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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Masch 16. 100ft. 



peculiar, crooked neck. Since I found it 

 out we let the last bud stay on until 

 the flower is cut and the trouble dis- 

 appears. Give Flamingo a little extra 

 attention and care and I am sure that 

 you will not have to worry whether the 

 new scarlets are successes or failures. 



Other Sorts. 



For white I shall grow Lady Bounti- 

 ful, Dorner's White Perfection, Lieut. 

 Peary and Vesper and will discard Alba- 

 tross and The Belle. In light pink I 

 shall grow Enchantress, discarding 

 Morning Glory. Possibly Genevieve 

 Lord may have to make room for Helen 

 Goddard, although the former has proven 

 very satisfactory. 



Mrs. Lawson will be discarded in 

 favor of Nelson Fisher and Pink Pat- 

 ten. Pink Patten I believe will be in 

 another two years a warm competitor of 

 Mrs. Thos. Lawson. Better watch it 

 grow. 



For variegated, M. A. Patten seems 

 to be the best with me, so I will keep it 

 next season. 



This completes my list for next sea- 

 son and I hope it will turn out satisfac- 

 torily, though I still wish the Lord 

 would throw a sport or a seedling my 

 way that has the clear color of the Mar- 

 quis and the general growth, habit and 

 keeping qualities of the Patten. Then 

 I surely would be happy until the shoe 

 pinched me in some other place. 



practiced with extraordinary success on 

 'the other side'." 



CHICAGO CLUB DOINGS. 



VICTORY'S LONGEST JOURNEY. 



"We are indebted to A. Dimmock, " 

 says the Gardener's Chronicle, London, 

 ' * for the opportunity of inspecting a 

 bouquet of carnations, the flowers having 

 been cut in America and imported here 

 in this condition. Mr. Dimmock has pre- 

 viously shown us roses which have 

 crossed the Atlantic in a cut state, and 

 were brought to this office in a good 

 state of preservation, 'me interest in 



The Carnation Show. 



The Chicago Florists' Club may have 

 had larger exhibitions than that set up 

 in the Atlas block March 8, but it is 

 certain that its members were never 

 privileged to look upon better carna- 

 tions. To James Hartshorne, of the Chi- 

 cago Carnation Co., must be given the 

 principal measure of commendation for 

 whatever success the show made. His 

 exhibit was the largest he has ever set 

 up at a purely club affair, and was 

 very nearly as large as the combined 

 displays of all the other exhibitors. 

 Wietor Bros, were second in point of 

 extent of exhibits, with Jensen & De- 

 kema third, but when it came to quality 

 it would be difficult to determine who 

 had the best stock, and, in fact, the 

 judges contented themselves with enu- 

 merating the varieties and according 

 equal commendation to all. The cuts 

 of all the growers seem to be at the very 

 top for quality, and it was noticeable 

 that not a sleepy bloom was to be seen 

 at the close of the show, all having 

 stood up perfectly in the warm and fre- 

 quently crowded room. The showing of 

 novelties was a good one. All the leaders, 

 except Victory, were there, and Victory 

 has been seen in Chicago a number of 

 times. 



Aside from the attraction of Mr. 

 Hartshorne 's magnificent table, the in- 

 terest centered in three vases of reds: 

 Robert Craig, shown by Thompson; No. 

 49, shown by the Chicago Carnation Co., 

 and No. 55, shown by Wietor Bros. The 

 two numbered sorts are each fine, the 

 Joliet seedling showing a little stronger 

 stem, the Wietor entry the brighter 

 color, but each is a big flower, well able 

 to hold its own with Craig on the exhibi- 



Exhibit of Jensen & Dekema at the Chicago Show. 



the present instance lies in the fact that 

 the carnations are of a new variety 

 named Victory. The flowers are crim- 

 son colored, of considerable size, mod- 

 erately fragrant, and the petals are less 

 fringed than American varieties are 

 usually. Whether it is of better quality 

 than some varieties which have already 

 been imported of the same color will 

 have to be determined after cultivation 

 here. In the meantime, we could not 

 conceal our admiration for the excellent 

 grass on the stout, wiry, perfectly rigid 

 etems. Certainly, carnation culture is 



tion table, and from what Jos. Psenicka, 

 foreman for Wietor Bros., says, one at 

 least is able to stand comparison of 

 growth and blooming record. Mr. Harts- 

 horne has not yet decided what to do 

 with No. 49, and Wietor Bros, will grow 

 No. 55 at least one year more before 

 selling stock of it; it is now in its third 

 year and they are propagating from 

 2,000 plants. 



