November 5, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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flowers than last year, though the flow- 

 ers are large enough. It is suffering 

 from the heat, also, and is far from 

 being the flower it was last year. 



Grace Whitney is finishing beautifully 

 and one notes with pleasure that it does 

 not damp. It should be set up in excel- 

 lent condition at the different shows. 



Mary Donnellan is another sterling 

 good thing, as it gives no trouble and the 

 magnificent color stamps it as a yellow 

 of the first class. It is tall, but late 

 grown stock produces fine flowers and it 

 can be kept down. 



Charles H. Totty. 



THE SHOWS. 



The mum season is now at its height 

 and it behooves. every grower to visit the 

 exhibitions. Take notebooks along and 

 jot down names of new and desirable 

 sorts. There are always some varieties 

 which need discarding. It seems hard 

 to part with some of these old friends, 

 but the successful grower cannot afford 

 to cling to the old sorts and fail to se- 

 cure the good new things being offered 

 each year. No grower can afford to be 

 without a good batch of Golden Glow 

 and Pacific, supreme among the earlies, 

 while there are some desirable varieties 

 among the midseason and late sorts which 

 it will pay many growers to try. 



In saving stock plants select the best 

 and give them a light bench in a cold 

 house, rather than stand them under the 

 benches, as is too often done. To keep 

 your stock true, be sure to mark the 

 plants. It does not pay the average grow- 

 er to handle too many varieties. What 

 he wants are sorts which are good grow- 

 ers, have rigid stems, foliage well up 

 to the flowers and are good shippers. 

 Of course, where there is a good local 

 trade, many varieties can be advan- 

 tageously handled, which are handsome 

 but are poor travelers. 



SOME GOOD POMPONS. 



Chicago depends largely on Frank 

 Oechslin for mums in pots. He grows 

 two or three houses of these each year; 

 that's about all the trade calls for. But 

 tot a couple of years he has been doing 

 a good business with pompons; these 

 sell well. He has a set of three yellows 

 that are fine: Zenobia, early; Savan- 

 nah, midseason; Klondike, late. Alena 

 is a soft pink that comes in with Zenobia 

 and is fully as good a seller. A number 

 of people obtained stock of these of Mr. 

 OechsUn last season, so there were more 

 of them in the market this year. 



One fine thing about these pompons is 

 that if the plants don't sell as expected, 

 you can cut the flowers and get your 

 money out of them on almost any dinner 

 job. 



KALB AND BERGMAN MUMS. 



What is the difference between Berg- 

 man and Kalb chrysanthemums? 



M. E. G. 



Both these chrysanthemums are among 

 the early whites, though superseded by 

 later introductions in the collections of 

 many chrysanthemum growers. W. H. T. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



Work of the Committees. 



New York, Oct. 24. — No. 5. yellow, 

 Japanese, exhibited by Howard Nichols, 



Chrysanthemum Charles H. Totty. 



Yonkers, N. Y., scored 81 points com- 

 mercial scale. 



New York, Oct. 24. — Pockett's Crim- 

 son, bright crimson with gold reverse, 

 Japanese, exhibited by Charles H. 

 Totty, scored 89 points exhibition scale. 



New York, Oct. 24.— Mrs. O. H. 

 Kahn, mahogany with old gold reverse, 

 Japanese incurved, exhibited by C. H. 

 Totty, scored 87 points commercial and 



85 points exhibition scale. 



New York, Oct. 24.— Charles H. 

 Totty, bright mahogany, gold reverse, 

 Japanese, exhibited by C. H. Totty, 

 scored 88 points exhibition scale. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 26. — Golden Har- 

 vest, bright golden yellow, Japanese, 

 slightly incurved, exhibited by Gustavus 

 A. Lotze, Glenburnie, Md., scored 90 

 points commercial and 85 points exhibi- 

 tion scale. 



Philadelphia, Oct. 26. — Mary War- 

 rick, light pink shading to white, Jap- 

 anese reflexed, exhibited by Warrick 

 Bros., Washington, Pa., scored 84 points 

 commercial and 86 pornts exhibition 

 scale. 



New York, Oct. 29.— Yellow sport of 

 Miller, light yellow, Japanese, exhibited 

 by A. Herrington, Madison, N. J., scored 



86 points exhibition scale. 



The name of the variety Golden Har- 

 vest will have to be changed, as there is 

 already a variety by that name, sent out 

 in 1895 by E. G. Hill Co. 



Committee Appointed. 



President Loveless has appointed the 

 following committee for Boston: Elijah 

 A. Wood, chairman; James Wheeler and 

 William Nicholson. Ship flowers to Bos- 



ton Flower Market, lA Park avenue, 

 care chairman. 



Amiual Meeting. 



The annual business meeting of the so- 

 ciety will be held November 7, at 3 p. m., 

 in the hall of the Annex, at the Coli- 

 seum, Chicago. Anyone who is interested 

 in the cultivation of the queen of au- 

 tumn is cordially invited to attend this 

 meeting. Any information in regard to 

 the society will be cheerfully given by 

 addressing the secretary. 



David Eraser, Sec'y. 



NAME OF COLEUS. 



I enclose a leaf of a large-leaved 

 coleus, of which 1 should like to know 

 the name. O. K. 



The color was largely gone from the 

 leaves on arrival. It is probable that 

 the variety is Achievement, which is a 

 large-leaved variety. This goes under 

 other names, but is probably the sort 

 you have. 



BEGONIA FOLIAGE DYING. 



Please let me know what the trouble 

 is with my Begonia Storm Cloud. The 

 leaves get dry on the ends and look as 

 if something is eating the leaves, but I 

 can 't see anything. O. J. B. 



Possibly a small leaf miner may be 

 eating the tissue from the leaves. In 

 this case, dip the leaves in a nicotine so- 

 lution. Perhaps dryness at the root may 

 be the cause of the trouble. There are 

 so many causes of decay on the foliage 

 that it is difficult to give a more explicit 

 answer without examining the leaves or 

 knowing more of cultural conditions. 



