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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



DecdMbeb 7, 1911. 



Beacon, White Enchantress, Enchant- 

 ress and other leaders. 



Frank Putnam, of Lowell, from his 

 North , Tewksbury establishment, in 

 addition to his carnations, which have 

 gained an enviable reputation for qual- 

 ity, has an excellent lot of antirrhi- 

 nums, with extra long flowering stems 

 for the season, which are in active 

 demand at the stalls of the Flower 

 Growers' Sales Co. 



Welch Bros, are more than satisfied 

 with their Thanksgiving business, 

 which was away ahead of 1910. They 

 had a heavy shipping trade and their 

 growers sent them a grand lot of sweet 

 peas, valley, carnations. Beauties, Kil- 

 larneys and other seasonable flowers. 



The Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 will hold a field day at Framingham 

 on Saturday', December 16, leaving 

 Park Square on special Boston and 

 Worcester electrics at 12 o'clock. The 

 establishments of W. E. Nicholson, S. J. 

 Goddard and J. T. Butterworth will be 

 visited. The Framingham outings 

 always attract a large attendance. 



Eichard D. Kimball, of Waban, is 

 this season having extra success with 

 carnations. White Wonder, Gloriosa, 

 Pink Delight and Beacon. 



William Sim lectured before a large 

 meeting of the North Shore Horticul- 

 tural Society on sweet peas, December 

 1. Accompanied by Messrs. F. J. 

 Dolansky, Geo. Gordon and A. A. Pem- 

 broke, he visited many of the private 

 estates before the meeting. 



J. Newman & Son had an exception- 

 ally heavy November and their Thanks- 

 giving trade was the best ever. Their 

 Tremont street store windows are 

 always tastefully arranged. 



Waban Conservatories had a superb 

 lot of roses for Thanksgiving. Pink 

 and White Killarney, Lady Hillingdon 

 and Eichmond are their specialties. 

 Mr. Montgomery's new seedling, Mme. 

 Charles Eussell, is a wonder and should 

 be a star feature of the rose meeting 

 in Detroit in January. 



Thomas Eoland is cutting bunches of 

 the pretty yellow chrysanthemum. 

 Golden Thread. This is an excellent 

 late sort for sprays and makes a light 

 and graceful centerpiece. It also makes 

 an excellent pot plant. 



E. & J. Farquhar & Co. have at their 

 store a fine assortment of azaleas, Lor- 

 raines, cyclamens and other holiday 

 plants. They are practically sold out 

 of bulbs, only a few tulips being left 

 over. 



The W. W. Edgar Co. had an excel- 

 lent Thanksgiving trade in azaleas, Lor- 

 raines and other flowering plants, and 

 have the houses full of high grade 

 Christmas plants. 



S. J. Goddard is still cutting excel- 

 lent yellow and white Jerome Jones and 

 Nonin chrysanthemums. 



A Leuthy & Co. have an unusually 

 fine stock of Christmas plants, includ- 

 ing azaleas, Lorraines, ardisias, cycla- 

 mens, gardenias and primulas in addi- 

 tion to their line of palms, ferns and 

 other foliage plants. 



December 19 is the date of the next 

 club meeting, when officers are to be 

 elected. There will be short practical 

 talks while ballots are being counted. 

 Many exhibits are promised. 



The Arlington Gardens, of Arlington, 

 Mass., and S. J. Eeuter are shippers of 

 extra grade valley to the Boston Flower 

 Exchange. 



James Wheeler, of Natick, is having 

 wonderful success with his antirrhyiums 



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and is selling rooted cuttings as fast 

 as he can propagate them. His carn^i- 

 tions are among the finest coming to 

 the Boston Cooperative Market. 



Wm. H. Elliott can grow Eose Ehea 

 Eeid as few other growers can- and he 

 had a superb cut of them for Thanks- 

 giving. Mrs. Aaron Ward is* now in 

 grand shape with him. He still finds 

 a call for the old favorites, Bon ^iiene 

 and Safrano. 



Mann Bros, will have Golden Spur 

 narcissi in flower in a few days. They 

 have an abundance of French bulbous 

 flowers, Lilium speciosum' and longi- 

 florum, late mums and stevia now. 



W. N. Craig. 



SORANTON, PA. ' . 



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Greeting a Florist-Mayor. 



B. E. Cokely, senior member of the 

 Scranton Florists ' Supply Co., called on 

 me the other day, and accompanying 

 him was Frank Baker, a well known, 

 florist of Utica, N. Y. Mr. Baker was 

 returning from a trip to New Ifdrk city 

 and stopped off to pay the Scranton 

 people a visit. He and Mr. Cokely are 

 close friends, having known each .other 

 for many years, on account of Mr. 

