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The Florists^ Review 



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Jandabt 14. 1915. 



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THE CHICAGO CLUB SHOW. 



Some Excellent Stock. 



For many years it has been the cus- 

 tom of the Chicago Florists' Club to 

 hold an exhibition, of novelties and 

 other stoejc in connection with its Jan- 

 uary meeting, and the evening of 

 January 7 saw a splendid little show. 

 There were close to sixty vases, nearly 

 all first-class stock and some of it of 

 special excellence. All the exhibits ex- 

 cept one were arranged on a long table 

 iu a narrow banquet room at the Bis- 

 marck hotel. The group of Poehlmann 

 Bros. Co. had a place by itself. In the 

 center was a tall Beauty vase filled 

 with Mrs. Russell roses of such un- 

 usual quality as to excite general com- 

 ment. The flowers, just breaking bud, 

 were fully as large as Beauty at its 

 best. There also were three vases of 

 last season's novelty carnations, Gor- 

 geous, Philadelphia and Champion, all 

 of which seem at home at Morton 

 Grove. 



The only plant exhibit was by J. 

 A. Peterson & Sons, Cincinnati, which 

 consisted of a plant of the undis- 

 seminated begonia, Mrs. J. A. Peter- 

 son, and three different sizes of Be- 

 gonia Melior, with a cyclamen or two. 

 The judges on plants were Frank Pas- 

 ternick, Albert Erickson and W. Allen. 

 They scored Melior 88 points; Mrs. Pe- 

 terson, 85 points, and made special 

 mention of the cyclamens. 



Pink Sensation Was Fine. 



Next came the exhibit of F. Dorner 

 & Sons Co., La Fayette, Ind., twelve 

 vases. The special feature was a 

 splendid lot of Pink Sensation, appro- 

 priately named, though yet compara- 

 tively unknown. There also was a 

 good vase of Good Cheer, which also 

 is being sent out this year. Champion, 

 last year's novelty, showed up well 

 and Salmon Pink Gloriosa came in for 

 close scrutiny. The seven other vases 

 contained seedlings under number, va- 

 rieties of promise you may be sure, 

 else they would not have been there. 



Adjoining the Dorner exhibit were 

 five vases from Mt. Greenwood ceme- 

 tery, all under number and only one of 

 them, 140-9, white, shown in any quan- 

 tity. 



Bassett & Washburn had four good 

 vases: Belle Washburn, red; Helen 

 Washburn, deep pink; No. 4, medium 

 pink; No. 2, flesh pink. The named 

 varieties look good enough to Mr. 

 Washburn so that they probably will 

 be put on the market next season. 



The Chicago Carnation Co. contented 

 itself with showing two vases, one of 

 Peerless Pink and one of Aviator, both 

 iu good shape. 



Pyfer & Olsem had two vases of 

 White Killarney, another of Killarney 

 so good that experienced growers mis- 

 took it for Killarney Queen, and a 

 vase of the Wilmette strain of Kil- 

 larney Brilliant. 



Ernst Amling, Maywood 111., was 

 represented by a vase of the commer- 

 cial grade of Mrs. Russell, with which 

 he has had excellent success this sea- 



son. 



Akelitirst from Maryland. 



S. S. Pennock-Meehan Co., Phila- 

 delphia, sent an excellent vase of the 

 new carnation, Mrs. C. Edward Ake- 

 hurst, grown at White Marsh, Md. It 

 is a heavily fringed, rose-pink flower 

 and showed up well considering its 

 long journey. 



The South Park Floral Co., New- 

 castle, Ind., showed its new rose, 

 George Elgar, which may be deseribied 

 as a yellow Cecile Brunner; also Sou- 

 venir ;^d'Guillard, a light pink French 

 novelty'. 



The-' Iowa State College, An^es, la., 

 sent Carnation Keokuk, a maroon seed- 

 ling raised in the college greenhouses. 



P. .J., dinger, Newcastle, Ind., was 

 represented by a vase of a red seedling 

 which, he plans to disseminate under 

 the name of Radium. 



Arvid Anderson, Moline, 111., showed 

 a white seedling. No. 100. 



C. H. Frey, Lincoln, Neb.j was rep- 

 resented by two good vases: Ne- 

 braska, red, which has been seen be- 

 fore, and C. B. Towle, a medium pink 

 that made its first appearance. 



A group of orchids grown by 

 Vaughan 's Greenhouses and sold by 

 the E. C. Amling Co. to H. N. Bruns, 

 contained some .excellent cattleyas, 

 Iselias and oncidiums. 



