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MABCH 31. 1910. The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



15 



Easter, but he will have some fine Cat- 

 tleya Mossise soon, 



Patrick Welch is optimistic over the 

 coming national flower show and is satis- 

 fied that America will see the finest ex- 

 hibition in its history. The S. A. F. 

 might do worse than elect Mr. "Welch its 

 president. He is in every way fitted for 

 such a position. Easter trade with his 

 firm was heavier than ever. In some 

 lines of cut flowers the hot weather 

 caused something of a glut. A big plant 

 business was done. 



D. J. Horrigan, of Foxboro, is still the 

 leader among yellow marguerite growers, 

 and his shipments of these are eagerly 

 looked for and quickly snapped up. 



Mann Bros, had about the only good 

 candidum lilies seen in the wholesale mar- 

 kets. They did a heavy trade in both pot 

 plants and cut flowers. 



The committee on resolutions appointed 

 by the Gardeners' and Florists' Club 

 on the late treasurer, Edward Hatch, 

 are: W. J. Stewart, P. Welch and 

 William Downs. A successor to Mr. 

 Hatch will be appointed April 19. 



The long agitation over the Common- 

 wealth avenue trees is at last ended and 

 the two vigorous rows of English field 

 elms were lifted and planted among the 

 four rows of older trees last week. Shade 

 at any price, with little thought for the 

 future, seemed to be the main argument 

 of the 4-row advocates. 



John D. Duly, late of North Easton, 

 has taken charge of the estate of Mrs. 

 J. W. Andrews, Newport, E. I., and 

 Daniel McFie, of the George Duncan es- 

 tate, at Nahant, Mass. 



William Nicholson is now cutting a 

 fine lot of white and yellow marguerites, 

 in the culture of which he has excellent 

 success. He had some splendid mignon- 

 ette for Easter and a big* crop of high- 

 grade carnations. 



John Barr, of bouth Natick, sold the 

 last of his finely grown cyclamens for 

 Easter. His carnations were in heavy 

 crop. He has a big lot of hydrangeas 

 under way for Memorial day. 



Everett Cummings, of Woburn, sold 

 50,000 Princess of Wales violets at top 

 prices, March 26. Kidder Bros., who 

 grow 8,000 plants, had splendid flowers. 

 These, put up 200 in a bunch, were in 

 great demand and all made $1 per hun- 

 dred easily. 



The floor of the main exhibition hall 

 for the big orchid show in Horticultural 

 hall is being removed. The passageways 

 will be of cement instead of wood. A 

 big outpouring of society is expected on 

 the opening night. Other choice exhibits 

 in addition to orchids will be made. 



Welch Bros, are handling a fine line 

 of seasonable orchids from Paul De Nave, 

 of Fall Kiver. Cattleya Schroederiana is 

 good at present. 



Spraying for San Jose scale has lately 

 been carried out on a large scale in this 

 section. Almost every orchardist and 

 many gardeners and nurserymen are 

 using either the lime-sulphur solution or 

 one of the soluble oils, the latter being 

 the most popular. W. N. Cbaig. 



WILLIAM E. FISCHER. 



William E. Fischer, recently elected 

 one of the executive committee of the 

 Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston, 

 has been an active worker in the club for 

 many years. He served on the executive 

 committee in 1899, and in 1901. 1902, 

 1903 and 1904 filled the office of secre- 

 tary most acceptably. Mr. Fischer is a 

 park man, having charge of one of the 

 departments in the Boston park system 



W. E. Fischer. 



under J. A. Pettigrew. He rarely misses 

 a meeting and is an active worker in 

 everything pertaining to the club's wel- 

 fare. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



No Easter just like this one ever hap- 

 pened before. A temperature of nearly 

 80 degrees on Good Friday tells the 

 story of wilted violets, sleepy carnations 

 and open roses, with such an abundance 

 of cut flowers as was never seen at any 

 date since Easters began. Naturally, re- 

 sults are disappointing to growers and 

 wholesalers, while the retailers, at the 

 time when the best cut stock could have 

 been handled at a profit and no buyer 

 antagonized, already had committed their 

 energies to the sale of plants, and with 

 the usual result of a complete clean-up 

 of every flowering plant and combina- 

 tion, while cut stock in enormous surplus 

 remained in the hands of the wholesalers 

 or in the ice-boxes of the retailers, un- 

 sold. The extremely warm weather of 

 the week accounts for it all. Nothing 

 could withstand seven days of summer 

 temperature in March. Every evidence 

 of spring is already here. The trees are 

 budding and the grass is green in the 

 parks. Many think a cold April is pre- 

 saged, and for this the nurserymen and 

 the plant auctioneers are already pray- 

 ing. The present week opens with clouds 

 and chill. It will take some days for the 

 market to recover from the shock. Mean- 

 time the surplus goes at whatever it will 

 bring. 



The best lilies were selling at 4 cents 

 March 28. They fell to 6 cents early 

 Saturday, and even then there must have 

 been 50,000 of them in the street unsold 

 at midnight. The anticipated crowd of 

 buyers after 10 p. m. did not materialize. 

 There was no crowding. In some of the 

 stores a single buyer was in evidence; 



so it went on until Sunday morning. 

 Cart-loads of unsalable flowers were car- 

 ried away early Monday. There was 

 plenty of the usual pickling, where the un- 

 fortunate grower banked on the cold snap 

 that never came. This year his lesson 

 will be severe. Nothing kept orer a day 

 was salable. Only the best stock was in 

 demand, and this was dispensed at prices 

 that almost any good Saturday will equal. 



The extreme top for Beauties was 60 

 cents. Few sold at that. From 50 cents 

 down was almost universal, and many 

 of the best were sold at $40 per hun- 

 dred. A few Richmond reached 20 cents, 

 but Killarney and My Maryland seldom 

 went above 12 cents, while 8 cents was 

 the average asking for the selected Bride 

 and Maid. The shipments of these vari- 

 eties were enormous. The hot weather 

 was too much for the bulk of the carna- 

 tions. Most of them went to sleep early ; 

 $3 per hundred was the usual quotation 

 for good stock, and from that down. 



The best violets jumped a little bit 

 liigher after midnight. So great was the 

 supply of the small and wilted stock that 

 came in Saturday, some of the whole- 

 salers declared they handled a million of 

 them. There must have been five millions 

 of them here the last three days of the 

 week. Over 1,000 hands were employed 

 in picking them at Rhinebeck. Perfect 

 stock was scarce and sold at 75 cents 

 towards Sunday morning, while it lasted. 

 With the second-rate stuflf the streets 

 were blue. In fact, all through the 

 week the sidewalk men were legion. They 

 are both a menace and a godsend. They 

 are the bete noir of the retailer, and the 

 outlet for the wholesale surplus. Where 

 would the grower be without themt And 

 perhaps they are fulfilling their mission 

 in popularizing the wearing of flowers 

 and keeping them always on exhibition. 



Orchids were scarce and the prices sat- 

 isfactory. The best cattleyas touched 75 

 cents. There were not enough for, the 



