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The Florists' Review 



March 20, 1913. 



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ages of singles, commercials and dou- 

 bles from group 2 were respectively .4, 

 98.4 and 1.2. Theoretically, there 

 should not have been any singles or 

 doubles. As already explained in the 

 case of the doubles, it is not at all 

 certain that they were true doubles. 



In group 3 a different set of factors 

 are involved. Here we have the Da 

 hybrid ovules crossed with pollen from 

 the gametically pure single. This cross 

 is expressed in the following manner: 



Ovule Pollen 



D~ - - - _ 



S - - - - 



Equals D s + S. 



While the data obtained from this 

 cross are too meager to permit of much 

 generalization, it nevertheless closely 

 approached the Mendelian ratio. Theo- 

 retically, fifty per cent of the seedling 

 plants should have produced single 

 flowers and the remaining fifty per 

 cent those of the commercial type. The 

 figures actually obtained were 51.2 per 

 cent single and 48.8 per cent commer- 

 cial. 



Slightly different factors were in- 

 volved in group 4. In this cross we 

 are dealing with the unfixed hybrid in 

 both parents, and in consequence have 

 the opposing unit characters in both 

 parents as shown in the following dia- 

 gram: 



Ovule 



Pollen 

 .- D 



S'--- 



* S 



In this, according to the law of 

 chance, the probable combination would 

 be D + 2D8 + S, or 1:2:1. The dia- 

 gram shows how these characters may 

 combine. The data obtained from 

 such crosses show that of the 200 plants 

 flowered, sixty-two produced single 

 flowers and 198 commercial and double, 

 or percentages respectively of 23.8 and 

 76.2. The theoretical percentage should 

 have been 25 per cent single and 75 

 per cent commercial and double. No 

 attempt was made to distinguish be- 

 tween the double and the commercial. 



[OoDtinued on pace 56.] 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



A dull week was enlivened by a brisk 

 business March 15, Saturday, when 

 West Twenty-eighth street showed re- 

 freshing activity. There are, of course, 

 calamity howlers who decry the market 

 as "the worst ever," but an accommo- 

 dating and statistical dealer, referring 

 to his sales for the last few years, 

 found that his sales for the correspond- 

 ing week of 1912 were just 63 cents 

 smaller, indicating that conditions are 

 about the same as for the correspond- 

 ing season of previous years. 



American Beauties took a further 

 tumble to 40 to 50 cents for specials, 

 with no great business even at this low 

 figure. The lower grades have also 

 weakened. Teas are in good supply at 

 10 cents for choice blooms, down to 2 

 cents for culls. Choice long-stemmed 

 Chatenays and Eichmonds bring as 

 much as 12 cents. Dark cattleyas bring 

 20 to 35 cents, or even 40 cents, and 

 move off well. Schroederae continues 



dull and may be had at almost any 

 price. The quotations range from 10 

 cents up. Carnations are looking up 

 somewhat and for choice white as much 

 as 5 to 6 cents was demanded on the 

 eve of St. Patrick's day. Commission 

 men who have been firm at these figures 

 have sold some, but carried over more 

 than they sold. Many, however, have 

 sold at 4 cents. Despite the early 

 Easter, lilies are plentiful and of good 

 quality; 8 cents was the top notch for 

 choice blooms last week. Valley shows 

 a slight improvement, but is still far 

 from strong; fine, long, freshly cut val- 

 ley can be had at 3 cents and good 

 flowers at a shade under that. Gar- 

 denias are quiet. Choice blooms are not 

 plentiful. The run of the market 

 brings $1 to $2.50 per dozen. Sweet 

 peas are plentiful, particularly in the 

 lower grades, which go as low as 10 

 cents per dozen bunches. For choice 

 Spencer sorts as much as $1 or even 

 $1.25 is paid. Violets are a little firmer, 

 Governor Herrick bringing 10 to 20 

 cents, Marie Louise 20 to 30 cents and 

 Princess of Wales 30 to 40 cents -for 

 long-stemmed flowers. The supply is 

 abundant. Narcissus poeticus ornatus 

 is a drug on the market at 75 cents to 

 $1.25 per hundred. Paper Whites are 

 less plentiful, the supply beginning to 

 fall off. They bring $1.25 to $2. Cal- 

 las attract but little attention, sales 

 being made at the previous quotation 

 of 60 cents to $1.25 per dozen. Hya- 

 cinths are giving out, but demand is 

 correspondingly slack. Daffodils sold 

 at 50 cents to $2. Southern supplies 

 are arriving and go for a song. Tulips 

 are quoted at $1 to $3 per hundred. 

 Stocks are plentiful at 25 cents. Daisies 

 bring 75 cents to $1.25 per hundred. 

 Mignonette is in ample supply at 75 

 cents to $1. Supplies of antirrhinum 

 exceed the demand at 50 cents to $1 

 per bunch. 



