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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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ITHE RETAIL 



FLORIST 



corporation than by the poor struggling 

 mum grower. 



Growers of early varieties were in 

 hard luck and the only remedy seems to 

 be to grow all the early varieties out- 

 side and reserve the more valuable in- 

 side space for the later sorts. Prices 

 were satisfactory enough during Novem- 

 ber and up to the standard of previous 

 years, and the obvious moral is, don't 

 bother with the early kinds. Where a 

 man retails his own flowers the case is 

 different. He has his business sys- 

 tematized and knows what he can sell 



BASKET OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph of an old-fashioned handle 

 basket with a one-sided arrangement of 

 a variety of chrysanthemums, shading 

 from dark bronze and salmon to the 

 bright yellow of Col. D. Appleton, with 

 graceful clusters of the miniature "Gol- 

 den Chain" peeping above sprays of 

 Asparagus plumosus. 



The varieties of chrysanthemums used 

 were Geo. W. Childs, Intensity, Chito, 

 Bentley, Golden Chain, Col. D. Appleton 

 and a small bronze variety unknown to 

 lis by name. 



This basket was entered for competi- 

 tion at the recent Chicago flower show 

 by John Mangel, and was awarded first 

 prize as best basket of chrysanthemums. 

 It w^as arranged by myself. 



Next week we will present pictures of 

 baskets of roses arranged in various 

 .stvles. L. r. Walz. 



which are all right if you have a market 

 for them. 



In pinks I prefer to grow Lady Har- 

 riet, Coombes, Balfour and Morel, with 

 the new Liger as an addition. Lady 

 Harriet will come in by the middle of 

 October, and Jfrs. Coombes, which 

 brought ?5 a dozen this year, will come 

 in very shortly after. Marie Liger 

 seems as though it would be a valuable 

 addition to the class of commercial 

 pinks. A. .J. Balfour is now well known 

 and for color it is hard to heat. 



We have only room for one crimson and 

 that is H. J. Jones. This variety is by 

 no means ideal. It is a poor grower in 

 spring and throws a mass of flowering 

 suckers instead of good healthy cuttings, 

 but it will bring in more than any other 

 red to date. 



In yellows I select Halliday, Appleton, 

 Mabel Morgan, Goldmine and Yellow 

 Eaton as being the most likely to bring 

 in profitable returns. Halliday can be 

 cut about the 18th of October and Ap- 

 pleton's season this year with us runs 

 from the 20th of October to November 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Commercial Varieties and Culture. 



The season just passing can hardly be 

 considered a veiy favorable one to the 

 grower financially, the chief reason for 

 this being the extremely fine weather 

 that prevailed all the fall, and which 

 permitted the gathering of dahlias and 

 such like stock in the open garden even 

 up to the first of November in many 

 sections. The fine weather was also the 

 means of keeping the flower buyers out 

 at their country homes enjoying the 

 scenery', Avhen by all established prece- 

 dent they should have returned to the 

 tity and commenced using up the green- 

 house product. It is useless also at- 

 tempting to deny the fact that there is 

 ■considerable ovei-production of the me- 

 dium to small grades, and these being 

 thrown on the market in immense quan- 

 tities find their outlet among the street 

 dealers, and wherever one turns during 

 October one sees only mums and more 

 mums; and people who do not mind pay- 

 ing a fair price for good flowers, soon 

 get weary of them, and look around 

 for something else that is hardly so 

 common. 



The man that does not need to get his 

 living growing mums will tell you that 

 the chrysanthemum is "the poor man's 

 flower. It can be easily grown and re- 

 quires no heat, and since it can be bought 

 on the street so cheaply it goes into 

 many houses where other flowers do not, 

 carrying with it an increasing love for 

 the beautiful and inculcating elevating 

 thoughts and ideas into the hearts and 

 minds of our poorer citizens." It sounds 

 all right. The mum is the poor man's 

 flower all right enough, or at least it 

 •will keep a man poor that grows it for 

 tlie wholesale market, but it seems to me 

 that the cost of elevating our fellow- 

 man to an appreciation of the beautiful 

 could be more easily borne by the Stand- 

 ard Oil Company or some other wealthy 



Basket of Chrysanthemums. 



and grows accordingly, but there are 

 many growers not so favored. ^^ 



In selecting varieties to grow for rie^t 

 year my choice is as follows: Whites — 

 Alice Byron, Mrs. Robinson, Eaton and 

 Chadwick. These are all good and flower 

 in the order named. Byron by the mid- 

 dle of October, and Chadwick can be 

 kept till Thanksgiving. Of course there 

 are many others and for those who are 

 looking "for early whites there are the 

 white sports of Glory of the Pacific, 



20th, so that it can be classed as mid- 

 season and late. Mabel Morgan and Yel- 

 low Eaton were both referred to in these 

 colunms very recently, so there is no need 

 to say more about them, and Goldmine 

 in many sections is proving very valua- 

 ble. 



It will be noticed that I do not men- 

 tion any of the extra early varieties and 

 the condition of the market this year 

 was such that no one could conscien- 

 tiously recommend them. Another year 



