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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Febbuahy 22, 1906. 



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BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Conditions are very much improved in 

 the market. A general cleaning up and 

 empty ice boxes at the close of business 

 was the rule all last week and prices 

 hardened considerably, especially in the 

 case of carnations. Valentine's day was 

 one of the best on record for florists. 

 Violets and carnations were in heavy 

 demand, while roses and valley were also 

 in demand. American Beauties continue 

 very scarce and few of the best grade 

 are seen. Brides and Maids are a little 

 more plentiful, but sell well, nothing 

 going below $4 per hundred and best 

 quality bringing $2 per dozen. Wellesley 

 is coming of good quality and sells well, 

 as does the ever popular Killarney. Lib- 

 erty and Eichmond are not abundant and 

 sell slightly higher. 



Carnations have brought $4 for best 

 stock, some making $5. Nothing has 

 gone below $2 and only poor blooms have 

 sold at the lower prices. Violets are of 

 very fine quality. A fair average price 

 has been 50 cents. Some days as much 

 as 75 cents is made, especially on Princess 

 of Wales, which makes a better price 

 than Campbell. Sweet peas were never 

 seen of finer quality and vary from 50 

 cents to $1 per hundred. Easter lilies 

 are abundant, as are callas, at $8 to $10 

 per hundred. 



Paper White narcissus is practically 

 done, but plenty of N. poeticus ornatus 

 comes in. Golden Spur, Emperor and 

 Horsfieldii are the leading single yellow 

 daffodils. Princeps does not sell so well. 

 Prices on these and tulips run from $1.50 

 to $2. There is a good steady call for 

 asparagus and adiantum. 



Qub Meetins:. 



There was a magnificent attendance 

 on February 20, 130 being present to 

 hear Robert Cameron speak on his re- 

 cent trip through Jamaica, Trinidad, 

 and others of the West Indian Islands. 

 Mr. Cameron, being a thorough botanist, 

 as well as a first- ciass practical garden- 

 er, made his address replete with inter- 

 est from start to finish and well mer- 

 ited the warm aplause he received at 

 its close. He had a collection of 200 



large photographs with which to illus- 

 trate his remarks. 



Some discussion took place over the 

 selection of ueld days, some members 

 saying they would prefer some other 

 day than Saturday, it was announced 

 that the next field day will be held with 

 W. W. Edgar and Peirce Bros., on or 

 about March 31. The membership list 

 was swelled by the addition of twelve 

 new names. 



Exhibits were unusually good and in- 

 cluded several new larnations not pre- 

 viously seen, from George B. Anderson. 

 Montrose Greenhouses exhibited young 

 rose plants grafted on English Manetti. 

 Barrows & Son's Nephrolepis Whitmanii 

 was awarded a report of superior merit. 

 A shipment of sweet peas from A. C. 

 Zvolanek did not arrive. A committee 

 was appointed to arrange classes in land- 

 scape gardening for the younger mem- 

 bers and give prizes tor assistant gard- 

 eners and florists shown at the meetings. 



At the March mealing, just preceding 

 the exhibition of the American Eose So- 

 ciety, roses will be ine subject, and the 

 speaker will be Alixander Montgomery, 

 Jr. It will undoubtedly prove the ban- 

 ner meeting in the cluD's history. The 

 annual banquet will be held in April. 



Vaiiottt Notes. 



Peirce Bros, are handling quantities of 

 splendid carnations at present. They 

 made a shipment of 10,000 to Providence 

 on February 17. 



Some of the finest carnations seen at 

 the Music hall market are coming from 

 George Hemingway, South Sudbury; H. 

 A. Stevens Co., John Barr, D. Carmichael 

 and A. Koper. 



McMulkin had a \ery pleasing yellow 

 window the past week, composed of 

 genistas, Mahernia odorata, tulips and 

 narcissi. He is showing some pretty 

 5-inch pots of Coelogyne cristata well 

 flowered. 



H. T. Capers is handling especially 

 fine Lilium Harrisii at the Music hall 

 market for Wm. T. Walke, of Salem. 



William Nicholson has, as usual, a 

 grand lot of white and yellow mar- 

 guerites this season. Witterstaetter *s 

 new carnations. Afterglow and Aristo- 

 crat, are fine with hloi ^ present. 



S. J. Goddard reports heavy sales for 



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 arriving by every maU. He has shipped 

 25,000 the past two weeks and all his 

 stock is booked to tho middle of March. 

 His new house, 33x133, will have iron 

 posts and iron eave plates. 



Thomas Pegler is now salesman for 

 Norcross & Stratton at the Park street 

 market. He now handles 10,000 fine 

 Campbell violets daily for Oscar L. Dorr. 



Carbone is showing some excellent 

 Azalea mollis in a variety of shades and 

 fine Eucharis Amazonica. 



There was a great display of floral 

 tributes for Chief Cheswell, of the Bos- 

 ton Fire Department, whose fimeral took 

 place on February 19. Some of the re- 

 tail stores had about all the business 

 they could handle. 



The Schlegel & Fottler Co. team won 

 the seed trade bowling league contest, 

 J. Breck & Sons Co. being second. 



