782 



HOKTICIJLTUEE 



December 9, 1916 



ESTABLISHED 1846 



THOMAS F. GALVIN, Inc. 



The Leading Floral Establishment 

 ■ of New England - 



The Delivery of Flowers or Floral Work in Boston and Vicin- 

 ity on Telegraph Orders from Anywhere is 

 a Specialty of Our Business 



Transfer Your Christmas Orders 



To Either of the Following Addresses and They 

 will be Promptly and Carefully Filled 



THOMAS R GALVIN, Inc. 



1 Park Street 



BOSTON 



799 Boylston Street 



New York Store, 561 Fifth Avenue 



SOME BOSTON PLANT ESTABLISH- 

 MENTS. 



Davenport. 



A. M. Davenport's new boiler house, 

 now nearing completion, is a model in 

 its way. It is of concrete, '10 ft. x 60 

 ft., and the pipes have a 30 foot drop 

 from the greenhouses. Two l.Jo horse- 

 power boilers are in place and there is 

 room for three more of equal size. At 

 the rate this Watertown place is de- 

 veloping it will soon takp rank with 

 the largest plant growing establish- 

 ments in the country. A prodigious 

 amount of material is turned out. 

 Under the benches there is almost as 

 much stock as there is on them and 

 the shelves suspended above the 

 Ijenches carry a lot more so that some 

 of the houses are veritable "three- 

 deckers." Cold storage houses added 

 the past season are packed to the 

 limit with aucubas, roses, euonymus 

 and bulbs for winter and spring trade. 

 The full quota of azaleas— 15, OOU 

 plants — was received from Belgium; 

 very late but in better condition than 

 might be expected, considering the 

 long delays in transportation. Young 

 ferns are a specialty and there are 

 hundreds of thousands of them in 

 sight for present and future needs. 

 There are innumerable young kentias 

 and 10,000 Cocos Weddelliana seeds 

 have been recently planted. 



The houses are gay now with poin- 

 settias, cyclamen and begonias bloom- 

 ing for Christmas trade and the be- 

 gonias are already pretty well sold out. 

 One of the most attractive is a deep 

 pink sport from Glory of Cincinnati, 

 which originated here. There is an- 



oilier sport — a white Florence Daven- 

 port — which we think has a big future 

 being a much larger and heavier flower 

 than Turnford Hall. Mr. Davenport 

 classes Melior as the Ijest seller of all 

 the Lorraine kinds. Glory of Nahant 

 is too light colored for wide popularity. 



Edgar. 

 It has long been the fashion among 

 the florist trade of Boston as well as 

 elsewhere to visit the Edgar Com- 

 pany's plant houses at Waverley at 

 least twice a year — at Christmas and 

 E>aster time. Each fall visit finds some 

 radical improvement in the way of 

 new greenhouses or other buildings of 

 substantial character. This time it is 

 a new jilant house with "1916" cut in 



the concrete wall. At least one house 

 a year is Mr. Bartsch's "stunt." 

 Azaleas, poinsettias, winter-flowering 

 begonias-Lorraines, etc., poinsettias, 

 Euphorbia jacquinseflora, cyclamens, 

 primroses and some beautiful browal- 

 lias are among the Christmas offerings 

 and the cold storage house and frames 

 are packed to the limit with winter 

 and Easter plant stock. 



Farquhar. 



The already vast range of R. & J. 

 Farquhar & Co., at Dedham. grows in 

 size almost continuously and plans for 

 future additions are constantly on 

 foot. The ranges of low plant houses 

 as constructed here are ideal in con- 



A CORXEB IX THE ClEVEL.WD FlOWEB ShOW 



