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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil ;15, 1909. 



supply. In narcissi, Emperor, Victoria, 

 Leedsii and poeticus ornatus were lead- 

 ers. La Beine and Couronne d'Or were 

 popular tulips. Gardenias sold well at 

 $4 per dozen. Cattleyas and dendro- 

 biums were about the only orchids in 

 evidence. 



There was a good demand for south- 

 ern smilax and other greenery. Aspara- 

 gus plumosus and Sprengeri, adiantum 

 and hardy ferns all sold well. 



Business since Easter has remained 

 fairly steady; an abundance of flowers 

 are arriving. The weather on Good Fri- 

 day was cold and wet most of the day. 

 April 10 was a clear but bitterly cold 

 day, there being a keen wind, and mini- 

 mum temperatures of 16 to 20 degrees 

 were recorded near Boston. Easter day 

 was clear and pleasant, the maximum 

 temperature being 50 degrees. Monday, 

 April 12, came much warmer. 



Various Note*. 



The club banquet April 14 at Horti- 

 cultural hall was a great success. The 

 sale of tickets was excellent and every- 

 one enjoyed a first-class time. The deco- 

 rations committee had made the tables 

 more attractive than ever. A report of 

 the banquet will appear in the next issue 

 of the Eeview. 



T. P. Galvin had a grand lot of cycla- 

 mens for Easter. His bougainvilleas and 

 Hydrangea hortensis were also extra fine. 



Sidney Hoffman did a great business 

 and his big, up-to-date store on Massa- 

 chusetts avenue had as fine a lot of 

 Easter plants as we have even seen in 

 Boston. 



Wax Bros., on Tremont street, among 

 cut flowers had extra fine lots of ranun- 

 culi, valley, ixias and Iris Hispanica. 



H. E. Fiske Seed Co. devoted one of 

 their large show windows to Easter 

 plants. A well arranged rock garden 

 filled with blooming plants occupied an- 

 other window. 



F. H. Houghton had a beautiful win- 

 dow of pink ramblers and Eose Luisante 

 tulips. 



Thomas J. Clarke hired the store im- 

 mediately over his own at the corner of 

 Berkley and Boylston streets, which was 

 filled to overflowing with choice pot 

 plants. 



E. MacMulkin had a pretty window 

 done in white. He had extra fine stocks 

 of azaleas, Ehododendron Pink Pearl, 

 Eose Lady Gay and kalmias and did a 

 heavy business. 



Philip L. Carbone, at his two Boylston 

 street stores, had many unique plants and 

 cut flowers. Ericas of the waxy type, 

 Ehododendron Pink Pearl, acacias in va- 

 riety and pink ramblers in variety were 

 noted. Some flne specimens of Frau 

 Karl Druschki roses were also a feature. 



W. E. Doyle had some extra flne Hia- 

 watha roses. Lady Gay and Dorothy 

 Perkins were also good. His lilies were 

 among the best to be seen in the city. 



H. M. Eobinson & Co. had a splendid 

 Easter trade and sold more flowers and 

 greenery than ever before. 



John McFarland had a fine lot of val- 

 ley, Brunner roses and gardenias. 



A. W. Kidder had many thousands of 

 superb single violets, unusually good for 

 greenhouse stock at this late date. 



William H. Elliott, owing to altera- 

 tions, did not occupy his new salesroom 

 on Park street, near the flower market, 

 but sold out every rose at his old stand. 



Edgar Bros, had 10,000 fine sweet peas 

 April 10, which cleaned up quickly, qual- 

 ity being O. K. 



William Sim, as usual, had the biggest 



lot of sweet peas for Easter, the quality 

 being superb. His violets also were in 

 tremendous request. 



Eemember the club meeting April 20 

 and the lecture on "Eoses" by L. J. 

 Eeuter, Westerly, E. I. There will be 

 other interesting features. 



W. N. Cbaig. 



NEVYORK. 



TheMai^et 



It was a weird and anxious Easter, 

 with results on the whole satisfactory. 

 Commencing with the plant growers, the 

 last ten days of the season were velvet, 

 for practically every good plant was sold 

 long before Easter, and except a few of 

 the larger sized genistas, azaleas and 

 bougainvilleas, everything was disposed 

 of by the retailers at profitable figures. 

 The medium sized ramblers, rhododen- 

 drons, acacias and bushy, dwarf bougain- 

 villeas all were snapped up by buyers 

 as rapidly as the hosts of salesmen could 

 dispose of them. The plant combinations 

 in fancy baskets, vases and boxes never 

 sold so rapidly, and the lily was again 

 crowned king. If there was a scarcity 

 of anything, it was the lily. Those who 

 sold out at what was top a week ago, 

 12 cents, could have had 15 cents for 

 every perfect flower early Saturday, and 

 before midnight 20 cents was asked and 

 paid without a murmur by the hungry 

 retailers who had gone short of the mar- 

 ket. It was a great day for the lily men. 



But it was a sorry day for the violet 

 industry. Nearly a thousand boxes ar- 

 rived Saturday, away over a million and 

 a half of flowers, and vast quantities of 

 these not of first quality, and a great 

 slump was, of course, inevitable. Dur- 

 ing the week the price gradually crawled 

 up to 50 cents, with even a little more 

 for the finest grade. These prices held 

 on Saturday morning for a while, and 

 then came the avalanche. Slowly they 

 crept downward until after midnight 25 

 cents per hundred was high, and the un- 

 scented and too long unpicked stuff was 

 fortunate to supply the sidewalk brigade 

 at $1 per thousand. Quantities failed 

 of sale at any price. 



