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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 23, 1904. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



There has been an overabundance of 

 flowers in the market the pa«t week and 

 many were sold with difficulty at low 

 rates. Boses are now coming in small 

 and in some cases badly mildewed. Out- 

 door hybrids, such as Jacq., Luizet, 

 Magna Charta and Brunner, are now 

 abundant and of very fair quality. They 

 sell well for weddings and school gradua- 

 tions. Carnations are becoming poor and 

 druggy; sales of poor stock were re- 

 ported at 25 cents per 100 last week. 

 Fancy stock reaches $1.50 to $2. Peonies 

 have been very abundant. A large call 

 for weddings cleared them but fairly 

 well. Prices on off colors were as low 

 as $1 per 100, while as high as $8 was 

 secured for very fine stock, from $2 to $5 

 being the average price. The present 

 week will end the supply of these. Out- 

 door sweet pei^ are now coming in plenti- 

 fully but ar^- inferior to indoor stock as 

 yet, stems being short. They clear out 

 well. Water lilies are getting common. 

 Iris Hispanica from outdoors is abund- 

 ant and of fine quality. Such flowers as 

 stocks, antirrhinum, sweet william and 

 feverfew have been druggy, but the de- 

 mand for school and children's day serv- 

 ices in churches has helped to prevent 

 a serious glut. 



Various Notes. 



The annual rose and strawberry show 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety opened on Tuesday and is an excel- 

 lent one. Some of the leading exhibitors 

 are Miss S. B. Fay, M. H. Walsh, Mrs. 

 J. L. Gardner, Walter Hunnewell, E. J. 

 Shaylor, T. C. Thurlow, George Hollia, 

 Robert Cameron, the Arnold Arboretum, 

 E. & J. Parquhar & Co. and Dr. C. S. 

 Minot. Miss Fay is, as usual, the larg- 

 est and most successful rose exhibitor. 

 Strawberries, grapes, peaches and other 

 fruits are of fine quality. A detailed 

 report will appear in the next issue of the 

 Keview. 



General regret is expressed at the seri- 

 ous accident which happened to E. Suter- 

 meister a few days ago. Mr. Suter- 

 meister was thrown from his delivery 

 wagon and painfully injured, one leg 

 being broken by the wheels which passed 

 over him. His many friends at the 

 wholesale market and elsewhere wish him 

 a speedy recovery. 



Eecent visitors to Boston include C. A. 

 V. Frith, the well known lily grower of 

 Bermuda, and George A. Bishop, super- 

 intendent of the botanic gardens at Ham- 

 ilton, Bermuda. Mr. Bishop is devoting 

 much of his time to rectifying the lily 

 disease. He says the chief cause of so 

 many poor bulbs being shipped from tho 

 island in the past few years has been 

 that the growers sold every good bulb 

 they produced, in nearly every case retain- 

 ing the very poorest stock to plant for 

 themselves. He is succeeding in gradual- 

 ly changing this system and expects in 

 time to be able to stamp out the dis- 

 ease. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. have an es- 

 pecially fine and remarkably distinct new 

 form of Lilium longiflorum, which they 

 hope to be able to place on the market 

 in the future. The trumpet of the 

 flower is much longer than in any other 

 form of longiflorum and the foliage very 

 narrow, resembling that of Dracaena in- 

 divisa. John Farquhar discovered this 

 variety growing wild on his last visit to 



Japan and thinks it is going to be a very 

 valuable acquisition. 



J. W. Manning, the well known land- 

 scape architect, was the essayist at the 

 meeting of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club on June 21. The attendance was 

 again remarkably good and everything 

 points to a boom for the society next 

 fall such as it has never before experi- 

 enced. 



A free flower show was held on June 

 18 and 19 in Andrew School, Oswego 

 street, Boston, one of the poorest sec- 

 tions of the city. Large contributions of 

 flowers and flowering plants came from 

 Prof. C. S. Sargent, Miss M. S. Ames, 

 Mrs. C. F. Sprague, E. V. R. Thayer, 

 Walter Hunnewell, R. C. Hooper and Dr. 

 C. G. Weld. R. & J. Farquhar & Co. fur- 

 nished palms and other foliage plants. 

 The flowers comprised large quantities of 

 peonies, roses, rhododendrons, kalmias, 

 irises and many other seasonable flowers, 



Photographs. 



CEND a picture of your place 

 to the Review for publica- 

 tion* 



CEND a picture of any well 

 ^ executed floral desisfn or 

 decoration. . 



CEND a picture of any well- 

 gfrown specimen plant or 

 house of plants. 



