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September 29, 1904. ■ 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



897 



Hydraneea Panictilata Grandtflora Growing on -a Florist's Lawn at Jamestown, N. Y. 



already visited a good part of the coun- 

 try. Last year asters, dahlias and such 

 like plants were still in their glory 

 through a good part of October, but this 

 year, in my section at least, they are al- 

 ready cut down. A few years ago the 

 early kinds were a valuable asset and 

 we have got $5 per dozen wholesale for 

 Merry Monarch that were not really worth 

 half that sum. But for the past three 

 years the early kinds did not pay because, 

 with all the outside stock still in flower, 

 there was no call for them to fill a 

 breach. This year, by the anxious in- 

 quiries as to when flowers will be ready 

 for shipping, it looks as though the man 

 who still had faith in the early varie- 

 ties will meet with his reward. 



October Sunshine and the white and 

 pink Pacific should be about ready to 

 cut in a week. One of the novelties, 

 Merstham Yellow, is also showing indi- 

 cations of being a fine early kind. From 

 a bud taken the first week in August it 

 is developing a very fine flower that will 

 be ready to cut by October 8. It is a 

 very fine yellow, much on the lines of 

 October Sunshine but a dwarfer grower 

 and much finer flower. Later buds are 

 just showing color and look equally as 

 good as the earlier ones. Coombes, Alice 

 Byron, Bobinson, Halliday and several 

 others are showing color, and it is now 

 but a short time before the season will 

 be on in full swing. 



Growth is very fine throughout the 

 country generally this year, particularly 

 of the newer kinds, and I look for big 

 exhibits and strong competition at all 

 the big shows in the east and the pres- 

 ent indications are that the commercial 

 grower will make more money on his 

 mums than he has for years past, and 

 more particularly on the kinds flowering 

 in October. Brian Boru. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



President Herrington has announced 

 the committees to examine seedlings and 



sports on dates as follows: October 8, 

 15, 22 and 29, November 5, 12, 19 and 

 26, 1904. Exhibits to receive attention 

 from the committees must in all cases be 

 prepaid to destination and the entry 

 fee of $2 should be forwarded to the 

 secretary not later than Tuesday of the 

 week preceding examination. The com- 

 mittees are as follows: 



New York: Eugene Dailledouze, chair- 

 man; C. H. Totty, Wm. Plumb. Send 

 exhibits care of New York Cut Flower 

 Co., Sixth avenue and Twenty-sixth 

 street. 



Philadelphia: A. B. Cartledge, chair- 

 man; John Westcott, Wm. K. Harris. 

 Send exhibits to 1514 Chestntfk street. 



Boston: E. A. Wood, chairman; 

 Wm. Nicholson, James Wheeler. Send 

 exhibits to Boston Flower Market, care 

 of John Walsh. 



Cincinnati: R. Witterstaetter, chair- 

 man; James Allen, Wm. Jackson. Send 

 exhibits to Jabez Elliott Flower Mar- 

 ket, care of janitor. 



Chicago: James S. Wilson, chairman; 

 Edwin Kanst, third announced later. 

 Send exhibits care of J. B. Deamud, 51 

 Wabash avenue. 



The executive committee of the C. 

 S. A. has decided to use the new scales 

 prepared by the committee appointed 

 for this purpose at the convention in 

 New York. These scales are to come up 

 for discussion and final adoption at the 

 convention in Boston, November 3, 1904. 

 The use of the scales by the committees 

 previous to that time will give them a 

 try-out and help to discover faults, if 

 any are to be found. The scales are as 

 follows : 



CommeroUl Scale. 



Color 20 



Form 15 



Fullness 10 



Jtem 16 



Koliage 16 



Substance 15 



ilie 10 



Exhibition Scal«. 



Color 10 



Stf ni 5 



Follagp 6 



Fullness 18 



Form 15 



n^oth 15 



.Size 36 



Total 100 Tota^ 100 



Fred H. Lemon, Sec 'y. 



HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



I send a piece of a plant of a hardy 

 chrysanthemum and would like to know 

 what the trouble is with it. 



H. & C. 



The branch of chrysanthemum sent is 

 covered with a growth of cuscuta (dod- 

 der) one of the worst of weeds on ac- 

 count of its parasitical character, its 

 long twining stems climbing over other 

 plants and drawing the life or sap for 

 its own nourishment. . It is not par- 

 ticular but will take hold of almost any 

 species of plant and if not disturbed, 

 the plants will finally perish. 



RiCHAKD Vincent, Jr. 



SPLENDID HYDRANGEAS. 



Everyone knows that beautiful shrub. 

 Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, but 

 everyone does not have an opportunity to 

 see such a specimen as can be seen in 

 •lamestown, N, Y. There must be some- 

 thing in the soil of Jamestown that ac- 

 counts for this, because the specimen 

 illustrated, although perhaps the best we 

 noticed, is by no means unusual. Grand 

 specimens adorn the lawns of many resi- 

 dences of this picturesque city. The gen- 

 tleman standing by the side of the bush 

 is not on exhibition. He is one of the 

 ilepartment managers of the mammoth 

 Lake View Rose Gardens, by name Alex. 

 .1. Scott. His height (six feet) and 

 width (unknown) will give you a better 

 idea of the size of this bush than fig- 

 ures. Yet in the latter days of July we 

 saw and roughly measured the height and 

 spread of this beautiful shrub. It is 

 about eleven feet high and fifteen or six- 

 teen feet in width and perfect on all 

 sides. 



If you, reader, can grow hydrangeas 

 like this one, what more beautiful object 

 do you want? We can't grow them in 

 Buffalo, or we don't. This shrub should 

 never be mixed up with other shrubbery. 

 A large bed or group of them has a fine 

 effect and can be given special treatment. 



