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local trade. Will you please give us a 

 short li^ of varieties that are good 

 for florists situated as I amf F. K. 



I have tried out between 400 and 

 509 varieties during the last seven 

 years. These have included most of 

 the newer sorts recommended for cut 

 flowers. The list that follows contains 

 the varieties that have proven most 

 profitable to me for growing for cut 

 flowers for my own local retail trade. 



Cactus type: Countess of Lonsdale, 

 salmon pink and amber; Bene Cayeux, 

 red; Parzival, white. 



Decorative type: Clifford W. Bru- 

 ton, yellow; Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, 

 white; Souvenir de Gustave Doazon, 

 red; Sylvia, mauve-pink and white; 

 Jack Rose, crimson rose. 



Show type: A. D. Livoni, clear 

 pink, quilled; Queen Victoria, yellow, 

 quilled. 



Single type: Fringed Twentieth 

 Century, roi^ crimson; Rose-pink Cen- 

 tury, delicate soft pink; Crimson Cen- 

 tury, rich, deep velvety crimson. 



If one's trade does not justify so 

 large a lot I would suggest C. W. Bru- 

 ton, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Souve- 

 nir de Gustave Doazon, Jack Rose, 

 Fringed Twentieth Century, Queen Vic- 

 toria and Sylvia. 



I am growing Virginia Maule, 

 Delices, Mrs. Roosevelt, Master Carl, 

 Prince of Yellows and a host of others 

 of the newer sorts and, while they are 

 undoubtedly beautiful, they either are 

 too late for this section or they are 

 shy bloomers under my conditions. The 

 list above is selected, among other 

 things, for freedom of bloom and earli- 

 ness. Fully eighty-five per cent of my 

 income from cut blooms of dahlias is 

 from varieties named in this list. 



W. K. Fletcher. 



BOSTON'S HORTIC5ULTURAL CLUB. 



To promote a more widespread inter- 

 est in horticultural matters is the prime 

 purpose of the Horticultural Club of 

 Boston, which has just been organized. 

 It is the outgrowth of an old club which 

 had become defunct; and in reviving it 

 along new lines it is confidently be- 

 lieved by the leaders that it will exert 

 a powerful influence in the horticulture 

 of the country. Its membership is 

 limited to twenty of the prominent hor- 

 ticulturists of the east, some of whpm 

 have attained bigh reputation for their 

 research work. This is particularly true 

 •of David Fairchild, of the Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, who has 

 traveled all over the world for the pur- 

 pose of assembling specimens for the 

 government; and E. H. Wilson, of the 

 Arnold Arboretum, who only a few 

 months ago returned from a long trip 

 into the heart of China, bringing back 

 with him many rare plants. 

 . The club will meet once a month dur- 

 ing eight months of the year at the 

 Parker House, and the dinner, which 

 always will be a feature, will be fol- 

 lowed by an address by some member. 

 Friday, November 3, Mr. Wilson will 

 give an account of his recent expedi- 

 tion and what it accomplished in the 

 way of enlarging the horticultural pos- 

 sessions of Harvard University, which 

 stands sponsor for Arnold Arboretum. 

 Prof. Charles S. Sargent, director of 

 the Arnold Arboretum, has given his 

 highest endorsement of the Horticul- 

 tural Club, and in his statement ad- 

 dressed to President Farquhar he not 





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H. C Will, of Will Bros. G>., Minneapolis, and His String. 



only touches upon the aims and field of 

 -operations for the organization, but 

 speaks a word for the arboretum, which 

 he holds is not appreciated by American 

 horticulturists as it should be. 



Following is the list of the members 

 of the club: 



John K. M. L. Farquhar, president. Bog- 

 ton. 



E. H. Wllwfn, honorary secretary, Arnold 

 Arboretum, Forest Hills, Boston. 



John A. Pettlgrew, superintendent of 

 parka, Boston, 



Thomas Roland, Nahant, Mass. 



David Fairchild, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, WashinKton, D. C. 



Alexander Montgomery, Natick, Mass. 



Peter Fisher, Kills. Mass. 



M. A. Patten, Tewksbury, Mass. 



E. Allan Peirce, Waltham, Mass. 



"W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J. 



James F. M. Farquhar, Boston. 



Robert Cameron, Harvard Botanic Gar- 

 den, Cambridge, Mass. 



Charles H. Totty, Madison, N. J. 



Jackson Dawson, Arnold Arboretum, For- 

 est Hills, Boston. 



William J. Stewart, Boston. 



Patrick Welch, Boston. 



J. D. Kisele, Philadelphia. 



Hon. C. W. Hoitt, Nashua, N. H. 



F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y. 

 L. J. Reuter, \yesterly, R. I. 



WILL'S BAG. 



H. C. Will, secretary of Will Bros. 

 Co., Minneapolis, went to Donnelly, 

 Minn., last week for a couple of days 

 with the ducks. Other florists who en- 

 gage in this sport will be interested in 

 the picture showing his bag. There 

 were seventy-two ducks in the string, 

 mallards, bluebills and red ducks. 



MINXEAFOLIS. 



The Market. 



After a week of cloudy weather, with 

 stock rather scarce, the sun is now 

 shining and prospects are that as soon 

 as the plants feel the effect there will 

 be plenty of nfee stock. Frost about 

 ten days ago killed all outdoor stock, 

 to the relief of the florists. Dahlias up 

 to that time had been good, but a 

 quantity of Shasta daisies of rather 

 poor quality found their way to the 

 stores. 



Business as a whole is considered 

 fair, and the starting of the flower 

 season is noticeable by better displays 



in the store windows. The chrysanthe- 

 mum is the flower of note, and the 

 hon^e-grown look particularly good. 

 President Taft paid the city a visit and 

 caused the excitement a presidential 

 visit generally does, but not making 

 any great stir in flower business. v,. 



Various Notes. 



Mr. and Mrs. R. Wessing have the 

 sympathy of the trade in the death of 

 their little daughter, Erna Winona, last 

 week of diphtheria. 



Merriam Park Greenhouses have a 

 quantity of pompon chrysanthemums 

 which they are disposing of at an ad- 

 vantage. 



The Minneapolis Floral Co. is cutting 

 some fine mums, but the dark weather 

 of late has kept back the carnations 

 and roses, and Emil Olsen, who has 

 charge of the orders, had a busy time 

 trying to make the stock go around. 



Rice Bros., the hustling wholesale 

 florists and supply dealers, are busy as 

 usual with shipping orders. 



Hiawatha Gardens Co. has devoted 

 the place at University avenue and 

 Bedford street mostly to pot plants, 

 and is cutting a quantity of carnations 

 and roses at the new place at Lyndale 

 and Fiftieth street. The poinsettias at 

 the University avenue place look prom- 

 ising. 



H. B. Whitted's delivery cars are fly- 

 ing around at all times and in all parts 

 of the city. So splendid a delivery out- 

 fit is certainly an ad for the enter- 

 prising florist. 



Violets from Will Bros, are welcome. 

 They are not cutting many yet, but 

 what they lack in quantity they make 

 up in qualitjT. ■ 



August Swanson is living at Minne- 

 tonka, and by appearances commuting 

 must agree with him. 



Oscar Amundson, who was burned out 

 in the Brunswick hotel about a year 

 ago, and who has since located on 

 South Eighth street, has moved to his 

 old number in the Andrews hotel, newly 

 built on the site of the old Brunswick. 

 His store is in keeping with the hotel, 

 an architecturally beautiful building. 

 The window decorations at The Flo- 



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