I'tT* xTTT^r ~ . -TV ~ ~ '■'-*< '^. 



Jakoabt 13, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



S3 



SUCCESS WI TH JONES MUMS. 



Each year a class is provided for the 

 Mrs. Jerome Jones chrysanthemum at the 

 Boston exhibition, the interest from a 

 special fund providing the prizes. With- 

 out saying anything deprecatory of the 

 many fine white varieties introduced since 

 the advent of Mrs. Jerome Jones over 

 twenty years ago, it is safe to say that 

 none of them are superior to and few 

 the equal of that grand old variety when 

 well done. A large vase of it at the last 

 Boston show was more admired than any 

 other. Having a rigid stem and magnifi- 

 cent foliage carried right up to the 

 flower, its pure white, incurved blooms 

 possess a beauty quite lacking in some of 

 the newer introductions. 



Thomas Howden, of Whitinsville, a 

 successful mum grower, has particular 

 success with this fine chrysanthemum, and 

 has captured quite a number of premiums 

 with both the white and yellow forma in 

 Boston. He uses the same compost as for 

 his other varieties. He believes the trou- 

 ble most growers experience results from 

 keeping it too cool. He has grown them 

 in both boxes and pots, but got the finest 

 flowers from the pots. After giving them 

 their final shift he places them on an end 

 bench in the rose house, where they do 

 much better than when grown cool with 

 other sorts in the chrysanthemum house. 



Last season he grew some in 9-ineh 

 pots and others in boxes in a cool house 

 all the season, but they were absolute 

 failures. The best he ever had were in 

 7-inch pots, which were fed heavily. If 

 propagated late, Mrs. Jerome Jones is 

 not a success. James Nicol, of Quincy, 

 makes a specialty of this chrysanthemum, 

 and his flowers are an eye-opener to those 

 who are under the delusion that because 

 Mrs. Jerome Jones is old it is a back 

 number. I believe when well grown it 

 will give the commercial grower more 

 money than any other variety, with the 

 possible exception of Jeanne Nonin, 

 which flowers a little later and realizes a 

 good price at Thanksgiving. 



W. N. Ckaig. 



NOT GOOD INDOOR STOCK. 



Are the following chrysanthemums of 

 good commercial quality as cut flowers : 

 S. Grunerwald, Parisiana White, Goacher 

 and Carrie? What date should the buds 

 be taken? I live in the northeastern part 

 of Oregon. F. C. P. 



Oregon is a long distance from New 

 Jersey and, though I will try to answer 

 P. C. P. 's inquiry in good faith, my 

 information may not help him much. 



These varieties will not make long- 

 stemmed commercial flowers, such as the 

 American public has been accustomed 

 to buying. They have much the same 

 habit and style of growth as some 

 varieties that I distributed last year, 

 namely, the Mary Masse family, Louis 



Lemaire, Coronation, Goacher's Crimson, 

 etc. These varieties are early flowering, 

 but they are not amenable to the style 

 of culture generally given a chrysanthe- 

 mum with us. It is almost impossible to 

 get them to break again after the bud 

 has been pinched out, and to get them to 

 run up, making long stems, three feet or 

 more in length. Grown as pot plants, 

 however, or planted out in the garden 

 and allowed^to grow pretty much as they 

 choose after the first pinching, they will 

 flower profusely and give good satisfac- 

 tion. 



I cannot see why F. C. P. cannot grow 

 these varieties outdoors and have good 

 success with them. I had splendid suc- 

 cess with Goacher's Crimson, Horace 

 Martin, White Quintus and Marie Masse, 

 planted outside early in May and al- 

 lowed to follow their own sweet will. 

 They were a solid mass of flowers from 

 the middle of September onward, and 

 while the individual stems were short, the 

 quantity of flowers produced was 

 prodigious. I have tried Grunerwald and 

 Carrie inside without success here in New 

 Jersey, but, as I have suggested, I be- 

 lieve they would do well outside in such 

 a climate as I imagine Oregon to have. 



There is no question as to what date 

 the buds should be taken, because they 

 will be producing buds right along after 

 the first part of May. The early buds 

 will blast and will never develop, but the 

 buds produced in August will nearly 

 always come good. C. H. Totty. 



BULBOUS STOCK FOR SPRING. 



Can tulips, jonquils, narcissi and hya- 

 cinths that were planted in the open 

 ground in the fall produce flowers of 

 good enough quality for funeral work, 

 etc., the following spring? I live in the 

 northeastern part of Oregon. F. C. P. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



FaU Exhibition. 



The executive committee of the Chrys- 

 anthemum Society of America has ac- 

 cepted the invitation of the Morris 

 County Gardeners' and Florists' Society 

 to hold its annual meeting and exhibition 

 at Morristown, N. J., next fall. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



Yes, flowers produced on any of the 

 aforementioned bulbs will be of just as 

 fine quality as are produced under glass. 

 ±'lowers can be kept cleaner under glass, 

 and retarded, which is not possible with 

 those grown outdoors. Occasionally heavy 

 wind and rain storms will damage the 

 outdoor stock in some measure, but you 

 can depend on their producing flowers of 

 excellent quality. C. W. 



THE ACORN. 



"Great oaks from little acorns grow," 

 and if there is any part of the country 

 in which the flower business is increasing 

 faster than in another it is in the great 

 southwest, from whence comes the accom- 

 panying illustration of the residence, 

 grounds and greenhouse of Mrs. L. E. 

 Wheeler. Mrs. Wheeler is located at El 

 Campo, Tex., and styles her place the 

 Sunset Greenhouses. She did not find 

 that the Christmas trade called for the 

 fifty-dollar plant combinations the New 

 York retail florists tell about, but she 

 nevertheless had an excellent trade, and 

 says the business is growing steadily. 

 While cut flowers are not called for ex- 

 cept for special occasions, the plant trade 

 is growing steadily. The western country 

 is rapidly filling up, and prosperity soon 

 comes to most of the settlers. As soon as 

 necessities are provided for, comforts 

 come into demand, and the florist begins 

 to feel the increase. 



Cambridge, Mass. — Bobbins Bros., the 

 florists of 630 Massachusetts avenue, are 

 distributing among their patrons a cal- 

 endar with an appropriate colored picture. 



The Wheeler Place at EI Campo, Tex. 



