Dkcbmber 16, 1909. 



The Wcddy Florists'' Review* 



35 



INDIANA A WINNER. 



Mums are all gone and we are sorry to 

 -(je them go, as they help to make the 

 [lace look well. Mrs. Eobinson was the 

 ,.est white mum I ever had since I have 

 .een in business, though the new mum 

 Indiana, sent out by Mr. Knopf, of the 

 \vnopf Floral Co., Richmond, Ind., is fine 

 ,ind it will be my choice, next to Robin- 

 son, next year. I had some thirty- four 

 ;iew mums last year and this year, but 

 Indiana is the only one of these that I 

 will grow again in large quantities. 



Simon J. Hidbr. 



SMITH AND HIS MUMS. 



At the greenhouses of the Lakewood 

 <;emetery, Minneapolis, Minn., they have 

 had remarkable success this year with at 

 <;rop of Yellow Eaton, as well as other 

 things. The accompanying illustration 

 shows A. J. Smith, manager of the estab- 

 lishment, standing beside a few of the 

 blooms. An entire house was flowered 

 with the utmost uniformity. The flowers 

 were all of great size, perfectly finished 

 and all ready to cut at one time, so that 

 the space could be cleared for a spring 

 ■crop. A house of Primula obconica also 

 was brought on and marketed in espe- 

 cially fine shape this fall. 



Mr. Smith was the author of the paper 

 on "The Employee's Side of the Ques- 

 tion," read before his local Florists' 

 €lub and published in the Review Octo- 

 ber 28. In several other cities the paper 

 has been liked so well that members have 

 taken it upon themselves to read it aloud 

 at club meetings. 



MR. WELLS ON AMERICA. 



W. "Wells, the widely known English 

 ■chrysanthemum grower, who recently 

 spent some weeks in the vicinity of New 

 York, writes in part as follows to one 

 of his home papers, the Horticultural 

 Trade Journal: 



"As I promised to send you a few 

 notes about my visit to America, I now 

 take the first opportunity I have of 

 <loing so. 



"First of all, the Mauretania hustled 

 iiie across without making me ill, so I 

 thoroughly enjoyed it. As soon as I 

 landed, my friends were there to meet 

 'le, and the reception I had was a right 

 lioarty one, which made me feel at home 

 ■'^raight away. Another thing I enjoyed 

 ^as the brilliant sunshine every day, all 

 iay long, except the last. I arrived at 

 \eyf York October 29 and left there 

 -November 17. 



"My object was threefold: First, a 

 oliday; second, I am publishing an up- 

 'O-date edition of 'Wells' Culture of the 

 ' 'hrysanthemum, ' and as I wished to in- 

 clude a chapter on tbe way they are 

 iirown, and the varieties they grow in 

 -America, I thought I could write with 

 "lore confidence if I saw for myself. I 

 ''as very sorry to miss every mum show in 



Great Britain, the first time for at least 

 twenty years. But if W. Wells was away, 

 the 'Co.' was busy, so I have just come 

 home happy in the knowledge that things 

 can be done as well by others as I could 

 have done them myself. My third object 

 was to fix up an agency in America. 

 Each year we send a set or two of our 

 novelties to several firms over there. One 

 or two of these firms endeavor to grow 

 them as well as they can the first year, 

 while others cut them to pieces and pro- 

 pagate them for all they are > xyortb. 

 (Iffli't that just the same as heref)^ Tire 

 latter cut the prices so low (below the 

 other fellow's feet) that no one appears 

 to get much out of them. 



''Knowing that our (i. e., the Wells- 

 Pockett) varieties do so well in America, 

 I felt curious and anxious to know every - 



is great, as is also the heat in America — 

 the summer conditions are very similar — 

 and considering that all the chrysanthe- 

 mums are grown indoors through the 

 summer in America, the heat is even 

 greater than it would be outdoors in 

 Australia. 



"It is an old but true saying, as old 

 Farmer Brown said, that 'one never saw 

 a pig but he would eat a bit miore. ' 

 That occurred to me when I thought 

 there shouM be a bit more coming to 

 me ' from America. So off to America 

 I -goes and I have fixed it up with C. 

 H. Totty, a well known flhrysanthemum 

 grower and trader of Madison, N. J., to 

 be our sole agent for America. There 

 will be no more diddling, and it's 'up to 

 Totty' to make his own arrangements so 

 that he can make as much as he can. 



A. J. Smith and His Chrysanthemums. 



thing there was to know about them, and 

 now I know that at all the exhibitions 

 I visited the Australian varieties totaled 

 about two-thirds of the whole of the 

 varieties. It is a curious fact, and yet 

 it is no puzzle to me now, for one has 

 only to think that the heat in Australia 



For the Americans say, 'Make money 

 when there's a boom,' and that there 

 is a boom in mums over there no one can 

 deny. 



"How do they grow their mmnst 

 Why, they just plant them in the houses 

 on benches, because they cannot grow 



