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The Weekly Florists' Reviev(^. 



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Febrdabt 23, 1911. 



Thomas Pegler is handling a fine lot 

 of lavender, white and pink sweet peas 

 from Herman Waldecker, of Braintree. 

 The same grower is sending cinerarias, 

 mignonette and his usual high grade of 

 carnations. 



Henry Penn has left on a trip which 

 will extend to California, but hopes to 

 'return in time for the National Flower 

 Show. 



Arthur Griffin, from his fine new 

 place in Woburn, is bringing in some of 

 the finest carnations of the season. Mr. 

 Griffin has a well equipped plant, 

 splendidly kept, and is one of our best 

 growers. 



E. L. Pierce, of the A. H. Hews Co., 

 has gone south for a few weeks' rest. 



J. H. Leach & Son, through J. M. 

 Cohen, are disposing of some of the 

 finest lily of the valley of the season. 

 Their new light pink carnation, which 

 received a report of merit at the last 

 club meeting, continues to sell on sight. 



Visitors last week included Thomas 

 Knight, of Knight & Struck, New 

 York, who reports business as good, 

 and John H. Bockman, representing 

 Arthur T. Boddington, New York. 



S. J. Eeuter & Son, of Westerly, R. 

 I., are sending in excellent Pink De- 

 light carnations, also large quantities 

 of cut lilies. They are handled by 

 Maurice Hambro. 



The Boston Rose Co., Pemberton 

 square, is receiving some splendid ship- 

 ments of Killarney, White Killarney 

 and Richmond roses from the Mont- 

 gomery Co., South Hadley, Mass. 



Kidder Bros., of Lincoln, never have 

 any trouble in disposing of their Prin- 

 cess of Wales violets. Good bunching 

 adds much to the selling value of vio- 

 lets and Messrs, Kidder have it down 

 to a science. 



The William E. Doyle Co. report 

 business as good. In addition to the 

 everyday flowers, they have had a 

 steady call this winter for gardenias, 

 choice orchids in variety and Adiantum 

 Farleyense, and their conservatory in 

 the rear of the Boylston street store 

 contains a fine assortment of flowering 

 and foliage plants. 



Robert T. McGorum, the Natick rose 

 specialist, is not growing as many roses 

 as he could wish at this time, while 

 prices are high, but he is getting more 

 and better flowers than most of the 

 growers, and at Welch Bros.' Devon- 

 shire street emporium they never re- 

 main long unsold. 



At the seed stores business is getting 

 brisk. R. & J. Farquhar & Co. have 

 had a heavier mail order and counter 

 trade than ever before. The T. J. Grey 

 Co. 's business has practically doubled 

 this season. They were a little handi- 

 capped by delays in getting out their 

 catalogue, but orders now are away 

 ahead of all former years. Joseph 

 Breck & Sons report business as satis- 

 factory and the force of Fottler, Fiske, 

 Rawson Co. is being kept on the jump 

 to keep up with orders. The severe 

 weather in February has held back 

 counter trade somewhat. The first mild 

 spell will see a flood of customers 

 clamoring for seeds. 



W. N. Craig. 



Helena, Mont. — The latest additions 

 to the membership of the Florists' and 

 Nurserymen 's Association of Montana 

 include H. M. Sloan, of Hamilton; S. 

 Hansen, of Butte; J. Van Catz, J. Hock- 

 ing and F. Bangert, of Helena, and Sen- 

 ator Fred Whiteside, of Kalispcll. 



PROVIDENCE. 



The Market. 



Dark, cloudy weather last week con- 

 tinued to keep the supply just under 

 the normal demand, with the result that 

 everything has been cleaned up daily 

 at prices that lead a trifle over a year 

 ago. A few days of sunshine will send 

 things along at a merry pace and will 

 cut the prices to their normal scale. 

 Bulbous stock has been good and com- 

 paratively plentiful, thus helping out 

 in the grand run of affairs, and the call 

 for carnations has been far in excess of 

 the supply. 



Several large funerals last week, 

 with the orders well distributed, kept 

 the boys busy, while the downtown 

 stores were called upon for cut flowers 

 and decorations for a number of ban- 

 quets and social functions. Last year 

 bright reds were the prevailing call in 

 flowers for St. Valentine's day, but this 

 year violets had the call and the num- 

 ber handled went into the hundreds of 

 thousands. Everything was cleaned 

 out. 



Various Notes. 



The Rhode Island Horticultural So- 

 ciety, at it^ meeting Wednesday, Feb- 

 ruary 15, added thirty-two names to 

 the membership list and among these 

 were Lawrence Hay, of East. Provi- 

 dence; Howard Edwards, of Kingston, 

 and William I. Brown, manager of the 

 Providence Seed Co. 



William G. Grant, landscape gardener 

 and nurseryman, corner of Gaskill and 

 Prospect streets, Newport, returned last 

 week from a seven weeks' tour of Nova 

 Scotia with his wife. 



James B. Canning had the decora- 

 tions February 13 for the Redwood 

 lodge of Masons. 



,Iohn Macrae has been elected one of 

 the trustees of the First Baptist church 

 of this city. 



