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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



OCTOBEB 24, ld07. 



Mrs. Norman Davis is an EnglisI). seed- 

 ling and it is a beauty. Stock was hard 

 to get last spring and will be for another 

 year. It is a rather tall grower, but the 

 stem and foliage are beautiful. The 

 flower will be finished in a few days and 

 reminds one of the old Mayflower in its 

 best days, twelve years or more ago, only 

 that Mrs. Norman Davis is twice as large 

 as Mayflower used to be. The color is 

 much the same as the latter variety was. 



Mrs. H. Eider Haggard is another of 

 the season's whites that is very promis- 

 ing. A flower that I had on exhibition 

 at the New .York Florists' Club last week 

 was very favorably noted by several ex- 

 perts present. It is a true Jap, every 

 petal hanging right down, which takes 

 away the appearance of size, though the 

 flower is reaJly well up in size. It is a 

 very refined flower, without a trace of 

 coarseness in its make-up. 



O. H. Broomhead, previously noted in 

 these columns, is finishing splendidly. The 

 color is a rich, deep rose, and early and 

 late buds alike are full to the center. The 

 habit is very dwarf. Every bud is com- 

 ing perfect and we must set Broomhead 

 down as the best novelty in its color for 

 the year so far showing. 



Mrs. W. Wells is one of the most strik- 

 ing colors ever seen in mums. The flower 

 is not very heavy ' at present, though 

 there is considerable center yet to come. 

 It is a Jap, and the color, boldly pre- 

 sented by the reflexing petal, is an 

 orange shading to vermilion — just the 

 color of a lovely sunset, such as we often 

 see in the early fall. I am no color poet 

 myself, but I found an artist friend com- 

 posing a poem to Mrs. W. Wells yester- 

 day. "Soul sister" and "aflBnity" and 

 other strictly up-to-date words were 

 being rhymed with "divinity," etc., just 

 about the time I turned the hose on him. 

 And who knows? Possibly I may have 

 destro;^ed the aspirations of an embryo 

 genius-by so doing. Mrs. W. Wells, in 

 a collection of forty or fifty kinds, is 

 easily noticed and admired. 



Margaret Codrington is also a peculiar 

 shade of color and a handsome flower. 

 It is somewhat on the color of Mrs. Geo. 

 Heaume, though shading slightly more 

 to the fawn color. Personally I like this 

 variety very much. 



E. Newman, a Jones seedling, if I re- 

 call correctly, is a good early yellow. It 

 was fully open by October 7 and should 

 find a place in the early division. The 

 stem and foliage are very good. It is a 



Jap instead of & Japanese incurved, and 

 some people profess to believe that this 

 type is not good commercially, but it 

 has never seemed that way to me. 



W. Luxford, a Wells-Pockett seedling, 

 has merit in the flower, but the foliage is 

 very spotty with me, for some reason. 

 Another year, with careful selection, we 

 may overcome that. Oftentimes we can 

 not tell with only one trial what a va- 

 riety will be. 



Last Year's Novelties. 



The novelties of last year are now also 

 presenting an interesting sight. The 

 largest one so far is M. Loiseau-Eous- 

 seau. The color is a light lavender and 

 has been described as "charming," 

 "fierce" and "rank" by different par- 

 ties, but however much we may differ in 

 opinions of its color, there can be but 

 one opinion of its size and that is, 

 immense. 



Dakoma, as a bronze, looks good and 

 I like it very much. One good thing 

 about a bronze is that it is almost always 

 fine in foliage and stem. 



Souv. Scalarandis, from buds August 

 '25, is making very beautiful flowers. 

 This variety is a good yellow. The petals 

 are hard and not affected by dampness 

 in any degree. Scalarandis should rank 

 high with the commercial grower who is 

 looking for the kind that will grow it- 

 self. It will not go over three feet high 

 and will give a flower that can be kicked 

 all over the place without damage. 



Mrs. A. T. Miller and Mary Godfrey 

 are both gone. They will be grown con- 

 siderably in the east next year commer- 

 cially, but they are too early to hold in 

 very good shape for the shows. 



Miriam Hankey, which I am claiming 

 as the best of last year's varieties, is 

 only now showing color. It is a splendid 

 grower and, I believe, has a great future 

 as a late pink. I had it in excellent 

 shape last year at Thanksgiving; in fact, 

 the flower illustrated in my list this 

 spring was not photographed till Novem- 

 ber 30. 



Eeginald Vallis is finding many ad- 

 mirers. The flower as a whole is entirely 

 distinct, and the long, narrow petals, of 

 deep rose, hanging down to the foliage, 

 are very striking. 



Clay Frick, by reports to date, is mak- 

 ing good in all sections where Duckham 

 is well done. I look to see fine competi- 

 tion with this variety at som6 of the 

 eastern shows. Charles H. Totty. 



SECRETARY WILSON'S OPTIMISM. 



Secretary Wilson, of the Department 

 of Agriculture, began an address at Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y., October 23, as follows : 



"The American people are prosperous. 

 Labor is all employed at the highest 

 wages paid in our history. 



"Skill is in demand in all lines of in- 

 dustrial activity. 



"Capital is increasing and active. 



"Every industry in the land is ex- 

 tending. 



"Labor from other lands looks to us 

 and comes to us. 



"Schools are overflowing. 



"Our transportation systems, the best 

 in the world, are unable to meet the re- 

 quirements of commerce. 



"Our manufacturers more nearly sup- 

 ply home demands than at any time in 

 the past and sell heavily abroad. 



"The farmer feeds the people as no 

 people ever before were fed and sells 

 in foreign markets a surplus of $1,148,- 

 J000,000 worth of his prouucts. Prosper- 

 ity quite up to the average of human 

 success attends intelligent management 

 of farm affairs nowadays. No class of 

 people live better, enjoy life more, or 

 contribute as much to the wealth of the 

 republic. ' ' 



. REINBERG'S NEW PLANT. 



There are a number of reasons why 

 Peter Eeinberg, Chicago, decided to put 

 up his 1907 addition at a location re- 

 moved some two miles and a half from 

 the old plant at Summerdale. In the 

 first place, land is commanding a 

 premium at the old location. Since hav- 

 ing started the 1907 addition he has se- 

 cured a couple of acres adjoining the old 

 plant on North Eobey street, but there is 

 no large contiguous piece of vacant prop- 

 erty. Again, the question of soil supply 

 is important, for all soil must be hauled 

 several miles. Also, where the future 

 expansion is to be there must be side- 

 track facilities, where coal, manure, etc.. 

 can be unloaded from the cars directly 

 into the buildings. All the conditions 

 are met at the new location on a 40-acre 

 tract just off Lincoln avenue, close to 

 the Peterson Nursery. The soil is excel- 

 lent. The switch is there and the locality 

 is one of the best north of Chicago for 

 growing cut flowers. It "is perhaps a 

 mile or more west of the Wietor estab- 

 lishment. 



The range which Mr. Eeinberg erected 



Peter Reinberg's New Plant, the Nucletis for a New Raoge Outside Chicago, 



