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CURRENT PRICES 

 For Week of April 6 to April 13. 1905. 



ROSB8. Perdoz. 



▲m. Beauty-80 to 36 Incbes. . . .13.00 to St.OO 



24 incties 2.00 



20 inches 1.50 



16 inches 1.00 



12incbeB .75 



tibort fiOto .75 



Per 100 



Brides. Maids. Gates $3.00 to 16.00 



Roses, our selection 2.00 



Liberty 4.00to 8.00 



Cbatenay 4.00to SM 



CARNATIONS. 



FftDcy S.00 



tioodaverasre l.SOto 2.00 



Fair itock, for barRain sales, 



(onr selection) per lOiO. 10.00 



Vallsy 2.00to 8.00 



Violets 40to .76 



OaJlas 8.00IO 12.00 



Paper Whites, Romans 8.00 



Harrisii lO.OOto 12.00 



Tulips, Oaftodils 2.00to 4.00 



SweetPeas 75to 1.M 



Miinionette 85to .76 



Adianttim 1.00 



Oreen Leacotboe Sprays .76 



Red Leuootboe Sprays 1.00 



Asparagus PlumosuB Sprays... 2.00 to 5.00 



AsparaKoa Sprengeri 2.00 to 6.00 



AsparaKUB Plumosus, per string .26 to .CO 



Oommon Ferns per 1000, 2.60 



Galax Leaves, bronze.. 1.25 



Galax Leaves, green... l.oo 



Smiiax perdoc. l.SOto 2.00 



Jonquils. $2.00 to t6.00 per 1000. 

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Such hybrids as are coming in bring very 

 fair prices. Carnations are arriving in 

 enormous quantities; from $1 to $2.50 

 are the prices, according to quality, a 

 few extra select going iiigher. Single 

 violets are getting scarce, but doubles 

 are still abundant. From 75 cents down 

 to 300 for $1 are usual quotations. Daf- 

 fodils remain about the same, but theie 

 is less call for tulips. Some very good 

 Spanish iris is coming in, selling all the 

 way from 75 cents to .$1.50 i)er hundred. 

 The demand for this flower, strange to 

 say, is not very good. Callas and Easter 

 lilies are abundant and lower. Asparagus 

 and ferns remain about the same. 



Various Notes. 



Ten new members were elected to mem- 

 bership in the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society at a meeting of the board 

 of directors on April 1. Messrs. Henri 

 de Vilmorin, Philip do Vilmorin and 

 James H. Veitch were elected honorary 

 corresponding members. The secretary 

 was asked to write to "'the presidents of 

 the Carnation and Rose Societies to see 

 if it would be possible to have the two 

 societies meet at the same time in Boston 

 in 1906. Quite a number of prominent 

 growers would like to see the two con- 

 ventions meet together if a date agree- 

 able to each could be arranged. We 

 believe the two societies have never pre- 

 viously met in the same city in the 

 same year and this would appear to be a 

 splendid opportunity for them to hold a 

 joint exhibition. It would undoubtedly 

 draw a very much larger attendance of 

 the members of both societies than could 

 possibly be secured at separate conven- 

 tions. More particularly is this true of 

 western and southern growers, a good 

 many of whom grow and are interested in 

 both flowers. If those who are exclusive- 

 ly carnation or rose growers will but be 

 willing to forward or set back the dates 

 of their meetings a little there is no rea- 

 son why a satisfactory arrangement can- 

 not be made to join hands for once. 



Welch Bros, are distributing agents for 

 plants of the popular Killarney rose. 

 They report this rose as a fine seller and 

 wonderful keeper. They are receiving ex- 

 ceptionally fine Queen of Edgely from the 



Floral Exchange, Philadelphia, which 

 they say sell well now, when Beauties are 

 hard to move. 



E. Sutermeister is shipping extra well 

 grown Spira?a astilboides and the variety 

 superba to the Park street market. 



