3J4 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



December 21, 1905. 



Wiiisor caiuatiou was certificated at 

 this meeting. 



Various Notes. 



Carbone is showijig some well berried 

 skimmiai^, also hollies, aucubas aud ar- 

 dinias. Ill cut flowers he has some very 

 fiiie scarlet amarylliscs. He has a very 

 large assortment of Italian pottery in 

 vH!<es, window boxes and jardinieres. 



Welch Bros, ' emporium is one of the 

 busiest places in Boston at present. 

 TlifV are having a big call for holly, 

 mistletoe, boxwood and other greenery 

 and \vill liandle more llowers than ever 

 belcre in their history. 



Anderson & Williams are bringing in 

 larye quantities of splendid bouvardia. 



i'rank White, of Holbrook, was first 

 in the market with some capitally-grown 

 pans of freesia. 



S. J. Goddard will build a new iron- 

 frame house for carnations, 33x135, next 

 spring. He reports orders as coming- 

 in very fast for Helen Goddard. He 

 commenced filling early orders a few 

 days ago and will ship right along now 

 as fast as cuttings are ready. 



E. Sutermeister is recovering from a 

 i-ickness which has confined him to the 

 house for some days. 



\V. E. Cahill, the respected president 

 of the Seed Trade Bowling League, is 

 j'.ble to be around again after a siege of 

 sickness in a hospital. 



.Tohn McFarland, as usual, has a grand 

 lot of poinsettias for Christmas, also a 

 fine lot of valley. 



Thomas Koland, of Nahant, is prob- 

 ably the most noted of the commercial 

 l)lantsmen near Boston. His stock of 

 cyclamens, poinsettias, white and pink 

 Lorraine begonias, primulas, ericas, 

 azaleas and other seasonable plants is 

 the finest he ever had and few Avill be 

 left at Christmas. 



H. M. Eobinson & Co. are being 

 rushe<l to the limit at present to fill 

 orders for holly, boxwood, laurel, smi- 

 lax and other green stock and Are 

 obliged to work all night. 



H. A. Stevens Co. are again having 

 great success with mushrooms at their 

 Dedham establishment. 



Eemick & Smith, of South Framing- 

 ham, have a magnificent house of Queen 

 <arnations and extra fine Princess of 

 Wales violets. Their flowers are now 

 being sold at the Park street market. 



Bowling League. 



Tlie Schlegel & Fottler Co. still retain 



first place. The Music hall market team, 



from late performances, looks as though 



it might be able to retain its grasp on 



the leather medal end. The scores are 



as follows: 



Won. Lost. Pinfall. 



Schlegel & Fottler Co 21 9 11,734 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co 19 11 11,811 



Jos. Breck & Son Co 18 12 11,558 



W. W. Rawson & Co 15 15 11,361 



Park St. Market 13 17 11.147 



Music Hall Market 4 26 10,727 



Individual Averages. 



Enholm 87 



Jenner 86 



Guermean 83 



Perry 81 



Dary 80 



Fay 80 



Gilson 80 



Buckley 79 



Patterson 79 



Howden 79 



Donovan 78 



Monahan 77 



Crowley 77 



Cahill 77 



Webster 76 



Green 76 



Cruickshanks 75 



Simmons 74 



Rawson 74 



Gates 74 



Capers 74 



Miller 73 



Small 73 



Porter 73 



W. N. Craig. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



EsCANABA, Mich. — C. Peterson & Sons 

 will have a cut of late chrysanthemums 

 for the holidays. 



The cut flower market is quiet jire- 

 ceding the Christmas rush. Flowers 

 are arriving in moderate quantity, with 

 quite enough demand to dispose of them 

 as rapidly as they reach the city. Prices 

 have advanced slightly, carnations and 

 Beauties being in the lead. Great quan- 

 tities of poinsettias are being marketed 

 already. Holly is also much used in 

 decorations. 



Flowering Plants. 



It is estimated by good judges that 

 fully as many flowering plants will be 

 offered for the Christmas holidays as 

 were seen at Easter five or six year« 

 ago. The retail stores are using them 

 lavishly, to the exclusion, perhaps, of 

 the medium sizes of palms and ferns. 

 These flowering plants are used both 

 singly and in hampers. In the latter 

 they are combined with small foliage 

 plants. 



Poinsettia stands first among the 

 Christmas blooming plants. Great quan- 

 tities of these showy scarlet bracts have 

 been forced this season, John Ziegen- 

 thaler, of Frankford, being perhaps the 

 hirgest grower of this plant. The Al- 

 burgers and the W^estcotts, of Laurel 

 Hill; Kobert Craig & Son, of W>st 

 Philadelphia, and several other growers 

 also have large quantities of this plant, 

 yet one week before Christmas tlie sup- 

 ply was nearly all engaged. 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine stands 

 next in point of popularity, though the 

 number of growers who forced it suc- 

 cessfully is rather limited. The large 

 size pans of this plant have been in 

 good demand. A novelty revived has 

 been the ball-shaped hanging baskets 

 formed of small plants of this begonia 

 inserted in moss. The new white be- 

 gonia, Turnford Hall, is hardly likely 

 to become popular, as though free bloom- 

 ing it is hardly cheerful enough in color 

 for Christmas. 



