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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



July 6, 1905. 



Tomatoes occupied five houses, two of 

 these being 200 feet, one 360 feet and 

 the others 300 feet long. Sterling Cas- 

 tle, Comet and Stone are the varieties 

 grown, the two last being preferred. The 

 tomatoes follow crops of violets and 

 sweet peas and all are grown to single 

 stems and planted in the ground, there 

 being no benches in the houses contain- 

 ing them. All carried a superb crop of 

 splendid fruit. The pick of late has 

 averaged three and a half tons a week, 

 but this will soon be increased to a ton 

 per day. One house of Stone Mr. Sim 

 estimates will yield him fifteen tons. 

 About 20,000 plants are grown under 

 glass. A still larger number are seen 

 outdoors. All are trained to a single 

 stem and are already pinched. These 

 carry a very heavy crop and picking had 

 already commenced. The varieties chiefly 

 grown are Earliana, Sterling Castle and 

 Early Jewel, 



Several large houses are devoted to 

 chrysanthemums, the largest being 30x 

 360. Some of the kinds most largely 

 grown are Polly Rose, Glory of Pacific, 

 Ivory, Bonnaffon, E, Halliday, Culling- 

 fordii, White Bonnaffon, W, Duckham, 

 A. J. Balfour, Merstham Yellow, Henry 

 Barnes, Harrison Dick, Mrs, Duckham, 

 Mrs, Coombes and its white sport and 

 Gen. Hutton. Mr. Sim follows a dif- 

 ferent procedure from most growers in 

 the treatment of his single steins. After 

 being rooted in the regulation manner, 

 they are planted directly into frames 

 which have been vacated by violets and 

 allowed to grow there until they become 

 stocky plants, the sashes being thrown off 

 entirely once they are established. When 

 transferred to their flowering quarters 

 with nice balls they grow right ahead 

 and are far better than if they had been 

 confined to small pots until probably 

 pot-bound. About 75,000 chrysanthemums 

 are grown. Frames vacated by young 

 stock are immediately filled with violets, 

 which yield a heavy spring crop, when 

 that under glass is on the wane. 



Melons are being tried this season. 

 One house and several long frames are 

 devoted to them, American varieties be- 

 ing used. Other crops grown in their 

 season are Princess of Wales violets, 

 candytuft and sweet peas. On each of 

 these Mr, Sim has secured almost a na- 

 tional reputation. Violets in the field 

 look remarkably well. A block of the 

 new variety. Governor Herrick, is being 

 tried and strong hopes are centered in 

 it. The model heating plant having been 

 inspected, our adjournment was made 

 to the packing room, where tables had 

 been set with an excellent collation. 



After enjoying the good things pro- 

 vided. Vice-president M. A, Patten, in 

 the unavoidable absence of President 

 Wheeler, thanked Mr. Sim for his gen- 

 erous hospitality and called for three 

 cheers, which were given with a will, 

 followed by the singing of '<He's a 

 jolly good fellow." Short addresses 

 were made by several others present. 

 Wm. Nicholson spoke of tomato culture 

 twenty-two years ago, when he got $100 

 for 100 pounds of tomatoes on July 3 

 in the Boston market, as compared with 

 10 cents per pound today. He sold fruit 

 for $2.75 per pound for several weeks 

 during the winter of 1882-3. Other 

 speakers were Peter Fisher, T. J. Grey, 

 W. N. Craig, Thomas Eoland, W. C, 

 Stickel and Alex Montgomery, Jr, Every 

 one united in commending Mr, Sim for 

 the beautiful plant he had built after 

 a very uphill fight against hard luck 

 and praised the high quality of the stock 



seen and the cleanliness which every- 

 where prevailed. The Cliftondale field 

 day will remain a pleasant memory for 

 all w'ho enjoyed it. 



Various Notes. 



Schnyder & Co. have recently pur- 

 chased sixty acres of land in Waban. 

 They will build seven houses 100 feet 

 long to be devoted chiefly to azaleas and 

 bulbous stock. Mr, Schnyder was for- 

 merly with Mrs. David Fisher, of Mont- 

 vale, Mass. 



Several of the craft led blushing brides 

 to the altar the past week. J, J, Cassidy, 

 of Doyle's Boylston street store, was 

 married to Miss Margaret Grace Mitchell 

 at Dorchester on Juno 29, The same day 

 Clinton Gibbs, of the firm of Gibbs Bros., 

 Lynn, was married to Miss Rhodes, also 

 of Lynn, On June 28 Frank J, Delan- 

 skey, one of the stall-holders at the Park 

 street market, and who also operates a 

 store in Lynn, was married to Miss Mary 

 Elizabeth Power. 



John Walsh, the esteemed manager of 

 the Park street flower market, left on 

 July 3 for a three weeks' vacation to 

 be spent chiefly in and about St, John 's, 

 New Brunswick. 