The prospects, a week before Easter, 

 were for an abundance of stock of all 

 kinds and no specially high prices were 

 in sight. 



Varioua Notes. 



The most interesting feature of the 

 March exhibition of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York, held at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History March 

 15, was a collection of cut orchids, the 

 first prize for which was awarded to 

 W. H. Waite, gardener for Samuel Unter- 

 myer. Mr. Waite was also awarded 

 first prizes for an oncidium, a Dendro- 

 bium Wardianum and a Cattleya Tri- 

 anse, all in bloom. M. Anderson, gar- 

 dener for George W. Perkins, won two 

 special prizes for displays of schizan- 

 thus and of primulas. A. Anderson, 

 gardener for Mrs. F. B. Van Vorst, was 

 awarded a special prize for a hybrid 

 orchid. A handsome lot of Christmas 

 Pink, Mrs. Alex. Wallace and Snowbird 

 sweet peas shown by John Canning, 

 gardener for A. Lewisohn, also won a 

 first prize. 



The New York seed houses uniformly 

 report the "best season ever." And 

 there are ample evidences of the ac- 

 curacy of their characterization of the 

 situation. 



Peter Henderson & Co. are shaving off 

 six inches of their Cortlandt street 

 front in compliance with the require- 

 ments of the Bureau of Incumbrances, 

 which has been rectifying the building 

 line throughout the city. 



James Daly's Sons have a fine show 

 of bulbous plants of their own growing 

 at their greenhouses, Nineteenth street 



and Ninth avenue, at the entrance to 

 Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. They 

 have grown this year 20,000 lilies and 

 65,000 other bulbs and have had prac- 

 tically no failures. It has been a ban- 

 ner year with them. They grow other 

 things besides bulbs; in fact, they grow 

 everything they sell. 



Frank McKee, of the Fulton Street 

 Florist, was elected a member of the 

 board of directors at the meeting of the 

 Greater New York Florists' Associa- 

 tion March 12. 



Among the visitors last week were 

 Frank K. Lamereaux, of Port Jervis, 

 N. Y., and E. W. McLellan, of San 

 Francisco. Mr. McLellan returned to 

 New York from a New England trip, 

 during which he visited the establish- 

 ments of Thomas Eoland, at Nahant, 

 Mass., the Montgomery Eose Co., at 

 South Hadley, Mass., and A. N. Pier- 

 son, at Cromwell, Conn. 



Walter E. Siebrecht says that not- 

 withstanding the depression in sweet 

 peas, he is getting $1.25 to $1.50 for 

 Spencers and other special lots. He 

 also showed some fine bouvardia, which 

 is scarce in this market. 



The wife of James J. Hart, Jr., of 

 West Twenty-sixth street, died March 

 14. 



Sidney Bayersdorfer, Paul Berkowitz 

 and Martin Eeukauf, all of H. Bay- 

 ersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, were in 

 New York March 15 and looked over 

 the floor at the Grand Central Palace 

 with Secretary John Young, selecting a 

 location for their exhibit at the Na- 

 tional Flower Show. 



A meeting of the ladies' entertain- 

 ment committee for the flower show was 

 held at the call of Mrs. Traendly, the 

 chairman, at the Hotel Woodstock, 

 Tuesday afternoon, March 18. 



BOSTON SPRING SHOW. 



An Excellent Exhibition. 



Any fears held that the coming In- 

 ternational Show in New York would 

 adversely affect the exhibits at the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society's 

 spring show March 14 to 16 proved 

 groundless, for few finer exhibitions 

 have been held by the society. Messrs. 

 Eoland, M. H. Walsh and one or two 

 other large commercial exhibitors were 

 not represented this year, but groups 

 from several large private estates made 

 up these deficiencies. The show was 

 well arranged, by James Wheeler, and 

 the quality of the exhibits was un- 

 usually good. 



For three Azalea Indica J. L. Smith, 

 gardener to A. W. Preston, was first, 

 and M. Sullivan, gardener to Wm. Whit- 

 man, second. Duncan Finlayson, gar- 

 dener at Weld Garden, had the best 

 pair of palms. George Page, gardener 

 to Mrs. Frederick Ayer, was second, 

 and William Whitman, third. For six 

 ericas Mrs. F. Ayer was first, also for 

 group of acacias covering 100 square 

 feet. For specimen acacias Weld Gar- 

 den won, with splendid specimens of 

 A. longifolia and A. pubescens. For 

 six hard-wooded plants of other vari- 

 eties, second went to Weld Garden and 

 third to Wm. Thatcher, gardener to 

 Mrs. J. L. Gardner. For a group of 

 rambler and other roses W. W. Edgar 

 Co. took first prize. 



Cyclamens were splendidly shown. 

 For twelve plants W. C. Eust, gardener 

 to Mrs. C. G. Weld, led, followed by 

 Weld Garden and Mrs. J. L. Gardner. 



