March 8, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



J 065 



may write or wire J. Austin Shaw at 

 1310 Forty-ninth street, Brooklyn, a few 

 days ahead and berths will be secured 

 for them, 



C. W. Ward was unexpectedly called 

 west on Saturday and fears he will not 

 be home again for some little time. 



On Monday, March 12, at Madison, the 

 Eegan property, including the green- 

 houses, rose stock and everything con- 

 nected with the business will be sold at 

 public auction. 



Moore, Hentz & Nash were headquar- 

 ters early in the week for southern nar- 

 cissi. The flowers were excellent, but 

 the stems only half the length of the 

 local product. At the price, every re- 

 tailer in New York could have afforded 

 a spring window on Monday. 



J. K. Allen is receiving fine sweet 

 peas from Zvolanek, of Bound Brook, 

 the white and pink varieties being most 

 in demand. 



St. Patrick's day is near and natur- 

 ally the evergreen shamrock is assert- 

 ing itself in advance of the advent of the 

 green carnation. At Guttman's there is 

 an abundance of "the real thing" in 

 the window. Mr. Guttman has already 

 shipped over 150,000 cuttings of Victory 

 and the call for them continues daily. 

 He says the flowers hold firm at $6 to 

 $8 per luindred at wholesale. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Lent came in as usual with a heavy 

 slump in prices. To make matters worse 

 the weather was severely cold and the 

 fakers were unable to relieve any of the 

 congestion. Conditions are now some- 

 what improved, but the market lacks 

 stability, and while one day flowers clean 

 out well, on the next day they are hard 

 to move. Koses are coming in more 

 plentifully. American Beauty shows a 

 great improvement in quality at former 

 prices, and the same is true of all other 

 roses. Chatenay, Wellesley and Killar- 

 ney are all showing up well and are 

 among the best" sellers. 



Carnations are in heavy supply and 

 are lower all around. Enchantress is 

 more seen' than any other variety. Quite 

 a number are now coming pale in color, 

 however. Many growers still grow a lot 

 of Fair ^Maid and it holds its color well. 

 Violets are very abundant. A popular 

 price has been 300 for $1, although some 

 specials make up to 75 cents per hun- 

 dred. 



Bulbous stock is too abundant and a 

 good deal of it is cleared at low figures. 

 Emperor narcissus is less popular than 

 Golden Spur. A good deal of Princeps 

 is still grown, as it can be sold profit- 

 ably at a low figure. Some very good 

 antirrhinum, mignonette, anemones and 

 other miscellaneous stock is seen. Lili- 

 ums and callas continue very plentiful 

 and there is no scarcity of green stock. 



Various Notes. 



' ' Tender flowers ' ' was the subject at 

 Horticultural hall on March 3. The dis- 

 cussion was opened by W. N. Craig, who 

 spoke on a variety of desirable annuals 

 for cut flowers and decorative effects. 

 He was followed by Duncan Finlayson, 

 A. H. Fewkes, H. Chapman, E. B. 

 Wilder, James Wheeler, J. W. Manning, 

 Robert Cameron, Charles Sander and 

 others. 



The lecturer at the next meeting of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club will be 



Store of S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia, Showing New Additioxu 



David Iiun;sdcn. His subject will be 

 "Plants and bulbs most in demand for 

 the Easter trade." The date of the 

 meeting Mill be March 20. It had been 

 hoped that Alex. Montgomery, Jr., would 

 speak on roses, but he is unable to do so 

 and no other roaarian could be found 

 to step into the breach. 



Oscar L. Orr, of Sharon Heights, is 

 one of the largest and most successful 

 violet growers for the Boston market. 

 He has two houses 25x330 devoted to 

 them, nothing but Campbell being grown. 

 These are on solid beds and in the pink 

 of condition. The flowers are sold at 

 the Park street market. Two houses 

 30x330 are devoted to cucumbers, and 

 one 30x700, the latter being one of the 

 largest of its kind in New England. 

 Ground has been broken and material 

 bought for an additional cucumber house 

 32x700. White Spine is exclusively 

 grown and the produce is shipped to 

 both New York and Boston, ^tr. Orr 

 also owns and manages a large truck 

 farm. The greenhouses are heated by 

 steam and wood is entirely u.sed as fuel, 

 there being an abundant supply on a 

 near-by estate. 



An unusually fine spring exhibition of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 is expected in connection with the coming 

 meeting of the American Kose Society. 

 It will pay all prominent rose growers 

 to be on hand for this exhibition and we 

 hope exhibits will come from a wider 

 area than ever before. 



A good deal of Easter talk is now- 

 heard. Lilies appear to be an unusually 

 clean lot and it looks as though there 

 would be an adequate supply. It will 

 be more and more a plant Easter and 

 numerous growers are bending their en- 



ergies to satisfy the increasing demand 

 in this line. 



Hamlio & Solomon, who have for some 

 time been managing a flower store in 

 Houghton & Dutton's, have dissolved 

 partnership. 



Quite a few bulb travelers are now 

 making their rounds. We met the past 

 week Charles Schwake, with C. F, Meyer 

 New York, and A. Kingier, with W w' 

 Barnard Co., Chicago. 



E. Sutermeister is as usual handling 

 quantities of extra fine hyacinths, tulips 

 :uid narcissi in pans, in which he is one 

 of our leading specialists. 



J. S. .Manter is handling fine Chatenay 

 roses at Park street market for Exeter 

 Kose Conservatories, Exeter, N. H. 



John McFarland is again first in the 

 market with hybrid roses, Brunner be- 

 ing his specialty. His valley is also 

 ot very good quality. 



The wet weather *on March 3 did not 

 pr.'veut a large delegation from the 

 Aon- England .Market Gardeners' Asso- 

 ciation visiting the establishment of W 

 W. l^•nvson, of Arlington. 



A II. Hews & Co. report spring trade 

 in flower pots and pans as unprece- 

 •tcnfcdly good. So great is the rush of 

 oKlcrs that they have been obliged to call 

 in all their agents who were on the 

 road. Business from southern states is 

 very good. They are considering plans 

 tor further increasing their output. 



W. N. Craio. 



I SHOULD not want to get along with- 

 out the Review, as 1 find a great many 

 things in it that are a great help. I 

 think it an excellent paper for all flo- 

 rists.— F. W. Rice, Rutland. Vt. 



