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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



AOQIST 25, 1004. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Grand Army week did not .stimulate the 

 market to any extent, tiade being quite 

 dull for several days, but it braced up otf 

 August 20. Koses remain at about the 

 same prices as previously quoted. Beau- 

 ties are more numerous, Worcester Con- 

 servatories sending in the largest supply. 

 A few carnations, indoor-grown, of the- 

 new crop are appealing and sell up to 

 $2.50 per 100. Outdoor-grown stock con- 

 tinues rather scarce. Asters, particularly 

 white ones, clean out well; quality of 

 these is not up to the mark. The only 

 sweet peas of any .value are Blanche 

 Ferry. Gladioli continue to come of 

 good quality. Some very nice ones are 

 included. The price of asparagus and 

 adiantum remains about the same. 



The Exhibitions. 



The lecture hall was again filled with 

 exhibits August 13. For display of an- 

 nuals in not less than fifty varieties, 

 filling not less than 150 vases, William 

 Thatcher, gardener to Mrs. J. L. Gard- 

 ner, was the only exhibitor, putting up 

 a good display. Robert Cameron, from 

 the Harvard Botanic Gardens, showed 

 an extensive l<ot of annuals in over 160 

 varieties and species. Mrs. L. Towle 

 had a fine collection of dahlias and an- 

 nuals, as had Mrs. E. 'SI Gill. W. Whit- 

 man, M. Sullivan, gardener, showed 

 gladioli, asters, native ferns in twenty- 

 five varieties, roses and some fine new 

 delphiniums, which received honorable 

 mention. Bay State Nurseries had a 

 fine table of perennial phloxes. F. L. 

 Ames estate, W. N. (>aig, gardener, 

 received a silver medal for a display of 

 cut orchids, consisting of miltonias, 

 cypripediums, Laelia elegans, cattleyas, 

 odontoglossums, etc. Blue Hill Nurser- 

 ies put up a magnificent collection of 

 hardy herbaceous flowers in 100 varie- 

 ties, which were finely staged and at- 

 tracted much attention. They were 

 awarded a first-class certificate of merit. 

 Henry Wild, gardener to Mrs. A. W. 

 Blake, exhibited a superb specimen of 

 Eucharis Amazonica grown in a tub, 

 carrying thirty-one spikes of flowers. It 

 was awarded a silver medal for superior 

 culture. Fruits were again well shown, 

 including indoor grapes, peaches and 

 nectarines. W. C. Winter won in the 

 grape class with fine Black Hamburg, 

 William McAllister being second with 

 Muscat of Alexandria. Vegetables were 

 very good. Fungi made a great display, 

 the small exhibition hall being devoted 

 to them. 



The show on August 20 was smaller 

 than usual, owing to the heavy rain, 

 which spoiled many outside flowers. For 

 display of not less than thirty vases of 

 liardy phloxes, T. C. Thurlow won with 

 n thoroughly representative collection. 

 The only other competitor was Anthony 

 McLaren. The date was too late for 

 phloxes, as also for pentstemons, which 

 are practically over, and were not shown 

 al all. In the way of miscellaneous ex- 

 hibits, R. & J. Farquhar & Co. gVowed 

 asters in 100 distinct varieties or colors. 

 Messrs. Farquhar also showed a large 

 teble of fine spikes of Lilium auratum. 



J. H. White, James Wheeler, gardener, 

 received a certificate of merit for Phlox 

 Tapis Blanc (white carpet) a fine varie- 

 ty growing only nine inches in beipht. 

 Mrs. E. M. Gill had a display of dahlias. 

 Lager & Hurrell sent a nice collection of 



cut orchids, including Cattleya gigas, C. 

 L)owJana and C. Eldorado, Anguloa Clo- 

 v.c&ii, Oncidium Rogersii and O. crispum 

 and spikes of their excellent strain of 

 liaelia elegans carrying up to a dozen 

 Hovers each. Those received honorable 

 mention. F. L. Aries estate, W. N. 

 Craig, gardener, had a table of gloxinias, 

 including such varieties as Reading Scar- 

 let, Her Majesty, Duchess of York and 

 others. Fruits and vegetables were well 

 shown and over 100 vaiieties of mush- 

 rooms were shown by the Boston Myco- 

 logical Club. The closing weekly show 

 of the season occurs on August 27. As- 

 ters and herbaceous plants are on the 

 schedule. 



The Independent Market. 



* The directors of the new Boston Co- 

 operative Flower Market have secured 

 premises under Music Hall sufficiently 

 large to accommodate 170 growers and 

 will be ready for the sale of stalls Au- 

 gust 31. Believing that the general buy- 

 ing public has not been satisfied with the 

 old location, the directors have chosen 

 one of the most central locations in Bos- 

 ton, where they hope to have the cordial 

 co-operation of all the buyers and grow- 

 ers. An equal amount of additional 

 space is at disposal whenever needed. 

 Chas. E. Dickerman is president and the 

 other members of the board of directors 

 are E. Wood, Norris Comley, Donald Car- 

 michael, John McFarland, Elijah Cart- 

 right, George Ayer and Wilfrid Wheeler. 



Greenhouse Building. 



Lord & Burnham Co. have recently 

 completed or are engaged on the follow- 

 ing contracts in New England: Mrs. W. 

 L. Mitchell, Brookline, Mass., conserva- 

 tory; J. E. Rothwell, Brookline, orchid 

 house ; W. S. Spaulding, Prides Cross- 

 ing, palm house and two ranges of 

 greenhouses; E. 8. Draper, Hopedale, 

 palm house; Hollis Hunnewell, Welles- 

 ley, conservatory; E. P. Bliss, Lexing- 

 ton, conservatory; C. E. Mackintosh, 

 Holyoke, conservatory; J. F. Flanagan, 

 Newton, three greenhouses and pit; C. 

