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May 2'i. lOliO 



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OTAKSA 



Nice 82 inch plants for growing on, $16 per 100, $150 



per 1000 

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Short P. O. Address: L. J. Reuter Co., Boston 72, Mass. 



THE MARKET. 



There seems to be a disposition in 

 Boston to hold back on stock, which 

 accounts for the market being short in 

 supply while in other markets stock is 

 plentiful. Candytuft and snapdragon 

 are especially short, and it is predicted 

 that these items will be in short supply 

 for Memorial Day. As a rule, the 

 markets throughout the country are 

 holding steady, 



Roses in Boston range all the way 

 from $6 to $15 according to quality 

 and length of stem, which is about the 

 same in other cities. The average for 

 carnations the country over was from 

 5c to 8c the beginning of the week, 

 with a gradual increase as the week 

 wore on. At this writing it is impossi- 

 ble to tell what the final price will be. 

 There are more white carnations in 

 Boston than other colors and custom- 

 ers are compelled to take white in 

 order to get the other colors. Callas 

 are now selling for 20c when they can 

 be obtained, but there are none in 

 Boston; lilies are also scarce. Sweet 

 peas are fairly plentiful at from 75c to 

 $1.50 in other markets, but the cold, 

 cloudy weather worked havoc -with 

 them in Boston and as a result they are 

 soft and worthless in most cases. The 

 price on marguerites varies greatly. 

 They are plentiful in Buffalo and 

 bring 1 and 2c, but in Boston they are 

 selling at from 3 to 6c. In Pittsburgh 

 they brought 4c readily. Tulips have 

 had the same varied career the past 

 week. Buffalo reports them selling as 

 low as 2c., while in Pittsburgh they 

 sell at 8c. They are short in Boston. 

 Violets are out of the market. Alto- 

 gether, the indications at this writing 

 are for a plentiful supply of flowers 

 for Memorial Day with moderate prices 

 prevailing the country over. 



PATRICK O'MARA DEAD. 



Past President of the S. A. F. cfi. O. H. 

 Passes Away at His Home. 



Word has just been received of the 

 passing away of Patrick O'Mara, one 

 of the most prominent members of the 

 trade in New York City, and well 

 known throughout the country. 



Mr. O'Mara was a past president of 

 the S. .\. F., having been elected to 

 that office in 1901. He was also a past 

 president of the New York Florists' 

 Club. For many years he has been 

 prominently connected with the firm of 

 Peter Henderson & Company, and has 

 had a welcome for hundreds of mem- 

 bers' of the trade outside the city who 



Thf I-ate PatrUk 0">lara 



have met him in New York. Mr. 

 O'Mara was very popular for his con- 

 genial ways and the sterling qualities 

 which characterized all of his activities 

 in the S. A. F. and the New York Flor- 

 ists' Club. He will be missed by a 



wide circle of friends and acquaint- 

 ances, both within and outside trade 

 circles 



A New Crabapple. 

 Flowering branches of a remarkable 

 new Crabapple have been sent to the 

 Arboretum from a garden in Brookline. 

 It is evidently a hybrid, and there can 

 be little doubt that one of the parents 

 is the curious variety of Mains puniila 

 from Turkestan and southwestern 

 Siberia known in gardens a.s Mains 

 Niedzwetzkyana: the other might well 

 he Malus floribunda. Of this species 

 it has the slender branchlets end the 

 pubescence on the young leaves which 

 soon become nearly glabrous and green. 

 The bark and wood are tinged with 

 red and thus show the influence of M. 

 Niedzwetzkyana as does the red juicy 

 flesh of the fruit which ripens In Octo- 

 ber and is about an inch in diameter. 

 As a garden plant the value of this 

 new hybrid is in the color of the 

 flowers which is dark rose-red, and 

 much more beautiful than that of the 

 flowers of Malus atrosanguinea, which 

 is the common red-flowered Crabapple 

 cjf gardens. The flowers are fully an 

 inch and a quarter in diameter and are 

 produced in as great profusion as those 

 of Alalns floribunda. In habit the three 

 plants of this hybrid which are known 

 resemble M. floribunda and are as 

 hardy. The handsomest of all the red- 

 flowered Apples which have yet been 

 seen, this hybrid promises to be an 

 important addition to garden plants. 

 Unfortunately nothing is known of its 

 history beyond the fact that the Mass- 

 achusetts nurseryman who sold them 

 to their present owner bought them as 

 Malus Niedzwetzkyana from some one 

 whom he has forgotten. 



