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The Florists' Review 



OcroBEB 31, 1912. 



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



Tlic olectioii dl' (iliifors rcMiltcd as 

 follows: Presideut, John McFarlaml; 

 .Icrk, W. W. Tailby; treasurer, D. Car 

 riiiehaol; directors. ,1. McFarlaud, D. 

 Carmichao!, W. W. Tailby, L. K. Small, 

 Robert :Montgomoiy. W. II. Elliott, 

 • Fames Wheeler. IMward Wood, N. F. 

 <.^omley. 



The eommunieation from the Boston 

 Flower Exchaii<ie. asking the market to 

 come in with them at Winthrop Square, 

 was read and discussed, being referre<l 

 to the directors. An orchestra from .). 

 Brock &i Sons", eonsisting of Messrs. 

 .). L. Russell, K. Montgomery and Lester 

 Glenn, furnished excellent music. The 

 tables -were well decorated by the 

 members. 



Various Notes. 



S. ,1. 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 

 lie says he will have a heavy cut when 

 uther growers' crops are over, lie has 

 :i line croji of Oncidium Kogersii. 



Frank P. Putnam, of Lowell an>i 

 North Tewksbury, has .i tine selection 

 nt' white, pink and yellow pompon chrys- 

 anthemums in adfiition to high grade 

 ■ ainaj^i-ons". 



P. iV: W. (). Jahii, of Bridgcwater. aic 

 strong on Pink Delight and White Won 

 ler carnations. Their Bonnaffon niuni< 

 are extra line, as are those of II. W;il 

 decker, of Braintree. 



There will be a notable array ul 

 -speakers at the silver jubilee banquet 

 of the Gardeners ' and Florists' (Jlub 

 Nov(!nilji'r II. Ticdvets are s(dliug fast 

 .and early ajiplicat ion- should be made 

 for what are left. Mayor Fit/.gerald 

 and (Jovernor Foss will both be present. 



Edward Winkler, of Wakidield. grows 

 \tdlow margiierites well. Among hi^ 

 '•arnations he h:is batches (d' two seed- 

 liii;:s. One of these, a li;;ht pink 

 Winona sjiort. is tine and will be ex- 

 hibited at one of the club nieetin.iis* 

 ~ii(in. 



.\elson «.V .lohnson, of South Framing- 

 li.-iin. in addition to their usual high 

 u'rade carnations are this season send- 

 ing splendid Princess of Wales violet- 

 III W. A. Ila--tings. 



.lolin Barr. <d' South Natick. has tlii- 

 -eason White Wonder, White Enchant 

 ress. White Perfection and (^ueen a^ 

 white i-ariiat ion-. He has great sU'ci-s- 



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 Heading, is a leader 

 with both pink and white greenhouse- 

 grown cosmos. 



Boiler Drops in Metnhart's Greenhouse. 



'i'he Hamburg American S. S. Co. will 

 |iut two l<i,OMt)-ton steamers on the 

 ilamburg-Southainj)ton-Boston service, 

 coniinencing I'arly in .May, litlH, an<l 

 vessels of 22,'i(l(i" an.l li.^i.lioO tons are 

 jiromiseil for the following year. A 

 Swedish-,\merica!i line is arranging for 

 a s<'rvice. as are several other steam 

 ship lilies. A new .*:;.(MMl.il(M| drydo<dx 

 will scion lie built and Boston will then 

 be able to duck the biggest vess(d> 

 adoat. 'I'liis booiii will all spell more 

 liii-iip'-'- I'm P>i.-tiin flnri-t-. 



W. \. fraiji. 



.Martin F. Lally -tates that the rejiorl 

 that ill' had eiii^aued with Zinn i-; an 



iTTil) . 



WRECKED BY A FLYING BOILEB 



J. E. Meinhart, of Webb City, Mo 

 had ii narrow escapie from a horribh 

 death a few days ago, when a boiler 

 exploded at the Joe Lewis mine, oi 

 South Liberty street, about 800 feet 

 from Mr. Meinhart 's greenhouses. Th» 

 force of the explosion carried the mail 

 body of the boiler, which weighed about 

 4,000 pounds, to the greenhouses, wher< 

 the huge flying cylinder crasheo 

 through a carnation house and fell onl> 

 a few feet from where Mr. Meinhar' 

 was working. Two men employed about 

 the boiler room at the mines were in 

 stautly killed, and another man, Joc 

 Lewis, was knocked down and badl.^ 

 bruised. 



]Mr. Meinhart knew nothing of tht 

 explosion until the boiler struck the 

 house, falling near him, enveloped in !i 

 sheet ofsteam and heat. The hot metal 

 ignited the framework of the benches, 

 and it was necessary to use the hose tc 

 extinguish the flames. A considerable 

 part of the house, of course, was com 

 pletely wrecked, and a large area of sui 

 rounding glass was broken. The los^ 

 was estimated at $(500. The necessar\ 

 rei)airs were promptly attended to and 

 Mr. Meinhart reports that the house- 

 are in good shape again. 



NEW ENGLANDERS PROTEST. 



Quarantine Unnecessary and Word 

 Objectionable. 



Hetore tiie Federal llorticultura 

 Hoard, at Washington, 1). C, Wednes 

 day, October 30, the nurserymen ol 

 .New England not only objected te 

 the jiroposed quarantine of certaii 

 parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Mass 

 achusetts, Khode Island and Connect i 

 cut to prevent the spread of gyps.^ 

 moth, but protested against the use ol 

 the word "quarantine" in connectioi 

 with the regulation of the nurserv 

 trade. President W. II. Wyman, of the 

 Massachusetts Nurserymen's Associa 

 tioii, i)ut it succinctly when he said thai 

 to the ear of the buyer the word quar 

 aiitine sounds like "smallpox." .Mr 

 Wyman said that it was greatly to b< 

 deplored that so much publicity ha^l 

 been given the jiresent hearing and te 

 the talk of (piarantine. He said it put.- 

 a (juietus on business. Reports are cur 

 rent of instances where buyers have 



