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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Mabch 23, 100&. 



EASTER ORDERS 



Easter is only four weeks away and it is time to think of what you will need* We want you to ^et 

 our figures on your requirementk before you let any other house book your order. We think we can make 

 it to your interest to leave your orders with us* 



We are booking: orders now for Longiflorums at $125.00 per 1000. Our lilies are packed in boxes at 

 the greenhouses and shipped in ori8:inaI packag:es without rehandling:^thus insuring; you fine stock. 



A new crop of Tancy Double White Lilac now in, $1.00 per doz. 



S. L. RANDALL CO. 



21 Randolph St. Wholesale Florists, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Mention Tlie Review when yoa write. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Conditions are somewhat improved 

 from our last report. Prices are lower 

 in most cases, owing to the increased 

 quantity being marketed, but as a raJe 

 goods have tsleared out remarkably well 

 for the Lenten season. Eoses are more 

 abundant and poorer grades inclined to 

 be "druggy." Top quality Brides and 

 Maids have dropped to $12. Those sell- 

 ing at $4 to $6 are in the best demand. 

 Some very fine hybrids have been com- 

 ing in of late from several growers. In 

 addition to Brunners, some extra g(H>A 

 Jacqs., Laings and Luizets are noted. 

 Prices vary all the way froM $5 to $30 

 according to quality. 



Carnations are very abundant and sail- 

 ing lower. Mrs. Patten brings extra 

 good prices, selling higher than Enchant- 

 ress. Quite a number of Lawsons are 

 coming in off color. Shading will be 

 needed for this and Enchantress now as 

 our days become hotter. Violets are 

 still quite plentiful, although singles are 

 easing off. Growers of good stock secure 

 50 cents readily. Callas and Easter 

 lilies are both abundant. Sweet peas 

 are extra fine and sell well. Bulbous 

 stock is abundant but sells better than 

 for some years. 



Hortkfiltural Society. 



A discussion on vegetables closed the 

 lecture season at Horticultural Hall on 

 March 18. W. W. Eawson opened the 

 discussion with a very interesting paper. 

 He stated that over 1,700 vegetable grow- 

 ers ship their production to the Boston 

 market, which is one of the most critical 

 in the country. An animated discussion 

 followed the reading of Mr. Eawson 's 

 paper, in which a number of prominent 

 growers took part. 



The star feature of the spring exhi- 

 bition and rose show is undoubtedly M. 

 H. "Walsh's wonderful display of Bam- 

 bler and other roses. Many of these are 

 in tubs and seven to eight feet high. 

 Such a collection has assuredly never 

 been seen before at any show in America. 

 Waban Conservatories, W. H. Elliott, 

 Briarcliff Greenhouses and other promi- 

 nent growers compete in the rose classes. 

 Exhibitors in the numferous other plant 

 and cut flower classes include Lager & 

 Hurrell, Julius Eoehrs, Colonel C. Pfaff, 

 Geo. F. Fabyan, E. J. Mitton, Mrs. J. I* 

 Gardner, Bussey Institution, E. A. 

 ClxuJte, J. _L. Ames estate, .Wm. Nichol- 



son, Patten & Co. and numerous others. 

 A full illustrated report will appear in 

 next week's Review. , 



Florists' Qubw 



Some twenty-five members of the Gard- 

 eners ' and Florists' Club made a post- 

 poned trip to Arlington on March 18 to 

 inspect the vegetable houses of War- 

 ren "W. Eawson. The party was met 

 on arrival by Mr. Ilawson, who conduct- 

 ed them over his extensive establishment. 

 Everything in the houses was found in 

 fine condition anu the visitors marvelled 

 at the magnitude of the vegetable grow- 

 ing industry as illustrated by one of 

 the many plants located in Arlington. 

 The two principal crops grown are cu- 

 cumbers and lettuce. The strain of the 

 former as grown here is admittedly with- 

 out superior. The largest of the cucum- 

 ber houses is 50x400, an adjoining one 

 being 50x350, and all the remaining ones 

 of large size. Extra large sized glass, 

 20x30, is used in the cucumber houses. 

