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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



April 28, 1910. 



at this time of the year. Good longi- 

 florums can be had. Green goods, except 

 smilax, are still plentiful. 



The bedding stock in the houses of 

 those who apet-ialize in this line is in 

 fine <-()ndition. The growers are antici- 

 patin<{ a good season. 



Various Notes, 



Albert McCuUough, president of the 

 J. M. McCullough's Sons Co., had a 

 pretty thing at his beautiful suburban 

 home at Pleasant Eidge. It was a bed, 

 immediately in front of the veranda, of 

 the named varieties of Azalea mollis, 

 blossomed out in all their glory. Mr. 

 McCulIough states that the seed and 

 nursery business was backward during 

 February, because of the inclement 

 weather. Since, however, the lamb-like 

 March opened up, his whole force has 

 been so rushed they have had hardly 

 time to breathe. 



C. E. Critchell is receiving fome good 

 sweet peas and longiflorums from nearby 

 towns. The forced valley that he gets 

 daily is extra fine. 



E. W. Witterstaetter says that his car- 

 nations in the field did not suffer in the 

 least from the cold and frost last Satur- 

 day night. All they need is rain and 

 sunshine to make them grow right on. 

 His grapes and some other fruits were, 

 however, frozen. 



William Murphy is offering for sale 

 the excellent stock of young carnations 

 of Frank Huntsman, who is j*etiring from 

 business. Mr. Murphy's cut carnations 

 and snapdragons are of good quality. He 

 expects southern peonies this week. 



J. A. Peterson's stock of his new be- 

 gonia, Glory of Cincinnati, is in excellent 

 condition. Mr. Peterson is installing 

 natural gas in his place, to use in the 

 boilers for fuel. His white lilacs 

 bloomed splendidly this spring. 



Advices from Hot Springs, Ark., state 

 that Peter Weiland has improved but 



as the warm weather comes it will sell 

 in a hurry. He has been sending some 

 fine Baby Eamblers to Murphy's. 



L. H. Kyrk is offering good Parrot 

 tiUips. 



Tom Fagan, of the J. M. McCuUough 's 

 Sons Co., says that in spite of reports to 

 the contrary everywhere else, there is an 

 abundance of good seed stock in both 

 field corn and sweet corn in this section 

 of the country. Last fall the weather 

 was ideal for the maturing of the grain. 

 The offering of green com on the mar- 

 ket was so heavy • and the price so low 

 that most of the truckers allowed their 

 crop to stand. No one grower had a 

 great amount, but collectively a large 

 quantity of good Zigzag and Stowell 's 

 Evergreen was produced, and the ger- 

 mination is high. 



George Magrie has again put his plant 

 into a tenantable condition. It was bad- 

 ly damaged by the hail a year ago. 



Max Eudolph has already planted a 

 house in Aristocrat, White Perfection 

 and O. P. Bassett carnations. 



Dave and OUie Honaker came to town 

 last week to see the ball game. They did 

 not notify the weather man of their 

 intention and found rainy weather upon 

 their arrival. 



A. Siegel, the St. Louis florist, attended 

 his aunt's funeral here this week. 



A. Eupp, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., was 

 here the early part of last week. 



J. C. Meyer, the silkaline man from 

 Lowell, Mass., and L. Baumann & Co. 's 

 representative called on the trade last 

 week. C. H. H. 



SUNNYSIDE GREENHOUSES. 



The last picture of the establishment of 

 J. T. Conger published in the Eeview 

 showed the greenhouses destroyed by 

 hail, and the accompanying picture wiU 

 serve to give an idea of what a trans- 

 formation has been accomplished since 



New Establishment of J. T. G>nger, Hartwell, O. 



slightly and it may be a month or more 

 before he gets back to business. Weiland 

 & dinger's Boston ferns are selling 

 rapidly. The blooms of their roses are 

 much improved, owing to the cooler 

 weather. 



