November 23, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



2S 



Chrysanthemum Dr. Enguehard, Two and Three to a Plant, Grown by H. S, Hopkins, Binghamton, N, Y. 



as trade interest went, was for five 

 blooms of separate colors. In pink 

 varieties there was nothing equal to 

 Mrs. G. Milehani, which was very fine. 

 In yellows there was more variety. 

 Bessie Godfrey secured first prize and 

 Merstham Yellow second. Other good 

 yellows were Mrs. Greenfield, Soliel 

 d'Octobre, Mrs. IT. Emnierton, Duchess 

 of Sutherland and Mrs. A. E. Knight. 

 In the class for white, Miss Elsie 

 Fulton was the only variety shown by 

 the four exhibitors. Gustave Henry 

 ■was well shown, the blooms being large 

 enough to satisfy any one. 



A SUCCESSFUL CROP. 



Harry S. Hopkins, Binghamton, N, Y., 

 has had an exceptionally successful sea- 

 son with chrysanthemums. He lias 

 a good local demand but not many calls 

 for exhibition stock and he grows two 

 and three blooms to the plant. How well 

 Dr. Enguehard adapts itself to this 

 method of culture is shown by the ac- 

 companying illustration, which is from 

 a photograph of a bench of this variety 

 which Mr. Hopkins h^s just cut. All 

 of the plants carry at least two flowers 

 «ach and many of them three. 



BEST YELLOW MUMS. 



What good yellow chrysanthemum 

 can be grown in place of Appleton? I 

 have tried Appleton for three years and 

 cannot get a strong neck. I have tried 

 the different buds, also different meth- 

 ods of cultivation, but with no results. 

 I grow Halliday and Omega, but would 

 like to grow a good yellow to take the 

 place of Appleton. H. C. H. 



I hardly know what to recommend to 

 grow in place of Appleton. This varie- 

 ty is so generally satisfactory that it 

 would seem hard to mention anything 

 that would bo likely to have a better 

 neck. Locality, of course, makes a dif- 

 ference, and a big one some times, in 

 the behavior of different varieties and 

 It might be well, perhaps, for H. C. H. 



to see what his neighbors are having 

 good success with. 



Some growers of my acquaintance 

 make out very well with Cheltoni fol- 

 lowing Halliday, but this variety needs 

 a longer season of growth than is usu- 

 ally given by the commercial grower, 

 and it does not have the incurving 

 shape, without which some growers seem 

 to think a variety is worthless commer- 

 cially. Mrs. W. Duckham has proved 

 itself a splendid keeper and good, kind, 

 satisfactory grower. Why not try that? 

 The season was a bad one for keeping 

 blooms on the plant, but this variety did 

 not lose a petal and some of the fioweira 

 exhibited for the Wells gold medal 

 last week in Philadelphia had, to my 

 certain knowledge, been cut for three 

 weeks. 



Yellow Eaton with some growers 

 comes early enough to follow Halliday, 

 but in this section it is November 6, 

 about, before it is in good shape, and 

 if H. C. H. has a weak neck with Ap- 

 pleton, 1 fear he would with Eaton 

 aho. C. H. ToTTY, 



WHAT IS JAPANESE? 



In exhibiting in a chrysanthemum 

 show, will Duckham and Quo Vadis be 

 eligible in a class of six Japanese chrys- 

 anthemums? Please define a Japanese 

 chrysanthemum. Is there any difference 

 between a Japanese incurved and a Japa- 

 nese reflexed? Does not Japanese in- 

 clude both? A. A. S. 



Answering A. A. S., I would say that 

 I hold he is justified in exhibiting a 

 variety like Duckham in a class calling- 

 for six Japanese so long as the schedule 

 calls for six Japanese and not six 

 Japanese reflexed. Duckham is a 

 Japanese incurved. The original appella- 

 tions used to be Japanese and Chinese, 

 or incurved, and the difference was quite 

 marked since one variety was purely re- 

 flexing and the other strictly incurving. 

 As time went on and the varieties be- 

 came mingled more every year, the 



Japanese class resolved itself into two 

 types, the one showing the original type 

 of a rettexing petal only, and being 

 called the Japanese reflexed, and the 

 cither showing about half the flower in- 

 curving and the lower half of the flower 

 refiexing back to the stem, and being 

 called Japanese incurved. The true in- 

 curved is seldom seen now at exhibitions, 

 as it is too small to stand much chance 

 in a competition. Bonnaffon is one of 

 the best types of an incurved variety. 



The types are getting merged now to 

 sucii an extent that u certain variety 

 often ffives a reflexed flower from a 

 crown Dud and an incurving flower from 

 a terminal, and an arbitrary ruling as to 

 what class sucli a variety would belong to 

 is hardly possible. 0. H. Totty. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Boston, Nov. 21. — Cucumbers. $1.50 to 

 $6.50 box; lettuce, 25c to 40c doz.; rad- 

 ishes, $1.50 box; tomatoes, 15c to 20c 

 lb.; mushrooms, 50c to 60c lb. 



Chicago, Nov. 22.— Cucumbers, 60c to 

 90c doz.; leaf lettuce, 10c to 20c casej 

 head lettuce, $3 to $5 bbl. 



New York, Nov. 20.— Cucumbers, 50e 

 to 90c doz.; head lettuce, 25c to 50c doz.; 

 mushrooms, 10c to 50c lb.; tomatoes, 5c 

 to 15c lb. 



LEAF-BURN OF LETTUCE. 



We are growing lettuce under glass 

 and find a good local demand, but re- 

 cently we have been troublc^d by small 

 brown spots on the edges of cpiite a few 

 leaves, which has impaired the; value of 

 the crop. We send a sample. Will you 

 please name the disease ard remedv ? " 



C. H. T. 



The disease known as leaf-burn is a 

 very common source of annovance to let- 



