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The Florists' Review 



Jandabt 23, 1913. 



W. W. Edgar Co., as salesman, has left 

 their employ and is now with A. M. 

 Davenport, Watertown. 



W. H. Elliott continues to cut large 

 quantities of fine Christie Miller 

 roses. F. H, Houghton speaks highly 

 of this variety for retailing. Mr. 

 Elliott's Wards are fine. He is not 

 favorably impressed with Killarnev 

 Queen, Double White Killarney and 

 Sunburst. He expects the coming sea- 

 son to plant quite a few carnations, 

 which he can use in his shipping trade. 

 Work on the new wholesale flower 

 market is being pushed as rapidly as 

 possible. It is now hoped to have it in 

 readiness about the middle of February. 

 Willow Hill Greenhouses are sending 

 in well flowered standard and bush 

 genistas. 



Israel Quint, of Roxbury, is strong 

 on Dutch hyacinths, double daffodils 

 And other bulbous stock. 



Frank Bornay, of Wellesley, is this 

 season having good success with Bea- 

 con, White Wonder and Enchantress 

 ■carnations. 



There are many visitors these days 

 to Thomas Roland's mammoth sweet 

 pea house at Revere, now in splendid 

 bloom; Mr. Roland has a grand lot 

 of acacias and other hard- wooded plants 

 for the National Flower Show. 



Lively & Bond, of Holbrook, in addi- 

 tion to carnations, are now having a 

 heavy cut of single and double daffo- 

 dils, Paper Whites and other bulbous 

 flowers. 



Carbone, on Boylston street, has this 

 week a grand show of Azalea mollis in 

 one of his big show windows. 



M. B. Dallachie, of Newton Center, 

 is one of the decreasing number of 

 successful growers of double violets. 

 His Campbells this season are good. 



January has proved a rather extraor- 

 dinary month. The first seventeen days 

 showed 170 degrees excess temperature. 

 Last year the same days showed a de- 

 ficiency of 155 degrees. 



The Scituate Greenhouses, of Scitu- 

 ate, Mass., are having good success now 

 with snapdragons. They have these 

 in several colors and all sell well. R. O. 

 Kimball, of Waban, has a pink variety, 

 which moves quickly. 



Wm. A. McAlpine now handles the 

 entire cut of carnations, mignonette 

 and other flowers grown by Frank P. 

 Putnam, of North Tewksbury. 



The Boston Cut Flower Co., on Brom- 

 field street, is always a hive of indus- 

 try. Mr. Rosenthal reports funeral 

 work as good and his casket shower 

 sprays are often asked for. 



Paine Bros., of Randolph, now have 

 a heavy lot of bulbous stock. Their 

 La Reine and Yellow Prince tulips and 

 single and double daffodils are of top 

 notch quality. 



J. J. Casey, of the Rosery, on Boyl- 

 ston street, reports business as good 

 this winter. The new Copley Plaza 

 hotel is nearly opposite his place, and 

 this brings much additional trade. 



John McFarland's Easter lilies are 

 •coming along in good shape and will 

 be in flower in season. He continues 

 to have a fine daily cut of valley. He 

 had on exhibition January 18 a beauti- 

 ful hybrid cattleya, for which he re- 

 ceived a silver medal a year ago. 



S. J. Goddard showed some flowers 

 of the new English carnation. Lady 

 Northcliffe, " last week at the Boston 

 Flower Exchange. This is of a beauti- 

 ful salmon pink color, just the color 

 the market needs. Mr. Goddard has 



one or two other English sorts under 

 trial. W. N. Craig. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



A scarcity of roses, especially of the 

 lower grades, has been the feature of 

 the wholesale cut flower market during 

 the last week. This has held the mar- 

 ket steady, but its influence in behalf 

 of other varieties has not been felt and 

 carnations had a bad week, the se- 

 lected stock, including the novelties, 

 falling to 3 cents, and most of the 

 arrivals declining to 2 cents and even 

 at times to as low as $10 per thousand. 

 American Beauties were scarce and 

 high up to last week's end, a tQp quo- 

 tation of 75 cents being reached for 

 the selected. Nothing of value fell 

 below 50 cents, the limited arrivals 

 being spoken for in advance. The 

 warm, sunny weather will increase the 

 shipments and doubtless restore normal 

 conditions. Of other roses there is no 

 shortage, except of novelties; of these 

 there is never a surplus. The lower 

 grades of the old varieties were iix wide 

 demand all the week and 3 cents was 

 the general quotation. Rose shipments 

 are expected to increase heavily before 

 the week is over. 



There seems to be an oversupply of 

 orchids; prices are low and unsteady. 

