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Decsubeb 7, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



tion, propagates as early as January 

 with many slow growing varieties, but 

 the commercial grower who is looking 

 for flowers for Thanksgiving probably 

 would not strike his cuttings until the 

 middle of July. 



For an early crop for average cut 

 flowfi^ work, which is what I presume 

 R. G. wishes to grow, early varieties 

 may be rooted in March and set out 

 on the benches just as soon in May as 

 the house is ready. Plants intended 

 for midseason flowering should be 

 planted in June and for the later work 

 either the first week in August or even 

 the end' of* July. 



Many growers are propagating at the 

 present time, particularly on varieties 

 that are scarce. These are topped and 

 cuttings taken from them at intervals 

 during the spring months. If the plants 

 are properly taken care of, an early cut- 

 ting with two or three blooms will 

 come pretty close to equaling the 

 quality of single blooms of later 

 cuttings. They must of course be 

 planted wider apart in the benches and 

 not allowed to suffer for lack of either 

 food or water. C. H. T. 



A SOFT GBOWEB. 



We are sending you herewith a' few 

 mums. You will note that the first few 

 rows of petals have turned brown. The 

 trouble develops just as the buds are 

 expanding and they have the appear- 

 ance of being soft and rotten. As the 

 flowers open they dry up, as you now 

 see them. They have had the same 

 treatment as the other varieties grow- 

 ing in the same house and in the same 

 bench; the care and the soil have been 

 identical. The same trouble developed 

 last year. Liquid manure and nitrate 

 of soda have been applied at proper in- 

 tervals. Can you tell us what the 

 trouble isf The variety, I think, is 

 White Cloud. Is this correct? L. F. 



When the flowers reached me they 

 were pressed perfectly flat and the 

 foliage was dried up, so I can not tell 

 whether the variety is White Cloud 

 or not. 



It is not at all unusual for the lower 

 petals to turn brown if the plants have 

 been fed too much with nitrate of soda, 

 but I assume from the letter that the 

 other varieties growing in the same 

 house and on the same bench are all 

 right. If this is so, the variety sent 

 me is evidently a soft grower and I 

 would advise discarding it. White 

 Cloud was never a particularly soft 

 grower with me, though I have my 

 doubts about this particular variety 

 being White Cloud, as it seems too 

 rounded in shape. There are lots of 

 good varieties today, without bother- 

 ing with kinds that are too soft or 

 otherwise unfit for commercial cultiva- 

 tion. There are so maiky fine commercial 

 sorts today that no grower ought ' to 

 bother with poor ones. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



X The examining committees have re- 

 ported as follows: 



Exhibited by Peter Schilt, Evanston, 

 m. — Grace Muller, single yellow, scored 

 88 points at Chicago, November 18; 

 Mrs. Kenneth Barnhart, single, pink, 

 scored 90 points at Chicago, No- 

 vember 18. 



Exhibited by Fred Pautke, Grosse 

 Pointe Farms, Mich. — Helen Newberry, 



Chrysanthemums of Charleston Cut Flower and Plant Co. 



white pompon, scored 90 points at Chi- 

 cago, November 25; 91 points at Cincin- 

 nati, November 25; 88 points at New 

 York, November 28. 



Exhibited by Tong & Weeks, Ash- 

 tabula, O. — H. Tong, reflexed, Japanese, 

 yellow, scored 77 points at Chicago, No- 

 vember 25; 82 points at Cincinnati, No- 

 vember 25. 



Exhibited by Baur & Steinkamp, In- 

 dianapolis, Ind. — No. 25-06, lemon yel- 

 low, Japanese, scored 85 points at Chi- 

 cago, November 25. 



Chas. W. Johnson, Sec'y. 



MUMS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



The accompanying illustration is in- 

 teresting because one does not usually 

 see large houses of chrysanthemums in 

 full bloom in the south. This is repro- 

 duced from a photograph made Novem- 

 ber 10 at the establishment of the 

 Charleston Cut Flower & Plant Co., 

 Charleston, S. C. 



CANNAS AT SPENCES, IND. 



I saw in my Eeview for October 26 

 some views of the cannas at the nursery 

 of Conard & Jones Co., and the thought 



came to me that the readers of The 

 Review might like to see some cannas 

 grown in the middle west, where things 

 really grow. 



Last spring I wrote Conard & Jones 

 Co., asking them to send us a number 

 of cannas suitable for our display gar- 

 den. These were planted along with 

 a lot we already had from them, and 

 such cannas we have never before seen 

 in any land. The stock was planted in 

 the open ground — dry roots, not started 

 plants — and you see the result. Al- 

 though the season was extremely dry 

 in the early part, they grew amazingly, 

 some of the clumps reaching a diameter 

 of two and one-half feet and the plants 

 reaching, as you will see, far above the^ 

 head of the man who had them in 

 charge. At the end of the season, 

 early October, some of the plants 

 reached a height of more than twelve 

 feet. The accompanying picture was 

 made a month before frost, at which 

 time many florists told us they had 

 never seen such a sight in cannas, and 

 it really was a sight worth going a 

 trip to see a month later, when they 

 were a great deal larger and finer. 



E. T. Barnes. 



Cannas at Spencer, Indiana. 



