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The Florists* Review 



AOODST 10, 1916. 



require liquid manure or top-dressings 

 during the flowering season, in addition 

 to the tprtilizers - already mentioned. 

 . C. W. 



VIOLET-COLOBED SWEET PEA. 



Please tell me through The Eeview 

 the best dark blue sweet pea to plant 

 to take the place of violets for color. I 

 want the violet color regardless of the 

 size of the blooms. L. V. G. — N. M. 



• iLe Marquis as a forcing variety is a 

 good dar'k blue. Navy Blue is a good 

 outdoor variety of a violet-blue color. 

 C. W. 



EAELY AND I»ATE PEAS. 



Please name some good varieties of 

 sweet peas for late and early sowing, in 

 white, light pink and lavender. 



G. F. C— Tenn. 



In pure white, White Orchid, or 

 Bridal Veil; Yarrawa, rose pink, wings 

 lighter pink; Mris. A. A. Skaach, bright 

 pink; Mrs. Alexander Wallace and E. 

 Burke, lavender. These varieties are 

 equally good for early or late sowing 

 under glass. For flowering extremely 

 late, such outdoor Spencer varieties as 

 the following may be used: Constance 

 Hinton, white; Mrs. Hugh Dickson, 

 cream pink; HeVcules, deep pink; Flor- 

 ence Nightingale, lavender. C. W. 



GULLETT'S STAFF'S OUTlNG. 



The employees of Gullett & Sons, iLin- 

 coln. 111., picnicked near Salt Creek, 

 commonly called Baker's Fish Trap, 

 August 2. It was a most enjoyable day. 

 Games took the attention of everyone, 

 special contests being held between the 

 employees at the new place" and at the 

 old place. The baseball game and a 

 tug of war were won by the staff at the 

 new range. A tug of war and various 

 other events were won by the men from 

 the old range. Eefreshments were 

 served and, especially a supply of iced 

 watermelons supplied by the firm, were 

 greatly enjoyed by all. 



GULLETT & SONS' ACTTIVITIES. 



Great changes are being made in the 

 ranges of Gullett & Sons, Lincoln, 111. 

 The old range, consisting of twenty-six 

 large houses, is entirely taken up with 

 the growing of pot plants. Approxi- 

 mately 100,000 cyclamens are being 

 grown this season. Of these, a great 

 many will be sold as young plants in 

 3-inch and 4-inch pots. The rest will 



be flowered for fall and winter trade. 

 AJ^out 50,000 Boston fern and its prog 

 eny are grown, in benches and pots. 

 There is also a large stock of begonias, 

 pandanus, dracajnas, crotons, Christmas 

 peppers, rubbers, table ferns and poin- 

 settias, and a large shipment of azaleas 

 is expected. The old houses are being 

 overhauled and repaired, painting and 

 steam-fitting being done. 



When the new houses, erected by the 

 American Greenhouse Mfg. Co., are 

 ready, 100,000 carnations will be plant- 

 ed as follows: 10,000 each of Enchant- 

 ress, White Enchantress, Champion and 

 Ward; 15,000 Matchless; 6,000 White 

 Wonder; 5,000 Enchantress Supreme. 

 The rest will be planted to Alice, Good 

 Cheer, Gloriosa, Eosette, Nebraska, Ake- 

 hurst. Pink Sensation, Belle Washburn 

 and Yellow Prince. About 10,000 car- 

 nation plants have already been planted 

 from 3V^-inch pots and are showing up 

 nicely. Most of the benches for the 

 stock in the field are filled, ready for 

 planting. 



Of roses the following varieties will 

 be grown: 10,300 Ophelia; 10,000 Rus- 

 sell; 10,500 White Killarney; 9,600 Kil- 

 larney; 4,000 Killarney Brilliant; 1,600 

 Ward; 4,000 Shawyer; 2,500 Hoosier 

 Beauty; 3,200 Eichmond; 5,600 Amer- 

 ican Beauty; 800 Cecile Brunner; 400 

 Baby Doll; 800 Mrs. Bayard Thayer. 

 Some of the earliest planted young 

 stock of Eussell and Ophelia is being 

 cut from and the other young stock and 

 old, replanted stock is in excellent con- 

 dition. 



About 40,000 chrysanthemums of the 

 best varieties will be planted. For this 

 purpose the smaller houses will be used. 

 Later these houses will be used for the 

 grafting of roses and the propagation 

 of carnations and chrysanthemums. 

