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The Weekly Florists* Review* 



J255 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Prices have been rather on the <iown- 

 "ward grade the past week and little bet- 

 terment is likely until the avalanche ol 

 ehrygantheaiums ceases. American Beau- 

 ties hold previous quotations, but Brides, 

 Bridesmaids and other varieties are 

 weake-T. Best fancy carnations have sold 

 at $4, while ordinary grades have gone 

 a« low as 75 cents to $1, Violets are now 

 doming in very fine quality, those coining 

 to the Park Street Market from WHliam 

 SpUsbury, of Woburn, being splendid. 

 Paper White narcissus is coming in more 

 freely. Some chrysanthemums get as 

 low as $3, but good stock goes higher. 

 Bonnaffon averaiges $6 to $S, Balfour, 

 in pink, brings $16 and first grade yel- 

 lows the same price. There is a very 

 brisk demand for green stock, especial- 

 ly Asparagus Sprengeri and plumosus. 



Vafious Notes. 



Mum has been the word the past week. 

 The attendance of florists and gardeners 

 from all parts of the stale was very 

 large- The establishments of Sim, 

 Fisher, Nicholson, Patten, Waban Con- 

 servatories and other well-known growers 

 were visited by many of the visiting 

 florists. 



The garden committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society visited the 

 greenhouses of H. H- Eogers, Fairhaven, 

 on November 8, James Garthley, the 

 gardener, entered a fine house of pot 

 chrysanthemums for the society's prizes. 

 On November 10 a visit was made to 

 the estate of Joseph H. White, Brook- 

 line, where James Wheeler, the new vice 

 president of the C. S. A., is head garden- 

 er. The visit was very much enjoyed. 



Newconville Greenhouses are shipping 

 a very fine lot of Bon Silene and Safrano 

 to the Park Street Market. 



John Mutch, of Newtonville, who is 

 an expert in orchid culture, has had a 

 grand lot of Cattleya labiata. He has 

 cut to date over 10,000 flowers. 



At a meeting of the board of trustees 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, on November 5, it was voted to 

 recommend the same appropriations for 

 prizes for 1905 as in 1904, with the ex- 

 ception of u substantial increase for the 

 spring show, when the American Rose 

 Society meets in Boston. Several new 

 members were elected. It was unani- 

 mously voted to send a cordial invitation 

 to the American Carnation Society to 

 meet in Boston in 1906. 



A. F. Estabrook, one of the nominees 

 for the presidency of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, has declined to 

 serve if elected. William H. Spooner 

 has been nominated in his stead. The 

 other candidate is W. W. Rawson, of 

 Arlington. The election occurs on No- 

 vember 19. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club will 

 elect oflScers at its next meeting, Novem- 

 ber 15. 



Over 500 people attended the public 

 demonstration at Arlington on November 

 5, given under the auSpces of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society for the 

 purpose of educating those interested in 

 how to fight the brown tail and gypsy 

 moths and San Jose scale. Instructions 

 were given by Prof. A. H. Xirkland and 

 H. L. Frost. The big sprayer of the 

 Boston park system was used. The 

 meeting was attended by many florists 

 and was one of the most interesting and 

 instructive ever held in the vicinity of 

 Boston. W. N. Craig. 



CHICAGa 



TbeMaiket 



The flood of mums has not abated dur- 

 ing the past week and the receipts of 

 fancy stock have been rather more than 

 tlie market coul3 assimilate at quoted 

 rates. As a matter of fact, the good 

 small stock has made better comparative 

 values than the big blooms. The Beauty 

 crop is up to all requirements and qual- 

 ity good. All grades of teas are plentiful, 

 from very poor to very good, the propor- 

 tion of the latter on the increase in spite 

 of unseasonable warm weather last week. 

 Maids are a little off color. Liberty 

 is good and selling well. Carnations, like 

 everything else, are coming in heavily and 

 the quality shows little effect of the 

 bright sun, although Lawson is seen in all 

 shades of color, also Enchantress. Vio- 

 lets have not been largely in evidence 

 the last few days, the growers evidently 

 holding back for a Thanksgiving supply. 

 Some good Hudson river stock comes 

 in every day, but Tuesday, there being 

 usually no receipts on that day. Valley 

 goes slow, also greens. 



JTrade has been quite good, else the 

 huge receipts would have piled up moun- 

 tain high. A change to cool weather 

 and the near approach of Thanksgiving, 

 coupled with the flower shows, should 

 help to stiffen the market next week. 

 A good Thanksgiving is in prospect. 



Varioos Notes. 



Next week tlie flower show will be on 

 at the Fine Arts building. Everything 

 promises a good exhibition. The daily 

 papers are giving considerable space to 

 the fact that a flower will be given each 

 visitor. A supper is on the program for 

 one evening, many trade visitors being 

 expected. John Degnan has charge. 



