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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Makch 31, 1910. 



Among other plants, gardenias, cycla- 

 mens, boronias, lih' of the valley and 

 bulbous stock in variety sold well. Few 

 good marguerites were seen, but there 

 were plenty of spiraeas (astilbes) and 

 Primula obconica. There was a fairly 



food call for ferns, palms and other 

 oliage plants. The warm weather on 

 Good Friday and the fact that it was 

 comparatively mild on the following day, 

 made wrapping unnecessary, and this 

 was a big saving of labor for the plants- 

 men. 



Coming to the cut flower trade, busi- 

 ness during the whole of the week before 

 Easter was excellent and nothing but 

 the unseasonably hot wave could have 

 caused a surplus. Eoses, especially long- 

 stemmed ones, were none too plentiful. 

 There was but little advance in prices 

 on these. Killarney, Richmond and 

 Beauties were leaders. Of short-stemmed 

 flowers there was a big supply, but even 

 these cleaned up pretty well. Carnations 

 made from $2 to $5 per hundred all the 

 week, some fancies making $6. March 

 26 the arrivals were rather more than 

 the market could digest and values de- 

 clined in the afternoon. Violets came 

 out in tremendous volume. Many showed 

 the effects of the hot wave. Good sin- 

 gles, well bunched, and some doubles 

 made $1 per hundred, others going at 

 75 cents and 50 cents. The present week 

 will practically finish the singles. Sweet 

 peas were seen in tens of thousands and 

 sold well at from $1.50 down to 35 cents 

 per hundred. 



Tulips and narcissi were forthcoming 

 in immense quantities, prices averaging 

 from $1.50 to $2 per hundred, N. ornatus 

 going at $1. Cut lilies made $10 per 

 hundred, but declined late Saturday and 

 were an oversupply. Pansies, primroses, 

 myosotis, cornflowers, etc., sold quite 

 well. Yellow wallflowers moved satis- 

 factorily, but the blood-red variety hung 

 fire. Callas had a good sale, as did lily 

 of the valley. JNIignonette and pleasing 

 shades of snapdragon had a good call. 

 Yellow marguerites sold better than the 

 white. Gardenias were abundant; good 

 flowers sold v.ell; seconds poorly. 

 Orcliids cut little figure in the market. 

 For adiantum, Asparagus plumosus and 

 Sprcngeri, and sniilax, trade was extra 

 gqod. 



March 28 saw an abundance of flow- 

 ers and prices on the down grade. With 

 cooler weather, such as we are now get- 

 ting, the supply will be curtailed. Many 

 growers look for good April prices, due 

 to cold wcatlior wliicli ue should have 

 had in ^larcii. 



Various Notes. 



William Sim had two of his .'UJO-foot 

 houses and one 200 foet lung in magnifi- 

 cent crop for Easter. From thcsj he 

 picked close to 150,000 stalks March 24. 

 The plants were a veritable mass of 

 bloom. He has also a house of the Spen- 

 cer types coming on for late blooming. 

 Violets held out in the houses for Easter 

 this year. In addition, Mr. Sim had 

 about 1,000 sashes of them in heavy crop, 

 which yielded a multitude of flowers. 

 Last fall he sowed two rows of sweet 

 peas in those frames. The pli^nts win- 

 tered well, although covered up so long, 

 and as the violets and sashes are re- 

 moved the peas will be given supports 

 and Mr. Sim hopes to bo cutting a fine 

 crop from them outdoors for Memorial 

 day. 



Peirce Bros, had a nice lot of spe- 

 ciosum lilies, in addition to longiflorums, 

 for Easter, also some good mignonette. 



The veteran, William Miller, of West 



Lynn, has been spending the last few 

 weeks in Porto Rico, the climate of which 

 island he enjoys in winter. 



William 11. hiliott had an extra heavy 

 cut of roses for Easter, all of which 

 sold readily. The variety. Beacon Hill, 

 a seedling of E. G. Hill's, is being tried 

 by him, both at Madbury, N. H., and 

 Brighton. It is of similar color to 

 Bridesmaid, but much larger, and Mr. 

 Elliott thinks it may prove a useful sum- 

 mer variety. Some splendid flowers on 

 long stems are being cut at present. 



Philip L. Carbone's Boylston street 

 store was artistically arranged for 

 Easter. Among other plants noted here 

 of special merit were Mme. Lemoine and 

 Macrostachya lilacs, amaryllis, boronias, 

 ICrica Cafl:ra densa, beautiful specimens 

 of Dorothy Perkins and other roses, as 

 well as many unique varieties of cut 

 flowers. 



The full premium list for the big 

 orchid exhibition which opens in Boston 

 I\Iay 26 is now ready and will be for- 

 warded on application to the secretary 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, W. P. Rich, 300 Massachusetts 

 avenue, Boston. 



Thomas Roland describes the Easter 

 plant trade as satisfactory. The poorest 

 selling things were hydrangeas, which 

 for some reason no one seemed to want 

 this season, even though they were of 

 splendid quality. Dorothy Perkins roses, 

 l)ink and white, Tausendschon, boronias, 

 acacias, ericas, genistas and other va- 

 rieties sold well. 



Wax Bros., on Tremont street, had 

 some specially well grown specimens of 

 l)yramidal genistas last week, also an ex- 

 cellent assortment of rambler roses and 

 other pot plants. In cut flowers, orchids 

 were shown in good variety. They did 

 a big business. 



