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The Florists' Review 



DeCKMBCR 12, 1912. 



MUMS FOR THE SOUTH. 



Wc are anxious to put in a better 

 selection of mums for another season 

 and as the greenhouse department is a 

 new branch of our nursery business we 

 do not feel we have experience in se- 

 lection of varieties and will appreciate 

 a little advice. We want just three 

 practical varieties in the early mums 

 and three of the practical later ones, 

 to give us a longer season. Just the 

 yellow, white and pink colors, or pos- 

 sibly one good mauve variety also. Our 

 pink mum this fall did not satisfy us, 

 being inclined to grow too pointed, or 

 into a topknot, so we do not want to 

 propagate from these again. We want 

 good, large mums, 'but do not feel like 

 'losing another season experimenting 

 with new varieties which come too 

 thigh. G. B. C. 



' jI» the vicinity of New Orleans, 

 where large quantities of mums now 

 are grown, the following varieties are 

 considered best: 



Early — October Frost and Mrs. H. 

 Robinson, white; Chrysolora, yellow; J. 

 K. Shaw, pink. 



Late — Timothy Eaton and White 

 Bonnaffon, white; Dr. Enguehard, pink; 

 Oolden Wedding and Major Bonnaffon, 

 yellow. R. E. 



TOO MUCH SHADE. 



I have had my troubles with mums 

 this season. They grew spindly and 

 the blooms did not get large. I topped 

 them about May 5 and I left a pretty 

 heavy shade on the glass until the lat- 

 ter part of September. What I want to 

 know is: If cuttings are potted in the 

 latter part of March, can they be 

 topped and the tops used for cuttings 

 again? Will they produce good flowers? 

 Has my trouble been in shading them 

 too much or topping them too late? If 

 I put stock plants in flats and put them 

 in a dark cellar, covering them with 

 tawdust and taking them out about the 

 latter part of January, will they pro 

 duce good cuttings? E. H. M. 



The trouble came from shading the 

 houses all summer. The chrysanthe- 

 mum needs all the light possible during 

 its growing season, so it can ripen its 

 growth. The topping, while perhaps 

 not advisable, would not seriously affect 

 the crop unless the plants were topped 

 back into the old wood, when they 

 might not break out well. The cut- 

 tings taken from the tops will produce 

 flowers good enough for most ordinary 

 purposes. It is not to be expected that 

 stock plants put in a dark cellar are 

 going to produce satisfactory stock next 

 •spring. Keep the stock plants cold and 

 •dry, but they must have good light. If 

 you cannot do this, you will find it 

 more profitable to use the space for 

 ssomething else and buy your plants 



next spring from (•oine of the dealers 

 who grow stock specially for that pur- 

 pose. ■ C. H. Totty. 



A BIG SHOW PLANT. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 what many consider to be the largest 

 chrysanthemum plant ever flowered in 

 the west. It was started by the Park 

 Floral Co., in preparation for the show 

 which was planned for Denver last 

 November. When circumstances made 

 it desirable to postpone the exhibition 

 to another season this plant was finished 

 and used for advertising purposes. It 

 became so large that to get it into the 

 store it was necessary to remove one of 

 the big plates of glass and take it in 

 through the window. The variety is 

 Georgiana Pitcher and the plant, in 

 a 20-inch tub, carried 815 buds. It was 

 photographed ten days before the sub- 

 ject was at its best. J. A. Sked is the 

 grower for the Park Floral Co., but this 

 plant was in the special charge of Wm. 

 E. Keith, a former Bostonian, who is 

 seen in the picture. 



THE BEST NEW WHITE MUMS. 



The sensation of the chrysanthemum 

 season, in almost every section of the 

 country, was the variety Wm. Turner, 

 an excellent bloom of which is shown 

 in the accompanying illustration. Wm. 

 Turner is a Wells-Pockett variety and 

 was sent out two years ago, but it was 

 not until this season that distribution 

 was wide enough to permit of its merits 

 being fully known. Wm. Turner hope 

 lessly outclasses Merza, a variety that 

 stood first for many years in its color. 

 Mrs. David Syme, although it is good, 

 does not touch Wm. Turner as a show 



flower. It is a little inclined to be soft 

 and this year suffered considerably 

 with the warm weather. Turner, on the 

 other hand, kept in perfect condition. 

 Another white that will give Turner 

 a hard rub next year is Mrs. Gilbert 

 Drabble. This variety is somewhat 

 looser in petalage than Turner, but 

 makes even a larger bloom; in fact, at 

 several of the exhibitions this year it 

 was the largest flower in the show. I 

 look to see some wonderful blooms of 

 Drabble shown next vear. 



C. H. Totty. 



Mr. Totty speaks of the Turner va- 

 riety as it appeared on the exhibition 

 tables, but readers of The Review are 

 chiefly interested in its commercial pos- 

 sibilities. So here is a clipping from an 

 English paper whose readers are mar- 

 ket growers: "During the last three 

 seasons the variety Wm. Turner has 

 been shown to perfection in the exhibi- 

 tion stands, and it has proved itself 

 one of the finest whites for this pur- 

 pose. Apart from this quality, it is 

 perhaps the most useful white yet in- 

 troduced for market work. If grown 

 six on a plant, first-class flowers, al- 

 most exhibition quality, can be ob- 

 tained; 6-inch globes of white can be 

 obtained if disbudded to ten per plant; 

 5-inch flowers if at the rate of twenty 

 on the plant, while for spray work it 

 excels all others for from the middle of 

 November to the end of that month. 

 All growers should make a note of 

 this." 



North JudBon, Ind. — Paul C. Arnold 

 is continuing the business which was 

 conducted here for sixteen years by his 

 father, the late C. C. Arnold. 





Plant of Georgia xu Pitcfa«r Mum Flowered by the Park Floral Cc. 