 Cokely 's frequent visits to Utica while 

 traveling throughout the country. We 

 were delighted to shake the hand of a 

 fellow florist who has not only made 

 good in the trade, but has made good 

 in politics as well. It is a signal honor 

 to be elected mayor of onf 's city, as 

 Mr, Baker has been, after having doled 

 out flowers for a number of years to its 

 inhabitants. His political success proves 

 that the flowers he handled must have 

 been of excellent quality, and 'his man= 

 ner of doing business must have been 

 such as to command the respect of the 

 people, since they saw fit to nominate 

 and elect him to the highest office m 

 the city government. We understaim 

 that Mr. Baker has held other offices in 

 his city, taking a step higher each suc- 

 ceeding time. 



A Trip to Moosic. 



My two visitors asked me to take a 

 trip with them down to Moosic, a little 

 town six miles below Scranton, to visit 

 William MacDonald, the florist of that'' 

 town. The journey was made by rail- 

 road and occupied only about ten min- 

 utes. We found Mr. MacDonald in 

 work right up to his neck, as he had 

 begun in September the building of an 

 office and designing room, and also a 

 large cellar for the hardening of cut 

 flowers. He has the reputation of send- 

 ing out some of the best carnations and 

 chrysanthemums in this section of the 

 state. We also found in process of con- 

 struction a house connecting the entire 

 range with the new office. A new 

 greenhouse, about 30x70, was nearing 

 completion. Mr. MacDonald 's men 

 w^ere just then in the agony of putting 

 in the glass, which means Cold .fingers. 



Mr. MacDonald has a fine place, an.d 

 after the new buildings are finished hig 

 plant will be quite complete in its equip- 

 ment. His four King Construction 

 houses are each 30x120, and completely 

 filled with carnations. It looks as 

 though he could cut thousands of carna- 

 tions from now until Christmas. His 

 stock has that hardiness and thrift 

 which bespeak the greatest success. We 

 found also about 40,000^ geraniums in 

 2%-inch pots, and the plants gave great < 



promisfe for spring trade. In the other 

 houses were cyclamens, azaleas and 

 poinsettias for Christmas trade, and 

 they were, in a decidedly thrifty condi- 

 tion. Mr. MacDonald is one of the 

 quiet sort of men, apparently never in 

 a flurry or bastle, though his work moves 

 steadily &,long and everything he touches 

 seems to respond perfectly to his direc- 



'tion. In order tOvPiake his heating 

 plant mora complete" and have a reserve 

 in case of ^emergency, he is just now 

 putting in an eighty horse-power return 

 tubular boiler, which will give sufficient 

 heat in a tirae'of accident or in the most 

 severe storm. 



After spending a pleasant afternoon 

 with Mr. MacDoi^ld, we to^k the train 

 back to Scranton, where an automobile 

 was in waiting to take Mr. and Mrs. 

 Baker to Mr. CokeW's home, to par- 

 ticipate in a grouse <nnner. Mr. Cokely 

 had been on a hunting trip in Wayne 



•county the day before, and either 

 through accident or good marksmanship 

 was enabled to bring' home grouse 

 enough for a fine spread. Mr. Baker 

 called on our mayor and a number of 

 our craft, and all wished. him success in 

 his new. office. G. E. Clark. 



WASHINGTON. 



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. ' The Market. 



Business has improved considerably. 

 Some few ^till complain, but generally 

 optimism prevails. The return of Con- 

 gress accounts in part for the improve- 

 ment, although resolutions adopted by 

 the house and senate a year or two ago 

 prohibiting the display of flowers on 

 the floors of the legislative halls on the 

 opening day of the session does away 

 with the continuous procession of flo- 

 rists' delivery wagons that formerly 

 marche'd 6n the capitol. 



Thanksgiving business was good and 

 since that holiday things have been 

 even better. Eoses are of fine quality 

 and plentiful, but moving as fast as re- 

 ceived. Mums were at their best last 

 week, but they are holding out well and 

 the prospect is that they will be on 

 the market for two' or three weeks 

 more. Dealers will try to clean them 

 out before Christmas, however, as roses 

 and other flowers have the call at the 

 Yuletide. 



Varices Notes. 



Poinsettias have appeared and are 

 good. Sitiall & Freeman are showing 

 some fine ones and George C. Schaeflfer, 

 too, has good specipiQjis. 



Washington florists are in^^rested in 

 an apparently authoritative report from 

 the Agricultural Department that a rule 

 has been made that the department 

 shall no longer distribute cut flowers 

 and plants free. The department has 

 made a practice of such distribution 

 for twenty years, more or less, and the 

 practice has worked harm to the local 

 florists. The latter have protested to 

 government officials in vain. Frequently 

 tl^ florists have been rorcfed to cancel 

 olders received for flowers and plants 

 from members of families in official and 

 society life fpr the reitson, as given, 

 that the florists' patroiis have later ob- 

 tained free flowers from the govern- 

 ment. This sort of competition has 

 made Washington florists sore, but they 

 have heretofore accomplished nothing 

 to prevent it. Ttie announcement of 

 the department's reported change of 



