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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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anything heretofore seen in the exhibi- 

 tions of the society. W. Wells, the Eng- 

 lish exhibitor, who has sent blooms to 

 previous eastern meetings of the society, 

 sent a set of sixteen grand novelties. 

 Among the leading trade exhibitors are 

 R. Vincent, Jr., & S.on, Nathan Smith 

 & Son, C. H. Totty, and Thomas E. 

 Meehan. A large number of gardeners 

 on leading private estates also are repre- 

 sented with superbly finished blooms, 

 among them being Messrs. Duff, Turner, 

 Fraser, Smith, Wait, Kleinheinze, Bauer, 

 Wingate, Proctor, Sorenson and Hale. 

 A. T. Boddington exhibits Cosmos 

 Lady Lenox, F. E. Pierson Co. shows 



carnations, John Cook, of Baltimore, 

 stages a new pink rose, W. A. Manda 

 shows Dracaena Mandiana, and there are 

 many other exhibits. 



The rooms are crowded. C. H. Totty, 

 ex-president of the society, is receiving 

 congratulations upon his election as coan- 

 cilman, at Madison yesterday. 



ENGLANiyS ROSE SCX:iETY. 



From an English gardeners' magazine 

 it is learned that this society continues 

 to grow rapidly, and is increasing at the 

 rate of 600 members per year. At the 

 committee meeting held October 1, the 



secretary reported that 216 mem- 

 bers had joined during the three- 

 months ended September 30. Next year 

 the society will hold four exhibitions in- 

 stead of three, two in London, and two- 

 in the provinces; the metropolitan show 

 will be held at the Eoyal Botanic So- 

 ciety's Gardens, Regent's Park, July 

 9, and the northern show will be held at 

 Manchester at a date yet to be ar- 

 ranged. The autumn show will, as usual,, 

 be held at Horticultural hall, but tho 

 date has not yet been fixed. The south- 

 ern show has been revived for the pur- 

 pose of enabling amateurs in the south 

 to exhibit under the best conditions. 



VaRGINIA POEHLMANN. 



At the establishment of Poehlmanu 

 Bros. Co., Morton Grove, 111., one of the 

 finest benches of early mums this season 

 was a pure white sport of Mme. Paul 

 Sahut, as shown in the illustration ac- 

 companying this note. August Poehl- 

 mann has named the sport for his 

 daughter, Virginia Poehlmann. The form 

 and substance of the flower are among 

 its best characteristics. It is a fine, 

 solid flower and a splendid shipper. 

 The photograph reproduced was taken 

 October 14 and shows a remarkable 

 evenness in a bench of flowers grown 

 without special care and purely for com- 

 mercial purposes. The blooms were 

 ready to cut a few days ahead of Touset. 



The parent variety, Mme. Sahut, was 

 a Calvat sort, imported and distributed 

 in 1904 by Smith & Son and the E. G. 

 Hill Co. It is white, edged with pink. 

 It is not a tall-growing sort, usually 

 about three feet when the crown bud is 

 taken. 



SINGLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



[A paper by C. H. Totty, Madison, N. J.. 

 read before the Chrysantbemum Society of 

 America at New York, November 6.] 



The single-flowered type of chrysan- 

 themum is not new, in the sense that it 

 is a recent break from any other type, 

 and yet it was, until the last two years, 

 practically unknown by the majority of 

 flower buyers in America. 



There are several reasons for this, the 

 principal one, perhaps, being that the 

 public had been educated to the large 

 flowers and could not see the money's 

 worth in the more modest singles, put- 

 ting them down in their own minds as 

 merely outdoor hardy flowers. Today 

 things are changing and the single vari- 

 eties are becoming recognized at their 

 true worth, I will confess that it was 

 the working of the old law of supply 

 and demand that caused me to turn to 

 the single varieties. 



Americans traveling in Europe and 

 noting the many beautiful types of 

 singles, and the varied uses to which 

 they were put, asked their auperintc-nd- 



ents why these singles were not grown 

 more in America. As in every walk of 

 business life, the demand created the 

 supply, and today I can point you to 

 many private establishments where 

 the singles are grown in ever-increasing 

 quantity for conservatory decoration, as 

 pot plants, and where they are highly 

 appreciated for cut-flower use. 



Popular in Flower Stores. 



One day last week I spent a few min- 



Virgioia Poehlmann and Her Mum. 



utes in a high-class retail store. On the 

 counter were two vases of singles, one 

 Kitty Bourne, a yellow, and the other 

 Ladysmith, a light pink. During those 

 few minutes I noticed that two sales 



were made of those varieties, ' and, 

 though it may be only a straw, does 

 not the old proverb say that a straw 

 shows how the wind blows? 



Aside, however, from the financial 

 side of the question, the singles make 

 beautiful pot plants, they are easy to 

 grow, and there are few homes the oc- 

 cupants of which cannot enjoy them if 

 they care anything for flowers at all. 



There is no fear that the singles will 

 displace the big flowers, either on the 

 show table or for large decorations, but 

 both have their place and should be 

 recognized. 



Society's Attention Suggested. 



I am not aware that the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America has ever made 

 provision in its classification or scale of 

 points for the single-flowered type, but 

 I submit it to the executive board for 

 consideration at some future date. The 

 American hybridizer is busy raising new 

 singles, and if the C. S. A, will give him 

 encouragement and an ideal to strive 

 for I think we could soon see wonderful 

 improvement over present types. I do 

 not happen to know the scale of points 

 of the British society, but for the sake 

 of uniformity it might be well, perhaps, 

 in case this society takes up the matter,, 

 to find out and see how they would ap- 

 ply to our own case. 



A good type of single to my mind 

 should be, first, dwarf in habit. The 

 weedy, loose growing forms are not so 

 well adapted for pot plants, nor do they 

 make the showing as a cut flower that 

 the dwarfer, closer type does. The 

 flower should be almost flat when 

 opened. If the petals droop too much 

 it destroys the shape of the flower, 

 which should be circular. Also, the flow- 

 er should not have too many rows of 

 petals. A semi-double flower cannot be 

 called a single in any sense of the word. 

 If one add to these qualifications a 

 flower of good, clean color, the result is 

 a thing of beauty, which, if not a joy 

 forever, is at least a source of great 

 satisfaction to the grower, and a boo» 

 to the gardener who has to produce a 

 good deal of stock from a limited space. 



