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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Fbbbuabz 8, 1906. 



February 14 



Is the day ^l|^| PTCl in quantity, 

 you need ■ 1\^M-^JL M ^^9 There are 

 no better VIOLETS than ours. Let us have 

 your VALENTINE'S day order now and you 

 will get the right goods at right prices. 



ALL OTHER STOCK IN SEASON 



E. H.HUNT 



76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



CURRENT PRICES 



BEAUTUSS Pel- doz. 



30to36-lnch 94.00 to 16.00 



24to28-inch 3.00tO 4.00 



16to2Q-lnch 1.60 to 2.00 



8tol2-lnch l.OOto 1.60 



Shorts .76 



ROSES (Teas) Per 100 



Bi-ldeaand MaldB t6.00 to 110.00 



Bichmond C.OOto laOO 



Liberty 5.00to 10.00 



Perle 4.00to 7.00 



Boses, our selection 4.00 



CARNATIONS 2.00 to 3.00 



Extra fancy S.OOto 4.00 



MISCBI^I^ANEOUS 



Violets, double 75 to 1.00 



Harrlsll Lilies 16.00 to 2a00 



Callas 12.00 to 16.00 



Valley S.OOto 4.00 



Tulips 3.00to 4.00 



Paper Whites S.00 



Bomans 3.00 



Migrnonette 6.00 to 10.00 



GREENS 



Smllax Strings per doz. 1.60 to 2.00 



Asparagus Strings each .40 to .60 



Asparagus Buncoes " .36 



Sprengeri Bunches " .36 



Boxwood Bunches " .26 



Adiantum per 100 .76 to 1.00 



Ferns, Common per 1000 2.00 



Galax, G. and B " 1.00 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.60 



WUd Smllax, 93.00, 94.00, 96.00 per case. 



SUBJECT TO MABKET CHANGE. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



With colder weather prevailing, less 

 flowers are arriving than a week ago 

 and are bringing slightly better prices. 

 The fakers who have been handling 

 large quantities of flowers up to date 

 have been unable to ply their vocation 

 on one or two days of late, with the con- 

 sequence that a good many second and 

 third grade flowers have remained un- 

 sold at the markets. 



Boses continue to sell very well ana 

 are not very plentiful. Best Beauties 

 make $50 and $60, Brides, Maids and 

 Chatenays from $3 to $16, only extra 

 select stock bringing the top price. Some 

 very nice Richmond are seen. They 

 sell at higher rates than Liberty. As 

 usual, Killarney sells well at about the 

 same rates as for Brides and Maids. 

 Some good Mrs. Oliver Ames and Mor- 

 gan are seen. 



Carnations vary from $1.50 to $3, a 

 small number of fancies going higher. 

 Violets sell all the way from 25 cents 

 to 60 cents and sweet peas at 50 cents, 

 75 cents and $1. 



Easter lilies and callas are quite plenti- 

 ful, averaging $8 per hundred. Double 

 and single yellow narcissi sell at $2 to 

 $3, tulips about the same price. Paper 

 Whites are too abundant and hard to 

 sell. Valley is not very plentiful at $3 

 to $4. Asparagus and adiantum sell very 

 well and are each a little soft at pres- 

 ent and none too abundant. 



Various Notes. 



W, W. Bawson, of Arlington, was the 

 speaker on February 3 in the regular 

 winter lecture course at Horticultural 

 hall. In the course of his remarks he 

 spoke on the advantages of electric light 

 for forwarding greenhouse crops. An 

 animated and interesting discussion fol- 

 lowed. 



Anderson & Williams, of Waltham, are 

 handling some finely grown cyclamens at 

 the Park street market. They also sell 

 quantities of small ferns in pans. 



Good Narcissus poeticus ornatus is 

 i-oming in from Frank T. White, Mann 

 Bros, and one or two other bulb special- 

 ists. 



Preparations for the coming convention 



of the American Bose Society are now 

 being actively pushed and there is every 

 prospect that the coming exhibition will 

 be the finest ever seen in America. Taken 

 in conjunction with the spring show of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 it will, of course, be much more exten- 

 sive and varied than the one seen at the 

 carnation convention. It has been de- 

 cided to hold the banquet at the Hotel 

 Brunswick. We hope to see some roses 

 from our western friends at the coming 

 show. 



HT)ughton & Clark are showing, among 

 other flowers, some nice Chorizema ili- 

 cifolium and Lilium speciosum. 



Carbone is showing some pretty made 

 up pans of Azalea Firefly, four small 

 plants to a pan, also the pretty pink 

 Azalea Temperance and nice gardenias. 



Galvin is displaying some well flow- 

 ered plants of Dendrobium Wardianum, 

 also Cypripedium villosum and other 

 orchids. 



Penn, on Bronifield street, always has 

 a neat window. Dendrobium nobile, 

 coelogynes and Cattleya Percivalliana 

 were noticeable in last week's arrange- 

 ment. 



The members of the Music hall market 

 will be able to move into their new sales- 

 room at the end of the present week, the 

 alterations being almost completed. 



The meeting of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists ' Club on February 20 should 

 prove a rousing one. Bobert Cameron's 

 lecture on his West Indian tour will 

 prove very fascinating. Exhibits will 

 be unusually numerous and as further 

 applications for membership are being 

 received, everything points to a first- 

 class gathering. 



At a meeting of the North Shore Hor- 

 ticultural Society on February 2 a paper 

 was read by James Salter on vegetables. 

 P. B. Sanborn, on behalf of the club 

 and other members, in a felicitous speech 

 presented James McGregor, the respected 

 head gardener on Miss A. G. Thayer's es- 

 tate with a handsome roll-top desk and 

 chair. Mr. McGregor made a feeling re- 

 ply. The club is making active prepara- 

 tions for its annual banquet and ball on 

 February 15. A good delegation from 

 the Boston Gardeners' and Florisits' 

 Club will attend. 



With the exception of 1876, the Jan- 

 uary just ended proved the warmest 



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since the establishment of the Boston 

 weather bureau. A normal January has 

 a mean temperature of 27 degrees. This 

 year it was 35.8 degrees. December and 

 January are 12.2 degrees ahead of the 

 schedule for well-behaved winters. Feb- 

 ruary is striving to make good some of 

 the preceding months ' deficiencies. Feb- 

 ruary 3 was the coldest day Boston has 

 had for two years. 



W, C. Bowditch, of Grove Hall, is 

 handling some well-grown azaleas, cycla- 

 men and other pot plants at the Music 

 hall market. ;* 



Seed stores report that there is an 

 extra early demand for seeds and busi- 

 ness is well ahe^d of previous years. 



W. N. Ceaig. 



WANT ADVERTISEMENTS. 



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 word. CASH WITH ORDER. When answer* 

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 forwarding. 



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 aead. 



SITUATION WANTED-By good grower of 

 roses, carnations, mums, etc. ; American, 26: 

 tea years' practical experience: good designer: 

 i best references. Address No. 36, care Florists' 

 ! Review, Chicago. 



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SITUATION WANTED— By good grower of cut 

 flowers and pot plants; capable of taking 

 full charge; best of references; single; please 

 st.ate wages. Address No. 44, care Florists' 

 Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED-Practical florist, de- 

 corator, designer; management store or 

 greenhouses; twenty-five years growing roses 

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