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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



15 





Three-ton Truck Uied by a Leading Firm of Los Angeles Florists and Nurserymen. 



HOWABD & SMITH'S NEW AUTO. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the latest addition to the auto delivery 

 service of Howard & Smith, the well 

 known florists and nurserymen of Los 

 Angeles, Cal. It is built on the most 

 up-to-date lines and has a capacity 

 , of three tons. This firm 's principal 

 nurseries are at Montebello, about eight 

 miles from the center of the city, and 

 consequently the auto trucks are found 

 to be great time-savers. With these 

 prompt deliveries can be made over a 

 wide expanse of territory and the de- 

 livery equipment, like everything else 

 connected with this firm, is as up-to-date 

 and complete as it is possible to make it. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Business was fairly good last week, 

 being the best at its close, and the 

 present week opens with quite good 

 sales and considerably decreased re- 

 ceipts. Growers are evidently, in many 

 cases, holding back their cut for the 

 latter part of the week. Whether this 

 policy will pay is doubtful. Easter is 

 not like Memorial day, and while there 

 is still a strong call for flowers, the 

 market is essentially one for plants 

 and is increasingly so each year. Thero 

 is little likelihood of any big advance 

 in prices of cut flowers, except it may 

 be in the case of violets, sweet peas, 

 gardenias and lilies. Roses have been 

 moving rather sluggishly of late and 

 little over a normal price is expected for 

 them. On the other hand, carnations 

 are at last lifting their heads a little 

 with a material shortening up of sup- 

 plies. A slump near Easter is not im- 

 probable if too many are held back. 

 Violets will not be plentiful. Singles 



are over with some growers and few of 

 those arriving are of good quality. On 

 the other hand, there is a good crop of 

 doubles, and will be for a month yet. 



Lilies are making $10 to $12.50 per 

 hundred, cut or in pots. Some extras 

 are going at $15. The general com- 

 plaint is that giganteums are too dwarf, 

 multiflorums have too small flowers, 

 and Formosas are too tall and erratic. 

 Sweet peas are of superb quality and 

 selling at better rates. Dutch bulbous 

 stock is temporarily in shorter supply 

 and cleaning up bettor. A few Spanish 

 iris are obtainable. Victoria is popular 

 among narcissi. Marguerites are unus- 

 ually fine, yellows making as high as 

 $4 per hundred if of best quality. 

 There is a good supply of miscellaneous 

 flowers. Valley is in good demand. 

 Gardenias are in rather short supply. 

 The only cattleyas now seen are 

 Schroederse. Green goods are in brisk 

 demand. 



Pot plant specialists are having the 

 most strenuous time of their lives. All 

 report being well cleaned out of stock, 

 the leaders being lilies, rambler and 

 hybrid roses, genistas, azaleas, spiraeas 

 and Dutch bulbous stock. Lilacs are 

 also selling well. Prices do not vary 

 greatly from those of preceding years. 



Various Notes. 



The Italian garden exhibit of E. & 

 J. Farquhar & Co., at Horticultural 

 hall, closed March 31. The attendance 

 has not been so good as expected. In 

 fact, since the national show there has 

 been a decline in numbers of exhibits 

 and visitors at practically all exhibi- 

 tions. People got so much for their 

 money at that time that they seem to 

 expect too much from our regular 

 shows. 



Frank J. Dolansky, of Lynn, has 

 5,000 giganteum lilies in fine shape for 



Easter. He is cutting a splendid lot 

 of Cattleya Schroederse and gardenias. 



The Dartmouth Flower Shop, Mac- 

 donald & Askell proprietors, is doing a 

 nice trade. 



Penn's, on Bromfield street, is equip- 

 ped! for a big Easter business and is ad- 

 vertising heavily. They have leased a 

 store at- 258 Tremont street, near 

 Keith's theater, for their immense 

 plant trade. They have a big decora- 

 tion for April 8, at the opening of 

 Bigelow, Kennard & Co., and will use 

 White Killarneys heavily. William H. 

 Diehl will have charge of the decora- 

 tions. 



Mann Bros., of Eandolph, among 

 lilies have extra fine Formosas, gigan- 

 teums, candidums and white specios- 

 ums. They now have fine Spanish iris 

 and a tremendous cut of narcissi and 

 tulips in many varieties. They are hold- 

 ing all their gladioli back to flower in 

 May. 



H. R. Comley, on Park street, is 

 showing some extra good clivias and 

 amaryllis. He has a fine line of Easter 

 plants and is already busy. 



D. F. Lamy, at the Boston Coopera- 

 tive Market, is handling extra fine can- 

 dytuft for Malcolm Orr, of Saugus, and 

 fine Campbell violets for John F. Gale, 

 of Tewksbury. Mr. Gale will pick 60,- 

 000 for Easter. 



E. J. Ahearn, of Wellesley, and M. 

 B. Dallachie, of Newton, are handling 

 splendid lots of English primroses at 

 the Boston Cooperative Market. 



James Wheeler, of Natick, in addi- 

 tion to his grand carnations and snap- 

 dragons, has now a fine lot of yellow 

 marguerites. 



F. H. Houghton, on Park street, sup- 

 plied numerous costly and artistic de- 

 signs for the funeral of the late ex- 

 Mayor Richardson, of Lowell. April 3 



