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GARDENING. 



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lui Ilia was a revelation! marvel! ! to all 

 of us who had never before made our .ap- 

 pearance there. It can onlj- be under- 

 stood after traveling its entire liiinlh 

 over a thousand miles. I have li.ivikil 

 as near as I can approximate liist .md 

 last over the U. S. A., .some 2."., (mo to 

 30,000 miles, to attend to the duties of 

 my late ofHce as treasurer A. i". S , from 

 Canada to Tampa, Florida, and I'.ostou 

 to California, and in my old age [7.S 

 years. — Ed.] as I remember the pleasant 

 acquaintances formed of men interested 

 in cultivating the soil and beautifying the 

 earth it is a pleasant resource in recol- 

 lecting them. As Sydney Smith said 

 'Once happy always happy in the remem- 

 brance of it ' " 



The Florists. 



T«E SOCIETy OF flMERlCflN FLORISTS. 



Held its eleventh jmnual convention at 

 Pittsburg, Pa., August 20 to 23. Its 

 members comprise the practical florists of 

 the country, men who earn their bread 

 and butter by growing and selling plants 

 and flowers. Competition in the florist 

 business is very keen. But the successful 

 men arc brainy, bright, active people, 

 who investigate the why and wherefore 

 of every matter of detail in the selection 

 and cultivation of the plants they handle, 

 hence when they talk among themselves 

 in open meeting, chunks of solid sense are 

 apt to drop from their lips. And as this 

 information is just as pertinent to the 

 amateur as to the commercial florist is 

 the reason why we have (|UOted so freelv 

 of it in this issue. 



FROM PRESIDENT LONSDALE'S ftDDRESS. 



We cannot fail to be benefited by com- 

 ing in contact with these broad-minded 

 men of Pittsburg, who are continually 

 planning and carrying out noble de. ds for 

 the benefit of the people. I^ote the grand 

 scale upon which the glass structures are 

 being built for the benefit of the public in 

 this city, and how the plants and flowers, 

 occupying these notable buildings, are 

 being grown to interest not only people 

 of leisure and the brain workers, but the 

 industrious artisans also. 



The florists' business is something more 

 than the cut flower trade. There is the 

 beautifying of gardens and grounds. The 

 first thing every wide-awake florist will 

 do is to beautify his own home surround- 

 ing. It is positively necessary for us to 

 have examples of everythingthat is good, 

 and grown in the most attractive and 

 best manner possible, if we would have 

 the desired effect upon the surrounding 

 neighborhood. 



The firm, which it is now claimed is 

 growing the largest mignonette for cut 

 flowers for the New York market, secured 

 all the best strains of seed that could be 

 obtained at that time, and only one plant 

 out of the whole batch was selected; and 

 every year since the very best plants are 

 set aside for seed saving purposes. Last 

 Christmas flower spikes from this special 

 strain were sold atthe rateof fifty dollars 

 ])er hundred, h. better price, I believe, was 

 never paid for mignonette before. This 

 statement of facts is introduced h re for 

 the purpose of showing what can be done 

 by careful, intelligent, and patient selec- 

 tion. So highly is this seed valued that 

 none of it is for sale, and up to the present 

 time sufiicient cannot be raised for this 

 firm's own special purpose, that of fur- 

 nishing cut flowers onlj-. Here is food for 

 thought and action. For what can be 

 done with mignonette may be done with 

 most other flowers. 



CflRYSflNTflEMUMS. 



Suppose that we trv a division like the 

 lollowiug; 

 C7«.s.s .1: Commercial cut llower varie- 



H: lixhibition cut flower varieties. 



C: Ivxhibition pot plants. 



}): Exhibition single stem one flower 

 pot plants. 



A dozen varieties possessing the essen- 

 tial (lualifications, namely, color, form, 

 depth, substance, stem, lasting qualities, 

 are infinitelj' better than a hundred varie- 

 ties selected at random. One of the first 

 requisites for the commercial grower is 

 the securing of a succession of bloom, 

 having varieties that will follow one an- 

 other through the limited season of 

 bloom. Happily this is now possible; we 

 name Mme. F. Bergmann as the first and 

 best early white variety. This should 

 begin to bloom above the 5th of October. 

 Before Bergmann is done Mrs. Henry 

 Robinson will begin to show its magnifi- 

 cent flowers; this variety possesses all the 

 good qualities of a perfect white chrysan- 

 themum and will begin flowering about 

 the 13th of October, and is as fine as an\' 

 mid-season variet}-. 



I would fill the aforementioned classes 

 as follows: 



Class A— Whites. 

 Mme. Bergmann. Oct 5. Mrs. H. Robinson, Oct iH 

 Jessica— Ivory, Oct. 1-5 J H. While 

 Queen Niveus 



W. G. Newitt Mrs, Jerome Jones 



Eiderdown Mrs. H. McK Twombley 



Mrs. Parker Jr 

 Lady Playfair 

 V. Mo. el 



Class P 

 Ye low Queen 

 Miss M.M, Johnson 

 Georgienne Bramhall 

 H. W. Riemau 



^— Pinks. 

 Mrs. E. G. Hill 

 M. Richard Dean 

 D.Toler 



-Yellows 

 Lager 



Kadi! 



H. Lincoln 



Class A— Commercial Varieties; Colors noi 



Classed. 

 Philadelphia Silver Cloud 



Charlotte Inter-Ocean 



Mrs. Geo. Magee. 

