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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



NOVBUDER 30, 1905. 



purely reflexed nor incurved, but it also 

 has its petals standing quite erect with a 

 slight incurving. The flower is of me- 

 dium size and is usually produced on a 

 strong stem five or six feet high. It 

 is not quite full enough to make a first- 

 class commercial flower for shipping. 

 The foliage of Mrs. I). V. West is me- 

 dium size, crumpled and ha.s a tendency 

 to curl. 



Nellie Pockett, a white with a creamy 

 centre, is a standard exhibition flower. 

 It is usually about sixteen inches and 

 the petals are rather curly, which makes 

 is quite attractive. It comes into bloom 

 about the time of Ben Wells, which is 

 about mid-season. 



Adrian, a beautiful and very attrac- 

 tive white, is a great flower for commer- 

 cial as well as exhibition use. It is a 

 full incurved and will measure about 

 sixteen inches. The stem is a strong and 

 vigorous one and produces fine large 

 foliage. 



Among the yellows, we find Col. Ap- 

 pleton, .lapanese incurved, will remain 

 for some time as one of the great com- 

 mercial yellows. Its size is sixteen to 

 eighteen inches and on a stem about five 

 feet high. The foliage is short, broad 

 and somewhat crumpled. It is a mid- 

 season flower, coming in a little sooner 

 than Bonnaifon. 



F. S. Vallis, Japanese reflexed, is ele- 

 gant and showy for exhibition purposes, 

 but not so well adapted for shipping. 

 The petals are curly and their pale yel- 

 low gives the flower a very attractive 

 appearance. One of our flowers meas- 

 ured twenty-five inches and it was deep 

 and full. It was produced from a crown 

 bud and on a vigorous stem about five 

 feet long. The foliage was flat, long, 

 broad and deeply cut. As a rule it is a 

 rather early flower. 



Mrs. E, Thirkoll is another fine exhibi- 

 tion flower of a deeper shade of yellow 

 and is more flat than Vallis. It may be 

 considered as being somewhat both re- 

 flexed and incurved. The size of this 

 flower is about eighteen inches and has a 

 stem of five feet. This season has been 

 somewhat warm for the last two var- 

 ieties to do their best. 



:Mrs. Wm. Duckham is one of the most 

 graceful of reflexed deep yellow chry- 

 santhemums of the Japanese type. On a 

 stem five feet long an average flower 

 of sixteen or eighteen inches, with large, 

 long and crumpled foliage, is produced. 

 It is a moderately early bloomer but 

 it keeps well. 



Among the pink varieties, we have one 

 that has caused a great ileal of com- 

 ment this season. This is Wm, Duck- 

 ham, Japanese incurved. This variety 

 has peculiar characteristics. The petals 

 are quite large and they build up an 

 enormous, symmetrical flower. Either 

 crown or terminal bud may be taken and 

 obtain good results, but I think that the 

 first terminal is likely the best. This 

 is a flat flower of about eighteen inches 

 on a vigorous stem of five feet. The 

 foliage is short, broad and crumpled.' 

 While it is among the early varieties, yet 

 it is a fine keeper. Observations have 

 led me to believe that this is an irreg- 

 iilar flower in size and quality. 



Dr. Enguehard has about the same 

 shade as Wm. Duckham. It is closely 

 incurved and attains an average size of 

 about fifteen inches. This flower is pro- 

 duced best from a second crown and is 

 on a stem five feet long. The foliage 

 is long and narrow and doubled together. 

 A fine flower for commercial use. 



Viviand-Morel is one of our old, stand- 

 ard pinks. It is the most beautiful of 

 all the deep pink chrysanthemums. It 

 is a rather flat, full flower of sixteen 

 inches and somewhat reflexed. 



Autumn Glory is attracting a great 

 deal of attention, due to its rich pink 

 color, Avhich is like that of the Enchan- 

 tress carnation. It has the shape of 

 Morel and the flower is about the same 

 size. The st^n, five feet, produces a 

 large and moaerately broad foliage 

 which is rather crumpled. It is a mid- 

 seasoii variety. 



Henry Barnes is a good crimson. It 

 is full reflexetl, about eighteen inches 

 in size. Its rich velvet color makes 

 it very attractive._ .The foliage is quite 

 large but deeply cut, 



John Shrimpton, another deep crim- 

 son flower of medium size, is considered 

 a good commercial flower for the color. 

