October 9. 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



64t 



A Canna Field in the South. 



some of the thickly built up sections of 

 the city. 



The regular semi-monthly meeting of 

 the Florists' Club was held last Wecl- 

 nesdav evening in Handel Hall buildii-^. 



Mr." A. T. "Boddington, of Clueas i; 

 Boddington Co., New York, was a visi- 

 tor this week. 



Uncle John Thorpe left for Kansas 

 City last Saturday. He says the attend- 

 ance at the Kansas City show will be 

 165,270, and insists upon the "seventy'' 

 as well as the rest. 



Edgar Sanders is still progressing 

 slowly but surely. Electric treatment is 

 to be given shorth' in an effort to hasten 

 improvement. He keeps cheerv and hope- 

 ful. 



under such favorable conditions that 

 it is often a source of wonder as to how 

 they can be profitably produced at the 

 low prices quoted in comparison to those 

 of former years. The picture gives some 

 idea as to how it is done. 



NEW YORK. 



A SOUTHERN CANNA FIELD. 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph of a part of the twenty- 

 live acres of cannas grown this season in 

 the Carolinas by the Clueas & Bodding- 

 ton Co., New York. They have been 

 growing their canna roots in the south 

 for some years, increasing the acreage 

 each year, and this season over half a 

 million salable roots will be the out- 

 come of this enterprise, notwithstanding 

 the retarding inlluence of a cold, dry 

 summer, which has necessarily lessened 

 production materially. 



In the southern states, where these 

 cannas are grown in such large quanti- 

 ties, they are not lifted in the fall and 

 placed during the winter under green- 

 house benches or in storing sheds, where 

 there is always considerable shrinkage 

 from both dry and wet rot, but remain 

 in the ground, sometimes in trenches, 

 protected by a covering of pine needles 

 or hay and earth and can be got at con- 

 veniently at any time when wanted. 



Having a much longer season of 

 growth, the roots are more thoroughly 

 ripened, for which reason they keep bet- 

 ter in the dormant condition than those 

 grown further north, and will store in 

 barrels, when cut, almost as well as 

 tuberose bullw, if they are not kept too 

 warm or exposed to the air. 



The varieties grown chiefly by the 

 Clueas & Boddington Co. are standard 

 sorts, such as: Mnie. Crozy, Chas. Hen- 

 derson, Florence Vaughan. etc., and al- 

 though they handle such a great num- 

 ber, their list does not comprise more 

 than twenty-five sorts altogether. They 

 are grown in such large quantities and 



Plant Breeding Conference. 



The International Conference on Plant 

 Breeding and Hybridization held in the 

 rooms of the American Institute last 

 week, was one of the most interesting 

 and iiiqiortant meetings of its kind ever 

 hcUl in this country and brought togeth- 

 er a brilliant as.semblage of the brightest 

 lights of the horticultural world. Tlie 

 sessions begati on Tuesday and lasted 

 until Friday, were well attended through- 

 out, and over fifty essays, lectures and 

 papers were I'ead and considered, the in- 

 terest being intense and continuous. On 

 Thursday the afternoon session was held 

 in the Botanical Museum Building, after 

 an elaborate lunch, provided tbe con- 

 ference by the BroiLX Park authorities, 

 and under Dr, Britton's guidance the 

 members enjoyed a stroll through "Hem- 

 lock Forest," and a visit to the conserva- 

 tories, which was greatlv appreciated by 

 all. 



On Friday the Council of the New- 

 York Horticultural Society gave the del- 

 egates an excursion up the Hudson river 

 to Poughkeepsie, where thev became the 

 guests of Mr. F. R. NcwImJU!, of "Fern 

 Top," and were delightfully entertained 

 at his beautiful home and given a car- 

 riage drive through the extensive 

 grounds of F, \V, Vanderliilt before re- 

 turning by train to New York. Presi- 

 dent Jas. Wood, of Mt. Kisco, made a 

 charming chaperone and his elaborate 

 description of the many points of in- 

 terest on the Hudson was greatly en- 

 joyed. Leonard Barron, the secretary, 

 jjerformed the onerous duties of his posi- 

 tion most satisfactorily to all. 



Where essays and addresses were uni- 

 fonnly excellent it is difficult to par- 

 ticularize. Professor W. Bateson, of 

 Cambridge, was a great favorite and 

 made himself very popular. He is a de- 

 lightful speaker and has a charming per- 

 sonality. Geo. Nicholson, of Kew, whose 

 great "Dictionary of Gardening" has 

 made his name a household word in 

 America, was most cordially welcomed, 

 and is as nxodest and genial as ever. 



From the West Indies and Canada came 

 \Silliam Fawcett, Dr, Morris, Professor 

 llutt, of Guelph: IMacoun and Saunders, 

 of Ottawa, and H. H. Groff, of Simcoe. 

