JANUABT 26, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



649 



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Triday afternoon the outing commit- 

 tee meets at ex-President Traendly's 

 oflSce. Succeeding the session the mem- 

 bers bowl at Thum's alleys. Gradually 

 others accompany them until there is 

 promise of the development of a club to 

 roll regularly every Friday afternoon. 

 The time and place seem to be quite pop- 

 ular. 



Wadley & Smythe had a $2,000 decor- 

 ation at the automobile show in the Gar- 

 den, J. Austin Shaw. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The improvement in the cut flower 

 market mentioned last week in this col- 

 umn has continued. Business, both in 

 the city and out of town, is excellent, 

 the supply in many cases being a little 

 behind the demand. Beauties are scarce ; 

 the medium grades are almost out of the 

 market. Long-stemmed flowers are a 

 little higher in price, the quality excel- 

 lent. The best of the short-stemmed 



flowers are good, but some are not pre- 

 sentable. Liberties are also a little off 

 crop. There are only a few Eichmonds 

 coming in, but these seem to be popu- 

 lar with the buyers, who say they are 

 fully equal to Liberty. The scarcity of 

 white roses and white carnations of the 

 lower grades is somewhat made up by 

 the increase in La Eeine tulips, which 

 are used in design work. The better 

 flowers are much sought for table decora- 

 tions. Freesia is increasing in quantity; 

 the quality is as good or better than 

 seen here in former seasons. Acacia 

 pubescens has made its appearance, the 

 Leo Niessen Co. having a monopoly of 

 this flower. Single daffodils are very 

 plentiful. Carnations have fallen off a 

 little in supply; the average quality is 

 not quite so high as a month ago, due 

 probably to the unseasonably warm 

 weather. Violets are lower in price. 



Holmesburg. 



This is the fag end of the season with 

 the palm growers, the heavy demand of 

 the fall and early winter having de- 

 pleted the stock to some extent. Charles 

 D. Ball's houses indicate that he has 

 bad a splendid season so far, with im- 



mense quantities of stock coming on for 

 later sales this season and for next fall's 

 business. Mr. Ball's palms are known 

 all over the country for their high stand- 

 ard of excellence. He grows a general 

 assortment. Kentia Belmoreana and 

 Kentia Forsteriana are his leading varie- 

 ties, but I am glad to say they are not 

 grown to the exclusion of such old-time 

 favorites as Areca Lutescens, Latania 

 Borbonica, Cocos Weddelliana, crotons, 

 pandanus and ferns in small pots for 

 ferneries, and also larger sizes of the 

 Boston type, the latter being used as 

 fillers, so to speak, after the early palm 

 sales have left spaces in the houses. 

 Shifting palms into larger sizes is now 

 the order of the day. A new boiler, 

 Hitchings pattern, has just been in- 

 stalled. Eeaders of the Eeview will be 

 glad to know that both Mr. Ball and Mr. 

 Taplin were hard at work and predict a 

 great future for the palm business. 



Farmers' Institute. 



A very successful meeting of the 

 Farmers' Institute, under the joint aus- 

 pices of the State Department of Agri- 

 culture, the Pennsylvania Horticultural 

 Society and the Florists' Club, was held 

 at Horticultural hall on the afternoon 

 and evening of January 16. Edwin Lons- 

 dale presided over a very select gather- 

 ing of chosen spirits. The principal fea- 

 ture from a florist's standpoint was a 

 very interesting talk oh hybridization by 

 Antoine Wintzer, of West Grove, Pa. Mr. 

 Wintzer spoke with especial enthusiasm 

 of the work done by Dr. Van Fleet, who 

 in a quieter way, seems to be fully the 

 peer of the famous Luther Burbank. The 

 Hon. Thomas L. Phillips gave some inter- 

 esting facts about commercial fertilizers. 

 In the evening Dr. J. V. C. Boberta gave 

 his illustrated lecture on plants for the 

 sick-room, proving that growing plants 

 and flowers are beneficial in the sick- 

 room from a medical and scientific stand- 

 point, to say nothing of their cheering 

 influence on the patient. A. L. Martin, 

 Secretary of Agriculture at Harrisburg, 

 was among those present. 



What's in a Name ? 



Every florist will admit that a rose 

 by any other name would not smell so 

 sweet, and also that the naming of a new 

 plant or flower is a very important point 

 in its future career. In this connection 

 it may be of interest to speak of the 

 naming of one of the newer types of 

 Boston fern. This plant was first shown 

 before the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, and there attracted the atten- 



