March 31, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



J5 



Easter, but ha will liavt' koiiic fine Cat- 

 tleya Mossiac 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. Weh-li its 

 president. Ho is in every way fitted for 

 such a position. JOaster trade with his 

 firm ■nas heavier tiian 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 tlie 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, P>dward Hatch, 

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

 William Downs. A successor to ^Ir. 

 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 ami 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 I). Duly, late of Xorth Easton, 

 has taken charge of the estate of Mrs. 

 .1. W. Andrews. Newport, H. 1.. and 

 Daniel McFie, of the (leorye l)unc;in cs- 

 tatc, at Xahant, Mass. 



William Nicholson is now cutting a 

 fine lot of white and yellow marguerites, 

 in the culture of which lii> has excellent 

 success. He had some splendid mignon- 

 ette for Easter and a liig crop (if high- 

 grade carnations. 



John Barr, of ^c)^l1il Xatick. suld the 

 last of his finely yrown cyclamens for 

 Easter. His .arnations were in heavy 

 crop. He lias a big lot of iiydranyi'as 

 under way for Memorial day. 



Everett (Jummings, of Wolmrn. sold 

 50.000 Princess of Wales violets at top 

 prices, March 2(5. Kidder Bros., who 

 grow 8,00(] plants, liad splendid llowers. 

 These, put up I'tin in a biiiicli. were in 

 great demand ainl all made *1 per lum 

 dred easily. 



The floor of the main exliiliition hall 

 for the big orchid siiow in Horticultural 

 hall is being removed. The ]iassageways 

 will be of cement in-^lead of wood. A 

 big outpouring of society is expected on 

 the openinn njoht. Other choiee exhibits 

 in addition to oiTiii<!s will \<o made. 



\\'elch Bros, are iiandlin>^ a line line 

 of seasonal)!e oichids from I'.aul \)o Nave, 

 of Fall River. <'attl(\va Schr(ederiana is 

 good at present. 



Sprayin^r fur San .lose scale has lately 

 been carried out on a lart.;e scale in this 

 section. Almost e\('ry urchardist and 

 many gardeners and luuseiymen are 

 using either the lime-sulphur solution or 

 one of the soiniile oils, the latter being 

 the most iio)>idar. W. X. ' i.Aii;. 



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, lie served on the executive 

 committee in IMi'.t. and in I'.Mtl. i;iiii'. 

 1903 and J901 filled the office of secre- 

 tary most acceptably. Mr. Fischer is a 

 park man. Jiaving charge of one of the 

 departnit n!- in the iMiston paik system 



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. 



X'o Easter just like this one ever hap 

 pencil before. A temperature of nearly 

 so 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. X.'iturally. re- 

 sults are disappointing to growers an<l 

 wholesalers, while the retailers, at the 

 time when the best cut stock could have 

 been handleil at a i>rofit and no buyer 

 antagonizcil, already had committetl their 

 energies to the sale of plants, and with 

 the usual result of a complete ( lean u|> 

 of every flowering jdant ami comhina- 

 tion, while cut stock in enormous surplus 

 remaiiu^l 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. Xothing 

 could withstand seven days of sunnner 

 temperature in .March. l';\(My evidence 

 ol' spring is already hi're. The trees are 

 budding and the grass is ^reen in the 

 parks. Many think a cidd .\pril is jire- 

 saged, and for this the nurserynien and 

 the plant auctioneers are already pray- 

 ing. The present week opens with (douds 

 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 

 ^larch 28. They fell to (i cents early 

 Saturday, and even then there must have 

 been 50,000 of them in the street unsold 

 at midnight. The anticijiated crowd of 

 buyers after 10 p. m. did not materialize. 

 There was no crow<ling. In some of tln^ 

 stores a single buyer was in e\idence; 



so ii 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. Xothing kept over 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 to[) for Beauties was (K) 

 cents. Few sold at that. From .')0 cents 

 down was almost universal, and many 

 of the best were sold at $40 per hun- 

 dred. A few bichmond reached 'JO cents, 

 but Killarney and My Maryland seldom 

 went above 1 L' cents, while S cents w:is 

 the average asking for the selected Bride 

 and Maid. The shipnuuits of these vari- 

 eties were enormous. The hot weather 

 was too mucii for the bulk of the carna- 

 tions. Most of tluMU went to sleep early; 

 + ;i per hundred was the usual (luotntion 

 t'or good stock, and from that ilowii. 



The best violets jumped a little hit 

 hifjjher after midnieht. So great was the 

 supply of the snuill and wilted stock that 

 lame in Saturday, siune of the whole- 

 >alers declared tlu-y handled a million of 

 them. There must have l)een five millions 

 of them here the last three ilays of the 

 week. Over l.nOo hands were employed 

 in picking them at b'hiiielieck. Perfect 

 slock was scarce and sold at 7.") cents 

 towards Sunday morning, while it lasteil. 

 With the sccoinl rate stutV the streets 

 were blue. In fact, all through the 

 week the sidewalk m(Mi were legion. They 

 are both a menace and a godsend. They 

 are the bete noir of th(> retailer, and the 

 outlet for the wlnilesale surjtlus. Where 

 woidd the grower be without them? And 

 jierhaps they are tultilling their mission 

 in ]iopularizing the wearing of flowers 

 and keeping them .always on exhibition. 



Orchiils were scarce and the prices sat- 

 isfactory. The best cattleyas touched 75 

 cents. There were not enoujih for, the 



