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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



January 10, 1902. 



a good bunch of flowers. He took up 

 one bunch at a time and showed us the 

 good points or the weak points in the 

 variety, structurally, culturally and 

 commercially. 



Good Enough, a fine pure white vari- 

 ety on good wiry stems came from Sidney 

 Littlefield, North Abington, Mass. Mr. 

 Littlefield wrote: "It is a seedling of 

 1897, from a white seedling pollenated 

 from Lizzie McGowan. It blooms early. 

 Between Oct. I and July I it has given me 

 41 blooms to the square foot of bench 

 room." 



EsTELLE, a beautiful even-sized, large 

 ^^earlet flower, was sent by William Mur- 

 phy of Cincinnati. He "writes: "It is 

 one of our best commercial scarlets and 

 easy to manage. In the field keep it 

 well topped back to make it branch low. 

 Bench it first of September and grow 

 in temperature of .52 deg. to 55 deg. I 

 don't syringe overhead after Dec. 1. It 

 comes in early and keeps in bloom con- 

 tinuously." 



Cres.sbrook came from C. Warburton, 

 Fall River, Mass. It is a big, lovely, 

 strong stemmed, sweet flower. 



NoKWAY, pure white, large, perfectly 

 formed blooms on long stiff wiry stems, 

 came from H. Weber & Sons, Oakland. 

 Md. The same firm also sent two '99 

 seedlings, one 



No. 43, pure white, a beautiful and 

 promising flower, and 



No. 02. a large, full, finely built, and 

 deeply fringed scarlet. 



GoVERXOK WOLCOTT came from Peter 

 Fisher, Ellis, Mass.' It is snowy white 

 and a big, long stemmed beauty. He 

 writes: "It is a seedling from' Flora 

 Hill X Lawson. It is mid-season, coming 

 in after Flora Hill and lasting all win- 

 ter and spring. Its habit is clean, 

 healthy, vigorous." 



Enchanthes.s, also from Mr. Fisher. 

 It is a very large flower, pale blush 

 pink, and in form, size and get-up of 

 bloom, and length and strength of stem 

 not unlike Gov. Wolcott. Mr. Fisher 

 writes of it: "My latest variety and to 

 my mind far ahead of anything I have 

 yet raised. It won't be disseminated 

 before 1903." 



IWr. C. W. Ward, Cottage Gardens, 

 Queens, N. Y., sent a generous bunch 

 each of J. II. Manley, Viola Allen, Harry 

 Fenn, Alba and Golden Beaiity, and they 

 were magnificent. We noted them as 

 follows; 



J. H. Manlet, brilliant orange sear- 

 let, large, well built flowers, on long, 

 stiff, wiry stems; prettily fringed, very 

 sweet, and a good kee])er. Lovely. 



Viola Allen, a variegated, fancy 

 tlower, white ground, splashed and pen- 

 ciled with rose pink; large, fine form, 

 sweet and with good stiff stems. Very 

 l)eautiful. 



Hakry Fenn, rich, glowing crimson, 

 large, fuU, fine form; rich, clove fra- 

 grance; stout, long, wiry stems; a good 

 keeper. A superb flower". 



Alba, the largest of all whites; of 

 perfect purity in color and fine form and 

 fragrance. Its stems arc stiff and wirv, 

 but not as long as those of the other 

 sorts from the same garden. A magnifi- 

 cent carnation. 



Golden Beauty, pale yellow penciled 

 and tipped with pink. Large, well built 

 perfect flowers on good, stout stems. 



Gaiety came from E. G. Hill Co., 

 Richmond, Indiana. It is a variegated 

 flower, white and scarlet, not unlike 

 Bradt; it is large, full, fringed and very 

 pretty, and has a good stem. 



Adonis, also from the E. G. Hill Co. 

 Intense scarlet; very large, full, well 

 built, perfect flowers; on stout, erect 

 stems 2 feet long. Magnificent! And a 

 splendid keeper. Mr. Burki exclaimed: 

 "That's the finest carnation I ever saw!" 

 Julius Ludwig said he could get $2.50 

 a dozen at Christmas for the flowers in 

 the Allegheny market, and P. S. Ran- 

 dolph, of Randolph & McClements, of the 

 East End, Pittsburg, said he could get 

 .$5 a dozen for them in his business. 

 Why. the stems were as stiff and erect as 

 a walking cane. And even now — six days 

 after they left Richmond — a bunch of 

 these carnations on a side table near me 

 as I write are still stiff', upright and in 

 fine condition ; we shortened their stems 

 a little each day and changed the water. 



The president then appointed a com- 

 mittee of experts to examine and report 

 on the varieties. It was suggested to 

 the president that in some eastern cities 

 when a lot of flowers like these are sent 

 from outside growers to a chib meeting, 

 that after the meeting the flowers are 

 auctioned off for the benefit of the club 

 Hut he wouldn't listen to it. "Never In 

 Pittsburg!" he declared. So every mem- 

 ber gathered up a bloom or two of each 

 variety and carried them home. Then 

 the flowers will again undergo another 

 criticism. The wife and the children 

 must admire and criticise them and the 

 men and the boys in the greenhouses 

 next morning must see and have their 

 say about them, and resolve to beat them 

 if thej- can. And thus is evolved "that 

 noble contention or rather emulation of 

 who best can work" and get the best re- 

 sults. 



