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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 8, 1009. 



at the annual banquet of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club in Horticultural hall, 

 April 14. The reception will be at 6 

 o'clock, the banquet at 6:30 and dancing 

 will start at 9 o 'clock sharp. With Judge 

 C. W. Hoitt as toastmaster, excellent 

 musical selections and songs, a splendid 

 menu and first-class orchestra, everyone 

 attending should enjoy himself. The 

 committee on decorations would like all 

 contributions of plants and flowers to be 

 left at or sent to the hall not later than 

 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the ban- 

 quet. 



L. J. Renter, of Westerly, B. I., who 

 will speak on roses at the club meeting 

 April 20, will treat the subject in a dif- 

 ferent manner to the average lecturer. 

 The comparative values of different va- 

 rieties will receive consideration. 



Welch Bros, are busy this week, and, 

 in addition to their cut flower and sun- 

 dries trade, are doing a heavy trade in 

 pot plants shipped direct from the green- 

 houses. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, who are 

 large growers of Easter plants, are hav- 

 ing a heavy trade in lilies, azaleas, bulb- 

 ous stock, rhododendrons, rambler roses 

 and their other specialties. 



Thomas Roland is having a phenomenal 

 call for pot plants and early this week 

 was pretty well sold out. Probably no- 

 where in the east is there a better grown 

 lot of acacias, ramblers, hydrangeas, 

 azaleas and other plants. 



Mrs. E. M. Gill, of Medford, who se- 

 cured second prize for mantel decorations 

 at the spring show and also second for 

 table decorations at the November show 

 in 1908, has exhibited in Boston over a 

 period of forty-five years and since 1865 

 has been a regular prize winner. Mrs. 

 Gill is in her seventy-fifth year and her 

 many friends are proud of her success 

 and wish her many more years of suc- 

 cess. 



A. Leuthy & Co., of Roslindale, have 

 had an exceptional run on Easter plants 

 and their immense stock of a:^leas is al- 

 ready practically sold out. 



April 5, with a shade temperature of 

 74 degrees, proved the warmest of the 

 year to date, the temperature not having 

 exceeded 60 degrees on any preceding 

 day. 



The New England Nurseries are hav- 

 ing a heavy spring call for trees and 

 shrubs, far in excess of a year ago. Ship- 

 ping commenced two or three weeks ago. 



Seed stores are all phenomenally busy 

 and report business as showing a strik- 

 ing advance over that of 1908. 



W. B. Goodenow has a heavy pick of 

 Campbell violets for Easter. He has a 

 big lot of tomatoes coming along to oc- 

 cupy their places shortly. 



The North Shore Horticultural Society 

 has issued a schedule for its exhibitions 

 for the present year. The rose show will 

 be held June 30 and July 1. There are 

 fifty-six classes provided, in addition to 

 twenty-one specials in the way of silver 

 cups, etc. The summer show comes on 

 August 25 and 26. There are 126 regu- 

 lar classes and no less than twenty-seven 

 specials. No chrysanthemum show will 

 be held. J. D. Morrison, Manchester, is 

 secretary, to whom all communications 

 should be sent. W. N. Craio. 



Iowa Falls, Ia. — W. H. Hall has 

 rented the Riverside Greenhouses and will 

 take possession July 1, succeeding J. P. 

 Murphy, who has bought a floral plant 

 at Independence. 



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