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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mabch 24, 1910. 



of potatoes, which averaged him 200 

 bushels per acre. He will this year plant 

 fifty acres of potatoes and hopes to get a 

 yield of as high as 300 bushels per acre. 

 He believes Massachusetts can raise as 

 good potatoes as Maine and just as many 

 per acre. 



Henry B. Comley, on Park street, is 

 showing some extra good wistarias and 

 Azalea mollis for Easter. Ranunculi, 

 tritonias, dimorphothecas and many other 

 interesting spring flowers are to be seen 

 here. 



James Peters, of the Rosary, Claren- 

 don street, is in the hospital, recruiting 

 from an operation for rupture. 



The Gude brothers, of Washington, 

 were visitors in the markets March 18. 

 Mr. Hubert, the Guernsey bulb grower, 

 also made a brief stop on his way south. 

 August Poehlmann visited a number of 

 New England places before returning to 

 Chicago. Other visitors included C. W. 

 Brownell, Walden, N. Y. ; C. Earnshaw, 

 representing the Bon Arbor Chemical 

 Co., Paterson, N. J.; Samuel Parsons, 

 New York, and Robert Fulton, represent- 

 ing Henry & Lee, New York. 



Vernon T. Sherwood, with William 

 Thatcher at Mrs. John L. Gardner's, 

 Brookline, will go to the Mount Desert 

 Nurseries, Bar Harbor, Me., April 1, to 

 take charge of the greenhouse depart- 

 ment. 



Thomas Brown, of the N. T. Bowditch 

 estate, Framingham, celebrated his eight- 

 ieth birthday March 15. A purse of $80 

 in gold from his employers and many 

 other gifts were received. Many friends 

 called to tender their good wishes to 

 Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who are known 

 and respected far and wide. Included 

 were members of the trade, among whom 

 Mr. Brown has many friends, and in S. 

 J. Goddard a wortuy son-in-law. Mr. 

 Brown has been thirty-nine years on the 

 Bowditch estate and has been a success- 

 ful grower of plants, flowers and vege- 

 tables. His keen delight even today is in 

 his fox hounds, whose music never seems 

 to grow less dear to him. 



F. H. Houghton is displaying some 

 nice hippeastrums. These would become 

 more popular as Easter plants if the 

 really good varieties were more seen in 

 store windows. 



E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind., was a 

 visitor last week and called at Framing- 

 ham, Madbury, N. H., Natick and other 

 rose and carnation establishments. 



George Cartwright is handling daily 

 shipments of thf new yellow carnation 

 raised by N. D. Pierce, of the Norwood 

 Nurseries, Norwood, R. I. 



J. F. Dolansky, of Lynn, is as usual 

 sending in quantities of high grade Eas- 

 ter lilies and other plants at present. 



From the Sutermeister estate, Read- 

 ville, some fine Tritonia crocata and ra- 

 nunculus are coming to the wholesale 

 market. 



Mann Bros, have some well flowered 

 kalmias and a fine lot of Japanese ma- 

 ples. 



With frost all out of the ground, local 

 nurseries are busy digging and shipping 

 trees and shrubs. The demand promises 

 to be heavier than ever, advance orders 

 being unusually large. W. N, Craig. 



TOPEKA, Kan. — After being connected 

 with the florists' trade for forty years, 

 Hiram Hulse has now retired from the 

 business. 



Bloomington, III. — F. A. Bailer has 

 devoted over sixty years to plant grow- 

 ing, over thirty years in England and 

 over thirty years in this country. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



The equinoctial storm, which we have 

 been taught to expect March 21 from 

 time immemorial, has been sidetracked, 

 and Easter week opens with sunny skies 

 and spring temperature. The promise 

 from the authorities on weather at 

 Washington is a perfect week of clear, 

 warm weather, and so the outlook for the 

 holiday is encouraging. Prices last week 

 were on a par with the abnormally low 

 figures of the last month and not until 

 Saturday, March 19, did the tide turn. 

 Monday there was a reduction in sup- 

 plies and better figures prevail. Still ev- 

 ery wholesaler claims there will be an 

 abundance of everything as the week 

 progresses and no unusual increase in 

 prices, the quotations showing about the 

 consensus of opinion as to Easter rates. 

 If the sunshine remains there surely will 

 be no shortage. Some assert that hold- 

 ing back and pickling has already begun. 

 The market has been many years sub- 

 jected' to this imposition and has gradu- 

 ally strangled it. The day has passed 

 when New York can be made a holiday 

 (lumping ground. There is no market 

 for pickled stock of any kind. It will 

 surely go into the discard. Even the, 

 street merchants will have none of it. 



The plantsmen began deliveries at the 

 opening of this week. Beautiful stock 

 they have, with no unreasonable prices. 

 The majority have grown their offerings 

 in the medium sizes and these plants will 

 be the rapid sellers of the week. The 

 majority of the plant growers have said 

 that they are practically sold out. The 

 local market has become so large that 

 the growers have ceased to worry. Much 

 liarmony prevails among them since the 

 formation of the Plant Growers ' Asso- 

 ciation and the era of good feeling and 

 mutual help afforded by this organiza- 

 tion is a lesson in fellowship and profit 

 that has won universal commendation. 



