OCTOBKR 23, 1919. 



The Florists' Review 



27 



John E. Gittere, who spent some time 

 with the First Division in Germany, is 

 back and at his old job with Charles 

 Sandiford. F. P. A. 



When business is slack with H. 

 Keitsch & Son Co., 810 Main street — 

 and sometimes when it isn't — Mr. 

 Keitsch will be found across the street, 

 in the office of the Freehold Loan & 

 Savings Association. Another florist- 

 banker. 



Now that the army has released his 

 brother for duty at the greenhouses at 

 Attica, Edward C. Stroh is in charge of 

 the store here, two sisters helping him. 

 Glistening copper wires strung between 

 two poles supported huge white letters, 

 "F. T. D, " in the window. 



Wm. H. Grover is strongly for win- 

 dow display. In addition to two in 

 his own shop, he keeps decorated two 

 across the street and another in the 

 same block, employing to his advantage 

 what other concerns do not wish to use. 

 For the F. T. D. contest he constructed 

 a white map on a moss background. On 

 either side, also in' white on moss, were 

 the phrases, "Florists' Telegraph De- 

 livery, "Say It with Flowers" and 

 "Send Flowers by Wire." In illus- 

 tration of the last, a wire ran continu- 

 ously through the window, carrying 

 blooms tied to it; the wheels on which 

 it ran were behind the scene. 



The return of W. J. Palmer is ex- 

 pected this we?k from his Canadian 

 summer homo, where ho has been for 

 the last two months. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The increasing supply of chrysanthe- 

 mums and the improved quality in roses 

 and carnations are the features of the 

 market at present. Weather continues 

 unsettled. One or two clear days bring 

 a succession of rainy ones and tempera- 

 ture fluctuations were never more ex- 

 treme. In spite of these apparent 

 drawbacks, retail demand holds up ex- 

 tremely well and sales are sufficient to 

 keep the market nicely cleaned up. 

 Roses continue to improve in quality 

 and prices remain about the same as in 

 the previous week. Of the newer roses. 

 Pilgrim and Crusader seem likely to 

 become quite popular market varieties. 

 Each has the earmarks of good com 

 mercial sorts. Carnations are of better 

 size and color. Prices vary from $.'? to 

 $5; only select blooms reach the higher 

 price. Single violets are coming in a 

 little more abundantly and are of fine 

 color. Growers are just starting to 

 house their plants. 



Chrysanthemums, such as Halliday, 

 Pacific Supreme, Oconto and Tnaka, are 

 arriving in much larger quantities, but 

 so far the demand has been equal to the 

 supply and prices hold in) well. Sncri 

 pompons as arrive, if of the true pom 

 pon tyj)e, sell easily. A few lots only 

 of sweet peas come in and those are of 

 the old grandiflora type. Lilies of all 

 kinds are almost out of the market. 

 Bouvardia arrives in small lots and sells 

 well. 



Some small gladioli still come in, but 

 this week will see the last of them. A 

 few greenhouse asters also are seen, but 

 sell indifferently now that mums are 

 abundant. Calendulas of good quality 

 sell well, much better than bachelor's 

 buttons. Small lots of snapdragons and 

 cosmos are arriving. 



The cattleya market is easier, with 



abundant arrivals of C. labiata. There 

 are small supplies of Odontoglossum 

 grande, cypripediums and oncidiums. 

 Asparagus moved better last week. In 

 pot plants, chrysanthemums, largely of 

 the Caprice type, are fine; so are 

 cyclamens. Rex begonias in pans are 

 extremely well grown and sell readily. 



Boston's Newest Flower Store. 



To the list of commodious, well 

 equipped and in every respect up-to- 

 date flower stores is now added that of 

 Hamlin the Florist, located in the Little 

 building, Boston's largest and most 

 sumptuous business edifice, on busy 

 Boylston street near Tremont, right in 

 the heart of the theater and hotel dis- 

 tricts, with two tunnel stations a few 

 stops distant. H. S. Rogers, formerly 

 with Penn's and Hoffman's, used the 

 name Hamlin, as there are already at 

 least three other Rogers firms in the 

 trade in Boston and a larger number 

 would surely have caused more mix-ups. 

 The new store has two splendid win- 

 dows on Boylston street and has a depth 

 of fifty feet. 



Noteworthy features are the splen- 

 didly built flower chests cooled by the 

 Isko svstem of refrigeration without 

 ice. The machinery in the basement 

 is easy of operation and a thermostat 

 gives perfect regulation. The dry air 

 in the flower chests makes the flowers 

 keep splendidly — much better than un- 

 der the older systems, which eive at- 

 mospheres heavily charged with mois- 

 ture. Sulphur dioxide is the refriger- 

 ant used. This is a harmless gas, liquify- 

 ing at low pressure. This is the first 

 Isko installation in any flower store in 

 New England and its success will un- 

 doubtedly cause more firms to adopt it. 

 Noticeable on the walls of this store 

 are some superb paintings, loaned for 

 the opening. These include two of 

 Watson's cattle masterpieces from Scot- 

 land, valued at $20,000 each. 



Vaxious Notes. 



