November 29, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



8) 



steam in the fall. It helps purify the 

 air in our houses and will destroy mildew 

 if any is in sight. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM DAKOMA. 



Elmer D. Smith declines to abide by 

 the verdict of the C. S. A. committee and 

 in the matter of Chrysanthemum Dako- 

 ma appeals to the court of last resort, 

 the public. It will be sent out without 

 C. S. A. approval. Chrysanthemum Da- 

 koma was exhibited before the Chrysan- 

 themum Society's Cincinnati committee 

 November 10 as No. 55-4-05. The com- 

 mittee consists of K. • Witterstaetter, 

 James Allan and Wm. Jackson, but, 

 highly as they think of the author of 

 the "Chrysanthemum Manual" and 

 much as they respect his judgment of a 

 chrysanthemum, the best they could do 

 for Dakoma was to score it eighty 

 points on the exhibition scale. It was 

 a jolt to the manager of the Adrian 

 seedling factory, for he thinks highly of 

 Dakoma, and, without explanation as to 

 damage in transit or other reason for 

 the poor showing at Cincinnati, an- 

 nounces that Dakoma will be sent out 

 "on its merits." It is a bronze and, 

 aside from color, its principal character- 

 istics of flower are shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration prepared from a 

 photograph made by Mr. Smith himself. 

 He says it is a good thing either for 

 exhibition or commercial purposes. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



Chicago, November 17. — Sadie May 

 Stremler, sport of Queen, exhibited by 

 J. S. Stremler, Princeton, Ky., scored 

 eighty-one points commercial scale. 



David Fraser, Sec'y. 



POLLWORTH IN THE WOODS. 



C. C. Pollworth, of Milwaukee, has 

 returned home after spending a couple 

 of weeks in the woods in northern Wis- 

 consin looking after some lumber inter- 

 ests and also taking in the bouquet 

 green districts. He reports that on ac- 

 count of the heavy snow and cold weath- 

 er throughout the northern part of the 

 state very little green was picked after 

 October 10, and this commodity will be 

 extremely scarce this Christmas. He also 

 spent several days in the woods hunting 

 deer and was successful in getting a 

 fine specimen of the king of the forest, 

 as the accompanying illustration, pre- 

 pared from a snap shot photograph, will 

 show. 



TOBACCO AS A FERTILIZER. 



We are in a position to procure a big 

 lot of tobacco stems, and ask you to 

 stajie if they are as valuable a fertilizer 

 as IS stable manure. S. B. 



There is no doubt you can use the 

 stems as you wouW stable manure. I 

 know nothing about what fertilizing mat- 

 ter they contain. I never have seen a 

 chemical analysis of the stems or leaves, 

 but we have often plowed them into the 

 ground and observed nothing but good 

 results. A friend of ours, an excellent 

 amateur gardener and farmer, whose 

 business in the city was that of a leaf 

 tobacco jobber, used to cart tons of 

 stems and broken up leaves to his little 

 farm, mix them with the litter from the 

 stable and plow them into the soil, and 

 over them I have seen excellent crops of 



Chrysanthemum Dakoma. 



potatoes, cabbage and corn. He also 

 spread two or three inches of the fresh 

 stems on the surface in his dwarf pear 

 orchard, and he grew fine pears. What 

 should we do without tobacco? All the 

 moralizing and lectures in the world will 

 never abolish its use. It is good every- 

 where except in the abominable ciga- 

 rettes. W. S. 



SWEET PEAS FOR CUTTING. 



What would be the best kind of sweet 

 peas to grow for the New York market? 

 Do you think it is too late to start them 

 now? We have one house we Avould like 

 to plant in peas, side benches about three 

 foet from the glass, middle benches six 

 feet. W. B. 



Sweet peas sown now, if in a light, 

 sunny house, should be in flower in early 

 April, when they are in good demand. 

 Some of the old standard varieties will 

 flower by the middle of April. Of these 

 there are many splendid sorts. A half 

 dozen distinct and desirable kinds are 

 Emily Henderson, white; Blanche Ferry, 

 white and pink; Countess of Eadnor, 

 lavender; Katherine Tracy, light pink, 

 extra fine; Prima Donna, rose pink; Coc- 

 cinea, bright scarlet. These are also fine 

 for sowing outdoors in early spring. They 

 are not, however, any good for sowing in 

 the greenhouse in the fall for winter 

 flowering. If you are anxious to pick 

 peas by Easter, then the only varieties to 

 sow are the varieties raised by A. C. Zvo- 

 lanek. His Christmas Pink is well 

 named, of the Blanche Ferry type, with 

 fine long stems. Florence Denzer is pure 

 white. 



The side benches, with only three feet 

 of headroom, will not do for sweet peas. 

 If you cannot use the space for young 

 stock or bedding plants, then try candy- 

 tuft. Sun, fresh air and lots of water at 

 lue roots are the great requisites for 

 producing good sweet peas. W. S. 



MARKETING AT WHOLESALE. 



[The paper by Charles Ingram awarded sec- 

 ond prize In the contest for the prizes offered 

 by W. F. Kastlng.j 



The methods of disposing to the re- 

 tailer by growers have passed through 

 almost as many stages of evolution with- 

 in the last twenty years as have the 

 construction of greenhouses, varieties 

 grown, size of structures, etc. The meth- 

 ods that were fully competent to take 

 care of the market end of the growers ' 

 cares up to a short time ago would 

 now prove totally inadequate to handle 

 tlic ever-increasing supply, "and the end 

 is not yet. " 



An Individual Problem. 



To my way of thinking, there is no 

 one method at present in vogue that 

 would apply equally to all growers, for 

 the simple reason that all growers are 

 not equally favorably situated as regards 

 location of plant. To be more explicit, 

 the grower that is in close proximity to 

 a large center of distribution can han- 

 dle a rush order with greater facility 

 than one at some distsmce from said 

 center, where shipping facilities may be 

 limited to a certain number of expresses 

 a day. Where the former can bring into 

 use anything from a horse and wagon 

 to an auto, the latter is handicapped 

 by distance, etc., although undoubtedly 

 he is better off as regards taxation and 

 several other important items. There 

 are other vast differences between grow- 

 ers that will be referred to later on. 



The largest growers, who produce 

 stock enough to enable them to run a 

 shipping department of their own on 

 practically the same lines as a wholesale 

 commission house, have, it would seem, 

 almost reached the climax of perfection; 

 but to many growers this method of dis- 

 posing of their goods would be totally 

 impractical, so we may safely eliminate 

 Ihe former from the subject and con- 



