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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 6, 1908. 



in a bad condition and some mealy bugs 

 were on the roots. It is just possible 

 that something in the soil, which came 

 with the manure, may be the cause of the 

 roots decaying. A renewal of the soil 

 would seem to be the best remedy. As 

 a rule, coleus will grow luxuriantly in 

 almost any soil in any location, and un- 

 less some disease unknown to us has at- 

 tacked your plants, the trouble would 

 seem to be in the soil. C. W. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Although extreme quiet prevails in cut 

 flower circles at present, the arrivals are 

 so much reduced from a few weeks ago 

 that much better clearances are being ef- 

 fected. Outdoor flowers now hold the 

 center of the stage, asters being most 

 in evidence. Prices on these have drop- 

 ped within the last few days. Sweet 

 peas are not abundant and are of rather 

 poor quality. Gladioli are plentiful and 

 good. Carnations are almost out of the 

 running at present. Such as are coming 

 in are small. The same holds true of 

 roses, although the flowers of Kaiserin 

 and Carnot are of . fair quality. In 

 lUies there are good blooms of longi- 

 florupi, also a f^ir supply of speciosum 

 and auratum. The latter does not sell 

 weH on accoijpt of its heavy odor, how- 

 evei*. It looks mow as though there would 

 be a slow jsut steady improvement in 

 business from now onward. 



. A Visit to Farquhar's. 



The members of the committee on 

 plants and flo^yers of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, with other invited 

 guests, visited the greenhouses of R. & J. 

 Farquhar & Co., at Roslindale, July 31, 

 to inspect their collection of new lilies 

 from northern China, now in bloom. The 

 party consisted of T. D. Hatfield, C. W. 

 Parker, J. A. Pettigrew, Duncan Finlay- 

 son, E. Johansson, Joseph Clark, Samuel 

 Hartwell, Thomas Roland, Robert Camer- 

 on and W. P. Rich. Before going to Ros- 

 lindale the party was entertained at 

 lunch by Messrs. Farquhar at the Park- 

 er House. There are several thousand of 

 the new lilies, of which a goodly propor- 

 tion were flowering. A pretty, little, 

 graceful variety similar to L. pulchellum, 

 with bright scarlet flowers, was much 

 admired. James Farquhar thinks that by 

 crossing it on one of the new white 

 truippet varieties he may eventually ob- 

 tain a scarlet trumpet lily. A large 

 quantity of blooms were open on a va- 

 riety with large white or pale lemon 

 trumpet flowers, with chocolate markings 

 on the outside of the petals, similar to 

 Brownii, but with much shorter foliage. 

 Grown and opened under glass the flow- 

 ers come pure white and take on an en- 

 tirely different form, more nearly resem- 

 bling auratum in this respect. The bulbs 

 are quite different from those of Brownii. 

 Bulbs of small size flower, and Messrs. 

 Farquhar think there are great possibili- 

 ties in the intercrossing of this lily and 

 L. Philippense for the production of an 

 ideal white forcing lily. 



Numerous seedlings of shrubs, also col- 

 lected by E. H. Wilson in northern 

 China, were noted, and as the climate 

 there resembles that of the nothem states 

 of America, some valuable additions to 

 our hardy shrubs will, no doubt, be ob- 

 tained. Seedlings of L. longiflorum x 

 Philippense in varipus stages of growth 

 were noticed. Jn the nursery a good 

 general collection of herbaceous plants 



THE ANNUAL SPECIAL 



Convention 

 Number „, 



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To be 

 Issued 

 August 20 



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will contain a full report of the Niagara Falls Convention of the S. A. F., 

 and in other features wilUse fully up to the previous special issues of this 

 journal. Enough said. 



EARLY COPY 



for special advertising is a great help in turning out a well printed paper. 



Why not send it now? 



I wish to state that we received many more orders from our advertisement in the 

 Rkview than we were able to All, receiving orders from New Torlc, Minnesota, Illinois, 

 Ohio, Colorado and several other states. We were sold out a few days after the first 

 insertion.— Geo. M. Kellogg, Pleasant Hill, Mo. 



and ornamental trees and shrubs were 

 growing. Messrs. Veitch, of London, in^ 

 troduced many beautiful plants collected 

 by Mr. Wilson while in their employ, 

 and that the treasures of northern China 

 have not all been introduced is evident 

 from the many new things now being 

 sent here. 



Qub Picnic 



Once more the Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists' Club was favored with ideal weath- 

 er for the annual picnic at Pine Banks 

 park, Maiden, July 29. The grounds 

 are commodious and beautiful. The ball 

 field, used for the athletic contents, was 

 an excellent one and everything passed 

 off without a hitch. The attendance was 

 about 500 and all attending seemed to 

 have a full day's enjoyment. The ath- 

 letic events were slightly less numerous 

 than a year ago, but could be still further 

 reduced in numbers with advantage. The 

 results of the various events were as fol- 

 lows: 



Baseball. — Private gardeners captained by R. 

