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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Fi;bruabt 14, 1907. 



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Sons Co., while a good color, showed- a 

 weakness of stem which made it unde- 

 sirable to me. This fault, I understand^' 

 was owing to the climatic conditions.' 

 I was informed that Lady Bountiful, 

 whepi first shown as a seedling, looked 

 much the same way. 



Mr. Haines ' red has done poorly at 

 Strafford, If I could grow it the way 

 Mr. Haines does it would be fine, but, 

 unfortunately, I have not yet been able 

 to do so; it does not feel at home at|] 

 Strafford, and the difficulty looks to me , 

 like a question of soil. I saw it doing 

 beautifully at. Mr. Wiedener's' place at 

 Elkins Park. - 



tnPi'nk. 



In the class designated as'the^Scott 

 shade of pink, Winsor was shown by 

 the P. E. Piergon Co., in quantity and 

 it certainly^ appeals to me. It is what 

 is "wanted in color and, while it may he 

 "slightly undersized, and may be a little 

 short in stem, its freedom and color off- 

 set, to my mind, anything that may be 

 said against- it. ^ 



Winsome was one I did not examine 

 closely. It seemed a pleasing shade and 

 one that would be desirabie. Daille- 

 douze Bros, exhibited a pink sport_ of 

 Lawson. 



The cerise class, or Lawscto shade of 

 pink, was better represented than any 

 other class. The great objection, it . 

 seemed to me, was the bluish cast most 

 of them had. Two, the colors of which 

 pleased me, were Afterglo^^and Mr. 

 Weber's new seedling, Mabefle. Both 

 of these arrived too late to be judged. 

 Aristocrat is a fine, large flower. Its 

 color did not strike me favorably. Per- 

 haps I am too critical. 



Dailledouze Bros. ' new, seedling. No. 

 348, which won the bronze medal, is a 

 large, fine flower, but, again, I did not 

 admire the color. 



Mrs. C. W. Ward was attractive. I 

 undersftand Mr. Ward thinks so mucU 

 of it that it is not to be put on the 

 market. 



Elsa Struss uid not show as well as 

 at Boston. 



Helen Goddard looked good commer- 

 cially. 



Pink Imperial showed good flowers 



and probably the" loflgest ^sterna in the 

 sliow. • • ,, , 



Ik , . • • Variegated. • , 



In tlie variegated section was Helen 

 Gould, a ' sport of Enchantress. As a 

 novelty it will .make a place for itself. 



Toreador, by W^ber & Sons Co., an 

 improved Prosperity^ has good form and 

 much better stem. > ' . 



Bayside, or seedling No. 9, by A. 

 Rop<er, ■ is a much improved Mrs. M. A. 

 Pattenj and if a free" bloomer should 

 'bp a good thing. 



Patten still holds its own. . «i • 



Iplperial attracted attention by ifs 

 magnincent stems., jt is a novelty pure 

 and simple. ": ■ ' 



". ' ■ Other Varieties 



In the class for Eiiphantz'ess shade of 

 pink, "Enchantress"* itself, so generally- 

 well known, hardly needs description. 

 There is nothing to displace il. One 

 competitor, by Baur & Smith, called 

 May, was a better color but undersized. 



Some seedlings exhibited by P. Dorner 

 & Sons Co. are worthy of mention. One, 

 a scarlet. No, 305, I think will be heard 

 from, also seedling No. 97-03, a maroon 

 shade, attracted my attention. 



I hope my remarks will be taken in 

 the spirit they are meant. I have tried 

 to give my opinion as the , flowers ap- 

 peared to me personally, and I trust no 

 one will be misled by them. Next year, 

 when we meet at Washington, I hope 

 we will have a large delegation from 

 Philadelphifl: .. " • 



CARNATION NOTES— WEST. 



The Second Batch of Cuttings. 



If you were unable to get as many 

 cuttings in the first batch as you will 

 need for next season's stock, it is not 

 too late to put in another batch of cut- 

 ' ting's that will make the finest kind of 

 plants by planting time. The cuttings 

 you take now will be stronger than the 

 earlier ones, and for that reasbn some 

 growers prefer February cuttings to any 

 other. 



During the last two months the weather 

 has been favorable to the rooting of car- 

 nation cuttings, but now the sun is get- 



ting stronger and. we are apt to see 

 . more of it and you will have to exercise 

 more care against wilting, than hereto- 

 fore. \ On bright, days the ventilators 

 . will be raised . several inches and you 

 must guard .agaihst strong draughts, 

 which are as deadly as tbo hot sunshine 

 to the -cuttings. . . , 



"■■■■:■ ^ - Fresn Sand Advisable. 



There also comes the question of using 

 the sand for more than one batch of 

 cuttings.'"' As a general proposition I do 

 not favor using the sand for fnore than 

 one batch. If the cuttings 'all rooted 

 and yere taken out before the roots at- 

 tained any considerable length, then we 

 sometimes leave an inch or so on the 

 bottom for a second batch' of cuttings, 

 but never for a third batch. If a batch 

 rooted poorly, or if a few of them 

 fc^amped 6ff, then we take out all the 

 sand. 



The sand is the cheapest thing used in 

 propagating and the danger from fun- 

 gus, etc., is too great to economize un- 

 wisely on that.;article. Sometimes, even 

 if the strike was first-class, some of the 

 roots are ^broken off in • taking the cut- 

 tings ffOtei.the gand an(J these rot in a 

 short time..' and conta"niinate the sand, 

 causing fungus, etc. If you will stop 

 to consider the cost .of the sand and the 

 value . of the cuttings you expose to the 

 dangers in the use of old sand you would 

 not hesitate to renew it for every batch. 

 Even when figuring the value of your 

 cheapest cuttings the cost of the sand 

 • will be little more than one per cent of 

 the value, of the cuttings. Does not that 

 make it seem foolish to use old sand? 

 And that is not all. When you put in 

 a batch of cuttings for your own use 

 you depend on them for your next sea- 

 ' son 's stock. If you don 't get them rooted 

 you are worse off than if you had not 

 tried to root any. And if you take out 

 a lot of poorly rooted stuff and worry 

 along with them, you will likely have a 

 poor lot of plants to house for next sea- 

 son. So I say, don't risk dollars to save 

 pennies. 



Topping Young Plants. 



Some of those young plants you pot- 

 ted some weeks ago may need to be 



Red Seedling Carnation Raised at the Establishment of Wietor Bros., Chicago. 



