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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Dbcbmbeb 15, 1904. 



riety, but is much larger, more artistic 

 in form and of fine substance. Owing to 

 these qualifications it will be a welcome 

 addition to the commercial list. The 

 height is three feet, at its best November 

 5 to 10. It was the winner of the silver 

 cup, for best white seedling at the 

 World's !Fair 'flower show and was cer- 

 tificated by the C. S. A. 



DECORATIVE MUM PLANTS. 



These are becoming more frequently 

 asked for yearly. Varieties tliat are free- 

 flowering when grown in a natural bush 

 form or bush standard, such as are seen 

 at some of the nurseries and parks in 

 groups, are invaluable for this purpoKe, 

 Quite recently there have been several 

 new additions to the decorative section 

 by a continental raiser, M. AuguEte 

 Nonin of Paris. He has this year sent 

 out some useful Japanese varieties, free- 

 flowering plants of good habit, that make 

 nice little bushes, and are not, like some 

 of the older sorts, unduly tall. Of these 

 I should be inclined to recommend Etoile 

 d'Or, a bright golden-yellow flowered 

 Japanese with medium-sized flowers ; 

 Primevere, another, but with rather lar- 

 ger starry-shaped flowers, pure pale yel- 

 low shaded buff; Etoile Blanche, rather 

 large, color pure paper white; Acajou, a 

 pretty medium-sized flower, color dull 

 crimson-red, florets flat, of medium 

 •width, very free ; Innocence, a nice little " 

 white flower of considerable decorative 

 eflFect; Jason, lemon-yellow. 



Sometimes, by way of a change, the 

 aingle-flowered varieties are used in this 

 way. Ladysmith, rosy-purple, is one of 

 the prettiest. Paris Daisy is a little gem, 

 white with yellow center, a starry flower. 

 Helen Skinner is quite new, large in 

 size, florets flat, color a fine shade of vel- 

 vety purple-amaranth, center yellow. — 

 C H. Payne, in Gardeners' Ciironiclc. 



AMERICAN MUMS. 



The chrysanthemum writers of the 

 European trade press frequently allude 

 to the fact that, while so many splendid 

 new sorts are constantly coming from 

 Australia and from France, as well as 

 from Ebglish raisers, little in the way 

 of new sorts comes to them from 

 America. But if the gentlemen who 

 feel that America has not contributed her 

 share in this direction will turn from 

 the exhibition table to the market reports 

 they will find that at about Thanksgiving 

 the leading varieties in quantity and sal- 

 ability in the London market were Major 

 Bonnaffon, Western King and Niveus. 

 BonnafFon was raised by P. Dorner & 

 Sons Co., Lafayette, Ind., and sent out 

 in 1894. Western King is one of Nathan 

 Smith & Sons' varieties, disseminated in 

 1897, and Niveus came from the same 

 source in 1893. The English market 

 grower makes his money growing Ameri- 

 can varieties and spends it trying French 

 and Australian seedlings. 



THE WELLS-POCKETT SET. 



A (-.urprising number of very fine 

 chrysanthemum novelties are now coming 

 out of Australia each year, and of the 

 raisers there none is more conspicuous 

 for his success than is T. W. Pockett, 

 most, if not all of whose productions 

 reach the trade through W. Wells & Co., 

 Earlswood, Eedhill, Surrey, England, who 

 Fent the wonderful collection of cut 

 blooms to the Chrysanthemum Society of 

 America show at Boston this year. This 

 contained many of the 1905 set of novel- 

 ties. In writing to an American corre- 

 spondent Mr. Wells says: 



* ' You may be interested to know 

 something about our novelties for 1905. 

 Well, they must be branded as the best 

 lot we ever had and we could easily have 

 made another set of twenty, and then 



Livingston Seed Co.'s Fourteen Favorite Mums. 



there would not have been a bad one. 

 These are really the pick of 3,000 plants 

 (seedlings) which Mr. Pockett raised in 

 Australia in 1902, which flowered over 

 there for the first time in April, 1903, 

 eighty of which he sent to me. These 

 we flowered in our nurseries this fall and 

 those named are the cream of the eighty 

 varieties, but it is almost a shame to 

 throw away quite thirty other good ones, 

 but people on this side are all cla:moring 

 for size. You will see ' size ' among these 

 next fall and quality thrown in. They 

 may be well termed the Gold Medal 

 set." 



THREE OF A KIND. 



The accompanying illustrations show 

 the three fine chrysanthemums which 

 John Breitmeyer's Sons, Detroit, have 

 been exhibiting at the fall flower shows. 

 These were raised by H. W. Kieman, of 

 Indianapolis, and sold to the Breit- 

 meyerg, who early recognized the com- 

 mercial value of the set. They have 

 grown them for their own trade but 

 never exhibited them until the World's 

 Fair flower show, at which Majestic took 

 first prize for 100 white in a class with a 

 larger number of entries than were ever 

 before staged; no less than fourteen 

 finely finished vases of 100 blooms each. 

 Adelia is also white and Fred Breit- 

 meyer thinks it is fully as good a thing 

 commercially as Majestic. Madonna is 

 shell pink. All three are of much the 

 same form, of good growth and fine sub- 

 stance. They should be good shippers. 

 After standing the week at the Chicago 

 show a bunch of petals could be plucked 

 from a flower and it would fill up the 

 hole so that they would not be missed; 

 nor would other petals fall under violent 

 shaking. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Eugene Dailledouze, chairman of the 

 committee for examining seedlings in 

 New York, reports that the variety Dor- 

 othy Faust, presented to that committee 

 December 3 is identical with the variety 

 Mrs. Robert McArthur certificated by 

 the society in 1897. The same variety 

 was presented to the same committee a 

 few years later as David S. Ward, Mr. 

 Dailledouze was a member of the com- 

 mitee which granted the original certifi- 

 cate. 



As the result of a misunderstandinjij 

 by the secretary of the C. S. A., all the 

 varieties of chrysanthemums introduced 

 in the spring of 1903 were omitted from 

 the report and lists recently publlshel 

 by the society. These varieties will be 

 included in the annual report for 1904^ 

 to be issued soon, 



Fred H. Lemon, Sec'y. 



Please omit my advertisement of 

 pansy plants, as I can fill no more or- 

 ders this season. — ^L. W. Goodale, 

 Dwight, Mass. 



Q'uakertown, Pa. — E. I. Eawlings 

 is enlarging the capacity of his heating 

 apparatus, having found in last winter's 

 severe cold that he did not have heat 

 enough. 



I like the Review and would not bo 

 without it. The only reason I did not 

 advertise in it this season was that local 

 trade took all the stock; did not have 

 enough and had to buy through the ad- 

 vertisements in the Review; that's where 

 to look for what you want. — J. A. Ken- 

 ISTON, Newburyport, Mass. 



