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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Fbbbuabt 2, 1905. 



April and May. Light and plenty of 

 ventilation and never too much watering 

 will easily keep the rust away. Some 

 growers even plunge it outside in August 

 and September to produce a stout, ro- 

 bust growth. It always flowers at just 

 the right season. Ten years ago we con- 

 sidered this one of the most important 

 Christmas plants and shall grow it again 

 because it will sell and is very useful 

 for cutting. 



Mignonette* 

 Don't neglect your mignonette bench. 

 I hope you cut a fine crop at the holiday 



season. Keep the surface of the bed 

 clean and a sprinkling of bone meal 

 will help if it is on a shallow bench. 

 Above all, keep it tied up if you expect 

 another crop of fine spikes. If allowed 

 to fall about on the bench the stems 

 will be crooked, which will spoil their 

 value. Besides the fine spikes you sell 

 by the dozen you get, later in the sea- 

 son, a lot of smaller spikes and there is 

 nothing our customers like so well, with 

 a dozen carnations or a bunch of mixed 

 flowers, as a few spikes of mignonette. 



William Scott. 



THE CARNATION SHOW. 



The Beview gave us such a full ac- 

 count of the American Carnation Soci- 

 ety's convention and exhibition that I 

 can hardly tell anything new. It cer- 

 tainly was the greatest show, in quality, 

 especially, the society has ever held, and 

 I am sure no one who attended can pos- 

 sibly regret it. The stock was exceed- 

 ingly well done throughout and in most 

 cases arrived in excellent condition. No 

 doubt one of the reasons for the general 

 high quality was the fact that very few 

 of the older varieties were shown, and 

 those few only served to show the ad- 

 vance that has been made in the last 

 five years. Such varieties as Fiancee, 

 Enchantress, Lady Bountiful and a few 

 others easily out-pointed what few older 

 varieties there were. Old Lawson, how- 

 ever, had no trouble in holding her own 

 in the dark pink classes. 



Never before were there shown such 

 a grand array of scarlets. Robert CJraig, 

 which took the Lawson silver medal, is 

 certainly a fine thing. Fine stem, form, 

 color and a large bloom. Victory was 

 just as fine in every way, except the 

 color lacked that brightness which this 

 variety showed in the fall. It is a 

 splendid keeper. Cardinal is a grand 

 thing and deservedly took first on JOO 

 scarlet. The vase Witterstaetter set up 

 too late for competition was a grand 

 Bight. Bed Lawson from W. J. Palmer 

 made a nice show. John Haines suffered 

 in transit but a few blooms which were 

 uninjured showed that it i% as fine as 

 any of the others and a good color. Fla- 

 mingo was there in good form but in- 

 stead of standing out like it did at 

 Brooklyn, two years ago, it had to 

 hustle to hold its own alongside of the 

 others. Adonis, too, looked nice but 

 was outclassed. Bichmond Gem is a small 

 bloom but fine color. 



Illinois, one of Eudd 's seedlings looked 

 good, the color is fine. We have been 

 looking for a scarlet to grow and sell 

 in the same class as Enchantress and 

 surely we ought to get at least one out 

 of this list. There is stUl room for im- 

 provement, however, in the color. We 

 want a brighter red with more yellow 

 in it. Who will produce itf 



In white Lady Bountiful easily led in 

 quantity and was conceded to be the 

 best white in the competitive classes. 

 This variety has not only size and form 



but it has the texture necessary to make 

 a commercial variety. It is the white 

 for the masses. White Lawson was shown 

 in good shape and, like its parent, it 

 has substance and size, though not as 

 good a form as Bountiful. The Belle 

 was shown in nice shape and of Gov. 

 Wolcott there were a few fine vases. My 

 Maryland, which won the bronze medal, 

 is a fine, large bloom on a good stem 

 and in the tall vase it made a fine show. 

 It arrived in good condition for having 

 come so far. 



Enchantress was the whole thing in 

 light pink and was never shown better. 

 There was nothing shown that is likely 

 to- displace this variety for a year or 

 two at least, unless it be Witterstaetter 's 

 J. A. Valentine, which looked very good. 

 Dorothy Whitney was the best yellow 

 although it does not rank in size with 

 the other prize winners. Harlowarden 

 took the leading prizes in crimson. Mrs. 

 Lawson is not likely to be displaced just 

 yet unless it be by the Aristocrat, which 

 looks very formidiable. Dorner's Eclipse, 

 which goes in the same class is more of 

 a commercial carnation. It may be grown 

 in place of Lawson f^r market, on ac- 

 count of its fine stem and productive- 

 ness, but as an exhibition variety Law- 

 son seems to be "it." Indianapolis 

 was not shown as good as at Detroit. 

 Budd 's Lady Margaret looks like a, n^nod 



commercial sort; good color and form. 

 Witterstaetter 's Afterglow looks like a 

 good thing, after the order of Fiancee. 

 Candace, shown by J. Hartje, is a beau- 

 tiful shade of pink. Prosperity was 

 shown in several vases, but nothing like 

 as good as at Indianapolis three years 

 ago. 



Among the new ones that attracted 

 my attention were Mikado from M. A. 

 Patten. The bloom reminds one of Pros- 

 perity only it is fuller and of much bet- 

 ter form and has deep shadings of crim- 

 son instead of light red, a very striking 

 variety. Variegated Lawson, from F. E. 

 Pierson Co., is about as heavily marked 

 as Mrs. Patten. Glen dale, from W, J. 

 & M. S. Vesey, is a white and red striped 

 flower and looks like a good commercial 

 sort; long stem, good calyx and form. 

 No. 155, 1902, from Dorner, is a fine 

 large blpom on a fine stem, color neither 

 pink nor red, but beautiful at night. 

 No. 63' 1902, from H. Weber & Sons, is 

 a fine large variegated white and red. 

 No. 12 from the E. G. Hill Co. is a fine 

 large white which won a certificate of 

 merit. No. 38, from H. W. Buckbee, 

 variegated pink and white, won a silver 

 cup. No. 569, 1902, from C. W. Ward, 

 is a fine large pink, a fine color. Alma 

 Ward is a very good white. No. 163, 

 1902, from Dorner, is the most beautiful 

 shade of light pink I ever saw, grand 

 at night. We shall watch for this. No. 

 211, 1901, from C. W. Ward, is a fine 

 crimson. 



All these showed fine quality and in 

 the growth and habit are as good they 

 will make valuable additions to our list 

 of varieties. Some of them will likely 

 displace some of the varieties we are 

 growing now. A. F. J. Baur. 



THE BANQUET. 



There were 206 present at the banquet 

 ^ven to the American Carnation So- 

 ciety at the Auditorium Hotel in Chi- 

 cago January 26. The menu was in 

 keeping with the reputation of Chicago's 

 leading hostelry. President W. N. Rudd, 

 of the Chicago Florists' Club, presided 

 and at the conclusion of the repast in- 

 tioduced Peter Fisher, president-elect of 

 the Americjm Carnation Society. Ear- 

 nestness marks Mr. Fisher's oratory as 

 "•"11 na everything else he undertakes. 



The Light Pink Seedling, Senator Crane. 



