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December 10, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



25 



Single Chrysanthemum Emily Wells, Bright Ptok. 



season of growth and an early bud and 

 then it is all right. So many growers 

 have yet to learn the lesson that it is 

 impossible to get something out of noth- 

 ing, and after planting out in July they 

 wonder why they cannot get good flow- 

 ers from their stock. 



The rest of the whites are placed about 

 as they go in the order of merit. Mrs. 

 J. Makant is a novelty, much on the 

 order of Moir, but with less neck. Mrs. 

 F. F. Thompson, with its curling petal, 

 is the most beautiful of the lot as a 

 flower, but its neck puts it out of the 

 running in any but the short-stem class. 



In the yellows, Appleton is not yet de- 

 posed from his perch, though eventually 

 he will meet his Waterloo. F, S. Vallis 

 everyone knows and everyone grows for 

 his largest flower. Mary Donnellan has 

 been well received, and if it only had the 

 Appleton foliage it would depose the 

 latter. Two novelties are in the yellow 

 class — Yellow Miller sport and Mrs. L. 

 Thome. Neither one ia deep in color, 

 though in their class as light yellow they 

 are fine. Yellow Miller is having a heavy 

 sale on its parents' record. S. A. 

 Naceur-Bey is one of last year's French 

 kinds that has made its way to the front. 

 It is tinted with bronze occasionally, but 

 otherwise is a handsome thing. The 

 rest are all well known. Yellow Eaton 

 is about ready to step off the list. 

 Neither of the Batons is as good as it 

 was and their race is about run. 



In pinks, no variety has loomed up like 

 Hankey this year. A year ago my kind 

 friends, the knockers, decided that this 

 variety was overrated and that my judg- 

 ment, like the flower, did not amount to 

 much. Hankey was head and shoulders 

 above any pink at Chicago and New 

 York this year and has vindicated itself. 

 Frank Payne and Mrs. C. H. Totty are 

 both good as novelties in this class, 



though I could wish they were deeper 

 in color. Duckham is losing its grip, 

 and though some eastern growers still 

 get it fine, it is not so good as it was. 

 Loiseau-Rousseau is a wretched color, 

 but a magnificent flower, and, so long as 

 size counts thirty-five points in the scale, 

 must be reckoned with. Lady Hopetoun, 

 though the neck is weak, is still one of 

 our largest blooms. Grace Whitney will 

 be seen in much better shape another 

 year. 



In bronze, Mrs. O. H. Kahil is the win- 

 ner. It is as easy to grow as a cabbage 

 and comes on any bud. It was a favorite 

 everywhere. Rose Pockett, while it will 

 only figure in the short-stem class, as the 

 neck is too long, is one of the hand- 

 somest mums ever staged. Ongawa ia a 

 grand thing in this class, but a little 

 too early for most shows. Glenview pro- 

 duces some great stock, but the bud has 

 to be just right. A little too early or 

 too late makes a big difference with it. 

 Mary Mason is one of the biggest mums 

 we have and Miller is always in evidence. 



The crimson class has been enriched 

 this year by the addition of some won- 

 derful things. It is, in fact, almost 

 a matter for regret that we have so 

 many at once. Chas. H. Totty is not 

 a true crimson, shading, as it does, back 

 to chestnut, but it is a grand mum. Lest 

 I be misunderstood, let it be stated that 

 C. H. Totty was not named by me per- 

 sonally. My bump of conceit has never 

 swelled to the point of naming anything 

 after myself. It was named by Wells 

 in England, and is an Australian seed- 

 ling. Pockett 's Crimson is the gem of. 

 this lot. Its record is now a matter of 

 history and another year in the hands of 

 our expert growers will only enhance its 

 reputation. It is all crimson and will 

 never be classed as a bronze, as so many 

 of our crimsons have been. Pockett 's 



Surprise does not show such rich color- 

 ing, but it makes an even larger flower 

 and must be classed as a special any- 

 where. Leslie Morrison shades off sev- 

 eral points on color, but it ia such an 

 enormous flower that a place must be 

 made for it in the short-vase classes at 

 least. 



In the odd colors. Splendor is the most 

 prominent. It is a peculiarly shaded 

 flower and an odd color. The petals, 

 some of which are two inches wide, hang 

 straight down and show only the bronze 

 reverse, with an occasional glimpse of 

 crimson showing in the upturned tip. 

 It is a striking and novel flower and I 

 think will be popular. Bessie Evans is 

 a pink so light that it shades to white 

 in the center of the flower. It makes a 

 very large flower and is an easy variety 

 to handle. 



I consider that 1908 marks an epoch 

 in the history of the mum. Not only 

 were there some splendid shows, but the 

 new kinds set up for the first time show 

 such marked progress that we may truth- 

 fully say that the end is not yet. 



Charles H. Tottt. 



BEST LATE VARIETffiS. 



I would be pleased to learn the names 

 of the best standard late varieties of 

 chrysanthemums, in the colors white, yel- 

 low and pink. I have Eaton and Yellow 

 Eaton and want some others as late or 

 later than those kinds. P. H. 



The standard kinds appearing in New 

 York since Thanksgiving have been: In 

 white, W. H. Chadwick, Jerome Jones 

 and Jeanne Nonin; in yellow. Yellow 

 Chadwick, Bonnaffon and Nagoya; in 

 pink, Maud Dean, Dr. Enguehard and 

 Helen Frick. 



