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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fbbbdabt 27, 1908. 



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United States Cut Flower Co. 



ELMIRA, N. Y. 



FROM GROWER TO RETAILER^ 



PRIC 



Per Dozen 



Beauties, 36 inch $5.00 



24 to 30 inch $3.00 to 4.00 



18 to 20 " - 2.00 to 3.00 



12 to 15 " 1.25 to 2.00 



Short 60 to 1.00 



Per 100 



Richmond, Special $12 00 



No. 1 8 00 



No. 2 6.00 



Short _ 4.00 



Brides and Maids, Special 10.00 



No. 1 8.00 



No. 2 - 6.00 



Short- ~. 4.00 



Chatenay and Ivory, Special 12.00 



No. 1 - 8.00 



No. 2- 6.00 



Short- 4.00 



E LIST. 



Carnations, Extra Fancy 



Fancy 



Select 



Ordinary 



(i 



Callas 



Asparagus Plumosus $0 



Sprengeri 



Smilax — 



Sweet Peas- 

 Valley — 



$1 



..."". 3 



Bronze Galax 



Golden Spur 



Paper Whites -— •- — $2 



Roman Hyacinths 2 



Per Dozen 



$4.00 

 3 00 

 2.00 

 1.50 



Per Dozen 



$1.50 



Per Bunch 



,60 to $0.75 

 .50 



Per Dozen 



50 to $1.80 

 75 to 1.00 

 ,00 to 4.00 



Per 1000 



S1.50 



Per 100 



$5.00 

 ,00 to 3.00 

 00 to 3.00 



We have an exceptionally fine supply of Carnations. Let us have your orders 



advertising matter and getting some or- 

 ders from the onion growers. He tries 

 to make it easy and convenient for grow- 

 ers to trade with him, and his order 

 blanks are beginning to come back with 

 good orders on them. Present indica- 

 tions are that he will have better than 

 his usual trade. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



We are unable to report any decided 

 improvement in the market. On one or 

 two days better clearances have been ef- 

 fected, but at a sacrifice in values. More 

 flowers are arriving than the buying 

 public want and, with the near approach 

 of Lent and a cessation of social activi- 

 ties, the chances for a stronger market 

 for some weeks are far from bright. 

 Boses are more abundant and dropping 

 in price. Best American Beauties, which 

 were bringing $8 to $9 per dozen, have 

 dropped to $6. This rose is now abun- 

 dant. Brides and Maids of the best 

 quality bring fair prices, but other grades 

 are cheap. Of Killarney some fine 

 blooms are arriving; some select are 

 making as high as $4 a dozen. Eich- 

 mond is also coming of fine quality and 

 sells quite well. Carnations show no 

 improvement. Such a glut of these has 

 not been seen in Boston for years. Vio- 

 lets are about the only redeeming fea- 

 ture in an otherwise disorganized mar- 

 ket. They are holding up well and sell- 

 ing out clean. 



Bulbous stock is hard to move at 

 low prices, although the quality is ex- 

 ceptionally good. Stocks are arriving, 

 of good strains finely grown, but are 



neglected. Lilies and callas are more 

 than sufficient for requirements. Lilac 

 is bringing unremunerative prices and 

 the same holds good of valley. For 

 sweet peas there is a fair call, but snap- 

 dragons, mignonette and freesias sell 

 poorly. For adiantum and asparagus 

 there is a moderate call. 



Club Meeting. 



Carnation night at the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club, February 25, attracted a 

 large attendance, about 250 members be- 

 ing present, also some visitors from a 

 distance. The president announced the 

 motto for the year to be: "Rowing, 

 Not Drifting." 



The exhibits were numerous and in- 

 cluded Andrew Carnegie, the scarlet sport 

 of Harlowarden, from Mrs. J. P. Snow, 

 which showed up well. William Nichol- 

 son had a superb vase of Afterglow, 

 which was awarded a report of superior 

 merit. H. A. Jahn had Lloyd and other 

 good seedlings. H. W. Field, of North- 

 ampton, showed his new white. President 

 Seelye, the result of a cross between 

 Lawson and The Queen, which promises 

 well as a commercial sort. 



A fine Farleyense fern from A. N. 

 Pierson, Cromwell, received a report of 

 superior merit for culture. The same 

 exhibitor showed White Perfection, Win- 

 sor and Queen Louise carnations. Pe- 

 ter Fisher showed Mrs. Tom Harvey, 

 Winsor and Beacon carnations. M. A. 

 Patten exhibited several fine seedling 

 carnations. E. B. Beales showed three 

 excellent white seedling carnations. 



J. D. Cockcroft, Northport, L. I., sent 

 a vase of Harvard. The Wanoka Green- 

 houses, Barneveld, N. Y., sent Climax 



and Wanoka. The H. A. Stevens Co. ex- 

 hibited crimson seedlings. J. F. Flood 

 showed fine Beacon. A. Roper received 

 a report of superior merit for Bay State 

 and also showed an excellent deep pink 

 seedling. John Barr had a promising 

 light pink seedling. Ellen A. Mansfield 

 had excellent Lawson and Fair Maid. 



Duncan Finlayson showed schizanthus 

 and Platyclinis glumacea well bloomed. 

 Elijah Wood had a good scarlet seedUng 

 carnation. 



Among the rose exhibits, F. H. Kra- 

 mer, of Washington, sent a vase of 

 Queen Beatrice, and John Cook, of Bal- 

 timore, a display of My Maryland, which 

 all the rose growers liked. 



Joseph Fuller exhibited a new lobelia 

 and William Downs had Bougainvillea 

 glabra. 



W. Harrison, of Heston, England, was 

 present and, among other things, saia 

 American carnations in February are the 

 equal of those seen in England in April 

 and May. 



M. A. Patten made a neat address on 

 the Washington convention of the Carna- 

 tion Society and boomed Indianapolis 

 strongly. 



Wallace E. Pierson, of Cromwell, pro- 

 vided an excellent paper, which appears 

 elsewhere in this issue. In the discus- 

 sion, Peter Fisher said the time to sow 

 carnation seeds is as soon as ripe. Mr. 

 Pierson believes lime is the best fertil- 

 izer. His choice of best six varieties is: 

 Winsor, White Perfection, White En- 

 chantress, Beacon, Enchantress and Rose- 

 pink Enchantress. Dipping in Bordeaux 

 is the best cure for rust. Other speak- 

 ers were Wilfrid Wheeler, D. Finlayson, 



