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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Apbil 4, 1907. 



eighteen acres of excellent land adjoin- 

 ing his present Brighton plant. A large 

 dwelling is included. Tempting offers 

 made since the deal went through show 

 that Mr, Elliott has made a safe pur- 

 chase. 



Waban Conservatories had a heavy cut 

 of American Beauties for Easter. They 

 will grow Killarney more extensively an- 

 other year. A pure white sport of this 

 popular rose is one of Mr. Montgom- 

 ery's finds this season. 



Peirce Bros, could have sold some 

 thousands more longiflorums last week. 

 They grew several thousand candidums, 

 which came in right for Easter. 



William Nicholson had 10,000 mar- 

 guerite flowers, which, as usual, ' * sold 

 like hot cakes," March 30. 



The banquet of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club will be held at Horticul- 

 tural hall April 24. Tickets can be had 

 from the officers and members of the 

 executive committee. 



The New England Dahlia Society will 

 offer over $500 in special prizes at its 

 show in Boston in September. 



B. & J. Farquhar & Co. showed a large 

 and well flowered specimen of Pelargo- 

 nium Mme. Thibaut at Horticultural hall 

 March 30, which received honorable men- 

 tion. 



Welch Bros, sold about twice as many 

 plants as on any previous Easter. Their 

 shipping trade in cut flowers was also 

 of immense proportions and beats all 

 past records. 



W. H. Elliott had a grand lot of 

 Killarney and Eichmond roses from his 

 Madbury, N. H., establishment. 



Carbone had some fine Pink Pearl rho- 

 dodendrons for Easter, also gardenias, 

 Crataegus and excellent Dorothy Perkins 

 roses. 



At Doyle's, Acacia heterophylla was 

 seen in excellent shape, also well flow- 

 ered cherries and other shrubs. 



H. M. Bobinson & Co. did a heavy 

 cut flower trade for their first Easter 

 and had a big call for hardy ferns and 

 other greenery. 



One of the best arranged Easter win- 

 dows was that of Sidney Hoffman, on 

 Massachusetts avenue, who handled a 

 big lot of splendid stock. His trade 

 shows a steady increase. 



The Boston Sunday Herald of March 

 31 estimated Boston's Easter sales of 

 plants and flowers at about $400,000. 



The Bay State Nurseries are having an 

 exceptionally busy season and are keep- 

 ing a small army of men digging and 

 packing nursery stock for shipment at 

 present. W. N. Ckaig. 



TARRYTOWN. N. Y. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Tarrytown Horticultural Society was held 

 March 26, President Howard Nichols in 

 the chair. There were two elected to 

 active membership and three nomina- 

 tions. Wadsworth Lewis offers a silver 

 pitcher to be competed for at the fall 

 show and Mrs. George Lewis offers a 

 silver cup. Julius Boehrs Co. offers $25 

 for the best table of orchids; H. A. 

 Dreer $10 for the best collection of stove 

 plants, and the F. B. Pierson Co. a sil- 

 ver cup worth $25 for carnations. Pres- 

 ident Howard Nichols puts up $10 for 

 the best six pot plants of chrysanthe- 

 mums, pots not to exceed seven inches. 

 The executive committee reported on 

 the schedule for the fall show and sug- 

 gested a few minor alterations from last 

 year. It was voted to print a prelimi- 



nary schedule and mail it to members. 

 The complete schedule is to be printed 

 as soon as the secretary receives all the 

 special prizes. 



The monthly prize for the best dis- 

 play of flowering plants and cut blooms 

 was awarded to D. McFarlane, as was 

 also a certificate of merit for the same 

 exhibit. A certificate of merit was 

 awarded James Ballantyne for his ex- 

 hibit, w'hich consisted mostly of Cinera- 

 ria stellata and bulbous stock shown in 

 pots and pans. The exhibits made a 

 very effective display and were favor- 

 ably commented upon. A paper on 

 * * Hardy Outdoor Boses ' ' was read by 

 D. McFarlane and was freely discussed. 



D. McFarlane. 



CINQNNATL 



The Easter Market. 



Easter, the greatest of all days in the 

 flower business, has again passed into 

 history; and what a name it has made 

 for itself this year! Never have we had 

 such an Easter, and let us hope that we 

 will never have another like it. From 

 the point of view of the amount of busi- 

 ness done, it was the best we ever have 

 had, but the conditions which prevailed 

 during Easter week were such as never 

 have had a duplicate in the history of 

 the business in this city. From what I 

 have heard, the conditions prevailing 

 here were the same as prevailed in most 

 of the large flower centers. 



The summer-like weather for three 

 weeks brought in all kinds of flowers 

 with a rush and right up to Friday 

 night there was a big glut on the mar- 

 ket, of most all varieties of flowers, 

 with the possible exception of lilies. 

