October 30, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



747 



House of the New White Rose Ivory at Wietor Bros., Chicago. Planted May 6. 

 Photographed Oct. 20. 



sliould be coming on witli a good crop 

 of good blooms now. 



Earlincss has become a very essential 

 quality of late, especially in white and 

 pink sorts, which can be used to fill up 

 the gap between the last of outdoor 

 flowers and the beginning of the mum 

 season. For red the demand is not so 

 great as it is later in the winter when 

 the social season is at its height. A va- 

 riety does not necessarily have to be ex- 

 tremely early, however, to be profitable. 

 A variety that will produce a good crop 

 of fine blooms liy Kovcmlier 1 stands a 

 good chance of heading the list when the 

 dollars and cents are counted, and you 

 can more often de]XMid on such a variety 

 keeping up a liigh standard all winter, 

 which is something that many extra 

 early varieties lack. 



Then again you must not lie too harsh 

 in criticising a new variety because its 

 failure is more than likely not due to 

 faults of its own, but to circumst^ances. 

 Verj- few varieties are put on the mar- 

 ket without having been exhibited in 

 fine shape, wliich is the best proof a 

 disseminator can give to support the 

 claims he makes for his pet and if you 

 will keep your wits about you when 

 looking at a vase of fine blooms you will 

 not very often get lost. If you bought 

 a lot of cuttings of a new variety be- 

 cause you saw it in fine shape last Feb- 

 ruary or later and it dtx^s not happen 

 to produce a fine crop of blooms in Oc- 

 tober, don't swear at the variety and 

 the man that raised it, but wait until 

 next February and then if the fine 

 blooms are not forthcoming it is time 

 to swear. 



If you want to buy an early variety 

 you should look for it early, ^^isit some 

 of the numerous mum sliows and if you 

 see a variety staged in tine shape you 

 can usually depend on it l>eing fairly 

 early and to see whether it holds up 

 well all winter you should watcl\ the re- 

 ports of the Florists' Club meetings and 

 the American Carnation Society conven- 

 tion in February. Of course we all know 

 that much depends on the way a va- 

 riety is handled whether it will come in 

 early or late, but nevertheless the fact 

 remains that some varieties naturally 

 bloom earlv while others naturally come 



into bloom later. So it happens that one 

 year's trial is often not enough to prove 

 a variety's worth. 



If a variety is healthy and produces 

 good blooms later and seems to lack 

 only earliness you should propagate it 

 early and house it early and probably it 

 will prove a good thing for you. Some 

 varieties must be started early in order 

 to get fair sized plants, while others seem 

 to do best when medium sized plants 

 are housed, and so on dow-n the list you 

 must study each variety and try to mas- 

 tor its peculiarities before you can hope 

 to grow each successfully. 



Next week we will go through our 

 list of varieties and note which are doing 

 well and which have to "get better.'' etc. 

 A. F, J. Baths. 



THE LENOX FLOWER SHOW. 



When the writer received a cordial 

 invitation to visit the second annual ex- 

 hibition of the Lenox Horticultural So- 

 ciety he decided the occasion was op- 

 portune for visiting this far-famed hor- 

 ticultural center, affording the chance of 

 seeing the magnificent estates in the 

 Berkshire Hills, and the products of the 

 manj- good gardeners located there. 



Th" exhibition was held in the new 

 town hall on Thursday and FViday, Oc- 

 tober i;? and 24, and in spite of the early 

 date 1 have no hcsitiition in asserting 

 the general excellence and all around 

 suiierior quality of this exhibition will 

 be siirpassed by none. In substantiation 

 of this statement I may remark that the 

 schedule provided eighty-three classes. 

 There were entries in eighty-one and so 

 keen was the competition in almost ev- 

 ery instance that the judges' labor was 

 l)artieularly arduous, tliey requiring 

 exactly seven hours to complete the 

 awards. 



There were thirty-four classes devoted 

 to chrysanthemums; seven of these to 

 |>lants and the "Oiilanee to cut fiowers and 

 these last were a revelation indeed, all 

 being eharacteiized by full development 

 and perfect finish. 



