May 29, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



17 



Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club as Guests of W. H. Elliott, at Madbury, N. H., May 21, 1913. 



members who attended have ever en- 

 joyed. 



Various Notes. 



William H. Elliott is starting to cut 

 a nice crop of Kaiserin roses at his 

 Prighton establishment. His Prince de 

 Bulgarie roses are fine, and he also has 

 a splendid lot of Beauties. 



John T. Gale, of Tewksbury, is mak- 

 ing quite a hit with a grand lot of 

 Apple Blossom Spencer sweet peas. 



Edward Wood, of Lexington, is one 

 of the largest local growers of anemones. 

 He also specializes in carnations and 

 Asparagus plumosus. 



F. J. Dolansky, of Lynn, is cutting 

 ov^er 20,000 longiflorum lilies for Memo- 

 rial day. He is cutting hundreds of 

 cattleyas daily. In addition to Mossia? 

 and gigas, he has some Mendellii and 

 speciosissima. 



A. A. Pembroke, of North Beverly, 

 has found no trouble in booking orders 

 for all his high-grade carnations for 

 Memorial day at fancy prices. He has 

 also fine batches of candytuft and ten 

 weeks' stocks. 



K. P. Peterson, of Saxonville, and 

 Xelson & Johnson, of Framinghani, were 

 heavy shippers of fine ten weeks' stocks 

 last "week to the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change. 



I am glad to report John Barr as con- 

 siderably improved in health, at the 

 Corey Hill hospital, Brookline. 



P. J. Riley, of Lowell, who has what 

 was formerly the Shepard Greenhouses, 

 is sending in remarkably fine Shake- 

 speare and America gladioli to George 

 C'artwright^ at the Boston Flower Ex- 

 change. 



The recent destructive fire at the pot 

 manufactory of A. H. Hews & Co. has 

 not caused any delay in the filling of 

 orders for pots. 



Thomas Roland has one of his new 

 houses, 52 x 600, at Revere, planted with 

 roses — a little over 30,000 plants. Sev- 

 eral forms of Killarney, Richmond, 

 Ward and Hillingdon are grown; also 

 smaller batches of Russell, Mrs. Shaw- 

 yer and Sunburst. From another house 



of similar size a splendid crop of toma- 

 toes is now being picked, Comet being 

 mostly grown. A. A. Livermore is 

 manager at the Revere establishment. 

 Mr. Roland has a cut of 20,000 longi- 

 florum lilies for Memorial day at his 

 Nahant range. 



Ladies' night will be the attraction 

 at the next meeting of the Gardeners' 

 and Florists' Club. There will be a fine 

 entertainment and dance. President 

 Kennedy plans to inaugurate a ladies' 

 auxiliary of the club the same evening. 



E. Allan Peirce has returned from an 

 extended trip through Maine and New 

 Hampshire in the interests of the 

 Flower Growers' Sales Co. and he 

 booked many excellent Memorial day 

 orders. This company is preparing for 

 a big Memorial day trade and is well 

 equipped to care for all orders. 



Norris F. Comley is the largest ship- 

 per of sweet peas now to the Boston 

 Cooperative Market. His bachelor's 

 buttons also are fine. 



Many expressions of regret were 

 heard from local growers when they 

 learned of the death of G. L. Grant. He 

 was familiar to many who attended the 

 S. A. F. conventions. 



Among the finest Spencer sweet peas 

 I have seen this season are those grown 

 l»y Geo. O. Bucknam, of Stoneham. He 

 is also in the front ranks of carnation 

 growers. W. N. Craig. 



TO BEAUTIFY SLOPES. 



I would appreciate a little advice on 

 how to beautify slopes of hills, some 

 with rough surfaces; also shaded hills. 



M. C. 



Fse as far as possible native trees 

 and shrubs in any plantings you may 

 do. They are more likely to succee<l 

 than foreign varieties and are just as 

 beautiful. Plant in colonies or groups, 

 to be effective, and do not make these 

 too symmetrical. The more natural 

 plantings are, the more pleasing and 

 satisfying. In evergreen trees Pinus 

 Strobus, or white pine; P. Mughus, or 



dwarf mountain pine, and P. Austriaca, 

 or Austrian pine, will all do well in 

 comparatively poor soil. The various 

 junipers are fine for covering the 

 ground, especially Juniperus Sabina, 

 Savin juniper. Then J. Virginica, the 

 red cedar; J. communis Hibernica, the 

 Irish juniper, and J. Suecica, the Swed- 

 ish juniper, are fine for promiscuous 

 dotting or growing in scattered colo- 

 nies. Use such of your native decid- 

 uous trees and shrubs as you like and 

 which seem to thrive under similar con- 

 ditions in your vicinity. Crataegus, or 

 hawthorns, are beautiful in flower and 

 fruit and would do well with you. Rosa 

 setigera, R. Wichuraiana, R. rugosa and 

 other species could be used effectively, 

 especially where they could hang over 

 rocks or trail over boulders. Colonies 

 of native perennials, once started, would 

 soon naturalize themselves and produce 

 beautiful effects. Do not plant too 

 thickly and do not adopt any formality. 

 Do not mix evergreens and deciduous 

 stock and do not jilant blue spruce and 

 other out-of-place material. Prepare 

 good holes, plant firmly and you will 

 get returns which will be gratifving. 



C. W. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



Cold well Lawn Mower Co., New- 

 burgh, N. Y., combination motor roller 

 an<l lawn mower; (Jt. Van Waveren & 

 Kruijff. Philadelphia, Pa., and Sassen- 

 heini, Holland, Dutch bulbs and roots; 

 A. L. Randall Co., Chicago, 111., gen- 

 eral catalogue of supplies for florists, 

 nurserymen and seedsmen; Henry 

 Mette. Quedlinburg, Germany, special 

 offer of i»ansy seeds; Bertrand H. Farr, 

 Wyomissing, Pa., bulbs and plants. 



AUentown, Pa. — Marcuo De Long has 

 purchased Charles F. Berkemeyer's 

 flower store, at 1103 Hamilton street. 

 The store will be run in connection with 

 the greenhouses at Fourth and Tilghman 

 streets, which Mr. De Long bought from 

 A. B. Ellsworth about a year ago. 



