APBIL 18, 1912. 



TheWcckly Florists' Review. 



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gew up. He is now convalescing as 

 vv«ll as can be expected, but will prob- 

 ably be confined to his bed for a con- 

 siderable time. ^JiiaJittle child rather 

 miraculously escaped serious injury. 



John Benton, who died somewhat 

 suddenly April 7, was for nearly a 

 (juarter of a century a trusted employee 

 in the seed department of E. & J, Far- 

 (juhar & Co., and well known and re- 

 spected by both commercial and pri- 

 \'ate growers. He was a Scotchman, 

 horn in Aberdeen, and spent three years 

 in Detroit before locating at Boston. 



Paine Bros., of Eandolph, are mar- 

 keting at the Boston Flower Exchange 

 their usual fine assortment of bulbous 

 flowers. They report sales at Easter 

 as ahead of any previous year, with 

 better prices. 



Noted in H. E. Comley's windows 

 April 13 were fine vases of ixias, tri- 

 tonias, anemones, ranunculi, white 

 scabious, sparaxis, crinums and the first 

 Mayflowers of the season. 



William Patterson, of WoUaston, one 

 of our leading bulb specialists, had an 

 exceptionally strong Easter trade, and 

 reports sales as splendid, everything 

 cleaning up well. 



The Flower Growers' Sales Co. had 

 a heavy Easter trade. They are receiv- 

 ing grand sweet peas from Wm. Sim, 

 Kdgar Bros, and other growers, and 

 their carnations from F. P. Putnam, 

 Halifax Garden Co. and Peirce Bros, 

 are of the best. 



William Boise, lately with the Plant 

 Estate, Groton, Conn., has been ap- 

 pointed head gardener to Mrs. Samuel 

 Hoar, of Concord. 



W. H. Ward, of Montvale, has a. 

 fine crop of yellow marguerites in addi- 

 tion to his carnations. 



N.^W. Silverman, on Winter street, 

 had a heavy Easter trade. He always 

 has a pleasing window, which will 

 catch the eyes of passers-by on that 

 busy thoroughfare. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold its next exhibition May 

 11 and 12, when pelargoniums, cal- 

 ceolarias, tulips and narcissi will be 

 special features. 



F. H. Houghton, on Park street, had 

 a charming window arrangement April 

 13 of genistas and antirrhinums. 



R. C. Bridgham, of the Newton 

 Greenhouses, is having a fine cut of 

 Killarneys, Wards and other roses at 

 present. Mr. Bridgham had a fine 

 Easter business at his Beacon street 

 store in Boston. 



Joseph Breck & Sons Corporation 

 and A. E. Robinson, lately with the 

 New England Nurseries as president 

 and manager, have formed a new cor- 

 poration, the Breck-Eobinson Co. 

 Their nurseries and trial grounds are 

 at Lexington, Mass. The landscape 

 department will be given special atten- 

 tion. The officers are: President, Jo- 

 seph F. Breck; vice-president and man- 

 ager, Alfred E. Eobinson; treasurer, 

 Charles H. Breck; secretary, Sheldon A. 

 Robinson. 



S. J. Goddard reports carnations as 

 being in light crop at present. He 

 hag had a heavy call for rooted cut- 

 tings and had an excellent Easter 

 trade. 



A. F. Coolidge, of Cambridge, is a 

 good plant grower, and there are few 

 better geraniums than his. 



Perry Green, of Quincy, has some- 

 thing of a novelty at this season in 

 white scabious, which he is cutting 

 with 18-inch stems. 



These Are the Little Liners That Do'theBosioess 



E. H. Borowski, of Roslindale, had 

 many of the finest rambler roses and 

 bougainvilleas seen in Boston this 

 Easter. 



Edward Winkler, of Wakefield, has 

 the finest selection of Spencer sweet 

 peas coming into the market at the 

 present time. 



James Wheeler's snapdragons con- 

 tinue in as heavy crop as ever. He had 

 a grand pick of carnations for Easter. 



W. N. Craig. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Following Easter came a week of 

 chill and depression. The weather on 

 Sunday hugged freezing and a cold 

 rain all day brought calamity to the 

 street merchants, who are now offering 

 about everything but orchids to an 

 indiscriminating public. Saturday saw 

 a fairly good clean-up in the wholesale 

 market, but at badly broken values, 

 while of roses there were too many 

 for any possible outlet. The present 

 week opens with a summer tempera- 

 ture. The whole face of nature has 

 changed in a night. The grass is green- 

 er, the trees are budding, and planting 

 has begun in earnest. The seed stores 

 are crowded to the doors. One can 



imagine, however, better than I can 

 describe the effect this warmth and 

 sunshine will have on the wholesale 

 cut flower market, dominated, as it 

 now is, by the enormous rose crop 

 and the undiminished shipments of 

 southern daffodils. Thesejatter sell, 

 not by the dozen nor/'fheV hundred, 

 but by the box of 400 or 500 and 

 lucky is the man who can dispose of 

 his shipment at $1 a box. 



American Beauty roses seldom sell 

 above 25 cents. They must then be 

 selected. This week they probably will 

 go lower. So will all roses, including 

 the novelties. Brides, Maids and 

 Marylands sell from 50 cents per hun- 

 dred up, but not far up, 4 cents each 

 buying the best of them. Killarney 

 dominates the rose situation; one 

 wholesaler reports having received 

 forty-four boxes of them Saturday. 

 Estimate if you can the total receipts 

 of Killarney on Saturday by the fifty- 

 seven wholesale distributors. It takes 

 an expert mathematician to total them. 



The violet quotations may as well 

 be eliminated. It certainly does not 

 pay the grower when his violets have 

 to seek customers at $1 per thousand. 

 On the streets 10 cents a bunch is 

 the cry. These are sad days for this 



