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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febkuaky 23, -1005. 



about 11,000 feet of glass and have 

 steam to spare. We could heat another 

 house 100 feet long with two benches. 

 We burn lump coal and my fire lasts 

 from half an hour to three hours, ac- 

 cording to the weather, and I have seen 

 ^ it 35 degrees below zero. I cleati my 

 flues from one to six times a night and 

 I should not care if the stack wefe 

 eight feet shorter; I could still have 

 steam to spare and burn any kind of 

 coal or clean stock. 



' ' On page 705, of the ■ Review fpr 

 February 16, that boiler setting is all 

 right except that the space behind the 

 bridge wall wants to be deeper. Keep 

 the flues cleaned oftener than once in 

 twenty-four hours. I am only a marine 

 fireman off the lakes but I have been fir- 

 ing twenty-five years." L. A. U. 



MASSACHUSETTS GARDENERS. 



Bayard Thayer, South Lancaster. 



William Anderson has a beautifully 

 grown lot of whit6 cyclamens at Bayard 

 Thayer's. The varieties are Sutton's 

 Giant and White Butterfly. Lorraine 

 begonias are also good. In the carlia- 

 tion houf-e f^nchantress was easily in tbiB' 

 lead. Wolcott was flowering heavily, birt 

 a large proportion were coming split. 



bury bells in 12-inch pots are used for 

 piazza decoration. None of the four 

 fruit divisions had yet been started. 



E. V. R. Thayer, South Lancaster. 



Seedling orchids are always a prime 

 attraction at E. O. Orpet's, on the E. V. 

 R. Thayer estate. All his plants of seed- 

 ling cattleyas, Iselio-cattleyas and other 

 bi-generic crosses were in fine health. Of 

 Cattleya Thayeriana, quantities of 

 sheaths were pushing. Some of these 

 plants are now in tubs, which they will 

 soon outgrow. A pretty and ' distinct 

 cross just open was C. intermedia x C. 

 Trianff, a fine, bold and pleasing flower. 

 C. labiata x L. cinnabarina was good. 

 Lselio-cattleyas C. G. Roebling and 

 Bletchleyensis were in flower. A good 

 cross is L. Perrini x L. cinnabarina. At 

 present Mr. Orpet is ■\lrorking mostly on 

 Rophronitis crosses, from which he ex- 

 pects interesting results later. 



Odontoglossums are better grown here 

 than clsCTvhcre in America. A span house 

 contained a grand lot of them, hundreds 

 of plants all in the best of health. On 

 O. crispuni we noted three spikes coming 

 from a single bulb. Plants now in 6-inch 

 or 8-inch pots and pans will soon need a 

 shift to larger receptacles. These plants 

 are grown warmer than used to be con- 

 sidei-ed }*dvisable, with all possible sun 



L. K. Peacock. 



Lawson will be dropped after this season, 

 fts will Flamingo. In the large rose house 

 Brides, Maids and Beauties are mostly 

 grown. A few Killarney are being tried 

 and Mr. Anderson sees good possibilities 

 in it. In the orchid house there was a 

 fine show of Cattleya Triana>. A number 

 of the specimens are big ones. Quite a 

 few carried five flowers to the sheath. 

 Sehizanthus is being tried here. Canter- 



in winter. This gives the leaves a ruddy 

 hue and makes them tougher and better 

 adapted to standing our hot summers. A 

 batch of seventy-five miltonias somewhat 

 similarly grown were very vigorous. A 

 fine set of yellow forms of Cypripedium 

 insigne were flowering, including such 

 varieties as Sandera?, Ijaura Kimball, 

 Dorotiiy, Krnestii, Statterianum, Joungia- 

 mim superbum. Brightness, Bailie and sev- 



eral others. Orchids here are all grown *! 

 in pure osmunda fibre, no leaf -mold being 

 used. We noted a batch of Odontoglos- 

 sum crispum received from Sander & 

 Sone, These were potted in compost of 

 three-fourths English bracken roots and 

 one-fourth English peat over it, but they . 

 were not at home in it. 



A splendid lot of amaryllis, mostly 

 seedlings, were in flower. Sehizanthus in 

 several varieties is grown in quantity. 

 The earliest were just coming into flower. 

 Stock Beauty of Nice, of a delicate 

 shrimp pink color, has the earmarks of a 

 popular commercial variety. A house of 

 roses looked very well. A small lot of 

 Killarney is being tried. Campbell still 

 dees well as a double violet. Hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas is the popular fumigant 

 with Mr. Orpet just now. The only plants 

 he has hurt with it are some antirrhi- 

 nums. He finds it especially good for 

 cleaning out mealy bug from dormant 

 graperies. W. N. Craig. 



PHILADELPHIA* 



The Market 



Despite two holidays this week, the 

 market continues in fair shape. There 

 has been a good deal of shipping. Palm 

 Beach, Fla., conting in for quite a nice 

 lot of stuff. The local demand has. also 

 been good, with little change in prices, 

 except in gardenias, which have fallen 

 from $1 to 12*4 cents in seven weeks, 

 and now it is rumored that one large 

 concern is likely to cut even this price. 

 A noteworthy feature in the carnation 

 market is an improvement in the demand 

 for ordinary grades. Whites continue 

 to sell better than colored varieties, ex- 

 cept the fancies. 



The New Dahlia Co. 



As announced in the Review exclusive- 

 ly a few weeks ago, L. K. Peacock has 

 completed the incorporation of his new. 

 dahlia company. The following details 

 are now for the first time given out: 

 The business was founded by L. K. Pea- 

 cock in 1885, was purchased by W. P. 

 Peacock in 1892; one half interest was 

 purchased by L. K. Peacock in 1893 

 and the business continued under the firm 

 name of W. P. Peacock. L. K. Peacock 

 purchased the interest of W. P. Peacock 

 in August, 1904, and the firm name was 

 changed to L. K. Peacock and incorpo- 

 rated as above December 14, 1904. The 

 authorized capital is $50,000. The offi- 

 cers are: L. K. Peacock president, W, 

 P. Peacock vice-president, A. M. Peacock 

 treasurer, G. E. Cain secretary; direct- 

 ors, L. K. Peacock, Atco, N. J.; W. P. 

 Peacock, Atco, N. J. ; Thomas B. Hall, 

 Camden, N. J.; Samuel S. Pennock, Phil- 

 adelphia; Adam Schlorer, Berlin, N. J. 

 The many lovers of dahlias will wish 

 Mr. Peacock all success in his broader 

 venture. 



Acacia Pubescens. 



This beautiful flower is the novelty of 

 the present market. The Leo Niessen Co. 

 has been fortunate in securing the en- 

 tire stock which is grown by W. & Harry 

 F. Evans, of Rowlandville. They have 

 three large specimens, probably seven feet 

 high and fully twice as broad. They are 

 literally covered with the fine yellow 

 blooms, exquisitely graceful and contrast- 

 ing harmoniously with the delicate green 

 foliage. These acacias are planted out 

 in the ground and as the growers were 



