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AuotiST 15, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



27 



48-50 

 WABASH AVE., 



CHICAGO 



We are Headquarters for 



Any kind of Cut Flowers to be 

 found In the Chicago Market. 



All stoek blllad at market rat*a. 



M e utl pn The Rerlew wlieii yoa write. 



ASTERS 



LILIES, 

 ROSES, GLADIOLI 



eFuU line of Seasonable Cut Flowers at all times^ 



VAIGHAN & SPERRY 



58-60 Wabash Ave. i^^^I^^i CHICAGO 



Mention Tbe Review when yoa write. 



been a sufferer from typhoid fever the 

 last six weeks. 



There is a good deal of convention 

 talk and Pittsburg will be well repre- 

 sented. 



Howard Carney and his fire company 

 were the winners in the majority of the 

 speed and service races at the firemen's 

 tournament at Kittanning. 



John C. Moninger Co., Chicago, is sup- 

 plying the material for the Zieger Co. 

 houses. 



The Pittsburg Cut Flower Co. is hand- 

 ling immense quantities of Harrisii lilies 

 grown by L. I. Neff and Charles Kofenig. 



Lincoln I. Neff will open his south 

 side theater this week and his friends 

 who have been invited expect to be on 

 hand to warm things up. Hoo-Hoo. 



CHICOPEE, MASS. 



The greenhouse on the Ames estate, 

 one of the landmarks of this city, said 

 to have been the third greenhouse 

 erected in the state and where the late 

 Dexter Snow was for a long time gar- 

 dener, is being taken down. The ven- 

 tilators were of cast-iron, 2x3 feet, and 

 were evidently cast for their places; 

 they weighed about seventy pounds each. 

 The family has a Cycas revoluta which 

 was once the property of Washington 

 and which has been in the possession of 



the present family for ninety-seven 

 years. O. L. H. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



There is little to report from the 

 flower market this week. Business re- 

 mains exceedingly dull, with ample ar- 

 rivals of flowers for all requirements. 

 Roses, excepting summer varieties, like 

 Carnot and Kaiserin, are small and poor, 

 while carnations are at their lowest ebb, 

 no good flowers of the latter arriving. 

 Asters are now in overabundant supply 

 and satisfactorily fill the gap caused by 

 lessened carnation supplies. Queen of 

 the Earlies is the variety mostly in evi- 

 dence. Values on asters have gone down 

 the last few days. Sweet peas are hold- 

 ing out well, but have short stems. A 

 nice supply of White Warden is ar- 

 riving. Pink, white, lavender and dark 

 blue are the best selling colors. Gladioli 

 are in abundant supply. They are not, 

 however, in good demand. The retail 

 florists depend on these and water lilies 

 a good deal for window decorations. 

 There are some fine longiflorum and 

 speciosum lilies, which only sell moder- 

 ately, also a miscellaneous assortment of 

 other seasonable flowers which only meet 

 with an irregular sale. 



Visit to Plant Estate. 



A committee from the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society paid a visit to the 

 Plant estate, Groton, Conn., August 9. 

 The estate is entered for the Hunnewell 

 triennial premium, this being the third 

 year it has been examined. Arriving at 

 New London, the committee was met by 

 Thomas W. Head, the superintendent 

 gardener. After lunch, at the'^ handsome 

 new Griswold hotel, the grounds and 

 greenhouses were inspected. Consider- 

 able improvement has been made since 

 the visit in 1906. Additional land has 

 been reclaimed, trenched and planted 

 and further additions are in progress. 



The flower garden presented an at- 

 tractive appearance, the herbaceous 

 perennials being especially good. Among 

 bedding geraniums. Jacquerie was no- 

 table. It carried immense trusses and 

 quite outclassed S. A. Nutt, which it 

 closely resembles in color, the trusses of 

 single flowers being, however, several 

 times as large as on the older variety. 

 Sweet peas were extremely good and in- 

 cluded such good novelties as Prank 

 Dolby, Queen Alexandra, E. J. Castle, 

 Ian Bolton and Nora TJnwin. Quite a 

 number of large gingko, purple beech, 

 white birch, maple and other deciduous 

 trees were moved last winter a distance 

 of twelve miles and are doing well. 



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