JANUABI 11, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



493 



taken a brace along those lines. We 

 learn that some of them are getting $5 

 and $6 a dozen for choice Bichmond, 

 while the legitimate florist is selling the 

 same stock at $3 and $4. Killarney is 

 commanding $2 and $3 per dozen, Maids, 

 «tc., from $2 to $3. Carnations bring $1 

 to $2.50 per dozen. Violets are again 

 back to a firm price of 50 cents per 

 bunch of twenty-five. Orchids are some- 

 times called for, but cannot be supplied. 

 The high price makes it unprofitable to 

 ■carry a stock of them. 



Although bouquet green was held at 

 a premium before Christmas, there is 

 still some of it on hand. From four to 

 a dozen cases of poor holly, can be seen 

 in each of the flower stores. Immortelle 

 bells were also left. 



Minneapolis. 



A visit to the Donaldson green- 

 houses found James Souden in fine spir- 

 its and getting fairly well rested up 

 after the holiday rush. His houses are 

 the picture of neatness and good order. 

 All of his stock looks fine. In all they 

 have about 65,000 feet of glass, in which 

 a general line of stock is grown, princi- 

 pally roses and carnations. Eichmond is 

 the only red grown outside of one bench 

 of Beauties. They have three houses in 

 Richmond and the stock is fine, large 

 daily cuts being made, even during the 

 cloudy weather. Brides and Maids are 

 also fine and while some growers are of 

 the opinion that the latter variety is run- 

 ning out, Mr. Souden has faith in it. 

 Chatenay is grown to some extent and is 

 very fine. The new Minneapolis rose, 

 Miss Kate Moulton, is also there and 

 they predict a brilliant future for it. 

 There seems to be some discussion in 

 these parts as to which is the best, the 

 Moulton or the Killarney. A fine house 

 of Enchantress carnations can be seen, 

 and while the cut is light at the present 

 time, within the next few weeks large 

 nimibers will be cut. Mr. Souden also 

 has a fine bench of adiantum, grown in 

 the bench, not potted. Thousands of 

 fronds have been cut and still thousands 

 remain. For a range of medium size, the 

 houses are fine and kept up in the best 

 possible shape, much to the credit of their 

 superintendent, Mr. James Souden. This 

 case is the only one known in this sec- 

 tion where a department store has its 

 own greenhou^s. 



An agreement has been made between 

 the cemetery associations whereby they 

 refuse to permit funerals on Sundays, 

 and the general opinion is that this move 

 will hurt the florists to some extent. 



St. Paul. 



The retailers report good business for 

 the past week; at times some of them 

 have had to hunt for white stock. Sun- 

 day morning orders are becoming quite 

 heavy and retailers are, as a rule, kept 

 fairly busy. A call on the Swanson 

 Floral Co. found Gus Colberg resting 

 after a heavy Sunday morning rush. 

 Aug. Vogt, who has a store on St. An- 

 thony Hill, where the elite of our city 

 reside, possibly does more business Sun- 

 day morning than on many a good week 

 day. 



Henry Puvogel has some good violets 

 and carnations. He has a new carnation 

 house, w"hich he was fortunate enough to 

 get completed before zero weather struck 

 us. 



L. L. May & Co. estimate that the 



mild weather so far has made at least 

 a difference of $1,000 in their coal bill. 

 Eastern supply houses are making in- 

 quiry for lycopodium for dyeing pur- 

 poses. fSjx. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Conditions are less favorable than a 

 week ago and prices have softened ma- 

 terially. The demand has not been equal 

 to the supply and quite a number of 

 flowers have had to be carried over each 

 day. Eoses have been in oversupply. The 

 best Beauties average $50 per hundred, a 

 few special Brides and Maids $12, but 

 many of the two latter go at from $3 to 

 $6. Carnations have made $4 for first- 

 class stock, a few making $5. White 

 varieties go slowest at $2. Violets vary 

 from 60 cents to $1, only the very best 

 making the higher figure. 



Quite a number of tulips and yellow 

 narcissi are coming, making $3 to $4 per 

 hundred. Sweet peas vary from 50 

 cents to $1 according to quality, in 

 which there is a wide range. Callas and 

 Harrisii remain about the same and 

 there is no change in other stock. Some 



Here is my dollar for 



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for 1906. Please see that I 

 do not miss a number, for 

 could better go without 

 my Baked Beans Saturday 

 night than I could without 

 the Review^. 



