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TheWeekly Rwists' Review. 



Mat 11. 1006. 



DES MOINES, lA. 



W. L. Morris BMycrapt. 



On May 5 W. L, Morris filed a volun- 

 tary petition in bankruptcy in the United 

 States court. He gives his liabilities as 

 $9,446.61 and schedules no assets. 



The Morris greenhouse establishment 

 is distinct from the Morris-Blair Floral 

 Co., which is the retail end of the con- 

 cern and is apparently doing an excel- 

 lent business. There is without doubt 

 a field for such a store here, as a local 

 census just completed shows a popula- 

 tion of 74,178 and the community is one 

 of the best in the country. All busi- 

 ness is good here and financial wrecks 

 are the result of bad seamanship rather 

 than dangerous waters. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Business has been very quiet during 

 the past week, with an oversupply of 

 most flowers coming in. The quality of 

 both roses and carnations is deteriorating 

 with the warmfer weather. Beauties are 

 abundant, the best bringing $15 to $20 

 per hundred. A good many short-stenmied 

 ones are sold at low figures. A few ex- 

 tra select Brides and Bridesmaids make 

 $8, but as a rule $6 has been as much as 

 good stock would bring. Grades selling 

 at $2 to $3 are in best demand, short- 

 stemmed ones going for $1. Carnations 

 are somewhat lower. A few Lawson, 

 Harry Fenn and other colored sorts have 

 made $3, but as a rule $1.50 to $2 has 

 bought good stock, ordinary and poor 

 grades going as low as 50 \o 75 cents. 

 Some double violets are still coming in 

 from one or two growers. Thomas Peg- 

 ler had 10,000 on May 6 of nice quality. 

 Prices average 75 cents. 



Sweet peas are the best selling flowers 

 at present. People are naturally getting 

 tired of roses and carnations and buy 

 these freely. Prices hold at 50 cents to 

 $1 for good stock. William Sim has 

 some 10,000 daily and other growers of- 

 fer large quantities, but not enough for 

 the demand. In addition to Mont Blanc 

 and Earliest of All, quite- a number of 

 other sorts are now coming in, including 

 the new^ Gladys Unwin, which is of a 

 soft, bright pink color. Bulbous stock 

 sells very well. A good portion of it now 

 comes from outdoors. Lily of the valley 

 sells very well and is not over-abundant. 

 Callas and lilies move slowly. Some very 

 good gladioli is coming in, the best mak- 

 ing $5 to $6. t 



Variods Notes. 



The Boston Public Gardens are very at- 

 tractive just now with the annual tulip 

 display, some hundreds of thousands of 

 which are in flower. 



Bedding plant trade is now getting 

 very brisk. These seem to be handled in 

 every imaginable kind of store. 



The forsythias are blooming magnifi- 

 cently this season in this section. Those 

 in the parkways and arboretum are a 

 beautiful sight at present. Magnolias 

 and other spring flowering subjects are 

 also in fine flower. 



Warren Fenno, of Bevere, who died on 

 April 28, aged 50 years, was one of the 

 most expert fruit growers in Massa- 

 chusetts. He was elected chairman of 

 the fruit committee of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society last year and also 

 a member of the board of directors at 



'j^ '-m 



MEMORIAL DAY 



Is just as inpoftant to many of our Florat Fr iencis 

 as Qiristmas or Easter. WC OFFER t 



Our Specialty, Red Immortelle Wreaths. 



Immortelles in all colors, Immortelle Wreaths* 

 Metal Wreaths with Flowers, very handsome. 



Cycas Leaves and Wreaths, beautifully prepared. 

 Magnolia, Beech and Laurel Wreaths. 



Ruscus (Smilax-IIke) Wreaths,' very pretty. 

 Wheat Sheaves and Many Other Things 



^ ApproBJTjate tor this Holiday. 



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H. Bayersdorfer & Co. 



