Dkcdubeb 8, 1810. 



The Weekly Plorists' Review^ 



23 



The George White Medal of Honor, Recently Awarded to Prof. Charles S. Sargent. 



now enjoying a good sale on hyacinths 

 started in glasses. Quite a variety of 

 decorative plants are handled at the 

 Faneuil Hall square store. This com- 

 pany continues to operate the store for- 

 merly occupied by the Schlegel & 

 Fottler Co. 



Mr. Eussell, late with W. W. Eaw- 

 son & Co. and A. T. Boddington, is now 

 to be found with Joseph Breck & Sons, 

 Boston. 



P. L. Carbone, on Boylston street, 

 has a window attractively arranged 

 with finely fruited Otaheite oranges 

 this week. His poinsettias in pans are 

 of splendid quality. 



J. Newman & Sons always keep their 

 windows tastefully arranged at their 

 Tremont street store. December 3, 

 poinsettias, scarlet carnations and roses 

 made one window brilliant. The aza- 

 leas, Lorraine begonias and other flow- 

 ering plants in the store are always 

 of the highest quality and customers 

 are never lacking here. 



Do not forget the club meeting, De- 

 cember 20. The election of officers, 

 talk on English horticultural establish- 

 ments by William Downs, numerous flo- 

 ral exhibits, report of S. A. F. enter- 

 tainment committee and much new 

 business is to be transacted. Voting 

 will be, as usual, by the Australian 

 ballot. 



A large proportion of the fine pan- 

 sies now coming into the market are 

 grown by W. C. Ward, of Quincy, who 

 makes a specialty of this flower, and 

 no one grows it better. 



The new store of Arnold & Petros, 

 on Boylston street, made a specialty of 

 Lorraine begonias last week. Their 

 large window is always tastefully ar- 

 ranged. Dinner table arrangements 

 are shown from time to time with 

 lamps and all accessories. An excellent 

 business is being done. 



James H. Vick, representing A. T. 

 Boddington, was among the visitors last 

 week. 



J. H. Newman is one of the best 

 single violet specialists growing for our 

 market, and his flowers at 2 Park street 

 are always eagerly snapped up. 



The Waban Eose Conservatories are 

 favorably impressed with the new rose, 



Lady Hillingdon. They are cutting some 

 grand Killarney, Eichmond and Beauty 

 at present and will have a large Christ- 

 mas crop. 



John Barr, of South Natick, has his 

 houses of carnations in fine shape and is 

 cutting a splendid crop. Pink Delight 

 is excellent and the new variegated 

 seedling is keeping up its good reputa- 

 tion and will no doubt be more heard of 

 later. W. N. Craig. 



(JETS FIBST WHITE M£DAL. 



William P. Eich, secretasTy of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, re- 

 ports that the first award of the George 

 Eobert White medal of^ honor has just 

 been made to Prof. Charles S. Sargent, 

 director of Arnold Arboretum. 



Mri White, in his deed of trust to the 

 society accompanying the fund for the 

 maintenance of the medal, states that 

 he has long thought that there was an 

 opportunity for broadening the field of 

 influence of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society and of extending the 

 interest in its work if some suitable 

 recognition were made of those persons 

 who have accomplished important re- 

 sults in horticulture, the award to be 

 made independently of or in addition 

 to any prizes or certificates of merit 

 that may be bestowed by the society 

 in the course of its regular schedule of 

 premiums. He therefore founded the 

 George Eobert White Medal of Honor 

 Fund, the income of which is to be 

 devoted annually for the purpose of 

 providing a substantial gold medal to 

 be awarded to the man or woman, com- 

 mercial firm or institution in the United 

 States that has done the most during 

 the year, or in recent years, to advance 

 the interest in horticulture in its broad- 

 est sense. Prof. Sargent's great work 

 has been the introduction of many de- 

 sirable ornamental trees and shrubs and 

 the testing of their hardiness in this 

 latitude. 



The White medal of honor will take 

 rank in its own field with the Victoria 

 medal of honor of England and the 

 medal of the Legion of Honor of France 

 and will have a strong influence in pro- 

 moting the horticultural activities of 

 this country. The medal itself was 



struck at the United States mint in 

 Philadelphia, from twenty-four karat 

 gold; is two and three-fourths inches in 

 diameter, five thirty-seconds of an inch 

 thick, and weighs between seven and 

 eight ounces. On the face, the figure 

 symbolizes, not the ordinary horticul- 

 turist as much as the scientific intellect, 

 whose aim is to improve nature, even 

 to create, if that is possible. The trees 

 in the background represent the allied 

 branch of arboriculture. On the reverse, 

 in the inscription, the name is so de- 

 signed that it can be replaced by an- 

 other name each time the medal is 

 awarded. 



The medal was executed by John 

 Flanagan, the merit of whose work in 

 this field of art is widely recognized. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Business was good last week, several 

 weddings and one or two large funerals 

 contributing to make the demand more 

 brisk than is usual in a week following 

 a holiday. Eespecting the latter, on all 

 sides come reports that the Thanksgiv 

 ing business was the best ever known 

 here and the florists feel confident that 

 it has become established as one of the 

 special days to be considered with 

 Christmas, Easter and Memorial Day. 



Eoses are growing slightly shorter in 

 supply and on Saturday, December 3, 

 an advance of $2 per hundred was made 

 all along the line. Violets are the 

 shortest that this market has experi- 

 enced at this season of the year, for 

 several years, but carnations are im- 

 proving, both in quantity and quality. 

 Chrysanthemums have passed their 

 zenith for this season and practicallv 

 every one has cut his entire crop. A 

 few stragglers still find their way to 

 the market and several growers have a 

 few small houses that they are holding 

 back for Christmas. 



Already the vanguard of Christmas 

 greens, potted stock and other offerings 

 for the Yuletide has made its appear- 

 ance and the movement, while slow has 

 surely set in and from now till the end 

 of the month will be an increasing fac- 

 tor in the general business conditions. 



