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Title: Florists' review (microform)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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^tVff^lW-r 26 The Weekly Florists^ Review* Febbuary 2, 1911. Patten & Co., of Tewksbury, are sending some of the finest Purity freesias seen this season. They are grown in narrow benches, well up to the light, and are sold at T. F. Galvin's. No finer Killarney and Richmond are seen in the wholesale markets than those now being handled by B. J. Mc- Ginty for W. R. Morris, of Wellesley. H. L. Belcher, of Winthrop, is sending to the Boston Flower Exchange some extra fine lily of the valley, also Golden Spurs, tulips in variety, hyacinths and Paper Whites. William E. Doyle is closing out the stock of plants in the greenhouses in Cambridge this week, which he has op- erated for manj- years, and will now give his entire attention to the two re- tail stores on Boylston and Beacon streets. Mr. Doyle's son remains as president of the new W. E. Doyle Co.; J. J. Cassidy, many years at the Boyl- ston street store and well known to the trade, is treasurer; George Doyle, son of' W. E. Doyle, and John Reehl are other members of the firm, which starts out under excellent auspices and with the sincere good wishes o€ all in the trade. Business is reported satisfactory at both stores. The specimen azaleas seen here are among the best in Boston, and or- chids are sold in large numbers. Azalea Niobe, froi)i Peirce Bros., is beautifully fiowered. This firm is growing gladioli quite heavily for spring trade. In spite of the prevailing scarcity of roses, W. H. Elliott's shipments from Madbury are quite heavy. Rhea Reid continues to do well. A few Richmond will be tried again next season. This variety has not been an entire success at Madbury, the soil evidently not being to its liking. Mrs. Aaron Ward con- tinues to sell well. Mr. Elliott had Robert Simpson as a visitor last week. He is busy with plans for the coming rose convention and show. There was an excellent attendance at Horticultural hall January 28 to hear the lecture of Prof. L. C. Corbett, of Washington, on "New England Market Gardeners and Their Competitors." Sec- retary Rich states that the change of hour for the lectures has resulted in the attendances being doubled. We are sorry to report S. J. Goddard as quite seriously ill with the grip, but hope he will soon be around again. Arnold & Petros, in their new and up- to-date store on Boylston street, have this week some well flowered plants of Primula Kewensis, a plant worthy of increased attention. William T. Walke, of Salem, is mar- keting an extra fine lot of cyclamens. He has his usual excellent lot of lilies and other Easter plants coming on in good shape. Exhibits of new carnations and roses will be a feature at the next meeting of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club, Feb- ruary 14. Edwin Jenkins, of Lenox, will speak on "Science in Horticul- ture. This meeting always brings out the banner attendance of the year. Plans are already well under way for the annual club banquet, which will be in Horticultural hall February 28. James Wheeler, of Natick, is picking
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an extra fine grade of carnations from his big new house. Pink Delight and May Day are each good. All the other standard sorts are doing well. J. Newman & Sons had a fine center- piece of Cypripedium insigne Sanderse in their window last week, also some fine forms of C. Leeanum. They have been exceptionally busy of late with funeral work. T. J. Grey, J. P. A. Guerineau and P. J. Van Baarda were among the Bos- tonians present at the annual banquet of the North Shore Horticultural So- ciety at Manchester, Mass., January 25. The next meeting of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club will be held Feb- ruary 14, instead of February 21. The lecturer will be Edwin Jenkins, of Lenox, Mass., on "Science in Horticul- ture." There will be special exhibits of carnations and roses at this meeting. The annual club banquet will be held February 28, at Horticultural hall. Tickets for this will be ready within a few days. Recent visitors included J. S. Hay, v^ representing Henry A. Dreer, Philadel- phia, and M. De Graaff, the noted Dutch bulb grower and hybridizer. January has proved an extremely open month. We have had hardly any snow and no severe frost. Ice men and lum- ber men are longing for snow and ice, but florists are satisfied with the weather we have had. W. N. Craig. WILLIAM SIM. Rose Radiance. One of the commercial places in the vicinity of Boston, which all growers like to visit when in the Hub, is that of William Sim, Cliftondale, Mass. Mr. Sim, like Peter Fisher, Alexander Mont- gomery, Robert Cameron, Duncan Fin- layson and many more first-class grow- ers, who are his comparatively near neighbors, hails from north of the Tweed, His father was a photographer, but an enthusiastic amateur gardener, and here the subject of this sketch got his first love for horticulture. In 1882, when only twelve years of age, he left home to work on a farm, where he stayed about three years. We next find him as an apprentice gardener at Stone- haven for an additional three years. In 1888 he decided to try his luck in the United States and worked as assistant in a number of places, for eight years in all. In 1896 he started on his own account commercially in a modest way by leasing the Bailey greenhouses on Essex street, moving to his present location in 1899 and starting with 10,000 feet of glass. Many there were who shook their heads at his purchase of the land he has since reclaimed, and predicted failure all along the line. These prog- nosticators were soon silenced, as year by year the greenhouses grew in num- ber and size until now they comprise 150,000 feet of perhaps the most up- to-date glass to be found in this sec- tion. Mr. Sim long ago gave up the idea of growing a large variety of crops and is an excellent type of the up-to- date specializer, changing his special- ties as they prove unprofitable and striking out into new channels. At one time he grew about 75,000 single-stemmed chrysanthemums, com- prising all the newest and best varie- ties. These flowers are less popular in the Boston market than they were and Mr. Sim soon dropped them for better paying crops. Candytuft of superb

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