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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mat 27, 1909. 



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 dens at North Wales. Phil. 



With the handing down of a decision 

 by Judge Holland in the federal court at 

 Philadelphia in the case of Bayersdorfer 

 & Co., one of the important customs cases 

 is cleared up. The question before Judge 

 Holland was whether ornamental florists' 

 supplies, such as wreaths, crosses, ferns, 

 leaves, etc., are to be admitted into the 

 United States as ' ' natural flowers ' ' with 

 a tax of only twenty-five per cent, or as- 

 sessed as ' ' ornamental leaves ' ' with duty 

 at the rate of fifty per cent under para- 

 graph 425. When the same issue was be- 

 fore the board of appraisers, that body 

 upheld the collector of customs in levying 

 the higher duty. Judge Holland, how- 

 ever, takes a different view and May 18 

 reversed the board and the collector. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



Business last week was erratic and dull, 

 •n the whole. Supplies fell off consider- 

 ably the latter part of the week, owing 

 to the dull, cold weather. There is more 

 activity this week, and prices show an 

 improvement. An enormous amount of 

 material is required in every town and 

 Tillage for Memorial day, and there will 

 be a holding back of supplies until the 

 last of the week. All indications point 

 to a heavy trade in cut flowers, and, with 

 warmer weather, supplies should be abun- 

 dant. There will this season be rather 

 more in the way of outdoor flowers than 

 usual. Lilac will be at its best. Valley, 

 Narcissus poeticus and late tulips will 

 also be in season. Quite a few German 

 iris will also help out, but there will be 

 BO local grown peonies. 



Eoses have had a quiet sale of late, but 

 arc bracing up a little. Thanks to con- 

 tinued cool weather, these and carnations 

 continue of good quality. Carnations 

 vary from $1 to $4 per hundred, but are 

 improving in price, and will sell higher 

 later in the week. Spanish iris at $4 and 

 Gladiolus flushing Bride and The Bride 

 at $3 and $4 are seen in quantity. Gla- 

 diolus America makes $1.50 to $2 per 

 dozen, and other large-flowered gladioli 

 $4 to $8 per hundred. Sweet peas are 

 plentiful, and sell welL Quite a lot of 



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outdoor valley is in, and the quality is 

 about equal to that of the forced article. 

 Cattleyas and gardenias are more abun- 

 dant. Bulbous stock, such as narcissi and 

 tulips, still hold out. There is an excel- 

 lent trade in asparagus, smilax and hardy 

 ferns. 



The Exhibition. 



Although no prizes were offered, there 

 was a splendid show at Horticultural hall 

 May 22 and 23, the exhibits being twice 

 as numerous as a year ago and of 

 splendid quality. J. T. Butterworth re- 

 ceived a silver medal for two fine baskets 

 of Cattleya Mossiae, carrying seventy-five 

 and sixty flowers, respectively. Julius 

 Roehrs Co. had a well-grown group of 

 ofchids. About a dozen Odontoglossum 

 ;^escatorei were finely flowered, one spike 

 carrying seventy-five flowers. They also 

 had Phalaenopsis Eimestadtiana, cattleyas 

 and other seasonable sorts. A bronze 



medal was awarded for the group. Laelio- 

 Cattleya Canhamiana rex (Cattleya Mos- 

 siae Beineckiana x Laelia purpurata) re- 

 ceived a first-class certificate. The same 

 firm had a small group of fine foliaged 

 plants, Tradescantia Beginse receiving 

 honorable mention, Mrs. J. L. Gardner, 

 William Thatcher, gardener, had a nice 

 group of cattleyas, miltonias and Vanda 

 teres. 



William Whitman, M. Sullivan, gar- 

 dener, had eighteen large and well-flow- 

 ered zonal pelargoniums, also some good 

 azaleas. William A. Biggs had six 

 splendidly grown ivy geraniums in pyra- 

 midal form, also Clerodendron Balfouri, 

 awarded a cultural certificate. The Belle- 

 vue Nurseries, A. E. Poetsch, manager, 

 had a neat table of growing plants of 

 alpine and other perennials. Old Town 

 Nurseries, South Natick, M. P. Haendler, 

 proprietor, had a display of Doronicum 

 excelsum. Francis Skinner had Ehodo- 



