JANT'ARY 27. 1S98. 



The Weekly Florists" Review* 



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Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, \vhere the convention and exhibition of the American 

 Carnation Society will be held February 17 and 18. The building at the right is the main 

 hotel. The one at the left is the Annex. The two are connected by a marble Uned tunnel 

 under the street. 



suitable market. The continuous 

 bioomer is valued by every grower. A 

 cropper in the hands of a grower situ- 

 ated near a large market is profitable 

 when the quality is high grade, for 

 such flowers will always find sale. It 

 does not matter much whether the 

 same quantity of flowers can be grown, 

 marketed and sold during a period of 

 two months or six. And when it can 

 be managed so that the crop will come 

 in for Christmas or Easter, as ha? 

 been done with Bridesmaid and other 

 varieties, profits will swell consider- 

 ably. 



Quite different it is with a grower 

 situated in or near a small city, who 

 retails his flowers and depends on a 

 regular supply. At one time he will 

 have more flowers than he can sell, 

 part necessarily going to waste, or 

 obliged to be sold very cheap, and at 

 other times be has to buy his flowers. 

 For him are the continuous bloomers 

 the only profitable varieties. In my 

 uext I will give my opinion regarding 

 the uew varieties of the past season. 

 Fred Dorner. 



has been appointed superintendent of 

 the exhibition. He also may be ad- 

 dressed at 318 Wabash avenue. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SCCIETY 

 Officers. 

 Pres., W. N. Rudd, Mt. Greenwood, 

 111.: Vice-Pres., Fred. Dorner, Jr., 

 Lafayette, Ind.; Sec, Albert M. Herr, 

 Lancaster, Pa.; Treas., Chas. H. Al- 

 len, Floral Park, N. Y. Executive Com- 

 mittee: The above and Wm. Scott, 

 Buffalo, N. Y. ; Eugene Dailledouze, 

 Flalbush, N. Y.; W. R. Shelmire, Av- 

 ondale. Pa. 



Seventh Annual Meeting. 

 The seventh annual meeting will be 

 held at Chicago, Thursday and Friday, 

 February 17 and 18. Headquarters 

 will be at the Auditorium Hotel, where 

 the meetings and exhibition will be 

 held. A special rate of $3 a day on the 

 American plan and $1..50 on the Euro- 

 pean plan, has been secured from this 

 hotel, which is the finest in Chicago. 

 Rooms may be secured in advance by 

 addressing the chairman of the local 

 committee, Mr. P. J. Hauswirth. 318 

 Wabash avenue. Mr. J. T. Anthony 



CARNATION KATHLEEN 

 PANTLIND. 

 We have received some blooms of 

 this excellent new pink carnation from 

 the originators, Messrs. Hopp & 

 Lemke, East Grand Rapids, Mich. 

 The flowers are of good size, a very 

 pretty shade of pink, and borne on 

 long, stout stems. We are advised that 

 it blooms very freely and that the 

 plants are rust proof. It certainly 

 gives promise of being a very useful 

 commercial variety. 



NEW WHITE CARNATION 

 GENESEE. 



We have received some specimen 

 blooms of the new white carnation 

 Genesee, which originated with 

 Messrs. Harmon & Burr, and for which 

 I Mr. D. B. Long, Buffalo, is sales 

 agent. The flowers indicate that the 

 variety is a very promising one, the 

 blooms being of good size, clear white, 

 with perfect calyces and borne on 

 very good stems. Growers who have 

 had opportunity to try this variety 

 are exceedingly well pleased with it. 



ASTERS. 



I would like to plant a lot 40x200 feet 

 with asters next spring, and would like 

 to know how much seed I will need, 

 also the variety which pays best, when 

 to sow the seed and how far to plant 

 apart; or would it not be best to plant 

 some other flowers there besides as- 

 ters? If so, what would pay best? 



K. 



Asters are a good crop for summer, 

 if the best varieties are obtained, and 

 they receive the best of cultivation. 

 Earliness, of course, is a great consid- 

 eration. As I know the market in 

 which these flowers will be sold, it is 

 fair to say that for the past year or 



two, summer outdoor flowers have not 

 been profitable. The supply has been 

 much in excess of the demand, and 

 only the very best have brought a fair 

 price. Sow early in March, transplant 

 into flats when they are an inch high, 

 giving plenty of room between plants. 

 If you wish to give still more encour- 

 agement, you can put them from the 

 flats into i'^-inch pots and plant out 

 middle of May. The rows can be 1.", 

 inches apart, and the plants 10 inches. 

 Semple's is now considered the best 

 strain of asters, but I would also grow 

 some of the Truffaut's Perfection flow- 

 ered. 



Early and good sweet peas pay well, 

 but best of all would be some strong 

 carnation plants, put out end of April, 

 stopped once and then allowed to flow- 

 er during ,luly, August. September and 

 October. You will pick more pi-ofit 

 than vou would off any other crop. 



W. S, 



EXHIBITIONS. 



■'Exhibitions: Their Value and 

 Management," is the title of a paper 

 by Mr. James W. Withers, read before 

 the Westchester County (N. Y.) Gar- 

 deners' Association January 22. 



As illustrating the far-reaching im- 

 portance of even local exhibitions, the 

 essayist notes that the Hoe printing 

 press and the Morse telegraph system 

 were both first presented to the pub- 

 lic at the annual fair of the American 

 Institute, New York, and were assist- 

 ed into prominence through receiving 

 the gold medal of that society. Re- 

 ferring more directly to horticul- 

 tural exhibitions, he holds that the 

 reputation of all the leading houses 

 in the trade in England has been built 

 up by their displays at the numerous 

 exhibitions held in that country, and 

 that many a struggling business man 

 has found the exhibitions an oppor- 

 tunity to bring his merit to the atten- 

 tion of the world. He notes that but 

 for a display at an exhibition Mr. 

 Henry Eckford might still be only 

 growing a few sweet peas for his own 

 amusement, as it was through a local 

 exhibition that his work in improving 

 the sweet pea first became known to 

 the horticultural world. 



The essayist refers to the many dif- 

 ficulties encountered in giving a sat- 

 isfactory exhibition, and emphasizes 

 the importance of giving the manage- 

 ment into the hands of one man whose 

 decision shall be final, and of select- 

 ing judges with the greatest care. As 

 likely to deter protests against the 

 awards of the judges, he suggests a 

 rule adopted by certain English so- 

 cieties, which is that each protest must 

 be accompanied by the sum of one 

 guinea ($5). this sum to be returned to 

 the one making the protest in case the 

 decision of the judges is reversed after 

 the facts are investigated, otherwise 

 the amount to revert to the treasury of 

 the society. 



He advocates the "educational" as 

 against the "pictorial" methods of ar- 



