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The Weekly PhsfetsTlevicw. 



Apbil 30, 1908. 



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on sweet peas, the lecturer condemned 

 the practice of drawing soil up to the 

 stems of sweet peas as they grow and 

 believed it was responsible for much of 

 the dying off of the stems. During the 

 season his sweet peas "are under glass, 

 he luses either bone meal or sheep ma- 

 nure twice, forking it into the soil. Al- 

 though Jie has grown sweet peas in the 

 same soil year after year, they seemed to 

 do better each succeeding season, con- 

 trary to the theory held by many. He 

 fumigates with togacco stems twice the 

 same night so as to keep smoke in all 

 night. The forcing varieties do poorly 

 outdoors. Most of the people sow their 

 outdoor sweet peas much too thickly. 

 He believes one pound should sow a 

 300-foot row. 



The club has two invitations for field 

 days in August, one to the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College at Amherst, and the 

 other to the New England Nurseries, 

 Bedford. 



Various Notes. 



Temperatures of 87 degrees in the 

 shade April 23 anil 85 degrees April 26 

 have brought vegetation on with a rush 

 outdoors. The fprsythia^ magnolias and 

 other flowering sh«ib&are now attract- 

 ive, while bulbous plants in abundance 

 are blooming. 



Julius Heurlin says he has had the 

 heaviest sales at the Blue liill Nurseries 

 this spring since he started in business. 

 The loss in perennial plants from freez- 

 ing and thawing was quite heavy. 



Anderson & Williams are marketing 

 some excellent Bouvardia Humboldtii, 

 which is preferred to gardenias by criti- 

 cal flower buyers. 



J. T. Butterworth has started cutting 

 a fine crop of summer Cattleyas Mossia>, 

 Mendelli and Skinneri. 



Recent visitors have included Walter 

 Mott, representing A. T. Boddington, 

 New York. 



There promises to be a big show of 

 bulbs and other seasonable flowers at 

 Horticultural hall May 9 and 10. 



W. N. Cbaio. 



ST. PAUL. 



The Market 



Easter trade, while not eclipsing all 

 previous records, equaled the best of them 

 and was satisfactory to the majority 

 of the dealers. A glimpse about town 

 shows a good many blooming plants 

 left over. This may be partly accounted 

 for by the rain on Good Friday and 

 partly by the oversupply of good stock. 

 Coming late in the month as Easter did 

 this year, the growers all had ample 

 time in which to get everything into 

 bloom. The volume of sales is, I should 

 judge, about the same as in 1907. Holm 

 & Olson report larger sales, some of 

 the others smaller, while otjiers are non- 

 committal. 



All plants sold well except those in 

 baskets, for which there was little call, 

 lilies were plentiful, but rather short 

 in growth. 



There was a good demand for cut flow- 

 ers and ample supplies, except of vio- 

 lets. Stock was good and there were 

 but few complaints of its being pickled. 



Altogether, trade was satisfactory and 

 there should be no cause for complaint 

 on the part of anyone. 



Arbutus from the Wisconsin woods has 

 made its appearsmce, and disappears like 

 snow in June. Weather conditions are 

 ideal for outside plants, and lilacs al- 



Beauties 



We are now on with our crop of Sumra^ 

 Beauties. Fine color, stem and foliage — 

 better than can be cirt at this season from 

 stock that has bloomed all winter. :: :: :: 



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ready have large buds. The season is 

 fully a month in advance of last year. 



Qtib Meetinsf. 



The Twin Cities Florists' Club met 

 at the City park greenhouses, Minne- 

 apolis, April 21. Mr. Boeglin had an 

 interesting and instructive paper on bed- 

 ding plants and exhibited some fine spe- 

 cimens grown at the city greenhouses. 



The secretary was requested to con- 

 fer with the S. AT F. relative to the 

 investigation of fire insurance rates on 

 greenhouses, with a view to obtaining a 

 fair and equitable readjustment of them 

 by the insurance companies. 



The next meeting will be held May 

 18, at Holm & Olson's store, in this 

 city. 



Variout Notes. 



We learn of disastrous competition in 

 Minneapolis, where one of the depart- 

 ment stores sold lily plants at 25 cents 

 per pot the day before Easter. 



C. S. Ford, of Philadelphia, was a 

 member of Holm & Olson's selling force 

 in Easter week. 



A. Currie, Jr., of Milwaukee, spent 

 the week in the Twin Cities in the in- 

 terest of his firm. 



Trailing arbutus is on the market and 

 sells quickly. 



P. Clausen & Son, of Albert Lea, are 



sending in the finest carnations seen here 

 this season. 



Jacob Hoffman, of May & Co. 's store, 

 is smiling over the advent of a twelve- 

 pound boy in his family. X. Y. Z. 



RAMBLING JOTTINGS. 



In addition to their extensive florists' 

 business, Geo. L. Mahoney & Co., of 

 Saco, Me., are large collectors of tree 

 seeds, supplying the seed houses who 

 handle such. For many years they have 

 regularly supplied Vilmorin, Andrieuz & 

 Co. • They are pleased to note an increas- 

 ing home demand, one estate owner 

 placing an order for a large number of 

 white pine for restocking purposes. 



Chas. S. Strout has a modern plant at 

 Biddeford, Me. Many of the finest car- 

 nations seen in Boston this season were 

 from this establishment. 



John Butler, Brunswick, Me., reports 

 an increasing business since he took hold 

 of the plant of the late John McManus 

 and expects to make considerable addi- 

 tion to the range of glass. 



P. M. 01m, of Bath, Me., intends add- 

 ing to his glass during the coming sea- 

 son. 



John Burr, at Freeport, Me., recalls 

 entertainingly the time when he grew 

 Black Hamburg grapes and shipped di- 

 rect to Halifax, N. S., and says it caused 



