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JANUARV 3, 1907. 



The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



419 



suckers or root sprouts which are more 

 than an inch long at the time of lifting 

 the chrysanthemum plants which are to 

 be held for propagating purposes. If 

 they are stored under the benches they 

 are placed in the coolest houses, near 

 the edge of the walk, where they re- 

 ceive some light. The amount of water 

 given and the extent to which they are 

 pushed depends upon the season the cut- 

 tings are desired. The aim always is to 

 secure close-jointed, thick-stemmed, 

 stocky root sprouts for cuttings at the 

 proper season. A stocky root sprout two 

 or three inches long is very close to the 

 ideal mum cutting. L. C. C. 



SOOETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Executive Committee Appointments. 



The official year of the Society of 

 American Florists begins January 1. 

 President W. J. Stewart has announced 

 the appointment of Samuel Murray, of 

 Kansas City, and J. K. L. M. Farquhar, 

 of Boston, as members of the executive 

 committee to succeed Theodore Wirth and 

 H. H. Eitter, whose terms expired De- 

 cember 31. Mr. Wirth had previously 

 been reappointed by Mr. Kasting to suc- 

 ceed P. J. Hauswirth, who resigned as a 

 member of the executive committee a few 

 days before taking office as secretary. 

 The executive committee therefore now is 

 constituted as follows: One year, E. V. 

 Hallock, Queens, N. Y.; W. H. Elliott, 

 Brighton, Mass.; two years, F. H. 

 Traendly, New York City; Theodore 

 Wirth, Minneapolis; three years, Samuel 

 Murray, Kansas City; J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar, Boston. 



Of the new appointees, Samuel Murray 

 is the only retail florist on the board. 

 He is one of the best known florists in 

 the country, for his thorough business 

 methods and for his progressive conserv- 

 atism, as well as for the large volume 

 of his trade and the originality and fine 

 artistic taste displayed in all his work. 

 It may well be said that he is an example 

 of what a retail florist should be, a 

 leader, not only of the craft west of the 

 Mississippi, but of the whole country as 

 well. Mr. Murray has been a frequent 

 attendant at the S. A. F. conventions, 

 but his characteristic modesty is such 

 that his name seldom has appeared in the 

 reports of discussions; he ever has been 

 more ready to listen to the opinions of 

 others than to voice his own. His counsel 

 will be of utmost value to the society. 



J. K. M. L. Farquhar is a member of 

 the firm of R. & J. Farquhar & Co., 

 seedsmen. He is intimately acquainted 

 with those in all departments of the 

 trade in the east because of his mainy lec- 

 ture tours among them. Mr. Farquhar 

 is widely traveled, has visited every coun- 

 try of the globe where things of horti- 

 cultural interest may be seen. Dozens of 

 times a year he is called upon to deliver 

 one or another of his illustrated lectures 

 before the horticultural societies or flo- 

 rists' clubs of the east. He is a life 

 member of the S. A. F. 



NEV BEGONIAS. 



In a European contemporary's account 

 of a visit to the establishment of James 

 Veitch & Son, Chelsea, near London, we 

 find the following interesting note on 

 new begonias: 



The great attraction at Feltham just 

 now is found in a number of the smaller 

 span-roofed houses devoted to winter- 

 flowering begonias. The majority of the 



Samuel Murray. 



Veitchian group of winter-flowering be- 

 gonias have been raised as a result of 

 crossing Begonia socotrana with a tuber- 

 ous variety, and it is with this section 

 we are for the present most concerned. 

 Now that Begonia Gloire de Lorraine is 

 so commonly grown and so easily man- 

 aged, the womler is that these larger- 

 flowered varieties with single or semi- 

 double blooms in various shidea of pink, 

 rose and bright carmine do not figure 

 more largely. Several capable gardeners 

 who have paid special attention to the 

 habit of the plants, who have remembered 

 these are neither wholly tuberous or 

 fibrous-rooted, and who have not over- 

 potted or over-watered them on the one 

 hand, nor absolutely dried them otf on 

 the other, have found no real cultural 

 difficulties, but they have been rewarded 

 by fine displays of plants during the 

 winter. We venture to predict that, ere 

 long, this race of winter-flonerirg be- 

 gonias will become almost as popular as 

 B. Gloire de Lorraine and its varieties. 

 Meantime those who wish to grow some- 

 thing equally as good and less common 

 than the latter should try the following 

 varieties: 



"The earliest to flower is John Heal, a 

 variety of neat habit, and that carries 



a profusion of light carmine-rose colored 

 single flowers. Either in 3-inch pots, for 

 table decoration, or in larger size for 

 vases or for the conservatory, this is a 

 famous plant, and it has the unusual 

 merit of holding its flowers until they 

 shrivel; the blooms do not drop even un- 

 der the influence of fog or gaslight. 

 Mrs. Heal has larger flowers, and is one 

 of the brightest of the set, its blossoms 

 being rich carmine tinged with orange. 

 Julius is remarkably free, and a taller 

 grower than the foregoing, and its semi- 

 (louble flowers of a charming pink shade 

 are suggestive of oleander blossoms. 

 Winter Perfection has flatter flowers than 

 Julius, and these are of a deeper and 

 rosy pink hue; it is a fine plant and 

 flowers freely. Ensign has carmine- 

 colored flowers, and these stand well when 

 cut. Ideala is ons of the earlier va- 

 rieties, and so also is Success; both have 

 rosy carmire flowers, but are quite dis- 

 tinct. 



' ' Two other begonias of considerable 

 m?rit are B. Agatha and B. Agatha com- 

 pacta. These are more nearly akin to B. 

 Gloire dp I>orraine, but of more com- 

 pact habit, exceptionally free flowering, 

 rather brighter color, and with bright 

 yellow anthers and stamens. The former 



