Decbmbeb 26, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 





Establishment of D. C. Noble, G>Iumbia Gty, Ind. 



a list of all the varieties which we think 

 might prove valuable to us and a few 

 others, and then we order of each ac- 

 cordingly: Of some only a hundred, of 

 others more, according to our impression 

 or information about each variety. More 

 than once have we found that the varie- 

 ties on which we would have plunged 

 have proved to be the least valuable of 

 the collection. A most notable case was 

 the variety Fiancee. 



Under our method we have never yet 

 failed to get one or more valuable addi- 

 tions to our list each year, and sometimes 

 they came from where we least expected 

 them. The old adage of not putting all 

 your eggs in one basket is certainly well 

 applied in the buying of new varieties. , 



I do not pretend to say how many you 

 should buy of each new variety. That is 

 entirely a matter for your own discre- 

 tion. The size of your business and the 

 nature of your business must determine 

 that for you. If you propagate for your 

 own planting only, you will not need as 

 many as you will if you do a rooted cut- 

 ting business. A hundred plants will 

 make lots of cuttings and even less than 

 that number will suffice on many places. 



We have heard the remark that if a 

 new variety is worth growing at all, not 

 less than 1,000 plants should be benched. 

 I agree with that remark when speaking 

 of standard varieties, but with the new 

 varieties, never. It is the language of 

 the plunger, unless he has a very large 

 establishment. Imagine a grower who 

 houses 25,000 to 50,000 plants buying a 

 thousand each of a dozen or more varie- 

 ties each season at $100 per thousand! 

 It IS among these plungers that you hear 

 the complaints about new varieties being 

 gold bricks, etc., but you never hear such 

 complaints from the grower who buys a 

 reasonable quantity of practically every 

 variety offered. He expects to fail with 

 part of his purchases, but he seldom fails 

 with all of them, and those which do suc- 

 ceed more than repay him for those which 

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AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. 



Simon J. Hider, JHillsboro, O., registers 

 Carnation White Helen Gould, a sport 



^L^^ ^?,"'f ^^^*«' <^^t" petals 



slightly penciled with pink, gradually 

 turning to white as matured; calyx 



stronger than Helen Gould, size three and 

 one-half to four inches across; stem 

 strong, twenty to twenty-six inches long; 

 habit of growth same as Helen Gould. 

 Registration of sports is made sub- 

 ject to the approval of the society at 

 its meeting in Washington, January 28 

 to 30. Albert M. Herr, Sec'y. 



CARNATION SHOW IN LONDON. 



The finest show of carnations ever seen 

 in £]ngland was held in the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, London, December 11, under the 

 auspices of the Winter-flowering Carna- 

 tion Society. The marked improvement 

 in the number and quality of the ex- 

 hibits bore testimony to the rapid strides 

 carnation culture is making in this coun- 

 try. In a short time we expect to have 

 many English raised varieties and the 

 society is formulating a registration 

 scheme. On this occasion, however, there 

 were no home raised varieties equal to 

 Mrs. H. Burnett and Britannia. 



First-class certificates were awarded to 

 the American varieties Winsor and 

 Melody, exhibited by A. F. Button, Iver 

 Bucks, the pioneer grower and exhibitor 

 of American varieties, and to Rose-pink 

 Enchantress and Beacon, exhibited by 

 Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill Park, who 

 now rank among our largest cultivators. 



For collection of cut carnations W. H. 

 Page, Hampton, was awarded the blue 

 ribbon for flowers of fine quality in 

 which My Maryland, Mrs. T. W. Lawson, 

 Enchantress, Britannia, Harlowarden, 

 etc., were prominent. S. Mortimer se- 

 cured second prize with an artistic ar- 

 rangement in which the best were En- 

 chantress, Harlowarden, Lady Bountiful, 

 Mrs. M. A. Patten, Mrs. H. Burnett and 

 Nelson Fisher. 



The leading classes were for vases of 

 thirty-six blooms. For white, all three 

 prizes went to White Perfection; first, 

 W. H. Lancashire, Guernsey; second, G. 

 Lange, Hampton; third, W. H. Page, 

 Hampton. For blush all prizes went to 

 Enchantress in the following order: A. 

 Smith, Enfield, W. H. Page and W. H. 

 Lancashire. For light pink or salmon, 

 A. F. Button scored with a charming 

 vase of Winsor, followed by A. Smith 

 and H. Burnett, both with Mrs. H. Bur- 

 nett. For deep pink or rose, Mrs. T. W. 

 Law.son held the sway, the prizes going 



to W. H. Page, W. H. Lancashire and 

 A. F. Button. For crimson, A. F. But- 

 ton came to the front with Harlowarden ; 

 W. H. Page second with Gov. Roose- 

 velt; W. H. Lancashire third. A. Smith 

 was first for scarlet, exhibiting his own 

 variety, Britannia; W. H. Lancashire sec- 

 ond, with Robert Craig. On any other 

 color or fancy, A. F. Button was first, 

 with Imperial, and H. Burnett, second, 

 with Mikado. 



Then followed classes of the above 

 named colors for eighteen flowers of 

 each. White Perfection was not so much 

 in evidence here, the prizes going to Lady 

 Bountiful, White Enchantress and My 

 Maryland, exhibited respectively by Bell 

 & Sheldon, Guernsey; H. Mathias, Med- 

 stead, and S. Mortimer. Bell & Sheldon 

 were first in nearly all the eighteen 

 blooms classes, winning in the blush class 

 with Enchantress. Winsor was first in 

 the pink or salmon class, the President 

 in the crimson class, Robert Craig and 

 Britannia first and second in the scarlet 

 class. 



For twelve blooms of any variety not 

 in commerce, W. H. Lancashire scored 

 with a seedling having a large, finely 

 formed scarlet flower, but not altogether 

 too pleasing a shade for commercial pur- 

 poses. The same exhibitor was honored 

 with having the finest vase of flowers in 

 the show, thirty-six of White Perfection. 



There were many minor classes in 

 which smaller growers competed, in many 

 instances with creditable flowers. Non- 

 competitive exhibits were a grand fea- 

 ture of the show and some of the ex- 

 hibitors put up a wide range of varieties 

 on long stretches of tabling, notably: H. 

 Burnett, large gold medal; Hugh Low & 

 Co., large silver gilt medal; Bell & Shel- 

 don, gold medal; J. Lange, silver gilt 

 medal; J, Peed & Son, large silver 

 medal ; C. Engellmann, silver gilt medal, 

 etc. 



J. R. Fotheringham, representing F. 

 R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown-on-Hudson, 

 N. Y., has been over here for several 

 w-eeks on a business trip and was in- 

 vited by the committee to assist as one 

 of the judges, and this he did with satis- 

 faction to all. After the judging he 

 spoke in eulogistic terms of the excellence 

 of the show and the quality of the 

 blooms, assuring us that in the leading 

 classes they were equal to the blooms 



