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Mabch 14. 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Chatenay are all of good quality. Some 

 fine Brunners come from one or two 

 growers. 



Carnations are selling better. White 

 ones are rather scarce and selling as 

 well as the colored sorts. Violets are 

 abundant, $2 per thousand seeming to 

 be quite a general price, although good 

 stock realizes up to 50 cents per hun- 

 dred. Sweet peas are of superlative 

 quality and sell better. Callas and Eas- 

 ter lilies are also doing rather better. 

 Dutch bulbous stock meets with a more 

 ready sale. There is no special change 

 in adiantum or asparagus, but hardy 

 ferns promise to be scarce and dearer 

 unless snow soon disappears. 



A good variety of pot plants is now 

 arriving, including rambler roses, genis- 

 tas, rhododendrons, bulbous stock, 

 spiraeas, etc. The sale on these is im- 

 proving somewhat. 



North Shore Jottings. 



A. E. Parsons, at E. S. Grew's, finds 

 lupins an excellent annual for winter 

 flowering in benches. His carnation 

 house looked remarkably well. Enchant- 

 ress, of course, took the lead, but Pat- 

 ten, White Lawson and other sorts were 

 all good. Fischer's Purity freesia was 

 fine and preferred to all others. 



fine shape. Melons were still being cut 

 from one house. These are now grown 

 here the year around. The first lot 

 of nectarines were just setting. In car- 

 nations, Enchantress and its rose-pink 

 and striped sports were all splendid. 

 Lady Bountiful and White Lawson were 

 also fine. A house of yellow and white 

 antirrhinums was first-class and there 

 were fine lots of sehizanthus, geraniums, 

 cyclamens and other decorative plants. 

 Lupins were found a fine bench crop for 

 Christmas. A good many orchids are 

 grown. One house is devoted to cat- 

 tleyas and considerable batches of Pha- 

 Isenopsis, ccelogynes, Vanda ccerulea and 

 calanthes are grown. 



Alexander Shaw presides at Judge 

 Wm. H. Moore's estate. The glass here 

 is not extensive but divisions are devoted 

 to roses, carnations, violets, bedding 

 plants and stove plants. The carna- 

 tions, as elsewhere, were very good. 



J. W. Duncan will address the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society on shrubs 

 at its meeting on March 15. 



At W. B. Thomas', where Mr. Con- 

 nolly has charge, carnations again looked 

 well, Lawson, White Lawson and En- 

 chantress especially so. Nectarines in 

 tubs were coming into flower. A house 

 of grapes and figs was just being 



per magnate pale into utter insignifi- 

 cance. Reading such articles will make 

 the general public believe that seedling 

 raising is a perfect Klondyke for the 

 growers of the divine flower. 



Horticultural hall is this week given 

 up to a part of Boston's automobile 

 show. The spring exhibition, which 

 opens March 22, promises to be unusu- 

 ally interesting and attractive. Many 

 entries are already to hand for it. 



Tom Butterworth, at the recent pres- 

 entation banquet, proved himself a first- 

 class poet. His verbal bouquets for the 

 club ofl5cers past and present made the 

 hit of the evening. Tom is one of tae 

 few examples of the successfill orchid 

 cultivator and poet combined we have 

 heard of. 



William Sim visited A. C. Zvolanek, of 

 Bound Brook, N. J., this week to see 

 his new "creations" in sweet peas flow- 

 ering. At Cliftondale the sweet peas 

 are superb at present. 



There is only a small delegation from 

 this section to the meeting and exhibi- 

 tion of the American Eose Society in 

 Washington. 



William isieholson is having a heavy 

 sale for shamrocks. He grew some 50,- 

 000 this season. 



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The Momlng Cut from this Section. Mr. Kellogg and the Mule Going to the Train. 



Scenes at George M. Kellogg's, Pleasant Hill, Mo. 



At Dr. Sear's we noted some fine car- 

 nation seedlings raised by the head gar- 

 dener, Mr. Mitchell. One, a white with 

 a 4-inch flower, quite took our eye. Nec- 

 tarines here were just coming into flower 

 and promised well. 



James Salter, at Mrs. Philip Dexter 's, 

 has several divisions devoted to fruit, 

 including grapes, nectarines and melons. 

 In carnations Enchantress looked fine. 

 Some nice seedlings were under trial. 



Two fine new houses, each 150 feet 

 long and even span, are nearing comple- 

 tion for W. S. Paulding. They are 

 located some considerable distance from 

 his other houses and will be used mostly 

 for fruit and vegetable forcing. At the 

 older place the gardener, P. E. Cole, has 

 a nice house of carnations and good 

 batches of cyclamens. Primula obconica, 

 antirrhinums and other seasonable flow- 

 ers were noted. 



At H. C. Prick's, George Wyness, 

 gardener, the most extensive range of 

 glass on the North Shore will shortly be 

 started upon. A great deal of planting 

 was done last season, including thou- 

 sands of hybrid rhododendrons. 



At R. C. Hooper's everything was in 



started. Eoses fill one house and others 

 are devoted to melons and a general as- 

 sortment of useful plants for cutting 

 and decorative effect. 



Various Notes. 



P. E. Palmer will open a discussion 

 on carnations at the meeting of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club March 

 19. A number of carnation experts will 

 take part in the discussion. Exhibits of 

 many of the newer introductions, as well 

 as standard varieties, will be forthcom- 

 ing and other attractive features are 

 being planned. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 will hold a field day with W. W. Edgar 

 & Co., Waverley, Saturday, March 23. 

 Members and friends are invited to take 

 the 1:30 p. m. electrics from Park 

 street subway station for Waverley. Eas- 

 ter flowering plants are the special fea- 

 tures at this establishment. 



Peirce Bros.* new scarlet carnation, 

 Governor Guild, was the subject of an 

 exhaustive and highfalutin article in the 

 Boston Sunday Post of March 3. It 

 made the story of the Lawson carnation 

 at the time of its sale to the Boston cop- 



Their Nature and Eemedies," was the 

 subject of an interesting and practical 

 stereopticon lecture at Horticultural 

 hall on March 9 by Prof. H. H. Wetzel, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. There will be no lectures 

 on March 16 and 23, owing to the halls 

 all being rented on those days. 



W. N. C. 



DUTCH HYACINTHS FOR EASTER. 



Will you tell me which are the best 

 Dutch hyacinths, in different colors, to 

 grow for Easter? C. W. 



Commercially, we consider single hya- 

 cinths much more desirable than double 

 ones. A few of the best of the several 

 colors are: Single red or pink. Norma, 

 Gertrude, Eobert Steiger; single yellow, 

 King of the Yellows; single blue. Baron 

 van Tuyll; single white, Grandeur a 

 Merveille, Baroness van Tuyll, L 'Inno- 

 cence. 



One or two fine double varieties are: 

 White, Bouquet Eoyal; red. Bouquet 

 tendre ; blue, Charles Dickens and 

 Bloksberg; yellow. Bouquet d 'Orange. 



W. N. C. 



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