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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



OCTOBBB 12, 1911. 



are quite aggressive and are makiug uu- 

 uaually high prices for October, which 

 will fall as the supply of chrysanthe- 

 mums increases. 



Chrysanthemums are rather more 

 plentiful and selling well. Among va- 

 rieties in evidence are Pacific, Polly 

 Rose, G. S. Kalb, Halliday, October 

 Frost, Marquis de Montmort and Dona- 

 tello. Violets are getting much more 

 numerous. The cool weather has made 

 them flower earlier. The growers are 

 just starting to house the single varie- 

 ties. For lily of the valley, the de- 

 mand has improved. Lilies also are 

 selling well. Cattleya labiata is now 

 obtainable in quantity and is featured 

 in every up-to-date florist's windows, 

 along with Oncidium Rogersii, Vanda 

 C8erulea and phaltenopsis. The demand 

 for asparagus and adiantum has im- 

 proved. Pot plant trade might be bet- 

 ter. A sharp frost or two will galva- 

 nize more life into it. There are now 

 quite a number of well flowered chrys- 

 anthemums in pots procurable. 



Various Notes. 



October 9 William Sim started hous- 

 ing his big stock of single violets. He 

 is picking quantities of fine flowers 

 outdoors, averaging 10,000 daily. He 

 has Just started picking from a large 

 house of sweet peas. The varieties are 

 Christmas Pink and Mont Blanc. He 

 has this season two long sash houses 

 of pansies, which he has not grown be- 

 fore. He has started to pick from 

 these. 



Remember the club meeting Octobers 

 17. There will be talks on bulbs for 

 forcing by "William Patterson, bulbs for 

 bedding by Robert Cameron, bulbs for 

 naturalizing by John G. Duguid and 

 others, and other business in plenty. 



Harland H. Rogers, of South Sud- 

 bury, has finished his season with asters 

 and is now busy among his carnations. 

 Some of his leading sorts are Enchant- 

 ress, White Perfection and Beacon. 



T. F. Galvin had a large and unique 

 floral design October 7, made for the 

 Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co., of 

 Boston, to be placed on the con- 

 federate soldiers' monument at At- 

 lanta, Ga. 



The Halifax Gardens Co. is sending 

 in large and excellent shipments of 

 chrysanthemums, including October 

 Frost, G. S. Kalb, Glory of Pacific. and 

 Donatello, the latter a fine yellow. 



John McFarland, of North Easton, 

 showed a strikingly handsome brasso- 

 cattleya hybird of unrecorded parent- 

 age at Horticultural hall October 7; 

 petals, sepals and lower part of lip, 

 rich pink; center of lip, pale yellow. It 

 was awarded a silver medal. 



Edward Wood, of Lexington, is cut- 

 ting good G. 8. Kalb and Halliday 

 mums. He follows these with sweet 

 peas. Mr. Wood lost nearly his entire 

 crop of outdoor asters during the freeze 

 of September 14. 



A. A. Reed, the Whitman orchid spe- 

 cialist, has just installed a new Kroe- 

 schell boiler that is doing its work 

 well. 



William R. Nicholson, the well known 

 Framingham carnationist, was married 

 to Miss J. G. Harrington at York Har- 

 bor, Me., on September 30, and has been 

 enjoying his honeymoon in the Maine 

 wilds. He has the good wishes of a 

 host of friends. 



St the late Brockton fair, Waban 

 xiose Conservatories secured first and 

 second premiums for fifty roses with | 



five vases of Killarney and the new 

 yellow, Lady Hillingdon. The Blue 

 Hill Nurseries had a fine display of 

 choice evergreens. 



William H. Elliott, in addition to 

 his usual fine line of roses, has the mar- 

 ket to himself just now with pot chrys- 

 anthemums, of which he has a fine as- 

 sortni«ait, well flowered, 



V. Fenmia, of South Sudbury, J. 

 Leach & Son, North Easton, and J. W. 

 Simpson, of Woburn, are shipping good 

 carnations to J. M. Cohen. Mr. Cohen 

 is also handling a grand lot of vio- 

 lets and mums from the Mishawum 

 Flower Co., of Woburn. 



W. W. Edgar & Co. are this week 

 busy unpacking big importation? of 

 azaleas. They are cutting Polly Rose^ 

 and Golden Glow mums in quantity. 



