OCTOBER 5, 1899. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



465 



put a big cluster of Lilium speciosum 

 in the center of each arch; they 

 looked fine. Then he tied clusters of 

 white Michaelmass daisies on the end 

 of each pew. No ribbons used at all, 

 just all countrified, you know. There 

 was a lot of late white phlox and with 

 these he made the altar look fine. The 

 entrance to the church was all golden 

 rod. He only wished they could come 

 out and see how much he had done 

 and how little it cost him. Didn't use 

 many palms, and he had a bank of 

 wild ferns on every window shelf. He 

 put all his yellow flowers on the sides 

 of the church, pink and white in the 

 center, and pure white at the altar. 

 He suggested all the girls to carry 

 arms full of mixed wild flowers, but 

 the bridegroom was a city chap and 

 wanted regular bouquets with rib- 

 bons, and here he was for the stuff. 

 All this time Will had been sizing 



up the bargain counter and had 

 bought 1,000 roses for $5; the Demo- 

 cratic leader of his district was dead 

 and he had orders for big, showy de- 

 signs. He had sent a boy out to a 

 dahlia grower and had several thou- 

 sand white dahlias for $2 per 1,000; 

 he told his boys to help pick them for 

 the grower, and they just picked the 

 flowers off without stem. He had to 

 have tuberoses and they cost him 25 

 cents a dozen spikes; very cheap and 

 powerful were they for the occasion. 

 He couldn't bother with sweet alys- 

 sum and such things, because time 

 was short. There were lots of asters 

 for festooning, short valley was cheap, 

 and just enough white gladiolus and 

 lilies to finish off with. In an order 

 like this he considered he was equal 

 with his high-toned rival. 



Half your money can be made in the 

 buying. IVERA. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 



There will soon be little to tell in 

 these notes, for buds are swelling up 

 rapidly. Robinson will be ready to cut 

 in another three weeks, and Henry 

 Hurrell, Bonnaffon. Australian Gold, 

 Jennie Falconer, Sunderbruch, Wm. 

 Simpson. Mutual Friend and others 

 are showing color. 



It is interesting to note how much 

 quicker some varieties mature after 

 disbudding than others. Autumn 

 Glory. I recall, was last year the latest 

 variety to produce buds, but they ma- 

 tured so rapidly afterwards that the 

 flowers were devloped by midseason. 

 Childs is showing color on crown buds, 

 but terminals are very small yet. Solar 

 Queen is away late this year compared 

 with last, but most of the others seem 

 about the same. Pennsylvania on 

 crowns is showing up fine; that is to 

 say, fine, comparatively speaking. The 

 foliage is too small for it to fill up the 

 intervening spaces between the plants, 

 and look as satisfactory as some vari- 

 eties when growing, but we will for- 

 give its lack of foliage if the flowers 

 finish as well as they look like doing. 



If any of the steins are split across 

 just under the bud as though they had 

 been cut half way through with a 

 knife, it is a sign that you are feeding 

 too heavily, and the roots are pump- 

 ing up more sap than the bud can as- 

 similate. It can be stopped by getting 

 back to a clean water diet for a time. 

 This trouble only shows when chemi- 

 cals are being used too frequently. I 

 have never seen it on plants that had 

 been fed solely on animal manures. 



Our plants are single stems, planted 

 ten inches each way. and some varie- 

 ties, where they have made good 

 growths are badly crowded even at 



that. We often wonder where on 

 earth the grower who plants closer 

 than that and takes up several stems 

 puts all his foliage. 



Of course every grower knows his 

 own trade and grows to supply it, yet 

 it seems to me the enormous produc- 

 tion of low grade flowers has had much 

 to do with the cheapening and falling 

 from its pedestal of fame of the mum. 

