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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



March 16, 1906. 



teresting essay on "The Rose in Dec- 

 orative Art." It was a fine effort and 

 merited the enthusiastic vote of thanks. 



In the question box for the April meet- 

 ing were the queries : ' ' Why are car- 

 nation growers more progressive than 

 rose growers?" "Is floriculture in the 

 United States as far advanced as in 

 Europe?" "What is the most valuable 

 plant in the memory of the club?" This 

 will also be Easter plant night. 



Chairman Nugent provided as a fitting 

 close to the evening a fine lunch and 

 •ntertainment of music and song. 



Varioof Notes. 



John Scott, of Flatbush, has 10,000 

 longittorums in pots lield back for the 

 Easter demand, which have been so care- 

 fully timed as to be at their best on 

 April 20. Mr. Scott will have a good 

 stock of roses, spiraeas and hydrangeas, 

 while his Scottii fern will still occupy 

 the place of honor. He anticipates a 

 call for 200,000 of the young stock from 

 2^-inch pots this season. 



J. K. Allen handles oceans of sweet 

 peas weekly in a dozen varieties. His 

 grower at Grand View, N. J., has named 

 a new cerise after him that seems to be 

 a general favorite, the demand being for 

 the pink in preference to other kinds. 

 The limit in value seems to be $6 a 

 hundred bunches. 



Henry Eamm, of Secaueus, one of 

 Mr. Fenrich's growers, died last Friday. 



On Wednesday of this week Jas. Mc- 

 Hutchison and Miss Grace Edgar, daugh- 

 ter of W. W. Edgar, were married at 

 the home of the bride's parents at 

 Waverly, Mass. 



Geo. L. Olney, bookkeeper for one of 

 the Twenty-eighth street wholesalers, is 

 giving temperance and evangelical talks 

 with stereopticon views several evenings 

 each week in New York and Brooklyn. 



Leonard Barron is now on the editorial 

 staff of Doubleday, Page & Co. 



These are "halcyon days" with the 

 nurserymen. Immense plantings are 

 already contracted for and the demand 

 will gladden- the enterprising hearts of 

 all the growers in this vicinity. 



The departure of winter signalizes the 

 recovery of many who have suffered the 

 prevailing diseases of this fickle climate. 

 Mr. Walter, of Stumpp & Walter Co., is 

 convalescent and Jack Gunther was con- 

 sidered out of danger on Saturday. 



Elliott opened the auction season 

 Tuesday with a good attendance, smiling 

 skies and some excellent conifers, rhodo- 

 dendrons and hardy rose importations. 



Hitehings & Co. will shortly remove 

 from their Mercer street offices to more 

 convenient quarters in the uptown dis- 

 trict. 



Charles Totty, of Madison, reports his 

 second large order for mum novelties 

 from the Emperor of .Tapan, for the im- 

 perial gardens at Tokio. He also won 

 the gum boots for high bowling score at 

 Madison last week, so " everything seema 

 to be coming his way. ' ' 

 - The veterans, John N. May and Jnlius 

 Roehrs, Sr., are both enjoying renewed 

 health. Mr. Boehrs has just returned 

 from his trip south. 



Bowling. 



Next Monday evening on the New 

 York alleys, the Hobokenland—Ne 

 • teams v v ill^oll ott'~their tie match, and 

 the following Saturday evening at New- 

 ark, Madison and New York will roll 

 their deciding game. Following is this 

 week's score: 



Kessler 172 131 164 



Slebrecht 167 179 129 



Maiida 168 128 142 



Holt 114 IBl 



liaiig 154 114 



Shaw 164 142 102 



Guttniari 138 155 179 



HiUterfleld 100 131 100 



Leiiker 81 



Pepper 9e 



Dunuldson 136 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Conditions show some improvement 

 since our last report. A very large quan- 

 tity of stock is coming in and, while we 

 continue to have some "druggy" days, 

 the market has cleaned out quite well on 

 the whole. On March 11 hardly any- 

 thing remained unsold. Roses are rather 



Something was the matter with 

 my Saturday's mail the past two 

 weeks, no 



Enclosed is another dollar for sub- 

 scription. I had no intention of 

 getting along without the Review; 

 tiut would be shortsightedness. The 

 Pronouncing Dictionary alone was 

 much more value than the dollar. 

 It was pure neglect on my part. 

 This week's paper makes three that 

 I will need to complete my file. 



