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Februabt 9, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Local Conditions. 



There are also the market peculiari- 

 ties of different localities to be consid- 

 ered, for some varieties that grow well 

 and sell well around Boston may not 

 be equally satisfactory and popular in 

 New York and Philadelphia. For exam- 

 ple, Enchantress originated in Massa- 

 chusetts, yet Boston does not seem to 

 be hungry for that variety, popular 

 though it is in so many places; while 

 crimson varieties, owing to the prox- 

 imity of Harvard to the "Hub," are 

 good sellers in Boston, but find few 

 friends in Chicago. 



The Popular Enchantress. 



Taking all things into consideration, 

 it is generally admitted that En- 

 chantress and its various sports are 

 the most popular and most satisfactory 

 all-around varieties that we have to- 

 day, from the fact that they have color, 

 size and stem, in addition to freedom of 

 growth and floriferousness. 



All delicate-colored carnations vary 

 to a greater or less extent at certain 

 seasons of the year, and Enchantress 

 is no exception to the rule, and dif- 

 ferences in soil may also affect the 

 color of the flowers in a measure, but 

 allowing for these variations there is 

 no other variety in the market today 

 that has so many friends. 



This variety, as everyone knows, has 

 sported in many localities, and in sev- 

 eral shades of color, but nearly all the 

 spofts have proven valuable to the 

 trade. 



White Enchantress is the best white 

 for trade purposes today and is in 

 many places a stronger grower than its 

 parent, but it must be borne in mind 

 that "White Enchantress has appeared in 

 several different localities, and that 

 some of the sports are much better 

 than others. 



Bose-pink Enchantress is a strong- 

 growing and frop-flowering sport, but 

 is unfortunately quite liable to varia- 

 tions in color, especially in midwinter. 

 Selections of cuttings will do some- 

 thing toward correcting this color fault, 

 though not doing away with it alto- 

 gether. 



Other Varieties. 



Dorothy Gordon bears a strong re- 

 semblance to the last-named variety, 

 but seems to be a little more even in 

 color, though in form, size, stem and 

 general characteristics it is extremely 

 difBcult, and as a matter of fact is 

 well-nigh impossible, to distinguish the 

 one from the other. 



Then there is the dark sport from 

 Pink Enchantress that has been 

 named "Washington, and if this variety 

 looks anything like a colored cut sup- 

 posed to represent it that has recently 

 been issued, it is a flower that would 

 not appeal to the writer, but it is more 

 charitable to blame that on the printer 

 than the flower, and it would be better 

 to suspend judgment until a later 

 period. 



In scarlet there does not yet appear 

 to be a better than Beacon, this variety 

 being so extremely free that most grow- 

 ers are ready to forgive its serious 

 fault of splitting badly in midwinter. 



Scarlet Glow is a fine flower, and very 

 bright and cheerful ill color, but thus 

 far does not equal Beacon in growth 

 and number of flowers. 



Pink Delight is a variety that has 

 received much favorable criticism dur- 

 ing the last year, the flower being of 



Carnation Pocahontas. 



fair size and even in color, and the 

 stem unusually good. It is not pink in 

 a strict interpretation of the color, 

 there being rather too much salmon to 

 be called pink, but it is a beautiful 

 carnation, just the same. 



Admiration is a fine colored variety 

 and a good-sized flower, but unfortu- 

 nately it has no constitution, and thus 

 seems to be out of the race. 



Princess Charming, as shown last fall, 

 is a variety of much promise, but as to 

 whether it will replace Enchantress re- 

 mains to be proved. 



Mrs. C. "W. "Ward is making many 

 friends among the growers, this variety 

 having a good-sized flower of pleasing 

 color, and produced on a particularly 

 good stem. It is somewhat liable to 

 bleach as the sun grows stronger, but 

 withal is a fine carnation. 



Alma "Ward is a fine exhibition vari- 

 ety, but not free enough for the aver- 

 age grower. 



Some of the Lawsons are still grown, 

 but most commercial growers require 

 more size and stem than is found in 

 Mrs. Lawson and the numerous varie- 

 ties that have been derived from that 

 prolific source, and while many are still 

 growing "Winsor for its color, yet it 

 scarcely reaches up to the standard of 

 the large city markets. 



Variegated varieties are not in large 

 demand and Mrs. Patten and "Variegated 

 Lawson occupy a considerable propor- 

 tion of the space that is devoted to 

 those of fancy marking. 



Summary. 



It can scarcely be said that there is 

 a standard crimson variety at this time, 

 for although there are many that are 



being tested in various parts of the 

 country, there seems to be something 

 lacking, either in constitution, size, 

 stem or color, and there still seems to 

 be room for a good variety of this 

 color. 



The advances have been great in the 

 past decade in carnation history, yet 

 there is room at the top, and I hope 

 that someone will eventually get there. 



A MISSOUEI CABNATION EANQE. 



A. Jablonsky, whose present range 

 and residence, at Olivette, Mo., are here 

 illustrated, has not attained his success 

 without a determined struggle. He be- 

 gan business at Wellston, St. Louis 

 county, Missouri, in 1890, by renting 

 two greenhouses and about two acres of 

 ground for two years. At the expira- 

 tion of the two years he bought the 

 greenhouses and leased the ground for 

 greenhouse purposes, for a term of 

 twelve years. He had a general plant 

 business. 



In April of 1893, as a result of the 

 improvement and grading of a tract of 

 land across the railroad tracks, a cul- 

 vert caved in and his grounds were com- 

 pletely flooded. Twenty-five thousand 

 hotbed plants, ready for marketing, 

 were destroyed, and a lot of roses, etc., 

 in the field, were covered and ruined by 

 six inches of muddy sediment. As the 

 company that had caused this disaster 

 failed in business a little later and the 

 principal member of the company died, 

 two years passed before Mr. Jablonsky 

 received any reparation, and even then 

 the courts granted him only eleven and 

 one-half per cent of his actual loss. 



Added to all this trouble was the 

 financial panic — the memorable panic 



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