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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



FEBRUARY 17. 1898. 



take care of it, but never mi.x any of 

 your seconds or rubber necks with your 

 firsts, and, if you have any thirds, send 

 them along, unless you are short on 

 fertilizers. May be they would help out 

 on commission and express, but never 

 mix them with your first-class sto?k. 

 One "ringer" will kill the entire bunch. 

 I want to say a few words regarding 

 the naming of C. P. It is a bad mistake 

 that some of you make in naming your 

 C. P. after staple roses, such as Meteor, 

 Bridesmaid, etc.. and it causes your 



two short stems. His generosity :s 

 misplaced. The ringers, alone, would 

 kill the bunch, even had there been 25 

 good ones. But two are short, and do 

 not count. The bunch has only 23 car- 

 nations in it. Register another ■'kick" 

 tor your tough merchant. No. 1 is the 

 way to do it; No. 2 is the way not to 

 do it. 



Now a word as to pickled stock. The 

 experience of years ought to teach 

 every grower that pickled stock does 

 not pay. but at every holiday the mis- 





Carnation Victor. 



merchant much confusion. Thus, an or- 

 der comes for "one Perle. one White 

 Carnation, half Meteors, half Maids." 

 Your merchant has to be a mind read- 

 er to know whether roses or C. P. are 

 wanted. On last two mentioned, I have 

 known more than one mistake to occur. 

 And a carnation "by any other name 

 would smell as sweet," wouldn't it? 



Ladies and gentlemen, regarding the 

 bunching of C. P.. I am going to make 

 a few illustrations. Here is a bunch 

 of 26 good C. P.. tied as they should be, 

 even heads, with each individual llower 

 showing; also showing every stem of 

 equal length; that is as it should be. 

 This one is not. It is tied all wrong. 

 But, may be, the grower had a reason; 

 let us cut it open. What! 2S carna- 

 tions! O generous man! But, hold on; 

 see, here are three dead "ringers' and 



takes of the previous year are more or 

 less repeated in this respect. It will 

 invariably prove the most profitable to 

 you as well as most satisfactory to your 

 merchant and his customer to keep 

 sending your flowers in as fast as .hey 

 are in proper condition for market. 

 Pickled stock always results in loss to 

 the grower, trouble for your merchant 

 and dissatisfaction to the buyer. I can- 

 not emphasize this fact too strongly. 

 The grower who pickles stock is inva- 

 riably working directly against his 

 own best interests. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen of The 

 Carnation Society: — Your secretary re- 

 ports having issued the reports of last 

 meeting in due time and sending them 



to all members who were not in ar- 

 rears for dues. 



There are on the books Feb. 1st nine- 

 ty-four paid-up members. The reve- 

 nue derived from these will not pay the 

 running expenses of the society and 

 there is room for considerable mission- 

 ary work by these ninety-four mem- 

 bers. 



Every year the mail matter of this 

 society gets heavier. The [)ast year 

 there was not less than three hundred 

 parties outside of the society who 

 wrote your secretary on matters per- 

 taining to the society, and it remains 

 for the society to say whether or not 

 they will be burdened with postage 

 (which has not been charged up in the 

 past, but which your secretary be- 

 lieves will reach 110 the coming year) 

 or whether the secretary shall not rec- 

 ognize such letters from parties other 

 than members. 



Respectfully submitted, 



ALBERT M. HERR. Sec'v. 



CARNATION VICTOR. 



"To the victor belongs the spoils." 

 and to carnation Victor belongs the 

 credit of being one of the finest pinks of 

 its own peculiar shade in the market. 



Mr. Hugh Graham discovered it 

 about four years ago. It is a sport from 

 Daybreak and has all the good points 

 of this variety without any of its bad 

 ones. This is not its initial appear- 

 ance; "it has been tried and not found 

 wanting." It has color that is at once 

 pleasmg and desirable, a beautiful soft 

 pink that you find sometimes in holly- 

 hocks, deepening to the center. The 

 flower is large, with a fine long, erect 

 stem. The plant is a free flowerer, but 

 not a cropper, and is clean and free 

 from rust. What more could be said 

 about a carnation? 



Mr. Graham has been unusually lucky 

 with sports (though he is far from be- 

 ing one himself). His chrysanthemum 

 Philadelphia and its yellow sport 

 Pennsylvania, will and have sustained 

 the reputation of this grower, of which 

 he is very jealous, tor he would rather 

 "dump" a variety than disseminate an 

 unworthy or useless one, an example 

 that is indeed better than precept. 



B. 



VIOLET NOTES 



It is now time for those who did not 

 save fall-rooted runners for stock to 

 think about next season's supply. For 

 myself, I would not think of planting 

 divided old crowns, as so many advo- 

 cate. Perhaps it is all right for those 

 who succeed, but personally I want 

 none of them. Give me a thrifty, 

 stocky young runner, rooted quickly 

 and kept in a cool, healthy growth. 



Care should be taken in cutting the 

 runners, and your self personally, or 

 your very best help, is none too good 

 to do this work, as there are always a 

 good many plants in a house which you 

 should not propagate from under any 

 circumstances; plants that have 

 grown under unfavorable conditions. 



