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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Septembbb 16, 1010. 



King, one of their best varieties, is now 

 bearing largely, Katherine Duer is not 

 yet in bloom, but promises well. The 

 reds are a feature of the second field. 

 C. A. Wood is one of the old-time 

 growers. He loves his work dearly and 

 his place shows it. 



All the farms were clean and the 

 stock healthy. The enthusiasm of the 

 growers clearly said that no stone 

 would be left unturned to improve the 

 varieties and maintain the standard 

 of the dahlia at Hamnionton. 



Phil. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Couditions have changed but little 

 from a week ago. The summer dull- 

 ness has not yet given place to fall 

 activity. Prices show little change, bi^t 

 6n the whole business is fully as good 

 as can be expected at this season and 

 quite a lot of flowers are being moved, 

 in fact considerably more than a year 

 ago. Boses are becoming more abund- 

 ant. They are not yet of particularly 

 good quality and many of the short- 

 stemmed ones are only cleared at low 

 prices. Killarneys retain their popu- 

 larity. Some good Carnot, Maryland 

 and Kaiserin are also seen. Carnations 

 are now arriving from more growers, 

 but only in limited quantities as yet, 

 while stems are quite short. 



Lilies are in fairly good demand. L. 

 longiflorum is now mostly seen, aura- 

 turns and speciosums being scarce. 

 Asters are abundant and of grand 

 quality. Prices are somewhat lower on 

 these. Eains of last week spoiled a 

 good many flowers. American Branch- 

 ing is unusually fine, some having 24- 

 inch stems. Gladioli are getting scarcer 

 and good spikes of the favorite colors 

 are bringing fairly good prices. The 

 scarcity in orchids shows signs of re- 

 lief now, with the arrival of the first 

 labiatas. Gardenias are not in much 

 request. Valley sells moderately well. 

 Cut hydrangeas, tuberoses, single sun- 

 flowers, cosmos, physostegia and a va- 

 riety of other outdoor flowers are teen. 

 The demand for green stock remains 

 about the same. Pot plant trade is 

 starting up nicely. 



Various Notes. 



The Halifax Gardens Co., of Halifax, 

 Mass., are among the new stall holders 

 at the Boston Flower Exchange, hav- 

 ing purchased two stalls. Until the 

 present season cucumbers, tomatoes and 

 lettuce were chiefly grown, but the 

 manager, W. E. Lenk, has now 50,000 

 carnations planted as a starter in flori- 

 culture. 



Letters received from Andrew Chris- 

 tensen, of Stoneham, who is now in 

 Europe, show that he has done London 

 and Paris and is now busy on the conti- 

 nent visiting other places of horticul- 

 tural interest. 



Among the new stall holders at the 

 Boston Cooperative Flower Market are 

 Arthur GriflBn and John F. Flood, of 

 Woburn, and James Wheeler, of Natick. 

 At the Boston Flower Exchange, A. 

 Roper, of Tewksbury, has taken two 

 stalls. Louis Smith, of Tewksbury, and 

 A. M. Davenport, of Watertown, are 

 also new accessions. 



Miss Eunice Belcher has opened a new 

 flower store in Winthrop Center. Her 

 brother for some time has operated 

 greenhouses there, but has never had a 

 store. Miss Belcher is well known and 



is doing an excellent business. 



N. M. Silverman, at his always in- 

 teresting Winter street store, had last 

 week some excellent pans of achimenes 

 and fine Mme. Bergmann chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Elliott moved 

 September 9 from Madbury, N. H., to 

 their fine new Brighton home. The 

 roses both at Madbury and Brighton are 

 looking exceptionally well. Mr. Elliott 

 finds that fumigation with hydrocyanic 

 acid gas of sufficient strength to kill 

 rose plants has no' effect on the de- 

 structive leaf roller, which has caused 

 him a lot of trouble at Madbury. 



Among growers who are sending in 

 nice carnations of the new season's 

 trop to the Boston Flower Exchange 

 jirc W. D. Howard, of Milford; Leonard 

 Cousins, of Concord Junction; A. Chris- 

 tensen, of Stoneham; S. J. Goddard, 

 of Framingham,* and James Tulis, of 

 South Sudbury. 



At Thomas Galvin's Tremont street 

 store last week one window contained 

 some beautiful vases of gladioli. In 

 another window crotons, Aralia Veit- 

 chii, pandanus, ferns in variety and As- 

 paragus plumosus were tastefully ar- 

 ranged. 



Quite a number of our local growers 

 have, during the last few days, been 

 visitors at the big aviation meeting at 

 Atlantic, where daily attendances of 

 50,000 to 75,000 have been the rule. If 

 only some such attraction as Grahame- 

 W'^hite could be secured for the coming 

 national show its financial success 

 would be a foregone conclusion. 