 Mr. Eawson stated that returns from 

 his largest cucumber house have been 

 as much as $10,000 in a season. Hives 

 of bees are placed in the house at inter- 

 vals to fertilize the flowers. 



Many thousands of dozens of lettuce 

 were seen in various stages, all being a 

 selected strain of Tennis Ball. Some 

 1,200 hotbed sashes are also filled with 

 them. In addition to cucumbers and let- 

 tuce, quantities of radishes, parsley and 

 beets were noted. Heating for the vege- 

 table houses is wholly by steam and 

 water is warmed in the winter season ere 

 being applied to the vegetable crops. 



In addition to vegetables, numerous 

 houses are filled with bedding plants, 

 palms, ferns, Easter lilies, spiraeas and 

 other plants. A large proportion of these 

 are handled at the store in Faneuil Hall 

 Square, Boston, while a retail flower 

 store for handling most of the cut 

 floVvers is located near the greenhouses, 

 a large business being done in funeral 

 and other classes of work. 



Those interested in live stock had an 

 opportunity of inspecting 700 hogs of 

 the Yorkshire breed. Some 3,000 more 

 are kept at a farm in New Hampshire. 

 Twenty-five splendid horses are kept to 

 do the necessary teaming, ploughing, 

 etc. Outside of the greenhouses 100 

 acres are planted to vegetable crops in 

 Arlington. At West Bedford, Mass., 

 sixty acres additional are planted and 

 Mr. Eawson has several additional ones 

 in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 

 all of which.wouldi go to prove that his 



various big enterprises show him to be 

 a genuine hustling Yankee. 



William H. Elliott, the well known 

 Brighton rose grower was the speaker 

 at a largely attended club meeting on 

 March 21. Mr. Elliott described some 

 of his experiences in a recent West 

 Indian trip made in company with N. 

 F. McCarthy. Several new members were 

 elected and the meeting was an excellent 

 one in every respect. 



Various Notes. 



Jos. Tailby, ot Wellesley, is shippins 

 in excellent Spanish iris, anemones ano 

 ranunculi to the Music Hall market. 



Sidney Hoffmann has opened the store 

 recently bought from Mrs. Sutherland on 

 Bromfield street, after a thorough over- 

 hauling, and is doing a fine business 

 there. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club has 

 received invitations to visit the well 

 known pot factory of A. H. Hews & 

 Co., in Cambridge and the establishment 

 of E. N. Peirce & Co., Waltham, Mass. 



Jeremiah Horrigan, of East Foxboro, 

 died otL March 17 of cancer of the stom- 

 ach, axter a long illness. Mr. Horri- 

 gan came to America from Ireland about 

 fifty years ago. During a large portion 

 of that time he worked on private places 

 in Brookline and elsewhere. TNyenty 

 years ago he settled in East Foxboro 

 and established what proved to be a flour- 

 ishing florists' business, violets being his 

 great specialty. In the culture of these 

 he was very successful. Mr. Horrigan 's 

 widow and two sons survive him. Funeral 

 services were held in Brookline on March 

 20, a delegation being present from the 

 Park street market, at which he was .a 

 stallholder. A handsome floral souvenir 

 came from his market confreres, who re- 

 gret the passing of an honorable, well 

 spent life. 



W. W. Eawson says electric light will 

 forward crops of lettuce and cucumbers 

 about fifteen per cent and make them of 

 better quality, more especially the 

 cucumbers. 



H. A. Stevens wears a pleasant smile 

 these days. Mushrooms are selling read- 

 ily at $1 per pound wholesale and aa 

 he has a grand lot of them in bearing of 

 the pure culture brand, with others still 

 to come, he naturally feels happy. 



Carbone, on Boylston street, is show- 

 ing some finely flowered tree peonies. He 

 has sontiB handsome specimens of the 

 bright yellow Ghent azalea, altaclerensis, 

 which sell well. He had a very pretty if 

 deceptive window effect of Tulip La 



