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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



December 8, 1904. 



POTS. 



standard Flower Pots. If your greenbouaea 

 are wHhln 600 miles of the Capital, write us; 

 we can save you money. W. H. Ernest, 28tli 

 and M Sts. N. E.. Was hington, D. C. 



Flower Pots. Before buying write us for 

 prices. Geo. Keller & Sons, 361-363 Herndon 

 St. (near Wrlghtwood Ave.), Chica go. 



Standard Pots. Catalogues and price lists 

 furnished on application. 



A. H. Hews & Co., No. Cambrid ge, Mass. 



RED POTS. STANDARD SIZE. 



SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. Syracuse, N. Y. 



Red pots. Write for prices and sample pot. 

 Coleaburg Pottery Co., Colesburg, Iowa. 



RED POTS. Standard pots at bottom flgurea. 

 Harrison Pottery, Harrison, Ohio. 



RAFFIA. 



Raffia. Samples free If you mention The 

 Review. Large assortment of colors. 

 R. H. Comey Co., Camden, N. J. 



SHIPPING TRUNKS. 



Crane Bros., Westfleld, Mass. 

 Manufacturers Llnenold Seamless 

 Trunks and Boxes for shipping 

 Cut flowers. Send for price list. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Clean and fresh, shipment direct from the 

 swamp; 5 bbl. bale, $1.25; 3 bales, |3.25; 

 5 bales, $5.00. H. R. Akers, Chatsworth, N. J. 



Sphagnum moss, large bale, $1.75 each; by 

 freight, $2.00. 

 L. J. Kreshover, 110-112 W. 27th St., N. Y. 



Live sphagnum moss and orchid peat always 

 on hand. Lager & Hurrell, Summit, N. J. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Crowl Fern Co., Mllllngton, Mass. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices. 

 H. M. Robinson & Co.. 11 Province St., Boston. 



Sphagnum moss, baled spruce, etc. 



L. B. Brague, Hinsdale, Maas. 



TIN FOIL. 



Tin Foil — Plain, fancy, printed and mounted. 

 Oonley Foil Co.. 521 West 25th St., N. Y. 



Tin Foil— Plain, violet and rose. 



John J. Crooke Co., 155 Ave. D, N. Y^ 



TOBACCO. 



Tobacco stems, fresh and strong, in bales of 

 200 to 600 lbs.. 75c per 100 lbs. 

 D. Cutler Ryerson. 108 3d Ave.. Newar k. N. J. 



Fresh tobacco stems, bale of 300 lbs., $1.60. 

 W. C. Beckert, Allegheny, Pa. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



wired toothpicks. 10,000. $1.50; 50,000, $6.25. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 



W. J. COWEE. Berlin, N. Y. 



■WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Excelsior carnation supports, made of gal- 

 vanized wire. 10 in. long, $7.00 1000, $60.00 

 10.000; 13 in. long, $7.50 1000. $70.00 10.000; 

 20 In. long, $8.00 1.000. $75.00 10,000. Alao 

 atemmlng wire, rose stakes, etc. 

 H. F. Littlefleld. Worces ter, Mass. 



Tbaden'a wire tendrils and twin stakes for 

 carnations, roses, etc. 



H. Thaden & Co., 472 W. Hunter St.. At- 

 lanta, Ga. 



Model Extension carnation supports; also gal- 

 vanized rose stakes and tying tires. 

 Igoe Bros.. 226 North 9th St.. Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Model Extension carnation supports. 



Parker-Bruen Mfg. Co.. Harrison, N. J. 



Send In your order now for a copy of Scott's 

 Florists' Manual. 



WIRE WORK. 



We are the largest manufacturers of wire 

 work In the west. E. P. Wlnterson Co., 

 45. 47. 49 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



Emll StefTens. Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Designs. 335 East 21st St., New York. 



Reed & Keller. 122 W. 26th St.. New York. 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 Wm. Mnrphy. Wholesale Florist. Cincinnati, O. 



E. H. Hunt. 76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



ALTHAEA nQFOLIA. 



Many prefer the single hollyhocks to 

 the monstrously doubled florists' flowers 

 now generally met with in gardens, which 



entirely lack the grace of form shown 

 by the blossoms of the cottagers' plants, 

 with their doubled center and clear guard 

 petals. Of all the singles the most de- 

 lightful is the species known aa the fic- 

 leaved hollyhock, althaea ficifolia, which 

 is worthy of inclusion in the best herba- 

 ceous border. It does not attain the 

 great height of the ordinary hollyhock, 

 rarely exceeding a stature of five feet 

 or at most six feet. Its flowers are of 

 lemon-yellow color, three to four inches 

 across, of delicate texture and very re- 

 fined appearance. The leaves are large 

 palmate, and five to seven-lobed, some- 

 what resembling those of fig-tree. From 

 July to September this hollyhock creates 

 a beautiful picture in the garden. As it 

 does not appear to be so susceptible to 

 the dreaded disease as the florists' vari- 

 eties, it is rarely seen in bad health. It 

 is a native of Siberia, and has been 

 known for over 300 years, says the Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle. 



CHICAGO AS A FLOWER QTY. 



Chicago is steadily advancing in fame 

 as the largest producer of cut flowers in 

 this country and the industry is begin- 

 ning to receive recognition in the daily 

 papers. The following is an editorial 

 from the Chicago Inter-Ocean for No- 

 vember 15: 



Those uninformed and misinformed people 

 who regard Chicago in the light merely of a 

 big Industrial city may be surprised to learn 

 that it is the greatest flower market lu tne 

 United States, but those who are famiU.ir with 

 the facts will be surprised only that persons of 

 ordinary intelligence should be ignorant of its 

 pre-eminence in this as well as In many other 

 esthetic respects. 



