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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Januabx 26, 1911. 



lar. Mignonette is extra fine and sell- 

 ing well. Callas are more abundant. 

 Marguerites continue in active demand, 

 especially the yellow shades. Quite a 

 few calendulas, dimorphotheca, myoso- 

 tis, pansies, wallflowers and other mis- 

 cellaneous flowers are seen. Stocks 

 come from several growers. These do 

 not sell well, however, except for 

 Memorial day. There is now a plenti- 

 ful supply of Cattleya Trianae, also 

 quite a variety of other orchids, such 

 as dendrobiums, phalsenopsis and Ltelia 

 anceps. Adiantum, smilax and aspara- 

 gus are each selling well. 



Various Notes. 



F. P. Putnam, of Tewksbury, is this 

 season first in the market with Dimor- 

 photheca aurantiaca, which is a good 

 seller. Mr. Putnam has excellent stocks, 

 in addition to his fine line of fancy 

 carnations. 



The King Construction Co. has se- 

 cured the contract for a house 35x100 

 feet for E. H. Borowski, of Eoslindale. 

 Their contract includes benches and 

 heating. 



David Duncan, of Arlington, is mar- 

 keting fine shipments of tulips and nar- 

 cissi. 



Eber Holmes, of the Montrose Green- 

 houses, has been appointed by W. H. 

 Elliott, manager of the American Bose 

 Society's exhibition at the National 

 Flower Show in March. 



George O. Buckram, of Stoneham, 

 grows carnations in quantity, including 

 fine Beacon, Fair Maid and Enchantress, 

 and says they are in active demand. 



O. A. Knight, of the Central Green- 

 houses, West Roxbury, is marketing a 

 fine line of Primula Sinensis, P. ob- 

 conica and cyclamens, also carnations 

 and callas. 



A. A. Pembroke, of North Beverly, 

 is one of our newer but successful 

 growers of sweet peas and carnations. 

 Especially fine are his Ruby, "White 

 Perfection, Beacon, Enchantress and 

 White Enchantress. Mr. Pembroke has 

 orders booked for 60,000 carnation cut- 

 tings and turned an order away for 

 21,000 last week. 



D. F. Hutchinson & Sons, of Lexing- 

 ton, grow Beacon heavily, also White 

 Xiawson, White Perfection and En- 

 chantress. 



Peirce Bros, are cutting a fine lot of 

 Lilium speciosum rubrum. 



A good audience assembled at Horti- 

 cultural hall January 21 to hear a lec- 

 ture from Prof. H. H. Whetzel, of 

 Ithaca, N. Y., on the "Local Plant 

 Doctor." The midwinter flower show 

 will be held February 24 to 26. 



E. J. Rogean is handling extra fine 

 campernelle jonquils, double Von Sion 

 and French poeticus from H. W, Vose. 

 The wallflowers and freesias he re- 

 ceives from A. G. Hanna, of Holbrook, 

 are also extra fine. 



Daniel Hiffe will do the heating for 

 a new greenhouse 20x80, being built for 

 Oliver Ames, of North Easton, where 

 Edward Parker is manager. 



Good smilax is selling well at pres- 

 ent, and that coming in from Thomas 

 Cox, of Dorchester, is about the best I 

 have seen. His adiantum also is ex- 

 cellent. 



E. C. Rogers, of Eoslindale, and Carl 

 Everburg are among those receiving 

 fine consignments of bulbous stock. 



The W. W, Edgar Co. will make a 

 large exhibit at the coming National 

 Flower Show, including a number of 



new azaleas. They report business as 

 good. 



W. F. Coolidge, of Cambridge, has 

 extra good nephrolepis, palms and aza- 

 leas, and William Cleary, of Newton, 

 well flowered azaleas in quantity. 



Good double violet growers are not 

 numerous in and around Boston. A 

 few who are handling extra fine stock 

 are H. F. Calder, Norwood; W. B. 

 Goodenow, Stoughton; John T. Gale, 

 Tewksbury, and H. F. Wood, Brookline. 



Charles J. Harvey, of Needham 

 Heights, is having extra success this 

 season with mignonette and wallflowers. 

 He also grows lupines and other an- 

 nuals. 



Welch Bros, report business in cut 

 flowers as active, with a scarcity of 

 roses and some other lines of stock. 



W. N, Craig. 



CINCINNATI. 



The Gateway to the South. 



Business was fair last week. The 

 supply of stock slackened considerably 

 and as a result the market was at times 

 rather tight. Had the demand been 

 anyway brisk there would have been a 

 decided shortage of flowers in the mar- 

 ket. 



Roses have been cleaning up every 

 day at normal prices. The general 

 quality is good. In Beauties, the short 

 and medium grades sell faster than the 

 choice long ones; all, however, clean up. 

 In other roses, all sizes move quickly. 

