AUGV8T 21. 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



iX 



•BOSTON. 

 The Market. 



WhiJ^ basiness remains quiet, the last 

 week showed a little improvement on 

 its immediate predecessor, Boses, al- 

 though they are largely short-stemmed^ 

 are improving; Among the newer varie- 

 ties, Mrs. George Shawyer, Mrs. Charles 

 Kussell.and Milady are going well, Mrs. 

 Kussell particularly so. Among the old 

 x.irieties, some really nicQ Perle des 

 Jardins are seen, in addition to, the 

 other three yellows. Sunburst, Hilling- 

 don and Ward. American Beauties are- 

 jrood for the season. A few carnations 

 are still coming in. They are poor, how- 

 ever. Lilium longiflorum, which has 

 been rather scarce, is more plentiful. 

 <Jood auratums and speciosums are also 

 coming in. 



Asters are less of a glut than they 

 were a week ago, with the passing of 

 the early varieties, but prices remain 

 low. Gladioli are selling a trifle better. 

 America hangs fire; its flowers bruise 

 easily, and now that it is abundant, the 

 liuyers turn against it. Sweet peas are 

 all short-stemmed and are decreasing 

 ill numbers. An occasional bunch of 

 Golden Glow chrysanthemums comes in, 

 auj some fine dahlias. Cosmos sells 

 poorly, and the demand for bachelor's 

 buttons is less robust. 



Cattleyas are scarce. A few Gas- 

 kelliana and Harrisoniae only are seen. 

 Oucidium Eogersii is arriving. Valley 

 remains of good quality, but sales are 

 **low. Some of the new gardenia crop 

 is arriving. Demand for green supplies 

 is light. 



Various Notes. 



A large number of friends went to see 

 the Boston travelers to the Minneapolis 

 convention off, August 15. The weather 

 was simply ideal. There were twenty- 

 two in the number, including among 

 others: J. K. M. L, Farqiohar, Frank 

 Manor, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Patten, 

 Thomas Roland, "F. J. Dolansky, E, A. 

 Peirce, 8. J. Goddard, Miss Helen God- 

 4ard, Patrick Welch, Edward Welch, W. 

 J. Stewart, James B. Shea, superintend- 

 ♦'ut of Boston parks; F. C. Green, Provi- 

 dence, R. I.; Mr. and Mrs. Eber Holmes, 

 Wm. P. Rich, T. J. Grey and M. C. 

 Kbel, Madison, N, J. 



Neil Boyle, of Maiden, has built a 

 new rose house, 48x135, in place of two 

 old ones. His specialties for the com- 

 ing season will be Killarney, White Kil- 

 larney, Hillingdon, Richmond and Mi- 

 lady." 



The auction sale of stalls at the Bos- 

 ton Cooperative Market will be held 

 ^^aturday, August 30; that at the Bos- 

 ton Flower Exchange one week later, 

 >^eptember 6. Each market has had a 

 successful season and . is reaching out 

 tor more stallholders. The former has 

 reduced the rent to $20 a year to all 

 stallholders, whether stockholders or not. 



F. J. Dolansky started cutting his new 

 <rop of gardeiii^s August 15, and Cat- 

 tleya labiata the present week. He still 

 'las a few C. Qaskelliana and is cutting 

 some excellent Oncidium Rogersii. He 

 has built three extensions to his cattleya 

 houses, each 100 feet long, to hold his 

 I noreasing collection. 



H. S. Rogers, Penn 's advertising man- 

 ager, is passing cigars. It is a ten- 

 lK)und girl. Mother and baby are doing 

 ^vell. 



The Montrose Greenhouses are send- 

 ing in some good flowers of the old 

 IVrle rose. Other varieties they are 



this season are Russell, Double 

 White Killarney, Double Killarney, Car- 

 dinal, Richmond, Taft, Hillingdon, Mi- 

 lady and Ward. 



William Patterson, of WoUaston, has 

 the best dahlias so far seen this season. 

 All are varieties imported from Eng- 

 land. He also has bachelor's buttons 

 and longiflorum lilies in quantity. He 

 has the foundations in for a new Gar- 

 land sidehill house, 48x120, to be used 

 either for carnations or asparagus. 



The New England Rose Conservato- 

 ries are shipping to the Boston Flower 

 Exchange nice flowers of Ward, Killar- 

 ney Queen, Killarney, White Killarney 

 and Ik fine new seedling. Scarlet. 



A 8. Parker, of Stoiieham, one of 

 the directors of the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change, is a candidate for representa- 

 tive on the Progressive ticket from the 

 thirty-first Middlesex distritit. Mr. 

 Parker is a good orator and a witty 

 one. 



William Jurgens, of Newport, is send- 

 ing to the Flower Growers ' Sales Co. 

 fine speciosum and giganteum lilies and 

 lilies of the valley, as fine as I have seen 

 this season. 



Julius A. Zinn, on Park street, in his 

 window decoration August 16 had nu- 

 merous vases of Ward roses with spikes 

 Of dark blue Veronica longifolia subses- 

 silis arranged with them. The effect 

 was quite good. Masses of long-stemmed 

 auratum lilies were at the back of the 

 window. 



Johnson Knight, the genial manager 

 of the Boston Cooperative Market, is 

 enjoying his vacation at Nahant, Mass. 



