UMASS/AMHERST 312066 0333 3144 9 •;> rt^^ m^ ^x'-- ^J": Tm ^.M .3:*< m.: V K< ^ ^:>^ M- •'jM^^' V. 5>j ^JTi npPT V. / Z. •--rTV'i'- Rmerica is "the Prcw of tha l/essel; there may be mere comfort /Jmidships, but we are the first to touch Unknou/n Seas," Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, AUGUST 8, 1896. Ho. 427 fLHiiE Ikmsm^m f'mm^ Copyright 1896, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 333 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription, 81.00 a year. To Europe. 82.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. Wi-l Dearhorn Street, CHICAGO. Eastern Office: 67 Bromfleld St.. Koston. This paper Is a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Association. The Twelfth AduuglI Meeting SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS — - Wir.L BE HELD AT- — CLEVELAND, O., AUGUST 18, 19, 20 usiness Ix-fore the meeting cannot l)e finis!ieecember of each year. ELECTIONS. Sec v.— The election of officers shall take place fin the closing day of the annual meeting, antl shall always Ix' bv ballot. vice-presidents. Sec VI.— It shall be the duty of each Vice- President to promote the interest of the Society in his State to the best of his ability, to keep a com- plete list of the florists therein, and supply them with such printed matter as the officers'of the Society may direct; and he shall assist the Secre- tary, when requested, in completing such lists of addresses, that our annual meetings may be thoroughly advertised and membership increased. DELINQUENT MEMBERS. Sec. VII.— All members whose dues are unpaid shall l>e so notified by the Secretary; and when a member shall have paid no dues for a period of eighteen mcuiths after receiving such notice, his name shall be drojiped from the rolls, and he can be readmitted to membership only by a majority vote of the Executive Committee. special ArritOPRIATIONS. Sec. VIII.— Every resolution involving an ap- The American Florist. Aug. 8. propriation of money must he rcferrt-d to the Executive Committee before it ('an be acted upon; and it shall be the duty of theComniittee to report on the same at the next session after the one at which such resolution is introduced; provided, however, that in cases of urijency the Executive Committee may retire for consultation and report at the same session at which such resolution is introduced. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Sec. IX.— The transaction of business sliall be in the following order: 1. Callintr to order. 2. Reading minutes of previous session. 3. Reports of standing committees. 4. Reports of special committees. o. Miscellaneous business. 6. Essays. Discussions. 7. Election of oflficers (on last day). 8. Appointment of Executive and other com- mittees. 9. Adjournment. ALTERATION OF BY-LAWS. Sec. X.— The liy-Laws may be amended by on*- day's notice, in writing, at any anntial meeting. on a two-thirds vote of members present. PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION. A set of Ily-Laws in conformity with the pro- visions of this (,'onstitution will be presented for consideration at the same time. NAME. Article I.— This Association shall be known as the American Society of Floriculture. OBJECTS. Art. II.— The objects of the Society are to secure a greater national interest in floriculture; to eiwnumiir t lit- d''veiopment of its industries, coinuKTrial aihl oihiTwise; to judicially examine and classify its products; to detferraine nomen- clature, and to hold exhibitions and conventions. officers. Art. III.— The officers of this Society shall con- sist of a President. Vice-President.- Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be elected by ballot at the annual August convention of the Society, and whose tenure of office shall be for one year from the first day of January ne.xt succeeding such elections. SECTIONS. Art. IV.— Organizations of not less than 25 persons foruicd fnr thi^ examination of and to ad- vance the iiarticulnr interests of special subjects shall be designated as Sections, each of which shall be entitled to one representative .in the Executive Committee of the American Society of Floriculture. Membership in the American Society of Floriculture shall be a pre-requisite to membership'in sections: otherwise such sections shall be independent in their management except as any special action shall i-ontlii-t with the general welfare of the American Soci«'ty of Flori- culture. STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS. Art. V. — There shall be appointed by the Presi- dent a Vice-President from each State, Terri- tory or Province, who shall be the accredited rep- resentative of the American Society of Floriculture at all meetings and exhibitions of importance in his State. BRANCHES. AuT. A'l.— Gardeners' and llorists' clubs and local horticultural societies regularly organized and comprising not less than twenty-five members may beci>m<- IJrain-lies by the payment annually to the AiiH-ri'-aii S.i.-ietyof Floriculture of on** dollar for each individual membership in such Branch, and upon said payment members of such Branches shall then become members of the Ameri- can Society of Floriculture in good standing for the current year. Similar privileges will be ac- corded allied or kindred societies having a mem- bership of over five hundred upon acceptance by the American Society of Floriculture and the pay- ment of such sum as the Executive Committee may determine upon. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Art. VII.— The President shall appoint annually two members to serve for three u-ars. who to'- gether with the officers of thf S(ici<-ty, Junior ex-President and one represeutativi- froni each of the Sections, shall constitute the Executive Com- mittee. Each Branch may send a representative to meetings of the Executive Committee, who shall be entitled to a vote in its deliberations. MEETINGS. Art. VIII.— The Society shall hold an Annual Convention in August, at a dale li\ed upon by the Executive Committee. The selecliori nf location shall be made by ballot tlie preceding year. Special meetings of the Society shall be called by the Secretary on the written request of not less than fifty members of the Soeiely, endorsed by at least two-thirds of the Executive Coiiiniittee. The annual executive meeting shall be held pre- liminary to the August convenlion ill a date in mid-Lent. Should, however. I he besi interests of the Society demand, the Presiili'Ut shall appoint a special date and place of such meeting, with the approval of a majority of the Executive Com- mittee. Special executive sessions may be called bv the President or on the request of three mem- bers of the Executive Committee. ^^Sfe^l''--^ THE ROCKBET. GOLDEN GATE PARK. SAN FRANCISCO. QUORUM. Art. IX. — Not, less than fifty members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi- ness at the August convention. Seven members of the Executive Committee shall constitute ;i quorum at the meetings of that Committee. ELIGIBILITT. Art. X. — All who are interested in florii'ulture are eligible to membership. AMENDMENTS. Art. XI. — The constitution ma.v be amended or altered at iiny regular meeting by a iwo-thirds vote of the mi-Mihers jiresent, notice of such altera- tion or amendnicTit tiaving been submitted to the Society at a previous meeting or furnished to the Secretary by June first prtM-cding the Annual Convention and publishf feet, side walls S'/i; feet, heated by two rows 4-inch pipes; tfmperature during cold weather is 50°. Walls of houses are built of hard pressed bricks. I wish to raise temperature to 6()°; how many more 21:; or 4- inch pipes would you advise me to put in, and would an eight-section Carmody boiler be large enough to heat that much more pipe easily. Would you advise me to put in overhead heating in large house in order to avoid steps at the ends? Missouri. C. W. For the first house (18x80) to carry the temperature up to the desired point, it would require three more pioes of the same size as those he has at the present time; and in the smaller house (10x70) it would require two more. With reference to the last question, whether an eieht-section Carmody boiler would be sufficient to heat these addi- tional pipes fully, I am not able to answer, but presume from what I have seen of the boiler it should do so without any trouble. I do not advise the overhead heating in hot water system, as I find that it creates too much heat in the upper part of the house without a correspond- ing advantage. If C. W. would make his return pipes under the benches he need not loave any steps at the end of the house, as it can easily be arranged with- out them. John N. May. Amount of Pipe in Exposed Situation. How many 2-inch pipes, under a pres- sure of !■ or 5 pounds, should be used to maintain a temperature of 60° during zero weather in a house 18x100, ridge 9 feet, glass at south end? Situation is ex- posed. Zero. New York. Replying to Zero's question for the amount of piping required in the house described, the safest calculation is to count one foot of 2 -inch pipe to every 2 feet of glass area in the house, which would mean that in an 18 foot house, presumably there is m less than 22 feet of glass, independent of the side. In that case it would take eleven two-inch pipes to be safe ia extreme weather; if there is any additional side glass, that should be counted in the same way. A smaller amount of piping might be made to do the work, but it is unsafe to depend upon it in extreme cases. It is far better to put in one more pipe now, than to have to drive the fires to an extreme in very cold weather, wh'ch means running fuel badly to waste, and over-heating of the pipes, which is not at all beneficial to the plants growing in the house. John N. May. Sulphate of Ammonia as a Fertilizer. How much sulphate of ammonia should I use to 100 gallons of water for chrysan- themums and roses, aad where can I buy it for a reasonable price. A. S. Ohio. In reference to the question above I think it would be far sater a^. this season of the year to start with not more than one pound of sulphate of amraoniatolOO gallons of water, that is, presuming that the plants are not very well established at the present time. For chrysanthe- mums I consider that this is ample strength till afier the buds are somewhat swollen, and for roses I certainly should not give it anv stronger. If the roses are plants that have been carried over for a year then the strength may be increased to 1'+ pounds to 100 gallons of water, and It the plants are growing very strong and vigorously 2 pounds to 100 gallons of water may not be too much, altbough it is much safer to pet it a little too weak than too strong. So much depends upon the condition of the plants when applying any of these stimulants as to the benefit derived therefrom. An old plant that has filled all the soil with healthy vigorous roots will take considerably more of it than young plants that are merely start- ing to make growth and have not filled their soil with roots. So much depends upon the judgment of the operator in this that no absolute rule can be laid down for their guidance. Plain, common, prac- tical sense is the best factor for the suc- cessful application of this and all other fertilizers. One thing should be borne in mind at all times, and that is that the plants need an abundance of fresh air, espc-ially when extra stimulants are apo'ied for their developmect. John N. Ma v. Buying on Credit Without Intention to Pay. Every business man must be interested just in proportion to the extent to which he has occasion to ask or grant credit, in the decision handed dow'nby the supreme court of Rhode Island, Julv 6, lS96in the case of Swift vs. Rounds, 35 Atl. Rep. 45. It says that it hesitated somewhat, in arriving at the conclusion to which it did for the reason that, among the numerous cases of fraud and dtceit to be found in the books, it had not been referred to any, nor had it been able to find any, where the action of deceit was based simply on the act of buying goods on credit, intend- ing not to pay for them. But the authori- ties are overwhelming to the effect that it is 6 The American Florist. Au , Ai gust 4th, a large party of rcpresertative gardeners and florists of Boston and vcinity with a number of guests from other points visited the beau- tiful estate ol Hon. Frank Jones at Ports- mouth, N. H. A special car was provided, and the trip to and from Portsmouth was as pUasant and jolly as 25 light hearted, happy old friends on a holiday could make it. On arrival at the picturesque old New Hampshire town they were met by Mr. Robert Patterson, who since the death of his brother William six years ago has had entire charge of the vast estate, compris- ing one thousand acresof garden, nursery and farm. Coaches conveyed the visitors to the greenhouses, through which they were conducted and given an opportunity to see as fine, well grown a lot of palms, stove plants, flowering plants, ferns and grapes as can be found in any similar place in this country. The system of electric lighting the establishment, the absolute cleanliness of everything in and outside of the houses were especially com- mented upon, and the display of gloxin- ias, begonias, geraniums and other bright flowering plants which filled one range of houses was declared by all to be the best they had ever seen. Acres upon acres of blooming annuals outside added to the beauty of the scene, and there vVere many well arranged foliage beds. The horticult- ural portion of the program having been completed the party was photographed, and then the conveyances started for the great brewery, where the various pro- cesses in the manufacture of Jones' ale were explained and the visitors given an opportunity to sample the product, and thence to New Castle, where at the stately Hotel Went worth, overlooking the broad Atlantic, a rich dinner was served in the small banquet hall. Brief remarks were contributed by many of the visitors, who especially complimented Mr. Patterson upon his great success in his work, and expressed deep appreciation of the kind- ness he had shown them. Among those present were Judge C. W. Hoitt, Nashua; Jos. A. Dirwanger, Portland; Wm. Apple- ton, Providence; J. Fuller, Leominster; Geo. McWilliani, Whitinsville; H. F. A. Lange, Woicester; F. L. Harris, Welles- ley; E. M. Wood, Natick; Jas. Comley, Lexington; Jackson Dawson, Bussey In- stitution; and J. Woodward Manning, Reading, besides a dozen gentlemen of Boston, prominent in all departments of the business. The old Hogan greenhouses at Mt. Au- burn have been sold to be removed, and the land will be devoted to residential purposes. Since their former owner John Hogan died years ago they have been operated by several difi'erent parties, gen- erally unsuccessfully, and have been grad- ually going to decay. A quarter of a cen- tury ago the place was noted for well- grown plants, and John Hogan's heaths have seldom been equalled in this neigh- borhood. Wm. B.Mulhall died on July 28, of con- sumption. He was a sufferer from cancer for a long time, and a few years ago his leg was amputated at the hip. Since that time he has been steadily employed by City Forester Doogue, who has been a steadfast friend to the unfortunate young man, who reciprocated the kindness of his benefactor with faithful service until com- pelled to give up. His age was thirty- seven. The Boston party for the Cleveland convention expect to have as companions several of the brethren from Rhode Island who will carry with them the invitation for the national society to meet next year in the citv of Providence. N. F. McCarthy started with a party of friends on Wcdre=day, August 5, for the famous trout fishing country in the Rangeley region and will spend some time at Kennebago|Lake, returning about September 1. Owing to extensive real estate changes in the neighborhood, A. P. Calderhas va- cated his store on Boyleston street and his address for the present will be at his greenhouses in Dorchester. Visiting Boston: Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Siebrecht, New Rochelle, N. Y. New York. The old storv of "nothing doing" is be- coming a trifle monotonous, but it is not possible to vary from it at present and still adhere to the truth, something which the New York corresponderjt has always persistently done, even at the risk of his life. There being an absolute dearth of any news either interesting or icsttuitive the temptation to manufacture some, using the long-suff-ring Johnnie Weir or some other available party as a sul ject, is very strong, but it must be resisted. Speaking of Johnnie Weir that gentleman hasjust returned from an erjojable vaca- tion at a Lorg Island resort. Walter Sheridan and wife have just started on a short vacation up in New York state. Thos. Young, Jr., and wife returned from England last Saturday on the Etruria. There areplenty of flowers, such as they are, In market, carnations showing up in better quality than anything else. Roses are mainly from young stock and still run somewhat weak in quality. A meeting of the Gardener's Society is called for theeveningof Saturday, August 8, the object in view being to call a con- vention of gardeners from all parts of the country next September to form a na- tional organization. Mrs. WarendcrfiTand J. Fleisehman are Spending the summer at Long Branch. Wm. Elliott is trout fishing at Glen Spa, Pa. He says it takes less talk to catch trout than to sell plants at auction. Carroll Elliott will start August 9 on a cruise on the yacht "Azalea," otherwise known as the "Nancy Ann, two decks." James Dean has been sutfiring from a severe attack of muscular rheumatism. Peter MacDonald will assume the posi- tion of gardener at the Sieeel-Cooper greenhouses on August 10. G. N. Zingsem, who was well known as a landscape gardener and who laid out many public and private parks, died at Hackensack Hospital on July 30. Springfield, Mass. The past week brought the sweet pea exhibition of Hampden County Horti- cultural Society. There was some fearon the part of growers that flowers for exhibiting would not be in best of form, but anyone who attended the exhibition could say that their fears were ground- less. Never were there more beautilul and perfect blossoms, and the variety and blending of colors was unsurpassed. Some to be sure who were expected to exhibit, on account of the damp, sticky weather preceding could not show up, but what werethere were heartily enjoyed by all who attended. The exhibition was held in two empty adjoining stores, mak- ingit mucheasier of accessthan last year. All of the arrangements were fine and showed the flowers to the best advantage. Rev. Mr. Hutchins,the well known s w< ec pea grower, made a very fine exhibit. He had 75 varieties and would would have had one hundred or more if the weather had only been a little more favorable. First and forenust come his Daybreak, with which he has been experimenting tor quite a number of years. It is a beauty with white for ground work and a scar- let cloud over. It is to be commended to us, for it is American grown and will be- come popular. Mr. Hutchins has been experimenting with different people's stock and had quite a showing of trial stock, one from Oregon, a deep purple in color, and another white with markings of orange. Then he showed the Red Riding Hood, an extremely hooded variety and quite a small flower. It is not of much value, except as a "freak." Other rare ones shown were Alice Eckford, pink apricot and white; Captivation, lavender somewhat of the Countess of Radnor iSg6. The American Florist. k K^ JiL J L^ ''■^" 1 y^ 1 I ^^^n z j^iiyH^II ^ 1 ^^^^^^^aRS?y%>!t!^ ^31 11 1^ .