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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



August 4, 1910. 



an able catcher, while Euane distin- 

 guished himself at right field. 



The best race of the day was that 

 for fat men. All the competitors set 

 a killing pace, and with a few yards 

 more to go, Dan Iliffe, who was in- 

 creasing his speed all the time, would 

 have won. Had T. Pegler competed, 

 the result might have been different. 



E. A. Pierce was busy rounding up 

 delegates for the Kochester convention 

 and CE^ptured quite a few, as well as a 

 number of new S. A. F. members. 

 ' Hobert Cameron, W. J. Stewart, 

 Elijah A. Wood and Eev. W. T. 

 Hutchins were among the trade scrib- 

 blers noted. We did not observe any 

 ■of them competing in the track events. 



Ex-President Downs, just convales- 

 cing ' from sickness, was missed, also 

 Ex-President Pettigrew. The ex-presi- 

 dents seqn included T. J. Grey, George 

 M. Anderson, W. J. Stewart, James 

 Wheeler, M. H. Norton and T. H. West- 

 wood. ! 



Peter M. Miller worked like a Trojan 

 for the success of the picnic. The ex- 

 ecutive committee also did nobly, 

 Thomas Pegler being in evidence ev- 

 erywhere. 



James Wheeler for the first time was 

 below the limit for the fat men's race. 

 James has shrunk considerably of late; 

 commercialism is responsible for it. 



The Iliffe family, as usual, were to 

 the front in nearly all events and cap- 

 tured a lot of prizes. Daniel himself 

 is still a sprinter of no mean caliber. 



The Commercials missed W. A. Man- 

 da and other heavyweights on this 

 occasion. They lacked weight, but 

 gave their opponents a good pull for 

 their money. 



J. Comerford did not compete in the 

 broad jump. He cleared twenty feet 

 and ten inches at an athletic meet July 

 23 and could evidently make a strong 

 bid for six feet in the high jump had 

 he been pushed. 



Various Notes. 



S. J. Goddard returned from Europe 

 July 28 after an enjoyable visit. He 

 had a rather rough passage home, how- 

 ever. 



John J. Fee, of Jamaica Plain, is 

 handling fine lots of outdoor grown 

 Lilium longiflorum and Gladiolus Amer- 

 ica at C Park street. Mr. Fee is one 

 of our leading bulb specialists and is 

 just unpacking his first importations. 



Charles Evans, of Watertown, is 

 bringing in extra fine double gyp- 

 sophila, which sells on sight. For flo- 

 rists there is no more desirable variety 

 to grow than the single one. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ward, of Mont- 

 vale, left for Provincctown, Mass., 



August 2, for a vacation. Mr. Ward 

 has his new house, 32x110, nearly com- 

 pleted. It will be used for carnations 

 and sweet peas. 



C. E. Robinson, of H. M. Robinson 

 & Co., is home from his vacation. His 

 last week was spent in New York. He 

 will now attend strictly to business. 



Thomas J. Grey has just returned 

 from a successful business trip in the 

 western part of the state. He expects 

 to take in the Rochester convention, 

 while Peter M. Miller, of the same firm, 

 is planning a trip to Bar Harbor, Me. 



An autumn show of flowers, fruits 

 and vegetables will be held at Horti- 

 cultural hall, September 23 to 25. 



Eber Holmes, of the Montrose Green- 

 houses, is busy painting, piping and 

 doing work preparatory for winter. He 

 is shipping in fine lots of Killarney, 

 White Killarney and Kaiserin to C 

 Park street, also small lots of Rich- 

 mond. 



Thomas Pegler, in addition to his 

 other accomplishments, has added that 

 of musician, and played both sacred 

 and ragtime selections on the harp 

 July 30 at C Park street, in such a way 

 as to win the enthusiastic plaudits of 

 the salesmen and buyers there. 



July gave us barely one inch of pre- 

 cipitation, against an a /erage of 3.60 

 f for the last thirty-nine years. We have 

 had several moderate showers, but 

 would much welcome a soaking rain. 



T. F. Galvin has one of his large 

 show windows on Tremont street at- 

 tractively arranged with aquatics. 

 Another window looks invitingly green 

 with Cocos Weddelliana, Asparagus plu- 

 mosus, Phoenix Roebelenii and other 

 foliage plants. 



An elaborate water garden is being 

 constructed on the Larz Anderson es- 

 tate, Brookline, where Duncan Finlay- 

 son has charge. 



The Boston delegation for the 

 Rochester convention is steadily grow- 

 ing and present indications are that 

 the special Pullman car will have a full 

 complement of passengers. It has not 

 yet been decided whether the party will 

 leave in the morning or evening. Prob- 

 ably it will be on the morning of Au- 

 gust 15, arriving in Rochester about 10 

 o'clock in the evening. The round trip 

 tickets are $13.40. Intending delegates 

 should notify E. A. Pierce, Waltham, 

 at once, and also secure rooms at the 

 Seneca hotel in advance. 



Samuel Eintracht, of Wertheimer 

 Bros., New York, reports business good. 



James Wheeler's new carnation 

 house holds about 22,000 plants and 

 the major portion of these are now in 

 their places. W. N. Craig. 



THE ST. LOUIS GROUPS. 



The event of the year in Florists' 

 Club circles at St. Louis is the annuii 

 outing. There always is a large attenl 

 ance and everybody has a fine tini'. 

 This year the outing was held ;,t 

 Ramona park, July 21 The accoi, 

 panying illustrations ar<> f'-om phot' 

 graphs by Oscar Kuehn. 



NEW YOEK. 



The Market. 



The quality of outdoor grown flowers 

 is far below the standard of other years 

 because of the long drought. A few 

 special Beauties touch 20 cents. From 

 that top they fall rapidly to 50 cents 

 per hundred for the short stems. Nd 

 other long-stemmed roses are arriving; 

 4 cents will buy the selected of any 

 variety. Richmond is short, open and 

 unsalable. The average will not go 

 above $1.50 and some say even $1 i>or 

 hundred v/ould be a fairer estimate. 



No carnations are worth over $1 per 

 hundred. Most of the stock arriving is 

 about as near worthless as you can 

 imagine. Good asters grown indoors 

 go rapidly and at excellent prices. 

 Most of the outdoor stock is 

 small and imperfect. It could not be 

 otherwise, and already there is too much 

 of it. Where will the price go when the 

 Rochester shipments appear? 



The hydrangeas coming from the 

 south are good. The local stock shows 

 the need of a drink. Of gladioli, even 

 from the no-rain sections, there is no 

 limit. Nearly everyone has a surplus 

 of the red varieties and thousands of 

 these were sold as low as 25 cents per 

 hundred. The market is glutted with 

 them. They cannot be digested and they 

 go into the discard. There is no place 

 here for anything that is not first-class, 

 and the sooner this is realized by the 

 grower the better for all concerned. 

 The market here for perfect quality has 

 no limit. Of cattleyas a few gigas and 

 Gaskelliana arrive daily, and sprays of 

 several other orchids, and the price 

 holds steady, though the demand contin- 

 ues light. 



The lily shipments continue large, but 

 the market seems to absorb them to 

 the tune of a quarter million weekly. 

 Prices are falling. One veteran whole- 

 saler says it will be October before the 

 uplift is felt and predicts a dull Sep- 

 tember. Society, however, declares dif 

 ferently and is already announcing a 

 ri^cord listing of September weddings. 



Various Notes. 



The transportation committee of the 

 Florists' Club has sent out a neat folder 



Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Gub at Pine Banks Park, Maiden, July 27. 



