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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Mabch 16, 1011. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Trade was only moderate during last 

 week. Weather conditions favored a. 

 much increased flower production and 

 while the demand, for the lenten season, 

 was good, it was insufficient to use up 

 the heavy arrivals. White flowers have 

 Bold better than colored ones, and while 

 these hitherto have been in rather short 

 supply, this temporary shortage is now 

 relieved. Beauty roses are now fine and 

 the best make $6 per dozen. White Kil- 

 larney has been selling finely, being in 

 heavy call for funeral work. Both these 

 and the pink ones are of grand quality. 

 Richmond is better than it has been here- 

 tofore this season. Mrs. Aaron Ward 

 continues in popular favor and many are 

 seen with quite long stems. Some nice 

 flowers of the old Bon Silene and Sa- 

 frano aJe also coming in. Carnations are 

 in oversupply and many go at $1 per hun- 

 dred. 



Sweet peas are arriving in tremendous 

 numbers. Those with long stems are 

 selling at 50 cents to $1 per hundred, 

 while short-stemmed stock is hard to 

 move. Single violets are abundant, but 

 show signs of nearing the end. Prices 

 on these continue low. Double violets 

 cut a small figure here, but are selling 

 moderately well. Bulbous stock is abun- 

 dant and prices have a downward ten- 

 dency. Lily of the valley is overabun- 

 dant and there is something of a glut of 

 callas and lilies. Spanish iris has made 

 its appearance; so have anemones, ixias 

 and sparaxis. Orchids are moving slowly. 

 There are still sufficient cattleyas to go 

 around and an abundance of dendrobi- 

 ums. Mignonette is quite abundant and 

 antirrhinums are of extra good quality. 

 The trade in green supplies continues sat- 

 isfactory. Pot plant trade is getting 

 quite brisk and everything points to a 

 record-breaking Easter business. Ram- 

 bler roses are becoming abundant, while 

 acacias, ericas, genistas, cyclamens and 

 many pots and pans of bulbous stock are 



B66n. 



Various Notes. 



Shamrocks have been in big demand 

 during the last few days. Among the 

 growers who have sold large numbers are 

 C. J. Harvey, Needham Heights; Robert 



E, Lassman, Watertown, and J. Tailby 

 & Son, Wellesley. 



The Halifax Garden Co., in addition to 

 its usual heavy shipments of sweet peas 

 and carnations, has added mignonette, 

 which they are daily sending of fine qual- 

 ity to H. T. Capers. 



Adolph E. E. Koch, of Nobscot, Mass., 

 has an extra fine cut of antirrhinums of 

 the best selling colors. He is also an 

 expert carnation grower, as the splendid 

 quality of his Winsors, Fenns, White 

 Perfections and Enchantress testifies. 



Prof. E. A. White, of ^mherst, will 

 sail March 22 on the Bermudian for a 

 trip to Bermuda, with Mrs. White, who 

 has been quite sick for some months. 



From Peiree Bros., at Waltham, some 

 fine shipments of cinerarias of the large 

 flowered type are coming, also cyclamens 

 and azaleas extremely well flowered. 



Arnold & Petros, on Boylston street, 

 have had in their window a pyramid of 

 cut Lilium longiflorum rising to the top 

 of the window with single violets, Winsor 

 carnations and narcissi around the base. 



The next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club, which comes March 

 21, promises to be a hummer. In addi- 

 tion to 'a lecture, there will be a lot of 

 business consequent on the coming S. A. 



F. National Show and other matters of 



importance to be discussed. A large in- 

 flux of new members is already assured 

 and the meeting promises to be the live- 

 liest and most largely attended in years. 



P. J. Van Baarda, of J. Breck & Sons' 

 force, spent a few days in Geneva, N. Y., 

 last week. He will address the North 

 Shore Horticultural Society this week on 

 a recent trip to Holland. Peter M. Miller 

 spoke before the same society last week 

 on * ' Grass Seeds. ' ' 



Thomas F. Galvin, on Tremont street, 

 has an attractive dendrobium window this 

 week, fine specimens of various types of 

 nobile and Pierardi being utilized to good 

 effect. These were grown by F. Vardon, 

 who cares for Seth Borden's collection at 

 Fall River. 



H. M. Robinson & Co. report lenten 

 business as satisfactory. 



The Montrose Greenhouses should have 

 some fine quality roses for the coming big 

 show. Their Richmond and Killarney 

 are now extra fine. With them Mrs. 

 Aaron Ward seemed inclined to go dor- 

 mant in winter, but is now blooming sat- 

 isfactorily. 



It is now apparent that even the big 

 space in Mechanics building will be none 

 too great for the S. A. F. show. Com- 

 petitive entries are now pouring in from 

 all sides and about everyone in this sec- 

 tion is planning to show something. En- 

 tertainment arrangements are being per- 

 fected as rapidly as possible and every 

 effort will be made to show all possible 

 courtesies to visitors. 



John Barr's cyclamens ai'e selling out 

 fast. No commercial grower turns out 

 nicer plants than Mr. Barr and he has 

 no trouble in selling several thousands 

 annually. He has some thousands of 

 hydrangeas for Memorial day coming 

 along in heated frames. 



