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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Jolt 28, 1904. 



BOSTON, 



The Market. 



Market conditions show no material 

 change. Roses, if of good quality, bring 

 fair prices. Kaiserins are scarce and 

 bring $6 to $8 for the best. Beauties 

 soil up to $15. Brides and Bridesmaids 

 in some eases bring $4, but many go for 

 a quarter that figure. Carnations are 

 shortening up, but the supply seems 

 equal to the demand. Prices vary from 

 25 cents to $1 per 100, few bringing the 

 higher prices. Blooms are getting very 

 small, owing to the late hot wave. A 

 few outdoor blooms are appearing, in- 

 cluding that old familiar variety, Mrs. 

 Fisher. 



Sweet peas have continued to sell 

 fairly well but stems are getting short, 

 owing to drouth. There has been a 

 scarcity of good lavender and white 

 varieties, prices ranging from 10 to 20 

 cents per 100. A good supply of out- 

 door asters are now appearing and sell 

 from 25 cents to $1 per 100. Outdoor 

 gladioli are becoming plentiful and are 

 of fine quality, and average in price $4 

 per 100. Candytuft, coreopsis, tube- 

 roses, gypsophila and nympha;as are the 

 .principiil other flowers noted. 



Weekly Exhibition. 



Owing to rainy weather the show at 

 Horticultural Hall on July 23 was less 

 extensive than usual. Two very fine 

 tanks of aquatics were shown by Robert 

 Cameron, from Harvard Botanic Gar- 

 dens, his nymphaeas being extra good. 

 Wm. Thatcher, gardener to Mrs. J. L. 

 Gardner, also filled a tank. Achimenes 

 were on the schedule, but only brought 

 out one entry, from Wm. Thatcher, which 

 received second prize. Wm. Whitman, 

 M. Sullivan, gardener, showed thirty 

 named varieties of phlox, comprising the 

 best sorts. Mrs. E. M. Gill contributed 

 a general display. J. W. Manning had 

 specimens of the cut-leaved sumach, Ed- 

 ward Kirk, Bar Harbor, Me., showed a 

 vase of bright scarlet carnations per- 

 fectly hardy. The flowers had a de- 

 lightful odor. They received honorable 

 mention. If we can secure a hardy race 

 of these corresponding to the English 

 border class they will prove great acqui- 

 sitions. 



W. A. Manda showed plants of Cat- 

 tleya Harrisonae and Lselia elegans. Two 

 forms of the latter, Mrs. Geo. Schlegel 

 and No. 200, received honorable men- 

 tion. Miss Isabella Shattuck received 

 first for collection of native ferns, show- 

 ing forty-four varieties, Mrs. Arthur 

 Clark and C. C. Kingman follo%ving. The 

 Boston Mycological Club had a display 

 of fungi. As usual there were good dis- 

 plays of seasonable fniits and vege- 

 tables. 



Various Notes. 



Colonel J. H. Woodford, whose criti- 

 cal illness was recorded in the last issue 

 of the Review, died on July 16 at Wen- 

 ham, and was interred at Newton on 

 July 19. For many years Mr. Wood- 

 ford's figure was a familiar one at Hor- 

 ticultural Ilall. He retired from active 

 service at the end of last year. His 

 death is mourned by a large circle of 

 friends. 



Arthur Kidder, of Kidder Bros., is en- 

 joying his vacation. Dun>'an Rol)iiison 

 is acting as salesman in liis stead in tlio 

 market. 



H. W. Field and G. H. Sinclair, lead- 

 ing florists of Northampton, Ma.«*;., were 

 recent callers at the market, after visit- 



ing the leading florist establishments in 

 the vicinity of Boston. A. N. Pierson, 

 of Cromwell, Conn., also gave us a call 

 last week. 



There is a great scarcity of Kaiserin 

 roses in our market this season. We hope 

 some one will take note and fill the de- 

 ficiency next year. 



Geo. E. Buxton', the carnation king of 

 the granite state, is remodeling his 

 heating plant at Nashua, N. H., &king 

 out three small boilers and replacing by 

 one powerful one. 



A fine specimen of Miltonia vexillaria 

 carrying twenty-five spikes was noted in 

 Doyle 's window the past week. It was 

 grown by Peter Cairns, of Waltham. 



Extensive repairs are being made 'to 

 the greenhouses at Harvard Botanic 

 Gardens. Mr. Cameron has a fine show 

 of aquatics there at present. 



Thomas Roland, of Nahant, the Lor- 

 raine wizard, reports a first-class demand 

 for that popular begonia, all plants he 

 can raise being shipped as soon as 

 ready. 



A generous rainfall on July 23 was 

 very welcome to florists here. All crops 

 were suffering severely from drouth. 



The stores present a holiday aspect at 

 present. Window decorations consist 

 largely of gladioli, tuberoses, coreopsis, 

 sweet peas, asters and water lilies. Roses 

 and carnations are now kept in the back- 

 ground. 



At a meeting of the board of directors 

 of tlie Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety on July 23, appropriations were 

 voted for library improvements. A con- 

 tribution of $20 was made to the Vil- 

 morin memorial fund. It was voted to 

 hold a demonstration in the park sys- 

 tem, during the early winter, of methods 

 of treatment for the San Jose scale and 

 brown-tail moth. Ten new members 

 were elected. 



