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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Mabch 19, 1008.. 



CUT FLOWERS 



ALX. STOCK FIRST-CLASS AND IN LARGE SUPPLY. TOUR ORDER SOLICITED. 



BEAUTIES— Per Doz. 



Extra Ions $4.00 



80-inob stems 8.00 



30>lnoli stems 2.50 



20to24-lnoli stems 2.00 



18-lnoh stems 1.50 



15-incb stems 1.25 



12-lncb stems 1.00 



Short stems $0.50 to .75 



Per 100 



Per 100 



Cbatenay $4.00 to $8.00 



UnoleJohn 4.00to 8.00 



Ivory 4.00to 8.0O 



Carnations 1.50to 2.50 



Valley S.OOto 4.00 



Asparasus Flu., bunch... .50 to .75 



pnCCC Our selection, short to A fin 

 nUuLO medium stems, fresh stock, *riUU 



No charge for Packing and Delivery. 



ROOTED CUTTINGS CARNATIONS Well rooted. Ready for shipment 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Per 100 Per 1000 



Per 100 Per 1000 



PTiuv i Lawson $1.50 $12.50 wptttt? i ^idtt Law(on,$2.00 $15.00 i7T7r> j Bobt. Craig $2.50 $20.00 



^^'^'^ I Enchantress .... 2.00 15.00 | ^"^ * ^ } Boston Market, 1.25 10.00 | °-^^ I Cardinal 2.00 17.50 



ROSES, STRONG, WELL ROOTED 



Ivory, Richmond, Chatenay and Uncle John, $1.50 per 100 ; $12.50 per 1000. Sunrise and Kate Moulton, $3.00 per 



100 ; $26.00 per 1000. Perle, $2.00 per 100 ; $17.50 per 1000. 



AMERICAN BEAUTY, Bench Plants, ready now, $10.00 per 100 ; $75.00 per 1000. 



PETER REINBERG 



1,580,000 feet of Modern Glass 



51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



Mention The Review when you write. 



some of the latter being three feet long 

 and elegant flowers. 



Visitors: E. C. Pruner, of E. H. 

 Hunt's; B. Eschner, of M. Rice & Co. 

 H. S. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



There is little new that can be said 

 about the condition of flower trade. 

 Quietness still reigns, but the anticipated 

 heavy Lenten slump has not yet arrived, 

 nor are we likely to see it. "While big 

 social functions are suspended, quite a 

 few dinner parties, weddings and other 

 events calling for decorative material 

 are taking place. These, added to 

 funeral orders, keep the market from 

 going hopelessly to the bad. Roses are 

 now abundant and show a drooping tend- 

 ency. The demand for Beauties is not 

 active, many people now preferring 

 Richmonds and Killameys, and the best 

 grades of the two latter varieties bring 

 excellent prices. Brides and Maids are 

 cheaper and many are now offered by the 

 street fakers at three for a nickel. 



Carnations continue in oversupply. 

 The demand for green blooms for March 

 17 caused a run on whites, which tempo- 

 rarily gave them a mild boom. White 

 stocks and other emerald dyed flowers 

 have also been in evidence. Surely this 

 coloring process should be discouraged 

 by florists. It cannot be said to elevate 

 the profession. Violets are in abundant 

 supply, but singles are falling off and 

 getting smaller with the warmer weath- 

 er. Bulbous stock of all kinds is of ex- 

 cellent quality, but is not selling as it 

 should, prices being low. Sweet peas 



are excellent and sell as well as any 

 flowers. There are good supplies of 

 antirrhinums, anemones, ranunculus, wall- 

 flowers, primroses, mignonette, pansies, 

 marguerites, ixias, tritonias and other 

 seasonable stock. 



Qub Meeting. 



About 175 members attended the meet- 

 ing of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 March 17, to listen to the practical lec- 

 ture by Eber Holmes on * ' Indoor Com- 

 mercial Rose Culture." William H. El- 

 liott had written out the points he wished 

 to make and both speakers were given 

 a rising vote of thanks. Messrs. Wheeler, 

 Downs, Finlayson, Palmer, Cameron, 

 Kennedy and others joined in the dis- 

 cussion. 



While exhibits were less numerous than 

 on carnation night, there were some in- 

 teresting ones. The coming of the spring 

 show three days later reduced their num- 

 bers. W, H. Elliott showed splendid 

 Richmond and Killarney. Mr. Holmes 

 had Bride, Maid and Richmond. R. T. 

 McGorum brought Morgan, Bride and 

 Maid. Wm. Sim showed Boston and 

 Princess of Wales violets and sweet peas. 

 H. F. Woods had a new seedling single 

 violet. H. F. Calder showed double vio- 

 lets. T. H. Westwood had cannas and 

 Begonia gracilis, W. W. Rawson & Co. 

 exhibited Anchusa Dropmore. Joseph 

 Fuller had a double lobelia and Samuel 

 Neil showed callas. 



Three new members were elected. The 

 annual banquet for April 1 was boomed 

 and there was an active demand for tick- 

 ets for it. 



Wm. Sim will lecture on sweet peas at 

 the April meeting. 



Various Notes. 



There were more growers of sham- 

 rocks than usual for March 17 this year. 

 In addition to L. Cousins, W. Nichol- 

 son and 8. J. Goddard, quite a few others 

 entered the field and many thousands 

 were disposed of. Small pans seemed to 

 take well at the stores. The fakers did 

 quite a business in dyed flowers. Many 

 of the stores also handled doctored car- 

 nations. 



The New England Nurseries anticipate 

 a lively spring trade and, from orders 

 already received, find but little indica- 

 tion of any decline in the demand for 

 choice nursery stock. 



Professor H. S. Jackson, of Newark, 

 Del., was the lecturer before an inter- 

 ested audience in Horticultural hall 

 March 14, his subject being, "The De- 

 velopment of Disease-resisting Plants 

 and Flowers." Owing to the spring 

 show taking place March 21, there will 

 be no lecture on that day. 



The Bay State Nurseries report busi- 

 ness up to date as considerably ahead 

 of 1906, but not quite so good as that 

 of 1907. However, there appears to be 

 more new business coming than a year 

 ago and prospects are good. 



W. W, Rawson entertained 120 mem- 

 bers of the Boston Market Gardeners' 

 Association at his Arlington home March 

 14. The farm buildings and numerous 

 greenhouses were inspected, the lettuce 

 crops being of grand quality. After 

 dinner J. B. Shurtleff spoke on "Farm- 

 ing in California," and Professor H. 

 F. Thompson, of Amherst, read a paper 

 on "Manure as a Fertilizer and Its Ef- 

 fects on Market Gardening," 



All indications are for a splendid 



