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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_29_2 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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APBIL 18, 1912. TheWcckly Florists' Review. 19 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
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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

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