December 20, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



345 



limited to growers with less than 20,000 

 feet of glass; J. H, Dunlop, $5 for 

 twelve carnations from private garden- 

 ers; George Vair, $5 for twenty-five red. 

 The King Construction Co. also offers a 

 premium. 



As features of the convention there 



CONSOLIDATION. 



Everybody knows Robert Crawford, Jr., 

 of Philadelphia, and admires his beauti- 

 ful store, with its handsome mirrors, rugs 

 and furniture that give an elegance sug- 

 gestive of taste and refinement, further 



Propagating House of Charles Dauernheitn, Ktmmswick, Mo. 



will be essays as follows: "Are There 

 Too Many New Carnations Introduced?" 

 John Birnie, West Hoboken, N. J.; 

 "Greenhouse Construction," Mr. King, 

 Toronto; "American Carnations and 

 Their Prospects in Europe," C. Engel- 

 mann and Peter Eiise ; ' ' Carnations from 

 a Canadian's Point of View," William 

 Gammage, London, Ont. 



A MISSOURI PLACE. 



The accompanying illustrations are 

 from photographs made a few weeks ago 

 at the establishment of Charles Dauern- 

 heim, Jr., at Kimmswick, Mo., about 

 twenty miles south of St. Louis, for 

 which market Mr. Dauernheim grows car- 

 nations, and nothing but carnations. He 

 is located on the Mississippi river, where 

 soil conditions are good, and produces 

 excellent stock. One picture shows the 

 east end of the range and the other 

 shows the interior of the new propagat- 

 ing house, just completed, with its brick- 

 bottomed bench filled for the reception 

 of the first batch of 60,000 cuttings. 



Mr. Dauernheim is one of the progress- 

 ive growers of the St. Louis district 

 and his standard sorts include all the 

 latest varieties, his list being possibly 

 larger than it otherwise would be from 

 the fact that he does quite a large busi- 

 ness in rooted cuttings. His whites 

 include Bountiful, White Perfection, 

 Vesper, Boston Market, Fred Burki and 

 the old stand-by. Flora Hill. In pink 

 he grows Lawson, Joost and Eclipse, 

 with, of course, Enchantress for light, 

 and his list of reds is relatively longer, 

 for he has Crane, Estelle, Flamingo and 

 Cardinal. He is one of the growers who 

 still finds a profit in Prosperity. 



Some of the new sorts are on trial 

 with Mr. Dauernheim. Aristocrat shows 

 up well, fine growth, and in his opinion 

 beats all the pinks. Bonnie Maid and 

 Red Warrior, the Dorner pair, are also 

 doing notably well. 



enhanced by the specimen palms in jar- 

 dinieres that harmonize with their sur- 

 roundings, and great bunches of cut 

 flowers in tall vases that always add 

 brightness to the general effect. 



Everybody also knows that Robert 

 Crawford, Jr., is the owner of the Phil- 

 adelphia Carnation Co. 's plant at Se- 

 cane, in Delaware county, but every- 

 body does not know that these two suc- 

 cessful business enterprises have now 

 been merged into one, and that both the 

 store and the greenhouses will hence- 



dustry have secured him a large follow- 

 ing. When 'to this is added the fact 

 that Mr. Crawford is thoroughly fa- 

 miliar with the purchasing power of a 

 dollar under diverse conditions, his suc- 

 cess as a retailer is easily understood. 



As a grower, however, Mr. Crawford's 

 position was not until recently so se- 

 cure. His early training had given rudi- 

 mentary knowledge. He thoroughly un- 

 derstood the care of plants in the con- 

 servatory attached to his store, and in 

 the house, but whether the pennies so 

 freely to be invested in glass houses 

 could be induced to return when crops 

 were harvested was quite another mat- 

 ter. Of course it ought to pay, but so 

 many growers missed crops, got diseases 

 in their houses, and so on, resulting in 

 belated or poor flowers and plants, or 

 no flowers or plants at all, that it was 

 not until last spring that Mr. Crawford 

 decided that lie could make greenhouses 

 pay and acted accordingly. Result, two 

 new houses at Secane. 



One is filled with four beds of Aspara- 

 gus plumosus, now yielding heavily, and 

 two beds filled with pots of Queen Alex- 

 andra daisies, the pots plunged in the 

 soil. These plants are in fine condition. 

 They are highly prized for decorating. 

 This house is 30x102 feet. The second 

 new house is nearing completion. It is 

 to be used for stock plants. The carna- 

 tion range is 66x204 feet and contains 

 14,000 plants of medium size in excellent 

 condition. Mrs. F. Joost, Fair Maid, 

 Enchantress and Queen Louise are the 

 bread and butter varieties, while Harry 

 Fenn, Roosevelt, Prosperity, Fragrance, 

 Lieut. Peary and Robert Craig form the 

 list of fancies grown in smaller quanti- 

 ties. Under the gutter are a fine lot of 

 calla lilies in pots just coming into 

 bloom. 



A fine house of sweet peas contains 

 bright pink that should be in bloom 

 for the holidays, plants now three feet 



Steubenville, O. — S. S. Hill is con- 

 fined to his home by a severe attack of 

 erysipelas. 



Carnation House of Robert Crawford, Jr., a Secane, Pa. 



forth be conducted under one name, that 

 of Robert Crawford, Jr., with one son, 

 W. W. Crawford, as first lieutenant at 

 233 South Eleventh street, and the other 

 son, Harry Crawford, as first lieutenant 

 at Secane. 



The success of Robert Crawford, Jr., 

 as a retail florist is of many years' 

 standing. His taste, reliability and in- 



high and showing bud. The pale pink 

 and white varieties are not so far ad- 

 vanced. 



The mushroom house of sixteen beds 

 is doing great work this season, the 

 yield being good and prices high, owing 

 to the failure of crops in some localities, 

 so that the profit has been very satis- 

 factory. Phil, 



