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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JANUABT 11, 1912. 



light, but is by no means ready to 

 drop Enchantress. White Enchantress 

 and Beacon do particularly well with 

 him. 



Mr. Rosenthal, of the Boston Cut 

 Flower Co., 14 Bromfield street, reports 

 a heavy Christmas business. He keeps 

 a thoroughly up-to-date store and his 

 trade is steadily growing. He has re- 

 cently made some large and tasteful 

 funeral designs. 



Dobbins & Shannon, of Woburn, and 

 R. H. Little, of "Winchester, are heavy 

 shippers of high grade single violets 

 to the Boston Cooperative Flower 

 Market. 



Thomas Pegler is headquarters for 

 Preesia Purity at the Boston Flower Ex- 

 ^hange and receives large daily ship- 

 aients of them from S. J. Goddard, Wil- 

 low Hill Greenhouses, H. Waldecker and 

 R. D. Kimball, of Waban. 



Everett E. Cummings, of Woburn, one 

 of our leading violet specialists, handles 

 some thousands of fine Princess of 

 Wales flowers daily at the Boston Flow- 

 er Exchange. He will discontinue grow- 

 ing winter vegetables after this season 

 and will plant carnations and mums in 

 their stead, using vegetables as a spring 

 and summer succession. 



Donald Carmichael, of Wellesley, has 

 extra fine Carnation Conquest and mig- 

 Qonette at the Boston Cooperative 

 Market. 



Matthew F. Ruane, former salesman 

 for Peirce Bros., but now operating a 

 retail store at Waltham, reports busi- 

 aess as decidedly good. 



The Newtonville Greenhouses are 

 shipping a fine lot of Killarney, White 

 Killarney, Mrs. Jardine and Bon Silene 

 roses to the Boston Flower Exchange. 



The Flower Growers ' Sales Co. reports 

 business brisk. They are receiving a 

 splendid lot of Cattleya Trianfe and 

 gardenias from their growers. Carna- 

 tions from F. P. Putnam and Halifax 

 Gardens Co. are also of the top notch 

 quality. Of roses they have large ship- 

 ments. 



Mann Bros, are cutting a fine lot of 

 Formosa lilies. They also have quan- 

 tities of Dutch hyacinths, tulips, includ- 

 ing La Reine, and yellow daffodils in 

 quantity. 



Robert Hutcheon, of Stoughton, is a 

 large shipper of Paper Whites at the 

 Boston Cooperative Market, also a nice 

 lot of carnations. 



A splendid entertainment is prepared 

 for ladies' night at the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club January 23. The newly 

 elected officers will be installed the 

 eame evening. 



The Boston delegation to the Detroit 

 convention was not so large as had been 

 hoped for. The severely cold weather 

 deterred some from making the trip. 



Burgess & Cooney, of Maplewood, are 

 shipping excellent mignonette, Trumpet 

 Major and Paper Whites to the Boston 

 Cooperative Market. Mrs. J. F. Flood, 

 at the same market, sends fine daily 

 shipments of Asparagus plumosus and 

 Sprengeri. 



Welch Bros, find January business ex- 

 ceptionally good. In the way of choice 

 flowers their cattleyas, gardenias. Beau- 

 ties and valley are of top notch quality. 

 They are just now getting good lots of 

 Dutch bulbous flowers and fine freesia. 



T. J. Grey Co. report a fine sale for 

 seed of their new berried solanum. This 

 has berries more pointed than Solanum 

 Capsicastrum and is a good novelty. 



The midwinter flower show of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 will be held February 2, 3 and 4. There 



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 m«t needed. 



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UenQoD The Review when voa wnt(> 



is a fine list of prizes for plants and 

 cut flowers. Carnations have no less 

 than twenty classes allotted to them. 



K. C. Bridgham, who runs a high class 

 retail store on Beacon street, as well as 

 operating the Newtonville Greenhouses, 

 had a splendid Christmas business and 

 reports steady trade since. W. N. C. 



Westboro, Mass. — W. M. Gardner, the 

 High street florist, recently had the 

 misfortune to fall and fracture a rib. 



Fort Morgan, Colo. — L. J. Eeid, of 

 Reid's Greenhouses, makes a consider- 

 able part of his deliveries by means 

 of a motorcycle and finds that it is 

 handy, quick and economical for such 

 a purpose. He says that though his 

 business might not justify the expense 

 of an automobile, the delivery depart- 

 ment would be badly crippled at times 

 without the motorcycle to help out the 

 horse. 



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