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JCLY 8, 1920 



The Florists^ Review 



25 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



We have now entered the dullest por- 

 tion of the year and business has sunk 

 to its customary summer dullness. This 

 hajipens each year and is to be expected, 

 and, although we may hear salesmen 

 state that trade was never so bad, we 

 know that their memories are short and 

 that general conditions are better than 

 for some years past, also that cut flower 

 sai'^s for the season just ending have 

 be<'ti more satisfactory than ever before. 

 A couple of quiet months are to be ex- 

 pc( ted and, as arrivals are steadily 

 declining and growers are busy housing 

 their young stock or enjoying short, 

 well earned vacations, the conditions 

 for July and August need not worry us, 

 for everyone believes the coming fall 

 will see better business than ever. 



Koses are deteriorating in quality 

 and sales are made at whatever can be 

 secured. Carnations fell as low as 

 $3. no to $5 per thousand last week, with 

 good stock selling moderately well. 

 Some nice outdoor sweet peas are com- 

 iuf; in and sell well. There is but little 

 demand for callas, lilies and snap- 

 dragons. The last of the peonies are 

 coming in and demand for such flowers 

 as delphiniums and gladioli is rather 

 feeble. Excellent bouvardia comes in, 

 but only white seems to sell. Cattleyas 

 are scarce. Gypsophila elegans sells 

 fairly well and the hardy variety, G. 

 paniculata, has appeared this week; 

 also such flowers as gaillardias and 

 Coreopsis grandiflora. There is little 

 call for asparagus and adiantum. 



Markets started to close early July 3 

 and will continue to do so until after 

 Labor day. 



Various Notes. 



•Johnston Knight, manager of the 

 Boston Cooperative Flower Market, 

 leaves this week for a fortnight 's vaca- 

 tion at Marblehead. M. Aronson is en- 

 joying a fortnight's vacation at Med- 

 way, Mass. 



William J. Thurston, of the Boston 

 Flower Exchange, leaves th^s week for 

 a vacation to be spent at the seashore. 



John K. M. L. Farquhar sails from 

 New York July 19 on a European trip. 

 He will land at Havre and will visit 

 France, Belgium, Holland and Great 

 Britain while away. He will sail back 

 to America September 4. 



Thanks to excellent showers and fine 

 growing conditions, the outlook for a 

 good exhibition of the American Sweet 

 Foa Society in Horticultural hall July 

 1*^ and 11 is excellent. The Massachii- 

 si'tts Horticultural Society has twenty- 

 four classes allotted to sweet peas, in 

 ■'<d(iition to the specials offered by the 

 Sweet Pon Society, also a large number 

 ftf classes for other seasonable flowers, 

 •'1^ well as fruits and vegetables. 



•T. r. Harris, of Penn's force, is enjoy- 

 "iL' a few weeks' vacation visiting 

 I'hices of interest in New Hampshire 

 •^nd Massachusetts. At Penn's the 

 '•'irgest June business in their history 

 ^^.'is done. 



The Garden Club of America held its 

 ^I'Miner convention at Manchester, 

 ^'■'«s., last week. Some 400 delegates 

 •"'ended, many coming from New York, 

 ^' idadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, De- 

 ^'"it, Pittsburgh and more distant 

 r-'ints. The North Shore Horticultural 

 ^' I iety gave a splendid exhibition in 

 <"' mection with the convention and 



delegates were taken to numerous 

 private gardens and other points of in- 

 terest in Massachusetts. The garden 

 clubs are wielding a powerful influence 

 for the advancement of horticulture 

 and it is encouraging to find them 

 solidly arrayed against the Federal 

 Horticultural Board and Quarantine 37. 



The American Gladiolus Society will 

 hold its next show and meeting in Bos- 

 ton August 14 and 15 in conjunction 

 with the exhibition of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. Forty- 

 eight classes in all are devoted to 

 gladioli and, as plants have made a 

 wonderful growth this season, a grand 

 exhibition is assured. 



The coming event of greatest interest 

 to a large number of florists and gar- 

 deners and their families is the picnic 

 to be held at Cunningham park. East 

 Milton, July 22, The committee in 

 charge is leaving no stone unturned to 

 please everyone and President Bartsch, 

 of the Gardeners* and Florists' Club, 

 predicts an attendance of over 500 and 

 the best picnic ever. 



Miss Broe, of Watertown, bookkeeper 

 at F. E. Palmer's, Brookline, Mass., 

 was struck by an automobile when 

 stepping from a street car June 28 and 

 sustained serious injuries. Her skull 

 was fractured and one leg broken and, 

 as she did not regain consciousness for 

 some days, her life was despaired of. 

 After an operation by an eminent spe- 

 cialist a turn for the better manifested 

 itself and at the Peter Bent Brigham 

 hospital strong hopes of her ultimate 

 recovery are now entertained. 



The Boston sales oflice of Hitchings 

 & Co. is now at 294 Washington street, 

 where E. F. Orcutt is in charge. 



