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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



June 7, 1906. 



The Sabin Plant Stand 



THE PRACTICAL STAND FOR EVERY FLORIST 



4. 





The Sabin Stand is 30 inches high and can be adjusted to stand 54 inches iigh. The best 

 on the market. Each $l*SO« Dozen $17. Crated 6 in a crate. Send your orders to 



E. H. HUNT, Western Ageat, 76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago 



Mfiitlon Tlip KevlfW whi*!! yon write 



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his plants as being in magnificent con- 

 dition since the recent soaking rains. He 

 has some remarxably fine new French 

 sorts to exhibit at the coming meeting of 

 the American Peony Society. 



Wm. Kosenthal, the proprietor of the 

 Boston Cut Flower Co., on Bromfiehl 

 street, is around again after a siege of 

 sickness. 



E. Sutermeister is at Portland, Me., 

 taking a needed vacation with his son 

 after the Memorial day rush. 



Israel Rosnosky, of J. Breck & Sons 

 Co., has entered the employ of the H. F. 

 Michell (.'o., Philadelphia. He has been 

 an active worker in the local Gardeners ' 

 and Florists' Club. 



Wm. Nicholson reports Memorial day 

 trade at Framingham as ahead of all 

 records. He is proposing taking a 

 European trip, sailing on the S. S. 

 Iveriiia on July 10. 



The Gardeners ' and Florists ' Club field 

 day on June 19 promises to be more 

 largely attended than any preceding one. 

 President Wheeler expects an attendance 

 of 100 members. 



The rose .show will he held the week 

 following the peony exhibition, the dates 

 selected being .Iiinc L'L' and 23. Hardy 

 roses have seldom looked more promising 

 than at present. 



J. K. Morgan, of Glastonbury, Conn., 

 was calling on a numoer of our lead- 

 ing florists the past week. 



Christ .Johans.son has leased the 

 Coolidge Bros, greenhouses at South Sud- 

 bury for a term of years. He has been 

 manager of the establishment for five 

 years past. 



A couple of prize cats in T. F. Gal- 

 vin 's Tremont street store became 



frightened at some visitors the past week 

 and in their efforts to reach a place of 

 safety destroyed about $50 worth of 

 fancy vases. 



Mrs. Foster, of 637 Main street, 

 Worcester, well known in Boston, met 

 with a rather serious automobile accident 

 a Aveek ago, but is progressing favorably. 



I^wrence Cotter, who returned a few 

 weeks ago to his old place in Dorchester, 

 is making extensive improvements, re- 

 building and rebenching several houses. 

 He will finish planting his rose houses 

 in a few days. 



S. J. Goddard is busy glazing his new 

 hquse. He reports Memorial day trade 

 as 100 per cent better than in 1905. 

 For delivering his many orders he used 

 an up-to-date automobile marked "S. ,(. 

 Goddard, special delivery." 



H. N. Eaton, of South Sudbury, is a 

 busy man these days, rushing out orders 

 of geraniums and coleus, of which he 

 grows many thousands. 



Robert Montgomery has completed his 

 new rose house 36x250 and is busy j)lant- 

 ing it with young stock. 



R. & .J. Farquhar & Co. report tliat 

 their seed business this year shows a re- 

 markable increase over 1905. They have 

 also largely improved 

 vears ' sales of nursery 



\V. AV. Rawson & Co. 

 quarters and hope to 

 on or about .Tuly 1. 



Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fuller sailed on 

 the S. S. Romanic on June 5 for a 

 European trip. 



There would appear to be a good open- 

 ing in this section for any one who would 

 devote a few acres to popular peonies for 

 cutting for market. We have several 



commercial growers of these who, how- 

 ever, make more of a specialty of selling 

 roots than flowers. 



Welch Bros, very kindly oflfer cold 

 storage facilities for ^y who may desire 

 to store their peonies for the coming ex- 

 hibition. There are good cellar accom- 

 modations at Horticultural hall for 

 keeping the flowers also. 



John Walsh, late manager at the Park 

 street market, reports Memorial day 

 trade at Melrose as splendid, with every 

 flower sold, and many more could have 

 been disposed of had they been obtain- 

 able. 



Prof. C. S. Sargent entertains the 

 members of the American Medical As- 

 sociation, who hold their convention in 

 Boston this week at his fine estate. Holm 

 l^ea, Brookline, on June 6. 



W. X. Craig. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



er 



on their form 



stock. 



have secured now 



move into them 



Decoration day made good in and 

 around New York. It was one of the 

 liusiest memorial occasions in the history 

 of the wholesale cut flower market. The 

 suj)ply of stock was light, the demand' 

 {general, prices quite satisfactory, and 

 nothing loft over. But summer heat and 

 the natural depression that follows a 

 holiday all combined to flood the stores 

 and shake things. On Saturday and on 

 .Monday the false bottom fell out and 

 prices started toward the usual standard 

 of the hot season. 



I^st week, with its commencements 

 •And weddings, was inspirational. Every- 

 body was happy. The retailers were all 

 busy. There were contented faces every- 



