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ThcWcekly Florists' Review. 



June 15, 1905. 



ments! Some extra fine Festiva maxima, 

 the grand white, are to be seen at the 

 stores, which retail readily at $2 per 

 dozen. It is a liappy thought to know 

 we are about to realize a beautiful pink. 

 "While there are numerous other kinds, the 

 above is really king. Pyrethrums, double 

 and single, are very fine. Many other 

 herbaceous flowers are in their prime at 

 present. 



Various Note*. 



The Gasser Co. has a fine showing of 

 gladioli for this season of the year. 

 Spanish iris will soon be in flower out- 

 side. Mr. Darnell reports trade about 

 normal, with fewer weddings of magni- 

 tude than last year. 



Collins & Harrison are, as usual, quite 

 busy with school commencements and 

 wedding decorations, of which they are 

 getting their usual quota. 



Smith & Fetters handled a large wed- 

 ding decoration lately which called for 

 the best quality of flowers. 



Miss Eadie has been quite busy since 

 Decoration day. At present her store 

 is receiving a new coat of decoration, 

 which will add materially to tlie appear- 

 ance of the place. 



C. M. Wagner finds business fairly 

 good, having booked several weddings of 

 late, 



Milton Parks, of the Citizens building, 

 says trade has been exceptionaly good. 

 He has captured the Masonic order for 

 several thousand roses and carnations 

 and will accompany them to Niagara 

 Falls. Forest City. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



The market has been quite dull the 

 past week. June weddings are numer- 

 ous, but do not seem to make any appre- 

 ciable difference in prices. Roses are 

 of much poorer quality. One or two 

 growers are sending in Beauties from the 

 new crop. From $10 to $25 per hundred 

 are prices for select stock of these. 

 Brides and Maids are getting poor, but 

 some very nice Kaiserins and Carnots 

 are arriving. Prices on these remain 

 about the same. Quite a few outdoor 

 Jacqueminot should appear this week. 

 Carnations are druggy. While a few se- 

 lect flowers bring $2 to $3, large lots are 

 unloaded at 50 to 75 cents per hundred. 

 Quite a few double peonies are arriving. 

 These sell at from $4 to $8 per hundred. 

 Singles are quite plentiful. Outdoor val- 

 ley is now over. One grower has been 

 shipping 20,000 very fine spikes a day 

 for some time. Prices vary from $J to 

 $3 per hundred. Quite a few German 

 irises, pyrethrums, Spanish irises, lee- 

 land poppies and other outdoor flowers 

 are coming in. A few Earliest of All 

 and Mont Blanc sweet peas from out- 

 doors are now appearing. The best in- 

 door grown still bring up to 75 cents, 

 poor grades as low as 25 cents per hun- 

 dred. 



Various Notes. 



Holm Lea, the famous and pictur- 

 esque estate of Prof. C. S. Sargent in 

 Brookline, was opened to the public on 

 June 10 and 11 and attracted thousands 

 of visitors. The magnificent specimen 

 standard wistarias in tubs and the big 

 collection of Indian azaleas were in 

 prime condition. The rhododendrons and 

 hardy azaleas, as well as many other 

 trees and shrubs were very attractive. 



Fancy Ferns 



'' "— $1.75 ^ 



per 

 1000 



Fine Peonies l!^- 



AH other Cut Flowers and Green Goods at the 

 LOWEST MARKET PRICE. 



We are receiving lO.OOO SWBBT PBA8 from one grower daily, besides large con- 

 signments from other growers, which gives us more Sweet Peas than any other house in the 

 city. Here is the place to get the best selection. Try it. 



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Big masses of Primula divoricata and" 

 Primula Sieboldi were especially fine in 

 the rock garden. The large collection of 

 Moutan peonies, which included many 

 fine seedlings, and the herbaceous varie- 

 ties were gorgeous. Many new, rare and 

 valuable hardy plants were noted. Every- 

 thing on the place was in splendid con- 

 dition and reflected the greatest credit 

 on the skillful he^d gardener, Charles 

 Sander. 



James Farquhar has left for a second 

 trip to Porto Rico, where his firm re- 

 cently established a nursery. 



Superintendent J. A. Pettigrew, of the 

 Boston park system, leaves for Europe 

 early in July on a well earned vacation. 

