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The Weekly Rorists' Review 



OCTOBEK 18, 1906. 



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Older Varieties. 



Some of the older varieties, are now 

 ready for cutting; and, while they are 

 not classed as standard commercial 

 kinds, it might pay some of the com- 

 mercial growers to get off their Pacifies 

 and Polly Roses long enough to look 

 them over. Mrs. A. J. Miller is a splen- 

 did grower, never burns a particle, and 

 comes big and very early. The color, a 

 brick red, is much more attractive under 

 electric light than in daylight. 



Lady Hopetoun, a lovely heliotrope 

 pink, is the largest early pink I know. 

 It is a little weak in the neck sometimes, 

 but the flower is always a uniform shade 

 of color, which cannot be said of any 

 other early pink. Pacific is always washy 

 and Coombes has lots of light-colored 

 streaks in it. 



Some Novelties. 



It is a little early to pass judgment on 

 the novelties, though some are far 

 enough advanced to justify remark. 

 Mary Godfrey is ready to cut and, while 

 rather small, is a beautifully formed 

 flower, and a fine, clear yellow. An- 

 other year may see this variety loom up 

 in the early section. 



Another one that has possibilities is 

 Money-maker, a Jap incurved white. 

 Early buds are now ready to cut, and 

 the flower is very like Bobinson in color 

 and form. It is later here than it is in 

 England, having been certificated there 

 October 4, but a good, large white, fully 

 out by the middle of October, is not to 

 be ligntly considered. 



Possibly the king of the novelties this 

 year will be the white sport of William 

 Duckham. This is an exact counterpart 

 of the parent in every way, except color, 

 and will make just as big a showing on 

 the exhibition table. Duckham has al- 

 most had a monopoly in the pink class 

 f for the past two years, in the eastern 

 shows, and the white sport will be wel- 

 comed with open arms, as good whites 

 are painfully few just now. Merza, be- 

 fore the advent of Beatrice May, was 

 the standby in whites, but it will not 

 travel good, and time and again has 

 lost an exhibitor prizes, because it would 

 wilt down. With White Duckham in the 

 field, I think that Merza, like Othello, 

 will find its occupation gone. 



Miss Miriam Hankey was figured as 

 the largest pink sent out last year, and 

 if stem and foliage are any indication, 

 it is going to live up to its reputation. 

 The bud is swelling finely, and Hankey 

 may rank as one of the top notchers of 

 the year, but it will not be finished for 

 two weeks yet. 



Mrs. A. H. Lee is showing lovely color 

 and so far is not burning, which is the 

 fault of all the crimson section over 

 here. One flower from the earliest bud 

 is fully open, but others will not be up 

 for ten days or more. It looks as though 

 it might prove a valuable addition to the 

 red varieties. A few days more and one 

 will be better able to judge. 



Charles H. Iotty. 



RETAHDED BY WARM WEATHER. 



Enclosed find a few of my mum buds. 

 You will notice that they seem to have a 

 tough skin, and do not open evenly. 

 Will you kindly tell me what to do? 

 All of my early ones are this wav. 



G. P. S. 



I am inclined to the belief that the 

 unsually warm beptember, which is re- 

 sponsible for many of the early varieties 

 being later this year, has caused the 

 buds to hang somewhat. The chrysan- 

 themum is a cool-growing plant, and 

 comes quickly at this time of year, 

 when the night temperature is low and 

 the days clear and cool. Contrast this 

 with the weather we were, getting late 

 in September, with a temperature in the 

 90''s. This weather I consider is respon- 

 sible for the fact that September flow- 

 ering, and other early types in Europe, 

 fail \o come in here until well into Octo- 



The buds were badly shrivelled by the 

 time they reached me, but I can see no 

 signs of anything out of the ordinary. 



Chrysanthemum October Frost. 



ber, and even then the petals of many 

 kinds are short and the flowers ragged 

 and uneven. Some of the buds sent 

 were opening nicely on one side, while 

 the other side was still closed. Eventu- 

 ally nature will assert herself, and the 

 buds will burst open all right. 



