Decbmber 2G, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



bouses of Beauties at the establishment 

 of John Wolf, at Savannah, Ga., whose 

 experience has been that he can grow the 

 rose as successfully as it is grown in a 

 more temperate climate. 



^ Mr. Wolf's establishment is a modern 

 one and the Beauties have tis good quar- 

 ters as experience and money can pro- 

 vide. The house is a Lord & Burnham 

 structure, the plants growing in solid 

 beds, which are found preferable to 

 benches because they do not dry out so 

 fast. 



Mr. Wolf has been in the business at 

 Savannah since March 1, 1895, when he 

 located there with $60 cash capital. With 

 this sum he bought hotbfed sash and 

 plants. Not many florists ever made as 

 small a beginning as did Mr. Wolf, and 

 not many have worked harder or pros- 

 pered more. Now he has twenty-one 

 large greenhouses, all new, the entire 

 place 'having been built or rebuilt within 

 the last three years. He also has ten 

 acres of land inside the city limits, with 

 all improvements, office buildings, sta- 

 bles, horses, fixtures, a two-story dwell- 

 ing, in good shape and paid for. Mr. Wolf 

 was married on New Year's day, 1900, 

 to Miss Sterib, of Philadelphia, to whom 

 he gives a large share of the credit for 

 his success. Besides the retail trade done 

 in Savjinnah, he does a large shipping 

 business to nearby towns and says he has 

 no trouble in selling all that he can grow. 

 Mr. Wolf is only 37 years of age and he 

 says that he expects the next ten years to 

 show a much greater increase in his es- 

 tablishment and the business than have 

 the last ten years. 



LOVE AND SYMPATHY. 



Is there a feeling of mutual sympathy 

 between a gardener and the plants he 

 grows, and do the latter respond to care 

 and kindness the same as a dog or a 

 horse, or is it all a question of cultural 

 attention? These were questions raised 

 by a lecturer at a recent meeting of the 

 Bristol Gardeners' Association, and, as 

 might be expected, they aroused quite an 

 animated discussion. At any rate, says 

 the Gardeners' Magazine, there is some- 

 thing novel in the idea of plants re- 

 sponding to the care of a sympathetic 

 grower, and vice versa, and if there is 

 anything in it, then love and affection 



A Beauty House at John Wolf s^ Savannah^ Gft» 



are the chief factors in successful horti- 

 culture. I must admit that I have often 

 marveled at the way certain plants thrive 

 and bloom under the care of old cottage 

 dames in tiny windows, and where the 

 conditions from a gardener's point of 

 view are by no means favorable. There 

 is no mistake about the old women loving 

 their plants. Perhaps this explains it. 



SINGLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



The large flowers common to most sec- 

 tions of the chrysanthemum family, the 

 result of specialized treatment, enjoy a 

 well-earned popularity which few of us 

 would seek to lessen in the slightest de- 

 gree, yet there are occasions when we 

 feel they are overdone, and instinctively 

 we seek the rest and change secured by 

 the single varieties. These make a wel- 

 come change and addition as pot plants, 

 but it is probably as cut flowers for fur- 

 nishing dinner-tables, living-rooms, and 

 all decorative work where lightness is es- 

 sential that their utility is most generally 

 recognized. Of late years the single va- 

 rieties have made steady progress in pop- 



ular estimation, which is partly explained 

 by the present tendency to produce 

 varieties having a clean central disk, this 

 being one of the prominent character- 

 istics of a first-class flower. At the same 

 time, there has been a steady advance in 

 the production of flowers having decided 

 color. 



The cultivation of single chrysanthe- 

 mums does not materially differ from 

 what is generally given the other sections 

 of this group of plants. They may with 

 advantage be propagated later. The soil 

 should be moderately rich, and artificial 

 manures be mainly employed to 

 strengthen the color of the flowers, avoid- 

 ing stimulants which influence vegetative 

 growth alone. 



Taste in the size of flower has often to 

 be reckoned with; at present medium- 

 sized flowers, like Mary Anderson or the 

 beautiful Stella, appeal with singular 

 force, while for certain classes of deco- 

 rative work the dainty quill-like flowers 

 of Star of Honor are appropriate, being 

 suitable for arranging in the smallest and 

 lightest flower glasses. The varieties 

 named are offered by an English garden- 

 ing magazine as the selection of the best 

 seen at the exhibitions in 1907 : 



Star of Honor. — White, having a single 

 row of quill-like petals borne upon dark- 

 colored wiry stems. 



Stella. — Pure glistening white, petals 

 not flat, and in a double row ; a first-class 

 variety of dwarf habit. 



Mary Anderson — White, soon changing 

 to pink, petals broad and flat ; a good old 

 variety. 



Annie Holden. — A rich bronze-yellow 

 sport from Mary Anderson; desirable. 



Annie Bramwell. — WTiite, single row of 

 petals, broad and refiexing, dwarf habit; 

 one of the best. 



Sir George BuUough. — Dark yellow, 

 dwarf habit ; an old variety, but still one 

 of the best yellows. 



Kitty - Bourne. — Deep yellow, double 

 row petals, dwarf habit; grand flower. 



Mrs. B. N. Parkinson. — Bright yellow, 

 petals flat, habit and growth like Mary 

 Anderson; extra. 



Mrs. E. Roberts. — White ground suf- 

 fused by a delicate rose color, petals flat, 

 about three and a half inches across; a 

 splendid single. 



