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The Florists^ Review 



Fbbruart 10, 1916. 



this party will comprise at least 400 

 persons. John Young, Sec'y. 



ILUNOISANS TO MEET. 



Secretary J. F, Ammann announces 

 that the eleventh annual meeting and 

 exhibition of the Illinois State Florists ' 

 Association will be held at Turner hall, 

 Moline, 111., March 7 and 8. The pro- 

 gram for- the first day of the meeting 

 is as follows: 



Welcome, by Martin R. Carlson, mayor. 



President's address, by C. W. Johnson, of 

 Morgan Park. 



Secretary's report, by J. F. Aramann, of 

 Edwardsvllle. 



Treasurer's report, by F. . L. Washburn, of 

 Bloomlngton. 



Report on fertilizer work, by F. W. Muncic, 

 of Urbana. 



Report on pathological work, by G. L. Peltier, 

 of Urbana. 



Unfinished and new Vujiness. 



General discussion. \ 



Dinner, at 6 p. m. 



"Christmas and Faster Flowering and Foliapre 

 Plants," by W. E. Tricker. of Western Springs. 



"What the Division of Floriculture is Doing," 

 by H. B. Domer, of Urbana. 



"Soils," by W. E. Taylor, of lUrbana. 



Election of officers. 



March 8 will be spent in a tour of 

 inspection of greenhouses and visits to 



other places of interest. All members 

 are cordially invited to attend the 

 meet;ing and also to make exhibits. All 

 novelties exhibited are judged accord- 

 ing to the national society's scale of 

 points, and any flower scoring eighty- 

 five points or more will be given a cer- 

 tificate of merit by the association. 

 Entries should be sent to John Staack, 

 Turner hall. Sixth avenue and Four- 

 teenth street, Moline. 

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THE NEW YORK SHOW. 



The committee is gradually bringing 

 to completion the final schedule of pre- 

 miums to be awarded at the New York 

 International Flower Show April 5 to 

 12 and it ia expected that it will be 

 ready for distribution about March 1. 

 The committee on special premiums, F. 

 L. Atkins, chairman, is meeting with 

 considerable success in its efforts to 

 influence the donation of prizes and a 

 similar committee from the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York, F, E. New- 

 bold, chairman, is doing like work in 

 its own field. The official souvenir pro- 

 gram, is in course of preparation. 



Exhibition Manager Herrington is 

 making frequent trips among prospec- 

 tive exhibitors and his reports are quite 

 enthusiastic as to the support prom- 

 ised. It would seem that there need 

 be no apprehension that the show will 

 be anything but a huge success, much 

 superior to the show of last year. The 

 trade section,, too, promises to greatly 

 excel that of last year, the reservations 

 already made showing a considerable in- 

 crease in the number of exhibitors. 



The committee has prepared a sticker 

 to be used on trade stationery and is 

 sending supplies of these stamps to all 

 who will use them. 



Two of the great feature classes of 

 the show will be creditably filled, it is 

 pleasing to know. At least five entries 

 are promised for rose gardens and there 

 are to be three entries in the rock 

 garden class. 



The work of obtaining local publicity 

 for the show has been placed in the 

 hands of the Korbel-Colwell organiza- 

 tion, which creditably gave the same 

 service last year. 



John Young, Sec'y. 



TESTING CANNAS IN TENN^BSEE. 



[The conclusion of an article begun in The 

 Review for February 3, 1916.] , 



The variety Meteor* has been a de- 

 cided disappointment to us. We had 

 never seen it till this year. We procured 

 it from the originator and from another 

 source as well, so that we could grow 

 a good stock of it. The cdlor is good, 

 but the flowers are too small for a mod- 

 ern canna, and with us and three of our 

 friends here it has not proved to be 

 any better a bloomer than a number of 

 others that have better individual flow- 

 ers. We consider that so far as the 

 south is concerned at least, this is a 

 much overrated canna. 



Dragon, a 1915 novelty, seems to be 

 a marvel in growth and bloom. It has 

 produced twenty-eight shoots from a 

 single 3-inch plant, and every one has 

 had a 3-branched flower spike of fair- 

 sized, dark, ox-blood red blooms that 

 are the best of their color. Its only 

 fault is the fact that the spikes are not 

 held high enough above the foliage. Its 

 height is about five feet. 



Hqnry George, with us, is almost a 

 duplicate of Dragon, except that it is 

 not so strong a grower or so rapid a 

 multiplier. It is only fair to say that 

 it was planted a month later than 

 Dragon and has had a poorer chance. 



King Humbert needs no word further 

 than that it is still the best bronze- 



leaved canna, though it has two rivals 

 that are certainly close competitors. 



Wm. Saunders is perhaps as good in 

 every way as King Humbert and a more 

 constant bloomer. If planted far enough 

 from each other to make it impossible 

 to compare details closely, I doubt 

 whether any but the most expert grower 

 would be able to tell them apart. 



New York has done better with us 

 this season than King Humbert. It 

 blooms freely and its flowers are fully 

 as large as Humbert, besides being a 

 more solid scarlet. The foliage is not 

 quite the same shade of bronze. 



Pennsylvania has grown side by side 

 with Firebird. It has produced more 

 than double the number of blooms, the 

 individual flowers and the heads are 

 fully as large as those of Firebird and 

 the foliage is good. If we were asked 

 to take our choice of the two for the 

 everyday canna bed, we would certainly 

 select Pennsylvania. 



Uncle Sam is another canna that has 

 not gained the popularity it deserves. 

 It cannot be beat for a large-flowered, 

 brilliant red, green-leaved canna, where 

 five feet is not too tall. The same 

 may be said of Indiana and Louisiana, 

 though both of these are orange rather 

 than scarlet. 



There are a score of other red cannas 

 that have enough merit to warrant spe- 

 cial mention, if space would allow, but 

 the foregoing we have found to be the 



best to date. Some may think there 

 are others that are better than those 

 mentioned and we confess that it has 

 been a hard question to settle just which 

 to leave out, but for our climate and 

 soil we feel that we are right. 



Wanted — A First-class Yellow. 



The man who desires to make a last- 

 ing name for himself by producing a 

 good canna should turn to yellows. 

 There is no really good yellow canna 

 in the sense that we mean when we 

 speak of a good red or even a good 

 pink. 



Florence Vaughan can still be con- 

 sidered the one all-purpose yellow can- 

 na, though, as everyone knows, it is 

 not yellow but spotted, and there are 

 so many inferior sorts sold for it that 

 many never see the true variety. There 

 are several varieties of the same type 

 and color that are so similar that th^ 

 could easily be passed off for F. 

 Vaughan. Elizabeth Hoss is as good 

 as any of these. It is slightly taller 

 than F. Vaughan. 



Gustav Gumpper is the yellowest can- 

 na we have that has size, vigor, hardi- 

 ness and other good qualities. We place 

 this at the head of the list, at least of 

 those that are cheap enough to be uised. 

 Its one fault is that it is rather dwarf, 

 not over four and one-half feet high. 

 We shall grow this in quantities in the 

 future. 



