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AUOCST 7, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



BAILET MAKES ANNOUNOEMENT. 



In The Review for July 24 it was re- 

 ported as a matter of news that Prof. 

 E, A. White was leaving the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College to become 

 professor of floriculture at Cornell. Di- 

 rector L. H. Bailey, of the latter insti- 

 tution, now makes the following formal 

 announcement: 



' ' Prof. E. A. "White, at present in 

 charge of the department of floriculture 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 llege, has been elected to the professor- 

 iship of floriculture in the New York 

 [State College of Agriculture and the 

 iheadship of the department. Prof, 

 f White will take up his work here in 

 September. We are expecting to de- 

 velop a very strong department of flori- 

 culture and to that end we have now 

 separated the old department of horti- 

 culture into its three main divisions, 

 namely, pomology, floriculture and veg- 

 etable gardening, each one of these sub- 

 jects being represented in an independ- 

 ent departmental organization. 



"Prof. Alvin C. Beal remains with 

 the college and has been promoted to 

 full professor of floriculture, and will 

 have particular charge of the experi- 

 .. mental and investigational side of the 

 -K subject. He will devote himself to the 

 field tests with gladioli, sweet peas, 

 peonies, roses and other leading crops, 

 and to the investigation of other sub- 

 jects that are important to the florists' 

 interests. ' ' 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



There is a tired feeling in the market 

 ' this week. Outdoor flowers, which now 

 rule supreme, are in heavy oversupply 

 and clearances are hard to make, even 

 at low prices. Asters are now the most 

 important flowers coming in, and there 

 has been a tremendous increase in their 

 arrivals, which has caused values to be 

 more than cut in two. Most of those 

 arriving are Queen of the Market, and 

 white is much the best selling color. 

 Gladioli are abundant and prices on 

 these run unusually low, three dozen for 

 $1 being as much as good spikes, even 

 of America, have been bringing; some 

 lower, and only a small number higher. 

 Sweet peas of good quality are easy to 

 sell. Most of those arriving have short 

 stems. White and" pink are the favorite 

 colors. 



Roses are not at a,ll plentiful, but are 

 ample for the small demands. Beauty, 

 Carnot, Kaiserin and the Killarneys 

 are most in evidence. Carnations are 

 small, poor, and many of them spidery. 

 Lilies are in good supply. Longiflorums 

 sell better than auratums or specio- 

 lums. Gypsophila has shortened up 

 considerably. Much of that now com- 

 ing in is of the annual variety. Other 

 outdoor flowers have an uncertain sale. 

 Cattleyas are getting scarce and sell 

 well. Most of those seen are Dowi- 

 ana and Harrisonise. Spikes of Onci- 

 dium Rogersii already are seen. A few 

 Chrysanthemum Golden Glow have ap- 

 peared. Green stock is quiet. 



Various Notes. 



A. H. Hews & Co., of North Cam- 

 bridge, have just completed and stocked 

 a fine new four-story building to replace 

 the three-story one burned a short time 

 ago. A brisk demand for pots and pans 

 it reported. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, at their 



"WHO'S WHO-AND WHY" 



PROF. E. A. WHITE. 



The newly appointed professor of floriculture at Cornell University was 

 born in West Townsend, Mass., in 1872, educated in the public schools of Rinige, 

 N. H., and the high school at Littleton, Mass., graduated from the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College in 1895, and was for two years assistant horticulturist in 

 charge of the greenhouses of this college. He left there in 1897 to take charge 

 of the greenhouses on the estate of the late Clement A. Griscom, at Haverford 

 Pa. For two years following that he was engaged in commercial work in Arling- 

 ton, Mass. In 1889 he was appointed instructor in horticulture at the Baron 

 de Hirsch School, Woodbine, N. J., where he remained for one year. For two 

 years following this he was assistant professor of horticulture at the Texas 

 Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1900 he was appointed professor of 

 botany, forestry and landscape architecture at the Connecticut Agricultural Col- 

 lege, where he remained until .Tune, 1907, when he was appointed professor of 

 floriculture at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



stand in the Boston Flower Exchange, 

 have extra fine assortments of asters 

 and gladioli and a big cut of auratum, 

 longiflorum, album and rubrum lilies. 



Mr. and Mrs. Martin Wax sailed on 

 the S. S. Franconia, August 5, for an 

 extended trip to England, France and 

 Germany. They expect to return about 

 the end of September. A number of 

 friends went to the dock to wish them 

 bon voyage, and a wealth of flowers in 

 their stateroom attested their popular- 

 ity in the trade. 



The Flower Growers ' Sales Co. . is 

 receiving large shipments of extra fine 

 America and other gladioli from Will- 

 iam Sim, who is growing them for the 

 first time. Plower receipts are reported 

 as rather light and no trouble is experi- 

 enced in disposing of them. 



Frank Wheeler, son of James Wheel- 



er, of Natick, took unto himself a wife 

 a few days ago and the happy couple 

 are enjoying their honeymoon at Old 

 Orchard Beach, Me. 



A. N, Eaton, of Sudbury, and A. G. 

 Lake, of Wellesley, are now heavy as- 

 ter shippers to the Boston Cooperative 

 Market. 



Julius H. Zinn, on Park street, dis- 

 played a fine bunch of Chrysanthemum 

 Golden Glow in his window August 2 

 the opening of the local mum season. ' 



George P. Barr, son of and salesman 

 for John Barr, of South Natick, leaves 

 for a trip to Panama August 15. Mr 

 Barr has the bulk of his large lot of 

 carnations planted and they look extra 

 well. 



Perry E. Gre^n, of Quincy, is now a 

 heavy shippW^f asters, bachelor 's but- 

 tons and sweet peas. He had a large 