There will be enough lilies to go 

 around, though the prospect was not en- 

 couraging a while ago; 12 cents seems 

 to be the regular figure. Doubtless se- 

 lect and handsome specimens will bring 

 15 cents. The Bermuda supply is light 

 and not considered a menace, as has been 

 the case in some former years. The 

 early spring is bringing plenty of south- 

 ern daffodils. 



The plant combinations in baskets are 

 more artistic and beautiful than ever. 

 Many new designs are already in the 

 windows. Fancy boxes and vases are 

 much in evidence. The ribbon decora- 

 tions are profuse and the new chiffons 

 and colors striking and elaborate. With 

 good weather there will be nothing left 

 to sell on Easter Sunday. The flower 

 stores of New York and Brooklyn will 

 look by Easter noon as if a cyclone had 

 swept them. 



Various Notes. 



The Fruit Auction Co. is auctioning 

 floweidng plants every morning this week, 

 with John P. Cleary at the helm. Big 

 crowds attend. The methods of sale are 

 quiet, sharp, complete, after the style of 

 the fruit sellers, and in less than an hour 

 everything is disposed of. 



At 12 o'clock Tuesdays and Thursdays 

 big sales are made at Elliott's, where 

 the attendance is remarkable and dozens 

 of the faces new. The suburbanites are 

 lerion and in search of bargains. Many 

 ladies attend, and do their share of the 

 buying. The Cleary Horticultural Co. 

 also has its sale of plants, etc., every 



Tuesday and Friday, so with such source 

 of supply there should soon be "A ros. 

 for every garden." 



The new bright pink rose, grown b* 

 Myers & Samtman, of Wyndmoor, Pa. 

 the sport of My Maryland, shown at th. 

 meeting of the Rose Society last week 

 and the winner of high honors, is soh. 

 by Ford Bros., who handle all the ship 

 ments of this firm to the New York 

 market. 



The Pitcher & Manda Employees' As 

 sociation was established last week, witl; 

 Charles Russell, of Sterlington, N. Y.. 

 president, F. L. Atkins vice-president, H. 

 W. Merkel, of the New York Zoological 

 Park, secretary, and Arthur T. Boduing 

 ton treasurer. There will be a banquet 

 and reunion in June. Harry Bunyard 

 says he is the first and last agent of the 

 firm, having started with them in 1888. 

 A membership of 150 is probable, and a 

 body of influential horticulturists they 

 now are. 



The seedsmen report a tremendous vol- 

 ume of trade. ' Every establishment is 

 working an increased force and day and 

 night the strain goes on. Everything in- 

 dicates a phenomenal season. The nur- 

 serymen also are getting busy. Nursery 

 prices are the highest in years and whole- 

 sale rates are at such a figure that the 

 firms selling through agents see large 

 cavities in the usual profits of their sys- 

 tem of selling. 



T. Mellstrom timed his return to Amer- 

 ica so as not to miss the florists' din- 

 ner. He will shortly commence his 

 American trip in the interest of Sander 

 & Son, of St. Albans, England. 



W. E. Marshall is back from his west- 

 ern trip. The firm does a large retail 

 trade at Easter at its store on West 

 Twenty-third street. 



R. T. Terry is the foreman of the Wil- 

 son-Hoyt Co., at its factory in Brooklyn, 

 where the capacity has been greatly in- 

 creased. 



The New York members of the S. A. 

 F. executive committee are loud in praise 

 of Rochester hospitality and predict the 

 greatest convention of the society's his- 

 tory. There will be, they say, a special 

 train of 250 from this city. 



J. K. Allen is exceedingly cheerful as 

 to Easter and says he will have an ex 

 hibit nearly as extensive as the one last 

 week at the Museum of Natural History. 



George Saltford says there will be 

 millions of violets for Easter. 



There are several new faces at A. J. 

 Guttman 's, where business seems to be 

 booming. 



A. L. Young maintains the brightest 

 window display on Twenty-eighth street. 



John I. Raynor is spending his week- 

 ends with his family at Lakewood, N. J. 



Julius Roehrs, Sr., and family have 

 returned from their trip to South Amer- 

 ica, looking well. 



Alex. McConnell and Charles A. Dards 

 generously decorated the many tables at 

 the Florists' Club's dinner and covered 

 the walls with wild smilax. Their ar- 

 tistic work was much appreciated. 



J. Austin Shaw. 



Cincinnati. O. — J. A. Peterson has re- 

 turned from French Lick, Ind., where 

 he has been devoting a few days to re 

 cuperation after a rather unusually busy 

 season. 



RuTHEKFORD, N. J. — Bobbink & Atkins 

 use a large number of long concrete 

 frames that can be made into hotbeds 

 and covered with sashes or in summer 

 covered witTi lath shading. 



