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The Rorists^ Review 



July 15, 1920 



Cheerful, a Giant-Flowered Cherry Cerise> and White Star, Black-Seeded Opaque White. 



impossible to "fix" it; no matter how 

 carefully it is rogued and separate plant 

 selections of seed made, saved and sown 

 by themselves, still it may continue to 

 "break." These trials all take time 

 and valuable space, and in the course of 

 several years, before it is decided to dis- 

 card it, such a variety has been a con- 

 siderable expense to the grower. 



The charming cerise shades in the 

 Bummer-flowering type, which are so 

 popular, will be seen in all the flower 

 markets this winter, represented by 

 Glorious, Illumination, Fire King and 

 Glitters. The last-named is almost 

 startling in its rich color effect, which 

 is fiery orange on cerise. 



Blues and lavenders are now well 

 represented in the winter-flowering type 

 and in varying shades to suit all tastes. 

 The same may be said of the pink and 

 rose-pink shades, but I am still trying 

 for something better than the present- 

 day best in these colors. 



Narrow Escape. 



The white-seeded white class has 

 been given much attention by the va- 

 rious raisers, and the cut flower grower 

 has found one or another of the varie- 

 ties offered to suit his special require- 

 ments. Improved Snowstorm (not to be 

 confounded with the original Snow- 

 storm) was the result of crossing King 

 White on Yarrawa and I almost lost it. 

 The second generation of plants gave 

 me only one white, and this plant was 

 quite carefully staked and watched. 

 But what was my horror to find one 

 morning that some stranger had ven- 



tured among these precious seedlings 

 and, in helping himself to flowers, had 

 almost destroyed the entire plant! The 

 result was one solitary pod, which gave 

 me eight seeds, the entire stock at that 

 time of the now famous Improved Snow- 

 storm. 



A good black-seeded white, one better 

 than any now offered, is much wanted. 

 The seed germinates better than the 

 white-seeded sorts, and this is naturally 

 a great consideration with the grower. 

 Albatross is good, but there is a better 

 coming for 1922; namely, White Star. 

 This is really a winter-flowering Con- 

 stance Hinton and is an opaque white 

 with practically no sign of color. 



From England. 



English raisers have given us a number 

 of outstanding summer-flowering novel- 

 ties this season. In my opinion the gem 

 of some thirty varieties we have tried 

 out both in California and on our home 

 farm, Fordhook, is Hawlmark Pink. 

 Others of special merit are found in 

 Doris, cerise; Hebe, pink; Red Ensign, 

 scarlet; Blucstone, mid-blue; Com- 

 mander Godsall, deep blue; Pink Pearl, 

 -Unwin's Pink and Salena, cream flushed 

 and edged rose; Daisybud, light pink, 

 and Brocade, deep rose. Needless to 

 say, I have been using some of the best 

 of these in my crosses on certain of the 

 winter-flowering varieties. What will 

 they give us? Time will tell. 



Sidney, 111. — Otto Wright has pur- 

 chased property here and will erect a 

 greenhouse. 



IN WEST VIRGINIA. 



Arthur Langhans, Wheeling, W. Va., 

 was putting the finishing touches on a 

 handsome floral broken wheel and ob- 

 served that it was symbolic of the trade 

 today in that it was attractive in ideal- 

 ism, but highly incomplete in the work- 

 ing of its mechanism. "What affects 

 our branch of the business," said Mr. 

 Langhans, ' ' is naturally of the first im- 

 portance, but we are all more or less 

 interested in the whole structure. When 

 the F. T. D. was first launched I was 

 one of the original eight rowers, so to 

 speak, in the boat, and while we had a 

 chart to guide us, each had an idea of 

 his own. Mine was to establish a clear- 

 ing house, but it was overruled. I am 

 still of the same opinion, believing that 

 such, in whatever form it may appear, 

 is our only safety in what is generally 

 accepted by the most optimistic as a 

 most risky and unsatisfactory system." 



John Dieckmann, Elm Grove, W. Va., 

 is a combination florist, market gar- 

 dener and farmer. To see the crops 

 both inside and outdoors, as they now 

 are, one can understand why the owner 

 is prosperous. Since he is a stockholder 

 in a coal mine close by, winter has no 

 terrors for Mr. Dieckmann, but when 

 Jupiter Pluvius let loose recently and 

 forced out an immense concrete wall of 

 a reservoir and thousands of gallons of 

 water rushed downhill, missing the big 

 range of glass by less than 100 feet, one 

 can imagine the fears the owner had 

 that there would be no use for coal, 

 even though he had it. W. M. 



