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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 4, 1910. 



;ui alile catclior, wliilc I'uiuie distiii- 

 yuislii'd liiiiisolt' :it riylit field. 



The lu'st race of tlie day was tli.'it 

 for fat men. All the eoni[!ctitoi's set 

 a killing- pace, and uitli a few yards 

 move to go. Dau ilill'e. who was in- 

 creasing his f peed all the time, would 

 have won. Had T. Peglcr competed, 

 the result might have been different. 



E. A. Pierce was iuisy rounding up 

 delegates for the Kochestei convention 

 and captured quite a few, as well as a 

 luinil er of new S. A. F. members. 



lioliert Cameron, W. ,1. Stewart, 

 Klijali A. Wood and Rev. AV. T. 

 Hutchins were among the trade scril)- 

 blers noted. We did not observe any 

 of them comjieting in the track events. 

 Exl'resident Downs, just convalcs- 

 <;ing ' f rom sickness, was missed, also 

 Ex-President I'ettigrew. The ex-prcsi- 

 deuts seen imduded T. .1. Grey, (Jeorge 

 .M. Anderson, W. J. Stewart, James 

 Wheeler. ?>I. 11. Norton and T. H. West 

 wood. 



Peter M. .Miller worked like a Trojan 

 for the success of tlic 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. 

 .lames has shrunk ccuisiderably of late; 

 (commercialism is responsible for it. 



The lliffe family, as usual, were to 

 the front in nearly all events and caji- 

 tared 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 7noney. 



J. Comerford did not compete in the 

 broad jump. He cleared twenty feet 

 :ind ten inches at an athletic meet July 

 •S.i 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- 

 <'ver. 



John J. Fee, of .lamaica 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. I'or flo- 

 lists there is no more desirabb^ \ aricty 

 to grow than the single oiie. 



Mr. and .Mrs. W. H. W;i:d, of .Mont 

 vale, left for Proviiicclown, 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. Kobinson, of II. M. Robinson 

 iV Co.. is home from his vacation. His 

 last week was spent in Xow Yorlv. He 

 will now attend strictly to business. 



Thomas J. Grey has just returned 

 from a successful busines."- trip in the 

 western ])art of the state. He expects 

 to take in the Rochester convention, 

 while Peter ]Sr. Miller, of ihe same firm. 

 is jdanning a tii]) to Bar Harbor, Me. 



.\n 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 liusy painting, piping and 

 doing work preparatory for winter. He 

 is shipping in line lots of Killarney, 

 White Killarney and Kaiserin to C 

 Park street, also small lots of Eich- 

 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 (," 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 /crage of 3.60 

 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 Tremoiit street at- 

 tractively arranged witli aquatics. 

 .Vnother window looks invitingly green 

 with Cocos Weddelliana, Asparagus plu- 

 mosus. Phoenix Koebelenii and other 

 foliage plants. 



.\n elaborate water garden is being 

 constructed on the bar/. .Vnderson es- 

 tate, lirookline, where Dm. can Finlay- 

 son has charge. 



The Boston delegation for the 

 Rochester convention is steadily grow- 

 ing and j)resent 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 b"), 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 

 S(>neca hotel in advance 



Samuel Eintracht, of Wertheimer 

 liros.. New York, reports business good. 



James Wheeler's new carnation 

 house holds about 22,000 plants and 

 the major ])ortion of these are now in 

 their ]ilaces. W^. N. Craig. 



THE ST. LOUIS GROUPS. 



The event of the year in Florist ' 

 Club circles at St. TiOuis is the anm | 

 outing. There always is a large attci, i 

 ance and everybody has a fine tiiii 

 This year the outing was held i 

 Kamona park, July 21 The accoi 

 panying illustrations ar<' f-oni phoi 

 graphs by Oscar Kuehn. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The quality of outdoor grown llowci 

 is far below the standard of other yeai 

 because of the long drought. A fe\ 

 special Beauties touch 20 cents. Fron, 

 that top they fall rapidly to 50 cent- 

 per hundred for the short stems. Ni 

 other long stemmed roses are arriving, 

 i cents will buy the selected of an; 

 variety. Richmond is short, open a nil 

 unsalable. The average will not g'i 

 above .i^l.GO and some say even $1 ]iri 

 hundred v>'ould be a fairer estimate. 



.\o carnations are worth over $1 jjci 

 hundred. Most of the stock arriving i- 

 about as near worthless as you can 

 imagine. Good asters grown indoor- 

 go rapidly and at excellent price- 

 .Most of the outdoor stock i- 

 small and imperfect. It could not lie 

 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 i)lace 

 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 

 tembcr. Society, however, declares dif 

 fcrently and is already announcing a 

 lecord listing of September weddings. 



Various Notes. 



The transportation committee of the 

 Florists' Club has sent out a neat fcdder 



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



