April 7, 1917 



HOETICULTURE 



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AFTER EASTER 



Weddings = Mothers' Day = Memorial Day 



Fill up your Show Cases and Shelves w ith another nice stock of Bayersdorfer 

 Baskets and other Seasonable Supplies. We have splendid novelties and all the 

 standard goods in endless variety. Home Manufacture and Imported. 



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and see how much you can do with a little money when you go straight to 

 headquarters — The Florists' Supply House of Ametica. 



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A VISIT TO CLIFTONDALE. 



On Saturday, March 31. the commit- 

 tee members of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society and other invited 

 friends visited Willianr Sim's green- 

 houses at Cliftondale to see his polyan- 

 thus primroses and other crops and 

 were rewarded with a sight the equal 

 of which could not be found anywhere 

 in this country at least. Twenty-five 

 thousand polyanthus, enormous plants 

 loaded with bloom were worth going a 

 long way to see. Then there are ex- 

 tensive houses of single violets, from 

 which Mr. Sim estimates he will pick 

 no less than 1.50,000 flowers for Easter. 

 Through the centre of each bed a line 

 of sweet peas has been set to follow 

 the primulas and violets and these 

 plants are now about three feet high. 

 There is also a splendid house of car- 

 nations. 



Mr. Sim is giving the auricula a try- 

 out as a florists' spring flower. There 

 is one full-length bed of these plants 

 well flowered with their characteristic 

 "art-colored" blooms. They are some- 

 what difl^cult to grow in this climate 

 and require the protection of a cheese 

 cloth shade in the summer. 



D. R. Craig, chairman of the garden 

 committee, presided at a little "talk 

 fest" where refreshments were served 

 and appreciative remarks were made 

 by Wm. J. Stewart, W. N. Craig, J. K. 

 M. L. Parquhar, James Wheeler, Rob- 

 ert Cameron and Mr. Sim. 



A brief visit was also made to the 

 Revere place of Thomas Roland, near- 

 by, where a 600-ft. house of Christmas 

 Pink Orchid sweet peas was viewed 

 with delight. The vast rose houses 

 were in equally admirable condition, 

 including one lot of 12.000 Richmond, 

 now four years old. Mr. Roland 

 does not try for the big grade of 

 roses. 9 in., 12 in. and 15 in. are 

 his standards and he regards these 

 grades as the most useful. 



Lexington, Mass. — An old ice house 

 on the property of the BreckPobinson 

 Co., was destroyed on Tuesday morn- 

 ing, April 3, by flre supposed to have 

 been incendiary. The nursery stock 

 was not damaged. 



A Table Decoration. 

 "Dutch" Dinner Table at Boston Springs Show, by A. S. Caplan. 



Providence, R. I.— W. E. Chappell, 

 secretary of the Florists' and Garden- 

 ers' Club of Rhode Island, is slowly 

 gaining strength and is looking for- 

 ward to complete recovery in the near 

 future. Mr. Chappell was taken ill on 

 the twenty-third of February and for 

 three weeks was at home so critically 



ill that the doctor gave no hope of 

 his recovery. Congestion of the lungs 

 and then a grippe complication that af- 

 fected the heart, with a high run of 

 lever caused him to be delirious and 

 necessitated his removal to the Capitol 

 Hill Hospital. His business has been 

 cared for by his wife. 



