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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



June 1, 1905. 



William Nicholson had a fine house of 

 double feverfew for Memorial day. He 

 soon disposed of 1,200 bunches on May 

 27. He could not begin to fill orders for 

 marguerites. 



Wilfred Wheeler, of Concord, the sec- 

 retary of the Music Hall market, has 

 been chosen chairman of the fruit com- 

 mittee of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society in place of the late Warren 

 Fenno, 



Prof. C, S. Sargent has invited the 

 board of directors of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society to inspect the 

 Arnold Arboretum and his estate at 

 Holm Lea^ Brookline, on June 3. 



A £orist some thirty miles from Bos- 

 ton, who grew a bench of that good old 

 Calceolaria Go^en Gem in a cold bouse 

 found it paid him well for Memorial 

 day. Strange that it is not more grown. 

 As a pot plant it is of easy culture and 

 stands finely in a dwelling house. 



J. Tailby & Son have a fine batch of 

 Nicotiana Sanderee in bloom, also a nice 

 lot of their new yellow calla and of the 

 variety EUiottiana. 



A number of the florists paraded in 

 the Knights Templar procession in Bos- 

 ton on May 24. The wife of one of 

 these gentlemen, a well known rose grow- 

 er in Natick, thinks it was too late to 

 keep the parade on until midnight and 

 her husl^and away from home until 1:30 

 a. m. next day. 



At a meeting of the directors of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society on 

 May 27 it was voted to tender the use 

 of the hall to the American Carnation 

 Society on January 24 and 25 and to 

 the American Eose Society to meet once 

 more at the spring show in March. We 

 would have liked to see the two societies 

 unite next year, but all the same they 

 will be warmly received. 



A check for $1,000, a bequest of the 

 late John L. Chaffin, has been paid to 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 the interest to be devoted to prizes for 

 roses of merit. 



Unless we have warm weather during 

 the next few days it will probably be 

 necessary to postpone for a few days the 

 rhododendron show scheduled for June 3. 



A recent drive through the Arnold 

 Arboretum and parkways showed them 

 to be in fine condition considering the 

 extreme dryness of the season. In addi- 

 tion to the lilacs at the Arboretum the 

 hardy azaleas are very fine, those on 

 Hemlock Hill being especially brilliant, 

 rivaling in this respect any of the tender 

 Azalea Indica. These are of Japanese 

 origin and should be seen to be appre- 

 ciated. A florist who had such a dis- 

 play for Memorial day would be in a 

 seventh heaven of bliss. 



In both parkways and Arboretum we 

 noted a considerable death roll in trees 

 and shrubs. Oaks planted twenty-six 

 years were gone, large elms were dead, 

 also other varieties of many years ' stand- 

 ing. The cause of these deaths seems 

 rather inexplicable, as others of the same 

 varieties growing side by side were in 

 perfect health. 



Lord & Burnham are engaged at pres- 

 ent on following among other contracts: 

 H. r. Littlefield, Worcester, one rose and 

 one carnation house; Schlatter & Son, 

 Springfield, carnation house; Khode Is- 

 land Hospital, Providence, greenhouse 

 and workroom; P. M. Olin, Bath, Me., 

 two rose houses. 



Dr. H. P. Wolcott has been elected a 

 director of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society in place of the late Warren 

 Fenno. W. N. Craig. 



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PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market 



Decoration day for shops in the heart 

 of this city is quite a tame affair. It is 

 livelier, much livelier, for the places 

 near the cemeteries, while in many near- 

 by towns, notably in central Pennsyl- 

 vania, the volume of business is enor- 

 mous, larger than at any other time 

 during the entire year. This demand 

 from out of town was largely for peo- 

 nies and carnations, though other flowers 

 were used and some greens. To meet it 

 the wholesalers had an exceptionally 

 good supply of peonies and a supply of 

 carnations that left much to be desired, 

 both as to quality and quantity, really 

 good stock often being hard to obtain 

 at any price. 



A hurried look over the market leads 

 to the belief that Edward Swayne, of 

 Wawaset, has fairly won the highest 

 peony honors, his shipments of Festiva 

 maxima seen at Samuel S. Pennock's 

 being exceptionally fine. The best 

 brought $2 a dozen. Good ordinary 

 stock brought from $5 to $8 per hun- 

 dred. Carnations and lilies about doub- 

 led in price. Eoses, sweet peas and 

 other flowers merely stiffened a little. 

 There were a good many snowballs used 

 locally. I am inclined to think that the 

 volume of business will be found to have 

 exceeded that of past years. The out- 

 look for next week is very bright. 



A Half Hour 'With the Gjmmodore. 



"Are you lost?" was the Commodore's 

 greeting, as his visitor appeared in the 

 (loonvay of one of his houses. Every 

 florist in the country who has ever been 

 to an S. A. F. convention will want to 

 know just what the genial John West- 

 cott was doing and how his place looked. 

 Now, for the first question. The Com- 

 modore was not fishing, nor was he mix- 

 ing punch. The idea that proficiency in 

 these two fine arts is the result of un- 

 remitting effort is erroneous. Fisher- 

 men and punch mixers are born, not 

 made. The Commodore was selling geran- 



iums. This may seem to you a very 

 ordinary and commonplace occupation, 

 but if you could have been with me you 

 would not think so. The Commodore 

 had such a pleasant smile and such a 

 happy way of saying bright little things 

 that the lovely ladies were loath to leave 

 and bought, I fancied, more geraniums 

 tiian they had intended — and such gera- 

 niums I Not the everyday stock that 

 when sold at market price scarcely leaves 

 two pennies to rub together, but fine 

 plants with big trusses of bloom that 

 command fifty per cent over the usual 

 price. 



You will want to know the trick. John 

 Wesk'ott said he had used a little fire 

 heat on the damp nights in mid-May. 

 Wm. H. "Westcott said the varieties were 

 choice. They were Alphonse Eicard,. 

 Beaute Poitevine and Jean Viand. Phil 

 was surprised at sight of a registering 

 thermometer in the house. It was ex- 

 plained, however, that this was a relic 

 of the Easter lilies and not required by 

 Alphonse or Jean. 



Now for the place. There were more 

 of those fine geraniums, some ordinaries 

 and the usual assortment of bedding 

 stock in condition better than is usually 

 seen at this busy time. The frames were 

 full of Decoration day plants, hardy 

 ro?os, spirseas just coming into bloom, 

 and other things, including a prettily 

 leaved Alternanthera brilliantissima — 

 George Muster's pet — and aurea nana, 

 with broad foliage. 



A north side house was filled with 

 baskets filled, ready to take to the silent 

 city across the way. A stone wall form- 

 ing the south side of this House was cov- 

 ered with hardy ivy. A very remunera- 

 tive crop is annually harvested. There 

 are a lot of decorative plants, some 

 hydrangeas in bloom and a house of 

 camellias for which the place is noted. 

 These camellias, about thirty in number, 

 are planted out in a solid bed down the 

 center of a high house. They are im- 

 mense plants, trees would be a more 

 accurate term, reaching to the roof and 

 affording plenty of space beneath their 

 spreading branches for growing shade- 



