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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 9, 1908. 



stock; but why not, Mr. Florist, put 

 your stock plants in conspicuous public 

 places, as well as in your back lot or 

 yardt The citizens of any town will 

 give them as good care as you can. 

 Then you might make use of some sur- 

 plus, or even grow something for that 

 purpose. 



I believe the Garrettsville idea a good 

 one and I have no doubt but that Mr. 

 Templin, or some of his fellow citizens, 

 would gladly give any additional infor- 

 mation desired by any reader of the Re- 

 view. O. B. Server. 



NAME OF BULB. 



Accompanying this letter I mail today 

 a small package containing a bulb for 

 identification, if possible. Below is a 

 description of its growth during last 

 summer. 



Last year in June I received three 

 bulbs, which looked exactly like a white- 

 skinned onion, under the name of Mon- 

 arch of the East. A slip came vpith them 

 saying that if those bulbs were laid on 

 a shelf or tied to a board, they would 

 grow and bloom without any other at- 

 tention. I did not lay them on a shelf, 

 nor did I fasten them to a block like 



some orchids, but I put them in orchid 

 baskets filled with sphagnum, gave them 

 a good watering and hung them up in 

 the full light, but not in the sun. In 

 about ten days they sent up stalks six- 

 teen to eighteen inches high and three- 

 fourths of an inch in diameter at the 

 base. The stems forked out in two leaf- 

 stalks, each with from four to six leaves 

 about two inches broad at the center and 

 between five and six inches long, of a 

 rather dark green color and with smooth 

 edges, but they did not bloom. As a 

 whole, it is a. rather good looking plant, 

 but there is nothing fine about it. In 

 less than two months the plants died 

 and the bulbs have rested ever since, 

 until now. You will notice they are 

 making a start to grow. I will say, how- 

 ever, the bulbs were twice the size and 

 weight they are now. A week ago I laid 

 them on sand in a shady propagating bed 

 and since then they have shown life 

 again. * 



I would like to know to what class 



of plants they belong. I never believed 



that they belonged to the orchid class; 



they are too short-lived, in my opinion. 



C. G. A. 



The bulb is that of Sauromatum gut-, 

 tatum, belonging to the family aracese. 



It has no connection whatever with the 

 orchideee family. 8. guttatum is a native 

 of the Himalayas. It meets with a con- 

 siderable sale at florists' stores of late 

 years, and has quite a number of fanci- 

 ful popular names. Except as a curiosity, 

 the plant has no value. W. N. C. - 



SMILES. 



It was at the Bose Show banquet that 

 H. V. Hunkel left the third course un- 

 touched. 



"Why is Hunkel like Harrimant" 

 asked a voice down the table. 

 Silence. Then the reporter bit. 

 "Because he doesn't like Fish." 



Secretary Benjamin Hammond told it 

 on himself: 



There was a home talent minstrel show 

 at bis town of Fishkill, N. Y., the other 

 night. It was early in the evening that 

 the tenor sang "The Rose of Fair Dun- 

 dee" and then the interlocutor made the 

 following announcement : 



* * Ladies and gentlemen, the next num- 

 ber on the program will be an address 

 by Benjamin Hammond, of the school 

 trustees, and then we'll adjourn for 

 breakfast!" 



And then the chorus chanted. 



SINGLE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Popular Last Season. 



I was pleased to see F. B. endorse 

 Linton chrysanthemums as a useful cut 

 flower subject, in the Review of March 

 19. It makes a long, graceful spray of 

 flowers that sells on sight. His remarks 

 on the great future ahead of the single 

 varieties are also entirely to the point. 



It is a source of great pleasure to me 

 that the singles have "caught on," to 

 use a popular term. I have been talk- 

 ing singles since I imported the first 

 lot of varieties, three years ago, and now 

 it seems as though the singles were 

 coming into their own, for growers who, 

 at my recommendation, bought an odd 

 dozen last year, have this season placed 

 orders for hundreds. 



New York has been a good market 

 for some years for pot plants of good 

 kinds of pompons and such kinds as 

 Polly Rose and Pacific. Last fall the 

 singles, while they lasted, entirely dis- 

 placed the other varieties, and the few 

 growers fortunate enough to have pot 

 singles reaped a golden harvest. 



Being a novelty accounted in a measure 

 for this, for the flower buyer loves a 

 change, but the intrinsic merit of the sin- 

 gles causes them to make their own way 

 when once seen. While I expect, in a few 

 years, to see the thing overdone, as al- 

 most everything eve'ntually gets overdone 

 in the large centers, still, in the mean- 

 time, there will be good money in the 

 ^ tingle varieties. 



While the singles have been known for 

 many years, they have never before been 

 properly placed before the public, and 

 the public also is becoming educated 

 to the fact that a chrysanthemum need 

 not necessarily be the biggest in creation 

 to be artistic and beautiful. 



The varieties we have today are also 

 great improvements over the kinds of 

 ten years or more ago. It is singular to 

 note that France and Germany, as well 

 as England, are just now praising the 

 single varieties to the skies as market 

 pot plants, so that practically the east- 

 ern hemisphere is engaged in the revival 

 of this type of chrysanthemum. The 

 ease with which new varieties can be 

 raised will mean that we shall possibly 

 be swamped, in a year or two, with new 

 forms and colors in this class, for sev- 

 eral American hybridizers have already 

 been busy in this line. 



Varieties for Cutting. 



There are some varieties that are valu- 

 able as cut flower kinds, but are rather 

 too straggly in growth for good pot 

 plants. Among these I would include the 

 following, which, while they can be used 

 nicely for pots, if kept pinched closely 

 till about the middle of July, really show 

 at their best when planted out and cut 

 with sprays two feet long covered with 

 dozens of flowers: 



Whites — Harold Bishop, M. J. Carlisle, 

 Linton. Miss T. C. Warden, Wyndham, 

 Gertrude. 



Pink — Marvel, Miss E. Partridge, Nel- 

 lie Coppard, J. T. Angus. 



Yellow — Hilda Bobbins, Lily Beer, 

 Kathleen Bunyard, Earlswood Beauty. 



Bronze — Mary Richardson, Lily Val- 

 entine. 



Of these, Earslwood Beauty, while 

 I class it as a yellow, because it is 

 nearer that color than any other, is a 

 pale primrose and shows white at night 

 in artificial light. 



The kind that shows most brilliantly 

 under artificial light is Mary Richardson. 

 This is a salmon underlaid with red and 

 a powerful light brings out the color 

 to almost scarlet. It was noted more 

 than any other variety at the fall shows. 



Varieties for Pots. 



Dwarfer growing kinds that make 

 splendid pot plants are: 



Whites — Gretchen, Anna Spangle, Irene 

 CrafF, Bob Boy. 



Yellow — Miss A. Holden, Kitty Bourne, 

 Pretoria, Golden Star. 



Pink — Mrs. XJntermyer, Alice Crate, 

 Helen Totty, Ladysmith, Mrs. G. Rob- 

 erts, H. Henderson. 



Bronze — Mrs. Baillie, Hilda, Crown 

 Jewel. 



I note F. B. does not consider chest- 

 nut or bronze desirable tints. There is 

 one variety in this shade that he would 

 like, and that is Crown Jewel. In my 

 opinion, when it first opens this is the 

 finest kind we have. The flower is large, 

 perfectly flat, clear yellow in color, with 

 a distinct ring of deep bronze almost 



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