MAV 13. 1909. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Interior of A. C. Sinram's New Denver Store. 



I A LOUISIANIAN IN CALIFORNIA. 



The writer has just returned from Cali- 

 fornia, where he went on account of an 

 advertisement in the Review, to buy a 

 carload of palms. The palms are bought 

 and will be received before this reaches 

 you. 



California is very interesting at this 

 time of the year, but I am convinced 

 that the Gulf coast section can make as 

 great a success of orange growing as 

 California, if we will put as much work 

 and brains into the business as they do 

 there. I also believe that eucalyptus tim- 

 ber can be successfully grown here, 

 which will be of as much value as an 

 orange orchard. C. D. Otis. 



EUROPEAN NOTES. 



The Birmingham Daffodil Show. 



Peter Barr, the "daffodil king." 

 seems to have discovered the secret of 

 perpetual youth. Although turned four- 

 score several years ago, and, now quietly 

 spending his days at Kirn. Scotland, he 

 occasionally ventures out into the world, 

 and a few days ago he turned up hale 

 and hearty at the Birmingham daffodil 

 Peter Barr is here" soon passed 



show. 



from one end of the show to the other, 

 and enthusiasts for a time forgot their 

 flowers for a hand shake and a yarn with 

 the veteran. He talked all dayon daffo- 

 dils to ail and sundry who claimed the 

 rcniotest acquaintance with him. 



\\ hen ho was a young seedsman, bulb 



taialogues contained about a dozen 



viuietles; now there are about .500, and 



!'<• admits his classification list of 1884 is 



^utirely superseded. After .looking 



^"I'und the show, he summed up the situ- 



'<;i«.n thus: "The hybrids of Leeds and 



l^jiokhouse are entirely wiped out." 



.'■'".v varieties were exhibited for the 



'■^f time, and a new classification is 



•lously engaging the attention of the 



"yal Horticultural Society. 



^I- H. Van Waveren, of M. Van 



■lyeren & Sons, Ltd., HiUegom, Hol- 



.'"«> who has traveled in England for 



'^t.v-two years in succession, and is now 



in his seventy-eighth year, was also a 

 visitor; likewise another tulip and daffo- 

 dil expert, W. Baylor-Hartland, from 

 Cork, Ireland, in his seventy-fourth year, 

 the pioneer of the daffodil trade in Ire- 

 land. Van Waveren has a new narcissus, 

 named Dreadnought, with huge flowers 

 of perfect form, four inches across. 



An Exhibit of White Killarney. 



Harry Barnard, traveling representa- 

 tive for Hugh Low & Co., Bush Hill 

 Park, has now returned from his six 

 weeks' trip in America. He came home 

 on the Mauretania, and brought with him 

 several boxes of White Killarney roses, 

 which were exhibited at the Royal Hor- 

 ticultural hall in splendid form, April 

 20. Mr. Barnard, who has nearly com- 

 pleted half a century with his firm, was 

 in splendid form also, and entertained 

 his friends with enthusiastic accounts of 



his travels and the way things are done 

 in America. 



At the same show, Hugh Low & Co. 

 exhibited the new blue rambler rose 

 named Veilchenblau (violet-blue). This 

 was sent out last year by J. C. Schmidt, 

 Erfurt, Germany, and is the nearest ap- 

 proach to blue yet attained in a rose. 



Dobbie & Co., who run one of the 

 largest mail-order businesses in the coun- 

 try, with headquarters at Rothesay, Scot- 

 land, and seed farms at Marks Tey, 

 Essex, England, intend to remove their 

 headquarters to the Scottish capital, 

 Edinburgh. 



The great Temple Show of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society will be held in Lon- 

 don May 25, 26 and 27, and the great 

 summer show of the Horticultural Soci- 

 ety of France opens in Paris May 17. 



International Excursions. 



Several large international horticul- 

 tural excursions are now arranged for 

 July and August. German nurserymen 

 and landscape gardeners intend spending 

 a couple of weeks in England to study 

 English methods, and landscape work in 

 particular. French nurserymen have 

 planned an extensive tour through Ger- 

 many, and British traders are visiting 

 the important nursery districts of 

 France. All have an eye to the gather- 

 ing of knowledge and expansion of busi- 

 ness between the countries named. And, 

 by the way, business is none too brisk in 

 the nursery trade of Europe. 



Modern times demand modern methods, 

 and organized trips of this nature from 

 one country to another were unknown 

 until a few years ago. To a great ex- 

 tent they are pleasure trips, but the 

 business man does not lose sight of the 

 business end when there are any novel- 

 ties or well-grown stock in view, and bar- 

 gains are clinched even on a holiday trip. 



Bee. 



Wheeling, W. Va. — Otto Kalkreuth, 

 who has been the florist at Mozart park 

 for a number of years, has purchased the 

 entire stock of plants and flowers from 

 the park association and will hereafter 

 conduct a business on his own account. 

 TTie park association has decided to 

 abandon operations. 



A. C. Sinram's New Denver Store. 



