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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



May 28, 1908. 



GREEN 

 GOODS 



Asparag^us 

 Smilax 



Spreng^eri 

 PlumosuB 

 Adiantum 

 Ferns 



Galax 



Leucothoe 

 Boxw^ood 



Chas. W. McKellar 



WHOLESALE FLORIST 



51 Wabash Ave. 

 Chicago 



ORCHIDS 



A Specialty 



A fine assortment of 

 .Cattleyasand other 

 Orchids always on 

 hand. 



L. D. Phone Central S598. FRKSH KVERT DAY 

 FANCT STOCK IN TALLET, BEAUTIES, BOSES, CABNATIONS 

 AND GBEENS OF ALL KINDS 



Can always supply the best goods the season affords 

 A complete Una of all WIra Work and Supplies constantly on hand 



DECORaiON DAY PRICE LIST 



ORCHIDS, a specialty. Per doz. 



Cattleyas $6.00 



Assorted Orchids, per box, 



$5.00 and up. 



AM. B£A17TIKS- 



Extra long $4.00 



Stems, 24 to 36 inches. . 2.50 to 3.00 



Stems, 20 inches 2.00 



Stems, 15 inches 1.50 



Stems, 12 inches 1.00 



ROSES Per 100 



Killamey and Richmond.$4.00 to $10.00 

 Bride, Maid and G. Gate. 4.00 to 8.00 



Chatenay 4.00 to 8.00 



Roses, our selection 4 .00 



Carnations, sel. com'n. 2.00 to 3.00 

 ** large and fancy 4.00 to 6.00 



MISC BLLAXEOUS 



Cape Jasmine 1.00 



Longiliorum, Callas 8.00 to 12.00 



Valley 3.00to 4.00 



Peonies. . .doz., $0.50 to $1 



Mignonette 4.00 to 6.00 



Sweet Peas 75 to 1.00 



DECORATIVE 



Asp. Plumosus string, .35 to .50 



'"^ " ....bunch, .35 to .75 



" Sprengeri...per 100, 2.00to 5.00 



Galax...per 100, 15c; 1000, 1.00 to 1.25 



Ferns, .per 100, 20c; 1000, 2.00 



Adiantum per 100, 1.00 to 1 .50 



Smilax doz.. $2.00; 15.00 



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BOSTON. 



The Market. 



The near approach of Memorial day 

 has now given a little fillip to busi- 

 ness. It is true there is not much ad- 

 vance in prices, but the market is bet- 

 ter cleaned up and growers are quite 

 optimistic over sales to be made later, 

 in the week. Eoses a)re still abundant, 

 with no advance in price except foi- the 

 best colored varieties. As some growers 

 are already emptying their houses, owing 

 to unprofitable prices, there promises 

 soon to be a shortening yp pf these. 

 Carnations are in heavy crop and, in 

 spite of the recent hot weather, the qual- 

 ity holds remarkably good. Red vari- 

 eties are in best request. Whites are 

 always the slowest sale for Memorial 

 day. There is a good supply of sweet 

 peas, but the quality is rapidly de- 

 teriorating. 



Of lilies there promises to be a full 

 supply, also of such useful flowers as 

 double feverfews, marguerites, stocks, 

 candytuft, spiraea, gladioli and Spanish 

 iris. Of Dutch bulbous stock there will 

 be a smaller supply than had been an- 

 ticipated, owing to the hot weather. 



There is an active call for bedding 

 plants of all kinds, also for hydrangeas. 

 Baby Rambler roses and other stock 

 suitable for planting outdoors. 



At the Arnold Arboretum. 



. The lilacs at the Arnold arboretum 

 were at their best May 24, the hot 

 weather having sent them along rapidly. 

