NovE.MUER 27, 1902. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Funeral Bunch of Roses. No. 4. Top view. 



Band; this discourages the brealiing of 

 eyes and making of wood wliile root 

 formation is in progress. 



To obtain success in propagating the 

 house requires the strictest care and at- 

 tention in ventilating, watering, and the 

 intelligent regulation of the heat con- 

 served beneath the benches, as any care- 

 lessness or inattention in these matters 

 can easily ruin a whole houseful of cut- 

 tings. 



The selection of suitable wood, style 

 of cutting, etc., will be treated in my 

 next paper. Ribes. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Review of Varieties. 



The exhibitions are over, and in ac- 

 cordance with our usual custon^ we 

 will review the field and see what va- 

 rieties have proved themselves entitled 

 to climb up the ladder of fame. Some 

 of the varieties that are very prominent 

 at exhibitions are not of much value to 

 the commercial man, and if the recom- 

 mendation of the C. S. A. to put in 

 classes at exhibitions for supported 

 flowers is generally carried out, the dif- 

 ference between varieties suitable for 

 exhibiting and varieties suitable for 

 commercial work will be even more pro- 

 nounced. 



Without going into the merits or de- 

 merits of that recommendation further 



llinn to say that I am in favor of it, I 

 will give a list of about thirty varieties 

 that I believe are the best that can be 

 grown for exhibition purposes. I have 

 gone to considerable trouble in com- 

 piling this list, and have been very care- 

 ful in the selection because I happen to 

 know that not a few exhibition growers 

 read it, and govern themselves accord- 

 ingly. The varieties are listed in the 

 order of their flowering. 



Yellows: C. J. Salter, Mrs. T. W. 

 Pockett, Mabel Morgan, Yellow Carnot, 

 Appleton, Mrs. Thurkell and Goldmine. 

 Of these Salter and Pockett have been 

 previously mentioned in these notes. 

 Their only weak spot is that they are 

 a trifle early for the bulk of the exhibi- 

 tions. Appleton, Yellow Carnot and 

 Goldmine are well known. I frankly 

 confess that I cannot handle Goldmine, 

 but it has been shown in splendid sha,pe 

 this year at several places and cannot 

 be ignored. Mabel Morgan is a beauti- 

 ful Japanese, rather light in color, but 

 ideal in form and finish. Mrs. E. 



Tliurkell is also a Japanese with long 

 iliooping florets, splendid color and as 

 set up this year one of the very finest 

 of all the yellows. I notice Mr. Smith 

 makes a needed correction as to the 

 proper name of this variety. 



Wliites: Nellie Pockett, Weeks, Car- 

 not, Merza, Eaton, Florence Molyneux 

 and Chadwick. There is only one in 



this list, Florence Molyneux, that is at 

 all new. This variety is a trifle weak 

 in the stem, but may overcome that 

 defect. Merza has been shown finer 

 than ever. Chadwick is really a poor 

 white, owing to the pink shade that 

 shows through it, but it is irreproacha- 

 ble in form and finish, and is late, which 

 makes it useful for later shows. There 

 is lots of room for several more good 

 whites in this- class. Convention Hall 

 will be tried by some and may make a 

 name for itself. 



In pinks, Mrs. Coombes, Marie Liger, 

 A. J. Balfour, V. Morel. Mrs. Barkley 

 and R. E. Richardson seem about the 

 best. Coombes is rather too early, but 

 it is a fine keeper. Liger you have all 

 seen at the different exhibitions. Bal- 

 four is small and shy on petalage, but 

 that wonderful color often carries it 

 through. Barkley was exhibited in 'New 

 York in wonderful shape, and Richard- 

 son, while a shade small, is the most 

 beautiful shade of pink perhaps of the 

 whole lot. Columbia is spoken of as a 

 pink for this class, but I have not seen 

 it. Chamberlain was a disappointment 

 to me as an exhibition pink, owing to 

 Its lack of petalage, though the color is 

 beautiful. 



In the purple class,as it may be called 

 for want of a better term, or the class 

 for any other color, I place Carrington, 

 Millieent Richardson, Chas. Longley 

 and Geo. Carpenter. Carrington has 

 been exhibited vei-y extensively this fall 

 and invariably fine. Millieent Richard- 

 son and Longley have been spoken of in 

 these notes before, the first named being 

 much brighter than Carrington. Car- 

 penter is dull in color and rather short 

 in the petal and if one has the three 

 first named he hardly needs the last one, 

 though it is all right as a variety. An- 

 other variety that must go into this 

 class of any other color, as it is not a 

 good self color, is Lord Salisbury. This 

 variety is yellow suflfused with crimson, 

 not a particularly taking color, but sim- 

 ply immense in size. It is a .Japanese 

 with petals 10 inches long. The petals 

 drop right down and the real size of 

 the flower is not seen unless it is set up 

 on a board. Like most of the other big 

 fellows today it comes from Australia. 



In the crimson class, H. J. Jones Is 

 immense, though many growers this 

 year took the bud too early, and the 

 flower instead of being rich crimson 

 came chestnut brown or some other off 

 color, but from a bud taken the last of 

 August, Jones will produce a beautiful 

 flower. Lord Hopetoun, a new Austra- 

 lian, may crowd it close next year, as it 

 is claimed to be brighter in color than 

 Jones and a better grower. 



In the bronze section Broomhead 

 seems to be the only thing, though won- 

 derful flowers of Rustique were shown 

 at Lenox, I am told. It seems to me 

 that W. R. Church will have to go into 

 this section. It is catalogued as a rosy 

 crimson with bronze reverse, but it only 

 shows the bronze i-everse. I note some 

 remarks in an English paper about 

 over-dressing a flower of Church, that 

 is, of turning the petals inside out and 

 making a reflexed out of an incurving 

 variety. In America a dressed flower 

 is barred out from competition, there- 

 fore I see no place for Church but as an 

 incurving bronze. 



The Australian Varieties. 

 Nothing is more remarkable in look- 

 ing over this list than to note the fact 

 that at least one-third are Australian 