R. S. HOXIE. 



Mattapoisett, Mass. 

 January 2, 1906. 



very good antirrhinum and mignonette 

 are seen in the market, also a few Eng- 

 lish primroses, myosotis and stocks. 



Carnation G>nvention. 



The reception committee from the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club will meet 

 all trains on arrival at the north and 

 south terminals and Back Bay and Trin- 

 ity place railroad stations on Wednes- 

 day morning, January 24. Members of 

 this committee will wear a red badge. 



Tickets for the Copley Square hotel 

 banquet can be had from J. W. Duncan, 

 John K. M. L. Farquhar, Peter Fisher, 

 David Lumsden, Alexander Montgomery, 

 William Nicholson, Patrick Welch, James 

 Wheeler and Edward Wood. 



We hope to see a good delegation of 

 our western friends at the convention. 

 New England may not have as large car- 

 nation establishments as some other sec- 

 tions, but in quality of blooms she will 

 be found in the forefront, as well as in 

 seedlings. 



Various Notes. 



The plant and flower committee of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society has 

 been invited to inspect a house of the 

 new flesh-pink carnation, Marion Pierce, 

 at Topsfield, which attracted much favor- 

 able notice at the late chrysanthemum 

 show. 



J. J. Fee, of Jamaica Plain; E. Suter- 

 meister, Eeadville; Mann Bros., Ran- 

 dolph, Paine Bros, and J. Tailby & Son 

 are sending in very good bulbous stock 

 at present, some of the tulips being espe- 

 cially fine for so early in the season. 



Carnation night at the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club on January 16 and other 

 attractions in the way of exhibits, music, 

 etc., will undoubtedly draw one of the 

 largest crowds the club has yet seen. No 

 member can afford to miss this meeting 

 and the good things it will afford. 



Some good gladioli of the Gandavensis 

 type are being marketed by Lively & 

 Bond. 



At a meeting of the directors of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society on 

 January 6, five new life members were 

 elected. It was voted to ask the state 

 legislature to set aside $25,000 from the 

 gypsy and brown tail moth appropriations 

 to be awarded to a California gentleman 

 who offers to introduce natural parasites 

 to chase out the pests and who does not 

 ask for one cent of the money unless the 

 parasites do what he claims. If some 

 such parasite can be discovered it will 

 prevent \he deforestation of a large part 

 of this and^ other states which th^ rapid 

 increase of the pests threaten. / 



Alexander McKay, of South Framing- 

 ham, is marketing extra fine Prosperity 

 and Enchantress carnations and is cut- 

 ting from a batch of 7,000 very fine 

 freesias. 



Thomas Stock, of Dorchester, has his 

 usual fine lot of double bouvardia. 



F. J. Holmes, of Saugus, is bringing 

 in some extra fine antirrhinums. 



William Nicholson has extra fine free- 

 sia. Some of R. Fischer 's strain have re- 

 markable stems. 



Houghton & Clark are showing some 

 good Zygopetalum Mackayi and Dendro- 

 biura formosum giganteum. 



Pink Patten carnation is showing up 

 extra well at Patten & Co.'s establish- 

 ment at present. 



A. Eoper's variegated seedling carna- 

 tion, Chester Roper, is even more flori- 

 ferous than last year, which hardly 

 seemed possible. He has some fine seed- 

 lings coming on which we hope to see 

 at the A. C. S. meeting. 



David Lumsden has retired from the 

 firm of A. Leuthy & Co., in which he 

 has been a partner for some time. Mr. 

 Lumsden is a first-class plantsman and 

 we hope may stay in this section. 



A dull thud heard in the markets on 

 the morning of January 3 was occa- 

 sioned by the fall in carnation prices. 



W. N. Craig. 



The Review will send the Pronounc- 

 ing Dictionary on receipt of 25 cents. 



The Eeview will send Montgomery 

 on Grafted Eoses on receipt of 25 cents 



The Eeview will send Herrington's 

 Chrysanthemum Book on receipt of 50 

 cents. 



The Review will send Smith's 

 Chrysanthemum Manual on receipt of 25 

 cents. 



