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The Rorists^ Review 



OCTOBBB 31, 1012. 



The Boston G>-operative Flower Market Dinner, October 26, 1912. 



The election of officers resulted as 

 follows: President, John McFarland; 

 clerk, Wr W. Tailby; treasurer, D. Car- 

 michael; directors, J. McFarland, D. 

 Carmichael, W. W. Tailby, L. E. Small, 

 Robert Montgomery, W. H. Elliott, 

 James Wheeler, Edward Wood, N. F. 

 Comley. 



The communication from the Boston 

 Flower Exchange, asking the market to 

 come in with them at Winthrop Square, 

 was read and discussed, being referred 

 to the directors. An orchestra from J. 

 Breck & Sons', consisting of Messrs. 

 J. L. Kussell, R. Montgomery and Lester 

 Glenn, furnished excellent music. The 

 tables were well decorated by the 

 members. 



Various Notes. 



S. J. Goddard is cutting some hand- 

 some Elise Papworth chrysanthemums. 

 This is a splendid white. Chrysolora is 

 also a great favorite with him. 



J. T. Butterworth 's crop of Cattleya 

 labiata is late this season, as usual, and 

 he says he will have a heavy cut when 

 other growers' crops are over. He has 

 a fine crop of Oncidium Rogersii. 



Frank P. Putnam, of Lowell and 

 North Tewksbury, has a fine selection 

 of white, pink and yellow pompon chrys- 

 anthemums in addition to high grade 

 carnations. 



P. & W. O. Jahn, of Bridgewater, are 

 strong on Pink Delight and White Won- 

 der carnations. Their Bonnaffon mums 

 are extra fine, as are those of H. Wal- 

 decker, of Braintree. 



There will be a notable array of 

 speakers at the silver jubilee banquet 

 of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 November 11. Tickets are selling fast 

 and early application should be made 

 for what are left. Mayor Fitzgerald 

 and Governor Foss will both be present. 



Edward Winkler, of Wakefield, grows 

 yellow marguerites well. Among his 

 carnations he has batches of two seed- 

 lings. One of these, a light pink 

 Winona sport, is fine and will be ex- 

 hibited at one of the club meeting^ 

 soon. 



Nelson & Johnson, of South Framing- 

 ham, in addition to their usual high 

 grade carnations are this season send- 

 ing splendid Princess of Wales violets 

 to W. A. Hastings. 



John Barr, of South Natick, has this 

 season White Wonder, White Enchant- 

 ress, White Perfection and Queen as 

 white carnations. He has great success 



with Pink Delight and Beacon. His 

 new variegated seedling, Mrs. B. P. 

 Cheney, is planted heavily and doing 

 better than ever. St. Nicholas is the 

 only novelty he is trying this season. 



E. K. Mandy, of Beading, is a leader 

 with both pink and white greenhouse- 

 grown cosmos. 



BoilR Dropi in Meinhart's Greenhouse. 



The Hamburg- American S. S. Co. will 

 put two 16,000-ton steamers on the 

 Hamburg-Southampton-Boston service, 

 commencing early in May, 1913, and 

 vessels of 22,000 and 25,000 tons are 

 promised for the following year. A 

 Swedish- American line is arranging for 

 a service, as are several other steam- 

 ship lines. A new $3,000,000 drydock 

 will soon be built and Boston will then 

 be able to dock the biggest vessels 

 afloat. This boom will all spell more 

 business for Boston florists. 



W. N. Craig. 



Martin F. Lally states that the report 

 that he had engaged with Zinn is an 

 error. 



WBECKED BY A FLYING BOILER. 



J. E. Meinhart, of Webb City, Mo- 

 had a narrow escape from a horrible 

 death a few days ago, when a boiler 

 exploded at the Joe Lewis mine, on 

 South Liberty street, about 800 feet 

 from Mr. Meinhart 's greenhouses. The 

 force of the explosion carried the main 

 body of the boiler, which weighed about 

 4,000 pounds, to the greenhouses, where 

 the huge flying cylinder crashed 

 through a carnation house and fell only 

 a few feet from where Mr. Meinhart 

 was working. Two men employed about 

 the boiler room at the mines were in- 

 stantly killed, and another man, Joe 

 Lewis, was knocked down and badly 

 bruised. 



Mr. Meinhart knew nothing of the 

 explosion until the boiler struck the 

 house, falling near him, enveloped in a 

 sheet of steam and heat. The hot metal 

 ignited the framework of the benches, 

 and it was necessary to use the hose to 

 extinguish the flames. A considerable 

 part of the house, of course, was com- 

 pletely wrecked, and a large area of sur- 

 rounding glass was brotken. The loss 

 was estimated at $600. The necessary 

 repairs were promptly attended to and 

 Mr. Meinhart reports that the houses 

 are in good shape again. 



NEW ENOLANDEBS PROTEST. 



Quarantine Unnecessary and Word 

 Objectionable. 



Before the Federal Horticultural 

 Board, at Washington, D. C, Wednes- 

 day, October 30, the nurserymen of 

 New England not only objected to 

 the proposed quarantine of certain 

 parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Mass- 

 achusetts, Rhode Island and Connecti- 

 cut to prevent the spread of gypsy 

 moth, but protested against the use of 

 the word "quarantine" in connection 

 with the regulation of the nursery 

 trade. President W. H. Wyman, of the 

 Massachusetts Nurserymen 's Associa- 

 tion, put it succinctly when he said that 

 to the ear of the buyer the word quar- 

 antine sounds like "smallpox." Mr. 

 Wyman said that it was greatly to be 

 deplored that so much publicity had 

 been given the present hearing and to 

 the talk of quarantine. He said it puts 

 a quietus on business. Reports are cur- 

 rent of instances where buyers have 