^^ 1 ■ ^'^^^^^ujjH mf- saSi^ ^M ixir' sBS**' : Vi* SK^^^MSBL 31 \ H m^ HUB A LITTLE LAKE PLANTIHG ON A SLOPE. GOLDEN GATE PARK. SAN FRANCISCO. color, only a redder purple; Countess of Aberdeen, almost white, margined with pale pink; Little Dorrit, a very pleasing pink and white; Crown Jewel, cream white, with rose-violet shading; Mikado, cerise with a white stripe; Grayfriar, purple, variegated, a very fine tormed flowers. Two new growers this year were W. J. Eldred and A. H. Smith. This was Mr. Eldred'a first experience in exhibiting sweet peas. He had the only '97 set in the hall. These were Lovely, (Eckford) afti r the order of Katherine Tracy, but lighter in tints, extremely pleasing fl )wer; Countess of Shrewsbury, pink and white; Coquette, a rich creamy flower with delicate shadings. He had two seedlings, one. Little Allen, soft pink, bold flower, very pretty. The committee of awards recommended it for further trial. The other was not named but the colors were much like the original Painted Lady, but a broader and more expanded flower. His exhibit as a whole was very fine. One of the best collections of commer- cial varieties was that of D. W. Brainard of Thompsonville, Conn. He had good Katherine Tracy, Princess May and Mrs. Sankey. He won several first prizes the week previous at a show in Hartford, Conn. A very interesting exhibit to seedsmen especially was that of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., in charge of A. P. Lyman, a student under Prof. Bailey, who is making the sweet pea a special study. The 127 vases were arranged according to color and shading with the name of variety and the grower of the seed attached, thus enabling interested parties to determine who grew the purest stock. A. H. Suitti's exhibit contained some very well grown flowers, including KaiheriLC Tracy, Gaiety, Extra Early Blanche Ferry, Boreatton and Blanche Burpee. W. A. Phelps of Lee had 70 varieties of fine flowers which captured many first prizes. Among them were Jaanita and Blanche Burpee. Another new comer, E. C. Fenn of Ware, showed S'lme fine America and Katherine Tracy. H. A.Jones and E. A. Weeks of Worcester filled several classes with flowers of un- usual size, with foliage making a very pleasing efi'i;ct. F. A. Blake of Rochdale, entered several classes but was unable to fill them all on account of a severe rain- storm the day before. L. D. Robinson showed a fine cluster of Lilium auratum. The gloxinias from E. H. R. Lyman, Northampton, Donald O. McGregor, gardener, were said to be the finest ever shown here. H. A. Dreer of Philadelphia made atine exhibit of water lilies and other aquatics, doub'e and single fringed petunias, and French cannas. E. B. Beals of Greenfield showed some fine asters. Geo. Smith of Manchester, Vt., made an exhibit of mis- cellaneous flowers. E. H. Barney, of Forest Park, made a beautiful display of lotus, including N. striata and also the hundred leaved variety. Among the visitors from out of town were G-orge D. Clark, representing H. A. D.eer & Co , W. Ailee Burpee and Miss Burpee, O. H. Clark, Woodmont, Conn., F. Schuyler Matthews, J. N. Lipaman, Manchester by-the-Ssa. The judges were R. Hile Smith, O iver H. Dii;kinson and Adoljjhus Miellez. A new vas; for displaving sweet peas, an invention ot Rsv. W. P. Hutchins, is especially worthy of mention. The base is of iron, weighing one-half pound, the top of tm, enamelled. Ic stands about one foot high, is of three sizes top, inch and a quarter, inch and a half, and two inciies. The iron foot prevents them from tipping over easily, and the form of vase is very suitable for displaying sweet peas. He proposes to call it the "Springfield vase." B. M. Cleveland. Business of late has remained as lifeless as usual at this season of the year. Indoor roses are very little in evidence, and most of those to be seen are very poor in quality. Inside carnation stock IS practically played out, but good stock from outside is sufiic'ently plentiful for all needs. Sweet peas have not in any way improved in quantity or quality during the past two weeks. Thereverse is rather the truth, and in all probability there will be no improvement this season, as the vines are beginning to look badly with nearly all growers. Asters are in full supply and of fiir quality, although there is a good deal of complaint concern- ing stem rot, which in some cases has destroyed nearly half the plants. Some growers say that they are losing a good many through the plants turning yellow, but in spite ofall cultural difiicul ties there does not seem to be any shortage in the total supply. Matters relating to the convention are progressing very satisfactorily. All details have been practically arranged with the exception of a few minor items. The club and individual trophies for shooters and bowlers have been arranged for — hand- some vases for the club prizes and medals for individuals. They are all fine and will be well worth making a lively effort 8 The American Florist. Aug. 8, for. The bowling alley at Germania Hall will he used, while the shooters will be accommodated at the new grounds of the Cleveland Gun Club, where every- thing will be found very complete. Applications for space in the trade exhibit have been very numerous and continue to come in fast, so that the out- look for the biggest and best exhibition that has ever been held is very bright. There has also been a lively demand for premium lists for the floral exhibition, and prospects for that feature are equally good. A. Francois Georges Leon Bruant. The French horticulturists whose names are familiar in America are not numerous. Mr. Lemoitie is well known as the origin- ator of new races of gladioli, while Mr. Crozy's fame rests upon the improved dwarf French cannas now so popular the world over. Not less known, however,is Mr.F.G L. Bruant of Poitiers, who has recently been appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, in recognition of his valuable ser- vices and additions to the floral world. Mr. Bruant has not confined his skill and efforts to one special class of plants, but on the contrary he seems to have improved all the popular flowers. Every year he has enriched our collections with new geraniums superior to any heretofore in existence, besides numerous new bego- nias, chrysanthemums, fuchsias, helio- tropes, lantanas, petunias, etc. Those who have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bruant speak of him as one of the most cordial gentlemen in the pro- fession, and all congratulate him upon the very high honor bestowed upon him by the French government. A. Blanc. Philadelphia. The canna symposium was quite a feast to the lovers of this popular summer flower. It was held in the room occupied by the Florists' Club and in connection with its regular monthly meeting. Con- sidering the hot weatherthere was a very creditable display of flowers, the exhibit of Henry A. Dreer being especially fine. Robert Craig also had a number of fine vases, while Messrs. Siebrecht & Wadley, A. Blanc and James Dean staged blooms of their newest varieties, among them some that appeared to the laymen to be equal if not superior to the best of the imported new ones. Mr. Dean's Embla, yellow, with red markings; Defender, yellow ground plentifully spotted with red, a beautiful variety; Vision, about the color of the Ma Capucinerose; Cham- pion, a fine large flower, light red and Wm. McKinley, a magnificent dark red, all look Uke winners. Mr. bianc had a very fine thing in a seedling something like Queen Charlotte, having all the beautiful coloring of this celebrated variety, but still more intense in color and a larger flower. Another seedling was a deep wine color and the largest flower on exhibition, not except- ing Italia and Austria. The Dreer collec- tion was very complete, comprising over 40 varieties, many of them new and very interesting. Mr. Davidson, who has charge of the cannas, said that many of the new ones did not seem worth much at first, but as they grew on, their good qualities became more and more apparent until finally some attained a place in the front rank. Favorites atfirst sight often degenerated on closer acquaintance as their defects become known, they often being poor growers and bad keepers in winter. As the club accepted an invita- tion to visit the nurseries of the Dreer Co. some day this month, to be named later, we will not attempt to describe the differ- ent kinds, as a much better opportunity will be then given. The two new large flowering varieties Italia and Austria, of this collection, are, however, remarkable kinds and large plants in full flower should make striking objectsonthe lawn. K )bt. Craig read a paper on the devel- opment of the flower, naming a number of what he considered the best varieties. His paper and remarks for the prepared article were but a skeleton on which he built a very entertaining and instructive address which was well received . Mr. Dean in the discussion which followed said that F. Q. L. BRUANT. he regarded Mme. Crozy as the best all around canna up to date, at least in com- merce. Many otherwise good kinds would only grow in certain localities, but the Crozy was known to do equally well all over the United States and when put away in winterit was there when wanted in the spring, which was more than could be said of many other much vaunted varieties. J. D. Cabos was valuable on account of its foliage; it also kept well over winter, a point that should be determined in every variety before it would become a standard sort. He thought the invitation of H. A. Dreer and its acceptance a good thing for the club, as it would give them a charceto study the diflerent varieties by daylight when true colors of the flowers could be seen. A. Bouvier even with its drooping habit he considered a good one as it gave variety to a collection. Queen Charlotte had grown on him and he from being indifferent at first now admired it and thought it one of the best. Mr. Siebrecht liked A. Bouvier, liked its drooping habit and thought no collection complete without it. He put Mme. Crozy first but thought Mrs. Fairman Rogers might surpass it, as it was truly magnifi- cent with him, bearing trusses 6 inches across and S inches deep. It holds its flowers well. Queen Charlotte was another that was in great demand, in fact all good cannas had sold well the past season; the demand for them seemed to be growing. Egandate, a fine variety, had stood the wind and rain very well with him and this he regarded as a good trait in a canna. The French varieties that came out five years ago were considered fine and they were, but America was now keeping pace and pro- ducing equally as good if not better. Eldorado they could never get enough of. Charles Henderson was excellent but late. He was glad the club was going to H. A. Dreer's, it was a good school. He had seen a new variety raised in Newport, that grew 8 feet high with an immense crimson flower; this he thought would be a popular kind. Mr. Lonsdale mentioned Souv. d' An- toine Crozy as one of the best of the new ones. Mr. Blanc thought there was a grow- ing demand for dw&rf cannas and pre- dicted a future for them. He spoke of seedlings but did not know much about hybridizing the flowers. He said there was undoubtedly money in seedlings, as the raisers of Italia and Austria had re- fused $1,000 each for these kinds, and Mr. Siebrecht said that he had offered $500 for anjAmerican seedling, which was refused. Mr. Dean said that the percentage of good kinds from seed was very small, even with great care in keeping the kinds separate. Varieties would not reproduce themselves from seed with any certainty. Seed of Mme. Crozy produced a number of varieties, and so it was with the oth- ers. He thought they used Mme. Crczy largely on the other side in hybridizing; he judged this from the character of the new varieties. Convention matters were given consid- erable time and from the discussion and interest taken it would seem as if Phila- delphia will be well represented. The route will be by Pennsylvania, Delaware & Lackawannato Buffalo, and then by boat. Due notice will be sent all club members by the secretary of the final arrangements. It was decided not to designate any par- ticular hotel as headquarters. Otto Newman was elected a member. Wm. R. Smith of Washington was an attentive listener and said that he was glad to be present. We are sony to record the death of the wife of Charles Sims of Rosemont, which occurred last week. The Florists' Bowling Club stuck an- other feather in its cap last Saturday at the Caledonian games, when it won a silver cup, defeating the three other teams engaged in the contest. To be sure they only made 600 points, which is not a high score for six men, but everything was regulation and every pin had to be bowled for. Kennedy was high man with 176, Brown next with 145, but George Craig was the star of the occasion, as be- ing last man he had to make 25 pins in his last frame to win by one. This is enough to rattle most men, but George proved equal to the occasion making two strikes and eight on the last ball. He was taken up and carried around on the shoulders of his excited and jubilant 'el- low players. The gunners were also en- tered in a match but failed to land a prize, although making a creditable score. K. San Francisco. Business is at the present time very poor, nothing doing at all. Sweet peas have shortened up in supplv and have taken a small jump to 75 cents per dozen bunches. The quality is not of the best, the stems being short and the flowers a little oft color. The cause of the rise is that a great many of the growers fearing a glut in the market made no second planting of seed, therefore those who did were fortunate enough to make a little now. Roses are not to be had in any ([uantity, and it is well also, as there is I no demand whatever for them. Many of i8g6. The American Florist, 9 •■^aaaa^ RUSTIC STONE BRIDGE CHILDREN'S PLAYHOUSE AND GROUNDS. GOLDEN GATB PARK. SAN FRANCISCO. the stores have laid off many hands unti business begins to pick up a little. Some fine Testouts can be had, also Perles, but there is hardly anything else in. The growers as a general rule are busily engaged in replanting their houses and resting stock. As yet we have not seen any Harrisii of the new crop of bulbs. A large number of Lilium auratum is in, also rubrums and albums of extra good quality. We note some well grown Amaryllis Belladonna also, but asa rule all bulbousstock moves slowly. Asters are about the only thing that is selling at all, and as yet cannot be had in much quantity. Scrapie's strain taking the lead. We see a few asters ;n pots, which do not seem to meet with much sale. American Beauties are of very poor quality; everything we see seems to be mildewed. Tuberoses also can be had. We see quite a few hydrangeas. This article has had a very good run this sea- son and seems to be increasing in popular favor for wedding work. Coreopsis lan- ceolata seems to become quite a staple flower in our stores, as they last a long tjme and are very cheap. Antoninni & Shannahan on Geary Btregt bavg a very gpoj} show of Amaryllis Belladonna and tuberous begonias in pots. Their stock of rubrums is also excellent. They are makingquite a show of white asters. Mr. A. Hilbcrt is back again at his old stand on Geary street. He says business is as good as could be expected at this season of the year. Mr. Sidnev Clack of Menlo Park is back again at his post after several weeks' absence with his family in the northwest. He reports business as poor in that ter- ritory. At John H.Sievers' store on Post street we saw a fine exhibition of their mam- moth flowering tuberous begonias, which were extra fine and of good coloring. Their Testouts are superb, also their show of seedling carnations, which is another one of their specialties. We saw some grand yellow seedlings from which they expect some great results. Mr. Carroll Kruger still has charge of the nurseries, and everything there looks excellent. The chrysanthemums are all growing nicely, and will fully sustain the reputation they have gained during for- mer years. San Francisco has decided, after a care- ful canvass of the merchants of the city, not to hold any carnival this fall, so that the proposed "Carnival of the Golden Gate" has been postponed until April, 1897. The carnival season in California will be inaugurated next soring by the one in the San Francisco. Director Gen- eral Frielander is hard at work towards making it a great success. The postpon- ing of the carnival was a very wise thing by the committee in charge for the reason that in the fall flowers are very scarce, while in the spring they can be had in great abundance. Frank Pelicano & Co. of Kearney street are making extensive improvements in their store. They are having it painted, and the windows are being lowered also. Mr. Geo. Ernst is slowly recovering from his recent illness. Mr. Chas. C. Navlet has returned from an extensive trip throughout Portland and the northwestern cities. Mr. Edw. W. Parsons of San Jise, who started quite an extensive establishment some few years ago, has sold out to his foreman, Smike Parker, who in partner- ship with Arthur Cann, will continue the business in the future. Mr. Parsons leaves for the east shortly with his family. E. W.McClellan's houses atBurlingame are nearly finished. They are admirably situated for the growingof cut flowers, in which branch Mr. McClellan hopes to be successful. They have four houses in all, which will be devoted to the growing of roses, carnations and chrysanthemums. A new potting shed has also been com- pleted. Meteor. St. Louis. The weather is hot and the business is dull. Some cf the down town florists had considerable funeral work, but out- side of that business is at a standstill in St. Louis. Firs'-class stock continues scarce. Perles, Meteors and Kaiserins are the best roses that come in now; the prices range from 2 to 3 cents. Asters are in full bloom and meet with ready sale at cheap prices. Carnations, field grown, are plentiful at 20 and 75 cents per 100. A good heavy rain would do a world of good to outdoor truck. The bedding in Forest Park looks well, there being more of it this season than ever before and it has been done with much better taste. Supt. Pape has got himself in a peck of trouble over that McKinley bed at Forest Park; the public say that our city parks should not be used for advertising politics, and they demand its removal at once. W. J. Vesey of Fort Wayne, Ind., spent one day with us last week. Visitors last week in St. Louis were John Barclay, representirg John Gardiner & Co., Philadelphia, and Arnold Kingier of W. W. Barnard & Co. Chicago. Peter Guth, 3S24 Nebraska avenue, wes prostrated by the heat while at work in the field; his condition is not serious. Chas. G. Fleckenstein was thrown from his wheel last week and is now at his home with a sprained ankle. John Young and his family have gone east for the summer; they will return about September 15. Mrs. Hudson, mother of John M. Hud- son, died July 31, after a lingering illness. Mrs. Hudson was well known in Phila- delphia. President Fillmore of the Florist Club, expects to have the banner meeting of the year on Thursday, August 13. Election of officers will take place and other very important matters will come up, and it is expected that every member of the club will be present. The club has made no arrangements about going to the Cleve- 10 The American Florist. Aug. S land convention, but those who expect to go will find it to their interest to be pres- ent at this meeting. The bowlers were at it again Monday night. Mr. Arnold Ringier, the Chicago bowler, was a visitor at the alleys and bowled with us. He is a good bowler and if Chicago sends a team to Cleveland they should not overlook him. Fred. Weber is the champion bowler of the last series and John Youne the lucky man. The highest bowler Monday night in three games was Beneke, 557; Kuehn second, 549; and Kutz third, 436. Kuchn was high for sing'e score, 233, Beneke second, 200, and Fillmore third, 181. By next Monday night our old alliy.s will be in shape to roll on, and the oicnic prize will be rolled for. J. J. B. Cattleya Chrysotoxa. The accompanying illustration was taken from a plant in the Toronto Nor- mal School greenhouses. No photograph, however, can do justice to this beautiful variety. One cannot help regretting on seeing it that it is impossible as yet to reproduce the lovely coloring of the flower. The petals (21/2 inches across) and sepals are a bright straw color, and the lip a rich crimson purple, much veined with gold. It needs a warm corner of the greenhouse. B. Buffalo. There has been any amount of showers of late, both light and heavy, and our neighborhood looks green and growing. Business is no worse than is expected for this dull time. Carnations are at last getting scarce, and as it is but two mouths bsfore the new crop will be com- ing in we must expect a falling ofif about this time. Ten months of flowering in the houses is doing well. Asters are sent in now in abundance and are filling up a gap in white flowers. The florists' win- dows are plentifully supplied with gladi- olus and Japan lilies. la fact there is no scarcity of flowers; buyers are more looked after just now. Philip Scott was at the last meeting of the club appointed chairman of commit- tee to manage a team of bowlers to rep- resent us at Cleveland, and his father has the same job with a shooting team. We hope as many of our experts will attend as possibly can, for there will be foemen worthy of our steel in bowling, and in shooting we won't be in it, but we will trv. There have been several out of town friends calling lately, among them Mr. Graham and wife of Cleveland and younger brother, hut their stay was all too short; Mr. Edson Hass of Austin, III.; Mr. Murdoch of Pittsburg, A. J. Scott of Fredonia, N. Y.; Mr. Jimes Bates of South Bend.Ind.; and there were others. All who know that most industrious man and friend of the S. A. F., and the main pillar of the Hail Association, will be grieved to hear that John G. Esler has met with an accident. We trust it won't be in his way to prevent his being as use- ful as ever at the convention. W. S. Chicago. Are you going to Cleveland^ If so please report early to G. L. Grant, 322 D.'arborn street, that you may be pro- vided for in the special car arranged for by the Chicago Florists' Club. See head- ing "Chicago to Cleveland" on another page. A meeting of the executive committee CATTLEYA CHRYSOTOXA. of the Horticuitu'-al Saciety of Chicago will be held this Saturdav, August S, to make final arrangements for the exhibi- tion of 1896. Market cond'tions remain unchanged, except that there was a further decline in the amount of business done this week. The excessive and continued heat seemed to paralyze all trade. Roses are a trifle better in quality, the young stock pro- ducing flowers really very fairfor the sea- son. Carnations are generally poor, be- ing flimsy and single. Asters are very plentiful — an actual glut; there are agood many poor flowers, showing the center. There is less complaint than usual of the blister beetle on asters; these pests came a little early, and while causing great damage to some other flowers they were beginning to go when asters arrived. Speciosum lilies are now in in quite large quantity and excellent quality; they sell but slowly at $6. Auratums have held up to $10 and $15 for first-class stock. Gladiolus is very plentiful and is down to $2. Hydrangea makes a big show, and may be bought for $4 a hut d red; there is a good deal coming in now. S weet peas are not keeping well, and for the most part they look very dejected. Pond lilies are plentiful, but they continue to sell well; only the ordinary white one is seen. Double sunflowers, gaillardia and coreop- sis are as plentiful as ever. Some of the perennial phloxes are sent in quite plenti- fully, but they are for the most part dull in color, and it is doubtful if they would sell even if of the clearer tints. Funeral work is about the only thing going now. It is understood that two new commis- sion houses will start up in time for fall business, all the parties concerned being very well known in the trade. John Barclay of John Gardiner & Co., Pniladelphia, was a visitor this week. Cmcinnati. Convention week will soon be at hand and there should be no time lost in mak- ing arrangements. There will be proba- bly ten or twelve florists in attendance from here, and the C. H. & D. R. R. have made them a very nice offer for transpor- tation. They will take them via C. H. & D. to Toledo and from there to Put-in Bay via steamer, and after a sojourn of two to three hours at Put-in Bay via steamer to Cleveland, which would make a very pleasant trip. The ptice would be about the same as by rail, $9.70 f jr the round trip. Should the party desire to go on the above route, they would have to leave here Sunday evening August 16, and arrive at Cleveland Mondav evening. Of course the Big Four would be the quickest way of going; one could leave here Monday evening, and arrive at Cleveland Tuesday a. m. in time to be ready for business. The steamboat trip on the lake and the sights at Put-in Bay would repay for the time lost. It is rumored that quite a delegation is going from Indianapolis, and they could join our boys at Hamilton, O., and thereby probably fill a car, which would make a jolly party. No doubt there are some florists about this vicinity that wish to go along, and I may advise them to ask Mr. H. L. Sunderbiuch, 4th and Walnut streets, for information. Tuberoses and gladiolus are a glut on the market. Business the past month has been at a standstill all around; everything is very dull. Asters are being seat in in much larger quantities and better qualitv than in fjrmer years. Good roses have sold better the latter part of the week, the chiif demand having been for Meteor and Kaiserin. An exceedingly heavy hailstorm passed over this section last Saturday between 1 and 4 p. m. doing much damage to glass among the growers of College Hill. I have not heard any particulars yet. H. SCHWARZ. Louisville, Ky. The Kentucky Society of Florists held their annual picnic July 15 on the grounds of the Anchorage Rose Co., and all present had a most enjoyable time. There were baseball, foot ball and other games, and music and dancing, in the latter of which all the florists and their wives joined. On Tuesday, August 4, the society met at the residence of Mr. C. W. Riimers, Crescent Hill, and were rovally entertained by that gentleman. Each guest was decorated by a large bunch of white hydrangea by their ho»t. All enjoyed themselves heartily. Junot. iSg6. The American Florist. 