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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



October 11, 1906. 



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BOSTON. 



TheMai^et 



Cut flowers are selling much better 

 and prices have stiffened somewhat since 

 our last report. Until the chrysanthe- 

 mum deluge arrives a good market is 

 likely. Boses are doing somewhat better. 

 Even short-stemmed Brides and Maids 

 have made $2, while top grades have sold 

 up to $8 per hundred. The best whites 

 still are Kaiserins. Of these some fine 

 blooms arrive. Chatenay and Wellesley 

 show a steady improvement. Some fair 

 Liberty and Bichmond are coming in. 

 The last named fades, which is not in 

 its favor. Beauties are appearing with 

 longer stems and the best have made $4 

 to $5 per dozen. 



Chrysanthemums are becoming more 

 plentiful and bring $1.50 to $2.50 per 

 dozen. These include some good Mon- 

 rovia, Glory of Pacific, Polly Bose and 

 Bergmann. 



Carnations are plentiful but clear well. 

 Enchantress, as usual, is the dominant 

 variety and would seem to be more 

 largely grown than ever. A great many 

 growers continue to pin their faith in 

 Lawson. Fancy blooms are making $3 

 and poorer grades down to $1.50 per hun- 

 dred. Violets, especially singles, are 

 abundant. These are largely picked out- 

 doors, as a big proportion of the plants 

 are not housed until they get a good 

 freezing. Prices average 50 cents, a few 

 select bringing 75 cents per hundred. 

 Asters now are scarce. Nice blooms 

 readily bring $2 and more could be sold 

 at these prices. Gladioli are about over. 

 Tuberoses have a small call. Lilium 

 longiflorum and a few L. Philippinense 

 are seen. Dahlias have only a moderate 

 sale. A slight hardening tendency is 

 noted in green stock. 



Various Notes. 



At the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 meeting on October 16 in addition to the 

 paper by J. B. Velie on "Greenhouse 



Construction," there will be an exhibi- 

 tion of geraniums by young gardeners, 

 for which several money prizes are of- 

 fered. There will be other interesting 

 exhibits and a good deal of miscellaneous 

 business to be transacted. 



Paul E. Bichwagen still is marketing 

 a splendid lot of asters which now bring 

 the highest prices of the season. 



Brockton Fair, New England's great- 

 est outdoor carnival, held on October 2 



Please diicontinue our advertise- 

 ment of Gunation Plants as the one 

 inicrtion in 



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OASIS' 



sold all the stock we had left. 

 Very respectfully, 

 BASSETT & WASHBURN. 



Chicago, 



Oct 8, 1906. 



The adverttiement occupied one-Inch 

 Bpiice, for which our charfre was 70 cents 

 (to a transient advertiser It would hare 

 been II. OU). The stock sold was priced 

 at $00.00. 



to 5, as usual attracted enormous crowds, 

 including many florists and gardeners. 

 Gate receipts alone totaled nearly $60,- 

 000. Dahlias were the leading horticul- 

 tural feature, there being big displays 

 of these from J. K. Alexander, W. G. 

 Winsor, W. P. Lothrop, W. D. Hatha- 

 way, F. L. Tinkham and other large 

 growers. 

 J. Newman & Sons now are located 



nearly opposite their old place at 24 

 Tremont street, where they have an up- 

 to-date store. 



H. M. Bobinson & Co. now are occu* 

 pying Welch Bros.' old premises. Wo 

 expect their next move will be to a storo 

 on one of the prominent business streets, 

 as their output shows a continuous in- 

 crease. 



J. T. Butterworth, of South Framing- 

 ham, has a grand show of Cattleya labi- 

 ata and other seasonable commercial or- 

 chids. At present these are being more 

 used than ever by the higher class of 

 stores. 



E. Sutermeister still is busy puttinjf 

 bulbous stock in flats and pans. He ha» 

 bought more heavily of these than usua} 

 this season and reports his stock as be- 

 ing unusually fine. 



Mann Bros, are bringing in fine lots 

 of dahlias to the markets. Somehow 

 these flowers do not seem to meet with 

 much appreciation in Boston, but we 

 think there is a future for them. A» 

 long-stemmed flowers, however, they are 

 not a success. 



Peirce Bros., of Waltham, have, a» 

 usual, an immense quantity of chrysan- 

 themums, some of which they now are 

 marketing. Their big stock of carna- 

 tions looks unusually well this season. 



The annual exhibition of fruits and 

 vegetables at Horticultural hall on Octo- 

 ber 10 and 11 proved the best seen here 

 in years. The collections of vegetables 

 arranged for effect were telling features. 



A call on Welch Bros, showed that 

 about everything now is in smooth run- 

 ning order in their fine new store. A 

 large showcase for novelties in plants 

 and flowers in one of the large windows 

 will prove interesting. The firm has is- 

 sued a neat map showing the location of 

 the store. W. N. Cbaio. 



Baltimore, Md. — ^Lawrence Cranston 

 has completed the contract for putting 

 up the new houses of Isaac H. Moss, 

 of Govanstown. The contract was for 

 $8,000. . . 