E. G, Gillett's stock of roses of all 

 kinds is Al. 



Gu3. Adrian's houses are well filled 

 with first-class bedding stock. As soon 



that time. Mr. Conger started in business 

 at Hartwell, a suburb of Cincinnati, 

 about eleven years ago. His trade was 

 small at first, but has grown steadily, 

 so that now he says he has no dull sea- 

 son. His is a prosperous community and 

 his trade demands the best and latest of 

 everything in cut flowers and plants, so 

 that, in addition to what he grows, he 

 is a heavy buyer in the Cincinnati mar- 



ket. Hfe grows only carnations and plants 

 for bedding and decorative purposes. 



It was May 21, 1909, that Mr. Con- 

 ger's place was practically destroyed by 

 hail. Since then he has built an up-to- 

 date range of houses and the store shown 

 in the illustration. An opening is to be 

 held Saturday, April 30, to which a large 

 number of handsome invitations have 

 been issued. Each visitor is to receive 

 either cut flowers or a small plant as a 

 souvenir. C. H. H. 



BOSTON. i 



The Market. 



Business was not quite so good last 

 week. As a rule the market cleans up 

 pretty well on Saturdays, but April 23 

 saw considerable stock unsold. We are 

 being favored with cooler weather than 

 was experienced in March, and growers 

 welcome the change, as the continued 

 heat would have played havoc with crops 

 intended for Memorial day. The two 

 leaders in roses are White Killarney and 

 Carnot. Good flowers of the latter are 

 now coming in, also small lots of 

 Kaiserin. Killarney and Richmond are 

 not so good as they were. Maryland con- 

 tinues good and will probably prove use- 

 ful through the summer. Carnations are 

 averaging a little lower all around, but 

 crops are running out and a decrease in 

 supplies is likely in the near future. The 

 present week sees the finish of double 

 violets. Usually they have lasted until 

 the middle of May. 



Sweet peas are abundant and of excel- 

 lent quality, selling as well as anything 

 on the list. Spanish iris is another popu- 

 lar flower and is now arriving in larger 

 numbers. There are also a good many 

 gladioli, such as The Bride, Blushing 

 Bride and Peach Blossom. Narcissi are 

 still plentiful, outdoor crops being now 

 at their height. Tulips are also abun- 

 dant. For lilies the sale is slow, candi- 

 dums being in better demand than longi- 

 florums. Antirrhinums are plentiful, 

 but spikes are running smaller. A good 

 many stocks are seen, but do not sell 

 well. Mignonette is getting small. 

 There is an abundant supply of pansies, 

 forget-me-nots, Spirsea Japonica and 

 marguerites, the yellow variety of the 

 latter moving the best. 



Valley is not in good demand. Gar- 

 denias sell rather better. There are 

 plenty arriving. Cattleyas are plentiful 

 and a little lower in price. There is still 

 an insufficient supply of Asparagus 

 plumosus, Sprengeri and adiantum of 

 good quality. 



In bedding plants, trade is starting 

 up, geraniums being most in request. 

 Pansies are meeting with a heavy sale. 



Qub Meeting. 



The April meetings of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club are usually more 

 scantily attended than any others, but 

 over 100 members were present at the 

 adjourned meeting April 26. There was 

 no regular lecturer, but a number of 

 queries from the monthly circular were 

 allowed a few minutes each. "Annuals 

 for Winter Flowering" was assigned to 

 William Swan. He described his culture 

 of larkspurs, lupines, Leptosyne mari- 

 tima, Nigella Miss Jekyll, Nemesia 

 strumosa Suttoni, Centaurea cyanus, 

 antirrhinum and schizanthus. Other 

 annuals spoken of as desirable for win- 

 ter blooming, in addition to sweet peas, 

 were calendula, Dimorphotheca auran . 

 tiaca, Trachelium ca^ruleum, Clarkia Sal- 

 mon Queen, mignonette and sweet alys- 