Cyclamens are very fine this season, 

 probably a little better than ever be- 

 fore. 



Azaleas in pink, white and rose are 

 plentiful and very pretty, though they 

 cannot be compared with the stock seen 

 later. Otaheite oranges full of fruit, 

 though not strictly flowering plants, 

 may be classed under that head. They 

 are exceedingly popular, but the supply 

 is limited. Jerusalem cherries can also 

 be had in small quantities, very nicely 

 berried. Holly, in large tubs, full of 

 lierries, and Aucuba Japonica, most 

 satisfactory of plants, are seen in the 

 larger collections. There are quite a 

 few primroses about and some geraniums 

 and other flowering plants in small quan- 

 tities. 



Foliage Plants. 



Dracaena terminalis, both single and 

 made up plants, beautifully colored, are 

 very popular, the demand being in ex- 

 cess of the supply. Crotons, of several 

 varieties, also both single and made up 

 plants, are well done and meeting with 

 fair demand. The ferns of the Boston 

 type are very fine and plentiful, the 

 supply being rather in excess of the 

 demand, which is probably just as well, 

 as these plants have usually been scarce 

 in January and February. N. Piersoni 

 is practically all sold, but the straight- 

 leaved varieties can be had in all sizes. 

 The decorative sizes of kentias have 



sold exceptionally well, but the medium 

 sizes arc not in such active demand at 

 present. 



Various Notes. 



M. Eice & Co. had a large shipment 

 of Uncle Theodore heads and mats, 

 which arrived on Sunday on the Barce- 

 lona, over a week late on account of the 

 unusually severe storms at sea. By Mon- 

 day evening, however, they had all of 

 their out-of-town orders shipped by ex- 

 press. Their Christmas business has 

 been unusually heavy. 



L. A. Tonner, of the A. L. Eandall 

 Co., Chicago, spent several days in town, 

 selecting goods for the opening of their 

 new florists' supply department. 



The receiver's sale advertised for last 

 Monday by W. S. Maull at the Peacock 

 dahlia farm, Atco, N. J., has been in- 

 definitely postponed. 



Jos. Beavis & Son, Limekiln pike, 

 near Chelten avenue, have their Liber- 

 ties in full crop for Christmas. 



Paul J. Klingporn is no longer with 

 Dumont & Co. 



Geo. E. Carpenter, of 60^^ street and 

 Girard avenue, is sending fine bouvar- 

 dia to W. J. Baker. 



H. Bayersdorfer & Co. have three 

 steamers in this week with large con- 

 signments of Christmas goods. They 

 are having a tremendously busy time 

 getting out their orders. 



Eobt. Scott & Son, Sharon Hill, have 

 been successful in getting very fine 

 crops of gardenias early this season. 



W. A. Leonard, Lansdowne, Pa., has 

 his new house under roof just in time 

 before the snow. 



Myers & Samtman, of Wyndmoor, 

 will probably have more Beauties than 

 any other grower this Christmas. 



Mrs. Geo. H. Pieser, of Chicago, be- 

 lieves that Pandanus Veitchii is the only 

 house plant. 



Mrs. S. I. Smith, of Secane, Pa., is 

 getting good results from her new vio- 

 let house. Luxonne, Princess of Wales, 

 and La France are her single varieties. 



J. J. Habermehl 's Sons have had some 

 very handsome dinner and tea decora- 

 tions at the Bellevue-Stratford lately. 

 One tea in the red room was decorated 

 entirely with American Beauties. They 

 have a dinner of 400 covers on Friday 

 of this week. 



Dr. Surface lectured on the San Jose 

 scale before the Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society last Tuesday evening. 



Frank S. Jackson estimates the cut of 

 poinsettias from Thornhedge Green- 

 houses to be between 6,000 and 7,000. 

 The quality is very fine. S. S. Pennock 

 is distributing the flowers. 



John Mclntyre has been visiting 

 among the Beauty growers lately. He 

 reports the crop as fair with quality 

 high. Mr. Mclntyre believes Philadel- 

 phia Beauties to be a little better than 

 those produced elsewhere. 



E. Bernheimer is handling mistletoe. 



Best wishes for a Merrie Christmas. 



Phil. 



The Eeview will send Harrington's 

 Chrysanthemum Book on receipt of 50 

 cents. 



We want to thank you for the benefit 

 received from our small advertisement 

 in the Eeview. It brought results all 

 right; inquiries and orders from all over 

 the country. We are filling one order 

 now from New Orleans. — S. Huth, Cuya- 

 hoga Falls, O. 



