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The Weekly Florists' Review! 



SEPrKMBin 28, tOOS. 



forts, better goods for the flower-buy- 

 ing public and more money to the 

 grower. Geo. S. Osboru. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Committees on Seedlings. 



President Duckham has announced the 

 committees to examine seedlings and 

 sports oa dates as follows: October 7, 

 14, 21 and 28 J November 4, 11, 18 and 

 25, 1905. 



Exhibits to receive attention from the 

 committees must in all cases be prfepaid 

 to destination, and the entry fee of $2 

 should be forwarded to the Secretary 

 not later than Tuesday of the week pre- 

 ceeding examination, or may accompany 

 the blooms. Special attention is called 

 to the rule requiring that sports to re- 

 ceive a certificate must pass three com- 

 mittees. 



New York — Eugene Dailledouiic, chair- 

 man, care of New York Cut Flower Co., 

 Sixth avenue and Twenty-sixth street; 

 Arthur Herrington, Thomas Hea;d. 



Philadelphia — A. B. Cartledge, chair- 

 man, 1514 Chestnut street; John West- 

 cott, "Wm. K. Harris. 



Boston — E. A. Wood, chairman ; Wm. 

 Nicholson, James Wheeler. Ship to Bop- 

 ton Flower Market, care John Walsh, 



care of J. B. Deamud, 51 Wabash ave- 

 nue. 



The official scales of the C. S. A. are 

 as follows: 



Commercial. 



Color 



Form 



FuUuess 



Stem 



Foliage 



Substance 



Sl«e 



20 



Exhibition. 

 Color 10 



15 Stem 



10 Foliage 6 



15 Fullness 15 



15 Form 15 



15 Depth IS 



10 Size 



35 



Total 100 Total 100 



Fred H. Lemon, Sec'y. 



VIOLETS IN THE SOUTH. 



The following may be of interest to 

 H. S. P., in his selection of violets for 

 Florida: If H. S. t. will give what 

 we here term the Eussian violet a trial 

 I feel almost certain of his success. 



Cacttts Dahlia Sweet NelL 



Cineinnati-^E. Witterstaeter, chair- 

 man; . James Allen, Wm. Jackson. Ship 

 to J«bez Elliott Flower Market, care 

 janitor. 



Chicago — J. S. Wilson, chairman; J. 

 B. Deamud and Phil Hauswirtb. Ship 



This variety we have been growing here 

 in Mobile for a number of years, and 

 find it to stand the hottest weather to 

 perfection. While not in quality equal 

 to Princess of Wales, it is a good, large 

 purple flower, with fair stem and odor. 



and will produce twice as many flowers 

 as the aforesaid variety. ' Divide the 

 plants in August, selecting only runners 

 or young divisions with a few fine white 

 fibrous roots. Plant in full sun but give 

 plenty of water. In October or the first 

 part of November we give them a mulch 

 of well rotted cow manure, and with sash 

 protection we have an abundance of 

 good flowers from November to April. 

 If the temperature does not go below 28 

 degrees, they will keep on blooming 

 without protection, but a little protec- 

 tion assures larger flowers and longer 

 stems. Princess of Wales also does fair- 

 ly well here, but the doubles we have as 

 yet not been able to do satisfactorily. 

 Lady Hume Campbell seems to be the 

 best. H. P. LODiNO. 



IN A LEAN-TO. 



Please tell us whether violets for win- 

 ter blooming would do better to have 

 the runners cut off. We have a house 

 with hotbed sash slanting to the south, 

 next to the main house, 6x80 feet. The 

 violets are planted in permanent beds, 

 one 2-inch pipe running the entire length 

 and one 1^-inch pipe direct from the 

 hot water boiler and returning through 

 the coil in the main building. Do you 

 think violets will do well there? 



A. J. S. 



In reply to this query I would say 

 that the runners should be cut oflf by all 

 means, and not only should they now be 

 so treated, but the runners should have 

 been so treated all summer, which I take 

 by the tenor of your letter you have not 

 done. If so, you will undoubtedly find 

 many plants with a very small crown 

 acd several short runner crowns, in 

 which case you will have to use good 

 judgment and retain some of these for 

 flowering. 



As to your second question, I 

 should think that you could be 

 successful with the house, or frame, 

 that you describe. As I do net 

 know how low your temperatures 

 go, however, I cannot say if you 

 have piping enough and then it depends 

 some on how you can get at them to pick 

 them, from the house or by lifting tW 

 sash outdoors. If you will look up yijur 

 back numbers of the Beview I described 

 last spring a similar house that I had at 

 one time. E. E. Shuphelt. 



NEW CACTUS DAHLL^S. 



The accompanying illustrations from 

 photographs show two of the new cactus 

 dahlias now flowering for the first time 

 in America. These are Dainty yellow, 

 and Sweet Nell, pink. Cactus dahlias 

 have made a great advance in popuhir 

 favor since the beginning of the remark- 

 able improvement which has taken place 

 in this type of flower in the past few 

 years and these are two of the most dis- 

 tinct of the newer sorts and likely to add 

 to the reputation of the introducer. Hob- 

 bies, Ltd., Dereham, Norfolk, England, 

 whose seedling cactus dahlias are already 

 known the world over. Hobbies do an 

 immense business in dahlias, propagat- 

 ing in probably larger quantities than 

 any other grower the world over. Each 

 year they have a new set to oflfer. Dainty 

 and Sweet Nell were included in the 1904 

 set, distributed quite widely in Americfl^ 

 where the flowering is now being watched 

 with interest. Habit of growth has al- 

 ways been a cardinal point with these- 

 growers and in this respect, including 



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