The Fiorists' Supply House of America 

 50-56 NORTH 4th ST. PHILADELPHIA 



Mention The BeTlew when 70a write. 



the last election. He had for years been 

 a large and successful exhibitor before 

 the society and his loss will be severely 

 felt. 



William E. Doyle states that in his 

 thirty-five years' experience in the flo- 

 rists' store business, no other rose has 

 proved so good a seller, since the earlier 

 days of Jacqueminot, as Eillamey. 

 He has disposed of as many as 1,700 

 flowers a day of this variety and all pur- 

 chasers attest to its wonderful keeping 

 qualities. 



The next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club occurs on May 16, 

 when Dr. B. T. Jackson will lecture on 

 peonies. A large attendance is expected. 



Bain is quite badly needed at present. 

 We had a dry fall and winter and the 

 spring rainfall has been far below the 

 average. A greater loss than usual in 

 spring planted trees and shrubs as a re- 

 sult of the drought is likely. The loss 

 in deciduous trees and shrubs from the 

 late winter was less than usual, but as 

 the season advances the destruction 

 among evergreens becomes more appar- 

 ent. 



Great regret among horticulturists of 

 all classes is felt at the death of Profes- 

 sor N. H. Goodell, president of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, 

 Mass. The deceased, who had been in 

 failing health, spent the last winter in 

 Florida and died on his way home from 

 there on April 23. Professor Goodell did 

 much toward advancing horticulture 

 along scientific lines as a director of the 

 Hatch Experiment Station and was al- 

 ways welcomed as a lecturer before the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural and kindred 

 societies. He had presided over the col- 

 lege at Amherst for nineteen years. His 

 loss will be severely felt. 



Intelligence of the death of James 

 Bough, one of the oldest, most highly es- 

 teemed and successful of our city flo- 

 rists, reached us just too late for the last 

 issue of the Beview. Mr. Bough died 

 on the night of May 2, of pneuibonia, 

 after a sickness of ten days' duration. 

 A Scot by birth, the deceased came to 



America in 1871, working for C. M. At- 

 kinson on the John L. Gardner estate in 

 Brookline. After a year's work on 

 private estates he entered the commer- 

 cial end of floriculture and for many 

 years operated a store on Washington 

 street, moving to Huntington avenuei. 

 nearly opposite Horticultural hall, soon 

 after that building had been opened. 

 Here he had a well equipped store, which 

 always looked attractive and where he 

 did a large and increasing business. All 

 those who had business relations wit]v 

 him speak of him as a strictly honest 

 and upright man and deplore his loss. 



Mr. Bough was in his fifty-eighth year 

 and well preserved for his years. He 

 leaves two daughters and a son. The lat- 

 ter, James, Jr., better known as ' ' Jim, ' ' 

 is manager of the Music Hall Flower 

 Market at present, and will, we trust,, 

 prove a worthy successor to his lamented 

 father. At the funeral services on May 

 5 there was a very large gathering, in- 

 cluding many of his former business as- 

 sociates. The numerous and beautiful 

 floral souvenirs bore tribute to the es- 

 teem in which he was held. 



A familiar greeting among carnation- 

 ists these days seems to be, "Has your 

 Fiancee shown up yett" Beplies gen- 

 erally appear to be in the negative. 



Everyone anticipates a big Memorial 

 day business. This is the one holiday in 

 the year when everything in the shape of 

 a flower goes. From orders already 

 booked by fiie large growers, there would 

 seem to be a heavier demand than ever. 



Welch Bros., as usual, are prepared for 

 a record breaking Memorial day trade 

 and they will handle an enormous quan- 

 tity of cut flowers in all seasonable va- 

 rieties. They hope all needing stock will 

 place orders early, as late comers are 

 likely to be disappointed. They report 

 good orders for plants of Killamey rose. 



The Arboretum Flower Store, on Boyl- 

 ston street, has extra good lots of izias 

 and Gladiolus Colvillei, both white and 

 colored varieties, better grown than are 

 usually seen. 



Seed merchants express themselves at 