 The hot weather had made everything 

 so soft that it could not be sent out by 

 the wholesale men and the home store- 

 men would not buy it. The quantity of 

 stock which found itself in the ash 

 barrel was enormous. The bulbous 

 flowers suffered the heaviest and thou- 

 sands of this class of stock proved ab- 

 solutely worthless and a total loss. Car- 

 nations and roses, too, were not far be- 

 hind. It was simply impossible to hold 

 them. Many growers who were up to 

 their usual tricks of pickling stock sent 

 in shipments which were thrown into 

 the ash barrel as soon as received. In 

 some cases they were positively rotten. 

 The enormous amount of stock sent to 

 the wholesale houses in this city was 

 without parallel in the history of this 

 market. But with all of this there was 

 enough good stock to roll up a business 

 which sets a new high-water mark. 



The retail men report a fine trade and 

 the demand for plants has never been 

 better. Easter lilies carried off the 

 palm and, while at first it looked a.§ if 

 there would be too many of them, at 

 the last minute many more could have 

 been sold to good advantage. Sweet 

 peas were also first-class property and 

 those which arrived in good shape were 

 sold out in a hurry. There were large 

 quantities of both roses and carnations 

 which were good and fresh and this 

 stock was disposed of with a rush. 



Various Notes. 



J, Charles McCullough, whom the re- 

 cent flood of the Ohio compelled to move 

 from his warehouses and retail store at 

 Walnut and Second streets, is again 

 doing business in his regular offices as 

 if nothing had happened. This makes 



two times this year that he was obliged 

 to move on account of high water and 

 it entailed a great deal of work and a 

 considerable loss of money. 



Thf growers in the Jabez Elliot 

 flower market had their usual good busi- 

 ness. Easter is always the greatest day 

 of the y«ar in this market and this year 

 everyone sold out clean and general sat- 

 isfaction is the result. The plant trade 

 here was satisfactory. 



The next meeting of the Florists' So- 

 ciety will be held in the club rooms Sat- 

 urday evening, April 13. It is expected 

 that this will be an interesting meeting 

 and that a good number of the members 

 will be present. C. J. Ohmer. 



NET YORK. 



TheVUAtL 



The Easter of 1907 was in many 

 ways the most remarkable of a quarter 

 of a century. For a week before and 

 right up to Sunday night, the weather 

 was as mild, and sunny, and delightful 

 as the springtime ever brings. At times 

 the temperature was close to 80 de- 

 grees in the sun. But what proved so 

 great an advantage to the local growers 

 with belated crops, became a menace 

 through the southern shipments, and 

 all the narcissi and other flowers from 

 the sunny south arrived, and as many 

 of the wholesalers expressed it, melted. 

 Nearly every box of these was con- 

 signed to the discard, for not a dollar 

 could be realized on them. 



The weather was no small factor in 

 the V. remarkably low prices that pre- 

 vailed. For once the retailer was king. 

 There was enough of everything and to 

 spare. Prices for cut flowers at Easter 

 were never so low. Quality, owing to 

 the long spell of hot weather and the 

 activity of the pickling industry, was 

 ■ below the average. Pickling was cer- 

 tainly again in evidence — lots of it. 

 Protests are of no avail. Even violets 

 were held over and such stock was 

 cleaned out, as it deserved to be, at 

 the lowest Easter prices ever known. 

 There must have been two million vio- 

 lets shipped to New York Saturday. I 

 saw over seventy boxes delivered at one 

 wholesale house in one shipment and 

 this was duplicated in the case of many. 

 The actual total of violets received in 

 New York on Friday and Saturday no 

 man can number. A few sold at 60 

 cents, but 50 cents was generally top^ 

 and so on down to as low as $2 per 

 thousand. The streets were blue with 

 them. Whoever heard of violets on the 

 street at Easter before? 



Beauties never got above $30 per 

 hundred. The bulk of them were sold 

 at $25. Bichmond, Chatenay and Jacq. 

 sold well. Bride and Maid seldom got 

 above $10 per hundred and this price 

 only for the choicest. The average was 

 $6 to $8, and so on down to $2. In 

 fact, the pickled and mildewed stuff 

 was offered as low as $10 per thousand 

 before midnight Saturday, 



Orchids were in good demand and 

 supply was limited, for large shipments 

 to other cities depleted the market. 

 Values were firm and quality and 

 variety were satisfactory. Gardenias did 

 not sell up to expectations. 



There were too many white carnations 

 and too much valley. The novelties and 

 the best of the new varieties of carna- 

 tions brought $6 to $8 per hundred, $4 

 for the Lawson grade and $2 for the 



