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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



January 3, 1001. 



Bon Ton was a failure from tlie start 

 on account of its lateness and small 

 blooms. 



Wellesley has a fine color and is. very 

 free, and if it were a little larger it 

 would make a good one for those who 

 want quantity of bloom. 



Chicago makes a fine bloom and may 

 be profitable if grown like Mr?. Bradt, 

 from which it sported. 



Portia is now grown by only a few 

 back numbers. 



In maroon there is perhaps nothing to 

 compare with Maceo. 'I'ho blooms are 

 fine and arc produced in enormous quan- 

 tities. 



Gom'ez is not so free, but has longer 

 stems and we think a more pleasing color, 

 being not quite so black. 



Empress is too late to be profitable un- 

 der ordinary conditions. The blooms are 

 large and are borne on long, strong stems 

 and where a good maroon pays it might 

 pay the grower to give this the special 

 culture it needs to bring it in early. 



at all yi-'t. llu' time will peihaps never 

 come vvhen we will not be able to improve 

 on the carnation, but what we want now 

 is a few good commercial sorts. 



A. F. J. Baub. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



New Carnations Registered by the Chicago 

 Carnation Co., Jolict, 111. 



Sunbeam— Light pink. This is an en- 

 tirely new shade of what is generally 

 called flesh pink. Klowors of good form, 

 size averaging three inches, borne on 

 stitr, wiry stems from twenty-four to 

 thirty inches long, free from disease and 

 a very strong, healthy grower. Pro- 

 duces more blooms per plant and bench 

 space than any other variety known re- 

 gardless of color. 



Bon Homme Richard— White. This 

 flower has a fine form and at times will 

 show the faintest flush of light pink 

 on the petals, which fades out entirely 



Crotons bordered with Centauiea. 



Metcoi «;i- I 111- lifst in its daj', but 



Maceo i- mil. Il hrllri . 



In fan. 1 \.,ii.Ui- Mis. Bradt is by far 

 the bi>l. Its I.ul:.- blooms on fine stems 

 always command a good price. If given 

 about two-thirds as much room as most 

 varieties it pays as well as any. This 

 variety wants an early start and does 

 well grown inside all summer. 



Armazindy is one of the freest bloom- 

 ers we have today, but it has not 'enough 

 stripes to make it popular as a fancy. 

 The blooms are fair size and the stem is 

 fine. Many use it for white, and where 

 this can be done it is veiy profitable, 

 nre growth is strong and rapid. 



Sandusky seems to have struck a snag 

 and sunk. A weak constitution and bac- 

 teria did the work. 



Gold Nugget is the best commercial yel- 

 low. The color, size and stem are fine. 

 This variety to be profitable needs to be 

 started early and kept bushy by pinching 

 often early in the growing season. 



Mayor Pingree is too shy and too late. 

 There is no doubt about our varieties 

 of today being much better than we had 

 ten years ago and yet there is as much 

 room for improvement now as there ever 

 was. We need, for instance, a strong- 

 stemmed Flora Hill, a large-flowering 

 Mrs. Joost, a Jubilee that blooms freely 

 with ordinary culture and a Mrs. Bradt 

 that produces about twice as many 

 blooms to the plant, and many other im- 

 provements of which we have not thought 



as the flower matui'os and even when dis- 

 cernible it detracts none from its beauty. 

 Blooms will average three inches, on 

 strong why stems two and one-half to 



three' t,. It "l.tiiL'. Its li;il,iL is such that 

 plant- 111 liiii 1h in li ^ wlih from thirty 

 to iliiit\ lui- liiel- nil anil flower spikes 



staihl M I \ jiaial.ls m the model wire 



su]iiHiit. It will pr.i.liiee 50 per cent 



mmr 111. - I hail \\ Int.- Cloud and com- 



niaii.l the -aiiir |,ii,r \\lieii grown under 



NMlia \ ai le.jali .1. The vMniind work 

 of (lie ll.iHri 1, {aire «liile sll'iped with 

 light ^aliiinn, uhirh with it- splendid 

 form gi\e> an e\iMi„rl.\ I.e.iiiliful ef- 

 fect in a \a-r liii .|r, M, ,,1 11,. purposes. 

