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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



December 17, 1903. 



Then there is a promising seedling carna- 

 tion in Hornellsville, N. Y.; that's a 

 lirotty name. If you get a rose that i~ 

 inclined to sjiurt too much you might call 

 it Sing Sing. And why stick to your 

 native town? The next dark carnation 

 that beats The President, Mr. Ward might 

 name Timbuetoo, aud the writer has a 

 sort of ochre yellow which we are goinn 

 to call Constantinople. Mrs. Jones, or 

 Our Mary Ann, or Lafayette McMul- 

 len will do very well for gladioli and 

 dahlias that come and go quickly, but a 

 rose that is likely to be grown by every- 

 one and constantly on the lips of every 

 florist and flower lover should have a 

 prettier name than La Detroit. 



But I am glad it was an angelic woman 

 who got the prize. They have, amoiiy 

 other divine gifts, the majority of all 

 the inspiration that is sent into the 

 world. But my inspiration would have 

 suggested simply Our Phil. 



COM.IKCHE. 



A PROGRESSIVE RETAILER. 



Chicago has a reputation to sustain in 

 the matter of hustling and the florists, 

 growers, wholesalers and retailers, are 

 doing their share to maintain the city's 

 credit undiminished in this respect. 

 Among the most progressive of the store 

 men few- are more active than August 

 Lange. Everything is grist which comes 

 to his mill and his two stores on Monroe 

 street, opposite the Palmer House, han- 

 dle immense quantities of both cut flow- 

 ers and pot plants. He was one of the 

 first to see the advertising value of large 

 window displays and in many other ways 

 he has reached out for new trade until 

 he has built up a very good business. 



Mr. Lange is 35 years old, a native of 

 Berlin. He has been in the retail flow- 

 er business since he was 13, having begun 

 as a boy in the store of James Farrell 

 in Chicago in 1881. For a time he was 

 a partner in the tlrm of Harmes & Lange. 

 First he was located at 189 N. Clark 

 and in the World 's Fair year at 111 

 .State street, in IsKT he opened for him- 

 self at his present location on Monroe 

 street. Doing a profitable trade the first 

 year there, last year his business was 

 three times that of the first season. Last 

 April Mr. Lange opened the Floraba, 

 only a couple of doors from his other 

 store. Miss Ida Lange is now in charge 

 there and both places are doing well. 

 Mr. Lange has attended many conven- 

 tions of the S. A. F., but he will always 

 look back upon the Omaha meeting as 

 the best of all, for there he made the 

 acquaintance of the lady who is now 

 Jlrs. Lange. She is a sister of Mrs-. 

 Swoboda, wife of the junior partner in 

 the Omaha firm of Hess & Swoboda. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Two Crops From One House. 



We have a house, 20x100, and think 

 of putting in mums next year. This 

 house has solid beds and we thought of 

 planting some early varieties and hav- 

 ing enough late sorts plantea m boxes 

 outside, so that when th« early ones are 

 cut we can bring in the late ones and 

 set them in the bed. Our idea is to get 

 two crops of mums from one house. 

 Could it be done! A. B. C. 



I would say that it can be done, but 

 whether it would pay is another ques- 

 tion. By growing kinds like Fitzwygram, 

 Marquis dp Montmort, etc., and taking 



the early bud the flowers can be cut 

 away before October 1 and the later 

 varieties planted out in boxes could be 

 rushed in to iUl the space. There are 

 several objections to the plan. One is 

 that the early flowers would come in so 

 early that they would be competing with 

 asters and dahlias in the market. The 

 earliest flowers of lale years have 

 brought only a poor price. The grower 

 knows what his market wants and what 

 he could get, so he is the best judge of 

 that particular point. 



Another objection is that growing 

 plants outside in pots or boxes is a very 

 unsatisfactory method. Every insect that 

 comes along takes a shy at them and 

 they get alternately washed out and 

 burned up in this delightful climate of 

 ours, so that when housing time comes 

 they are about ready for the rubbish 

 heap. A. B. C. will also run his chances 

 on getting caught by an early frost, 

 which is generally due in his section 

 about September 20. 