11 JAPAN MAPLES AT DOSORIS. Japan Maples. In a garden sense we regard the Japan maples as shrubs rather than trees, and while we cultivate a good many species, the two most esteemed with us are Acer palmatum and A. japonicum. From these two we get the dost of variegated and deeply cut forms we prize so highly, and of which a group of most beautiful specimens growing at Dosoris are shown in our illustration, which is engraved from a photograph. These plants vary from five to ten feet across. Acer japonicum is the broad-leaved "Japan maple" common in gardens, and ot which the golden-leaved form is such a favorite. Alihough this yellow leaved variety o'ten "burns" in summer and is somewhat delicate, the green leaved forms seem to be quite robust. The most beau- tiful of all the varieties (if it be a variety) is aconitifolium. It is robust in habit, as beautiful in flower as a scarlet maple, handsome and uncommon in foliage, and brilliant in color in autumn. Acer palmatum , often called A. polymor- phum, is the parent of atropurpureum, dissectum, pinnatifidum, sanguineumand the other lovely gems so welcome in our gardens. This and the preceding species (A. jiponicum) are, next to A. pictum, the commonest maples in Japan, both in a wild and cultivated state. The different varieties you will find described in nur- serymen's catalogues, and the descrip- tions are generally reliable. As a rule the varieties originate in Japan, but we name them , which accounts for so much Latin. In order to keep the different varieties true to kind they are propagated by lay- ering or grafting. AH of these Japanese maples are per- fectly hardy on Ling Island, and wefound them hardy at Boston, but in rigorous parts of the country we advise our read- ers to treat them experimentally, or pro- tect them in winter. When they are in good health, in full leaf and perfect color they surpass in elegance all other shrubs in the garden. Thty like good moist soil, general shelter, and protection from cold wind in winter. While the plants are under t•»- OHICA.OO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BE4UTIES Reinberg Bros. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS, 5/ WABASH AVENUE. Telephone Main 4937. OHIOA.Gi^O. Our Boses best them all, in quality. Headquarters for fine American Beauties- W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET. ■^^ CI1ICA.OO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. ^ CHICAGO. We are prepared to fill your orders with flrst-claBs flowers. Give us a trial order. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS, 88 Wabash /ivenue. Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. ConslsnmentBBoUcUed. Promptattentlon toallurders. LAST CALL FOR ADVS. FOR OUR Convention Number, TO BE ISSUED NEXT WEEK. ©yfioPc-^afe MarftefA. Cut Flowers. NBw York. Aug. ;>. Kuses. Beauty 2.0<)fe'->I) 00 Meteor. Knlserin 4-l»0S S (K) Jill other varieties rjOt'; 4.00 CarnatloriB. ordinary 20® .50 Sweet pens per 100 bunches... Valtev .. .20® .35 4 00 Awters 50@ I IHI (iliuilnlua. I. no 8 UOf'tilO (K) Ruses. Ooptler. Ntphetos Boston Aut,'. .'>. 1 OIK* -.i.OO Bride. iJrtdesmald, Meteor 2 HO® 4 00 Beauty ^.(HHs,lh.Vi} Valley 4 00 Asters : .. (JhidluIiiR , . .'. 1 110 •> (10 1*1' k pond lilies Sweei pens 303 .-';> 8mllax AeparaKUB 10.00(.' 13,110 _ .Sll IKI PHILADELPHIA Aug. .'. Hoses RftanUftd 1; 004 s.co Brides. Bridesmaid, La Franceetc... y.llO.^ 4,00 Carnatlonfi Sweet peas 40("; .75 m-' .25 Asparayus ;i5 00("j50 0(1 CHICAGO. AUK, 7. 4 Ou@ t; 01 Brides. Bridesmaid 1.00® :;,00 Perle. Wootton Testuut 2.00 4 l() ("^arn^tmns 50(.< 1 00 S|.L'fln,Hura fi no TiilitTdses 4.(iO(". (10 35(,",j 50 SwHliicona, perdjzen bunches. <;i:i— By an experienced florist. German, sober and not afraid to work: willing to go to any part of the country; references O. K. Ad- dress \V K, Box r,', Eden, Kans. SITUATION WANTED-By German, slnicle. 12 years" experience; flrst-ciass grower ot cut flowers, gen- eral pot plantH. forcing of bulbs, etc.: sober and relia- ble. Address A B. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED- By experienced market gardener, A No. 1 recommendation; si^ years with last employer; would prefer situation wlih florist or private place; please stat€ wages and address Chakles Voss. 44? W. Kacdolph St.. Chicago. WANTED-CataloKues of fruit plants and bulbs. The Gardener. Saleholme, Pawtucket, R. 1. WANTED-A practical florist with little monev can hear of a flrstclaas chance to establish himself. Address DUB, care American Florist. WANTED-A flrst-class mse grower as working foreman for a commercial place of IHHI running feet of Klaas at present; fine cottakre on place; perma- nent position to the right man; answer with copy of reference from last place and wages expected. Ad- dress P. O. Box 2;y), Madison, New .Jersey. F IQR SALE-Dcvlne Boiler Palm, fifty dollars, ('. L. BluxsoN & Co.. I'nducah, Ky. F F' lOR SA' E CHEAP— 1 No. S Furman steam boiler; nearly new. u^'ed 1 year. Z. I) Br,ACKiSTON. til \ ;id St.. N. W . Washington. D. C. F'OR SALE-Slx e. P vertical steam boiler, used only one season. Will be nffered at u bar^raln for cash bargain. S. Batson. Kalainnzoo. Mich. lOR RENT-A large nursery and plant establish- ment of many years' standing at Washington, D V . For particulars apply Box 4SI, city P. O.. Washington, D. C. FOR SALE OR LEASE-Flvegreenhousea. dwelling, sheds, etc. No c^mipetltlon. Half price. Bar- gain. Reason, bad health For particulars, address B, card American Florlbt. Chicago. FOR 8AUE-;i«KI feet second-hant glass 10x12 and 12x14 double thick at 2.'i per cent below market; also ;flKX) feet 1-lnch steam pt.e at2 cents per foot. Vai'Ghans Seed Stoke. Chicago. FOR SALK-One of the best locations In the country for a live florist; if vou are thlnklni: of making a change and cm raise *-'.()0() cash here Is a great bar- gain. Address G V. care American Florist. FOR SALK-Chenp. cheap; one No. Ill Illtchlngs corrugated twiler; one No. 4 Scollav; two No. ;s Scollay: will sell at a sacrlflce. Also have iiOOO feet 4-lnch v'pe, at a bargain. vVddress Chas. L. Mahshall, TOT Stevens St., Ix)well. Mass. WANTED ;g ^"I,, tor term of years, a good ret.iil plant and cut flower business, in a thriving towii. Vicinity ol New York or Boston preferred Please state true particulars. Address ABC, care American Florist. FOR SALE. FLORIST ESTABLTSHMKNT. consistiug; of house and four greenhouses, in first-cla^s order. The greenhouses were built for growing caina- tioiis, mushrooms and general slock of bedding plants for cemetery trade. Address J. F. KLIMMER, Opposite Waldhelm Cemetery, Oak Park, III. FOR SALE-Second-Hand Boilers. 2-tiO II. V. T|i|!l'I.AK iiOII.KKS. 3 40 II. I'. TI'ltHL.VK liOII.KK.S. l-as H. 1'. Til III LA K HOILEK. 2 2 .1 II. F. LOCOIWOTIVK BOII.KRS. Alt tiie above are In Hrat-t^aps or e:c::x.^%.tl>'X'z fsss. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stocks. Catalogues on application. "SURE CROP"!!! MUSHROOM SPAWN, ULIUM HARRISII, DUTCH BULBS. WEEBER & DON, •FLORISTS" FLOWER SEEDS. bri-ctAL Prices on r rrLiCATiON. Seed Merchants and Growers 114 Chambers Street, NEW YORK. EXTRA PANSY SEED. MAMMOTH SUNBEAM STRAIN. A erand col lection iif plant liowerlna vnrl^'i les. very larce. I'f perfect form and cho'ce colors, cirefully pe- Iectt1IN <;. KSLKK, Sec'y. Bv DRHBR'S GflRDtN Seeds, Plants. Bulbs & Requisite. They are the best at the lowest prices. Trade List is- sued quarterly, mailed fre€ to the trade only. HKNKY A. DKEEK, FhlJadelpbia, Fa. Menllnn American Klorlst We devote oar whole attention to and not only have the LARGEST and BEST c llection in America, but guarantee our stock true to name. We are now filling orders for trial grounds. Every t^EEDSMiVN and FLORIST interested in DAHLIAS should send for our new descriptive Trade List. W P. PEACOCK Atco, N. J AZALEAS, the tinest commercial varieties PALMS, larte, healthy stock, well grown. ARAUCARIAS, from cuttings only. BAY TREES, perfect shape, in all sizes. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOCK, 106 Sl 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. SKNJ) FOK SI'KCIAl. unbjit H. Wrede, ^ LUNEBERG, GERMANY. PANSY SEEDS. 128 First Prizes, the highest award. World's Fair. 4 Prizes. 1000 Seeds, liiiest mixed. 25r. 1 oz. '* *' " !#3 75 l^^Price List on application Cash with order. FANST SEED. Per pkt of 'i.'»(ii seeds $1 HU Biit:in)t h. a French variety, larkrest Jtfid tinest of all pansles " of 251.10 aecus .'^Jc ("aBf-ler, a blotched, extra iHrye flowers, of 25CII seeds *1 IKI. extra dark bronze, violet scented tweetest of all pansles. of 25UI seeds ,yic. Mammoth strain. " of 2500 seeds oOe. Trlmardeau. very larjie French varlt-tv. POLVANTHAS and AUKKULAS. ^.^c. per packet. CHA>. LONG. 277 Jefferson Ave.. Rochester, N. Y. PansiGS Worm Raisino. NEW SEED. QUALITY A I. 316 ounce, 81 W; M ounce, SU.SO; 1 ounce, $4.00; 1 pound, $.tO.0ii. CA-SH WITH OR.IDEIi.. Plants in season. C. SOLTAU & CO., 199 Gram Ave., imsey Cily, N. I . When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist, ViVXJOHiVIV' INTERNflTIONflL PANSY MIXTURE THIS ; of I fror mixture is composed the choicest selections from nineteen American and F.uropean Specialists iu Fancy Pansy Seed-growing, and is unquestionably The Best General Mixture in Existence. This is the Pansy mixture for every Florist who would real- ize the highest prices for his flowers and plants. It con- tains the cream of the cream of every noted Pansy growers' product the whole world over. The Pansies growing forthis mixture have been repeatedly personally inspected by us iu the fields, and we thus became acquainted not only with the quality of the general assort- ment of each individual grower, but we also make se- lections of their choicest varie- ties. Thus it can be readily unde stood that we are in position tomakeup The Finest Combination of kintls in the world, and this we are doing each year with our "Inter- national Mixture " It con- tains, be-ides all the choicest German Pansies in their wide range ol beautiful colorinps, the Giant Sorts in variety, with many Pink. Red. Chocolate. Slate and other Novel Shades. It contains all the separate colors of the (iiant Trimardeaus with thr-ir immense flowers and rich colors. It contains the Giant Gassier and Buguot strains the product of celebrated Scotch strains, the Falaise and B .ulogne Giants, m fact, there is no strain of any of the celebrattd Pansy Specialists not represented in onr IMTERNATIONAL MIXTURE. Price, per 02 $I0 00: y^ oz. $5.00; ^ oz. $1 50; trade pkt. 50c. (Less 10 per cent ^"- —^^ for cash). OIAJVTT F»A.rV*SIK«. Ciant Trlmardeau. white, la'^e white with a violet cetiLtr. I'kt. L'.')c: 's oz, i.llc:uz $4.Uii. Ciant Beaconsfield, pkt 2;'jc: Hoz. uic: rz $4 tto. ClfiNT TRIMARDEAU IMPROVED. Tli's | strain eont;ilns nil the nt-w colors ot Trlmardeau. 1 I'kt j:.': 'ho/. 4.V; cz $;i 00. i CIANT CASSIER4 a very choice variety of colons, HHcli Mi.wer Is ninrked with oOFJ blotches, pkt.2oc: ' !-t( oz 7r>c. oz $;").(X). | ClANT BUCNOT. the flowers are of enormous size. 1 perfectly round, of trreat substance <_)nr ■ BuirnoL' ! ciintams shades of red. bronze and reddish brown \ that are not lonnd in any other mixture, pkt. 50c; >.Hoz.$i.oo: oz. ii;i;.i;u, AURORA, a new. pure white glani. pkt. ;iOc. CIANT GOLDEN QUEEN, new. golden yellow without any blotches, pkt ;iOc. Ciant Paris Pansy Mixture. The flowers of this s> rain are as laryo hs the Trlm- ardeau Hnd tarsupjilor In color ana In substance of petals; havlny h stout and stltT flower ttein OZ- J'4 INI. '4 o/, $1 211; i->j oz. Imc; pkt. 2.">C. VAUCHAN'S CIANT PANSY MIXTURE. -This mixture comprises all the above strains and colors, and will trW.e satisfaction to everyone wliose trade demands Pani-les with Inr^e flowers. Peroz %^ 00; '4 oi!.*l--55; trade pkt. 50c. VAU CHAN'S PREMIUM PANSIES, MIXED. -Embracing many shades and colors. I'kt I'^a M^ oz. S^l.OO. ^ oz.-$;i.25: oz $i; 00 CHICAGO PARKS BEDDING PANSIES. — Many coors mixed. 4 ozs. J^i.lHJ; oz. Jl.lli '4 oz :^Uc: pkt IDc. Write for list of separate colors. Ciant Auricula Colors, very benutltul. pkt. 25c. Ciant Violet Blue, |tkt ■r)C: ^ i /. 5Uo. Ciant Yellow, Five Spotted, new. fine round flowers pkt ^/k-; ',s o/.. 4.>c Giant Hortensia Red, new. same shade as Hy- drant'ea. pkt. 25c: ks "^ "i^-Jt-'. Ciant Emperor William, ultramarine blue. pkt. 25c: I-hOZ i'iOc: oz $4. IK). Ciant Tnmardeau, mixed, pkt. 10c; '4' oz. "ilte; 0/. %\ .VI Ciant Striped, pkt. 2.>c; V.>a Ciant Trlmardeau, Yellow, very showy color, Kood seller, pkt. -'."lo; ^ oz 4..c; cjz JS.UO. Ciant Trlmardeau, Purple, .flowers very large plit. 25ci L^ 11/ 4.'n;; oz, $." Oil Ciant Coal Black, pki.2r.c; Vn<>z »Wc: oz W 00. Ciant Copper-Color, pkt. 2.'.c. Mammoth Butterfly Pansy. A very distinct strain. The flower* are very large of best form and suUsUtnce In coloring they are varied, seldom two alik** In u hurdred pi .nts. Oz. $;;.00; >4 oz Soci !^oz.5(.k,*: pkt 2.)C. 10 per cent. Special Cash Discount on orders over $3.00 for FLOWER SEEDS ij the cash is enclosed. NEW YORK: 14 Barclay St. VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, °r4'S*R?.?.Us.. PALM %m)% FRESH ON HAND. Per 101) Per lOOO KENTIA BELMOREANA $1.2.5 JIO 00 eORSTERUNA VIb 10 00 Quotations on larger quantities by letter, and full list on application. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. FERNS IN VARIETY. Just the thing for this Hall. Well estab- lished iu 2 inch pols- Adiantum from flats. Field-grown CARNATIONS in season. Write for vjiiierits and prices. EDGEWOOD GREENHOUSES, rrntm Pteris Sermlata. FERNS ii ' ^-- ■ UllllW *' Tremula. *' " Smithiana. '* Adiantoides. Adiantum cuneatum and pubescens. Nephrolepis tuberosa. .')0 for %-X.m\ 1(10 lor %\ .">!): ."JHI for %\:> IKI: IIUI for *27.iXi; 200Ufor$50. Cash with order. All out of •J'4-ln. pots. C. F. BAKER, Utica, N. Y. PflUMS AND FE.RNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WITTBOLD 1703 N. Halsted St.. I CHICAGO V^,^ARKABUgfEJ^lJi; STRAWBERRY-RASPBERRY, LOGAN BERRY (AV;i/>«£f;ry Ulackheny) We are headquarters for tbem. Also Golden Mayberrv and Sacaline, home- grown plants. Bottom prices for gilt edee stock. THE LOVETT CO.. Little Silver.'N. J. 18 The American Florist. Aug. S, Lowell, Mass. There is but little being done at present and whatever little there is comes in the shape of funeral work, Messrs. Patten & Co. are still cutting some fine carnations, while their sweet peas, gladiolus and asters have never looked finer. Itgoes willnut sayingthat the supply by far surpasses the demand at this season. J. J.McMannon's rangeof greenhou;e.», ot which mention was made in the Flo- rist some time ago, is nearing comple- tion. Mr. McMannon has two houses planted with roses, the young plants lokiog healthy and vigorous. The Rev. N. B. Green is building four greenhouses on Stevens street, three of which will cover 68x19, and one 54s23. Tbe houses are being built fore jmmercial purposes, Mr. Green expecting to be ready for business by September 1. Homo. Des Moines, Iowa. There is not any great rush of business at this writing. Most of the florists are preparing for the carnation housing, which will be larger this yearthan formerly. J. F. Mar- shall has the finest carnation plants we have seen this season, although all carna- tions are looking exceptionally fire this year, as we have had rain in aoundance, there being eight inches of rainfall during Ju'y- P. Lambert is rebuilding his office and salesroom. J. Ledig is changing his healing system to overhead flows and under! ench return, still using hot water. We hear Charles B^Ithis has given up the Bergstrom place and Mrs. Bergstrom will run it herself. 'Mums are doing well. J. T. D. F. Tacoma, Wash. The Tacoma Gardeners' and Florists' Association's first roseshow was heldjuly 1 to 4 at the Wallace Block and proved to be a success beyond expectation. The success was due to the kind support of the press, the untiring effort of secre- tary Lehman and the hard labor of all the members, who worked early and late to make the show what it proved to be. Some 11,000 roses were on exhibition, also a magnificent display of carnations of which R. Friday, of Seattle, sent some 4 000. Chas. Malmow, R. Friday, C. Hoff- meister and Alfred Peterson, of Seattle, came over July 2 to spend a day with the boys at the show. La France. Greenhouse Building. Bridgeton, N. J., T. E. Elward? & Bo., three commercial hous.-s; Jas. D;nning- ton, one greenhouse. Spencer, Mass., Greene Bros., one com- mercial house. Port Jarvis, N.Y., John Brierly, rebuild- ing several houses. Orleans, Mass., A. O. Hurd, one green- house. Portsmouth, N. H., M. E. Hutchinson & Co., one addition, 25 ftet. Kingston, N Y., D. B. Scowe, four com mercial houses, 10x60, one 18x70 and one 22x60. Bath, Maine, J. H. Ramsey & Co., one commercial house 20x100, and one30x4(). FOR THE MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS At Cleveland, O., Aug. 18 to 21, Agents of the Nickel Plate Road will sell tickets at one fare and one third for the round trip on the certificate plan on August 14th, 15th, 17th to 20th, good returning up to August 25th. Through trains between the two cities, Iraving 12th and Clark Street Depot at 8;05 A. M., 1:30 P. M. and 9:20 P. M. Tbe Nickel Plate R lad is the shortest line between the two cities, makes best time (only 10 hours Chicago to Cleveland), is equipped with the most modernly constructed day coaches and luxu- rious sleeping and dining cars, illuminated throughout with the famous Pintsch Gas Light, and colored porters in charge of day coaches to look after the wants of its patrons. By this road you can leave Chicag) at 1:30 P. M. and be in Cleveland at 11:30 P.M., thus saving sleeping: car fare if you wisb. Further infnrmntion cheerfully given on application to J. Y. CALAHAN, Gen'l Agent, III Adams St., Chicago. III. My customers tell me are the BE >T STRAIIT );rown either in this country or Europe Why bother with seed when you can buy plants of this strain any time alter Sept. Ist. $5.00 per thousand; 75 cts. per hundred. Wiite for circular. It will pay )Ou lo stt acquainted with my Pansies and Rooted Cuttings LB 496. ALBERT M. HERR, LANCASTER, PA. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri- can Florist. From 2-iiich pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CAl^NATIONS m VIOLETS. List ot varit-ties wiid p-irit Hpjttioation. NATHAN SMITH & SON. STRONG PLANTS. ElVCH Swalnsona galeg. a'ba, 3 & 4 inch oc Grevlllea robusta, 4 inch lOc Violets— Marie Louise 2e Begonia— Rex varieties, 4-inch 10c " " " 2>^-inch 4c " Floweiing varieties, 2 "^-i ch.. 4c '• Metallica, 4-inch Cc Hardy Plants— Phlox. Coreopsis. Gaillar- dia, Poppies, etc lOc E. M. & H. N^ HOFFMAN, H. WEBER & SONS, Garnationists, Box 57, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MD. Si:x:iilOL:s::« Fine strong Smilax plants, 2-in pots, at S2.00 per 100; JISOO per li 01). Good value. H. L. SUNDERBRUCH. 4th & Walnut St3., CINCINNATI, O. Advs. for the CONVENTION NUMBER Must reach us By AUGUST 12 to be in time. BRIDE AND BRfDESMAID* ROSES, Now ready, out of 2^4 aTid 8-iuch pots. Also a nice lot of CALIFORNIA VIOLETS, out of 2!'<-inch pots. Write for prices. H. P. ROHRER. Box 344, Lancaster, Pa SPECIALTIES IN BEST VARIKTIKS. ROSES, from :i-lnch potB- CARNATIONS, tor f»ll delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for Hal. WOOD BROTHERS. FlSHKILL, N. Y. Mftnttnn Amprlfjin Klnr1«l E.G. HILL & CO., WHoiesaie Florists RICHMOND. INDIANA THE COTTAGE GARDENS, (' VV VV.4K11. .VlKr. QUEENS, L. I., N. V. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Geraniums. CARiNATlUNS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, CRftND BAPIDS, MICH. CARNATIONS A SPECIALTY. Kooted CiiHinw:s. Y'ling Plants. Field Crown Plants in season. Write for prices. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven. Mich. CARNATIONS. F. DORNER & SONS CO., LA FAYETTE. IND. Chinese Primulas, Str'ne. .! inch fd.OO per 100 CYCLAMENS, i-incli S.OO rer UO PROBST BROS. FLORAL CO . Kansas City. Mo. i8g6. The American Florist. 19 ADVS. FOR THE GONVtNTION NUMBtR Must reach us by Aug. 1 2 to be in time. Roses. Roses. SURPLUS STOCK.^.^^.,^^ 700 MERMETS, 3-inch pots J-t.uu 500 BRIDES, 2U-incli pots 3.00 300 BRIDESMAIDS, 2^inch pots 3 00 1500 SMILAX PLANTS, in 2)4 inch pots, at 200 Al-SO A KKW Ol KKNS, KTC. HANNAH & CUNNINGHAM, GRAND RAPIDS. MICH, LAST CALL. I have several hundreds of extra s'rong 4 inch BRIDES and BRIDEsMAIDS left; to clear them out I will make them S6.00 PER 100 CASH. Also some 3 inch BRIDES «AIDS at 4 cts. Stock extra fine and clean. W ite for samples. J. C. MURRAY, 401 Main St , Feoria, III. ROSES. HKSi-CLAbS STOCK. Meteors and Brides, 4-:nch, $6.00 per hundred. 