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APRIL 27, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



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future similar occasions A letter from 

 John Young, secretary of the New York 

 Florists' Club, was read, thanking the 

 club for the entertainment of its mem- 

 bers at the late show. 



The lecturer of the evening was B. 

 Hammond Tracy, of Cedar Acres Farms, 

 Wenham, Mass., on "The Gladiolus and 

 Its Culture." Mr. Tracy gave an in- 

 teresting and eminently practical talk, 

 covering the whole field of gladiolus 

 culture. An excellent discussion fol- 

 lowed the lecture. The membership list 

 again received a big addition, no less 

 than twelve names being added. Ex- 

 hibits were unusually attractive, includ- 

 ing: Lilium candidum from W. N. Craig, 

 Choisya ternata from W. R. Thornhill, 

 Prunus Davidiana from J. Van Leeuwen, 

 fine Campbell and Princess of Wales 

 violets from H. F. Woods, double callas 

 from David Weir, and gladioli from 

 Peter Fisher, E. H. Wilson, just back 

 from China, gave a short talk. Refresh- 

 ments were served as usual. 



Various Notes. 



Richmond roses of extra fine quality 

 were reported by Thomas Pegler as 

 coming from H. W. Field, of Northamp- 

 ton. Bon Silene, White Killarney, 

 Bridesmaid and Killarney, all well 

 grown, come from the same grower. 



W. A. Riggs, of Auburndale, who has 

 had the market practically to himself 

 on the large-flowered gladioli, also had 

 the first flowers of Peach Blossom, April 

 21. 



Herman Waldecker, of Braintree, is 

 in the market with a fine lot of pink 

 lupines, which sell well. His Spanish 

 irises are also first-class in quality. 



Lemoine Bros., of South Framingham, 

 are shipping to the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change good antirrhinums and pink 

 lupines, and among carnations their 

 Pink Delights are conspicuous. 



Inquiries among carnation sifecialists 

 elicit the i^nformation that sales of 

 rooted cuttings have this season been 

 heavier than ever and about everyone 

 has had to refuse numbers of late 

 orders. 



Edward Ahem, of Wellesley, is a spe- 

 cialist in English primroses, of which 

 he has large daily arrivals at the Boston 

 Co-operative Market. 



The best Lilium candidum I have 

 seen this season, the true broad-petaled 

 type, are being handled by J. M. Cohen 

 for W. S. Phelps, of Marlboro, whose 

 snapdragons are also of grand quality. 



Sales of glass indicate more building 

 near Boston this season than in a num- 

 ber of years. 



J. F. Flood, of Woburn, is marketing 

 well flowered fibrous begonias and rho- 

 dodendrons. 



A. G, Lake, of Wellesley, is having 

 good success with his carnations this 

 season. Fair Maid he does remarkably 

 well. Asters are a great specialty of 

 Mr. Lake's later in the season. 



F. R. Pierson was a visitor in town 

 last week. He is well pleased with the 

 outcome of the National Flower Show. 



W. A. Hastings and E. Allan Peirce 

 April 21 put it all over Fred Becker and 

 A. M. Davenport at bowling. The quar- 

 tette heartily enjoyed an excellent sup- 

 per supplied by the losers. It is not 

 unlikely that Boston will have a bowl- 

 ing team at Baltimore. It is quite a 

 few years since the Hub had a bowling 

 team at any convention. 



S. J, Goddard, among his other spe- 

 cialties, is now cutting some gdod Den- 

 drobium Jamesianum. This dendrobe 



has large white flowers similar to those 

 of D. Formosum giganteum. 



Osgood Bros., of Everett, are one of 

 the local pansy specialists whose flowers 

 are of an excellent strain and quality. 

 Their Fair Maid carnations are now 

 coming good. These are handled by E. 

 J. Rogean, at the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change. 



Evergreens have suffered severely 

 during the winter in this section. Many 

 rhododendrons are killed and others 

 badly scorched. Hemlock spruces, espe- 

 cially young stock, are quite brown, as 

 are many white pines and other vari- 

 eties. Dryness at the root when the 

 ground froze up and the succession of 

 cutting winds in March are mainly re- 

 sponsible for the damage. 



Julius H. Zinn is showing a nice batch 

 of Anthurium Scherzerianum, common- 

 ly called the flamingo plant, in his win- 

 dow, also an excellent assortment of 

 ericas, including the waxy type. 



Penn's last week had an extra busy 

 time with wedding and funeral orders. 



Counter trade continues heavy at the 

 seed stores. The season has been an 

 erratic and not altogether satisfactory 

 one, even though the volume of busi- 

 ness has been large. W. N. Craig. 



W. R. Finlay has opened a new flower 

 store at 175 Federal street, the nearest 

 flower store to the Terminal station. 

 He has been twenty years in the trade. 



NEW OSIJIANS. 



YONEEBS, N. Y. 



