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24 The Weekly Florists' Review* mat 5,1910. 



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 to every progressive retail florist. It also shows 

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 who have used 



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flowers will get excellent prices for them. 

 W. W. Rawson & Co. have had a fine 

 display of tulips and narcissi at their 

 Marblehead nursery recently. Some hun- 

 dreds of varieties of Darwin and other 

 late tulips are just coming in season. 

 The displays of those in T. F. Galvin 's 

 store on Tremont street last year proved 

 a fine advertisement. 



Dahlia specialists, who are numerous 

 in Massachusetts today, are all making 

 great sales. J. K. Alexander, of East 

 Bridgewater, is already pretty well 

 cleaned out. He will plant over twenty 

 acres for stock this season, and he is only 

 one of many. 



The lilac display in the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum will this season be at its best 

 about May 10. May 1, such varieties 

 as oblata, hyacinthiflora, Charles X, 

 Marie Legraye and some others were al- 

 ready pretty well open. The collection 

 of mains near the Forest Hill entrance 

 gates is remarkably fine at present. 



J. T. Butterworth has a remarkably 

 fine specimen of Miltonia vexillaria, also 

 a splendid Cattleya Mossiae Eeineskiana, 

 which he hopes to show at the coming 

 orchid exhibition. His cattleya display 

 at present is fine. 



The Waban Rose Conservatories are 

 now getting some splendid summer roses 

 from their cool houses, which are selling 

 well. Their White Killarney are of 

 splendid quality. W. N. Craig. 



Adolph E. E. Koch, foreman for 

 George E. Buxton, of Nashua, N. H., has 

 purchased the Whittemore Greenhouses 

 at Nobscot, Mass. Mr. Koch will make 

 a specialty of carnations. 



ST. LOUIS. 



The Market. 



There is not much to say regarding 

 news of the local cut flower market, as 

 it remained and ran along about as the 

 week previous. The store men say that 



if it had not been for a good deal of 

 funeral work, business would have been 

 mighty dull. Among the leading uptown 

 florists, a few big weddings, receptions 

 and dinners helped out greatly the last 

 of the month. The wholesalers had 

 plenty of cut stock in all 'grades all dur- 

 ing last month, but the stock did not 

 clean up as they liked and prices were 

 low. Fancy stock in roses did not go 

 over $6 to $8 per hundred and in other 



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grades as low as $10 per thousand was 

 asked. Tvong fancy Beauties also dragged 

 some during the whole month. 



Carnations were also most plentiful, 

 with fancies down to $2 per hundred, 

 with others as low as $7.50 to $10 per 

 thousand. Sweet peas are becoming plen- 

 tiful again and some extra fine stock 

 is coming in now from the Kirkwood 

 florists, where the bulk of the sweet pea 



consignments come from. Carnations 

 from this point are also of excellent 

 quality. 



Callas are slacking up, but Harrisii 

 are coming in fine now and the demand 

 has been good for them at $8 and $10 

 per hundred. Lily of the valley has had 

 a good call all month, owing to a great 

 many weddings. Tulips are scarce just 

 now. Wild smilax is in demand, but be- 

 coming scarce, and all in cold storage has 

 turned out to be a bad lot. 



The greenhouse men have at last got 

 the right kind of weather for planting 

 out, which will be started at once, and 

 this will keep them mighty busy all dur- 

 ing this month. 



Various Notes. 



The employees of the city forester say 

 that the recent cold weather had a bad 

 effect on all the shade trees throughout 

 the city and it would take several weeks 

 for them to recover. The great destruc- 

 tion, however, was to fruit trees and 

 grapes. 



The new board of park commissioners 

 of East St. Louis was organized last 

 week. Dr. H. C. Fairbrother and Dr. G. 

 H. Parsons were elected members of the 

 board recently. The commission now con- 

 sists of H. C. Bernard, president; 

 Spencer Ellsworth, secretary, and Stephen 

 T. Le Page, treasurer. The other mem- 

 bers, including the newly elected ones, 

 are M. V. Joyce and Edmond Goedde. 



Edwin Gerlach, who has been for 

 many years bookkeeper and manager for 

 ,C. A. Kuehn, will leave this month to 

 enter into business on his own account, 

 but not in the flower business. He will 

 be one of a new firm in the roll paper 

 business. Mr. Gerlach was a favorite 

 with the local trade and all wish the 

 young man good luck in his new venture. 

 A. Myer, recently added to the force, 

 will take his place. The style of the 

 new firm will be Hagen & Co. 



Miss Matilda Meinhardt returned home 

 last week from Fort Wayne, Ind., where 

 she went to attend the funeral of her 