25,000 Field-grown Carnations, UaJini; varieties. Write for prices. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS and MERMETS, SJ.OO per 100; 82.5.00 per 1000. LA FRANCE, BRIDES and BRIDESMAIDS, 3 in. $5.00 per 100; S4.5.00 per 1000. ■Jb at 100, and 2.50 at lOOO rates. West Forest Park, ST. LOUIS, MO. 100,000 Fie^G^Ln ROSES ( Budiled ami own roots) for Fall delivery. Try our uew BIOTA AUREA NANA. Thousands o*" Olea Fragrans. Azaleas, Cam- ellias and Mag'nolla Fuscata. (•rices on applicatton. P, J. BERCKMANS, Augusta, 6a. A FEW HUNDRED EXTRA FINE LA FRANCE, METEORS and BRIDESMAIDS, at a bargain. 100 Fine BELLE SIEBRECHT. .All ready tor 4's. Cb" Wire your orders. GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSKS in 2"4-inch pots which I will sell at 52 1.0 per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. CHINESE PRIMROSES. Large plants of the best variety of mixed colors, at 81 00 per 100; 7.5 cts. per dozen. All orders sent C. O. D. PETER NEES, Burlington, Iowa. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. rrom 2-inch pots, extra choice, young stock, $2 00 per 100 FOR IMMEDIATE SALE. Mrs. W. H. Rand Burt Eddy Mrs. Potter Palmer Latest Fad M. Richard Dean Miss Agnes L. Oalskov Pres. Wm. R. Smitli Paul Noisette The Queen Lady Playlair Viviand-Morel Ivory Mrs H. Robinson Georgienne Bramhall Jayne Mme. F. Bergmann Mrs. J. G. Whilldin Eugene Oailledouze Chas. Davis Helen Bloodgood Mrs. Col. J. Thompson Mrs. Higinbotham Merry Monarch Pitcher & Manda. NEW VARIETIES, at Mrs. E. Buettner William Simpson Mrs. W. C. Egan Gretchen Buettner A choice lot of SMILAX i i 2-inch pots, ur $2 50 per 100; ; GREENHOUSES, WESTERN SPRINGS. ILL. YflUGttflN'S SEED STORE. Philadelphia Tuxedo W. H. Lincoln Mrs. Jerome Jones Geo. W. Childs Minerva Mrs. S. T. Murdock H. E. Widener Louis Boehmer Miss M. M. Johnson Enfant des Deux Mondes Ss.oo per loo Autumn Bride Daydawn. 23 00 per 1000. 251 at 10^0, a e 84&86 RaND9LPH STRELT. CHICAGO. 30,000 FIRST QUALITY FORCING ROSES. J'ully equal to those sent the last four years. Brst-cla.s and perfectly healthy In every respect, selected tiruwth Iroin tlowerlng shoots used In propagath g. READY FOR IMMEDIATE PLANTING. Only WOOTTON, :l-lnch pots, S.S.IIO per 100. METEOR, K4ISEK1N A. v., HIEKMET, PEKLE, liKIDESMAIU, 3-lnch pots, T> M per lUU KEI.I.K SIEBKECIIT, l-lnch pots. tl2.00 per 10(1. SUNSET, noy silene, NIPHEI'OS. BKIDE. 4-lnch pots, $111 00 per lOIJ. tj. X>Z K_.Ij<1>]V, 331c»c»kxss%9u«-s. ■MEKMETS. CfSlNS. TESTUfTS. NIPHETOS. BKIDE.S. BKUIES.M.^I J»s. .METEUK, mtS TE. wattevilt.es. Al'G. VICT<,KIA. '-' :i and 4-lncii pot plants fasti with order. Owing _ _ to number booked, they wilt be e.veeuted lu rotation to assure prompt deliveiy. 1 1 Order earlv. ■■ Adilress for ir-iutatlons. VILLA LORRAINE ROSERIES, MADISON, NEW JERSEY. ROSES AMERICAN BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID. BRIDE, TESTOUT, PERLE. SUNSET, LA FRANCE. KAISERIN, :i and 4-lnch pots. M. LOUISE VIOLETS, 2J4, S aud i inch CALIFORNIA VIOLETS, 2J4, 3 and 4-inch. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS, .3 and 4 inch KOSE>S. Good, strong SMj-lnch stock. Per 100 MARY WASHING rON $2 00 MRS. DEGRAW 2 CO GOLDEN GATE ... 2 50 MME. C. TESTOUT 3 00 CASH WITH ORDER NATIONAL PLANT CO , Daylon, 0. MpntUin AmerlCHn Hli-rl't, strong plan s f oni last tall, *3.00 per ICO Young g od plants 2 00 per lOO A line assortment tor fall Prices on ap- plication. F. A. BALLER, Bloomington, III. SAdiantum Farlyense _ EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices upon application. Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, (Station 11,1 PHILADELPHIA. PA. 8 FERNS! FERNS! CUNEATUM and GRACILLIMUM, Fine iJants, S5.00 per 100. And also will exchange for Pteris Argyrea, Trem- ula and Nephrolepis Exaltata. TITUS BERST, Erie, Pa. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns Palms, Ferns # Roses. 17 8 to 4 inch PAl.MS for t:i,0O. 10 4 to 5 inch I'ALMS for 83.50. MOVTHLY and TE.\ ROSES, ADIANTUM and SWORD FERNS, LABELS, MOSS, Etc. SEND FOR LIST. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. I have justplanted out more TESTOUTS instead Therefore there are left over 200 3M;-inch BRIDIE surplus plant'. Just right for p!anting'. At $5 GO p^r 100, or $9.00 for the lot, to close out FRANK L. MOORE, Chatham, New Jersey. Siebrecht & Wadley's PALMS, FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N. Y. STRONG. HEALTHY, CLEAN PLANTS MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, from 4 in pots at |6.00 per IOC; |50 00 per 1000. Send for Sample. Cash with order. THEODORE KNOCKE, Princeton, N. J. FORCING ROSES. l.A FRANCE. PKKl.E. TESTOUT. KAISKKIN good stock, 1, cts. McCREA & COLE, Battle Creek, Mich. 20 The American Florist. Atig. 8, Nashua, N. H, Mr. Geo. Buxton is busy putting the finishing touches on his new houses. Some of them are already occupied by young rose plants. The new houses are a great improvement on the old ones. Messrs. A. Gaedeke & Co. are giving their entire plantathorough overhauling; a new boiler ot greater power will be soon placed in poS'ition to take the place of the old one. Mr. (iiedeke reports a good trade, notwithstanding the proverbial midsummer dull spell. The floral decorations at a recent wedding, arranged under the care of Mr. Gaedeke, were carried out on a most elaborate scale, and a few words of des- cription may be read with interest. The west corner of the room, wheie the ceremony took place, was draped with Asparagus plumosus and studded with Bride and Perle roses, tied with white ribbon, whilethe background was banked to the ceiling with ferns and potted plants. The parlor presented a bower of flowers. A group of stately palms filled the large bay windows and the mirrors and doorways were overhung with mountain laurjl studded with Bride roses. The stairway and hall were also elegantly decorated with palms and ferns, large clusters of Asparagus and Perle roses being suspended trom the ceiling, the whole making a charming eff'ect and eliciting manycomplimentary remarks as regards the good taste shown by the decorator. Mr. Gaedeke intendsjoining the Boston delegation and help swell the crowd of visitors at Cleveland. Homo. Lewiston, Me. Mr.Erntst Saunders is building an addi- tional rose house 175x25. Mr. Saunders is one of those rising young florists who believe in making the bestof a thing while they are at it. His plant is regarded as one of the finest in the state of Maine, nothing but the best and most approved modern appliances having been intro- duced throughout. This additional rose house will be a model of the kind, though, unlike the comparatively recent introduc- tion, it will run with the long, instead of the short, span to the south. In addition to his greenhouses Mr. Saunders has equipped a modern flower store, incandescent lights, a handsome ice box, elaborate counters and show cases bei ig its principal features, while his fine delivery wagon with its unusually well matched team of horses are not the least attractive feature about the establish- ment. Homo. This is last call for advs. for the Con- vention Number. They must reach us by August 12 at the latest to be in time. THE GERANIUM FOR 1897. Particulars and prices for the asking. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. ADVS. FOR THE Convention Number Must reach us by Augjst 12 TO BE IN TIME. THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY'S Directory o^ FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN -SEEDSMEN UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AND REFERENCE BOOK, Contains the names and addresses of all the Florists, Nurserymen and Seedsmen in the United States and Canada, arranged alphabetically in States a' d Provinces, the exact branch of the business each is engaged in being indicated by a Key. A list of Trade Organizations, both National and Local, with names and addresses of prin- cipal otiicers, thiie and place of meetings and date of organization. Statistics regarding Floriculture, the Nursery Industry and Seed Growing from the last U. S. Census report. A list of firms in the trade that issue catalogues, with a key indicating the prominence of each branch of the trade in same. A list of leading Cemeteries in which attention is paid to Ornamental Horticulture. A list of leading Park Superintendents and of the Botanical Gardens of the United States. Seasonable Hints for the year about the practical work of the Florist, written by Wm. Scott, giving instructions not only when to do certain work, but how to do it most efl'ectively and economically. A complete alphabetical list of Roses in commerce in America, brought up to date and of incalculable value for reference. Similar lists of Chrysanthemums, Carnations and Cannas. Historical sketches to date of the Society of American Florists, American Carnation Soci- ety, National Chrysanthemum Society of America, Florists' Hail Association, American Seed Trade Association and American Association of Nurserymen. A list of Leading Horticultural Societies. Full and accurate information about Express and Postage rates. f>fnc;E: 9a.o<:>. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 DEARBORN ST., May's Giant Mignonette The finest strain on the market. NEW CROP JUST HARVESTED, '"^ extra fine condition. Now is the time to sow it for winter blooming. Price, $3.00 per ounce; 25 cts. per packet. Send in your orders early, as stock is limited. JOHIV N. MAY. Summit. N. J. SHEEP FERTILIZER 1 will lurnisli this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b, Mitchell, South D.k .fa: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED .75c. per 100 Terms cash in 30 days alter date of shir- ment. Orders accompanied wilh cash, 10 I er cent discount WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA. DO NOT FAIL to examine our goods at the S. A. F. Convention, Cleve- land, O., Aug. 18, 19& 20, '96. IRVING PREDMORE, (Successor to Predmore Bros , BARNEGAT. N. J. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on tliis page. Orchid-Flowering CANNAS ITALIA and AUSTRIA. They were inniieiise muler inv ^'•1^'* '^'-t sea*;oti. ThI^y^■arill Ihc IN..LESIDE NURSERIES they are simply womlerful. Nutwilhslamling a hot. tlry Mininier. c'v/r flower is petfect, /■: v >_v 'eaf coni- plet-. Ready (or delivery in October. SI roit IKIOF. F. EDWARD GRAY, Ingleside Nurseries, ALHAMBRA, CAL. lilriHl 110:11 llii' |.iii-ki'Ts. AFRICAN FRENCH COLONIES. lUhirt' 1. II Writ; chi'wIu'H' iippl) lor iHintiillMiiM t.i ANDRE L. CAUSSE. 105-107 Hucl aoii St.. NEW YORK CITY. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist. 21 ADVS. FOR THE CONVENTION NUMBER MUST REACH US BY AUGUST 12 TO BE IN TIME. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO., 13 Green St., BOSTON, MA5S. Office, 84 Hawley St. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. Sizes IH-lnch and 2-lnch, K.ttJ per lUO. Patent fastener with each letter. With orders for 5U) letters we jrlve away a nicely stained and varnished box. See cut in next week's American Florist. Our letter Is handled by all the wholesalers In Boston. Agents: A. Holker & Sons. New York; M. Rice & Co.. 25 N. 4th Street. Philadelphia. Pa.; F. E. Mc- Allister, 22 Dey St.. N. Y.; II. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia. Pa.: A. D. Perry & Co., Si Warren St.. Syracuse, N. Y.; A. C Kendal. 115 Ontario St.. Cleve- land. O.: E. H. Hunt. 79 Lake St., Chicago: Wisconsin Flower Exchange. Kil Mason St.. Milwaukee, Wis.; H. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sta.. Cincinnati. O.; T. W. Wood &i Sons, tjth and Marshall Sts. Richmond. Va.; J as. Vlcks Sons, Rochester. N. Y.: Dan' I B. Lone. Buffalo, N, Y.; C. A. Kuehn, St. Louis. Mo.; Hunt- incton Seed Co.. Indianapolis, Ind ; W. Ellison, 1402 Pine Street. St. Louis. Mo.; A. Herrman. 415 E. ;i4th St., New York; Geo. A. Sutherland. 67 Brom- tleld St.. Boston; Welch Bros.. No. lA Beacon St.. Bos- ton: N. F. McCarthy & Co.. ia Ilawley Street. Boston; The Henry Phillpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O.. Walter A. Potter & Co.. Providence, R. I.; J. C. Vanghan, 26 Barclay St., New York. J. A. SlmmerB. Toronto, Ont.. Agent for Canada. H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS' SUPPLIES ONLY» FHILASELFHIA, FA. Our ne^ Clataloene is now oat. free npos •ppUcatlon. I^. I^IOE^ «& OO. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET, ^ PHILADELPHIA, PA. J^"Speclal price for your wants on application. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. 1^ TT r -i-f- "Vorli:. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mfntion the Ameri- ca N Florist. YOU WILL SAVE S2.00 if you patronize the Nickel Plate Road to Cleveland and return on occasion of the meeting of the Society of American Florists, August iSth to 2ist, for which the Nickel Plate Road offers tickets on sale at one fare and a third for the round trip on the certificate plan, Aug. 14th, 15th, 17th, iSth, 19th and 20th, good returning up to Aug. 25th. For further information apply to J. Y. GALAHAN, Gen'l Agent, III Adams St., Chicago, III. gOHNC CO. K<^. 412 TO 422 iHawthorne av. tHlCAGO.ILL ADVS. FOR THE Convention Number, must reach us AUGUST 12, to be in time. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these column? do not affect the sales of the CHAMPION VENTILATING APPARATUS. Aside from the fact thiit It has the heat features. It iSBOldat HAK1> TIMKS ^KICK.S. All practical flurUts prefer It. A small book tells all about It, and Is turnlshed free. AMERICAN ROAD MACHINE CO.. Kennett Square. Pa. ROSE LEAF'^ I an, 51.50; 5 gallon can, 85.00. t er by vaporizing or by J I Price: 1 gallon can. ' Applied either 1 _ I syringing. Try it. ! LOUISVILLE SPIRIT CURED TOBACCO CO., # LOUISVILLE. KY. \ which i8 absolutely perfect for modem g:reeuhou8e constructlou. ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Send for Estimates. Satisfaction Guaranteed. REED GLASS CO.. 102 South 5th Avenue. NEW YORK CITY. GREEN-HOUSE HEATING. MYERS & CO. 1518 & 1520 S. 9th St. PHILADELPHIA. Send for catalogue and price list. THE NEW = = Directory IS NOW READY. 22 The American Florist. Aug. 8, Kansas City, Mo. The picnic of the Kansas City Florists' Club was held atBudd Park July 28, and was well attended by the florists of K. C, both by members and non-members of the club, who came with their wives and best girls. The ladies were very much in evidence, quite a number being present. Everybody seemed to enjoy the occasion in spite of the heat, though it took a good many gallons of ice cream and iced drinks to keep every one cooled to the right point. In the early part of the afternoon a same of cricket was played with Papa Jarrett to maintain the peace, while Jim Payne showed how he "used to do it," bowling twisters at the wickets, and it was a sight to behold. After early suppt r "Young America" started in on base ball, the features of which were the pitching of Arthur Newell and the batting of Charley Hite, with Papa Hite as umpire and Sam Murray taking mental notes of the game over a good cigar and inci- dentally taking on "chiggers." As usual with the club there was no half way about refreshments; there were stacks of sandwiches, heaps of cake, etc. The picnic will be an annual affair from this on. The babies were at the picnic too, and they were all pretty babies, and good babies at that; they evidently knew a good thing when they saw it, and the florists ofK. C. are to be congratulated on the appearance of the crop. There is talk of duplicating the picnic six or eight weeks from now to give those few who could not come a chance yet. Mr. Sam Murray is "all torn up" yet, owing to the proposed boulevarding of Prospect avenue; it is holding him back from building his two new houses and keeping things torn up generally. The same might be said of R. S. Brown & Sons, who are on the same avenue and who are waiting for the park board to act in order to build two fine modern houses. A. Barbe caught it in the storm of the 18th in bad shape, his boiler pit being filled up with water, causing the walls to cave and putting him to a great expense. Business is generally quiet, nothing going but a little funeral work, but "mum's the word." B. ADVS. FOR THE Convention Number MUST REACH US By AUGUST 12th TO BE IN TIME. FLOWER POTS. We Miimiliiciiire all kinds uf I'iower Poti*. etc. Miiklnj.' a Specially of Florist Standard Pots Send for price ll^t and eamptes (which will be sent free! and we know you will give us your order: J, U. SWAHN S SONS, MiiiiieapoIlN, Minn. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. WIND MILLS £OR PUMPING. FAIRBANKS-GALV'D steel. ECLIPSE-WOOD. u VALVES, PIPE AND FITTINGS FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO. Cor. Franklin & Monroe Sts., CHICAGO. H. M. 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The business will be conducted as heretofore, except on a larger scale to meet the growing demand for our goods. We have accordingly enlarged our plant and capacity, and with unsurpassed facilities are now prepared to fill the largest order on short notice. Our latest im- proved machines are turning out the best and most serviceable flower pots in the market, and assuring Tou of our intention to lead in further improvements we solicit a continuance of your patronage in the belief that we can supply just what is needed at a price and in a manner satisfactory to all. Send for nrice list and samples and we know you will give us an order. OXMMOBt 403 North Salina StrMt. SYRACUSE. N. Y. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS, I3SrCOR.FOR..A.TEI3. Honicyjiural flrciiiiecis and Hon Water Engineers Send for Catalogue, enclosing 4 cents in stamps. 130, l-il, 1-5:3 Center St., PifEJW 'i'-OieiiC:. 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Send The DkLAMATER IRON WORKS, 467 West Broadway, N. Y. City. Por Insurance against damage by hail, __^_^_^_^_____ Address JOHN G. ESLER, Secy, F. H. A., Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL VALVES, FITTINGS ANO Ventilating apparatus. coldwbll- wilcox co., Newburgh, N. Y. THE NEW DIRECTORY Is Now Ready. 24 The American Florist. Aug. 8, Index to Advertisers. Adv Rates 13 American Boiler Co.. ..2i Am Road Mch Co 21 BakerC li" 17 Bailer FA I'.i Barnard W W k (■>...ir, daBsett & WaBtitiurn . . . i:i Bayersdorfer U & Co. . :l\ Berckmans PJ ....1'.' Berst Titus I'.I Blanc A &Co W Bobblnk LC Li Boston Letter Co 'l\ BraKueL B 13 Carmod.v J D 3:t Causae Anjre L 2i Chadwlck etas W Cleveland Steam Boiler Works 11 Coidwell Wilcox Co z^ Conley John 4 Son 21 CottaKe Gardens 18 Cowen's Son N 32 Crabb & Hunter :ll) Cunnln^bam J H l.i Cushman E H 24 DeLamater Iron Wks. .2;^ uietscn A & Co 23 Dillon J L I'.i Doraer Fred SSons Co. . is Dreer H A IT Edtjewood G'nhouses ... 17 Elchholz H 20 Klliotl W H 12 Elliott Wra h Sons ir> Bills & Hollwortn 12 Fairbanks Morse Co. . . 22 Gardiner Jno & Co 15 Gasser J M 23 Gray F Edward 31) Gurney Heater Co .. . .23 Hall Ass'n 17 33 Hamilton G W 22 Hancock A son 18 Hannah & Cunning- ham 11' HerrAlbertM is Hermanns Seed Store. .!.'> Hews AH& Co 23 HIU BG&Co IS Htppard B 23 HIixihlnKS &Co 24 Hoffman B M & H N ...is Hjoker H M Co 22 Horan Edw C 13 Hulsebosch Bros 13 HuntKU 13 James R H la Jennings B B 15 Joosten C H 15 Kennlcott Bros Co 13 KnockeTheo lit Koeppen Chas lit Kroeschell Bros Co. ... . 23 KiehD c A 12 ....lit ... 13 .. .1.5 ...23 . .17 .12 1 KuhlGeo A Lang Julius Lennenfelder c [x>ckland Lum Co . 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Wants, etc.. 14 Smith Nath &S0D 18 SoltauCi Co 17 Steams Lumber Co 23 Stoothoff U A 15 SunderbruchH L. ...12 18 Sutherland Qflo A 13 SwahnsSonsJG 32 Syracuse Pottery Co — 2*2 Tesson R F m ToefInet& Gee 15 Van Zanten Bros 15 Vaughan J C 17 I'.t VlUaLorralne Roaerles I'.t Watson GC 15 Weathereds Sons T W. .22 Weber H & Son 18 Weeber&Don 15 Welch Bros 12 Whllldln Pot Co 22 Williams & Sons Co I'.t Winter A Glover 13 Wis. Flower Ex 13 WIttboldGeo 17 Wood Bros 18 Wrede H 17 Young Jno. . : 13 voung Thos Jr 13 Zlmglebel D 15 The only reference list of cannas is to be found in our new directory and refer- ence book. The list is arranged alphabeti- cally and gives name, date of introduction name of introducer and a brief descrip- tion. The reference lists in the new Directory and Reference book give descriptions and other valuable information regarding 2,54-3 varieties of roses, 2,988 varieties of chrysanthemums, 495 varieties of carna- tions and 524 varieties of cannas. 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New York City. When you buy a hot water heater of another make you may get a good one, and you may not. You run no risk when you get a "SPENCE'; HOT WATER HEATER. The **Spence" is famously good. C-A.TA.LOC3-XJE FK,EE j{merican ^o/Ver Company NEW YORK: 94 Center St. CHICAGO: 84 Lake St. 'We Heat the World S. A. F. TRADE EXHIBITION, CLEVELAND, 0., AUGUST 18, 19 and 20, 1896. If YOU are not at the Convention with an Exhibit BUYRRS will suppose YOU have NOTHING WORTHY to put in competition and WILL BUY of OTHERS who have the ENTERPRISE TO SHOW THEIR STOCK. Does this ad. catch your attention? Your exhibit will CATCH the BUYERS' attention. Make one. E. H. CUSHMAN, Supt., Euclid, O. RmBrica is "the Fraw of the I/essbJ: there ms]] be ir.rre cciufort /lm:dsh:ps. bA we are the first to touch Unknown Seas," Vol. Xll. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, AUGUST 15, 1896. No. 428 %m Likm^m^^m f^mnmi Copyright 1896. by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. PtTBLISHED EVERT SATURI>AY BY THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 323 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription. 81.00 a year. To Europe. 82.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. :Vi'i Dearborn Street, ClIICAtiO. Eastern Office: 67 Bromfield .St., liogton. This paper la a member of the Assoctatert Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Association. Gardening in America. Garden sentiment has changed greatlj' of late j'ears; the beddinj; plant trade grows less remunerative each year, and we must either go with the tide, or find ourselves hopelessly stranded. As Mr. Scott says, there are plenty of people still who can "glare with satisfaction on a bed of red geraniums," but even they want their red geraniums most unpleas- antly cheap. .