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The Florists' Review 



Dbcembeb 31, 1914. 



them to bloom right after housing, as 

 you are only getting blooms on short 

 stems and receiving little money for 

 them. 



Get your plants ir. good, healthy con- 

 dition and well established; then they 

 will be ready for work when the 

 blooms bring you more money. Just 

 as soon as the plants are established 

 we put on the first wire and tie. I 

 really think the carnation loses time 

 if not kept tied up properly, and the 

 less they are handled the better. 



New Varieties. 



The new varieties we are growing 

 this season are Gorgeous, Matchless and 

 Philadelphia. 



Gorgeous with us surely is a wonder- 

 ful stem maker and of fine habit of 

 growth. It has every promise of being 

 a fine carnation. 



Matchless up to the present time has 

 done well. It, too, is a vigorous grower. 

 If there is anything we could criticise, 

 it would be the shortness of its stems. 



Philadelphia is a wonderful plant 

 maker and a clean grower. With us, 

 80 far, it has been a bit slow, but at 

 present is full of buds. 



My experience has been that the new 

 varieties prove themselves so much 

 better the second year that I think we 

 do them an injustice in being too severe 

 in our early criticisms. 



For instance, the first year we grew 

 Mrs. C. W. Ward it was quite short 

 in stem and uneven on the benches. 

 In fact, we were not much pleased 

 with it except in regard to the form 

 and color of the blooms. Today its 

 habit of growth and length of stem 

 class it among our best. 



In addition to the older varieties, we 

 are growing Supreme, Pink Delight, 

 Benora and White Perfection, which 

 are all doing well. We will drop Per- 

 fection another season, because of its 

 tendency to give so many split blooms, 

 and grow Matchless instead. TJp to 

 this time we have not cut one split 

 bloom from Matchless, of which we 

 have 1,000 T5lants. 



We will retain Supreme and drop 

 the others, having too many varieties 

 of this color. 



A CHECK IN OEOWTH. 



Under separate cover we are mailing 

 to you a diseased carnation plant. The 

 plants made a good growth at first. 

 Then a discoloring of the tips of the 

 leaves was noticeable, on the Beacon 

 plants only. In the course of about 

 two weeks after this was first noticed, 

 the whole plant dried up. Is there 

 any remedy f E. C. C. 



The plant submitted looked as if it 

 had never taken hold of the soil in the 

 benches. There were no young root- 

 lets and there was no more growth, 

 apparently, than when the plants were 

 lifted from llie field.- We have seen 

 plants that behaved like these. The 

 roots remained inactive, which allowed 

 the foliage gradually to die off until 

 finally there was nothing alive at the 

 top and the roots would decay. There 

 is little to be done mth a bed of 

 plants in such a condition at this time 

 of the year. If a carnation idant does 

 not reestablish itself during the fall, 

 there is little chance for it during the 

 winter, when growth is naturally more 

 sluggish. 



Even if your plants do not actually 



die during the next few months, you 

 will not likely cut much from them 

 until late in the spring, after they have 

 had time to make a new start. If your 

 Beacon plants are not in shape to give 

 you a good cut during the nex;t three 

 months, you would do well to pull them 

 up and use the room for some other 

 crop. It might pay to .let the light- 

 colored varieties stand for what they 

 will produce in the spring and early 

 summer. A. F. J. B. 



THE ENaUSH CABNATION SHOW. 



American Varieties Still Iioad. 



"Business as usual" is the slogan of 

 the Perpetual Flowering Carnation So- 

 ciety, which is the British equivalent 

 of the American Carnation Society, and 

 the seventeenth annual exhibition was 

 held in London the first week in Decem- 

 ber as though nothing of consequence 

 were happening across the channel. 



The same as in recent years, Ameri- 

 can varieties constituted the greater 

 part of the show. W. Wells & Co., 

 who are the British agents for F. Dor- 

 ner & Sons Co., were awarded the medal 

 offered for the best vase on exhibition, 

 having entered Pink Sensation. The 

 same exhibitor was first for scarlet, 

 showing Champion, Scarlet Glow being 

 second, both Dorner varieties. Wells 

 was first on cerise pink with Good 

 Cheer, still another Dorner seedling. 



