Decuuber 8, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



23 



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



now fiijoyiiig a good sale on hyacinths 

 started in ghisses. Quite a variety of 

 decorative plants are handled at the 

 l''aneuil Hall square store. This com- 

 pany continues to operate the store for- 

 merly occupied by the Schlegel A; 

 i'ottler Co. 



:\Ir. Russell, 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, 

 lias a window attractively arranged 

 with finely fruited Otaheite oranges 

 tliis week. Ills poinsettias in pans are 

 of splendid quality. 



.1. Newman & Sons always keep their 

 windows tastefully arranged at their 

 Treniont 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 

 (■ember 20. The election of ofhcers, 

 talk on English horticultural establish- 

 ments by William Downs, numerous flo- 

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

 lainment committee and much new 

 Ifusiness is to be transactcMl. Voting 

 will be. MS usual, \>\ tii<' Aust rali;iM 

 lallot. 



A laigt' projiortion of tli(^ fine pan 

 MI'S now coining into tlu' Mi.iii<et are 

 ^row II by \\'. ('. Ward, of (^>uiiii-v, who 

 ni;ik('s a specialty of this tliiwei'. ;ind 

 ' ne grows it. better. 



The new store of ArnoM \ I'l^tio-;. 

 mi Itoylstoii street, made a s|iiM-ialty of 

 i>oriaitie begonias last week. Tiieir 

 l.iij^c window is always tastel'ully ar- 

 '■iiiged. Dinner table arr;ingemeMt< 

 ail' shown from time to time with 

 lamps and all accessories. An excellent 

 business is being done. 



.Tames II. Vick, representing A. T. 

 I'-oddington, was among the visitors last 



WiM'k. 



• I. II. Xewnt.an is oiii- ot' the best 

 single \ i(det specialists growing 1'or our 

 market, and his floweis at - Park street 

 •irr> ;ilw.i\s eagerly snapped u[). 



The Waban Kose Conservatories are 

 favorably imjiressed with the new rose. 



Lady Ilillingdon, They aix- cutting some 

 grand Killarney, Richmond and IBcauty 

 at present and will have a hug(! <Jhrist- 

 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 rejiuta- 

 tion and will no doubt be more heard of 

 later. W. N. Craig. 



GETS FIRST WHITE MEDAL. 



William P. Rich, secretary of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, re- 

 ports that the first award of the George 

 Robert White medal of honor has just 

 been made to Prof. Charles S. Sargent, 

 director of Arnold Arboretum. 



Mr. White, in his deed of trust to the 

 society accompanying the fund for the 

 maintenance of th(> medal, states that 

 he has long thought that there was an 

 o|iportunity for broadening the field of 

 influence of tin' Mass;ichusef ts Horti- 

 cultural Society and of extending the 

 interest in its work if some suitable 

 recognition wcrt^ made of those persons 

 who have aci'omplishe<l important re- 

 sults in horticulture, tlu' award to be 

 made independently of oi' in <MiMition 

 to any prizes or certificates of merit 

 that may be bestowed by the soci<'t> 

 in the course of its regular schedule of 

 |>r(Mniums. lie tiierefore foun<led the 

 George IJobcrt White Medal of lloimr 

 Fund, the income of wliich is to lie 

 devoteil annually for the imrposc of 

 providing :i substantia] gohi medal ti. 

 lie awariled to the man or woman, com 

 mercial firm fir institution in tiie Initeil 

 States th.-it has done tin- me-t diiriii;; 

 tlie year, or in recent years, in ad\ance 

 the interest in horticulture in its broad- 

 est sense. Prof. Sargent's m-i'at woriv 

 has l)een the introduction of m.any 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 ovvii fiei<l with tlie \'ictoria 

 medal of honnr of Imi^I.-umI iiid the 

 medal of tiie Legion of Honor of France 

 aiul will have ii strong inllueni'e in jiro- 

 moting the horticultural activities of 

 this cduntrx-. The medal itself was 



struck at the United States mint in 

 i'hiladeljihia, 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 imjirove 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 

 brisji than is usual in a week following 

 a holiday. Respecting the Latter, on all 

 sides come rejiorts that the Th.anksgiv 

 ing business was the b(>st (>\er known 

 here and the liorists f.-el <-oii(i<l(Mit that 

 it lias become estalilished as one of the 

 special da\< to lie considered with 

 < hristmas, l-;aster .-ind .Memorial Day. 



Loses ,ire growiuij- sli^iiti\- shorter in 

 supjily .-ind on Suturday, i'»e. 'ember .'5, 

 an advancf of -ii' |,('r hundred was made 

 ail aioiiL;- the line. \'iidets ar.i the 

 sh(H-te-.t that this market has experi 

 enced at this season of the }ear, for 

 several years. l,ut carnations" are im 

 lirovmg. Iioth in quantity and (pialit\ 

 < 'hrys.'intheiiiums have passed their 

 zenith for this season and jiractieaiL 

 every one has cut his entire crop. .\ 

 few stragglers still find their wav ti, 

 the market and sever;il growers have a 

 few small houses that they are holding 

 back for Christmas. 



Already the vanguard oi Christmas 

 greens, jiofted stock and other oilVrings 

 for the ^'iiletide has made its appear 

 ance and the movement, while slow has 

 surely set in and from now till the enl 

 of the month will b(> an increasing fac- 

 tor in the general business conditions. 



