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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Dbckmbbb 8, 1904. 



regular cut of any one color, but those 

 who have persisted in the work and who 

 retail their own product have found it 

 possible to build up a trade on these 

 mixed varieties which makes the cut from 

 the seedling house as profitable, or near- 

 ly so, as the cut from any other house on 

 the place. Fred Dorner. Jr., says that 

 they have so educated their trade that 

 they now have a sale for as many dozens 

 of mixed carnations as they have for 

 solid colors. They also find it worth 

 while to grow a moderate quantity of 

 odd sorts, such as purple with white 

 variegation and other novelties, which 

 work in nicely among these mixed dozens 

 and are also very useful in boxes of the 

 solid colors. In the latter case they of- 

 ten put in a couple of blooms of the o:M 

 sorts with a dozen of the standard col- 

 ors. This, of course, is only done when 

 the colors harmonize, and serves to at- 

 tract the purchaser's attention to the 

 oddity and he at once notices that be has 

 received something additional to the flow- 

 ers paid for. Anything which goes to 

 impress the purchaser with a pleasing 

 sense of novelty serves to keep that par- 

 ticular florist in the customer's mind. 



DISCARDING LAWSON. 



I read a note in last week 's Review 



which stated that one of the best known 



growers would discard Lawson aft.'e-r 



many firms have houses of Lawson that 

 eclipse any Nelson Fisher I have ever 

 seen, and the records of the flower shows 

 this fall tell the story regarding the 

 quality of ; the blooms. Lawson certainly 

 took care (of itself by winning prizes in 

 the classes for dark pink against all 

 comers. At the World's Fair flower 

 show, in the class for 100 dark pink, 

 Lawson won first and isecond. In the 

 class for best fifty dark pink Lawson 

 won first. At the Chicago flower show 

 Lawson won first prize in its class and 

 won second prize in the great sweep- 

 stakes, beating everything in carnations 

 at the show except Fiancee. After a 

 round of the flower shows this fall Mrs. 

 Thos. W. Lawson has seated itself more 

 £;ecurely on the throne as queen of the 

 dark pink carnations. Easy to root, easy 

 to grow and very prolific, when a new 

 pink is put on the market the first ques- 

 tion that is asked about it is: "Is it 

 as good as the Lawson?" If it is as 

 good the originator will have plain sail- 

 ing, and if it is better he will be un- 

 able to fill his orders, as the florists 

 will be glad indeed when some one gets 

 out a new pink that will beat Lawson. 



An Observer. 



SPORTS OF ENCHANTRESS. 



Enchantress is showing many inter- 

 esting fports, word of them coming from 



W. K. Partridge. 



this year. I have seen Nelson Fisher, 

 Lawson 's newest competitor, growing at 

 several different places. The finest I 

 ever saw were at the Thompson I'arna- 

 tion Co. 's place, at Joliet, 111. Still 



various and widely separated parts of 

 the country. Probably the most valu- 

 able heretofore reported is the white 

 sport which has appeared at at least two 

 places. W. A. Harkett, of Dubuque, la., 



has a Scott pink sport of Enchantress, 

 which, if it proves to have the attributes 

 of the original, will prove a variety of 

 exceptional value. The color speaks for 

 itself. Mr. Harkett also has a blotched 

 and striped sport of Eiichantress, but 

 the markings are not pronounced enough 

 to give it value to the general grower. 

 Mr. Harkett also has two sports of Law- 

 son, light pink and Scott pink, which he 

 is testing. 



AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



W. B. Arnold, of The Eockland Green- 

 houses, Eockland, Mass., registers Varie- 

 gated Lawson, a variegated sport from 

 Lawson, snow white, marked with car- 

 mine, said marking being very distinct, 

 without clouding or Blending. Habit 

 identical with Lawson and needs no de- 

 scription, 



. The American Carnation Society will 

 issue a supplement to the regular pre- 

 mium list and this will go to press De- 

 cember 20. In it will l« given the en- 

 try blank for the exhibition at Chicago, 

 January 25 and 26, and the full list of 

 premiums offered. Anyone desiring to 

 offer a special premium for this exhibi- 

 tion will please forward particulars of 

 the same at once to Albert M. Herr, Lan- 

 caster, Pa. Parties who are not members 

 of the society can have this premium list 

 mailed them on application to the same 

 address. Albert M. Herr, Sec'y. 



THE PARTRIDGE PLACE. 



" Bloomhurst, " W. K. Partridge's 

 greenhouse establishment at Lockland, 

 0., is well worth a visit at all seasons of 

 the year. It is most interesting at this 

 time, however, when carnations and roses 

 are approaching their best. Although the 

 roses are invariably of high grade, thdy 

 are especially fine this season, even the 

 Liberty, the most capricious of them 

 all, behaving in a manner that speaks 

 well for that variety if handled right. 

 However, it is Mr. Partriage's opinion 

 that there is ample room for a good red 

 rose to. take the place of Liberty. Gold 

 en Gate, as growm here, need not be rele- 

 gated to a back seat. What it lacks in 

 foliage it certainly makes up in size of 

 stem and bloom, as well as in quan- 

 tity. General MacArthur does not quite 

 come up to expectations, although it is 

 improving right along. 



In carnations, Nelson Fisher is decid- 

 edly good and Mrs. Patten is unquestion- 

 ably the standard of variegated varieties, 

 being ahead of all its predecessors. 

 Lady Bountiful is all that has been and 

 is being claimed for it, though The 

 Belle is a finer flower. Flamingo and 

 Crusader are planted side by side and 

 thus far the latter seems to be in the 

 lead. Enchantress, as usual, is the 

 ' ' boss ' ' in light pinks and, besides being 

 a cup winner for Mr. Partridge, it is a 

 moneymaker as well. Prosperity bids 

 fair to usher in a prosperous crop for 

 Christmas, but as a "cut and come 

 again" variety it is simply not in it. 

 Glacier is still grown in quantity, having 

 proved a profitable carnation, although 

 not in the fancy class. The Cardinal 

 TS being tested here. "An improved 

 Estelle, " he remarked, "ought to ap- 

 peal to every grower, large or small." 



Seven seedlings of his own, four 

 white, one red, one pink and one crim- 

 son, are being tested the second season. 

 From all indications one of the white 

 ones is a winner, the bloom being ex- 



