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December 1, 1U04. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



63 



NOTES ON NOVELTIES. 



The best novelty of the year, in my 

 humble opinion, is Mrs. "W. Duckham, the 

 winner of the C. S. A. silver cup. As it 

 was shown at Boston, no one had any- 

 thing but praise for it, and as a tribute 

 to its keeping qualities 1 may say that 

 several flowers of this variety that were 

 sent from England in the Wells exhibit 

 traveled in perfect condition and were 

 as fresh on the last day of the show as 

 they were on the first, and this after be- 

 ing cut October 22, traveling 3,000 miles 

 and being kept until November 3 before 

 being exhibited. It is a great record and 

 I predict as large a measure of popular- 

 ity for this variety as W. Duckham, last 

 year's cup winner, is now enjoying. The 

 color of Mrs. W. Duckham is a lovely 

 yellow, a little deeper than Cheltoni, 

 which variety it resembles somewhat in 

 appearance. When the buds are first 

 opening a band of red shows along the 

 edge of the petals, but by the time the 

 flower is developed this color has faded, 

 leaving a brilliant yellow that catches 

 every eye. 



Another yellow that has shown up very 

 well is Merstham Yellow. This variety is 

 valuable for its earliness, being this year 

 fully finished by October 1, and showing 

 a mid-season size and finish. It is a 

 money maker for the commercial grow- 

 er if he will only plant it early enough to 

 give it a chance. This variety also came 

 over from England in splendid condition, 

 and was highly praised at Boston. 



Emily Mileham is the best white of the 

 new ones. It is very graceful in contour, 

 full to the center and has a grand stem 

 and foliage. It has kept very dwarf, not 

 running over three feet in height, and is 

 an ideal variety for a 6-inch pot. There 

 are larger whites but none in my opinion 

 so finely finished and I commend this 

 variety to every lover of an artistic 

 flower. Mrs. A. J. Miller is the largest 

 of the new things, but its color is not 

 specially attractive, only as a variety 

 ic a class for twenty-five varieties. 

 There its immense size makes it valu- 

 able and as an exhibition flower it will 

 be largely grown. Brick red is the 

 nearest approach to describing its color. 

 Late buds show much more brilliant 

 coloring but the flower is much smaller. 



J. H. Doyle shows a flower much like 

 the preceding variety, but brighter in 

 color. For the exhibitor this is grand, 

 but the commercial grower will not take 

 kindly to it, for owing to its massive 

 growth, it takes up lots of room in the 

 bench. Brian Boru. 



MUMS FOR POTS. 



John JoneS; gardener at the Phipps 

 Conservatories, Schenley park, Pitts- 

 burg, has won wide fame for the excel- 

 lence of the ehrysaathemum plants which 

 he grows ' tbr conservatory decoration. 

 He supplies the following list of the best 

 varieties for pol plants : 



White: Niveus, Edith Smith, Nellie 



Pockett, Timothy Eaton, Belle of Cas- 

 tlewood. Miss Gladys Vanderbilt. 



Pink: Viviand-Morel, A. J. Balfour, 

 Maud Dean, William Simpson, Mrs. 

 Higinbotham, Mrs. E. O. Wolcott. 



Red: Dazzler, Black Hawk. 



Yellow: Goxlsn Wedding, Afis. Elmer 

 D. Smith, Sunstone, Miss G^orgienne 

 Bramhall, Miss M. M. Johnson, Golden 

 Age. 



Bronze: Brutus, Nyanza, Lord Hope- 

 toun, S. T. Wright. 



ROSES. 



Propagating Young Stock. 



Assuming that the house and benches 

 are in reaxliness to receive the sand or 



it forms a solid mass. This will reduee 

 the deptli to about four inches. Then with 

 a common butcher-knife make a cut acrosB 

 the bench. This cut should reach m depth 

 to about the middle of the material, say 

 two inches from the surface. By keepia 

 the cut of a uniform depth all the heels 

 of the cuttings will be exposed to the 

 same temperature and moisture and tend 

 to root formation in about the same period 

 of time. 



The cuttings siiould be inserted with as 

 little delay as possible after being made 

 so that the wound may not become too 

 dry, as if they are allowed to become dry 

 it greatly retards the process of root for- 

 mation. 



The cuttings should be placed in the 

 sand about one inch apart for Bridee, 

 Meteors and other varieties of about the 

 same habit of growth. Beauties require 

 from two to two and one-half inches. The 

 material should then be pressed firmly 

 along the line and a parallel cut made for 

 the rext line of cuttings. 



After a yard or two of the Jbench has 

 been filled in this manner they should be 

 thoroughly but gently watered, taking 

 'are rot to di8i)lace any of the cuttings. 

 If the weather is bright use the shading 

 at once and on all necessary occasions for 

 the first two weeks, by which time the 



Chrysanthemum Emily Mileham. 



other material to be used as a propagat- 

 ing medium, it chould be transferred to 

 the house and spread on the benches to 

 the depth of five inches. It should then 

 De well moistened and beaten firm so that 



callus will have formed and they may be 

 able to stand a little more exposure. 



The temperature of the sand should be 

 about 60 or 62 degress and that of the 

 hcuse about 50 degrees. 



