Decbubeb 19, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Establishment of Henry J. Puvoselt St. Patdt Minn. 



Duckham, Miriam Hankey and Winter 

 Cheer. 



Bed — Mrs. H. Partridge. 



These are all splendid growers and can 

 be relied on, and would give a good 

 selection covering practically the entire 

 season. Polly Eose, or, as it is known 

 in some sections, Estelle, is grown more 

 than any other one variety, but one 

 would do well to remember that in most 

 seasons anything a little different from 

 what the other fellow has will bring in 

 more money. C. H. T. 



REFLEXED CHADWICK. 



This year I have been growing both 

 W. H. Chadwick and Golden Chadwick; 

 in fact, I grew both last year. In the 

 Golden Chadwick, my flowers were very 

 nice and incurved, while in the pink or 

 white Chadwick the petals were reflexed 

 and drooping and not incurved like 

 Golden Cnadwick. The flowers were 

 fine, but I was disappointed. I went to 

 the parties from whom I got the plants 

 and theirs were all incurved. They 

 could not give me any explanation what- 

 ever. I took the second crown bud after 

 September 1. Should I have taken the 

 first crown? I consider it a fine variety 

 to grow. I have written to several 

 growers about it, but they could not give 

 me any reason at all. The cuttings 

 were made in April. M. H B 



I am unable to say why tne Chad- 

 wicks were reflexed and drooping, since 

 they came of incurved stock; they cer- 

 tainly should have kept true. A local 

 condition of soil or location should not 

 make any difference, since the Golden 

 Chadwick retained the incurved habit 

 1 pass up the question myself. One 

 thing IS sure; it was not the bud selec- 

 tion, because any bud after September 

 1 will come true and right and a bud 

 taken in August would not come at all 

 Chad' • k^* *^^* ^^ ™^ experience with 



It is by no means unusual for indi- 

 vidual flowers to deviate from the type 

 but It 13 another story when all the 

 flowers are affected in a similar manner. 



C. H. TOTTY. 



AMERICAN MUMS IN ENGLAND. 



Now that there appears to be a re- 

 newal of interest in the chrysanthemum 

 on the other side of the Atlantic, says 

 C. Harmon Payne in the Gardeners' 



Magazine, it will be interesting to know 

 whether there is any probability of an 

 influx of novelties from that quarter, as 

 there was twenty years ago. Most Amer- 

 ican growers appear to be of the opinion 

 that Australian varieties are far more 

 adapted for the American climate than 

 European ones, and several critical arti- 

 cles by specialists have already appeared 

 in the American gardening press on the 

 subject. 



It is curious that in spite of the severe 

 competition both from France and the 

 antipodes, to say nothing of the efforts 

 of home raisers, there still remain 

 with us a few of the American seedlings 

 that once figured on our show-boards, 

 and also some of those introduced from 

 Japan via the States. They are pre- 

 served chiefly by growers whose require- 

 ments are largely decorative, and during 

 some visits recently I have noted a few 

 of these old-time Americans with no 

 little interest. 



In the hairy section Louis Boehmer 

 and Hairy "Wonder are probably the only 

 two. There are several anemones, of 

 which Mrs. Judge Benedict and Dela- 

 ware appear to be the principal surviv- 

 ors. Of incurves, always a limited class 

 from any source other than English, I 

 have not met with a single instance of 

 American origin. 



Among the Japanese, William Tricker, 

 a bright pink, seems to be much appre- 

 ciated for decorative groups. Colonel W. 

 B. Smith is also occasionally seen. Good 

 Gracious, still one of the most distinct 

 Japanese in cultivation, with its curious 

 whorl of florets, is well worthy of being 

 retained. Only once have I met with 

 the deep crimson G. W. Childs, but Sim- 

 plicity and Mutual Friend, both large 

 whites, are much more common. Modesto, 

 a rich deep golden-yellow, is another 

 survivor. Very valuable on account of 

 its earliness is Mrs. E. G. Hill, a tall- 

 growing pink, of great size. Of the 

 many others grown in the heyday of their 

 popularity not a trace has been seen. 



A JOKE ON VANDERBILT. 



"An amusing but nasty trick was 

 played in the early autumn at George W. 

 Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate near Ashe- 

 ville," said a Pittsburg florist. "A 

 friend of mine, one of the Biltmore gar- 

 deners, wrote and told me about it the 

 other day. 



"It seems that, at the entrance to 



Biltmore, there was a sign that read, 

 'Please do not pluck the flowers without 

 leave. ' 



"Well, one visitors' day, some joker 

 added an 's' to the sign's last word. As 

 a result, every visitor left Biltmore that 

 day with a delightful smile and an enor- 

 mous bouquet." — Philadelphia Bulletin, 



IN THE RESIDENCE DISTRICT. 



For twenty years Henry J. Puvogel 

 has been in the business at St. Paul. 

 Originally he was located at Summit 

 avenue, where he did a wholesale trade. 

 Six years ago the present place was built, 

 at Grand avenue and Chatsworth street, 

 as shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tion. This is in one of the best resi- 

 dent districts of St. Paul, one of the 

 good business locations every city offers, 

 where expenses are not so great as in 

 the leading retail district downtown, but 

 where greater facilities can be main- 

 tained. Mr. Puvogel has 12,000 feet of 

 glass, which he devotes to carnations, 

 violets, chrysanthemums and a general 

 stock of pot plants. He does a large re- 

 tail trade and wholesales any part of 

 the stock not required at home, relying 

 on other growers for roses. 



The outside florist has a great advan- 

 tage over the strictly^ retail store man, 

 not only in handling the big holiday 

 rushes, but when it comes to the spring 

 and autumn planting seasons. Mr. Puvo- 

 gel does an exceedingly large business 

 in bedding plants, etc., and maintains 

 his own place in such attractive shape 

 that it is a standing advertisement to all 

 who pass within sight. 



Waukesha, Wis. — Schneck & Bliese 

 say that the new house, 42x152, which 

 they built last summer, is bringing good 

 returns. They are much pleased with the 

 results of fumigating with hydrocyanic 

 acid gas. This remedy, they say, is sure, 

 quick and cheap. 



Dayton, O. — A great many resigna- 

 tions have taken effect recently at the 

 Cash Kegister Works and among others 

 that of John E, Freudenberger, head of 

 the horticultural department. It will be 

 remembered that Mr, Freudenberger was 

 given the thanks of the S. A, F. for his 

 work in the outside exhibition for the 

 Dayton convention. The Dayton people 

 think the N. C. R. is retrenching. 



