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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Aphii. 5, 1906. 



W. H. Kuebler has grown rapidly. 

 His new store at 28 Willoughby is as 

 good as they make 'em, but I think an- 

 other Easter will find even this too small 

 for him. 



Henry K. Crawbuck is the only whole- 

 sale green goods man in Brooklyn, and 

 the city seems to appreciate him and 

 the convenience he affords it. His busi- 

 ness grows. 



Another Brooklynite, Kobert G. Wil- 

 son, conducts a fine retail establishment, 

 while over on West Thirtieth street in 

 New York he is reaching out for his 

 share of the wholesale trade. There is 

 no limit to the ambition of the Brook- 

 lynites. 



Phillips, Weir, Masur, Mallon and a 

 host of retailers vie with each other and 

 with New York in the artistic floral dis- 

 plays they make daily, and every Easter 

 adds to their skill and reputation. 



Some day Brooklyn will be larger than 

 Manhattan, for it has more room to 

 crow in. J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Extreme dullness on some days and a 

 good clearing out on others has char- 

 terized the past week's market. On the 

 whole, it must be classed as satisfactory. 

 Koses are more abundant and a dragging 

 tendency in them is noticeable. The best 

 grades of Beauties are now remarkably 

 fine. Prices on them yield very little. 

 Brides and Maids are a little lower, es- 

 pecially on the poorer grades. Some 

 very liice Safrano and Bon Silene are 

 seen, and these make very fair prices, 

 being in demand at the most up-to-date 

 stores. Carnations remain about the 

 same. There seems a likelihood of a 

 shortage in fancies for Easter. Violets 

 are fairly firm at 50 and 75 cents per 

 hundred. Singles will not be sufficiently 

 plentiful for Easter calls, although they 

 are still arriving and of very fine quality. 



Nice Spanish iris is coming from one 

 or two growers. There is only a mod- 

 erate call for cut Easter lilies. Proba- 

 bilities are that there will be enough 

 plants of these for all requirements. 

 Twelve cents per bloom seems to be ac- 

 cepted as the g(Mieral price, although 

 some are offering them at 10 cents. 

 Some extra fine niignoiiotte and antir- 

 rhinums are coming in. Asparagus and 

 adiantum arc each in abundant supply. 



Various Notes. 



A new auction seller of horticultural 

 supplies has entered the local field in the 

 person of J. J. McCormick, who will 

 hold weekly sales of hardy roses, box 

 trees, hydrangeas and other nursery 

 stock at 1 and 2 Somerset street. The 

 auctioneer is the veteran and inimitable 

 Edward Hatch, which is of itself suffi- 

 cient to ensure success for the new ven- 

 ture. 



Welch Bros, are making extensive 

 preparations for their Easter trade, 

 which this year will far surpass all pre- 

 vious records. They have acquired the 

 store adjoining their present one, which 

 will practically double their floor ca- 

 pacity. It Avili be used largely for plants 

 at Easter, to relieve the congestion in 

 their other .store. A most up-to-date new 

 telephone system is being installed and 

 everything possible being done to keep 

 the firm still at the head of its kind. 



Alexander ;McKay is sending in some 

 grand Lilium longiflorum to the market. 

 He has 4,000 of these about right for 



Easter. He is still cutting very fine 

 freesia. 



J. A. Pettigrew will speak on * ' The 

 Embellishment of Streets and Way- 

 sides" at the next meeting of the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club on April 17. 

 The tickets for the club banquet on 

 April 25 are selling rapidly and a re- 

 markable attendance is already assured. 



W. W, Eawson & Co. announce that 

 they will open for business at their old 

 stand within a few days. Work on the 

 burned structure is being rushed with 

 all possible haste. 



W. C. Ward is one of the new stall 

 holders at the Park street market. He 

 is handling quantities of splendid pan- 

 sies, in the culture of which he is one of 

 the leaders. 



Mann Bros., of Kandolph, are bring- 

 ing in their usual large supplies of lilies, 

 rambler roses in variety, spiraeas and 

 other pot plants. In cut flowers they 

 have very fine snapdragons and double 

 tulips. 



J. Tailby & Son, of Wellesley, are 

 handling some excellent Spanish iris, 

 which they grow quite extensively. 



R. & J. Farquhar's new nursery will 

 be located at Dedham, within convenient 

 access of their store by team, and not 

 Bedford, as stated in a recent issue. 



The Boston Sunday Herald of April 1 

 contained an excellent illustrated article 

 on W. W. Eawson and his extensive ex- 

 periments in growing vegetables under 

 glass by the aid of electric light at his 

 Arlington establishment. 



Our local dailies have had numerous 

 stories of late about F. R. Pierson Co. 's 

 .$6,000 Winsor carnation and H. A. 

