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October 12, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1157 



buds show color, as these kinds are al- 

 ways very much more addicted to damp- 

 ing than any other varieties. Let well 

 enough alone, as the last watering with 

 liquid may be the means of spoiling the 

 flower. 



If the plants are in small pots I 

 have fed them with safety until the 

 flowers were half way open, but it takes 

 a good deal of experience to determine 

 jyst how far one may go in this direc- 

 tion. Heavy feeding at any time does 

 a plant more harm than good, since it 

 rots the root fibers, as can easily be seen 

 by turning the plants out of pots, and 

 others must be formed before the plant 

 can assimilate the food supplied. 



One is more apt to overdo the thing 

 with chemicals than with natural ferti- 

 lizers, since the first named, after being 

 dissolved, are colorless and odorless and 

 look just as harmless as clear water. 



Watering and Fumigating. 



The times of saturating the bench are 

 gone and the plants, as they finish, need 

 less and less water. Only water on bright 

 days and then in the early morning so 

 tliat all superfluous water has dried up 

 before night. A heavy, moist atmos- 

 phere at night is to be avoided above 

 all things, as the moisture will con- 

 dense on tho petals and cause them to 

 <iamp. 



It is getting too late now to fumigate 

 any more and if, as usually happens, 

 some of the buds have greenfly in them 

 the best way to clean them out is to tie 

 a piece of one of the tobacco paper 

 preparations up near the flower. The 

 fumes arising from this will kill all the 

 fly and save the flower, but wherever 

 possible, fumigate long enough to clean 

 out every insect before the buds show 

 color. 



"Where one can get good tobacco stems 

 they will keep down the fly if spread 

 thickly along the paths, but tobacco 

 stems in our section of late years have 

 been useless, the makers of the nicotine 

 solutions having apparently found it 

 necessary to first soak the stems to ex- 

 tract the virtue of them, in case the 

 grower should injure his plants by hav- 

 ing the stems too strong. Such fore- 

 thought is touching, but most growers 

 would prefer to do their own thinking. 



Two Good Ones. 



Two good varieties that have developed 

 during the past few days are Lady 

 Hopetoun and Beatrice May. They are 

 both Australian seedlings, but are out 

 of the novelty class, as the first named 

 has been out for some years and the 

 latter was listed last year. 



Hopetoun is a lovely reflexing pink 

 and would create a sensation if placed 

 on the market in the shape I saw it at 

 several private establishments last week; 

 simply immense in size and a lovely 

 heliotrope in color. 



Beatrice May is a pearly white and 

 must be set down as one of the things 

 that have come to stay. Every flower 

 <omes fine and it is today the most 

 'onspicuous thing in a lot of early 

 varieties. It looks something like Mrs. 

 I ranter in its dwarf, sturdy growth and 

 •'onformatiou of flowers, but the blooms 

 '^re cleaner and neater looking. 



Pacific and Polly Rose, Omega. Alice 

 ^^yron, Mrs. Coombes and White 

 ^^oombes are just about ready to cut and 

 "1 a few days more the market will be 

 filled. Oh! for a frost! "A killing 

 ^lost ! ' ' Charles H. Totty. 



Emblem by Gude & Bro., Washington, for Funeral of Wm. Loeffler. 



SOME NEW MUMS. 



Merstham Yellow, which was talked up 

 last year to be such a fine early variety, 

 even to rival Monrovia, is a great disap- 

 pointment here, only just showing color 

 and all the early buds coming green or 

 blind. It will have to hustle to come in 

 with second early varieties, such as Rob- [ 

 ert Halliday. Clementine Touset, an- 

 other of last year's novelties, early white, i 

 is looking fine, but rather tall, and Jean- i 

 nie Nonin, late white, is looking very \ 

 promising but also tall. What we need 

 most is an early white and an early pink 

 to come in with Monrovia. Anyone hav- 

 ing such a variety certainly would have 

 a gem. Gunnar Teilmann. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SCX3ETY. 



Special Premiums. 



The annual exhibition of the Chrysan- 1 

 themum Society of America will be held 1 

 this year at Philadelphia, in connection 

 with the annual fall show of the Penn- j 

 sylvania Horticultural Society. The ' 

 prospects are for a first-class exhibition, 

 although there are a number, of other [ 

 large shows that week. In addition to 

 the regular schedule of premiums the [ 

 following special premiums have just | 

 been announced: 



The C. S. A. prize, a silver cup, for 

 the best ten flowers, one variety. 



W. Wells & Co., Earlswood, Surrey, 

 England, ofl'er a gold medal, silver gilt 

 medal and silver medal for six flowers 



of Chrysanthemum Mrs. W. Duckham. 

 No exhibitor can win more than one of 

 these medals. 



F. R. Pierson Co., Tarry town, N. Y., 

 oflers a silver cup for thirty-six chrys- 

 anthemums, six varieties, six blooms of 

 eaeli, introduced in America in 1904 and 

 1905. 



('. H. Totty, Madison, N. J., offers 

 three prizes for twelve blooms in twelve 

 varieties, stems not over twelve inches 

 long, introductions of 1905; first, $12; 

 second, .$8; third, $5. Open to all. 



Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago, for 

 the best specimen bush chrysanthemum 

 plant, which has not received any other 

 award, open to private gardeners only, 

 offers a silver cup, valued at $25. 



E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., offers 

 two premiums for the best twenty-five 

 blooms, one of a kind; first, $15; second, 

 $10. Open to all. 



John N. May, Summit, N. J., offers 

 two premiums for the best twelve flowers 

 in four varieties, three of each, 30-inch 

 stems, no artificial supports; first, $15; 

 second, $10. Open to private gardeners 

 only. 



Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., 

 offer a premium of $25 for the best 

 American seedling, to be judged from a 

 commercial standpoint. 



H. W. Buckbee, Rockford, HI., offers 

 for the best ten chrysanthemums, one 

 variety, open only to American and for- 

 eign introductions of 1905, or variety 

 not yet in commerce, a silver cnp valued 

 at $25. 



