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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Mabch 23, 1911. 



needs in his business. He must have a 

 knowledge of landscape gardening, of 

 vegetables, of flowers, of fruits, shrubs 

 and trees, and he must also know the 

 principles of growing plants under glass. 

 Last, but by no means least, the college 

 or horticultural graduate would know 

 where to go for advice if he needed it — 

 to his authoritative books, to coworkers 

 in the line, and to the experiment sta- 

 tion. Frank K. Balthis. 



GET YOUB OUN. 



In the accompanying illustration any 

 one would recognize a typical Missouriau, 

 though one might not at first glance ap- 

 preciate that this Missourian recently 

 was transplanted from the Chicago whole- 

 sale market. It is Alex. Nevvett. The 

 short mustache is as typically Missouri 

 as would be a corn cob pipe. Newett has 

 grown the nuistacho since lie left Chicago. 

 The objects about his neck are sixty- 



three mallard ducks. Count them! If 

 you can't make it quite sixty-three, we- 

 have the word for it of Frank Stuppy, 

 who was Mr. Newett 's shooting partner 

 March 13 and 14. Mr. Stuppy didn't 

 have to be shown ; he " Newett ! ' ' He 

 avers that the bag was sixty-three mal- 

 lards, that he got forty-one of them him- 

 self, and that it is the first time this sea- 

 son lie has been able to outshoot his- 

 hunting partner. 



AMERICAN SORTS IN ENGLAND. 



How They Fared in 1910. 



By force of habit, I annually report 

 to you how the carnation novelties fare 

 over here in England. But with so 

 large a contingent of carnation men 

 from over here visiting the great Bos- 

 ton show and seizing that occasion, un- 

 doubtedly, to tell you of your short- 

 comings, I prefer to write more in an 

 appreciative manner, and as one who 

 himself has raised for several years 

 .some ;j,000 seedlings annually with 

 great hopes and jone too much good 

 ifortune. I have learned with bitter 

 sorrow how difficult a thing it is to 

 raise a really fine carnation. However, 

 our own novelties in England are great- 

 ly improving and the time is not far 

 distant when you will search this tight 

 little island for new carnations. 



We all agree that Scarlet Glow is 

 the best novelty sent over here this 

 last season. The shape of the flower 

 is popular, while its bright, pure shade 

 of color is what we all wanted. The 

 habit is good, with stem and calyx quite 

 up to the average. 



Mrs. C. W. Ward is undoubtedly a 

 tine variety. Its strong calj'x, perfect 

 stem and free habit are a revelation 

 for our dull climate. The color has 

 too much blue in it for general taste, 

 but all progressive market growers will 

 have it as the best of the Lawson 

 shade. 



Dorothy Gordon is exactly what we 

 were led to imagine it would be — an 

 improved Eose-pink Enchantress. How- 

 ever, it is a shade of color which has 

 never been popular with us, and no 

 one has plunged heavily on it. 



Admiration is still suspended in the 

 balance. The color is perfection, but 

 the stem does not like our climate. 

 Some have a high opinion of this va- 

 riety and it may settle down to sonuv 

 thing good. 



Alma Ward has proved more or less 

 a failure. The flowers are inclined to 

 come deformed in winter. It should, 

 however, do well from now onward and 



may suit some of the private estab- 

 lishments. 



Shasta received an award of merit 

 and has a certain vogue of popularity, 

 but, generally speaking, it is not quite 

 as free as we had expected, while the 

 build of the flower is not good as 

 judged by our standard. But we shall 

 all test it again. 



Niagara also has its votaries, but to 

 displace our present standard whites is 

 no small undertaking. Some nice flow- 



Alex. Newett Likes Missouri. 



ers of Niagara have been shown and it 

 cannot yet be counted as a failure. 



Sangamo has proved a disappoint- 

 ment. The flowers are thin and small, 

 its only redeeming feature being its 

 free habit of growth. We must have 

 better quality. 



Conquest is quite the best of the- 

 many recent novelties of the old Pros- • 

 perity scheme of coloring; in fact, it is 

 a Prosperity-colored Lawson. Good 

 fancy varieties always have a market 

 with us. 



Mary Tolman has failed. The flowers 

 come deformed or semi-double and the 

 growth is miserably slow. But it bit 

 the popular color and with a better 

 habit would have lived on. 



J. W. Eiley has proved a great dis- 

 appointment; not that we expected a 

 yellow Enchantress, but we had great 

 hopes of something better than what 

 we already had. However, it bloom* 

 freely and may be a stepping stone 

 to better things. 



On the whole, the crop of last sea- 

 son's novelties was above the average, 

 but if only some extensive test of car- 

 nation novelties could be held previous 

 to their dissemination, something simi- 

 lar to the rose tests held in France, it 

 would make those of sterling quality 

 worth more and those of inferior merit 

 worth less, and that is<what every fair- 

 minded man desires. 



Montagu C. Allwood. 



THE CARNATION. 



[A paper by Wm. E. Tricker, of Madison. 

 X. J., read before the Morris County Gardeners'' 

 iind Florists' Society, at Madison, March 11, 

 1011.] 



The carnation today is one of the 

 most popular flowers in existence, a 

 serious rival even of the rose. It is 

 surprising when one considers its vari- 

 ous effects and the purposes it serves. 

 It is a flower that is practically within 

 the income of all classes. There is 

 hardly any purpose for which itv can- 

 not be used — the dinner table, wed- 

 dings, hospitals, presentations, and also- 

 when we come to "shuffle off this mor- 

 tal coil." 



Many of us look upon the carnation 

 as a comparatively new arrival, a 

 flower that during the last two dec- 

 ades has run hard and gained prac- 

 tically the same recognition as the rose, 

 or even greater recognition. Many of 

 us are apt to forget that the carnation 



