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506 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



July 27, 1906. 



Enchantress is the best standard variety 

 grown. A batch of Eucharis Amazonica 

 in pots looked remarkably well. It had 

 just given 175 spikes of bloom. Crotons, 

 palms, orchids and a miscellaneous as- 

 sortment of plants for furnishing are 

 grown. 



John Sloane. 



One of the best kept of the Lenox 

 estates is that of John Sloane, where 

 A. J. Loveless is the presiding horticul- 

 tural genius. There are a fine lot of 

 greenhouses here, all quite modern. In 

 roses Beauty, Eichmond, liberty, Bride 

 and Maid were noted. Carnations are 

 all grown inside and were coming along 

 well. Melons filled several divisions, 

 Sutton's English sorts being grown. Cat- 

 tleyas liaye two houses. Some fine masses 

 of C. laBiaj^, Trianse, gigas, etc., were 

 noted. One house is devoted to cypripe- 

 diums, quite a number of interesting 

 seedlings being included. Nectarines and 

 peaches filled two houses. Fruit was of 

 very good quality. Chrysanthemums 

 growi^ to single stems are here, as else- 

 where in Lenox, grown in boxes, better 

 results being obtained by this method 

 than by bench culture. All the newest 

 and best sorts are grown. Stems were 

 five to seven feet high and should give 

 some splendid exhibition blooms. 



Palms, caladiums, crotons, dracsenas, 

 etc., are grown in considerable numbers. 

 A north house contained a batch of 500 

 odontoglossums, the only ones seen in 

 Lenox. Oncidium varicosum Bogersii, 

 Vanda cserulea, dendrobiums and a few 

 other serviceable sorts of orchids are 

 grown. In the flower garden such plants 

 as Phlox Drummondii, Petunia Bar Har- 

 bor Beauty, Lobelia tenuior, Japanese 

 iris, clarkias and other annuals and per- 

 ennials made a fine show. In the rose 

 garden, recently made, a bed of Gruss 

 an Teplitz proved the merits of this va- 

 riety as a summer bedder. The so-called 

 Baby Rambler looked wretched by com- 

 parison, being of a washed-out color and 

 apparently more of a prey to red spider 

 than any other rose. Crimson Eambler 

 on arches made a fine showing, being 

 followed by Clematis paniculata later. 

 Numerous window boxes were filled with 

 double Grant geraniums and variegated 

 vincas. 



Girard Foster. 



Bellefontaine, the fine estate where E. 

 Jenkins has charge, is always in the fore- 

 front at the Lenox shows and a big pro- 

 portion of first premiums each year at- 

 test the quality of the stock grown here. 

 Chrysanthemums were of grand quality 

 and the walking-sticklike shoots should 

 produce some superb blooms. Bordeaux 

 mixture is found helpful in checking fun- 

 goid growths on the foliage. A house of 

 Kaiserin and Carnot roses were of first- 

 class quality. One large house was filled 

 with palms and various other furnishing 

 plants. Campanula pyramidalis is grown 

 in quantity in pots for late summer piaz- 

 za use. Nicotiana Sanderse had been 

 used in considerable numbers. We did 

 not admire it. The colors seemed 

 harsh. A number of well flowered plants 

 in 8-inch and 9-inch pots of Carrie, Pol- 

 ly and other early chrysanthemums were 

 noted on the piazzas and were quite effec- 

 tive. 



Crotons, dracsenas and other furnish- 

 ing plants were very well grown in 

 frames. Tuberous begonias, achimines 

 and Campanula Isophylla are used freely 

 for house decoration. Only a few orchids 

 are grown. Nectarines and peaches oc- 



cupy onjB house and grapes another. The 

 last nam^ed is alone worth a trip to Lenox 

 to see/A The bunches of Black Ham- 

 burg would in some cases tip the scales 

 at seven to eight pounds each, color, 

 bloom and general finish perfect. Muscat 

 of Alexandria, Gro^ Colmar and Gros 

 Marse were equally good. Mr. Jenkins 

 is certainly an adept at grape culture. 

 A fine lot of figs in pots were fruiting 

 heavily. Bay trees are used in consider- 

 able numbers a round 'the mansion, A 

 pond of nymphseas containing several of 

 the tender varieties was also very at- 

 tractive. 



Other Lenox estates will be writtep of 

 next week. W. N. C. 



.W 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Conditions have been materially im- 

 proved since our last report. Eeceipts 

 are very much lessened and for good 

 stock there has been a very fairj de- 

 mand. There is not a heavy cair for 

 Beauties, but for good Brides, Maids and 

 Kaiserins purchasers are readily found. 

 The number of really good roses com- 

 ing in is, however, small. This is not sur- 

 prising after such a torrid wave as we 

 have experienced. Carnations are most- 

 ly very small. A few are now coming 

 in from outdoonil Some large growers 

 are not sending in any at all now, all 

 efforts being concentrated in prepara- 

 tions for housing new crops. Sweet 

 peas are selling much better, but the 

 heat and drought have made them very 

 short-stemmed. The best are bringing 

 25 cents per hundred. 



