May 10, 190G. 



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street and will occupy both ground floor 

 and basement, as well as retain his pres- 

 ent quarters on Sixth avenue. Th3 upper 

 floors of his house will be made into 

 offices. It was a good purchase and is 

 already worth much more than when he 

 secured it. 



Max Liraprecht is quite ill at his home 

 in Jersey. There seems more than the 

 usual complaint of grip, doubtless owing 

 to the late season. 



Summer seems some distance away yet 

 and the nurserymen especially have much 

 to be thankful for. The department 

 stores have overdone the hardy rose busi- 

 ness. Many of them have large quan- 

 tities of their importations, dry and un- 

 sold. You can 't fool all the people all 

 the time. The suburbanites are getting 

 their eye teeth cut and even the cleaning 

 up at 25 cents a dozen doesn't move 

 them. 



The auctions are well patronized just 

 now. A large number of ladies attend 

 at the demonstrations of the handsome 

 auctioneers on Fulton street. Good prices 

 prevail. Some fine trees are offered at 

 Cleary's, also other home-grown nursery 

 stock. 



There will soon be another removal or 

 two from Thirtieth street. One of the 

 wholesale stores on Twenty-eighth street 

 upstairs has the seductive sign "to let" 

 on its window. 



State Vice-President William Sie- 

 brecht, of Astoria, is a good appoint- 



ment by President Kasting and a popu- 

 lar one here. 



Saltford is receiving some fine stock 

 from his southern shippers. 



Mr. Klein, lately with Julius Lang in 

 his plant department, is now with 

 Charles Millang. 



James Hart grows happier daily be- 

 case of his settlement in Twenty-eighth 

 street. His business is fast increasing. 



The outing is only eight weeks away. 

 Time for every member of the New 

 York Florists' Club to plan for it. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



No very striking changes have oc- 

 curred in the market during the past 

 week. Supply and demand have each 

 been fairly good. Boses are holding 

 their own, the better grades realizing 

 good prices. Best Beauties go at $20 

 and $25 per hundred. A few Liberty 

 and Richmond bring $15 and extra select 

 Brides and Maids $6 and $8. These are 

 top figures and thd lowest grades clear 

 out at $1 per hundred. A few Carnot 

 and Kaiserin are arriving. There are 

 some hybrids, but these are now a very 

 small factor in the Boston market. 



Carnations vary from $1.50 to $3 per 

 hundred. A few double violets still ar- 

 rive and realize 50 cents per hundred. 

 Sweet peas at 50 cents to $1 are not too 



abundant. Some very good gladioli sell 

 at $1 to $1.50 per dozen. Varieties are 

 Snow White, Shakespeare, Augusta and 

 May. There is a good supply of stocks, 

 myosotis, candytuft, antirrhinums and 

 other seasonable flowers. Indoor bulbous 

 stock is over for the season. Outdoor 

 narcissi bring $1 to $1.50 and tulips 

 $1.50 to $2.50 per hundred. Valley re- 

 mains about the same and there is no 

 change in green goods. 



Bedding plants now cut quite a little 

 figure with many of the florists and the 

 demand this season promises to be heavier 

 than ever, at last year's prices. 



Weekly Exhibition. 



The first Saturday exhibition of the 

 year was held May 5. Coming, as it 

 does, at a very strenuous season, there 

 were rather fewer exhibits than are 

 sometimes seen, but the quality was very 

 high class. For six calceolarias, distinct 

 colors, James Stuart, gardener to George 

 F. Fabyan, won first and second prizes 

 with magnificent plants a yard in diam- 

 eter. The same exhibitor was first and 

 second for six distinct fancy pelar- 

 goniums. His plants were the best we 

 have seen at any Boston show. His vari- 

 eties, which were all good, were Alice 

 Love, Duke of Portland, May Queen, 

 Mme. Thibaut, Purity, H. M.. Stanley, 

 Bridegroom, Mabel, Lady Duff, Miss 

 Henderson, Nellie Hayes and Mrs. Ash- 

 ley. 



Robert Marshall, gardener to E. W. 



