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NOVBMBEB 2, 1905. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



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up a little. An experienced man will 

 know how far to go with this. It would 

 be foolish to keep the steam around all 

 night and keep the ventilators up six 

 inches. That would be wasting fuel. 

 Open them about an inch or two and 

 then run the steam around often enough 

 to keep the temperature up to the mark 

 or a little above. On a damp night this 

 will be better than to allow the temper- 

 ature to drop very low. The moisture 

 will not gather in the house as readily 

 and the various leaf-spot diseases will 

 not start so easy. Two or three degrees 

 higher than the regular cold weather 

 temperature will not hurt the plants if 

 there is air on, but don't do it with the 

 ventilators closed. A. F. J. Baur. 



ENCHANTRESS. 



In practically all American cut 

 flower markets Enchantress, strictly on 

 its merits, is making better prices than 

 any other carnation which is offered 

 in quantity. Speaking of the cut 

 flower market in London an English 

 writer says: "Enchantress is the lead- 

 ing feature in carnations. This vari- 

 ety is very fine and captures the hif^- 

 est class trade. Some superb blooms 



are on the market. It has every prom- 

 ise of being the leading carnation for 

 a very long time to come." 



TROUBLE WITH ENCHANTRESS. 



I am sending you a bud of Enchantress 

 and would be glad to have you tell me 

 what is the trouble with it. Many of 

 the flowering shoots dry up and many 

 young shoots curl at the end. What can 

 I do to save themt C. D. J. 



I cannot tell you a great deal about 

 your case; I have not enough to work 

 on. The shoot you sent has a few spots 

 of fairy-ring, but not enough to cause 

 the bud to blast and dry up. The shoot 

 has the appearance of having been out 

 in frosty weather. In such case we have 

 seen buds blast after being housed. Not 

 knowing when your plants were housed, 

 I cannot say whether that is the cause 

 of your trouble or not. 



I would advise you to remove all the 

 spotted leaves and the stems that have 

 blasted buds on them and burn them. 

 Then dust your plants with a mixture of 

 air-slaked lime and sulphur in equal 

 portions. Also paint a steam pipe with 



this, after adding enough water to make 

 a thick paint. Leave the dust on the 

 plants several days; in fact, you need 

 not syringe it off at all unless you have 

 to syringe for spider. When you water 

 do it early in the day and wet the foliage 

 as little as possible. Give plenty of air 

 and don't neglect firing on cool nights, 

 even if you have to run a crack of air 

 in order to keep down the temperature. 

 You want to keep the air dry and cir- 

 culating. 



We have never seen the young shoots 

 on Enchantress curl up, but we have seen 

 it on other varieties, particularly on Mrs. 

 Joost. This usually appears soon after 

 they are housed and have just taken a 

 new hold. The first new shoots will come 

 curled and appear to stick together. This 

 I think is caused by the soil in the new 

 quarters being a great deal richer than 

 that in which they had been growing, 

 causing an abnormal growth. After the 

 plants become thoroughly established this 

 will disappear. Sun them a little on the 

 dry side for a time, to slacken their 

 pace a little. You will also notice this 

 more on late planted stock than on that 

 planted earlier. A sudden activity in 

 growth after a check will bring it on as 

 a rule. A. F. J. Baxje. 



THE WELLS-PCXXETT SET OF 1904. 



The criticism that has been given 

 Merstham Yellow, and in some quarters 

 evidently with good reason, leads us to 

 see how other kinds sent out with it are 

 behaving now that they are more gener- 

 ally distributed and are being subjected 

 to the different soils and treatments of 

 •different growers. 



Chief, perhaps, is Mrs. Wm. Duckham. 

 This variety won the C. 8. A. cup last 

 year and so far this season has made 

 good with every grower whom I have- 

 spoken to. It is as hard as nails and 

 not a petal has damped in a notoriously 

 bad season. This good qualification, com- 

 bined with its fine dwarf habit and ex- 

 cellent stem, is making it a great favor- 

 ite in the east with commercial as well 

 as exhibition growers. 