There were several vases of roses. Kil- 

 larney, staged by Weiland & Risch, was 

 in good shape and had many admirers 

 as well as some critics for, in spite of 



the success which has attended the ef- 

 forts of several growers, there are those 

 who can not yet accept the verdict of 

 the public. It will, however, be tried 

 quite generally next year. A vase of 

 Miss Kate Moulton, from John Monson, 

 of the Minneapolis Floral Co., was set 

 up by the Chicago Rose Co. It had suf- 

 fered in transit, but was nevertheless to 

 the growers one of the most interesting 

 exhibits. George Field, of Washington, 

 sent a large vase of his La France sport, 

 Tom Field. The blooms were long past 

 their best, but showed great size, and 

 Wm. Laisle, Keokuk, la., sent a half 

 dozen flowers of a cream colored sport 

 from Bride, but these, too, were past 

 their best. 



Hild Bros., Lake Forest, 111., had a 

 vase of pink and white stocks which 

 were worthy of special mention. 



The Chicago Carnation Co. 's exhibit 

 included the following varieties, named 

 from left to right as shown in the ac- 

 companying illustration: Front row: 

 No. 49, red; Melody, light pink sport of 

 Lawson; Lady Bountiful, J. A. Valen- 

 tine, light pink; White Lawson, Varie- 

 gated Lawson, Glendale. Second row: 

 Delight, Prosperity markings, fine; Im- 

 perial, variegated, fine; Lady Bountiful, 

 cut before maturing, showing much pink ; 

 J. E. Haines, Mrs. Patten, Lieut. Peary, 

 Enchantress. Back row: Lawson, Car- 

 dinal, Harlowarden, Fiancee, fine; Sky- 

 rocket, Rudd's red; Prosperity. 



Wietor Bros.' vases named from left 

 to right in the accompanying picture 

 were: Nelson Fisher, Enchantress, Lady 

 Bountiful, Estelle, No. 55, Mrs. Lawson, 

 Lieut. Peary, Fred Burki, White Law- 

 son, Harlowarden. 



Anton Then staged his new Winnemac, 

 yellow variegated; Lady Bountiful, Car- 

 dinal, Lawson, White Lawson and En- 

 chantress. 



Jensen & Dekema set up very fine 

 flowers of Gov. Wolcott, Mrs. Patten, 

 Nelson Fisher, Enchantress, Lawson and 

 Boston Market. 



Fred Stielow staged Lorna, The Belle, 

 Lady Bountiful, a good light pink seed- 

 ling and a better dark pink one. 



H. Luedtke, Maywood, brought a vase 

 of a rose pink sport of Enchantress. 



R. Fischer, Great Neck, L. I., N. Y., 

 sent Carnation Abundance and a vase of 

 very fine freesia, Purity. 



E. F. Winterson was manager of the 

 show. 



Qub Meeting. 



On the evening of March 8 the club 

 held its monthly meeting, one of the best 

 attended of the year and one of the most 

 interesting. Among the visitors were R. 

 Will, Minneapolis; N. Zweifle, Milwau- 

 kee, and E. E. Petersen, Denver. 



The feature of the evening was J. F. 

 Klimmer's relation of his experience 

 with the varieties of carnations grown 

 last year. Mr. Klimmer has a way of 

 putting things which makes of interest 

 all that he says. His remarks are printed 

 in full in another column of this issue 

 and are commended to all growers of 

 the carnation as the candid, unprejudiced 

 opinion of a good grower and a close 

 thinker. Mr. Klimmer was preceded by 

 J. D. Thompson, who told how he packs 

 cuttings, read his directions for treat- 

 ment when unpacked and expressed the 

 opinion that if the advice were followed 

 there would seldom be reason for a kick. 

 He made a strong plea for more scrupu- 

 lous business methods, branding many 

 , complaints he received as attempts to get 

 something for nothing. E. E. Petersen 

 said that Mr. Thompson's way of pack- 



