JULT 26, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



587 



ASTERS^ 



We liave heavy cuts of fine Asters. 

 The best the market affords, and large 

 suppHes in all other lines. We should like 

 a share of your business. 



E. H.HUNT 



Established 1878. ^The Old Reliable." Incorporated 1906. 



76-78 Wabash Avenue, 



CHICAGO 



CURRENT PRICE LIST 



BEAUTIBS Perdoz. 



30to36-lnch $3.00 to 14.00 



24to»0-lnch 2.00tO 3.00 



15to20-lnch l.OOtO 1.50 



8tol2-lnch 1.00 



ROSES (Teaa) Per 100 



Brides and Maids I3.0C to W.OO 



Richmond and Liberty 3.00 to 6.00 



Perle 3.00to 5.00 



Golden Gate and Chatenay 3.00 to 6.00 



Roses, our selection 2.00 



CARNATIONS, medium l.OOto 1.60 



Fancy 2.00 



BUSCELLANXOUS 



Asters 1.50to 2.00 



Valley 3.00to 4.00 



Harrlsll 10.00 to 12.00 



Sweet Peas 60 to .75 



Daisies 75to 1.00 



Gladioli 6.00to 8.00 



GREENS 



Smilax Strings perdoz. 1.50 



Asparag-us Strings each .40 to .60 



Asparagrus Buncoes " .35 



Sprengreri Bunches " .36 



Boxwood Bunches " .36 



Adiantum per 100 .76 



Ferns, Common per 1000 1.50 



Galax, Q. and B " l.OOto 1.60 



Leucothoe Sprays " 7.60 



SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGE. 



Store closes at 5 p. m. during July and Aug. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



their Lilium auratum, L. superbum, 

 Hemerocallis aurantiaca fl. pi., and 

 Physostegia Virginica alba being espe- 

 cially fine. Blue Hill Nurseries had pe- 

 rennial phloxes in variety and the 

 bright Lilium Chalcedouicum. Mrs. A. 

 W. Blake had a largo general display, 

 including splendid Lilium superbum. 

 Joseph Thorpe had a nice collection of 

 dahlias, the first exhibited this season. 

 E. L. Lewis had hollyhocks, Mrs. E. M. 

 Gill and Mrs. J. B. Lawrence general 

 displays. George F. Fabyan, James 

 Stuart gardener, showed Shirley pop- 

 pies and Hypericum Moserianum. J. 

 Tailby & Son showed several seedling 

 yellow callas. One, named ilrs. J. Tail- 

 by, of a pale yellow color and unique 

 variegated foliage, received honorable 

 mention, 



J. E. Kothwell received a first-class 

 certificate for Cypripedium Rolfei 

 (Bellatylum x Boinschildianum). He 

 also showed fine cut odoutoglossums, 

 phatenopsis, cypripediums and cat- 

 tloyas. "William Thatcher had a nice 

 batch of the bright Clerodeudron fallax. 



On July 14 J. Tailby & Son showed 

 Lonicera tragophylla, one of Veitch's 

 recent introductions from western 

 China through E, H. Wilson. The 

 flowers are yellow in color and three 

 inches in length. The plant shown 

 was small and on this occasion re- 

 ceived honorable mention. We hope it 

 may prove hardy in New England. 



The Boston Mycological Tlub had a 

 fine display of fungi on exhibition July 

 21. The damp season suits the mush- 

 room family. 



Club Picnic 



Everything is in readiness for the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club's picnic 

 at Waushakum grove, South Framing- 

 ham, July 25, and at the liour of writ- 

 ing climatic conditions promise to be 

 favorable. The picnic occurs a little 

 too late to report in this week's Re- 

 view. There are twenty-five events to 

 be competed for in the sports depart- 

 ment, including baseball, cricket, quoits, 

 throwing the hammer, tug of war, races 

 of all kinds, and in fact about every- 

 thing that goes to make up a veritable 

 sporting carnival. In the cricket game 



and tug of war commercial growers arc 

 pitted against private gardeners. 



Several hundred dollars' worth of 

 prizes arc offered, comprising a wide 

 assortment of valuabie, ornamental, and 

 useful articles. The donors include 

 Lord & Burnham Co., W. E. Doyle, 

 Welch Bros., Edward Hatch, Bay State 

 Nurseries, H. M. Bobinson & Co., W. 

