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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Februart 18, 1900. 



a delightful bath in the famous waters. 

 Bather strenuous, don't you think? 



The Leo Niessen Co. is experiencing a 

 lively demand for Acacia pubescens, 

 which it is only able to fill by frequent 

 telephoning. 



Lilley & Upton have been making a 

 specialty of pansies the ipast week, St. 

 Valentine's bringing a good demand for 

 this pretty flower. 



Ernest F. Hoehl, formerly of Madison, 

 N. J., now of West Philadelphia, has 

 been sending extra fine sweet peas to Ed- 

 ward Reid. 



Thaddeus N. Yates & Co., of Mt. Airy, 

 have commenced shipping choice single 

 daffodils to Berger Bros. 



The Robert Craig Co. has planted two 

 more houses with Ficus pandurata since 

 Christmas. 



The Henry F. Michell Co. had a St. 

 Valentine's day window of gayly coloriil 

 pockets of flower seeds, arranged in 

 Philip Freud's b6st style. Phil. 



BOSTON. 



ThcMarkeL 



Supplies are now much more abundant, 

 l&nd trade is not so good as it has 

 been. Lent will soon be hefe and, Avith 

 the consequent cessation of social activ- 

 ities, quiet business may be expected 

 for some weeks. Violets are now abun- 

 dant and prices have fallen accordingly; 

 50 cents per hundred is now about top 

 price. Carnations are off crop with many 

 growers, but are more than sufficient for 

 the market's needs. For whites the de- 

 mand continues quite good. Sweet peas 

 are getting quite plentiful. The best 

 grades are remarkably fine and sell at 

 $1 per hundred, while poorer samples will 

 only bring 25 cents. Mont Blanc and 

 Earliest of All, or Christmas Pink, are 

 the sorts mostly seen. Roses continue to 

 meet with quite satisfactory sales, and 

 prices on these hold up well, particularly 

 in the case of long-stemmed Beauties, 

 Killarneys and Richmonds. 



Bulbous stock is nuich more plentiful 

 and drags more than it did. Von Sion, 

 double, princeps and Golden Spur are the 

 narcissi mostly seen. La Reine is still 

 the premier tulip, ('alias, lilies, valley, 

 mignonette, snapdragon and marguerites 

 are all selling moderately well. Of 

 pansies, forget-me-nots, candytuft, stocks, 

 < cornflowers, English primroses and free- 

 sias there are moderate supplies, for 

 which the demand fluctuates consider- 

 ably. 



Qttb Meeting. 



As usual, carnation night attracted a 

 large number of members to the meeting 

 of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club, 

 February 16. Dele^tions from the 

 Providence Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 and the North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety were on hand and the gathering was 

 one of the best the club has ever held. 

 The exhibition table presented an at- 

 tractive appearance, quite a number of 

 carnation novelties being included. 



M. A. Patten was the speaker of the 

 evening and gave an interesting and 

 practical talk, which started a good dis- 

 cussion. It was voted to hold the an- 

 nual banquet as usual, details being left 

 to the executive committee. The commit- 

 tee appointed to consider the Grace Hos- 

 pital bed fund proposition, through their 

 chairman, James Wheeler, reported ad- 

 versely. 



Various Notes. 



The members of the Music Hall Flower 



New Basket 



and Pot Cover 



IN FOUR STYLKS 



Quartered oak, flniBhed in three colora, 

 a dark mlasion. a beaatifol shade of foIiaKC 

 green and a light, rich brown called groldeo 

 oak. The Pot OoVer sizes are the standard 

 and azalea, made to fit 8, lO and,12iDCh pots, 

 •n<l the Baskets 10, 12 and U inches square; 

 the oblong Baskets are about 8 Inches wide 

 and 12. 15 ai^d 18 inches long^ ,. 



- fhiB new line is not to^e compared to 

 anything now on. the market, as it is an 

 entire departure. The Pot Cover will take 

 the place of the moie Bxmasire jardiniere. 

 The BMricet is aew, QUhtue and a jrieaalnc 

 change from She viOkarvfttk. 



WesfirftI aend • «oBi|ilete set of these 

 Baskets and PotOoTers on approval to any 

 reaponsifole florist in ttie coontry, for we are 

 confident they will give satisfaction. 



Write US about Uiem. 



EVER READY FLOWER POT 

 COVER CO. 



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The Best 

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 Stand 



On the market today. 

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market will hold a trade exhibition of 

 their own in March, for which they are 

 preparinjj an attractive schedule. It is 

 a pity the two wholesale markets could 

 not have come together and made one 

 big, impressive show in Horticultural 

 hall, rather than run separate exhibi- 

 tions. 



At Horticultural hall, February 1.3, 

 Prof. H. .T. Webber, Ithaca. N. Y., lec- 

 tured on "Plant Breeding." A num- 

 ber of stereopticon views rendered it 

 more interesting. February 20, Prof. 

 F. A. Waugh, of Amherst, will give a 

 stereopticon lecture on "American Land- 

 scape Architecture. ' ' Two-thinls of this 

 year's lectures are by professors, rather 



too big a proportion. Only one lecture 

 is by a practical grower. 



Eber Holmes is sending in an extra 

 fine grade of Killarneys and Richmonds 

 at present from Montrose Greenhouses. 



William Sim is having many visitors 

 these days to see his magnificent sweet 

 peas. His violets are also of splendid 

 quality, the new Boston particularly so. 



Among those attending the banquet of 

 the North Shore Horticultural Society, 

 February 10, were: T. J. Grey, J. K. 

 M. L. Farquhar, J. F. M. Farquhar, 

 P. J. Van Baarda, Edward Bose, A. 

 Leuthy, J. P. A. Guerineau, Julius Heiir- 

 lin, J. L. Miller, E. O. Orpet and W. N. 

 Craig. The two last named were among 