T. J. Gray lectured before the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society October 6 

 on his recent European trip and was 

 given a rousing recqption. , 



The new Horticultural Club held its 



The Sditor Is pleased 

 wben • Reader ; i-. - 

 presents his Ideas 

 on any subject treated In 



As experience is the best 

 teacher, so do we 

 learn fastest by an 

 ezchanse of experiences. 

 Many valuable points 

 are brought out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelllnK and 

 grammar, though desirable, are not 

 necessary. Write as you would talk 

 when doing your best. 



WX 8HAIX BE GLAD 

 TO HKAR FROM TOU 



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regular monthly meeting October 4, at 

 the Parker House. 



Everett E. Cummings, of Woburn, is 

 picking 5,000 Princess of Wales violets 

 daily. He is busy filling his carnation 

 houses with violets. 



Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fisher, of Ellis, 

 will celebrate their silver wedding 

 October 23. 



Jackson Dawson, of the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum, reached three score and ten 

 years of age October 5 and was the 

 recipient of many congratulatory mes- 

 sages. 



Among the extra good chrysanthe- 

 mums seen are Golden Glow, from H. W. 

 Vose, of Hyde Park, and Polly Rose, 

 from R. D. Kimball, of Waban. 



William T. Walke, of Salem, is this 

 year extra strong on Lorraine begonias 

 and cyclamens. 



Local bulb dealers have this season 

 had heavy losses on some varieties of 

 narcissi. That fine variety, Victoria, 

 has arrived in bad condition, in some 

 cases a total loss. Other sorts which 

 have come to hand soft are poeticus 

 ornatus, Emperor, Ard Righ and Hors- 



fieldii. On all these a large percent- 

 age is worthless. The later arrivals 

 are better than the early ones. 



W, N. Craig, 



The Beacon Flower Store, 2 Beacon 

 street, is displaying its customary en- 

 terprise in securing an opening into 

 Houghton & Button's department store, 

 thus giving an opportunity for the cus- 

 tomers to pass freely from one store 

 to another without the inconvenience 

 of going into the street. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Cooler weather last week brought 

 with it a slight revival of retail busi- 

 ness, but the aggregate trade is some- 

 what behind what it was a year ago. 

 However, there are an unusual number 

 of early social functions scheduled for 

 this month, which will undoubtedly 

 bring the month as a whole up to a 

 good average. The supply is improving 

 as well »a the quality, and a slight 

 advance in prices has occurred. 



Various Notes. , ,. 



W. B. Lake, of Philadelphia, was a 

 visitor in the city the early part of the 

 week. 



John Horn, of Westerly, was here 

 last week looking for a location for a 

 retail store. He has been a landscape 

 gardener at Westerly for a number of 

 years. 



John G. Gardner, son of Richard 

 Gardner, who for several years has 

 been employed under his father in the 

 greenhouses at the James J. Van Allen 

 estate at Newport, left last week for 

 Los Angeles, where he has accepted a 

 position in an orchid growing estab- 

 lishment. 



Mr. Welch, of Welch Bros., Boston, 

 was a recent visitor here. 



Charles H. Hunt is completing the 

 last of his new houses. He has also 

 finished benching 75,000- bulbs. 



Wadley & Smythe, of New York city, 

 will close their branch store at New- 

 port October 15. 



J. J. Kelley, .of Valley Falls, is to 

 begin setting out trees for the town 

 of Cumberland in a few days, the town, 

 having made an appropriation of $300 

 for this purpose. 



Frederick B. Luther has announced 

 the closing of his greenhouses on At- 

 lantic avenue, after fifteen years. It 

 is understood that he eontemplAtes 

 erecting a range of houses at his new 

 country home in Norton, Mass. 



Timothy O'Connor had two wedding 

 decorations last week. He has been 

 busy recently on funeral and general 

 work. 



A. T. Bunyard, of the A. T. Bunyard 

 Floral Co., New York city, has closed 

 his Newport store. 



Arthur Zirkraan, of M. Rice & Co., 

 of Philadelphia, visited the trade in 

 this city last week. 



Frederick Hoffman, Mr. Moss and 

 J.. J. Kelley were the judges at the 

 recent flower show held by the Central 

 Falls Field Naturalists' Society, 



Monday, October 16, is set as the 

 opening date for the new wholesale 

 flower market. Arrangements have 

 been made for twenty-eight stalls to 

 be rented at a flat price of $1 per 

 week each, payable yearly in advance. 

 At the auction for choice of stalls, held 



