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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



NOVBMBBB S, 1910. 



S November Novelty 



Everybody uses IMMORTELLES, red and white; they are indispensable for design work. We have a 



novelty that will startle you. 

 TWO TONE IMMORTELLES. Just think of it! The colors at your command, eighteen combinations, 



Nile and moss green together, pink and lavender togetlier and all sorts of combinations that will 



enable you to make any effect desired. Try some sample bunches. 

 AN IMPROVED CHIFFON. We are now offering a beautiful hairline Chiffon in pink, white and 



lavender, a better article, finer finisli than anythmg previously offered, comes in various widths and 



is particularly adapted for bows on plant l>asket8 and for choice decorations. 

 ANTIQUE PLANT BASKETS. The word ' ' antique ' ' used with plant baskets means that our factory 



will give you that bronze-black effect that lends such a rich finish to any style, shape or size basket 



that you may desire, bo it made of willow, twig or anything else. These " antique" plant baskets 



are the best for setting off arrangements to advantage. 



Everything; in Florists' Supplies. Send for our illustrated catalogue. 



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and, if not skillfully carried out, will 

 debilitate the plants. Well done, it 

 appears in Mr. Farenwald's hands to 

 give a reserve force of vitality that 

 yields splendid results when flowers are 

 wanted. Mr. Farenwald is a firm be- 

 liever in wide planting as an incentive 

 to robust growth in the rose. 



The Bose Garden at Dreer's. 



October is not exactly the month for 

 outdoor roses, yet the improvement in 

 the hybrid tea varieties made it possi- 

 ble to derive pleasure and profit from 

 a walk through the trial rose garden. 

 There are a number of long frames 

 planted with the best varieties of recent 

 introduction and with many novelties on 

 trial. Quite a number of these varieties 

 have been producing creditable blooms 

 through October, giving an opportunity 

 for noting those that keep right on 

 doing well until the end of the season. 



There are several new and old vari- 

 eties that seem particularly beautiful 

 here at this time. Laurent Carle was 

 magnificent in size, color and form; a 

 most attractive red sort. Hugo Roller, 

 a pure tea variety of good size, was 

 exquisite in its shading of white and 

 pink. My Maryland, too well known to 

 need description, is excellent outdoors. 

 The old variety, Mme. Hoste, looked 

 well. Good opportunity was afforded 

 for comparison between Harry Kirk, 

 so fine as an outdoor sort, and Mrs. 

 Aaron Ward, the apricot novelty grown 

 by W. H. Elhott, of Madbury, for the 

 Boston cut fiower market under number 

 last season. White Killarney was there, 

 too, and many more — too many for de- 

 scription here. When Antoine Wintzer 

 saw those beds he stayed over night 

 with J. D. Esele, to enjoy another sight 

 of them early in the morning. 



Shjtron Hill. 



Robert Scott & Son have made exten- 

 sive improvements in their large plant 

 at Sharon Hill this season. The most 

 important change is the sweeping away 

 of the old Penrose Nursery houses that 

 have so long been devoted to growing 

 plants for mail orders. This range of 

 houses has been replaced by a handsome 

 King range, intended for growing their 



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young plants of Melody and Double Kil- 

 larney. It will not do to dismiss the old 

 range without a word for that wonder- 

 ful house, planted in Kaiserin ten years 

 ago, that has yielded such . remarkable 

 stock ever since. The plants remained 

 unchanged throughout a decade. They 

 were cut back each season, started in 

 time for Easter and fiowered throughout 

 the summer. Each season the plants 

 gained in strength, until it is a question 

 whether such a house of Kaiserin could 

 be found anywrhere else. 



The other improvements include an 

 immense manure tank for pumping 

 liquid through the houses. It is built, 

 of course, of concrete, to be roofed 

 later. Last, but by no means least, a 

 little house is being erected for testing 

 the seedling roses of Alexander Dick- 

 son & Sons, Newtownards, Ireland. 

 Alexander B. Scott spent a couple of 

 weeks there in the summer of the pres- 

 ent year, devoting five or six hours each 

 day to an examination of their seed- 

 lings. Mr. Scott picked out forty-three 

 varieties, which will be here in a few 

 days for trial. The most important of 

 these will, he believes, revolutionize 



rose growing in America, should it equal 

 his expectations under our different cli- 

 matic conditions. This variety he de- 

 scribes as a cluster rose with a long, 

 pointed, single bud, bright red, with a 

 coppery hue inside at the base of the 

 petals. When Mrs." Scott wore a clus- 

 ter of this rose it attracted instant 

 admiration. 



The rose houses at Sharon Hill are 

 planted with Melody, Double Killarney, 

 Killarney, My Maryland, Richmond and 

 Mrs. Jardine. This last named rose 

 Mr. Scott thinks the greatest winter 

 rose today; it outsells anything else, 

 but the market seems unwilling to pay 

 the advance necessary to make it prof- 

 itable. It is easy to get as much for 

 Mrs. Jardine as lor Killarney of equal 

 grades, but difficult to average the ten 

 per cent more required. The roses all 

 looked well. 



Gardenias are as important at Sharon 

 Hill as in the past. You know that 

 Alexander B. Scott was the first man 

 who flowered gardenias successfully in 

 midwinter. The houses this season 

 looked better even than ever before. 

 The plants are of straight thickness; 



