^tVff^lW-r 



26 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febbuary 2, 1911. 



Patten & Co., of Tewksbury, are 

 sending some of the finest Purity 

 freesias seen this season. They are 

 grown in narrow benches, well up to 

 the light, and are sold at T. F. Galvin's. 



No finer Killarney and Richmond are 

 seen in the wholesale markets than 

 those now being handled by B. J. Mc- 

 Ginty for W. R. Morris, of Wellesley. 



H. L. Belcher, of Winthrop, is sending 

 to the Boston Flower Exchange some 

 extra fine lily of the valley, also Golden 

 Spurs, tulips in variety, hyacinths and 

 Paper Whites. 



William E. Doyle is closing out the 

 stock of plants in the greenhouses in 

 Cambridge this week, which he has op- 

 erated for manj- years, and will now 

 give his entire attention to the two re- 

 tail stores on Boylston and Beacon 

 streets. Mr. Doyle's son remains as 

 president of the new W. E. Doyle Co.; 

 J. J. Cassidy, many years at the Boyl- 

 ston street store and well known to the 

 trade, is treasurer; George Doyle, son of' 

 W. E. Doyle, and John Reehl are other 

 members of the firm, which starts out 

 under excellent auspices and with the 

 sincere good wishes o€ all in the trade. 

 Business is reported satisfactory at both 

 stores. The specimen azaleas seen here 

 are among the best in Boston, and or- 

 chids are sold in large numbers. Azalea 

 Niobe, froi)i Peirce Bros., is beautifully 

 fiowered. This firm is growing gladioli 

 quite heavily for spring trade. 



In spite of the prevailing scarcity of 

 roses, W. H. Elliott's shipments from 

 Madbury are quite heavy. Rhea Reid 

 continues to do well. A few Richmond 



will be tried again next season. This 

 variety has not been an entire success 

 at Madbury, the soil evidently not being 

 to its liking. Mrs. Aaron Ward con- 

 tinues to sell well. Mr. Elliott had 

 Robert Simpson as a visitor last week. 

 He is busy with plans for the coming 

 rose convention and show. 



There was an excellent attendance at 

 Horticultural hall January 28 to hear 

 the lecture of Prof. L. C. Corbett, of 

 Washington, on "New England Market 

 Gardeners and Their Competitors." Sec- 

 retary Rich states that the change of 

 hour for the lectures has resulted in the 

 attendances being doubled. 



We are sorry to report S. J. Goddard 

 as quite seriously ill with the grip, but 

 hope he will soon be around again. 



Arnold & Petros, in their new and up- 

 to-date store on Boylston street, have 

 this week some well flowered plants of 

 Primula Kewensis, a plant worthy of 

 increased attention. 



William T. Walke, of Salem, is mar- 

 keting an extra fine lot of cyclamens. 

 He has his usual excellent lot of lilies 

 and other Easter plants coming on in 

 good shape. 



Exhibits of new carnations and roses 

 will be a feature at the next meeting of 

 the Gardeners' and Florists' Club, Feb- 

 ruary 14. Edwin Jenkins, of Lenox, 

 will speak on "Science in Horticul- 

 ture. ' ' This meeting always brings out 

 the banner attendance of the year. 

 Plans are already well under way for 

 the annual club banquet, which will be 

 in Horticultural hall February 28. 



James Wheeler, of Natick, is picking 



an extra fine grade of carnations from 

 his big new house. Pink Delight and 

 May Day are each good. All the other 

 standard sorts are doing well. 



J. Newman & Sons had a fine center- 

 piece of Cypripedium insigne Sanderse 

 in their window last week, also some 

 fine forms of C. Leeanum. They have 

 been exceptionally busy of late with 

 funeral work. 



T. J. Grey, J. P. A. Guerineau and 

 P. J. Van Baarda were among the Bos- 

 tonians present at the annual banquet 

 of the North Shore Horticultural So- 

 ciety at Manchester, Mass., January 25. 



The next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club will be held Feb- 

 ruary 14, instead of February 21. The 

 lecturer will be Edwin Jenkins, of 

 Lenox, Mass., on "Science in Horticul- 

 ture." There will be special exhibits 

 of carnations and roses at this meeting. 

 The annual club banquet will be held 

 February 28, at Horticultural hall. 

 Tickets for this will be ready within a 

 few days. 



Recent visitors included J. S. Hay, v^ 

 representing Henry A. Dreer, Philadel- 

 phia, and M. De Graaff, the noted 

 Dutch bulb grower and hybridizer. 



January has proved an extremely open 

 month. We have had hardly any snow 

 and no severe frost. Ice men and lum- 

 ber men are longing for snow and ice, 

 but florists are satisfied with the 

 weather we have had. W. N. Craig. 



WILLIAM SIM. 



Rose Radiance. 



One of the commercial places in the 

 vicinity of Boston, which all growers 

 like to visit when in the Hub, is that of 

 William Sim, Cliftondale, Mass. Mr. 

 Sim, like Peter Fisher, Alexander Mont- 

 gomery, Robert Cameron, Duncan Fin- 

 layson and many more first-class grow- 

 ers, who are his comparatively near 

 neighbors, hails from north of the 

 Tweed, His father was a photographer, 

 but an enthusiastic amateur gardener, 

 and here the subject of this sketch got 

 his first love for horticulture. In 1882, 

 when only twelve years of age, he left 

 home to work on a farm, where he 

 stayed about three years. We next find 

 him as an apprentice gardener at Stone- 

 haven for an additional three years. 



In 1888 he decided to try his luck 

 in the United States and worked as 

 assistant in a number of places, for 

 eight years in all. In 1896 he started 

 on his own account commercially in a 

 modest way by leasing the Bailey 

 greenhouses on Essex street, moving 

 to his present location in 1899 and 

 starting with 10,000 feet of glass. 

 Many there were who shook their 

 heads at his purchase of the land he 

 has since reclaimed, and predicted 

 failure all along the line. These prog- 

 nosticators were soon silenced, as year 

 by year the greenhouses grew in num- 

 ber and size until now they comprise 

 150,000 feet of perhaps the most up- 

 to-date glass to be found in this sec- 

 tion. 



Mr. Sim long ago gave up the idea 

 of growing a large variety of crops 

 and is an excellent type of the up-to- 

 date specializer, changing his special- 

 ties as they prove unprofitable and 

 striking out into new channels. 



At one time he grew about 75,000 

 single-stemmed chrysanthemums, com- 

 prising all the newest and best varie- 

 ties. These flowers are less popular in 

 the Boston market than they were and 

 Mr. Sim soon dropped them for better 

 paying crops. Candytuft of superb 



