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The Weekly Florists^ Re view» 



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JUNB 13, 1907, 



You con count on 

 us for • • • • 



PEONIES 



Carnations, Roses, 



Valley, Sweet Peas 



and all other cut flower stock in season. 



Crops Are at The Heaviest 



and we can supply plenty of the best grade at Market Prices. Write 

 or wire for special prices on quantities. You thousand lot buyers, let 

 us hear from you. 



VAUGHSN & SPERRY 



58-60 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO 



I«. D. Phone, Central 2671 



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Mention The Rpvlcw xvlipn ron write. 



Bybloom, Breeder and other late tulips, 

 also a table of herbaceous plants. J. E. 

 Eothewell, Emil Johansson, gardener, 

 had 100 vases of orchids, including fin6 

 odontoglossums and many hybrid cattle- 

 yas. R. & J. Farquhar & Co. had two 

 large tables of late tulips in large 

 variety, also a collection of violas, Ger- 

 man iris, narcissi, aquilegias and a va- 

 riety of herbaceous plants. They also 

 showed a quantity of bougainvilleas and 

 rhododendrons in pots. The finest ex- 

 hibit for them was, however, a dozen 

 of well-flowered plants of the beautiful 

 new soft pink Spirasa Queen Alexandra. 

 This received a silver medal and cannot 

 fail to become popular commercially. 



The backward season has rendered 

 further changes of dates necessary at 

 forthcoming exhibitions. The rhododen- 

 dron show will now come June 15 and 

 16, the peony show June 22 and 23, while 

 the rose and strawberry exhibition is 

 postponed until June 29 and 30. 



Various Notes. 



Remember club meeting night, June 

 18, at 8 o'clock. The largest gathering 

 of the year should be present to greet 

 C. H. Totty. There is much business of 

 importance to transact and every mem- 

 ber should plan to attend. Refreshments 

 for all, as usual. 



John L. Smith, on the Mrs. A. W. 

 Blake estate, Brookline, is the proud 

 father of an 11%-pound boy, born 

 June 4. 



Thomas Pegler had among his ship- 

 ments of carnations from S. J. Goddard, 

 June 8, a flower of Mrs. Patten with a 

 4414-inch stem. We suppose some of 



these days carnations will sell at so much 

 per foot, as Beauties do now. 



Peirce Bros, say they are now clear 

 of cutworms, which have done them an 

 enormous amount of damage of late 

 years. Sterilization of the soil did the 

 trick. 



The lilacs in the Arnold Arboretum 

 were at their best June 9 this year. All 

 have flowered remarkably well. All the 

 trees and shrubs look splendid, thanks 

 to the copious rains. 



The leopard moth is now to be added 

 to the list of our tree pests, some speci- 

 mens having been found in Boston last 

 week. Active work is now in progress 

 against the various moth pests and elm 

 leaf beetle. The destructive San Jose 

 scale is being more widely distributed 

 here each year. 



Seedsmen report the present season as 

 a most erratic one. While there has been 

 a large volume of business, it has been 

 less satisfactory than had been hoped for. 



June weather up to date, while rather 

 more genial than its two immediate pred- 

 ecessors vouchsafed us, is still colder 

 than usual. Market gardeners are com- 

 plaining of their crops being very late 

 and in some cases resowing has been nec- 

 essary. W. N. Craig. 



Chillicothe, Mo. — R. L. Isherwood is 

 building a new greenhouse, 27x100 feet, 

 for carnations. 



Danville, III. — B. E. Wadsworth re- 

 ports an excellent spring trade, being 

 sold out of all kinds of stock. 



The Review will send Herrington's 

 Chrysanthemum Book, with complete 

 cultural details, on receipt of 50 cents. 



NEWPORT, R. I. 



Trade and Other Notes. 



Decoration day business in plants and 

 cut flowers far exceeded that of any 

 previous occasion, both in volume and 

 prices. The total absence of flowers 

 outdoors rather helped the sale of other 

 flowers as well as plants. The class of 

 people that in former years depended 

 for their supply on what they could pick 

 up or would be freely given them from 

 the open, this year in many cases pur- 

 chased flowering plants and either 

 placed these on the graves or had them 

 planted there. 



The prices of flowers were higher than 

 usual, chiefly because of the scarcity of 

 cut flowers in the local market, on ac- 

 count of an extraordinary demand for 

 material for funeral work during the 

 days just preceding Decoration day, and 

 in the case of plants it was known al- 

 most to a certainty that, desjjite the un- 

 seasonable weather conditions then ex- 

 isting for outdoor planting, the demand 

 would exceed that of former years. It was 

 known, also, that only flowering plants 

 in bloom would sell and that in the 

 hands of many dealers a substantial 

 percentage of the plants were not yet 

 in bloom. The result was that nearly 

 everything presentable in the shape of a 

 flowering plant was sold at a good 

 price. 



Newport is a peculiar place in many 

 respects. Many of the graves in the 

 Island cemetery are occupied by what is 

 earthly of many who were not perma- 

 nent residents of this city and by many 

 having today no relatives living here, 



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