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HORTICULTURE 



February 28, 1920 



THE 

 BOILER OF 



Unequalled Fuel Economy 



Kroraohell BoUan, the be>* by tMt 

 1879. Forty y«*ra' exf«rleae«. 



THE QCALITT PLACE OF BOSTON 



Rcgardlne the KroeBchell, It U the 

 b««t we bftTe ever bad and satlfifac- 

 tery beyond ODr expectations. It beats 

 up especially quick and baa saved us 

 eoxulderably already In tbe price of 

 fuel. Wben we are In need of another 

 boiler we will girt the Kroeachell tbe 

 first consideration. 



(Sirned) WM. W. BDQAB CO., 



WAVERLBY, MASS. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., 



466 W. Erie St. 

 OHICAOO 



When You Buy -Get a Kroesdielt 



(,016.266 sq. ft. of (lass was equipped with 

 Kroeschell Boilers durlnff the year of 1016. 



OHIO'S CE1.EBKATED CTCLAMSM 

 SFECIAXJST 



After using your No. 12 Kroeachell 

 Boiler I came to tbe conclasion that 

 bad I to install more boilers it would 

 be the Kroeschell and no other. It 

 really is a pleasure to heat, ne troobls 

 to get tbe derired heat in a very abort 

 time. 



(Signed) CHRIST. WINTERICH, 

 DEFIANCE, OHIO 



THE MARKET 

 During the past week some decided 

 changes have occurred in the market 

 situation. Flowers have come in more 

 rapidly than they could be moved. 

 Probably the weather has had some- 

 thing to do with short sales but in any 

 event there has been a very liberal 

 supply and consequent drop in prices. 

 In Boston there has been a general 

 sliding off in value all the week. Roses 

 have run from 4 to 15c. with carna- 

 tions from 6 to 10c. . excepting excep- 

 tionally fancy stock of Laddie and 

 Rosalia. Sweet peas have gone fairlx 

 well at $1.50 and $2.00. Cal'las are 

 now down to $2.00 and the market 

 is full of them. Stevia is practically 

 out and other things are selling slowly. 

 Reports from Philadelphia show that 

 while sweet peas are coming in freely, 

 they are of excellent quality, which 

 holds true of freesias and daffodils. 

 There as elsewhere violets are in good 

 supply and moving slowly. Gardenias 

 are a feature of the Philadelphia mar- 

 ket and moving well. This is practi- 

 cally the story for all of the other mar- 

 kets. There is a general decline in 

 prices with a decided slump in roses 

 in New York. 



BOSTON. 



W. E. Lenk, formerly with the Hali- 

 fax Gardens, is about to establish a 

 new plant in Arlington. He proposes 

 to erect three Hitchings houses, 340 x 

 46 feet. Ground will be broken March 

 15th. Two Bigelow boilers of 12.5 h. p. 

 each will heat the plant. Roses will 

 be grown exclusively. Two of the 

 houses will be in operation in the fall, 

 and the third will be ready next spring. 

 Mr. Lenk is known as one of the most 

 successful rose growers of New Eng- 

 land. 



The Boston Florists' Association 

 will hold its next meeting Tuesday, 

 March 2d. It will be devoted largely 

 to a discussion of the wholesalers' 

 problems. 



An important meeting of the Dahlia 

 and Gladiolus growers of New England 

 is scheduled for today, Saturday, at 

 the State House in Boston, to consider 

 the Illinois Quarantine. 



I. Mirsky. a salesman in the market, 

 who recently lost his wife just after 

 she had arrived from Poland, has been 

 given a substantial check by fellow 

 salesmen, customers and growers. For 

 four years Mr. Mirsky tried to get his 

 wife out of Poland, but she lived only 

 four days after she arrived. 



NASSAU COUNTY HORTICULTUR- 

 AL SOCIETY. 



A special meeting of the Nassau 

 County Horticultural Society was 

 held in Pembroke Hall, Glen Cove, 

 Long Island on Wednesday, February 

 18. at 7 P. JI. 



President Thomas Twigg occupied 

 the chair. 



•lames Hitchinson, Herbert Wood- 

 ger, Stanley Balance, Alfred Woodger. 

 David Dean, William Young, Robert 

 W. Burnett, Edward Manda, John D, 

 Wilson, and William Alexander were 

 elected to active membership and 

 one petition for active membershi]) 

 was received. 



President Twigg was empowered to 

 appoint a committee to secure judges 

 for all shows and exhibitions to be 



held by the society in the coming 

 year. 



Mr. George Piatt, one of our active 

 members died with pneumonia last 

 week and the secretary was in- 

 structed to write a letter of sym- 

 pathy to Mrs. Piatt and family. 



The exhibits for the next monthly 

 meeting to be held ilarch 10th will 

 be Pot or Pan of Tulip, 12 mixed 

 Roses, 12 spikes of Antirrhinum, 



Arthur Cook, Cor. Secy. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



J. Otto Thilow will address the 

 Florists' Club March 2nd on "Horti- 

 culture in the South Sea Islands," 

 illustrated by stereopticon. He was 

 fortunate in securing some splendid 

 pictures on his recent trip there, and 

 this will be well worth going to see — 

 in addition to hearing the comments 

 of a trained observer in our own line 

 of business. 



Recent Philadelphia visitors include 

 Mr. Eckstein. Eckstein-Whitney Co., 

 Buffalo, N. Y.; Elmer J. Weaver, 

 Ronks, Pa.: E. P. Hotscher, Manheim, 

 Pa.; Charles M. Weaver, Ronks, Pa. 



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