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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



April 22, 1909. 



"Which, in your opinion, is the best 

 sweet pea in commerce?" Mrs. Hard- 

 castle Sykes comes out on top, with four- 

 teen votes; next. Countess Spencer, with 

 ten; Evelyn Hemus, seven; Constance 

 Oliver, six; Mrs. Henry Bell, three; 

 Elsie Herbert, Dorothy Eckford and Etta 

 Dyke, two each. 



It may be interesting to readers of the 

 Review to know the favorites of a few 

 of the experts. R. H. Bath, Ltd., C. H. 

 Curtis and W. Deal voted for Mrs. Hard- 

 castle Sykes. S. B. Dicks, well known 

 in America, gave King Edward VII as 

 his favorite. John Green, of Hobbies, 

 Ltd., favored Helen Pierce. W. J. Unwin 

 voted for Etta Dyke; W. Cuthbertson, 

 for Elsie Herbert,, and R. Sydenham, 

 popularly known as Uncle Robert, gave 

 his vote to Mrs. Henry Bell. 



Rose Rhea Reid was exhibited by Piper 

 & Sons, Uckfield, at a recent R. H. S. 

 show, London, and received an award 

 of merit. A. Piper says that in England 

 it has proved almost all that the raisers 

 claimed for it. It will probably prove a 

 valuable addition to our list of roses for 

 culture under glass. Bee. 



PELARGONIUMS. 



Please tell us how to grow pelargonium - 

 geraniums. Are they reliable from seed 

 or do they have to be grown from cut- 

 tings? What kind of soil do they need? 

 Is it better to set stock plants out in 

 field in summer or grow them in pots in- 

 side? E. G. S. 



Pelargoniums of the show type, com- 

 monly called Lady Washington gera- 

 niums, can be raised from seed, but the 

 better plan is to take cuttings. A suit- 

 able soil for the final potting is fibrous 

 loam two parts, decayed cow manure one 

 part, with a dash of sand and bone meal. 

 When young use a little leaf-mold and 

 less manure in the loam. The best time 

 to take cuttings is' the autumn, September 

 being a good month. These cuttings 

 grown along in a cool, airy house will 

 make bushy stock in 6-inch or 7-inch pots 

 the following April and May. 



After the flowering season is over, usu- 

 ally in July, place the pots outdoors. 

 Gradually reduce the water supply. Lay 

 on their sides and keep quite dry for 

 five to six weeks. Then prune back the 

 well ripened wood quite severely. Water 

 a little. When growth starts shake away 



all soil from the roots. Cut back the 

 roots and place in smaller pots. A 6- 

 inch plant will go in a 4-inch pot. Keep 

 in coldframes until late October, then 

 grow in a cool, light house; 45 degrees 

 at night will suit them. C. W. 



A GOTHAM GROUP. 



The accompanying illustration was 

 prepared from a photograph made the 

 morning before Easter in the big room 

 of the New York Cut Flower Co., in the 

 Coogan building, New York. There are 

 a number of well-known men in the 

 group. At the left stands E. C. Dutcher, 

 of Nyack, and next to him sits Johnnie 

 Weir, of Brooklyn, than whom there are 

 few better known buyers in the New 

 York market. Continuing toward the 

 right, there is Dan Sullivan, of the New 

 York Cut Flower Co.; Percy Richter, 

 representing E. G. Asmus; L. Miller, rep- 

 resenting Noe; Johnnie Krai, of Moore, 

 Hentz & Nash; Jonathan Nash, Will 

 Levack, also of the Asmus forces, and 

 Messrs. Tanner, Radice, Hauft, Lentz, 

 Seligman, Vocke, Sampson, Cantillion, 

 Nadler and others. 



OBITUARY. 



John Scott. 



John Scott, of Flatbush, Brooklyn, 

 was shot dead at the door of his green- 

 house Monday evening, April 19. The 

 shot was fired by Aloysius Gross, who af- 

 terward said the bullet was intended for 

 Scott's foreman, David MacKenzie. 



It appears that Gross, who was night 

 fireman, had been discharged by Mac- 

 Kenzie. This had happened before, but 

 he had been taken back by Mr. Scott out 

 of consideration for his family. April 

 19 MacKenzie again made the charge of 

 drunkenness the reason for dismissal. 

 Gross went to his home, armed himself 

 and returned to the greenhouses. One 

 of the shots which were fired struck Mr. 

 Scott Ja- heart. The physician who was 

 quickly on the spot said that death had 

 been instantaneous. 



John Scott was a Scot, born in 1868 at 

 Newlanding, Midlothian. He began his 

 horticultural life when young and worked 

 in Edinburgh, Ayrshire, Taymouth Cas- 

 tle and Rosemont House, from which 

 place he came to Canada some eighteen 

 yeifrs ago. His first engagement in 



America was at Hoosick Falls, N. Y., 

 from which city he moved to the estate 

 of the Hon. Levi P. Morton, where James 

 Boyd was head gardener. His next move 

 was to the Dinsmore estate at Staaty- 

 burg, N. Y., where Thomas Emerson 

 was head gardener. Leaving here he ac- 

 cepted the position of superintendent of 

 the Scholes establishment on Keap 

 street, Brooklyn, where he soon was given 

 an interest and built up rapidly a repu- 

 tation as a plantsman, shipping his Bos- 

 ton ferns especially to every part of tbe 

 country. Nephrolepis Scottii, the com- 

 pact Boston, was a sport found by him, 

 and its wide dissemination made his 

 name known through the length and 

 breadth of floriculture. While his fame 

 rests on the fern, he was an expert all- 

 round plantsman and, working against 

 odds, had built up a fine range of glass 

 and a prosperous business. The place 

 now includes about 100,000 feet of glass 

 and about three acres in nursery. He 

 had just recovered from a long and 

 serious illness, but had done a big Easter 

 business, and looked forward to a big 

 spring demand, and on the day of his 

 death had planned the erection of two 

 more houses. 



In 1906 Mr. Scott was president of 

 the New York Florists' Club. He was 

 a member of the S. A. F., and active in 

 all trade affairs. He also held member- 

 ships in the F. & A. M. and Clan Mc- 

 Donald. His family consisted of wife 

 .and four children, the eldest, John, Jr., 

 7 years of age. He also is survived by 

 his father and mother, two sisters and 

 three brothers. 



The funeral will be held Friday, April 

 23, and will be largely attended by 

 those in the trade. 



Francis Calvert. 



Francis Calvert, senior member of the 

 firm of F. Calvert & Son, Lake Forest, 

 111., died Wednesday, April 14, at the age 

 of 79 years. He was born at Eccle- 

 fechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, February 

 14, 1830. He came to America July 4, 

 1854, and spent two years in Tarrytown, 

 N. Y., under John Wallace, on what is 

 now the W. D. Rockefeller estate. Re- 

 moving to Chicago in 1856, he was mar- 

 ried to Jane Wallace September 10, 1857. 

 He was in charge of the S. H. Kerfoot 

 estate,, at Lakeview, until March, 1859, 

 when he removed to Lake Forest, where 

 he laid out the H. M. Thompson and D. 



An Eastrr Group in the Rooms of the New York Cut Flower Co. 



