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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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other greenhouse greenery, also for box- 

 wood, laurel and other evergreens. 



Various Notes. 



The following awards were made at the 

 meeting of the Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Club, January 18: Carnation Admiration 

 from S. J. Renter & Son, honorable men- 

 tion; Carnation Sangamo, same exhib- 

 itors, received a vote of thanks; an ex- 

 cellent vase of Shasta came from Patten 

 & Co. and was awarded a report of merit; 

 Littlefield & Wyman, for a fine white 

 seedling, received honorable mention, and 

 they also had a fine vase of White Per- 

 fection. H. A. Stevens showed a vase of 

 mixed carnations, also freesias. Daniel 

 Whyte had excellent pans of Freesia 

 Purity. Eber Holmes showed six vases 

 of roses. From Duncan Finlayson came 

 well grown plants of Cypripedium Marion 

 Lascelle: insignes Chantinii, SandersB, 

 Harefield Hall and Coulsonianum ; Leea- 

 num Clinkaberryanum and Lselia anceps 

 alba, the two latter receiving cultural re- 

 ports of merit. 



The committees for the annual club 

 banquet at Horticultural hall, January 

 27, are: Keception committee, J. P. A. 

 Guerineau, chairman; P. J. T alley, James 

 "Wheeler, G. W. Butterworth, Thomas Peg- 

 ler and D. Finlayson; committee of ar- 

 rangements, William Downs, J. K. M. K 

 Farquhar, Eobert Cameron, Peter Fisher 

 and Peter M. Miller ; floor director, Peter 

 M. MiUer; assistant floor director, Joshua 

 Lawson ; aids, J. L. Miller, K. Finlayson, 

 Edward Bose and Frank Murray. Hutch- 

 ins' orchestra furnishes the dance music 

 and Miss Pettigrew is on the program for 

 several solos. The caterer is D. M. Shoo- 

 sham, and the toastmaster W. J. Stewart. 

 At the Park Street Market January 22 

 a successful Aphine demonstration was 

 held. There seemed to be a difficulty in 

 securing an adequate collection of injuri- 

 ous plant pests, growers in this section 

 evidently preferring to keep these in the 

 background. M. C. Ebel, for the com- 

 pany, showed to the large number of 

 growers, both private and commercial, 

 who were in attendance that Aphine did 

 all that was claimed for it. Mealy bug, 

 various scales, aphis, etc., were severally 

 treated with most satisfactory results. As 

 a result of the demonstration, there will 

 undoubtedly be a big boom in the sale of 

 the new insecticide in and around the 

 Hub. 



At Horticultural hall, January 22, Will- 

 iam Harvey, gardener to J. B. Leeson, 

 showed some large and well grown speci- 

 men plants of C3T)ripedium Sallieri Hyea- 

 num, Calanthe Veitchii, Cymbidium gi- 

 ganteum, Cypripedium Leeanum and An- 

 graecum eburneum, which received a cul- 

 tural certificate of merit and gratuity. 



John W. Duncan, for a number of 

 years assistant superintendent of the Bos- 

 ton park system and actively identi- 

 fied with all the horticultural interests of 

 Boston and vicinity, leaves March 1 to 

 accept a park superintendency in a large 

 and rapidly growing western city. Mr. 

 Duncan will be much missed in Boston. 

 He was recently elected president of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club, having 

 previously filled other important offices. 

 He is also a member of the vegetable 

 committee of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society and ex-president of the 

 American Park Superintendents' Associa- 

 tion. 



J. A. Peterson, of Cincinnati, was one 

 of our visitors last week, with plants of 

 his fine new begonia, Gloire de Cincinnati, 

 which has jifmped at once into public 

 favor. C. H. Totty, of Madison, N. J., was 



also a recent visitor to many of the local 

 growers, lecturing also before the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society on "Chrys- 

 anthemums, ' ' January 21. Other visitors 

 included T. Mellstrom, St. Albans, Eng- 

 land; Daniel Hay, Waverly, Pa., and M. 

 B. Faxon, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The local delegation to the Pittsburg 

 carnation convention was much smaller 

 than usual. Among those leaving Jan- 

 uary 24 were M. A. Patten, William Nich- 

 olson, William Sim, E. A. Peirce and 

 L. J. Eeuter. 



William Sim will commence cutting 

 sweet peas next week, of which he has an 

 immense crop coming in. His violets are 

 doing superbly. Large quantities of to- 

 matoes are being raised to follow the 

 violets. 



At Horticultural hall, January 22, A. 

 D. Taylor, of Ithaca, N. Y., delivered an 

 entertaining stereopticon lecture on * * Con- 

 tinental Types of Landscape Gardening. ' ' 

 Those from Italy and France were chiefly 

 referred to, a few in Austria and Switzer- 

 land also being illustrated. 



Carnation night at the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club will occur February 15. 

 S. J. Goddard will open the discussion. 

 Quite a number of novelties are already 

 promised and growers at a distance, if 

 unable to attend, are invited to forward 

 flowers, express paid, to Horticultural 

 hall, 300 Massachusetts avenue, Boston, 

 where they will be well cared for. 



