January 4, 1912. 



TheWcckly Florists' Rcviev^r. 



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ticket, fare will be $14.55. Mr. Nichol- 

 son hopes to secure a good delegation 

 from Boston and vicinity and quite a 

 few have already expressed their in- 

 tention of going. 



Various Notes. 



Johnston Knight, the courteous and 

 obliging manager of the Boston Cooper- 

 ative Flower Market, was presented 

 with a gold watch and chain December 

 23 by President John McFarland, in 

 behalf of the growers and salesmen of 

 the market. The present was well de- 

 served and we hopo Mr. Knight will 

 be spared many years to enjoy it. 



James Wheeler is cutting quantities 

 of superb antirrhinums, the finest I 

 have seen at this season in the Boston 

 market. His big house of carnations 

 is rendering an excellent account of 

 itself, the old Enchantress being grand. 



Mrs. W. H. Ward, of Montvale, is 

 bringing in the first forget-me-nots of 

 the season, also excellent freesia, in 

 addition to her usual high grade carna- 

 tions. 



T. J. Benwell, of the A. H. Hews Co., 

 reports business at their big factory 

 as picking up nicely, everything point- 

 ing to a heavy spring trade. 



Peter M. Miller is in Bar Harbor, 

 Me., this week. The veteran Thomas 

 J. Grey has retired from active serv- 

 ice in the T. J. Grey Co. He has earned 

 a rest, as for many years he has been 

 a hard worker. No one locally is bet- 

 ter known and respected than Tom 

 Grey, and his acquaintances and 

 friends cover a wide area. 



William T. Walke, of Salem, and the 

 Mishawum Greenhouses, of Mishawum, 

 have a fine assortment of azaleas at the 

 Boston Cooperative Market. 



Bobert Montgomery, of Natick, cut 

 11,000 roses for the Christmas market. 

 His specialties are Killarney, White 

 Killarney, Eichmond and Ward, and 

 his flowers are noted for their high 

 quality. 



John Barr, of South Natick, had a 

 tremendous Christmas pick of high 

 grade carnations. His new variegated 

 Mrs. B. P. Cheney continues to render 

 a good account of itself, while Beacon, 

 Pink Delight, White Perfection and 

 others are grand. 



A. W. Belcher, of Winthrop, is grow- 

 in bulbs heavily again this season. He 

 has Paper Whites and Bomans in quan- 

 tity and will soon have an abundance 

 of Golden Spur and other narcissi. 



Heliotrope as a cut flower was years 

 ago a prime favorite in the big mar- 

 kets. It comes as a reminder of old 

 times to see the splendid bunches on 

 long stems brought in by F. L. Hardy, 

 of Natick. 



Calendulas are becoming more of a 

 winter market flower each year. N. A. 

 Hudson, of Natick, and D. J. Horrigan, 

 of East Foxboro, are each large ship- 

 pers of these to the Boston Cooperative 

 Market. 



William Sim had 50,000 of his high 

 grade sweet peas for Christmas, 125,000 

 Princess of Wales violets and some 

 thousands of pansies. 



The West Street Greenhouse Co. 

 (Keizer & Perkins, proprietors), of 

 Beading, have extra flne carnations, 

 such as White Wonder, Pink Delight, 

 Eose-'pink Enchantress and Enchant- 

 ress,, also sweet peas at the Boston 

 Cooperative Market. 



The Flower Growers* Sales Co. has 

 the large show window in its new rtore 

 on Park street arranged with excellent 



William J. Kennedy. 



(Vice-President Boston aardenere' and Florists' Club.) 



flowering plants and everything is in 

 excellent running order. 



James Tulis, of South Sudbury, has 

 large daily shipments of finely grown 

 carnations at the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change. His leaders are Beacon, White 

 Perfection, Gloriosa, White Wonder, 

 Fenn, Enchantress and White Enchant- 

 ress. 



The schedule committee of the Na- 

 tional Sweet Pea Society met at Hor- 

 ticultural hall December 28 and gave 

 the schedule for the July show a final 

 overhauling. Considerably over $2,000 

 will be oflEered in premiums. 



Thomas Pegler is receiving from the 

 Willow Hill Greenhouses Freesia Pur- 

 ity of fine quality, also marguerites and 

 callas in quantity. E. D. Kimball, of 

 Waban, is also sending him some fine 

 freesia. 



William E. Nicholson, of Framing- 

 ham, cut seventy-five dozen of his long 

 stemmed Freesia Purity for Christmas 

 and has had daily shipments since, all 

 of which are eagerly snapped up. Mr. 

 Nicholson will go to the Detroit con- 

 vention and will visit Joliet, where his 

 younger son, Harry, is employed, also 

 Dorner's, Hill's and other leading car- 

 nation places ere returning home. 



William Caraher, the genial sales- 

 man for the Sutermeister estate, of 

 Eeadville, has excellent pans of L'ln- 

 nocepce hyacinths and Montresor tulips 

 at the Boston Flower Exchange. 



January is late for mums, but James 

 Philbrick, of Woburn, still has white 

 and yellow varieties of good quality 

 at the Boston Cooperative Market, also 

 violets in quantity. 



L. E. Small, of Tewksbury, has a fine 

 house of bachelor's buttons, from' 

 which he has started to pick, also ex- 

 cellent marguerites. His carnations are 



superb. White Wonder, Gloriosa, Bea- 

 con and Scarlet Glow being note- 

 worthy. 



Peirce Bros., of Waltham, have lately 

 had heavy sales on their azaleas, cycla- 

 mens, poinsettias, crotons and small 

 ferns. They are growing marguerites 

 heavily and had a big holiday pick of 

 carnations. E. A. Peirce will go to 

 Detroit. 



F. J. Dolansky, of Lynn, had a splen- 

 did plant sale for the holidays. 

 Otaheite oranges, poinsettias and ken- 

 tias were his specialties. He is cutting 

 gardenias and cattleyas in quantity. 



The year closed with a snow storm, 

 followed by rain and a cool wave. De- 

 cember was an extraordinarily warm 

 month, the maximum temperature be- 

 ing 68 degrees. In 1910 it was 53 de- 

 grees. In 1911 the minimum was 10 

 degrees and in 1910 it was 10 degrees 

 below zero. The mean temperature was 

 24 degrees in 1910, but it was no less 

 than 371/2 degrees in 1911. Eainfall 

 for the year was 40 inches, nearly a 

 normal supply; and of this, over 25 

 inches has fallen since July 1. 



Thomas F. Galvin, Inc., has rounded 

 out 65 years in business. They are the 

 pioneer florists of Boston and still at 

 the top. Their two big stores at 124 

 Tremont ijtreet and 799 Boylston street 

 did a tremendous Christmas business. 



In a paragraph relating to Lady 

 Hillingdon and Mrs. Ward roses in last 

 week's Eeview, I was made to say 

 that the former would produce ten- 

 flowers to one of the latter. This should 

 have been two to one. W. N. C. 



Ames, la. — F. J. Olsan, the florist and 

 seedsman, has removed his downtown 

 headquarters to a store in the new con- 

 crete Olsan block. 