T. D. BROWN. 

 Adams, Mass. 



more plentiful and, while they have 

 dropped a little in price, they clean out 

 well. Quality is first-class. Beauties, es- 

 pecially, are coming extra good. Car- 

 nations are in very heavy supply. From 

 $2 to $3 has been the average for good 

 stock, inferior grades making only half 

 this. Violets continue to arrive in enor- 

 mous quantities, but have improved some- 

 what in price, the best making .50 cents. 

 Some very fine frame-grown Princess of 

 Wales are now arriving of splendid color. 

 Bulbous stock has sold fairly well, daf- 

 fodils clearing out especially well. Cal- 

 las are very abundant and cheaper. Lily 

 of the valley remains about the same. 

 There is the usual miscellaneous assort- 

 ment of other spring flowers now coming 

 in. Adiantum is of better quality. 

 Prices on green stock remain about the 

 same. 



Horticultural Society. 



A large audience assembled to listen 

 to the lecture by Miss Maud Summers 

 on "The Return to Nature," on March 

 n. Miss Summers is a fine elocutionist.. 

 She jpoke_eiitirely--eKtempoTe~aii(Fl?ould 

 clearly in every part of the hall. 

 Her lecture was one of the most schol- 

 arly; eloquent -and instructive the so- 

 ciety has ever had. She advocated the 

 extension of school gardens and more na- 

 ture study in the schools. She said the 



'TTrtr^ "beTieard 



farm school, with its plots for forest trees, 

 fruit trees, vegetables and flower gar- 

 dens, lawns, playgrounds, etc., should be 

 given a fair trial also, and is bound to 

 do great good. 



A discussion on vegetables on March 

 18 will close the regular lecture course 

 of the society. The increasing interest 

 in horticultural topics has been illustrated 

 by the largest attendances in the history 

 of the society. 



Entries continue to come in freely for 

 the spring exhibition and rose show. 

 That it will be a pronounced success is 

 a certainty. Everyone interested seems 

 brimful of enthusiasm over the pros- 

 pects. Any who have failed to send no- 

 tice of entries should do so without fur- 

 ther delay, as the space at command is 

 going to be taxed to the utmost. 



The banquet to be tendered by the 

 horticultural interests of Boston to the 

 visiting members of the American Rose 

 Society, will be held at the Hotel Thorn- 

 dike on Friday evening, March 24, at 

 6:30 o 'clock. Tickets can be . procured 

 from the officers of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club and quite a number of 

 other members. 



Florists' Qub. 



It had been hoped that E. G. Hill 

 would be able to speak at the next meet- 

 ing of the Gardeners ' and Florists ' Club, 

 on March 21, but a recent communication 

 from him regrets that he can not giet 

 along in time, although he hopes to be 

 on hand for the rose show. It is ex- 

 pected that William H. Elliott will give 

 the club the benefit of some of his ex- 

 periences. A large attendance is expected 

 at this meeting. 



The field day of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club at Arlington, arranged for 

 March 11, was postponed to March 18, 

 owing to the funeral of Mrs. F. R. 

 ^lathison, of Waltham, occurring on the 

 former day. A delegation from the club 

 attended the funeral and the sincere sym- 

 pathy of the whole club and very many 

 others goes out to ^Ir. Mathison in his 

 bereavement. 



Various Notes. 



Harry, the youngest son of William 

 Nicholson, is now with the E. G. Hill 

 Co., Richmond, Ind., picking up horti- 

 cultural ideas in the Hoosier state. 



W. H. Wyman, of the Bay State Nur- 

 series, returned from an extended Euro- 

 pean trip on March 10. Mr. Wyman 

 bought a large quantity of choice nur- 

 sery stock in the several countries visited. 



Thomas Pegler, of the Park street mar- 

 ket, received news of his mother's death 

 in England the past week. \fr. Pegler and 

 his wife were planning a trip to Europe 

 this summer, which they had not seen for 

 a number of years, and his mother's 

 death has quite upset him. 



T. J. Grey has just recovered from a 

 rather serious sickness. 



Julius Heurlin, of the Blue Hill Nur- 

 series, reports orders for nursery stock 

 ahead of all previous years. Mr. Heurlin 

 has just issued a handsome catalogue. 



J. T. Butterworth is now sufficiently 

 recovered to be among his favorite or- 

 chids once more, and is j!orr£apQiidingly- 



Sweet peas now coming in are of splen- 

 did quality. Those from William Sim 

 and Malcolm Orr are superb. 



Shamrocks have been much in evidence 

 of late. Nearly every store shows a dis- 

 tinct variety, all labeled the "genuine 

 shamrock." W. N. Craig. 



