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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



JUNE2-, lUOl. 



tiiry; indeed, several appeared during 

 the" close of its first half, and L. Camer- 

 oni was then a leading greenhouse plant. 

 Of late years a number of dwarf bushy 

 forms have come over from the conti- 

 nent; but the^' do not appear to have 

 taken the foremost position as green- 

 house plants whidi was anticipated. 

 They are also useful summer bedding 

 subjects. 



Veronica Andersoni and its allies are 

 also worthy of notice as at one time 

 popular greenhoxise evergreen shrubs, 

 but now more frequently seen in the 

 border. 



THE CARNATION. 



The carnation and the chrysanthemum 

 dominated at the close of the century. 

 Page states, in 1S17, in reference to 

 Dianthus caryophyllus, "of these there 

 were forty-five named sorts." In the fol- 

 lowing year the flower underwent con- 

 siderable transformation, but all in the 

 direction of the florist's varieties; and 

 they -were also leading on the picotee to 

 better development as edged flowers. 

 Haddocks, at the end of the eighteenth 

 century, and Hogg, some years later, by 

 their treatises helped to popularize the 

 flower. By 1850 there were fine varie- 

 ties such as S. B. Admiral Curzon, still 

 at the head of its class. Puxley was at 

 work with the carnation, and May with 

 the picotee, while other honored names 

 were proceeding on similar lines. Then 

 came Dodwell, Turner, Douglas, etc. Mr. 

 Ernst Senary, of Erfurt, sent us his 

 Germania and fancy varieties. Then a 

 few years subsequently Mr. Martin R. 

 Smith began to raise seedlings, and es- 

 pecially selfs, yellowgrounds and fan- 

 cies, and he is now the foremost raiser of 

 the day. Mr. Turner and Others did 

 much to improve the winter-flowering 

 varieties ; and the section of Malmaison 

 carnations has been materially added to. 

 The carnation is now a very popular 

 flower both in America and' at home. 

 The laced pinks with their striking col- 

 ored margins and scented petals appear 

 to be going out of cultivation, while the 

 new race of biennial varieties known as 

 Margarets are becoming increasingly 

 popular. 



THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



The chrysanthemum was practically 

 the outcome of the nineteenth century! 

 During the first twenty years of it there 

 were a dozen or so known varieties. Seeds 

 were first saved in France, and then in 

 Jersey, and at home; alterations and 

 improvements in form and color resulted, 

 and the first exhibition of the flower took 

 place in 1846. In this year Mr. R. For- 

 tune introduced the Chusan daisy, which 

 may be said to have originated the race 

 of pompon varieties; and in 1862 he sent 

 home the first Japanese types. The latter, 

 improved beyond all hope and promise, 

 are now the dominant section ; though the 

 old incurved type has also been greatly 

 improved of late years ; though, as some 

 think, at the expense of the exquisite 

 symmetry of form which once prevailed. 

 An early flowering section of Japanese 

 varieties is rapidly becoming popular, 

 while some of the varieties are largely 

 grown as cut blooms for market pur- 

 poses. 



THE AURICULA. ETC. 



The auricula holds its own; and such 

 raisers as Lightbody, Headly, Traill, 

 Douglas, Simonite. Woodhead, Horner 

 and others have added during the last 



sixty years many fine varieties to the 

 show section. The alpine varieties are 

 the product of the last half of the cen- 

 tury; Turner, Douglas, Phillips and oth- 

 ers have assisted in their improvement 



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I ill\ 111 Ihr nurlli. uhcre the 

 ^ ^ ^. MMniiiy varirii,-. i. ^tlll fol- 

 lowed; and choice" strains are generally 

 of very fine quality. The anemone has 

 ceased to be regarded as a florists' flower, 

 despite its attractive vernal beauty. 



BUFFALO. 



Various Items. 



The plant business is about wound up 

 and what comes after this will feel like 

 all profit. Business has been quite good, 

 the many graduating classes having 

 helped everybody. A look at Mr. Kast- 

 ing's emporium a few nights ago would 

 lead you to think there was an over- 

 supply, but the commissioner tells me 

 that they most all go. To show you how 

 cold must have been the month of May, 

 our paeonies are only just now at then- 

 best. The writer gets so little down- 

 town of late that he hardly keeps in 

 touch with the craft. 



W. A. Adams has leased his window 

 and part of his counter to a firm of 

 jewelers. This won't make much difTer- 

 ence to Andy and his trade, for they 

 know where he is and will stick to him. 



The North American Saengerfest meet 

 here this week and it will bring 50,000 

 noble Teutons to our city, and oh, won't 

 "Alt Nurnberg" at the Pan-Am. be busy 

 for some days to come! This German 

 Village is the great resort for thou- 

 sands of our best citizens, as well as 

 the many distinguished visitors. 



The writer had the pleasure a few 

 hours ago to hand Mrs. William J. 

