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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



729 



Fig. 9. Carnation Gov. Roosevelt. 



three to four million plants per annum 

 being used for this purpose. Assuming 

 that they produce an annual average of 

 twenty flowers to the plant, woald 

 give sixty millions of blooms produced 

 upon the American continent ?ach 

 year. 



What becomes of this enormous 

 number of flowers is somewhat of a 

 mystery. They are put lo innumerable 

 uses. The carnation is a flower that 

 awakens the love of almost every per- 

 son, and as the average carnation 

 blooms are sold at much more reason- 

 able prices than many other flowers, 

 they come within reach of a larger 

 class of people than do roses and 

 orchids: consequently the consumption 

 is larger. 



There is no use to which flowers 

 njay be put for which the carnation is 

 not fitted. It lends itself to almost 

 every scheme of decoration. Its deli- 

 cious, clean, pungent, aromatic frag- 

 rance admits it to almost every sick 

 room; it is unsurpassed for dinner or 

 center table decorations; it is univer- 

 sally used in the making up of set 

 pieces; it is also one of the best flow- 

 ers for boutonnieres that the florist 

 has at his command; and finally, its 

 wide range of pleasing colors, its last- 

 ing qualities and fresh, rich, clove 

 fragrance combine to make it one of 

 the most popular, as well as one of the 

 most sought for and profitable of flor- 

 ists flowers. 



BALTIMORE. 

 Personal and Trade Item'. 



The influence of the advent of lilacs 

 and other hardy flowers is being felt 

 on the market and blooms from the 

 glass houses are less in demand and 

 lower in price, only good stuff keep- 

 ing fairly up to the expectations of 

 growers. First-class roses continue in 

 fail- request and will go off at remu- 

 nerative figures, but the bulk of the 

 mediocre material is away down, as 

 usual at this season. 



Up to this date. May 7, the supply of 

 carnations is ample for all calls, and 

 prices droop off slightly. For the past 

 week there have been numerous com- 

 mencemenis of medical, dental and 

 other colleges, making a distributive 

 demand. 



The expected sale in a bulk lot of 

 the plants of Mr. W. W. Spence was 

 not consummated, and they will be 

 sold at public auction on the 9th. Johu 

 Donn. who has had them in charge for 

 seveial years, will, as we understand, 

 go again into trade, and is now look- 

 ing around to locate himself suitably. 



Mrs. Amelia Schuler. a Baltimore 

 florist, doing a fine business and with 

 an exceptionally good class of custom- 

 ers, is much gratified, as is natural, at 

 the award to her son, Hans Schuler, 

 who is well known to the trade here, 

 of the scholarship in Paris of the Rine- 



hart .School of Sculjtture, the value of 

 tile same being $1,000. Mr. Schuler is 

 now studying his art in Paris, where 

 he has already made marked progress 

 and received several awards of prizes, 

 which jjoint to his achieving a prob- 

 ably <listinguished career. 



The Rosen Zeitung, a journal pub- 

 lished in the interests of the lovers ot 

 the rose at Frankfort-on-Main, Ger- 

 many, and edited by P. Ijjimbert, in its 

 last issue has a colored plate and an 

 account ot the rose White Maman 

 Cochet, which originated with John 

 Cook, of this city. It congratulates 

 that gentleman on his good luck in 

 such a find and describes in glowing 

 terms the excellent qualities of the 

 rose, which from the tenor of the arti- 

 cle seems peculiarly adapted for grow- 

 ing in Germany in frames without fire 

 heat. The illustration of the variety is 

 handsomely executed and the editor 

 plainly regards it as an acquisition of 

 value. 



.\n afternoon call at Mr. Cook's place 

 a few days ago found much to inter- 

 est, for that enthusiastic and enter- 

 prising gardener has always something 

 new and good to present. His hy- 

 bridizing of roses in the search for 

 valuable sorts is a perennial occupa- 

 tion and is pursued with a zeal and 

 discrimination which promise even 

 large!- results than those already 

 achieved. His rose Baltimore, al- 

 though late in the season, showed 

 great blooms and immense, strong 

 stems, some of them reaching six feet 

 in length. He has another favorable 

 .seedling which he considers as offer- 

 ing much promise. This is a bright 

 pink with sturdy stem and grand 

 leathery foliage. It comes from a white 

 seedling of his own, fertilized -with 

 pollen from the American Beauty. 



This pursuit of new varieties worthv 

 of propagation and dissemination is a 

 fascinating one, and none the less that 

 it is certain in advance many will fail 

 to turn out any improvement on older 

 sorts. In the effort, however, for forc- 

 ing roses quite a number which come 

 short of all the qualities needed for 

 their end are proving admirable gar- 

 den sorts and desei-ving of general cul- 

 tivation. Doubtless some of these will 

 be heard from later on. 



On this place is to be seen a -well- 

 grown specimen of a variegated As- 

 paragus Sprengerii. Remarkable to 

 say, the seedlings from it come true. 

 Here also is a cross between Asparagus 

 decumbens and Spi-engerii. Sprengerii 

 is grown here not on standards, but 

 on benches, with arched-like frames of 

 poultry fencing wire between the rows 

 to keep the sprays off the soil, as was 

 a few years bade practiced with car- 

 nations. It has a full southern expos- 

 ure in the houses. 



Another asparagus grown here, a 

 variety of great substance and vigor, is 

 pyramidalis erecta. It is well adqpted 

 for decoration work, especially where 

 considerable masses are to be used, but 

 so far we believe it is not in commerce, 

 at least not in this country. 



A great many fine statnred plants 



