December 3, 1914. 



The Florists' Review 



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21 



PLANS FOE NEXT YEAR. 



Care of Stock Plants. 



Thanksgiving has practically cleaned 

 up. the chrysanthemums. There are all 

 kinds of ways for wintering stock. 

 Where the climate is not too severe it 

 can be planted in coldf rames, held prac- 

 tically dormant for several months, and 

 when opened in early spring, the plants 

 will soon give a grand crop of strong 

 cuttings, better than are to be had in 

 any other way. The best method for 

 the average commercial grower, who 

 may need to start propagating early to 

 increase his stock of special varieties, 

 is to plant in benches in a cold house; 

 a violet temperature of 40 degrees at 

 night will answer admirably. Place 

 large labels on each sort, so that there 

 will be no danger of their becoming 

 mixed. 



While it is much too early to propa- 

 gate for next season's crop, those who 

 , may have a limited stock of any new 

 or specially desirable kinds would do 

 well to start taking cuttings now. This 

 will permit of a large batch being se- 

 cured before late spring. 



While the large blooms do 6ot Seem 

 to find purchasers as they did a few 

 years ago, more moderate sized flowers 

 being generally preferred, they have 

 not lost favor altogether and still at- 

 tract a lot of attention in the exhibi- 

 tions. The pompons, anemones and sin- 

 gles have all advanced in favor and 

 every grower, especially such as cater 

 to retail trade, should plant good 

 batches of them. In design work of all 

 kinds, for late decorations or as pot 

 plants they are excellent, and many 

 prefer them to the large blooms. 



The Standard Varieties. 



Few new varieties appear and stand 

 up as commercial sorts. This is spe- 

 cially true S( the large exhibition sorts. 

 The most largely grown and popular 

 chrysanthemum still is the old reliable 

 Bonnaffon. Growers are nearly unani- 

 mous in stating that there is still more 

 money in this than any other. Other 

 favorite yellows are Golden Glow, the 

 leading early; Chrysolora, Roman Gold, 

 Golden Chadwick, Yellow Eaton, Gold- 

 en Eagle, Halliday, Ramapo and Colowl 

 Appleton. f 



Coming to whites. Smith 's Advance 

 continues the leader among earlies. 

 Others which find much favor are Polly 

 Rose, October Frost, Clementine Tou- 

 set, Charles Ra^er, Miss Alice Byron, 

 Eaton, Ivory, -^anne^onin and Chad- 

 wick. Ivory seemv^ be losing favor; 

 its constitution is waning. As fancy 

 whites, some good William Turner and 

 Mrs. Drabble have appeared this year. 



Turning to pinks. Glory of Pacific is 

 still heavily grown, as is Pacific Su- 

 preme. Chieftain looms up as a winner 

 among midseason sorts. Patty, Winter 



Cheer, Enguehard and Wells' Late Pink 

 are all in favor. The last named is fine 

 fo^ Thanksgiving if grown cold. The 

 old Maud Dean is grown quite a little. 

 Alice Lemon has proved a good early 

 light pink. 



The call for other colors than pink, 

 white and yellow is not great. In 

 crimson the leaders are Still Shrimpton, 

 the old Collingfordii, Intensity and 

 Pockett's Crimson. Glenview is a fine 

 bronzy red. Ethel Fitzroy is the good 

 bronze for the country florist. Mrs. O. 

 H. Kahn is fine if a fancy bronze is 

 wanted. 



Good Culture Necessary. 



Give the stock plants a good position 

 if strong cuttings are desired. Too. 



often we see them in pots and boxes on 

 the walks or even below the benches, 

 exposed to drip and every unfavorable 

 condition. Cuttings taken from, such 

 plants cannot be expected to give flow- 

 ers at all equal to those grown well up 

 to the light in a cool house. Whatever 

 we grow we should aim to grow as well 

 as possible. Good flowers always will 

 sell. Therefore it should be the aim of 

 every grower to produce flowers of as 

 good a grade as possible. There are 

 too many growers of second and third 

 rate flowers. These always drag, espe- 

 cially in times of glut. Therefore, pro- 

 duce a better article and it is sure to 

 sell. 



THKIPS ON BONNAFFONS. 



I am sending you a bloom of a Bon- 

 naffon mum which is turning brown 

 on the under side of the petals. In 

 fact, the blooms turn brown before they 

 are fully developed. I have them in 

 the same house with a lot of white and 

 other colors, which are all right. If 

 you can tell me what the trouble is, I 

 shall appreciate it. H. L. H. 



The flower sent had been ruined by 

 thrips. You cannot do anything to help 

 your flowers at this late date, but an- 

 other season, by more careful fumigat- 

 ing and spraying, you should be able 

 to keep this pest in check. C. W. 



VARIATIONS IN BONNAFFON. 



We have found four Major Bonnaffon 

 mum plants on which the leaves are dif- 

 ferent from the rest. The leaves are 

 finely cut. One plant has formed a 

 small bud; the other three will come on 

 later. We took cuttings about three 

 inches long from the plants with the 

 changed leaves, and put the cuttings in 

 the sand to root. Will these be new 

 varieties? The four plants will bloom 

 about a month later than the other 

 Bonnaffons. L. V. & F. C. 



I doubt if you have any new variety. 

 T think it is more probable that some 

 other sort has got mixed with your 

 Bonnaffons. You should soon be able 

 to see whether this is so. C. W. 



Novel Staging of Bride's Bouquets. ' 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The examining committees have re- 

 turned reports on new varieties as fol- 

 lows : 



At Cincinnati, Norember 14, Kewanee, light 

 yellow, bronze sbadings, Japanese Incurved, sub- 

 mitted by Elmer D. Smith & Co.. Adrian, Mich., 

 scored 89 on exhibition scale. 



At Cincinnati, November 14, Tekonsha, bronze, 

 Japanese incurved, submitted by Elmer D. Smith 

 & Co., Adrian, Mich., scored 81 on commercial 

 scale and 85 on exhibition scale. 



At- Chicago, November 9. Mount Greenwood, 

 light pinlf, Japanese Incurved, submitted -by 

 Mount Greenwood Cemetery Association, Morgan 

 I'arlc, 111., scored 82 on commercial scale. 



At Madison, N. J., October 28, B. Pulling, yel- 

 low, Japanese reflexed, .submitted by C. H. 

 Totty, Madison, N. J., scored 93 on exhibition 

 scale. 



Chas. W. .Tohnson, Sec 'v. 



