Mabch 20, 1913. 



The Florists^ Review 



9 



thing, lower than a week ago. High 

 ^rade American Beauties are likely to 

 be a scarce article for Easter. Hardly 

 uny are now to be seen and the demand 

 tor the short-stemmed stock is poor. A 

 Jew of the newer varieties, such as Sun- 

 burst, Taft, Ward, etc., sell fairly well, 

 but the older sorts are druggy. The 

 demand for White Killarney, which has 

 been good, has fallen oflf. Carnations 

 are in a. little better condition than 

 roses. As most flowers are now oflf crop, 

 it seems unlikely that there will be 

 any decided advance in price even on 

 these. 



Violets have been having a hard time 

 of it, but better things are looked for 

 :it the end of the current week, and the 

 same is true of sweet peas, which are 

 likely to sell well. Cut lilies sell all 

 the way from $6 to $10 per hundred. 

 Callas are going slowly. Bulbous stock 

 has been quite a drug of late and prices 

 have been unprofitable. Snapdragons 

 are more abundant. Pink shades have 

 the call over all others. The dark 

 shades are hard to sell. Valley is doing 

 a little better, and is likely to be in 

 active demand for Easter. The call for 

 cattleyas has been rather disappointing 

 of late. TriansB is much more popular 

 than SchroedersB. Gardenias have been 

 going rather slowly. The quality is ex- 

 ceptionally good. Quite a variety of 

 miscellaneous flowers arrive. Sales on 

 these are uncertain. For green stock 

 the demand shows a decided improve- 

 ment. 



Pot plant trade is booming, and every 

 local grower is pretty well sold out. It 

 looks like a plant Easter again. Lilies 

 are likely to be sufficient for all de- 

 mands. Prices are $10 and $12 per hun- 

 dred flowers and buds. Ramblers in 

 many varieties seem to come second in 

 popularity, but the sales of genistas, 

 azaleas, bulb pans, acacias, etc., are all 

 excellent. 



Club Meeting. 



There was an attendance of 150 at 

 the meeting of the Boston Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club, March 18, in spite 

 of the proximity of Easter. Several new 

 members were elected. Edwin Jenkins 

 gave a splendid lecture on sweet peas, 

 which was followed by an animated dis- 

 cussion. Wni. Sim was awarded a cul- 

 tural report of merit for grand vases 

 of Christmas Pink, Mrs. Smalley and 

 Florence Denzer sweet peas. There was 

 considerable discussion on publicity, 

 good progress being made. Arrangements 

 were completed for the trip to the New 

 York show, a large delegation being 

 assured. 



Various Notes. 



The trade will learn with regret of 

 the death, March 18, of the youngest 

 child of E. Allan Peirce, a girl of 2 

 years of age. 



F. W. Fletcher has renamed his new 

 snapdragon, Melrose, finding that an 

 English variety named Aurora was al- 

 ready on the market. Mr. Fletcher has 

 several pink snapdragons with true 

 waved flowers, a great advance on the 

 hooded type. 



The Boston Cooperative Flower Mar- 

 ket will hold its flower show at the 

 market on Park street, April 12. W. H. 

 Elliott is chairman of the exhibition 

 committee and an attractive lot of 

 prizes has already been secured, includ- 

 ing several silver cups. 



Shamrocks were quite a feature in 

 many retailers' windows this year. Gal- 

 vin had one of his large windows at- 



G. A. R. Badsfe in Flowers by C. P. Mueller, 'Wichita, Kansas. 



tractively arranged with them. While 

 there was a large sale of shamrocks, the 

 supply was more than equal to the 

 demand this year. 



John Barr is one of the most success- 

 ful of our local growers of carnations 

 and no better kept commercial place is 

 to be found in this vicinity. In addi- 

 tion to his fine variegated seedling, Mrs. 

 B. F. Cheney, he grows White Wonder, 

 White Perfection, Pink Delight, Glori- 

 osa. Beacon and Winsor. His last Lord 

 & Burnham house, 35 x 300, is now a 

 grand sight, and he hopes to build more 

 like it before long. 



Penn, on Bromfield street, has been 

 making a special line of rambler roses 

 in baskets at $1..10 each and has had a 

 great demand for them. 



Geo. E. Buxton has a remarkable 

 sport on his Killarney pink snapdragon, 

 which he descriles as having more the 

 appearance of a hyacinth spike than 

 anything else. 



Great interest is being taken in the 

 coming New York show and a large at- 

 tendance from Boston and vicinity is 

 assured. 



F. J. Dolansky & Co. have a grand 

 crop of cattleyas and gardenias for 

 Easter. On the latter they have the 

 field practically to themselves, as other 

 growers seem unable to flower the plants 

 in winter. 



In Sydney Hoflfman 's window displays, 

 which included a fine assortment of 

 beautifully grown plants, some fine spec- 

 imen dendrobiums from J. T. Butter- 

 worth 's were noted last week. 



Thomas J. Grey, who retired from the 

 firm of T. J. Grey Co., and sold out his 

 interest in the business, has accepted a 

 position with Joseph Breck & Sons, the 

 firm with which he got his first insight, 

 into the seed business. Mr. Grey is 

 one of the best known seedsmen in New 

 England and is well and favorably 

 known by a host of private gardeners, 

 as well as by those in the trade. 



Mr. and Mrs. B. Hammond Tracy will 

 be among those attending the New 

 York show. Mr. Tracy reports the de- 

 mand for gladioli as being remarkably 

 good. 



The Sutermeister Estate, of Read- 

 ville, and Mann Bros., of Randolph, are 

 each cutting some fine Spanish iris. 



Local growers and retailers are hoping 

 that the weather at the end of the cur- 

 rent week will be as mild as last week. 

 March 15 we had a minimum of .58 de- 

 grees, a maximum of 68 degrees, and a 

 real summer thunderstorm, for variety, 

 at night. 



R. & J. Farquhar & Co. have the 

 greenhouses at their Roslindale estab- 

 lishment entirely devoted to the raising 

 of new Chinese plants, of which they 

 have an immense stock. These will be 

 grown at their new nursery on Cape 

 Cod, where hybrid rhododendrons also 

 are being finely grown. 



Among visitors the last week were 

 R. T. Brown, Queens, N. Y.; J. R. 

 Fotheringham, Tarrytown, N. Y.; W. A. 

 Manda, South Orange, N. .L; Thomas 

 Knight, New York; John Ash. Pomfret, 

 Conn. W. N. Craig. 



