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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



November 20. 1902. 



question, "How to make our chrysanthe- 

 mum shows attractive and a success." 

 If many of our clubs and societies in 

 many cities of tlie country are to con- 

 tinue an attempt to hold exhibitions, no 

 subject to us can be of greater interest. 

 There is one broad fact, not so well 

 known to those who know only this coun- 

 try, which has the greatest influence on 

 attendance at flower shows, and it is the 

 fact that but a very small percentage of 

 our people, including the millionaire as 

 well as the millwright, has any real 

 taste or fondness or knowledge of plants 

 and flowers. Our trade in floriculture is 

 in a most healthy state and ever grow- 

 ing. Flowers are wanted for beautify- 

 ing the home. It is lovely to give thera 

 and sweet to receive, and they are wel- 

 come guests at almost every event of our 

 lives. They carry sentiment and aff'ec- 

 tion wherever they go and are becoming 

 indispensable in all well-regulated homes, 

 but all this is not knowing the flowers. 

 It is love and admiration for their 

 beauty and sweetness, but little knowl- 



thousauds of firms w hose business is the 

 distribution of plants exist in so small 

 a territory? We have a few people of 

 this kind in every neighborhood, but 

 you can count them on your fingers in 

 ours, and you will be sure to see them 

 at our local shows-^good, faithful peo- 

 ple, they will be at your show, even if 

 lonesome. 



This is not always going to be so; the 

 taste for gardening and the interest in 

 the plants is growing fast, but we must 

 wait. Our people can see just as fine 

 flowers of every kind in our florists' 

 shops as can be seen at any flower show, 

 and unless it's the fad to go they are 

 not going to waste time and be bored 

 by looking at simply quantities of the 

 same thing duplicated a dozen times. Mr. 

 Herrington spoke very much to the point 

 when he said we should have a greater 

 variety in our chrysanthemum flowers 

 to attract the public. If you have seen 

 a vase of fifty Timothy Eatons or Col. 

 Appletons, you have seen all the beauty 

 that these flowers are capable of afi'ord- 



The Remarkable New Light Pink Carnation Fiancee, that Won all the Highest Awards 

 in the Seedling Carnation Classes at the Chicago Show. 



edge of them. In fact, to be brief, gar- 

 dening is not yet a recreation of our 

 people. 



To explain the diff'erence that exists in 

 Europe, or that part of it with which I 

 have an acquaintance, the British Isles, 

 every merchant, lawyer, doctor, minister 

 of the parish, bishop and priest, me- 

 chanic and mill operative — yes, the lowly 

 laborer in the rural districts — hae his 

 garden or his pet flowers, and can talk 

 gardening. The country squire and lord 

 of the manor, even if his fancy runs to 

 foxhounds, must keep posted on garden- 

 ing topics, for 'tis good form. Is it any 

 wonder, then, that they can liold a horti- 

 cultural exhibition in every small town. 

 People go not only to admire the beau- 

 tiful, but are interested in the latest 

 ;iovelties and cultural skill displayed. If 

 this great interest and fondness for their 

 gar.iens did not exist, how could the 



ing, and a dozen vases of them is a sur- 

 feit. I well remember last year of see- 

 ing a lady of considerable pretensions to 

 culture turn away from a vase of mon- 

 strous mums and remark to her friend, 

 "Hideous." 



Variety and novelty we must put be- 

 fore the people, but how it is to be done 

 and how the commercial man can afford 

 to grow the uncommercial varieties I am 

 not going into at present. I am entirely 

 in sympathy with those who protested 

 against spliced stems. That is retro- 

 gression with a vengeance, and our peo- 

 ple won't stand for it. If short stems 

 are to be used, then let the flowers be 

 do\vn close to the dark green bed of 

 moss. If in bottles and the stem is 

 only six inches long above the bottles, 

 these weak-necked specimens will hang 

 their heads in all directions and look 

 anything but attractive. I have seen 



such displays this fail, and they won't 

 do. 



We should have flower shows, even if 

 at a sacrifice, for they are educators in 

 every community in which they are held, 

 and I trust ere long some smart man or 

 matron will think of some feature that 

 can be used to draw and please the pub- 

 lic — ^statuary barred. It, like the flow- 

 ers, is too mute; action is what is want- 

 ed. The dramas of Bulwer Lytton are 

 grand from a literary view; the dia- 

 logue is wonderful ; but there is no ac- 

 tion; hence, with one exception, they are 

 never heard of. Action and life we must 

 have until a good share of our people 

 take a real interest in gardening. 



William Scott. . 



A GREAT NEW CARNATION. 



It Breaks all Records. 



At the Chicago exhibition there ap- 

 peared on Friday a new pink carnation 

 that created a sensation. It was an im- 

 mense flower of ideal form and a won- 

 derful soft and pleasing shade of pink, 

 very similar to the color of Marquis. 

 It seemed practically flawless and the 

 judges awarded it not only the prize 

 in the class for best pink seedling light- 

 er in color than Scott, in which Enchant- 

 ress and many fine seedlings had been 

 entered, but the silver cup for best seed- 

 ling shown and a certificate of merit 

 also, in addition to pronouncing it the 

 best carnation produced up to date. And 

 all who saw it agreed that the judges 

 had been none too lavish with theit 

 awards and commendation. It easily 

 outclassed everything else on exhibition, 

 and the display was the largest and 

 finest ever seen at a fall exhibition. 



Tliis remarkable new carnation is a 

 seedling raised by Fred Dorner, Lafay- 

 ette, Ind., but the stock has been pur- 

 chased by the Chicago Carnation Co., 

 Joliet, 111. It will probably be intro- 

 duced next year. The accompanying 

 engraving is from a flash light photo- 

 graph and does not do justice to the 

 subject. 



TUXEDO, N, Y. 



The first exhibition by the Tuxedo, 

 X. Y., Horticultural Society was held in 

 the club ballroom on November 7, 8 

 and 9. Tliat the eiTorts of the commit- 

 tee in charge were appreciated was well 

 illustrated by the spontaneous expres- 

 sions of pleasure by the crowds of spec- 

 tators on first entering the hall. Tlie 

 arrangement was made as spectacular as 

 stock would admit, and the competitive 

 exhibits were so arranged that a new 

 pleasure awaited the patrons as they 

 made the circuit of the hall. The veg- 

 etable classes were poorly filled, as veg- 

 etables are very little grown outdoors, 

 soil conditions not giving much encour- 

 agement in that line of the profession. 

 The soil is still in a crude state, rocky 

 and sandy. 



Among tlie special exhibits were a 

 table of oncidiums and cattleyas, 

 trimmed with Adiantum Farleyense, 

 groups of stove plants. Golden Privet 

 and evergreen, by W. A. !Manda, of 

 South Orange, N. .J. Evergreens and a 

 fine plant of the new fern Nephrolepis 

 Anna Foster, by Bobbink & Atkins, 

 Rutherford. X. J. Seed exhibits by 

 Clucas & Boddington Co. and J. M. 

 Thorburn & Co., of New York City. 



Among the local specials were a cen- 

 tral group of palms, topped off with a 



