Ja.vlary 7. 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



319 



Review of the Work of the 

 Chrysanthemum Society of America for 1903. 



REMARKS— 'Center incurved, outer petals reflex. +Believed by Committee to be Eda Prass. *tNot scored, timp. (Nonin). §Soft Day- 

 break pink. [Silvery reverse giving a shell pink appearance ^Ball shaped. '"Col. Appleton type. t1 Silvery reverse. iiType of Maj. BonnaCton. 

 SSBall shaped. , Silvery reverse. *+Color of Geo. W. Childs. 



FRED H. LEMON, Secretary. 



ard articles that they -were fifty years ago, 

 and so is the excellent insecticide and 

 fungicide Gishurst's compound, sold by 

 aU leading seed houses. For spider, 

 thrips, scale and mealy bug it is excellent 

 and I dare say a syringing of it -(vould 

 make these little flies very sick. 



W. S. 



ADVANCE IN CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



In a recent issue of an English con- 

 temporary, C. Harman Payne, the well- 

 known authority on the chrysanthemum, 

 writes in part as follows: 



Eleven years ago, when the writer of 

 this notice first introduced the name of 

 Calvat to the British public as a prom- 

 ising French raiser of new seedling 

 chrysanthemums, he was unknown in this 

 country, as well as in his own. What has 

 happened since is common knowledge, 

 and has filled a chapter in the history 

 of our famous autumn flower that will 

 never be effaced. Calvat 's seedlings for 

 all practical purposes pushed out of cul- 

 tivation most of the exhibition flowers 

 that preceded them, and completely rev- 

 olutionized the face of English exhibi- 

 tions. 



The earlier efforts of Delaux, Lacroix, 

 de Regdellet and Audiguier, his own 

 countrymen, were speedily eclipsed, and 

 as for the American seedlings they were 

 far too late in blooming to be able to 

 compete with those sent out by the now 

 eminent Frenchman, and so were speed- 

 ily consigned to the limbo of the past. 

 It is a record of which any raiser might 

 be proud, and we were not surprised as 

 events turned out to find that Mr. Cal- 

 vat, consequent upon the increasfed de- 

 mand for his seedlings, gave up a large 

 and lucrative glove-making business in 

 order to concentrate his whole time and 



attention on the chrysanthemum growing. 



In turning over the pages of the cur- 

 rent number of our contemporary Le 

 Jardin, of Paris, we notice the portrait 

 of M. le Marquis de Pins, a gentleman 

 hitherto unknown to English chrysanthe- 

 mum growers, as, indeed, he was to 

 French growers a twelvemonth ago. But 

 his is a name, in our opinion, destined 

 to occupy a prominent position among 

 the seedling growers of the future, if 

 only the same facilities are given to this 

 gentleman's products as have been given 

 to those of other growers in the past. 



"We are led to this conclusion by what 

 we saw at the recent Paris chrysanthe- 

 mum show, where the Marquis de Pins 

 staged one of the most remarkable ex- 

 hibits of new seedlings in cut blooms that 

 we have ever seen. In a large raised 

 bed, close to the exhibits of several of 

 his fellow countrymen who are special- 

 ists in the art of chrysanthemum culture 

 for seedlings this amateur of only a 

 few years' standing set up one of the 

 most imposing and most highly devel- 

 oped collections of novelties it is possi- 

 ble to imagine. Massive, substantial 

 looking exhibition blooms of colossal di- 

 mensions, almost wholly of the Japanese 

 type, were set up in lots of five blooms 

 of each variety. The effect was unique 

 and growers from all parts of the coun- 

 try, besides the foreign visitors, were 

 much interested in the exhibit. 



We were told that this gentleman 

 grows only for his own pleasure, but we 

 since learn from the .iournal in question 

 that some of these novelties have now 

 passed into other hands and wiU be dis- 

 tributed next spring. Given a fair 

 chance and no favor, we see no reason 

 why his seedlings should not revolution- 

 ize the face of our chrysanthemum shows 

 as has been the case before. 



We anxiously await the time when 

 some of these remarkable seedlings shall 

 get into the hands of our most capable 

 exhibition growers. Let them once be 

 seen under such treatment and they will 

 certainly take care of themselves. This 

 is the kind of thing that has helped to 

 make the chrysanthemum what it is to- 

 day. Throughout its whole history there 

 are certain well-defined landmarks, cer- 

 tain new departures, certain grand sur- 

 prises, all of which have tended to ex- 

 cite, to stimulate and renew the inter- 

 est not only of the growers, but of the 

 general public who visit and patronize 

 our shows. The present is one that even 

 the most clairvoyant of enthusiasts could 

 never have foreseen, and we await devel- 

 opments with feelings of peculiar inter- 

 est. 



The contest is destined to be keen, 

 and practically has to be fought out 

 between English, Australian and French 

 growers, not of a by-gone generation, but 

 by men who have only recently stepped 

 into the arena. We dare not under the 

 circumstances venture to prophesy what 

 the ultimate result will be, but are con- 

 tent to stand bv and watch and wait. 



DATE OF EASTER. 



Note that Easter, 1904, falls on April 

 3. In 1905 Easter will be the latest 

 in many years, falling on April 23. 



SiOTJX Falls, S. D. — Joe Tosini has a 

 range of eight houses, about 10,000 feet 

 of glass, and has his stock in nice shape. 

 He reports trade very good. 



Am well pleased with the Review and 

 consider it one of the most progressive 

 of trade papers. — George Smith, Man- 

 chester, Vt. 



