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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Skptembbu 7, 1905. 



BOSTON. 



Tlie Market 



We have had a good deal of rainy and 

 cloudy weather of late and the quantity 

 of stock coming in has cleared out quite 

 well. Roses are more abundant. Brides 

 and Maids of the new crop are plenti- 

 ful, selling at from $1 to $2, best grade 

 fetching $4 to $5. The best Kaiserins 

 still make up to $8. Beauties are im- 

 proving, but many seen are of poor 

 color. Liberties are rather scarce just 

 now. Carnations are in very short sup- 

 ply, many telephone orders at the mar- 

 kets and wholesale houses having to be 

 declined. The best flowers are grown 

 outdoors. Prices vary from $1.50 to $3. 



Asters are abundant, the white and 

 light pink shades selling the best, red 

 and magenta shades being hardest to 

 move. Some extra fine flowers have 

 made $2, the general run going at from 

 S.l cents to 75 cents. Gladioli remain 

 about the same. Asparagus and adian- 

 titm are more abundant. 



Various Notes. 



H. M. Robinson & Co. report business 

 in their class of goods as excellent. They 

 are now booking orders for a new crop 

 of southern smilax. 



Patrick Welch returned September 7 

 from his vacation at Old Orchard Beach, 

 Me., in fine trim for the coming busy 

 season. 



Farquhar & Co. report an exceptional- 

 ly heavy inquiry and demand for all the 

 more popular Dutch bulbs. 



H. T. Capers will handle pot plants for 

 W. T. Walke, of Salem, the coming sea- 

 son at the Park street flower market. 



Although there was no prize exhibi- 

 tion at Horticultural hall on September 

 2, A. L. Johnson and W. G. Winsor 

 made fine displays of dahlias. These 

 flowers continue to increase in popu- 

 larity here. The Mycological Club had 

 a capital show of fungi. 



Welch Bros, are getting ready for the 

 fall season. The employe98 are about all 

 back from vacations, ready for the com- 

 ing rush. They report asters and roses 

 as plentiful, but carnations very scarce. 

 American Beauties from Carl Jurgens, 

 Newport, R. 1., are excellent for the sea- 

 son. 



A number of local horticulturists have 

 been invited to visit the New Hampshire 

 Experimental Station at Durham, Sep- 

 tember 12, to inspect the work being 

 done and the many interesting horticul- 

 tural features at this institution. 



James Farquhar returned from Porto 

 Rico August 31. He likes the Porto 

 Rican climate and states that bulbs are 

 doing well in their nursery there. 



Numerous entries are coming in for 

 the big fall show at Horticultural hall, 

 which opens on September 14. The 

 dahlia display promises to beat all rec- 

 ords. 



While sweet peas are practically over 

 here now, on the North Shore estates 

 they are still flowering finely and at Bar 

 Harbor, Me., are a sheet of bloom. 



The auction sale of stalls at the Music 

 hall market by the Boston Co-operative 

 Flower Market took place on August 30. 

 Stalls to the number of seventy-eight 

 were disposed of, F. Simpson, of Wo- 

 burn, paying top price, $82. Albert 

 Roper and several others paid $75. In- 

 cluding stalls disposed of previous to 

 and after the auction, the number sold 

 aggregates ninety-four, with a total 

 premium of about $3,500. 



A call on Duncan Finlayson at Larz 

 Anderson's fine estate in Brookline, the 

 past week, showed everything to be in 

 fine shape. Carnations grown this sea- 

 son are Fiancee, Lawson, White Law- 

 son, Chester Roper, Fair Maid, Queen 

 and Enchantress. These looked splen- 

 did. A bench of Richmond in one of 

 the rose divisions looked vigorous. 

 Chrysanthemums, both in pots and as 

 single stems in boxes, were looking well. 

 In a corridor house tuberous begonias 

 and achimines were making a gorgeous 

 show. Coelogynes, La^lia anceps, Cattle- 

 ya labiata, calanthes and other orchids 

 were very promising. Three divisions 

 are devoted to grapes. One had been 

 cleared but in the remaining two there 

 was a fine crop of finely finished fruit, 

 bunches and berries large. Varieties 

 noted were Muscat of Alexandria, Dia- 

 mond Jubilee (rated low here), Appley 

 Towers, Lady Downe's, Barbarossa, 

 Black Hamburg, Gros Marse, Gros Col- 

 man and Black Alicante. The fine 

 Italian garden, the best type of this 

 class of gardening in America, was very 

 attractive with a variety of annuals and 

 perennials. Two large beds of Nicoti- 

 ana Sanderaj in a shaded position looked 

 better than any we had yet seen. In 

 the open it was worthless. The multi- 

 plicity of colors, some of bad shade, 

 spoils to some extent the eflfect. As a 

 general rule this novelty is condemned 

 in this section. On the walls of the 

 kitchen gaiden peaches were carrying 

 splendid crops. These are all English 

 varieties and are never protected. 