 Interesting addresses were also given by 

 Professor Bailey, C, W. Ward and P. 

 O'jMara, in addition to those mentioned 

 in the programme. 



Among those present were the follow- 

 ing: 



N. E. Hansen. Brookings, S. D. 

 W. Paddock, Colorado. 

 G. B. Brackett, Washington. D. C. 

 C. L. Watrous, Des Moines, la. 

 yv. A. Orton, Washington. D. C. 

 Wm. B. Almord. Blaoksburg, Va. 

 It. M. Kellogg, Three Rivers. Mich. 

 C. A. Zavitz. Guelph. Canada. 

 H. D. Hutt, Guelph, Canada. 

 \V. T. Macoun, Ottawa, Canada. 

 H. F. Roberts. Manhattan, Kan. 

 Jesse B. Norton, Washington, D. C. 

 U. D. Connor, Roseville, N. J. 

 W. W. Trae.y, Detroit, Mich. 

 C. S. Scofleld, Department of .\gricuUure. 

 W. J. Spillraan. Department of ,\gricultnre. 

 H. C. Irish. St. Louis. Mo. 

 Frances G. Markham, Dorranceton. Pa. 

 Anna Dorrance, Dorranceton. Pa. 

 A. J, Pieters, Washington, D. C. 

 T. L. Leyon, Lincoln, Neb. 

 A, D. Showel. Urbana, 111. 

 C. L. Allen. Floral Park, N. Y. 

 W. N. Ha.vs. .^t. .\nthony's Park. Minn. 

 W. Bateson, Cambridge, England. 

 Geo. Nicholson. Richmond. England- 

 Walter H. Evans. W'ashington. D. C. 

 S. Frazer, Briarcliff Manor. N. Y. 

 C. Beaman Smith, Department of Agriculture. 



C, W, Ward, Queens. N. Y. 

 Fred W. Card, Kingston, R, I. 

 William Fawcett. Jamaica, 



D. G. Fairchild, Washington, D. C. 

 ,H. C. Price, Ames. la. 



F. .S. Earle. New York Botanical Garden. 



D. Morris, West Indies. 



Alfred Rehder, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



L. H. Baile.v, Ithaca, N. Y. 



L. C. Corhett, Washington, D. C. 



C. E. Allen, Madison. Wis. 



Samuel Henshaw, Staten Island. 



F. B. Llo.vd, Teachers' College. 



P. G. Johnson. Johns Hopkins University. 



S. W. Underhill. Croton, N.Y . 



F. M. Hexamer. New Y'ork. 



F. H. Valentine, Ridgewood, N. J. 



Nicholas M. Shaw, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. 



Wm. Saunders, Ottawa. Canada. 



H. T. Crouse. Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. 



Baron Van Herfif, New York. 



Jas. S. Meng, New York. 



C. F. Austin, College Park. 



H. H. Groff, Simcoe, Canada. 



S. X. Beach. Geneva. N. Y. 



F. R. Newbold. Poughkeepsie. N. Y. 



F. C. Stewart, Geneva, N. Y. 



F. V, Munson, Denison, Tex. 



A. T. Jordan. New Brunswick. N. J. 



Stewardson Brown. Philadelphia. Pa. 



H. H. Rushy, New York. 



0. S. Saunders, Ottawa. Canada. 



O. F. Cook. Washington. D. C. 



C. S. Phelps. Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. 



Notes. 



Mr. Gottlieb, at Alex. McCounell's, 

 did some very handsome work for Gen. 

 Ivingsley's funeral at Eutland, Vt., last 

 wetfk, a standing cross of violets and 

 wreath of orchids being especially worthy 

 of mention. 



Wadley & Smj'the and Hodgson find 

 the Newport season still profit.able and 

 will not close their stores there before 

 the first of November. 



The Professional Woman's League 

 has a week of celebration at the Mad- 

 ison Square Garden, commencing Mon- 

 day last, and a large quantity of cut 

 flowers will certainly be u.sed, the attend- 

 ance being enormous. The Rustic Con- 

 struction Co. has an exhibit there of 

 summer houses andl other samples of 

 its work that is large and creditable 



Schloss Bros., the ribbon merchants, 

 have some handsome novelties for flor- 

 ists this fall, their new \iolet silk em- 

 broidered scarfs and handkerchiefs at 

 .$2 per dozen being in great demand, 

 are rapidly becoming popular. 



The New Y'ork Florists' Club will 

 meet on Monday next, October 13, at 128 

 E. Twenty-eighlh street, and on account 

 of the nearness of the great flower ex- 

 hibition, the occasion will be of great 

 interest and as large an attendance as 



