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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



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OCTOBKB 31, 1907. 



they may require further exhibits in ac- 

 cordance with their judgment. 



7. All reports of the committee shall 

 be entered in a book kept for that pur- 

 pose. All reports shall be signed bj 

 the members making same. 



8. In case of protest, which shall be 

 made in writing, the judges shall select 

 one of their number, the protesting party 

 shall select another member of this so- 

 ciety, and these, two shall select a third 

 member of this society. These three 

 ■hall review the judges' award, their de- 

 cision to be final. 



Scales of Points. 



Scale of points to be used in, judging 

 carnation blooms: 



Color 28, 9lxe 20, calyx 6, stem 20, form IS, 

 snbstance 10, fragrance 5. 



Scale to be used in judging carnation 

 plants : 



Condition 15, productiveness 15, rolor 16, sls« 

 IS, calyx 6, stem 15, substance 5, form 10, 

 fragrance 6. 



Scale to be used in judging rose 

 blooms : 



8i2e 10, color 20, stem 15, form 15, substance 

 10, foliage 15, fragrance 5, dlstinctlTeness 10. 



Scale to be used in judging rose 



plants : 



. Condition 15, productiveness 16, size 10, color 

 IS, stem 10, form 10, substance 10, fragrance 

 0, distinctiveness 10. 



Scale to be used in judging chrysan- 

 themums: 



Commercial — Color 20, form 15, fullness 10, 



stem 16, foliage 16, substance 15, sijse 10. 



EzhlblUon scale — Color 10, stem 10, foliage 10, 

 fullness 16, form 15, depth 15, sise 25. 



Scale to be used in competitive ex- 

 hibits or disseminated varieties of roses: 



Blse IB, color 20, stem 20, form 16, substance 

 IB, foliage 16. 



. DETROIT. 



The Market. 



Business in general seems to have been 

 a little more quiet the last week than 

 before. Still, there is little cause for 

 complaint, as all the stock on the market 

 cleaned up pretty well. 



Chrysanthemums are arriving in large 

 quantities. Naturally the white varieties 

 are in the best demand. Short stock 

 for work is plentiful. The price ranges 

 from $4 to $25 per hundred, some ex- 

 ceptionally fancy varieties bringing even 

 a still higher price. Touset, Halliday 

 and Amorita are the best sellers. 



Beauties are in fairly good demand. 

 Eoses remain well cleaned up, with the 

 exception of the pink varieties; these 

 were somewhat of a glut last week. The 

 average stock on the market is good. 

 Prices range from 3 cents to 8 cents. 



Carnations are arriving in large quan- 

 tities, and very good ones at that. The 

 fancy kinds bring 3 cents without any 

 trouble. Lawson are still very short 

 stem. Enchantress, Bose-pink and 

 White Enchantress, Beacon, Nelson 

 Fisher, White Perfection, Dorothy, Boun- 

 tiful, etc., are some of the popular va- 

 rieties on this market. 



Green stock of all kinds is plentiful. 

 Considerable southern smilax was dis- 

 posed of last week. 



Various Notes. 



The writer, in company with S. S. 

 Skidelsky, took a run out to A. J. 

 Stahelin's greenhouses at Sandhill. Mr. 

 Stahelin was busy glazing. Most of this 

 place is devoted to carnations and chrys- 

 anthemums, some little bench room being 

 given to asparagus for green. In fumi- 

 ;gating with hydrocyanic acid gas, our 

 friend gave his plants an overdose, burn- 



ing the tips of the leaves of his carna- 

 tion plants. Some of the varieties seem 

 softer than others, as they suffered much 

 more. The carnation plants all look 

 thrifty. Beacon showed up well and Mr. 

 Stahelin is well pleased with it. The 

 mums on this place look promising. 



Thomas Browne's and Qeorge 

 Browne's places were also visited. 

 Thomas Browiae has a large span of glass 

 devoted at present to carnations and 

 chrysanthemums. Among the former are 

 included such kinds as Beacon, Enchan- 

 tress, White and Kose-pink Enchantress, 

 Nelson Fisher, Bed Chief and Aristo- 

 crat. Mr. Browne will soon be cutting 

 a large number of mums, among them 

 such varieties as Golden Wedding, Bal- 

 four, Ivory, etc. Beacon carnation made 

 about the best showing of any variety 

 of carnation on the place; in fact, this 



Th* Kdltor la pleasad 

 wlien a Reader 

 presents bis ideas 

 on amy subject treated In 



en^ 



As experience is tbe best;, 

 teacber, so do ^re 

 learn fastest by an 

 exobanse of experiences. 

