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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



April 6, 1911. 



ed, white, pink and lavender are the 

 favorites. The supply of Dutch bulbous 

 stock is still heavy, but should soon 

 fall off. Cold weather has favored 

 those wishing to retard these for Easter. 

 8ome good stocks are arriving, also an 

 abundance of snapdragons. Spanish 

 iris is as yet not overabundant. Gar- 

 denias are plentiful, as is lily of the 

 valley. Cattleyas are only in moderate 

 supply, but dendrobiunis are abundant. 

 Pansies are seen in large quantities and 

 sell well; so do English jtriinroses. There 

 is a moderate call for greenery of all 

 sorts. 



Pot plant trade is now booming, all 

 the specialists being up to their ears 

 in work, ramblers, acacias, ericas, gen- 

 istas, marguerites, spirjeas, bulbous 

 stock, fern dishes, palms and lilies all 

 being in active demand. 



Various Notes. 



The flower markets, commission 

 houses and seed stores have been crowd- 

 ed with visitors from all parts of the 

 country and abroad for the last ten 

 days; in fact, regular business has in 

 some measure had to give way to recep- 

 tions. Boston is glad to have had so 

 many notable horticultural visitors, 

 many more than have gathered at any 

 previous S. A. F. convention. 



The board of trustees of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society at a 

 meeting April 1 voted the use of Hor- 

 ticultural hall for a large part of 

 March, 1912, to R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 

 for the purpose of displaying an ex- 

 tensive Japanese garden and other in- 

 teresting features. Messrs. Farquhar 

 will occupy the whole hall. The exhi- 

 bition will continue two weeks and all 

 receipts over running expenses will go 

 to the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety. This exhibit will be on a more stu- 

 pendous scale than has ever yet been at- 

 tempted in America by any single ex- 

 hibitor. The use of the halls was also 

 voted to the New England fruit show 

 for a big exhibition in October. 



We are pleased to report Robert 

 Montgomery, of Natick, as nearly re- 

 covered from his late sickness. 



W. C. Bowditch, of Grove Hall, has 

 an extra fine line of rambler roses, 

 spirajas and pans of bulbous plants. 



Albert Batlej-, of Maynard, is in the 

 market with a grand lot of Giant ten 

 weeks' stocks in four colors, also fiist 

 class flowers of Pink Delight, Boii:on, 

 Winsor and other carnations. 



W. E. Turner and James Philbrick, of 

 Woburn, are sending in thousands of 

 fine pansies daily. 



March maintained its reputation of 

 being the windiest month of the year, 

 but, contrarj- to general belief, the tem- 

 perature was nearly normal, being 35.4 

 degrees, against an average of 35 de- 

 grees. Precipitation was 2.95 against 

 an average of 4.08. April has during 

 the first few days been bitterly cold, 

 with high winds, sharp frosts and snow. 



A. F. Coolidge, at the Boston Co- 

 operative Market, has an excellent lot 

 of cyclamens, azaleas and genistas. 



John Barr's new variegated carna- 

 tion, Mrs. B. P. Cheney, has a host of 

 admirers and Mr. Barr has booked lots 

 of orders for it. 



Welch Bros, report satisfactory busi- 

 ness in connection with their display 

 at the National Flower Show, P. Welch 

 was in evidence everywhere during the 

 entire run of the big show and no one 

 is more pleased at its financial success. 



E. J. Rogean and Mann Bros, are 

 each handling cut Lilium candidum. 



The latter firm has a beautiful dark 

 blue Spanish iris named Darling, and 

 an abundance of speciosum lilies. 



F. L. Hardy, of Natick, is in the 

 market with quantities of superb snap- 

 dragons, which are eagerly bought. 



Ernest Stickel, salesman for the 

 Montrose Greenhouses, reports business 

 as good. They shipped roses last week 

 as far as Montreal and New Bruns- 

 wick. Their roses are chiefly Rich- 

 mond, the two Killarneys and Mrs. 

 Ward. 



The Halifax Garden Co. is having 

 striking success with White Enchant- 

 ress carnations this season. They made 

 a big display of sweet peas and had 

 also several thousand carnations at last 

 week's show. Of sweet peas they now 

 receive 5,000 to 6,000 daily. 



W. C. Ward, of Quincy the pansy 

 specialist, plants practically all his 

 houses to this popular flower. Thomas 

 Pegler handles from 8,000 to 15,00u 

 flowers daily from him. 



A call at the local seed stores showed 

 that all hands were rushed to the limit 

 to keep abreast of orders. The contin 

 ued cold weather has somewhat delayed 

 counter trade and the season promises 

 to be more prolonged than usual. 



Letters received from J. W. Duncan, 

 lately of this city and now of Spokane, 

 Wash., show that he is busy on plana 

 for new parks and will plant trees and 

 shrubs heavily this spring. He has 

 become quite settled in his new north- 

 western home. 



