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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Decbmbeb 21, 1905. 



vember, December and January should bo 

 very light and cautious. If you mixed 

 in a fair amount of bone at planting 

 time and spread on a mulch of manure 

 about the middle of September, very lit- 

 tle more food will be needed until late 

 in January or February, and even later 

 than that if the winter is unusually dark. 

 Do cut out the feeding for a time. 



A sprinkling of air-slaked lime early in 

 January will do some good, as it tends 

 to keep the soil sweet and makes the plant 

 foods more available for the plants to 

 take up. 



Enchantress does not like much feed- 

 ing, either, during the winter. It makes 

 the texture of the blooms soft and also 

 causes them to burst. A. F. J. Baur. 



LATE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Will you please tell me the names of 

 the best late mums! I want them to 

 come in about Thanksgiving. Please 



give name and color. 



G. W. 



A selection of late kinds as seen in the 

 New York market for Thanksgiving runs 

 about as follows: White, W. H. Chad- 

 wick, Merry Christmas and Jeanne 

 Nonin; yellow, Kieman, Yellow Chadwick 

 and Bonnaft'on; pink, W. S. Allen and 

 Maud Dean. 



To get late flowers, plants should be 

 grown more particularly for that pur- 

 pose, rooting them in June, planting 

 in July, and growing along as cool as 

 possible and taking the terminal bud. 

 They are better grown in a separate 

 house from early and midseason kinds 

 because when the former are needing a 

 dryer atmosphere, the very late kinds are 

 still in growth and in need of syringing 

 and fumigating for black fly. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



THE ROOSEVELT MUM. 



The illustration on page 307 shows 

 a bloom of President Koosevelt, one of 

 Xathan Smith & Son's recently certifi- 

 cated chrysanthemums. This is a seed- 

 ling of Mrs. W. C. Egan, pink, crossed 

 with Mrs. George Mileham, rosy mauve. 

 Elmer Smith says that they consider it 

 their best introduction since 1898, when 

 they disseminated Merza. It is its 

 equal in size, of the same sturdy, short- 

 jointed growth and beautiful Japanese 

 incurved form. Its color is unique but 

 pleasing, being a white ground with light 

 shell-pink center and on the tips of each 

 petal, giving the entire bloom a light pink 

 appearance, and is especially attractive 

 under artificial light. Unlike Merza, it 

 is of the easiest culture and perfectly 

 double from all buds and under varied 

 culture. As a cut flower, either commer- 

 cial, exhibition, or as a pot plant it is 

 recommended by the introducers. This 

 year it was fully developed November 5 

 to 10 and crown buds taken August 30 

 to September 5 produce the best colored 

 blooms. This was the variety that won 

 the silver medal at Philadelphia this 

 year. 



AMERICAN MUMS IN ENGLAND. 



Nowadays there are but few of our 

 growers who know much about the Ameri- 

 can seedling chrysanthemums of nearly 

 twenty vears ago. says C. Harmon Payne 

 in the Gardeners' Chronicle. Gradually 

 they have ceased to be imported until 



very few of them are left, but in a few 

 private collections, in the public parka 

 and in the hands of the French growers, 

 there are still some that remain. 



These are some of the most effective 

 and useful for decorative purposes: WiK 

 liam Tricker, a dwarf growing, pretty, 

 bright rosy-pink Japanese, is much ap- 

 preciated and still retained in most of 

 the parks. We have also seen this season 

 .1. H. Bunchman, a bright golden yel- 

 low whicli reminds us of the Pitcher and 

 Manda collection that passed into the 

 hands of Mr. H. J. Jones, Hairy Wonder 

 being another of the set. Delaware, the 



Alexander J. Gutttnan. 



anemone-flowered variety, is American, as 

 is Mrs. Judge Benedict of the same sec- 

 tion. Mutual Friend, a big white Jap- 

 anese, has also been seen this season in 

 good form. Louis Boehmer, the hairy 

 novelty that followed Mrs. Alpheus 

 Hardy, came to us from the States, and 

 is still in the Battersea park collection. 

 Good Gracious, one of the most distinct 

 Japanese in cultivation, is another. Mrs. 

 E. G. Hill is an old variety, an early 

 bloomer, very tall, but a useful back row 

 plant for mixed groups. I have also 



noticed Simplicity, a white Japanese. 

 The above are probably all the Ameri- 

 cans that now remain in cultivation here, 

 with the exception of a few others that 

 may have been past their best at the time 

 of my visits to the various Metropolitan 

 parks. 



GUTTMAN ON FLOWER SHOWS. 



[A paper by Alexander J. Guttman, read be- 

 fore the New York Florists' Club, December il, 

 1905.] 



Wihen I returned from my trip through- 

 out the country a few weeks ago, I felt 

 that I should give the club the benefit of 

 some of my experience and with our 

 president's permission I have prepared 

 this paper. You cannot expect to hear 

 a paper covering every phase and every 

 little detail thoroughly, of the great 

 subject which I am going to read to you. 

 The subject I refer to is flower shows 

 throughout the country and our city. I 

 will do the best I can and I trust that 

 some good will come of it. I feel that 

 there is great room for improvement in 

 our profession, and tl^at flower shows 

 well patronized in this city of ours, 

 would greatly help everyone connected 

 with our business. Before going any 

 further I am sure that everyone will ad- 

 mit that the question before us, whether 

 a flower show would be a benefit to the 

 florists in this section of the country, or 

 whether it would not be worth the 

 trouble, is of very great importance. It 

 seems to me that it would surely be a 

 benefit, and for that reason, and also 

 taking it for granted that I voice the 

 sentiments of the majority of enterpris- 

 ing florists in this, the largest and great- 

 est center for our profession, I have de- 

 cided to speak of this matter. 



It has been my privilege and pleasure 

 to attend, in the interest of Victory car- 

 nation, the majority of flower shows held 

 this season. I did not get to Boston and 

 Philadelphia because I could not be in 

 two places at the same time. In three 

 cities particularly, namely Chicago, Kan- 

 sas City and Indianapolis, I noticed the 

 great interest shown by the florists and 

 citizens of those respective cities in their 

 shows, and it certainly gave me great 

 pleasure and impressed me deeply, as I 

 am sure it would you. When I thought 

 of the poor attendance and the lack of 

 interest shown by the people of this great 

 city of ours I felt very sad. The attend- 

 ance at the shows heretofore mentioned 

 was so great that men had to be stationed 

 to guide the people and keep them mov- 

 ing in one direction so as to avoid crush- 

 ing. These shows were lield in the largest 

 buildings of their kind in this coun- 

 try, buildings that compare very favor- 

 ably with our famous Madison Square 

 Garden. I cannot refer to any great ex- 

 tent to the exhibits and the varieties of 

 plants on exhibition that I saw at these 

 different shows; in fact, I did not notice 

 anything special except some dandy red 

 geraniums three to four feet tall and about 

 three feet in circumference, which were 

 in full bloom. They looked very beau- 

 tiful to me and therefore I mention 

 them. Also the exhibits of the city parks 

 were very fine. However, you may rest 

 assured that I had both eyes on cut 

 flowers, especially roses, carnations and 

 mums. The roses were certainly very 

 good, better than those we had here at 

 that time. In carnations, they were cer- 

 tainly up to the mark and the same with 

 regard to mums. There were so many 

 exhibitors, too, that it really seemed to 

 me as if all growers were anxious to 

 show their product. As I was particu- 