 Many Talnable points 

 are broucbt out 

 by discussion. 



Good penmanship, spelling and gram- 

 mar, though desirable, are not neces- 

 sary. Write as you would talk when 

 doing your best. 



WX BHAXX BS GLAD 

 TO HKAR rBOM TOU. 



kind is giving especially good satisfac- 

 tion wherever grown. It produces 

 strong, healthy plants and long, wiry 

 stems early in the season. There is no 

 doubt but what Beacon will become one 

 of our standard varieties, like Lawson, 

 Enchantress, etc. 



George Browne is interested in some 

 gold and silver mines in Mexico. He has 

 just returned from a trip to Mexico City 

 in the interests of the mining company 

 of which he is a stockholder. Only 

 three days were spent in Mexico, most 

 of the time being spent in traveling, 

 as it requires seven days to make the 

 trip one way from Detroit. Mr. 

 Browne's stock looks very well. 



Albert Pochelon is the proud father 

 of another bouncing baby boy. The 

 other boy, of course, is still a baby, but 

 he already has inclinations to follow 

 in his father's footsteps; in fact, he 

 follows Mr. Pochelon all over the store. 

 This means another box of smokes at the 

 next club meeting. 



Paul Berkowitz, of Bayersdorf er 's, 

 was a recent visitor. He reports an un- 

 usually active season. 



J. M. Gasser, of Cleveland, is at the 

 Pennsylvania sanitarium in the hope of 

 improving his health with the aid of 

 baths and diet. H. S. 



BOSTON. 



The Market 



The arrivals of flowers are now too 

 great for the market's needs and as a, 

 consequence trade is much poorer than 

 it was. These conditions are not by any 

 means new, and usually prevail during 

 the last part of October and the first 

 half of November, until the major por- 

 tion of the chrysanthemum crop has been 

 marketed. Eoses are abundant and, 

 while of good quality, do not sell at all 

 well. Carnations go a little better, but 

 are lower in price. Chrysanthemums 

 rule the market and are now plentiful 

 and sold at a wide range of prices. 

 There are comparatively few of the big 

 single-stemmed blooms now seen, those 

 of more moderate size being most in 

 demand. A few specials make $2.50 per 

 dozen, but sizes selling at $4 to $8 per 

 hundred are more in request. 



Violets increase in supply and the sale 

 is not yet good for these. Prices are 

 inclined to be heavy. A few sweet peaa 

 of the new season 's crop are seen. Lilies 

 are not yet abundant. There is only a 

 moderate call for valley and merely in- 

 termittent calls for other seasonable 

 flowers arriving. Cattleya labiata is in 

 good supply. These are not seen at the 

 markets, but the wholesalers handle an 

 increasing number. Gardeniaa are also 

 seen of good quality. 



In the way of pot plants, chrysanthe- 

 mums are most abundant. Berried so- 

 lanums, nephrolepis, Ficus pandurata, 

 ardisias, Pandanus Veitchii and kentias 

 are mostly in evidence. Trade is slow 

 on these as yet, but the colder weather 

 we are getting may stimulate it. The 

 financial crisis just now being experi- 

 enced hurts flower business seriously. 



Park Street Market. 



The annual banquet of the Park 

 Street market wfia held Saturday even- 

 ing, October 26. Addresses were made 

 by William H. Elliott, Hugh Cameron, 

 W. H. Knapp and others, following a 

 first-class dinner. At the business meet- 

 ing the oflBcers were reelected and a divi- 

 dend declared of $5 per share, or twenty 

 per cent. 



Various Notes. 



The death of O. B. Hadwen, of Wor- 

 cester, an account of whose career ap- 

 pears on another page, occasioned nu- 

 merous expressions of regret among his 

 numerous friends in and around Boston. 

 He was highly esteemed by all who knew 

 him. 



Entries are coming in satisfactorily 

 for the chrysanthemum exhibition Open- 

 ing November 8 and the special prized 

 are sure to elicit an excellent competi- 

 tion. The date will suit chrysanthemum 

 plants much better than that of a year 

 ago. 



H. M. Eobinson & Co. received a large 

 number of customers and friends Octo- 

 ber 29, at their salesrooms, 15 Province 

 street, it being the first anniversary of 

 their cut flower department, trade in 

 which has grown enormously from a year 

 ago, shipments being now received from 

 and forwarded to all parts of New Eng- 

 land. Eefreehments were served and a 

 general good time enjoyed. 



The Lenox show, October 23, attracted 

 several visitors from this vicinity. All 

 were delighted with the splendid exhi- 

 bition put up. 



The report from the various seed 

 houses is that fall trade in bulba has 



