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The Weekly Florists' Re^a(^. 



Decembeb 17, 1008. 



showed Salvia Zurich. The J. F. Flood 

 Co. had mushrooms. Peter Fisher re- 

 ceived honorable mention for Winon& and 

 Viola Sinclair carnations. F. W. Fletcher 

 showed violets and salvia. Thomas Wal- 

 die had a seedling carnation. W. E. 

 Hamilton, Belfast, Me., had a late pink 

 mum and E. B. Beals fine seedling carna- 

 tions, crimson, white and light pink. 



There were refreshments as usual and 

 one of the most exciting and enthusiastic 

 meetings the club has ever held did not 

 close until a late hour. At the January 

 meeting the newly elected officers will be 

 installed. 



Variouc Notes. i 



Edgar Bros., of Waverley, are still cut- 

 ting a fine lot of late chrysanthemums, 

 including Bonnaffon, Jeanne ° Noniu, 

 Maud Dean, H. W. Kieman and Intensity, 

 and will have plenty of these sorts for 

 Christmas. 



W. B. Goodenow, of Stoughton, has a 

 fine house of sweet peas, from which he 

 is cutting some fine flowers. His double 

 violets are doing better than ever. 



From Budlong'i^, of Auburn, R. I., 

 some extra fine Killarney, Richmond and 

 other roses are being handled at the Park 

 street market. 



John Newman, who sells at the Music 

 Hall market, is handling an exceptionally 

 high grade lot of Princess of Wales vio- 

 lets again this season. 



W. C. Ward, who is the leading indoor 

 pansy specialist in this section, is market- 

 ing large quantities of fine flowers of his 

 specialty. 



H. F. Calder, of Norwood, is a grower 

 of double violets, hard to beat. His 

 flowers are again this season of splendid 

 quality and of a color sufficient to make 

 anyone envious. 



S. J. Goddard and E. A. Peirce think 

 so well of their late western trip as an 

 educational one, that they are planning 

 to make one every fall. 



Quite a few in this section are already 

 talking of the Indianapolis carnation 

 convention and hoping to accompany 

 President Patten there. 



The committee having in charge the 

 arrangements for the Park street market 

 flower show, to be held about March 1, 

 1909, held a meeting December 12. They 

 are planning to have an exhibition far 

 surpassing that of 1908. The members of 

 the committee are E. A. Peirce, 6. J. 

 Goddard, W. H. Elliott and William Sim. 



H. M. Eobinson & Co. are having a 

 strenuous season at present, and have a 

 large force working practically night and 

 day. Their holly, smilax, laurel and other 

 greenery is of fine quality and cut flower 

 trade promises to be of unusually large 

 dimensions. 



T. F. Galvin has an attractive window 

 at his big Tremont street store, the cen- 

 tral feature being a bulb bed. He is 

 handling a fine lot of orchids. 



W. H. Elliott thinks the single mums 

 are what the commercial men should grow 

 another season. The public taste runs to 

 this class. 



E. Sutermeister is once more busy with 

 bulbous stock and will have plenty of 

 Golden Spur and La Reine in a day or 

 two. 



J. F. Flood & Co., of Dedham, are 

 handling^ quantities of extra fine carna- 

 tions at their Music Hall market stand. 



Welch Bros. ' big Devonshire street em- 

 porium is a hive of industry these days. 

 In addition to their immense stock of 

 holly, laurel, mistletoe, etc., they will have 

 the biggest lot of cut flowers in their 



history for the Christmas trade, including 

 orchids, gardenias and everything choice. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, are as usual 

 handling large quantities of pot plants 

 for the Christmas trade. They are bring- 

 ing in a lot of good yellow narcissi and 

 other bulbous stock. 



In spite of recent moderate rains and 

 snowfalls, we are still many inches short 

 of our normal rainfall, and with the 

 ground frozen, tight as at present any 

 precipitation will be of less value than 

 if it were open. 



Esty Bros, are producing some of the 

 finest single violets seen in Boston at 

 present. 



J. K. Alexander, of East Bridgewater, 

 has recently secured some big orders for 

 dahlia tubers. Mr. Alexander grew twenty 

 acres of dahlias last season and is now 

 clearing more land to increase that area. 



W. N. Cbaig. 



NEVYORK. 



The Market 



Christmas is in the air, the voices of 

 the flower merchants have a hopeful tone, 

 and an encouraging holiday trade seems 

 assured. Already the improvement is 

 marked in the almost universal prosper- 

 ity of the retail section of the business, 

 and the gradually advancing values in 

 the wholes&le market. 



Roses especially feel the thrill of the 

 better times. From the Maid, all the 

 way up through the novelties, to Beau- 

 ties, the prices have improved, so that 

 both grower and wholesaler have just 

 cause for congratulation. And these 

 prices are already near the values that, 

 if not advanced unduly, guarantee a re- 

 turn to the old days of a cut flower 

 Christmas. This, too, is possible with no 

 diminution in the selling of plants, for 

 the market has greatly widened of late, 

 and the use of flowers and plants for 

 Christmas gifts is now universal. Only 

 the error of unreasonable advances in 

 price, or the flooding of the market with 

 pickled flowers can hold back the tide of 

 public buying. 



