Mabcb 12, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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ball, a prize of |20 In gold is offered by Mlxs 

 M. I. Hammoud, Fisbklll-on-Uudsou, N. Y., each 

 lady visiting tbe exblbitlou tbe first day to cast 

 a vote on leaving tbe ball and tbe exblblt re- 

 ceiving tbe largest number o( votes to receive 

 tbe prize. 



F. 164. One hundred blooms of KlUamey, 

 150, offered by Robert Simpson, Clifton, N. J. 



F. 153. Fifty blooms of Liberty, $25, offered 

 by Adolpb Farenwuld, Hillside, Pa. 



F. 158. Fifty blooms of KiUarney, $25, 

 offered by Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa. 



F. 157. IMfty blooms of Bridesmaid, $25, 

 offered by Traendly & Schencls, New York. 



F. 158. Fifty blooms of Bride, $25, offered 

 by Emil Buettner, Park Ridge, 111. 



F. 158. Fifty blooms of Liberty, |25, offered 

 by Jobn Davis Co., Chicago. 



F. 160. Fifty blooms of Kalseria Augusta 

 Victoria, $25, offered by the Globe Coal Co., 

 Chicago. 



F. 161. Fifty blooms of Golden Gate, $25, 

 offered by J. A. Budlong, Chicago. 



F. 162. Fifty blooms of Ivory, $25, offered 

 by J. F. WUcoi, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 



F. 163. Best 100 blooms of pink roses in 

 the show, $50, offered by Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 Chicago. 



F. 164. Fifty blooms of red roses, Rlch- 

 monds and American Beauties excluded, $2o, 

 offered by Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago. 



F. 165. One hundred blooms of Richmond, 

 $5.*, offered by Poehlmann Bros. Co., Chicago. 



F, 16«. First prize, 100 blooms of Kate Moul- 

 ton, $25, offered by WIetor Bros., Chicago; 

 second prize, $20, offered by Geo. Reinberg, Chi- 

 cago. 



F. 1C7. One hundred .blooms of Uncle John, 

 $25, offered by WIetor Bros., Chicago. 



F. 108. One hundred blooms of Mme. A. 

 Chatenay, silver cup, value $25, offered by 

 Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago. 



F. 169. Fifty blooms of American Beauty, 

 $50, offered by the Mogg Coal Co., Chicago. 



F. 170. One hundred blooms of Bride, $25, 

 offered by the Pulverized Manure Co., Chicago. 



F. 171. One hundred blooms of Sunrise, $25, 

 offered by the Florists' Review, Chicago. 



F. 172. Twenty-Uve blooms of Bridesmaid ex 

 hibited by growers with less than 50,000 square 

 feet of glass, $25, offered by Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, Chicago. 



F. 173. Xwenty-flve blooms of Bride exhib- 

 ited by growers with less than 50,000 square 

 feet of glass, $25, offered by Bassett & Wash- 

 burn, Chicago. 



F. 174. One hundred blooms of Mrs. Potter 

 Palmer, $.00, offered by S. t'reemau & Sons, 

 Chicago. 



F. 175. For the best new rose not in com- 

 merce and never exhibited before the American 

 Rose Society, vase to contain not less than 

 twelve and not more than twenty-live blooms, 

 silver cup, value ?25, offered by F. R. Plerson, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. 



F. 176. Fifty blooms of American Beauty, 

 "Cyclopedia of American Horticulture," by 

 Prof. L. H. Bailey, value $30, offered by the 

 American Florist Co., Chicago. 



F. 177. Twenty-flve blooms of pink roses not 

 disseminated prior to 1908, silver cup, value 

 $15, offered by J. B. Deamud Co., Chicago. 



F. 178. Twenty-flve blooms of Bridesmaid, 

 $10. offered by W. W. Barnard Co., Chicago. 



F. 179. Twenty-flve blooms of Richmond, $10, 

 offered by Geo. Keller & Son, Chicago. 



F. 180. Twenty-flve blooms of Sunrise, $10, 

 offered by Leonard Kill, Chicago. 



F. 181. 'IVenty-flve blooms of Uncle Jobn, 

 $10, offered by F. R. Newbold, New York. 



F. 182. Twenty-five blooms of Killarney, $10, 

 offere<l by Kroeschell Bros. Co., Chicago. 



F. 183. Twenty-flve blooms of Bride, $10, 

 offered by A. Uletsch Co., Chicago. 



F. 184. Fifty blooms of Mme. A. Chatenay, 

 $10, offered by Welland & OUnger, New Castle, 

 Ind. 



