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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Youag Stock at the Mosbaek Establishment, Onarga, IIL 



for himself at Wakefield, under the 

 name of Ingram & Lyons. Later he was 

 in charge of a large commercial estab- 

 lishment in Kentucky. Returning to the 

 Boston district, he was with Wilson, 

 of Wellesley, until he took his position 

 with Mr. ^ana. He was a good grower 

 and much respected in the community. 



VAYSIDE NOTES. 



John McKenzie, of North Cambridge, 

 Mass., has a fine lot of Dorothy and 

 Lady Gay in his collection of roses for 

 Easter. He finds quite a similarity be- 

 tween these two, the former being rather 

 the more satisfactory to handle. Lady 

 Gay opens bud very quickly and must be 

 disposed of early. He has about 40,000 

 square feet of glass on the new place 

 and has opened up an attractive store in 

 the center of town. 



A. H. Hews & Co., of North Cam- 

 bridge, have pretty well caught up on or- 

 ders for pots. They are adding a depot 

 in New Orleans to assist them in hand- 

 ling the big southern trade. 



Dan Murphy, of Doyle's, at North 

 Cambridge, has a nice lot of Easter 

 stock. He is an expert grower of Adian- 

 tum Farleyense, having the finest lot in 

 this section. 



W. W. Edgar & Co., of Waverley, 

 Mass., have a grand batch of lilies at 

 the farm place. Hermann, the foreman, 

 says the reason the foliage is so green 

 is because the plants are grown on solid 

 beds. His experience is that the plants 

 dry out much more quickly when on 

 benches. At the home plant bedding 

 stock is being grown in large numbers, 

 especially geraniums in 4-inch pots. Vin- 

 cent 's varieties are all being tried. Cali- 

 fornia, an intense orange scarlet, is a 

 leader, with Paul Crampbel, a fine single, 

 a good second. Tiffin is a favorite. A 

 house of Baby Ramblers in 6-inch pots 

 were a sight for Easter. A fine batch 

 of hydrangeas will be in shape for Deco- 

 ration day. Robert Edgar, who has 

 charge of this end, does not believe in 

 forcing the plants for Easter, when a 

 soft growth would be the result. Frank 

 Kdgar has charge of the selling end at 

 the market. 



A. Leuthy, at Roslindale, Mass., was 



packing some azaleas for shipment to 



.Havana at the time of my visit. He 



does a heavy business in decorative 



stock. 



The Quidnick Greenhouses, at Anthony, 

 ■R- I., have a pink sport from the carna- 



tion Queen, of which they think highly. 

 ' * It has the free-flowering qualities, and 

 quantity counts for much, ' ' remarked J. 

 H. Cushing, who has named it Victoria. 

 E. W. Pearson, Newburyport, Mass., 

 runs his houses to tomatoes and cucum- 

 bers as soon as chrysanthemums are over. 

 This season, owing to the low prices car- 

 nations were bringing, he threw out one 

 house and increased the area of vege- 

 tables. From one house 30x250 feet he 

 picked four tons of tomatoes last season. 

 The varieties are Comet and Lorillard. 

 Rawson's Arlington White Spine is the 

 favorite cucumber. The method usually 

 followed here is to plant the tomato 

 plants in rows between carnations, which 

 are thrown out in May, by which time 

 the tomatoes are well established. An 

 early crop is secured and the house 

 cleaned out in time for fall planting. Mr. 

 Pearson makes a specialty of bedding 

 plants, having about 15,000 geraniums, 

 in addition to other stock. M. 



Following the meeting, the annual 

 winter clambake was enjoyed. All of 

 the good things that go to make up a 

 real * * bake ' ' were conspicuous in plenty 

 and the affair was a great success. A 

 paper entitled "Culture of Carnations" 

 was read by A. J. Watkins and during 

 the evening an orchestra rendered pop-- 

 ular airs of the day. 



SEYMOUR, IND. 



Just before noon of April 1 this sec- 

 tion of country waa swept by one of the 

 most destructive hail storms ever known. 

 Our loss was nearly complete. The 

 houses were full of a general line of 

 bedding stock, and one house of carna- 

 tions with a fine crop coming in for 

 Easter. After the storm the scene was 

 something fearful. The hard freeze 

 which followed did great damage; al- 

 though every precaution was taken to 

 cover well, the fierce wind found all the 

 tender plants. We have cause to re- 

 member our neighbor florists for their 

 prompt assistance in helping us to get 

 back in shape for business. Of course 

 our glass was insured, and trust that 

 every one depending on a glass house 

 for a living, that is not already insured, 

 will apply at once, for none of us knows 

 who will be the next victim. 



M. A. Barick. 



UTICA, N. Y. 



The Utica Florists' Club held its reg- 

 ular meeting at the greenhouses of W. 

 A. Rowlands, in Whitesboro, April 3. 

 There were about forty members pres- 

 ent and all succeeded in making the 

 evening one of pleasure. At the busi- 

 ness meeting the present officers were 

 renominated. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The one-story office and work room at 

 the greenhouses of Clark Bros., 185 

 Tockwotten street, at the corner of East 

 street, was badly damaged by a fire 

 which started in the vicinity of the 

 stove in the office at 2:15 a. m. April 4. 

 The flames did not communicate with 

 the big greenhouses of the florists, but 

 made thorough the destruction of the 

 office structure. 



Patrolman T. D. Welch of the Third 

 Police Precinct discovered the blaze 

 while making his rounds and sent in an 

 alarm from box 6 at East street and 

 Armstrong avenue. The flames, after 

 breaking through the roof, were fanned 

 by the wind, and for a few moments 

 things assumed a dangerous aspect. The 

 firemen, however, succeeded in keeping 

 the fire confined to the office portion of 

 the establishment. The blaze is believed 

 to have been caused by the stove in 

 some way, although the exact origin 

 cannot be determined. 



House of Ferns at tlie Mosbaek Place, Onarga, in. 



