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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



OCTOBEE 14, 1909. 



not seen for more than twenty years. Mr, 

 Hood is well known to the trade and the 

 best wishes of his many friends go with 

 him. 



George Bartholomew has assumed a 

 new title, that of grandpa. Although 

 the title may sound ancient, he assures 

 his friends that he is still a young man. 

 October 1 a son was born to Mr. and 

 Mrs. Eay Bartholomew. 



H. H. Ritter reports some large wed- 

 ding orders for this week. R. A. B. 



PALMER, MASS. 



At the present date, October 5, we 

 have not had any frost and everything in 

 the plant line is dying a natural death. 



Here at the State hospital, this year, 

 we are growing 1,200 mums in benches. 

 We had a few Golden Glow, which are 

 just coming in, and they are extra fine. 

 The rest of the mums are looking well. 

 We have mums nearly six feet tall and 

 Major Bonnaffons nearly as tall. We 

 have one house containing 1,400 carnation 

 plants, which were loused in August and 

 are in fine shape to give a good crop of 

 blooms. We also have a new house for 

 cucumbers. 



This year we tried growing geraniums 

 in pots for fall and winter flowering and 

 they are a success. They were grown in 

 coldframes, the pots plunged into the soil 

 and sashes over them, with air on. Where 

 they were repotted from 4-inch to 6-inch 

 pots, we kept some inside of the green- 

 houses, but they did so poorly that we 

 removed them to the frames again. 



Our ferns did extra well this year. 

 They also were grown in coldframes. The 

 sashes were shaded with cheesecloth. We 

 grow them in rotted manure and straw. 

 The varieties grown were Boston, Amer- 

 pohlii and Whitmani. The Amerpohlii 

 made the best plants and gave the most 

 runners. 



We are also growing 700 Easter lilies 

 and 8,000 bulbs for forcing. 



E. Leboy Johnson. 



Gardiner, Me. — John C. Read, for- 

 merly proprietor of the greenhouses on 

 West street, in this city, and afterward 

 gardener on a gentleman's estate in Mil- 

 ton, Mass., has returned to take pos- 

 session of the Leonard Merrill farm in 

 West Gardiner, which he recently pur- 

 chased. He was accompanied by his 

 father, Ambrose Read, and his sister, 

 Miss Grace. 



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