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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 7, 1j09. 



rovia, Pacific, Rosiere and Polly Rose ar- 

 riving. Lilies are now mostly longi- 

 floriims, and sell well. 



Asters are nearing the end. Such good 

 flowers as arrive bring $1 to $2 per hun- 

 dred. Cosmos is abundant, as are 

 dahlias and tuberoses, but gladioli and 

 sweet peas are about over. Green stock 

 is of excellent quality and selling well. 

 The cooler weather has given a little 

 fillip to the plant trade, and there is 

 now some demand for nephrolepis, palms, 

 ficus and other foliage plants. Chrysan- 

 themums in pots have been in the market 

 for a fortnight, but are as yet of rather 

 poor quality. 



Various Notes. 



The Boston Cooperative Flower Mar- 

 ket opened for business at the new stand 

 on Park street October 4, in the base- 

 ment of William H. Elliott 's wholesale 

 salesrooms. They have a reduced floor 

 space, but the location is more central 

 and light decidedly better than at Music 

 Hall. With both wholesale markets and 

 William H. Elliott's salesrooms on Park 

 street and the Waban Conservatories' 

 wholesale department nearby, Boston's 

 wholesale flower trade, apart from the 

 commission houses, is to be found within 

 a small radius. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety will not hold a spring show in 

 1910, its main energies being devoted to 

 the coming big orcliid show at the end 

 of next May. There will be a winter 

 show on or about February 19 and 20, 

 with numerous classes for cut flowers and 

 pot plants, and the two wholesale flower 

 markets will be invited to hold their 

 trade shows in conjunction with the 

 same. 



Henry M. Robinson & Co. are getting 

 busy, and fall trade with them promises 

 to be better than ever. Their roses, car- 

 nations, valley and other flowers are of 

 fine quality, while their trade in green 

 goods of all sorts is excellent. 



The addition to the Park Street 

 Flower Market is nearing completion, 

 and the additional space thus provided 

 will be welcome. 



P. L. Carbone's new store on Boylston 

 street is one which attracts many inter- 

 ested visitors at present. It is safe to 

 say that for artistic arrangement it 

 marks a big advance in this city. 



R. D. Kimball, of Waban, is shipping 

 in some extra fine Princess of Wales 

 violets and carnations to the Park Street 

 market. 



Lieut. Col. Holford, of Westonbirt, 

 England, who possesses possibly the 

 finest private orchid collection in the 

 world, will be an exhibitor at Boston's 

 big orchid show in 1910. H. Alexander, 

 the well-known orchid grower at Weston- 

 birt, will be one of the visitors. 



Visitors last week included James 

 Backhouse, head of the noted firm of 

 James Backhouse & Son, York, England, 

 whose specialties are now alpine and 

 herbaceous plants. This is Mr. Back- 

 house's initial visit to Canada and the 

 States, but he is so favorably impressed 

 that he plans to come again next sum- 

 mer. 



Fine Rosiere and other chrysanthe- 

 mums are arriving in the markets from 

 Willow Hill Greenhouses, for whom 

 Thomas Pegler is salesman. 



E. H. W'ilson. the noted collector in 

 western and northern China, who arrived 

 in Boston September 28, is now at the 

 Arnold Arboretum, classifying and as- 

 sisting in the identification of the hun- 

 dreds of new plants sent there by him 



during the last two or three years. His 

 introductiojis promise, unless all signs 

 fail, to be the most remarkable addition 

 to the list of hardy trees and shrubs the 

 United States has yet known. Mr. Wil- 

 son has numerous lantern slides taken 

 during his journeys, and these, it is ex- 

 pected, the public will have an oppor- 

 tunity to see later at Horticultural hall. 



Fall business with Welch Bros, has 

 started in with a rush, and all hands at 

 the roomy emporium on Devonshire 

 street are being kept busy. P. Welch 

 expects business during the coming sea- 

 son to beat all records. 



September proved a fairly normal 

 month. The mean temperature was 63 

 degrees, which was also the mean for the 

 last thirty-nine years; the maximum 

 temperature was 82 degrees and the 

 minimum, 46 degrees. The rainfall was 

 5.15 inches, or 1.90 over the normal. We 

 now are only .75 of an inch below the 

 normal for 1909, but have an excess of 

 351 degrees in temperature for the sum- 

 mer. 



Robert Montgomery is sending in some 

 extra good white and pink Killarney and 

 Maryland roses to the new market on 

 Park street. 



.William Sim is marketing large lots of 

 single violets of extra fine quality, as 

 are A. W. Kidder, N. F. Comley, Will- 

 iam Spillsbury, H. F. Woods, F. W. 

 Fletcher and other specialists. 



A big attendance is assured for the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club meeting 

 October 26, when J. K. M. L. Farquhar 

 will deliver his stereopticon lecture on 

 hardy bulbs. 



Wheeler & Co., of Waban, are cutting 

 a splendid lot of Cattleya labiata, of 

 which they have some thousands of 

 flowers. W. N. Craig. 



CLEVELAND. 



Store Opening. 



