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JULT 20, 1922 



The Florists' Review 



33 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Extreme dullness rules in the flower 

 markets these days. Of course, there is 

 a moderate amount of buying and some 

 sliipping trade to holiday resorts, but 

 markets present a more or less deserted 

 appearance and the variety of flowers 

 available is small and the quality only 

 moderate. Fairly comfortable weather 

 liuH prevailed of late and roses, for mid- 

 July, arc of good quality. Columbia is 

 more in evidence than any other va- 

 riety. Butterfly is coming into favor 

 and" Double White Killarney is a good 

 third. The quantity of the varieties 

 seen is not large; $8 to $10 per hundred 

 is now top price for the best stock. 



Carnations continue to dribble, but 

 flowers are now getting poor and many 

 have a sleepy appearance. A.sters are 

 as yet coming in small lots only and the 

 quality, so far, is rather inferior. Gla- 

 dioli continue to increase in numbers 

 and are now more in evidence tlian all 

 other flowers combined. America con- 

 tinues to be the best seller; the high 

 colors, like Halley, are much less popu- 

 lar. Only a few primulinus hybrids are 

 .-ivailablo as yet. Sweet peas are prac- 

 tically nil. Hardy gypsophila sells well, 

 especially the double; much of it is 

 used for drying. The annual variety 

 has meanwhile to take a back seat. 



Hardy larkspurs are fewer in num- 

 l)ers and poorer in quality. Candytuft 

 is offered, with few takers. Few gigan- 

 teum lilies are seen, but small lots of 

 auratum, speciosum and regale are com- 

 ing in. Bachelor's buttons are rather 

 overdone. Cattleyas are mainly Gas- 

 kelliana, with good flowers worth $9 

 to $12 per dozen. There is a fair call 

 for adiantum and asparagus. 



Various Notes. 



Tlic principal local event of interest 

 tliis week is the Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists' Club picnic, at Cunningham park, 

 Kast Milton, July 20. The following are 

 tlie picnic oflScials: Ringmaster, W. J. 

 Kennedy; starter, Peter M. Miller; 

 liandicapper, James Methven; clerk, 

 William N. Craig; umpires for men's 

 and ladies' baseball games, George W. 

 Hamer and Fred E. Palmer; umpire for 

 boys' baseball game, Peter Pederzini; 

 judges, Arthur J. Brown, II. H. Bartsch, 

 George W. Butterworth, Harry Cole, 

 Ivcnneth Pinlayson, Daniel Iliffe, Wil- 

 liam H. Judd, Thomas W. Little, John 

 Morris, F. E. Palmer, W. C. Rust, Don- 

 ald B. Sutherland, Gustave Thommen, 

 Daniel Whyte and A. J. Wollrath; gen- 

 <ral picnic committee, W. H. Judd, 

 (icorge W. Butterwortli, Patrick W. 

 Burke, W. H. Golby, A. K. Rogers, H. A. 

 Ryan and J. L. Russell. 



On account of the high cost, all idea 

 of securing the cyclorama site, near 

 the Hotel Tourainc, for the new flower 

 market has been given up. A thirty 

 days' option has been secured on a 

 ijood site on Broadway, between Wash- 

 il|g^on street and Harrison avenue. 

 Tlu're arc 1.3,000 square feet of space 

 luMc and excellent parking facilities for 

 automobiles. The cost of the land will 

 l>e about $180,000 and a building will 

 <-ost about $150,000 additional. About 

 .$120,000 in cash has been secured among 

 ^'rowers, with excellent prospects of' 

 substantial additional amounts. The 

 proposed site is about five minutes' 

 walk from Park square and from the 

 i:sso\- street station of the Washington 



street tunnel. At a meeting of growers 

 to be held soon, it is probable that 

 some definite action on the purchase of 

 this site will be taken. At least one 

 other site is favorably thought of, the 

 higher cost being the great stumbling 

 block. 



Penn's annual duck farm is now in 

 full operation and seems to have lost 

 none of its attractions for the crowds 

 of passers-by on busy Tremont street. 

 The hotter the day the greater and more 

 interested are the crowds, to whom the 

 babbling brook, waterfall and ducks, 

 splashing to their hearts' delight, seem 

 to make a strong appeal. 



Martin Wax has been taking his va- 

 cation this year in short relays, owing 

 to Mrs. Wax's sickness with neuritis. 

 He has, however, managed to put in 

 one or two days among the finny tribe in 

 Maine. Wax Bros, have had an extra 

 good season at 44 Temple place. 



Misfortunes never come singly. Not 

 long ago Chester Paine met with a 

 painful accident when operating his 

 tractor. He just recovered from that 

 to fall a victim to whooping cough, 

 which now keeps him awake nights. 



John McFarland, of North Easton, 

 has dropped poinsettia culture entirely 

 and has liis houses now devoted 

 to chrysanthemums, lilies, Asparagus 

 Sprengcri and adiantum. Regular ship- 

 ments are made of the two latter spe- 

 cialties. 



