jDLy 21, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



387 



ful general stock for retailing was also 

 noted. 



J. T. Butterworth has a nice, compact 

 plant centrally located in South Fram- 

 ingham. Two houses were still occu- 

 pied with carnations. The Queen 

 showed up as the best summer bloomer. 

 Chrysanthemums were being planted 

 out. Orchids are now Mr. Butter- 

 worth's hobby and he owns the best 

 commercial collection of these in New 

 England. Cattleyas looked particularly 

 well. Some fine specimens of gigas, 

 labiata, trian«e, Percivaliaua and other 

 standard sorts were noted and all had 

 greatly improved since our previous 

 visit. Laelia anceps and L. autumnalis, 

 dendrobiums, Ccelogyne L'ristata and 

 Cypripedium insigne were noted in 

 quantity and all were very promising. 

 Plants are all grown in fern fibre and 

 sphagnum. BuIdous sto<-k is extensively 

 grown here, about half a million being 

 forced annually, but Mr. Butterworth 

 plans to reduce these as his orchids in- 

 crease. 



S. J. Goddard is now comfortably 

 located in his new place in Framing- 

 ham. His newly completed houses, 

 which are 28x135 each, are principally 

 planted with carnations, including 

 considerable batches of Mrs. M. A. Pat- 

 ten, Flamingo, White Lawson, Lady 

 Bountiful and other novelties. All stock 

 looked well. Mr. Goddard has just in- 

 stalled a ninety hor.«e-po\ver boiler, 

 which should keep his houses comfort- 

 able. 



Alexander McKay, at Mrs. A. W. 

 Spencer's, has gone over to the florists' 

 side, handling a promiscuous stock. 

 His divisions of chrysanthemums, 

 which included all the best novelties, 

 looked well. Orchids are also dabbled 

 in a little. He says he is through with 

 exhibiting, as it caused him too much 

 nervous worry. This is to be regretted, 

 as Boston has no better grower of 

 specimen chrysanthemums and blooms. 



J. Tailby & Son have had numerous 

 visitors the past week to see their dis- 

 play of yellow callas. The variety, 

 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt (C. albo-macu- 

 lata X ('. Elliottiana) is of a deep 

 primrose color. The leaves are beauti- 

 fully variegated and the plant a vigor- 

 ous grower for either pot culture or 

 massing in beds. It should be very 

 popular. Messrs. Tailby have some 

 thousands of flowering sized bulbs and 

 rows of seeds seemed to be j;crminat- 

 ing as freely as peas. Although some 

 tempting offers have been madr for 

 the stock, it will ])rooably be iil' 1 un- 

 til it can be marketed at a ]K)pul:u- 

 price. 



Alfred Ackennan, instructor in the 

 Yale school of forestry, will begin his 

 work as state forester of Massachu- 

 setts in August. Mr. Ackerman gradu- 

 ated from the University of Georgia in 

 1898. He studied German forestry 

 methods some time and graduated from 

 Yale forestry school in 1902. He pre- 

 pared plans for the celebrated Austin 

 Corbin park of 25,000 acres in southern 

 New Hampshire. 



Colonel Joseph H. Woodford, for 

 many years chairman of the commit- 

 tee of arrangements at Horticultural 

 Hall, is critically ill. 



Mrs. E. M. Gill, the well known flor- 

 ist of Medford, reports the gypsy moth 

 pest as being terrible there. Hardy 

 roses and perennials are being eaten 

 up and even greenhouse stock is not ex- 



t^'xpt. W. N. (RAKi. 



BUFFALO. 



Variotis Notes. 



As was expected, business has dropped 

 to a low ebb since the first of the month. 

 Our wealthy citizens follow the fashion 

 of larger cities and seek the mountain 

 and seashores, or make a trip across the 

 herring pond, but they need not leave 

 home in search of a better cUmate, for 

 nothing can be finer than the breezes off 

 Lake Erie. No excessive heat, no mos- 

 quitoes, little politics and ideal weather, 

 a great contrast to last summer. 



Buffalo lost a noble citizen last week 

 in the death of Kobert B. Adam, hs.-ti 

 of the old dry goods firm of Adam, 

 Meldrum & Anderson. As chairman of 

 the great work, the grade crossing com- 

 mission, he has left an enduring monu- 

 ment, insisting that the commission 

 should serve without a cent of re- 

 muneration, and not a breath of cor- 

 ruption or even favoritism has ever boen 

 uttered in connection with their wor!: 

 involving millions. But this is only 

 one of his many good works and to give 

 them all here would be out of place. Oli, 

 that our great cities could have such 

 men for mayor, or better still for alder- 

 men. When it is considered an honor 

 to represent your ward in a great city, 

 then our leading, iudtpsndent, good citi- 

 zens will be willing to serve and we 

 shall be approaching a bu8iness-lik% 

 pure, municipal government. Now too 

 many of our city fathers are mersly 

 professional politicians, and is it any 

 wonder that graft and boodle are so 

 often lieard of? We prosper and un 

 blessed in spite of this affliction, but our 

 city government will some day be dif- 

 ferent. It will come in time, when 

 nmny of us have ceased worrying about 

 taxes. 



