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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



MOTBMBBB 3, 1904. 



that he believes will be a very useful 

 thing. It bears seventy-five per cent 

 double or semi-double flowers of good 

 size, resembling the anemone-flowered 

 chrysanthemum Timbale d 'Argent, well 

 known in the eighties. The name of this 

 daisy is Chrysanthemum furtescens 

 Queen Alexandria. It will be sent out 

 next spring. 



Work on the perennials is ijow being 

 pushed with vigor. Careful comparison 

 has demonstrated the fact that pot 

 plants of nearly all the perennials do 

 better after being sent away than the 

 larger, field-grown clumps. This is not 

 generally believed yet, but it is true, the 

 uninjured roots of the pot-grown stuff 

 enabling them to push right ahead, while 

 the clumps from the ground often have 

 to be shipped just when their season of 

 growth, or even of flower, is on and get 

 a serious check. A larger force of men 

 than ever before at this work is indus- 

 triously potting these perennials. Long 

 frames are full of thrifty looking stock 

 now in 3-inch pots. They will be kept 

 at it as long as the weather remains open, 

 or until the job is finished. 



Viola cucullata, the so-called crested 

 pansy, is being more extensively grown. 

 It is a feature of outdoor planting 

 abroad, where it is massed in solid colors, 

 blue, yellow and white, with perhaps a 

 fine tuberous begonia to punctuate the 

 beds which form a brilliant patch of 

 bloom throughout the season. 



Inside the houses Begonia Gloire de 

 Lorraine in sixes, set on board strips 

 over a lily tank, were very thrifty in 

 appearance and full of buds. A corner 

 of one house was devoted to nepenthes, 

 pitcher plants, not often seen in com- 

 mercial places. Mr. Eisele has brought 

 over Croton Turnfordiense, considered 

 the finest yellow-leaved variety with 

 green edge. Cocos Weddeliana has been 

 in good demand. A large stock is being 

 marketed. 



A very important cultural point at 

 variance with accepted ideas has been 

 brought out in Pandanus Sanderi. Mr. 

 Eisele believes that with care this variety 

 will be grown with the rich, vivid color- 

 ing throughout that makes it so effective. 

 Nephrolepises are plentiful, nice bushy 

 plants. For Scottii Mr. Eisele predicts a 

 great future. 



The azalea houses showed the effect of 

 Mr. Strohlein's strenuous week spent in 

 distributing them from Canada to the 

 gulf and presumably from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific, though he did not admit 

 it. There were great gaps in the blocks 

 of glossy green plants. 



The palms were in very fine condition. 

 The decorative sizes of kentias, specimens 

 six feet high and over in from 10-inch 

 pots to 15-inch tubs, were a sight, their 

 deep green foliage suggesting durability 

 as well as perfect health. Latania Bor- 

 bonica in 9-inch pots were nicely done. 

 There were good looking tables of Areca 

 lutescens in sixes and a few nice plants 

 of Kentia Sanderiana. Outside in a slat 

 house were a pretty lot of araucarias 

 and in a board house were dwarf and 

 standard bay trees. Both are somewhat 

 novel. The dwarf bays are about two 

 and a half feet high, prettily rounded, 

 while the standards are trimmed in pyra- 

 mid form, giving them quite an imperial 

 air, as the Belgians say. 



Train time and farewell to Messrs. 

 Eisele and Strohlein came all too soon, 

 but the memory of the pleasant visit 

 will not soon fade away. 



Easter Lilies. 



In past seasons many of the Easter 

 lilies used in this city have come from 

 outside points, but during the coming 

 winter Thaddeus N. Yates & Co. expect 

 to have a steady supply, chiefly for cut 

 flowers. They have upwards of 18,000 

 Lilium Harrisii 5x7-inch bulbs. The most 

 advanced are likely to be in bloom by 

 Thanksgiving. From that time a stead- 

 ily increasing supply will be forthcom- 

 ing until spring. The entire lot are in 

 good, healthy condition and will aver- 

 age, Mr. Yates thinks, about three flow- 

 ers to the stem. The firm is to be con- 

 gratulated on their enterprise in this di- 

 rection. 



Variotts Notes« 



The fall show of the Pennsylvania Hor- 

 ticultural Society opens next Tuesday, 

 Novemoer 8, in Horticultural Hall, Broad 

 street, below Locust street. 



The board of directors of the Flower 

 Market organized for the third year at 

 the Market last Tuesday. The officers 

 elected were: President, William K. 

 Harris; vice-president, Joseph Heacock: 

 secretary, Alfred Burton; treasurer, 

 Charles E. Meehan. Mr. Meehan was also 

 re-elected manager. 



The Henry F. Michell Co. is busily 

 filling bulb orders this week. They note 

 an increased demand for narcissi and tu- 

 lips for bedding. Their bulbs are being 

 planted out in the beds at Independence 

 Square this week. 



