FEBRUARY 10. 1S9S. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



469 



The FLORISTS' Review 



G. L. GUAyX. Editor AND Makaoer. 



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Copyright 1898. 



CORRECTIONS. 



A number of errors crept into our 

 last issue. The most unpleasant one 

 was the substitution ot the wrong en- 

 graving for the proper one of Livis- 

 tona Hoogendorpii, but there were 

 others. On page 42S, in the "Story of 

 an Emigrant Florist," referring to 

 Dendrobium densiflorum, it should 

 have read: "What a pity it and thyrsi- 

 florum last so short a time," and not 

 Wardianum, the latter being an excel- 

 lent keeper. And the title under the 

 engraving on page 426 should have 

 been Physalis instead of Phylasis. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Officers. ,■ 



President, W. N. Rudd, Mt. Green- 

 wood, 111.; Vice-President, Fred Dor- 

 ner, Jr., Lafayette, Ind.; Secretary, Al- 

 bert M. Herr, Lancaster, Pa.; Treasur- 

 er, Chas. H. Allen, Floral Park, N. Y.; 

 Executive Committee, the above and 

 \Vm. Scott. Buffalo, N. Y.; Eugene 

 Dailledouze, Flatbush, N, Y.; W. R. 

 Shelmire, Avondale, Pa, 



Seventh Annual Meeting. 



The seventh annu.-il meeting will be 

 held at Chicago, Thursday and Friday, 

 February 17 and IS. Headquarters 

 will be at the Auditorum Hotel, where 

 the meetings and exhibition will be 

 held. A special rale 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 is 

 superintendent of the exhibition. He 

 also may be addressed at 318 Wabash 

 avenue. 



NEW CANNAS. 

 Messrs. A. Blanc & Co.. Philadelphia, 

 have issued a very attractive colored 

 print of their new cannas, including 

 the varieties Topaz, Maiden's Blush, 

 Duchess of Marlborough, Duke of 

 Marlborough, Champion, Klondike, 



Brilliant, Lorraine. Victoria. Triumph. 

 Culia and Golden Pearl. It is a very 

 interesting collection. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



Effect of Weather on Business. 



The weather during the past week 

 has been what the daily papers call 

 "old fashioned winter," which means 

 to the growers an amount of labor and 

 expense perfectly appalling. Not only 

 did coal disappear with marvelous 

 speed, but the quantity of flowers cut 

 was entirely too small to meet this ex- 

 tra expense, in most cases at least. 

 Fortunately the end of the week saw a 

 change and while clouds and rain can 

 rarely be called a welcome change, 

 still in this case it certainly was wel- 

 come to many a grower, for with it 

 came a rise in temperature. 



Business continues brisk. It always 

 seems to have an added snap when it 

 snows. The extreme cold has kept the 

 supply down and prices remain linn. 

 Plant trade has been greatly hamper- 

 ed; whenever possible orders have 

 been held for warmer weather. 



The Florist Club. 



The meeting of the Florist Club on 

 Tuesday brought out another group of 

 the newer carnations and most attrac- 

 tive they looked arranged on a center- 

 table under the light. R. Witterstaet- 

 ter, Sedamsville, Ohio, sent Evelina, 

 which carried well. Fred Dorner & 

 Sons, Lafayette, Indiana, sent White 

 Cloud, also in fine condition. The de- 

 butantes, so to speak, that received the 

 most attention because least known 

 were Frank Nequet's Maud Adams, 

 from Patchogue, N. Y., about which 

 the New Yorkers have said such com- 

 plimentary things, and Charles H. 

 Fick's seedlings, especially a white, 

 which measured three and a quarter 

 inches in diameter. 



The color of Maud Adams reminds 

 me somewhat of John Thorpe's old 

 time seedling. May Queen; it appeared 

 to be a sort of cherry color by artificial 

 light. It seems strange that this color 

 should become popular. I very well 

 remember that when selecting my first 

 carnation phints for growing for cut 

 flowers, the robust habit of Sunrise, an 

 old time sort, tempted me to buy three 

 hundred. They bloomed early so that 

 when carrying the first basket to the 

 commission man, it contained nearly 

 one half Sunrise. "This is no use," he 

 said, picking up a bunch of that va- 

 riety; "grow two-thirds white, one- 

 third red, nothing else!" 



The Stores. 



The stores are devoting much atten- 

 tion to their show windows and very 

 tastefully many of them are arranged, 

 "Transient trade," Mr. Cartledge once 

 said, "is the best." That the wide- 

 awake retailers thoroughly realize the 

 importance of this class of business is 

 shown by the pride they take in having 

 rich and striking displays, frequently 



changing to something else. It is a 

 great pleasure to mark what an ac- 

 knowledged power the leading retailers 

 are becoming socially. Perhaps this 

 little incident will best illustrate my 

 meaning; 



Not long ago a lady was arranging 

 the details of her niece's wedding. A 

 family conclave assembled to decide 

 what flowers the bride should carry; it 

 must be something choice and beauti- 

 ful. Finally the lady decided on rose 

 Souvenir du President Carnot and 

 Cattleya Trianae made into a shower 

 bouquet. "The Carnot will look nearly 

 white and the orchids will add color," 

 she said. This decision was communi- 

 cated to the retailer, who was to make 

 up the bunch. "Is the lady a widow?" 

 he asked. "Certainly not." "Then It 

 will not do." he said. "I would suggest 

 either Bride roses and lilies of the 

 valley together, as Lapageria alba is 

 not now in the market, or Brides alone 

 or lilies of the valley alone. The 

 bunch should be white." And white 

 it was of Brides and valley. What a 

 contrast to the days when the caterer 

 ruled the florist and made him always 

 put smilax on the table. 



Notes. 



The bowling team won their match 

 game this week in fine style. Their 

 score is now, won three, lost three, 

 with bright prospects of improving 

 their position in the race. 



"Mr. X.." one of our prominent re- 

 tailers said, "is the best raiser of roses 

 I know; they were five cents yesterday 

 and ten today." 



I wish to correct an error. In my 

 last letter John Burton, not Myers & 

 Samtman, grows Beauties insolidbeds; 

 Myers & Samtman's high even span 

 house has tables. J. W. Y. 



CLEVELAND. 



Cut Flower Situation. 



We have just come through the cold- 

 est and most long continued spell of 

 frigid temperature that has occurred 

 this winter. Although the mercury got 

 well down into the bulb and gave us a 

 taste of below zero weather, yet we 

 have had clearer and sunnier days 

 than at any time previous since early 

 last November. The consequence is, 

 that while there may have been some 

 slight temporary check to the supply, 

 yet the quality is already somewhat 

 improved and later cuttings will show 

 more. Flowers continue in none too 

 plentiful supply, not even bulb stuff be- 

 ing as yet overdone. It is to be hoped 

 that this feature will continue through- 

 out the season, although anything 

 quite so good as that would be, is a 

 little too much to expect. 



Roses are still rather short in sup- 

 ply, although the quality is very good, 

 with only a very small percentage of 

 second grade flowers. The crop with 

 many growers is now at its lowest 

 point and every day from now on will 