 Class B— Exhibition Cut Flower Varieties 

 Queen Mrs. Geo. Magee 



Niveus H. W. Riemau 



E. Dailledouze 

 H. L. Sunderbruch 

 G. Bramhall 

 Golden Gate 

 Golden Wedding 

 W. H. Lincoln 

 Col. (V. B. Smith 

 EM. Bigclow 



Mrs. Henry Robinson 

 Mme. C. Molin 

 Mrs. R. W E. Murray 

 J. Agate 

 Mrs. I. Jones 

 Mayflower 

 Mutual Friend 

 Marie Louise 

 W. G. Newitt 

 Dean Hole 

 Mrs. Higinbotham 

 V. Morel 

 Inter Ocean 

 Ada H. Leroy 

 Mrs. E. O. Wolcott 

 Mrs. G J. Beer 

 . J. W. Crouch 



Andes 



Class C- 

 W. H. Lincoln 

 Nellie Elversoi 



W. G. Newitt 



Jos. H White 



Egyptiati 



Ermenilda 



Ivory 



Class D— Ex 



Ivory 



Philadelphia 

 H. W. Rieman 



Etoile de Lyon 

 Inter Ocean 



R. Mcln 

 Black Beauty 

 Geo. W. Childs 

 Juo. Shrimpton 

 C. B. Whitnall 

 Mrs. Geo. West 

 Mrs. C. H. Payne 

 Rider Haggaid 

 ~ ■" ■ ■ Lyon 



Etoile < 

 Chas. I 

 Philadelphia. 



XHIBITION Bush Plants. 

 The Bard 

 Geo W. Childs 

 L' Enfant des Deux Mondes 

 Ernest Rieman 

 C. Chilfant 

 Robt. Bottomly 



Mutual Friend 



Kda Prass 



H. L. Sunderbn 



V. Morel 



C B. Whitnall 



R. Mclnn 



Chas. Dav 



V. Morel 



E. Dailledou; 



Philadelph 



my of the omitted favorites; 

 Ivory 



. Sundeibruch 

 n. W. Rieman 

 H. Robinson Niveus 



M. Richard Dean Queen 



Geo. W. Childs R. Mclnnes. 



W. H. Lincoln. 

 If I were limited absolutely tc 

 eties of chrvsanthcnuims thev 

 the following, though I should 



SELECTED flflRDY PERENNIALS. 



For a special selection of the best C 

 white flowering sorts I would recommend 

 the folio wing: ^e/i///ea. The Pearl, Cen- 

 taiirea montana alba. Euphorbia corol- 

 lata, Lathyrus latifolius'-Pyrethruni 

 uliginosuw, Lychnis vespertina ft. pi. 



In yellows the best 6 that I can recoui 

 mend would be as follows: Buphthahnum 

 salicifolium. Coreopsis lanceolata, Doroiii- 

 cum planlagineum var. excelsum, Helen- 

 ium Hoopcsii. Helianthus multiflorus ft. 

 pi, Henierocallis Thunbergii. 



In blue the best 6 I would recommend 

 would be as follows: Campanula Carpa- 

 thica. Delphinium Sinense, Platyeodon 

 grandiftorum,Scabiosa Caucasica, Veron- 

 ica amsethystina, Veronica longifoli.-i 

 subsessilis. 



In pink, red or scarlet perhaps the fol- 

 lowing 6 can be recommended as highly 

 as any of the above: Centaurea (leclinal/i , 

 Heuehera sanguinea, Malva Alcea, hybrid 

 pyrcthrums. Lychnis ftos cuciili plenis- 

 sima, Silenc Virginica. 



LATEST FACTS ABOUT ROSES. 



Condensed from a paper by Mr. I. 

 Kennedy, Philadelphia, 



For OUTDOOR planting.— Among the 

 H. Ps. the two best of this year arc JMrs. 

 J. Sharman Crawford and "Helen Keller. 

 The flowers of the first named are of a 

 deep rose color, tinted with flesh on out- 

 side, and large and full. Helen Keller has 

 large, full, fragrant, rosy cerise flowers 

 somewhat resembling American Beauty. 

 Both are strong growers, quite hardy 

 and bloom as freely as Mrs. John Laing. 

 Both were raised by Alex Dickson & Sons, 

 Ireland. 



New Everblooming Continental 

 (Europe) ones.— Hippolyte Barreau— 

 crimson, very double, of fine form, a pro- 

 fuse bloomer. Not sure of its hardiness. 

 La Neige. A new Bengal rose of the 

 stamp of Hemiosa or Agrippina, flowers 

 white, medium size, very double. Albert- 

 ine Borguet, style of Isabella Sprunt, 

 flowers canary j'ellow, good for summer 

 culture. Madame Edward Helfenbein— 

 Plant vigorous, flowers chamois, apricot 

 yellow shaded with carmine rose. 



New Polvantha roses.— Pink Sou- 

 pert, an American variety. Crimson 

 Rambler, quite hardy, vigorous, free- 

 blooming, but not continuous. 



Ever-hlooming Climbing roses. — 

 Climbing Meteor and Climbing Wootton, 

 are two new varieties to be sent out next 

 year. 



Good older VARiETiEs.-Maman Coehet , 

 silvery rose pink, double, large as a Mer- 

 met, and fine for August and September. 

 It is one of the hardiest of the teas, under 

 a furrow of earth 75% lived out of doors 

 over last winter at Philadelphia. Cloth- 

 ilde Soupert should be in everj- amateur's 

 garden. Over 500,000 of this rose is dis- 

 tributed annually. 



There is one thing we want to bear 

 constantly in mind, and that is the fact 

 that the amateur .\merican rose loving 

 public want roses that will produce good 

 flowers all summer and at the same time 

 stand our winters without protection. 

 In the hybnd tea we have found a type 

 of rose that in a great measure meets 

 with these reqirements. The following 

 are a few of the best— all splendid varie- 



