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The Weekly Horists' Review. 



Jdly 27, 1911. 



sell well. As yet the variety is chiefly 

 Queen of toe Market. The severe 

 drought has made stems short, but some 

 growers report their l^ter batches as 

 doing uncommonly well where the soil is 

 deep and kept well cultivated. Sweet 

 , peas are a little better than they weie, 

 but the quality leaves much to be de- 

 sired. Cornflowers, candytuft, white 

 achillea and gypsophila are seen in fair 

 quantity. Lilies are temporarily rather 

 short, while valley meets with a good 

 sale. Some good calla^ are still seen. 

 Indoor grown gladioli are over. Some 

 are coming from outdoors, but the qual- 

 ity is not good. In cattleyas there are 

 C. gigas and the small but pretty C. 

 Harrisoniae, but c^ls are not heavy. 

 For common wood fern the demand is 

 much better than for adiantum or as- 



paragus. 



Club Picnic. 



The following are the donors of prizes 

 for the annual club picnic, held at Cale- 

 donian grove. West Eoxbury, July 26, 

 details of which will appear in the next 

 issue of The Keview: Lunt Moss Co., T. 

 J. Grey Co., Joseph Breck & Sons, Peter 

 Fisher, M. A. Patten, T. H. Westwood, 

 Duncan Finlayson, A. H. Hews Co., W. 

 N, Craig, Fottler, Fiske, Bawson Co., 

 Daniel Iliffe, H. Terry, H. F. Michel! 

 Co., Ames Implement & Seed Co., Lord 

 & Burnham Co., W. J. Anderson, Peter 

 M, Miller, Thomas Boland, Stumpp & 

 Walter Co., Boston Plate & Window 

 Glass Co., Eber Holmes, John P. Shea, 

 Thomas Pegler, H. M. Robinson & Co., 

 P. di Stacio, Henry Penn, William Mc- 

 Laughlin, W. E. Fischer and Benjamin 

 Hammond. 



The following subscribed in addition 

 towards the entertainment fund: W. 

 A. Hastings, William C. Stickel, Mann 

 Bros., M. F. Euane, A. Christensen and 

 Neil £. Boyle. The sports officials were: 

 Ringmaster, W. J. Kennedy; starter, 

 Edward Rose; handicapper, William Mc- 

 Gillivray; clerk, W. N. Craig; judges, 

 K. Finlayson, A. F. Barney, T. H. West- 

 wood, George Shield, James Wheeler, 

 Frank Allison, Peter Fisher and William 

 Harvey; umpire, James L. Miller; com- 

 mittee, William Downs, Robert Cameron, 

 J. P. A. Guerineau, W. J. Kennedy, P. M. 

 Miller; chairman entertainment commit- 

 tee, P. J. Turley. 



Various Notes. 



Robert E. Lassman, the veteran 

 Watertown florist, now over 80 years 

 of age, is one of the rapidly lessening 

 number of those who fought fifty years 

 ago at the battle of Bull Run. Mr. 

 Lassman came to America from Prussia 

 in 1854 and fought all through the 

 Civil war, including Gettysburg, having 

 his turn in Libby prison. He is a stall- 

 holder at the Boston Co-operative Mar- 

 ket and active for an octogenarian. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. had a special 

 exhibit of new Chinese lilies at Horti- 

 cultural hall July 22. The special vari- 

 ety not previously exhibited in flower 

 was named L. Farquhar by E. H. Wil- 

 son, the collector. The plants grow two 

 to four feet high. Flowers are carried 

 on stout stems, four to ten on a stalk, 

 and are large trumpet shaped, pale 

 green outside and pure white within, 

 stamens brown. This is one of the 

 grandest lilies ever introduced. 



Charles Evans, of Watertown, is on 

 the market with a fine lot of the double 

 white Gypsophila paniculata, which ev- 

 ery florist should grow. He also is cut- 

 ting Physostegia Virginica. 



J. H. Leach & Son, of North Easton, < 



are cutting some fine asters. Their car- 

 nations in the field look first-class. They 

 are building a new house for their fine 

 seedling carnation. Pink Supreme, which 

 proved a grand seller last season at th.e 

 Boston Co-operative Market. 



A. G. Lake, of Wellesley Hills, is one 

 of the leading aster specialists for the 

 Boston market, growing them by the 

 acre. He has splendid, deep soil and he 

 gets remarkable stems. He is already 

 marketing some of the early sorts and 

 a little later will cut wagon loads daily. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, are cutting 

 extra good longiflorum lilies, also 

 gladioli, gypsophilas, cornflowers, asters 

 and a large variety of outdoor flowers. 



J. T. Butterworth has been cutting 

 some grand Cattleya gigas. He also has 

 the useful C. Harrisonise in bloom. This 

 he grows in quantity, and, grown in 

 large baskets hung near the ridge of 

 one of his houses, it does splendidly. 



Visitors last week included Thomas 

 Knight, representing Knight & Struck, 

 New York, and F. G. Sealey, with Julius 

 Roehrs Co., Rutherford, N. J. 



Drought conditions continue acute. 

 Nothing but light, scattered showers 

 have fallen of late. July's rainfall to 

 July 24 has been only .38 of an inch, 

 and growers of outdoor flowers and 

 vegetables are having a discouraging 

 season. 