There is a wonderful demand for Kil- 

 larney. Of all the varieties of roses, this 

 seems to be in the limelight. Retailers 

 were asking $6 per dozen Saturday for 

 the best of them. Beauties, too, are ris- 

 ing; choice lots touched 50 cents whole- 

 sale the last of the week. 



The carnation shipments are now 

 abundant and good prices prevail. Choice 

 stock easily commanded 4 cents Monday, 

 December 14. Even the commonest ship- 

 ments did not go below $1. Violets hold 

 steady at 75 cents for the top grade. 

 The left-overs go to the street tomorrow 

 at 35 cents and even less, but with the 

 stock fresh and the demand improving 

 the left-overs are now few. 



The orchid supply is now encouraging, 

 both in variety and quantity. A big 

 Christmas demand is already evident. 

 Gardenias have advanced to 50 cents for 

 the perfect ones and are popular. Smilax 

 is a drug. Some of the wholesalers' ice- 

 boxes are crowded with it. As low as 6 

 cents was accepted for it Saturday, De- 

 cember 12. 



Here and there chrysanthemums are 

 seen, but the stragglers are few. Some 

 are being saved for Christmas. Lilies are 

 none too plentiful and prices are much 

 better. Cypripediums have fallen be- 

 cause of their abundance. The market 

 has never seen them of better quality. 



Poinsettias, cut and in plant, are in 



many of the wholesale windows. -They 

 make a brilliant setting. Every retail 

 window is a study in red. Christmas 

 bells and wreaths abound. Blooming, 

 plants of all kinds are already arriving 

 and by Saturday, December 19, every- 

 thing will be staged and arranged for 

 the Christmas demand. Plant growers 

 say ' ' Sola out ' ' when one asks them how 

 the holiday plant demand has material- 

 ized. ' 



Club Meeting. 



t Monday night, December 14, the final 

 meeting of the New York Florists' Club 

 for 1908 took place at the Grand opera 

 house. President Weathered was in the 

 chair. The weather was perfect and the 

 attendance the largest of the year, nearly 

 150 being present during the evening. A 

 mor& harmonious and enthusiastic gath- 

 ering has never been seen together in the 

 club's history. Messrs. A. H. Prosser 

 and Herman Scholzel were elected to 

 membership. 



In response to the club's telegram of 

 congratulation to Mayor Breitmeyer, of 

 Detroit, a very warm letter of thanks 

 and appreciation was read from the pop- 

 ular candidate.- The resignation of B. C. 

 Bruckner, of Bayside, was read, and a 

 letter from Fred Lentz, concerning the 

 bowling competition at the club's annual 

 outing. Explanations were made by 

 Messrs. Marshall, Schultz and Manda, 

 and the prizes remaining, after discus- 

 sion, by motion of P. O'Mara, were 

 ordered returned to the donors, and the 

 contest, because of lack of time for its 

 completion, declared canceled. 



W. W. Burnham sent a letter of resig- 

 nation as candidate for the office of vice- 

 president, Harry Bunyard for that of 

 secretary, and Alfred Zeller and Patrick 

 O'Mara withdrew from the contest for 

 trusteeships. In the election contest W. 

 F. Sheridan was appointed judge and 

 Messrs. O'Mara and Koehne tellers. For 

 the office of president Robert Berry 

 nominated W. E. Marshall, seconded by 

 J. A. Manda. The motion was declared 

 out of order, but the privilege of any 

 member of the club to vote for any can- 

 didate desired was emphasized. The elec- 

 tion resulted as follows: President, E. V. 

 Hallock; vice-president, Harry Turner; 

 secretary, John Young; treasurer, W. C. 

 Rickards; trustees, F. H. Traendly, John 

 Scott and Paul Dailledouze. E. V, Hal- 

 lock resigned the office of trustee and 

 Robert Simpson was elected by acclama- 

 tion to fill the vacancy. 



Mr. Hallock made an eloquent address, 

 stating that he was overwhelmed and 

 deeply touched by the honor conferred. 

 He said in his opinion the club could 

 have selected a better man, but that he 

 would give the society the best that was 

 in him. He referred to the power of the 

 club to make the president a success, and 

 said he was more pleased with the deci- 

 sion of the club than by any act of any 

 other body of men that had ever been 

 shown him in his life. Messrs. Turner, 

 Young, Riekards, Simpson, Traendly and 

 Dailledouze followed in assurances of 

 loyalty and devotion to the club's inter- 

 ests, the secretary especially- being 

 greeted with great enthusiasm. All 

 united in the declaration that the New 

 York Florists' Club was the best in the 

 country and emphasized their intention 

 to keep it up to its high standard in the 

 future. Trustee Scott is still convales- 

 cing and was unable to attend. 



The award committee announced pre- 

 liminary certificates for the exhibits of 



