Fbbbuaby 2, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



19 



Carnation White House. 



THE CAENATION NOVELTIES. 



Many Candidates for Fame. 



It is a peculiar and iuteresting fact 

 tiiat tliis season there are about as 

 mapy new varieties of carnations being 

 placed on the market as the average 

 grower gives bench room to for the 

 standard varieties. Where many grow- 

 ers are content with four or five of the 

 standard varieties, and few now bench 

 over a dozen sorts, the list of this 

 season's novelties consists of at least 

 ten varieties, not counting two or three 

 that are being disseminated merely in 

 a local way. The life of the best of 

 varieties has been only a few short 

 years, and in each one of the new can- 

 didates there are attributes which lead 

 its introducer to hope that he has here 

 the thing to supersede some one of the 

 kinds now called standard. The first 

 reports of the deterioration of Lawson 

 were given scant consideration, but now 

 a majority of the growers have dropped 

 this one-time favorite. It also appears 

 that some have already discarded En- 

 chantress, although it continues to be 

 more largely planted than any other 

 sort. Consequently every grower is on 

 the lookout for the things which will 

 be the standard varieties of the next 

 few years. 



Among those of which stock is pro- 

 curable this year thorp .nre the fol- 

 lowing: 



Bright Spot. 



Nic Zweifel, of North Milwaukee, 

 Wis., began to raise seedlings at just 

 about the time that Lawson was in its 

 zenith. Consequently he bad the use 

 of the Lawson blood before the degen- 

 eracy had impaired its value. His 

 Bright Spot was a competitor of Law- 

 son at the shows of three or four years 

 ago and it was not until after the de- 

 cadence of the former variety- that he 

 concluded to put his novelty on the 

 market. It was shown at the Pittsburg 

 convention of the American Carnation 

 Society in January, ]910, and won first 

 in the class for dark pink, having ac- 



complished the same feat at the Chi- 

 cago show in November of 1909, at 

 which one of the special features was 

 the quality of the Milwaukee carna- 

 tions. If Bright Spot has any faults, 

 Mr. Zweifel does not admit them. He 

 says it is an early, free and continuous 

 bloomer, that the stems are always good 

 and that the calyx never splits. On his 

 own place he plants it in larger number 

 than any other sort. 



Washington. 



Henry Eichholz, Waynesboro, Pa., in 

 common with the greater number of 

 growers, has found Enchantress and 

 White Enchantress his most profitable 

 varieties. Consequently, when he found 

 a sport of Enchantress of color similar 

 to Lawson, he was prompt to appreciate 

 its significance. Working up stock, he 

 placed it in the hands of the Chicago 

 Carnation Co. and C. H. Totty for dis- 

 tribution. Its color is almost as dark 

 as Lawson at its best and it is said 

 for the variety that it does not fade 



the way Lawson does. The habit of 

 growth is Enchantress throughout. At 

 Joliet the Chicago Carnation Co. is 

 planting the variety more extensively 

 than any other, believing that next sea- 

 son will see a phenomenal demand for 

 the cuttings. 



Bonfire. 



The E. G. Hill Co., Eichmond, Ind., 

 has done excellently in the naming of 

 its seedlings in recent years. One of 

 the happiest of their choices was when 

 they applied the name Bonfire to the 

 scarlet carnation previously known as 

 Mrs. Beckwith. At the Indianapolis 

 flower show last November Bonfire won 

 first in the class for fifty red over eight 

 entries of standard varieties and nov- 

 elties. In the commercial field it will 

 be a competitor of Beacon and Victory. 

 It is said to come into bloom earlier 

 than either of these varieties and to be 

 a free, clean grower of good consti- 

 tution. 



White Wonder. 



F. Dorner & Sons Co., La Fayette, 

 Ind., describe White Wonder as an im- 

 proved White Perfection. It is a seed- 

 ling of the latter, raised in 1906, and 

 the Dorners say it is the largest and 

 most productive white variety they 

 have yet raised. They describe the 

 flower as larger than White Perfection, 

 and the stem stronger. They say it 

 makes double the size of plant that 

 White Perfection does, thereby increas- 

 ing its productiveness. They say that 

 it has proven easy to grow and reliable 

 through the four years they have been 

 growing it in increasing quantity at La 

 Fayette. 



White House. 



Dailledouze Bros., Flatbush, N. Y., 

 were the originators of Carnation White 

 House, from whom the stock passed into 

 the possession of Charles H. Totty, Mad- 

 ison, N. J. The variety won the bronze 

 S. A. F. medal at the Pittsburg carna- 

 tion convention last year. It is an ex- 

 tremely large flower and the originators 

 say that for the two years they have 

 been marketing the cut blooms in New 

 York it has realized a higher price than 

 any other variety they have grown. 

 Mr. Totty says he considers it a free 

 bloomer when the size of the flower is 

 taken into consideration, and that it is 

 an easy grower. An interesting fact is 

 that when Mr. Totty sent this variety 



House o! Carnation Pennsylvania. »t P. M. De Witt's, Bridgewater, Pa. 