 It comes into season fairly early and 

 keeps well. The foliage is fairly large 

 and crumpled. 



Next year the Department of Horti- 

 culture expects to have a larger collec- 



tion and more of the new sorts on trial, 

 I think that it is quite important that 

 a description of the foliage should ac- 

 company the description of the flower 

 of a chrysanthemum. This could be done 

 by giving the comparative size of the 

 leaf, whether flat or crumpled, and also 

 telling the number of lobes the leaf has. 

 The cutting and the lobing of the leaves 

 of the many varieties are quite different. 

 Such a description would aid a grower 

 in understanding a new variety and also 

 help in distinguishing them from the 

 descriptions. This of course has to do 

 mostly with the chrysanthemum breeder, 

 Init should be looked into, 



EoY F. Wilcox. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



Cincinnati, November 18, Seedling Xo. 



36-1-03, white, waxy texture, incurved, 



shown by Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, 



Mich., scored 90 points commercial scale. 



Fred H. Lemon, Sec'y. 



PROPAGATING. 



Some of the big carnation growers 

 who have a large trade in rooted 

 cuttings are already putting in big 

 batches of cuttings to supply the 

 ever-increasing demand for early 

 propagated stock. A few years ago, 

 when carnations wore housed in Sep- 

 tember, a cutting that was taken out 

 of the sand in time to root through be- 

 fore planting out time was considered 

 as good as any. But with the early 

 planting practiced these days a plant 

 must be well established before plant- 

 ing out time in order to make a good 

 plant by the middle of July. 



While it is a little early to propagate 

 most varieties, yet in many cases it is 

 well to begin as soon as you can. There 

 are varieties that grow slowly and need 

 a long growing period and if you root 

 them early you can have a strong plant 

 that has been pinched back once or pos- 

 sibly twice by planting out time, and 

 you will be sure to have strong plants 

 to house early. Then again you may 

 have some new varieties that are show- 

 ing up in good shape and if you want 

 all you can get of them for next season, 

 you should begin saving the cuttings 

 early. There will be many cuttings at 

 the base of the flower stems which you 

 must take along with the stem when 

 cutting the bloom. You can save many 

 fine cuttings this wav. There is one dis- 

 advantage in these very, early cuttings 

 and that is this: They will have to be 

 shifted into larger pots before planting 

 out time, else they will become pot- 

 bound and stunted. In such cases as 

 I have mentioned above, of course it 

 pays well to shift them, but if you 

 merely propagate for your own stock 

 and have plenty of stock of the varie- 

 ties you want to grow, there is no need 

 to begin so early. 



Your planting out time will, of course, 



depend on your climate and locality, but 

 if you will figure up a little, how long 

 it will take to root a cutting and get it 

 thoroughly established in whatever size 

 of pot you grow thorn in, you can put 

 in the cuttings so as to have good 

 strong plants in good condition. We 

 grow most of our young carnations in 

 2V2-inch pots and we find that by al- 

 lowing the?n about two months in the 

 pots and six weeks in the propagating 

 bench, we get them just about right. 

 We usually plant out about the first of 

 May and so we find the proper time for 

 us to propagate our own stock is about 

 the middle of January, except in such 

 cases as I mention above. 



In working up a stock of some fine 

 variety don't be over-anxious to get as 

 many cuttings as possible, but rather 

 try to get as many good plants as pos- 

 sible, A thousand weak runts are not 

 near so good as a hundred fine, strong 

 plants when housing time comes. And 

 when you consider that most of the 

 good varieties arc propagated pretty 

 heavily before they reach the trade, you 

 can see that careful propagating is all 

 the more necessary to keep up the vital- 

 ity of the variety. A great deal can 

 be done along this line through the se- 

 lection of the cuttings. 



Opinion seems to be pretty generally 

 settled as to the proper cutting to take, 

 the young shoots around the base of the 

 flower stems, or the young shoots that 

 grow after the flower shoot has been 

 topped back. Both of these will make 

 high grade stock. Avoid the side shoots 

 from up around the middle of the flower 

 stem or the young flower shoots that 

 have begun to lengthen out. Neither 

 of these will make an ideal plant and 

 you will be wasting time and bench 

 space on them, besides running down 

 the vitality of your stock. If you have 

 a fine variety that you want to increase 

 all you can, you can get more cuttings 

 by topping back all the blooming shoots 

 from now on. I would advise this onlv 



