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TheWeekly Florists' Review. 



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in existence. It never was quite satis- 

 factory as a cut flower, because the 

 stem was so hard and woody as to 

 cause it to wilt quickly, but it kept 

 cropping up with different growers in 

 marvelous condition year after year 

 and it was impossible to find anything 

 to beat it. Either Turner or Naomah 

 gives a flower of practically the same 

 type, but much larger and much easier 

 to grow. 



Onunda still has a place, but as a 

 white it falls down on color. It is not 

 pure white, running from cream to lemon 

 yellow. Were I making this a list of 

 forty or fifty varieties instead of 

 thirty or less, I would include Onunda, 

 but in a closer list of this character I 

 consider it displaced. 



Moir was not shown so much as usual 

 and it is a poor shipper, which possibly 

 has helped with its downfall. I must, 

 on its showing this fall, place Wm. 

 Turner at the head of the whites. 



Beatrice May and Mrs. Syme fought 

 it out at all of the earlier exhibitions 

 for the place of honor, and finished with 

 the honors generally a little in favor of 

 Syme, as it has superior foliage and can 

 be staged to better advantage. 



Novelties that will be heard from in 

 this class next year will be Mrs. Gilbert 

 Drabble, Mrs. A. M. Henshaw and 

 Annie L. Angus. 



The Fink Classes. 



In the pink classes, F. E. Nash is 

 entitled to the place of honor and it is 

 a pleasure to reflect that once in a 

 while, at least, we get an American 

 seedling big enough to travel in any 

 company. It is true that the color of 

 Nash is a little pale, but with thirty- 

 five points for size, when staged as it 

 has been in several places this fall, it 

 is bound to reach the top. 



Lady Hopetoun, at all the shows be- 

 fore the second week in November, was 

 staged in fine shape. Wells' Late Pink 

 also showed up exceedingly well. It 

 has stem, foliage and a good color. 

 Many of the exhibitors insisted on tak- 

 ing the bud with their other varieties, 

 from August 5 to 12. This date is en- 

 tirely too early for Wells' Late Pink. 

 If one can get a late crown during the 

 first week in September, this is the bud 

 that will produce the heavy flowers and 

 still retain the color. 



Wm. Duckham is the last variety on 

 this list and it seems as though another 

 year will probably topple it over. 



Among the varieties that have passed 

 over the range we must include Frank 

 Payne and Alice Lemon. FVank Payne 

 does not come as large as Lady Hope- 

 toun or nearly as good a color, and 

 Alice Lemon, unless one is fortunate 

 enough to catch the early bud right, 

 does not produce a large enough per- 

 centage of first-class flowers. President 

 Viger, though it has been grown big, 

 was always a wretched color. Glen 

 Cove would seem to be a new-comer in 

 this particular class. 



The Yellows. 



In yellows we are still looking for 

 the ideal. F. S. Vallis must go to the 

 top, as its size carries it through every- 

 where. J. C. Neill has also been shown 

 in excellent condition. Hon. Mrs. Lopes 

 was shown at nearly all the eastern 

 exhibitions in grand condition. The 

 same is true of Montigny and Yellow 

 Miller. 



Varieties that have passed over the 

 range are Col. Appleton, E. F. Felton 



New White Pompon Chrysanthemum Helen Newberry. 



and Mrs. Geo, Hunt. The first-men- 

 tioned stayed with us many years, al- 

 ternately-caressed and abused, but gen- 

 erally managed to finish in first money. 

 The complaint that Appleton has gone 

 back is general, not alone among the 

 exhibition growers, but among commer- 

 cial growers as well, and poor old Ap- 

 pleton 's days are undoubtedly num- 

 bered. Mrs. Geo. Hunt seems to have 

 gone the way of all flesh, and Felton, 

 while the color is grand and to my 

 mind unapproached by any other vari- 

 ety, does not throw a large enough 

 flower and soon loses its beautiful shape 

 if kept on the plant a week or so after 

 it is fully developed. 



Some of the growers, after reading 

 the accounts of the western shows, will 

 say Bonnaffon should certainly have a 

 place. The number of shows in the 

 east is much larger than in the west, 

 and Bonnaffon in all of the eastern 

 shows was conspicuous by its absence, 

 simply because it does not begin to 

 line up for size. 



While on the subject of size, I do not 

 wish in any way to be considered as 

 criticising the judges at St. Louis and 

 Cincinnati; judging at its best is a 

 thankless job anyhow, and to criticise 

 a man after he has honestly done his 

 best is poor work; but I do think that 

 the judges, with all due respect to their 

 ability, were too restricted in their 

 ideas. Bonnaffon in some classes scored 

 first where, under a proper scoring on 

 the exhibition scale of the Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society, which allows thirty-five 

 points to start with for size, Bonnaffon 



should not have gotten better than 

 third. Another reason why Bonnaffon 

 should not be worshiped by the exhibi- 

 tion judges is because it is grown in such 

 enormous quantities for the market and 

 the general public has seen it so many 

 years that it will welcome other varie- 

 ties for a change in an exhibition. 



In the yellow classes Lenox was 

 shown in good condition in several 

 places and should get into the list next 

 year. I am hoping that Bamapo, the 

 Appleton seedling, will take its par- 

 ent's place. Whether it will do it or 

 not remains to be seen. 



The Crimsons. 



In the crimsons, Pockett's Crimson 

 was shown in a most attractive manner. 

 It is hard to beat this variety, as the 

 color is good and, taken altogether, it 

 is a beautiful flower. It is true that 

 both Woodmason and Leslie Morrison 

 showed up in excellent shape and larger 

 flowers might have been staged of these 

 varieties, but not any in such a good 

 color as Pockett's Crimson. 



F. T. Quittenton, from a bud taken 

 about the last week in August, was 

 shown by several growers in excellent 

 shape. Many of them took the bud too 

 early and hence the flower, while it had 

 more petalage, was not nearly so at- 

 tractive. 



There are three good noveltieSTirtnis 

 class that ought to make a showing 

 when generally distributed. They are 

 Wm. Kleinheinz, which I have picked 

 to displace Woodmason, as it is a much 

 better color; Mrs. E. D. Foote and Mrs. 



