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The Weekly Florists* Review* 



DeCEMBKI! 



iriol. 



Utiea, sends out his Adiaiitum Baidii 

 there will be a great fern for the house, 

 for T saw it growing in the windows as 

 I w^alked the streets of Utica a feu- 

 days ago. 



A. cuneatum is not a good plant for 

 the dwelling house. Great plant as the 

 Boston fern is, I hear oceasionallv the 

 remark: "1 am a little tired of that Bos- 

 ton fern." Then there is Pandanus 

 utilis and Veitchii. and the kentias and 

 areeas. You eannot make a mistake in 

 buying these, because unlike flowering 

 l)lants they are growing more valuable 

 all the time, if they don't go off at the 

 expected date. William Scott. 



NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



We present hereuitli engravings from 

 jihotngraphs of three new chrysanthe- 

 mums e.xhibited this year bv Nathan 

 Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich. 



Convention Hall is pure white and 

 was the winner of the .$200 prize as the 

 best seedling at the Kansas City show. 

 It is from The Queen x Merza and re- 

 sembles The Queen in growth. The outer 

 petals are tubular, the others broad and 

 regularly incurving. Height 4 feet. The 

 flower shown was cut Nov. .5. 



Adrian is a- very closely incurved 



the most desirable for both exhibition 

 and commercial purposes. 



In yellow the early mid season R. 

 Hooper Pearson was a fine variety for 

 VIS. all being good blooms except that 

 tno or three percent were under size. 

 The stem is good, the foliage good and 

 the color excellent. A fine keeper and 

 a good shipper. 



Col. Appleton is a beautiful Mower 

 and a good keeper and fairly good ship- 

 per. There has been some criticism of 

 its .stem. This difficulty must arise from 

 keeping it too long as it has an ideal 

 stem when grown to single stems, and 

 used when ready. It is too early to 

 be at its best at "show time." 



I find at the shows that the growers 

 arc not i)leased with Jlrs. E. D. .Smith. 

 As a rule it has burned for mo.st of 

 them, although Mr. Eliucr Smith, of 

 Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., 

 had some very good ones at the shows 

 that were not burned. But they were 

 not_so large as those shown by the E. (i. 

 Hill Co., of Richmond. Ind. Mr. Smith 

 said that Mr. Hill and ourselves had 

 overfed it, as Mrs. E. D. Smith would 

 not stan<l feeding after it commenced to 

 make its bud. I do not think it will 

 be a ])rofitable variety for the general 

 trade to grow. 



creamy white Japanese. Height 4 J feet. 

 Flower cut Nov. 10. This was .scored 

 87 points by the Philadelphia commit- 

 tee of the Chrysanthemum Society. 



Edgar Sanders is a fine exhibition va- 

 riety with broad incurving petals. Hicks 

 Arnold x Nvanza. Height 4J feet. Cut 

 Nov. 10. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Now that the flower show> are over 

 for this fall we can better compare 

 varieties and form an idea which are 



In Goldmine I saw some fine blooms 

 at the Kansas City show. But the stem 

 is at fault; it docs not hold the flower 

 up as it should. Too much of the par- 

 ent. Sunderbruch, in it to make it a 

 good keeper although a beautiful color 

 and fine size. 



Golden Wedding I think as a rule has 

 been better grown this fall than usual. 

 At least at several of the shows there 

 have been fine specimen blooms of it. 

 The stem and flower is fine but a little 

 short on foliage, as the leaves are so 

 small. 



Of course Bonnaffon is a general fa- 

 vorite, both to the grower and retailer, 

 as it produces a large percentage of fine 

 flowers, is ea.sily handled, as it does not 

 bruise readily, and satisfactory to the 

 customer as it is a good keeper. 



The new variety. Golden Beauty, a fine 

 late one for Thanksgiving, I think is 

 going to be quite an acquisition. It 

 makes a fine flower, a good rich warm 

 yellow, stems of about three feet high, 

 and fairly good foliage. Good for single 

 stem. 



In white there is nothing equal to 

 Timothy Eaton. At the flower shows 

 this fall, even among the newer varieties 

 it was a drawing card for the public at 

 every show. It proves to be an excellent 

 keeper as well. Wherever the class 

 called for white and Timothy Eaton was 

 shown, which it invariably was, it was 

 usuallv given first prize. If some one 

 would raise us a pink variety of the 

 Timothy Eaton type, they would long be 

 remembered and their name would be 

 ever in thejninds of the busy florist. 



For late varieties we consider the 

 Jones family unrivaled. We have pure 

 white, light yellow, deej) golden yellow, 

 bronze and pink of fairest foru), large 

 size, fine foliage and stiff stems. For 

 those who can spare the room until 

 Dec. 1 this must be a profitable variety, 

 as it makes a large per cent of fine flow- 

 ers. 



The flower shows are undoubtedly a 

 means of education to the genei-al public 

 as well as the visiting florists, and a 

 great incentive to the trade. There are 

 always queer questions asked which 

 often show a great ignorance of flori- 

 culture. This is more especially true 

 where cities are holding their first show. 

 We of course are asked all manner of 

 questions. Here is one: A lady accost- 

 ed me, saying, "Would you please tell 

 me where the mum chrysanthemum is?" 

 After I explained to her the derivation 

 of the word and made her understand 

 they were all "mums" and suggested 

 maybe it was the Timothy Eaton variety 

 she was p;nticularly anxious to see and 

 suggested showing it to her, she said, 

 "Oh, well, she was in a great hurry to 

 catcli the train and since it was all the 

 same she wouldn't wait." 



Now that the season is over we have 

 concluded that for another year we will 

 grow the following varieties, named in 

 their order of successive development: 



In White— White Fitzwygrani, Berg- 

 man. Primo. Robinson. Ivory, Mayflower, 

 Timothy Eaton. Princess Ba-.saraba, 

 Western King, Chadwick and Jones. 



In yellow — Yellow Fitzwygrani, R. 

 Hooper Pearson, Col. Appleton, Bonnaf- 

 fon, Smith. Goldmine. Jones. Bassett, 

 Golden Beauty. 



In pink — Lady Harriett, Dalskov, 

 Mrs. Gougan. Mary Hill, Perrin. -Au- 

 tumn Glory. Pink .Jones. 



In red — Mrs. Dre.xel, Malcolm Lamond. 

 'SI. S. Ykskv. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF 

 AMERICA. 



Following aie the reports of the com- 

 mittees judging seedlings and sports: 



CixcixxATi. O., Nov. 2. — Nathan 

 Smith & Son, Adrian, :Mich.. exhibited 

 ilonsicur Phil. Rogers ("Importation"), 

 a bronze, incurved variety, which scored 

 80 points commercial scale, 83 points 

 exhibition scale. 



BosTo.x, MAS.S., Nov. 10. — Nathan 

 Smith & Son exhibited the following 

 varieties: Oresco, apricot, shaded pink. 

 Japanese, incurved, which scored 87 