\nd the people who love gardens, and who buy plants freely, are turning from the soft-wooded bedding plants, which give but a three months' display, to the hardy denizens of the old- fashioned garden, where one could find something of interest from the time the last snow melted in early spring until the first flakes appeared again in November. Perhaps we have been a little too con- servative in waiting for the public to lead the trade, instead of the trade leading the public; at any rate, we had better not linger among our eoleus and red gerani- ums until our customers get entirely out of sight. The trouble is, that in a good many cases the florist was unable to in- struct his customers in this one line; it was only the older men among the trade who had any practical knowledge of these plants, and as a natural consequence the landscape gardeners, who wisely urged the use of hardy plants, not only in- structed their customers, but provided the plants, too. City florists tell us that when their customers see a mass of hardy- bloom they often express a desire for the plants, but they forget all about them by the time planting time comes. Here is the retail florists' opportunity. His own place should be an object lesson, where people may see the eftects they wish to reproduce. An hour's talk would not be as effective as a bank blazing with hardy poppies or a mass of crimson pyrethrums; such plants, when in bloom, are their own salesman. This plan has been car- ried out more effectively by some of the large nurserymen than by florists, t'n- \ •9 \ .-''^ ~ -W^V^- AQUILEGIAS. doubtedly, members of the trade do far more now in beautifying their own sur- roundings than they did a few years ago, but still they hardly go far enough. They should always be a little in advance of their neighbors, showing, not what all garden-lovers have, but what they ought to have. It is sometimes said in extenuation of the exclusively bedding plant idea, that people want an immediate effect, and that the herbaceous plants are bound to look more or less weedy at some seasons. As for the first, winter aconite and snow- drops are in bloom a round two months before it is safe to risk geraniums outside, to be followed by a host of others; in fact there is an opportunity for a most bril- liant show at a time when we should only dare plant pansies and daisies. As for weediness.if the beds are arranged for a proper succession there is every chance to cut over the spent blooms, keeping it always neat and trim. Perhaps it will not have the trimness of anecheveria car- pet, but it will look like a real garden. If we look around among the most fa- mous American gardens we must at once realize the pre-eminence of hardy plants. From the prominence often given to the 28 The American Florist. Aug. ^5, carpet-bedding type in our public parks, a false impression has been disseminated concerning American taste in this line; foreigners especially are apt to think that our national conception of garden art is that described by Mr. Robinson as "an Italian pastry-cook's idea of the beauti- ful." A look at a few of our illustrations will soon show the falsity of this. Our climate is so varied, in spite of its winter rigor, that there is every chance for a brilliant display at all seasons, and in ad- dition to our many showy native plants we can acclimatize an infinite variety of exotics from Japan, China and Nurthern Europe. Without attempting the broad effects of a park, or the wild garden style, vvhich is out of place in small villa or sub- urban grounds, there is scope for constant change. It must not be imagined that herbace- ous planting is to do away with tender subjects entirely. A garden without any of the showy French cannas,for instance, would be clearly deficient. Indeed, most gardens would make provision for some- thing of this kind, even while the main effect was sustained by hardy material. There is great scope, too, for the use of bulbs, especial!}' those whose pi nting might be considered permanent, such as the various narcissus, scillas, chiono- doxas, and snowdrops, to say nothing of the hardy irises. We have, too, the possibility of natur- alizing so many plants little seen or of unsuspected hardiness. Twenty years ago we little thought of seeing the Egj'pt- ian lotus spreading freelj' in ponds and creeks, and many of our finest accessions from Japan wcse unknown or little used. There was more excuse then for the con- stant use of soft-wooded bedding plants. Naturally, a retail florist with limited ground cannot handle these plants satis- factorily. There must be ample space for a nursfry. But then, a man with limited ground cannot do verv well as a florist even without a nursery annex; he must always have space for some field-grown material, as well as for frames. Nor are hardy plants difficult to handle, though there are many ideas in their care and propagation that the average florist does not learn. To tell the truth, a good many of us have hardly thought it worth while to learn very much about them. However, it is a necessity now, and it is to be hoped that the trade will adopt this rapidly increasing line with the same energy they have already shown in other directions. But a few years ago tew growers could be induced to grow flowers with a suffi- cient length of stem to meet the require- ments of the changed demand. Now, short stemmed flowers, lacking good foli- age, are almost unsalable, and many more first-class, long-stemmed blooms are sold dailv than was the case with the short-stemmed stuff. Hand in hand with this change came the demand for loose, graceful arrangements of flowers as against the ingeniously constructed "de- signs" in which the individuality of the flowers was destroyed in order to pro- duce a poor representation of some artifi- cial object. We were made to appreciate seriously the fact that the function of flowers is decorative and that they should never be used as material for construc- tion. The same forces that brought about this change in the use of cut flowers are now operating to luring about a similar revolution in our gardens. We should a just ourselves to the changed condi- liiiiis and at once take steps to derive the llillest commercial advantage from them. ROSA WICHURAIANA ON AN ARCH, Hardy Herbaceous Plants. In the last two volumes of the Ameri- can Florist short articles on the treat- ment of hardy herbaceous plants and how to use them to advantage in the flower garden, have appeared from time to time. Some of our florists manifest a deep interest in these plants and go so far as to proclaim that a radical change from the old style of bedding out and planting is near at hand; they assert that the growing of hardy plants for the market will be found more profitable than the growing of our so-called bedding plants. .Another faction looks upon the advance of these old fashioned things as being detrimental to their business, say- ing that their customers would not be obliged, as at present, to purchase a fresh supply every spring after once getting their beds or gardens stocked witli these permanent plants. There is however but very little danger of the popular bedding plants being crowded out of the marketscntirely, they will always sell in <|uantity, the herba- ceous plants will be jilantcd ]n'incipall\ in the larger places, along the shrubberies or on borders and beds laid out expressly for their accommodation and if the owner of a small city lot would perhaps occa- sionally take a liking to the permanent beds, the florist who sells him the plants will find that he usually is called upon, both in fall and in spring to cover, mulch or otherwise administer to the wants of these plants, for nobody can claim that hardy plants will do without care entirely; although many of them will flourish for years undisturbed, others require replanting or rearranging every second or third year, while all of them respond readily to liberal treatment, mulching or feeding at the proper time and the performance of all such work will be found to be a source of profit to the florist. If the bed be a combination of successively flowering plants, moreatten- tion is also needed during the summer months, the stems of the decaying flowers must be removed before they become un- sightly or go to seed and if the lot owner- has an eye for cleanliness, neatness and accuracy, the florist is to be called on again. But few people are or will be disposed to give up the present style of bedding plants, the hardy flowers will be used in most cases as an additional adornment i8g6. The American Florist. 29 ^ ¥ ^'^ 2i. >^ A BORDER OF CAMPAWirLA.S. JAPAN ANEMONES. so The American Florist. Ang. 13, in the home-ground, especially in connec- tion with shrubs, intermingled with these or on a border in front of them, in rock- eries, on steep banks and against hedges and evergreens. The introduction of hardy plants will, in my opinion, materi- ally increase the plant sales of the average grower and instead of injuring his busi- ness, a new source of profit is opened to him who is wise enough to provide in time for this rapidly increasing demand. There can be no doubt about the willing- ness of the public to buy these plants if we only give them the opportunity to learn or see with their own eyes the various ways in which they may be employed in a garden. Many of the species and varieties have been described in the columns of the American Florist and recommendations were advanced, where or how to use them to the best advantage. A goodly number of them are of great value as cut flowers, some of which again maybe found profit- able for forcing under glass, or for pot culture and the spring sales. Consider- ing that by planting a given space to perennials of a certain description, we are enabled to gather a supply of cut flowers and at the same time are actually grow- ing valuable stock for our fall or spring sales, thus deriving a double profit from the same planting, the advantage of growing these plants is clearly demon- strated, for no extra work is required to bring about these double returns to the cash drawer. With but little exertion we may provide an ample and lasting supply of very valuable flowers in great variety from earlj' spring until autumn and ail can be done without the aid of glass structures, which are indispensable to some degree in the raising of many of the other summer flowering plants; furthermore we are not in any danger of losing part of the newly planted stock by dry weather as is the case at times with our annuals, for the dividing and replanting is done either in the fall or early in spring at a time when the weather is cool and moist and the florist is not extremely busy and can perform this work therefore under the most favor- able circumstances. In many places a lucrative source of income is derived from the flowers of perennials, combined perhaps with lilies, bulbs of various descriptions and some of the annuals; more of them should be grown and the variety increased so as to give a better selection throughout the season. Soon after the snow leaves the ground we can expect to pick violets from beds in a sheltered position and it will only take a few more days to bring them out every where in quantities. Arabis albida is a most uselul thing for very early spring cutting; the flowerheads are large, fully two inches across and of a pure white; for funeral work and for baskets or small vases they come in very handy. The early dwarf blue irises are in full bloom before the .snow has entirely dis- appeared from the gr iind and they take well in the flower market so early in the season. Everybody knows the value of the hardy myosotis; thousands can be gathered from a comparatively small patch, as they continue to grow and branch out anew, forming fresh and strong flower buds on this new growth. The earlier crop of bloom will be pro- duced on the older plantings and a bed of such should always be retained until the younger plants of the present season's planting are strong enough to produce a plentiful supply. We have found it most profitable to plant a new bed every year SPRAY OP STYRAX OBASSIA. in early spring, dividing the plants into very small pieces; this nev\lylaid out bed, growing freely, will continue to flower the principal part of the season, whilethe older plants stop blooming on the ap- proach of hot and dry weather. It is not necessary that the ground where they are planted should be very wet, the condition generally supposed to be essential for their welfare; we have grown them on rather dry ground ex- posed all day to sun and wind and were well satisfied with the crop of flowers gathered from them. The bright yellow Caltha palustris is another spring blooming plant which will be found profitable to grow, also the free flowering doronicums, bright yellow flowers of this description are always in demand. Too much can not be said in praise of Anemone S3'lvestre; it is just as indispensable in the spring months as A. japonica is in the autumn and its flow- ers are of a better substance and of a purer whiteness, the stems are more slender but very stiff and when our flo- rists become better aquainted with this valuable flower it is sure to be planted in large quantities everywhere. Then we have the trolliuses with their regular ball shaped flowers of such a pure yellow and excellent keeping qualities; they may not grow so freely in the garden or field as the calthas or the doronicums do, still we feel that we can not do without them. The hardy evergreen candytufts will be foimd a great help in the cut flower trade and no place should be without them; the old Iberis sempervirens is as good as any for early flowering, and three or four weeks later I. correa'folia will come in with its somewhat larger, but shorter flowers; both of them are excellent. The early large flowering aquilegias are very desirable in a cut state and are good keepers when placed in water; the various shades of blue and purple combined with white are much sought after early in the season. Soon after these the brilliant colored Pa.>onia tenuifolia will begin to open out, and I may say that the product of many hundreds of these plants can be disposed of n a very short time; as far as mv knowl- dge goes there h as never been an over- tock of these br ight flowers in anyof the iSg6. The American Florist. 31 Spira-a AruncHS. Oriental Poppies. Astilbe japonica. SPRING FLOWER BORDER. Deutzia gracilis. ^: BED OP HERBACEOUS PEONIES ON THE LAWN. 32 The American Florist. Aug. 13, flower markets. Both the single and the double varieties sell equally well; the for- mer is a few days ahead of the last named in opening its buds. Only a week or so later we may cut quantities of Paeonia officinalis; the old dark crimson is the most common vari- ety, but several light pinks and also P. off. alba are getting more plentiful lately. Before this section is entirely out of the way the Chinese pteonies will comein and furnish us with more variety in color; the pure whites, all the lighter shades of pink and rose and the very darkest of crimson seem to take best in the markets. All the classes of pa;onies are so very easy to manage and can be grown in any soil or situation with so very little care, giving large returns in their season, that every florist should grow quantities of them if there is a possibility of finding a place for their accommodation. Omphalodes verna is a beautiful forget- me-not-like flower with clean, upright and robust growth, very useful for cut flower purposes, as it can be cut with a long stem, but it requires a half shady place to do well. Siberian iris comes in a little ahead of thegermanica section with us; both are very valuable for cutting and are in good demand in their season. Lupinus polyphyllus varies in color from white to blue and purple, and the large and long spikes last well in water. Dic- tamnus fraxinella. both the white and the red, are excellent for large vases, though it may take some years before many spikes are produced on a newly planted bed. Thalictrum, either the white or the pale lilac purple, with their tall and loose pyramidal panicles of delicate flowers, are beautiful, and space should be found in everv florist's ground for planting agood supply of them Many of the campanu- las will come in handy to use in parlor or church decorations; their erect spikes are loaded with pretty bells from top to bot- tom, and everybody likes these elegant flowers. One of the most magnificent things which should be introduced and grown in large quantities is the lovely pink flow- ered /Ethionema grandiflorum; it is de- cidedlj' rare in this country, however, and known only by a few of our professionals. Being a plant which does not multiply very fast, it will always command a good price; growing it from cuttings is perhaps the best way of propagation, and when once a stock is worked up and planted out we are sure of an annual supply of the most beautiful soft pink flowers which cannot possibly be surpassed by any other market flower of its season; and it may be used in all cases where a fine and graceful clear pink flower is wanted. The yellow and the scarlet long spurred aquilegia are also very useful and we should provide for a good and liberal sup- ply of them. Stenactis speciosa, an aster-like perennial, pale purplish lilac in color, is such an immense free bloomer and lasts so well it cannot be omitted from the list; neither can we spare the gorgeous Lychnis viscaria plena with its well furnished spikes of bright magenta pink. Our June pinks, especially the larger flowering whites, such as Her Majesty and Snow, are indispensable and often take the place of carnations when the lat- ter are scarce; the gorgeously' colored Papaver orientale is fine for gay decora- tions, and if only cut at the right time will last well in water. The yellow flovv- ered Anthemis tinctoria and the variety Kelwayii are found in many places, and the growing of them for the cut /lower market will surely turn out profitable, THE PRAIRIE ROSE. for they can be induced to flower all sum- mer and fall if we take the trouble of planting new beds every season. Helenium Hoopesii brings great clusters of fine yellow flowers and is very attract- ive when placed in large vases. The pyrethrums also combine so many good qualities and are so very attractive that we must include them in the list. Heraer- ocallis flava has found its way long ago into the cut flower market, and in many sections is one of the popular flowers. Clematis recta, with its enormous pani- cles of fine white flowers on stout stems, has no equal at the time it is in bloom; from old, well established plants we can cut hundreds of these stems annually. Coreopsis lanceolate, C. grandiflora and C. auriculata are well known, and 1 believe are supplied in nearly every market. The early flowering Phlox suftruticosa, especially the white varieties, are ex- tremely useful in so many ways; the pan- icles are loose and surprisingly graceful, much more elegant than the later flower- ing P. decussata section. Lychnis chal- cedonica in variety should also be planti d; the vivid colors are often desirable. Hes- peris matronalis fl. pi. with its large and handsome stock-like spikes of flowers, white, with a slight purple tinge, may look a little stiff on the plants, but when used in the right place in decorations are very effective. An assortment of herbaceous spirjeas will pay most anywhere; they all sell readily and can be shipped a long distance without injury to the flowers. Delphin- ium formosum, hybridum and chinense in their various shades have found their way into public favor, and are at all times in good demand. Iris Kjempferi also is a staple article in many parts of the country. Rudbeckias when placed in large vases show oft' magnificently wher ever we may use them. Everybody knows the value of Achillea ptarmica plena as a cut flower; no place, however small it niaj- be, can aft'ord to do without it; new plantings should be made yearly; we get better and larger flowers from the young plants; they also continue to send up flowering shoots until fall, while the older beds often stop blooming after the middle of July. They are free growers and great feeders; as soon as the roots and runners get too much crowded growth is weakened and delayed, result- ing in smaller, imperfect flowers and weaker stems. It is all right to keep the old bed going until the newly planted patch is fairly under way. The hcliopsis are free blooming, rather tall plants, bearing most showy yellow flowers which are used extensively on many occasions. Heuchera sanguinea is a lovelv plant; a succession of flower stems are formed continuously all sum- mer long, and for fine work it has no i8g6. The American Florist. 33 ^.' ■'>/'?>-^-' 1^. ;,^' "^h:-^:'^^'^^' >^.4.-v.