

Apbil 17, 1913, 



The Florists^ Review 



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supply of both cattleyas and gardenias 

 baa shortened up materially. A fair 

 demand exists for both ferns and as- 

 paragus. 



Club Meeting. 



At the meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club in Horticultural hall. 

 April 15, there was an attendance of 

 125. Seven new members were elected. 

 I'. E. Palmer gave an interesting ac- 

 count of how he grew a remarkable 

 crop of potatoes, dynamiting of the soil 

 playing a prominent part. W. A. Cars- 

 well, Bar Harbor, Me., read a paper on 

 melon culture, which gave rise to a 

 good discussion. Some of those pres- 

 ent who had attended the New York 

 show related their experiences. All 

 voted the show a grand one, but none 

 doubted Boston's ability to put up a 

 better when the next national show is 

 held here. 



William Sim received a report of 

 liighest merit for a magnificent collec- 

 tion of sweet peas, and special awards 

 were made to the varieties Flora Ro- 

 land, Mrs. Shack, Mrs. W. Sim Spencer, 

 Lavender Unwin and five varieties un- 

 der number, all Zvolanek's seedlings 

 of the Spencer type. Special mention 

 was made of Gaillardia Lady Rolliston, 

 shown by the Breck-Eobinson Co., and 

 Rose Bessie Brown, shown by T. N. 

 Cook. A cultural report of merit was 

 given W. N. Craig for Miltonia vexil- 

 laria. 



The club's calendar includes a field 

 day at Elliott's in May, a ladies' night 

 in .Tune and the club picnic in July. 



Various Notes. 



The retail florists have formed a new 

 association, named the Boston Retail 

 Florists' Club, to improve the condi- 

 tions -of- retailers in the city. These 

 officers were chosen at the initial meet- 

 ing: President, Henry Penn; vice-pres- 

 ident, H. R. Comley; treasurer, Julius 

 A. Zinn; secretary, B. H. Green. A 

 committee was chosen to draw up by- 

 laws, etc., consisting of N. W. Silver- 

 man, H. R. Comley, B. H. Green, Mar- 

 tin Wax and William Penn. There were 

 some thirty-five charter members en- 

 rolled. 



Carbone h?id the decorations for the 

 Sears-Warren wedding at Arlington 

 church, April 8. They were quite elab- 

 orate and arranged most artistically. 



The bowling team of Wm. W. Edgar 

 Co. defeated the Peirce Bros, team in 

 a challenge match at the Hanover street 

 alleys April 9, by a score of 3 to 0. 



Edward Winkler, of Wakefield, is 

 marketing some of the earliest Countess 

 Spencer sweet peas I have seen. J. 

 K. Chandler & Son's. Pink Beauty sweet 

 peas are also noteworthy. 



Mann Bros, are still strong on Dutch 

 bulbous flowers. They have a splendid 

 lot of such Darwin tulips as Farncombe 

 Sanders, Rev. Ewbank, Gretchen and 

 Clara Butt. 



Galvin had the decorations for the 

 great masquerade ball at the Copley 

 Plaza hotel April 8, one of the most 

 elaborate functions ever held in Boston. 



Henry M. Robinson & Co. expect to 

 have their new quarters ready for oc- 

 cupancy, below the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change, by May 1. They made an at- 

 tractive exhibit of sundries at the Park 

 street market flower show, April 12. 



A. A. Pembroke won eleven prizes at 

 the New York show, including seven 

 firsts. 



I regret to report the serious illness 

 of Jackson Dawson, the able craftsman 



at the Arnold Arboretum. His ad- 

 vanced age gives cause for considerable 

 concern to his family and frienda 



C. S. Strout, of Biddeford, Me., has 

 been spending a few days between New 

 York and Boston. His carnations won 

 three firsts and a second in New York, 

 and two firsts and second at the Boston 

 Market show. W. N. Craig. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



Now that "the greatest show on 

 earth" is over, the market has become 

 normal and the good efifects of the ten 

 days of educational work may reason- 

 ably be expected. The week ended with 

 a fairly good clean-up of everything 

 salable. An unusual demand for or- 

 chids because of the funeral of J. Pier- 

 pont Morgan raised the price for the 

 selected stock as high as $1 each. April 

 14 values again retrograded to the 

 quotations of a week ago. Mossise and 

 Trianee are most in demand. A slight 

 advance in the price of Schroederse is 

 noted. 



Roses are abundant and prices have 

 not advanced. There are plenty of 

 American Beauties and of all the new 

 varieties that so greatly added to the 

 attractiveness of the big show. The 

 demand for the novelties in the whole- 

 sale market is constantly increasing. 

 The quality of all tea roses now arriv- 

 ing is excellent, but the demand from 

 the majority of the retailers is light, 

 and the clean-up to the large buyers is 

 ridiculously low. The same is true of 

 carnations, the top price even for nov- 

 elties seldom going above $2, and thou- 

 sands are disposed of under $1 per 

 hundred, "at times as low as $5 per 

 thousand. Gardenias are at their low- 

 est plane for the season, owing to ex- 

 cess in supply, even the best of them 

 not selling at over $2 per dozen. Val- 

 ley held firm all last week at $3 per 

 hundred for the choice stock, a large 

 quantity having been used by the ex- 

 hibitors of retail work at the show. 

