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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



August 20, 1008. 



Geo. E. McCIure Tells How to Get Winter Effects. 



Cut Flowers. 



Arthur Cowee, Berlin, N. Y., liad a 

 table of nearly 200 vases of gladioli. As 

 usual, the Groff hybrids predominate in 

 the display of this grower, but there is 

 a much larger proportion of named vari- 

 eties than in previous years. One of the 

 best is Victory, yellow, Taconic is a 

 lively pink, with markings of deeper pink 

 and of crimson. Meadowvale is a fine 

 white. To any but a gladiolus specialist 

 the number of varieties is confusing, but 

 a great many visitors are seen jotting 

 down the names of the ones that take 

 their eye. 



John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y., 

 made a fine display of cut blooms of 

 gladioli, including some sixty varieties. 

 This firm still thinks there is nothing to 

 compare with America, and features it. 

 A prominent position in the exhibit was 

 given to what they call the "famous 

 eight," which includes all the colors. 

 The varieties are America, Blue Jay, 

 Sulphur King, Contrast, Wild Rose, Har- 

 lequin, Blanche and Melrose. Visitors 

 were given souvenir buttons. 



Vick & Hill Co., Bochester, N. Y., put 

 up a table of splendid asters, they hav- 

 ing had a fine growing season. Some 

 forty varieties were shown, embracing 

 about all types and certainly all colors. 

 Incliwied were two new ones for 1909 

 and three more for 1910. This firm has 

 originated six colors in the Daybreak 

 <!las8, the new one being named Laven- 

 <ler Daybreak. It and Early Semple's 

 Pink go out this season. Next year Rose 

 Daybreak, Salmon Daybreak and Yellow 

 Daybreak go out. The names will be 

 suflicient description to aster growers. 



The Altimo Culture Co., Canfield, O., 

 had a large display of cut gladioli Snd 

 asters. The latter are the firm 's special- 

 ty, grown both for seed and for cut 

 flowers. They grow nearly 100 varieties 

 for seed and cut from ten acres. The 



exhibit included all the varieties now in 

 season. They have some new sorts of 

 their own raising, soon to be put upon 

 the market. Their large sign was a nov- 

 elty, some lines of letters being made of 

 their trade-mark label and others of as- 

 ter seeds glued to the cloth. 



E. E. Stewart, Rives Junction, Mich., 

 staged a collection of cut gladioli, of 

 Ijest named varieties. 



W. H. Shaw exhibited a new yellow 

 dahlia grown for him by W. F. Patrick, 

 of Millville, N. J. Of the decorative 

 class. 



J'ames Vick's Sons, Rochester, put up 

 a table of aster blooms grown by florists 

 who had bought their seeds. 



Bulbs. 



Arthur T. Boddington, New York, had 

 a comprehensive display of French and 

 Dutch bulbs, everything that is included 

 under those names. In addition there 

 were cold storage speciosum, auratum and 

 giganteum in fine shape, notwithstand- 

 ing their long hibernation. Harrisii also 

 was shown in 5 to 7 and 6 to 7 sizes. 

 Seed of Christmas-flowering sweet peas 

 was shown in glass bottles. Of course 

 every lot of bulbs was a good sample and 

 the exhibit well arranged. There were 

 some monster speciosum album and some 

 fine candidums. The exhibit also in- 

 cluded the Ferguson sprayer anc^ a vase 

 of Gladiolus America. 



H. F. Michell Co., Philadelphia, was 

 shy one feature of its exhibit, its Dutch 

 bulbs having been lost in transit, but 

 it had Harrisii in several sizes, including 

 the scarce ones. French bulbs also were 

 shown, a full line. But the special fea- 

 ture of the display was a new electric 

 thermostat that will raise the sleepers 

 when the temperature in a greenhouse 

 approaches the danger point, either up or 

 down, whatever it is set to. The exhibit 

 also included spawn, fertilizers, insecti- 



cides, sprayers, hose, cultivators and 

 many other growers' requisites. Visitors 

 received a pansy tape measure as a sou- 

 venir. 



Hewry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, had 

 much jtts usual exhibit, occupying a large 

 space, for it included a big line of sam- 

 ple plants. There were kentias in all 

 sizes, from small plants for growing on 

 to big„ specimens for decorating; arau- 

 carias, pandurata, cibotiums, cocos up to 

 6-inch, bays, small ferns for dishes, adi- 

 antums, draca?nas, nephrolepises in va- 

 riety and many other plants. French and 

 Dutch bulbs were most attractively 

 staged. Plant tubs, Peerless glazing 

 points, Riverton brand hose and other 

 growers' requisites were shown. One of 

 the features of the exhibit was the at- 

 tendance of the firm's entire staff of 

 travelers. 



Vaughan 's Seed Store, Chicago, had a 

 large table of commercial sizes in palms, 

 nephrolepises, dracscnas, pandurata, cro- 

 tons, Lorraines, rubbers, araucarias, 

 Phoenix Roebelenii, and many others, 

 also a table carrying a full line of 

 French and Dutch bulbs, Harrisii up to 

 7 to 9, and samples of bulbs from cold 

 storage, everything carefully labeled. , 



Plants. 



Robert Craig Co., Philadelphia, had 

 four splendid tables of plants inside the 

 hall where the sessions were held. They 

 staged 100 crotons in seventy varieties. 

 Two of the best were seedlings raised 

 by Edwin Lonsdale, one of which was 

 sold to the Craig Co. without a name 

 and by it named for the originator. Not 

 to' be outdone, Mr. Lonsdale named the 

 other for Robert Craig before he dis- 

 posed of the stock. Large blocks of each 

 will be ready for the Christmas trade. 

 The exhibit also included Flcus pandu- 

 rata, dracsenas in variety, Otaheite 

 oranges. Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, 

 Nephrolepis Amerpohlii, etc., all, it is 

 needless to say, well grown. 



F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y., 

 had two new ferns, one of them Super- 

 bissima, which is being sent out this sea- 

 son, the other Elegantissima compacta, 

 to go out in 1909. Superbissima differs 

 from all the other nephrolepises that 

 have followed the firm's first sport of 

 Boston, not only in form but in color, 

 it being a much darker green. The 

 fronds are heavily imbricated and the 

 plant is decidedly compact. Elegantis- 

 sima compacta is just what the name 

 implies, a compact form of Elegantissi- 

 ma, the growth much like Scottii. It is 

 a beautiful thing, especially when looked 

 on from above. Both ferns were shown 

 in all sizes. The exhibit also included 

 French and Dutch bulbs, the latter veri- 

 fying the Hollanders' reports that the 

 season's crop is of excellent quality. 



C. D. Ball, Holmesburg, Pa., had well 

 grown kentias in various sizes and made 

 up plants, also Ficus pandurata, latanias, 

 arecas, dracsenas, and pandanus. It was 

 clean, healthy stock, in keeping with the 

 exhibitor 's reputation. 



J. A. Peterson, Cincinnati, staged Lor- 

 raine and Agatha begonias and a sport 

 from the latter, also excellent Farleyense, 

 pandanus, and dracsenas, with a couple 

 of fine plants of Asplenium nidus avis. 



The Julius Roehrs Co., Rutherford, 

 N. J., made a large display of plants. 

 There was a table of orchids, some big 

 bays, Lorraine begonias, Farleyense, 

 nephrolepises, kentias in several sizes, 

 cocos small and large, araucarias, dra- 

 csenas, ardisias and a large assortment 

 of crotons in variety, as well as many 