A visit to the Bay State Nurseries 

 found everything clean and thrifty. 

 The big blocks of both deciduous and 

 evergreen trees and shrubs could hardly 

 have looked better. The success lies 

 in constant cultivation of the soil. 



Mr. and Mrs. Thomas' Pegler have 

 reached England safely after a pleasant 

 journey. Mr. Pegler will be much 

 missed at the annual club picnic, where 

 he has proved formidable in the fat 

 men's race, as well as on the commer- 

 cial tug of war team. 



In connection with his new Lord & 

 Burnham steel-frame house at Revere, 

 Thomas Roland is also building a brick 

 stack 100 feet high and a large steel 

 and concrete boiler house. 



Perry Green, of Quincy, among other 

 specialties is marketing fine batches of 

 sweet sultans, bachelor's buttons, rweet 

 peas, coreopsis and other outdoor flow- 

 ers at 2 Park street. 



The fishing excursion July 21 at- 

 tracted a large attendance of salesmen 

 and growers from the Boston Flower 

 Exchange, and all report a splendid 

 time, although there were no remarkable 

 catches of the finny tribe. 



Welch Bros, report quite a nice July 

 trade in cut flowers. They send a good 

 many to shore and mountain resorts 

 and have had no surplus of good flow- 

 ers, owing to the hot weather. P. 

 Welch is enjoying himself at Orchard 

 Beach, Me., and encouraging advices are 

 received from his brother, David, now 

 on a trip to Europe for his health. 



George W. Ayer, the well known 

 Reading carnation specialist, is enjoy- 

 ing an auto trip to Canada. His car- 

 nations handled by D. J. Lamey are 

 still of good quality. 



William J. Thurston, manager at the 

 Boston Flower Exchange, is home from 

 his annual vacation, looking brown and 

 fit after a pleasant outing in Maine. 



The next prize exhibition at Horti- 

 cultural hall wiU occur August 19 and 

 20, when perennial phloxes, gladioli, as- 

 ters and annuals will be special fea- 

 tures. 



Carnation plants in the fields are 

 making but little growth in this section. 



owing to continued heat and drought, 

 and are much smaller than usual. The 

 call for field plants promises to be 

 larger than ever before and some grow- 

 ers are already sold out. 



W. N. Craig. 



OLEN COVE, L. I. 



The regular monthly meeting of the 

 Glen Cove Horticultural Society was 

 held in Pembroke hall, Wednesday, July 

 12. President Trepess occupied the 

 chair. Messrs. Everett, McKenzie and 

 Carter were appointed judges of the 

 exhibits. J. McDonald was awarded 

 first prize for sweet peas, white pink 

 and any other color. J. Ingram's spe- 

 cial prize for twelve varieties of sweet 

 peas, twenty-five sprays of each, went 

 to G. Barton. H. Gaut received hon- 

 orable mention for sweet peas, and F. 

 Petroccia for cucumbers, and the latter 

 got a special mention for beans. 



The secretary read a number of let- 

 ters from seedsmen and others, offering 

 special prizes for the fall show, and it 

 was moved that a hearty vote of thanks 

 be accorded to all. It was decided that 

 the dahlia show be held in Pembroke 

 hall, September 26, and the executive 

 committee was requested to draw up a 

 schedule and report at the next meeting. 



It was decided to have the annual 

 outing August 10, and it was left to the 

 executive committee to make arrange- 

 ments. F. Adams gave an able talk 

 on leaf-mold, which is being produced 

 by Francis & Camerden, Quogue, L. I. 

 Mr. Adams was accorded a hearty vote 

 of thanks. Eugene Moquin, of Roslyn, 

 was elected to active membership. The 

 society's prizes for August will be for 

 twelve asters, mixed ; six Japanese lilies 

 and twelve gladioli. Mr. Ingram's 

 prize will be for four vases of asters, 

 white, pink, blue and rose. 



OBITUAET. 



Philip Koch. 



Philip Koch, aged* 38, for many years 

 associated with his father, Charles 

 Koch, in the flower business on Liberty 

 avenue, Pittsburg, Pa., died July 14 at 

 his home, 146 Carver street. East End. 

 He was born in Pittsburg and had 

 lived there all his life. After leaving 

 school he entered the store of his 

 father, and had since been employed 

 there. He was prominent in musical 

 circles in his citjjr and was president 

 of the Orpheus Singing Society of the 

 East End, He was also actively in- 

 terested in Solomon Lodge of Masons 

 and the Baker Beneficial Society. His 

 widow, Mrs. Emma Treusch Koch, one 

 child, his father, three brothers and 

 three sisters survive. 



Adam Berg. 



Adam Berg, formerly a florist of Lib- 

 erty, Ind., died July 16, at the home 

 of his son-in-law, Homer Jones, 326 

 Chestnut street, Hamilton, O., after a 

 brief illness. He was 87 years old. He 

 was a widower and is survived by sev- 

 eral children. His body was taken to 

 Liberty for interment. 



Cleveland, O. — Chas. Graham, chair- 

 man of the sports committee for the 

 S. A. F. convention, states that 

 President Asmus has contributed $25 

 toward the purchase of prizes, which 

 is highly appreciated by the commit- 

 tee. 



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