 Bryan, of Nebraska, a handsome bunch 

 of Paul Neyron roses. They -will dec- 

 orate the table while William J. and fam- 

 ily dine in the German Village. We only 

 do this to presidents and defeated can- 

 didates. He remarked with tlie sweet- 

 est of smiles, "Oh, what roses — and 

 what a silvery hue on the petals." I 

 replied: "Yes, sir! If them air roses 

 was fur sale they would fetch gold!" 



We have had an illustrious lot of visit- 

 ors of late and none more gratifying to 

 see than Mr. Ellwanger, of Rochester; 

 Mr. G. L. Grant and the two Misses 

 Grant, of Chicago. I must let Mr. 

 Grant give his own opinions of the Pan- 

 American. Mr. William Dreer on his 

 road to California; Mr. Meehan, bound 

 for Milwaukee; Mr. Charles Henderson, 

 of New York; E. Hippard, of Youngs- 

 town. Ohio; F. T. Munson, New Haven, 

 Conn. : L. H. Blind, of West View, Pa. 



Tlie club now meets weekly and prog- 

 ress is being made all along the line. Mr. 

 Long is making a fine thing of his souve- 

 nir of the Buffalo convention. It is 

 simply elegant in design and something 

 that every florist in the land will be 

 proud to own. What will make it es- 

 pecially valuable to the possessor as 

 well as tlic advertiser is the fact that 

 it \\\\\ Hu.li |.\riv one a week or so be- 

 fori- I lay -I ail for the convention. The 

 coniiiiittrL- nil exhibits brought along two 

 splendid silver cups which are to be 



awarded during the convention, one for 

 tlie best disi)Iay of c-ut flowers and the 

 other for I In- li.'~l .li~|i1ay .if plants, and 



Pan-American Notes. 



Warm weather with frequent rains 

 has been most favorable for the im- 

 provement of all outside horticultural ex- 

 hibits for the past week. The Landscape 

 Department is nearing the completion 

 of its work. A great number of large 

 hydrangeas have been stood around the 

 various courts. As these are showing 

 tlieir flower heads they are bound to 

 make a fine appearance later in the sea- 

 son. The numerous borders lying between 

 the walks and the buildings are bein" 

 filled up. Any amount of vines, such 

 as Coba>a seandens and Japanese hops, 

 arc being planted against the walls and 

 )iillars. We know how effective all this 

 will be in a short time. The sloping 

 banks in the sunken gardens have been 

 laid out Sn some very beautiful desi.-fns 

 and planted largely with geraniums. The 

 vases have all been filled, which has 

 added greatly to the general appearance. 

 This has been a gigantic task, as there 

 must be nearly a thousand of them. 



In the Exhibits Department a very 

 fine consignment of pineapples has been 

 received from Florida and planted in 

 the south conservatory, where it is a 

 fair reproduction of a Florida pinerj-. 

 Peter Henderson & Co. have added to 

 tlieir inside exhibit a number of large 

 tubs of Boston ferns and a splendid col- 

 lection of fancy leaf caladiums. The 

 Court of Lilies and the Court of Cypress 

 have at last been planted. Some difficul- 

 ty has been met in getting these large 

 basins to hold water. The Court of Cj'- 

 press, in which is situated the cold basin, 

 contains a very rare collection of the 

 very best and finest nymphaeas. The 

 Court of Lilies, or the Victoria Basin, 

 has two Victoria Regia and two Victoria 

 Trickerii, besides 24 boxes containing 

 exotic nymphfpas. Like the nymphiieas 

 in the outside lakes, these are all the ex- 

 hibit of Henry A. Dreer. The build- 

 ing and preparation of the basins was 

 very costly and the exhibit has been a 

 great expense to Mr. Dreer, and we fer- 

 vently hope the results will be most grat- 

 ifying. The thousand or more nymphsaa 

 planted on the margins of the Mirror 

 Lakes and in the many lagoons are now- 

 flowering freely and present a beautiful 

 appearance from the banks. 



The greatest feature in outside ex- 

 hibits this week has been the beds of 

 hybrid perpetual roses. 'I'lie writer will 

 rather h^ive some one cl^i- >]"'ak .if their 

 excellence. I can only -ay ilial it was 

 with great gratification today tliat the 

 venerable Mr. Ellwanger, of Rochester, 

 and Mr. Dreer, of Philadelphia, looked 

 at the bed of 500 Paul Neyron and the 

 500 Ulrich Brunner, and both exclaimed: 

 "We never before have seen such a show 

 of roses." At the risk of being thought 

 egotistical I will say I don't think their 

 equal has ever been seen in this country. 

 I hope to have these illustrated shortly 

 and shall be very glad to add to the illus- 

 tration a few notes of just how- they were 

 managed. 



There is also, in addition to those men- 

 tioned a bed of Jacques i.nd a bed of 

 mixed varieties from Ellwanger & Barry. 

 Nelson Bogue, of Batavia, has eight 

 smaller beds which have also been of 

 great excellence, giving us thousands of 

 blooms. It has been decidedlv the feat- 



