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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



SEfTEMBBB 28, 1911. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Conditions are steadily improving. 

 There is no boom, but flowers are sell- 

 ing better than for a long time and 

 the growers are quite optimistic. Re- 

 cent frosts and rain ruined many of the 

 asters and these have now ceased to be 

 a controlling factor in the market. A 

 good many still arrive, but they are 

 bringing much better prices all around. 

 Roses are beginning to assert them- 

 selves and are temporarily more numer- 

 ous and important than any other 

 flowers. The prices on the smaller 

 grades show a downward tendency, but 

 better grades are selling quite well. 

 *.'arnafions, while shdrt-Hteiiuned, are 

 much more abundant. The best are mak- 

 ing $2.50 to $4 per hundred. Violets 

 have made their appearance, quite a 

 few Princess of Wales being seen, some 

 of quite nice quality. Chrysanthemums 

 as yet are limited to Golden Glow, with 

 the exception of a few Smith's Ad- 

 vance. 



Lilies are still in undersupply. There 

 is a fair lot of speciosums obtainable. 

 Some nice dahlias are seen, but many 

 were destroyed by the early frosts. 

 Tuberoses sell poorly and cosmos as yet 

 is not in much demand. Some nice an- 

 tirrhinums are coming in; these, how- 

 ever, only sell moderately. Gladioli are 

 still seen and sell better than a month 

 ago. Lily of the valley is abundant. 

 Cattleya labiata is occasionally seen and 

 will soon be abundant. Oncidium 

 Rogersii is being used in window dis- 

 plays. There is a little better call for 

 both asparagus and adiantum, Aspara- 

 gus Sprengeri being in the lead, as 

 usual. 



Various Notes. 



The Rosary Flower Store, which has 

 hitherto been on Clarendon street, has 

 moved to more central and commodious 

 quarters at .'512 Boylstoii street, oppo- 

 site Copley Square. J. J. Casey, the 



who are sending these in this early in- 

 clude Edward Bingham, of Dedham; 

 W. E. Turner and E. E. Cummings, of 

 Woburn, and H. Waldecker, of Brain- 

 tree. The last named gentleman also 

 has splendid carnations. 



F. H. Houghton, formerly located on 

 Boylston street, will open a new and 

 up-to-date flower store at 4 Park street 

 October 1. Percy S. Snow will be first 

 assistant. Mr. Houghton is noted as 

 one of the leaders in design work in 

 Boston. 



Montrose Greenhouses are sending to 

 the Boston Flower Exchange unusually 

 good Killarney, White Killarney, Mrs. 

 Aaron Ward, Richmond and Perle. 



Bulbs for fall planting will be the 

 leading subject at the next club meet- 

 ing, October 17. They will be sepa- 

 rately treated for forcing, bedding and 

 naturalizing. 



Thomas Pegler is receiving fine dah- 

 lias and the new crop of pansies from 

 W. C. Ward, of Quincy, and charming 

 pink antirrhinums from R. D. Kimball, 

 of Waban. 



The vegetable growers' convention 

 and exhibition brought numerous out-of- 

 town visitors to Boston. It was unfor- 

 tunate that early frosts had spoiled 

 many of the tender crops. The trade 

 exhibits were quite numerous and the 

 representatives of the various firms in 

 this section reported good business. 



R. C. Bridgham, of the Newton Rose 

 Conservatories, is this season having 

 good success with Mrs. Jardine and 

 Prince de Bulgarie. 



Welch Bros, have had an excellent 

 September business up to date, con- 

 siderably ahead of 1910. 



G«o. McAlpine, one of the latest rose 

 specialists to enter the field here, is 

 sending in excellent Mrs. Ward, Lady 

 Hillingdon and Killarney roses from his 

 Exeter, N. H., establishment. 



A big fruit show under the auspices 

 of the Boston Chamber of Commerce 

 will be held in Horticultural hall Octo- 

 ber 23 to 28. Several thousand dollars 



Industrial Buildings at Edgebrook Establishment of Geo. Wittbold G>. 



proprietor, always contrives to have 

 an attractive window display, and his 

 business continues to grow. 



