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1906 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 9, 1907. 



BEAUTIES 



A large crop is on — 

 also a heavy cut of.. 



RICHMOND 



and a good supply of all other 



Roses, Carnations, Valley, Greens and Other Stock 



RBD Per doz. 



1. Beauty, lone ■terns $4.00 



SO-inoli steins 8.00 



24-lnoli st^ms S.50 



20-lnoli stems S.OO 



15-lnoli stems 1.50 



12-lnoli stems 1.S5 



Short stems $0.60 to 1.00 



Per 100 



Riebmond, Liberty $4.00 to $8.00 



WHITK-Bride, Ivory 4.00 to 6.00 



TSULOW-Perle 4.00 to 6.00 



Per 100 



LIGHT PINK-Uncle Jobn. Golden Gate $4.00 to $6.00 



PINK- 



Mme. Chatenay , Bridesmaid 4.00 to 6.00 



Mrs. BlarsbaU Field, Killamey 6.00 to 10.00 



COPPER COLOR- Sunrise 4.00 to 6.00 



Roses, ourselection 4.00 



Carnations 8.00 to 4.00 



Easter LiUes 12.50 to 15.00 



Callas 10.00 to 12 50 



Valley,fanoy 8.00 to 4.00 



Extra Fancy Asp. Plumosus, per buneb 50 to .75 



PETER REINBERG 



51 Wabash Ave., 



CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



iris and Marguerite Queen Alexandra. 

 Harvard Botanic Gardens, Eobert 

 Cameron gardener, had a fine table of 

 early bulbous and other hardy plants. 

 Mr. Cameron received honorable men- 

 tion for the pretty little Primula Pois- 



~P soni. 



~^ Mrs. E. M. Gill showed carnations, 



stocks and other flowers and the Low- 

 thorpe School of Horticulture for women, 

 heliotropes. 



Horticultural Society. 



The following special prizes will be 

 offered at the chrysanthemum show in 

 November, in addition to the regular 

 prizes contained in the schedule issued 

 in January: 



For 100 cut chrysanthemums, one or more 

 varieties, arranged In the society's large china 

 vases, four prizes; $40, |30, |20, $10. Competi- 

 tion open to all. 



For the best table 6x8, of cut chrysanthe- 

 mums, all classes admissible, commercial grow- 

 ers only, four prizes; $40, $30, $20, $10. 



For the best table 6x8, of cut chrysanthe- 

 mums arranged with autumn foliage or other 

 decorative material, for retail store florists only, 

 four prizes; $40, $30, $20, $10. 



For the best vase of fifty roses, any one 

 variety, competition open to all, three prizes; 

 $50, $30, $20. 



For the best six vases of carnations, distinct, 

 fifty blooms in a vase, competition open to all, 

 four prizes; $40, $30, $2«>, $10. 



For the best table 6x8, of fruit, both native 

 and foreign fruits admissible, and berries and 

 autumn foliage to be used to produce a pleasing 

 effect, four prizes; $40. $.30. $20, $10. 



For a collection of vegetables, fifteen varie- 

 ties, for private gardens only, to be judged 

 according to a scale of points given. First 

 prize, silver cup valued at $75, offered by R. & 

 J. Farquhar & Ck).; $25, $15, $10. 



For best centerpiece of growing plants for a 

 table of eight covers, three prizes; $12, $8, $.^. 

 These prizes are offered by the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club of Boston. 



The New England Dahlia Society will 



offer some $600 in special prizes at its 



first annual show, in Horticultural hall, 



in September. This is in addition to 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 

 ety's regular prizes. 



There will be a special exhibition of 

 tulips and other late bulbous flowers, 

 etc., at Horticultural hall, Saturday, 

 May 18.' It would pay commercial grow- 

 ers to visit this show and note the names 

 of the many fine Darwin and other late 

 tulips which are invaluable for Memorial 

 day trade. 



General S. M. Weld has invited the 

 trustees of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society to visit his estate in Ded- 

 ham May 11. 



Owing to the lateness of the season, 

 the annual rhododendron exhibition of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 will be held June 8, in lieu of June 1, 

 as previously arranged. 



Various Notes. 



William Nicholson finds that margue- 

 rites have sold better this year than ever 

 before. His sales average 10,000 per 

 week, and many more could be dis- 

 posed of. 



William H. Elliott will plant his large 

 new house, at Madbury, N. H., with 

 Eichmond and Killarney, in the culture 

 of which varieties he is in the front 

 rank. 



James Farquhar has a fine batch of 

 seedling liliums which he is watching 

 with much interest. They are crosses 

 between L. Philippinense, L. longiflorum, 

 L. Krameri, etc., and Mr. Farquhar 

 hopes to bloom quite a number during 

 the present year. 



Superintendent Kirkland is preparing, 

 for an active campaign against the 

 gypsy and brown-tailed moths through- 



out the state. Some of the parasites in- 

 troduced here wintered well and great 

 hopes are placed on the work they will 

 do in the future. 



Local nurseries report an unusually 

 busy season. The cool spring has ma- 

 terially assisted them in keeping pace 

 with their orders. 



Superintendent Pettigrew is particu- 

 larly busy this season, doing a great deal 

 of planting of shrubbery in the park 

 system. 



Tulips in the Boston Public Gardens 

 are later than usual and will be at their 

 height about May 12. W. N. Craig. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Floating; a Boiler. 



South Park Floral Go. is almost too 

 large a name for this strenuous age, so 

 I am now running the business under 

 my own name. I started here three years 

 ago with two houses, each 20x50 feet. 

 Last summer I built a carnation house, 

 25x127. We are now building a rose 

 house, 25x50. I do my own erecting of 

 houses. The Moninger Co. furnished the 

 material for the rose house. We grow a 

 general line of stock. 



I did a caper that I do not think any- 

 one else in the business has ever done. 

 That is, I bought a first-class sixty horse- 

 power locomotive type of boiler, with 

 sixty 3-inch flues, and it was on the 

 other side of the river and four miles 

 above town, in an almost inaccessible 

 place. I could not get a drayman in our 

 town of 18,000 people to contract to 

 move the boiler. I worked my knowledge 

 box overtime and figured that the blamed 



