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The Weekly Florists' ReviewT 



March 2, 1906. 



We Produce First Grade Stock in Sucii Great Quantities that 



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FOR SELECT STOCK AT ANY TIME. 



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Bztn long stem perdoz., $5.00toS6.00 



ao-inctaitem .. *M 



ai-inobitem .. 800 



ao-inob Item .. 2.60 



U-lnoti stem .. 200 



12-liicli Item .. 1-60 



S4nobstem 100 



Brideimald per lOO, $6.00 to 10.00 



Bride •' e.OOtolO.OO 



OoldenGate " O.OOto 10.00 



Obatensy " e.OOtolO.OO 



Liberty " e.OOtolO.OO 



Meteor " e.OOtolO.OO 



Oamatlons, good . " 2.00 



fancy " 8.00 



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All other stock at loweat aMrfcet rate*— No charge for packlag. Prkaa aabjact to chaage wKheiit aotke. 



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Mention The Review when you write. 



sending a fine lot of Harrisii and callas, 

 which sell well. He reports quite «a lot 

 of funeral work the past week. 



Bowling. 



The florist bowlers resumed bowling 

 on Monday night after a long rest. El- 

 lison, Kuehn and Beneke, who are bowl- 

 ing in the league, will join them at the 

 end of the league season. The scoring 

 Monday were as follows: 



Player 1st 2d 3d T'l 



Fred Meinhardt "I 143 161 445 



Theo. Miller 153 60 121 434 



R" P Wpber 129 150 152 431 



^rank BIIIb' H2 161 122 426 



f!«rl Bever 137 S*9 IW Aio 



^ Gwlael. 94 80 UO 290 



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BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The past week can be classed as a 

 very satisfactory one all around. The 

 weather has been less severe. Street 

 salesmen have been able to ply their vo- 

 cation and there has been little surplus 

 of anything. Eoses continue in rather 

 short sujJply and command good prices, 

 still much the same as a week ago. Lib- 

 erties are selling well and are not plen- 

 tiful, select stock fetching $30 to $35 

 per hundred. Carnations clean out re- 

 markably well without any particular 

 change in prices. Violets are coming 

 in very abundantly. About 50 cents is 

 top price, poorer grades bringing 25 and 

 30 cents. The size of the foliage on 

 tha bunches would indicate that the 

 single varieties will soon run out in 

 the houses except where kept very cold. 



Bulbous stock has not sold so well 

 for years. There appears to be just 

 about enough to go around. Yellow 

 Trumpet narcissi are a trifle lower. Tu- 

 lips remain about the same, the variety 

 La Reine being especially popular. Cal- 

 las are quite abundant and lilies more 

 plentiful. Prices on these remain about 

 the same. Ten-week stocks in several 

 colors, Spiraea Japonica and antinhi- 

 nums come from some growers but do 

 not seem to sell especially well. 



Hortictiltural Society. 



On February 25 J. Woodward Man- 

 ning opened a general discussion on 

 flowers in lieu of the regular lecture, 

 dealing principally with perennial flow- 

 ering plants and ornamental trees and 

 shrubs. Asked for a selection of twelve 

 first-class perennials to grow Mr. Man- 

 ning ni^ed the following: Primula 

 vulgaris, Veronica rupestris, Convallaria 



majalis, Iris Germanica, Hemerocallls 

 vflava. Delphinium hybridum, Phlox pani- 

 culata. Pajonias officiaialisB .and, Festiva 

 maxima, Lupinus polyphyllus, Helian- 

 thus deeapetalus, Pyrethrum uliginosum. 

 Asters Novae-Anglise, William Bowman 

 and Lady Trevellyn, Veronica longi- 

 folia subsessilis and Anemone Japonica 

 as among the best subjects to choose 

 from. His selection of a dozen flower- 

 ing shrubs would comprise: Prunus 

 triloba, Forsythia Fortunei, Spiraea 

 Thunbergi, Philadelphus coronarius, Vi- 

 burnum plicatum, Pavia maerostachya, 

 Lonicera Morrowi, Rosa rugosa, Hy- 

 drangea paniculata grandiflora, Berberis 

 Thunbergi, Desmodium penduliflorum 

 and Syringa Rothomagensis. Messrs. A. 

 A. Hixon, E. O. Orpet. R. Cameron, D. 

 Finlayson and K. Pinlayson took part in 

 the discussion which followed. About 

 200 persons listened attentively to the 

 various speakers. 



