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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



erage retailer, but some things were ex- 

 ceptionally so. We saw in Arthur 

 Cowee's grand display of gladiolus many 

 magnificent llovvcrs worthy the atten- 

 tion and patronage of every retailer. 

 Every one knows the great value of glad- 

 iolus, more especially the white or light 

 colors; they are invaluable in funeral 

 work, and tiic time will come when, as 

 in (lie cai-i- of 1.. Harrisii and L. longi- 

 (loruni, their season of flowering will be 

 greatly extended. 



There is one thing about this annual 

 trade exhibition that luust sooner or 

 later change — and the sooner the better. 

 There must be better inducements of- 

 fered for people to make creditable dis- 

 plays. C(jmpetcnt and careful judging 

 must be the rule, not the exception. Of 

 course, every member of the national so- 

 ciety is a judge in his own estimation. 

 These annual shows, however, call for 

 the most critical. A good thing in bask- 

 et or any other appliance is of just as 

 much importance in a way as boiler or 

 plant, and should be so considered. A 

 paltry "Mention" is but poor consola- 



Jones in the hands of some growers gives 

 profitable results. For a latest yellow 

 my choice would be Rieman. 



'in pinks, Messrs. Smith claim that 

 Lavender Queen for Thanksgiving and 

 Superba for Christmas are preeminent. 

 I cann9t say personally, never having 

 grown either. Maud Dean ia an old 

 standard late pink. 



While it is far better to plant stock 

 that has been potted and is well rooted, 

 you can, if you are late, plant the cut- 

 tings right from the sand into the bench. 

 They must be kept well shaded from the 

 hot sun and sprinkled frequently until 

 established. In a week or so they will 

 be growing away nicely. After planting 

 use every effort to get the plants grow- 

 ing well, because the time in which they 

 have to make their growth is limited, 

 and they do not have the show that the 

 earlier planted stock has. 



Insects. 



Bench plants generally by this time 

 are staked up and the work with them 

 consists chiefly in keeping them titd up 



tion for the money, worry and time ex- 

 pended. Lucky it is that a good thing is 

 appreciated, even if it has no medal on 

 it. If the society is so generous as to 

 place its medals at the disposal of other 

 societies whose judges can and will 

 award these medals to fleeting attrac- 

 tions, they surely can better afford to 

 practice that generosity in connection 

 with their own annual trade exhibit. 



IVERA. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 



Early and Late Varieties. 



The last batcli of plants should be all 

 planted out by this time; dwarf varieties 

 that have been kept for side benches, 

 and late varieties for Thanksgiving and 

 later use. 



The batch to be grown for the latest 

 flowers should be planted out in a sep- 

 arate house from the early and mid-sea- 

 son kinds, then they can be kept well 

 ventilated, and a good growing atmos- 

 phere maintained all through October. 

 This would be manifestly impossible in 

 a house where flowers were opening as 

 the atmosphere then must be kept dry 

 and warmer. 



The best late white to plant is prob- 

 ably Wm. H. Chadwick, Uiough .Jerome 



and free from insects. The caterpillars 

 have been worse this season than I ever 

 remember before, and nothing makes the 

 plants look worse than these omnivorous 

 creatures with prodigious appetites. The 

 grasshopper has not put in his appear- 

 ance yet to any extent, and we fervently 

 hope he won't. September, however, is 

 his favorite season, then after the bud 

 is taken and is swelling nicely, Mr. 

 Grasshopper comes along and cuts off its 

 connection with the rest of the plant by 

 eating through the soft, succulent stalk, 

 or else takes one side out of the bud it- 

 self in a cursory sort of way. Naturally 

 the grasshopper only does this on the 

 finest buds, and when you go examining 

 the damage done you will also most like 

 have a cursery way with you. 



The importance of getting young 

 plants entirely free from aphis as soon as 

 possible after planting out, I have before 

 spoken of. Our plants have not been 

 fumigated since the first week in June, 

 and today I cannot find a single black 

 fly on the entire stock and do not expect 

 to have to smoke again until just before 

 the buds begin to show color. 



There is a little brown thrip that be- 

 gins to appear about this time, and you 

 should endeavor to get rid of it as far as 



possible before the flowers appear, be- 



ca\isc it i- MTV .l.'^l 111. live to the pet- 

 al-. I'i..|u.iii -\iiiijiiiL'- with weak to- 

 liaiTo li,|uhl Ml lii 1 1. .• oil soap will 

 make thin;,;-, so iiii|.l. i -ant for this pest 

 that it will reduce in iniiiibcrs very ma- 

 terially. 



Buds. 



Kothing probably harasses a beginner 



in the gentle art of mum-growing more 



than the question of bud selection. This 



is not the ha-l liii -m |.i i-in- wli.n llic 



of 



to the mclil- oi ,1. iiui il - "\ nowii and 

 terminal bud- i- . ..ii-nli n .1 ; ami yd, this 

 conflicting testimony is only what one 

 might expect in a country so large as 

 this, where climatic conditions and en- 

 vironment are necessarily so different, 

 and the impossibility of drawing a hard 

 and fast line self evident. 



Because I can successfully handle the 

 crown bud on a variety in say the neigh- 

 borhood of Chicago, it does not follow 

 that a man ought to be able to grow that 

 same variety on a crown bud in Georgia 

 or California. 



Plants adapt themselves to the condi- 

 tions surrounding them, the chrysan- 

 themum doing this possibly quicker than 

 the average plant, and it behooves the 

 grower to also adapt his working knowl- 

 edge to the different conditions under 

 which he may have to grow his stock. 



Undoubtedly the bud most generally 

 used by our florists is the terminal bud. 

 We might call this the natural bud since 

 it is the bud that would produce a 

 flower if the plant were left to itself, and 

 not disbudded or trimmed in any way. 

 It is as its name implies the terminus or 

 apex of growth, and if this simple fact 

 is kept in mind there will be none of the 

 mistakes which even today are so com- 

 mon, of confounding the crown bud with 

 the terminal. 



The crown bud can always be distin- 

 guished by the shoots that appear around 

 it, and which if allowed to remain take 

 all the nourishment away from it and 

 cause it to shrivel up. The terminal 

 buds have no shoots around the bud, but 

 just a cluster of smaller buds around 

 the central one. 



Another way to always know the 

 crown bud is by the season of the year. 

 Any bud that forms in August is a crown 

 bud, no matter how many buds the plant 

 has produced during June and July. 



The reasons why the terminal bud is 

 used more than the crown are various. 

 In the first place, being as before stated 

 the natural bud, it is more easily han- 

 dled, and will develop properly in a 

 much lower temperature than the crown- 

 bud. It is also better furnished with 

 foliage up round the neck of the flower, 

 also quite a consideration when growing 

 for cut flower only. Also the color of 

 pink varieties is nearly always much 

 brighter and better on the terminal 

 bud. 



Some of the objections to the terminal 

 bud are: Fir.st. the flower is almost in- 

 variabh- mil. li -iiialh'r an.l J...- not have 

 n.'arlv'lli.' -:m.i.' fiilln, — . tlnni-jli it may 

 iiial..' :i ii.Mi.i lliu.i'. 'Ilii, i- tlie rea- 

 son why tl.iw.T- I.I Ijl' u-rii for I'xhibition 

 are so generally taken on the crown bud. 

 Secondly the stem on the late bud is 

 often very weak, owing to the quick, soft 

 final growth it makes in the cool days of 

 September and October. 



