The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Jlm; 17, l".»Ol>. 



I I'll'''! i'iii iiiiii>oii v;uiflU'.- Willi stiiiMi'lis, 

 J!. H. r.iir lirsi. 



Ciillci'iiriii iriciilm- VMiicl ics. l;. II. law lirsl, 



<•. II. J'ctll'^llll StMlllld. 



I'it'ly lili.oMi^ wliili'. S. C. Ilarii~. willi 

 i'lsiiv.i .M,i\iiii.-i. 



ril'l\ il.iiU piiik, S. C. Ilarri> lir>l. 



It ^■ .-IS i|i'cic|i'(| Id ((iiiiliiiic ill tiitiirc 



"he rhissrs c-iiII'iiil; t'lir cullcct inn ut' white 



:illi| CI illrct inn 1 1 1' cliMlli white, .-llsi) tile 



i-his^e^ tnr (•(ijlri-t iiPii 111' i-riiiisiiiis with 

 .•iihI withmil stiinieiis. 



Ill the rhl^ses n|j('|l uIlK to ;i lllllt ell r.s. 



III the yrcH'iihmiscs. Kvei'v coiivi'iiioiieo 

 w.is |)i()\iil('<l t'oi' the coiivcntioiiists; all 

 t mills were iiicl ;iii<l iiotliiiig was li't't 

 ilinldiie liy Ilie ( (ittMgc (Sai'ih'Iis ('o. In 

 make the iiiceliii}.; iiuMiKU'ahlc. 



Visitors. 



.\iiiip|iii tliiise |ireseiit were: 



I'..llllll-|iir. I.inll II., ClPnicll IlLJMTSil.V. 



I'.r.iuii, I!. T.. (Queens, .\. ^^ 

 l'.i\:inl. ilin .\.. I'riiircleii. III. 

 ('i:iiii. .Iiilili, IIIkh-.-i. .\. \'. 



(llW.-lll. .I.IMU'^. ( l.-^li.iu M, ('Mll.-ldil. 



A Portion of the American Peonv Society's Test Collection at Cornell. 



.\lliert L;il;iii||iy. oarcieiiev lir 'I'. S. I!;i\e 

 Jieyei. tiiuk all the |>ri/e^ 



S|iei-i;il iiieiitiiiii was iici-niilcd the 

 |H(iii\ rnllect inns iit' I!. II. i'"ai'l' aild (ien. 

 II. I 'etiT^iili, ;ilii| .liilili Lewis ('liihls fur a 

 tine ili^play of iris ami lilies. <'liili|s e\ 

 liiliiteil tit'teeii \;irieties of iris, alsii 

 .\iiiarylli- .Inhiisniii ainl liliiinis. 



The |ieiinies (if the ( nttaye (ianleii.s 

 • II. Were .-It their |iriiMi' ainl the ii|i|i()r 

 tiinily iif i nsjieet iiiji' them was aiiijile re<- 

 iilii|ieii^e tnr the jiiiiniey tn every iieony 

 ;^riiwer, fill' the ciillectioii is mie of the 

 laieest ill tlie i-diiiitry. .Many nf the 

 \isitiiis Were imrseryiiii'ii ami fdiiml 

 inmh I I interest in the liiy mirsery ami 



l>:iill.i|.iii/.,.. Ilciiix, l]:illiiisli. \ \. 

 hiiilledniize. I':iill. llMtiiil,-.!!. N. ^ 

 r(:lll|illill, .liise|ill. I^IU'CIIS. N. ^ 



n.vkes, W. I'.. Iti.l^cw 1. .\. .1 



i'.in. l:. II , Itiiiiliii;.-. I'.i. 



Ki'Wkes. .\. II.. Nculiiii llit;lil:iiMl.-. M:i- 



ll:inN. S. (;.. T.-inx ln\Mi. N. ^. 



lliiiiiiii. .liiliii-^, Siiiitli 111 .iliil lee, M.i>^ 



lliilo. llciirv. \\'e<lliMI\ Sl.-lliell, I. I 



Mclli.l. .I.illll, ,Me|llnr, u. 



I'l-Ier-ell, lieu, II,, I'MilhlUll, N. ^. 



rilel-iili. W. .\.. Cliiiiiyn. 

 l'lcr~iMi, I'. I;,. I :ii 1 ,\ Ion II, \, y. 

 S,iiiiiilei> rmt. .\, I'., t liiitim. N. Y. 

 'riiiiile", ili'o, r.. West Ncwliuix , .Mas.s. 

 rr.ieiMll,\, r II., N.« 'Siilk eily, 



^■•lllllL:- .iniiii, .\iu ^■|>I■|< cii.w 



I'lK, K'mmds. .Mkii.- ( '. M. Itii.skirk. nf 



the Star ( ireellhiilisi's. is .-lilcliliii tun 

 linuscs. 



THE PEONY. 



No Boom Bursted 



Talk to a Holland nursei'.v salcsnian 

 and III' will t.-'l you tin; peony boom in 

 Aineriea is over. Hoonis are fine things 



vvlien fliey ar i the up graile, but when 



a boom Mursts someone gets hurt. 



As a juatter of fact, there never was ,i 

 peony boom in America. ITiere was, ot 

 course, a measure of awakening to tlni 

 ineiits of this wonderful flower, and a 

 greatly augmented demand, which found 

 few American mirserymen jirepared Avith 

 slock. The r(>sult was a gr(>at iiicreasi 

 ill the number aiul size of orders sent to 

 Kurope. It does not take many years 

 to work up stock of any popular plant, 

 and that the rush oj' orders to Kurope 

 should have subsided by now is no more 

 than natural. The fact is, however, that 

 till' orders sent abroad for peonies are 

 still more numerous and larger than they 

 were bef.ii'e the peony began to be ajipre 

 ciated at its true worth. 



That ''the boom is 'busted' '" is 

 wholly wrong. There are more and more 

 peonies sold each yeai'. The only change 

 is tiial the numbei' of those able to sup 

 ply the lea.ding varieties has greatly in 

 iiensed. and with the. large increase in 

 the siip|ilv of stock there has natiirallv 

 bei'll ;i derlilie ill plic-es. 



Public Only Partially Appreciative. 



It still woiiM take decimal f r.'ict ions 

 to state the part nf the American Mower 

 buying public that has been arnuseil tn 

 ;in ajipreciat ion o\' the peiuiy. It is a 

 fact, unbelievable as it m;iy seem, that 

 a good many |(eo])le of ciMisiderable re 

 tineiiient do not even recognize the peony 

 when they see the cut blooms as now sold 

 by cajiable tlorists. ''Why, what is it.''' 

 It is a (|uestion liearil every now and 

 then wlieie the peony is iiududtvl among 

 other Mowers used at some social fiinc 

 tion. P>ut there is never failure to 

 recognize it as something beautiful; the 

 better sor*s \ ie with the rose, and it is 

 only a (piestion of time when the use of 

 peonies will be many times as great as it 

 is toilay, tar as the a<lvance already has 

 been. The regular llower buyers already 

 know the peony as one of th(> hand- 

 somest of garden i)lants and (uie of the 

 best of ilecorative cut flowers. 



For the Retail FIori«t. 



I'or the icfail florist tlieie is no flower 

 which exi-els the peony in bold decora- 

 tive value. Not even the chivsanthemiim. 



The Peony in the West— Nothing but Peonies in Sight. 



