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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



October 12, 1005. 



The Annual Report. 



The Proceedings of the Third Annual 

 Meeting of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America has just come to hand, a 

 neat pamphlet containing, besides the 

 usual report of the meeting and ex- 

 hibition, a list of the chrysanthemum 

 introductions of 1903, which were not 

 included in the lists published by the 

 society in 1904. The publication of this 

 list, together with that for 1905, com- 

 pletes the catalogue of varieties to date. 

 Members can' obtain copies of the orig- 

 inal list by applying to the secretary. 



Comniittees on Seedlings. 



President Duckham has announced the 

 committees to examire seecilings and 

 sports dn dates as follows: October 14, 

 21 and 28; November 4, 11, 18 and 25, 

 1905. 



Exhibits to receive attention from the 

 committees must in all cases be prepaid 

 to destination, and the entry fee of $2 

 should be forwarded to the secretary not 

 later than Tuesday of the week preced- 

 ing examination, or may accompany the 

 blooms. Special attention is called to 

 the rule requiring that sports to receive 

 a certificate must pass three committees. 



New York — Eugene Dailledouze, chair- 

 man, care of New York Cut Flower Co., 

 Sixth avenue and Twenty-sixth street; 

 Arthur Herrington, Thomas Head. 



Philadelphia — A. B. Cartledge, chair- 

 man, 1514 Chestnut street; John West- 

 cott, Wm. K. Harris. 



Boston — E. A. Wood, chairman; Wm. 

 NicTiolson, James Wheeler. Ship to Bos- 

 ton Flower Market, care John Walsh. 



Cincinnati — B. Witterstaeter, chair- 

 man; James Allen, Wm. Jackson. Ship 

 to Jabez Elliott Flower Market, care 

 janitor. 



Chicago — J. S. Wilson, chairman ; J. 

 B. Deamud and Phil Hauswirth. Ship 

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

 nue. 



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

 as follows: 



Comnien liil. KxliiMtion. 



Color 20 Tolcir 1 1> 



Form 15 Stem Ki 



Fullness 10 FollaRC H> 



Stem lii Fullness 15 



F^oliage 15 Form I'l 



.SubstHiue 15 Depth 15 



Slae 10 Size 25 



Total 



. . KM) Total 10() 



Fred H. Lemon, Sec'y. 



PUBUCATIONS RECEIVED. 



[The Chrysanthemum, by Arthur Herrington; 

 the Orange Judd Co.; 50 cents.] 



The many friends of Arthur Herring- 

 ton have had their patience rewarded 

 this week. Mr. Herrington 's chrysan- 

 themum book is out. Those who know 

 the thoroughness with which Mr. Her- 

 rington applies himself to any under- 

 taking were prepared for something of 

 wider scope and greater detail, not to 

 say higher finish, than has heretofore 

 been accomplished and they are not dis- 

 appointed. The work is one which goes 

 exhaustively into the culture of the 

 chrysanthemum in all its phases, treat- 

 ing each detail at greater length than 

 it has been done before in America and 

 embodying the results of Mr. Herring- 

 ton 's many years of experience with his 

 favorite flower. There are also chap- 

 ters contributed by C. H. Totty, E. G. 

 Hill, F. P. Davis, E. A. Vincent and 

 others and the volume of 158 pages is 

 not only fully illustrated, in many cases 

 from Mr. Herrington 's own photographs, 

 but it is also fully indexed, which is a 

 point of no small value in a work of 

 reference such as this is. 



One is interested in Mr. Herrington 's 

 outline of what he proposed to make 

 this book. In his introductory note it 

 is said : ' * The subject as a whole is an 

 alluring one and it is no matter for sur- 

 prise that some writers have let specu- 

 lative fancy run riot among the recorded 

 facts of the chrysanthemum's gradual 

 evolution. " It is natural to infer, then, 

 that this is a work in which fancy has 

 had no part. ' ' The endeavor has been 

 to show that not in secret arts or prac- 

 tice, but in a plain course of procedure, 

 are attained the results as demonstrat- 

 ed" by the most successful cultivators. 



There is no question but what a work 

 of cultural directions such as this will 

 have a large sale, which will be added 

 to by Mr. Herrington 's wide acquain- 

 tance and by the fact of his good work 

 as president as the Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety of America. 



Those who wisli to receive a copy of 

 the book, which is substantially bound, 

 will receive same postpaid if they send 

 a half-dollar to the Review. 



Smith 's Chrysanthemum Manual sent 

 postpaid for 25 cents. 



Lincoln, Nkb. — Chapin Bros, have 

 finished reglazing their greenhouses. It 

 took over 4,000 panes of glass to replace 

 those broken bv hail. 



NECESSITY FOR CLEANLINESS. 



I suppose that everybody who plantej 

 a house of violets last spring, for the 

 coming season, has been painstaking and 

 thorough in the care of them; however 

 do not think that they are in such 

 good shape that you can afford to neglect 

 them for a few weeks in order to get the 

 fall work done ready for Jack Frost, for 

 close attention is needed fully as much 

 now as at any time, one great reason be- 

 ing that if they get out of condition in 

 any way at present you cannot regain 

 lost ground now as you could earlier in 

 the season, when good growing weather 

 prevailed. 



Look out closely that no aphis of any 

 kind gets a foothold. If you have not 

 already spread your regular feast of 

 Paris green and granulated sugar for the 

 benefit of the sow bugs, stray snails and 

 centipedes, do not fail to do so at once, 

 and then it is well to follow it up at 

 comparatively short intervals, because, as 

 I have often remarked, they are ex- 

 tremely expensive company and have no 

 redeeming features that I am aware of; 

 their room is much more to be desired 

 than their company. 



Again, unless you have a demand for 

 very early flowers, it is much better to 

 keep the first early buds picked off and 

 not let them come into bloom until yon 

 have a good demand, and then, too, the 

 first are so inferior in quality that it is 

 a detriment lo your reputation as a first- 

 class grower to let such go out from 

 your establishment. 



At the same time that you are disbud- 

 ding, carefully cut off all the runners, 

 only leaving your strong flowering 

 crowns; in fact it is to be supposed that 

 you have done this at regular intervals 

 all sumiuer. This is something that is 

 a constant job but growing less from 

 now on until the springtime approaches, 

 with the quickening in growth that ac- 

 companies the sun. 



Cyclamen Grown by Theodore Venneman, Gardener to George Urban, Pine Ridge, N. Y. 