^,'2^ vc/ iii^'v.4 ^^i A HEDGE OP AZALEA AMCENA IN BLOOM. HARDY ROSES IN JUNE 34 The American Florist. A^g' ^5, equal; the public around this part of the country have named it the "red lily of the valley." The many different species of liliums can be grown with profit in many places where the soil is suitable and the drain- age perfect; shade is not required nor isit desirable where a heavy mulching can be provided for the beds to assist in keeping the ground cool. We often are in search of a good dark purple flower before we can get any asters, a flower which has the same lasting qualities of the latter and could be used in place of them; in this case Stokesia cyanea will answer all pur- poses, being a free bloomer and of a rich dark beautiful purple; size and shape of flower resemble the aster at first glance, and fewof ourcustomers will see orknow the difference. The white and pink perennial peas with their many flowered stems sell better in the stores than the sweet peas, though they are not so fragrant and as yet we have not the selection of colors as in the latter. Platycodons, of which I spoke in a recent number of the Florist, must be included here also as a first-class cut flower, and the lately mentioned Euphor- bia corollata with its unique airy and light mass of flowers likewise should be added. The tall spikes of the aconi- tums in their different shades of blue and purple, intermixed with white, are almost indispensable, and large quantities should be planted; they are easih' grown and flower \ear after jear with very little care and attention, and last in bloom for a long time. Ilelenium autumnale and the different species of helianthus described in these columns more than a j'ear ago are surely a paying crop wherever they are planted; they continue to flower for months, are always sought after, and there is very seldom an overstock on hand. Several of the free flowering hardy asters are desira- ble to have, also the boltonias, which resemble the asters in shape of flower and habit of growth, and for the well known Pyrethrum uliginosum we should find a place by all means if we care at all for late outdoor flowers. Anemone japonica is too well known and is in stock every- where, so there is no need of saying any- thing in favor of it here. This list of perennials, desirable for cut flowers, might be greatly enlarged; many things of equal value have been omitted; my endeavor was only to draw the atten- tion of florists who are in the habit of growing part oi their cut flower supply on their own premises to these flowers, and an3'one examining the list given above will find that a continuous supply of flowers, from spring until late fall, when the hard frost will stop all vegeta- tion, may be gathered in the herbaceous ground, if all the plaots named here can be accommodated in sufficient numbers on the place. In such a place visitors to the grounds will also have a chance to notice the many varieties of beautiful hardy plants which bloom at difiisrent times in the year and orders for one thing or another will be quite frequent, so that the florist will find that he can dispose of Iniiidreds of plants after reaping in the profits of a plentiful crop of flowers, and even if he should not sell any of this stock he has certainly been well i)aid for all the work and care bestowed on his plants, which are just as good, some of them even better, the following season without any appreciable additional labor. Not very many years ago we ourselves were growing hardy plants exclusively for their flowers, ani had only such stock on the grounds which was profitable for A TRUMPET CREEPER ON CLOTHES POLE such purposes, but as we found that these plants gained in popularity and could be sold to our customers we enlarged the collection, and now are not sorry for it, although many a dollar has been ex- pended in the trialof plants which proved too tender for our severe winter, though I knew them to be perfectly hardy in Europe. Many of our most beautiful hardy plants are worthless in a cut state, but produce the grandest effects in our bor- ders or shrubberies; what can be prettier in the spring than a large sheet of the white or pink Phlox subulata or the pro- fusely flowering Alyssumsaxatile planted on a steep bank where but few would suc- ceed, or the same plants among the rocks in a sunny exposed position; the hepati- eas, which are out in bloom among their young bronzy leaves before the winter's snow has disappeared, or the early hardy primulas, planted in a half shady spot under lofty trees, and then aclosely planted bed of the auriculas in theirendless variety of colors. It is true, in the early spring after the dreary cold season we may be inclined to look at these first bright flowers with different eyes than we would later on, but everybody docs precisely the same, and as we want to sell our plants it is a good things for the florist that all people are more enthusiastic for flowers and plants in spring, the planting time, than they would be two or three months later. Therefore it is a paying plan for the florist, to make his place attractive with bright spring flowers, it invariably draws custom. Certainly it would not do to neglect the beds and borders afterwards; we will have to keep up a succcsssion of bloom and may do this just as well with hardy plants as with the ordinary bedding stuiT, which everybody is familiar with and as we have almost unlimited material, it will not be found difficult to provide for a contiiuuiusshow of flowers. \Vc have the veronicas, polemoiuums, scabiosas, armerias, arcnarias, campanu- las, lotus, stellarias, thepentstemons and linarias, hypericums, centranthus, s;ipo- narias, the geums, the chcloncs and many i8g6. The American Florist. 35 A ROCK GARDEN. LILIES IN THE GARDEN. 3G The American Florist. Aug. 15, hundreds of equal merit to select from. Under ordinary circumstances all of these plants will do together in the same bor- der and beds. In the last volume of tlie American Florist, a nuraberof combina- tions of successively flowering hardy plants for beds have been suggested at different times and anyone interested in this matter can easily lookup thearticlcs, which invariably appeared under the heading of "Herbaceous plant not s." But these suggestions may be varied infinitely, for we are dealing with a very large family of plants. As yet, the herbaceous plants are not much used as pot plants for our spring sales, although many of them might be found profitable for that purpose if we would pot them carefully in early spring before they start into growth. Some of the early species do not require even the protection of a cold frame, for they are naturally in flower out-doors at the time when our sales are beginning. Phlox subulata and P. amoena, Alyssum saxa- tile com) actum, the hardy candytufts, Arabis albida hepaticas, ^thionema grandiflorum, primulas of various kinds and colors, in fact nearly all the spring flowers of that type will sell readilj' at fair prices if offered in good shape early in the season and temporary beds of these plants would frequently be planted, the same as the pansy beds are now, if we onl}' would offer good blooming plants in quantity. When they have commenced to grow and are in bud or flower, it is too late to transplant them into pots; they would live and grow all right but lose more or less of their flower buds and make a poor show for that season; therefore they must be potted before there is any appre- ciable root action soon after the frost leaves the ground, even if we run the risk of losing a few pots by a belated severe night frost. Plants which naturally come in a iittle later on, maj' want a few days or weeks under glass to bring them out at the right time, but as nearly every florist will have plenty of room to spare after his Easter stock is out of the way, space on the benches is not so valuable as it was be- fore Easter; very little fire heat will be required to bring out the flowers of such plants as heucheras, silenes, some of the campanulas, the June pinks, L^xhnis viscaria fl. pi., polemoniums, armerias, Oenotheras, saponarias and a host of others at a time when our customers are an.xious and willing to make a change in the planting of their flower beds if they only can find something which they have not had in former years. I do not mean to say that we have ever attempted to grow and ofi"er for sale c|uantities of the above named plants in poto. but all of them have been tried on a small settle and as weexjiericnced no diffi- culty in disposing of the limited supph' as soon or even before the flowers were fairly opened, my opinion in the matter is, that it would pay in many places to grow more of the hardy things and per- haps reduce the usual number of general bedding plants correspondingly. In regard to the management of young stock of these hardy plants and the pro- pagation of them, but little need be said, for the majority of them grow very freely, are readily increased by dividing or split- ting the roots and after being planted out lor one season form nicely established clumps with strong healthy roots and plants grown in this manner will always be satisfactory when transplanted. A few species are best grown from seeds, as the catananches, callirrhoe, ccntranthus. sm; %_ FLOWER SPRAY OF XANTHOOBROS SORBIFOLIA. etc., and it ma}' at times be desirable to raise some the aquilegias in that way, but usually we get many mixtures and inferior flowers among the seedlings and the perpetuation of a good form can only be relied on by division. The pinks should be propagated by cut- tings inserted in winter or spring in sand the same as carnation cuttings; any cut- ting will grow; we usually take them in anv shape, during winter from the frozen and snow covered plants. Daphne Cneo- rum, the iberis, including the pretty pink I. Jucunda and the a^thionemas cannot strictly be looked upon as belonging to the herbaceous plants and do not divide freely; they also should be increased by cuttings which may be potted or boxed after rooting and then planted in their permanent quarters in the spring. In some European establishments stock is kept in small pots, so as to be able to fill orders at any time in the year, but the person buying such plants, often finds to his sorrow that these plants will not thrive or take hold in the ground for some months and often die out entirely, even though they may have had the best of treatment and care. With some of the species this practice may be all right, but most of the stronger growers do not like to have their roots confined in a small pot containing but little soil and nourish- ine substance. Much more could be said in favor of hardy plants and their superiority over their tender relations, biit time and space does not allow the lengthening out of this article; it is longer nowi than was origi- nally intended and I hope I have not wearied the readers of the Amkrican Florist by suggestions, which perhaps are only favored by the verj' few, while a majority may feel doubtful and uncertain of the future of our hardy plants; but if I have succeeded in converting only a few of our florists so far as to induce them to experiment with some of the plants named, I am satisfied that more will fol- low their example. J. B KlCLLER. Rochester, N. Y. Herbaceous Plants. In the following lines on the above I propose to contribute what knowledge of the subject I have from two views, viz : The usefulness and profit of such plants to the florist who has a store or retails flowers at his greenhouse, and whether it is desirable for the general florist to be able to supply his customers with plants of the best and most popular genera and species of our cultivated herbaceous plants. As cities have grown, it has crowded out the florists who owned a small plot of land in the citv proper, and they have in most cases moved out to the coiuitrv a few miles from the city, and now own acres where they formerly owned but a few city lots, t^encrally these go in for a specialty, and they are wise in my opinion for doing so, but there are many who have two or three acres near enough to the citv to be called on bv their citv i8g6. The American Florist. 37 AN OLD-FASHIONED COTTAGE GARDEN. FORGET-ME-NOTS AND POPPIES 38 The American Florist, Aug. 15, patrons, and another class who own places in the country and also have stores in the cit}', where they handle flowers and plants, both decorative and bedding; in fact anything in the horticultural line that is asked for, and the latter class is to be met with numerously in every large city. The two latter classes of florists have land to spare, and sometimes fill it up with a useful crop to help keep down the barn bill. These are the men who should have at least an acre or more devoted to the useful and popular herba- ceous plants. We all know how many dollars are spent at the market or with the individual who is half gardener, half farmer, who brings 3'ou in his "pineys," pyrethrum, iris and many other of these hardy flowers in their season, and it is safe to say that his returns for the same are many hundreds per cent ahead of his farm products proper. I think for manv years past, which really means all of the past in this country, the average florist thought only of what was raised under glass, and the many beautiful flowers which grew so easily and would almost take care of themselves outside were entirely ignored, or he had no acquaint- ance with them. When a demand from perhaps his most aristocratic customer came he found he had no psonia, coreop- sis, anemone, delphinium or the rest of the many beautiful flowers that the pub- lic are getting to be acquainted with. While I am a total disbeliever in fashion in flowers, yfft the people, especially those of refined and cultivated taste (and if they are possessed of wealth all the better ) , like a change of diet in that most essen- tial of all earthly things, food. The high- est civilization calls for a great variety. The most delicious morsel becomes repug- nant if repeated too often without a suf- ficient interval, and it's the same with music, and why should it not be with flowers? Human nature the further it is removed from the brute craves for vari- ety or change. So we cannot blame our patrons for rebelling against a continual application of the rose, carnation, violet and lily. A great big bunch of Helianthus nanus in a fifteen thousand dollar draw- ing room may look bad taste to the flo- rist, but to the hostess it is most gratify- ing, and it is her taste that must be sat- isfied. Some critics might say "While you are admiring the taste for the com- mon 3'ellow handsome flowers you are discouraging the taste for flowers that are of more profit to the florist and are acknowledged to be the favorite flowers with everybody." Nothing of the sort. A few years ago where now stands the vase of one of our hardy flowers, giving color and animation to a room, stood what? Nothing. The hardy flowers in their season have usurped the place of none of our greenhouse products. More likely have they been the means of creat- ing that love of flowers and that most commendable luxury of having a few flowers on the tables at all times, and when they can't get the garden or field flowers for a parlor vase and frost draws fantastic flowers and figures on their window pane they will long for a bunch of fresh flowers, and so the florist exists, and so by degrees has our business evolved till it has become not entirely what it waseonsidered twenty yearsago, a matter of luxury, but now as much a necessity as any other part of a well ordered house. It is not necessai-y or profitable for the florist who would only grow herbaceous plants for the flowers they produced to go into too great a variety. Here is a list that every florist should have on hisclace. *>mitS^kM -wV ;V- '?*»■. Sit-'-''' ■; MAGNOLIA CONSPICUA: There may be others that I am not suffi- ciently acquainted with to see their prof- itableness. To mention species would make too long a list; I will only name the generas: Aquilegia, anemone, asclepias, achillea, seed or division; coreopsis, cam- panula, delphinium, euphorbia, gypso- phila, iieliopsis, seed or division; holly- ho k, helianthus, seed or division; iris, seed or division; funkia, division; hemer- ocallis, division; lychnis, chrysanthemum, seed or division; lilium, inalva, phlox, seed or division; pyrethrum, pseonia, divi- sion; tritoma, division; papaver, rud- beckia, statice, viola, veronica. In addi- tion to these could be added the several ornamental grasses which can many times be used to great advantage in dec- orations. The best of these are eulalia, erianthus,stipa,arundo, gynerium (pam- pas grass, hardy below Washington), phalaris, the gardener's garter, a most beautiful grass. The word herbaceous is c'osely allied to hibernate, which is applied to the mem- bers of the animal kingdom who go to rest or for a long sleep in winter time, so herbaceous in the true meaning of the word would include a large part of the vegetable world. It would include most all of the aquatics. To recommend a flo- rist to grow a collection of nympha^as and nelumbiums unless he has on his place just the conditions which they require is useless, and then if he did have a pond on the place it is doubtful if it would be a profitable part of the business, although as an object of beauty and interest noth- ing can surpass a basin or pond of these lovely aquatics. Another important group of truh' herbaceous plants is the bulbs. I mean by those the well known tulip, hyacinth, narcissus, etc. Every flo- rist knows these showy and popular flow- ers, and all know abotit their season of planting and flowering. What is usually understood as herbaceous plants are those I have already mentioned, and the well known pa^onia can be taken as a good type of the class known as herbaceous plants. My remaining remarks will be devoted to the best way to have a collection of well known herbaceous plants to supply your customers. There is an evident taste growing in this country for this class of garden adornment. It is nothing but a higher education that has been the cause. Perhaps some of my readers have realized the same feeling that I have within a few years, and however showy a bed of scarlet geraniums or red and yel- low coleus may be, or an elephant or ex- president wrought out in alternaiithcra and kindred low growing plants, cleveras is the execution and smart the conception of design, the refined and cultured mind and eye rebel against them. One glance IS enough, and the eye turns with relief to the natural beauty of the nearest tree. I am not attempting to discourage the planting of showy flower liedsin ourpub- lie parks or S(|uares,for there is the ])roper place for them, when they are kept in the proper place in those parks. The thou- sands who see them and gaze with admi- i8g6. The American Florist. 39 A WATER LILY POND. A BED OF WHITE PLANTAIN LILIES. 40 The American Florist. Aug. 15^ ration on the brilliant mass of color see perhaps not even a blade of grass for six days in the week. What a brilliant mass of color such as a bed of geraniums afibrds compared to a well planted and well kept herbaceous border is a chromo of brilliant hues by the side of one of the masters' landscape paintings. As our patrons who take pleasureintheirgardens become more interested in the plants they will want a greater variety than the ordinary run of bedding plants supply, and we are now asked continually for hardy plants that won't have to be replaced every year. This may not seem as profitable to you as selling them annually the geraniums and coleus, but if you can't supply them they will send out of town for them, and pay prices that would be very profitable to you had you raised them. In addition to those mentioned in the first part of these notes there are many other beauti- ful plants that while not being profitable to the florist as a cut flower are most desirable for the amateur's herbaceous border. There are manv, and I can only add those I know to be easily grown, hardy and beautiful. There is valerian aconituni, aster, boltonia, dicentra, divi- sion; digitalis, dianthus, gaillardia, heucheira, lythrum, lathyrus, monarda, seed or division; sedum,saponaria,silene. This does exhaust the list of interesting herbaceous plants suitable for the mixed border; it perhaps is only a beginning, but the two lists include the most con- spicuous and handsome of this large class of plants. The large majority of all these plants can be raised from seed, and the seed can be purchased of any reliable house. Those that it is best to increase or purchase by roots or division I have marked, and those that can be readily increased by seed or division I have indi- cated. The remainder can all be easily grown from seed. The lilies are as is well known increased by offshoots. The herbaceous border should be good deep soil and if not naturally drained should be drained, for with the exception of those growing on the margins of lakes or marshy places they all Uke to go to rest in a warm soil; not that I think a dry fall is beneficial to their wintering well, rather otherwise, but they don't want water lying round their roots. Our native trees as well as cultivated trees and orchards always winter better after a wet fall. As these plants are to remain a number of years in the same spot a good deep rich soil is most essential, and tell your customers not to plant too closely. The effect desired is entirely dif- ferent from that of a flower bed. The individual plant must be seen, leaf as well as flower. Those that you have to pur- chase or advise to purchasers, such as paeonias, iris, etc., which are most readily increased by division are best procured in the fall. There is no better month than October for planting herbaceous plants unless it be with a few of the genus that are not any more than hardy in the lati- tude in which you are growing. The flo- rist who has an acre or two to cut from should plant out in rows, giving all of them plenty of room. None that I have mentioned but what should be two feet apart between rows and 18 inches between plants, and with many, such as phlox, funkia and others, 4 feet between rows, and 3 feet between plants is none too much. In these days of great pro- duce and low prices labor must be saved, and therefore the horse and cultivator must do the most of the work. Those readily raised from seed (and they are the majority) should be sown in August; the middle of the month is early PLAN FOR PLACE U7 X 200 FEET enough. When large enough to handle you can transplant them into cold frames, where they will make good plants by spring, or you can transplant into flats and keep in cold frames during winter; as the young plants have but a feeble hold of the earth you must thoroughly protect the cold frame from great changes of tem- perature. In the spring as early as the ground is in good order plant out in rows. Those you intend to sell need not be planted as far apart as the distance men- tioned above because you expect to sell them the following year, and if you don't they can be removed to a proper distance. Many of them will be quite satisfactory to your customei-s the first spring after they are sown. Coreopsis, campanula and delphniium are good types of that. Manv of your customers will ask you how to plant, i. e., how far between plants, etc.; so get acquainted with tbe height and width, flowering season and every other characteristic of your plants, and be able to talk to your customers intelligently. The herbaceous i)laiit is coming to the front more aiul more eveiy year, so keep up with the procession. Wm. Scott. Garden Plans. The garden plans found in this issue, and which we believe will be helpful to our readers in many ways, are from rSg6. The American Florist. 