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PEBKUAHr 13, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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The Range From Which Peter Reinberg, ChicagOt Cut His Famous January Crop of Beauties.— James Novak^ Grower. 



Mr. Cook was born June 25, 1878, at 

 Friendship, N. C. After attending the 

 public schools, he took a course at the 

 A. & M. College, Ealeigh, N. C, and 

 then entered the employment of the J. 

 Van Lindley Nursery Co., of Pomona, 

 N. C, where he had his first experience 

 in the growing of cut flowers. He after- 

 ward held positions with florists in Paw- 

 tucket, E. I.; Norfolk, Va. ; Chester, 

 Pa.; Norwalk, Conn.; Lewiston, Me., and 

 finally with the Green Floral & Nursery 

 Co., as already stated. Mr. Cook was 

 a young man of honor and ability and 

 was much loved by his people at home 

 and by his friends in the trade. 



GLADIOLUS TACONIC 



The accompanying illustration is of a 

 variety of gladiolus which we have named 

 Taconic, the stock of which has been 

 grown and increased in our fields during 

 the last few years, under field No. 605, 

 and by this number only is known to 

 many florists, several seedsmen and many 

 other visitors to Meadowvale Farm, who 

 have particularly noticed and admired 

 this variety. The description is as fol- 

 lows: Bright, lively pink, flecked and 

 striped with shades of the same color, 

 the petals lightening to the faintest blush 

 in the throat. The markings on the 

 lower petals are deep crimson, running 

 into a thin strip of pale lemon yellow. 

 Plant vigorous and flowers large, ten to 

 twelve being in bloom at the same time. 



Under ordinary garden cultivation it 

 attains a height of from four and a half 

 to five feet. It is one of the most beau- 

 tiful and artistic of any variety of the 

 same color which it has been my pleasure 

 to see. Arthur Cowee. 



WHY NOT A GLADIOLUS SOQETY? 



Referring to the article in the Review 

 of January 23, page 10, regarding gla- 

 dioli with ruffled or fluted petals, permit 

 me to say, that neither this trait nor 

 that of the flowers being uniformly dis- 

 tributed around the spike is new to 

 Meadowvale Farm. I have noticed the 

 ruffled or fluted flower in many of Groff 's 

 hybrids, but never considered them of 

 sufficient importance to call them novel- 

 ties. The petals of the old variety, Eu- 

 gene Scribe, are more or less fluted, as 

 ■well as some seedlings from this variety. 



The saucer-shaped flower, with all of 

 the petals t)f about the same propor- 

 tions, may be seen in my fields by thou- 

 sands, almost from the beginning to the 

 «nd of the blooming season, measuring 

 anywhere from three to six inches in 

 diameter. Spikes with dark colored 



flowers on one side and light colored on 

 the other appear in our fields every 

 season, but these I consider freaks. I 

 have also a variety which develops all of 

 the bloom in a bunch at the top of the 

 spike. This variety, however, is of weak 



Gladiolus Taconic 



constitution and it is therefore impossi- 

 ble to increase the stock. 



About the only thing in the gladiolus 

 line which we do not grow here is the 

 "ever-blooming" and the "sweet- 

 scented" varieties. Has any one yet 

 produced either of the above? 



Would it not be a good plan to form 



a gladiolus society, having for its aim 

 the further popularization of this already 

 well known flower (, <)> t^6 elimination of 

 a lot of worthless named varieties and 

 the perfecting of a plan whereby the 

 same variety would not be sold under 

 different names, in different or the same 

 localities? In fact, there are many im- 

 portant points which could be taken up 

 by such an organization and adjusted to 

 the mutual interest of growers, seedsmen 

 and consumers. The rose, carnation, 

 dahlia and chrysanthemum growers have 

 their societies; why not the gladiolus 

 growers as well. Brother Gladiolus Spe- 

 cialists? Abthur Cowee. 



TAB ON THE TELEGRAMS. 



Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin, has 

 introduced a bill in the senate to amend 

 the Interstate Commerce Act so as to 

 require that the telegraph companies 

 shall cause to appear upon the addres- 

 see's copy of every telegram, "the name 

 of the place where such telegram origi- 

 nated, the month, day of the month, and 

 the hour and minute of the day on which 

 it was accepted for transmission, and 

 there shall also appear plainly and accu- 

 rately upon every copy of such telegram 

 the month, day of the month, and hour 

 and minute of the day on which it was 

 received for delivery; and after every 

 such telegram shall have, been delivered 

 there shall be plainly and accurately 

 noted upon every copy of every such 

 telegram filed in the office where it has 

 been received for delivery the month, 

 the day of the month, the hoy and min- 

 ute of the day such message was deliv- 

 ered. The original of every such tele- 

 gram shall be kept on file for six years 

 after its acceptance for transmission in 

 the office where it shall originate, and a 

 copy of such telegram shall be kept on 

 file for six years in the office where it 

 shall be received for delivery. In each 

 office telegrams received for transmission 

 and copies of telegrams received for de- 

 livery shall be separately filed in chrono- 

 logical order and shall be separately in- 

 dexed so as to show the name of the 

 sender of each telegram and the name 

 of the person to whom the telegram was 

 addressed. ' ' 



Florists are large users of the tele- 

 graph and the frequent delay in delivery 

 is the cause of much vexation and money 

 loss. Write your senator and congress- 

 man urging the passage of Senator La 

 Follette 's bill. 



Wyomissinq, Pa. — Frank Shearer is 

 building another greenhouse. 



