July 29. Kill 



HORTICULTURE 



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BOSTON 

 FLOWERS 



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84 Havvley St. 



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MICHIGAN CUT FLOWER 

 EXCHANGE, Inc. 



WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS 



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28 WUloufhby St., Brooklyn K. T 



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lorists 



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(Continued from page fjj) 



eral interviews with wholesale grow- 

 ers confirm the writer's previous pro- 

 phesy that next winter will see a 

 greater scarcity in carnations than 

 last winter. The plants being housed 

 now are, as a rule, much smaller in 

 the crown than a year ago and we all 

 know what this means. Those who 

 had a perfect watering system in their 

 fields lost most of its good through the 

 extreme heat. 



Business shows little 

 NEW YORK change from last 



week — a decrease, if 

 anything. On the other hand the sup- 

 ply of roses is probably at its mini- 

 mum. Carnations are out of the run- 

 ning, hut aster shipments are steadily 

 increasing. The quality of these is 

 ordinary, for the most pait. though 

 some good flowers are seen. Queen of 

 the Market is the prevailing variety. 

 Lilies are more plentiful, a belter sup- 

 ply being in prospect. Gladioli are not 

 showing up well; there are more poor 

 flowers than good ones. The lily of 

 the valley situation is easier as there 

 seems to be a halt in the demand. 

 Quotations on orchids remain un- 

 changed. There is little call for srni- 

 lax or asparagus. 



Considering that 

 PHILADELPHIA this is the good 

 old summer time 

 last week's business was fully equal to, 

 if not above, the average of former 

 yeais, and the prices realized for the 

 si iK v received were in the main as 

 good as could have been expected, if 

 not better. Asters and gladioli are 

 now leading features in the market. 

 Both items meet with a ready sale. 

 Our opinion is that asters as a rule do 

 not compare lavorably with last year, 

 as yet, the dry weather early in the 

 season having given the extra-earlies 

 a great set bac«. There is, however, 

 one of our markets a conspicuous ex- 

 ception to this, for some reason. There 

 they are very good, but no particulars 

 aie forthcoming to account for the 

 phenomenon. Climatic condition; ir- 

 rigation; or something — perhaps. But 

 in a wee.-c or so we shall have the finer 

 mid-season varieties, and then the out- 

 loot; will be for "some class" in the 

 aster market. Gladioli are fine and 

 selling well. There is not much to be 

 said lor the rose market. Beauties sold 

 up pretty well and they may be said to 

 be about the only variety that makes 

 anything like a show for the money. 

 -Mai viands are the best sellers among 

 the pinks. Brides have come bar. 

 very nicely and are now something 

 woith loo. ing at. Carnations are on 



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their last legs. Orchids and lily of the 

 valley both good. Enough for the de- 

 mand. Tiger lilies, also speciosum rub- 

 rum and album are welcome new ar- 

 rivals. Longifiorums are in excellent 

 demand and prices have jumped quite 

 a little. Too many plumosus, ad- 

 iantum and other greens around — as 

 is usual at this time of year. 



The marKet was any- 

 ST. LOUIS thing but good all of 

 last week. Stock that 

 is coming in now is not good but still 

 the wholesalers are asking good prices. 

 The best sellers are gladioli and it 

 looks as though the market will be 

 crowded with all varieties before the 

 end of the week. Carnations are very 

 few and poor. Everything else is plen- 

 tiful except smilax, for which there 

 was an extra good demand all of last 

 week. The weather is still warm and 

 the dry spell is playing havoc with all 

 plants in the fields. 



Business is decided- 

 WASHINGTON ly dull. The slack- 

 ness of trade is 

 being utilized to redress show windows 

 and do other things which are neg- 

 lected during the busy season. At 

 Gude's floral store a very attractive 

 rockwork fountain has been con- 

 structed in the center of the store, 

 with an arrangement which permits of 

 throwing on colored lights from be- 

 neath the fountain. This electric 

 fountain will be a feature of the es- 

 tablishment for some months at least. 

 Stock is scarce and prices but indif- 

 ferent. All outdoor stuff has suffered 

 from the hot, dry weather, and al- 

 though there have been showers re- 

 cently, it is doubted whether they 

 have come in time to do much good. 



with a portrait of R. Vincent, v . 

 president for 1910, and there are sev- 

 eral full page illustrations of exhibits, 

 etc. Secietary T. B. Symons has given 

 us a very instructive and readable vol- 

 ume and from it we are convinced 

 that the Maryland State Society is do- 

 ing a good and practical work. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 

 Maryland State Horticultural So- 

 ciety. Report of Summer Meeting held 

 in Berlin, Md.. July 29, 1910, and Thir- 

 teenth Annual Meeting held in Fifth 

 Regiment Armory, Baltimore, Decem- 

 ber 1-2, 1910. This report starts off 



City of Boston; Department of Parks. 

 36th Annual Report of the Board of 

 Commissioners for the year ending 

 January 31, 1911. The contents of this 

 volume are, as usual, interesting. The 

 general report of the Commissioners 

 to the Mayor of Boston is the first 

 chapter and then follows the report 

 of Superintendent Pettigiew to the 

 Commissioners. Details of location, 

 area and equipment of parks and play- 

 grounds, expenditures, income, better- 

 ments, statistics, etc., are given and 

 then comes the report of Olmsted 

 Brothers, a comprehensive document 

 occupying 54 out of the 95 pages com- 

 prised in the volume, recounting the 

 deductions from an inspection of the 

 Boston parks and submitting com- 

 ments and suggestions on matters of 

 design connected therewith. 



Superintendent Pettigrew's report is 

 mainly statistical but it describes with 

 characteristic enthusiasm the estab- 

 lishment of a herbaceous or "Grand- 

 mother's" garden in Franklin Park 

 last year and a picture of this feature 

 is inserted. Three elaborate plans of 

 the proposed zoological gardens art 

 bound in the book. 



National Chrysanthemum Society 

 England), schedule of prizes, list of 

 members, etc., for 1911, including also 

 the annual report and financial state- 

 ment for 1910. 



This Society has published an in- 

 teresting book on the Culture and Ex- 

 hibition of Large Chrysanthemum 

 Blooms, report of the proceedings at 

 a conference held on December 5, 

 1910, etc. A portrait of Sir Albert 

 Kaye Rollit, President of the Society, 

 appears as a frontispiece. 



