Fbbbdabt 11, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



13 



"WUU Seedfine No. 30, of F. R. Pimon Co. 



of our neighbor, -was made with plants 

 on shallow wooden benches of the pre- 

 vailing type. Baub Floral Co. 



TWO PIERSON CARNATIONS. 



At the Indianapolis convention of the 

 Carnation Society one of the varieties to 

 attract attention was a dark pink sport 

 of Winsor, which originated with the P. 

 E. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y. The 

 judges gave this a certificate, scoring it 

 85 points. Mr. Pierson is of the opinion 

 that this will with many growers take 

 the place so long occupied by Lawson. 

 The character of growth of Winsor is 

 well known. The dark pink sport is like 

 the parent in everything except color. 

 This is more even than in Lawson, which 

 will add considerably to its market value. 



A PierSon seedling which was well 

 liked at Indianapolis was No. 30, white, 

 which secured a certificate of merit, scor- 

 ing 86 points. There seems less oppor- 

 tunity for white carnations than for dark 

 pinks, but at the Pierson establishment 

 N9. 30 ia highly thought of. 



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f--' K > ^^CARNATION MAY. 



Csiiration May has been advertised as 

 the most profitable for florists. I should 

 like to know in what way. Mine are not 

 growing much. They come semi-double 

 and short-stemmed, but the plants were 

 received late. I want to give it another 

 trial next year, and would like some hints 

 on the best way to grow this variety. 



M. 



Our finn introduced the variety May 

 last season, and one of the strongest 

 points we claimed for it was freodom 

 and pi^fitablenesB. The bloom is of 

 medium ^e, grading up nicely with 

 Bountiful, Lawson, Victory, etc., just as 

 we said in our ads. It is such a free, 

 early and continuous bloomer, however, 

 that it has been more profitable to us 

 than the Enchantress varieties. This 



season, however, we have had to cut into 

 our plants so much for cuttings that we 

 are not getting the maximum number 

 of blooms, by far. 



As to its peculiarities, we can say that 

 it has none. All it wants is reasonably 

 good culture. Give it a fairly early start 

 as a cutting. Pot, plant and top just as 

 you would any other carnation. • Lift 

 about August 1 and let it come into 

 bloom whenever you can use the blooms. 

 It naturally makes a fine plant and 



bushes out wttl^moderate topping, and 

 it lifts easily. ^ 



We have found a few plants which 

 throw single blooms, and we try to avoid 

 these in taking cuttings. There never 

 have been enough of these, however, to 

 cut any figure. We have also had a 

 number of plants sport into a deep rose 

 shade of color. Some came with a solid 

 color, while most of the blooms came 

 streaked. We have worked up a stock of 

 some 500 plants of the solid -colored 

 sport, which we have blooming here this 

 season. We expect this to be our main 

 variety in rose-pink next season, as we 

 shall have some 5,000 plants to bench. 



We cite this latter feature merely to 

 show that we really believe the variety 

 May and its sports to be all that we 

 claimed for May when we introduced it. 

 We are growing about 2,500 May this 

 year for blooming, as against 1,500 En- 

 chantress, and we are planning about 

 the same proportion for next season. We 

 would not do this if the variety did 

 not really pay us to grow. We have long 

 ago passed the stage where we would 

 grow a variety of our own raising just 

 because it was our own. We grow car- 

 nations for profit, and the most profitable 

 varieties are what we are aiming to grow, 

 regardless of who the raiser may be. 



Baub & Smith. 



Union, N. H. — Frank Varney is build- 

 ing another greenhouse, in connection 

 with the one erected several years ago. 



Bristol, Tenn. — The D. S. Simpson 

 Co. has made application for amendment 

 to its charter, seeking to change its name 

 to the Bristol Floral Co. 



South Bend, Ind. — An overheated 

 stove in the new store of the South Bend 

 Floral Co., at 216 Michigan street, caused 

 a fire which did $25 damage. 



Masisonville, Kt. — ^P. A. Chervenka 

 lost his wife January 14. The large dis- 

 play of flowers at her funeral attested 

 her popularity in the community. 



Dark Pink Sport of Winsor, of F. R. PiertMi Co. 





