OCTOBER 26, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



535 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



The committees judging seedling 

 chrysanthemums will now be in ses- 

 sion every Saturday to and including 

 Nov. 25th. Exhibitors should make 

 their entries (for which a fee of two 

 dollars is charged for each variety en- 

 tered) to the secretary not later than 

 Tuesday of the week they are to be 

 shown. 



All exhibits forwarded to the fol- 

 lowing addresses (express charges pre- 

 paid) will receive careful considera- 

 tion: 



Boston, Mass. — A. H. Fewkes, Horti- 

 cultural Hall, Tremont street. 



New York, N. Y. — E. Dailledouze, 

 care New York Cut Flower Co., 119 

 West Twenty-third street. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — A. B. Cartledge, 

 1514 Chestnut street. 



Cincinnati, O. — R. Witterstaetter, 

 care Cincinnati Cut Flower Co., cor- 

 nel Fourth and Walnut streets. 



Chicago. 111. — C. W. Johnson, care 

 Illinois Cut Flower Co., 51 Wabash 

 avenue. 



ELMER D. SMITH, Sec'y. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY'S 

 SILVER CUP. 



The officers of the Chrysanthemum 

 Society of America have decided to 

 award a silver cup (valued at $20.00) to 

 the seedling which averages the high- 

 est number of points. To be eligible 

 hi this contest, the seedling must be 

 shown to at least three committees, 

 and from their scoring an average will 

 be made. ELMER D. SMITH, 



Secretary. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



BOSTON, MASS., Oct. 14— Grove P. 

 Rawson, Elmira, N. Y., exhibited 

 "Primo," a white, Japanese variety, 

 scoring commercial scale 87 points. 



NEW YORK, Oct. 21.— Hewey A. Mo- 

 latsch, Brooklyn, N. Y., exhibited Wal- 

 ter Molatsch, a yellow Jap. Inc. vari- 

 ety, scoring commercial scale 89 points. 



PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21.— Above 

 variety by same exhibitor was shown 

 at Philadelphia and scored commercial 

 scale 87, exhibition scale StJ points. 

 Wm. Paul Binder, Rider, Md., exhibit- 



ed Georgina McDonald, a reflexed 

 white, which scored commercial scale 

 82 points, exhibition scale 83 points. 



CINCINNATI, Oct. 21.— Nathan 

 Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., exhibited 

 Monrovia, a yellow Jap. variety, scor- 

 ing commercial scale 85 points. 



CHICAGO, OCT. 21.— Monrovia by 

 above exhibitor at Chicago scored 

 commercial scale 83 points. 



ELMER D. SMITH, Sec'y. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 



Exhibitions and Exhibition Flowers. 



Exhibition time is here, and a town 

 that cannot raise some kind of a 

 flower show is certainly behind the 

 times. 



Everybody admits that a flower 

 show helps business in the florists' 

 line, and the grower with mums good 

 enough to capture a few first prizes, 

 will also capture the cream of the 

 business in his vicinity. There are 

 many ways of winning prizes, or 

 rather many ways of helping to win 

 prizes, the most important one being 

 to set up your flowers in the freshest 

 possible condition. When the show 

 is in your own immediate vicinity, it 

 is an easy matter to set up a fresh 

 looking lot of flowers, but when you 

 have to travel several hundred miles 

 it becomes a more serious problem. 



Exhibition flowers ought to stand 

 in water at least 24 hours before pack- 

 ing to allow the stems to absorb all 

 the water they will hold. If this is 

 done the flowers come out of the box 

 at the end of a long journey fresh and 

 crisp, and little the worse. We always 

 wrap each individual bloom up in 

 waxed paper, tied round the bottom 

 first, and then drawn upwards and 

 tied at the top. The Japanese types 

 like Morel are very easily bruised, if 

 not treated in this manner, but the 

 compact types like Bonnaffon. with its 

 heavy foliage, are not crushed nearly 

 so readily. It is a good plan to tie 

 some very damp moss on the end of 

 the stem, and then tie a sheet of wax 

 paper round the moss to retain the 

 moisture. 



One or two growers in the east have 

 special boxes made for shipping their 

 flowers standing bolt upright. Flow- 

 ers so shipped are not bruised in any 

 way, but the box is bulky, and nol 



very handy to get around with. Flow- 

 ers packed lying down, if packed care- 

 fully, travel good enough for all pur- 

 poses when each flower is tied up sep- 

 arately in waxed paper. 



Another great help in winning 

 prizes is discrimination in entering 

 classes. Enter just such classes as 

 you have a reasonable chance in and 

 don't try to capture the whole show. 

 This applies more to the large exhi- 

 bitions. Where the show is a local 

 one, and small, the more flowers you 

 set up the better to make as brave a 

 display as possible. I should like to 

 see every town in the country with 

 its mum show. It educates the masses, 

 booms the florists' business, gives the 

 hard-headed (and often close-fisted) 

 florist a line on some newer kinds that 

 have stood the test satisfactorily, and 

 gives the mum crank a chance to 

 make a public nuisance of himself, by 

 recalling a flood of reminiscences from 

 the time of the Salter seedlings down 

 to Calvat's or Smith's or May's new 

 ones of last year. 



I sometimes wonder if the varieties 

 of the present day are really an ad- 

 vance on the Elaines and Lady Sal- 

 bourne and C. Domage and other spe- 

 cial favorites of my own era. Of 

 course, really, they must be, since ev- 

 ery year new varieties are sant out 

 that "will supersede all others in their 

 respective colors" and yet and yet, I 

 sometimes wonder. 



I looked over an old catalogue the 

 other day for the year 1892, and of 

 several hundred varieties there de- 

 scribed but one, G. W. Childs, is 

 known today. Peace be to the mem- 

 ory of those departed. 



BRIAN BORU. 



ROSE NOTES. 



We are in the midst of very unsea- 

 sonable weather with the temperature 

 up to the midsummer notch. There 

 have also been a number of days when 

 the sun was shining brightly early in 

 the morning and when syringing was 

 well under way the sun would disap- 

 pear and a dark, warm day with wind 

 from the south was the order. Dur- 

 ing such periods as these the grower 

 has his hands full to keep his stock 

 in health. 



When the plants are wet and it turns 

 cloudy, keep on as much air as the at- 