Peter M. Miller and wife, of the T. J. 

 Grey Co., are enjoying their annual 

 vacation at Bar Harbor, Me. 



W. N. C. 



LOWELL, MASS. 



Rose Show. 



The exhibition of the North Shore 

 Horticultural Society held June 29 and 

 30 proved to be a huge success, both 

 financially and in the quality of entries 

 in all lines. There was a large and en- 

 thusiastic crowd of visitors both days. 



An exhibit which was greatly ad- 

 mired was an excellent group of 

 tuberous-rooted begonias and large 

 clumps of Spiraea Peach Blossom. The 

 arrangement had a background of large 

 hemlocks and rustic branches of birch 

 from which hung beautiful specimens 

 of drooping begonias. It was staged by 

 Eric H. Wetterlow. Mr. Wetterlow 

 was successful in a table centerpiece 

 using primulinus hybrid gladioli. 



Wm. Canning, gardener to R. S. 

 Bradley, won a silver cup for twenty- 

 four varieties of roses. For a collec- 

 tion of roses 4x9 feet the silver cup 

 was carried off by A. Cruikshank. 

 This exhibit was arranged as a rose 

 garden, with grass border and a neat 

 miniature rustic shelter in the center. 



First prize for a dinner table deco- 

 ration was awarded to Mrs. B. Ham- 

 mond Tracy, of Cedar Acres, Wenham. 

 Mass., using Delphinium Belladonna 

 and yellow aquilegias. Tn this class 

 was a dainty arrangement of Iceland 

 poppies and gypsophila and also a table 

 using sweet peas. 



A. C. Burrage. of Orchidvale, Beverly 

 Farms, Mass., had a wonderful display 

 of orchids, artistically arranged the 



full length of one of the rooms, which 

 was easily the principal feature of the 

 whole show. It was awarded a gold 

 medal. In this group were many really 

 good varieties, several new seedlings of 

 odontiodas, the rarely seen Vanda 

 Batemannii and several well flowered 

 Vanda Cserulea. President indications, 

 judging from the appearance of the 

 odontoglossums at Orchidvale, are that 

 this beautiful and useful variety can be 

 grown successfully in the New England 

 climate. The season of their blooming 

 will make them extremely valuable. 



One large room was devoted to trade 

 exhibits. T. C. Thurlow 's Sons Co., West 

 Newbury, Mass., had a wonderful col- 

 lection of peonies, including almost 200 

 varieties, comprising a vase of each. 

 This firm also brought a large table of 

 hardy perennials and sprays of bloom 

 from choice flowering shrubs. This ex- 

 hibit was greatly admired. 



From E. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston, 

 was an arranged bed, with grass bor- 

 dering, of Lilium regale and one of a 

 dainty shrub, Abies Albertiana conica. 



From the Blue Hill Nurseries, South 

 Braintree, Mass., came a choice collec- 

 tion of new and rare hardy evergreen 

 shrubs, including thirty-six varieties. 



Alex Magnuson had an excellent table 

 of hardy flowers and annuals, occupying 

 about 4x15 feet. 



Ralph W. Ward, Beverly Cove, had 

 a collection of hardv flowers and an- 

 nuals, including salpiglossis, summer 

 chrysanthemums, hardy single pinks, 

 peonies and delphiniums. 



Muller-Sealy Co., New York, obtained 

 a first-class certificate for a new climb- 

 ing rose, Paul 's Scarlet Climber, of 

 brilliant color and fine in form. 



E. E. R. 



CmCAQO. 



The Market. 



The men in the market suffered some- 

 thing of a shock last week, for the 

 slump was sudden, severe and unex- 

 pected. Those who undertook to ex- 

 plain it generally laid it to the return 

 of high temperatures after several days 

 of Chicago's famous summer-resort 

 weather, but the probability is that 

 the approach of a double holiday 

 had at least as much to do with it. 

 Fourth of July is one holiday which 

 means exactly nothing in the flower 

 business. Being celebrated on Monday, 

 and with nearly all flower stores now 

 closed on the Sabbath, it meant sixty 

 consecutive hours for retailers to carry 

 all stock on hand Saturday night. No 

 doubt this accounted in large measure 

 for the slump in the shipping trade 

 .Tuly 2 and 3, as well as for the light 

 buying of tlie city retailers; nobody 

 wanted to carry flowers over the double 

 holiday. 



Proverbially the flower business 

 slumps with the passing of June, with 

 the result that retailers bought little 

 .Inly 1, waiting to see what the develop- 

 ments would be. July 2 and 3 were hot, 

 filling the market with stock on the 

 (lays of the year when the demand is 

 lightest. Roses accumulated more 

 rapidly than anything else, unle«'s it 

 was lilies. It takes only a few days of 

 warm weather to produce a marked ac- 

 celeration of rose production, with the 

 result that a good many wholesalers 

 closed July 3 with well filled iceboxes. 

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