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horticulture: 



February 17, 1906 



A RiUS T|iO C|R A T 



WILL BE AT TORONTO WITH THE GOODSf | 

 CHICAGO CARNATION CO., I . JOLIET, ILL. 



numerous illustrations. W. Atlee 

 Burpee & Co., Philadelphia. 



Hoopes, Brother & Thomas, West 

 Chester, Pa. — Handbook No. 2, of or- 

 namental trees and plants. A pine 

 branch and cone forms a very appro- 

 priate cover adornment to this finely 

 illustrated publication. 



Moon's Trees, 1906, Horticultural 

 Art Book issued by the Wm. H. Moon 

 Co., Morrisville, Pa. Typographically 

 one of the finest catalogues of the sea- 

 son. Text and pictures calculated to 

 whet the appetite for lawn and garden 

 beauty. 



Arthur Cowee, Berlin, N. Y., Cata- 

 logue, 19116. of Groff's New Hybrid 

 Gladioli. Mr. Cowee is all right and 

 so are his gladioli. He has devoted a 

 life of ceaseless industry to this 

 specialty and well deserves the great 

 success he has achieved. 



LISTS OF PATENTS. 

 Issued January 30, 1906. 



810,972. System for Sprinkling 



Lawns, Gardens, Green- 

 houses, Parks, etc. Frank 

 H. Paradice, Denver, Colo. 



811,276. Arbor. John Cooper, Dia- 

 mond, La. 



811,373. Warp Stop Motion. Thomas 

 A. B. Carver, Glasgow, 

 Scotland. 



811,508. Sash-Lifting Apparatus for 

 Greenhouses. William O. 

 Johnston and Phillip J. 

 Foley, Chicago, 111. 



Issued February 6, 1906. 



811.600. Combined Weeder, Orchard- 

 Cultivator and Fallow- 

 Plow. William Turner, 

 Wenatchee, Wash. 



811,651. Fruit-Display Box. George 

 E. Miller, Riverside, Cal., 

 assignor of one-half to Ed- 

 ward L. Pequegnat, River- 

 side, Cal. 



811,712. Adjustable Stand for Flower- 

 Pots. Adolph Graefe, Brook- 

 lyn, New York. 



811,951. Greenhouse and Other Glazed 

 Structure. Paul M. Pier- 

 son, Ossining, N. Y., as- 

 signor to The Pierson-Sef- 

 ton Co., Jersey City, N. J., a 

 corporation of New Jersey. 



*01.!<78. Strawberry-Vine Trimmer. 

 Nels A. Weigen, Clearlake, 

 Iowa. 



IMPRESSIONS OF NEW CARNA- 

 TIONS. 



Remarks By Edward A. Stroud At Florists' 

 Club Ot Philadelphia, Feb. >;. 1906. 



To rightly judge a carnation on the 

 exhibition table, a good idea is to 

 scale it up according to one's own 

 judgment on the points adopted by 

 the Carnation Society; you will be 

 surprised how much better knowl- 

 edge you will get of a variety by fol- 

 lowing this method. 



Lady Bountiful showed up promi- 

 nently, winning all prizes in the class 

 of whites; if any fault, it shows a 

 lack of substance which is against it 

 as a shipper. 



My Maryland unfortunately could 

 not be staged by Mr. Weber, as that 

 variety with his other exhibits (some 

 1 200 flowers in all) carried poorly, 

 owing to the warm weather. The 

 Strafford Flower Farm showed 100 

 of this variety and was fortunate 

 enough to secure an award. Mr. 

 Weber has made an announcement to 

 the trade through the various papers 

 which is a square deal. My Mary- 

 land, as you know, has not been suc- 

 cessfully grown everywhere. As 

 grown at Strafford, its habit differs 

 entirely from its growth with Mr. 

 Weber; but we do not by any means 

 pronounce it unworthy and feel con- 

 fident that if certain grassy peculiari- 

 ties can be eliminated this variety 

 will prove a good thing, as its keeping 

 qualities are above par. Enchantress 

 was shown extensively and nothing 

 could compete with it in its color. It 

 occupies a field of its own. 



Robert Craig is certainly a thor- 

 oughbred: it looked beautiful staged, 

 and as seen growing at Mr. Ward's. 

 Whether this fine condition can be 

 duplicated by the smaller growers 

 and whether it can be made a com- 

 mercial success is a question yet to 

 be decided. 



Mr. Fisher's new red seedling Bea- 

 con, looked well, standing out promi- 

 nently from all others in its bright- 

 ness of color; seeing it growing at his 

 place impressed me with its commer- 

 cial value, being such a free bloomer; 

 its stem seemed a trifle weak, but 

 not sufficiently so to injure it. 



Red Lawson will do when there 

 are no other good reds about. We 



do not like its color. The extensively 

 advertised Victory showed up well; 

 many orders have been booked for it, 

 Mr. Guttman telling us of five firms 

 who had placed orders aggregating 

 1 20.000. We have seen it only on the 

 exhibition table. Mr. Haines is as 

 enthusiastic as ever about his red car- 

 nation named after him. It did not 

 carry well to Boston, but as we saw 

 it growing at his place last March it 

 was a grand sight. We notice the 

 reports from the west say it is in- 

 clined to be somewhat sleepy during 

 the early fall months. We were 

 further convinced of its good quali- 

 ties after seeing it growing at Peter 

 Fisher's. 



The Lawson gold medal winner, 

 Elsa Struss, a seedling of Mr. Ward's, 

 was beautiful, and seeing it grow con- 

 vinced us that it will be heard from, 

 as it resembles Enchantress in habit 

 and looks free. Mrs. Ward, another 

 seedling of Cottage Gardens showed 

 breeding; it is a question whether it 

 would not have given a good run for 

 the medal if 100 blooms could have 

 been shown. 



Aristocrat is certainly ideal in form, 

 calyx and stem. Personally, we are 

 tiring of the Lawson shade of pink. 

 Helen Goddard, while not a large 

 flower, is recommended for its com- 

 mercial value. It is slightly lighter 

 in color than Lawson. We did not 

 have a chance to see it growing. 

 Pink Patten, a sport from Mrs. Pat- 

 ten, was not particularly interesting 

 to us. 



Evangeline, another seedling of 

 Peter Fisher's, has merit; as we saw 

 it growing, it looked healthy; it is 

 smaller than Enchantress, brighter in 

 color. has good substance, and 

 seemed freer. Mr. Fisher told us he 

 would not send it out unless he could 

 eliminate its slight tendency to burst. 

 It is a question if there is a market 

 for Evangeline, if Enchantress keeps 

 up its good name. Fiancee was not 

 largely shown, having no entry in 

 either the 100, 50 or 25 class. We 

 imagined it was impossible to get so 

 many good flowers together. 



Winsor attracted us especially — its 

 color being a very pleasing shade of 

 pink. It showed all the requirements 

 of a first-class flower. 



Taking it all in all, the show was 

 a success. The public seemed to ap- 

 preciate that it was free to all, and 

 we trust Toronto will be able to 

 arouse the same enthusiasm when the 

 convention meets there. 



