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August 4, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



467 



Members of the Florists' Club of New Bedford, Mass., on an Outing. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Supplies have been comparatively light 

 •during the past week, and stock has 

 /generally cleared out well. Particularly 

 •was this the case on July 30, when no 

 flowers remained in the market. Eoses 

 are not plentiful. Best Beauties bring 

 -•$2 per dozen. Anderson and Christensen 

 ■are sending in some nice stock of these. 

 Asters are more abundant but have sold 

 well, especially whites, which have been 

 in short supply at 75 cents to $1 per 100. 

 :Sweet peas are becoming poor and spot- 

 ted and will not now cut much figure. 

 Lily of the valley sells well at from $4 

 to $6 per 100. Gladioli are in good sup- 

 ply at $3 to $8 per 100, white shades 

 bringing the higher price. White flowers 

 ■of all sorts have been decidedly scarce 

 ■during the past week. 



Indoor carnations are now wretchedly 

 -small and will soon be a thing of the 

 -past. Some good outdoor-grown flowers 

 are now coming in, however. The best 

 bring $2 per 100. The Queen, white, and 

 :Saxon, scarlet, seem to take the lead. 



Weekly Exhibition. 



Although there was only one competi- 

 tive class for cut flowers at Horticultural 

 Hall on July 30 the lecture hall was com- 

 'j)letely filled with exhibits. For thirty 

 varieties of hardy herbaceous perennials 

 there were four fine collections staged 

 and competition was close. Eventually 

 the prizes went to Carl Blomberg, Walter 

 Hunnewell, T. D. Hatfield, gardener, and 

 Bay State Nurseries, W. H. Wyman, pro- 

 prietor. Eobert Cameron again staged, 

 but not for competition, a very extensive 

 collection of perennials. Blue Hill 

 Nurseries showed a grand collection of 

 herbaceous phlox in fifty varieties, also 

 some fine seedlings. A few of the best 

 sorts noted were Blue Hill, Le Mahdi, 

 Evenement, Coquelicot, General Chanzy, 

 Lununeux, Esperance, La Candeur, Le 

 Cygne, Amphitryon, Cameron and Lord 

 Rayleigh. He also exhibited the apricot 

 -colored Lilium Batmannioe. 



Peter Cairns had a nice collection of 

 hollyhocks. Mrs. L. Towle, a table of 

 fine sweet peas and dahlias, the latter the 

 first of the season. W. Whitman had a 

 large display of perennials and annuals, 

 as had Mrs. E. M. Gill. L. H. Atkins 

 liad a display made interesting from the 



fact that it was from a congested city 

 yard, where conditions were of the worst, 

 cats being classed as about the greatest 

 stumbling block in the way of success. 

 The display included Shirley poppies, 

 hollyhocks and a general assortment of 

 biennials and annuals, a fine illustration 

 of what may be accomplished under ad- 

 verse conditions. 



Vegetables again were finely shown and 

 the fruit exhibits included the first out- 

 door grown apricots, peaches, apples and 

 pears of the season. As usual the Boston 

 Mycological Club had a fine collection of 

 fungi. 



Various Notes. 



J. F. Free, better known as ' ' Joe, ' ' of 

 the Columbus avenue market, waa married 

 on July 26 to Miss Welch, of Charles- 

 town. The boys in the market remem- 

 bered Joe with a purse of gold, and his 

 many friends there and elsewhere wish 

 him much joy. 



William H. Elliott is sending some 

 very fine Kaiserin roses to the market. 

 These sell on sight. 



The white gladioli from W. W. Edgar 

 are bringing top notch prices. 



Alexander Montgomery is sending in 

 first-class valley from the Waban Kose 

 Conservatories and has the market largely 

 to himself at present. 



At the Taunton greenhouse, Willard & 

 Williams continue to make improvements 

 in their plant and report a steadily in- 

 creasing trade. They have 8,000 chrys- 

 anthemums benched and are just prepar- 

 ing to house an equal number of carna- 

 tions. Stock in the field looks first class. 

 We noted a long beneh of Nephrolepis 

 Piersoni in fine condition. Mr. Willard 

 says this is a capital seller. Here, as 

 elsewhere, benched plants show a tenden- 

 cy to revert to the type. 



At W. J. Clemson's estate in Taunton, 

 Oscar Kristenson had his herbaceous 

 perennial borders in fine condition. 

 Sweet peas were here eight feet high and 

 loaded with bloom. In hardy clunbing 

 roses. Lady Qay, Farquhar and Crimson 

 Rambler were the most attractive. In 

 one of the greenhouses single stem chrys- 

 anthemums looked well. 



William C. Winter, of Mansfield, is 

 one of the oldest and most successful 

 florists near Boston. He has been lo- 

 cated in Mansfield for forty years, and 

 has a nice, compact plant of 12,000 feet. 

 A house of grapes 24x103 containing 



Black Hamburg and Muscat of Alezan- 

 dria had been heavily cut from, but what 

 remained were large, finely finished 

 bunches. Mr. Winter, however, states 

 that the demand for even such fine grapes 

 as he raises is very uncertain and prices 

 not at all remunerative. One house 

 which had contained grapes was planted 

 to other stock. Mr. Winter sells most of 

 his fruit in New York. If such fruit as 

 he has this season is hard to sell, the out- * 

 look for commercial fruit growing would 

 seem to be anything but roseate. Cu- 

 cumbers are grown to a considerable ex- 

 tent here. Present prices of 75 cents 

 per bushel, compared with $2.50 a year 

 ago, are not very encouraging. 



Mansfield is becoming a famous cu- 

 cumber center. Half a dozen establish- 

 ments of large size are now located there 

 and one or two new ones are under way. 

 Fruit is shipped to New York and Bos- 

 ton, chiefly to the former city. 



Everywhere one goes indications are 

 to be seen of the increasing popularity of 

 the dahlia in this section. The cactus 

 varieties are the most popular. Wm. C. 

 Winter grows a large stock of all the 

 best varieties and does a heavy spring 

 trade in them. He finds much better 

 profits in these than in other branches of 

 his profession. 



The E. S. Converse estate in Maiden is 

 well known to Boston horticulturists. D. 

 F. Roy has been superintendent here for 

 sixteen years. He is a frequent and suc- 

 cessful exhibitor in New York and Bos- 

 ton and usually has something good to 

 show visitors. Specimen chrysanthemum 

 plants at present look splendid and will 

 be hard to beat at Horticultural Hall 

 next November. Pompons, anemones and 

 singles are given special attention here. 

 Single stems were very vigorous. Stove 

 and greenhouse plants in variety, cycla- 

 mens, roses and other stock looked well. 

 A new house was being built for carna- 

 tions and melons. Several divisions are 

 alloted to fruit, about 150 feet run be- 

 ing given to grapes. 



Mr. Roy has recently been appointed 

 superintendent of Pine Bank park. Mai- 

 den, a picturesque spot of 100 acres, and 

 cares for this in addition to the Converse 

 estate. He at present has a tremendous 

 task before him in fighting the gypsy 

 moth, which is here at present in count- 

 less millions. We noted scores of mag- 

 nificent white pines without a needle. 



