The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



October 28, 1909. 



SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS. 



Novelties. 



Every year the inquiry comes, with 

 flowering time, "What's new?" The 

 public, in its eternal craving for some- 

 thing different, is always interested in 

 the new things and it is by the novelties 

 every year that we measure the step of 

 progress. The usual list of novelties is 

 in order and, by present indications, we 

 will have some beautiful varieties to add 

 to our list. 



The varieties illustrated, Mrs. A. R. 

 Peacock and Mrs. William Wincott, are 

 both American seedlings and were cer- 

 tificated by the New York Committee of 

 the C. S. A. as No. 1 and No. 2, on 

 Saturday, October 16, the former being 

 also certificated by the New York Flo- 

 rists' Club October 11. It is a Beatrice 

 May seedling and greatly resembles that 

 variety in form and color, and while it 

 wUl not, perhaps, make so deep a flower, 

 it has excellent foliage right up to the 

 flower, and the lack of that is just the 

 fault of Beatrice May. 



Mrs. William Wincott, certificated as 

 No. 2, is best described as an improved 

 Mrs. W. B. Chamberlain. It will never 

 be a big flower, but it is perfect in form 

 and habit, and as a commercial pink it 

 will come right behind Pacific and will 

 always give an evenly colored flower. 



The Australian Section. 



In the Australian section the best 

 thing so far open is R. F. Felton. This 

 is a yellow with the glorious sheen of 

 Golden Wedding and js even deeper in 

 color than that variety. We have larger 

 yellows, notably F. S. Vallis, Mrs. George 

 Hunt and others, but there is not in the 

 whole range of yellows a variety with 

 the color of R. F. Felton. It has re- 

 ceived certificates and medals galore in 

 Australia and England, but, best of all, 

 it does well with us here and every bud 

 is producing a perfect flower. It is evi- 

 dently a poor propagator, but that seems 

 to be its only fault and I predict a large 

 call for this variety wherever it is shown. 



Mrs. David Syme is a winner and is 

 here to stay, by present indications. It 

 is making an enormous flower on the lines 

 of Mrs, H. Weeks and has the foliage 

 right up to the flower. Mrs. Syme took 

 the gold medal in Melbourne in April of 

 this year, as being the best seedling in 

 sight, and we may confidently look for 

 great things from this variety, as history 

 has shown that the best things in Aus- 

 tralia are the best ones here also, cli- 

 matic conditions being so similar. 



Gladys Blackburn is a very large 

 flower and seems to come equally well 

 on almost any bud. It is a true Japan- 

 ese, all the petals reflexing as with Mrs. 

 Knox, and overlapping each other with 

 the greatest regularity. "Well groomed" 

 describes this variety exactly. Nay, gen- 

 tle reader, I did not say "Wells" 



groomed. That is mere persiflage and 

 this is a serious article. The color of 

 Gladys Blackburn is a pale buff. 



Hetty Wells is one of the most beau- 

 tiful flowers I have ever grown. It is 

 not large, but it has the most exquisite 

 shadings of old rose and apricot, with a 

 golden tip to each petal. A natural, 

 free growth seems to suit this variety 

 best, and it will probably find its way as 

 a pot variety. 



Keith Luxford is rather necky, though 

 the flower is carried erect easily enough, 

 as the stem is good and stiff. The color 

 is entirely distinct, being a ruby red, 

 and every petal reflexes so that the color 

 shows evenly all through the flower. It 

 is not specially large with me, but the 

 color is so striking that everyone should 

 grow it for exhibition purposes. 



W. Hotston is first-class in every par- 

 ticular and one of the kinds that will 

 stay with us. The color is rosy cerise 

 and the whole appearance of the plant 



only the reverse. True incurved sort^ 

 such as this, do not attain to the dignity 

 of exhibition flowers where the scale gives 

 thirty-five points for size, but they com- 

 prise the bulk of the commercial kinds 

 and are the kinds most largely handled 

 in consequence. 



Exhibition flowers u a whole have suf 

 fered less from damping this year than 

 any year for some time past, and next 

 week, with shows opening in Madison, 

 Lenox, Glen Cove and other places, will 

 see the finest lot of flowers staged that 

 hai«e ever been set up in America. Our 

 grdwers are getting better versed every 

 year and the varieties are certainly far 

 ahead of anything we had even a year 

 or two ago. Charles H. Totty. 



VIRGINIA POEHLMANN. 



Of all the new chrysanthemums which 

 have gone out in recent years, none has 

 made a greater hit than Virginia Poehl- 



Virginia Poehlmann at Komitsch & Junge's, Secaucta^ N. J. 



most inviting. Stiff stem, heavy foliage 

 well up to the flower, make up an en- 

 semble that will be liked by every 

 grower. 



Mrs. H. Stevens is another exhibition 

 flower that will make its way. The color 

 is difficult to describe, as several shades 

 intermingle. Golden salmon bronze, it 

 is called by Wells, and perhaps that term 

 expresses the color as well as anything. 

 These ' colors are seldom seen in the 

 wholesale markets, but as varieties in 

 collections at a show they are brilliant 

 and telling and, in fact, indispensable. 



W. J. Higgs is the only iacurved in 

 the Wells-Pockett set this year. The 

 color is crimson, with mahogany reverse, 

 and being an incur%'ed, it naturally shows 



mann. It was first sent out in 1908 and 

 succeeded so well wherever it was grown 

 that the call for stock of it last spring 

 was ahead of the supply. This season 

 the variety has done equally well, so that 

 next spring there undoubtedly wiU be 

 another increase in its planting. 



Virginia Poehlmann originated at the 

 establishment of Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 Morton Grove, 111., in 1905, as a sport 

 from Mme. Sahut. It pleased August 

 Poehlmann so well he named it for his 

 daughter. It is pure white, a large, solid 

 flower of such form and substance that 

 it is a fine market variety, an extra good 

 shipper. It is early; about October 15 

 to 20. But its special merit is that it is 

 an * ' easy doer ' ' ; everybody grows it well 