In the Boston Public Gardens some 

 thousands of Lilium speciosum album 

 and L. Melpomene are making a fine 

 show at present. Rose Kaiserin Augus- 

 ta Victoria fills several beds and is cov- 

 ered with blooms. The croton beds are 

 better than for several years. Nicotiana 

 Sandcrae can hardly be called a success. 



At the new Bristol county fair, which 

 opened in Taunton on September 4, 

 there was a grand display of plants and 

 flowers. Dahlias were shown in thou- 

 sands by such prominent growers as H. 

 F. Burt, G. D. Cooke, W. G. Winsor, 

 J. K. Alexander, G. H. Walker, Clothier 

 Pierce and other specialists. The larg- 

 est and best of five displays of pot 

 plants came from J. O. Christenson, 

 gardener to W. J. Clemson. A. T. 

 Story & Co. and the Dighton Nursery 

 Co. had large collections of ornamental 

 shrubs and tea roses in pots. Hand bou- 

 quets, centerpieces and baskets were 

 more numerously shown than ever be- 

 fore. 



George Cartwright is now acting as 

 salesman for H. H. Rogers, of Sudbury, 

 a prominent grower of carnations and 

 other flowers for the Park street mar- 

 ket. 



In conversation with a number of 

 prominent Boston horticulturists in re- 

 gard to the proposed S. A. F. exhibi- 

 tion in March, the general opinion has 

 been that it would be bad policy to at- 

 tempt such a show unless the rose and 

 carnation societies were willing to hold 

 their annual conventions and exhibitions 

 at the same time. Boston has a big an- 

 nual spring show each March and we 

 think it extremely doubtful if such a 

 one as projected would be the success 

 hoped for here. New York would seem 

 to have been the proper place to hold 

 the show, seeing it had no other shows 

 or conventions in the first quarter of 

 1906. S. A. F. officers and committee- 

 men are announced to attend an earlv 



meeting of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club to explain what is wanted. 



We have made complaints on some 

 occasions of a lack of rain during the 

 present season. A good deal of the de- 

 ficiency was made up on September 3 

 and 4 when a precipitation of from two 

 and three-quarters to four inches of rain 

 vt-as recorded in this section. Outdoor 

 flowers in most cases presented ^ a sorry 

 plight when the storm ceased. Not for 

 many years had we such a Labor day 

 deluge. 



John McFarland is shipping quanti- 

 ties of extra fine lily of the valley to 

 the new market. 



Julius Roehrs and Thomas Knight, of 

 Rutherford, N. J., have been visiting 

 leading orchid collectors in and around 

 Boston the past week. W. N. Craig. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



While business has been quiet locally, 

 there has been a fair demand from out 

 of town. Beauties, valley, asters and. 

 choice tea roses are most popular. Glad- 

 ioli are marketed in large quantities. 

 Dahlias are coming to the front, the bet- 

 ter sorts being obtainable in larger 

 quantities, a fact the buyers are begin- 

 ning to appreciate. Indications point 

 to an early improvement in business con- 

 ditions. 



New G>nservatory in Fairmount Park. 



Nearly everybody knows the old lec- 

 ture room in the west end of Horticul- 

 tural hall, where Prof. J. T. Rothrock 

 used to delight select audiences with 

 learned discourses on botany every Sat- 

 urday afternoon during the summer 

 months. The casual visitor would see a 

 couple of lovely ladies, ardent admirers 

 of the professor, arrange a bouquet of 

 choice flowers on his desk, then the au- 

 dience would assemble and listen in 

 rapt attention while he expounded the 

 genera and species and kindred lore to 

 the accompanying rustle of palm-leaf 

 fans and an occasional snore from a 

 weak-kneed brother or sister. 



Now the lecture room has gone and in 

 its place is a lofty conservatory, just 

 completed at a cost of $10,000. The 

 conservatory is "L" shaped, about 

 45x75 feet, with glass roof and glass 

 sides on the west and south. The large 

 center bed, raised to a mound shape, 

 pebble covered, is filled with various 

 kinds of cacti, many of them recently 

 received from Arizona, it was said. 

 They are effectively arranged with shells. 

 A wide side bench, running around the 

 entire conservatory, is completely filled 

 by Euphorbia Poinsettiana, twelve to 

 eighteen inches high, in, I think, 6-inch 

 pots. The whole presents a fine appear- 

 ance and will prove of great interest to 

 lovers of the cactus family. 



A Glimpse in the Warehouse. 



I wonder whether the florists all ov?r 

 the country who send "hurry" orders 

 for this or that requisite, ever reflect 

 on the amount of forethought and knowl- 

 edge of their needs, combined with busi- 

 ness enterprise, that make it possible 

 for their demands to be met on short 

 notice. 



Every season the field must bs care- 

 fully gone over, as by a general prepar- 

 ing for the march of an army. An in- 

 crease in the use of this or that article, 

 the falling off in the popularity of an- 

 other, all must be carefully noted. Then 