On March 4 A. Herrington lectures 

 on "Some Aspects of Hardy Flower 

 Gardening," which will undoubtedly 

 draw a large audience. Peter Murray 

 will stage a splendid collection of den- 

 drobium plants in some thirty varieties 

 and species at this meeting. W. N. 

 Craig will show a group of phalaenopsis. 



At the lecture on February 11, when 

 Dr. Geo. D. Moore lectured on "Bac- 

 teria as Fertilizers" the audience num- 

 bered 446. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Qub. 



The meeting on February 21, already 

 briefly referred to, was a very success- 

 ful one. Sixty-seven memDers were 

 present and seven were elected to mem- 

 bership during the evening. ~ Ex-presi- 

 dent Pettigrew sent a letter 'resigning 

 the presidency of the reception com- 

 mittee, which, however, he was induced 

 to retain ere the meeting closed. An 

 amendment to the by-laws relating to 

 the election of officers was defeated. A 

 committee of five was appointed to re- 

 port on the form of awards to be given 

 by the club. The committee consists of 

 Messrs. Farquhar, Stewart, Craig, Peter 

 Fisher and Merton. 



W. W. Rawson's lecture on the cul- 

 ture of vegetables under glass as com- 

 pared with twenty-five years ago was 

 very 'interesting and led to a lively dis- 

 cussion. Mr. Rawson said when he 

 started in business twenty-five years ago 

 with 200 sash, everyone predicted the 

 poorhouse for him. However, he now 

 has thirty-six large houses. At lea-st 

 twenty times as many vegetables were 

 grown under glass as compared with a 

 quarter of a century earlier. No vege- 



table growing plant is up-to-date whicli 

 >do^9, ^lot use steam heat. He has no 

 use, for h^t ■ water, classing hot water' 

 boilers as mere tea kettles. He has for 

 years done all his own building and 

 piping. His largest house, covering half 

 an acre, has a 3-inch main and ten re- 

 turns with five pounds pressure. It 

 cost about $150 to sterilize this house. 

 He sterilizes all his compost and it well 

 repays for the labor incurred. He con- 

 siders that sterilization gives him prac- 

 tically virgin soil. Speaking of eucum 

 her prices, he said they paid best at $7 

 to $8 per hundred, rather than the higher 

 prices, where you can pick from 10,000 

 to 15,000 daily. He consider? 40x250 

 a good size for a vegetable house and 

 a man with several of that size ought 

 to have no trouble in succeeding. 



Quite a number of members joined in 

 the discussion. Alexander Montgomery 

 said John N. May sterilizes all his rose 

 soil for best results. He advocated 

 high, roomy houses as being more eco- 

 nomical to build and best as compared 

 with an equal area of smaller ones. 

 Messrs. Finlayson, Peter Fisher. Duncan, 

 Craig, Cole and others also discussed the 

 subject and a cordial vote of thanks 

 was tendered to Mr. Rawson. 



Exhibits on the table included Rosa- 

 lind Orr English rose and Cardinal car- 

 ration from E. G. Hill Co. These ar- 

 rived in splendid condition and the 

 former especially was greatly admired. 

 Each was awarded a certificate of merit. 

 A. Roper had a nice vase "of Carnation 

 Chester Roper, a good striped variety, 

 which received honorable mention. Geo. 

 M. Anderson had some promising carna- 

 tion seedlings and cineraria flowers and 

 H. A. Stevens Co. had a vase of fine 

 Flamingo. Alexander Ogg showed cut 

 blooms of some very superior seedling 

 amaryllises, also sprays of Jasminum 

 primulinum. T. H. Westwood had a 

 plant of Canna Admiral Dewey. 



At the next club meeting, on March 

 21, which comes two days prior to the 

 opening of the spring "show and Rose 

 Society's exhibition, roses will be dis- 

 cussed. Several notable rose growers 

 from a distance will be present. 



Various Notes. 



Alexander Montgomery is visiting 

 prominent rose growers in New York 

 and New Jersey this week to interest 

 them in the coming meeting of the 

 American Rose Society. M. H. Walsh's 

 exhibit of his seedling rambler roses at 

 the coming exhibition will be a notable 

 one, far surpassing his collection shown 

 in 1904. He will forward two car-loads 



