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The Florists^ Review 



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NEWS FROM NEW ENGLAND 



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MELROSE, MASS. 



Thomas Cogger finds business for 1922 

 ,n the gladiolus line the best that it has 

 •ver been. He grows over four acres 

 lit" gladioli and his business is growing 

 10 such an extent that he will have to 

 buy more land to grow them on. Flo- 

 rists are buying more heavily this year 

 than ever before in the better varieties, 

 iie reports. He says that in all of Kun- 

 derd's varieties, Gladiolus Miss Helen 

 Franklin is one of the best that have 

 been put on the market for florists' 

 use, being early to bloom in the field 

 ;ind also excellent for forcing. 



WINCHESTER, MASS. 



Business in this section is looking 

 first-class. There was a splendid St. 

 Valentine 's day trade and a good Easter 

 is anticipated. The business in holiday 

 goods is improving year by year. The 

 cut flower business is excellent here. 

 Bulbous stock in pans and cinerarias 

 and cyclamens all sell well. 



George F. Arnold & Son are making 

 preparations for a good spring business. 

 For the Memorial day trade the firm 

 has a special basket of plants that is 

 quite acceptable for cemetery work, 

 prizes, etc. 



The firm of Aylward, of Woburn, 

 Mass., reports business fine in the line 

 of funeral work. G. F. A. 



LOWELL, MASS. 



J. J. McManmon has moved into a 

 larger and more commodious store just 

 one door above where he was. There he 

 lias a great deal more room and a better 

 chance to display plants. He is bring- 

 ing in a large number of flowering plants 

 of all kinds, jonquils, freesias, hya- 

 cinths, begonias, etc. 



All the local florists report good busi- 

 ness, although there is some labor trou- 

 ble in the mills here. There has been 

 a great deal of funeral work, since a 

 number of prominent people have died 

 within the last two weeks. 



The florists here report a good busi- 

 ness for St. Valentine's day. 



Orders for violets are in greater num- 

 ber than last year. They seem to be get- 

 ting more popular in this city. 



CHARLESTOWN, N. H. 



All over the east geraniums for grow- 

 ing on are quite scarce. Consequently, 

 Vernon T. Sherwood, who doubled his 

 1921 production, is quite busy. Mr. Sher- 

 wood intends to build a block of five 

 houses, with a lean-to running along the 

 ends. 



The almost complete shutdown of the 

 factories situated at Springfield, Vt., 

 and of the paper mills at Bellows Falls, 

 vt., has caused a considerable curtail- 

 ment of the purchasing power of the 

 public, so that apart from funeral work 

 the sale of flowers and pot plants has 

 been small. Generally speaking, busi- 

 ness has been quite good with those flo- 

 rists who cater to funerals. 



There are signs that the florists who 

 cater to the summer trade at the shore 



and mountain resorts anticipate good 

 business. Their orders are larger than 

 last year, although this may be due to 

 the fact that many shut down their es- 

 tablishments for the winter and opened 

 up in time to prepare for the summer 

 trade. 



HYANNIS, MASS. 



Newton the Florist is the only mem- 

 ber of the Florists' Telegraph Delivery 

 Association on Cape Cod and therefore 

 does an extensive telegraph business in 

 this line as well as an excellent local 

 trade. 



He grows carnations, sweet peas, 

 lilies, etc., which he uses in design work, 

 his specialty. For spring trade he has 

 a good assortment of bedding plants. 

 This year he has sold many thousand 

 small plants at wholesale and intends 

 to enlarge his greenhouses so as to in- 

 crease this end of the business. 



RANDOLPH, VT. 



The H. M. Totman Co. nearly doubled 

 its glass capacity last year, putting in 

 two large Kroeschell boilers. Carnations 

 and geraniums are the company's spe- 

 cialties, with a general line of bedding 

 plants in their season. Last October an 

 up-to-date branch store was opened at 

 White Eiver Junction, Vt., to facilitate 

 handling the firm's orders for Dart- 

 mouth College and Woodstock Inn. This 

 branch store is known as the Vermont 

 Cut Flower Exchange and, being situ- 

 ated at the main junction point of five 

 railroads, can handle telegraph orders 

 with great dispatch to all points of cen- 

 tral and northern New England. Roy L. 