The committee of arrangements of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society met 

 on July 23 and talked over prospective 

 prizes for the coming meetings of the 

 rose and chrysanthemum societies. A list 

 of special prizes for the chrysanthemum 

 show, as well as the society's regular 

 prizes, will be printed very shortly. A 

 new class calling for fifty blooms, one 

 or more varieties, to be arranged in the 

 society's large china vases, with prizes 

 of $60, $50, $40, $30 and $20, was ap- 

 proved of. 



There will be a numljer of additions 

 to the society's schedule for the spring 

 show of 1905, when the rose society 

 meets in Boston. One class calling for 

 group of Rambler and other roses for 

 landscape or decorative effect, with 

 prizes of $50, $35 and $25, will bring 

 an excellent show. 



The brown-tail moth continues to 

 spread surprisingly. Moth rash reme« 

 dies are now largely advertised in our 

 daily ])apers. Large numbers of people 

 are suffering from poisoning, caused by 

 the fine hairs touching Ihe skin. 



W. N. Craig. 



Boston to St. Louis. 



New England parties Intending to go 

 to the S. A. F. convention are requested 

 to communicate at once with W. .1. 

 Stewart, 11 Hamilton place, Boston. If 

 enough excursionists are assured to start 

 on Sunday, August 14, a special slcet>- 

 ing car will be secured. 



W. J. Stewart. 



We have mail at this office for S. 

 Jerome Finch, which will be forwarded 

 upon receipts of his address. 



CINONNATL 



The Market. 



Business has been quite good the past 

 week; stock moved out in fine style and 

 at good paying prices. Notwithstand- 

 ing the hot weather, the Elks' reunion 

 brought many a dollar into our florists' 

 pockets and helped to hold up prices, 

 as the demand was almost entirely due 

 to their being in this eity. 



Beauties were first on the list in de- 

 mand and brought fine prices. Asters, 

 too, were in fair supply and sold out 

 quickly. Some extra fine gladioli were 

 in demand for windo^v display. Sweet 

 peas moved fairly well but at a price 

 so low as scarcely to pay for picking. 

 Brides and Maids are few and far be- 

 tween and those that do come in are 

 very poor. Some gooa Golden Gates and 

 Kaiserin are to be had in limited quan- 

 tities. Carnations are very poor, few 

 of them being fit to use. There is a 

 large supply of all kinds of green gooils 

 and a fair demand. 



Various Notes. 



The Elks' reunion brought forth a 

 good sprinkling of florists who all re- 

 port having had a rousing good time. 

 Among those in the city were: _W. C. 

 Cook, Kalamazoo, Mich.; W. C. Hune, 

 Memphis, Tenn. ; L. Ullrich, Tiffin, O. ; 

 P. J. Hauswirth and wife, Chicago, 111.; 

 J. T. Herdigen, Aurora, Ind. ; Walter 

 Butler, Chillicothe, O. ; Jas. Hartshorne, 

 Joliet, 111.; Theo. Bock, Hamilton, O. ; 

 Ed Helfrich, Washington Courthouse, 

 O. ; Chas. Dudley, Parkersburg, W. Va.; 

 C. P. Dieterich, Maysville, Ky. ; Chas. 

 Weltz, Wilmington, 6. 



The annual outing of the Florists' 

 Society was held July 21 and a better 

 day could not have been liad. There was 

 a fine cool breeze and Ihe heat was not 

 nearly so oppressing as it had been for 

 the last week. Some 300 or more flor- 

 ists and their friends made the trip up 

 the river and all report having had a 

 fine time. The ball game was quite ex- 

 citing wliile it lasted but the great and 

 sensational playing of the florists who 

 took part is not visible in tlie score. The 

 teams were called the Carnations, of 

 whom Frank Deller was captain, and tlie 

 Roses, of whom Chas. McCrea was cap- 

 tain. The Carnations took the lead 

 early and won out, 18 to 6, five innings 

 being played. The bowling games were 

 well contested. There were four teams 

 in the field, captained by F. Deller, Wm, 

 Schumann, Ben George and Wm. 

 Rodgers. Wm. Rodgers' team was made 

 up of Tom Jackson, .Tas. Allan, Dick 

 Deller and W. Linnermin, and won the 

 prize by a margin of fifteen pins. Miss 

 Kate Pfeiffer won the ladies ' prize for 

 bowling. 



While in this city attending the Elks' 

 reunion Phil Hauswirth journeyed to 

 Newport, Ky., to have a look into the 

 mysteries of beer making at tlie cele- 

 brated Weiderman breweries. He wore 

 a hat with Chicago printed in large let- 

 ters on the band. Finally lie boarded a 

 car for this city and nfter paying his 

 fare he said to the ?onduotor, "Say. 

 mister, will this ear take me home?" 

 Phil admitted that the joke was on him 

 and it will be a long time before he 

 will hear the last of it. 



.Tohn F. Turner, care taker of Wash- 

 ington park, had a very narrow escape 

 from death by being blown up by an 

 inforniil machine found directly in the 

 course of the lawn niow^r he was op- 

 erating. C. J. Ohmer. 