The photographs need not be any- 

 thing more than good* "sharp" pictures* 

 that is, ckar in detail. Be sure to write 

 your name and address on each one. 



all artistically arranged. The residents 

 in the section where the show was heM 

 are mostly immigrants of the poorest 

 class. They attended the show in thou- 

 sands and thoroughly appreciated the ef- 

 forts of Miss May Sargent and the other 

 society ladies who so successfully engin- 

 eered the exhibition. 



General regret is felt at the decision 

 of Archibald Smith, manager of the seed 

 department and one of the firm of Jo- 

 seph Breck & Sons, of Boston, to leave 

 America. Mr. Smith has bought the 

 George Prince seed business at Oxford, 

 England, and takes possession of the same 

 next month. He has been with the firm 

 of Breck & Sons sixteen years and much 

 of their success is due to his skillful man- 

 agement. Some handsome presents were 

 made to Mr. Smith by members of the 

 firm, employes and others, and his many 

 friends wish him much success in his new 

 business. 



A spell of hot, dry weather has been 

 experienced for several days. A gor 

 generous rainfall would be appreciated. 

 Florists report an unusually late 8easi')n 

 for bedding plants, but the demand has 

 proved fully up to the average. 



Hardy roses, contrary to expectations, 

 are unusually good. Strawberries are at 

 the height of their season with us, ' ' three 

 boxes for a quarter" being a frequent 

 cry. They are a splendid crop. Hay 

 making is becoming quite general, an ex- 

 cellent crop all round. Potatoes and 



other vegetable crops look fine and thero 

 is an unusual paucity of bugs on crops 

 in general, for which we are deeply grate 

 ful. We cannot find much fault with 

 the season to date. 



At the Patten-Thayer wedding last 

 week there was some elaborate decorating. 

 Peonies, pink and white, mountain lau- 

 rel, now at its height here, roses and 

 syringas were largely used. Miltoniaa 

 and odontoglossums were freely used in 

 the church and produced a fine effect. 

 Galvin and A. P. Meredith, Mr. Thayer's 

 gardener, had charge of the extensive 

 decorations. 



Weekly prize exhibitions commence at 

 Horticultural Hall on July 9, continuing 

 until the end of August. While Boston 

 is looking forward to the coming meet- 

 ings of the chrysanthemum and rose 

 societies, another extensive exhibition to 

 come about the early part of June, 1905, 

 is mooted. This will probably not be in- 

 cluded in the society's schedule, but if it 

 goes through as it undoubtedly will it 

 promises to eclipse anything previously 

 seen in the Hub. 



There is a grand show of hardy peren- 

 nials at present to be seen at the Blue 

 Hill Nurseries. The proprietor, Julius 

 'Heurlin, has one of the finest assortments 

 of these plants in America, including 

 many new or scarce varieties. This 

 nursery is one of the best kept in New 

 England. 



The following circular from the Boston 

 Co-operative Flower Growers' Associa- 

 tion has been issued to all its members. 

 Perhaps it may tend to "prevent the 

 threatened split in its membership: 



"At a meeting of the directors Satur- 

 day, June 4, 1904, it was voted that the 

 rent of stalls for the year commencing 

 October 1, 1904, shall be $25 per year, 

 with premiums for choice as heretofore. 

 After all expenses for the year have been 

 paid, including the usual dividends to 

 the stockholders, the balance, of 4b6 profits 

 for the year shall be returned to the stall 

 holders. The division of profits to each 

 stall holder shall be in prM)ortion to the 

 amount of rent and premimn paid." 



W)N. Craig. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



A. L. Thome, Flushing, N. Y., submits 

 for registration seedling carnation Pil- 

 grim; seed parent Mrs. G. M. Bradt; 

 pollen parent, Mrs. T. W. Lawson; color 

 dark cherry pink; fiowers large, symmet- 

 rical and high centered, a good keeper; 

 stems long and stiff ; calyx does not burst. 

 Wm. J. Stewart, Secy. 



Hartford, Conn. — George S. Osboru 

 has removed to Edgewood, Bristol, Conn. 



CuNTON, III. — C. W. Moore is moving 

 and rebuilding his greenhouse and will 

 erect two new houses, each 26x150. 



De Soto, Mo. — S. H. Hibbert has re- 

 turned from Los Angeles, Cal., where he 

 has resided for some time, and will com- 

 bine his energies with those of his 

 brother, A. N. Hibbert, in pushing the 

 Hibbert Floral Co. 



Kenosha, Wis. — W. H. Drake has had 

 a very good season, much better than 

 usxial. He is now tearing down one of 

 his old houses, replacing it with a fine 

 house for ferns, the Moninger Co., Chi- 

 cago, furnishing the material. 