Reports from the various weather ob- 

 servatories throughout this section call 

 attention to the fact that there were 

 more cloudy days or partially cloudy 

 days during a period of sixty-two days 

 ending last week than 'for any previous 

 period of equal length of which there 

 is any record. 



Superintendent of Parks George A. 

 Saunders, of Pawtucket, is recovering 

 from an illness which has confined him 

 to his home for several weeks. 



Charles Thorley, of New York city, 

 was a recent visitor to this city, looking 

 for a promising place to open a store. 



Charles F. Winslow has been elected 

 superintendent of cemeteries of Paw- 

 tucket, and James C. Potter is now a 

 park commissioner. 



Johnston Bros.. Dorrance street, had 

 the decorations for the Rhode Island 

 Automobile Club February 16. 



E. Carl, of Lowell avenue, is bring- 

 ing in some fine potted azaleas- in 6- 

 inch and 8-inch pots. 



The Burke Rose Co., Inc., 548 Dyer 

 avenue, is cutting an excellent crop of 

 Killarney roses. 



T. .1. .Tohnston & Co., Edward Brooks, 

 proprietor, furnished the floral decora- 

 tions for the Providence lodge of the 

 Elks for its banquet February 17. 



William Hay is preparing to com- 

 plete his new house as soon as tlie 

 weather becomes settled. 



William McKay has resigned as head 

 gardener at Seaverge, the estate of 

 E. T. Gerry, at Newport. 



E. A. Chipman, proprietor of the East 



Woonsocket greenhouses, is confined to 

 the house by an attack of the grip. 



Edwin S. Manuel has the sympathy 

 of his friends throughout the state in 

 the recent death of his mother at New- 

 port. 



At the funeral, February 13, of 

 Timothy McCarthy, whose death was 

 recorded in The Review February 16, 

 the pallbearers were Daniel S. Thurber, 

 assistant superintendent of Swan Point 

 cemetery; Frederick C. Greene, superin- 

 tendent of parks of Providence; Timo- 

 thy O'Connor, William CamfiU, of For- 

 est Hills cemetery, of Boston; Dr. J. 

 H. Hartley and Col. John McManus. 

 Interment was at Swan Point ceme- 

 tery and the New England Cemetery 

 Superintendents' organization was rep- 

 resented by George W. Cressey, of 

 Salem; H. A. Derry, of Everett; A. M. 

 Floyd, of Portland, Me.; W. J. Har- 

 graves, of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; 

 James J. Rafferty, of Maiden, Mass.; 

 J. C. Scorgie, of Cambridge; M. H. Nor- 

 ton, Peter Welch, D. H. Sullivan and 

 L. J. Doogue, of Boston, and James W. 

 Warren, Jr., of North End cemetery, 

 Providence. The American Association 

 of Superintendents of Cemeteries was 

 represehted by F. Brazil, of St. Louis, 

 Mo.; J. H. Cunningham, of New York 

 city; J. M. Driscoll, of Brookline, 

 Mass.; Col. A. K. McMahon, of New- 

 port, R. I.; W. F. Salway, of Cincin- 

 nati; J. P. O'Connor, of St. Paul, 

 Minn.; J. C. Cline, of Dayton, O., and 

 John Reid, of Detroit, Mich. 



W. H. M. 



FBAMINOHAM, MASS. 



S. J. Ooddard. 



At S. J. Goddard's, carnations are 

 always the leading feature. Helen Ood- 

 dard is grown in quantity as a dark 

 pink, and its free flowering qualities 

 and even colored flowers stamp it as 

 hard to beat. White Perfection is here 

 much preferred to White Enchantress 

 and looked well. One bench was de- 

 voted to Granite State, raised by 

 George E. Buxton. Pink Delight is the 

 greatest of all carnations here and the 

 demand for cuttings seems insatiable, 

 everyone seeming to want it. Winsor 

 looked well and remains at the head of 

 its color, never being off crop. Dorothy 

 Gordon as seen here had the same 

 trouble as with Wm. Nicholson — split- 

 ting badly. It is, however, well liked, 

 being preferred to Rose-pink Enchant- 

 ress. Loris, a dark pink variety raised 

 by H. H. Rogers, was occupying one 

 long bench. The stems were excellent, 

 but the color seemed a little too dark 

 to take on the market. 



Beacon reigned supreme as a scarlet, 

 as Harry Fenn did as a crimson. The 

 new King construction house here 

 makes a splendid light house for car- 

 nations. Mr. Goddard has lately taken 

 up orchids on a small scale and had a 

 nice lot of odontoglossums, dendro- 

 biums and cattleyas, all the flowers 

 from which are used for the increasing 

 home trade in designs. Azaleas, Free- 

 sia Purity, gladioli, English primroses, 

 sweet peas, pink antirrhinum and a va- 

 riety of miscellaneous stock, much of 

 which is sold at home, were noted at 

 this progressive place. 



Elmira, N. Y. — Mrs. C. D. Murray is 

 establishing a flower business at 766 

 Spaulding street. As a beginning, she 

 has planted one greenhouse with gera- 

 niums and chrysanthemums. 