The nominating committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society an- 

 nounces the following list of nomina- 

 tions for the various offices of the so- 

 ciety for the year 1920: President, W. 

 C. Endicott; vice-president, Charles S. 

 Sargent; trustees for three years, Al- 

 bert C. Burrage, Ernest B. Dane, Edwin 

 S. Webster, Fred A. Wilson; trustee for 

 two years, Arthur A. Fewkes; nominat- 

 ing committee. Oakos Ames. William 

 Anderson, J. K. M. L. Farquhar, S. J. 

 Goddard, John E. Thayer. The annual 

 meeting of the society and the election 

 will occur November 1.5 at 12 o'clock. 



The two new roses, Pilgrim and Cru- 

 sader, coming from the Montgomery 

 Co., Hadley, Mass.. are proving popular 

 here. Specially fine flowers of these 

 and Hadley. Russell and Ophelia are be- 

 ing received bv the Boston Rose Co. 



The Boston Florists' Bowling League, 

 which was inactive during the war, is 

 planning to start operations again with 

 teams from Penn's, Galvin's, Carbone's, 

 Robinson's and the two wholesale flow- 

 er markets. A. J. Dowd is president, 

 Seymour Grose, treasurer, and George 

 Hnnipr. publicity agent. 



The Fottler, Fiske. Rawson Co. has at- 

 tractive windows of Dutch bulbs, vases 

 of berried shrubs and dishes of hand- 

 some New England apples. 



A. A. Pembroke, of North Beverly, 

 now operates a large, up-to-date retail 

 store in Salem, with four greenhouses 

 attached to it. His leading carnations 



this season are Matchless, Pink Delight, 

 Benora, Good Cheer and Rosette. He 

 has one house of roses, the varieties be- 

 ing Columbia, Ophelia and Double 

 White Killarney. 



Alexander J. Montgomery, son of the 

 late Robert Montgomery, of Natick, is 

 getting a fine cut of Columbia, Ophelia, 

 Hadlev, Killarney Brilliant, Russell 

 and White Killarney. His carnations 

 also look remarkably well. 



William H. Elliott is our largest local 

 grower of mums in pots and he does 

 these splendidly, the plants all being 

 low, bushy, abundantly flowered and 

 entirely without supports of any kind. 

 At present the Caprice or "Cap" fam- 

 ily in several colors is most in evidence. 



Wheeler & Co., the Waban orchid 

 specialists, have about 2,000 blooms 

 open on their Cattleya labiata, which 

 make a fine show. They specialize in 

 phala^nopsis and have a nice crop of 

 spikes on those coming along. They 

 had a fine house specially built for gar- 

 denias and stocked with splendid plants 

 a year ago, but they had to close it u^i 

 owing to the fuel shortage and have 

 not attempted their culture again. 



William H. Carr and Charles Evans 

 are receiving fine shipments of such 

 mums as Pacific Supreme, Unaka, Ocon- 

 to and Halliday. Unaka does not prove 

 particularly popular here, as it shows 

 the center too much and its shade of 

 pink is not pleasing, but for some rea- 

 son it is heavily grown. 



Single violet specialists here are just 

 starting to house their stock. They 

 have been afraid to do so "arlier, as 

 warm waves have been coming along 

 weekly and, after housing, this means 

 a rush of foliage and a serious curtail- 

 ment of blooms for the season. The 

 uncertainties attending single violet 

 culture have caused some of our lead- 

 ing specialists to largely reduce their 

 plantings. 



McAlpine Bros., of Exeter. N. H., are 

 shipping in a fine lot of their now deep 

 ])ink rose Exeter, which meets with a 

 good demand. They are strong just 

 now on Columbia, Double White Killar- 

 nev and Ophelia. 



Neil E. Boyle will cut down his plant- 

 ings of giganteum lilies to 'i,00(\ this 

 season, owing to the high cost of bulbs. 

 His sport of Stanley rose continues to 

 be a great producer. Other good roses 

 that h" has are Ophelia and Double 

 White Killarney. 



The Dolansky-McDonald Co. is re- 

 ceiving a fine lot of Cattlova labiata, 

 Odontoglossum grande and oncidiums 

 in addition to its regular line of roses, 

 mums, carnations and other flowers. 



Jeremiah F. Shea has o]iened a new 

 flower store on Center street, Jamaica 

 Plain, a few doors from the Jamaica 

 Floral Co. 



The Hillcrest Farm special prizes of- 

 fered at the exhibition of fruits and 

 vegetables for the winners of most 

 points in the show were awarded to: E. 

 L. Lewis, Taunton, first, $50; W. N. 

 Craig, Brookline. second, $30; W. H. 

 Golby. Jamaica Plain, third, $20. There 

 was keen competition for these prizes. 



At Horticultural hall October 18, 

 Douglas Ecclestone, gardener to A. C. 

 Burrage, Beverly Farms, received a 

 gold medal for the beautiful Brasso- 

 La^lia-Cattleya The Baroness, a cross 

 between Laeliocattleya Ophir and Bras- 

 so-Cattleya Lehmani. The sepals and 

 petals are canary yellow and the lip 

 yellow, with a deep mauve base. Cat- 