A Cactus House. 



A new cactus house 75 ft. long, 36 ft. 

 wide and 19 ft. high at ridge is to be 

 added to the Phipps conservatories at 

 Schenley Park. It will be a eurvillinear 

 structure and of similar design and 

 build as the other con.servatories. Lord 

 & Hurnham Co. have the contract. Price, 

 .$9,001). with .$400 additional for inside 

 rock work. This is another donation 

 from Mr. Henry Phipps. P. A. 



BUFFALO. 



It is the general opinion that busi- 

 ness has been rather quiet for the past 

 week, enlivened with a few weddings 

 and balls to make different ones feel good 

 who were favored with the orders. The 

 finest decoration of the season was a ball 

 given by a Delaware avenue matron in 

 honor of her grandson. The house is 

 one of the finest on this beautiful ave- 

 nue, and the decorations were elaborate 

 on this occasion. ^lore than one florist 

 helped to make the house beautiful, but 

 the largest share fell to the skill of Mr. 

 J. H. Rebstock. 



Other parties of lesser magnitude help 

 out the season, but I feel sur'e I am 

 correct in saying that it is not quite as 

 gay as the season should be. This does 

 not seem to make any dift'erence in the 

 price of flowers, and for good flowers 

 both retail and wholesale prices are what 

 the stock market would call "firm," es- 

 pecially the latter, so that shows that 

 the supply is not yet overdone, at least 

 at this time of year. 



Edward Giddings, of Corfu, has sold 

 one acre of land, on which are his three 

 carnation houses, to a Buffalo man. I 

 will get you his name later. He is a 

 railroad man who has met with an acci- 

 dent, but is recovering, and would pre- 



fer carnation growing to railroading. 

 He knows no more about the business 

 than he does of the future world, but 

 we wish him success in both. Why don't 

 these men who wish to change their pro- 

 fession seek something easy — real estate 

 or preaching, for instance? But no; 

 they will tackle something that requires 

 both brains and close application. 



Daniel B. Long, our well-known and 

 artistic citizen, has invented a sort of 

 Jlother Hubbard bag for delivering 

 plants in cold weather. We have tried 

 a few dozen, and must confess (which 

 is a great pleasure) that they are a 

 most useful appliance. I won't pretend 

 to describe them, for they will be seen 

 by all florists and possibly inspected be- 

 fore purchased, but they are a neat, 

 quick and most handy arrangement and 

 will save hours of labor in tying and 

 pajjer in wrapping. Now, if Dan will 

 only shoulder a few of these, or, rather, 

 put them in a grip and visit a thousand 

 florists, he will do well, for they are 

 bound to meet with a ready demand. 

 But he won't; in two weeks he will be 

 working hard on some other more or less 

 brilliant idea. 



The National Bowling Congress meets 

 here next week, with eight grand new 

 alleys to play on. It promises to eclipse 

 in every way the meetings held in New 

 York and Chicago, and as Chicago and 

 Cincinnati and many other cities are rep- 

 resented, we will expect that some of 

 these champions will be florists. Surely 

 Chicago can't send a fir.st-class team 

 without including Mr. George Asmus, 

 and, we hope, several more. If George 

 makes an average of 150 we will take 

 great pleasure in presenting him with a 

 black hor.sehair parlor set. 



We have just heard that Mr. Arnold 

 Ringier, late of Chicago, late of the Al- 

 pine valleys, is in town. Trust we may 

 have the pleasure of an introduction. 



W. S. 



NEW YORK. 



Qub Meeting. 



At the meeting uf the Florists' Club 

 Monday night about fifty members were 

 present, and President Sheridan made 

 an interesting address, full of good ad- 

 vice. An associate membership was 

 suggested, as well as many methods of 

 adding to the interest in the club. Pros- 

 pects were considered bright, and the 

 coming flower show was dilated upon 

 and a sincere promise made as to per- 

 sonal effort. Tlie other officers also 

 made pleasing addresses. 



Mr. C. W. Ward exhibited the same 

 varieties of carnations shown by him at 

 the recent lecture, and Mr. C. Warbur- 

 ton, Fall River, Mass., was present with 

 a vase of fifty blooms of his grand new 

 pink carnation Cressbrook. 



Mr. O'Mara gave an interesting talk 

 regarding the flower show, with infor- 

 mation as to prizes and the premium 

 list. The estimate as to cost was placed 

 at $4,000. Suggestions as to novel feat- 

 ures were made. The Society of Ameri- 

 can Artists may co-operate with the 

 club. Flowering plants are to receive 

 special recognition, and very liberal 

 prizes will be offered. The carnation 

 schedule will he especially full and com- 

 plete. Retail florists will be allowed to 

 make any exhibit in the line of table 

 and mantel decorations, etc.. for exhi- 

 bition only, using their business cards 

 and competing for no prizes. The se- 