 Lilies of all kinds are in light demand 

 and prices are lower, especially for 

 callas. Violets are somewhat better 

 in quality, but prices remain at the 

 late quotations, 25 cents per hundred 

 for the selected. There is no scarcity 

 of sweet peas, tulips and daffodils, while 

 the supply of mignonette, pansies, 

 daisies, lilac and spring flowers of all 

 kinds is more than sufficient for all 

 possible demand. 



J. Pierpont Morgan's funeral April 

 14 absorbed more orchids, valley, Amer- 

 ican Beauty and Richmond roses than 

 the obsequies of all the millionaires of 

 a generation. Most of the prominent 

 retail florists were interested in the 

 enormous supply of flowers and designs. 

 One of them said the display at the 

 flower show was many times exceeded 

 in quantity. The wholesale market was 

 entirely depleted of orchids and Kich- 

 m-ond roses. 



Club Meeting. 



The club's meeting April 14 was well 

 attended. The majority of those pres- 

 ent were weary but enthusiastic, ha"\»- 

 ing been "in" at the close of the Na- 

 tional Flower Show Sunday evening. 

 It will surprise no one to know there is 

 every prospect of the show's repetition 

 next year. 



President Siebrecht was in the chair. 

 Reports were made by C. B. Weathered 



for the entertainment committee, by 

 J. B. Nugent for the dinner committee, 

 by H. A. Bunyard for the transporta- 

 tion committee on the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion at Minneapolis and by Phil Kess- 

 ler for the outing committee, who an- 

 nounced July 1 as the date of the an- 

 nual festivity and Wetzel's Grove, as 

 usual, the chosen locality. 



John Donalds'on read the resolutions 

 on the death of Philip Einsman, and 

 A. G. Guttman those on the death of 

 Alexander Moltz. Charles Schwake, 

 James Bell, F. C. Doener, J. M. New- 

 man, Charles Abrkms and W. Spiwak 

 were elected to membership and appli- 

 cations were received from Vivian Out- 

 erbridge, Charles Huber, Herman 

 Grauch, Louis Enne, A. M. Freishner, 

 C. Mendicott, George Earl, Frank Gum- 

 back, Ernest Ulbrich, John E. Sefton, 

 Joseph Levy and H. F. Marquardt. 



W. H. Siebrecht, Jr., gave interest- 

 ing details concerning the prop'osed city 

 flower market at Union Square. Co- 

 operation with the plant growers' and 

 market growers' associations was advo- 

 cated and a committee appointed to 

 work together with the authorities for 

 the early consummation of the enter- 

 prise. Charles Lenker spoke earnestly 

 in behalf of the project and its perma- 

 nency. The president appointed as the 

 club's committee Messrs. Miller, Boeh- 

 ler and Birnie. 



C. B. Weathered submitted a hand- 

 some badge in enamel and gold for 

 adoption by the club, and a committee 

 of three was appointed to consider, se- 

 lect and report at the club's next meet- 

 ing. 



Messrs. Lenker and Beaulieu addressed 

 the members on the National Flower 

 Show. Many were disappointed in not 

 hearing from Messrs. Totty, Duckham, 

 Bunyard and Young, but the president 

 decided on the early closing movement 

 and "rest for the weary" and a 

 prompt adjournment was made to the 

 refreshment room, with all lights out 

 at ten. 



Thomas W. Head, of the Bergenfield 

 Nurseries, exhibited two seedling car- 

 nations, crimson and pink, and a new 

 variety of lobelia, for which the thanks 

 of the club were given. 



Brooklyn. 



P. McGovern rebuilt three of his 

 Brooklyn greenhouses and a conserva- 

 tory this winter, giving increased fa- 

 cilities. The conservatory, which faces 

 Ninth avenue at Nineteenth street, is 

 of steel and glass, with a lofty arch. 

 The foundations are of Dutch brick and 

 the front is relieved by lines of stained 

 glass. The propagating house is 15 x 125 

 and two other houses are 24 x 125 feet. 

 The benches are made of cypress, rest- 

 ing on iron frames, giving the maxi- 

 mum amount of room beneath the 

 benches. The heating facilities, like the 

 houses, are of the latest and most ap- 

 proved model. The whole plant was in- 

 stalled by Hitchings & Co. 



Branch No. 3 of Condon's Green- 

 houses occupies nearly five acres at 

 Grayesend and Fort Hamilton avenues, 

 Brooklyn, and is used principally for 

 growing bedding plants and bulbs and 

 roses for cut flowers. W. E. Aherne, 

 the superintendent of the branch, makes 

 a liberal use of hotbeds and has a big 

 lot of geranium stock in the beds. He 

 has 140,000 alternantheras, 45,000 gera- 

 niums and 90,000 pansies in good shape 

 for spring bedding. Mr. Aherne keeps 

 his geraniums at a low temperature, 40 



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