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choice valley fi^am hie place at Thorn- 

 hedge. 



M. Bice & Co. are already hard at 

 work with Easter stock. They have had 

 a novel experience — novel to most peo- 

 ple at any rate — having two bills paid 



twice. 



The junior partner of the commission 

 house of William J. Baker calls atten- 

 tion to some extra fine vajley they are 

 receiving. 



Answers to Gurespondents. 



REVIEW readers are Invited to send any 

 questions relating to culture or marketing of 

 plants and flowers In Philadelphia to Phil l-i 

 care of any of the leading seed or commissi jn 

 bouses or the Floyver Market. E!ach question 

 win be submitted to a competent person and 

 answered under number. Correct name and ad- 

 di-ess must always accompany Inquiry, but will 

 not be published. 



29. — Do you know of anyone growing 

 first grade carnations in very heavy soil, 

 such as that found very near your city? 

 Yes. Edward A. Stroud, of the Strafford 

 Flower Farm. The examples are, how- 

 ever, few, the bulk of carnations sent to 

 this market being grown on light soil 

 far from town, due more to economical 

 reasons than on apcount of the soil. 



30. — ^Would you suggest growing roses 

 entirely in such soil? Yes, with proper 

 additions to supply d«ficien(5lesl There 

 have been instances of the soil being 

 made lighter for certain varieties, but 

 they are rare. 



31. — Is Vesper giving any trouble as 

 to keeping qualities? Yes, at times. 



32. — Would you consider it a profit- 

 able market sort? Vesper is a free 

 bloomer, has long stiff stems and is not 

 apt to burst. It is a fine carnation, out 

 unlikely to prove profitable. 



33. — Is Golden Gate a profitable rose 

 for the Philadelphia market? Golden 

 Orate is hardly a variety for every day 

 in this market. It has proved very prof- 

 itable in limited quantities when well 

 done. , Phil. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The market has been rather erratic 

 the past week, very poor on some daya 

 and quite active and good on February 

 10 and 11. Weather conditions hav6 

 militated against the producers as well 

 as retailers. It has been too cold for 

 the fakirs to do anything on the streets. 

 They handle a lot of stuff during mild 

 weather, which, while not of the best 

 quality, would be largely lost if they 

 did not purchase it, 



Roses continue in rather short supply 

 and maintain previous' quotations. Car- 

 nations have brought about $3 per hun- 

 dred for good stock, fancies and novel- 

 ties making $4 to $6. Violets continue 

 to arrive in large quantities. The top 

 price has been 75 cents for the finest 

 Princess of Wales. Good grades of both 

 doubles and singles have made 50 cents, 

 poorer samples going as low as 30 cents. 

 Yellow trumpet nareissi are no* ««Ylv- 

 ing in big quantiti^. As . a rule '-tMey 

 have cleared out remarkably weil, ilot-a 

 flowfer remaining unsold on onb- or! two 

 days. Prices average $2. Some ettW 

 fine Golden Spur made $3. Liliums are 

 not plentiful, a few longiflorum begin y 

 ning to supplement the Harrisii. Loly 

 of the valley has "been selling rather 

 slowly* Sweet peas are now coming of 

 very fine quality, Mont Blanc being most 

 in evidence. ;^ 



The Exhibition. 



The regular mid-winter show of 'the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society ■<vjt^ 

 this year joined in by the wholesalfe 

 flower markets, each of which offered a 

 number of prizes. The result ivaa a 

 very fine show, especially of carnations, 

 and we hope to see this annual exhibi- 

 tion made one of the features of the 

 local horticultural world. There is cer- 

 tainly no reason why, if the horticultural 

 society and markets co-operate, it can- 

 not be made a credit to Boston and one 

 of the finest to be seen in the country. 



Carnations had seventeen classes al- 

 lotted to them and were, of course, the 

 star feature of the show. Competition 

 was quite good in nearly all classes. For 

 the society's prizes, which called for 

 twenty-five blooms of each color, Pete? 

 Fisher won for white with fine Lady 

 Bountiful, M. A. ir'atten being seconid 

 with The Belle, and H. A. Stevens Co. 

 third with Wolcott. Patten showed a 

 splendid vase of Lady Bountiful in 

 which, however, one or two flowers were 

 getting sleepy. For scarlet Backer & 

 Co. were in the lead, C. E. Dickerman 

 being second, each showing Flamingo. 

 Enchantress won everything in the light 

 pink class. Patten & Co., S. J. Goddard 

 and Stevens Co. winning in order named. 

 For dark pink Wm. Nicholson won with 

 fine Lawson, L. E. Small being second 

 for the same variety and Patten third 

 for Nelson Fisher. Mrs. Patten was in- 

 vincible in the variegated dass, Messrs. 

 Nicholson, Patten and Fisher being the 

 winners. For crimson, Nicholson, Pat- 

 ten and Backer & Co. won, all showing 

 Harry Fenn. In a good class of yellow- 

 Patten won with fine Dorothy Wbitney, 

 Backer & Co. being second and third with 

 Dorothy Whitney and Eldorado. 



In the Park street market classes for 

 fifty blooms Peter Fisher won in the 

 white class with splendid Lady Bouhti- 

 ful. Patten being second with the same 

 variety. S. J. Keuter showed a fine vase 

 of Vesper in this class. Peter Fisher 

 won for scarlets with fine Flamingo. He 

 was also in the lead for Ught pink with 

 Enchantress, S. J. Renter and E. N. 

