Mau;ii ti. l'J02. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



491 



New Crimson Carnation Daheim. 



All tlie leading standard varieties are 

 grown liere, more for the cuttings than 

 the blooms, and the propagating house 

 is, I should say, about ideal. It is 

 twenty feet wide, equal span, running 

 north and south, and a more healthy, ro- 

 bust lot of cuttings could not be found. 

 Carnations are not all that is grown 

 here. There is a store in the city and a 

 general business to be supplied, so there 

 are lilies and houses of smilax and as- 

 paragus and palms to be seen here, but 

 we went to see carnations and the birth- 

 place of that variety that made my 

 name better known than it otherwise 

 would have been. 



After two hours delightfully spent un- 

 der the guidance of Mr. Corner, Sr., we 

 were not allowed to escape till we as- 

 sisted in clearing off the coverings of a 

 bountiful table, where the best of cof- 

 fee, the laugh of Miss Dorner and Mrs. 

 Dorner, Jr.. and the stories of Adam 

 Graham, helped to lubricate everything, 

 and our last promise was to Miss D. that 

 if we heard anything really new or cute 

 we were to forward it by United States 

 Mail. William Scott. 



NEW CRIMSON CARNATION 

 "DAHEIM." 



The illustralicjn scarcely does justice 

 to this grand seedling. In the first place 

 the flowers, owing to a mistake, were 

 ovcrlong in transit and they were badly 

 cared for before reaching us. This is 

 a seedling in its third year. The par- 

 ents are Bradt and Meteor. It has long 

 stiflf stems, robust, clean foliage, and 

 the flowers are very large, perhaps one 

 of the largest we know. The color is 

 an illuminated crimson and maroon of 

 a most pleasing tone. 



Mr. W. C. Russell, the well known 

 gardener of Mil'bronk. N. V.. is the orig- 

 inator, and fTi^iders it nne of the best 



among the many varieties he is growing. 

 He had quite a batch of it at the time 

 of our visit and its appearance justifies 

 the prediction that there is a bright fu- 

 ture before it. Iver.^. 



CHR YSAN THEMUMS. 



The action of the Xew York Florists' 

 Club and the Kansas City people in 

 publicly advertising their shows almost 

 a year in advance is a highly commend- 

 able one. and is certain to have an ex- 

 cellent effect on the quality and number 

 of the exhibits. The first principle of 

 a flower show is, first of all, to get the 

 finest possible flowers on exhibition. It 

 is not possible to set up a poor lot of 

 flowers and try to make the people be- 

 lieve it's the greatest show that ever 

 was. The general standard of cut flow- 

 ers is well known in all of our large 

 cities, and cxliihition flowers and plants 

 have got to run much above that stan- 

 dard before the public will enthuse to 

 any extent. When the grower gets his 

 schedule far enough in advance of the 

 exhibition to grow stock specially for 

 it, and the premium list is such as to 

 recompense him to a reasonable extent, 

 the success of the show so far as exhib- 

 its are concerned is assured. 



There have been discussions on the 

 sameness of exhibits in the mum cut 

 flower classes, and I note that the New 

 York people have departed from the 

 time honored rut of 12 white. 12 yellow, 

 etc., and introduce classes for specific 

 varieties. While this may come a little 

 more expensive on the management, I 

 believe it will pay, because it will cer- 

 tainly introduce more variety, and the 

 task of the judges is rendered much 

 easier. Any good judge can see at a 

 glance the difference between two vases 

 of tlie same variety, while if, say, Ap- 

 pleton. Falconer, and Bonnaffon, are 

 >et up for 12 yellows, the awards must 



be made largely on the judges' personal 

 opinion; and it is small wonder that his 

 opinion, and the opinions of the indivi.i 

 ual exhibitors, very often differ. Again 

 with color scoring 25 points, a pale yel- 

 low of the Bassett color, has no chance 

 against such a variety as Wedding with 

 its deeper shade of color. 



I note in the New York schedule un- 

 der the classes of yellows, the name of 

 Mme. Carnot. I assume that the variety 

 of G. .J. Warren is meant by this, though 

 it would have been better possibly if 

 the committee had stated this specifical- 

 ly, since there is another very pale vari- 

 ety, quite distinct from Warren, known 

 as Mrs. W. Mease.. 



It is high time for intending exhibit- 

 ors to be getting their stock into con- 

 dition. Prize winning flowers are never 

 cut from stock that is neglected and 

 abused till the summer is half gone. 

 Get your stock plants into a light airy 

 house, and encourage them to throw up 

 nice healthy suckers, the end of a car- 

 nation or violet house is an ideal place, 

 but don't imagine you can leave your 

 plants under a bench somewhere till 

 after Easter and then get good cuttings. 

 In the case of varieties that you may 

 need many plants of, and do not have 

 much stock to work with, cuttings 

 should be rooted right along, because 

 they can be topped and stock increased 

 considerably in this manner. 



Where there is an abundance of stock 

 plants the rooting of the young stock 

 should be deferred until they can be 

 grown right along and planted out, be- 

 cause young plants that are left lying 

 around" in small pots get potbound, hard 

 and woody, and never start into growth 

 satisfactorily when put out on the 

 bench. 



While the interest last fall was great 

 in the main exhibitions, the interest this 

 year will be even greater, unless I fail 

 to read the signs of the times aright, 

 and it behooves the growers to get in 

 line and take advantage of the boom. 



The enterprising florist is he who 

 gets in on the ground floor and is never 

 caught short in a rising market. 



Brian Boru. 



BUFFALO. 



With three feet of snow, zero and a 

 zephyr fanning our exposed parts at 

 sixty miles an hour, our spirits dropped 

 to siich a low ebb that any gossip of our 

 provincial town was out of the question. 

 But things are better now and the ink 

 is thawed out. 



Business was much better in February 

 than January, and is keeping up. There 

 has been no lack of flowers of every 

 sort. Carnations of medium quality are 

 rather too plentiful. 



We had a meeting of the Florists' Club 

 a few days previous to our departure 

 for Indianapolis and it was decided to 

 hold our election, to be followed by a 

 supper (banquets arc only for Prince 

 Henry) , on the 7th. This is as it should 

 be, and I hope sincerel.y that there will 

 be a good attendance. Chapters cotild 

 be written on the question, "Why are 

 not our florists' or club meetings better 

 attended?" The old chestnut is quoted 

 continually that some member or some 

 one should read "an interesting and in- 

 structive paper" at each meeting. This 

 sounds good, but it is in most cases of 

 little avail. The majority of the mem- 

 bers will say. "Oh, bosh, what can he tell 

 us that we don't know." I would not 

 for a moment insinuate that a free lunch 



