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The Florists'' Review 



October 30, 1913. 



ladies and they responded finely. Die- 

 terich & Turner put up some splendid 

 roses that would have done credit to 

 and taken a high place in any competi- 

 tion. Several dozen roses were staged 

 in considerable variety, among them be- 

 ing American Beauty, Eichmond, Prima 

 Donna, Mrs. Geo. Shawyer, "White Kil- 

 larney, Mrs. Wakefield Christie-Miller, 

 Lady Alice Stanley, Killarney Queen, 

 My Maryland and Antoine Rivoire; 

 this was a grand exhibit. Howard & 

 Smith took up the whole of one room 

 with their exhibit of fine kentias, back 

 of a showy and choice lot of dahlias 

 in great variety, some pretty foliage 

 plants and ferns. Polder & Groen 

 showed elegant cut carnations, roses, 

 cosmos and other flowers in good shape^ 

 The Figueroa Street Nursery and the 

 Star Nursery both put up interesting 

 groups of Japanese conifers, chrysan- 

 themums and other stock, and other 

 local growers showed of their best. 

 Henry Kunst showed potted plants of 

 various peppers. The amateur growers 

 had a lot of pretty flowers in consid- 

 erable variety, well staged. The judg- 

 ing was in the hands of H. E. Eichards, 

 Henry Kunst and J. B. Menasco; Mr. 

 Menasco, being present, kindly helped 

 out in place of P. D. Barnhart, who was 

 unfortunately prevented from coming. 

 H. E. E. 



PASADENA, CAL. 



The Flower Show. 



The annual chrysanthemum show of 

 the Pasadena Horticultural Society 

 opened October 23, at the Maryland 

 hotel. At the time of writing it was 

 too early to say anything about either 

 the attendance or the awards, as my 

 visit was cut short when the tent was 

 being cleared for the judges and other 

 business called me away from the city 

 of beautiful homes. But the quality of 

 the exhibits, especially of the cut 

 flowers, was away beyond anything 

 ever before seen at Pasadena. The re- 

 markable point about it all is, too, that 

 the flowers were all grown outdoors, or 

 with only a canvas covering, and I am 

 sure that no better flowers will be 

 shown in any eastern exhibition this 

 year than the best of those shown at 

 Pasadena. The exhibitors are worthy 

 of note, but, as already stated, time 

 prevented my noting them. 



The trade groups were well up to the 

 average. Just inside the entrance, Ed. 

 Eust had a fine group, arranged in dn 

 effective manner. If any criticism was 

 possible, it was on the score of too 

 much good material, the background be- 

 ing slightly crowded. Some particu- 

 larly fine specimens of Impatiens 

 Holstii brightened the group; there 

 were also some neat little plants of 

 Pteris Wilsoni. A rare — possibly 



unique — fern is Polypodium Lingua 

 cristata, a deeply crested form I had 

 never seen before. The brightly col- 

 ored ^schynanthus cordifolius was also 

 shown; quite a novelty here. Fine 

 ferns, foliage and flowering plants and 

 rare specimens of palms all helped to 

 make up a splendid showing. 



Howard & Smith were to the fore, 

 as usual, with a showy exhibit of 

 dahlias, herbaceous flowers and roses, a 

 group that was worth more attention 

 than I was able to give it. Right in 

 front of it R. Mackenzie, gardener for 

 r. Craven, exhibited some splendid 

 -specimen ferns, notably a fine Adiantum 

 [OontlnDsd on paare 70. 1 



EXPRESS COMPANIES LIE DOWN. 



Accept Inevitable and Reduce Rates. 



Express rates actually will come 

 down December 1; the new rates pre- 

 scribed by the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission will be put into effect with- 

 out further objection on the part of the 

 carriers. This is the announcement 

 made by Walker D. Hines, legal rep- 

 resentative of the companies in the 

 fight they have made against the or- 

 der of the commission, which is equiv- 

 alent to a general reduction of from 

 fifteen to twenty-five per cent, and is 

 expected to save shippers from $30,- 

 000,000 to $40,000,000 per year. 



It had been expected that, the ex- 

 press companies holding that the block 

 rates and revised practices ordered by 

 the commission would so seriously men- 

 ace their revenue, the order would be 

 taken into the federal courts as con- 

 fiscatory of their legal property rights. 



According to advices from Washing- 



ton, Mr. Hines, in giving notice to the 

 commission that the companies would 

 abide by the rate order, stated that 

 while his clients had great apprehen- 

 sion as to the outcome from putting 

 into effect the block rates and revised 

 practices recommended by the commis- 

 sion, they hoped thereby to win the 

 confidence of that body, the state com- 

 missions and the public. 



