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Febbuary 9, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



655 



ON FEBRUARY 14 YOU WILL NEED MANY 



Violets ^ Valentines 



We can supply the fancy^ double^ dark blue Hudson 

 River stock in quantity* Also home-gfrown Singles of 

 best quality. Let us have your orders* ^ J> J- ^ 



ALL CUT FLOWERS IN SEASON. 



....rANCY VALLEY ALWAYS ON HAND.... 



E. C. 3NLING, 



The tarffest, Best Banlpp«d and IKoat C«ntrally located 

 Wholesale Cnt Flower Konee In Chicago. 



32-34-36 Randolph St., l^hitf^AfiA III 



AKBBXOJJr BBAVTT. Per doi. 



80-86-lnch stem $4.00tol5.M 



24-lnch Item 8.00 



20-lDch Item 2.60 



16-lncb stem 2.00 



12-lncta stem 1.60 



Sbortstem 75to 1.0t 



Per 100 



Brides |6.00to$12.flO 



Bridesmaids OOOto 12.00 



Meteor 6.00to 13.00 



Golden Gate O.OOto 12.00 



Obatenay O.OOto 12.00 



OamatloDB 2.00to 8.00 



large and fancy 4.00 to 6.00 



Violets 60to 1.00 



Valley 2.00to 4.00 



Oallas per dos., $1.60 



Paper Whites, Romans f 8.00 



Tulips S.OOto 4.00 



Jonqnils, Daffodils ... ..^400 



Sweet Peas 1.60 



Mignonettes 60to» .76 



Asparagus, per string, 86c to 60c w-~ 



Asparagus Sprengeri 8.00 to 5.00 



Ferns per 1000. 12.00 .26 



Galax per 1000, $1.26 ^ .U 



Leucotboe .76 



Adiantum 1.00 to 11.26 



Smilax ... per doz., $1.60 to $2.00 10.00 



Wild Smilax, 25 lb. cases. . . 8 00 



86Ib. cases... 4.00 



501b. cases... 6.00 



Sniiject to efeaage wlthoat aotlee. 



Meutkm Ihr lt«!vlew wlma you writ*. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Weather conditions have been against 

 a good market for some days past. 

 While we are not having such abnormally 

 low temperatures as a year ago, zero 

 temperatures have been common and 

 readings much lower in many nearby 

 towns. The ground hog came out of his 

 hole on February 2, shivered in the hard 

 frozen snow for a short time and, see- 

 ing his shadow, sneaked back into his 

 hole again. This means six weeks addi- 

 tional winter, so coal piles are likely to 

 be materially reduced ere the gladsome 

 springtime comes. 



The severe weather has frozen out the 

 fakirs nearly altogether and much re- 

 duced purchases from storekeepers. As 

 a consequence flowers have not sold so 

 well as could be wished. Eoses continue 

 in short supply and prices remain about 

 the same. Select carnations have aver- 

 aged $3 per hundred, more selling below 

 than above this figure. Violets are some- 

 what lower. Best stock has gone for 

 50 cents to 60 cents, poorer grades sell- 

 ing at 300 for $1. Double and single 

 yeUow narcissi are quite abundant and 

 a good many Narcissus poeticus omatus 

 are coming in. Ldly of the valley has 

 only sold moderately well, although of 

 fine quality. Callas and Lilium Hani- 

 sii are rather scarce. Green stuff re- 

 mains about the same. 



Horticultural Society. 



At a meeting of the board of directors 

 of the . Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society on February 4 ten new members 

 were elected. It was voted to hold a 

 public demonstration 'of methods for 

 fighting the brown tail moth in April 

 within the Boston limits. 



Prof. John Craig, of Ithaca, N. Y., 

 gave a splendid lecture before the society 

 on February 4 on "Findings of an Or- 

 chard Survey in Western New York." 

 There was a large audience who thor- 

 oughly appreciated the lecture and^ en- 

 joyed the numerous stereopticon views. 



Alexander Opg, gardener to Mrs. J. M. 

 Sears, showed flowers of some very fine 



seedling amaryllis on February 4, A 

 plant of one of "Veitch's new varieties 

 was unfortunately frozen in transit. Mr. 

