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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



June 29, 1911. 



and this seriously affected the flowering 

 of peonies, growers with light land not 

 getting a quarter of a crop. One o'f the 

 foregoing causes, or a combination of 

 them, may be responsible for your plants 

 flowering poorly. C. W. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Business lust week was quite good 

 and both growers and retailers are 

 much pleased with .June sales, which 

 have been the most satisfactory in 

 years. The numerous school gradua- 

 tions, Harvard class days, and wed- 

 dings cleaned up the market nicely. 

 The present week opens with more of 

 !i lull, but the absence of excessive heat 

 is a strong factor in favor of sales, 

 for the cool weather has caused 

 (juality to average good, and there has 

 not been the waste that often occurs 

 during hot weather. We are now Hear- 

 ing the end of June and the tempera- 

 ture has not been over 87 degrees 

 during the month, so we are more for- 

 tunate than many other large markets. 



Roses have been selling exceptionally 

 well; in fact, it has been the best June 

 for the rose men in years. Beauties, 

 (,'arnots. Kaiserins and Killarneys all 

 sell well. Few hybrids from outdoors 

 have api»eared and these are not of 

 good quality. Sweet peas are not yet 

 overabundant. The indoor crop is now 

 over and outdoor crops are away below 

 the average. It is seldom that good 

 peas have made 75 cents and $1 per 

 hundred at the end of June, as this 

 year. Carnations are getting small and 

 the season for them is nearing the end. 

 Asters have appeared from several 

 growers, the variety being Queen of 

 the Market. 



Peonies are over. Some iiiitrgui rites 

 still arrive, but are not of the best 

 quality. Small gladioli are over, but 

 there are some fine lots of America, 

 Augusta and other large-flowered sorts 

 which sell fairly well. Valley has been 

 selling well, y>ut the demand has de- 

 creased. Cattleyas are now scarce and 

 selling better. Lilies are still mainly 

 longiflorums and the demand is light. 

 There have been good sales of Aspara- 

 gus Sprengeri and plumosus. 



Rose and Strawberry Exhibition. 



The adverse climatic conditions seri- 

 ously affected this annual exhibition 

 and neither in quantity nor quality 

 was it up to the average. Miss S. B. 

 Fay, through M. H. Walsh, was the 

 largest and most successful rose exhib- 

 itor. Some of these blooms were fine, 

 the most noteworthy being Frau Karl 

 Druschki, Margaret Dickson, Mrs. Shar- 

 man Crawford, Mavourueen, Ulrich 

 Brunner. Duke of Edinburgh, Mme. 

 Gabriel Luizet, Baron de Bonstettin, 

 Clio and Baroness Rothschild. W. J. 

 Clemson, .T. D. Christensen gardener, 

 was the second largest exhibitor. The 

 display of hybrid teas from Miss S. B. 

 Fay was noteworthy and attracted 

 much attention. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. had their 

 usual extensive display of hardy herba- 

 ceous plants in great variety. They 

 also had a fine table of peonies. T, C. 

 Thurlow & Sons had a choice collection 

 of peonies and other herbaceous flow- 

 ers. E. J. Shaylor had a fine collec- 

 tion of late peonies. 



William Whitman, M. Sullivan gar- 

 dener, had a large general display, in- 



cluding some beautiful delphiniums. 

 Mrs. E. M. Gill was on hand, as usual, 

 with an excellent assortment of roses 

 and many other seasonable flowers. 

 W. N. Craig had a large vase of the 

 pale blue Trachelium ca'ruleum. J. T. 

 Butterworth had several seedling or- 

 chids, Cattleya Mendellii alba x Leelia 

 Digbyana,' C. Harrisonia? alba x C. 

 Gaskelliana alba and Lselia purpurata 

 X Laelia Digbyana, awarded honorable 

 mention. Henry Stewart, gardener to 

 Miss Cornelia Warren, had several well 

 flowered plants of Oncidium flexuo- 

 sum. 



Strawberries were not so fine as 

 usual, owing to the long drought. 

 (Jolden Gate showed up the best. Next 

 to this came Marshall. The new Black 

 Beauty, same color as Marshall, cap- 

 tured the leading prize of the day, 

 beating Marshall and Golden Gate. 



Various Notes. 



Robert Montgomery, of Natick, is one 

 of the few growers of hardy hybrid 

 perpetual roses. He has had some nice 

 Brunners of late. He has had a splen- 

 did June cut of Killarney, White Kil- 

 larney and Richmond, which are always 

 cleared out early. 



Perry Green, of Quincy, among his 

 other specialties has a fine cut of 

 bachelor's buttons, sweet sultan and 

 sweet peas. 



John W. Foote was one of the first 

 in the market with asters. He has cut 

 a large quantity of Bouvardia Hum- 

 boldtii during June, it being in brisk 

 demand for brides ' bouquets. No other 

 grower in this section has been able 

 to handle this beautiful bouvardia as 

 well as Mr. Foote. 



