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The Florists^ Review 



Februabk 6, 1913. 



^ 1892-1913 



BOSTON FLOWER EXCHANGE, Inc. 



OPEN THEIR 



NEW FLOWER MARKET 



In the heart of the Wholesale Flower District, corner Otis Street and Winthrop Square, 



between Summer and Franklin Streets, 



BOSTON, MASS., Saturday, February 15, 1913 



WITH A ^ 



Reception and Flower Show 



CORDIAL INVITATION EXTENDED TO ALL 



Exhibits of undisseminated varieties of Carnations, Roses or Plants solicited. 

 If exhibitor is unable 1o be present, send to FLOWER SHmW Nos. 1 and 

 3 Winthrop Square, Boston, Mass., in care of any of the following committees: 



CARNATIONS 



E. Allan Peirce 

 Wm. Nicholson 

 S. J. Goddard 

 Peter Fisher 

 M. A. Patten 



ROSES 



Alex. Montgomery 

 Eber Holmes 



Wm. Me Alpine 



PLANTS, Etc. 



Thos. Roland 

 A. Christensen 

 Lester Mann 

 A. Parker 

 Herman Bartsch 



E. ALLAN PEIRCE, Chairman, 



Waltham, Massachusetts 



in Boston 's wholesale flower circles. 

 There will be eminent speakers, includ- 

 ing Governor Foss, a fine flower show 

 and interesting exercises extending 

 right into the evening. 



F. J. Dolansky paid a visit to New 

 York last week to look over the orchid 

 and gardenia specialists and see if he 

 could discover any stock better than 

 his own. 



Thomas Roland is picking 12,000 to 

 15,000 sweet peas daily. All are sold 

 through the Flower Growers' Sales Co. 

 William Sim will start picking this 

 week on one of his big houses. 



A. H. Hews & Co. have a new three- 

 ton White truck, which is being kept 

 busily employed delivering orders for 

 flower pots. 



A. A. Pembroke has been obliged to 

 discard his new seedling carnation, 

 Beverly, owing to its bursting tenden- 

 cies. He has replaced it with Buxton's 

 silver pink snapdragon. 



W. H. Ward, of Montvale, has ex- 

 tra fine White Wonder and Pink De- 

 light carnations this season and some 

 of the best myosotis seen in Boston. 

 He has just finished his crop of winter 

 tomatoes. 



William S. Grassie, of Waverley, has 

 an excellent house of snapdragons just 

 coming into crop. 



Peirce Bros., of Waltham, are heavy 

 shippers of adiantum to the Flower 

 Grdwers' Sales Co. 



Peter Fisher, S. J. Goddard and other 

 experts will read short papers on car- 

 nation night, February 18, at the Gar- 

 deners ' and Florists' Club. 



E. J. Bogean, one of the popular 

 salesmen at - the Boston Flower Ex- 



CYACEINE 

 FLOWER COLORING 



Delivered at your 



20c per qt. 



Delivered at your door by mail, 



$2.00 per doz. 

 quarts. 



Pt. Patrick Groen. Yellow. Blue. 

 American Beauty, Orang»or fink. 

 Orders filled promptJy. 



146 Orchard Street, 

 AUBURN, R.I. 



^^f'nt^oTl TIip Review when you write. 



C. R. CRANSTON, 



change, is laid up with a bad attack of 

 the grip. 



N. F. Comley, of Lexington, at the 

 Boston Cooperative Market, has excel- 

 lent double bachelor 's buttons and 

 white and pink sweet peas. 



Visitors last week included J. S. Hay, 

 representing H. A. Dreer, of Phila- 

 delphia, and Maurice Fuld, with H. F. 

 Michell Co., of the same city. 



Jackson Dawson reports Hamamelis 

 .Taponica arborea in full bloom at the 

 Arnold Arboretum, with some forsyth- 

 ias. Spiraea Thunbergii and other 

 shrubs opening flowers, something un- 

 precedented for this date. 



The Halifax Garden Co. is having 

 extra success this season with Mrs. C. 

 W. Ward, White Wonder and En- 

 chantress carnations. 



The extremely warm weather is 

 causing anxiety to one or two of the 

 local growers, who have been planning 

 large exhibits at the coming New York 

 show. They think it will be difficult, 

 if not impossible, to hold back some of 

 the hard-wooded and other plants as 

 late as April. 



The History and Culture 



OF 



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 Directions tor treatment to carry the 

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S. J. Goddard is growing a crimson 

 scarlet carnation under number raised 

 by F. Dorner & Sons Co., which is 

 bright' and telling. There is much 