This week nearly every wholesale house, 

 and many of the greenhouses, are contrib- 

 uting one or more to swell the crowd at 

 St. Louis. Reports are that it is a 

 great show. 



Fred Weber has his new establishment 

 in splendid shape. He has two houses 

 27x300 in Beauties. It is worth any 

 Beauty grower's time to go and see 

 them, not that by mere looking can the 

 secret of Beauty growing be learned, but 

 it will give an idea of what skill and 

 a very great deal of work can accomplish. 

 The place is clean and the growth won- 

 derful. The cut is not large at present 

 but there is abundant promise. The cut 

 goes to E. C. Amling. 



The Benthey-Ooatsworth Co. has har- 

 vested a fine crop of the new aster, Ben- 

 they's White and Benthey's Pink, and 

 will distribute it to the trade this win- 

 ter. The seed was grown at New Castle. 

 It was the best selling variety offered in 

 this market and at St. Louis this sum- 

 mer. 



Leonard Kill, of Peter Reinberg's, 

 went to St. Louis last Friday night, in- 

 tending to stay a week and visit Mem- 

 phis before returning. 



N. J, Wietor says the mums are ten 

 days or two weeks earlier than usual; 

 they expect to be well cleaned out by 

 the Thanksgiving demand, where last 

 year the cut carried quite a ways into 

 December. 



C. M. Dickinson, of E. H. Hunt's, has 

 been experimenting with coloring cape 

 flowers until he has the art of dyeing 

 these difficult subjects down to a fine 

 point. 



Mrs. R. Jahn, of the Butler Floral Co., 

 says business is much better than she 



expected it to be so soon after opening. 

 She has a wide acquaintance and gets a 

 great deal of business over the telephone. 



At the Thompson Carnation Company's 

 place at Joliet they use recording ther- 

 mometers and carry the temperature right 

 on a line all night. Two styles of ther- 

 mometers are used, one which contains a 

 clock and must be just so to work, and 

 the other made by the Parker Mfg. Co.,. 

 Boston, which works under any and all; 

 conditions. 



J. A. Budlong has a crop of tea roses 

 just coming on. 



Weiland & Eisch sent some of their 

 fine Brides and Maids to the Joliet show 

 last week. 



Vaughan & Sperry are getting some un- 

 usually good Kaiserins. 



E. E. Pieser, of Kennicott's, says 

 business for October, particularly the lat- 

 ter part, was better than he ever knew 

 it to be in a campaign year. 



The Lincoln park flower show is on 

 this week and a particularly goood show- 

 ing is made. 



Mrs. Horton and Andrew Benson are 

 at St. Louis this week, looking after Baa- 

 sett & Washburn 's exhibit. 



W. N. Rndd is sending the E. F. Win- 

 terson Co. his carnation, Phyllis, in fine 

 shape. 



C. W. Kellar is handling a fine lot 

 of dendrobiums jis well as cattleyas. 



George Reinberg is getting a very fine 

 cut of jt'ancy carnations. 



Percy Jones is handling some especially 

 good home grown Princess of Wales vio- 

 lets. 



• A. L. Randall Company says that where 

 they last season averaged 11 cents on a 

 certain grower 's chrysanthemums, the cut 

 this year brought an average of 14 cents. 



Sinner Bros, are cutting seme very 

 good roses in several varieties. 



There were many visitors in town on 

 Sunday and Monday en route to the 

 World's Fair flower show. Visitors on 

 other errands were: B. Eschner, Phila- 

 delphia; E. Benard, San Diego, Cal. ; 

 Miss Gertrude Blair, Des Moines, la.; 

 .John C. Chase, of Benj. Chase Co., Derry, 

 N. H. 



MALTA. OHIO. 



W. C. Scovell has the past season built 

 a carnation house which is modern in 

 every respect. It is 23x70 feet, with side 

 wall seven feet high and fourteen feet 

 to ridge. The glass in the side walls 

 comes down to the bench level. The 

 house contains three benches five feet 

 wide and four walks two feet wide. The 

 benches, or rather, beds, have concrete 

 walls twenty-four inches high and the 

 walks are also concrete. Tile and gravel 

 give a good drainage. The purlin sup- 

 ports are iron. The house was erected 

 by Mr. Scovell and costs, exclusive of his 

 labor, $700. Business is very good with 

 him. He is now cutting fine carnations 

 and chrysanthemums. 



Cambridge City, Ind. — Thomas Peet, 

 who recently purchased the greenhouses 

 of Howard & Lively, has the place in 

 nice shape with good prospects for busi- 

 ness. 



Canandaigua, N. Y. — The Canandai- 

 gua Gardeners' and Florists' Society 

 will give its annual show November 15 

 and 16. The officers are: President, 

 .Joseph Jones; vice-president, Robert H. 

 McKerr; secretary, Fred C. Hawley; 

 treasurer, Albert O. Lucas; hall com- 

 mittee, Joseph .Tones, Robert Balantyne 

 and Robert H. McKerr. 