W. R. Finlay, salesman for the Flower 

 Growers' Sales Co., is at Raymond, N. 

 H., for his vacation, where fishing is 

 good. 



J. A. Budlong & Sons Co., Auburn, 

 R. I., sends large daily rose shipments 

 to the Bostoa Flower Exchange. The 

 quality is good for such early shipments. 

 They find that Tafts, Shawyers, Double 

 White Killarneys and Double Killarneys 

 sell specially well. Other varieties they 

 have are Russell, Sunburst and Milady. 



M. C. Ebel, of Madison, N. J., arrived 

 in Boston on the morning of August 15 

 and left for Minneapolis with the Bos- 

 ton band. 



Penn's duck farm is still a prime at- 

 traction with the public. Store business 

 for August has been quite good. Henry 

 Penn decided at the last moment to 

 stay and rest near the ocean rather than 

 go "to Minneapolis, as he had planned. 



Mann Bros., among other growers, are 

 shipping quantities of montbretias, globe 

 amaranths and Gladiolus America. 



John Barr, of South Natick, says he 

 has sold about 35,000 surplus field car- 

 nations, and the demand seems insa- 

 tiable. 



Members of the Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists' Club of Boston are invited to 

 join in a special inspection trip to the 

 experimental gardens of the H. F. Mich- 

 ell Co., at Andalusia, Pa., Wednesday, 

 August 27, A special train will leave 

 the Broad street station at 11:15 a. m. 

 Recognition tags will be furnished to 

 all who can make the trip. 



W. N. Craig. 



BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS. 



Cadillac, Mich.— William H. Kane, 

 proprietor of the Quality City Floral 

 Co., has been adjudged bankrupt in 

 the District court. He gave his liabili- 

 ties at $1,578 and no assets above ex- 

 emptions. 



OBITUARY. 



C. Leslie Reynolds. 



C. Leslie Reynolds, superintendent of 

 the National Botanical GardetiS, at 

 Washington, D. C, dropped dead from 

 heart failure August 13, while chasing 

 some boys who were throwing stones at 

 the greenhouses. 



Mr. Reynolds was a native of Mont- 

 gomery county, Md., and was 55. 

 years of age. His record of service 

 with the government is an enviable one 

 and covers a period of over forty years. 

 He started out in 1872 as a senate page: 

 and March 5, 1873, he became a messen- 

 ger boy at the Botanical Gardens. From 

 that time on his rise was rapid; he soon 

 became an apprentice gardener under- 

 the late William R. Smith and advanced ; 

 steadily until, he became the right-hand 

 man of Mr, Smith, During the latter 's 

 illness he had full charge of the work 

 at the gardens. 



On the evening of August 12 he was 

 one of the guests of Edward S, Schmid 

 at the annual crab feast tendered the 

 Washington Florists ' Club, of which he ' 

 was an honored member, and his death 

 comes as a great shock to his associates 

 and fellow members, Mr. Reynolds was 

 also a Mason and a member of the So- 

 ciety of Oldest Inhabitants of Wash- 

 ington, He is survived by his wife, for- 

 merly Miss Elizabeth Noonan, who was 

 employed at the Botanical Gardens be- 

 fore her marriage about five years ago. 



Mrs. Amasa Kennicott. 

 Mary Seeley Kennicott, widow of : 

 Amasa Kennicott, died August 13, at 

 her residence, the Grove, near Des 

 Plaines, 111., after a three weeks' ill- 

 ness. Three sons. Ransom, Walter and 

 Harrison Kennicott, survive her. Mrs. 

 Kennicott was 67 years old. She was 

 born near Wauwatosa. Wis., the daugh- 

 ter of Edwin Seeley. She was the sis- 

 ter-in-law of Flint Kennicott and her 

 husband was the pioneer grower of 

 peonies in large quantity as cut flow- 

 ers for the Chicago market. Interment 

 was at Arlington Heights, beside the 

 Kennicott brothers, who preceded her 

 only a few years, 



John E, Hoskin. 



John K, Hoskin, aged 69 years, died 

 August 8. at his home, 1512 Haak 

 street, Reading, Pa., of a complication 

 of diseases. He had been in failing 

 health for five years. Mr. Hoskin was 

 a native of England, and came to this 

 country forty years ago, locating di- 

 rectly in Reading, He formerly con- 

 ducted a greenhouse and nursery at 

 Schuylkill avenue and Greenwich street, 

 in Reading, and for many years was a 

 private gardener. He was a member of 

 the Episcopal church. His wife died a 

 number of years ago. 



Charles Kennedy. 

 Charles Kennedy, for twenty years 

 with the Robert Craig Co., at Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., died suddenly of heart failure 

 on his way to work at Norwood, August 

 16. He was about 40 years of age. He 

 was one of the fern growers at Forty- 

 ninth and Market streets, Philadelphia, 

 and had been transferred to Norwood 

 temporarily. 



William M. Evans. 

 William M. Evans, of Philadelphia;, 

 Pa., died late Saturday night, August 

 9, at his home, 4921 Flortence avenue. 

 He is survived by a daughter. Miss Mary 

 B, Evans. The' funeral was held Au- 

 guest 13. 



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