Valley was scarce and high, 5 cents to 

 6 cents being asked Saturday evening. 

 Orchids sold splendidly, also gardenias, 

 though no exorbitant prices prevailed. 



Carnations held splendidly at reason- 

 able rates. Anything of real size and 

 quality did not go below 4 cents, and a 

 few of the novelties brought 6 cents. 

 The common kinds were disposed of in 

 the early market as low as 3 cents. Eoses 

 were abundant, the quality superb and 

 prices should be satisfactory to all. There 

 seemed to be little pickling. Beauties 

 seldom went above 50 cents. That figure 

 may fairly be given as the average top 

 in quantity. Occasionally the small buyer 

 found it necessary to pay a little more. 

 The finest Maid and Bride sold at 12 

 cents to 15 cents and all the new roses 

 in proportion. Some lonp-stemmed Kil- 

 larney and Eichmond touched 25 cents. 



The general verdict is one of satis- 

 faction and the trade begins spring with 

 a delightful temperature, with a cheery 

 outlook and well filled purses. 



Qub Meeting. 



President Harry Turner was in the 

 chair at the meeting of the Florists' 

 Club, Monday evening, April 12. Nearly 

 100 members were present. The expected 

 plant display did not materialize, the 



Easter demand having depleted the 

 houses of all the local growers. The din- 

 ner committee reported a satisfactory, re- 

 sult, the receipts more than balancing the 

 expenditures. The thanks of the club 

 were voted the committee and Patrick 

 O'Mara spoke in a complimentary strain, 

 characterizing it as the best dinner the 

 club had ever known, with many applica- 

 tions from the ladies for its repetition in 

 1910. The outing committee reported 

 rapid progress and many details as to the 

 club's annual excursion, July 1, to 

 Whitestone Landing. 



The committee of awards read the re- 

 sult of the last exhibition of the club on 

 rose night at its March session, as fol- 

 lows : 



Twenty-flve White Killarney, F. R. Plerson 

 Co., cultural certificate. 



Twenty-flve My Maryland, A. N. Plerson, vote 

 of thanks. 



Twenty-flve White Killarney, Waban Rose 

 Conservatories, first prize, a volume of art en- 

 gravings of the world in red morocco. 



Twenty-flve My Maryland, Myers & Santman, 

 of Chestnut HUI, Pa., vote of thanks. 



Twenty-flve My Maryland, Robert Simpson, 

 cultural certificate. 



Twenty-flve Mrs. Jardlne, Robert Simpson, 

 cultural certificate. 



Twelve American Beauties, Brant-Hentz 

 Flower Co., cultural certificate and special 

 commendation. 



Twelve Killarney, twelve Maid and twelve 

 Bride, W. G. Badgley, cultural certificate. 



Twenty-five Maid, Valentine Hammond, cul- 

 tural certificate. 



Rose Slnica, Cherokee rose, W. A. Manda, vote 

 of thanks. 



South Orange Beauty, W. A. Manda, vote of 

 thanks. 



Twenty-flve Richmond, A. Farenwald, Hill- 

 side, Pa., cultural certlflcate. 



Vase of Killarney, A. Farenwald, cultural 

 certlflcate. 



Kate Moulton, Robert Simpson, vote of 

 thanks. 



Twelve Bridesmaid and Bride, Henry Hentz, 

 Jr., cultural certlflcate. 



Mme. Abel Chatenay, Robert Simpson, cul- 

 tural certlflcate. 



The committee consisted of C. H. 

 Totty, A. E. Kennedy, A. L. Miller, W. 

 F. Sheridan, Eobert Simpson and F. H. 

 Traendly. 



The president appointed as the trans- 

 portation committee F. H. Traendly, F. 

 E. Pierson and John Young, to arrange 

 for the club's representation at the Cin- 

 cinnati convention. 



Harry Bunyard spoke in behalf of the 

 National Sweet Pea Association. He de- 

 sired the club's recognition in acting as 

 the godfather of the new society and 

 helping in its initiative work. The first 

 exhibition is scheduled for June 30 in the 

 club's rooms. Patrick O'Mara, C. H. 

 Totty, W. E. Marshall, W. F. Sheridan, 

 C. B. Weathered and W. A. Manda spoke 

 in favor of the scheme and the club's 

 vases, conveniences and recognition were 

 placed at the new society's disposal by a 

 unanimous vote. 



W. H. Elliott's paper on the "Eose 

 Growers' Problems" was greatly appre- 

 ciated. It is published in full in this 

 issue of the Eeview. In the discussion 

 Messrs. Stewart, Pierson, Badgley, 

 O'Mara, Lenker, Barnard, Guttman, 

 Nugent and Weathered participated. Mr. 

 Elliott answered many questions, and the 

 experiences of all the rose growers pres- 

 ent added much to the evening's enjoy- 

 ment. It was after 11 o'clock before 

 adjournment. F. E. Pierson said he is 

 building 50,000 square feet this season, 

 that he believes in the big houses, and 

 that he was especially proud of having 

 won the silver medal of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society with his ex- 

 hibit of White Killarney, although tak- 

 ing roses to Boston was like taking coals 

 to Newcastle. He commended large 

 houses as economical and said perma- 

 nency and durability were now the im- 

 portant factors and that with reinforced 