The cup offered by the American 

 Carnation. Society for three American 

 novelties was won by C. Engelmann, 

 of Saffron Walden, who showed Peer- 

 less Pink, Gorgeous and Enchantress 

 Supreme. Mr. Engelmann, by the way, 

 is a German, although a naturalized 

 British citizen, and was not present 

 in person. 



In the class for "pale pink" an 

 English seedling won. Wells & Co. being 

 second with Laura Weber, Enchantress 

 scoring thfrd. White Wonder was the 

 best white, an English variety coming 

 in second and White Enchantress third. 



The silver cup offered by Patten & 

 Co., Tewksbury, Mass., for best vase 

 of Princess Dagmar, brought out only 

 one entry, of quality scarcely in keep- 

 ing with the value of the trophy. 



Many Americans enjoy the acquaint- 

 ance of W, E. Wallace, of Eaton Bray, 

 who visited the United States the yeal" 

 of the national show in Boston, and 

 will be pleased to know he maintains 

 his position at the head of the carna- 

 tion growers in England. He was 

 awarded a gold medal for his group. 

 Other medals also were awarded to 

 Mr. Engelmann, Allwood Bros., Stuart 

 Low & Co. and A. F. Button, American 

 varieties predominating in each ex- 

 hibit. 



At the general meeting of the society 

 all the officers were reelected. J. S. 

 Brunton, editor of the Horticultural 

 Trade Journal, is chairman. 



Beading, Mich.— W. M. Cahow has 

 just completed an addition 12x100 feet 

 to his greenhouses. 



Andalusia, Pa. — Wm. Keaton has two 

 houses of carnations, full of bud and 

 bloom, of exceedingly fine quality. 



Sharon, Pa — M. A. Hall & Bro. have 

 opened a store in the Orpheum thea- 

 ter building, on Shenango street. They 

 started just in time to get their share 

 of the Christmas trade. 



Sioux Falls, S. D. — Liebl & Hessel, 

 who now have their two large green- 

 houses filled with vegetables and bed- 

 ding plants, intend to start growing 

 cut flowers in the spring for retail 

 trade. 



Coldwater, Mich. — ^Weage & Tyler, 

 who are general contractors, have for 

 some time been growing iris, phlox, 

 peonies, etc., but have no glass except 

 a few thousand feet of hotbeds and 

 coldframes.''*Becently they purchased a 

 tract of JiX) acres for the extension of 

 the business and will issue a catalogue 

 in the spring. ^ 



Torresdalef^Pa. — Geo. R Morrell last 

 year installed a Lord & Burnham Co. 

 hot water boiler No. .418, and this year 

 has built a greenhouse 12x36, of pipe- 

 frame construction, with concrete walls. 

 He has started work on another house 

 of the same size. Mr. Morrell does 

 all of his construction work, plumbing 

 and heating installation. His present 

 houses are full of bedding and vege- 

 table plants, which he sells both whole- 

 sale and retail. 



Greenfield, Mass. — P. E. Burtt is mov- 

 ing from his present quarters, on Davis 

 street, to the Sheldon building, on Main 

 street. 



Minneapolis, Minn. — A $50,000 apart- 

 ment building is going up at 821-3 First 

 avenue, south, on the property occupied 

 for many years by the greenhouses of 

 the L. S. Donaldson Co. 



Ithaca^ N. Y.— George M. Cosh has 

 opened a shop at the corner' of State 

 and Aurora streets, in the store for- 

 merly occupied by the office of the 

 Western Union Telegraph Co. 



Dallas, Tex.— At the last meeting of 

 the Dallas Florists' Club, December 17, 

 the members decided to begin the new 

 year by furnishing the newspapers with 

 articles on the care and growth of 

 plants and shrubbery as their part in 

 the work for the city beautiful. It is 

 gradually coming to be recognized by 

 florists that publicity is likewise an im- 

 portant part in the work for profits 

 plentiful. 



Fremont, Neb. — C. H. Green has pur- 

 chased the J. Eex Henry building, at 

 414 North Main street. The building 

 is a 2-story brick structure, 22x80 feet, 

 and occupies a lot 22x132 feet. The 

 price paid was $16,000. The necessity 

 for his getting out of the Keene Samp- 

 ter building, says Mr. Green, led to the 

 purchase of the property. He takes 

 possession January 1, but it is not 

 known when he will move his store to 

 the new quarters, as th&t depends upon 

 what terms he makes with the present 

 occupants. 



