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12 



The Florists' Review 



Septembbk 26, lOlt. 



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PLANTS UNDES GLASS. 



They Ate Early This Ytar. 



The standard varieties under glass 

 are coming along rapidly at this time 

 and in many cases are some ten days 

 earlier than usual with us. Whether 

 this is general, I am unable to say. 

 Unaka, which we did not cut last year 

 until September 25, we have been able 

 to cut since September 7, thereby mak- 

 ing it practically three weeks earlier 

 than ever before. It must be con- 

 fessed that financially there seems to be 

 little gain by trying to get them in 

 ahead of "the other fellow," as the 

 market hardly settles down before frost 

 has nipped most of the outdoor stock. 



Monrovia and white and yellow Octo- 

 ber Frost are also fully developed with 

 us ten days earlier than usual. The 

 weather-sharp may put it down to the 

 hot spell in July or the cool spell in 

 August. I am content to say I do not 

 know what is responsible. 



Going through a greenhouse recently 

 and observing a splendid lot of plants 

 with the buds just a mass of red spider, 

 prompts the suggestion that one should 

 look over his plants and see that they 

 are perfectly clean before syringing is 

 discontinued. It is impossible to syringe 

 when the buds are half developed and 

 the spider must be cleaned off before 

 the buds come to that state or many of 

 them will never develop at all. 



Thrips and green and black fly must 

 also be closely looked for, but it is safe 

 to say that spider causes more trouble 

 to the mum growers than nearly all 

 other causes put together. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



OTTTDOOS VABTBTIES. 



The double-flowering outdoor type of 

 chrysanthemum is getting to be much 

 better known in America and in almost 

 every part of the country it is giving 

 splendid satisfaction. This type is the 

 mum seen in the Covent Garden and 

 Parisian markets through the months 

 of August, September and October, 

 either grown as pot plants or cut in 

 sprays and bunched. 



We are indebted to Auguste Nonin 

 for the most improved varieties and 

 some of his newer ones are wonderfully 

 fine. The following sorts were in full 

 flower September 20 and making a 

 wonderful show with us, grown outdoors 

 without disbudding or any care save a 

 slight protection during the winter. 



Normandie so far is the gem of the 

 set, a lovely Enchantress shade of pink. 

 Where some of the shoots have been 

 disbudded they are throwing good flow- 

 ers, but where they have been left to 

 run to sprays they are, I think, more 

 beautiful. It is wonderfully prolific and 

 a splendid thing to grow in this manner 

 for cutting. 



The best yellow so far open is Harrie, 



a variety imported last year. It is a 

 good deep yellow and has been a per- 

 fect mass of flowers for the last ten 

 days. Maggie is the only other good 

 yellow to compete with it at this date. 

 A lighter shade of yellow is Jack Ban- 

 nister, but it is really too light and 

 does not show up much better than a 

 dirty white. 



Other varieties that were in excel- 

 lent shape at the date mentioned were 

 Perle Chatillonaise, a creamy white 

 which makes a much longer stem than 

 the average; consequently it is more 

 valuable to be used as a bunching va- 

 riety. 



In white the best so far open is La 

 Cygne, which is pure in color and has 

 the best habit of the whites so far open. 

 Holmes White is wonderfully free, al- 

 though hardly so long in the stem. Prov- 

 ence, while called a pink in England, in 

 our more brilliant sunshine is bleached 

 practically to white. The gold tip and 

 center are not nearly so brilliant as 

 when grown in France or England. 



La Yonne is another pink that shades, 

 with us, almost to white. L'Aube is 

 white shaded with rose, although the 



rose is so delicate that it simply givea 

 the faintest flush to the flower. We 

 cannot expect to get the pinks ia good 

 color nearly so early as the Europesln 

 growers do. 



The best pink of the whole lot so far 

 is Mme. Marquis. This is quite a goQd 

 color and the incurving, florets, particu- 

 larly when the flower is disbudded, are 

 especially attractive. i 



We have only two scarlets at the 

 present time in good condition. They 

 are Firefly, a good crimson with golden 

 tips, and Wells' Scarlet, which shades 

 from scarlet to deep terra cotta. 



The foregoing notes comprise all the 

 varieties that were fully open Septem- 

 ber 20. That there is a big field for 

 these mums when they become better 

 known, I am positive, from the inqui- 

 ries that are all the time coming in for 

 varieties that will flower before the 

 sharp frost appears to cut and disfigure 

 the blooms. 



In the northern part of this country 

 these varieties will be just as hardy as 

 the pompons. They are entirely hardy 

 in New Jersey, when given a slight pro- 



The Double Caona, a Seedlinf with Ei£ht Petals. 



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