 Jahn 's $8,000 white seedling. It is sur- 

 prising how many of the public came to 

 the recnt show purposely to see these 

 ' ' late floral creations. ' ' 



A. W. Kidder continues to send in 

 Princess of Wales violets of remarkable 

 quality which are in brisk demand. 



Galvin, on Tremont street, is showing 

 some nice Dendrobium thyrsiflorum, also 

 Cattleya Schroedera? and C. Mossiae. 



Carbone has been handling some very 

 fine Dorothy Perkins roses grown by 

 Thomas Roland. He has had a fine lot 

 of the beautiful Narcissus Victoria of 

 late. 



Sidney Hoffman, at his Massachusetts 

 avenue store, has an effective arrange- 

 ment of specimen white azaleas in the 

 center of his windows with a band of 

 Oimson Rambler roses around them. 



The closing lecture of the season at 

 Horticultural hall, by Prof. Powell, on 

 ' * Economic Mycology ' ' took place 

 March 31, before a good audience. 



March proved the coldest of its name 

 for eleven years, with a surplus of pre- 

 cipitation both in the form of rain and 

 snow. Ft went out cold, and planting 

 therefore is being delayed, but should 

 start with a rush towards the end of 

 the present week. 



Gypsy moth caterpillars have already 

 Vjeen seen, and the war on the moth pests 

 must soon be carried on with redoubled 

 vigor. The .«tate is petitioned for $150,- 

 000 more to add to a like amount al- 

 ready appropriated towards the suppres- 

 sion of the brown-tail and gypsy moths 

 this season. 



Receipts at the recent spring exhibi- 

 tion considerably exceeded those of 1905, 

 Avhen the Rose Society also met here, al- 

 though the former show lasted four days 

 and the more recent one only three days. 



James Hutchinson, orchid grower for 

 Oakes Ames, of North Easton, succeeds 



Axel Bjorn in charge of the collection 

 of Dr. J. F. Shafer, Pittsburg, Pa. 



J. T. Butterworth is commencing to 

 cut some fine Cattleya Mossiae. He has 

 some of the best lily of the valley ever 

 grown for -the Boston market. 



H. H. Barrows & Son report a phe- 

 nomenal advance sale of their new 

 Nephrolepis Whitmani as a result of the 

 recent exhibition in Boston. 



W. N. Craig. 



PROVIDENCE. R. I. 



A Good Grower. 



One of the best growers for the Provi- 

 dence market is James Burke, manager 

 of the J. A. Foster plant at Warwick. A 

 recently erected house contains as fine 

 a lot of Lawson and Enchantress as one 

 could wish to see. The Queen also suc- 

 ceeds unusually well here, having better 

 stems than are usually seen in winter. 

 Bedding stock is grown in large quanti- 

 ties, there being a heavy local demand 

 for the same. Ten thousand geraniums 

 and big lots of cannas, petunias, vincas, 

 ageratums and other sorts are handled. 

 Tomatoes were fruiting well in one house 

 in which picking began in December. 

 After a trial of a number of sorts, Loril- 

 lard is now exclusively grown. White fly 

 is easily controlled by the use of hydro- 

 cyanic acid gas. In addition to the 

 greenhouses quite a considerable area is 

 devoted to nursery stock, for which there 

 is a steady demand in the vicinity. Every- 

 thing here denoted that a thoroughly up- 

 to-date man was in charge. 



Various Notes. 



Plans are out for a splendid block of 

 houses on Senator N. W. Aldrich's pala- 

 tial estate at Warwick Neck, where F. 

 C. Green is superintendent. These, when 

 erected, will be among the finest in the 

 east. 



C. S. McNair, on Weybosset street, has 

 one of the best equipped flower stores 

 to be seen anywhere. He is making ac- 

 tive preparations for a big Easter trade, 

 which, it is expected, will be of un- 

 usually heavy proportions. The telauto- 

 graph is found of great assistance here 

 for communicating from the store to the 

 basement, where designs are made. The 

 excellent arrangement of mirrors and 

 unique electric lighting plan excites ad- 

 miration. 



Johnston Bros., on Westminster street, 

 have some remarkably well grown 

 Nephrolcj)is elegantissima. I noted a 

 vase of Brides which would have ren- 

 dered a good account of themselves at 

 the recent Boston rose show. 



T. J. Johnston, on Weybosset street, 

 has the distinction of being the only 

 commercial man privileged to handle the 

 new Nephrolepis Whitmani. The cut 

 fronds are found very valuable for deco- 

 rative purposes. A vase of Lilium can- 

 didiun was the first of that fine variety 

 1 had seen this season. 



Among the visitors from here to tlie 

 late rose exhibition in Boston were T. 

 McCarthy, Wm. Appleton, F. C. Green, 

 Sweeney, T. J. .Johnston and W. E. 

 Chapelle. 



Several members of the local florists' 

 club will attend the banquet of tlie 

 Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 April 25. 



Business has been rather dull of late,, 

 but a big Easter trade is anticipated. 



W. N. C. 



