May 14, 1914. 



The Horists' Review 



81 



McALPiNE & McDonald 



256 Devonshire St. WHOLESALE FLORISTS B O S T O 



American Beauties and other Roses, Carnations, Valley 



Gardenias, Cattleyas and all other flowers in season 



FIRST QUALITY GOODS-PROMPT SERVICE-SATISFACTION GUARANTEED 



WILLIAM A. McALPINE ••^^ "• • «•" ^h*" >" Bo«ton FRANK J. McDONALD 



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Geraniums and Other Stock 



IN WIHK SHAPK 



Out of 214-iiich. 100 1000 



S. A. Nutt $ 2.25 $20.00 



Harcourt (white). 2M 22^ 



Poitevine ,- 2.60 22.60 



GERMAN IVY, 2>4-inch 2.26 20.00 



BLUB AQERATUM 2.26 20.00 



HELIOTROPE 2.60 22.60 



SALVIA Splendens 2.25 20.00 



TRADEJSCANTIA, Var. and Oreea... 2.00 



SMILAX, 3-inch. 2.60 



SPRENQERI, 8-lnch 'S.OO 



VINCA Varieflrata. 3-inch 6.00 



VINCA Varlerata, 4-inch 7.00 



DRACAENAS, 6-inch 26.00 



DRACAENAS, 6-inch 86.00 



Cash with order, please. 



MAGNUS riERSON, • CnmweU, C«nn. 



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a fine field of yellow marguerites and 

 sweet peas. 



P. J. Donahue, of the Boston Eose 

 Co., has taken the agency for the Ameri- 

 can Beauty roses of Paul M. Pierson, 

 Scarboro, N. Y. He is receiving splen- 

 did lots of Hadley, Killarney, White 

 Killarney and Hillingdon roses from the 

 Montgomery Co., Hadley, Mass. 



H, M. Bobinson & Co. report largely 

 increased sales for Mothers' day, the 

 whole force working until 10:30 p. m., 

 May 8, to get out orders. Memorial 

 day goods are now moving rapidly. 



Owing to the tearing down of the 

 building on Somerset street, where he 

 was located, Duncan Eobertson now 

 makes his headquarters at the Boston 

 Cooperative Market. He is handling 

 fine snapdragons and yellow marguer- 

 ites from Elijah Cartwright, of Welles- 

 ley. 



William Hannan & Sons, of Dorches- 

 ter, have splendid lots of Gladstone 

 and Queen Alexandra spiraeas for Me- 

 morial day; they also expect to cut 

 2,000 bunches of candytuft. 



William E. Morris will plant another 

 house of Eichmond roses next year; he 

 will also add Killarney Brilliant to his 

 list. He is getting Hillingdon, Eich- 

 mond, Killarney and White Killarney of 

 fine quality. 



In addition to Nelrose snapdragons, 

 F, W. Fletcher now has a fine lot of 

 yellow marguerites. He reports heavy 

 sales of Nelrose. 



P. L. Carbone has taken> the Eagleston 

 shop, at Hyannis, Mass., formerly occu- 

 pied by Eagleston Bros., and will carry 

 there a full line of his new importations 

 of fountains, sundials, bird baths, bas- 

 ket flower bowls, alabaster ware, glass 

 ware, etc. Among his latest arrivals 

 is a superb lot of alabaster ware. 



S. J. Goddard started planting out his 

 carnations May 7 and W. E. Nicholson 

 May 10. Most of the growers are busy 

 at the same work this week, the weather 

 at last appearing to be more -fettled. 



Penn did a splendid Mothers' day 



UNROOTED CUTTINGS 



Antirrhinum NELROSE 



Unrooted cuttings of Antirrhinums can. be shipped lofifiier distances and more 



safely than rooted cuttings. 



W« offer for May and Juno doiivory, strong unrooted cuHlngo 

 from soiectod f lower splkesp at $5.00 per 100, postpaid. 



Prices for 2-in. pot plants remain the same $3.00 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



P. W. FLETCHER St CO., Auburndale, Mass. 



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FINE PLANTS FOR FLORISTS 



TABLE FERNS, $4.00 per 100. 



BEQONIAS-WhIte Lorraine, in 214-in., $15.00 per 100. 



Pink Lorraine, in S^iz-in., $25.00 per 100. 

 Cincinnati, in 34-inch, $25.00 per 100. 

 June and July delivery. 

 We are now booking orders for the beautMui, new winter-bloomins 

 Begonia, FLORENCE DAVENPORT, for July and August delirery, in 

 2i4-incb, at $25.00 per 100. 



Cash with Order. 



A. M. DAVENPORT, 



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:: Watertown, Mass. 



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business. Baskets of roses were made a 

 feature. Eoses and carnations were the 

 best selling flowers. 



The Boston Eetail Florists' Club had 

 a meeting and dinner at the Bellevue 

 hotel. May 5, and elected twenty-five 

 new members and the following board 

 of officers: President, T. F. Galvin; 

 vice-president, H. E. Comley; secretary, 

 Benjamin Green; treasurer, Julius Zinn. 

 The club used prominent advertisements 

 on front pages of seven leading Boston 

 daily papers, calling attention to Moth- 

 ers ' day. 



Harry Quint used an electric sign 

 in the center of his large show window 

 for a week before Mothers' day, which 

 read, ' ' Wear flowers Mothers ' day, Sun- 

 day, May 10." He sold 5,000 carna- 

 tions, in addition to other flowers. 



Joseph Cavanaugh, one of the best 

 known street venders of Boston, well 

 known for twenty years to the trade, 

 died May 8 at the City hospital, Boston, 

 after ten days' sickness from pneu- 

 monia. Interment was at his old home 

 in Brunswick, Me. His friends in the 

 trade sent several fine floral souvenirs. 



Thomas A. Cox, of Dorchester, is able 

 to be around again after ten days ' sick- 

 ness brought on by a severe cold. 



Carl Everburg, of Woburn, has ac- 



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CROMWELL, CONNECTICUT 



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quired the store of the Worcester Con- 

 servatories, Worcester, Mass. His son 

 and daughter will manage it. 



Galvin reports an increased business 

 for Mothers ' day, with the orders most- 

 ly of small size. His funeral business 

 has been excellent. I noted a superb 

 pall cover of double violets for the fu- 

 neral of Mrs. Fairbanks, of Clinton. 

 May 9. ' 



McAlpine & McDonald report a first- 

 class call for flowers for Mothers' day. 

 Their business grows finely and obliges 

 them to work late each evening. 



Edward MacMulkin, in addition to 

 store trade, is now busy on landscape 

 orders; he makes a specialty of the lat- 

 ter work. 



The tulip display in the Boston pub- 

 lic gardens is at its height this week. 

 Particularly fine are the beds of Pink 