For a gnnip of chrysanthemums cov- 

 ering a circle ten feet in diameter the 

 first award went to Mr. A. J. Loveless, 

 gardener to J. Sloane, for a bold ar- 



rangement of finely flowered plants. G. 

 Philcox, gardener to W. D. Sloane, was 

 second with an etl'ective but very stiff 

 arrangement, and A. H. Wingett, gard- 

 ener to Charles Lanier, was third with 

 a truly admirable group. The best ar- 

 ranged group in the show was unfor- 

 tunately disqualified for exceeding the 

 allotted space. It was shown by E. 

 Jenkins, gardener to Girard Foster. In 

 addition to large flowered varieties, the 

 pretty single ilizpah and a bronzy yel- 

 low single variety named ZerotF used 

 for a border around the base of the group 

 made this exhibit decidedly the most at- 

 tractive. Still another fine group, but 

 not in competition, was shown by J. 

 Dallas, gardener to G. H. Morgan. 



For three specimen chrysanthemum 

 plants, E. Jenkins was first, the varieties 

 being ilrs. H. Robinson. H. L. Sunder- 

 bruch and Mrs. Cooifibes, the last named 

 a magnificent plant seven feet in diam- 

 eter and carrying 300 flowei-s. J. Dallas 

 was second and E. Edwards third. 



For a single specimen plant, E. Ed- 

 wards. J, Dallas and E. Jenkins were 

 the winners in the order named. 



For twelve plants in 6-inch pots, A. 

 .J. Loveless was first and E. Jenkins sec- 

 ond, while for six plants in 6-inch pots 

 E. Jenkins was first and A. J. Loveless 

 second. 



In the cut flowers the competition was 

 extraordinarily keen. For twelve blooms 

 in twelve varieties E. Jenkins was fin- 

 ally adjudged first and A. J. Loveless 

 second, but the margin of difference, the 

 judges said, was about 1 point. As 

 all the flowers were perfect it may be 

 of interest to give the names of the va- 

 rieties shown by these two exhibitors in 

 this class: Mrs. H. Robinson, Mrs. O. 

 P. Bassett. Timothy Eaton, Lady Han- 

 ham, Rustique, Mrs. F. A. Constable, 

 Lady Anglesea. Peter Kay, T. Carring- 

 ton. Col. D. Appleton, Mrs. G. Mileham, 

 H. J. Jones, Merza, Mme. Georges 

 Bruant. Mrs. W. Mease, Mme. Camot 

 and Xellie Pockett. Jlr. E. Lundberg 

 was third with an admirable tweh'e. 



The class for six in six varieties was 

 also well contested. E. Jenkins winning 

 with grand blooms of Robinson, Bassett, 

 Morel. Mutual Friend, H. J. Jones and 

 Peter Kay. E. Edwards, gardener to 

 ■J. E. Parsons, was a close second, show- 

 ing Eaton, Bassett, Jones, Camot, Gold- 

 en Gate and Mrs. Barclay. 



For the best single bloom the first 

 award went to E. Jenkins, who showed 

 a grand flower of Appleton, and A. J. 

 Loveless was second with Carnot. 



A. J. Loveless was first and E. Jenkins 

 second for ten blooms of any yellow va- 

 riety. Both showed Peter Kay and both 

 lots were exceptionally fine. For ten of 

 of any white E. Jenkins won with a 

 grand lot of Robinson, R. A. Schmidt 

 being second with a superb vase of Nel- 

 lie Pockett. and E, Limberg third with 

 ^Mutual Friend of great merit. 



For ten red E. Jenkins had the finest 

 ten blooms of H. J. Jones the writer has 

 ever seen, the flowers of great depth and 

 substance and almost uniformly crimson, 

 the long drooping petals showing none of 

 the yellow reverse. The ten pink which 

 won first for E. Jenkins in that class 

 was another most remarkable lot. The 

 variety was Mrs. Coombes, and in addi- 

 tion to large size and perfect finish the 

 deep pink color of every flower was 

 many shades deeper than I have yet 

 seen in this most noteworthy new Eng- 

 lish variety. E. Edwards was second 

 with the same kind and a grand lot but 

 they looked pale by comparison with the 