 Jones, a genial, hustling young man, is 

 the manager. Trade has been exceed- 

 ingly good all season at the two stores. 

 Six men and two girls are kept busy in 

 this modest corporation. The company 

 handles seeds and fertilizers as side 

 lines and anticipates a heavy spring 

 trade. 



DOVER, N. H. 



Meeting Meader. 



Meader's Flower Shop had the best 

 St. Valentine's day's business ever, near- 

 ly twice that of last year. This company 

 feels much elated over its new range 

 of houses, which are more than meeting 

 expectations. Breaking ground June 1, 

 1921, the firm started to erect a range 

 of 20,000 square feet of glass, a head- 

 house connecting all houses and a boiler 

 house housing two horizontal steam boil- 

 ers of eighty and 100 horsepower re- 

 spectively. The houses were built and 

 planted almost simultaneously and in 

 operation before November 15 of last 

 year. They are filled with carnations, 

 violets, callas and snapdragons, with one 

 house of mums, now planted with stock 

 for Memorial day. The houses are of 

 cypress on concrete foundations, with 

 semi-iron frame, pipe posts, sliding doors 

 and modern top and side ventilation. 



The boiler house has a concrete floor 

 and is divided into two sections, one 

 containing the boilers, surface-set with 

 Warren system of returns, and coal bin 



accommodating fifty tons of soft coal 

 adjacent. The other section of the build- 

 ing is fitted up as an office, finished in 

 hard pine sheathing with hardwood floor. 

 The smokestack is of buff Alphons Cus- 

 todis brick and is seventy feet high. 

 The heating plant will easily carry dou- 

 ble the present area, if it is decided to 

 enlarge in the future. 



The foreman here is Nelson S. Seavey, 

 formerly with Kidder Bros., the violet 

 specialists, of Lincoln, Mass. Eight men 

 are employed here at present and more 

 will be taken on later during the gladi- 

 olus season, as the company has a 40- 

 acre bulb farm and will plant more than 

 1,000,000 gladioli this season, as well 

 as an immense amount of planting stock. 

 The company has now many thousand 

 planted in the greenhouses, including a 

 generous lot of Lilywhite, the new pure 

 white which forces so easily. 



In the firm's store, located in the cen- 

 ter of town, goldfish are handled, as 

 well as canaries. These are found profit- 

 able when well cared for. 



The firm has just purchased a new 

 Dodge truck, which is suitably lettered 

 in gold on a dark green background. 



Various Notes. 



The Garrison Hill Greenhouses are 

 shipping some fine roses and contem- 

 plate enlarging or lengthening their 

 houses soon. Expensive repairs have 

 been made lately and the place is in fine 

 shape. 



W. H. Elliott & Sons are planting some 

 of the newer roses, as they keep abreast 

 of the times always, and are now cut- 

 ting a fine lot of roses. Their Columbia 

 and Butterfly are especially good. 



Samuel Moulton, of York Harbor, 

 who owns and operates two sets of 

 greenhouses, ten houses, grows mostly 

 bedding stock and vines for the sum- 

 mer trade. He has lately completed an 

 additional house. He is, doubtless, the 

 largest geranium grower in this section. 



BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 



The Market. 



If the birds are any forerunner of 

 spring, then it is surely on the way, for 

 robins and meadow larks have already 

 put in their appearance in the Black 

 Rock district, while in the florists' shop 

 windows the bulbous plants and spring 

 flowers fairly pour out the essence of 

 the spring and make one feel that the 

 warmer days are not so far away. All 

 florists report that their potted plants 

 for the spring trade are coming along 

 in fine shape. St. Valentine 's day trade 

 went far above expectations and every- 

 one was kept busy, not only with his 

 regular trade, but also with transient 

 trade. 



Various Notes. 



One of the prettiest valentine win- 

 dows was that of Carl Reck, of the 

 firm of John Reck & Son, of Main street. 

 Here was displayed in one corner a 

 large red heart pierced with gilt arrows, 

 while throughout the window were 

 placed miniature hat boxes filled with 

 quaint, old-fashioned nosegays. There 



