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HORTICULTURE 



December 19, 1914 



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NEWS ITEMS FROM EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON. 



The Hadley rose still continues to 

 be in large demand. Robt. Montgom- 

 ery is shipping in some of the finest 

 stock seen of this beautiful variety. 



The Boston Cut Flower Co. report 

 business as being very good. The 

 sale of their .50c. boxes still holds 

 good and is a favorable indication of 

 the value of this plan of disposing 

 o£ stock. 



George Cartwright, the genial secre- 

 tary of the Boston Flower Exchange 

 is again ill with severe indigestion. 

 It is sincerely hoped by all his many 

 friends that Mr. Cartwright will be up 

 and doing very soon. 



Excellent specimens of Cattleya 

 Trianae are being cut by Charles 

 Rapp of Melrose Highlands. Mr. 

 Rapp has been very successful with 

 orchids commercially and claims to 

 use original methods in growing 

 them. 



Pot plants are selling well all over 

 the city. The W. W. Edgar Co. of 

 Waverley, A. M. Davenport of Water- 

 town, A. Leuthy of Roslindale and 

 The Needham Conservatories are sup- 

 plying the bulk of high-grade plants 

 in the markets. 



Julius Zinn is now well settled in 

 his new store and has everything in 

 readiness for a big holiday trade. The 

 new location is at 4 Park street, only 

 a short distance from the old store, 

 which was at 1 Park street. The new 

 store is three doors nearer the State 

 House. 



Thos. Pegler, one time president of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston is now located in Brunswick, 



HOLLY 



Extra fine, well berried stock, $3.50 

 and $4.00 per case 



GEORGE B. HART 



Cut Flo'wers, Plants 

 Florists' Supplies 



47-51 Stone Street, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 



Me., where he is carrying on a success- 

 ful retail store and range. Mr. Pegler 

 was in town this week and commented 

 very favorably upon business condi- 

 tions in Brunswick and its opportun 

 ities for the ambitious florist. 



The sale of cut flowers in the big 

 department stores is enormous. The 

 flower departments in Filene's, Ba- 

 con's and Shepard's report business 

 as being very good, especially since 

 last Saturday. Filene's have gone into 

 the flower business in earnest, show- 

 ing the good will of the firm and the 

 permanency of the department by be- 

 coming members of the Telegraph De- 

 livery Association. 



There were about seventy-five men 

 present at the meeting held at the 

 American House, Dec. 12th, for the 

 purpose of discussing the question of 

 surplus stock and the best means of 

 disposing of same. A spirited dis- 

 cussion took place, in which some 

 very interesting information was 

 brought out, bearing on the problems 

 of wholesale prices. No definite con- 

 clusions were arrived at, and another 

 meeting has been voted, to take place 

 Jan. 11. It is expected that city of- 

 ficials will attend, to represent muni- 

 cipal and legal interests. 



WASHINGTON. 



C. E. Brooks has opened his branch 

 store in the Arcade, on upper Four- 

 teenth street. Northwest, and will con- 

 tinue the main store at 1.527 Four- 

 teenth street. 



J. M. Rankin, of the plant introduc- 

 tion field station at Rockville. Md., is 

 making a two weeks' trip in Florida, 

 Georgia and the Carolinas. to confer 

 with managers of commercial nur- 

 series on the propagation, planting, 

 cultivation and commercial handling 

 of nursery stock. 



Dr. Haven Metcalf. who is in charge 

 of forest pathology for the bureau of 

 plant industry, is making a month's 

 trip through Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

 New Jersey, New York and the New 

 England States studying chestnut bark 

 diseases and white pine blister rust. 

 He will spend the Christmas holidays 

 with relatives in Gardiner, Maine. 



J. H. Small & Sons furnished the 

 decorations for the Gridiron Club's an- 

 nual banquet at the Hotel Willard. As 

 usual, a large electric gridiron flamed 

 brilliantly in a luxuriant frame of 



American Beauty roses, while the 

 walls were hidden by a forest of trop- 

 ical plants and the tables were covered 

 with mounds of flowers. This same 

 firm furnished the cross of pink and 

 white roses, six and a half feet high, 

 for the New York delegation in the 

 House of Reju'esentatives, and a stand- 

 ing wreath of white roses and Ameri- 

 can Beauty roses, of a similar height, 

 tor the House of Representatives, 

 which were placed on either side of 

 the casket of the late Congressman 

 Sereno E. Payne which rested in the 

 House chamber. They also furnished 

 a large Roman wreath with orchids 

 anj pink roses from an individual. 



CHICAGO. 



A sudden drop of 40 degrees in tem- 

 perature on Sunday, Dec. 13, put an 

 end to the warm rainy weather and 

 reduced the amount of incoming stock. 



The opening of the New Morrison 

 Hotel gave opportunity for some good 

 local sales, though many more flowers 

 could have been sold without causing 

 a shortage. 



Some of the boxes of flowers were 

 not sufficiently protected to stand the 

 zero temperature and stock was found 

 frozen on Dec. 15. Local thermometers 

 were registering 10 degrees below. 



CHICAGO 



And Neighboring Towna 



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