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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



March 21, 1912. 



The Halifax Garden Co. is sending 

 in quantities of splendid sweet peas 

 in addition to an immense cut of carna- 

 tions. 



Dobbins & Shannon, of Woburn, are 

 heavy shippers of Princess of Wales 

 violets to the Boston Cooperative Mar- 

 ket. The flowers are large and extra 

 dark in color. 



St. Patrick's day passed off with con- 

 siderable eclat. President Taft spent 

 the day here, assisting in honoring the 

 good saint and filling other engage- 

 ments. Shamrocks were in great de- 

 mand and green dyed flowers, such as 

 carnations and Narcissus poeticus or- 

 natus, were sold in large numbers. 



Mann Bros., of Kandolph, have a fine 

 lot of Formosa and ca^idum lilies. 

 Their bulbous stock rs-^trw seen in im- 

 mense quantities, but Lester Mann gen- 

 erally manages to secure a clearance 

 for it all. 



Fred Holbrow, of Dorchester, has a 

 fine crop of sweet peas, which he is 

 sending to the Flower Growers' Sales 

 Co. 



W. H. Elliott is getting some splen- 

 did roses from his Madbury establish- 

 ment. Rhea Reid, Mrs. Ward, the 

 Killarneys and Mrs. Waddell are extra 

 fine now. 



Local nurserymen are hoping that the 

 ground will open up suflSciently to 

 allow the digging of trees and shrubs- 

 by the end of the present week. It is 

 too early yet to estimate ^hat winter 

 losses have been, hut the abundance of 

 moisture in the ground has been a great 

 advantage to evergreens. 



Welch Bros, are again making a 

 specialty of cases of lilies in pots, 

 shipped direct from the growers. 



We have had many visitors from a 

 distance this week to see the Italian 

 garden at Horticultural hall and many 

 more are coming to see the spring show 

 which will run in conjunction with it 

 from March 22 to 24. 



E. H. Wilson delivered a stereopticon 

 lecture March 16 in Horticultural hall, 

 showing over 100 views of the flora 

 and scenery of the portion of China 

 visited on his last expedition there in 

 the interests of the Arnold Arboretum. 

 He had a large audience. 



W. N. Craig. 



The Solari Archie Co., with author- 

 ized capital of $10,000, has been incor- 

 porated by Frederick C. Solari, Mar- 

 ciano Matkavazzo and Moses Leibman. 



ROCHESTER. 



The Market. 



The weather for the first half of 

 March has been severe and anything 

 but lamblike, so florists are expecting 

 to deal with the "lamb" instead of 

 the "lion" during the last of the 

 month. So far growers have burned 

 much more coal this year than they 

 did for the same period last year and 

 they are anxiously awaiting the arrival 

 of spring. An unusual number of 

 funerals kept the florists busy last 

 week. 



Beauties are again with us, after 

 having been a minus quantity for a 

 few weeks. They are of good quality 

 and reasonable in price. Carnations 

 continue to pour into the market. There 

 was a great demand for green carna- 

 tions for St. Patrick's day. St. Pat- 

 rick novelties in shamrocks, green 



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