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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



August 23, 1006. 



THE RIBBONS B7 



hy Vhe Pine Tree SilK Mills Company are 

 Itistrotis— firm to tKe totich— ivell ^woven. 



THe colors are satisfy^ing to tlie florist, 

 matcHing or blendin^^, as tliey do, vritli all 

 floMrer and foliage sKades. 



And Yet 



^he Pine Tree Rib- 

 bons are cheaper 

 tlian tbe usual Rind, 

 for tliey are sold direct and tberefore you 



SAVE ALL BETWEEN PROFITS 



W^t f to '^xn Mfe iitllB Compang 



Oflic* »Bcl S»l*Brooins 

 806-08«10 ArcK St. 

 53-54 Nortb StH St. 



ptftlah^lplfm 



The new BIbbons and colors for antomn and winter are 

 ready. The sherry-reds, the wood-browas, the myrtle- 

 greens. ■ SAMPLES OLADLT ON BEQUEST. 



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Millst All*tfK*ny 

 Av«.« Bottdlnot 

 and Hurley S\%, 



BOSTON. 



The lR»AtX. 



The market shows quite a little im- 

 provement and has cleaned up better 

 than for several weeks. Climatically the 

 last week was the most perfect of the 

 summer, skies cloudless each day, and 

 not a drop of rain falling, a big change 

 from what we had erperienced for many 

 ■weeks. The clearer conditions seemed to 

 brace even the flower market. 



Roses sell all the way from 50 cents to 

 $6 per hundred, for varieties other than 

 Beauties. The latter are not very plenti- 

 ful and the best hold at $20. The best 

 carnations now arriving are outdoor ones. 

 These fetch $1.50 to $2 per hundred. 

 New indoor crop flowers arriving are 

 small and short-stemmed, while those 

 from the old crop are very puny in 

 size. I 



Asters sell at 35 e^^^kts to $1' per hun- 

 di*ed. Sweet peas seem to be practically 

 over. Gladioli are at $3 to $6, the pink 

 and white shades selling well. Hydran' 

 gea paniculata and Hydrangea grandi- 

 flora at 35 cents per dozen are plentiful. 

 Some Hydrangea Otaksa is seen. Easter 

 lilies hold at $1.50 per dozen. There is 

 still a good lot of Lilium auratum and 

 Lilium speciosum. The outdoor crop of 

 the last named will be ready in a few 

 days. Candytuft, cornflowers, valley 

 and feverfew comprise the bulk of the 

 other flowers seen. 



Exhibition. 



The exhibition at Horticultural hall on 

 August 18 was fine, entirely filling the 

 main hall. Phloxes agaimnade a granfl 

 showing. For thirty vases prizes went 

 to T. C. Thurlow, F. W. Spinney, Blue 

 Hill Nurseries and W. Whitman. J. K. 



Alexander led for twelve named gladi- 

 oli, folloM'ed by W. Whitman and John 

 Lewis Childs. The last named won for 

 100 vases gladioli, C. S. Pratt seconc!, 

 J. K. Alexander third. For asters W. 

 Whitman was first and second and O. B. 

 Kenrick third. T. O. Hatfield received 

 honoraW mention for Senecio clivorum, 

 fine fox^ edges of ponds or streams. 

 E. F. Dwyer & Son had a new clematis, 

 intermediate between the shrubby and 

 climbing sections. 



Dahlias made a great display. Some 

 of the exhibitors of these were J. K. 

 Alexander, Towle's Dahlia Gardens, 

 A. E. Johnson, Mrs. J. B. Lawrence, 

 W. W. Kawson & Co., W. C. Winter and 

 W. G. Winsor. Other displays of flow- 

 ers came from Blue Hill Nurseries, 

 which also received honorable mention 

 for hybrid nigosa rose, Conrad F. Mayer, 

 W. J. Clemson, Mrs. E. M. Gill, Harvard 

 Botanic Gardens and H. B. Watts. 



y ariotu Notes. 



W. H. Knapp has returned from a 

 three weeks' visit to Jeffrey, N. H., with 

 his mother. 



A baseball game of a pleasant nature 

 was held at Natick on August 18, the op- 

 posing teams being from the Park Street 

 Flower Market and Waban Rose Con- 

 servatories. Refreshments of ice cream, 

 cake and coffee were served through the 

 kindness of Alex. Montgomery. 



James Tulis, of South Sudbury, and 

 S. J. Goddard, of Framingham, are 

 sending in quantities of fine outdoor- 

 grown carnations, which meet a quick 

 sale. 



Anderson & Williams are one of the 

 few growers for this market of Bou- 

 vardia Humboldtii. They are now mar- 

 keting some fine bunches of it. 



A call last week on F. C. Green, su- 

 perintendent of Senator N. W. Aldrich's 

 extensive estate at Warwick, R. I., found 

 him still busy making many improve- 

 ments. The 100 or more acres of lawns 

 never looked more beautiful, while trees 

 and shrubs, thanks to the copious mois- 

 ture, had all made luxuriant growth. 



James Burke, on the J. A. Foster es- 

 tate at Warwick, has some of the finest 

 Hydrangea Otaksa it was ever our privi- 

 lege to see. They are planted outdoors 

 and well protected, but never housed. 

 Some planted out in 1900 were marvel- 

 ous plants, carrying in one case as many 

 as 1,100 heads of bloom. These we will 

 refer to again. 



The Boston delegation to the S. A. F, 

 convention left on the 10:45 a. m. ex- 

 press per Boston & Albany Railroad on 

 August 20, and had clear, hot weather 

 with them as a starter. The shade tem- 

 perature on the preceding day registered 

 95 degrees, the highest reading of the 

 year. 



Mann Bros, have the market pretty 

 much to themselves on Lilium longiflo- 

 rum this week, with a very steady sale. 



Visitors last week were A. Morgan, of 

 Rutherford, N. J.; Charles Sandiford 

 and John Flood, both of Buffalo. 

 Messrs. Sandiford and Flood formerly 

 lived here and are well known to many 

 of the trade. W. N. CrIig. * 



BETTSVlLXiE, O. — M. W\ Walters is 

 adding a lettuce house, 33x80 feet, to his 

 present range. 



HoLDEEGE, Neb. — W. E. Davidson & 

 Bros, have just finished the erection of 

 a greenhouse 22 x 100 feet. Emil Fischer 

 of Chicago will have, charge of the estab- 

 lishment. 