The New King Construction houses at 

 Hadley, Mass., built for the Montgomery 

 Co., are now ready for glazing. Alex. 

 Montgomery, Jr., will go there April 1 

 with a force of glaziers. 



At William E. Doyle's, on Boylston 

 street, plant trade beat all records. 

 Pretty bougainvilleas in 5-inch pots were 

 noted here. Tausendschon and Dorothy 

 Perkins were leaders among ramblers. 

 Good gardenias and extra fine azaleas 

 and lilies were also seen. 



At the meeting of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club, March 22, William Sim's 

 new violet, Cyclops, attracted much at- 

 tention. He imported it from England 

 last year. The flowers arc large, dark 

 blue and stems long. The striking thing 

 about the flower, however, is the large 

 center, which in some cases reminds one 

 of an anemone chrysanthemum. Mr. Sim 

 showed eighteen splendid vases of sweet 

 peas at the same meeting. E. O. Orpet 

 secured a rejwrt of superior merit for 

 Lffilio-Cattleya Kerschovise, a flne white 

 form of Lffilio-Cattleya Frederick Boyle. 



At Thomas J. Clark 's store, at the cor- 

 ner of Berkeley and Boylston streets, 

 some nicely flowered Weigelia Eva 

 Rathke were seen last week. Ericas were 

 extra good and a splendid general line 

 of pot plants was displayed. The only 

 really good spikes of Lilium candidum 

 were to be seen here, 



A. Leuthy & Co. did a grand Easter 

 trade. They had some extra fine lilies, 

 gardenias, azaleas, acacias and forced 

 deciduous shrubs, also having a good 

 call for palms, ferns and other foliage 

 plants. 



Edward MacMulkin, on Boylston 

 street, had his customary attractive win- 

 dow of white flowering plants for Easter. 

 II had fine lots of Rhododendrons Kate 



Waterer and John Waterer, which sold 

 fast. These, with Pink Pearl, he con- 

 siders the cream of the rhododendrons 

 for Easter trade. Fine specimens of Hia- 

 watha and Tausendschon roses and a 

 grand lot of specimen azaleas were in- 

 cluded among a big assortment of other 

 flowering plants. 



The Willow Hill Greenhouses, of West 

 Roxbury, were leaders with Spiraea 

 Queen Alexandra for Easter. It netted 

 double the price of the white varieties. 



Paine Bros., of Randolph, had a 

 charming and finely grown assortment 

 of bulbous stock, in the culture of which 

 they are well known specialists. 



'rhe J. A. Budlong Co., at Auburn, R. 

 I., is having excellent success with My 

 Maryland and is shipping large lots to 

 Boston at present. Richmond and Kil- 

 larney were also in heavy crop. They 

 will increase their planting of White 

 Killarney this season. 



S. Hoffman, at his big Massachusetts 

 avenue store, did a tremendous business 

 and the quality of his plants was un- 

 surpassed in Boston. His new State 

 street store has "caught on" and is 

 doing a rushing business in the heart of 

 ^' ' financialdom. ' ' 



Good Friday, 1910, was the hottest 

 March day ever known in Massachusetts; 

 82 degrees was the maximum. 



John McFarland, of North Easton, 

 had a heavy crop of gardenias right for 

 Easter and they sold well, also excellent 

 valley. 



H. R. Comley, on Park street, showed 

 Gerbera Jamesoni (South African daisy). 

 In pot plants boronias and Rose Tau- 

 sendschon were noteworthy. 



Julius A. Zinn, on Park street, had 

 the best specimens of metrosideros and 

 Bougainvillea Sanderiana seen. 



Cliarles E. Holbrow, of Brighton, has 

 just finished six weeks of duty as a jury- 

 man. It came at a somewhat inoppor- 

 tune time and Mr. Holbrow had to do 

 some hustling to dispose of his Easter 

 stock. Spira?a Gladstone and Dorothy 

 Perkins rose were well grown. 



N. F. Comley had an immense pick of 

 sweet peas for Easter and a host of 

 bulbous flowers. I do not remember 

 ever seeing so many sweet peas in the 

 Boston markets, even in summer. 



H. M. Robinson & Co. had night-and- 

 day work prior to Easter to keep abreast 

 of their orders. The cut flower and plant 

 trade was exceptionally good, while or- 

 ders for laurel wreathing and other 

 greenery were unusually heavy. 



Thomas F. Galvin had one window of 

 acacias and one of genistas on Tremont 

 street. They had wistarias, Prunus tri- 

 loba, Pyrus Scheideckeri, a variety of 

 lilac and other forced shrubs, and did an 

 immense plant and cut flower trade at 

 both their Back Bay and Tremont street 

 stores. 



James Wheeler leaves Brookline this 

 week for his new commercial place at 

 Natick and will rush work on his new 

 greenhouse. TTie A. T. Stearns Lumber 

 Co. will supply the lumber and the Boston 

 Plate & Window Glass Co., the glass. 

 The greepbouses which have been in Mr. 

 Wheeler's cWre for so many years are to 

 be demolished shortly. W. D. Nickerson, 

 his assistant, succeeds him as gardener. 



S. J. Goddard is sending in some extra 

 fine pink antirrhinum to 6 Park street at 

 present. He had the heaviest Easter 

 trade in his experience, in both cut 

 flowers and pot plants. 



J. T. Butterworth did a good trade 

 in pots of lily of the valley. He had a 

 big cut of bulbous flowers. Orchids did 

 not cut any special feature with him this 



