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The Florists' Review 



Sbft^mbbb 12, 1912. 



PUTS BENCHES ON THE PIPES. 



The illustration on this page is that 

 of the new heating system installed by 

 the M. Winandy Co., of Chicago, at the 

 plant of Michael Leider. The originator 

 of the system asserts that it not only 

 serves well in the matter of bench sup- 

 port, but that by its use the gravity 

 principle of flow insures a perfect 

 regulation of temperature without the 

 use of circulators. The piping, laid on 

 concrete posts, serves as a foundation 

 for the bottom of the bench. The new 

 system is patented by M, Winandy, 

 who is a greenhouse builder of thirty- 

 five years' experience. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Warm weather, a veritable avalanche 

 of asters and a light demand were fea- 

 tures of last week's market. Only on 

 one day was there any real activity, 

 this being due to the demand for the 

 opening of a big department store. 

 Asters continue to dominate everything 

 and their numbers seem almost count- 

 less. It seems too bad to see such quan- 

 tities of fine blooms selling for a mere 

 song, or being consigned to the rubbish 

 barrel. Some growers are praying for a 

 frost, but this would benefit none but the 

 rose men, as few carnations are yet in 

 flower, and these short-stemmed. Boses 

 9^e quite plentiful and short-stemmed. 

 Stock is hard to move. There was a 

 big Beauty demand September 3, but 

 none now grow this rose here and the 

 supply had to come from a distance. 



There are some fine lilies coming in, 

 for which the call is indifferent. The 

 same applies to lily of the valley. 

 Qladioli are overabundant and move 

 slowly. In the way of mums. Smith's 



ful. One or two of the fall cattleya 

 crops have arrived, also Dendrobium 

 Phalaenopsis. There, is not much de- 

 mand for either adiantum or asparagus. 



Various Notes. 



Wax Bros., on Tremont street, have 

 one of their large show windows filled 

 with named dahlias grown by E. W. 

 Ela, of Woburn. They are also featur- 

 ing aquatics. They have also a splendid 

 display of such annuals as salpiglossis, 

 Mexican poppies, sweet sultan, etc. 



V. Fenvia, of South Sudbury, is one 

 of the. earliest shippers of new crop 

 carnations to the Boston Cooperative 

 Market. His flowers are handled by J. 

 M. Cohen, who now does an immense 

 aster trade. 



The, opening of Tilene 's big new de- 

 partment store in Boston September 3, 

 one of the largest and most up-to-date 

 of its kind in America, brought good 

 business to many of the retailers. The 

 fifty-two windows were devoted to 

 floral displays the first week, Hoffman 

 having the order. American Beauty 

 roses and gladioli were used in thou- 

 sands and were the leading fiowers. 

 Throughout the store flowers, palms and 

 ferns were used lavishly, the huge res- 

 taurant on the top floor being particu- 

 larly well decorated. 



The Fottler, Fiske, Eawson Co. is 

 keeping up a continuous display of 

 named dahlias in one of the show win- 

 dows, grown at the Marblehead farm. 

 A large exhibit will be made at the 

 dahlia show in Horticultural hall this 

 week. 



James Tulis, of South Sudbury, is 

 well in the lead with his new crop car- 

 nations, of which Enchantress and 

 White Enchantress are leaders. 



Kaymond Derycke, of South Bend, 

 Ind., was a caller at the wholesale 

 markets September 5. 1 was also pleased 



B:ii:h and Hsitiag; System as Iasta.IIed for Michael Leider, Chicago. 



Advance and Golden Glow are seen in 

 small lots. Sweet peas are still seen 

 in fair numbers, but the quality is in- 

 different. Cosmos is good for the sea- 

 son. There is a good supply of dahlias, 

 but not much call for them. Salpiglos- 

 sis, sweet sultan, scabious, hunneman- 

 aia and other outside flowers are plenti- 



to see visitors from California and Ohio 

 the same day. 



Galvin's, on Tremont street, is show- 

 ing fine sweet peas, cut with the haulm, 

 this week. 



William Sim is busy pulling out his 

 tomatoes, which have yielded wonder- 

 ful crops this season, and making ready 



for violets. He will devote one large 

 house to new sweet peas of Mr. Zvol- 

 anek's introduction. 



B. P. Winch, of Framingham, is' 

 sending in a fine crop of such gladioli 

 as Augusta, May and America to the 

 Boston Exchange. 



Nelson & Johnson, of Framingham, 

 are first in the market with Smith's 

 Advance chrysanthemum. Their carna- 

 tion crop is coming along in fine shape. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety has issued schedules for the mid- 

 winter flower show, February 1 and 2, 

 and the spring show, March 14 to 16, 

 1913. Many new classes have been pro- 

 vided and premiums are liberal. Boses, 

 carnations and sweet peas have numer- 

 ous classes at the March show. 



Albert Koper, of Tewksbury, has a 

 good batch of a new light pink seedling 

 carnation, which he believes will take 

 some beating at the National Show next 

 April. 



S. J. Goddard is sending in the finest 

 White Wonder carnations seen this sea- 

 son. He will have several other varie- 

 ties this week. 



Everett E. Cummings, the Woburn 

 violet specialist, says his plants are of 

 fine size. He will have flowers ready 

 to pick in a day or two. He is growing 

 mums quite heavily this season. 



Frank T. White, of Holbrook, has an 

 unusually well grown lot of nephrolepis 

 in variety, which are selling well at the 

 Boston Flower Exchange. 



George Cartwright, the treasurer of 

 the Boston Flower Exchange, left Sep- 

 tember 7 for a vacation in northern 

 New York. 



Neil S. Casey, the well known Mel- 

 rose florist, lost his father September 2. 

 At the interment, September 5, there 

 was a large floral display. 



Edward Bingham, of Dedham, is cut- 

 ting a fine lot of Golden Glow chrysan- 

 themums this week. 



Don 't forget the club meeting at Hor- 

 ticultural hall September 17. John K. 

 M. L. Farquhar's illustrated lecture on 

 the London Boyal International Show 

 should draw a big crowd, and there is 

 a lot of business to transact. Everyone 

 will be welcome, ladies included. 



William B. Nicholson has started 

 picking some nice carnations of the new 

 crop. Beacon and White Enchantress 

 are leaders. 



C. L. Peirce, of Holbrook, in addition 

 to being one of the local aster kings, 

 has a splendid cut of cosmos, which 

 moves well. 



Abundant rainfalls the last few 

 weeks and comparatively cool weather 

 have wonderfully benefited dahlias, and 

 the quality at the annual show this 

 week promises to be unusually high. 



The members of the Boston Flower 

 Exchange voted September 7 to move 

 to the new and more commodious mar- 

 ket quarters in Winthrop Square. While 

 the lease of the present market runs 

 for about eighteen months longer, the 

 new site may be occupied early in the 

 new year. 



Thomas Pegler, president of the Gar- 

 deners' and Florists' Club, is meditat- 

 ing a change to Brunswick, Me. A 

 stay there for a year or two will do 

 Mr. Pegler a world of good, but we do 

 not want to think of him being lost to 

 Boston for any long perio<l. 



Daniel MacKorie and Angelo J. Bossi, 

 of San Francisco, were among our call- 

 ers September 9. W. N. Craig. 