 Carnations are short in supply and the 

 prices during the latter part of last 

 week and the early part of this week 

 have shown advances. The white and 

 lighter shades are especially in demand. 



The market is fairly well supplied in 

 other lines. Single violets are coming 

 in nicely, although some growers have 

 stated that theirs are letting up. A 

 more than sufficiency of New York 

 doubles are ofifered to meet all requests. 

 Lily of the valley, too, is plentiful. 

 There is a good call for longiflorum and 

 callas. Narcissi and Romans find a 

 good market because of the shortage of 

 other stock. Some few jonquils have 

 made their appearance and are toler- 

 ably good. They are naturally grabbed 

 up at once. Sweet peas sell rea<Sly. 



The supply of decorative greens of 

 all kinds is now ample. Asparagus plu- 

 mosus, which for a while has been on 

 the short side, is again plentiful. The 

 supply of Sprengeri, too, is sufficient 

 for demands. 



Club Meeting. 



The Cincinnati Florists' Society held 

 a special meeting at the club rooms 

 Monday evening, January 23. The at- 

 tendance was large. Wm. Murphy gave 

 a report for the flower show committee, 

 consisting of himself, E. A. Forter, 

 chairman, R. Witterstaetter, E. G. Gil- 

 lett and Max Rudolph. The report 

 stated that $13,050 had been subscribed 

 to the guarantee fund for the show up 

 to Monday evening and that some 

 others were still to be heard from. The 

 week beginning November 13, 1911, was 

 decided on as the date for the event. 

 At the next regular meeting of the 

 society the committee will have a com- 

 plete list of schedules to submit. 



Various Notes. 



C. E. Critchell, the vice-president of 

 the S. A. F. for southern Ohio, asks all 

 local florists who wish to become mem- 



bers of that body to give him their 

 names. 



Wm. Gardner was in town for a few 

 days last week. While here he bowled 

 with some of the local florists. He says 

 that when the recent storm broke so 

 much glass at P. J. dinger's green- 

 houses he did 100 yards with a heavy 

 tarpaulin on his shoulders in less time 

 than a trained sprinter could have 

 done it. 



George Staff, of New Castle, Ind., is 

 organizing a florists' bowling club in 

 that city. 



Thomas Windram has returned from 

 Leesburg, Fla. 



Louis Pfeiffer recently had a fire scare 

 at his home in the Highlands. Fortu- 

 nately, the blaze was extinguished be- 

 fore it had done serious damage. 



C. E. Critchell reports an order- for 

 3,000 wire hanging baskets. 



Miss Margaret Weiland, of Evanston, 

 111., is visiting her brother, Peter Wei- 

 land, at New Castle. 



Mrs. Henry Glins left last week for 

 a fortnight's visit in Boston. 



Wm. Speck has been cutting some fine 

 Lilium longiflorum. 



Mr. and Mrs. Paul Berkowitz arrived 

 January 23. Mr. Berkowitz is, of 

 course, talking Bayersdorf er 's goods. 

 Other callers include H. Nicholson, rep- 

 resenting the Chicago Carnation Co., 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Lester F. Benson and 

 family, of Indianapolis. 



C. H. H. 



PITTSBURG, PA. 



The Market. 



The cut flower people have been 

 having a bad week, as it is almost im- 

 possible to get anything they want in 

 any quantity. The wholesale men also 

 came through a trying season, trying 

 to satisfy their customers by dividing 

 up the stock among them, but did not 

 succeed particularly well, and the end 

 is not yet, as the weather is miserable. 

 The sun does not deign to show itself 

 for even a few minutes. 



Various Notes. 



Henry Eichholz, of Waynesboro, Pa., 

 sent in a bunch of Princess Charming, 

 the new pink carnation, and it was fine, 

 both in form and color, with strong 

 stems, just what is wanted in an En- 

 chantress-colored carnation. 



The committee having in charge the 

 entertainment and lecture to be given 

 the Pittsburg Florists' Club and their 

 friends has announced Tuesday, Febru- 

 ary 28, as the day and invites all to 

 attend, and promises a pleasant and 

 instructive evening. 



Glass, which was down in price for a 

 few days, has advanced nine cents a 

 box over last week's price, with prom- 

 ise of further advance. 



Harry Baxter, who had greenhouses 

 at Aspinwall and who Was known to 

 the trade, dropped out several years 

 ago and all track of him was lost until 

 his death was announced January 13, 

 from his home in Bellevue. 



Miss McDowell, who has charge of 

 Miss A. L. Wells' store in Steubenville, 

 O., has been a victim of tonsilitis for 

 the last week. 



John Bader recently sold his business 

 to Ben L. Elliott, who has had the 

 active management of the business dur- 

 ing the last five years. Mr. Elliott will 

 continue the business under the name 

 of the John Bader Co. Hoo-Hoo. 