William H, Elliott found Safrano his 



We are very well satisfied with 

 returns on our season's advertising in 



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Everything has been cleaned up in 

 good shape except a few Nutt ger- 

 aniums. We sfiall have a new adv. 

 soon. 



STOVER FLORAL CO. 

 GrandviUe« Mich., July 3, 1905. 



best paying rose the past season. He 

 has a climbing sport from Mrs, Oliver 

 Ames which he thinks well of. Mr. El- 

 liott's family is at present in Madbury, 

 N, H., where he has a summer residence 

 on his 200-acre farm, on which is located 

 his rose house 54x840, He considers 

 the weekly journey between Brighton and 

 Madbury as a fine relaxation, 



Thomas Pegler sailed for Europe last 

 week. Departures this week include A. 

 Leuthy, J. A. Pettigrew and George C. 

 Harbison, foreman for W. H. Elliott, at 

 Brighton, 



E. N, Peirce & Co., of Waltham, are 

 building two new carnation houses 30x 

 300 in place of two old sash houses. 

 Benches will be of cement and tiles, each 

 five feet wide. They are also installing 

 two powerful new steam boilers. 



William Spillsbury will locate on his 

 new place about October 1. He owns 

 twelve acres of land in Reading and al- 

 ready has one house 30x200 which at 

 present carries a heavy crop of cucum- 

 bers, but will later be devoted to single 

 violets. 



Brown tail and gypsy moth caterpillars 

 are getting in their work with a ven- 

 geance now. Great tracts of woodland 

 are entirely destitute of foliage. So bad 

 are the pests in some sections that pedes- 

 trians almost slide over the ground, which 

 is swarming with them. Some parasites 

 have recently arrived from Japan and it 

 is hoped will in time help to reduce their 

 numbers. Poisoning caused by hairs 

 from the brown tail caterpillars is very 

 prevalent all over the infested districts. 



Peter Fisher states that cut worms 

 were unusually destructive among his car- 

 nations this season. He finds a mixture 

 of shorts and Paris green, sweetened and 

 dampened by molasses and water and 

 squeezed into little chunks, very effect- 

 ive as a poison. 



George Sibthorpe, of Wellesley, re- 

 cently opened a flower store in that town 

 and reports sales as very satisfactory. 



Increasing interest is being taken in 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club pic- 

 nic to be held on July 25, at Randolph 

 Grove, and a very large attendance is as- 

 sured . 



Galvin had some choice designs for the 

 late secretary of state, John Hay, this 

 week, one order for a choice orchid 

 wreath coming by cable from the Amer- 

 ican embassy in St. Petersburg, 



The New Bedford Horticultural So- 

 ciety will make an exhibit of 300 varie- 

 ties of dahlias at the September show of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 to show what an advance has been made 

 in their culture in that city. 



Jolin K. Alexander, of East Bridge- 

 water, one of the largest of the Massa- 

 chusetts dahlia specialists, has 100,000 

 plants in over 600 varieties in the field, 

 including many new sorts from England. 



We enjoyed fine seasonable weather on 

 the great and glorious Fourth and have 

 not yet heard of any casualties to mem- 

 bers of the craft from celebrating. 



Something in the nature of a tornado 

 struek this vicinity June 26 and three- 

 quarters of an inch of rain fell in ten 

 minutes. Hail did some damage to green- 

 houses. At Wakefield Samuel T. Parker 

 lost several hundred panes of glass and 

 others were hard hit. 



J. B. Velie, Boston representative of 

 the Lord & Bumham Co., was married to 

 Miss Janet M. Hunter, of Irvington-on- 

 Hudson, on June 21. They will make 

 their home in Somerville. W, N, Craig, 



DETROIT. 



Qub Visits Toledo. 



On June 29 the Detroit Florists' Club 

 to tlie number of twenty-seven boarded 

 a special car to pay a friendly visit to 

 the craft in Toledo, O., a suburb of De- 

 troit, sixty miles distant. The car was 

 stocked with the necessary material for 

 irrigation and fumigation and the time 

 was spent in playing cards, Mr. Dilger 

 being the best-natured loser. On our 

 arrival the car was met by a delegation 

 of tlie Toledo florists and our party 

 taken to the Farm, where an elaborate 

 repast was spread for our refreshment. 

 The decorations were in keeping with 

 the -viands. As soon as cigars and cof- 

 fee -were reached Mr. Heinl called on 

 Mr. Bayer, of Toledo, to act as toast- 

 master for the occasion, which position 

 he filled with much credit to himself. 

 Mr. "Watson, president of the Detroit 

 club, in a very neat speech thanked the 

 florists of Toledo for the courtesies ex- 

 tended. ]\Tr. Sullivan, secretary of the 



