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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NOVDMBER 15, 1906. 



year. The first to mention is Dorothy 

 Qouldsmith, a lovely yellow tinged with 

 bronze. It has already gained the first- 

 class certificate of the National Chrys- 

 anthemum Society. The bloom to which 

 it was awarded was twelve inches from 

 tip of petal to top of flower. This is 

 going to be one of the very best both 

 for color, size and growth. 



Harold Wells is an enormous white 

 that spans ten inches across. It is a 

 massive flower on stiff stems, and we 

 look to it to be one of the purest, larg- 

 est, and best whites in existence. 



Mrs. W. Wells is a beautifully shaped 

 flower of exceptionally rich color. The 

 habit is splendid, four feet in height, 

 and the color is quite distinct from any 

 existing chrysanthemum. We believe 

 this will have a great future both as a 

 decorative and exhibition variety. 



Several other novelties are promising 

 well. We may mention Norfolk Bhish, 

 Eider Haggard, and Wm. Luxford. We 

 cannot fully describe them at present, 

 preferring to wait until the flowers have 

 been shown to perfection. Most of the 

 English seedlings were raised from Au- 

 stralian eeed. 



might be like next fall, for at present 

 his seedUngs are well to the front in 

 England and America. The American 

 growers prefer them to others. By many 

 years' dealing with Mr. Pockett he has 

 proved that we can depend upon his 

 word as well as his seedlings. We must 

 therefore wait and hope, but I doubt if 

 the chrysanthemum world will be disap- 

 pointed with his description. 



Merstham, England. W. Wells. 



SOME OF THE NOVELTIES. 



In my opinion the best novelty of the 

 year is the white sport of William 

 Duckham. In the Chicago exhibition 

 this variety kept perfectly for six days 

 and at the end of that time was prob- 

 ably the freshest exhibit in the long- 

 stem and cut flower classes. This, too, 

 after traveling over 1,000 miles before 

 being staged. This variety won the 

 Frick prize for the best new variety, 

 which carried with it the privilege of 

 naming the variety. Consequently the 

 white Duckham will in future be known 

 as Miss Clay Frick. 



Miss Miriam Hankey is a lovely pink 



Chrysantliemum Miss Mariam Hankey* 



To add a point further, Thos. Pockett, 

 the celebrated raiser, tells us that in 

 the season of 1907-08 we shall see the 

 best chrysanthemum he haa yet raised. 

 W© are most eager to see what this 



that will become very popular. It is 

 ideal in growth, strong, stiff stem and 

 foliage up to the flower. I think many 

 commercial growers who cannot handle 

 William Duckham will be pleased if they 



try this variety, because it produces a 

 good flower from any bud, early or 

 late, and in no case have I seen this 

 variety come with an eye. Hankey I 

 know will hold its own for years. 



Mrs. George Hunt is an enormous, 

 incurving light yellow. It may be de- 

 scribed most easily, perhaps, as an 

 improved Chrysanthemiste Montigny. 

 This latter variety is so large that I 

 may perhaps be accused of drawing the 

 long bow when I say that Hunt will 

 easily beat it in size and finish, but 

 such is the case, none the less, and in 

 addition it does not damp easily, which 

 is a failing of Montigny. 



Mrs. Henry Barnes is another monster 

 and in many ways is a unique variety. 

 It is old rose in color, with a lighter 

 reverse. It is on the incurving order 

 but the petals reflex enough to show the 

 lovely color in the center of the flower. 

 Barnes is one of the strongest growers 

 I ever have handled and when generally 

 distributed will make its mark. 



Mrs. A. T. Miller is rather early for 

 the exhibitions but it is a lovely flower, 

 of the purest white, and is sure of a 

 large sale. It has been certificated by 

 the New York committee on the com- 

 mercial scale and as it grew with me is 

 far ahead of Touset as a second early 

 white. C. H. Totty. 



INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE. 



[A paper by E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind., read 

 before the Cbrysantbemum Society of America, 

 at the Chicago meeting, November 7, 1906.] 



The responsibility of writing a paper 

 on the subject of chrysanthemums, or 

 any branch pertaining thereto, is no 

 small one. Since the beginning of the 

 chrysanthemum era much has been writ- 

 ten on the subject; so much, indeed, has 

 been written and printed, and so much 

 of value withal, that it smacks of pure 

 presumption for me to undertake to 

 speak entertainingly upon any branch of 

 chrysanthemum culture. 



Literature of the Mum* " 



Would you know how to take care of 

 your stock plants! Would you inquire 

 as to the best time to take cuttings, or 

 the best kind of cuttings to take? Would 

 you ask as to the ideal soil, as to the 

 best methods of shipping and market- 

 ing, or a complete set of rules for grow- 

 ing, staging and exhibiting chrysanthe- 

 mums at the annual exhibitions? If so, 

 you will naturally turn to the able and 

 excellent book published by our ex-presi- 

 dent, Arthur Herrington, or the older 

 but no less valuable work published by 

 Elmer D. Smith, that old-time expert of 

 Adrian, Mich. 



Then look at our cultural notes in the 

 trade papers. What volumes these notes 

 would make if brought together into book 

 forml In justice to the judgment and 

 ability of the writers for these papers, 

 I believe that a compiler of these notes 

 would find it hard to cut anything out, 

 for they are of universal vsdue. With 

 all these facts staring me in the face, 

 it becomes a hard problem to select a 

 branch of this subject on which I may 

 say anything other than repetitions and 

 quotations from abler men. 



However, facing the necessity of ful- 

 filling a promise made without the full 

 realization of its responsibility, I have 

 decided to make a few remarks along the 

 line of the influence of climatic condi- 

 tions upon the culture of chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



When Humidityr Influences. 



No doubt many of the members pres- 