 A grand keep. a, impi n ihl' .1- ilie llower 

 ages; not a- laiije -i^ \li-, I'.ia.lt, but 

 will produce twice the quantity of 

 blooms. Stems are very strong, from 

 20 to 20 inches in length and the health 

 and habit of the plant is of the best. 



Prolifica — Cerise pink. A shade deep- 

 er than Lawson ; average size of blooms 

 three to three and on'e-half inches, with 

 strong, stilT stems from two and one- 

 half to three feet in length. An idea as 

 to its freedom r;vn be had from the fact 

 that a representative of the trade pa- 

 pers counted on the original plant three 

 seasons ago sixteen open flowers, four- 

 teen large buds and an abundance of new 

 spikes showing below. 



Albert M. Heeu, Secretary. 



Lancaster, Pa. 



BEDDING. 



W'e present herewith three engravings 

 from photographs of beds that were seen 

 last summer on the grounds of the Ath- 

 ens State Hospital, Atheits, O., where 

 Geo. H. Moores is the florist in charge. 

 The photographs were all taken August 

 12th last. 



The bed of crotons was twelve feet in 

 diameter and contained 100 plants, most- 

 ly of a nafrow leaved variety. It was 

 bordered with two rows of Centaurea 

 gymnocarpa. It received the morning 

 sun, but was shaded in the afternoon. 

 After planting the bed was heavily 

 mulched and although the season was a 

 dry one the bed was fine. 



The bed of cannas was also twelve 

 feet in diameter, and was bordered with 

 Pennisetum longistylum. The cannas 

 were a dark leaved variety and the con- 

 trast with the pennisetum made the bed 

 a very handsome one. The pennisetum 

 was grown from seed sown Jan. lOth 

 and planted out of 3-inch pots about 

 June 1st. This bed was also mulched. 



The third bed contained bananas and 

 caladiums and was considered one of the 

 best beds on the grounds. The soil was 

 made very rich and the bed was heavily 

 mulched. Some of the caladiums grew 

 to a height of seven feet, with the ba- 

 nana plants well above them. 



CATTLEYA PERCIVALIANA. 



Ed. Florists' Review: In your issue 

 of Dec. 20 we note on page 91 the fol- 

 lowing: "Orchids will be few. Cattleya 

 Percivaliana is too small for the Ameri- 

 can trade," etc., etc. 



We send you by express six flowers 

 of this variety to show that the writer of 

 the above is not entirely correct in his 

 statement. As you will see, they com- 

 pare favorably with other varieties. Cat- 

 tleya Percivaliana is a variety whose 

 flowers increase in size the longer they 

 are left on the plant. At this time of 

 the year, when they are in flower, the 

 demand is very great and we find it im- 

 possible to hold them until they are 

 properly developed and have to cut them 

 only half finished, which to a great ex- 

 tent accounts for the small size. On 

 the other hand, the flowers are the most 

 beautiful of any of the cattleyas. 



As to price, this is naturally governed 

 by supply mnl ilentaiid. The supply be- 

 ing very limit.. I at that time of the 

 year ami tin .i.nini.l heavy, we see no 

 reason why tli. y -li..iil.l sell cheaper than 

 other varieties, in our case it has 

 proved to be the contrary. 



Lager & Hiiruki.i,. 



Summit, N. J. 



[The flowers were of good size, meas- 

 uring five inches across, and they would 

 compare favorably with most cattleya 

 blooms seen in the market. But we do 

 not recall having seen any quantity of 

 Percivaliana blooms of equal size before. 

 Evidently there is a useful suggestion 

 in the note about the hi ns ,.i ilii> va- 

 riety increasing in si/e wlan Nil fnr 

 some time on the plant. I la i i. h .nlnr- 

 ing of the lip certainly nlal^e^ I his a 

 most beautiful cattleya. — Ed. J 



Begonia Tx)rraine. — Mr. Geo. Witt- 

 bold, Chicago, is grafting Lorraine on 

 other stronger rooting begonias and be- 

 lieves this is the way to get a good 

 growth and the most serviceable plants. 



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