 W. Curtis. 29; commercial growers captained 

 by F. E. Palmer, 13. 



Baseball. Boys. — T. Westwood's team, 8; 

 Palmer's team, 3. 



Hundred-yard race, boys under 15, handicap. 

 — T. Westwood and R. Rust; twelve ran. 



Sack race for men, 75 yards. — W. J. Collins 

 first, R. Roehrs second, W. Martin third; ten 

 ran. 



Novelty race for married ladles. — Mrs. E. J. 

 Rogean first, Mrs. G. H. Cray second, Mrs. J. 

 F. Flood third; thirteen entries. 



Fat man's race. 185 pounds the limit. — W. R. 

 Nicholson first, D. lUffe second, J. Wheeler 

 third; eight ran. 



Hundred-yard dash, men final heat. — W. S. 

 Orassle first, J. W. Lally second. T. S. Brown 

 third. A. E. Walsh fourth; sixteen ran. 



Three-legged race, boys. — F. Hargraves and 

 Walter Westwood first, J, Slsson and T. West- 

 wood second; six entries. 



Eighty-yard race, boys under ten. — W. Erlck- 

 son first. T. Palmer second; eight ran. 



Half-mile race. men. — W. S. Grassle first, 

 T. S. Brown second, David Bums third; ten 

 ran. 



Seventy-five yards, girls under 16. — Harriet 

 Coles first, Lillian Campbell second; ten ran. 



Seventy-five yards, boys under 12, handicap. — 

 T. Iliffe first, Theodore Palmer second; eight 

 ran. 



Three-legged race, men, fifty yards. — W. J. 

 Collins and John Roid first, W. J. Thurston and 

 A. E. Walsh second; five entries. 



Fifty-yard race, girls under 12. handicap. — 

 Edith Iliffe first, Margaret IlKTe second; seven 

 ran. 



Running broad Jump. — W. J. Collins first. 



16 feet 2 inches; J. W. Lally second, 15 feet 

 9 Inches; G. H. Grey and T. S. Brown third; 

 ten entries. 



Ladies' potato race. — Mrs. H. F. Woods first, 

 Mrs. J. F. Hood second, Mrs, E. J. Rogean 

 third; seven entries. 



Fifty-yard race, girls under 18. — Elizabeth 

 Reed first, Anna Barteam second; ten entries. 



Tug-of-war, private gardeners vs. commercial 

 growers, won by private gardeners. 



Fifty-yard race, girls under 10. — Margaret 

 IlifTe first, Dorothy Palmer second; eight ran. 



Putting the shot.— John Reld first, W. J. Col- 

 11ns second. 



Consolation race, 100 yards. — Edward Roee 

 first, William lllfte second, H. Coles third; 

 eight ran. 



Picnic Pickings. 



During the baseball game James 

 Wheeler got a nasty crack on the left 

 eye with the ball, but continued in the 

 game. Several of the spectators had 

 rather narrow escapes. 



In the fat men's race Daniel Hiflfe 

 surprised everyone by the way he ran. 

 The Iliffe family are all sprinters and 

 figured heavily in the prize distribution. 



Among visitors noted from a distance 

 were: Ed. Roehrs, Rutherford, N. J., 

 whose brother, Rudolph, ran in several 

 races, and F. C. GVeen, Warwick, R. I. 

 W. H. Elliott came down from Mad- 

 bury, N. H., for the occa;sion. 



Once more the private gardeners were 

 too much for the commercials in the 

 tug of war. The winning team consisted 

 of D. Finlayson, captain; J. Wheeler, 

 S. Bolton, A. G. Sawyer, W. S. Grassie, 

 J. L. Smith, J.- G. Duguid, William Robb, 

 J. W. Lally, A. Lowe and John Reid. 



W. S. Grassie won both the 100-yard 

 and half-mile contests handily against 

 some fleet competitors. Though short of 

 stature, he can cover the ground fast. 



Additional prize donors to those men- 

 tioned in last issue of the Review were: 

 Lager & Hurrell, Braman, Dow & Co., 

 W. H. Elliott and Henry Penn. 



The baseball contest was marked by 

 some tall scoring, and the privates would 

 have added to it heavily if the game 

 had not been called at the end of the 

 fifth inning. R. W. Curtis proved' a 

 star pitcher for his side. 



W. J. Kennedy made an ideal mega^ 

 phone man, and Duncan Finlayson work- 



,a;y. 



