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The Weekly Florists^ Review/'' 



Decumueu 22, 1904. 



WHITE LAWSON 



Which we introduced last seaaon has g^iven g^reat aatiafaction, and has proved to be : 



THE FINEST WHITE CARNATION EVER SENT OUT 



Remember that we are headquarters for it. The demand will undoubtedly exceed the 

 supply this season, and in order to secure early delivery, no time should be lost in placing: order. We are 

 now booking: orders for early January delivery. Orders will be filled strictly in rotation, as recerved, so the 

 earlier orders are booked, the earlier deliveries can be made. We can supply 



First-class strong rooted cuttings, $7.00 per 100; $60.00 per 1000. 



Also all the other novelties of the season, FIANCEE, CARDINAL, FRED BURKI, etc. 



Also the cream of the older sorts, Mrs. M. A. Patten, Daiieim, Enchantress, Flamingo, 

 Mrs. Thos. W. Lawson, etc. 



r. R. PIERSON CO., Tarrytown-OQ-flndsoo, N. Y. 



Mention Tlio Review when you write. 



In cut flowers Welch Bros, are noted 

 for their roses, especially American 

 Beauties. The finest of these are coming 

 from Carl Jurgens, Newport, R, I. 

 Hundreds just received carried thr^e to 

 four foot stems. Some remarkably fine 

 Queen of Edgely were also noted. Mr. 

 Welch says buyers are now eager to 

 snap up this flower, Mme. Abel Cbate- 

 nay, Brides, Maids, Golden Gates and 

 Liberties were also extra good, those 

 from S. J. Reuter, Westerly, R. I., and 

 Eobert McGorum, Natick, Mass., being 

 among the best. F. A. Blake, Rochdale, 

 M!afis., is shipping very fine Prosperity 

 carnations, also some good seedling?. 

 Mr. Welch stated that he had written 

 his shippers, above all things, not to 

 try the pickling process on Enchan- 

 tress, as it goes to sleep as soon 

 as taken from the ice box. Violets, or- 

 chids, poinsettias, lilies and all other 

 choice seasonable flowers are carried in 

 quantity by this enterprising firm. 



Various Notes. 



T. J. Grey has returned from a visit 

 to New York, incidentally calling on 

 some of the gardening acquaintances on 

 the Hudson. 



Worcester Conservatories are shipping 

 very fine Beauties to the Park street 

 market. Budlong, at Providence, is for- 

 warding gilt-edged stock of Brides and 

 Maids. 



W. E. Doyle is displaying some beau- 

 tifully berried English hollies and aucu- 

 bas in pots and tubs at his Beacon and 

 Boylston street stores. 



E. MeMulkin had a very pretty red 

 window the past week. Red roses and 

 carnations with ardisias, solanums, aucu- 

 bas and other berried stock made a pleas- 

 ing arrs mpP"^*""* '■ — ' 



Mrs. F. J. Lake, wife of • the well 

 known Wellesley florist, is quite seriously 

 ill, but was reported a little more com- 

 fortable this week. 



B. F. Washington, of North Stough- 

 ton, had the misfortune to have his boil- 

 er burst on the evening of December 

 16, when we had a temperature 5 degrees 

 below zero. Use of lamps, oil stoves 

 and other improvised heaters kept the 

 temperatiiro up to about .32 degrees but 



much stock was frozen. Mr. Washington 

 has been bringing in some nice stock to 

 the new market. We trust he will soon 

 recover from this loss. 



John Streiferd & Sons, of Wey- 

 mouth, are shipping a nice lot of Cypri- 

 pedium insigne and white violets to the 

 now market. 



The plant committee of the Horticul- 

 tural Society visited W. B. Arnold at 

 the Rockland Greenhouses on December 

 1.3, to view his house of Variegated Law- 

 son and were surprised and delighted at 

 the superb lot of plants Mr. Arnold 

 showed them. The plants were simply 

 a sheet of bloom and no supports were 

 necessary, stems long and strong and 

 not a burst caylx to be seen. This 

 sport has a delightful fragrance and 

 seems to be the best striped carnation in 

 sight. The committee were entertained 

 at lunch by Mr. Arnold and spent a 

 very pleasant afternoon. 



A recent call at the greenhouses of 

 Mount Hope cemetery, which is in 

 charge of James Morton, showed that the 

 recent additions make the greenhouses 

 among the finest in this section. While 

 bedding stock is principally handled, 

 some other interesting plants were noted. 

 A batch of finely grown , Dendrobium 

 nobile will soon be in bloom and prom- 

 ises a wealth of flowers. A basket of 

 Lffilia anceps carrying fourteen spikes 

 denoted very good culture. 



Wax Bros, are showing some very fine 

 Enchantress and Flamingo carnations 

 grown by G. E. Buxton. 



Backer ,& Co. and Geo. E. Buxton 

 are shipping superb Enchantress carna- 

 tions to the Park street market. 



Peter Fisher is sending some magni- 



ficent blooms of his nP W W^'*^<^ cnnHHng 



carnation to Galvin. 



Houghton & Clark are showing som6 

 extra well flowered Erica hymalis. 



Part 1 of the "Transactions of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society for 

 1904" has just been mailed to the mem- 

 bers. It is a book of over 200 pages and 

 includes full reports of all lectures and 

 discussions during the early part of 1904. 

 In addition there is an exhaustive and 

 excellent article on peony culture by 

 R. T. Jackson, also a long and inter- 



esting article on John Richardson, his 

 house and garden, by the same gentle- 

 man. These articles shoiild be in the 

 hands of every peony lover. To add to 

 their interest they are beautifully illus- 

 trated. 



The weather has remained steadily 

 cold during the present month. About 

 a foot of snow fell on December 18. A 

 serious deficiency of water is reported 

 from many sections of New England, 

 springs being almost dry and streams 

 very low. 



In point of attendance and interesting 

 exhibits the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club meeting of December 20 was prob- 

 ably the best ever held. A full report 

 must be held over until our next issue. 

 An account of the field day at Framing- 

 ham will be found elsewhere in this issue. 



In notes in last issue mentioning prizes 

 to be offered by new market, the word 

 "included" should read "excluded" in 

 regard to the red rose class. 



W. N. Craig. 



SOW BUGS. 



I will give you my way to get rid of 

 sow bugs in greenhouses. My houses were 

 so badly infested with them that they 

 destroyed all blooms they could reach. By 

 holding a light under the bench at night 

 you could see many of them running in 

 every direction.. I took twenty-five 

 pounds of bran and shorts mixed, one 

 pound of London purple and five pounds 

 of soft sugar and mixed all thoroughly to- 

 gether and then sprinkled it along the 

 edges of benches, under the benches and 

 near all the posts and I can tell you it 

 did the work in one night. Now there 

 is not one to be seen at all. This 

 a moun t w ill b e e u o ugh fu r f o ur buuBes 

 100 feet long all winter, as it takes very 

 little of it to do the work. 



Wm. B. Lovell. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



J. D. Thompson Carnation Co., Joliet, 

 111., carnation cuttings; S. W. Marshall 

 & Son, Fresno, Cal., plants; J. Balme & 

 Co., Mexico City, Mexico, orchids and 

 cacti; Chas. H. Totty, Madison, N. J., 

 chrysanthemums; Rees & Compere, Long 

 Beach, Cal., bulbs. 



