MAK'JH Iti, UMC. 



The Florists^ Review 



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jection is made to this registration 

 j)rior to April 1, this variety will be 

 registered as Crystal White. 



Description: Bloom medium size (8 cm.), 

 .-'tumeu lilainonts white, antliers bluisli; periautli 

 white, blotclicil Tyrian rose. It seems to be 

 1. couiiiact bloom of Rood substauce, live blooms 

 ' beinK oiK>n at one time. It is early to mid- 

 ■^I'iison, tall, ercot and bears a large number of 

 ;. looms (21). It is a vigorous grower, well 

 furnished with medium broad leaves and seems 

 10 be rather i)rollfic. Name, Crystal White. 



A. C. Beal, 



Chairman Nomenclature Committee. 



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AMONG TEWKSBURY GROWERS. 



Patten & Co. 



The carnation establishment of M. A. 

 Patten & Co., of Tewksbury, Mass., is 

 well known in Boston and New Eng- 

 land. M. A. Patten, the senior mem- 

 ber of the firm, has for years been 

 noted as a skillful grower, and some 

 good novelties have originated here. 

 All the houses here are kept scrupu- 

 lously clean and the whole plant is a 

 model of its kind. Carnations continue 

 to be the great specialty here and never 

 looked better than this season. In 

 whites. White Wonder is much pre- 

 ferred to Matchless, being found far 

 freer in winter. The planting of 

 Matchless has been much reduced since 

 a year ago. Alice does extremely well 

 here, as does Pink Delight. Sunbeam 

 fills one bench and made a favorable 

 showing. Pink Sensation and Good 

 Cheer will be tried again, after a care- 

 ful selection of cuttings. At present 

 both are flowering freely. 



Beacon, which with many growers 

 bursts badly at this season, does splen- 

 didly here and few splits were to be 

 seen. Benora does finely. A few 

 plants were seen of a pure white sport. 

 Peerless Pink was in heavy crop and 

 may be grown again, but Rosette will 

 l)e dropped. Philadelphia was doing 

 well. Mrs. Akehurst fades out too 

 much. Enchantress Supreme has proved 

 good and holds its color well. Some 

 good seedlings were noted, in addition 

 to the standard varieties. 



One house is filled with Godfrey 

 callas, which bloom with great free- 

 dom. Plants in as small as 2V4-inch 

 pots have flowered. Freesias, snap- 

 dragons, asparagus, adiantums, Cypri- 

 })edium insigne, marguerites and bed- 

 ding plants occupy several houses. 



A. Roper. 



The sad tragedy which, March 1, 

 removed one of our most enthusiastic 

 nnd skillful carnationists, as told in 

 the obituary column of The Review 

 of March 9, happened only twenty- 

 oight hours after I had spent several 

 liours with Mr. Roper. He was full 

 <^'f optimism over his favorite flower 

 nnd little did I dream of the sudden 

 and terrible ending of his life. 



Here are to be seen about 40,000 

 carnations, and, with the exception of 

 small lots of Pink Delight and Cham- 

 pion — each of which, by the way, com- 

 pares unfavorably with Mr. Roper's 

 ■seedlings — all are varieties raised by 

 our deceased friend. Alice Coombs 

 looms up in great shape and carries 

 wonderful flowers. Grace, light pink, 

 nnd Commonwealth, deep flesh, were 

 oqually good, but a new cerise-pink 

 seedling, as yet only under number, is 

 the finest and most prolific of its color 

 I have ever seen. There are about 

 10,000 flowering plants of it here, and 

 their cleanliness, vigor and floriferous- 

 »ess must be seen to be appreci.itod. 



I WHO'S WHO 



IN THE 

 TRADE- 



AND WHY I 



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LEWIS HENDERSON. 



OUT in Omaha, whenever there is a bit of work to be done they s:iy, ' ' Leave it to 

 Louie;" it's slang for the eastern classic, " T^et George do it.'' Henderson is 

 the tireless worker among the bunch of fine follows in the town tiiat lias its 

 trade fame as lying just across the river from Council BhifTs. E\or since the 

 memory of man runneth not in the opposite direction, Ilcndeison has been on 

 (he job, not only ready but willing, to shoulder any little task for the general 

 good. It was so when the S. A. F. years ago made its first excursion west of 

 the Mississippi to his town, and it is so now, when the S. A. F. seems to have 

 acquired the trans-Mississippi habit. If they don't fake tlie convention to Denver 

 next year, from Houston, Hess is likely to snatih it for Henderson, to keep him 

 busy in the early part of 1917. And if he does, you can bet the boys will be 

 well looked after. 



Mr. Roper had planned to introduce 

 this next season, and within a few 

 days had booked orders for 25,000 

 rooted cuttings. 



There are other seedlings here, in- 

 cluding a large batch of a pure white 

 in the way of Matchless, but more 

 prolific, and small batches of a num- 

 ber of promising new varieties. All 

 the plants here were free from bac- 

 teria and in splendid health. 



John T. Gale. 



A large variety of stock is grown at 

 Mr. Gale's place. The carnations were 

 in excellent condition. The varieties 

 grown are Beacon, Eureka, which 

 looked well, Fenn, Enchantress Su- 

 ])reme, Matchless, White Wonder, Pink 

 Delight and Benora. Both single and 

 double violets are grown in quantity; 

 also Spencer sweet peas, giganteujn 

 lilies and Godfrey callas. The culture 

 of yellow marguerites was only re- 



cently started. These are chiefly in 

 S-inch and 9-inch pots, standing on 

 solid beds, where tliey can root through. 

 These are a mass of flowers. W. N. C. 



SHADING FOR GREENHOUSE. 



How should whitewash be prepared 

 for shading a greenhouse? Which is 

 the better, whitewash or curtains? 



F. G.— 111. 



A mixture of kerosene and white 

 lead makes a suitable greenhouse shad- 

 ing, which can be applied with a brush 

 or a garden pump. At this early date 

 a light shade only is needed, as we may 

 get long spells of dark weather before 

 spring. Ordinary whitening and kero- 

 sene make a useful temporary shade; 

 so does clay water. Either of these is 

 washed off by a heavy rain. For many 

 plants at this early date cheesecloth 

 as a temporary shade is preferable to 

 shade on the glass. C. W. 