41 PLAN FOR A LARGE CITY PLACE. designs by Mr. J. Wilkinson Elliott of Pittsburg, and are reproduced from the publication Gardening, of Chicago. PL.VN FOR PU.VCE 117 X 200 FEET. This plan, which was made for Mrs. H. S. A. Stewart, Pittsburg, was designed to give the great possible quantity and variety of plants and shrubs without sacrificing an eflective arrangement. EXPLANATION OF PLAN. (PAGF. 40.) 1. H. P. roses and narcissi. 2. Sweet peas. 3. 3. 3, 3, 3, 3. Hardy plants. 4. Arundo donax and Eulalia gra- cillima. 5. Weigela Candida. 0. Single hollyhocks. 7. Lily of the valley. S. Tuberous begonias. 9. Shrubbery with tall shrul)s and small trees in the back, and groups of hardy plants and French canaas in the margin. 10. Eulalia gracillima and Funkia Sicboldii. 11. Mass of golden honeysuckle. 12. Erianthus Ravenna:-. 13. Hedge of California privet. 14. 14. Sheared golden yews. 15. Weeping hemlock. 16. Japan maples. Water maples. Magnolia stellata. Magnolia Soulangeana. Weeping Norway spruce. Magnolia conspicua. Weeping dogwood. Weeping rose flowered 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Weeping rose flowered Japan cherry. 24. Chinese cypress. 25. 25, 25, 25. Posts covered with vines for clothes line. 26. Fern leaved beech. 27. White birch. 28. Scariet maple. In addition to the planting shown on the plan the walls (brick) are covered with Ampelopsis Roy alii. PLAN FOR A LARGE CITY PLACE. This plan is for a place of average shape and about two and a half acres in area. The unusual location of house and lines of walk will show that economy of space is quite consistent with convenience and breadth of effect. Picturesqueness is obtained by arrangement of planting, not by meandering of sinuous ribbons of gravel. By placing the house in the cor- ner the greatest possible extent of un- broken lawn space is secured, while the porch fronting the lawn is as private as it could be on a place of this size. The lawn runs up to the house unimpaired by any stripes of arid pavement, and the lir es of the house are relieved onlj' by the creepers covering it (Boston ivy on the walls and clematises, wistariasand Hall's honeysuckles on the porches) and the tall conifers to the south of the house. This kind of design is suited only to land level or approximately so, but with- in those lines could be easily adapted to many places. An ideal contour map would show the lawn gently sloping from all sides to the middle with the walks on level ground. Along the front boundary' runs a wall or iron fence, the entrance is through iron gates into a court large enough to admit of a carriage being turned. There is a smaller gate admitting pedestrians to a paved walk leading to the front and back of the house. The carpet bedding on each side of the entrance court is justified by the formal leins of building and macadam which it supplements. The shrubbery behind it sets it off and separates it from the main part of the grounds. The drying ground is enclosed on three sides by a hedge or vine-covered trellis. The stable is placed at the comer of the vegetable garden and entered from a side street, thus being kept entirely away from the house; but if the place were not on a comer the stable could be placed opposite the drying ground and the paved walk widened to allow the passage of vehicles. The interest and value of the vegetable garden could be added to by borders of annuals, herbaceous and tender plants for cut flowers, grape vines and dwarf fruits. It is enclosed by a wall. A hedge would be a great protection, would look better and be far cheaper, but would take several years to become an effective defence. If the walks are made wide enough to admit of a horse and cart be- ing used in the garden, 61,2 feet will be wide enough for them and the inner cor- ners should be rounded a little to allow for turning; in this way manure may be carried to all parts of the garden with great convenience. If desired, breaks could be left in the shrubbery to admit views from the street without injury to the general design. EXPLANATION OF PLAN. (pAGE41.) 1. Japan maples 2. Retinospora obtusa. 42 The American Florist. Aug. 15, 8. Magnolia conspicua, Yulan magno- lia. 4. Magnolia parviflora. 5. 5. Shrubbery with small trees and groups oi large herbaceous plants in the margins. 6. Abies orientalis, oriental spruce. 7. Rollison's arbor vit:cs or golden retinosporas. 8. Nordman's fir. 9. Scarlet maple. 10. Andromeda arborea. 11. Balsam fir. 12. Norway spruce. 13. Picea pungens, Colorado blue spruce. 14. Purple beech. 15. Irish juniper and beds of herba- ceous plants. 16. Vine covered summer-house. AN IDEAL SUBURBAN ACRE. The accompanying plan shows the treatment of an acre of ground. There are suburban acres innumerable in this broad land, but probably few for which this plan could be adapted. There might be many if the landscape gardener had been consulted in time, that is before the property was bought and the buildings located. If projectors of suburban homes would consult the designer of gardens be- fore buying or at least before building they would be gainers in many ways. Exposures, soils and subsoils, drainage and especially the location of buildings, roads and walks are all points the im- portance of which are apt to be over- looked, and when the landscape-gardener is consulted at all— alas too rarely— it is after architects and builders and even road makers have finished their work, and mistakes have been made that arc without remedy. Even many architects who might know better ignore the land- scape effect. It is curious that the fol- lowers of an art that has but so lately received general recognition in America should despise a sister art which does so much to enhance the beauty and effective- ness of their work. The unusual location of the house in the present plan probably makes it im- practicable for a majority of suburban acres, but it serves to show some correct principles of arrangement and planting, and that is about all any plan can show except for the special grounds for which it is designed, for good plans cannot be had ready made but must be made to order, and all local conditions and limita- tions considered. The many desirable features of the plan I think are evident. By locating the house close to the north- ern boundary of the lot, a southeast cor- ner one, the greatest possible unbroken expanse of lawn is obtained, and all principal rooms of the house have a southern and eastern exposure. The massed planting on the western and northern boundaries give protection to house and grounds from wintry winds, affords grateful shelter for the choicer shrubs and plants, and secures privacy for the rear of the house, drying ground and stable. Thedriveway, and driveways arc now usually made so as to serve the douljlc purpose of driving and walking, gives entrance from one street an! the curved path from the other. This path winding in among the shrubbery affords opportunitv for some very effective plant- ing. Massed planting of shrubs, while the very best arrangement for them, gives many chances for the planting of groups of herbaceous plants, narcissi and hlics, 111 the margins and no better setting can be had for the splendid new flowering cqnnas. The grounds are to be enclosed AN IDEAL SUBURBAN ACRE. with a fence, low wall or hedge, prefera- bly a hedge if properly planted and cared for and for grounds of this size no more satisfactory hedge can be planted than California privet (Ligustrum ovalifo- lium). It is quick growing and has a rich lustrous green foliage, and it is al- most evergreen. For larger places I think our native hemlock spruce makes the handsomest of all hedges, but it is much more difficult to establish. The plan ig- nores bedding plants with the exception of the beds of cannas and carpet border in front of the porte-cochere, a very appro- priate place for a bit of formal gardening, but where the annual expense of bedding is objectionable, the cannas could be changed for tall hardy grasses and the carpet border for one of tulips carpeted with Phlox subulata or it might be omitted altogether. Nine-tenths of the bedding done detracts from rather than adds to the grounds it is intended to beautify , and is an annual waste of money which if^ spent intelligently in carrying out a good design would in time make a sylvan paradise of many a suburban home. 2. 2. Rhododendrons, kalniias, small evergreens and lilies. 3. Border for herbaceous plants and spring flowering bulbs or could be used for H. P. roses. 4. Untrimmed hedge of hemlock spruce. 5. Untrimmed hedge of lilacs. 6. 6, 6, 6. Posts covered with vines for clothes lines. 7. Bed of new flowering cannas and carpet border of alternantheras, echeve- rias, etc. S. Purple beech. 9. Evergreens and birches. 10, 10, 10, 10. Scarlet maples, can be used for clothes line when large enough. 11. Hemlock sjiruce. Weeping dogwood. Weir's maple. Pin oak. Tulip tree. Magnolias. Chinese cypress. Kose-flowercd Japanese weeping 1, 1 EXPLANATION OF PLAN. 1. Shrubs with hardy plants and spring flowering bulbs planted in grouiis on margin. 12. 13. 14. l.T. IC). 17. 18. chcrrv 19." 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Magnolia stellata. Cut-leaved birch. Fern-leaved beech, japan maples. Funkia Sicboldii. Eulalia gracillima. Weigcla Candida. 1896. The American Florist. 43 26. Evergreens, small trees and shrubs. 27. Maples, pin oaks or tulip trees. Note:— By mistake the number 15 is repealed in the plan. The number \h that is in the same group with numbers 17 and 19 should be 18. In addition to planting shown on plan Halleana honeysuckles. Clematis panicu- lata and Clematis Henry ii are to be trained on the porch and a Chinese wis- taria is to be carried up the east end of the house trained along the eaves. The Society of American Florists. Enclosed in the printed program for the Cleveland convention of the S. X. F. appears a draft of a new constitution proposed hy the executive committee and which is to be acted upon by the society at the morning session of Wednesdav, August 19. Many exceedingly radical changes from past policy are included and the whole matter should have most careful con- sideration b;' the members before action is taken. We print below the present constitution and by-laws and the pro- posed new constitution, that coinparison may be readiU- made and the proposed changes easily noted. I'RIOSKNT CONSTlTUTlnX .\M) liV-I,.\\\S. .\RTICLE I. — This Association shall hf known ; The Society of .Vmekican Florists. .\bt. II.— Thi; aini of the Soeietv is to lift u|i and carry forward all that tends to advance I he interests of its members. OFFICERS — THEIR ELECTION. Art. in.— The oflicers of this Society shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, a Secre- tary, a Treasurer, and at least one Vice-President from each State, Territory or Province represented, all of whom shall be men of commercial integritv. Their term of office shall begin with the first dilv of January succeeding their election, and shall continue for one year. States having a represen- tation of forty members or over shall be entitled to two Vice-Presidents. The President, first Vice- President, Secretary and Treasurer shall lie elected by ballot during the holding of its annual meet- ing. The State, Territorial and Provincial Vice- Presidents shall be elected ijy ballot by members present from those districts at the annual meet- ing, the Secretary giving general notice of the hour of such lueetings: joovided. that when less than tlirei- nieniber> ari' pn'sent from anv State, such election must be approved by the Presidenl. When a State has no representative present, the President shall name a Vice-President, if he deems it advisable. Anv Vice-President who shall refuse or negh-ct his duty after one mouth may be removed b\ a majority vott^ of the E-\ecu- tive fumiuittee. and another appointed to serve his tinexpired term. GOVERNMENT. Art. IV.— Its government, between the sessions cif the Society, shall be vested in an Executive ( 'olnniittee of nine, to which the President, .Junior ex-President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasures, as ex-officio members, shall be' added. It shall be the duty of this Committee to supervise the program and exliibitions of the .Societv at its annual meeting, and lake such action at this time as in its judgnicnt mav be for the welfare of the Society, subject to the approval of lliat bodv. To this end the Committee shall hold, during the annual meeting, daily sessions at the call ot the Secretary, and submit their recommendations to the Society through its chairman. MEETINGS — LOCATION. .\RT. v.— This Society shall hold an annual meeting, commencing on the third Tuesdav in August and continuing three davs. unless" the business before the meeting cannot be finished in that time, when the time may be extended bv con- .sent of two-thirds of the me"nibers present.' The convention shall hold two sessions each dav uninterruptedly, until the business of the Societv be completed; and no local committee nor officer's of the Society shall have pon-er to set aside this Article, except as provided in Section IX. of the ){y-Laws. A meeting of the Executive Committee shall be called by tlw Secri'tarv on request of anv three members thereof. Members of this Com"- mittee shall be appointed by the President, and shall hoM their ollii-e for three vears. three mem- bers beiui; appoinled each vi-ar. .Memljers ap- pointed, who shall decline or fail to serve, mav be at once replaced by anolher appointment bv'ihe President, which shall be announced in 'open session from the Chair (if during tlu; annual session). Vacancies in the Executive Committee or in the list of Vice-Presidents at the annual meeting may be filled temporarih- bv the Presi- dent during or previous to the first day of the meeting, and until such regular oflicers can act. QUORUM. Art. VI.— Not less than fifty of the members of the Society shall constitute a tiuorum for the iransai'tion of business at annual meetings of the Society-. SALARIES. Art. VII.— The .Secretary of this Societv shall receive as compensation for his services tlie sum of JT50 per annum. membership. -\rt. VIII.— The Societv shall be governed and the membership decided by such laws as the -Association may from time t"o time make. eligibility. .Vrt. IX.— .\I1 florists— professional or amateur —gardeners, seedsmen, nurserymen, superintend- ents of parks, manufacturers of wares or supi)lies for florists' use, in the United States and Canada, shall be eligible to membership in this Society. amendments. Art. X. — The constitution may be amended or altered at any regular meeting'bv a two-thirds vote of the members present, notice'of such altera- tion or amendment having been submitted to the Association at a previous meetin" or furnished to the Secretary by .Tune 1st preceding the meeting, and published by hiin in the general program of the Society at least three weeks before the annual meeting. BY-LAWS. president. Section I._The President, or in his absence the \ ice-President, shall preside at all meetings of the Society, and have a general supervision of its affairs. SECRETARY. Sec. II.— The Secretarv shall contluct th ir- respondeni'.e of the Societv. shall have charge of Its papers ^md reports, and shall nmke a report annually. treasurer. Sec III.— The Treasurer shall receive and keep an account of all moneys belonging to the Societv, paying out the same u'pon order of the Secretary, and make an annual report of receipts and dis- bursements. The President and two members of the Executive Committee shall audit these ac- counts at annual meetings of the Society. DUES. Sec. IV.— The annual fee shall be for each member the sum of Tliree Dollars, pavable on or before the 31st day of December of each vear. ELECTIONS. Sec. v.— The election ofofflcers shall take place on the closing day of the annual meeting, and shall always be by ballot. VICE-PRESIDENTS. Sec. VI.— It shall be the dutv of each Vice- President to promote the interest 'of the Societv in his State to the best of his abilitv. to keep a com- plete list of the llorists therein, 'and supplv them with such printed matter as the officers' of the Society may direct; and he shall assist the Secre- tary, when requested, in completing such lists of addresses, that our annual meetings mav be thoi-oughl.\ advertised and menibership incre'ased. DELINQUENT ME3IBERS. Sec. VII.— All members whose dues are unpaid shall beso notified by the Secretarv; and when a member shall have paid no dues for a period of eighteen months after receiving such notice, his name shall be dropped from the rolls, and he can be readmitted to membership onlv bv a ma)orit\ vote of the Executive Committee. ' ' SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS. Sec. VIII.— Every resolution involving an ap- propriation of mone,\- must be referred to the Executive Committee beforeit can be acted upon; and it shall be the duty of the Committee to report on the same at the ile.xt session after the one at which such resolution is introduced; provided, however, that in cases of urgencv the Executive Committee may retire for consultation and report at the same session at which such resolutiim is introduced. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Sec. IX.— The transaction of busini-ss sli:ill be in the following order; 1. Calling to order. 2. Heading minutes of previous session. 3. Riqiorts of standing committees. 4. Reports of special committees. 5. Miscellaneous business. 6. Essays. Discussions. 7. Election of officers (on last day). 8. .\ppointnient of Exiwutive aiid other coiii- inittees. 9. Adjourninenl. ALTERATION OF BY-LAWS. Sec. .\.— The liy-Laws mav be a nded bv one day's notice, in writing, al an\ annual 1 'tin" on a two-thirds vole of lueinbei-s present. PROPOSED NEW CONSTITITION. A set of Hv-Laws in conforniitv with the pro- visions of this Constitution will be presented for consideration at the same time. NAME. .VUTICLE I.— This Association shall be known as the American Society of Floriculture. 0B-IECT8. Art. II.— The objects of the Societv are to secure a greater national interest in floriculture; to encourage the development of its industries, commercial and otherwise: to judicially examine and classify its products; to determine nomen- clature, and to hold exhibitions and conventions. OFFICERS. Art. III.— The oflicers of this Society shall con- sist of a President. Vice-President, Se'cretarv and Treasurer, who shall be elected bv ballot a't the annual .\ugust convention of the Society, and whose tenure of office shall be for one year from the first day of January next succeeding such elections. sections. Art. IV. — Organizations of not less than ^h persons formed for the examination of and to ad- vance the particular interests y^{ special subjects shall be design;ited as Secti. lus each of which shall be entitled to one reiiresenlative in the E.xecutive Committee of the .Viueri<.-an Societv of Floriculture. Membership in ihe American Society of Floriculture shall be a pre-requisite to menibership.in sections; otherwise such sections shall l>e independent in their management except as any si)ecial action shall conflict with the general welfare of the .Vmerican Societv of Flori- culture. state vice-presidents. Art. V. — There shall be appointed by the Presi- dent a Vice-President from each State, Terri- tor,\ or Province, who shall be the accredited rep- resentative of the American Society of Floriculture at all meetings and exhibitions of importance in his Slate. BRANCHES. -Vrt. VI.— Gardeners' and florists' clubs and local horticultural societies regularly organized and comprising not less than t\vent.\ -live members may become Branches by the payinent annually to the .Vmerican Society of Floriculture of one dollar for each individual membership in such Hrancli. and upon said payment members of such Hranches shall then Ijecom'e members of the .\meri- caii Society of Floriculture in good standing for the current year. Similar privileges will he ac- corded allied or kindred societies having a mem- bership of over five hundred upon acceptance by the American Society of Floriculture and the pay- ment of such sum as the Executive Committee may determine upon. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Art. VII.— The President shall appoint annually tw. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— Practical grower of cut tlowers and plants, tine stock; design work; com- petent to take charge. l.'> years' experience, age o2, married, references. Address Floral Worker, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED.-Wm. S Beasley. HS West Washington Ijane, Germantown. Pa. Is a gardener of except onal ability, and Is now In want of a place, due to the tact that BenJ Homer, his former em plover, has recent y died; he Ilvt-d with this party 22 years and we know him to be flrsl-chiss In every respect. Robert BiiifST Company. Philadelphia. Pa. SITUATION WANTED— As foreman or manager In large commercial or private place by a tlrsi-class grower of roses, carnations, mums, bulbs and general stock; 22 years' experience, age iv). married; Iihs been foreman, having full charge In large plHce for the past tour vears; can fumiah best of references. Ad- dress F. Beit, ( olllngdule. Del. Co.. Pa. SITUATION WANTED-Practlcal plantsman of ex- perience and executive ability, posted on all the requisites ot commercial place, roses, cut flowers, etc , general propagation, inside and outside operations, the nurseries; best references, of ability, hablis, etc. For more particulars adriress Plantsman, care American Florist, Chicago. ANTED— A young man for general greenhouse work; must be experienced and sober Call at Emil Bi'ETTNERs. Park Hldge, lil. W W ANTED— A good second-hand water boiler for r. (Kiu feet of ground: give price. F. OTTO. 1U2 N. Kedzle Ave., Chicago. W ANTED— A man who understands budding and grafting and general nursery work. Newport Ncrseuv Co., Newport. U. I. WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrst-class chance to establish himself. Address DUB, care American Florist. WANTED-A practical florist with $1 tXN) would like to invest In a business that Is well located for wholesale or retail trade; write particulars. Address FiR>i, care American Florist. WANTED -Foreman for KItMXNI sq. feet of glass, devoted principally to roses. Must be a man of marked ability, whose record is success. Address BRANT \ NOE, Sub P. O. Forest Glen Chicago, III. WANTEI>— An all round florist and gardener, with small capital, wlsbes to engage In business with lady or gentleman. In cut flower store, florist and gar- dening, or gardening: age ■>.'