 For valley 4 cents is the extreme quota- 

 tion and only the best of the stock 

 reaches this figure, most of it selling at 

 from 3 cents down. There is no short- 

 age. Lilies are holding well at 6 to 8 

 cents. Gardenias are more abundant 

 and lower. Callas are plentiful, and 

 $1.50 per dozen is quoted for the top 

 grade. There is an abundance of nar- 

 cissi, freesias, wallflowers, stocks, lilac, 

 daisies and daffodils. Violets must be 

 extra good to command 35 cents per 

 hundred; any accumulations go to the 

 department Stores at the buyer's fig- 

 ures, which are unmentionable. An oc- 

 casional street merchant is seen dodg- 

 ing the police and helping to distribute 

 the surplus. 



Various Notes. 



The weekly meetings of the National 

 Flower Show Committees grow in in- 

 terest and importance as the great ex- 

 hibition draws near. Everything prom- 

 ises success. 



The Horticultural Society of New 

 York will hold its first exhibition of 

 the year Saturday, January 25, at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 Central Park West and Seventy-sev- 

 enth street, from l.to 5 p. m. The ex- 

 hibits will be orchids and carnations. 

 A lecture will be delivered at 4 p. m. 

 by George T. Powell, on "The Educa- 

 tional and Financial Importance of 

 Horticulture to the Community." 



The* horticultural banquets continue. 

 January 21 the annual effervescence oc- 

 curred at Red Bank, N. J., and on 

 Thursday evening Glen Cove will cele- 

 brate,- preceded by a bowling match 

 between the Nassau county and West- 

 chester societies. Tuesday, January 28, 

 the annilal dinner of the Morris County 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Society will 

 be held at Morristown, N. J. Wednes- 

 day, January 29, the Oyster Bay So- 

 ciety will enjoy its initial banquet. The 

 same evening the New York and New 

 Jersey plant growers will celebrate at 

 the Hotel Martin in New York city 

 and Thursday, January 30, the Yon- 



kers Horticultural Society will hold its 

 fourth annual banquet at the Park Hill 

 Inn. 



The Oyster Bay Horticultural So- 

 ciety will inaugurate an interesting 

 contest for prizes in order to interest 

 school children in the study of horti- 

 culture this year, through its subsidiary 

 garden association. 



The National Flower Show commit- 

 tee has decided to receive bids for the 

 privilege of selling plants and flowers 

 during the exhibition April 5 to 12, 150 

 square f%et of space being provided 

 free. Bids will be opened February 15. 



L. B. Coddington is back from his 

 trip to Panama, L. A. Noe is home 

 from Florida and Sydney Wertheimer 

 from Bermuda. 



The plantsmen are exceedingly busy 

 because of the early Easter. March 23 

 is only eight weeks distant. 



Ed. Roehrs, of the Julius Roehrs Co., 

 Rutherford, who has been living for 

 some time on his ranch in New Mexico, 

 is visiting the old folks at home. 



W. A. Manda, of West Orange, is 

 making his annual trip to Europe. 



David Adam, formerly with Thor- 

 burn & Co., and lately with H. A. 

 Dreer, Philadelphia, has returned to 

 New York and is now one of the force 

 of Peter Henderson & Co. 



W. E. Marshall is away in the west, 

 one of many in that branch of the 

 trade now scouring the country for the 

 spring orders with great success. 



Mrs. Meissner and her son have 

 opened a branch retail store at 233 

 Kingston avenue, Brooklyn. 



Alexander McConnell had the decora- 

 tions for the wedding of Helen Gould 

 at Tarrytown, January 22, probably 

 the most notable job of the season, 



J. Austin Shaw. 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



Business last week was quite good 

 and there was little change in prices 

 over previous quotations. For the first 

 time since last winter there are not 

 enough roses to go around, but this con- 

 dition is counteracted by the exception- 

 ally heavy supply of carnations, which 

 are in full crop. Sweet peas are also in 

 full crop; in fact, there seems to be no 

 limit to the supply. However, the de- 

 mand is heavy enough to enable the 

 dealers to clean up nicely each day. 

 Easter lilies are plentiful and snap- 

 dragons, daisies and callas are also in 

 good supply. Lilacs, while fairly plen- 

 tiful, are not coming to the market in 

 sufficient quantities to meet all calls for 

 them. 



Fine primroses, begonias, cyclamens 

 and azaleas are to be seen in the stores. 



Various Notes. 



The local trade is greatly disap- 

 pointed at the stand taken by Presi- 

 dent-elect Wilson as regards the hold- 

 ing of the inaugural ball. A number 

 of florists and other business men have 

 voiced their sentiments in the columns 

 of the public press. A knowledge of 

 trade conditions makes explanation un- 

 necessary. 



Henry Diedrich, of Anacostia, was 

 last week the victim of what is be- 

 lieved to have been a mad dog. While 

 walking along Alabama avenue he was 

 set upon by a large pointer, which bit 

 him in the left hand. 



A novel design was resorted to last 