Rather than grow the late stock in 

 pots or boxes outside, if T were going 



August Lange. 



to try it, I think I would plant my stock 

 1)1 the open ground and pinch it until 

 .Inly 1. This would give plants which 

 woidd be dwarf enough to lift without 

 much inconvenience to them at that time, 

 if the house be well shaded for a few 

 days after planting, and the late stop- 

 ping or pinching would throw the buds- 

 late, so that they would be very small 

 at the time the plants were lifted. My 

 candid advice to A. B. C. would be not 

 to bother with it. Get one good crop of 

 mums and then fill in with Easter lilies 

 or something of that description aud I 

 think the balance at the end of the year 

 will be larger. Brian Boku. 



THE CHRYSANTHEMUM IM 1903. 



The following are the remarks of Ar- 

 thur Herrington, president of the Chrv 

 santhemum Society of America, before 

 the Farmers'. Club and Horticultural 

 Section of the American Institute at Xeiv 

 York, December 9: 



Exhibitions. 



Reviewing the season that has just 

 closed, the fact is self-evident that the 

 chrysanthemum still holds undisputed 

 sway as the queen of autumn, and ■>■•' 

 shoiild anyone look with disfavor up-- 

 the supremacy the flower holds in its 



brief season? Roses, carnations and 

 even the aristocratic orchids are with us 

 throughout the year, and the fragrant 

 violet is obtainable a large portion of 

 the year, but there comes a time when 

 all of these flowers are subordinated to 

 the chrysanthemum. 



The enthusiasm for the flower shows 

 no abatement and there is no necessity 

 to advance reasons for its general pc. 

 larity. The present year has probably 

 seen more floral exhibitions held in chry- 

 santhemum time than ever before, at " 

 would seem to justify the claim that the 

 chrysanthemum is the prime factor there- 

 in. Nor does this apply to our country 

 alone, as European papers, especially 

 those from England, bring reports of 

 numerous exhibitions and in small coun- 

 try towns as well as the large center.s of 

 population. 



Without any available figures to sub- 

 stantiate the assertion, it may be stated 

 with little fear of contradiction that the 

 exhibitions held in chrysanthemum time 

 greatly exceed in number the aggregate 

 of the balance of the year, and while 

 their primary object is to display the 

 chrysanthemum in all its variety and per- 

 fection of beauty, we are accomplishinsx 

 something more. In proportion to their 

 patronage by the general public they 

 must surely be an effective influence in 

 Ijromoting the growth of floricuhure, 

 the love of flowers with lesultant bene- 

 fits accompanying to those engaged 

 in the profession. Have we not in the 

 past taken a too narrow-minded view of 

 the results of our exhibitions in apprais- 

 ing their success solely on tlie basis of 

 gate receipts? We may be pardoned for 

 expressing mutual congratulations upon 

 the recent successful exhibition held in 

 Xew York, and especially in point of at- 

 tendance. It is idle to suppose the in- 

 fluence and effect of that grand exhibi- 

 tion ceased with the closing of its doors. 

 It must have aroused a spirit of emula- 

 tion in some who saw it, a desire to 

 grow, themselves, such flowers as were 

 there displaj'ed. 



Close observation of the attendant 

 crowds forcibly demonstrated another 

 fact. It has become a fad of a few, ot 

 late, to decry the big blooms as coarse 

 and unlovely; in fact, ugly, some will 

 hay. This is not the verdict of the p-e ■ 

 cral public. It refuses to put its seal of 

 approval upon artistic disquisitions that 

 claim the maximum of beauty is found 

 in diminished size. While in the crysan- 

 thenium there is variety of form and of 

 size, too, to gratify all tastes, the bi" 

 blooms will appeal to. and win the ad- 

 miration of the vast majority and the 

 ■■how that has thousands of them will be 

 a popular show if the fact is publicly 

 known. 



Within the last two years our exhibi- 

 tions appeared to be more or less domi- 

 nated by a few viarieties and rearranee- 

 ment of schedules was considered to c-" 

 rect this fault. It has been corrected in 

 a much more satisfactory manner. It 

 was hard to avoid the dominance of 

 Appleton and Eaton when they wen' 

 giants in a class almost alone. Wliat 

 has the present season shown? Many 

 more giants forthcoming, of variable 

 form and hue. We had a slight foretaste 

 last year in the appearance of some Aus- 

 tralian novelties. A new source of sup 

 ply had been tapped, which raised our ex- 

 pectations to the highest pitch. 



The realization has been rich indeed 

 and the salient feature of this year's ex- 

 hibitions, wherever they displayed the 