Andrew E. Hall made up a handsome 

 basket last week for the silver wedding 

 of Mr. and Mrs. H. Bayersdorfer. The 

 basket was large, of cornucopia shape 

 and filled with silver-colored material 

 throughout. 



J. D. Eisele tried an old fashioned gar- 

 den of hardy perennials last season with 

 excellent results; an abundance of cut 

 flowers for the table throughout summer 

 and fall. 



H. H. Battles has a show case on 

 Chestnut street this week in addition to 

 a case on Twelfth street, with fac-simile 

 of his signature across the glass. The 

 new case is evidently filled to interest the 

 friends of the debutantes: Sunrise roses, 

 lily of the valley and double violets, set 

 off by Cibotium Schiedei fronds and 

 pale green cover. 



John Euppert, of the Henry A. Dreer 

 Co., has the sympathy of his many 

 friends in the death of his father, which 

 occurred last week. 



The William Graham Co. has had a 

 number of dinner decorations lately. 



A fakir appeared in the center of 

 business last Saturday with 100 fine, 

 long-stemmed Liberties, fresh buds. He, 

 said he had bought them from a farmer. 

 Another fakir appeared later with ex- 

 actly the same stock and story. Wanted, 

 the fanner. 



Charles P. Poryzees had some excep- 

 tionally fine Bonnaffon in his window 

 this week. Edward Eeid pointed them 

 out with pride. 



Charles E, Meehan, the popular man- 

 ager of the Flower Market, visited 

 Wyndmoor recently. He reports crops 

 promise well for the coming season. 

 Beauties, of course, are the principal 

 stock. Besides he mentioned John Bur- 

 ton's fine houses of Liberty and Myers & 

 Samtman's house of Sunrise in splendid 

 shape and their house of Queen of Edge- 



ly- 



W. J. Baker is handling some heavy 

 strings of smilax for which he finds ready 

 demand. 



A returned traveler says that many 

 chrysanthemum shows are held in China 

 during October. They divide the varie- 

 ties into two classes, civil, correspond- 

 ing to our Chinese, and military, corre- 

 sponding to our Japanese. 



Mr. Murdoch, of the Pittsburg firm 

 of that name, was a visitor last week. 



Samuel S. Pennock has filled some 

 good gardenia orders lately. The supply 

 of this flower is not so large as a week 

 ago. 



William J. Muth, of the Cut Flower 

 Co., showed some good Colonel Appleton 

 and J. K. Shaw chrysanthemums. 



William Berger has an effective win- 

 dow display of chrysanthemums this 

 week, grown on his own place. He has 

 greatly improved the conservatory in the 

 rear of his store during the past sum- 

 mer. Phil. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY 



Work of the Committees. 



Brighthurst, exhibited by Nathan 

 Smith & Son before the New Y/)rk com- 

 mittee October 29, color rose pink, sil- 

 very reverse, Japanese, scored commer- 

 cial scale 90 points; exhibition scale 85 

 points. 



Mrs. John Fries, exhibited by John 

 Fries, Covington, Ky., before the Cin- 

 cinnati committee October 29, color Bon- 

 naffon yellow, incurved Japanese, scored 

 86 points commercial scale. The flowers 

 shown were grown two to one plant. 

 Feed H. Lemon, Secy. 



LILIUM CANDIDUM. 



The white lily is an old inhabitant of 

 our gardens, so old in fact that no one 

 could give a correct date of its introduc- 

 tion to England. The only thing to fix 

 its date of introduction is to quote Grer- 

 ard's Herbal of 1596. It probably first 

 reached our shores from southern Europe, 

 where it occurs in a wild state, extending 

 from the island of Corsica to northern 

 Persia and the Caucasus. Notwithstand- 

 ing this bit of ancient history, the fact 

 remains that modern cultivators have as 

 much diflSculty in cultivating the white 

 lily as our ancestors had. Its mode of 

 growth, and the time it commences to 

 throw its leaves afresh, point to the fact 

 that if necessary to transplant it, it 

 should be done at a much earlier period 

 than any other lily grown in the open. 

 Experience would seem to indicate that 

 it resents being lifted at all, while an- 

 other diflSculty is brought about by the 

 advent of a^ fungus during the past few 

 years. Taking all these things into con- 

 sideration, we cannot help thinking that 

 the white lily is happiest in the garden 

 of the cottager, where the bulbs are sel- 

 dom interfered with by the cultivator. — 

 Gardeners' World. 



ScBANTON, Pa.— W. E. McClintock 

 had a nice order recently for the Gear- 

 hart-Spencer wedding, 



Santa Eosa, Cau — Maater Finlow 

 Geary has embarked in the florist busi- 

 ness, growing outdoor chrysanthemums. 



Hillsdale, Mich. — Carl Hirsch gave 

 a chrysanthemum show last week to 

 which he charged adults 10 cents admis- 

 sion, dividing half his gross sales among 

 the churches of the city. The result was 

 that he had a big crowd and gave the 

 churches $152,40. This week Mr. Hirsch 

 visited Chicago on his way north for a 

 few days' vacation. 