 He has not visited Great Britain for 

 thirty years and expects to see many 

 striking changes. 



A good delegation of members of the 

 American Rose Society's executive board 

 will attend Hartford, Conn., on June 19. 

 The program includes a visit to the fa- 

 mous rose garden in Elizabeth park and 

 an automobile ride round the city in ad- 

 dition to the regular business session. 

 The Hartford Florists' Club will enter- 

 tain the visitors at a banquet in the 

 evening. 



Unless all signs fail, the meeting of 

 the Gardeners' and florists' Club on 

 June 20 will be the most largely attend- 

 ed in its history. Mr. Walsh's paper on 

 roses and the subsequent discussion, to 

 say nothing of other special attractions 

 arranged, are the drawing cards. 



W. E. Doyle had the decorations at 

 Trinity church last week for the Gray- 

 Tudor and Higginson-Sargent weddings. 

 At the latter he used large quantities of 

 pink hydrangeas and Enchantress carna- 

 tions in addition to palms, etc., to good 

 effect. 



Our long drought was broken last 

 week by welcome rain but much more is 

 needed. June 8' was, according to the 

 weather bureau, the coldest June day in 

 seventeen years, the maximum being only 

 47 degrees. The temperature fell at 

 night to freezing in some locations. At 

 North Easton it went to 34 degrees and 

 a number of tender plants were injured. 



E. J. Shaylor, of Wellesley Hills, made 

 a large exhibit of peonies in all the lead- 

 ing varieties before the Worcester Hor- 

 ticultural Society on June 15. Mr. Shay- 

 lor has a large collection of peonies, in- 

 cluding many new and scarce sorts. 



The Boston Globe of June 11 con- 

 tained an illustrated account of the Wa- 

 ban Rose Conservatories. In an interview 

 Mr. Montgomery stated that they grew 



100,000 rose plants, their annual cut be- 

 ing one and one-half millions. ' ' The 

 growing of roses, ' ' Mr. Montgomery stat- 

 ed, "is becoming much more of a science 

 than formerly and I might add that the 

 successful rose grower today should take 

 chemistry as an important foundation 

 stone in his curriculum. ' ' 



H. H. Barrows & Son are having a re- 

 markable demand for Nephrolepis Bar- 

 rowsii. They also report N. Scottii as 

 being much called for. They have re- 

 fused orders for over 50,000 Bostons the 

 past two weeks, but have big. stocks com- 

 ing on. 



Some of the large private estates have 

 a new fad, viz., p^turing sheep on the 

 lawns to keep the grass short. We are 

 told "it saves expense, the trying noise 

 of the lawn mowers, and does the work 

 more neatly and quickly, besides which, 

 the sheep add greatly to the rural as- 

 pect, constitute a distinctly picturesque 

 feature, demand no pay and on the con- 

 trary, prove a source of profit in meat 

 and wool." How alluring! Progressive 

 seedsmen should stock up on sheep and 

 here would seem to be an opening for 

 wide-awake florists who have some graz- 

 ing land to make a dollar. 



Indications are for a very fine peony 

 exhibition on June 17. 



At the Arnold Arboretum, where 

 Crataegus is being especially studied at 

 present, 300 beds were planted this 

 spring each containing a distinct species 

 of this genus. Many of these are very 

 beautiful and all are interesting. 



W. N. Craig. 



BROCKTON, MASS. 



W. W. Hathaway reports Decoration 

 day trade as being the largest he ever 

 had. Flowers in most demand were car- 

 nations, spiraeas, stocks and roses. Among 

 plants spiraeas and hydrangeas were in 

 heaviest request, in addition to the regu- 

 lar bedding plants. Other storekeepers 

 report similarly good business. 



Since Memorial day trade has slumped. 

 Most contracts for flowers close after 

 May 30 and prices naturally take a big 

 tumble. One large department store is 

 handling all the carnations from the 

 Crawford greenhouses at 25 cents per 

 dozen. One or two of the florists' stores 

 responded by cutting prices also and re- 

 tailing at 15 to 25 cents. From 50 cents 

 to $1 is, however, still paid at one store 

 for first-class stock. 



The season's business will compare 

 favorably with other years, trade at the 

 holidays being heavier. C. 