The annual sweet pea show of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 will be held at Horticultural hall July 

 15 and 16. 



Frank E. Putnam, of North Tewks- 

 bury, in addition to his high grade car- 

 nations has a grand lot of America 

 and Augusta gladioli. 



H. W. Vose, of Hyde Park, through 

 E. J. Rogetin, is disposing of fine ship- 

 ments of salpiglossis, gypsophila and 

 asters. 



The Lord & Burnham Co. has work 

 well advanced on a new iron-frame 

 greenhouse 25x100, with propagating 

 house, service room, etc., for F. L. 

 Ames, North Easton. 



Samuel Ralby, of J. W^. Howard's 

 staff in Somerville, was married June 

 20. His many friends wish him good 

 luck. 



David Welch sailed for a European 

 trip June 27, on the steamer Fran- 

 conia. A number of friends wished 

 him bon voyage. Mr. Welch is just 

 convalescing from a long illness and 

 the foreign trip will build him up in 

 fine shape for fall trade. 



M. H. Hambro, salesman for S. J. 

 Reuter & Son, is handling some fine 

 White Killarney. Special grades of 

 these have made as high as $16 per 

 hundred this month. Mr. Hambro says 

 he never had a more satisfactory June 

 business. 



William A. Hastings, local state vice- 

 president for the S. A. F., is planning 

 to round up the biggest delegation 

 which ever left Boston for any con- 

 vention. Mr. Hastings has not yet 

 lost avoirdupois in his efforts, but will 

 do considerable hustling within the 

 next six weeks. His always genial 

 smile is hard to resist. 



Robert E. Lassman, the veteran 



Watertown florist, has had a good sea- 

 son with bedding plants, violets and 

 his other specialties. At present he is 

 busy marketing tomatoes of the Comet 

 variety. 



M. B.- Dallachie, of East Woburn, is 

 one of the local growers who is early 

 in the market with a fine crop of 

 asters. 



The gar^ii committee of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society visited 

 the estate of Walter Lockwood, Or- 

 leans, Mass., June 21, to see his peony 

 garden, ^and found a magnificent col- 

 lection of ^00 varieties, mostly in flow- 

 er. The rambler roses in many varie- 

 ties were also in full beauty. Carmine 

 Pilhir being grand. 



A. P. Dewar, of the R. & J, Fw- 

 quhar & Co. force, with his wife and 

 family, sailed on the steamer Zeelahd 

 .Tune 20 for an extended European trip, 

 in the course of which he will visit 

 many prominent seed and bulb growers. 



A fierce hail storm visited the Bos- 

 ton district on the evening of June 

 20. Glass was broken only to a minor 

 extent, but such plants as lettuces, 

 beets and cabbages were simply cut to 

 pieces in some places. Hardy roses 

 suffered severely. M. H. Walsh had 

 wheelbarrow loads of fine blooms 

 ruined at Woods Hole. 



William Penn, one of the well known 

 Bromfield street brothers, and Miss 

 Sophie Rosenbush were married June 

 27. The bride carried one of Penn's 

 finest shower bouquets, which have 

 been in tremendous demand the last 

 few weeks. 



Mrs. Aaron Ward rose as grown by 

 W. H. Elliott is still of fine quality 

 and the color is even better than in 

 winter. 



The Boston Flower Exchange base- 

 ball nine played its first game of the 

 season June 24, their opponents being 

 the Brookline landscape gardeners, at 

 the grounds of the latter. 



P. J. Donahoe, the popular head 

 salesman for the Waban Conserva- 

 tories for many years, is now mana- 

 ger for the Boston Rose Co., Pember- 

 ton square. His firm is receiving some 

 fine shipments of roses and carnations 

 and doing a steadily growing trade. 



Mann Bros, have had a fine cut of 

 outdoor iris of late. Thej' still have 

 lilies in quantity and have had a suc- 

 cessful bulb season on the whole. Their 

 trade in bedding plants also beat all 

 records. 



T. F. Galvin had a charming window 

 of aquatics at his Tremont street store 

 last week, which looked cool and rest- 

 ful. He has had a busy June with 

 wedding and other decorations. 



W. N. Craig. 



Oalena, 111. — B. F. Vandervate, from 

 whose home $170 was recently stolen, 

 lias been fortunate enough to secure the 

 return of all but $7 of the money. 



Lynn, Mass. — Reuben S. Goodwin, a 

 florist who resides on Grove street, re- 

 cently made a forcible plea before the 

 municipal council for the life of a large 

 elm which stands opposite his house, 

 and which, he says, has sheltered him 

 since his eyes "opened on this world." 

 Some of his neighbors had petitioned 

 the council to chop the tree down, as 

 being decayed and dangerous to prop- 

 erty, but Mr. Goodwin maintained that 

 the tree was in good condition and 

 merely needed to be trimmed and 

 treated. The council took the matter 

 under advisement. 



