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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Decembeh 15, 1904. 



stock is in fine condition. Boston ferns 

 are their leading specialty, house after 

 house being planted with them. Very 

 few of the variety Anna Foster are now 

 grown, on account of its variability, but 

 we noted 'some 400 plants of an extreme- 

 ly promising sport from that variety 

 with the characteristics of Anna Foster 

 at its best. Not a single frond has so 

 far shown any tendency to revert to the 

 Boston type. Trade in Boston ferns 

 has been extra good this season and 

 business very satisfactory. In addition 

 to ferns, palms and Dracaena Australis 

 are grown in quantity. About 125,000 

 bedding plants, such as geraniums, coleus 

 and altemantheras are provided for 

 spring sales. Everything on this estab- 

 lishment is sold at wholesale. 



Thomas Stock. 



Thomas Stock, on Minot street, has 

 two houses 35x135, snugly located on a 

 side hill. About 10,000 carnations are 

 grown. Flora Hill is considered the best 

 white and looked well, as did Fair 

 Maid and Lawson. Hardly any other 

 sorts are grown. Princess of "Wales and 

 Farquhar violets looked well, the last 

 named especially so. Cornflowers are 

 grown in considerable quantity and a 

 bench of pink bouvardia was in fine 

 shape for Christmas trade. 



Hannan & Son. 



William Hannan & Son have a fine, 

 up-to-date plant on Codman street. Heat- 

 ing here is all by steam. Three large 

 houses of Brides and Maids could hard- 

 ly have been better. Carnations filled 

 two houses, varieties grown being Fair 

 Maid, Lawson, Wolcott, Boston Market 

 and Boosevelt. These were all in fine 

 shape. Two divisions were devoted to 

 chrysanthemums. A good batch of that 

 fine old yellow variety, W. H. Lincoln, 

 would be just right for Christmas. 



terprising firm has a large and increas- 

 ing plant trade, not only in Boston and 

 vicinity, but in quite distant points. 

 Palms are still one of their leading spe- 

 cialties and all the popular trade varie- 

 ties are grown in quantity. In addition 

 to Kentia Belmoreana and K. Forsteriana 

 and Areca lutescens, which are most 

 largely grown, smaller lots are seen of 

 a number of other sorts. Areca sapida 

 and Caryota majestica were especially 

 noteworthy. The last named is much 

 better than C. urens. Kentia Sanderiana 

 and K. McArthuri are classed as of 

 no value as trade varieties. A limited 

 sale is found for Phoenix rupicola and 

 P. Canariensis. Cocos Weddelliana in 

 small sizes is handled in quantity for 

 the center of fern dishes. 



Dracsena terminalis is a popular sort 

 and batches of D. Godseffiana and Sander- 

 iana are also grown. Rubbers, arauca- 

 rias, crotons, Pandanus Veitchii and P. 

 utilis, aspidistras, Aralia Sieboldi varie- 

 gata and marantas are also grown. About 

 12,000 genistas in various sizes are 

 handled. Acacia armata is the only spe- 

 cies of that family grown. Azaleas are 

 one of the specialties for which this 

 firm is noted, 8,000 being disposed of 

 during the season. A house containing 

 1,200 was just in the right condition for 

 the Christmas trade. A few of the lead- 

 ing sorts grown are Vervseneana, Simon 

 Mardner, Professor Welters, Flambeau, 

 Deutsche Perle, Firefly, classed as the 

 best seller on the list; Mme. Van der 

 Cniyssen and Emperor de Brazil. 



Several thousand lilies are grown for 

 Easter trade. A good lot of the butter- 

 cup primrose, probably a form of Primu- 

 la sikkimensis, was noted flowering with 

 great freedom. A starter in orchid cul- 

 ture was evidently a batch of that grand 

 winter flowering variety, Calanthe Veit- 

 chi. Small ferns in thousands are han- 



GMuervatory of H. H. Rogers, Fairhaven, Mass. 



Callas, stocks, stevia and a few other 

 catch crops are also grown. 



Leuthy & Ca 



The plant of A. Leuthy & Co. is not 

 in Dorchester, but it is only a short walk 

 from Dorchester to Boslindale. We 

 were fortunate in finding David Lums- 

 den, one of the firm, at home. This en- 



dled for use in fern dishes, pteris in 

 variety being mostly handled. Every- 

 thing on this place refiected credit on 

 the two energetic members of the firm. 

 We expect to see them increase their 

 plant ere long. W. N. Cbaig. 



The California tomato seed crop is 

 proving disappointing all around. 



OIL KING^ GREENHOUSES. 



The garden committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society paid a 

 visit on November 2 to the green- 

 houses of H. H. Rogers, the well 

 known Standard oil magnate, of Fair- 

 haven, Mass., to inspect his house of 

 specimen chrysanthemums arranged 

 with foliage plants and entered for the 

 John A. Lowell special prize. 



The house containing the plants was 

 seventy-five feet long and contained 

 some remarkably fine specimen plants, 

 which averaged five to six feet in di- 

 ameter. Some of the best varieties in 

 the collection were W, H. Lincoln, Mu- 

 tual Priend, Dr. Enguehard, which 

 makes a beautiful specimen plant; 

 General Maceo, a fine crimson; Wm. B. 

 Church, Calvat's 99, Columbia and 

 Kate Broomhead. A large quantity of 

 plants were grown in 6-inch pots, carry- 

 ing one flower each, and were well done. 



Victoria, a seedling anemone, raisea 

 by Mr. Garthley, the head gardener to 

 Mr. Bogers, and certificated in Boston on 

 November 19, was much admired. 

 Some fine plants of the popular Garza 

 were also seen. Mr. Rogers opened 

 his greenhouses to the public for sev- 

 eral days during the second week in 

 November and a large number of resi- 

 dents in Fairhaven and New BedfortJ 

 availed themselves of the opportunity 

 to view the collection. W. N. C. 



SHA\rS GARDEN. 



The following is an extract from a 

 paper by Wilhelm Miller read at the 

 meeting held at St. Louis early in No- 

 vember for the inception of National 

 Council of Horticulture: ~ 



Henry Shaw was an Englishman who 

 made a fortune in the hardware business 

 in St. Louis, retired early, made the most 

 famous private garden between the Miss- 

 issippi and the Pacific coast, and got 

 from a return trip to England the idea 

 of an institution in St. Louis, like Kew, 

 the most famous botanical garden in the 

 world. The time was not ripe for a 

 great scientific institution. There waa 

 no first class university in St. Louis, nor 

 in the prairie states for that matter, with 

 which the garden could be advantageous- 

 ly connected, for Washington University 

 was then a small affair and not very 

 promising, although it has developed so 

 astonishingly in the last five years that 

 it is now rapidly forging to the front. 

 Doubtless Mr. Shaw was wise in prefer- 

 ring to have the garden pay $25,000 a 

 year taxes than to dwarf the enterprise 

 by making it a mere annex of a strug- 

 gling young college. The history of the 

 first agricultural college in the world, the 

 one at Michigan, shows the same thing, 

 for it would never have amounted to 

 anything as a department of the state 

 university, since the agricultural college 

 was a protest against the classical edu- 

 cation of the day and one of the first 

 expressions of a desire for technical 

 training in the practical business of life. 

 It was the misfortune of Mr. Shaw 's time 

 and place that he could not make a suc- 

 cessful triangular bargain with a college 

 and the city, so that he could not get 

 the peculiar multiplying value that comes 

 from such a junction of forces. 



Nevertheless, the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden has made a splendid showing. 

 The one thing that the horticultural vis- 

 itor to the World's Fair cannot afford 

 to miss, is a visit to the Garden. He can 