 W. Edgar Co., Braman, Dow & Co.; 

 A. H. Hews & Co., Houghton & Clark, 

 David Lumsden, J. Beck & Son, J. T. 

 Grey & Co., O. Finlayson, James 

 Wheeler, F. E. Palmer, Peter Miller, 

 J. W. Duncan, Schlegel & Fottler Co., 

 Daniel Iliffe, Henry Penn, Julius Zinn, 

 Alexander Montgomery, Framingham 

 Nurseries, W. J. Stewart, A. F. Scott, 

 Shady Hills Nursery Co., Holly Castle 

 Co., Thomas Koland, A. T. Stearns Lum- 

 ber Co., Philip Feinstein, William Sim 

 and E. & J. Farquhar & Co., the last 

 named firm donating 150 boxes of choc- 

 olates for the ladies. 



Various Notes. 



The rival Park Street Market and 

 Music Hall Market baseball teams will 

 battle for supremacy on August 5 at 

 Child's Farm, Waltham. Last year the 

 Music Hall boys came out ahead in the 

 game played at Robert Montgomery's. 

 This year their rivals are determined to 

 turn the tables on them in a decisive 

 manner, and with J. R. Free as mana- 

 ger and the stalwart Wilham R. Nichol- 

 son as captain they feel confident they 

 can accomplish the trick. The Music 

 Hall team is getting ready for the fray 

 under the captaincy of T. F. Matthews 

 and m.anagement of W. C. Ward. 



Lewis R. .Jackson, of Woburn, is add- 

 ing a new greenhouse which will just 

 double his area of glass. 



The H. E. Fiske Seed Co., just in- 

 corporated, makes an addition to Bos- 

 ton's list of seed houses. H. E. Fiske, 

 the treasurer, is late manager for W. W. 

 Rawson & Co. The president is P. H. 

 Stratton and the clerk S. W. Calver. 

 The capital is $30,000. 



Robert Marshall, of Newton, one of 

 our best plantsmen and gardeners, will 

 succeed A. J. Newell in charge of Mrs. 

 R. M. Clark's estate at Pomfret, Conn. 



John K. M. L. Farquhar hopes to sail 

 on a European trip about August IL 



J. Tailby & Son, of Wellesley, have a 

 fine display* of hybrid yellow callas in 

 their fields at present which attracts 

 the notice of many of the passengers 

 on the Boston & Albany railroad, which 

 runs very close to them. 



Waban Conservatories are sending in 

 very fine blooms of the new rose, 

 Wellesley. It has a good sale in Brock- 

 ton, Lynn and other cities outside of 

 Boston. 



Elm leaf beetles have been unusually 

 destructive this season, not only in Bos- 

 ton and suburbs, but in many other 

 towns and cities. Many fine trees are 

 now nearly denuded of foliage, while 

 others have a brown and seared appear- 

 ance. 



Quite a few carnation growers are 

 now busy housing their stock from the 

 fields. Plants look well and are larger 

 than in 1905. 



W. H. Elliott finds Wellesley a good 

 summer rose. He is growing several 

 thousands of it at his Medbury, N. H., 

 establishment, 



Michael Galligan, a well known land- 

 scape gardener in Bristol county, died 

 at Attleboro on July 20, aged 60 years. 

 He leaves eight children. 



J. Leech & Sou, North Easton, are 

 adiling a new carnation house and 

 boiler this season and making other im- 

 |)rovoments. W. N. Craig. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market 



If there is any business going on 

 among the retailers, except a little 

 funeral work, we haven't heard of it. 

 The weather has been hot and Old 

 Humidity is getting in his work in 

 great shape. Little activity is shown 

 at the wholesale houses during the 

 morning hours. Everybody is talking 

 picnic. According to the interest 

 shown it should be a grand success. 

 Quite a lot of fair stock is coming in. 

 Some very nice asters, white and pur- 

 ple, are selling well. They are cheap 

 enough, and with any kind of work 

 should yield a good profit to the re- 

 tailer. Sweet peas are still plentiful, 

 but stems are becoming shorter every 

 day. In lots of 1,000 the price is cheap. 



The roses that are coming in are 