The taste and inclination of our people have 

 always been in the direction of the beautiful. 

 This is evident to the casual observer In the 

 universal fondness which Is exhibited here and 

 throughout Cook county for the cultivHtiou of 

 flowers. With few exceptions every Chicago 

 and Cook county householder who possesHes a 

 front or back yard, a little patch of land, or 

 window or porch space sufficient for a flower 

 box, la unhappy unless he is raising plants of 

 some kind, even though he succeed in producing 

 little more than a few modest little pansles. 



On the other hand, those who can afford to 

 indulge the luxury cultivate flowers here for 

 their owrf enjoyment upon a magnificent scale, 

 while acres of ground are covered by the hot- 

 houses of the professional florlata. 



The success achieved by Chicago and Cook 

 county in the cultivation of flowers may be in 

 some degree due to our skill and in some degree 

 to our soil, but it is, perhaps, mainly attrib- 

 utable to our climate. The pure air and the 

 genial sunshine which abound here the greater 

 part of the year are highly conducive to the 

 growth and beauty of our buds and blossoms. 



Chicago is proud of the fact that, almoat 

 without striving, it has gained fame in this 

 particular, and that from the variety and pro- 

 fusion of Cook county's blooms It is able to 

 distribute among its sister cities 'the most 

 glorious colors, hues and odors that nature is 

 capable of producing. 



INDEX KEWENSIS. 



The utility of this monumental work 

 is daily appreciated by those who have to 

 deal with the names of plants and their 

 synonyms. The original work, prepared 

 by Mr. Daydon Jackson under the super- 

 intendence and with the co-operation of 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, was completed in 

 1895. In these volumes are recorded all, 

 or practically all, the names of plants 

 from the time of Linnaeus up to the end 

 of 1885. A first supplement, prepared by 

 M. Durand and Mr. B. D. Jackson, is in 

 course of publication, and has reached 

 the letter ' ' Rhv. ' ' This supplement is 

 intended to bring the record down to 

 1895. 



Proper names, when used in the form 

 of adjectives, are now spelt, in accord- 

 ance with the present Kew usage, with a 



small initial letter. In the original work 

 they are spelt with a capital. For the 

 sake of uniformity it would probably 

 have been better to have maintained one 

 usage throughout. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 



A BIT OF FUCHSIA HISTORY. 



Probably but few persons who at- 

 tended the meeting of the Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society on July 23 noticed in the 

 foregound of a collection of hardy flow- 

 ers a few plants of a small-flowered 

 fuchsia in pots, bearing the name of 

 Mme. Cornellisen, and having white co- 

 rollas. This was probably the first 

 fuchsia with a white corolla and red tube 

 and sepals raised on the continent; and 

 it is interesting to note that, notwith- 

 standing the flood of new fuchsias put 

 into commerce during the last forty 

 years, this variety should have been pre- 

 served, to reappear on the above date. 

 Madame Cornellisen was distributed by 

 Thibaut & Keteleer, florists, of Paris. 

 F. W. Burbidge puts the year of send- 

 ing-out as 1860, but there is reason to be- 

 lieve an earlier date should be named, 

 and there are those who believe it to have 

 been the first fuchsia with a white corolla 

 seen in this country. 



If it be correct that, as Mr. Burbidge 

 states, Madame Cornellisen was not dis- 

 tributed until 1860, then the honor of 

 raising the first fuchsia having a white 

 corolla belongs to W. H. Story, who in 

 1853-54 produced the variety Qijeeri Vic- 

 toria, having a scarlet tube and sepals, 

 and a pure white corolla, which, with 

 other varieties, passed into the hands of 

 E. G. Henderson & Sons for distribution. 

 The advent of this interesting novelty 

 naturally aroused a great deal of interest, 

 but at the time Mr. Story was af- 

 flicted with a severe illness which result- 

 ed in death, and he was thus unable to 

 afford any information as to the parent- 

 age of Queen Victoria; but it was be- 

 lieved that Mr. Story obtained pollen 

 through Mr. Veitch, of the Exeter Nur- 

 series, from a species or variety with a 

 small and almost white corolla, and by 

 using this on, it was said, a dark va- 

 riety, there was ultimately produced the 

 batch of which the variety Queen Vic- 

 toria was one. The last-named was put 

 into commerce about 1856-57. 



Among our modern fuchsias there are 

 very few single varieties which are 

 white. Messrs. H. Cannell & Son, whose 

 list is a comprehensive one, name but 

 three. The early forms were spare of 

 bloom, and it is probable that defect is 

 somewhat hereditary. But of white 

 double varieties there are several, and 

 they are generally f ree-blcoming ; one 

 named Ballet Girl is largely grown by 

 Geo. Reynolds in the form of big bush 

 specimens in pots for the decoration of 

 the terrace in front of the mansion. This 

 variety is very free and one of the best 

 of the group. Occasionally one of this 

 class is shown as an exhibition specimen, 

 but a single white variety rarely, if ever. 



Mr. Perry strongly recommended 

 Madame Cornellisen as a bedding plant; 

 small plants appear to bloom freely, the 

 flowers are small, but they are graceful 

 in form, while the habit of growth as 

 shown by small plants is desirable. It 

 affords another instance of an old plant 

 coming to the fore in after years, when 

 there was reason to believe it had been 

 lost. — Gardeners ' Chronicle. 



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