A meeting of the Yonkers Horticul- 

 tural Society was held Friday, April 21, 

 and as usual proved interesting. H. 

 Scott assumed his presidential duties 

 and received a hearty welcome. Three 

 new members, Messrs. Rennison, Grey 

 and Wood, were elected. Discussion 

 centered principally on vegetables, both 

 early and late, many interesting points 

 being made clear. The society's regu- 

 lar social session will be observed Fri- 

 day, May 5, and Messrs. Milliot, Coch- 

 rane and Blanche were appointed to 

 make arrangements. H. M. B. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — Holton & Hunkel 

 Co. say that their experience has been 

 the general one with Beauties this sea- 

 son: After an extremely light cut ever 

 since the big Christmas crops, the lat- 

 ter part of April has brought about the 

 largest and finest crop they ever have 

 cut. 



Schenectady, N. Y. — Charles Limmer 

 has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with 

 liabilities of $5,128 and assets of about 

 $6,000, including mortgaged real estate. 

 Among the creditors are Brant Bros., 

 $76; Frank McGowan, $137, Utica, and 

 the Wanoka Greenhouses, at Barneveld, 

 $522. 



East Lansdowne, Pa. — Harry A. 

 Leech is erecting a range of strictly 

 up-to-date greenhouses on the land ad- 

 joining his property on Baltimore ave- 

 nue. He has been in the florists' trade 

 for a good many years and will have 

 ready use for all the stock he can grow 

 in the new houses. 



Elmira, N. Y.— The United States Cut 

 Flower Co. is building an addition 

 which will contain 40,000 square feet 

 of glass. The size of the range, which 

 already comprises thirty-six houses, will 

 thus be increased about twenty per 

 cent. Aside from these building opera- 

 tions, the firm has been exceedingly 

 busy. 



Club Meeting. 



The New Orleans Horticultural So- 

 ciety held a well attended and enthu- 

 siastic meeting at Kolb's German Tav- 

 ern, April 20. President Richard Eich- 

 ling opened the meeting, with Secretary 

 C. R. Panter at his desk. 



The feature of the evening was a 

 paper read by P. A. Chopin, one of the 

 older members of the society, on ' ' Store 

 Management of the Retail Florist in 

 New Orleans." The lecturer has a 

 thorough knowledge of the management 

 of a modern flower store and the art of 

 catering to the demands of some of 

 the most critical buyers in the city. 

 He gave some interesting and valuable 

 information in regard to handling cut 

 flowers, designs, etc., laying particular 

 stress on the prompt and careful de- 

 livery of all orders. He deplored the 

 fact that, although some good roses and 

 carnations are grown in the south, an 

 enormous amount of money is sent 

 every year from this city to the north 

 for cut flowers. He advocated the es- 

 tablishment of a large plant in the city 

 for wholesale purposes only, thus en- 

 abling the local florists to buy a great 

 part of their necessary stock at home 

 and thereby get it fresher and at 

 lower prices than when shipped from 

 other places. He mentioned that dur- 

 ing the last season he used almost en- 

 tirely southern-grown roses, which gave 

 better satisfaction all around than the 

 northern-grown, but stated that the sup- 

 ply is not equal to the demand. In his 

 concluding remarks, which were impres- 

 sive and valuable, he stated that when 

 orders are filled and delivered, the debt- 

 ors should immediately receive a state- 

 ment and the outstanding accounts 

 should be collected as soon as possible, 

 instead of delaying and thereby making 

 the customers indifferent. 



At the end of his paper Mr. Chopin 

 was greeted with warm applause, and 

 a general discussion followed. 



The many reports on the Easter trade 

 were highly satisfactory and it was 

 pointed out that the home-grown Easter 

 lilies were of a much better quality 

 than those shipped from other states. 



Frank Quinette and John Reekes 

 were elected members of the society. 



Harry Papworth, president of the 

 Metairie Ridge Nursery Co., exhibited 

 a large vase of beautiful Golden Glow 

 chrysanthemums, cut from plants 

 grown in 5-inch pots. These were the 

 first chrysanthemums ever shown here 

 in bloom at this time of the year, and 

 the exhibitor was on all sides congratu- 

 lated on his success. 



P. Betz brought a bunch of well 

 grown, long-stemmed mixed sweet peas, 

 which were pronounced the best seen 

 here lately. 



W. B. Cleves, with A. T. Bodding- 

 ton, New York city, was a guest and 

 gave an interesting talk on the differ- 

 ent nurseries visited on his way here. 

 He intends to make New Orleans his 

 home indefinitely. 



Various Notes. 



J. A. Newsham returned from a visit 

 to the National Flower Show at Boston, 

 which he attended from beginning to 

 end. He spoke of it most highly, both 

 in regard to the exhibits and the artis- 

 tic arrangement; at the same time his 

 booking for orchid shipments was quite 

 satisfactory. R. E. 