The notice that the companies will 

 accept and put into effect the lower 

 rates as ordered by the commission 

 will therefore come as pleasant news to 

 shippers generally, some of whom have 

 been expecting long and protracted 

 legal obstructions to the r^te reduc- 

 tions. 



Full details of the commission's or- 

 der reducing rates, together with its 

 special bearing on the florists' busi- 

 ness, were given in The Eeview at the 

 time the order was entered, issues for 

 August 7 and August 13, 1913. 



LEAF DISEASE AND MILDEW. 



What is the matter with the inclosed 

 chrysanthemum leaves? H. & C. 



The leaves reached me in rather a 

 dried-up condition. There were some 

 traces of the leaf disease that is com- 

 mon on chrysanthemums, but there 

 were much plainer traces of mildew, for 

 with this the leaves were badly af- 

 fected. Keep the atmosphere as dry 

 as possible and syringe the plants with 

 one of the sulphur solutions, which will 

 clean out the spores of both leaf dis- 

 ease and mildew. Chas. H. Totty. 



EARLY CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 



How can I make my chrysanthemums 

 flower quicker? I have them in 6-inch 

 pots, with good soil. F. S. 



You cannot force your chrysanthe- 

 mums into flower. Let them come along 

 naturally. Any attempt to forward 

 them will result in more harm than 

 good. In order to have earlier flowers 

 another season, you would do well to 

 stock up on early varieties, which you 

 may not have, such as Golden Glow, 

 Smith's Advance, Unaka, Eobert Halli- 

 (lay, October Frost, Polly Eose, Glory 

 of Pacific and Chrysolora. C. W, 



BUDS WITH BROKEN STEMS, 



Under separate cover I am sending 

 you some chrysanthemum buds, of the 

 varieties Miss Clay Frick and Leslie 

 Morrison, in the hope that some of your 

 experts can tell me the reason why the 

 buds are breaking off. They do not 

 snap off at once, but break gradually. 

 As you can see, they are first buds. 

 The plants are in fine condition. As 

 far as I can see, none of the other 

 varieties are affected in the same way, 



H. L, O, 



It is easy to see what was the "matter 

 with the buds. Clay Frick and Leslie 

 Morrison are both strong rooters and 



the fine rooting system had been push- 

 ing more sap up into the bud than it 

 could take care of. When this hap- 

 pens, nature steps in and cuts off the 

 flow of sap by severing a part of the 

 stem. I have seen on more than one 

 occasion, on the tables at flower shows, 

 splendid exhibition flowers which, on 

 investigation of the stem beneath, were 

 found to be almost hanging by a thread. 

 The obvious remedy in the case of 

 H. L. O. is to cut out feeding on both 

 varieties, and do not give any more 

 water than is absolutely necessary to 

 keep the plants from wilting. 



Chas. H. Tottv. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The annual meeting of the Chrysan- 

 themum Society of America will be 

 held at the Art Institute, Chicago, at 

 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, November 5. 



The committee for examining new 

 chrysanthemums will meet at the exhibi- 

 tion of the society in Chicago to pass 

 on any seedlings submitted to them at 

 that time. 



The committee has examined new va- 

 rieties as follows: 



At New York, October 18. R. B. Biirjtc. 

 white, single, exhibited by Chas. H. Totty. 

 Madison. N. J., scored as follows: Color, ^; 

 form, 19; substance, 18; stem and foliage, 1«: 

 total, 02. 



At New York. October 18. J 29, light yellow. 

 Japanese, exhibited by Chas. H. Totty. Madi- 

 son, N. J., scored as follows on commercial 

 scale: Color, 18; form. 12: fullness, 9: stem. 

 13; foliage, 13: substance, 13; size, 8; total. 80. 

 Exhibition scale: Color. 14; stem. 5; foliage. 

 5; fullness, 14; form, 13; depth, 12; slie, 23: 

 total, 86. 



At Cincinnati, October 18. Oconto, cream 

 white, Japanese Incurved, exhibited by Elmer 

 D. Smith & Co., Adrian. Mich., scored as follows 

 on commercial scale: Color, 15; form, 12; fiil'- 

 ness, 8; stem, 15; foliage, 12; substance, l^'"'- 

 size, 9: total, 86. • 



At Chicago, October 25. R. B. Burge. white 

 large flowered single, exhibited by Chas. H. 

 Totty. Madison. N. J., scored as follows: Color. 

 .38; form, 18; substance, 15; stem and foliage, i^'- 

 total, 89. 



At Chicago, October 25, Gladys Duckham. 

 white large flowered single, exhibited by Chas. 

 H. Totty, Madison, N. J., scored as follows: 

 Color, 32; form, 15; substance, 15; stem and fo- 

 liage, 16; total, 78. 



At Chicago. October 25. Stanley Yen. lavender 

 pink, large flowered single, exhibited by Chas. 



