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Mabch 10, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Floral Mail Car of Carnations Outtined With Chenille. 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



National Chrysanthemum Society. 



At the annual meeting of the National 

 Chrysanthemum Society, recently held in 

 London, the committee placed a favorable 

 report in the hands of the members and 

 the proceedings were of a harmonious 

 character. The principal officers were re- 

 elected, namely: T. Bevan, chairman of 

 the executive committee; J. Green, 

 treasurer, and J. H. Witty, secretary. 



A resolution to appoint foreign cor- 

 responding members was carried without 

 dissension and the following were ap- 

 pointed: C. H. Totty, America; T. W. 

 Pockett, Australia; Eene Monneja, 

 France. 



First-class certificates were awarded 

 in 1909 as follows: Early-flowering 

 Japanese, 2; Japanese, 6; early-flowering 

 singles, 2; singles, 4; Japanese single, 1; 

 incurved, 3; decorative and market, 8. 



It was decided' to ' institute a new 

 award, to be known as an award for color, 

 to meet the case where a variety has a 

 particularly pleasing shade of color, but 

 which may not reach the necessary 

 standard of quality on all points to re- 

 ceive a first-class certificate. From a 

 decorative point of view such flowers are 

 worthy of notice and it will now be at 

 the discretion of the floral committee to 

 grant an award for color. 



Work of the English Societies. 



The activity of the English special hor- 

 ticultural societies is by no means con- 

 fined to the holding of exhibitions. Trials 

 of sweet peas and carnations were con- 

 ducted last summer under the auspices 

 of the societies devoted to these flowers, 

 and conferences were successfully or- 

 ganized by the National Chrysanthemum 

 and National Sweet Pea Societies. Now 

 the National Dahlia Society has arrange- 

 ments well in hand for a conference, 

 March 4, at which G. Gordon, V. M. H., 

 J. Stredwick and J. B. Riding will take 

 the leading parts. The Eoyal Horticul- 

 tural Society is experimenting with plants 

 supposed to be good for salads, intro- 

 ducing, from the continent of Europe and 

 from America, seeds of all known plants 

 reputed as good for salads. 



For the purpose of afforestation in 

 Scotland, the British government ha8 

 placed orders with nurserymen for 240,- 

 000 common spruce, 150,000 larch, 80,- 



000 Scotch spruce, 45,000 silver fir, 40,- 

 000 Sitka spruce and 35,000 Douglas 

 spruce. 



On the Continent. 



Eeports from Holland and Belgium 

 show that there is now great activity 

 among the executives responsible for the 

 international exhibitions in Haarlem and 

 Brussels, which open, respectively, in 

 March and AprU, and steamship and rail- 



way time-tables are now being anxiously 

 studied and plans made by up-to-date 

 horticulturists who cannot afford to miss 

 tlie events of the year. A Japanese exhi- 

 bition in London will also claim atten- 

 tion, on account of the Japanese gardens, 

 at present in the hands of one of Japan 's 

 leading landscape gardeners and a staff 

 of Japanese gardeners. 



Determined not to be outdone, F. 

 Henkel, of Darmstadt, Germany, has gone 

 to Japan to study Japanese gardening on 

 the spot. He is no novice as it is, in this 

 style of gardening, as was proved by his 

 Japanese gardens at the Mannheim exhi- 

 bition a year or two ago, and he has 

 constructed many gardens on Japanese 

 lines in Germany, He is also an au- 

 thority on, and an extensive grower of, 

 aquatic plants. Already one of Ger- 

 many's foremost men, he will no doubt 

 return with wider views and new ideas, 

 to capture fresh laurels in the world of 

 horticulture. 



F. J. Hubert, of Hubert & Co., 

 Guernsey, is arranging for an early visit 

 to the firm's floral farm in Virginia, 

 U. S. A. Bee. 



A DISEASED KENTIA. 



I recently sold a Kentia Belmoreana 

 which I had owned nearly two years. It 

 left my hands in a perfectly healthy con- 

 dition. I delivered it to the customer 

 on a mild day, and placed it in a bay 

 window where it has southern exposure, 

 in a large, airy room in a steam-heated 

 apartment. The plant had been there 

 only five days when I was called to pre- 

 scribe for it. It had been watered only 

 once during that time, as I had watered 

 it thoroughly when I delivered it. It 

 has not suffered for want of water. 

 There is no gas used in the room, as elec- 

 tricity is used for lighting. Yet, at the 

 end of five days the plapt was nearly 

 dead, with the leaves fast turning yellow. 



Can you give me any reason for such 

 a change in its condition? It had not 

 been repotted since last June. I have 

 had a palm from the same importation 

 in my house, with steam heat and gas 

 for light, and no harm has come to it for 

 over two years. G. J. B. 



From the description of the condition 

 of this kentia, it is evidently a case of 

 stem-rot, a disease that occasionally 

 breaks out among the plants of this 

 genus, and if one should lift the plant 

 by the top or bend it sharply it would 

 probably break off at the base and the 

 heart of the stem would be found to be 

 rotten. If this diagnosis is correct, the 

 disease probably had already attacked 

 the plant before it was sold, but had not 

 progressed far enough to be noticeable. 



W. H. T. 



