Decembf.i; 2o, 1'J02. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



181 



Detail of Wedding Decoration by Wadley & Smythet New York. 



force to the stream and run the hose be- 

 tween the plants close to the soil, thus 

 keepin? the plants dry overhead. 



A. F. J. Baur. 



NOTES OF A WAYFARER. 



On questioning our timepiece, we 

 found time to go to the other end of 

 Indianapolis and see our old friend, H. 

 W. Rieman. We found liim in the boil- 

 er hole, through building, repairing, etc. 

 Henry has had a lively time of it, but 

 was just putting on the finishing 

 touches when we appeared on the scene. 

 H. W. Rieman chrysanthemum is still 

 the best mum for Thanksgiving, here as 

 elsewhere. Mr. Rieman has two other 

 good seedlings of his own in quantit}' 

 — Adelia, white, and Miranda, pink, both 

 fine commercial varieties. The white one 

 we thought perfection itself as we saw it 

 at the Kansas City show. We would call 

 it an improved Ivory and very much 

 SO; looks an easier doer. They ar- 

 rived too late to compete at Kansas 

 City. We shall await with interest to 

 see what a showing these will make 

 next year when the facilities for grow- 

 ing them will be improved. 



His carnations were in nice shape. 

 The pink McGowau seedling, a cross be- 

 tween Scott and McGowan, is a good 

 thing for a retail place, a pleasing color 

 and a free bloomer. As short as was 

 our stay, we still have some interesting 



memories of that bench of seedling ear- 

 nations. 



We arrived at E. T. Grave's establish- 

 ment at Richmond just as the shades 

 of night were falling and before we were 

 half through the houses the shades had 

 fallen '"kerplunk." The lantern inspec- 

 tion which followed was more of a suc- 

 cess than we would have anticipated. 

 President McKinley, the new carnation 

 now being offered, was an agreeable sur- 

 prise to us. We don't believe we will 

 want to grow many Lawson (in which 

 class it comes) when we get this ster- 

 ling cerise color, with longer stems and 

 no splits; it also seems quite free. We 

 think Mr. Grave should feel proud to 

 have beaten five vases of 100 Lawson 

 each, at Chicago, even if he did have to 

 take second to the sixth one, consider- 

 ing that he has not an extra large quan- 

 tity to pick from. We noticed here a 

 good commercial scarlet, which will be 

 ready a year from now, Estelle shade, 

 extremely free and good stems. Crane 

 and America are grown for red, the 

 former variety the better of the two. 

 An extra fine batch of Mrs. Potter Pal- 

 mer looked as free as anything on the 

 place, long stems and large flowers. 

 The color of this variety does not seem 

 to give entire satisfaction early in the 

 fall, but is now rounding into shape, 

 and will without doubt ere long be all 

 that was claimed for it. 



We found John Evans at home, as be- 

 comes all men of his station of life, 



taking care of the babies, getting more 

 gray and fatherly looking every day. 

 If you visit Richmond, don't fail to call 

 on .John, for Evans will Challenge you to 

 go anywhere with him, and he has a rig 

 to take you in at that. We had him 

 in hand at the E. G. Hill Company's 

 place and back. John knows little about 

 (lowers and little about horseflesh, but 

 what he don't know about ventilating 

 machines isn't worth knowing. We 

 missed him at the fall shows this year, 

 but he says that they are so swamped 

 with business that he could not possi- 

 bly get away from Richmond. 



Any one never having visited Hill's 

 would be greatly surprised at the large 

 quantities of mums, roses and geranium 

 plants by the hundreds of thousands to 

 be shipped to all parts of the globe. 

 The house of seedling roses is particu- 

 larly interesting. Some of them will 

 push their way to the front in spite of 

 the best present day standard varieties. 

 Franz Deegen, the new yellow, is a gem. 

 It was throwing up strong shoots and 

 new breaks in abundance and could not 

 help but win the admiration of the most 

 skeptical rosarians. Carnations here 

 suffered severely last summer; they are 

 nearly all late and Mr. Hill regrets now 

 that he ever planted them on that low 

 bog land, which everybody thought 

 would do such wonders; it shows that 

 the best of us are not always good 

 judges of soil and locations to plant in. 



Tlie varieties showing the most flow- 