 About 300,000 Manetti stocks have been 

 ordered for late autumn delivery. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



A week of intense heat, high humid- 

 ity, little sunshine, explosions, street 

 car strikes and infantile paralysis — is it 

 any wonder that the cut flower business 

 in our big city is at its lowest ebb? 

 There was, literally, nothing doing un- 

 til the week end. 



The market is swamped with asters, 

 gladioli and longiflorum lilies. The lat- 

 ter were offered in quantity at $4 per 

 hundred August 5 and 7. In small lots, 

 $5 per hundred was obtainable for the 

 selected. Asters are of high and low 

 degree. Some fine large flowers were 



Employees of GuUett & Sons, Lincolnt 111., on an Outing, August 2/ 



in the market, wholesaling at $1.50 to 

 $2 per hundred. From 1 cent each down 

 to 10 cents per bunch were the other 

 quotations, and anything below that 

 grade either w^nt to the street venders 

 or to the discard. The top^ price for 

 gladioli seems to be $2 and this only for 

 the selects and the new varieties. Fine 

 stock is selling at $1 per hundrfed and 

 the lower grades already are quoted at 

 50 cents per hundred. Valley seems to 

 be the thing needed most and the price 

 of it, because of the scarcity, ran up to 

 $6 per hundred, and even more as the 

 week ended. The supply has been ex- 

 tremely light for many days. 



Gardenias begin to appear normal 

 again and some handsome flowers are 

 arriving, worth $1.50 to $2 per dozen. 

 There are practically no carnations ar- 

 riving, the few being shipped hardly 

 realizing the express charges. Orchids 

 sold last week as high as $1 each. They 

 are scarce, just when the demand is 

 widest. The average price for the best 

 gigas is 75 cents. There are the usual 

 quantities of outdoor stock. Golden- 

 rod and Hydrangea paniculata grandii- 

 flora are here and wild smilax is in 

 abundance. 



The rose shipments are light, but in- 

 creasing. Much of the stock is small 

 and short-stemmed, of a No. 3 grade, 

 and disposed of at $2.50 to $5 per thou- 

 sand. There are some Hadley and Prima 

 Donna roses among them. Some grand 

 Double White Killarney roses are arriv- 

 ing, as well as Hoosier Beauty, Eussell 

 and Ophelia. 



Various Notes. 



The party that sailed on the Momus 

 August 9, for Houston via New Orleans, 

 according to those who had made reser- 

 vations, consisted of the following: R. 

 Vincent, Jr., Mrs. Vincent and John A. 

 Vincent, White Marsh, Md.; Joseph A. 

 Manda, West Orange, N^»J.; John G. 

 Esler and Miss Marie Esler, Saddle 

 Eiver, N. J.; Joseph Heacock, Wyncote, 

 Pa.; A. T. De la Mare and Jasper E. 

 Lewis, New York. 



These are the days of the summer 

 outings of gardeners' societies. Au- 

 gust 8 the Tarrytown Horticultural 

 Society had its annual affair at Eye 

 Beach, N. Y. The Essex County Flo- 

 rists' Club held its annual reunion Au- 

 gust 3. The New York wholesale cut 

 flower fraternity was well represented 

 by Walter Sheridan, P. J. Smith, 

 H. Riedel, Joseph S. Fenrich, J. J. Coan, 

 A. M. Henshaw, W. G. Badgley, N. Le- 

 cakes, W. Singleman, J. Egenbrod, 

 H. Bernstein and Paul Eigo. 



A. S. Baldwin, of Madison, N. J., 

 is shipping fine Ophelia, Hoosier Beauty 

 and Double White Killarney roses to 

 Joseph S. Fenrich. Mr. Fenrich daily 

 receives from John Miesem more than 

 6,000 lilies. 



July 29 Winfred Eolker celebrated his 

 fiftieth birthday. 



A meeting of the American Dahlia 

 Society, called for August 8 by Presi- 

 dent Vincent, was held at the Grand 

 hotel, 10:30 a. m. Mr. Vincent left 

 with the New York party August 9 by 

 boat for Houston, via New Orleans. 



J. M. Deutscher, of the Philadelphia 

 Wholesale Florists' Exchange, enjoyed 

 a week of his holiday in New York. 

 Mr. Deutscher was one of the force of 

 Thomas Young, Jr., for eleven years. 



Charles H. Totty is enjoying his va- 

 cation with his family at Canandaigua, 



Charles Matthews, of Ed Horan's 



