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June 29. 1U05. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



307 



plant the whole without breaking into 

 a 12-inch pot, water as before, and by 

 Christmas, 1906, you will have six or 

 seven blooms and by Easter, 1907, a 

 dozen. 



I never hesitate to guarantee that 

 every bulb I cure will bloom within six 

 weeks if the above directions are car- 

 ried out, as a number of my eastern 

 friends can testify. H. L. Musser. 



THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. 



Next Tuesday is a holiday and Re- 

 view contributors and advertisers will 

 greatly aid in our work of getting out 

 next week's issue if they will make spe- 

 cial effort to olace their "copy" in our 

 hands on Monday. 



STEAMER SAILINGa 



If you wish to post steamer sailings 



in your window as a means of getting 



orders for telegraphic transfer to New 



York, here they are: 



June 30— Celtic Liverpool 



July 1 — St. Paul iSouthampton. 



July 1 — Caledonia Glasgow. 



July 3 — Algeria Naples. 



July 4 — Kaiser W. Grosse. .Bremen. 



J'uly 5 — Oceanic Uverpool. 



July 6 — La Gascogne Havre. 



July 8 — Princess Irene Naples. 



July 8 — Umbria Liverpool. 



July 8 — New York Southampton. 



July 8 — Finland Antwerp. 



July 15 — St. Ijouis Southampton. 



.Inly 15 — Vaderland Antwerp. 



July 22 — Philadelphia Southampton. 



July 22 — Kroonland Antwerp. 



CANADIAN PROGRAM. 



The eighth annual convention of the 

 Canadian Horticultural Association will 

 be held at Montreal, August 8 to 10. 

 The program has already been distrib- 

 uted. The opening session will take 

 place at 2 p. m. on Tuesday in Natural 

 History hall, on University street, the 

 trade exhibit having been in place by 

 11 a. m. The mayor of Montreal will 

 deliver an address of welcome, responded 

 to by Wm. Gammage of London. Presi- 

 dent Robinson's address will be followed 

 by routine business. In the evening es- 

 says will be read by Frederick G. Todd, 

 Thos. McHugh and R. Burrows. On 

 Wednesday morning J. H. Dunlop, H. 

 Bennett and F. L. Girdwood will con- 

 tribute essays. The afternoon will be 

 spent in visiting local establishments. 

 In the evening there will be essays by 

 Wm. Downing and J. McKenna, fol- 

 lowed by the election of officers. On 

 Thursday and Friday the visitors will 

 be shown the city, being banqueted on 

 Thursday evening. 



D. S. GRIMES. 



D- S. Grimes, one of the pioneer 

 rtorists and nurserymen of the west, is 

 slowly passing away at his home, 3032 

 West Thirty-second avenue, Denver. 

 He has been ill for manv weeks and 

 his family has no hopes of his recovery. 

 Ho went to Colorado with the Greelev 

 colony in 1871, from Indianola, la'., 

 remaining in Greeley until 1878, then 

 '■einoving to Denver and engaging in 

 I'"' nursery and florist business, which 

 'i'i-< been his occupation until he sold 

 ""' to his son, W, H. Grimes, a few 

 ^oars ago, who still carries on the 

 "-business. 



I lom the time he came to the state 

 ""•il 1902 Mr. Grimes cultivated many 

 '■^_'e plants, having made a specialty 

 ?t the collection of seeds of the conc- 

 f'f-'iing trees of the Rocky Mountains, 



D. S. Grimes. 



having exported the seed of the Colo- 

 rado conifers since 1878 to most of the 

 European countries. He was president 

 of the first horticultural society or- 

 ganized in Colorado and also planted 

 the first orchard in Grand Junction, 

 which is recognized as one of the best 

 fruit growing counties in the entire 

 west. 



The Grimes greenhouses have been 

 located for years across from High- 

 land park, Denver, surrounded by great 

 shade trees on commodious grounds, 

 and inclosed in the glass buildings is 

 a splendid collection of plant life cul- 

 tivated under most favorable condi- 

 tions. Mr. Grimes has three sons and 

 two daughters. They are W. H., G, A. 

 and E. Grimes and Mrs. J. L. Thomp- 

 son and Mrs. Charles McKernon. Mr. 

 Grimes is 77 years of age. E. S. K. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Dull, damp weather and a heavy de- 

 mand for graduation bouquets braced 

 up the market surprisingly during the 

 past week. Roses, carnations, valley 

 and sweet peas were in best request. 

 Among roses some very good hybrids 

 are coming in. Good Jacqs made $8 to 

 $10 per hundred on June 24, but have 

 dropped now to half these figures. 

 Prices at present vary from $1 to $o. 

 Liberty was in especially good request 

 at $10 to $15 for the best. Beauties re- 

 main about the same and there is no 

 special change in other roses. These, 

 generally, are selling better. Some peo- 

 ple are throwing out their stock for 

 replanting and the worst glut should 

 now be over on these. Carnations are 

 selling somewhat better, 75 cents to $1 

 for ordinary, best stock fetching $2 to 



$3. Sweet peas are also going well at 

 35 to 75 cents per hundred. Valley 

 remains about the same. Peonies bring 

 from $2 to $5. The present week will 

 see the end of these. The heavy rains 

 the past week spoiled many outdoor 

 flowers, peonies especially suffering 

 badly. Asparagus and adiantum re- 

 main about the same. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club. 



As briefly stated in the last issue of 

 the Review, the club meeting of June 

 20 was a highly successful one. Ex- 

 hil its were quite numerous and in- 

 cluded hybrid roses of grand quality 

 from M. H. Walsh and W. J. Clemson, 

 a fine collection of Multiflora and other 

 roses from the Boston park depart- 

 ment and F. J. Rea, peonies and hybrid 

 aquilegias from Farquhar & Co., be- 

 gonias from F. E. Palmer and Iris 

 Hispanica Blanche Fleur, Chrysolora 

 and Louise from W. N. Craig. 



In the discussion following the read- 

 ing of M. H. Walsh's paper, which ap- 

 peared in the last issue of the RJE- 

 viEW, Mr. Sander asked whether 

 budded or own-root stock produces best 

 flowers. The lecturer stated the for- 

 mer always on outdoor roses. Some 

 sorts would do well on own roots for a 

 few years. Hybrid teas do well worked 

 on the dog rose or seedling briar 

 stocks, but not on Manetti. 

 In England teas and hybrid 

 teas are never budded on Manetti and 

 we may come to the same conclusion 

 some day. He has several hundred 

 seedlings possessing a greater propor- 

 tion of American hardy blood ai\d 

 hopes to lie able to report as to their 

 hardiness ere long. 



Asked why he left Crimson Rambler 

 out of his list of climbers. Mr. Walsh 

 said the Pliiladelphia Rambler is of a 