It may interest some of the readers 

 of the Review to know that Mr. Adam 

 was the possessor of many original 

 nuinuscripts of Robert Burns. Hi^ 

 .lohnsoniana was the most valuable in 

 the Morld. His Burnsiana was not as 

 extensive as that of our friend, W^illiani 

 R. Smith, of Washington, which is the 

 third largest in the world and most com- 

 plete, but h'3 s|)ent thousands in auto- 

 graph letters and original manuscripts of 

 Burns' poems. Among many others in 

 his collection is the original manuscript 

 of "Tam O'Shanter" and "A Man's 

 a ,Man for a' That." 



There was a very elaborate and beau- 

 tiful (lis])lay of flowers at the funeral 

 and the niany designs were arranged at 

 the altar of the church by some lady 

 friends far more artistically than anv 

 jirofessional florist could do it. W. .1. 

 Palmer had several large and costly de- 

 signs. A pall of lavender and wliit" 

 sweet })eas was very beautiful and an 

 immense wreath on a stand. Andei-son 

 sent a five-foot wreath which I thought 

 was rich. Half of it was American 

 Beauty roses and "the other half lilv 

 of the valley. Designs came from Bos- 

 ton and New York. Altogether it was 

 a beautiful sight and, altliougli there is 

 a tendency to overdo the flower business 

 at funerals, they were so tastefully ar- 

 ranged that it gave one the impression 

 that it was pi-oper and fitting for the 

 occasion and would have jdeased this 

 great, good man could h;> have seen it. 



William F. Xasting was a delegate to 

 the St. Jjouis convention from his con- 

 gressional district and shouted so long 

 and loud when tho name of Parker was 



mentioned that we don't exi)ect his 

 voice to be fully restored much before 

 he meets John Westcott at St. Louis 

 again. He expects to shout a littlo 

 louder on the night of the first Tuesday 

 in November, and it would not surprise 

 us a little bit if he has good occasion 

 to. 



While we hear from some quarters ofi 

 a scarcity of rain, we have frequent 

 showers, rather too frequent for keeping 

 the weeds down. It has been a most 

 favorable time for carnations and they 

 never looked better. Planting has be- 

 gun. At Corfu a big house was planted 

 July 8 and they never looked over their 

 shoulder. This is not cultural notes, so 

 I can dip a minute into carnations. 

 What a change in time of planting! The 

 end of September was considered right 

 twenty-five years ago. Then gradually 

 it worked up to the end of August. 

 Then early in August, and now the best, 

 most uniform and splendid lot of carna- 

 tions I saw anywhere last year was at 

 Trenton Falls, N. Y., and they were 

 lifted from the field early in July. Jt 

 was about December 15 that I saw these 

 houses and you know that if your plants 

 are loaded Avith splendid flowers at 

 that date, you are decidedly in it. 



There are many points of aavantage 

 with those who plant in May or June 

 from 3-inch or 3% -inch pots, as so ably 

 explained by that modest phenomena, 

 Peter Fisher, and now practiced by 

 many, yet it seems that if you can get 

 them out in the field early in May and 

 give them two months outside they do 

 letter in the field during those two 

 months than they will in the hothouses, 

 and by early July the roots have spread 

 hut little. Not a fibre is lost, and they 

 go right on growing. Plants that 

 were put on the benches about June 10 

 from 3M;-inch pots don't look near as 

 healthy and vigorous as those lifted 

 from the field a week ago. 



We don 't hear much St. Louis talk 

 locally, but 1 think we shall have a 

 liovvlirg team. It is pleasant to hear 

 that Mr. Tesson will have charge of the 

 shooting. That assures us a good time. 

 The writer has fired off twenty-five shells 

 today at crow blackbirds that are de- 

 vouring our cherries. We bagged twen- 

 ty-seven birds in twenty-five shots, most- 

 Iv sitting. I mean the birds were sit- 

 ting, not f. 



I wish a shotgun with dust shot would 

 destroy tho aster beetle. This pest has 

 again made its appearance in <piantity. 

 The crown of the plant wilts and dies. 

 Tho little beetle is very visible, but 

 knows enough to <lescend to the ground 

 directly you handle the plant, and the 

 slight damage <lone to the stem will 

 hardly account for the sudden wilting 

 and drying up of the leaves. We have 

 tried Paris green and hellebore, but not 

 with much success. Please give us a 

 remedv that will exterminate this lively 

 little 'wretch. "W. S. 



LODA, Ii,L.— The I. C. R. R. Co. will 

 ])uild a greenhouse here for raising 

 |)lants for use on station grounds. 



Gloversviu>e, N. Y. — G. W. Pool is 

 jtdding another greenhouse, 20x85, and 

 is also building a boiler house and of- 

 fice. He recently installed a No. 5 

 Kroeschell boiler and has a most up-to- 

 date establishment. Thi^ season he will 

 have two h*\iges of carnations, one ot 

 rosos and one of palms and ferns. 



