock, of 

 Buffalo, district superintendent of the 

 American Express Company, was pres- 

 ent in behalf of the express company, 

 and heard the complaints of the nur- 

 serymen concerning delayed ship- 

 ments as well as failure to call for the 

 shipments after various requests had 

 been made for wagons. 



The complaint of the nurserymen is 

 not a new one. In fact, it has been of 

 long standing and an effort to remedy 

 the trouble early this spring was made 

 by a conference held by the Chamber 

 of Commerce a few weeks ago. At 

 that time some relief was promised 

 and has been afforded but not enough 

 to take care of the situation, as a re- 

 sult of which it is said, the nursery- 

 men here have numerous claims for 

 damages which they apparently are 

 disposed to enforce. 



Details of the manner of packing 

 and shipping were gone over with 

 some suggestions made that might be 

 of mutual assistance. One of these 

 was the weighing of shipments by the 

 nurserymen instead of leaving the 

 weighing to be done by the express 

 company. The company said if the 

 nursery firms would send their ship- 

 ments to the trains all weighed they 

 could be put direct in the cars where 

 they (ould be checked up. This would 

 avoid tlie rehandling of the goods and 

 their weighing at the station, which 

 consumed considerable time. This 

 was agreed to liy the nurserymen who 

 will do this in the future. 



AUorney W. Smith O'Brien was 

 present representing some of the nur- 

 serymen and asked that a written 

 statement be made by the representa- 

 tive of the express company as to just 

 what relief might be expected. The 

 inclination was to take the matter be- 

 fore the Public Service Commission 

 unless assurances were satisfactory. 

 Superintendent Haycock was iiuite in- 

 <lined to do everything possible 

 though the nurserymen on account of 

 past experiences were disposed to be 

 a bit skeptical as to results. 



