May 30, lOOt. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



13 



good. Her window is usually a mass of 

 mixed flowers and looks nice to the pass- 

 er-by. 



Hall & Robinson's window looked nice 

 last week, filled with many-colored tulips 

 from their own gardens at Outremont. 

 They were quickly disposed of, too. 



TOMMT. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The close approach of Memorial day 

 has given a strong tone to the market 

 the last few days and everything com- 

 ing in is cleared out in short order. 

 Prices have advanced somewhat on car- 

 nations, but not so much on roses, ex- 

 cept bright colored varieties. There 

 promises to be a large supply of both 

 these flowers. Sweet peas promise to be 

 on hand in quantity, and stocks, antir- 

 rhinums, double feverfew and candy- 

 tuft are all quite plentiful and of excel- 



Quite a few beds planted prior to May 

 25 were frozen on that morning, while 

 market gardeners had many tomatoes 

 and other tender vegetables destroyed at 

 the same time. Bedding out will be 

 nearly two weeks late from present ap- 

 pearances. 



Qub Jottings. 



The White Killarney rose shown at 

 the last club meeting by Waban Con- 

 servatories was highly thought of and 

 should prove popular when propagated 

 in quantity and disseminated. 



The fine vases of the lovely pink 

 Daphne cneorum shown at the club meet- 

 ing by President Westwood showed that 

 this plant thrives well at Forest Hills 

 cemetery. Mr. Westwood propagates in 

 August, in a hotbed, whenever good cut- 

 tings can be had. 



W. H. Elliott's remarks on carrying 

 over Richmond rose were interesting. His 

 plants were flowered until July, cut 

 down to eight or ten inches, removing 



House of Smilaz at Albert F. Amliog's, Mavwood, 111. 



lent quality. Gladioli are fine and make 

 $2 per dozen for the best. The forced 

 lily of the valley is reinforced by a 

 good supply of outdoor stock, which, 

 however, is hardly sufficiently open yet. 



Even the early tulips and narcissi 

 north of Boston are still in' first-class 

 condition and there will be more bulbous 

 stock for Memorial day than for years. 

 Narcissus poeticus is just at its best, 

 while late flowering tulips are fine. 

 Lilac is not well open, being over two 

 weeks later than in 1906. There is a 

 good supply of Spiraea Japonica, but 

 that popular shrub for Memorial day 

 use. Spiraea Van Houttei, is late. Taken 

 all in all, there promises to be a supply 

 of flowers quite up to the average, while 

 the demand seems likely to surpass all 

 records. 



Trade in bedding plants is rather 

 slow, due to the continued cold weather. 



all foliage, and well top-dressed. Re- 

 sults were stems about twelve inches long 

 for Christmas and in the spring a large 

 crop of fine flowers. Young stock gave 

 the finest Christmas blooms. Another 

 year he thought that by treating Rich- 

 monds more like Brides and Maids, leav- 

 ing on the foliage and pruning less, bet- 

 ter results might be had. Killarney 

 lifted and replanted have not proved a 

 success. 



Horticultural Society. 



At Horticultural hall May 25, T. D. 

 Hatfield, gardener to Walter Hunnewell, 

 showed six plants of a new hybrid cal- 

 ceolaria, the results of a cross between 

 C. rugosa and one of the yellow herba- 

 ceojis varieties. Flowers are more than 

 double the size of those produced by 

 C. rugosa Golden Gem, and of the same 

 deep golden yellow color, the plant being 



similar in habit. George Stewart, of 

 Medford, was the raiser of this useful 

 novelty, which should prove valuable 

 commercially and was awarded a silver 

 medal. Robert Cameron received honor- 

 able mention for a nicely flowered plant 

 of the pretty Cereus speciosus. W. N. 

 Craig received a certificate of merit for 

 a collection of Darwin and other late- 

 flowering tulips. 



The rhododendron show, already post- 

 poned until June 8, has been further 

 postponed, owing to the abnormally late 

 season, to June 15 and 16, and the 

 annual peony show will be held on the 

 same dates. The rose and strawberry 

 show and exhibition of late peonies will 

 come on June 22 and 23. 



All Saturday exhibitions this season 

 will be opened on Sunday afternoons 

 also. This and the opening of the so- 

 ciety's library should prove an attrac- 

 tion for many flower lovers. 



Various Notes. 



Peirce Bros., of Waltham, have their 

 usual large supply of Spiraea Japonica 

 for Memorial day and expect to cut 

 100,000 sprays. 



Thomas Pegler marketed his last dou- 

 ble violets May 24. As he started to 

 pick September 29, he has had an un- 

 usually long season. 



Many of Peter Fisher's friends fail 

 to recognize him these days. The re- 

 moval of a little hirsute adornment 

 Nnakes a mighty change in some men's 

 Mces. 

 -* J. Tailby & Sons' Spanish iris have 

 been unusually fine this season. This 

 beautiful bulb seems to be slowly but 

 surely gaining in favor. 



Seed merchants continue unusually 

 busy for so late in the season. Nursery- 

 men are still shipping even deciduous 

 trees and shrubs, which in some cases 

 have started but little. It has been a 

 splendid planting season and bulbous 

 and other spring flowers never lasted so 

 well. 



William Nicholson, as usual, has a big 

 lot of double feverfew for' Memorial 

 (lay, also quantities of marguerites and 

 unusually good carnations for the end 

 of May. 



The rock garden at Harvard Botanic 

 Gardens is unusually attractive at pres- 

 ent. Mr. Cameron has everything thor- 

 oughly up-to-date in these interesting 

 gardens. 



Mann Bros, are selling large quantities 

 of bedding plants these days. Their 

 crop of cut flowers for Memorial day is 

 also the best they ever had. 



W. N. Craig. 



COLD STORAGE VALLEY. 



At least one of the Hamburg export- 

 ing firms puts up retarded crowns of 

 lily of the valley in as small a quantity 

 as 1,000 per case, and these are deliv- 

 ered weekly, fortnightly or as may be 

 required, anywhere in Europe. Owing 

 to their promptness in handling retarded 

 crowns, and the care with which they 

 are packed, hardly any are spoiled 

 through thawing too rapidly in transit, 

 except, perhaps in the hottest part of 

 summer, or when the boat gets delayed 

 in crossing from Hamburg to England, 

 and in these cases the firm always makes 

 good any losses. Under these circum- 

 stances it may readily be credited that 

 the forcing of valley is on the rapid in- 

 crease among the small growers through- 

 out Europe. 