 PeirtJe & Co. being second and third. 

 For dark pink Patten & Co. won with 

 the best Nelson Fisher in the show, 

 Renter second with Lawson. Peter 

 Fisher's new seedling. No. 113, was the 

 winner in the crimson class. These were 

 far ahead of any others shown in their 

 color, stems stiff and flowers large and 

 well formed, perhaps a trifle too dark to 

 suit some, very similar in shade to Har- 

 lowarden, with which Reuter secured sec- 

 ond prize. Mrs. Patten took everything 

 in the variegated class, Patten & Co. 

 leading, followed by Peter Fisher and 

 the Stevens Co. Patten & Co. also won 

 for yellow with Dorothy Whitney. Wm. 

 Nicholson won for 100 mixed blooms 

 with a fine vase. 



The Music Hall market classes were 

 well competed for. For fifty Fair Maid 

 H. A. Stevens Co. woi^ with finely colored 

 flowers. A. Roper, who was second, had 

 much larger flowers but somewhat lack- 

 ing in color. For fifty blooms any white 

 variety C. E. Dickerman won with White 

 Lawson, L. E. Small being second with 

 his seedling, No. 3. For twenty-five 

 blooms of any new seedling Patten & 

 Co. won with Mikado, L. E. Small being 

 second with lis seedling. For 100 double 

 violets H. F. Woods won with fine 

 Campbell, L. E. Small beirfg isecond with 



the same variety. For 100 Princess of 

 Wales H. F. Woods was again in the 

 lead with splendid flowers, William Sim 

 being second. For twenty-five mignonette 

 Wm. Nicholson and A. H. Fewkes were 

 winners. William Sim was first for 100 

 sweet peas with very fine Mont Blanc, 

 Malcolm Orr being second for tine flow- 

 ers of the same sort. For twenty-five 

 blooms of any other rose than American 

 Beauty, Waban Rose Conservatories were 

 first for a fine vase of Wellesley. A 

 special prize for 100 carnations in not 

 over three varieties arranged for effect 

 was won by Patten & Co. 



The society's prizes for 100 double 

 violets went to Malcolm Orr, L. E. Small 

 and A. F. Cooli^ge, all showing Camp- 

 bell. For 100 single Wm. Sim won with 

 Princess of Wales. J. H. White, James 

 Wheeler, gardener, who was second, 

 showed larger flowers but a little paler 

 in color. M. B. Dallachie was third. 

 There was a strong entry for six plants 

 of Primula obconica. G. F. Fabyan, 

 James Stuart, gardener, was flrst and 

 second and Mrs. J. L. Gardner, Wm. 

 Thatcher, gardener, third. For six Pri- 

 mula stellata E. A. Clark, W. A. Riggs, 

 gardener, was first and Mrs. J. L. Gard- 

 ner second. E. J.- Mitton, J. Lawson, 

 gardener, had the best six Primula 

 Sinensis, followed by G. F. Fabyan and 

 Mrs. J. L. Gardner. For six Gloire de 

 Lorraine begonias M. S. Stevens, Walter 

 Angus, gardener, won with excellent 

 plants, E. A. Clark being second. 



In the way of miscellaneous exhibits 

 Robert Cameron, from Harvard Botanic 

 Garden, put up a fine table of Primula 

 obconica and a nicely flowered batch of 

 Lachenalia Nelsoni. Mrs. A. W. Blake, 

 H. Wild, gardener, had a good plant of 

 Cypripedium Dauthieri. Francis Skin- 

 ner had a display of Primula- Sinensis. 

 A. M. Davenport had a nice lot of ey- 

 clamehis. J. E. Rothwell, Emil Johann- 

 son, gardener, received a certificate of 

 merit for Lselia x Mrs. M. Gratrix (L. 

 cinnabarina x L. Digbyana), one of the 

 prettiest cinnabarina crosses, flowers of a 

 deep orange yellow color. The same ex- 

 hibitor received honorable mention for 

 Laelio-cattleya Adolphus (L. cinnabarina 

 X Cattleya Acklandise). 



E. N. Peirce & Co. showed a fine vase 

 of their bright red seedling carnation, 

 Lawson x Crane, which received honor- 

 able mention and promises to be a useful 

 sort. Helen Goddard, from S. J. God- 

 dard, recently referred to in the Review, 

 received a certiflcate of merit. Red Law- 

 son grown by E. N. Peirce & Co. from 

 Palmer's stock also won a certificate of 

 merit, as did Winsor, shown by F. R. 

 Pierson Co. and grown by Peter Murray. 

 This latter is of a beautiful silvery pink 

 color, just th3 color ladies like 

 and is bound to become popular. We 

 understand it will not be introduced 

 until 1907. 



Victory, from Guttman & Weber, 

 scored the highest award of any new car- 

 nation in the exhibition, securing a sil- 

 ver medal. Nothing but favorable com- 

 ments were heard in regard to it. Pat- 

 ten & Co. secured honorable mention for 

 Mikado (Roosevelt x Prosperity). F. F. 

 White and L. E. Small each showed their 

 seedling whites, which had their quota 

 of admirers. , 



Afterglow and Aristocrat from Rich- 

 ard Witterstaetter were delayed in trans- 

 it from Cincinnati and some few blooms 

 were frozen. They arrived ere the show 