 The flowering season for all shrubs is 

 fully two weeks earlier than in 1907, 

 lilacs last year being only in bud for 

 Memorial day. The collection here com- 

 prises about 150 varieties, many of these 

 being Lemoine 's latest introductions. All 

 are blooming with unusual freedom this 

 .year and make a glorious showing at 

 present. Specially noteworthy were the 

 following varieties: In singles, Phile- 

 mon, splendid dark purplish red ; Sou- 

 venir de Ludwig Spaeth, similar to fore- 

 going^ Goliath, soft pink, immense pan- 

 icfes ; TWJbra tHanoniana, a little lighter 

 than PHlem^il:' F. B. Hayes, soft pink; 

 Pre^flent iMassart, large pui;ple panicles ; 

 B^Wfft* L^^ifaye, still the ^npst single 

 white^f Pnncess Alexandra, a fine white. 



panicles "rather smaller than Marie Le- 

 graye ; Macrostachya, delicate laVender 

 fading almost white, a magnificent sort; 

 Congo, rich red, very fine; ^pmte de Ker- 

 chove, light. piAk; Furst Lichtenstein, 

 rosy lilac, one. tff the besi half dozen 

 lilacs ■ grown ; Jacquj^^ Gmot, delicate 

 rose; ViUe de- Troyes, (lurk purple-; 

 Charles X., reddish purple. 



Among many excellent doubles the fol- 

 lowing were notewbrthy : Mme. Lemoine, 

 superb white; Maxime Cornu, lavender; 

 Condorcet, light pink; William Robinson, 

 violet ; Doyen Keteleer, very fine laven- 

 der; Belle de Nancy, satin rose; pyram- 

 idal, immense panicles, light blue; W. 



Please cut out my advertisements 

 of Heliotrope and 2yi-inch Geraniums 

 that appeared in last week's . 



The first insertion made a clean sweep 

 of the plants^ just like a tornado. 



E. A. MUCHOW. 

 Clarence, N. Y., May 23, 1908. 



Linne, reddish lilac ; Monument Carnot, 

 lilac blue; Michael Buchner, lilac, very 

 double; Comte de Kerchove, rose; Presi- 

 dent Grevy, grand panicles, a fine blue. 



The Crataegus in hundreds of vari- 

 eties are now blooming with unusual 

 freedom, as are the different forms of 

 Cornus florida. The loniceras are always 

 good and the Azalea Ksempferi are show- 

 ing up their brilliant trusses. Among 

 the late crab-apples BechteJ's double- 

 flowered variety, the finest of the whole 



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family,, i^ now at its best. The rhodo- 

 dendrons are already opening their flow- 

 ers and will be a glorious sight in a 

 few days. 



Various Notes. 



We are. pleased to report Jackson Daw- 

 son as., much improved, from his recent 

 illness. 



The Boston park system is now un- 

 usually attractive. Never were the cor- 

 nus so fine, the winter having spared all 

 the flower buds. In Franklin park the 

 Lonicera Marrowi are worthy of a spe- 

 cial visit. The spira;as, halesias, ker- 

 rias, Crataegus, lilacs and many other 

 trees and shrubs are also adding their 

 quota to the glorious display and no visr - 

 itor to Boston should omit a drive around 

 the extensive and well cared for system 

 under Superintendent Pettigrew 's charge. 



John Walsh & Son, of Melrose High- 

 lands, report business the last season as. 

 the best they have ever had, funeral and 

 decorative orders being excejvtionally nu- 

 merous. 



Daniel Iliffe is busy on heating con- 

 tracts at the Plant estate, Groton, Conn.,, 

 and reports trade as good. 



Some of the places suggested for the 

 next picnic of the Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists ' Club were Riverside park, Randolph 

 park. Pine Banks park, Medford, and 

 Bass Point, Nahant. The executive com- 

 mittee will soon decide on the location 

 and it is planned to have the coming 

 festival surpass all predecessors in in- 

 teresting features. 



May up to date has proved an unusu- 

 ally warm month and the mean tempera- 

 ture promises to be higher than for a 

 number of years. A year ago we had 

 few outdoor flowers at Memorial day. 

 This season many of the varieties in 

 common use will be on the wane. 



Henry W. Robinson & Co. and Welch 

 Bros, both anticipate a heavy Memorial 

 day trade, advance orders being ahead 

 of those in preceding years. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. have a fine 

 display of their new seedling lily, longi- 

 florum X Philippense, at their store. Some 

 of the plants carry as many as nine 

 flowers; others which bloomed in Decem- 

 ber and January are again almost in 

 bloom, showing the herbaceous nature of 

 the cross. ^ 



The peony season here will be much 



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