W. A. Hastings is able to be around 

 again after an attack of grip. Mr. 

 Hastings has been appointed state vice- 

 president for the S. A. F. for eastern 

 Massachusetts. 



P. Welch is one of those who are 

 laboring assiduously for the success of 

 the coming big show. He is specially 

 interested in the rose section and thinks 

 this department will make the finest 

 show on record. Down at the Devon- 

 shire street emporium, business with 

 Welch Bros, continues good all around. 



Mann Bros., of Randolph, were first in 

 the market with Spanish iris. They grow 

 this popular bulb in large qifentities. 

 They have 25,000 of the small flowered 

 gladioli. These they are holding mostly 

 for Memorial day. 



Inquiries at the Fottlcr, Fiskc, Rawson 

 Co., T. .1. Grey Co., R. & J. Farquhar & 

 Co., and Joseph Breck & Sons, elicited 

 the information that the seed business 

 was fairly under way. Mail orders were 

 heavy and the last few bright days, with 

 suggestions of spring, had caused a big 

 increase in counter trade. 



E. H. Wilson, the noted Chinese trav- 

 eler, is expected back in Boston towards 

 the end of April. Farquhar & Co. will 

 exhibit many of the new shrubs he has 

 introduced at the National Flower Show. 

 They had one beautiful pure white 

 cerasus at their store last week. 



Arthur Griffin, of Woburn, who is one 

 of the best of our new commercial grow- 

 ers, finds Pink Delight carnation a free 

 bloomer and excellent seller and will plant 

 it much more heavily next season. He 

 has one of a pure white color. 



From the N. F. Comley conservatories, 

 Lexington, some excellent Mary Tolman 

 carnations are coming in. White En- 

 chantress remains a prime favorite with 

 Mr. Comley. W. N. Craig. 



ST. LOUlS. 



The Market. 



The local market was in good condi- 

 tion during the whole of last week. There 

 seems to be plenty of everything, with 

 the exception of long fancy roses and 

 Beauties. The retail florists throughout 

 the city say that trade has been fairly 

 good since Lent set in, but the bulk of 

 the work is for funerals. This and the 

 spring openings downtown will be about 

 all the work looked for until Easter. 



In the wholesale market Monday morn- 

 ing, March 13, there was a fair supply 

 of roses, nothing fancy, and Beauties 

 were in great demand. Carnations were 

 a surplus in all varieties and good stock 

 could be bought as low as $10 per thou- 

 sand, with the Enchantress varieties in 

 the lead. Lilies, especially callas, are 

 also more plentiful than the call war- 

 rants. There are quantities of good 

 valley and other bulb stock, such as 

 Von Sions, jonquils. Paper Whites and 

 a few Romans. 



Sweet peas are a glut and the market 

 is fairly flooded with them in all grades 

 and colors. California violets are also 

 a glut and the Kirkwood growers say 

 that if the warm weather continues, vio- 

 lets will be scarce for Easter. 



Everything in greens is plentiful. 



Club Meeting. 



At a well attended meeting of the Flo- 

 rists' Club, held March 9 in Odd Fellows' 

 hall, a telegram of congratulations was 

 sent to Treasurer Smith at Edwardsville, 

 his wedding having necessitated his ab- 

 sence. He had, however, left a token of 

 his regard for the club in the shape of a 

 box of cigars. Early spring work un- 

 doubtedly kept many members away 

 from the meeting, as the day was espe- 

 cially fine. V 



Chas, Schoenle and Geo. B. Windier 

 were appointed to assist the trustees in 

 the preparations for the celebration of 

 the club's twenty-fifth anniversary next 

 June. William Trelease, director of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, announced 

 that Fred G. Grossart had been granted 

 the scholarship for which he was recently 

 nominated by the club. 



Walter E. Ogel, of Belleville, was 

 elected to membership and applications 

 were received from Frank H. Wild, of 

 Sarcoxie, and Thomas C. Carr, of St. 

 Louis. 



Henry Jennemann, of Webster Park, 

 exhibited the new violet wl^ich is being 

 grown for him by Joe Hauser. The 

 judges pronounced it quite an improve- 

 ment over the California variety. The 

 St. Clair Floral Co., of Belleville, showed 

 a few well grown Cochet rose blooms. 



The club is making preparations to 

 assist in entertaining the American As- 

 sociation of Nurserymen when they meet 

 here in June. Wholesalers from other 

 cities, who have been supplying local de- 

 partment stores that have no regular 

 flower departments, were condemned by 

 a vote of the club, as local wholesalers are 

 prohibited from this practice. The sec- 

 retary was instructed to notify such 

 wholesalers of this action. 



C. E. De Wever suggested that the 

 local plantsmen and wholesalers should 

 get together to regulate prices, but 

 owing to the late hour the discussion 

 was carried over to the next regular 

 meeting, April 1.^. 



Various Notes. 



Fred H. Weber, state vice-president of 

 the S. A. F., is out hustling for new 



