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The Weekly Florists' Review# 



OCTOBBB 6, 1904. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Conditions have shown a wonderful 

 improvement during the past week, ev- 

 erything clearing out in a satisfactory 

 manner. A few outdoor flowers from 

 sheltered localities continue to dribble 

 in, but they cut no figure in the mar- 

 ket. Boses have hardened in prices. 

 On Beauties prices have not varied 

 much, $4 to $25 being still the outside 

 limits, but Brides and Bridesmaids are 

 doing better. While ordinary stock 

 brings $2 to $3, select flowers have sold 

 as high as $8 to $10. Carnations are 

 none too numerous and clear out at ad- 

 vanced prices, the best bringing $3 to 

 $4. Violets are becoming more plenti- 

 ful. They sell at an average of 50 cents 

 per 100, the only variety seen being 

 Princess of Wales. Lily of the valley 

 remains about the same. Chrysanthe- 

 mums are a little more plentiful. One 

 grower had some blooms of Ivory on 

 October 1, very early for that variety. 

 Bergmann and Ktzwygram are the lead- 

 ing white. Some of M. B. Girard, crim- 

 son, are also seen. Asparagus plumo- 

 sus holds steady at $50 per 100 strings 

 and 50 cents per bunch. Asparagus 

 Spr9ngeri is 25 cents a bunch. 



Vajioos Notes. 



Wm. Sim is sending in 5,000 fine 

 Princess of Wales violets daily to the 

 Park street market and Waban Con- 

 servatories are sending some splendid 

 roses. 



John Jansky, the Columbus avenue 

 wire design manufacturer, has taken 

 quarters in the basement of the new 

 flower market. Other spaces will be let 

 shortly. The directors of the market 

 report business as very good. One of 

 the new directors, Charles Cummings, 

 having declined to serve, Norris F. 

 Comley was re-elected. 



N. F. McCarthy & Co.'s auction sales 

 are now drawing large attendances of 

 buyers. The late frost was needed to 

 interest people in bulbs, trees and 

 shrubs. 



The freeze of September 22 was so 

 severe in parts of New Hampshire that 

 plants were frozen in greenhouses with 

 ventilators tightly closed. Of course, 

 we have enjoyed balmy weather since 

 outdoor stock was cut down. 



At a meeting of the board of direc- 

 tors of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society on October 1 several new mem- 

 bers were elected. An appropriation 

 was made for the committee of arrange- 

 ments to be used in connection with the 

 visit of the C. 3. A. next month. A sub- 

 committee presented a list of suggest- 

 ed appropriations for prizes for 1905. 

 An appropriation was made for the pur- 

 pose of improving the acoustic proper- 

 ties of the lecture hall. 



Charles Sander has had a fine display 

 of nerines in many varieties and Bella* 

 donna lilies in bloom at Prof. C. S. Sar- 

 gent 's estate in Brookline lately. Mr. 

 Sander handles these beautiful fall 

 bulbs to perfection. 



Very fine dispjays of plants were 

 made at the Taunton Fair by W. J. 

 Clerason, J. O. Kristenson, gardener, 

 Willard & Williams and Geo. H. Walk- 

 er, who won prizes for the best display 

 in order named. Each of the two first 

 named exhibitors filled over fifty feet 

 run of staging five feet wide. The dis- 



play of vegetables at this fair far out- 

 classed that seen in Boston a week pre- 

 vious, being the best seen in Massachu- 

 setts. 



Violets, chrysanthemums, roses and 

 carnations help to make the stores very 

 attractive now. Plant trade is begin- 

 ning to pick up. 



The seedsmen report a nice demand 

 for bulbs since the September freeze. 

 Quite a number of the flower stores 

 dabble in bulbs to some extent also, to 

 say nothing of the big department 

 stores. 



John K. M. L. Farquhar writes that his 

 blooms of Lilium Philippinense carried 

 in fine condition to Europe and have 

 been favorably commented on in the 

 English horticultural papers. 



John Barr, of South Natick, grows 

 some 15,000 carnations. He is disap- 

 pointed with practically all last sea- 

 son's introductions. Fair Maid he 

 thinks highly of, but The Queen is his 

 champion variety and his opinion that 

 it is the best white in sight • today is 

 shared by many other growers. Mr. 

 Barr is a first-rate grower of carna- 

 tions. He has a batch of 500 fine cycla- 

 men coming along, in the culture of 

 which he is a past master. 



H. K Doyle had a pretty church 

 decoration at St. Lawrence's, Brook- 

 line, on Sepetmber 28, for the wedding 

 of Miss M. J. Mahoney. The color 

 scheme was green and white, roses and 

 carnations being used in profusion. At 

 the bride's home Beauty roses were 

 used in the dining hall, Brides in the 

 library and Bridesmaids in the other 

 rooms. 