 It is only one man in ten that will pay 

 $5 a dozen for good flowers when the 

 wholesale stores and streets are flood- 

 ed with rubbish selling for what it 

 will bring. On the other hand, I sup- 

 pose if everyone went in solely for 

 growing the highest grade flowers, 

 conditions would be as bad, or worse, 

 since everybody then would be looking 

 for the highest prices. 



Another potent reason why the 

 crysanthemum is slowly but surely 

 dropping in popularity is the condition 

 of "innocuous desuetude" into which 

 the Chrysanthemum Society of Amer- 

 ica has fallen. Other countries have 

 powerful societies which hold exhibi- 

 tions and keep things up to the top 

 notch, and in consequence the intro- 

 ducers of new varieties can command 

 three times the price for plants of new- 

 varieties that American growers can. 

 That one reason alone ought to be 

 sufficient to induce the American So- 

 ciety to try and keep up the interest of 

 the public. 



The Rose society woke up. shook it- 

 self out and will, if it keeps itself in 

 the path it has laid out, be a grand 

 success, I firmly believe. Why should 

 not the Chrysanthemum Society go and 

 do likewise? BRIAN BORI". 



BAY CITY, MICH.— Boehringer Bros, 

 are putting up a large smokestack and 

 will try slack coal as fuel this winter. 



ROSE NOTES. 



At this season of the year the grow- 

 er of Meteors will have troubles of his 

 own if he does not use sound judg- 

 ment and be on the alert. I heard a 

 grower say some time ago, "You can 

 scarcely overwater Meteors." I have 

 not yet found a soil where they could 

 not be overwatered. 



The high temperature necessary for 

 the perfect development of this rose is 

 just what suits red spider and conse- 

 quently frequent and hard syringing is 

 necessary and enough water is usually 

 dropped on the beds for the needs of 

 the plants. If too much moisture is 

 applied at the root and the proper tem- 

 perature maintained the foliage quick- 

 ly becomes light and the wood soft. ,1 

 have had best success by keeping them 

 just moderately moist at the root with 

 temperature not less than 68 degrees 

 at night. If it breaks your heart to 

 throw a few extra shovels of coal on 

 the fire, or if your house has not plen- 

 ty of heating pipes, better not attempt 

 growing Meteors or your harvest w)]i 

 surely be discolored and worthless 

 blooms. 



Watch the changes of the wind and 

 attend to the ventilators. Have them 

 up on the side from which the wind is 

 blowing, if they are raised at the top; 

 if from the bottom, the reverse is the 

 thing. When the wind is blowing 

 from the south mildew is more liable 

 to appear, therefore at such times 

 smear sulphur and lime on the steam 

 pipes. 



We hear many causes for the ap- 

 pearance of black spot on Beauties. 

 One holds that excessive watering is 

 the cause, another says excessive 

 drouth, another sudden change in tem- 

 perature; some claim that it is a com- 

 bination of causes, but all agree that 

 it arises from a check in the growth 

 of the plants. 



I believe that one of the most fre- 

 quent causes of this disease is exces- 

 sive cutting of buds from the young 

 plants, and the cutting of too long 

 stems, thus robbing the plants of a 

 great part of the foliage that is neces- 

 sary for their support and develop- 

 ment. 



The growth of an American Beauty 

 naturally and in the open air, we ob- 

 serve, does not throw up stems six 

 and eight feet long, but are usually 

 from eighteen inches to two feet, and 

 when the bud has blown there are two 

 shoots starting from the eyes nearest 

 the bloom, opposite on the stem, close 

 together. One of these usually grows 

 about eight inches and the bud forms. 

 The other grows longer and makes a 

 stem twelve to eighteen inches, and 

 so on through the summer. I have 

 had them bloom the entire season and 

 no black spot till very cool nights in 

 fall checked their growth. 



Plants in houses make a longer 

 growth (from four to six feet I on ac- 

 count of greater heat and regular wat- 

 ering, but the character of the growth 

 is the same. 1 mean by this that the 

 buds nearest the bloom break before 

 those lower on the stem, but we per- 



