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November 18, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists'' Review. 



35 



Your Bon -Ton Customers 



will be pleased with one of the prettiest bita of floral fancies we have ever offered, a long handled, gold rimmed, 

 white reed basket of modest size, the gold and white prettily finished. This is the sort of favor you want for a smart 

 affair where quality must be. 



LEAVES AND WREATHS. We told you last week of our silver-gray MAGNOLIA, green and brown; in 

 brown, leather red, yellow, green our STATICS aud our STATICE WREATHS; our RUSCUS WREATHS 

 of smilax-like simplicity. This week we want to tell you of our HOLLY WREATHS, just come, of our lOf DIOR- 

 TELLES and IMMORTELLE WREATHS, of our OAK SPRAYS and FERN FRONDS, in man^ pleasing 

 sorts. 



SEA MOSS. We have just received 109,000 bunches of sea moss, JAPANESE AIR PLANTS, to replace 

 the saraR number we havR just sent out. Now is the time to get them. 



THANKSGIVING BASKETS. Turkeys and Peacocks, just the thing to suggest Thanksgiving, when filled 

 with frnit and flowers and other good cheer. 



VELVET POINSETTIA. Like life, exquisite finish, everyone admires it. 



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263 Spider 



Florists' Baskets 



Here are two of our many and 

 graceful centerpiece and display 

 baskets. Tbe uses of such baskets 

 for decorative purposes are so num- 

 erous that the suggestion of them 

 ought to be sufficient. ; 



Prices ( 12-<D. lonfir. $1 00 es. 21 in. lonf;, $1.50 ea. 

 to the -(15 in. long, 1.16 ea. 24-in. long. 1.75ea. 

 Trade ( 18-in. long. 1.30 ea, 27-in. long. 2.26 ea. 



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prices. Thanks to the prevailing mild 

 weather, they are selling quite well. 



Small lots of Paper White narcissi 

 and Eoman hyacinths are coming from 

 several growers, but the demand for this 

 stock is not brisk as yet. Lilies and 

 callas are both of fine quality. Lily of 

 the valley meets with a fairly steady sale. 

 There is still an abundant supply of sea- 

 sonable orchid flowers and a fair lot of 

 gardenias. Bouvardia Humboldtii is 

 coming of good quality. Green stock re- 

 mains about the same. In pot plants 

 there is more activity, Lorraine begonias, 

 palms and ferns being chiefly in demand. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



The annual meeting of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society was held, 

 November 13, at Horticultural hall. The 

 sum of $9,000 was appropriated for 

 prizes and gratuities at the exhibitions 

 to be held during 1910; of this sum, 

 $5,000 is for the big orchid show 

 scheduled for the latter part of May. 

 There was no opposition to the ticket 

 presented by the nominating committee 

 and the following officers were elected : 

 President, Stephen M. Weld; vice-presi- 

 dent, Walter Hunnewell; trustees for 

 three years, W. N. Craig, A. F. Esta- 



i^^AP "'"• ■^- ^- ^- Farquhar and N. T. 

 Kidder; nominating committee for 1910, 

 Charles H. Breck, Duncan Finlayson, H. 



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F. Hall, C. S. Minot and Herbert W. 

 Rawson. 



Qub Meeting. 



The meeting, November 16, was one of 

 the largest the club has yet held. A 

 number of ladies were present, the at- 

 tendance approximating 200. The amend- 

 ment to the by-laws, providing for life 

 memberships, was voted down. 



Officers for 1910 were nominated as 

 follows: For president, W. Downs, J. 

 W. Duncan; vice-president, D. Finlayson, 

 W. J. Kennedy, Peter Miller; treasurer^ 

 Edw. Hatch; secretary, W. N. Craig; 

 executive committee, J. Heurlin, K. W. 

 Curtis, W. E. Fischer, P. Fisher, H. A. 

 Stevens, J. P. A. Guerineau, T. Pegler, 

 Chas. Holbrow, H. E. Fiskc, C. J. Har- 

 vey, G. W. Butterworth. 



The speaker of the evening was Miss 

 L. L. Hetzer, of Groton, Mass., one of 

 the few lady members of the club, who 

 spoke interestingly on a trip to Europe 

 via the Azores and the various horticul- 

 tural sights seen. At the public gardens 

 in the Azores,, the vegetation was quite 

 tropical; lofty palms, roses resembling 

 trees in height and spread, camellias 

 and magnolias were noteworthy. All car- 

 ried splendid dark green foliage. At 

 Gibraltar, the public gardens, laid out in 

 terraces on the MHmde and shaded by 

 the picturesque/umbrella pine, Pinus 



Pinea, were full of interest. Huge cork 

 trees, Quercus Hex, were used as street 

 trees, while the hillsides were golden with 

 Scotch broom. In southern Italy, gar- 

 dening and farming methods seem crude, 

 but nature helped where man lacked. In 

 sandy soil rosemary and lavender grow 

 five to six feet high. Sweet alyssum, 

 snapdragons and scabiosa were familiar 

 roadside flowers. The finest hedges were 

 of Laurus nobilis. The street trees were 

 kept low and interlaced to shade the 

 walks fully. Evergreen privets made 

 handsome shade trees. Among fruits, 

 cherries were marvelous in size, resem- 

 bling crabapples and of superb flavor. 

 Ivy-leaved geraniums hung in perfect 

 cascades over walls and from windows. 



The forests of Germany were a reve- 

 lation, absolutely clear of all underbrush, 

 every trunk straight and free from all 

 dead wood, a model for America to 

 copy from. Switzerland is a veritable 

 paradise of flowers, especially above the 

 timber line, where they simply carpeted 

 the ground everywhere. 



England was truly a land of luxuriant 

 vegetation. Owing to* a damp summer, 

 everything was a dark green color. Trees 

 carried such a wealth of foliage that 

 New England trees seemed bare by com- 

 parison, although here we get glorious 

 autumnal tints unknown there. TOie va 

 rious nurseries visited all gave one the 