C. H. T. 



LEAF-SPOT. 



I have quite a number of chrysanthe- 

 mums with the leaves turning yellow, a 

 sample of which I enclose. Will you tell 

 me the cause and the cure? T. F. 



The leaves sent are affected with what 

 is commonly known as leaf-spot. It is 

 fungoid growth (Septoria) and is 

 caused by the plants getting crowded in 

 the benches, and shutting out the light 

 and air. It will almost invariably be 

 found to start in the center of the bench, 

 where the leaves stay wet a long time 

 and gradually lose their vitality. This 



disease, as a rule, does little real harm, as 

 it starts on the bottom leaves, which, in 

 the natural order of things, will decay 

 and drop off anyway as the wood hard- 

 ens on the plant. 



Keep the plants on the dry side, the 

 foliage particularly so. Bordeaux mix- 

 ture will kill the germ of this disease, 

 but I would not use it, unless the plants 

 get badly affected, as it stains the 

 leaves, and they have to be cleaned be- 

 fore the flower is marketed. Take off 

 what leaves you can from •the bottom 

 of the plants, whether they are affected 

 or not, so that the sun can shine in on 

 the beds. C. H. T. ' 



THE OCTOBER FROST MUM. 



Among the get of novelties sent out 

 last year by Nathan Smith & Son, 

 Adrian, Mich., was Chrysanthemum Oc- 

 tober Frost, which has in the last month 

 attracted much attention in cut flower 

 centers, especially in the Chicago mar- 

 ket, where it was by some weeks the 

 earliest of the white varieties. Wietor 

 Bros., of Chicago, are its largest grow- 

 ers this season, but next year without 

 doubt many more will plant it as ex- 

 tensively as the available stock will per- 

 mit. The flower is of large Size for 

 such an early variety, good blooms hav- 

 ing been cut before the end of Septem- 

 ber. The foliage is well up on the stem 

 and the neck is strong. Elmer D. Smith 

 says that in selecting the buds it is a 

 decided advantage to secure the early 

 ones, as the flowers from such are much 

 larger and more double than from the 

 later buds. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



President Duckham has announced the 

 committees to examine seedlings and 

 sports on each Saturday to and including 

 November 24, 1906. 



Exhibits to receive attention from the 

 committees must in all cases be prepaid 

 to destination, and the entry fee of $2 

 should be forwarded to the secretary not 

 later than Tuesday of the week pre- 

 ceding examination, or may accompany 

 the blooms. Special attention is called 

 to the rule requiring that sports to re- 

 ceive a certificate must pass three com- 

 mittees. 



New York. — Eugene Dailledouze, 

 chairman, 55 and 57 West Twenty-sixth 

 street, New York City; Thomas Head, 

 Wm. Turner. Ship flowers to 55 and 57 

 West Twenty-sixth street, New York. 



Philadelphia, Pa. — A. B. Cartledge, 

 chairman, 1514 Chestnut street; John 

 Westcott, Wm. K. Harris. 



Boston, Mass. — E. A. Wood, chair- 

 man; Wm. Nicholson, James Wheeler. 

 Ship flowers to Boston Flower Market, 

 care of John Walsh. 



Cincinnati, O. — R. Witterstaetter, chair- 

 man; James Allan, Wm. Jackson. Ship 

 to Jabez Elliott Flower Market, care 

 of janitor. 



Chicago, 111. — J. S. Wilson, chairman; 

 J. B. Deamud and Geo. Wienhoeber. 

 Ship flowers care of J. B. Deamud, 51 

 Wabash avenue. 



The oflScial scales of the C. S. A. are 



as follows: 



Commercial. Exhibition. 



Color 20 Color 10 



Form 15 Stem 5 



Fullness 10 Foliage 5 



Stem 18 Fullness 15 



Foliage 16 Form 15 



.Substance 16 Depth 15 



Size 10 Size 89 



Total. 



.100 Total 100 



David Fbaser, Sec'y. 



