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August 17, 1911. 



ThcWeekly Florists' Review. 



43 



Killarneys are temporarily on a back 

 Beat; so are Eichmonds. A few new 

 crop carnations are in, but they are 

 short-stemmed yet. Flowers of the old 

 crop are not worth sending in while 

 there is an abundant supply of asters. 

 There is a fair call for lilies; both spe- 

 ciosum and longiflorum are good. Val- 

 ley sells fairly well. Callas are over for 

 the season. A few dahlias and Golden 

 Glow chrysanthemums are to hand. 

 There is the usual supply of gypsophila, 

 candytuft, cornflowers, snapdragons and 

 other outdoor flowers. Cattleyas are 

 in moderate supply and there are suflS- 

 cient gardenias to go around. Sprengeri, 

 plumosus and adiantum are not selling 

 well. There is a fair sale for cut 

 nephrolepis fronds. 



Various Notes. 



The Boston delegation to the Balti- 

 more convention left under pleasant 

 climatic auspices on the evening of Au- 

 gust 131 Among those in the party were 

 W. A. Hastings, E. Allan Peirce, Will- 

 iam Sim, F. N. Sanborn, W. E. Cahill, 

 F. E. CoUamoin, J. McCormick, H. T. 

 Meade, C. H. Barrett, J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Bartsch, Eber 

 Holmes, Joseph Fuller, Thomas Stock, 

 Thomas Eoland and two sons, R. C. 

 Bridgham and S. J. Goddard. Others 

 joined the party at Fall Kiver, Newport 

 and New York. P. Welch and W. J. 

 Stewart left August 14. W. A. Hast- 

 ings, the state vice-president, worked 

 indefatigably to secure a good repre- 

 sentation and deserves much credit. 

 The idea of going south in August 

 seemed to be too much for many to 

 overcome, however. 



A. A. Pembroke, of Beverly, has just 

 sown a house 36x400 with sweet peas. 

 He finds Burpee's reselected Earliest of 

 All and Earliest White excellent varie- 

 ties. He plants 25,000 carnations; one 

 house of these is 38x330 and another 

 36x220. He will grow vegetables also 

 this season, on a large scale. Seven 

 houses, each 36x220, will be filled with 

 lettuce and followed with cucumbers. 

 Mr. Pembroke, who is a recent addition 

 to the ranks of our commercialists, will 

 this season have 90,000 feet of glass 

 planted. The quality of the produc- 



Pittsbure's Picnkken. 



(J. W. Jones, foremao of Schenley park, with bis co-workers.) 



tions here is of the highest. Already 

 some excellent carnations of the new 

 crop are coming in. 



A. E. E. Koch, of Nobscot, purchased 

 the five greenhouses at the auction sale 

 of Lemoine Bros., August 9. The field- 

 grown carnations were all secured by 

 Mr. Powers, of Cochituate, who will 

 again start in commercial floriculture. 



The E. Sutermeister estate, of Read- 

 ville, is handling a magnificent lot of 

 Gladiolus America, the best seen here 

 this season. Augusta is equally good. 

 They are also cutting quantities of 

 scented geranium and lemon-scented 

 verbena shoots, which are popular. 



A. F. Scott, of the Willow Hill Green- 

 houses, West Roxbury, markets 1,000 

 or more of the lavender colored Cen- 

 taurea moschata daily, which sells read- 

 ily at Thomas Pegler's stand at the 

 Boston Flower Exchange. 



Both the wholesale flower markets 

 have started house-cleaning, prepara- 

 tory to the annual auction sales of 



Pittibfirg's Picnickers. 



(Left to right, upper row, E. O. Ludwig, J, W. Jonen. E. C. Relneman. Lower row, Fred Barkl, 



J. Maybury, J. W. Ludwiu, J. L. Wyland.) 



stalls, which occur in each case Sep- 

 tember 2. 



W, A. Eiggs, of Auburndale, is one 

 of the few growers producing flrst-dass 

 antirrhinums through the hot months. 

 Mr. Eiggs is busy on additions and im- 

 provements to his greenhouses. 



Among growers who are already send- 

 ing in nice new crop carnations are 

 B. P. Winch, of Framingham; James 

 Tulis, South Sudbury; William R. 

 Nicholson, Framingham, and A. A. 

 Pembroke, Beverly. 



A. 8. Parker, who is a noted aster 

 grower, cultivating them by the acre, is 

 sending in some excellent shipments to 

 the Boston Flower Exchange. In spite 

 of the late drought, his crop is good. 



W. R. Findlay has an excellent and 

 attractive flower store on Federal street, 

 near the South station, which many of 

 the thousands of daily passers-by pat- 

 ronize. He keeps a first-class assort- 

 ment of seasonable flowers on hand. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 will hold a field day August 26 at the 

 Cedar Acre gladiolus fields of B. Ham- 

 mond Tracy, in Wenham. The party 

 will journey via electrics. The ride, 

 occupying one and three-fourths hours, 

 is an enjoyable one. 



Walter H. Knapp, of Newtonville; 

 W. J. Cain, of Newton, and B. P. Winch, 

 of Framingham, are all sending in fine 

 lots of cosmos to the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change. 



N. H. Silverman, the up-to-date Win- 

 ter street florist, is making gladioli a 

 leading feature in his window displays 

 this week. He carries cattleyas and all 

 other choice flowers in season. 



Matthew F. Roane, the popular sales- 

 man for Peirce Bros., has been enjoying 

 his vacation at York Beach, Me. 



Johnson Knight, the courteous man- 

 ager at the Boston Cooperative Flower 

 Market, is spending part of his vCell- 

 earned vacation at Lake View, Lowell. 



The many friends of J. M. Cohen, the 

 popular salesman at the Boston Co- 

 operative Flower Market, were sorry to 

 hear that his summer cottage at Win- 

 throp had been broken into in the 

 early hours of August 10 and cash and 

 valuables to the amount of $l,ljJO 

 stolen. ' No trace of the burglar* ha.» 



[ConclQded ori patre 60.] ' 



