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NOVBMBEB 28, 1912. 



\ The Florists' Review 



23 



CI.EVELAND. 



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The Market. 



Business last week was good. Several 

 large weddings did their share toward 

 reducing the stock. Mums are plentiful, 

 but sales have been good. White mums 

 are much more in demand this season 

 than ever before. No one voices any 

 opinion as to why, but the call for white 

 in all sizes has made them scarce at 

 times. Golden Chadwick and Golden 

 Wedding are the leaders for Thanks- 

 giving. The best easily bring $3 per 

 dozen wholesale. Maud Dean and Jones 

 are ias fine as these late varieties ever 

 are seen. Pompons have sold wonder- 

 fully well this season, but this week 

 will probably see the last of these popu^ 

 lar flowers. Eoses are holding back, so 

 as to be in the running for Christmas; 

 light cuts in all colors is the rule this 

 week. The prospects at the several 

 large establishments near Cleveland are 

 for a record crop for December. Carna- 

 tions still are a lap behind. Lilies, val- 

 ley, orchids, etc., have sold well; there 

 / has even been a scarcity of valley 

 in the last two weeks. Stevia and Paper 

 Whites are on the market in limited 

 quantities. 



Pot plants promise to be good, also 

 early. Mme. Petrick azaleas, cyclamens 

 and Lorraine and Cincinnati begonias 

 are fine; some stock is to be had now 

 that is the equal of that generally seen 

 in January. Poinsettias on 6-foot stems 

 and with bracts eighteen inches across 

 are a novelty- for late November. 



Aftermath of the Show. 



There were many novelties and well 

 grown specimens of standard varieties 

 of roses, carnations and mums at the 

 recent flower show that were deserving 

 of special mention. J. D. Cockcroft's 

 new dark pink carnation, Northport, 

 was in grand shape for November 15. 

 It was the winner of two silver cups. 

 The Herald, shown by the Chicago Car- 

 nation Co., easily won first in the class 

 for 100 red. The flowers showed up 

 well and held up through the show. 

 Carl Hagenburger, Mentor, O., won the 

 Advance silver cup on an unnamed seed- 

 ling, flowers three and one-half inches 

 across, a bright red fringed flower. The 

 Mrs. Chas. Russell roses could have held 

 up their heads in the Beauty class; such 

 stems and flowers were never seen here 

 on any rose other than Beauty. Mrs. 

 George Shawyer also proved itself grand 

 on the exhibition table. Milady looks 

 like a good choice in red; compared 

 with some fine blooms of Richmond it 

 showed color, petals and general build 

 of the flower to be better than Rich- 

 mond, flowers not quite so large. Pier- 

 son's Indian Summer, a sport of 

 Chadwick Supreme, shows a color never 

 before seen in a mum. It is brown, not 

 bronze or red or yellow; just a clear 

 brown, a color that will take. Both 

 Smith and Totty also had some wonder- 

 ful new mums. 



Begonias Lorraine and Cincinnati, as 

 shown by Hart Bros., were the finest 

 ever seen at this date. 



There was one vase of roses that was 

 of special interest; White Cochet cut 

 from the field November 11 and shown 

 November 16, fully as fine flowers as 

 any other standard sort shown, but 

 stems only eighteen inches long. It 

 was shown by Gasser. 



- Various Notes. 

 Frank Riley again is connected with 



These Are the Little Liners That Do'theBosiness 



the Smith & Fetters Co., having been 

 for the last four years with the Iowa 

 Seed Co., Des Moines. 



Cleveland is to have an up-to-date 

 conservatory at Gordon park, $50,000 

 having been appropriated, but those in- 

 terested say additional appropriations 

 will run the total up to $200,000. 



The Hirscheimer-Weiner wedding, 

 November 25, was one of the elaborate 

 affairs of the season. The Jones-Russell 

 Co; had the decoration, using 1,500 large 

 mums, mostly Golden Wedding, 500 

 white mums being used on the altar. 



Visitors: I. Rosnosky, Philadelphia; 

 W. E. Cook, New York. F. A. F. 



NAME OF PLANT. 



I send a branch of a plant for iden- 

 tification. It is growing on a moun- 

 tain at Helena, Mont., at an elevation 

 of 5,000 feet, and while we have had 

 several killing frosts and a good deal 

 of snow, it is still green and blooming. 



J. P. R. 



This appears to be a form of Matri- 

 caria inodorum, probably plenissima. It 

 also is called Chrysanthemum inodorum, 

 and has been naturalized and become 

 wild in many states. C. W. 



OHBTSANTHEMUM SOCIETY. 



The committees have examined seed- 

 lings as follows: 



At Cincinnati, November 16, Mt. KUco, white 

 Japanese Incurved, exhibited by Elmer D. Smith 

 & Co., Adrian, Mich. Commercial scale: Color, 

 18; form, 12; fullness, 9; stem, 14; foliage. 

 14; substance, 10; size, 10; total, 87. Ex- 

 hibition scale: Color, 13; stem, 5; foliage, S; 

 fullness, 14; form, 13; depth, 13; sUe, 26; 

 total, 80. ^ ^ Johnson, Sec 'y. 



DISCOIX>BED PLXJMOSUS. 



We are enclosing some specimens of 

 Asparagus plumosus for examination. 

 We are at a loss to understand why it 

 dries around the edges and has those 

 little white spots on it. What is the 

 matter with it! The soil is in good 

 condition, as far as we know. Perhaps 

 the house has been a little cool. Any 

 information will be appreciated. 



E. F. C. 



The specimens forwarded with this 

 query indicate that the asparagus in 

 question has been allowed to get too 

 dry at the root at some previous time. 

 Asparagus plumosus is rather a gross 

 feeder after the plants become weB. es- 

 tablished, and when in that eoittlUion 

 will take up a good deal of wfite?," 



W. H. t. 



