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The Horists^ Review 



October 9, 19ia. 



anemones. Mr. Woods will operate the 

 Lexington greenhouses himself once 

 more. 



C. T. Beasley & Co., of East Milton, 

 have several houses planted with pansies 

 and some of these are already starting 

 to flower quite freely. This is the larg- 

 est greenhouse pansy establishment in 

 New England. 



Henry M. Eobinson & Co. report busi- 

 ness as improving satisfactorily. Ship- 

 ping trade at present is especially good. 



Professor J. G. Jack will lecture at 

 the next meeting of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club, which comes October 21. 

 There will be a display of chrysanthe- 

 mums and fruit on the exhibit table. 



There is no change in Boston's police 

 strike. The military are in charge and 

 may remain in control until next spring, 

 by which time it is expected that a new 

 police force can be secured and trained 

 to displace them. Under military rule, 

 Boston has fewer crimes than ever and 

 traflic was never so well regulated. 



The committee on prizes and exhibi- 

 tions of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society met October 6 and com- 

 pleted the preparation of the 1920 

 schedule, including apportioning $1,000 

 worth of prizes offered by Miss, M. E. 

 Case. The complete schedule for 1920 

 will soon be issued. W. N. C. 



NASHVILLE, TENN. 



The Market. 



Two weeks have seen considerable 

 change for the better in this market. 

 The colleges and schools are all open 

 now and this naturally has brought in- 

 creased business. 



Eoses are on the short side at present, 

 though what there are show good qual- 

 ity. Carnations, on the other hand, are 

 coming in freely and are of excellent 

 quality for the time of year. In fact, 

 Nashville always gets plenty of good 

 carnations before they appear in the 

 north. Local gladioli are not numer- 

 ous, though a few excellent ones are 

 coming in. Dahlias are scarce, more 

 than ever before at this time of year. 

 What there are show poor quality. I 

 have not seen cosmos this fall, due to 

 the extreme drought of the summer. 

 Some plants of a new hybrid rudbeckia, 

 or coneflower, sent out by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, carrying flowers 

 resembling a large yellow cosmos and 

 borne on stems at least two feet long, 

 in large loose panicles, look as if it 

 should be a valuable cut flower as well 

 as a wonderfully effective border plant. 



Chrysanthemums will not be in for 

 another week or two, unless the short- 

 age of flowers demands that they be 

 cut prematurely. The stock generally 

 is looking good, though there will not 

 be so much of it this year as there was 

 two and three years ago. 



I was interested to see some Chinese 

 woolflowers last week doing duty as 

 cut flowers. They worked up quite well 

 in designs as well as in some of the 

 bouquet work. They grow so easily 

 that there is no reason why every 

 grower may not have all he can make 

 use of at little cost. Why is this 

 flower not more widely grown as a pot 

 plant for Christmas! The color is just 

 right for a Christmas flower. 



Various Notes. 



Haury & Sons have been repairing 

 theii* houses, including the installation 

 of a new smokestack for their heating 



plant. They have a good lot of mums 

 ready for cutting. 



Geny Bros, made a nice display of 

 bulbs last week and sales were good. 

 They were selling some oi the best 

 May gladioli I have ever seen grown 

 here. They report that they have been 

 sold up closely, all of the time for the 

 last two weeks. 



William Eeid, of the A. L. Eandall 

 Co., Chicago., spent the week-end in the 

 city, leaving Monday. 



Mr. Harrison, who ha*,be^n in charge 

 of the Joy Floral Co. store in Chatta- 

 nooga most of the time since it opened, 

 is home again. He will remain in the 

 store in this city for the present. 



Floyd Bralliar recently planted some 

 thirty new varieties of iris to be used 

 in his iris breeding work. 



Charles Tritchler is working up a 

 large stock of his new fern, a sport of 

 Verona. This fern is a winner, stronger 

 and more rapid in growth than the old 

 Boston, fully as resistant to injury by 

 wind and sun as any other fern and as 

 beautifully laced as Verona. 



Mclntyre Bros, are beginning to cut 

 some decidedly good orchids. Their 

 roses are also coming in nicely now. 

 F. B. 



BALTIMORE. 



The Maxket. 



The market last week was in good 

 condition. There was a good demand 

 for first-class stock and the supply was 

 sufficient to meet all requirements. 

 Eoses are getting better each week, and 

 the advance crop assures a fine supply 

 of all varieties this winter. Chrysan- 

 themums are beginning to arrive in fine 

 shape; of course only the earlier varie- 

 ties are to be seen as yet, but these are 

 all first-class, and from visits that I 

 have made recently to a number of 

 growers I do not think there will be 

 any fault found with this season's 

 crop. I mean by this that there will 

 be a large number of varieties to select 

 from, and it will be possible to get them 

 in any size from the large exhibition 

 flowers down to the smallest size that 

 is handled. 



