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Srptembbb 21, 1906.' 



Coming October I 



150,000 to hand out during October and November, 

 All the best varieties, all sizes, all colors, all prices. 

 We need YOUR help to handle these 



All other stock in season. If you are not on our mailinK list for our wholesale cut 

 flower pilces, drop us a postal. Bend for a list of cut flower Boxes. 



VAUGH AN & SPERRY 



56-60 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Conditions continue to improve in the 

 flower markets. There is little advance 

 in prices, but good stock sells readily 

 and there is little surplus left over. 

 American Beauties improve and some | 

 very fine flowers are now seen. There 

 is also a distinct improvement in Brides 

 and Maids, although many small flow- 

 ers of these still come in and are cleared 

 at low figures. Carnations are still 

 scarce. An increasing number are com- 

 ing in from the new indoor crop, but 

 stems are rather short. One or two 

 growers continue to bring in very good 

 outdoor-grown ones, those from Wm. 

 Nicholson being especially fine. 



Asters continue abundant, the varie- 

 ties Vick's Branching, Semple's and 

 Victoria being mostly seen. Gladioli are 

 on the wane and will soon be over. Lily 

 of the valley and liliums sell quite well. 

 Dahlias, tuberoses, cosmos, scarlet salvia 

 and other seasonable flowers are seen but 

 there is no particular call for any of 

 these. A few Fitzwygram chrysanthe- 

 mums were seen this week and single 

 violets. 



Gardeners' and Florists' Club. 



The first meeting after the summer 

 vacation, on September 19, brought out 

 a splendid attendance, many new faces 

 being seen. The sports committee pre- 

 sented a report in regard to the prizes 

 offered at the recent picnic, which 

 showed that they performed their du- 

 ties most efficiently. The committee on 

 the form of awards to be used by the 

 club showed samples of the new certifi- 

 cates, which all seemed to be pleased 

 with. These differ from those usually 

 awarded, being more in the nature of re- 

 ports on what the committee consider the 

 particular merits of the exhibits staged. 



"Those who may have felt in the least 

 pessimistic in regard to the future suc- 

 cess of the club must have felt cheered 

 as the lengthy list of applications was 

 read, the largest addition the club has 

 had at one time in its history. The new 

 members included florists, private gar- 

 denprs, nurserymen and prominent Boston 

 flower store proprietors. Already prom- 



ises are forthcoming of a further addi- 

 tion in October, when it is expected J. 

 A. Pettigrew will give the club an ac- 

 count of his European tour. 



A number of members gave interest- 

 ing vacation experiences. There was 

 good music, and last, but not least, re- 

 freshments, and all present voted the 

 meeting a grand one in every respect. 

 President "Wheeler and other officers 

 went home delighted with the opening 

 meeting for the fall, determined to pre- 

 sent such attractions at succeeding meet- 

 ings as would continue to draw large 

 audiences and make the club the best 

 of its kind in America. In our next we 

 will note a few features we have not 

 time to refer to now. 



Variottt Notes. 



The big September show reported 

 elsewhere in this issue, brought in a 

 large number of visitors from a dis- 

 tance. On September 17 a delegation 

 from New Bedford attended. A few 

 from a distance noted were G. F. Struck, 

 representing Lager & Hurrell; Thomas 

 Knight, of Julius Eodirs Co. ; J. S. Hay, 

 of the H. A. Dreer Co.; E. C. Green, 

 Warwick, R. I.; Thomas W. Head, Gro- 

 ton, Conn. 



We experienced the first cool snap of 

 the aeason on the evenings of September 

 13 and 14. In low localities slight frost 

 damages to flowers and vegetables were 

 reported. 



At the Worcester East Fair held in 

 Clinton, September 13 to 15, there is 

 always a splendid floral display. The 

 exhibition last week was no exception 

 to the rule. E. W. Breed, of Clinton, 

 secured first for fioral design, for group 

 of plants arranged for effect and for 

 herbaceous perennial flowers, the latter 

 including a fine dark form of Helenium 

 autumnale. F. A. Blake, of Eochdale, 

 was first for an extra fine vase of flow- 

 ers, also for gladioli. W. L. Wheeler, Ber- 

 lin, showed an excellent seedling gladi- 

 olus, yellow striped with rose. Bayard 

 Thayer, Wm. Anderson, gardener, had a 

 beautiful tank of aquatics. E. V. R. 

 Thayer, E. O. Orpet, gardener, and N. 

 Thayer, J. T. Clark, gardener, each had 

 splendid groups of foliage and flower- 

 ing plants. The two vegetable collec- 

 tions of N. Thayer and J. E. Thayer, 



each filling a space of 4x35, would be 

 hard to duplicate at any show. A. P. 

 Meridith's collection won. A. A. Hixon, 

 of Worcester, judged the plants and flow- 

 ers at the fair. 



On and after October 1, Welch Bros, 

 will have a stall in the new Music hall 

 market, where they will offer for sale all 

 kinds of florists' supplies, corrugated 

 cut flower boxes, hardy ferns, galax 

 leaves and other necessaries. This should 

 prove a great convenieiite to many of 

 the sellers and buyers in this market. 



Mr. and Mrs. William Nicholson have 

 been enjoying a vacation in New Hamp- 

 shire the past fortnight. 



The floral tributes at the funeral of the 

 Hon. Patrick A. Collins, mayor of Bos- 

 ton, on September 18, were the most 

 numerous and costly ever seen here on 

 a similar occasion. T. F. Galvin 

 furnished a large number of choice 

 designs. The most noteworthy was 

 one from the city of Boston repre- 

 senting the city seal and was eight feet 

 square. It was made on a placque cov- 

 ered with some thousands of white as- 

 ters. The seal was made of purple asters 

 to represent Boston harbor, the ships 

 being made of lily of the valley. The 

 city itself was made of white violets and 

 the state house's gold dome of yellow 

 oncidiums. There were large clusters of 

 American Beauties on the sides and 

 white roses with bunches of orchids, 

 gladioli and lily of the valley. The 

 base was composed of cycas leaves, As- 

 paragus plumosus and adiantum. Wil- 

 liam E. . Doyle furnished a number of 

 very handsome designs. One in the 

 form of an Irish cross of roses, lily of 

 the valley and adiantum for W. H. R. 

 Redmond, M. P., was unique. Other lead- 

 ing florists in Boston and throughout 

 New England furnished many other de- 

 signs and a large number came from 

 other states. 



There was a very lavish display of 

 floral gifts on the occasion of the open- 

 ing of the Henry Siegel Co. 's new store 

 on September 11, numerous magnificent 

 horseshoes, baskets and other floral re- 

 membrances coming from Boston, New 

 York and Chicago. American Beauty 

 roses were to be seen in thousands. A 

 horseshoe of these ten feet high from 

 the R. H. White Co. was especially fine. 



