Februauy 13, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



Eeine tulips and Golden Spur narcissi 

 are equal to any seen in the markets. 



R. H. Little, of Winchester, is a suc- 

 cessful grower of single violets. He 

 has 15,000 plants. All the flowers are 

 sold at the Boston Cooperative Market. 



J. H. Leach & Sons ' new carnation, 

 Pink Supreme, continues to make a 

 good record. While quite a full, heavy 

 flower, few blooms have burst and it 

 sells even better than Pink Delight. 



The Park street market of the Bos- 

 ton Flower Exchange will be used for 

 the last time February 15. The new 

 market on Winthrop Square will be 

 used February 17. 



F. H. Houghton, who is known as 

 one of our most up-to-date floral artists. 

 has been asked to contribute an article 

 on floral designs to the next Christmas 

 number of the Ladies' Home Journal. 



A. F. Anderson, of Woburn, is the 

 largest shipper of bulbous flowers to 

 the Boston Cooperative Market. His 

 Victorias, Golden Spurs and Murillos 

 leave nothing to be desired. 



Mayor Fitzgerald is seeking an ap- 

 propriation of $100,000 from the Park- 

 man fund for municipal greenhouses for 

 Boston. 



J. W. Simpson, of Woburn, is having 

 good success this season with Gloriosa, 

 White Wonder, Pink Delight and Bea- 

 con carnations. He still grows Lawson 

 and finds it profitable. His yellow mar- 

 guerites are as good as ever. 



John McFarland has 7,000 longiflo- 

 rum lilies which are nearly all showing 

 bud and wilh be on time for Easter. 

 Many growers are in the anxious seat 

 and are running high temperatures in 

 efforts to flower their plants. 



Prof. W. W. Tracy, of Washington, 

 lectured at Horticultural hall February 

 8, on " Adaptation of Local Grown Seed 

 to Local Conditions," before a large 

 and interested audience. 



The spring show of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society is scheduled for 

 March 14 to 16. A tempting array of 

 prizes is offered. W. N. Craig. 



BIOHMOND, IND. 



The writer spent a profitable day 

 recently at the greenhouses of the E. 

 G. Hill Co. I was surprised at the 

 large number of strong carnation plants 

 they are propagating. They do not 

 allow their stock plants to bloom at 

 all, and, judging from the strong, 

 stocky plants they are rooting, it pays 

 to propagate in that way. I was 

 especially impressed with a house of 

 their new variety. Commodore, grown 

 for cut flowers. This, side by side with 

 Beacon, has a better color, is as free 

 a bloomer, has stififer stems and does 

 not split. I looked for splits carefully, 

 but did not see a single split calyx 

 in this variety. 



Salmon Beauty is a coming variety, 

 if appearances count for anything. 

 Gloriosa, the flesh pink carnation, 

 seemed to me to be one of the best 

 of its color I had ever seen. I saw 

 a variegated variety, Benora, that must 

 win a place. It is white, striped lightly 

 with clear scarlet carmine. Euna Wal- 

 lace is an English variety that is on 

 trial and gives good promise. It is a 

 large deep pink, with long stems and 

 good, free habit. 



Mr. Hill is testing a white seedling 

 carnation of his own raising that I was 

 much impressed with. It is a cross 

 between White Wonder and May Day. 

 To me it looked better than either. 



"WHO'S WHO-AND WHY 



99 



JAMES S. WILSON. 



HAPPY is the florist located in a thriving city where he can retail the greater 

 part of his product, for there is an ever-waiting wholesale market for any. 

 surplus. James S. Wilson has been in the business at Des Moines, la., just long 

 enough to begin to appreciate the opportunities afforded by such a situation. 

 There are few men who possess a broader experience in the flower business, nor 

 are there many who are harder workers. • Mr. Wilson has found that there is no 

 difficulty in selling; the only trouble he has is to produce or procure in quantity 

 the stock his trade demands — and it keeps him on the jump every minute to keep 

 the orders from piling up. He is widely known and popular in the trade as well 

 as in his home town. 



but Mr. Hill said he was not certain 

 that he would introduce it, as he was 

 not yet sure of its superiority. 



I saw the new gold medal rose, Mme. 

 Edouard Herriott (Pemet-Ducher), in 

 bloom. It is a mammoth rose of an 

 entirely new color, a warm nasturtium 

 copper red. My only regret was that 

 I could not secure any of it for another 

 year. 



A bench of Mrs. Geo. Shawyer roses 

 was in full bloom. I was charmed 

 with its color, as well as with its 

 strong growth and freedom of bloom. 

 So strong a grower has seldom been 

 seen. I shall test it in the field this 

 season. 



Mme. Chas. Lutaud is a new yellow 

 rose that pleased me much. It is a 

 real yellow with a chrome tint, is of 

 good size and a strong grower. 



Helen Taft is a new variety of rose 

 originated in the government conserva- 

 tories at Washington, D. C, and is 

 quite promising. It is between a pink 



and a cerise and is of large size. 11 

 is of the Maryland type, but appears 

 to be a better rose. It is not yet 

 ready for distribution. 



G. Manns is one of Mr. Hill's seed- 

 ling roses, a cross between Richmond 

 and Rhea Reid. It is a fine red. 



No. 1,006 is a seedling that is much 

 like Antoine Rivoire. The latter has 

 always been a favorite rose with me, 

 but the seedling impressed me as being 

 better in every way. 



No. 694 is a rose that looks much 

 like Frau Karl Druschki, but is not 

 so full of thorns. It is blooming for 

 the first time and it is too early to 

 tell its value. 



Floyd Bralliar. 



Albany, N. Y.— The bill backed hj 

 tho Federation of Floral Clubs, provid- 

 ing for an appropriation of $60,000 lor 

 experiment greenhouses at Cornell, was 

 introduced in the state legislature 

 February 3. 



