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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 19, 1905. 



Jonathan had often thought of utiliz- 

 ing the heating pipe for supporting 

 greenhouses, but the fence idea was a 

 novel one, requiring consideration. 



Kennett was only a little further on 

 and here the objective point was William 

 Swayne's. Mr. Swayne welcomed his 

 callers with a glad hand, a weed (not 

 green) and a cordiality that was unmis- 

 takable. His stock of carnations was in 

 the houses, looking well, Mrs. Patton 

 being especially praised for last season's 

 performance. Very few of the other 

 varieties were yet in flower. Their 

 names would simply be a repetition of 

 .those given in this column before, with 

 the addition of the best known novelties 

 grown for stock. 



The chrysanthemums were very fine. 

 Among the varieties noted were Glory of 

 Pacific, Estelle, much favored by Mr. 

 Swayne; Ivory, invaluable for side 

 benches; Mrs. George S. Kalb, Col. Ap- 

 pleton, Enguehard and Mrs. Whilldin, 

 not often seen now but found very profit- 

 able here. 



William Swayne may fairly be called 

 a great grower. He has withstood the 

 financial strain of bad years and he has 

 prospered. " His place looks well, as it 

 always does. 



Possibly you may want to know how to 

 tell a great grower when you see him. 

 One way is by his plants, but it is possi- 

 ble for the plants of a great grower not 

 to be in the pink of condition. In that 

 case there are other tests. A great 

 grower will stop you in front of a dead 

 plant and discuss what killed it, without 

 a shade of mortification that such a 

 thing should be found on his place. A 

 great grower will allow you to walk on 

 any path you please instead of insisting 

 taking you down certain paths. He will 

 also narrate his troubles, battles with in- 

 sects, fungus, etc., and show more pride 

 in the victory over cut worms than in a 

 table of absolutely perfect plants. Wil- 

 liam Swayne has all these qualities, and 

 may fairly be termed a great grower. 

 His clip is handled by William J. Baker. 



Time unfortunately prevented visiting 

 Hicks & Sons, so with farewells to Ed- 

 ward Parker, and to Morris, David and 

 Jonathan boarded the Philadelphia train 

 at Kennett. 



Various Notes. 



H. H. Battles has offered a prize in 

 House and Garden for the best method 

 of keeping cut flowers, the judges to 

 be the members of the Garden Club, an 

 organization of ladies at Chestnut Hill. 



The members of the Florists* Club 

 will go out to Strafford on the 1:15 p. 

 m. train Thursday, -October 26, to visit 

 Edward A. Stroud and see his famous 

 carnation plants. There are several at- 

 tractive features on the program. 



George Parsons, of the Henry A. Dreer 

 Co., reports an unusually heavy demand 

 for tulips for outdoor planting. There 

 has been a slight shortage in supplies, 

 but the demand for such standard varie- 

 ties as Artus, Bell Alliance, Cottage 

 Maid, Chrysolora, Yellow Prince and 

 Keizerskroon has been unprecedented. 

 The planting at Fairmount park has 

 been heavier than usual. Mr. Parsons 

 also reports a shortage in Roman hya- 

 cinths and an over-supply of Paper 

 White narcissus. The situation gener- 

 ally is very satisfactory. 



Paul Eichter, manager of the Henry 

 F. Miehell Co., has just finished work on 

 a new implement catalogue, designed to 

 fill the growing demand for the best 



grade of tools and labor-saving con- 

 trivances of all kinds. Mr. Bichter states 

 that the company's business in these im- 

 plements fully justifies the great labor 

 involved in carrying out the details of 

 this catalogue. 



Jos. Heacock, of Wyncote, has expe- 

 rienced an unusual demand for his ken- 

 tias during the past two months. His 

 cut of Beauties has doubled that of last 

 season. . _ • • 



Dumont & Co. claim to be the cosmos 

 kings, their shipments of this fall flower 

 being especially heavy. They have some 

 very fine flowers of Polly Rose and other 

 fancy chrysanthemums. 



William J. Moore has advised his 

 growers to double their planting of cer- 

 tain choice dahlias for next season. The 

 varieties shall be nameless. He is re- 

 ceiving some choice flowers of Enchan- 

 tress, Lawson, The Queen and other fine 

 carnations. 



W. E. McKissick is handling some es- 

 pecially nice Polly Rose. His Brides 

 and valley are also very fine. 



A. Patterson, with Geo. Craig, has re- 

 turned from Dakota. 



W. J. Sherry, of Johnson & Stokes, 

 called Phil's attention to a nice lot of 

 rubber plants grown at Mr. Stokes' 

 Moorestown nursery. 



The Henry F. Miehell Co. has rented 

 the fourth floor of 1022 Market street 

 to use as a warehouse. 



Eugene Bernheimer is receiving some 

 nice valley. His autumn foliage is 

 popular. 



Edward Reid is working nobly to keep 

 down the surplus of flowers. 



