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Febbuakt 16, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



29 



aSTER-aSTER-aSTER 



The Best for the Live Florist. 



New Crego Aster 



Trade pkt. Oz. 



White $0.40 $2.00 



Shell pink 40 2.0O 



Queen of the Market 



One of the earliest 



Trade pkt. Oz. 

 White, blush pink, rose'i 

 pink, llKlit blue, dark $0.20 $0.60 

 blue, crlmaoQ, mixedj 

 colors. 



Carlson's Improved 



A splendid midsammer sort 



Trade pkt. Oz. 

 White, pink, lavender, / 

 dark pink, and choice >■ $0.30 $1.50 

 mixed. S 



Lady Roosevelt 



Trade pkt. Oz. 

 The largest of all Asters ~| 

 on stems often 40-in. In > $0.50 $5.00 

 lenfrth; color, grorgeous J 

 pink. 



Daybreak 



Oz. 



Trade pkt. 



A splendid strain of this \ «« ,„ ,o ok 

 lovely pink Aster. j-W-S" ^-^.^ 



Nichell's Improved 



Sample's Branchine 



The best late Aster. Trade pkt. Oz. 



Lavender, shell pink, / 



rose pink, light blue. >- $0.30 ♦1.00 



dark blue, crimson and \ 



choice mixed. 



WRITE TODAY FOR OUR COMPLETE WHOLESALE CATALOGUE 



HENRY F. NICHELL CO., 



518 Market St., 



Philadelphia 



.John K. M. L. Farquhar will substi- 

 tute for J. H. Hale in the lecture course 

 at Horticultural hall, February 18, and 

 will speak on "Where Seeds are 

 Grown." 



From the E. Sutermeister estate in 

 Rcadville, pans of such tulips as Mu- 

 rillo, Belle Alliance and La Eeine are 

 good, also splendid double Von Sions, 

 Golden Spurs and Princeps, and ixias 

 in quantity. 



Thomas Pegler is handling a lot of 

 beautifully flowered genistas from the 

 "Willow Hill Greenhouses, also a fine 

 line of bulbous stock in pans from W. 

 A. Riggs, who has just recovered from 

 a slight illness. 



Fred C. Becker, of Cambridge, has a 

 fine show of flowering plants in his 

 greenhouses. Many are sold at Faneuil 

 Hall square. 



Tulip Flamingo, from Mann Bros., 

 and Tulip Couronne d'Or, from Paine 

 Bros., each of Randolph, are noteworthy 

 among a large assortment of bulbous 

 flowers. 



Richard E. Lassman, the veteran 

 Watertown florist, celebrated his 

 (Eightieth birthday February 10, and 

 was the recipient of a host of congrat- 

 ulatory messages, including no less than 

 250 postal cards, many of which came 

 from his fellow stallholders at the Bos- 

 ton Cooperative Market. The florists' 

 business is surely conducive to longev- 

 ity, for at this market Mrs, E. M. Gill 

 has passed the eightieth milestone and 

 J. H. Leach is approaching it, yet this 

 worthy trio are all in excellent health 

 and still work actively each day. 



W. C. Bowditch, Grove Hall, Dor- 

 chester, is a good grower of pot plants. 



Some of his best are at present Ota- 

 heite oranges, capitally fruited, flower- 

 ing ornamental apples, primulas and 

 araucarias. 



A. H. Hews & Co. report that pot 

 trade has started in unusually well and 

 much larger than a year ago. 



Thomas F. Galvin had an immense 

 heart of Richmond roses in one of 'his 

 windows for a Valentine's advertise- 

 ment, A bordering of Erica melan- 

 thera showed off the roses effectively. 

 This firm did a heavy Valentine's day 

 business. 



"When the doors of the Boston 

 Flower Exchange were opened Febru- 

 ary 11, smoke was seen rising from the 

 floor. Examination found that a hole 

 had been burned completely through 

 the floor, due, it is thought, to someone 

 throwing down a lighted cigar stub. 



From the Norris F. Comley conserva- 

 tories at Lexington and Bedford fine 

 shipments of Conquest, Mary Tolman 

 and "White Enchantress, among other 

 carnations, are arriving. White P>n- 

 chantress does superbly here and out- 

 distances all other whites. 



A. G. Lake, of Wellesley Hills, is 

 sending good consignments of Christ- 

 mas Pink and Mont Blanc sweet peas 

 to B. J. McGinty. 



Visitors this week include L. J. 

 Renter, Westerly, R. L ; H. E. Bates, of 

 the King Construction Co., North Tona- 

 wanda, N. Y.; E. Jenkins, Lenox, Mass. ; 

 T. W. Head, representing Stumpp & 

 Walter Co., New York. 



Everything is progressing swimming- 

 ly for the big national show. Prac- 

 tically all available spaces are now 

 rented and exhibits are being promised 



Hotchkiss Auto^"" 



Machine 



The simplest, best and the only ma- 

 chine made for tagging: boxes, barrels 

 or any wooden package. Does the 

 work m less than one-half the time re- 

 quired with tacks and hammer— cost 

 being practically the same. 



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PRIfP • Machine and 1000 Staples t9 AA 

 1 lUVL . gant prepaid lor ... . *^.UW 



Special rates (or staples In quantities. 



A. Henderson & Co.,'7hi'S(^"^ 



MeDtion The Review when you write. 



from all parts of the country and 

 abroad. W. N. Craig. 



PITTSBUBG. 



The Market. 



Roses and carnations were on the 

 short side last week, but with a few 

 more bright days, such as we have been 

 having, there will be more than plenty. 

 While trade has been fair, there is not 

 much excitement and it will not take 

 a great deal more stock than is now 

 coming to crowd the market. Bulbous 

 stock is quite plentiful. Good Paper 

 Whites and Romans are not much in 

 evidence, but there are quantities of 



