Febkuaky 27, 1902 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



453 



Adonis. 

 Flowers Shown at Indianapolis Last Week. 



Chicago. 



most aristocratic flower, everyone agrees 

 that it is most profitable. 



Morning Glory is a gem. Since leav- 

 ing the convention I have seen a house 

 of it that convinces me that it is one 

 of the best all around carnations ever 

 raised. Nothing new to be said about 

 Lawson; it is in a class by itself, 

 either on the table or growing. No com- 

 ment is needed about Adonis. The vase 

 of 100 blooms was, I think, the finest lot 

 of carnations ever exhibited. Estelle 

 showed up well and Mrs. Potter Palmer 

 is a grand one, a perfect formed flower 

 of the brighest scarlet. I forgot among 

 the pinks to mention Mrs. Higinbotham, 

 a most beautiful Daybreak pink with 

 fine stems. This variety is bound to be- 

 come a standard. Roosevelt was in its 

 usual grand form, but if Mr. Ward's 

 flowers had reached there we would 

 probably have seen it eclipsed. 



Mr. Marquisee"s big white. The Em- 

 pire State, is a wonder. When unpacked 

 they were a revelation, but the long 

 journey told on them. It's a great, 

 large, pure white flower. I would liked 

 to have seen a l>etter vase of Golden 

 Beauty, for all admit that is a grand, 

 healthy yellow and anyone can grow it. 

 The variegated Gaiety is a beauty and 

 with most growers will displace Bradt. 

 but if we could all grow Bradt as Bas- 

 sett & Washburn showed it we would 

 stick to it. 



Peter Fisher's Gov. Wolcott is a beau- 

 tiful white, but it sutTered fr^im the 

 journey. As P. F. is the author of the 

 immortal Lawson we have great faith 

 in Wolcott. Among old varieties don't 

 forget Glacier. It is one of the very 

 best whites and some grand flowers of 

 it were shown. I have missed many 

 varieties, I know, but the above im- 

 pressed me as the best. 



And let me in conclusion sincerely 

 thank the Indianapolis men for the 

 splendid way they managed the whole 

 affair and their unstinted hospitality. 

 It was an all around howling success. 

 The meeting room, exhibition hall and 

 all accessories, were simply ideal! Never 

 yet did we have such a place for the 

 convention. But even if those condi- 

 tions had been less favorable the whole- 

 souled welcome of the Hoosier Ixiys 

 would have made this a convention 

 never to be forgotten. 



William Scott. 



CARNATION CROPS. 



What is a fair average cut per month 

 from 1,000 carnation plants of a prolific 

 standard variety? The cut for the fol- 

 lowing months is desired: November, 

 December. .January, February, March 

 and April. Also the varieties upon 

 wliich estimate is based if possible. 



S. M. B. 



The inquiry can only be answered ac- 

 curately by some one who has kept a 

 record of the blooms cut from his plants 

 during an entire season. We have never 

 done this and I can only say what I 

 would judge a fair average from the ex- 

 perience that comes to every grower in 

 the course of a number of years of grow- 

 ing and cutting carnation blooms. 



The six months mentioned include 

 practicallj'the entire carnation season for 

 liiany of our best varieties, although we 

 have several varieties that wall come into 

 bloom in September and keep it up un- 

 til the next July. These later mentioned 

 varieties are usually the most constant 

 bloomers and can be better depended on 

 for a certain quantity of blooms each 

 month than the others, which usually 

 come on with a big crop of buds, and 

 when they are cut there are no more un- 

 til anotlier crop comes on. 



The number of blooms a plant will 

 produce in a season depends on many 

 conditions in its existence from the time 

 it is a cutting until the end of the 

 blooming season. A cutting that is 

 struck in December and kept growing 

 in a good healthy condition will pro- 

 duce more blooms than a later cutting 

 can produce under the same conditions. 

 So the question perhaps is how many 

 blooms must you get from 1,000 plants 

 to make them profitable to the grower. 

 This again will vary with different va- 



Stella. 



Gaiety. 

 Flowers Shown at Indianapolis Last 'Week. 



