-Apeil 28, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



This week's obituary includes two 

 names that are familiar to the trade 

 here — an octogenarian horticulturist, John 

 Cranston, the founder of the King 's Acre 

 Nurseries, Hereford, England, originally 

 known as Cranston's Nurseries, and 'Will- 

 iam Denning, market florist, Hampton, 

 England. John Cranston was known dur- 

 ing the sixties as one of the cleverest 

 rose growers in the country and he did 

 much to increase the flower 's popularity. 

 He was the author of several useful 

 works on rose culture and fruit culture. 

 William Denning controlled an excellent 

 market growing establishment up to the 

 time of his death, and was a well known 

 personality in horticultural circles. He 

 took an active part in local government 

 affairs. A movement is on foot among 

 British gardeners to perpetuate the 

 memory of the late David Thomson, 

 whose death was recently chronicled in 

 our European Notes. 



Registered Under the Trade-marks Act. 



Lowe & Shawyer, Ltd., who run an 

 extensive market nursery at Uxbridge, 

 near London, have been granted a cer- 

 tificate, under the Trade-marks Protec- 

 tion Act, for the name of a new chrys- 

 anthemum, White Countess. The estab- 

 lishment of the principle that plant 

 names can be registered in this manner 

 should prove valuable to the raisers of 

 new varieties. The advantages are not 

 quite apparent, this being the first plant 

 name registered, I believe, but probably 

 only the raiser can sell a variety under 

 the registered name until such time as 

 the trade-mark claim is withdrawn. It 

 should prove specially valuable to sweet 

 pea growers, as the subject of the selling 

 of novelties by firms other than the 

 raisers has been a burning question for 

 some time. Two or three firms have 

 been offering for sale cuttings and plants 

 of White Countess chrysanthemums, as 

 more than one firm had the same sport 

 last season, but Lowe & Shawyer, Ltd., 

 have probably got the market in their 

 own hands now, and it is a most excel- 

 lent flower for the florists ' trade, and one 

 for which there is a strong demand 

 among growers for next season's sales. 



James Carter & Co., seed merchants, 

 London, are busy handling an order re- 

 ceived from the minister of agriculture 

 at St. Johns, Newfoundland, for 15,000 

 packets of seeds of one of their pedi- 

 greed English Swedes, for distribution 

 among farmers in that colony. 



Hail Insurance. 



The fifteenth annual report of the 

 Nurserymen and General Hailstorm In- 

 surance Corporation, Ltd., shows that the 

 area now insured in the British Isles 

 amounts to over 37,700,000 square feet 

 of glass. In fifteen years the premium 

 income has increased from £680 to 

 £2,476. The reserve fund is £16,500. 

 Last year was peculiarly free from hail- 

 storms and the claims were light. 



The firm of Polman Mooy, bulb grow- 

 ers, Haarlem, Holland, has reached its 

 centenary. For 100 years it has held, 

 first as a bulb field and later as a trial 

 ground for hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, 

 etc., the same piece of ground which was 

 connected with the tulip speculations in 

 the seventeenth century. 



The Dutch bulb growers traveling in 

 England are experiencing one of the 

 worst seasons on record and there is 

 bound to be a slump in prices. Sales 



Carboae's Lyre. 



cannot be effected, English forcers de- 

 clining to buy on account of the heavy 

 losses sustained on the flowers. Prices 

 were never so low, mainly owing to the 

 heavy consignments of daffodils from the 

 Scilly Islands. 



Lucien Levavasseur, a brother of the 

 Levavasseurs at Ussy and Orleans, 

 France, and director of the firm of Louis 

 Leroy, Angers, has found it necessary, 

 owing to the developments of the busi- 

 ness, to find a co-director, and L. Cour- 

 ant, nurseryman, Angers, is now asso- 

 ciated with L. Levavasseur in the direc- 

 tion of affairs. 



Three New Acacias. 



M. Ludwig Winter, nurseryman, Bor- 

 dighera, Germany, is the fortunate raiser 

 of three new hybrid acacias. One of the 

 seed parents of all three is A. podaly- 

 risefoUa. The first, a cross with A. deal- 

 bata, is named A. Hanburyana. The 

 second, crossed with A. pyracantha, is 

 named A. Siebertiana, after the direttor 

 of the famous palm gardens at Frank- 

 fort-on-the-Main. The third is named 

 A. de Neufville, after the manager at 

 the same gardens. They flower from 

 December to the end of February and 

 indicate a new race of acacias, capable 

 of many possibilities. All three are quite 

 distinct in foliage and in the size of 

 flowers, all of which are different shades 

 of yellow. 



The international horse show, in Lon- 



don, has now come to be looked upon as 

 a paradise of flowers. It continues for 

 a whole week in June and the floral 

 decorations attract as many visitors as 

 do the prize-winners in the equine world. 

 The decorations are in the hands of Mr. 

 Fortescue, formerly manager in the nur- 

 series of Whiteley's, Ltd., and will cost 

 over £10,000. Boses are to be the domi- 

 nant feature of the decorations, along 

 with thousands of palms and bay trees 

 from Belgium, and clipped box trees 

 from Holland. 



The annual spring show of the French 

 Horticultural Society opens in Paris, 

 May 22, and the Temple show, in Lon- 

 don, May 24. Bee. 



Waltham, Mass. — A big delivery au- 

 tomobile owned by Peirce Bros, was con- 

 siderably damaged recently while climb- 

 ing a hill on Beacon street, Boston. The 

 car became unmanageable and, leaving 

 the road, bowled over the sidewalk and 

 crashed into the fence surrounding the 

 Common. 



Madisonville, Ky. — Three more houses 

 will be added this spring to the Pleasant 

 View greenhouses, making a total of 

 16,000 square feet under glass, and form- 

 ing one of the largest establishments in 

 this part of the state. T. L. Metcalf, of 

 Hopkinsville, is the owner, and Mi^ Cher- 

 venka is manager. 



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