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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



NOVKMBKR 10, 1004. 



adays goes a long way toward the con- 

 tinued patronage of your cuBtomers, and 

 you can never be so certain of retaining 

 them as by perfection in detail each 

 time they buy or order. 



Be sure to have plenty of white waxed 

 tissue paper to wrap violets in when 

 packing. Never use ordinary tissue, as it 

 is not at all suitable, for many reasons. 

 It is also very appropriate and in keep- 

 ing to use purple cord to match the 

 violets in tying up a retail order. 



Keep Up to the Mark. 



In the houses take good care of the 

 ventilation and do not thoughtlessly or 

 otherwise let the temperature run uji 

 too high some of these bright, pleasant 

 days. Remember that the violet is al- 

 ways a lover of plenty of cool, fresh air. 

 * ' The more the merrier. ' ' 



Again, by the time you are perusing 

 these notes you will be approaching 

 Thanksgiving day and, as every holiday 

 means extra work in the sales depart- 

 ment, be sure and go over the houtses at 

 once and thoroughly clean out poor, yel- 

 lowing foliage, etc., so that it will be in 

 shape to carry through the week without 

 attention, aside from the airing and 

 watering necessary. This will never be 

 an extended job provided you keep the 

 plants up to the mark all the time. And 

 after delivering all those boxes of vio- 

 lets, to say nothing about the other flow- 

 ers, you will want time to pick that tur- 

 key, and a violet grower needs the re- 

 laxation if ever any poor mortal needs it, 

 for he can always see work ahead of 

 him, and much of it not of the easiest. 

 R. E. Shuphelt. 



AN EARLY YELLOW MUM. 



During the present season there have 

 been no varieties of chrysanthemums 

 which have been so profitable as the 

 early yellows. A new Sort in this class 

 is Merstliam Yellow, an introduction of 

 W. Wells & Co., the well known English 

 growers, last season. It was given a gold 

 nstdal at the Royal Horticultural Society 

 of Great Britain and was awarded the 

 certificate of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America when exhibited in New York, 

 October 8 this year. It is of the largest 

 size. Chrysanthemum Merstham Yellow 

 is the subject of the title page of the 

 current issue of the Review. 



NOTES ON 1904 NOVELTIES. 



It is safe to say that never before 

 were so many fine varieties sent out in 

 one year as were distributed this spring, 

 and the record they are making at tiie 

 exhibitions is wonderful indeed. Chief 

 among these is, of course, the match- 

 less Duckham. No variety ever sent 

 out can show such a record in the time. 

 At every exhibition it is the same story, 

 nothing to touch Duckham in pinks. 

 Ltnox, Madison, Red Bank, Boston, 

 Tarrytown, all bear eloquent witness to 

 this fact. Commercially, where tancy 

 blooms are asked for, Duckham is dis- 

 tinctly "It." This variety has whole- 

 saled at $9 per dozen in New York for 

 special blooms and it is safe to say tnat 

 this is the highest price obtained for 

 many years, in the wholesale market. 



I^eila Filkins and F. A. Cobbold are 

 b( th very prominent in the pinK section, 

 Filkins beating Morel everywhere they 

 were shown together. 



The red varieties were somewliat of a 

 disappointment, S. T. Wright burning 

 badly when exposed to the open sunlight. 

 Seme blooms were shown at Boston by 



, Mr. Thos. W. Head that were perfect in 

 color and finish, evidently taken on a 

 later bud ; but on the crown bud Wright 

 did not live up to the promise of his 



• youth. Maynell was much better and 

 has Ix^en shown \erv fine evervwhere. 



Henry Barnes was set up in wonder- 

 ful shape at Oceanic, but this variety, 

 though the most beautifully colored of 

 all the reds, is too weak in the neck for 

 any but the short vase classes. 



Mary Inglis has come in for some 

 criticism, but the way it was shown at 

 Boston shows conclusively that the fault 

 is more with the grower than with the 

 variety. Grown right it is an immense 

 flower, one of the very largest. 



Donald McLeod has also found many 

 friends. It was one of the largest flow- 

 ers in the Lenox show and its bronzy 

 eft'ect is very telling in a collection. One 

 of the largest New England commercial 

 growers tells me that he likes it exced- 

 ingly for cut flower work and will grow 

 it more largely next year. 



Cheltoni has made a great name for 

 itself this year. It has beaten Appleton 

 in several competitions ana when grown 

 from crown buds builds up into a mag- 

 nificent flower. It is rather early for any 

 but the first exhibitions, but in its sea- 

 son, October 1.5 to 30, it is unequalled 

 as a yellow for either private or com- 

 mercial use. 



Mildred Ware showed too much neck 



for our American ideals of a fine vari- 

 ety, and we are afraid it will not be 

 grown largely again. The color is good 

 for a collection, but it is a tall grower 

 and we can find something else in its 

 color more acceptable. 



Ben Wells has been shown very finely 

 at several places and as a purely exhibi- 

 tion flower, it is grand. Immense in 

 size, with a stem like a walking cane, it 

 is one of the easiest things to handle 

 ever grown. When the flower begins to 

 ago it looks like nothing so much as a 

 bunch of paper ribbons loosely bundled 

 together. General Hutton was also 

 shown very finely and will doubtless be 

 set up again in New York this week. 

 The bronze color has not shown so much 

 this year and the flower appears more 

 as a pure yellow and it makes a splendid 

 variety to set up on long stems! 



Dr. Enguehard is hopelessly outclassed 

 as an exhibition flower, being far too 

 small, though it finds friends in some 

 quarters for commercial use. A very 

 good vase was on exhibition at Boston 

 that had been taken on a later bud 

 which showed neat flowers ofgood char- 

 acter. I could never understand why 

 this variety when it was sent out last 

 spring, was advertised as a flower that 

 never came sprung centered. What is a 

 sprung centered flower anyway? 



Some of the older varieties are being 

 dropped as usual, white Eaton being 

 hardly seen at all this year on the exhibi- 

 tion boards. Change is necessary and 

 a.~ the older kinds run down, so will the 

 young fellows take their place, and a 

 cycle of a few years sees an entirely new 

 set of varieties in the exhibition hall. 



Brian Boru. 



PRICE OF GLASS. 



Word comes from Pittsburg that a new 

 association of window glass manufactur- 

 ers and jobbers has begun a fight against 

 the American Window Glass Company by 

 cutting the lowest prices offered by that 

 company 2V(> per cent. The executive 

 committee on November 5 announced the 

 new discounts, which are 90, 20 and 2}/^ 

 per cent off the manufacturers' list for 

 the first three brackets, and 90, 10 and 

 -Vi per cent for all sizes above the third 

 bracket. 



Salida, Colo. — A. A. Wood says busi- 

 ness is very good and everything indi- 

 cates a prosperous season. Stock is com- 

 ing along nicely. He is experimenting 

 with Actinella Richardsoni and thinks it 

 will take a prominent place among com- 

 mercial plants. 



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