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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Januaby 12. 1905. 



FANCY WHITE LILAC, - - $2 per dor. 



SPECIAL QUOTATIONS ON LARGE LOTS. 



HUDSON RIVER VIOLETS.=VERY LARGE. 



CARNATIONS— A fine assortment of fancy stock. ROSES— Extra 

 fine, especially in Brides and Maids. A FULL LINE OF CUT FLOWERS. 



3. L. RANDALL CO. 



WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



21 Randolph St. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Mention The Rerlew when yon write. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The opening days ^f 1905 have fa- 

 vored us with a mixture of wea,ther 

 which, for extreme variety, would be 

 very hard to beat. Opening with a day 

 of genuine April balminegs, we%iave in 

 quick succession blizzarda, thaws, cold 

 waves, snow storms, galls and rain 

 storms, followed by further cold waves. 

 One day our maximum was 55 degrees 

 in the shade. Two days later it was 10 

 degrees. Minimums have varied from 42 

 above to 8 degrees below zero. Of sun- 

 shine we have not had an overplus and 

 as a consequence production of flowers 

 has not been heavy. Demand, however, 

 has been even lighter than production 

 and prices have softened in consequence. 



Up till January 8, trade was moder- 

 ately good, but a warm wave and terrific 

 rain storm ruined what might have been 

 a good market. Flowers were half 

 drowned getting to market and buyers 

 were afraid to venture out in such a 

 storm. Conditions have improved since, 

 but are still not so good as could be de- 

 sired. 



Best grades of American Beauties 

 have realized $60 and from that figure 

 down to $6. Brides and Maids are a 

 little lower, about $12 for the best. The 

 cut of these is smaller, quite a number 

 of growers reporting their houses as off 

 crop. Select carnations make $3 and 

 $4, in some cases $5. A few Prosperity 

 realized $10, while quite a numoer of the 

 poorer grades went at $2, some even 

 lower. About $1 has been top price for 

 best violets, very few realizing $1.25. 

 Prices have dropped to as low as 50 

 cents on ordinary grades. 



Paper Whites and Boman hyacinths 

 are lower and sell very slowly. Some 

 Narcissus Soleil d'Or is seen and somd 

 very nice Golden Spur is coming in. 

 These latter sell well. Mignonette is now 

 coming of fine quality from several 

 growers. Poinsettias are practically 

 over. Freesias are coming 5n more freely. 

 Cypripedium insigne remain abundant. 

 Myosotis, marguerites and double dai- 

 sies are seen here and there. Adiantuni 

 and asparagus remain about tlie same. 



Horticultural Society. >. 



The first 1905 meeting of the board of 

 directors was held on January 7. it 

 was voted to hold a second field day ere 

 spring for a demonstration of methods 

 for fighting the brown tail and gypsy 

 moths, Boston Common and Franklin 



park being suggested as suitable loca- 

 tions. It was decided to change the date 

 of the show scheduled for May 6 to 

 April 29, all the halls having been let 

 for the week ending May 6. 



Twenty-five new members were elected, 

 twenty-four of these being proposed by 

 the new president, A. F. Estabrook, who 

 has presented quite a number of addi- 

 tional names to be voted on, in Febru- 

 ary. 



The annual meeting of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society was held Jan- 

 uary 7. In the absence of the president- 

 elect, who had been obliged to seek a 

 warmer climate owing to the state of 

 his health, Walter Hunnewell presided. 

 The retiring president, Dr. H. P. Wol- 



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 Boone, la., Jan. 9. 



cott, made a felicitous speech, predict- 

 ing greater prosperity and usefulness 

 for the society. The greater part of the 

 meeting was occupied by the reading of 

 reports from the secretary, librarian and 

 treasurer and the chairmen of commit- 

 tees, all of which will be printed in the 

 transactions of the society. The treas- 

 urer's report showed assets of nearly 

 $800,000 over liabilities. Expenditures 

 for the past year fell a little short of 

 $20,000. A cordial vote of thanks was 

 passed to E. W. Wood, for over twenty 

 years chairman of the fruit committee, 

 who now retires. 



W. A. Stevens showed a splendid dish 

 of mushrooms, grown from pure culture 



spawn. Mrs. E. M. Gill had carnations, 

 freesias and clivias. Owing to stormy 

 weather the meeting was not so largely 

 attended as usual. 



Various Notes. 



William Nicholson, of Framingham, 

 would like all from this section 

 who intend to go to tBe Chicago 

 carnation convention to communicate 

 with him as soon as possible, so 

 that arrangements for berths may 

 be made in season. The Boston del- 

 egation will probably go from the North 

 Union station via Nickel Pla^e R. E. 

 Fare will be $27.35 for the round trip, 

 berth in through sleepers $5.50 extra 

 each way. The party will leav^ on the 

 evening of January 23. It is sincerely 

 hoped that as large a delegation as 

 possible will represent our section, as 

 Boston wants the convention next year 

 and certainly is entitled to it after a 

 lapse of eleven years. 



W. L. Lewis, of Marlboro, Mass., has 

 had a fine vase of his new white seed- 

 ling carnation, Mrs. W. L. Lewis, on ex- 

 hibition in Galvin's, on Tremont street, 

 the past week. This is a cross between 

 Flora Hill and Mary Wood and is very 

 promising. 



J. Tailby & Son, of Wellesley, are 

 growing some 50,000 Iris Hispanica, in- 

 cluding a number of new and choice vari- 

 eties, also a large lot of Anemone ful- 

 gens. They had blooms of the new race 

 of Guernsey's iris in bloom for Christ- 

 mas. 



One of N. F. Comley's greenhouses 

 was broken into a few nights ago and 

 100 carnation flowers stolen. The two 

 thieves were caught and fined $25 and 

 $5 respectively at Concord on the fol- 

 lowing day. 



James S. Philbrick was married to 

 ^riss Lizzie Lovering at the Baptist 

 Church. Woburn, Mass., on January 5. 

 Mr. Philbrick 's market confreres wish 

 him much joy and excuse his late arriv- 

 al at his stall. 



J. Woodward Manning will be the 

 speaker at the meeting of the Garden- 

 ers' and Florists' Club on January 17. 

 His address will be made more interesting 

 by a number of lantern slides. The j\ov,- 

 president, James Wheeler, will be in- 

 stalled and refreshments served at the 

 close of the meeting. There will be 

 quite a number of interesting exhibits, 

 including one or two flower novelties 

 not previously shown in America. A 

 large attendance is assured. 



Geo. W. Ayer, of Reading, has a small 

 batch of a very promising crimson scarlet 



