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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVKMBER 25, 1009. 



Chrysanthemum Howard Gould. 



Bed and bronze varieties: W. Mere- 

 dith, Mrs. Partridge, Matchless, Amateur 

 Conaeul, Mrs. O. H. Kahn, Ethel Fitzroy 

 and Glenview. 



These cover the season and also cover 

 practically all the range of colors. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



SOME OF THE NEW MUMS. 



Mrs. W. Arnold is a fine commercial 

 white, an American seedling certificated 

 by the C. S. A. on commercial scale ; stem 

 quite stiff; foliage well up and of deep, 

 glossy green; hardly big enough for a 

 show flower, but should make its mark as 

 a commercial variety, as petal is hard 

 and stiff and will stand handling. 



Miss M. Smith is a terra cotta pink. 

 Petals are hooked at the end, which 

 makes it seem like a hairy variety. A 

 handsome looking flower, with fine stem 

 and foliage. 



Mrs. David Syme is a grand white that 

 is booked to displace all of our other 

 whites on the exhibition table. It is as 

 large as Moir, when the latter is well 

 done. It carries the foliage right up to 

 the flower; stem is absolutely perfect, 

 and when taken on the bud about Au- 

 gust 15 produces a flower that is as 

 near perfection in its color as it is 

 possible to get. Mrs. David Syme has 

 been certificated in England, has won 

 the gold medal in Australia and would 

 have scored very high in this country 

 had there been sufficient stock to place it 

 before any committee. 



Mrs. W. A. Eead is an intense, fiery, 

 scarlet crimson, petals standing out 

 stiff to show the color to the best ad- 

 vantage. This variety is perfect in foli- 

 age, which is right up to the flower, stem 

 stiff, grows rather above the average 

 height, and will undoubtedly make its 

 mark as a striking exhibition variety. 

 Any bud after August 15 produces a per- 

 fect flower. 



Onunda is the gigantic white that Avas 



staged by Wm. Duckham at the Ameri- 

 can Institute. The flower was forty-five 

 inches in circumference, by actual meas- 

 urement, and it was claimed, and I be- 

 lieve rightly, that it was easily the 

 largest flower ever put on exhibition in 



America. The stem was fully equal to 

 carrying the flower erect, which was re- 

 markable when one considers the im- 

 mense weight of the bloom. • This va- 

 riety scored ninety-four points on the 

 exhibition scale. The color is the weak- 

 est point, being a lemon yellow, but it 

 is a gigantic thing and its size makes 

 it a feature to be reckoned with in ex- 

 hibition varieties. 



Howard Gould is a crimson scarlet, 

 one of the Wells varieties for 1910; a 

 reflexed, stiff petal that shows all the 

 color to the best advantage; heavy, well- 

 formed flower, foliage right up to flower,, 

 and stem first-class. This will be a wel- 

 come addition to the crimson section. 



C. H. TOTTY. 



RUST ON MUMS. 



Kindly tell us the cause of the browo 

 spots on the enclosed chrysanthemum 

 leaves, and also the remedy. 



H. W. W. 



The brown spots on the leaves are 

 rust, and the remedy to apply is sulphide 

 of potassium, in the proportion of one 

 ounce to two gallons of water. This will 

 kill the germs of the disease and prevent 

 it from sj^reading, and with reasonable 

 care H. W. W. will have perfectly clean 

 stock another year. C. H. Totty. 



BLOOMS DROOP, STEMS BREAK. 



What is the matter with my Col. Apple- 

 ton chrysanthemums? The blooms droop 

 over when partly open and the stems 

 break. They are grown to single stems 

 in ■■ bench. T. C. B. 



It is pretty hard to tell what is the 

 matter with these chrysanthemums, with- 



Chrytaotfaemum Mr». W. A. Read, 