Another one that is very satisfactory 

 is Merstham Red. This variety I have 

 seen exhibited several times the past 

 week, with a broad reflexed petal show- 

 ing splendid color, and it can be con- 

 fidently recommended as an all-round 

 good red and is showing up far ahead 

 of last year. Some flowers at Madison, 

 ^'. J., last week had petals considerably 

 over an inch in width. 



Mrs. H. A. Allen, sent out only as an 

 exhibition variety, is not satisfactory on 

 the whole. Some very fine flowers are 

 liround and the deep color is telling but 

 •t evidently wants a long season of 

 growth and liberal feeding. 



Mrs. J. A. Miller, a variety Mr. Teil- 

 ^ann speaks of last week as being poor 

 with him, is very fine indeed with me, 



and some splendid cut blooms have been 

 shown the past week and also on 6-inch 

 pot plants. Miller is grand in foliage, 

 stem and size of flower. The only fault 

 I find with it is its earliness. I exhibit- 

 ed it in splendid condition on October 

 9, before the New York Florists' Club, 

 and at that early date it was of exhibi- 

 tion size and finish, and much deeper in 

 color than last year. * 



J. H. Doyle, somewhat on the Miller 

 order for color, is also finishing very fine- 

 ly and I think will be set up in very 

 good shape next week. It is a 'slow 

 grower and has a habit of making buds 

 early in the season instead of growing 

 on nicely, but aside from that, it is a 

 good variety. 



Other imported varieties largely plant- 

 ed are Valerie Greenham, Emily Mile- 

 ham, Mrs. D. V. West and Mrs. Swin- 

 burne. West has done splendidly and 

 has more than lived up to its past as an 

 exhibition flower. Everyone likes it and 

 it is, perhaps, the largest white we have 

 today. Emily Mileham has not done 

 well. Why I cannot say. Some beauti- 

 ful flowers can be seen in 6-inch pots 

 but early planted stock has not nearly 

 come up to expectations as compared 

 with last year. Too bad, for the color is 

 very pure. Greenham has produced the 

 largest flower I have seen this year and 

 is here to stay. The stock as imported 

 was evidently mixed with another pink, 

 or else it is a case of reversion, since 

 in some lots a percentage of plants made 

 a poor, miserable growth, but Greenham 

 true is a very fine variety. Mrs. Swin- 



burne as a late white is going to prove 

 a valuable commercial variety. It should 

 be taken on a September bud, as the 

 early crowns are ^1 damped, while the 

 late crown is finishing finely. 



Charles H. Totty. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



Boston, October 21, Seedling No. 15, 

 bright yellow, Japanese incurved, exhib- 

 ited by F. E. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, 

 N. Y., scored 87 points commercial scale. 



Philadelphia, October 21, Jno. G. 

 Perry, white Japanese reflexed, exhibited 

 by G. A. Lotze, Glen Burnie, Md., scored 

 78 points commercial scale. 



Philadelphia, October 21. — No. 15, 

 good yellow, Japanese reflexed, exhib- 

 ited by F. B. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, 

 N. Y., scored 88 points commercial scale 

 and 86 points exhibition scale. 



Boston, October 28. — Rosiere, silvery 

 pink, Japanese reflexed, exhibited by Na- 

 than Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., scored 

 85 points commercial scale. (Arrived 

 too late for judgment October 21.) 



Cincinnati, October 28. — Crocus, yel- 

 low, incurved Japanese, exhibited by Na- 

 than Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., scored 

 92 points commercial scale and 89 points 

 exhibition scale. Lanona, white, inter- 

 lacing, reflexed Japanese, exhibited by 

 Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., 

 scored 94 points commercial scale and 95 

 points exhibition scale. 



Chicago, October 28. — Mary Mann, 