F. 185. Fifty blooms of American Beautv, 

 two tons of Florist Bone, offered by Darling & 

 Co., Chicago. 



F. 186. T\velve named varieties of hybrid 

 perpetuals in pots, $10, offered by Kroeschell 

 Bros. Co., Chicago. 



F. 187. Twenty-flve blooms of Killarney, $10, 

 offered by Holton & Hunkel Co., Milwaukee, 

 Wis. 



F. 188. For the best exhibit of cut roses, 

 four varieties, twelve blooms of each variety, 

 open to private gardeners only, $25, offered by 

 Harry O. May, Summit, N. J. 



F. 189. First prize, for the best 200 lily of 

 the valley, $10, offered by H. N. Bruns, Chi- 

 cago. 



F. 190. Second prize, $8, offered by Poehl- 

 mann Bros. Co., Chicago. 



F. 191. One hundred American Beauties, a 

 silver cup, value $100, offered by Crane & Co.. 

 Chicago. 



F. 102. Fifty blooms of a new forcing rose 

 not before exhibited for competition, a silver 

 loving cup, value $20, offered by Heller Bros.. 

 New Castle, Ind. 



POPULARITY OF THE IRIS. 



The illustration on page 12 is from a 

 photograph made at Hicksville, L. I., 

 and shows the field of irises of Bowehl 

 & Granz. They make a specialty of 

 irises, dahlias, peonies, gladioli and can- 

 nas, and say that there is a marked ad- 

 vance in the popularity of each one of 

 these flowers as compared with only a ' 



F. H. Kramer. 



(President-elet't Washington Floristh' Club.) 



few years ago, but that of all the iris 

 has enjoyed the most rapid gain in popu- 

 lar favor. They say that where a few 

 years ago it was diflScult to interest 

 planters in the purchase of irises, now 

 there is a wide demand for them and 

 they look forward to a much greater in- 

 crease in their sales as soon as the beauty 

 of the improved sorts is known to those 

 who now are familiar with only the old- 

 fashioned varieties. 



A VIOLET TREE. 



At the present time, when most gar- 

 den artists are trying hard to imitate 

 the Japanese art and fashion of reducing 

 big plants to dwarf growths, one gar- 

 dener has tried and succeeded in the re- 

 verse and brought out a tree grown from 

 a little flower which heretofore never 

 reached more than about six inches above 

 the ground. It seems that a second 

 Luther Burbank has arisen in a Saxon 

 gardener, who found his untiring energy 

 rewarded after many years of trial and 

 labor in creating the masterpiece of gar- 

 den art, a violet tree, Viola odorata 

 arborea. 



The following are a few details which 

 might interest readers of the Review. 

 The grower states that these unique cre- 

 ations have been grown from the ordi- 

 nary plain violet flower, which under his 

 hands has been improved and converted 

 into charming little trees, reaching a 

 height of from three to five feet. These 

 little trees get into bloom every year 

 from the beginning of March till the end 

 of April. The crowns are then thickly 



covered with big, dark blue flowers on 

 4-inch to 6-inch stems, giving off an ex- 

 ceedingly fine odor. 



To bring such a tree to maturity re- 

 quires a period of from fourteen to sev- 

 enteen years. These trees require only 

 the simplest treatment, not only during 

 summer in the open, but also in the win- 

 ter in the greenhouse, or in low tem- 

 perature in living rooms. 



For select presents they are well 

 suited. Naturally the price is high,' on 

 account of the difficulty in growing 

 them and the lengtii of time required. 

 At present only crowned heads, such aa 

 the emperors of Germany and Austria 

 and several kings, have received them. 

 Now the pope in Rome has expressed a 

 wish to possess a specimen. The price 

 ranges from $150 to .$250 apiece, accord- 

 ing to size and perfection. How the 

 matter is done is, of course, a secret of 

 the inventor. E. Rudowsky. 



Every florist should join the anti- 

 billboard movement. People who plant 

 glaring advertising signs don't plant 

 flowers; they directly affect our trade in 

 several adverse ways. 



It has been said that any fairly good 

 soil will do for pricking young vege- 

 table seedlings into, but the plants will 

 make root more quickly when the soil 

 is good than they will in indifferent soil. 

 About one-fourth well rotted stable ma- 

 nure added to ordinary soil, in the filling 

 of boxes into which vegetable seedlings 

 are to be transplanted, will work wonders 

 in root formation. 