Herbert Clark, of Southampton, L. L, 

 formerly of Manchester, Mass., will re- 

 turn October 1 to take charge of the 

 estate of W. D. Denegre, Manchester, 

 Mass. 



William Sim is marketing single vio- 

 lets in quantity of good quality. Others 



are offered in prizes. This is part of a 

 big movement to boom New England 

 fruits and encourage their extended cul- 

 ture. 



A. A. Reed, of Whitman, is getting 

 some nice Cattleya Dowiana flowers 

 and has a fine lot of labiatas just com- 

 ing in. 



Among prominent shippers of Chrys- 

 anthemum Golden Glow this week are 



Carl Everburg and Gustave Olsen, of 

 Woburn, and L. E. Small, of Tewksbury, 

 all of which are sold at the Boston Co- 

 operative Market. 



The W. W. Edgar Co. is having 

 heavy sales on cyclamens and Lorraine 

 begonias, which they have in fine shape. 

 Begonia Glory of Cincinnati is being 

 grown in quantity by them. Mrs. W. 

 W. Edgar joined the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club September 19. 



Among the finest asters seen in Bos- 

 ton this season are those grown under 

 glass by W. S. Phelps, of Marlboro, and 

 handled at the Boston Co-operative 

 Market by J. M.« Cohen. 



W. W. Tailby, of Wellesley, and Mann 

 Bros., of Randolph, are leading ship- 

 pers of Lilium speciosum at present. 



William A. Riggs, of Auburndale, in 

 addition to his regular supplies of As- 

 paragus Sprengeri and plumosus, has 

 now good Golden Glow mums, to be fol- 

 lowed by other varieties shortly. Mr. 

 Riggs was for years one of the leading 

 mum growers for the Boston shows 

 while a private gardener. 



Mrs. J. F. Flood will continue the 

 florists' business at Woburn, with Will- 

 iam Martin in charge. Asparagus, adi- 

 antum and bedding plants will be made 

 specialties. 



H. W. Field, of Northampton, 

 through Thomas Pegler, is disposing of 

 fine daily cuts of Mrs. Aaron Ward, 

 Killarney, White Killarney and Rich- 

 mond roses. W. N. Craig. 



A CITY IN ITSELF. 



Those who have not visited the Edge- 

 brook greenhouses and nursery of the 

 Geo. Wittbold Co. have no idea of the 

 different industrial pursuits carried on 

 there. Eighty acres are devoted to the 

 growth of everything in the nursery 

 line; 75,000 square feet of glass to 

 everything in the plant line, while all 

 kinds of bulb stock are forced, and car- 

 nations, chrysanthemums and poinset- 

 tias are grown in enormous quantities. 



Being out of reach of accommoda- 

 tions, the company is obliged to own 

 and operate a grocery, restaurant and 

 blacksmith shop. The grocery supplies 

 the families living on the place, while 

 the restaurant furnishes meals at all 

 hours and also has from sixteen to 

 twenty regular boarders, all of whom 

 work for Wittbold. Rooms with modern 

 conveniences, a great improvement over 

 the old ones, are under construction for 

 the sleeping apartments of those who 

 board there. 



The blacksmith shop is kept busy 

 shoeing twelve to fourteen horses, 

 building and repairing wagons and 

 other implements, and also with the 

 construction and repairing of the min- 

 iature railway system which forms a 

 network throughout the greenhouses 

 and hotbed sections. 



The company does all the work in 

 the construction of its cement sheds, 

 hotbeds, sidewalks, etc., also manufac- 

 tures all the cement boards and posts for 

 its cement benches and the tile used in 

 tiling the nursery, of which 20,000 feet 

 of 6-inch, 2,000 feet of 12-inch, and 

 17,000 feet of 24-inch have been used to 

 date, in addition to thirty-two cement 

 basins. 



An average of forty men have been 

 employed throughout the last year, an 

 increase of five over the year of 1910. 

 Six families live on the place, including 

 those of Otto Wittbold, superintendent, 

 and C. G". Anderson, assistant superin- 

 tendent. 



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