. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ?rrw* ':?? '.-ym,i\ ^mim^^f'^^''',fM!H.**'iv''!'"?*" January 25, 1912. ThcWcckly Florists' Rcvfcw. IS Princess of Wales violets and sweet peas in variety to the Boston Co- operative Market. R. H. Little, of "Winchester, at the same market, is strong on single violets. W. W. Edgar Co., of Waverley, has some excellent white lilacs and azaleas among other pot plants, and now has the houses filled to overflowing with plants for the Easter trade. David Fairchild, of Washington, D. C, gave the regular Saturday lecture at Horticu
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. ?rrw* ':?? '.-ym,i\ ^mim^^f'^^''',fM!H.**'iv''!'"?*" January 25, 1912. ThcWcckly Florists' Rcvfcw. IS Princess of Wales violets and sweet peas in variety to the Boston Co- operative Market. R. H. Little, of "Winchester, at the same market, is strong on single violets. W. W. Edgar Co., of Waverley, has some excellent white lilacs and azaleas among other pot plants, and now has the houses filled to overflowing with plants for the Easter trade. David Fairchild, of Washington, D. C, gave the regular Saturday lecture at Horticultural hall January 20, his subject being '' Plant Introduction As a Government ; He had a large and interested audience. The store of Mrs. J. W. Rogers, on Summer street, near the South Ter- minal station, always looks neat and attractive. I noted a fine vase of John Barr's new carnation, Mrs. B. P. Cheney, January 20, also a fine assort- ment of flowering and foliage plants. W. K Craig. A. LLOYD VAUOHAN. No great number of florists have a wider acquaintance than has A. L. Yaughan, who has just arranged to take over, February 1, the interest of his partner, I'rederick Sperry, in the Chicago commission house of Vaughan & Sperry. He has traveled widely, and, though it is some years since he left the road, he is remembered pleasantly by florists from one edge of the country to the other. A certain disposition to fight out a proposition on which he believes him- self to be right may be accounted for by the fact that Mr. Vaughan was born at Bastrop, La., June 1, 1864, when hostilities between old friends were the order of the day. He had three broth- ers who were fighting on the Con- federate side, and as many uncles who wore the blue. Arriving simultaneously at Chicago and the age o^ 24, the young southerner began his horticul- tural course in the Randolph street training school from which so many of the florists now in business at Chicago have graduated. In 1897 t
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