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The Florists' Review 



Apkil 3U, 1914. 



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I New England Department | 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



The Market. 



Stores and growers are now prepar- 

 ing for the Memorial day trade. With 

 business in a normal condition, there 

 is a full supply of everything, the in- 

 flux of carnations and roses exceeding 

 the demand, causing a decided drop in 

 the market. Outdoor work is com- 

 mencing in earnest and most of the 

 landscape men have plenty of work 

 hooked for the immediate future. 



Various Notes. 



Cornelius Sullivan, who recently left 

 T. O'Connor after sixteen years, has 

 engaged with Joseph Koppelman in the 

 latter 's greenhouses at Oaklawn. 



Earl H. Williams is building four 

 greenhouses and a boiler house for the 

 .1. A. Budlong & Sons Co., on Pontiac 

 avenue. Auburn. The greenhouses are 

 each 22x610 feet. The boiler house will 

 be 20x40 feet, of brick, sixteen feet 

 high. 



Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hess, of New- 

 port, have returned from their honey- 

 moon trip, in New York and vicinity. 



Mrs. H. H. Pepper, wife of H. How- 

 ard Pepper, of the Melrose Rose Gar- 

 dens, reached home last week after a 

 seven months' trip to visit her mother 

 in India. W. H. M. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Not for a long time has the flower 

 market been in a weaker or more thor- 

 oughly demoralized condition. Prices 

 ruled lower than in the previous week 

 and there was no stability to anything. 

 Roses and carnations usually lose favor 

 as the season advances and at present 

 few of them are seen in window decora- 

 tions, which consist mainly of snapdrag- 

 ons, Spanish iris, sweet peas, calendulas, 

 English primroses, yellow marguerites, 

 cornflowers and orchids. Roses are 

 druggy; $5 per thousand is all that 

 many of the short-stemmetl flowers 

 bring. Special flowers only reach $5 to 

 $6 per hundred. American Beauties 

 are low, the best specials going at $15 

 to $20 per hundred, some even lower. 

 Carnations in extreme cases climb to 

 $2 or $2.50 per hundred, but only fancy 

 flowers reach these figures. Many go 

 slowly at even $1 per hundred. 



Double violets still arrive, but they 

 are small and cut little figure. Sweet 

 peas sell as well as anything on the 

 list, especially Spencers. The best of 

 these make $1.50 jter hundred. Dutch 

 bulbous flowers grown indoors hold out 

 well, thanks to the continued coM 

 weather, but they are nearing the end. 

 Spanish iris is abundant. Ixias and 

 ranunculi are of good quality. Lilies 

 and callas are selling at low prices; 

 even lily of the valley has failed to 

 attract buyers. Antirrhinums remain 

 hard to sell. A few flowers, such as 

 ixias, iris, yellow marguerites, Spencer 

 sweet peas and cornflowers, are in 

 pretty good demand. Long-stemmed 

 gardenias sell slowly at $3 per dozen. 

 Cattleva Mossia* and Schroederse make 



Wholesale Cut Flower Prices. 



BoBton. April 29. 191 -1. 

 Per 100 



Beauty. Bpedala $15.00 



Bxtn 6.00 



Short stemi 2.00 



Shawyers, Russells 1.00 



Klllftmey 50 



WUteKUlamey 50 



Dark Pink KUUmey 1.00 



Doable White KlUarney 60 



Klllamey Queen 1.00 



Mrs. Aaron Ward 50 



Lady Hilllngdon 50® 



Richmond, Bhea Reid 50 & 



Sunburst 1.00 



Rivoire (Bulffarie. Taft) 1.00 @ 



Camationi 1.00 @ 



Gattleyas 26.00 & 



Lily of the Valley 2.00 @ 



Easter Lilies 4.00 Q 



Qardenlas 8.00 @ 



Pansies 28 O 



Double Violets 40 ~ 



Marsruerites 50 



Antirrhinums 2.00 



Sweet Peas 36 



Callas 6.00 @ 



Tulips 1.00 e 



Daffodils 1.00 O 



Suanish Iris 2.00 @ 



$20.00 

 10.00 

 4.00 

 6.00 

 5.00 

 5.00 

 6.00 

 5.00 

 6.00 

 5.00 

 5.00 



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6 00 

 6.00 

 2.50 



30.00 

 3.00 

 6.00 



25.00 

 .30 

 .60 

 2.00 

 4.00 

 1.60 

 8.00 

 1.50 

 1.60 

 4.00 



$4 per dozen, and a few Q. gigas 75 

 cents per flower. Street venders can 

 buy all thej' want now at their own 

 l)rices, and the daily waste in the rub- 

 bish barrels is heavy. 



Various Notes. 



William Sim is marketing 15,000 to 

 25,000 sweet peas of splendid quality 

 daily, mostly Spencers. Another sea- 

 son he wall grow nothing but Spencers. 

 He will have some large houses in 

 heavy crop for Memorial <lay. 



William H. Carr is handling the fin- 

 est long-stemme<l ixias I have seen this 

 season. They were grown by John W. 



Davie, of Dedham. He also has .fine 

 Spanish iris in a variety of colors, 

 grown in benches, from Herman Wal- 

 decker, of Braintree. 



Thomas Roland continues to send in 

 some superb specimen plants of Tau- 

 sendschon roses. He has a heavy cut 

 of roses from his Revere establishment. 



W. J. Cain, of Newtonville, is send- 

 ing in bunches of nasturtiums in sev- 

 eral colors, in addition to fine sweet 

 peas. 



McAlpine & McDonald are getting 

 magnificent Spencer peas. Those named 

 Pink Beauty, from Gustave Olson, of 

 Woburn, are grand. Their cut of long- 

 stemmed roses is large. Among miscel- 

 laneous flowers here I noticed mignon- 

 ette and Spanish iris in quantity. 



The Boston Cut Flower Co. is doing 

 a goo<l business in boxes of assorted 

 roses; twenty-five flowers for 50 cents. 

 Their general business is good. 



The Central Greenhouses, of West 

 Roxbury, have this season made spe- 

 cialties of callas and carnations, both 

 of which have done extremely well. 



A special meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club will be held before 

 the next regular meeting to discuss S. 

 A. F. and other matters. One sugges- 

 tion made is that the club make an ex- 

 tensive display from its members, both 

 commercial and private, in the conven- 

 tion garden. Mid-August, however, is 

 a poor time for displays from private 

 estates, unless they be of indoor plants, 

 which would need protection from the 

 elements. With a spring convention it 

 would be otherwise, as a wealth of ma- 

 terial would be at command. 



Lively & Bond, of Holbrook, have 

 had a successful season with Dutch 



Just received new importations of 



GATTLEYAS AND DENDR0BIUM8 



Prices on application. 

 F«w nMr* Oardsnia Plant* from a^a-ln. pota at S8.O0 and $10.0O par lOO 



F. J. DOLANSKY, 



LYNN, MASS. 



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ORCHIDS 



Cat Cattleyas, Dendrobiams, 

 Onoidinms, CTpripedioma, 

 etc., at their seasons. Qual- 

 ity second to none. Prices, 

 richt I^mpt delirery. 



PAUL DE NAVE 



Orekid Growar 

 FALL RIVER. MASS. 



The New Carnation 



"ALICE" 



A beautiful shade of cl«ar blush 

 pink* midway between Gloriosa 

 and Enchantress. A marvslous 

 bloomer. Will be disseminated 

 season 1914-15. 



PETER FISHER, Ellis, Mass 



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