One of the most beautiful wreaths I 

 have seen for some time was a large 

 one quite loosely made of Ericas melan- 

 thera and Mediterranea mixed. The 

 white and purple colors harmonized 

 beautifully. The wreath was one of 

 P. L. Carbone's for the late Mrs: E. 

 V. R. Thayer's funeral April 1. 



J. A. Pettigrew left for a visit to 

 Chicago April 2, with a number of 

 other city officials, including Mayor 

 Fitzgerald, to study some of the munic- 

 ipal improvements of that city, includ- 

 ing the parks and playgrounds. 



The weather continues so cold here 

 that nurserymen have so far been able 

 to dig only a small quantity of nursery 

 stoc': and it looks as though they would 

 ;ijriin experience a short, strenuous sea- 

 son. 



The Baltimore boys were much in 

 evidence during last week's exhibition, 

 handing invitations to everyone to 

 come there in August, and Boston as a 

 result of the show will undoubtedly 

 send one of the largest delegations it 

 has ever sent to a convention. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, in common with the Boston Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, has invited the Amer- 

 ican Nurserymen's Association to hold 

 the 1911 convention in Boston in June 

 next. Horticultural hall has been of- 

 fered as a meeting place. 



Charles Holbrow, of Brighton, has 

 just pulled out two houses of sweet 

 peas and planted them with tomatoes. 

 He thinks there are no better houses 

 than those of King construction. 



W. N. Craig. 



OBITUARY. 



Thomas T. Connor. 



Thomas T. Connor, superintendent 

 at Holmesdale, the estate of William 

 Pollock, at Pittsfield, Mass., died 

 March 28, at the age of 65 years, after 

 an illness of several weeks from grip, 

 with complications of Bright 's disease. 



He was born in Newbridge, Kildare 

 county, Ireland, in 1846, but came to 

 America in 1866 and made his home 

 in Pittsfield, where he almost imme- 

 diately began his long service with the 

 Pollock family, first at Greytower and 

 later at Holmesdale. He had a high 

 reputation as a florist and landscape 

 gardener. He married Miss Mary Mc- 

 Carthy, April 15, 1873. He is survived 

 by five sons, Thomas P., head gardener 

 on the estate of Col. O. H. Payne, at 

 Westport, N. Y.; George W., of Pitts- 

 field; Dr. John E., of Rochester; Dr. 

 William H., of the United States navy, 

 now stationed in Samoa; Robert J., 

 and a foster daughter, Mrs. Edward 

 Hunting, of Albany, N. Y. 



William Glory. 



A report of the death of William 

 Clory, a grower at 411 South Tenth 

 street, Coshocton, O., has just been re- 

 ceived. No further particulars have yet 

 been learned. 



Mrs. Anton Brosch. 



Mrs. Lister Beatrice Brosch, wife of 

 Anton Brosch, Lynchburg, Va., died 

 March 29, at St. Andrew's hospital^ 

 after suffering severely for several 

 months. Her death was not unexpected, 

 as her condition had been critical for 

 two or three days. She was born in 

 Lynchburg forty-seven years ago, and 

 was married in October, 1883. Asso- 

 ciated with her husband in the business 

 of florist, she met with a large number 

 of people who loved flowers, and whom 

 she always received hospitably. In her 

 business transactions she was the sou! 

 of honor. She is survived by her hus- 

 band, by two sons, Emmett A. and 

 Frank .T. Brosch, and by four daugh- 

 ters, Theresa, Agnes K., Cecile L. and 

 Lois E. Brosch. 



F. Haussmann. 



F. Haussman, a well known nursery- 

 man and florist of Los Angeles, Cal.. 

 died March 9, at the age of 56 years, 

 after an illness of five months, leaving 

 a widow and a son and daughter. The 

 son, Milton, was only 22 years old. 

 Grieving over his father's death, the 

 young man became unnaturally morose 

 and melancholy, and shot himself March 

 23, two weeks after his father's death. 

 The daughter, Pauline, expects to man- 

 age the business. 



MILDEW ON EUONYMUS. 



Under separate cover I am sending 

 a twig of variegated euonymus affected 

 with something which looks like mil- 

 dew. I have two lots of plants affected ; 

 one grown in a cool house and the other 

 in a warm house, with plenty of light 

 and air and water. Can you tell me 

 what is the cause of this and give me 

 a remedy? E. O. 



The shoot forwarded was badly af- 

 fected with mildew. This euonymus is 

 hardy where the minimum temperature 

 does not drop lower than 20 degrees 

 below zero. A warm house would make 

 it soft and an easy prey for mildew. If 

 kept under glass at all, the house should 

 be quite cold; in fact, a coldframe 

 would be better than a house with arti 

 ficial heat. Soft growths made during 

 winter are likely to become mildewy, 

 but if you keep the plants dormant dur 

 ing the short days, there is little likeli- 

 hood of any trouble. The only remedy 

 you can apply is to dust the plants with 

 flowers of sulphur and keep them out of 

 cold drafts. C. W. 