Thomas Galvin had a fine lot of Mor- 

 gan roses in the windows of his Tre- 

 mont street store the past week. Cat- 

 tleya labiata and Oncidium varicosum 

 Eogersii were also a feature. 



These are the days when the fakirs 

 are hard up for stock. The mum season 

 will soon put them in cloverland, how- 

 ever. 



The floral tokens at the funeral of 

 Massachusetts' venerable and beloved 

 senator, George F. Hoar, at Worcester, 

 on October 3 were more numerous and 

 costly than at any other funeral in this 

 jtate for years and attested the high 

 esteem in which Mr. Hoar was held by 

 ill parties 



J. Leach & Son have a neat and com- 

 pact plant at North Easton. Some 8,000 

 carnations are grown. These include 

 two seedlings which are grown in quan- 

 tity and produce very freely. One is 

 light and the other dark pink. Other 

 sorts grown are Maceo, Queen, Lawson, 

 Fair Maid, Eldorado and Edith Foster. 

 A bench is also given to Mrs. Fisher, 

 which is still found much the best out- 

 door summer bloomer. A good many 

 Princess of Wales violets are grown. 

 These are just being housed and are 

 very fine. Chrysanthemums are most- 

 ly early varieties, their places being 

 taken by violets later. Messrs. Leach 

 have a stall in the new wholesale mar- 

 ket. 



Peter Fisher has a grand new white 

 seedling carnation which will outclass 

 Governor Wolcott in every respect. It 

 has size, fragrance, a strong stem and 

 calyx, is very double and beautifully 

 fringed. This is the best of its color 

 yet raised by Mr. Fisher and all who 

 have seen it pronounce it a winner. 



Local nurseries are very busy ship- 

 ping perennial plants and report a very 



good trade in deciduous trees and 

 shrubs for fall planting. 



J. F. Butterworth, of South Framing- 

 ham, is cutting some fine Cattleya labi- 

 ata, Oncidium varicosum Bogersii and 

 other seasonable orchids. He will have 

 a fine cut of Cattleya Trianse and Cyp- 

 ripedium insigne a little later. 



The garden committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society were in- 

 vited to visit the dahlia gardens of E. 

 W. Ela, but the visit had to be can- 

 celled last week, as all Mr. Ela's plants 

 were frozen. A visit will be made at 

 the end of October to the estate of 

 Commodore M. F. Plant, Groton, Conn., 

 in charge of T. W. Head, to inspect 

 houses of carnations, roses and chrys- 

 anthemums. W. N. Craig. 



ALVIN, TEXAS. 



The florist business at this end of the 

 world is in the hands of the growers and 

 cape jasmine and violets are about all 

 that they are holding up at present. But 

 we believe that the prospect is bright 

 for further development, and we see no 

 reason why roses and chrysanthemums 

 cannot be grown quite as profitably as 

 those already tried. In fact we believe 

 it so strongly that we expect to give 

 them a fair trial during the coming year. 



The sunmier has been unusually rainy 

 atnd jasminetf that have reoeived the 

 proper care in the way of cultivation 

 have put on a splendid growth and 

 give the optimistic grower beautiful vis- 

 ions of a fine crop next May. 



The acreage in violets shows a marked 

 increase over last year and the plants 

 generally look healthy and vigorous. 

 They are grown here in open fields and 

 the season begins with Thanksgiving and 

 lasts until March, with only moderate 

 danger from frosts. Last year the sea- 

 son was uninterrupted by cold the 

 whole winter through. The Russian violet 

 is the only variety that has been grown 

 for market here, and to tell the truth, 

 the violet business at this point is still 

 in its infancy. What its future may 

 be. who can tellf C. & C. 



THE BANNER BLUE LIMITED. 



The first trains ever built up to a 

 Pullman standard for daylight service 

 in this country have been placed in 

 operation on the Wabash line between 

 St. Louis and Chicago, leaving St. Louis 

 at 11:00 a. m. and Chicago at 11:03 a. 

 m. daily, making the run in seven hours, 

 even time. They are known as the ' * Ban- 

 ner Blue Limited," and are the most 

 costly day trains ever constructed. Each 

 train will consist of four cars, a com- 

 bination baggage car and smoker, a com- 

 bination coach and chair car, a combina- 

 tion diner and buffet, and a combination 

 parlor and observation car. 



In the advertisement of the W. T. 

 Buckley Co., last week. Asparagus 

 plumosus nanus, 2^-inch, was quoted 

 at $20 per 100; $190 per 1000. They 

 will gladly fill orders at just one-tenth 

 those prices. 



New London, Conn. — The first an- 

 nual flower show of the New London- 

 Groton Horticultural Society will be held 

 here November 21. Exhibits may be 

 sent to Louis H. Geiger, of Pratt & 

 Geiger, who is secretary of the show 

 committee. 