 Ogg also showed a nice lot of Gardenia 

 flcrida. 



The main exhibition hall will be used 

 for the exhibition on February 11. 

 Carnations will be shown in large quan- 

 tities and quite a number of the novelties 

 will be seen. 



The garden committee held a meeting 

 February 4 and laid plans for the work 

 during the present year. Prizes are 

 this year offered for best estate of not 

 less than three acres, of between one 

 and three acres (latter must be in Mass- 

 achusetts) house of chrysanthemums in 

 pots, house of chrysanthemums for speci- 

 men blooms, herbaceous garden, peony 

 garden, house of cucumbers, house of 

 lettuce and vegetable garden. Entries 

 for visits should be made to W. P. Eich, 

 the secretary of the society. Schedules 

 of all prizes offered for 1905 may be 

 had on application to the secretary. 

 They include also the prizes offered by 

 the American Eose Society. 



Various Notes. 



The next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club will occur on February 

 21. The lecturer will probably be W. 

 W. Eawson, of Arlington, and his sub- 

 ject "Vegetable Culture Under Glass 

 for Market." 



William Nicholson and Allen Peirce, 

 who returned from their peregrinations 

 following the carnation convention the 

 past week, are enthusiastic over the Chi- 

 cago meetmg, which they pronounce the 

 greatest ever. They visited Joliet, Eich- 

 mond, LaFayette, Cincinnati and other 

 points OD their way home. Witterstaet- 

 ter's seedlings quite took their fancy 

 and they could hardly find adjectives 

 strong enough to express their admira- 

 tion for the Eichmond rose. 



G. B. Comley, the Bedford florist, had 

 the misfortune to lose his dwelling by 

 fire on January 29, it being totally des- 

 troyed. His greenhouses happily escaped 

 injury. 



Newtonville greenhouses are shipping 

 some grand Bride and Bridesmaid roses 

 to the Park street market. 



Recent victims of the prevailing 

 epidemic include William Watcher and 

 William Anderson, of Anderson & Wil- 

 liams. 



Donald Carmichael 's new cerise colored 

 carnation seedling continues to attract 

 much favorable comment at the new 

 market. 



A delegation from the new market 

 made a tour of the Framingham carna- 

 tion establishments the past week. The 

 party included Messrs. Carmichael, Ayer, 

 Foote, Barr, E. Montgomery and Eoper. 



Peirce & Sons are forwarding extra 

 fine Prosperity and Enchantress carna- 

 tions to Park street market. 



Hoffman had an effective window at 

 his Massachusetts avenue store the past 

 week. A large bank of Enchantress car- 

 nations filled the center, with well grown 

 lilacs and azaleas at the sides. 



Axel Bjorn, who has been operating 

 a flower store on Tremont street for some 

 time, left Boston on February 6 to take 

 charge of the orchid collection of Dr. 

 J. F. Shaffer, Pittsburg, Pa. 



Oakes Ames leaves on February 10 for 

 a botanical trip to Cuba, where he will 

 remain some weeks. 



Many of our nearby towns and cities 

 continue to take energetic measures for 

 the suppression of the brown tail moth 

 plague. The city of Salem paid a bounty 

 on 375,000 nests destroyed last year, 

 containing some 12,000,000 caterpillars. 



Henry W. lolenberger, for the past 

 six years orchid grower on the estate of 

 Mrs. J. L. Gardner, in Brookline, leaves 

 March 1 to take charge of the new estate 

 of N. W. Harris, the well known banker, 

 at Lake Geneva, Wis. 



John McFarland, of North E'aston, is 

 shipping 4,000 extra fine valley each 

 week to the new market. N. F. Comley 

 has a fine assortment of tulips at the 

 same stand. 



A. A. Eaton is in Florida collecting 

 native orchids for Oakes Ames, of North 

 Easton. He may go to Colombia a little 

 later. 



Several fine new private estates in 

 this vicinity will be added to the exist- 

 ing number at an early date. One of the 

 finest will be in North Easton, where F. 

 L. Ames has just purchased a block of 



