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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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brings such a high price when good 

 that it is profitable. 



Yellow Qiieeu is his favorite very 

 early yellow, and it is good enough to 

 hold its own till cut out and market- 

 ed. Marion Henderson isn't good 

 enough. For a second early yellow he 

 likes Harry Hurrell. Modesto he con- 

 siders a nearly ideal yellow, except as 

 to stem, which is too slight tor the 

 bloom. Golden Wedding is a beautiful 

 flower of fine color, but too tall and 

 too subject to disease. 



Bonnaffon is in yellows what .Jones 

 and Ivory are in whites. It is by all 

 odds the most profitable yellow with 

 him. Dailledouze at its best comes 

 near being the finest thing in yellows, 

 but it has a tendency to come long- 

 legged, and there is too large a per- 

 centage of inferior flowers to make it 

 really profitable. Yellow Fellow is a 

 good grower and produces a big flower, 

 but it is showing bronze in the color 

 and doesn't impress him favorably. 

 Solar Queen has done well, producing 

 a fine, large flower, but a little thin in 

 the center. The blooms have sold re- 

 markably well, bringing as high as 

 $4.00 a dozen. It will have a place. 

 but the place won't be quite at the 

 top. 



Mrs. A. J. Caton, the new early 

 bronze introduced last iear, has been 

 rather disappointing this year. It 

 came in fifteen days later than last 

 year and the color was not so good. 

 Referring again to early yellows, Mr. 

 Rudd said: "Whilldin isn't really as 

 early as Yellow Queen, though it 

 shows color so early. The Whilldins 

 seen in the market have nearly always 

 been cut a week too early. Nine out of 

 ten growers cut their blooms befoi'c 

 they are fully ripe and that don't pay." 



Mr. Rudd is still awaiting the ar- 

 rival of a first class pink mum. Pink 

 Ivory pleases him best when it comes 

 pink, and his flowers have shown con- 

 siderable pink again this year. Even 

 with only a faint tinge of pink the 

 flowers are beautiful and sell well. 

 Murdoch is also showing a better color 

 this year than last. He considers Per- 

 rin a good thing, though the flower is 

 small. It is a good grower and sure 

 bloomer and the quality is a good av- 

 erage. Autumn Glory has been a little 

 disappointing in color, though the 

 color improves as the blooms approach 

 maturity. The blooms are fine other- 

 wise. Montmort is of such poor qual- 

 ity that he doesn't want it on the 

 place. Glory of the Pacific hasn't been 

 a success with him. He has dropped 

 Mrs. E. G. Hill. 



■When asked what sorts he would re- 

 tain if he was obliged to confine him- 

 self to only three varieties he replied: 

 "Ivory, Bonnaffon and Jones. If a pink 

 one were to be added I would take 

 Pink Ivory if the color were certain. 

 If I had to be sure of having pink I 

 would have some Perrin and Mur- 

 doch." 

 "What effect does the chrysanthe- 



mum show have on the market for cut 

 blooms?" we asked. "If the chrys- 

 anthemum show were eliminated from 

 the situation the grower of fine 

 blooms would pretty nearly have to 

 quit," was the reply. "The show takes 

 out of the market at least U.OOO of the 

 finest blooms, and greatly stimulates 

 the sale of others. There is always a 

 glut of mums for ten days preceding 

 the show, but after the show opens 

 there is a good demand for fine 

 blooms." 



WORK OF THE COMMITTEES. 



PHILADELPHIA. Oct. :2y. — E. A. 

 Seidewitz, of Annapolis. Md., exhibit- 

 ed John K.Shaw. Japanese Inc. Pink. 

 Scored commercial scale 92, exhibition 

 scale 86 points. The same grower ex- 

 hibited Swern. Jap. Inc. Pink. Scored 

 commercial scale 83 points. John N. 



May, of Summit, N. J., exhibited Meta. 

 Jap. Inc. White, lemon shading. 

 Scored commercial scale 90, exhibition 

 scale 87 points. He also exhibited No. 

 29. Jap. Ref. Pink. Scored commer- 

 cial scale 79 points. Wm. Paul Binder, 

 Rider, Md., exhibited Robt. Halliday. 

 Jap. Yellow. Scored commercial scale' 

 89, exhibition scale 87 points. Nathan 

 Smith & Son, of Adrian, Mich., ex- 

 hibited No. 57. Jap. Inc. Light yel- 

 low. Commercial scale 84 points. 



BOSTON, MASS., Oct. 29.— John N. 

 May, Summit. N. J., exhibited Meta. 

 Jap. Inc. Light straw yellow. Com.- 

 mercial scale 87, exhibition scale 86' 

 points. 



CINCINNATI. O., Oct. 29.— Willianb 

 Paul Binder exhibited Harry A. Parr. 

 Jap. Lemon yellow. Commercial 

 scale 81 points. 



No reports from New York or Chi- 

 cago. 



We promised to say more about 

 chrysanthemums in this issue, and 

 what we suggest may, in some small 

 way, be useful at the shows. The 

 great trouble at exhibitions is the 

 stiff and formal arrangement of ex- 

 hibits. There is quite a lot of hard 

 work in building those flat and sugar- 

 loaf mounds of plants. We have to 

 be very careful in our calculations. 

 This or that leaf must be just so; 

 but, ray friends, this manner of fix- 

 ing things has very, very little Art 

 about it. If we would go in for ideals, 

 I mean it we would cut away Irom 

 this old and foolish way of exhibit- 

 ing our plants, we might get better 

 results, if not from the judges, at 

 least from the general public. 



If you intend making a group of 

 plants at the show, don't make a 

 mound; if you take a position along 

 the wall use a mirror for a back- 

 ground and arrange your plants to 

 form a cosy arbor or grotto where 

 you can put a rustic table and settee. 

 I don't mean a kind of enclosure simi- 

 lar to summer garden scenes, but an 

 ideal work that is not only beautiful 

 but useful; and. mind you, it requires 

 a great deal more artistic ability to 

 create and properly finish such a de- 

 sign than those set affairs, and the 

 public will admire it more. 



If you have any Japanese trainecT 

 plants, such as Retinospora obtusa 

 nana or Podocarpus or maples yoii 

 can arrange a Japanese garden. It is. 

 not necessary that you should have 

 it exclusively Japanese, but these 

 plants should be a prominent feature. 

 If your group is to be in the center 

 of the hall you can make it so that 

 visitors may pass through it, instead 

 of around it; people find more pleas- 

 ure in walking in a bower of beautiful 

 plants and fiowers than in looking at 

 a formal bank of foliage. We consider 

 it one of the greatest reasons why^ 

 exhibitions are failures, this formal 

 and set manner of display in your 

 plants and flowers, because you caa 

 generally see a show in a few minutes, 

 and its monotonous and regimental- 

 like formation has little to excite in- 

 terest amongst ourselves, much less 

 the public. 



There are lots of chances for yow 

 to show originality and artistic abil- 

 ity in your group of plants, and, mind 

 you, the same laws apply to decora- 

 tions of all kinds, what with such 

 plants as Asparagus Sprengeri, the- 

 Boston fern, and the many other 

 fine plants, you can make pretty ar- 

 cadic effects that will make an im- 

 pression. 



Now about dinner decorations. 