J. Newman & Sons, at their Tremont 

 street store, have been quite busy with 

 funeral work lately. They have had 

 excellent summer business. In their 

 windows various foliage plants in small 

 fancy dishes, such as crotons, Cocos 

 Weddelliana, asparagus, etc., are being 

 made a feature at present. 



J. F. Flood, who recently purchased 

 the David Fisher estate in Woburn, has 

 his carnations all housed and is picking 

 a nice lot of flowers. Asparagus Spren- 

 geri and adiantums are being made spe- 

 cialties. 



Remember the club meeting Septem- 

 ber 20. Vacation experiences will be 

 given by a number of members and 

 there will be much other business of 

 interest. 



B. P. Winch is sending in some good 

 Golden Glow chryanthemums, which 

 are handled by J. S. Manter at the 

 Boston Flower Exchange. 



Fall trade is beginning to start up 

 nicely with Welch Bros., and they an- 

 ticipate an excellent season. They are 

 receiving excellent Beauty and Killar- 

 ney roses, valley, carnations, chrysan- 

 themums, gardenias and cattleyas. 



Birch trees in every part -of Massa- 

 chusetts have been skeletonized by a 

 small green worm. The trees have the 

 appearance of being scorched by fire. 

 We had a similar attack about ten 

 years ago, but since that time have 

 been practically immune from the pest. 



H. R. Comley, on Park street, has 

 made excellent use of Clematis panicu- 

 lata of late in his window decorations. 

 We noted good achimenes, Bouvardia 

 Humboldtii and Cattleya Harrisonia> 

 among other flowers. 



William F. Aylward is at present 

 handling some excellent Christmas pep- 

 pers from H. W. Vose, of Hyde Park. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, have at 

 present fine lots of tuberoses, Hydran- 



gea paniculata, Lilium longiflorum and 

 dahlias at their stands in the Boston 

 Flower Exchange. 



Wheeler & Co.,. of Wq,t)an, the orchid 

 specialists, have a grand lot of Cattleya 

 labiata, bristling with sheaths, from 

 which they will cut thousands weekly 

 in a short time. 



John McFarland, of North Easton, 

 has 2,000 poinsettias in 6-inch pots 

 which promise to be ideal plants for 

 Christmas. He is growing some of the 

 double variety, plenissima, which he 

 likes very much, but which is less easy 

 of propagation than the common pul- 

 eherrima. 



Robert Montgomery has been spend- 

 ing his vacation at his summer cottage 

 in Maine, and is much improved there- 



by. 



A. N. Pierson, of Cromwell, Conn., 

 was a visitor last week. Edward J. 

 Rogean is salesman for Mr. Pierson at 

 the Boston Flower Exchange. 



Recent soaking rains did considerable 

 damage to the aster crop, white flowers 

 suffering the most. Vegetation has. 

 however, been wonderfully revived. 

 Light frosts were reported from several 

 places on the mornings of September 

 11 and 12. 



J. H. Leach & Son, of North Easton, 

 have an extra fine lot of carnations this 

 season, including the most up-to-date 

 varieties. They are growing less asters 

 this season than a year ago. The black 

 beetle proved destructive, but they 

 have an excellent lot of gladioli. 



At W. W. Edgar & Co.'s, stock is 

 looking first class at present. They 

 have grand lots of poinsettias. Lor- 

 raines, azaleas, metrosideros, small 

 ferns, hydrangeas, genistas and other 

 serviceable stock. 



New England's greatest fair opens at 

 Brockton October 4. More money is 

 this year given for cut flowers. For 

 vase of fifty roses, $15, $10 and $5 is 

 offered. There are also new classes for 

 vases of twenty-five blooms of each type 

 of dahlia shown with long stems, which 

 should prove a pleasing change from 

 the flat stereotyped style of exhibiting 

 usually in evidence. 



Henry M. Robinson & Co. are rapidly 

 filling their large new store rooms with 

 seasonable goods. They are receiving 

 quantities of splendid new crop hardy 

 ferns and the cut flower demand is 

 bracing up. 



N. F. McCarthy's auction sales 

 started up again September 13 and will 

 continue for some weeks. 



W. N. Craig. 



TO BIPEN SPBENOEBI SEED. 



Would you kindly tell us how to 

 ripen Asparagus Sprengeri seed? We 

 have had a piece of a bench in Spren- 

 geri for the last year, and during the 

 summer months it produced strong 

 sprays, which we have allowed to go to 

 seed. The sprays bear heavy clusters of 

 the seed and ramble all over the bed. 

 but the seeds do not ripen, or if they do. 

 they fall off unnoticed. Should the 

 sprays be cut with the green berries 

 on them and dried, or should they be 

 hung up, letting the sun do the rest? 

 How should the watering be conducted 

 at this period of their growth? H. J. P. 



The seeds of Asparagus Sprengeri 

 would ripen more readily and more 

 evenly if the sprays were supported so 

 that the sun and air could reach them. 

 It would be an eaav matter to run a 



