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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



839 



New Pink Rose Canadian Queen. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



A " Friend of aU the World." 



A s'"p;it Knylisli writer in his descrip- 

 tion of life in India gives curious pic- 

 tures of tlie ideiis and thoughts of the 

 people. One ^^•ho did good among his 

 fellows there was styled the "friend of 

 all the world." His world was a small 

 one and far away, yet the name is rather 

 taking. Has not our world of florists 

 sonjeone who lecjlls this odd name? 

 It certainly has, and no mistake. 

 Tliese thoughts were uppermost in my 

 mind last Sunday morning after spend- 

 ing a delightful two hours at Forty- 

 ninth and Market streets with Robert 

 Craig. These visits are always a pleas- 

 uie. not so frequent now as I could wish, 

 perhaps even more keenly enjoyed for 

 that reason. It is all nonsense to say 

 that boys must enjoy themselves while 

 they are young; the fewer the holidays 

 the more one enjoys them, no matter if 

 school is long since passed. 



I digress. Robert Craig leads the way 

 to the new carnation range of three 

 houses, two 225x30, one 225x12, lately 

 finished in good style, Lord & Burn- 

 ham's iron plates, posts and purlins, all 

 fitted ready for use, the effect light and 

 airy. The carnations housed three weeks 

 ago were starting to make growth. 

 Adonis looke<l especially flourishing, al- 

 ready showing (|uite a lot of blooms. 

 This variety is considered a wonder, de- 

 serving of all prai.se. W. P. Craig fa- 

 vored me with tlie names of the varie- 

 ties they are growing: Scarlet: Adonis 

 in quantity, a few Estelle (Crane will 

 not be benched ) . Crimson : Governor 

 Roosevelt (Maceo has been dropped). 

 White: Lorna. some Alba, I think he 

 said, also two seedlings, one very free. 



Pink, Floriana, considered an improved 

 Joi'st, though ligliter, Mrs. E. A. Nel- 

 son, Dorothy and u few .Joost. Yellow: 

 Dorothy Wl-.itnej'. believed to be a good 

 tiling. Fancy: Prosperity, con.sidered 

 decidedly profitable, even though a late 

 bloomer and a bit shy. The plants 

 looked vigorous and healthy. I think 

 Mrs. Lawson and one or two more sorts 

 not in the above list are grown, but of 

 this I am not sure. One is struck by 

 the extreme briefness of the life of a 

 carnation. The leading sorts of a few 

 years ago are almost forgotten today. 



Next the chrysanthemums. The yel- 

 low Batons just coming into bloom are 

 extremcl}' fine. Thft variety sported 

 from the white Timothy Eaton, and un- 

 like most 3"ellow sports, the color is al- 

 most an orange, reminding one of an 

 old variety, W. H. Lincoln, in the in- 

 tensity of its depth of color. In size, 

 vigor, foliage and habits the yellow 

 Eaton seems an ideal variety. Colum- 

 bia, a beautiful globular fiower of a 

 pleasing shade of light pink, is an at- 

 tractive no\elly. Mr. Craig thinks that 

 chrysanthenuini growers should study 

 the best paying varieties more closely 

 and confine their efforts to these. Too 

 many early sorts are grown and often 

 sacrificed. Late varieties are apt to 

 be far more profitable. 



There are three large houses fille<l 

 with Aveca lutescens in fine condition, 

 one house of 6, 7 and S-inch plants be- 

 ing especially well furnished with glos- 

 >.v. green foliage. Tlie large sizes of 

 l)alms are scarce now. Mr. Craig thinks 

 that the smaller sizes are. and probably 

 always will be quite plentiful. Cro- 

 (ons are a specialty here and have sold 

 well this season. One pretty variety, 

 Croton Craigie, golden yellow foliage 

 marked with green, was pointed out and 



admired. It originated with .John A. 

 .Shellem and has not been sent out yet. 

 I'here were several houses of azaleas, 

 freshly imported, in good condition, no 

 loss of foliage to mar their beauty. 



Flowering plants are Mr. Craig's 

 special pride and glory). A house of 

 1,500 cyclamens is worth seeing. Many 

 of them are in full flower at this early 

 day, with lots of buds coming on. The 

 types that throw up their spikes all at * 

 once, not straggling into bloom, are 

 especially prized. 



Begonia Glcire de Lorraine is the 

 other flowering gem ; it looks even better 

 than last season. A number of pans 

 are made up with little Asparagus plu- 

 mosus plants around the edge, a very 

 pietty combination. A promising lot 

 of small plants are coming on for center 

 pieces and ferneries. There is a nicely 

 colored batch of DracaBua terminalis in 

 another house. There are also batches 

 of Dracaena Lindeni and Dracjcna Mas- 

 sangeana. The latter are more robust 

 and to me a more pleasing variety than 

 the former. 



The Flower Market. 



Through the courtesy of Secretary 

 Lonsdale I am able to give the names of 

 the firms which sent beautiful floral of- 

 ferings to the opening of the market 

 with their good wishes for the success of 

 the enterprise. They were: Charles 

 Fox, Hugh Graham, Robert Crawford, 

 Jr., Julius Wolfl'. Jr., Century Flower 

 Shop, Mrs. ilarv Heron, Jos. Kift & 

 Son, H. H. Battles, C. H. Fox, Chas. 

 Schick & Son, Herman Schoenfeld, August 

 Lutz, B. Stahl. Business at the market 

 is progressing satisfactorily. Stuff is 

 selling well. New growers who have un- 

 til now been peddling their stock are 

 coming in and the demand for stalls is 

 increasing steadily. 



Notes. 



Joseph Heacock has an exception- 

 ally well grown lot of palms of mar- 

 ketable sizes. 



The directors of the American Rose 

 Society are here this week attending 

 tlie chrysanthemum show and arranging 

 a schedule for the rose show to be held 

 in this city next March in connection 

 with the spring show of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Horticultural Society, 



James W. Paul, Jr., has done much 

 to further the interests of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society in its 

 work. 



.John Burton is sending in the first 

 Cypripedium insigne to this market. 



" Walter Yates, a son of Thaddeus N. 

 Yates, and a graduate of Yale College, is 

 a new member of our bowling team and 

 an enthusiastic and promising bowler, 



Edward Reid has added a large base- 

 ment under his entire store, doubling 

 his storage capacity and giving much 

 needed room for the increased shipments 

 of choice stock now coming in. .\ new 

 consignor has been sending in some very 

 fine Perles. 



Miss Katherine Cleary, of the Plender 

 Co., was married last Wednesday, No- 

 vember 12, to Robert Glass, who is with 

 Leo N lessen. 



A correction: Last week's report of 

 the flower market party should have 

 read "H. T. Dumont, and A. G. Camp- 

 bell, who is with Leo Niessen, sang de- 

 lightfully." . ^ 



Engene Bernheimer has received some 

 very heavy orders for cbrysanthrmums 

 during this week, one order being for 

 500 choice blooms. 