R. C. Hayden is hard at work mapping 

 out the winter campaign. 



Samuel S. Pennock had an extra heavy 

 shipping day last Monday. Twice he 

 called on his Beauty growers that day; 

 twice they responded to the call. 



F. & H. Merganthaler have their place 

 in fine condition. Brides, Maids, liber- 

 ties, smilax, asparagus and chrysanthe- 

 mums are all in good shape and a num- 

 ber of houses have been planted with 

 carnations. They are very promising. 



On my visit to M. Rice & Co. I found 

 everyone from the head of the firm down 

 to the packers as busy as they could be, 

 more than four truck loads of goods 

 being shipped that day to all parts of 

 the country. They report business far 

 ahead of last year. 



The current varieties of chrysanthe- 

 mums for the present week, besides those 

 already mentioned, are Omega and Oc- 

 tober Beauty, seen at Hugh Graham's; 

 HaUiday, Premo and Monrovia, seen at 

 the Leo Niessen Co. 's. These are all 

 yellows. 



Answers to G>rrespondents. 



Review readers are Invited to send any ques- 

 tions relating to culture or marketing of plants 

 and flowers In Philadelphia to Phil, In care of 

 the leading seed or commission houses or the 

 Flower Market. Each question will be sub- 

 mitted to a competent person and answered 

 under number. Correct name and address must 

 alwa.ys accompany Inquiry, but will not be pub- 

 lished. 



42. — Suppose a grower has a house 

 planted with, let us say, Boston ferns, 

 for stock. Would it be better to throw 

 these i)lants away after taking off at the 

 runners, or. to pot them up and sell them 

 at a low price? We mean that selling 

 these plants will break the market, as 

 we have enough for ordinary demand al- 

 ready. Better to pot them up and sell 

 them, if at a profit. 



43. — Name the principal Bride and 

 Maid growers who supply the Philadel- 



phia market. I assume that this means 

 the wholesale market only, and therefore 

 omit those who do not make a specialty 

 of these roses. The following list, while 

 incomplete, will give a fair idea of where 

 five-sixths of the stock is grown: John 

 F. Andre, Jos. Beavis & Sons, Geo. E. 

 Campbell, H. W. Collins, Geo. F. Chris- 

 tie, Henry J. Faust, the Floral Ex- 

 change, Jennings Bros., C. F. Knorr & 

 Bro., Stephen Mortensen, Wm. Munro, 

 John Savage, Robt. Scott & Sons, James 

 Berner, Eugene Weiss and W. A. Leon- 

 ard. 



44. — We have a bed of yellow cannas 

 bought from two different growers as 

 Buttercup. One grows three feet high, 

 with bright yellow flowers. The other 

 also has yellow flowers, but is six feet 

 high. Please name the varieties. The 

 first is evidently Buttercup. It is diffi- 

 ctilt to tell what the other is without 

 seeing it. 



45. — Who were the judges in "The 

 Ideal Salesman" contest? There were 

 two judges. Their names are not an- 

 nounced. Phil. 



NEW ORLEANS, 



State of Trade. - 



The florists and horticulturists of New 

 Orleans, find the usual early fall dearth 

 of business to contend with, but every- 

 thing points to a bright and prosperous 

 autumn season and a repetition of last 

 winter's splendid trade. 



Business of nearly every description 

 suffered a serious set-back as a result of 

 the yellow fever, but as the disease is 

 now well under control, and the indica- 

 tion is that it will be entirely stamped 

 out in a few weeks, the probabilities are 

 that all branches, the florists included, 

 will take on the activity to be expected 

 with the advent of fall. 



The greater portion of the florists' 

 regular customers, the wealthy people — 

 those who give lawn parties in the late 

 summer, and cotillons and dances in the 

 winter, are still out of the city, and 

 owing to their absence orders hardly 

 come in with bountiful profusion. 



Flower Show Plans. 



The chrysanthemimi show, which the 

 New Orleans Horticultural Society is to 

 give during the month of November, is 

 already attracting much attention, and 

 every effort is being made to insure suc- 

 cess for the affair. The horticulturists 

 are progressive, they have an energetic 

 president at their head, P. A. Chopin, 

 and an able corps of officers, and are 

 numbered among the city's foremost 

 organizations, and once engaged on a 

 purpose they spare no pains to attain 

 the end they strive for. 



The chrysanthemum show, as a result 

 of the society's growth and advance- 

 ment, has become an annual thing, and 

 t^ie people look forward to it with inter- 

 est and pleasure. Competent committees 

 have been appointed to do the prelimi- 

 nary work, and the premium list was is- 

 sued some weeks ago. 



J. A. Newsham, the chairman of the 

 arrangement committee, spoken to sev- 

 eral days ago, reported good progress 

 on the work, and said that he expected 

 an unqualified success. The hall for the 

 show has not yet been secured, but some 

 large building centrally located will be 

 rented, and - ample room made for a 

 large exhibit. 