As I write this the dahlia has full 

 control of the market, and I think more 

 of them are being handled this year 

 than ever before. There is some com- 

 plaint that they wither prematurely; 

 this may be due to the fact that they 

 are bred so fine, to insure good varie- 

 ties, that vigor is sacrificed for quality. 

 But special attention is being paid to 

 handling them after they are cut, and 

 this complaint is fast being counter- 

 acted. Dahlias, like every other crop 

 that is being improved each year, must 

 be handled carefully, and the commis- 

 sion men in this city have taken this 

 matter up and with the cooperation of 

 the growers have effected a big improve- ■ 

 ment already. 



There is plenty of miscellaneous 

 stock of all sorts to be had. To sum up, 

 the market has taken on a decided 

 autumn tone. 



Vincent's Dahlia Show. 



The dahlia exhibition of Eichard 

 Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co., White Marsh, 

 Md., was held October 2 to 4. October 

 2 was to have been the Florists' Club 

 day, but owing to the inclement weath- 

 er not many attended, though those who 

 did were well repaid for their trip. 



E. A. Vincent had staged one of the 



best exhibitions it has ever been my 

 pleasure to see. Along one side of the 

 large potting shed he had large set 

 pieces, such as pictures, the frames ol 

 which were worked out in yellow to 

 represent gilt. The finest of these was 

 a vase of Vincent's new seeding, which 

 will go out next year. Many think it 

 finer than King of Autumn, which is its 

 parent. In color it is much the same as 

 the parent flower, but the petals are 

 incurved and the stems and foliage are 

 better, and the opinion is that it wiU 

 make a much better commercial varie- 

 ty than King of Autumn. In front of 

 these pictures rugs were worked out in 

 dahlias. This work was certainly a 

 credit to the designer. Another set 

 piece was a large flash, with a raised 

 wreath on it; the plaque was about 

 4x6 feet. The wreath was made of 

 white. White sprays of Corona dahlias 

 were so artistically worked in that it 

 would have been hard for a novice to 

 tell them from gardenias. In fact, I 

 heard of one of the leading florists of 

 this country, located in another city, 

 who made a bride's bouquet of this 

 variety which was taken to be gar- 

 denias. This is just an instance of how 

 the dahlia is improving. 



In the trial grounds the company has 

 about fifty seedlings, many of which 

 look to me to be comers. Mr. Vincent 

 told me that these would be culled down 

 to five or six. To take the Vincent 

 dahlia show as a whole, it is a wonder- 

 ful piece of work, and there is no doubt 

 of the fact that in these exhibitions the 

 Vincents "Say It with Flowers" in a 

 manner that is most expensive. 



Various Notes. 



After inspecting the dahlia show we 

 paid a visit to the range of C. E. Ake- 

 hurst, the carnation specialist. At this 

 range we got an idea of what the scar- 

 city of carnation plants means. Mr. 

 Akehurst has an acre under glass. As 

 a general rule, Mr. Akehurst has plenty 

 of plants to sell in the fall, but this 

 year he had not enough for his own use. 

 He has several houses that are being 

 planted in pansies and sweet peas in- 

 stead of carnations. 



Our next stop was at John Neuth's, 

 on the Belair road. Mr. Neuth is also 

 short of his usual quantity of carna- 

 tions, but what he has are in fine shape 

 and promise a fine cut for Christmas. 

 At this range, while some of the chrys- 

 anthemums are being grown to a single 

 flower on a stem, the majority are being 

 grown for medium-sized stock. Mr. 

 Neuth feels that there is always a good 

 demand for this size and this year he 

 is going to furnish stock that can be 

 sold for $10 and $12 per hundred. This 

 seems to be a wise business move, for 

 the idea of most growers is to see how 

 large they can have them. Of course, 

 last year there was no trouble to sell 

 anything, on account of the "flu," but 

 two years ago I heard much complaint 

 of the inability to get anything in 

 medium-sized mums. 



The entire crop of cut dahlias grown 

 by Eichard Vincent, Jr., & Sons Co. is 

 being handled again this year by the 

 Leo Niessen Co. This company is tak- 

 ing special pains to see that they are 

 packed properly. During the exhibi- 

 tion, to insure the prompt shipment of 

 orders from all over t7i€ country, Wil- 

 liam F. Ekas, manager of^ the Baltimore 

 store of the Leo Niess^ ^o,, was out 

 at the farm every day. Wime he wae 

 superintending the shipment of theee 