Thomas Pegler keeps a fine vase of 

 Carnation Bon Ami, George E. Buxton's 

 new white bread-and-butter variety, at 

 Park Street Market, and it attracts lots 

 of favorable attention. 



White Perfection, Viola Sinclair and 

 the various Enchantresses from Littlefield 

 & Wyman are among the best coming into 

 the market at present. The firm has also 

 a promising white seedling. 



President Weld has appointed Eobert 

 Cameron, J, A. Pettigrew and W. N. 

 Craig a committee to represent the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society in con- 

 nection with the coming national flower 

 show in 1911. 



William A. Hastings is handling En- 

 chantress carnations from Johnson & 

 Neilson, Framingham, as fine as we have 

 ever seen. These are grown in solid beds 

 and have remarkable stems. 



William H. Elliott's son is ill with 

 appendicitis, necessitating an operation 

 January 37. We hope for his speedy 

 convalescence. 



A. A. Reed, of Whitman, is bringing 

 in some good Cattleya Trianse at present. 



We are pleased to see Thomas J. Gray 

 around again, after some days' confine- 

 ment to the house. His firm is doing a 

 fine trade in cold storage valley this sea- 

 son, having quadrupled the orders of a 

 year ago. 



Philip L. Carbone's flower store on 

 Boylston street is always well worthy of 

 inspection. Just now it has a spring-like 

 appearance, with branches of prunus and 

 other forced shrubs. 



W. W. Eawson & Co. are experiencing 

 an extra heavy call for dahlia tubers, and 

 seed mail orders are arriving in much 

 greater volume than a year ago. 



W. N. Craig. 



cern, and practically partnerships — but 

 neither partners nor individuals are sub> 

 ject to the tax. It is not so much the 

 money involved in the tax as it is the 

 annoyance of the multiplication of taxa- 

 tion, the bother of studying out the in- 

 volved meanings of the law, regulations 

 and blanks, the possibility .of making 

 public one 's business secrets and the pen- 

 alty which might attach to a statement 

 which contained errors. 



Here is one of the questions raised by 

 the law, submitted to the Eeview by the 

 treasurer of one Illinois corporation oper- 

 ating 125,000 feet of glass: 



"On the blank forms sent out by the 

 internal revenue collector for statements 

 of corporations as to their net income, 

 there is an item for deduction, headed: 

 'Depreciation from January 1 to Decem* 

 ber 31. '. In your estimation, what would 

 be a fair percentage to figure on green- 

 house property? I would be interested 

 to hear the opinions of my brother flo- 

 rists on this point. For our own protec- 

 tion, it seems that we ought all to charge 

 off about the same percentage, or some 

 of us may get called on the carpet to 

 explain. ' ' 



The Eeview will be glad to publish re- 

 plies. 



MISCELLANEOUS STCX3C. 



Enclosed you will find a leaf of azalea, 

 Camellia Japonica and jasmine. From 

 these can you give any reasons for their 

 dying off, as you see they do? I find in 

 the soil of the flower pots a worm. It is 

 about two or three inches long, and is 

 quite thin. It ia of a light reddish color, 

 is it harmful to the plants? If so, could 

 you suggest some remedy? I also find 

 that all the begonias I have die off just 

 like the leaves I send. Can you also 

 tell me, if I were to send for flowerg in 

 the winter time, whether they would get 

 here without freezing? I am located in 

 North Dakota. L. C. A. 



THE CORPORATION TAX. 



If there is any commendable feature of 

 the new national tax on the incomes of 

 corporations, it has not yet been pointed 

 out to the Eeview. The law is especially 

 unfair to those corporations engaged in 

 the horticultural trades, for all of these 

 are small, their affairs of no public con- 



Without knowing more of your condi- 

 tions and cultural methods, it is diffi- 

 cult to answer your queries, except some- 

 what vaguely. Dryness at the root, too 

 much water, poor drainage, too much or 

 too little heat, lack of ventilation and 

 other causes are any one of them suffi- 

 cient to produce the troubles you refer 

 to. The plants named, if carefully wa- 

 tered, ventilated on all possible occasions 

 and treated with a reasonable amount of 

 care, should not drop their leaves as 

 yours are doing. 



The presence of a few earthworms in 

 the pots should not suffice to cause a 

 general falling off of the foliage. They 

 will choke the drainage and cause sour 

 root conditions, but can easily be de- 

 stroyed by watering with lime water. 

 Slake a piece of stone lime, draw off the 

 clear liquid and apply to the pots which 

 are in a wormy state. 



Cut flowers are sent daily long dis- 

 tances, often 1,000 miles, and frozen 

 shipments are rather rare. If you pur- 

 chase from any one of the many firms 

 advertising in the Eeview, they will pack 

 them so that they will arrive in good 

 condition, even in North Dakota. 



C. W. 



New York, N. Y. — George E. Dickin- 

 son, the New York representative of Ed- 

 ward T, Dickinson, the nurseryman at 

 Chatenay, France, is sending to his 

 patrons an attractive calendar, contain- 

 ing some useful postal information and 

 some blank leaves for memoranda. 