Neal E. Boyle, of Maiden, is doing 

 much overhauling and repairing on his 

 greenhouses at present. He grows roses 

 almost exclusively and Columbia, But- 

 terfly and Double White Killarney are 

 his three favorites. He formerly grew 

 Lady Alice Stanley heavily, but has 

 now dropped it, owing to its poor keep- 

 ing qualities. 



Dolansky & McDonald, in Winthrop 

 square, are handling large numbers of 

 Lilium regale, mostly in the bud stage. 

 The large, attractive store of Thomas 

 F. Galvin, Jr., on Devonshire street, is 

 much improved by numerous fine speci- 

 mens of red cedars in tubs arranged 

 along the sidewalk close to the windows. 

 Gladioli in variety are the chief win- 

 dow features now. 



C. Kerrigan, window decorator, and 

 Fred Maxwell, outside decorator, at 

 I'enn's, left July 15 for vacations to be 

 spent in Maine and Canada, each mak- 

 ing the trip by automobile. Maurice 

 Clancey, head shipper, is spending his 

 vacation taking short tours through 

 New England. 



William J. Thurston, manager at the 

 Bo.ston Flower Exchange, leaves July 

 22 for a vacation to be spent on Capa 

 Cod, where clams, oysters, cranberries 

 and mosquitoes abound. George A. 

 Hamer, assistant manager, finishes his 

 vacation July 24. He is enjoying mak- 

 ing short dailv trips from his home in 

 Everett. 



Harold A. Ryan and George W. But- 

 terworth will each plant some of the 

 Marinelli carnations this season. Wal- 

 ter H. Golby has grown them for two 

 seasons and will increase his planting 

 of them. 



There will be another meeting of the 

 New England members of the National 

 Association of Gardeners, at Horticul- 

 tural hall, to make further arrange- 

 ments for the convention, to be held in 

 Boston, September 12 to lo. 



Edward J. Rogean, a prominent sales- 

 man at the Flower Exchange, has gone 

 down east on a vacation and will in- 

 clude New Brunswick in his itinerarv. 



In the windows of the stores of T. F. 

 Galvin, Inc., large numbers of fancy 

 caladiums are effectively used; tanks 

 of aquatics look exceedingly cool and 

 inviting these hot days. 



Joseph B. Hall resigned all connection 

 with the pottery firm of A. H. Hews 

 & Co., Cambridge, Mass., July 1. New 

 officers of the company are: President, 

 Philip Cabot; vice-president, Lawrence 

 Hemenway; treasurer, Dunbar Lock- 

 wood. The new officers arc^ young men, 

 full of virility and enthusiasm and 

 eager to give the best and most cour- 

 teous service to the florists' trade. 

 Business has been good here of late. 



Many growers are now busy housing 

 carnations. Thanks to the abundant 

 rains, the plants are of good size. Some 

 who planted out their stock on low 

 land are having much trouble with 

 stem-rot. W. N. C. 



CHICAGO. 



The Market. 



Business last week was nothing re- 

 (luiring the use of superlatives in de- 

 scription. It was just a good, ordinary 

 summer week. Some of the wholesale 

 houses found it better than the corre- 

 sponding week of last year, but others 

 fell behind, the difference api)arently 

 being accounted for by whatever differ- 

 ence there was in the supply of stock 

 in the several houses; the houses which 

 had a good supply of stock last year did 

 not pass last year's record this season. 

 The Chicago market probably never 

 has had a better supply of summer flow- 

 ers than is the case this year. A great 

 many rose growers have increased 

 their summer crops. Gladioli never 

 were so plentiful or so fine at this 

 time of year as they are this season. 

 There still are good carnations, and as- 

 ters, refreshed by last week's rains, are 

 arriving in considerable quantity. 

 There also are fine Easter lilies and 

 rubrums; annual larkspur in a variety 

 of colors is abundant and all garden 

 flowers have been improved in qusility 

 and increased in quantity by the recent 

 showers. The market is equipped for 

 business; all that is needed is a little 

 better demand. 



The demand is of the usual summer 

 character, a little better than last year 

 if anything. The wholesale houses 

 catering to the shipping trade say they 

 are sending out more boxes this summer 

 thaivever before; more buyers are being 

 heard from than in other years, but the 

 average size of the orders is small. One 

 house figured out last week that the 

 average size of the orders had been only 

 slightly more than $10, whereas in the 

 busy season the average size is some- 

 thing like four times as much. 



It is apparent that many retailers 

 who practically shut up shop in pre- 

 vious summers are making a little effort 

 to do business this season. They are 

 meeting with success in accordance wit,h 

 the energy and intelligence put into the 

 effort; some are doing much better than 

 others. Most of the wholesalers say the 

 Chicago retailers appear to have relaxed 

 more than the out-of-town retailers have 

 done, but the probability is that it only 

 seems so, because any city buyer can 

 satisfy his whole wants in the first 

 house visited; he only shops for lower 

 prices. 



It is noted that the demand is spaa- 

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