The E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., 

 had the largest exhibit in the hall. 

 The center of interest, of course, was 

 a fine basket of Hoosier Beauty, but 

 Ophelia showed up so well that it 

 came in for its full share of approval. 

 The new Irish yellow rose to be in- 

 troduced in 1916 was not seen to ad- 

 vantage because of the colored lights 

 under which it was shown. Alice 

 Coombs, the new light pink carnation, 

 a Roper variety, being sent out this 

 season, was shown in excellent condi- 



tion. There also ilere good vases of 

 Champion, Enchantress Supreme, Gor- 

 geOuS, Benora, Pocahontas and Yellow 

 Prince. 



Wliat the Judges Said. 



At the end of #he table stqod a 

 basket of Carnation Superb, from the 

 J. D. Thompson Carnation Co., Joliet, 

 111. Many ^f thos^ipresent considered 

 the name well chosen, hnt the judges 

 reported they did not find it in con- 

 dition to score. Perhaps this illustrates 

 the Kentuckian 's observation that if 

 all men thought alike there would be 

 no horse races, or. it is possible the 

 judges were wait A^ a chance to score 

 the variety 100 ppints, as a commit- 

 tee of this club once did with a Wit- 

 terstaetter seedling, now long since for- 

 gotten. 



The judges on roses were John, 

 Poehlmann, H. N. Bruns and George 

 Sehuman. They scored Ophelia 90 

 points; Hoosier Beauty, 85; Souvenir 

 d'Guillard, 85, and made special men- 

 tion of the others. 



The judges on carnations were C. 

 W. Johnson, George Asmus and Wil- 

 liam Tricker. Of the varieties scored 

 the following gained enough points to 

 be entitled to the club's certificate: 

 No. 39-12a, from Mt. Greenwood ceme- 

 tery, 86 points; No. 31-12a, from the 

 same exhibitor, 87; Belle Washburn, 

 86; Helen Washburn, 85; Aviator, 85; 

 No. 53-11, from F. Dorner & Sons Co., 

 86; Good Cheer, 85; Pink Sensation, 

 90. 



WHITE INSECTS ON FERNS. 



Will you tell tell me whether the 

 white insects referred to in The Re- 

 view of December 3, page 22, under 

 the title of "White Insects on Ferns," 

 are the same as those on the enclosed 

 forn leaf! If so, what strength of 

 nicotine solution would you recom- 

 mend for the dipt D. V. 



Yes, these are the same insects 

 which trouble nephrolepis. The manu- 

 facturers of the nicotine extracts usu- 

 ally give directions on the packages 

 for the strength to be used in spraying 

 or dipping plants. You will find 

 Aphine a good and safe remedy for 

 these and similar insects. C. W. 



SCALE ON BOSTON FEBNS. 



Will you kindly let me know how 7 

 can get rid of the lice on my Boston 

 fernsf I have grown ferns for a num- 

 ber of years, but have never before been 

 troubled with the pest as I have this 

 year. 1 enclose a sample leaf. J. H. 



This scale insect causes much trouble 

 and loss to the fern grower and is not 

 an easy pest to dispose of, but the first 

 step would be to cut oflf all fronds that 

 are as badly infested as the one sent for 

 examination. Then try dipping the 



plants in a l-to-50 solution of tobacco 

 extract, being careful to protect the 

 plants from the sun for a day or two 

 after the treatment, else the young tips 

 of the fronds may be injured by the 

 tobacco. A solution of Sulpho-tobacco 

 soap may also be used as a dip, but be 

 careful not to use too strong a solution. 

 This treatment may have to be used 

 several times, at intervals of a week. 



MAY BE ASFIDIXTM ANGULABE. 



A friend of mine called my attention 

 to a fern which she has as a house plant, 

 and which is suffering from some cause. 

 I enclose a part of one of its fronds. 

 What is the matter f Is it a case of 

 too much dryness! What variety of 

 fern is itf 



William Scott, in "The Florists' Man- 

 ual," speaks of "The Book of Choice 

 Ferns," published in seven volumes. 

 Who are the publkhers of the work and 

 what is the price of itf Is it the latest 

 and best authority we have on the sub- 

 ject! T. F. 



The fern in question is apparently 

 Aspidium angulare, but the small section 

 of a frond forwarded is not a satis- 

 factory specimen for identification. It 

 is moat likely that the plant has suffered 

 from dryness. 



' ' The Book o»- Choice Ferns ' ' was 



