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The Florists' Review 



July 30, 1914. _ 



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is little seen, Double White Killarney 

 having largely displaced it, and few 

 Carnots are seen. Sweet peas are short- 

 er stemmed. They cleaned up well 

 July 25, but, with other flowers, hung 

 fire the remainder of last week. There 

 still are too many gladioli and prices 

 are low. Valley goes slowlj', also lilies 

 of all sorts. Gypsophila, double bach- 

 elor's buttons and Chinese larkspurs 

 meet with a fair sale. Gardenias are 

 few, and for cattleyas the demand con- 

 tinues slight. As yet shipping trade to 

 the fashionable shore and mountain re- 

 sorts is much below that of other years. 



Important Sale of Peonies. 



E. J. Shaylor, of Auburndale, the 

 well-known local peony specialist, called 

 up the writer July 20 and informed him 

 that he had sold his collection of peo- 

 nies of over 150 varieties to T. C. Thur- 

 low's Sons Co., of West Newbury, 

 Mass. Mr. Shaylor started peony grow- 

 ing about ten years ago and got to- 

 gether what was one of the choicest 

 collections in America. His exhibits at 

 the Boston shows were always note- 

 worthy, and I am glad to say that he 

 still is likely to exhibit occasionally, 

 as he retained his seedlings, some thou- 

 sands in number, and a plant of each 

 named variety. He will not engage, 

 however, in the sale of peonies again 

 before 1917, but will give much care 

 to his seedlings, some of which have 

 already proved to be gems. 



The members of T. C. Thurlow 'a Sons 

 Co., who have secured this superb col- 

 lection, are known all over America as 

 great peony fanciers. The veteran, T. C. 

 Thurlow, father of the members of the 

 purchasing firm, did a great work with 

 peonies, and his sons are following in 

 his footsteps. With the addition of 

 the Shaylor purchase, they will have 

 an almost unrivaled collection at West 

 Newbury, Mass., which has long been 

 the Mecca for lovers of choice hardy 

 plants. Only a few weeks ago Messrs. 

 Thurlow secured a gold medal from the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 and their many friends and well wish- 

 ers are glad that they had the courage 

 to so greatly strengthen their collec- 

 tion. Most of the peonies purchased 

 will be moved to West Newbury in 



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September. The purchase price ran 

 into thousands of dollars, but the exact 

 amount will not be made public. 



Convention Notes. 



Everything seems to be coming along 

 swimmingly for the S. A. F. convention. 

 The various committees are busy at 

 work and no stone is being left un- 

 turned to make the coming meeting the 

 greatest ever. Boston 's summer tem- 

 perature is much lower than that of 

 New York, Philadelphia, Washington 

 and other big eastern cities, and the 

 heat that is oppressive in inland cities 

 is always tempered here with a refresh- 

 ing east wind. Visitors can therefore 

 reasonably anticipate comfortable cli- 

 matic conditions while in the Hub, and 

 even if it is a little warm, the broad 

 Atlantic is at our doors, where the 

 breezes always are cool and refreshing 

 at this season. 



The convention garden is coming 

 along splendidly. The growth made 

 by the plants since a previous visit 

 early in July has been really surpris- 

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 This has been put up in this firm's 

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Various Notes. 



At Galvin's Tremout street store a 

 number of the regular force are away 

 on vacations. George Dunne is in 

 Maine; Patrick Moran is at York 

 Beach; John Burke and wife are en- 

 joying a trip to Evangeline's land, and 

 Thomas Welch and family are down on 

 Cape Cod. The aquatic and perennial 

 displays in the windows here are at- 

 tractive. 



The annual gladiolus and phlox show 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 