October 4 the Jones-Russell Co. opened 

 its new store at the corner of Euclid 

 avenue and Huron road. The day select- 

 ed could not have been improved upon, 

 and the attendance was far above the 

 expectations of the new firm. The mem- 

 bers of the Jones-Russell Co. are Harry 

 Jones, Charles Russell, both from the 

 Gasser Co., and Mr. Barber, formerly in 

 tlie retail trade at Alliance, O. This 

 store must be counted among the best in 

 the country, being situated in the heart 

 of the new Euclid avenue business dis- 

 trict. The store was a bower of beauti- 

 ful plants and cut flowers and with the 

 tasteful arrangement throughout made a 

 most beautiful appearance. The numer- 

 ous gifts sent in by the different florists 

 assure the popularity of these young men 

 with the trade and were as follows: 

 The Gasser Co., papilio orchids; Mrs. A. 

 Schmitt, begonias; Pennock-Meehan Co., 

 orchids; E. G. Wilson, handsome maiden- 

 hair fern plant ; Carl Hazenburger, Pier- 

 soni fern and snapdragon ; Merkel & Son, 

 two large Boston ferns; Cleveland Cut 

 Flower Co., vase of Beauties; L. L. Lam- 

 born, vase Brides and Maids; Charles 

 Bartels, vase of carnations; Cleveland 

 Florists' Exchange, cattleyas; Miss 

 Schueren, large Boston fern; William 

 Smith, basket of dahlias; Smith & Fet- 

 ters, desk lamp trimmed With violets; 

 Knoble Bros., vase of Beauties; R. Gam- 

 ble, Jerusalem cherries; Peter Nichols, 

 large Boston fern; C. A. Bramley, large 

 Boston fern ; Reep Bros., fancy fern 

 plant; Robert Craig, croton with urn; 



James !^adie Co., pandanus plant J^^^ 

 Wilson, cabbage decorated with ansie? 

 Kahn Vine Co., vase of roses Q .' 

 Mason, hand-painted frieze; Miss Splat 

 honeysuckle vine; and Gus Sc roedp'' 

 artificial mums. '' 



The out-of-town visitors thi 



Week 



were: George Wiegand, of Indii' annii 

 Ind.; Ed Bell, of i'rankUn, Pa. c.f 

 Barton, of Norwalk, 0.; and L. I Lanj, 

 born, of Alliance, 0. i.g 



HILVAUKEE. 



The Market 



Everything is moving along nici ly anj 

 reports from all sides are that 1' isiness 

 is good, with an equal supply. Asters 

 are again a thing of the past, but ^ ladioli 

 and dahlias are still coming in. Tiie lat- 

 ter are of good quality, owing io the 

 favorable weather. The rose maiket is 

 well supplied and has a good dimand. 

 More carnations could have been used. 



Various Notes. 



Currie Bros. Co. was kept busy ;ill last 

 week with funeral work. They ran stiort 

 on lilies and carnations. 



At Theo. Boettcher's place, at Four- 

 teenth street and Groeling avenue, every- 

 thing is in apple-pie shape. In fact, the 

 stock never was so good as it is at this 

 time. A batch of cyclamens in G-inch 

 pots are especially fine. 



Fred Holton, of the Holton & Ilunkel 

 Co., left Monday, October 4, for Minne- 

 apolis and vicinity, to call on the trade. 

 Nic Zweifel, of North Milwaukee, accom- 

 panied him as companion and bodyguard. 

 They expect to return at the end of this 

 week. 



The C. C. PoUworth Co. is daily receiv- 

 ing a nice lot of roses from its Wauwa- 

 tosa plant. E. 0. 



NEV BEDFORD, MASS. 



The Market. 



Business continues about the same. 

 Flowers are not quite so plentiful just 

 now. Asters are nearly played out. A 

 few late ones are coming in; 35 lenta 

 and 50 cents per dozen, retail, i- the 

 price. Carnations are getting a little 

 more plentiful; 35 cents per dozen h the 

 retail price. Sweet peas are all lone. 

 Roses retail at from $1.50 to $: per 

 dozen. Some nice My Marylam' are 

 now coming in. Early mums art now 

 arriving. Flowers out of doors ar< still 

 in full bloom, no heavy frosts 1' ing 

 come as yet. 



Dahlias are now in all their glor ^nd 

 are looking fine. Dahlia culture n und 

 New Bedford is all the go now md 

 some grand varieties are to be ''?'' 

 here. 



Dahlia Show. 



At the annual September show < the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society, e'd 

 at Providence September 29 and 3' the 

 principal exhibitors of dahlias wei "• 

 D. Hathaway, Mrs. H. A. Jahn and m. 

 F. Turner & Co., of this city. Soi; ot 

 the New Bedford dahlia growers 'y^ 

 been taking sweepstakes at the d ''* 

 shows east of New York during the isi 

 two or three weeks, and at the K ''^^ 

 Island exhibit they showed blooms '^^^ 

 compared favorably with those that ' '^* 

 been awarded first premiums elsewl re. 



The' New Bedford prize winners » ''''« 

 as follows : 



Show, eighteen blooms named vsine' 



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