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The Florists^ Review 



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members followed. At succeeding meet- 

 ings committees of retailers and whole- 

 salers will report and the salesmen are 

 also to be heard from. Through this 

 clearing house for all branches of the 

 trade it is hoped that prevailing griev- 

 ences and misunderstandings may be 

 minimized or eliminated. 



The Horticultural Club held its 

 monthly meeting at the Parker House 

 January 7. E. H. Wilson presided and 

 E. I. Farrington, of Weymouth Heights, 

 the speaker of the evening, gave his im- 

 pressions of the horticultural press of 

 the present day. 



The inaugural meeting of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society will oc- 

 cur January 10, at 2 o'clock. At 3 

 'clock E. H. Wilson, of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretumj will give a lecture entitled 

 "My Sixth Journey to the Far East in 

 Search of Plants for American Gar- 

 dens." The lecture will be illustrated 

 with over 100 lantern slides from photo- 

 graphs taken by the lecturer and show- 

 ing the vegetation and natural scenery 

 in Korea, Formosa and southern Japan. 



The Gardeners ' aad Florists ' Club will 

 meet January 13 and it will be ladies' 

 night. Offtoers for 1920 will be in- 

 stalled and will make short addresses. 

 After the regular business session re- 

 freshments will be served, followed by 

 dancing until midnight. The club flower 

 show schedule for the midwinter show 

 February 10 is now ready and will be 

 mailed on application. Carnations will 

 be a leading feature and anyone hav- 

 ing novelties is invited to send them to 

 this meeting. In the evening the regu- 

 lar meeting of the club will be held, at 

 which several carnation specialists will 

 make addresses. 



At the union meeting of agricultural 

 and other allied societies in Horticul- 

 tural hall January 20 to 23, the speakers 

 will include A. Herrington, Madison, 

 N. J., who will represent the Gardeners ' 

 and Florists' Club and will lecture at 

 8 o'clock Wednesday evening, January 

 21, on "Flowering Trees and Shrubs for 

 American Gardens," illustrated by nu- 

 merous stereopticon views. At 9 o 'clock 

 the same evening Ernest F. Coe, of New 

 Haven, Conn., representing the Massa- 

 chusetts Nurserymen's Association, will 

 lecture on "Japanese Gardening, Gar- 

 dens and Gardeners. ' ' This also will be 

 profusely illustrated. 



There is every indication that Boston 

 and vicinity will send a large delegation 

 to the Chicago carnation convention and 

 that there will be a number of exhibitors 

 from this section. 



Various Notes. 



The year just closed proved to be one 

 of the warmest on record locally. There 

 was an excess of temperature for the 

 year of 832 degrees over normal. Au- 

 gust and December were the only 

 months which were colder than normal. 

 Rainfall was 42.70 inches, just an inch 

 below normal. The highest temperature 

 was 101 degrees July 4 and 5 and the 

 coldest day was December 18, when the 

 thermometer dropped to 6 degrees below 

 zero. Snowfall was light and amounted 

 to only seventeen inches. 



Wallrath & Sons have 11,000 gigan- 

 teum lilies just coming through the soil, 

 all of which they hope to flower for 

 Easter. They had a complete clean-out 

 of all Christmas flowering plants. 



Among those shipping in especially 

 fine callas in large quantities are James 

 Wheeler, Natick; A. C. Tingley, Tewks- 



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HERMAN H. BABTSCH. 



ALWAYS seeking^l^he best leadership, the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston 

 is not averse to I'ecalling to office a man who has shown exceptional ability in 

 his previous service. So for 1920 the president of the club during 1915 will serve 

 again. H. H. Bartsch, president of the W. W. Edgar Co.^ has long been one of the 

 influential members of the trade in Boston, having climbed the ladder of success 

 since his arrival in the Hub over a quarter of a century ago. Mr. Bartsch was born 

 in Germany, November 9, 1872. In 1888 he came to America and worked for a year 

 in a cotton mill. Later he was employed by G. Geduldig, at Norwich, Cpnn., at the 

 munificent wage of $5 per month and board. In March, 1894, he started in the 

 employ of W. W. Edgar. He became manager of the company at Mr. Edgar 's death 

 and was later made president. In 1913 and 1914 he served as vice-president of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, becoming in 1915 president of the 

 club, to which office he has again been elected. 



bury, and W. E. Nicholson, Framingham. 

 The Godfrey variety continues to grow 

 in favor with the growers. 



New Year's festivities were carried 

 out in Boston on a more lavish scale 

 than ever before. The day is only 

 partly kept as a holiday here and that 

 may account for the fact that cut flower 

 sales do not aggregate nearly so much 

 as might be expected. It is, of course, 

 unfortunate that New Year 's day should 

 fall just a week after Christmas, a sea- 

 son when everyone with money to spare 

 has spent it lavishly. 



Retailers are advertising freely in the 

 Boston dailies this season. In addition 

 to Penn's imposing advertisements, 

 there are splendid ones from the Hough- 

 ton-Gorney Co., Thos. F. Galvin, Inc., 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Hoffman's and 

 John J. O'Brien. 



John T. Gale, of Tewskbury, is a 

 large grower of yellow marguerites and 

 he does them unusually well. He is now 

 shipping in some extra fine flowers. 



The Beacon Florists find business 

 good and Mr. Eisemann is well pleased 

 with the patronage he has received since 

 opening. W. N. C. 



MOTT-LY MUSINGS. 



"New Year's greeting to our patrons 

 and friends," reads a prominent adver- 

 tisement in a Schenectady paper from 

 John C. Hatcher's stores, Schenectady 

 and Amsterdam, N. Y., also featuring a 

 special sale of Killarney roses at $3 per 

 dozen with an appropriate amount of 



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