 W. Loomis, Northampton, one house; C. 



A. Backer, Billerica, two greenhouses, 

 propagating house and work room; J. B. 

 HerreshofF, Bristol, R. I., one house; 

 Mrs. H. Conant, Pawtucket, three green- 

 houses; A. E. Austin, Pawtucket, two 

 greenhouses and work room; estate of 



B. B. Knight, Providence, one house; 

 Mount Dessrt Nurseries, Bar Harbor, 

 Me., one house; J. G. McCulIough, North 

 Bennington, Vt., grapery; F. S. Mack- 

 enzie, Woodstock, Vt., greenhouse; 

 Alex. Emslie, Montpelier, Vt., rose 

 house, one plant house and rearranging 

 heating plant; Pine Grove Cemetery, 

 Manchester, N. H., gneenhouse; New 

 Hampshire College, Durham, N. H., 

 palm house and four greenhouses; John 

 Saxe, Waterbury, Conn., %ne house ; Miss 

 E. V. Cockroft, Saugatuck, Conn., three 

 houses; Miss C. A. Bliss, New Canaan, 

 Conn., rose house; Stanley B. Fellow, 

 Westport, Conn., one house; Miss F. M. 

 Smith, New Hartford, Conn., conserva- 

 tory; Commodore M. F. Plant, Groton, 

 Conn., palm house and two wings; John 

 Moore, Norwich. Conn., two houses. 



The North Shore. 



A visit to what is commonly called 

 the North Shore, which comprises Prides 

 Crossing, Beverly Farms, West Manches- 

 ter, Manchester and other towns, reveals 

 a wonderful horticultural growth during 

 the past five years. A call at a number 

 of the more important places showed 



that greenhouse building is steadily in- 

 creasing, so»e>f^the estates having fine 

 ranges of j^assV. :;^ 



At Mrs. K. C. Hooper's everything is 

 remarkably well kept. The houses here 

 are quite new and stocked to repletion 

 with well grown plants. In the orchid 

 house cattleyas were bristling with 

 sheathes. A batch of Oncidium vari- 

 cosum Rogersii carried spikes with 150 

 to 200 flowers and buds each. In the 

 carnation house Lawson is grown inside 

 altogether and succeeds best treated 

 thus. Lady Bountiful, The Belle, En- 

 chantress, White Lawson and The 

 Queen are also grown. Enchantress "be- 

 ing the great favorite. In two divisions 

 devoted to roses, American Beauty, is 

 chiefly grown and looked well. A ho)cise 

 of tuberous begonias and single zoriale 

 geraniums was very attractive. Some 

 of the best of the latter were Ian Mc- 

 Laren, Jacquerie, Rudyard Kipling, Gen. 

 Sam Sloan, J. M. Barrie, Chaucer, Rich- 

 mond Beauty, Gertrude Pearson and 

 Snowdrop.^ A house of chrysanthemums 

 looked first-class, as did one of English 

 melons. Favorite sorts are Sutton's Al, 

 Eureka and Windsor Castle. Divisions 

 of grapes and nectarines were very good. 

 Outdoors everything was well kept and 

 William Swan, the head gardener, is evi- 

 dently thoroughly up-to-date in every 

 way. 



At H. L. Higginson's the veteran 

 Joseph Clark always has some interest- 

 ing plants to show. A walk through his 

 alpine garden is full of interest. Here, 

 under conditions which evidently suit 

 them, liliums are to be seen at theit 

 best. L. Henryi carried spikes eight 

 feet high with thirty to forty flowers 

 on each. L. auratum, Hansoni. Bat- 

 manniae and others were equally good. 

 In a greenhouse we noted fine specimens 

 opening flower of Lagerstroemia indicn 

 and the variety alba. Hedychium Gard- 

 nerianum was also flowering freely. 



James Salter has charge of the green- 

 houses of Philip Dexter. These are 

 mostly lean-to. Several divisions ar© 

 devoted to grapes, one to nectarines, two 

 to melons, hybrids of Mr. "Salter 's rais- 

 ing being grown, and others to carna- 

 tions and chrysanthemums. 

 . At W. B. Thomas ' are two nice ranges 

 of houses. Chie is devoted to grapes, 

 nectarines, melons and cucumbers and 

 the other to roses, carnations, chrys- 

 anthemums, violets and antirrhinums. 

 Quite a few orchids were also grown. 

 M, F. Connolly has charge here and 

 grows a /fine lot of stuff, both outside 

 and in. \, 



Probabfy the most expensivelv^* built 

 houses are those of W. S. Spaulding, at 

 Prides Crossing. It cost a fortune to 

 blast out the solid rock where the houses 

 now stand. These are very substantially 

 built. They consist of a commodious 

 palm house forty feet high, nicely 

 stocked with plants, including some 

 large specimens of Nephrolepis Scott ii; 

 a rose house 117 feet long, chiefly 

 planted with Beauties, a carnation 

 house just being planted with all the 

 newest and best sorts, chrysanthemum, 

 propagating and orchid houses. Of the 

 latter we noted that Edward Kirby. the 

 head gardener, had some fine cattleyas. 

 cypripediums, dendrobiums and oncidi- 

 ums. 



The finest pentstemons we have seen 

 for years were at Miss A. G. Thayer's, 

 where Mr. McGregor presides. Phloxes 

 here, as elsewhere, were also very fine. 

 Mr. McGregor propagates his pentstem- 

 ons from cuttings in the fall, preferring 



