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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febbdaby 2, 1911. 



bers other whites four to one and vari- 

 eties of other color two to one, the 

 grower appends these words : ' ' Make 

 emphatic the necessity of lieeping a rec- 

 ord of the marketable flowers cut from 

 each variety, with the number of plants 

 of each and the number of square feet 

 of bench room occupied by each vari- 

 ety. Then there will be no guessing what 

 to plant." 



Two Cut Out the Beds. 



Of the twenty-eight growers whose 

 planting figures are here tabulated, E. T. 

 Wanzer and Emil Buettner, of Park 

 liidge, 111., are the only ones who will 

 grow no red at all. Mr. Buettner says 

 the reds do not produce so many flowers 

 as the best of the other colors and that, 

 oxcept for a few days at Christmas, they 

 do not command any better price. His 

 idea of the money making qualities of the 

 standard varieties is shown by the num- 

 ber he will plant, as follows: 



Mrs. T. W. Lawson l,i,(>00 



Enchantress 12,01)0 



Wlnsor 12,000 



White I'erfection 6,000 



White Enchantress 6,000 



White I-a\vson 4,000 



Lawson varieties at both ends of the 

 list of the best half dozen. 



Enchantress and Lawson. 



The list of standard sorts to be benched 

 for 1911-12 by the Pittsburg Cut Flower 

 Co., Gibsonia, Pa., is of interest. Fred 

 liurki, president of the corporation, also 

 is president of the American Carnation 

 Society. His list is a large one, both 

 in number of varieties and in quantity of 

 each. Mr. Burki knows pretty well what 

 <'ach variety earns on his place. The 



absence of Enchantress on his list is note- 

 worthy. Here is the list: 



White Enchantress 25,000 



White Perfection 25,000 



White Lawson 10,000 



Shasta 5,000 



Wlnsor 25,000 



Pink Delight 5,000 



Dorothy Gordon 5,000 



Mrs. C. W. Ward 5,000 



Mrs. La^«'son 5,000 



Victory 10,000 



Beacon 5,000 



A. T. Lorch, another grower for the 

 Pittsburg market, also has omitted En- 

 chantress from his list. Except for M. A. 

 I'atten, Tewksbury, Mass., these are the 

 only ones reporting who do not name this 

 variety as an important part of their 

 1911 planting. 



Mr. Lorch, whose place is at Allison 

 Park, Pa., thinks "White Lawson is the 

 best white we have today. I do not mean 

 that the flower is better than others, but, 

 speaking from the growers' point of 

 view, it pays better in the long run. 

 You will note," he adds, "that we stick 

 to the Lawson family, planting 8,000 

 white and 5,000 pink, in spite of the 

 comment of a Pittsburg writer with a 

 penchant for picturesque diction, who 

 said that the Lawsons then coming in 

 'look like a bunch of rags tied on the 

 end of a stick'; as for us, we stick to 

 that which is- good." 



Various Comments. 



' ' We are looking for carnations that 

 are free and continuous bloomers, of 

 fair size and length of stem," said 

 Will Bros., of Minneapolis, who grow 

 100,000 plants. "The flower-buying 

 public adheres too much to the idea 

 that a carnation is a carnation." 



Of the twenty-eight growers whose 

 planting lists are represented in the fig- 

 ures in this article, the Dale Estate, 



Carnation Bright Spot, 



Brampton, Ont., will bench more plants 

 than any other grower reporting. Their 

 total' is 148,500 plants, in only nine va- 

 rieties, the number being as follows. 



White Enchantress 40,000 



White Lawson 19,000 



Enchantress 25,000 



Wlnsor • 30,000 



Mrs. Lawson 10,000 



Mrs. C. W. Ward 10,000 



Beacon 5,000 



Andrew Carnegie 3,500 



Harlowarden 6,000 



Edward A. Stroud, of the StraflFord 



Flower Farms, StrafiEord, Pa., says: "My 



experience has been that it does not pay 



to cut your plant up with growing too 



many varieties, especially for the large 



grower. ' ' His list is as follows : 



White Perfection 14,000 



Enchantress 6,000 



Pink Delight 5,000 



Winona 5,000 



Mrs. C. W. Ward 5,000 



Beacon 9.000 



John H. Dunlop, Toronto, says: "With 

 us the demand is for white and light pink, 

 except for Christmas trade, when red is 

 in big demand; but we are not war- 

 ranted, by the demand at other times, in 

 growing red in any quantity. * ' Half his 

 planting will be white, one-third light 

 pink, and one-sixth dark pink, red and 

 crimson. 



One Colorado grower has a way of 

 arranging his planting list that is sim- 

 plicity itself, however much trouble it 

 may have been to arrive at the result. 

 Here it is: 



White Enchantress 3,000 



Enchantress 3,000 



Mrs. Ward 3,000 



0, P. Baasett 3,000 



In the east there is a leaning toward 

 Pink Delight, which is little heard of in 

 the middle west. It therefore is interest- 

 ing to note, in some comments on the 

 peculiarities of the varieties sent with 

 the list of the Park Floral Co., Denver: 

 ' ' Pink Delight looks very promising here, 

 except that it makes but few cuttings." 



Two Views of It. 



When asked for the list and figures of 

 his 1911 planting, one Massachusetts 

 grower returned the inquiry with these 

 words written across the bottom : ' * What 

 answer would be given should you ask 

 similar questions from any manufactur- 

 ing concern?" Which was a surprise, 

 for a great many growers buy advertising 

 space to exploit their individual lists; 

 but in the same mail, accompanying a 

 complete list, came the following: "I 

 think that this kind of information pub- 

 lished in The Review will have a great 

 deal of interest and value to everyone in 

 the trade, as it will have the tendency of 

 balancing the output of carnations and 

 preventing' an oversupply of one color 

 and a shortage in another, to some ex- 

 tent at least." 



Seedlings. 



The novelties of 1911 introduction and 

 seedlings not yet on the market are di- 

 vided as to color as follows: 



Dark Pinks 4(5,500 



Whites 21,750 



LiRht pinks • 15,000 



Other colorte 18,450 



Total 101,700 



In tabulating the replies the reported 

 intentions as to planting 1911 introduc- 

 tions and undisseminated seo<llings were 

 separated from the standard varieties, 

 separated as to the principal colors and 

 tabulated by themselves as above. The 

 total does not represent the number of 

 cuttings of 1911 introduction these twen- 

 ty-eight growers will buy this season; far 

 from it, for a large part are merely 

 undisseminated seedlings and may never 

 be heard from again. 