Quite a few outdoor gladioli are 

 coming in. These sell fairly well and 

 are used freely by the stores for win- 

 dow decorations. Lilium auratum comes 

 from a few growers, but is not a very 

 good seller, its heavy odor being con- 

 sidered objectionable. Achillea ptarmica 

 The Pearl, herbaceous phloxes and as- 

 ters in several colors are seen, but do 

 not appear to be in much demand, the 

 first named selling perhaps the best. 

 Good, white asters should be in demand 

 from now on, as carnations are very 

 small. 



The Exhibition. 



Following the protracted heat wave 

 the exhibition at Horticultural Hall on 

 July 22 was smaller than usual. The 

 Harvard Botanic Gardens, Robert Cam- 

 eron, gardener, had a fine tank of aqua- 

 tics, including Victoria regia, also a 

 capital display of well grown achimines. 

 T. C. Thurlow & Son and H. A. Stevens 

 Co. made large displays of named her- 

 baceous phloxes in all the leading sorts. 

 L, M. Towle had a collection of thirty- 

 eight varieties of sweet peas and A. E. 

 Hartshorn a table of fine hollyhocks and 

 petunias. Mrs. A. W. Blake had a speci- 

 men plant of Nicotiana Sanderse and 

 Mrs. E. M. Gill a general display. For 

 collection of native ferns Miss Isabella 

 C. Shattuck and C. C. Kingman took the 

 prizes. 



Fruits and vegetables made a fine dis- 

 play, the various classes being well con- 

 tested. The Boston Mycological Club had 

 an interesting collection of mushrooms, 

 one edible variety being forty-two inch- 

 es in circumference. 



The next exhibition will occur on Au- 

 gust 5. There will be weekly shows dur- 

 ing the month of August. Perennial 

 plants and phloxes will be special fea- 

 tures on August 5. 



Florists' Qub Picnic. 



Pleasant weather favored the. long- 

 looked-for picnic at Randolph Grove on 

 July 25, although early indications were 

 not very promising. The attendance 

 was very satisfactory and everyone 

 seemed to spend a most enjoyable day. 

 The greatest interest, of course, cen- 

 tered in the sports, which included 

 twenty-four events. Two prizes were 

 given in each class. These included 

 silver cups, umbrellas, fishing rods, 

 meerschaum pipes, gold cuff links, la- 

 dies' sasbes, clocks, shaving sets, 

 brooches and other valuable and use- 

 ful articles. Among the donors of 

 these were: A. H. Hews & Co., T. F. 

 Galvin, W. E. Doyle, R. & J. Farquhar 

 & Co., Schlegel & Fottler Co., T. J. 

 Grey & Co., W. W. Rawson & Co., Jo- 

 seph Breck & Sons, Edward Hatch, Jul- 

 ius Heurlin, F. E. Palmer, James Wheel- 

 er, Duncan Finlayson and others. A 

 fuller report will appear in our next 

 letter. 



Various Notes. 



The Boston Sunday Herald of .Tuly 23 

 contained an interesting illustrated sketch 

 of T, C, Thurlow and his work among 

 peonies. 



S. J. Goddard has been quite sick, 

 threatened with typhoid fever. We are 

 glad to report that he is much better. 



Ernest Wild, of Braintree, is on a 

 trip to England and hopes to return about 

 September 1. 



J. Tailby & Son, of Wellesley, have 

 had a fine display of their new seedling 

 yellow calla, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 

 in their fields of late. 



Farquhar & Co, are offering their new 

 Lilium Philippinense, which secured ri 

 gold medal in Boston last year, to the 

 retail trade for immediate delivery. 



W. N. Craig, 



KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



Charles W. Crouch has sold out his 

 business to his sons, and has gone to 

 England to visit his brother. 



Charles L. Baum is tearing down 

 seven old houses and erecting four ad- 

 joining the two he erected two years 

 ago, also installing an eighty-horse- 

 power return tubular boUer, which now 

 makes his heating capacity 150 horse- 

 power. The houses are 24x120 feet 

 and are up-to-date in every way. Two 

 of these houses are now planted with 

 8,000 chrysanthemums for single stems. 

 The remaining two houses are to be 

 planted with carnations next week. 



A. H. Dailey reports stock looking 

 well, but has suffered to some extent 

 with stem-rot on his. carnations. He is 

 installing a new return tubular boiler. 



Business as a whole has been about 

 fifty per cent better than last year. 



X. V. 



COLUMBUS, O. 



At the last meeting of the Columbus 

 Florists' Club it was voted to send a 

 delegate to Washington, the club to pay 

 his expenses and he to invite the society 

 to meet at Columbus another year. Co- 

 lumbus has excellent advantages as a con- 

 vention city; in fact, it ranks first in the 

 Union as a convention center. 



We have had very unfavorable weather 

 for outside cut flowers, so that sweet 

 peas are out of business since July 4 

 and asters are not promising. 



Carnations in the field are making a 

 fine growth. W. 