C. E. Diekerman, Dorchester, and John 

 Husband, of Cambridge, are sending fine 

 cinerarias to the new market. Hoffman, 

 at the same stand, has a fine assortment 

 of azaleas and rhododendrons. 



Oswald Ralph, of South Weymouth, has 

 a seedling carnation, the result of a cross 

 between a white seedling and Maceo, 

 which is very promising. The color is a 

 light magenta showing well under artifi- 

 cial light. 



Galvin had one of the windows at his 

 Tremont street store filled with extra 

 fine Gardenia florida the past week. 



Anderson & Williams are bringing in a 

 fine assortment of well flowered tea and 

 hybrid perpetual roses in pots to the new 

 market, which sell well. 



Farquhars, among other bulbous stock, 

 have some of the fine double orange tulip, 

 Cairrone d'Or which seems to take the 

 popular fancy. At the recent exhibition 

 it was the most admired tulip shown. 

 Those who have no^ grown it should give 

 it a trial. 



Robert Miller is at East Brookfieid, 

 Mass., and not East Bridgewater, as 

 stated in last week's notes. 



Sim & Kidder are still shipping quan- 

 tities of grand Princess of Wales violets 

 to the Park street market. Sim's sweet 

 peas, which command top priees, are su- 

 perb. Burpee's new Sunbeams, of prim- 

 rose color, are very fine with him. 



Weather conditions have at last al- 

 lowed us to get sweet peas and a* few 

 other early seeds into the ground. It is 

 seldom the ground is so dry at this sea- 

 son. Our winter rains were very scant 

 indeed and for the benefit of vegetation 

 we hope the arrears of precipitation wul 

 be forthcoming ere long. 



Indications point to a rather heavy loss 

 in trees and shrubs from the lale winter. 

 Recently planted evergreens seem to have 

 suffered severely. A dry fall and winter, 

 added to the prolonged cold, is respons- 

 ible for these conditions. 



W. N. Craig. 



CLEVELAND. 



The Market 



We have just passed through the 

 ferocious month of March, with its sup- 

 posed piercing winds and howling bliz- 

 zards. I can say that the month past 

 was remarkable for its calmness and 

 serenity. Sunshine was in great abun- 

 dance, which, in addition to the thermom- 

 eter hovering between 70 and 80 degrees, 

 made stock plentiful. It looked at 

 times as if a great glut would result, 

 but the bright, warm weather was aa 

 incentive to the public to purchase the 

 beautiful, irrespective of the Lenten sea- 

 son, which always has an effect on the 

 market. 



Business, generally speaking, is fair, 

 with an abundance of high grade flow- 

 ers. Prices remain firm on some special 

 lines, but as a rule are away below par. 

 Beauties are in good demand, at from 

 $1 to $4 per dozen. Home-grown blooms 

 are superior to shipped stock. Tea roaes 

 are not over-abundant and average from 

 3 to 8 cents. Meteor is of good color 

 and quality at the same price. Carna- 

 tions are still in heavy supply. Priees 

 range from $10 to $30 per thousand, 

 most of them going at the former priee. 



A prominent bank opening on the 

 west side created quite a furor in the 

 carnation market on April 1. Twelve 

 thousand carnations. Beauties and tea, 

 roses by the hundreds were used. Ebd 

 it not been for this special demand many 

 a consignment would have gone by the 

 way. 



The plant trade is quite brisk and 

 many very fine azaleas, lilies, genistas 

 and pans of bulbous stock grace the re- 

 tailers' windows. Particularly notice- 

 able were some pans of Murillo tulips is 

 Collins & Harrison's store. 



Various Notes. 



The J. M. Gasser Co. is making an 

 elegant display of great variety. Some 

 very fine roses from the Rocky River 

 plant adorn the windows, while some 

 well grown plants play an effective part. 



Smith & Fetters are in the midst of a 

 moving "bee" but are still doing busi- 