>. single, use no liquor, and beet of references; correspondence solicited. Address Partner, care American Florist: II^OR S.\LE-Devine Boiler Palm, flfty dollars. ' C. L. Bri'NSON & Co., Padvicah. Ky. OR SALE— Three Corypha Australls Palms, hj feet in height, cheap. Address X Y Z, care American Florist. Chicago. riOR SALE (.UEAP—(;oodsecond-hand:iand 4-Inch r pipe for hot water heating. Address W. H. Salter Rochester. N. Y. F FOR SALE-Slx U. only one season, cash bargain. P. vertical steam biiller. used Will be offered at a bargain for S. Batson. Kalatna/.oo. Mich. FOR RENT— A large nursery and plant establish ment of many years' standing at Washington. D C. For particulars applv Box 4Hi, City P. O.. Washington. D. C. FOR SALE OR LEASE— Five greenhouses, dwelling, sheds, etc. No competition. Halt price. Bar- gain. Reason, bad health For particulars, address B, care American Florist, Chicago. FOR SALE— 3 0(XI feet seeond-han t glass liixI2 and 12x14 double thick at 2.'t per cent belnw market; also 8.(100 feet 1-lnch steam pl^e at 2 cents per foot. Vai'uhans Seed Store. Chicago. FOR SALE— Retail business. 4, WW feet of glass, fine slock of roses, carnations, 'mums, etc., dwelling, stable, bam. In cUy of 40,000; good trade: best rea-ons for selling. A. care American Florist. FOR SALE. Two Carmodv Boilers, 14 sections, at *o0.00 each. .'> 00(1 feet of 4-lnch cast Iron pipe at .")C. per foot, alt In goud condition, lodiioo Pots, 2. X -t>4 and 4-lnch pots at a bargain. Address, O- NBUNBR, (218 East Broadway, LOUISVILLE, KY. Field Qrown Q^wcndiWons Large Stock of Splendid Plants. The weather here has been very favorable tor Carnation Plants, and our stock this season is in ex'ra fine condition. Order early to avoid disappointment. Terms: Cash with order. lvrtl*V ^^"^ ""^^ white seedling is sure to be a winner. Pure white, large size, and for productiveness about 16 to 1 with any other white. Large Plants Small Plants per 100. per 100. Ivory $10.00 $S 00 Alaska 8 00 6 00 McGowan 6 00 Daybreak 8 00 6 00 RoseQaeen 8 00 6 00 Lizzie Gilbert 6 00 Goldfinch 8.00 6.00 Laige Plants Small Plants per lOD. Silver Spray $8.00 Wm. Scott 8.00 Bridesmaid 8.00 Portia 8 00 Meteor S 00 Triumph, (new pink). ...12. 00 per 100. $6 00 6 00 6 00 6.00 10 00 GEO. HANCOCK & SON., GRAND HAVEN. .MICHIGAN. Mention American Florist. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I F. DORNER & SONS CO., ^ ♦ ♦ When writing mention American Florist. NEW CARNATIONS. H. WEBER & SONS, Carnationists, Box 57, Floral Park, OAKLAND. MD. CARNATIONS Most varieties reatly to plant NOW. 25,000 FIELD-GROWN PLANTS, Leadins varieties. Write for prices. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. ylddress CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Field Carnations. KmiO furplus plants itf ROSE yCEEN, WM. gtOTT. TIDAL WAVE, pink. El.DORAnO, DEAN HOLE, yellow. EMII.V PIERSON. LIZZIE GILBERT, scarlet. BRIDE OF RKLKS((IUHT. KdlllNOOH, SILVER SPKAV. STtmvi KIN(;. white. All fine healthy plants, at competition prices. Address J. F. KLIMMER, Oak Park, III. 48 The American Florist. Aug. 15, Boston. Apart from the weather, about the only subject of inter-jst here at present is the Cleveland Convention. Indications point to an unusually small attendance from this section, although many are disposed to talk about it. The reasons given are various. One man says that he is getting too old and cannot think of going so far away from home, another has got to get the root on "those houses," still another (and his is doubtless the more general complaint, if the truth were told) can't get hold of any money to go with. No one has been heard, so far, to find fault because there is "too much good times" at the conventions or to attribute his ab- sence to the society's drifting away from first principles. They know better than that in this neighborhood. Boston will have some company on the way to Cleveland in the shape of a dele- gation from Rhode Island, who go with the determination to bring home with them the society's acceptance of their ic- vitation to hold the convention of 1897 in the good city of Providence. These Providence boys arequiet and make little noise, but they keep up a big thinking, and when they unite on anything they are pretty sure to put it through. At the exhibition on Saturday the dis- play of annuals was superb. To the Har- vard Botanic Garden a silver medal was awarded for a grand collection. Prizes for display filling one hundred and fifty bottles were given as follows: First, Oakes Ames; second, Mrs. R. M. Gill; third. Miss A. D. Coolidge. There were many exhibits of sweet peas. Rev. W. T. Hutchins receiving a certificate of merit for a new variety. Certificates were also awarded to Rea Bros, for Rudbeckia laciniata, fl. pi, to Jacob Manning for the same, and to H. A. Dreer for Nelumbium Shiroman. Mr. Dreer received honorable mention for Nymphtea O'Mariana. E. A. and W.K.Wood are building two houses at West Newton, 24x85 each. Visiting Boston, Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Pierson, Tarrytown, N. Y., J. A. Evans, Richmond, lad. SURPLUnTOGK. A lot of fine strong 4-inch Brides, Bridesmaids and Mete- ors at lowest prices, to make room. FRED. BURKI, Wholesale Florist, BELUEVUE. PA. Surplus Stock. ■ Per 100 250 BRIDUJMAID3, strong :) inch . . . . «4 OJ 100 BRIDHS, strong, 3 inch -1 00 200 MERMH rs strong. 3-inch -i 00 150 GRKVII.I.EA ROBUSTA, strong, 3-inch. 5 00 CHAS S. BARNABY, Columbus, Ind. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good RO^I^S iu 2J^-iuch pots which I will sell at 82 UO per UK). The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. ROSES FO R LATE PLANTING. CLEAN, HEALTHY STOCK, FROM 2'. AND 3-INCH POTS. ■.;i..-\nch. per UKl. Meteor $3.00 Perlo cles Jardins 3.50 Augusta Victoria 3.50 M-ltK-li '.'V,.-lnch, pur KHl. per I(«l- S5.00 Bridesmaid S3. 50 5.00 Bride 3.50 5.00 Mrs. P. Morgan 5.u0 ::-lnch. per UKl S5.00 5.00 7.00 Field Grown Plants for Fail Delivery. MADAME PLANTIER, e.xtra strong two-year plants. Will go in 7 and S inch pots, anH rnnke pxtrn otocV for Easter forcing- $6.00 per 100. ULRICH BRUNNER AND MAGNA CHARTA, strong plants from bard-wooded iMittineo. $8.00 anH $10.00 per 100 pccorHinp- tr. «ize. CLOTHILDE SOUPERT AND MAMAN COCHET, $8.00 and $10 00 ptr 100 according to size. Terms Cash, Order Now. ROBERT SCOTT & SON., I9TH AND CATHERINE STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. 7,000 FIRST QUALITY FORCING ROSES. t'lrst-rlasH ami perfectly liealliiy In every respect. Only select growtli fri)iii tlowerloy shoots vised in propneatton. 150 AMERICAN BEAUTY 600 MERMETS SSOKAISERIN 700 SUNSET 75 PAPA CONTIER 325 WOOTTONS 300BONSILENE 650 BRIDE 1000 BRIDESMAIDS 375NIOHETOS 200 METEORS 150 BELLE SIEBRECHT 1700 PERLES 75 MME. HOSTE H-lncli pots, J4.1W per Kid. 4-lnch pots, Sis. ill per llKl, DOSES ' ' Aiirirpss for n ,'MERMETS. CUSINS. TESTtlUTS. NIPBETOS. BKIHES, IIHIDES.M AIDS, METEOR. UOSTE. WATTEVILLES. Ai^G, viCTOHiA. 'I Hand ^-Inch pot plHiits. Cash with order, owlny t^) number booked, they will be executed In rotHtUm to assure prompt delivery. Order early. AddresB for quotations, VILLA LORRAINE ROSERIES, MADISON, NEW JERSEY. AIHERIGAN BEAUTY, tll\%^: BRIDESMAID. BRIDE. TESTOUT, PERLE, LA FRANCE. KAISERIN, ;i and J-inch pot.s. M. LOUISE VIOLETS, i;' = ,:iaud4 inch CALIFORNIA VIOLETS. 2;4, 3 and 4 incli. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS, 3 and 4 inch The New Climbing Rose THE HARDIEST YELLOW CLIMBING ROSE yet introduced. Has withstood zero weather without injury. A Blood Relation to Crimson Rambler. The Yellow Rambler isacross bciwetn Reve d'Or and tne Japanese Polyanthn Sarmentosa, the latter of which was un- doubtedly a parent of the Crimson Ram- bler. The foliage strongly resembles that of the Critnson R-rnbler. BLOOMS AFTER THE SAHE MAN= NER as the Crimson Rambler, but in even larger trusses, often as many a? 150 fliwers in q clu«ti"- A VERY VIGOROUS GROWER, making shoots S to 10 l^et hign in one seas'in. REMAINS IN FLOWER THREE TO FOUR WEEKS. VERY SWEETLY FRAGRANT. ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM ALISTER STELLA GRAY, w I ich is being told under the namj uf "G jUlen Rambler." Originated by a Leading European Rosarian, Mr. Peter Lambert, wiin whom we have effected an arrangtment giving us the sole control ol introducicg it in the U, S. and Canada. Strong plants, fr^m deep 2' a in. pots, 75 cts. each; $7.00 oer 10; $50 00 per 100. Not less than 50 sold at 100 rate, nor less than 5 at 10 rate. JACKSON&PERKINS, Newark J. Y. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. I have just planted out more TESTOUTS instead Therefore there are left over 200 31, .-inch BI»JJL>:R surplus plants. Just right for p'anting. At $5 00 per 100, or $9.00 for the lot, to close out FRANK L. MOORE, Chatham, New Jersey. BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS and MERMETS, $3 00 per 100; 8li,5.0O per 1000. I,A FRANCE, BRIDES and BRIDESMAIDS, 3-in. S5.00 per KX): SJ.i.OO per 1000. 25 at 100, and 'ZM at 1000 rates. West Forest Park, ST. LOUIS, MO. LAST CALL. I have several hundreds of extra stroug 4 inch BRIDES and BRIDESMAIDS left; to clear ihem out I will make them S6.00 PER 100 CASH. Also some 3 inch BRIDESMAIDS at 4 cts. Stock extra fine and clean. Wiite for samples. J. C. MURRAY, 401 Main St , Peoria, III. Good, strong: '."H.-lnch stock. Per 100 MARY WASHINGTON J2 00 MRS. DEGRAW a 00 GOLDEN GATE 2 ,50 MME. C. TESTOUT 3 00 CASH WITir ORDER. NATIONAL PLANT CO . Dayton, 0. 15,000 ROSES 1f«»l* c-tit I>l<><>ttl. shall be glad to corresnoiid with paities wish- ing Daily, semi, Tri ot Weekly Shipments. GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. Alw.vys inention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist, 49 W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. 19 & 21 Randolph St., CHICAGO. WE are now locaited in our new quarters which, we have fitted up permanently. AS our business increases so must our Room increase, alsO our supply of Flowers. This season we shall have double the amount of ROSES and CAR- NATIONS we had last season. OUR stock gives satisfaction, therefore our trade increases rapidly. WE can do more easily, and would be pleased to have you give us a trial with a part of your trade this season. WE do not confine our stock alone to Roses and Carnations. WE have every- thing that comes in season. AMERICAN BEAUTY. We shall be able to fill orders this coming season for this Rose. YOU CAN GET FINE YOUNG ROSES NOW FOR SUMMER TRADE SHIPPED TO REACH YOU IN GOOD CONDITION. FLORIST BOXES. CARTER-GRUME CO., DAYTON, OHIO, U. S. A. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE FLORIST FOLDING BOXES .. New Style. Fine Printing. Waterproof Material, Everything High Grade, also Plant Mailing Paper Boxes, Made from paraSned, coated board, also Folding Paper Boxes for Floral Design Pieces and Folding Paper Boxes and Cartons of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICE LISTS. Mention American Florlat. Wisconsin Flower Exciiange, C. B. WHITNALL, Pred. and Cen'l Mgr.) Special care iu providing Cut Stuff for Florists The best supply of FERN FRONDS, ASPARAGUS, VALLEY, VIOLETS, LILI€S, MIGNONETTE, IVY AND MYRTLE. Our eron-ers of Roses, Carnations and Chrys- anthemums are secoua to uone. Beauiilul Frciih Cycas leaves. Our shipping conditions are the most popular, ALL FLORISTS who take orders for Flowers should have our Catalogue. Wisconsin Flower Exchange, ....Milwaukee, Wis.... Roman Hyacinths. We have been shipping line bulbs of these since July IS. Have you received yours? If not, how would you like "All Florists Stock in Season"? sew York. VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, CHICABO. L. C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. Branch of The Horticultural Co.. Boskoop. Holland, CLEMATIS, KHOIXtUENIIKUNS, AZA- LEAS, MAGNOLIAS, BDLBS, Etc.. Etc. Ask fur prices. Paper Boxes FOR FLORISTS. We make a Specialty of the rij;ht sizes and shapes. H. SCHULTZ & CO., 117 TO 123 MARKET ST., Telephone Main 2423. CHICAGO. 50 The American Florist. Au^. 75, New York. Fans, ice water tanks, shirt sleeves and a general indisposition to talk are the prominent characteristics noted in and about the various florists' establishments in the city, whether wholesale or retail. Even Charlie Carlin, who is taking his vacation but cannot stay away from the vicinity of 28th street, and who is usually ready to talk upon any subject, protests, as he adjusts his hot-weather-handker- chief-necktie, that he knows nothing and doesn't wish to. Such are some of the terrible effects of the hot weather in New York. The eifect on flowers as well as on florists is decidedly wilting, and stock is about as bad as it possibly can be. There is practically nothing doing and the best flowers in the world would stand no show under prevailing conditions. Everybody that can get away is out of town and streetsordinarily filled with busy shoppers are as deserted as country lanes. Still the few individuals who are left to care for the stores are placed and give the impres- sion that selling flowers is but a second- ary matter and that trying to keep cool is the first consideration. Canine pets seem to be coming into favor as adjuncts of the wholesale estab- lishments. Julius Lang, John Raynorand Walter Sheridan have each a dog. Lang's is a dignified well-behaved collie who wants no intimacy with strangers. Ray- nor's dog is small, timid, loves everybody and John in particular and can scent a new consignor a longdistance off. Walter is not sure about his dog. He is watch- ing him anxiousiy for "points," but the only points that have developed so far are abnormally long legs and uncontrollable passion to devour trousers and straw hats. But he is young yet. The Flatbush bowlers are at it and promise to give a good account of them- selves at Cleveland. D. Y. Mellis, who is one of their mainstays, is expected home this week in time to start with the club for the west. On lastThursday themeet- ing was well attended and practice went on vigorously notwithstanding the hot weather. Everybody was happy except Louis Schmutz, who took it terribly to heart because his score was below that of some of his rivals. P. Riley was not there; it was said that he was staying at home to admire a new daughter, recently arrived. Emil Zeller has withdrawn from the firm of Chas. Zeller's S^ns and will start business at the stand hitherto occupied by Geo. P. Buckley at Putnam and Clas- sen avenues, Brooklyn. Theold firm will continue under same title as before. Siebrecht & Wadley arranged a hand- some Japanese decoration at the flnion League Club on Friday evening, the occasion beine; a reception to a number of visiting Jaoanese of high degree. Eulalias, lotus flowers, sciadopitys, Japan maples, etc., were used with fine efftct, and the center piece on the banquet table was six feet in diameter with American and Japanese flags worked in flowers. The seed and supply men are all busy just at present receiving and re-shipping bulbs, which are arriving in large quanti- ties every day. Their time is fully taken up between running from store to store to custom house and freight office and keep- in? impatient customers good natured. ■ »3°?ABBL. I H.A.STOOTHOFF. hl5liADIS0IIAVE.NEWY0IIK.CITr. Please mention the American Florist erery time you write to an advertiser. BUY FLOWERS^FRANK MILLANG, -AT- CUT FLOWER EXCHANGE, 404 TO 412 EAST THIRTY-FOURTH STREET, NEW YORK. Everything in Season. The Best Stock. Market Prices. Open 5:00 A. M. and on Deck all Day for Business. PROMPT AND RELIABLE. SIEBRECHT & WADLEY. ROSE HILL NURSERIES. Will be represented at the Cleveland Convention by the genial MR. J. AUSTIN SHAW, Who will have a Fine Stock of Palms and other decorative plants in varieties and sizes most useful to the trade. GIVE HIM A CALL. Adiantum Farlyense EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices upon application. Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, ISlatlon ll.i PHILADELPHIA. PA. FERNS! FERNS! CUNEATUM and GRACILLIMUM, Finn plants, IS5.00 per 100. And al.so will exchange for Pteris Argyrea, Treni- nla and Nephrolepis Kxallata. TITUS BERST, Erie, Pa. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. STRONG, HKAI.TIIY. CI.KAN I'LANTS. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, Irom 4 in pots at $6.00 per lOO; $50 00 per 1000. Send for Sample. Ca.-^h with order. THEODORE KNOCKE, Princeton, N. J. RUN NO RISK IN FUMIGATINQ ! EXCELSIOR FUMIGATOR Pitloctiuil, unfe ami ciMivi'iiient .No iloiUt will he without uiif after ti I rial. Send for explaniitory UIub- triiitil clrculnr. HERIVI. PERLICH, FI cc. poLLwoRTri: CUT FLOWERS FLORISTS' SUPPLIES BULBS WIRE WORK. We are the largest exclusive Florist's Wire Design Manufacturers in the west. Send for latest revised list. Prices the lowest. Workmanship unexcelled. ELLIS & POLLWORTH, 137 Oneida St., MILWAUKEE, WIS. Box 75. Phone 1273. Greenhurst Rose Gardens, WHOLESALE FLORISTS. OUR SPECIALTIES ARE ROSES, CARNATIONS. AND VIOLETS. GREENHURST ROSE GARDENS, JAMESTOWN, N. Y. From 2-iticli pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of varieties and |>ri<-es rarnished on iipplicatioi). NATHAN SMITH & SON. CHINESE PRIMROSES. Large plants of the best variety of mixed colors, at 84.00 per 100; 7.5 cts. per dozen. AH orders sent C. O. D. PETER NEES, Burlington, Iowa. THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY'S Directory OF FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN -SEEDSMEN UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AND REFERENCE BOOK, Contains the names and addresses of all the Florists, Nurserymen and Seedsmen in the United itates and Canada, arranged alphabetically in States and Provinces, the exact branch of the business each is engaged in being indicated by a Key. .A.XjS<3 A list of Trade Organizations, both National and Local, with names and addresses of prin- cipal officers, time and place of meetings and date of organization. Statistics regarding Floriculture, the Nursery Industry and Seed Growing from the last U. S. Census report. A list of firms in the trade that issue catalogues, with a key indicating the prominence of each branch of the trade in same. A list of leading Cemeteries in which attention is paid to Ornamental Horticulture. A list of leading Park Superintendents and of the Botanical Gardens of the United States. Seasonable Hints for the year about the practical work of the Florist, written by Win. Scott, giving instructions not only when to do certain work, but how to do it most effectively and economically. A complete alphabetical list of Roses in commerce in America, brought up to date and of incalculable value for reference. Similar lists of Chrysanthemums, Carnations and Cannas. Historical sketches to date of the Society of American Florists, American Carnation Soci- ety, National Chrysanthemum Society of America, Florists' Hail Association, American Seed Trade Association and American Association of Nurserymen. A list of Leading Horticultural Societies. Full and accurate information about Express and Postage rates. jF>xi.xc7Ei 9a.o<:>. AMERICAN FLORIST CO.. 322 DEARBORN ST., CHICA.GO, 52 The American Florist. Au< 15 * * •» a- >!• ft. C07vr£'A'r5. Gardening in America (19 illus) 27 Hardy herbaceous plants 28-40 Garden Plans (3 illus) . 40-42 Society of American Florists 43 — Revised convention program 44 —Cleveland hotels. 44 —New York to Cleveland 44 — Boston to Cleveland 44 — Chicago to Cleveland 44 —Buffalo to Cleveland 44 — Milwaukee's invitation for 1898 4o Carnations— Notes . . 45 — Thrips on roses and carnations 45 — American Carnation Society 45 Chrysanthemums — Notes 45 — Removing suckers 46 Roses— More eel Worms 46 Miscellaneous seasonable hints 46 Boston 48 New York 50 The seed trade . 54 The Egyptian lotus 54 Chicago 56 Cleveland 58 Columbus 58 Pittsburg 60 St. Louis 62 Syracuse, N. Y 62 St. Paul 64 Toronto 66 Philadelphia ti8 Bangor, Me 70 Oswego, N. Y 70 Ottawa, Ont 72 Conneaut, O 72 Bradford, Pa 72 Stratford, Ont.— R.Clark is just com- pleting two houses each 16x90 lor carna- tions and roses. This is a new establish- ment here and ought to do a good bus - ness. The only reference list of cannas is to be found in our new directory and refer- ence book. The list is arranged alphabeti cally and givesname.dateot introduction name of introducer and a brief descrip- tion. Do YOU WANT detailed information about the organization and workings of the va- rious national trade organizations? You will find what you want in our trade di- rectory and reference book for 1896 Price $2 00. a folding 'mf Mm' FOLDING FLomR ^'^^inPAPER FOP CUT FLOWERS. K V([WV^ ————vf for CUT :M Flowers. Made from Water-i.n.ulLMl. lK»uble Mitnllla Iluod, Strawboard. Hhlppea tlat, packed lUU In a cruto. CHICAGO FOLDING BOX CO., Jackson & Clinton Bts., CBICAQO. telephons Main 4ri8. RIGHT ON THE SPOT TO ATTEND TO BUSINESS IN SUMIVIER AS WELL AS IN WINTER. WAKE UP!! Are You Growing Good Flowers? We Are Here to Sell Them for You. Are You in Need of Good Flowers? We Are Here to Supply You. CHOICE STOCK ON SALE EARLY EVERY MORNING. JULIUS LANG, 53 West 30th Street, - - - ■ NEW YORK. NEW HARDY FERNS, 1896 Warranted First Quality, PRICE REDUCED TO 7Sc PER lOOD FROM NOW UNTIL UECEMISER Ist. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BBAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. When wrltlnK mention the American Florist. The Most Popular of ail Decorative Evergreens KELSEY'S Brilliant Green and Bronze Southern GALAX LEAVES. Green ready m Sept. Bronze ready in Oct. We shipped nearly five million last winter. Write the Introducer for Free Samples and Full In- formation. HIGHLANDS NURSERY, '^*n^*c^'^- The New York Cut Flower Go. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733. )8th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 & 108 Liberty Street (Basement). SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. For prices, apply to GEO. W. HAMILTON, t76 Sidney St.. Oorchetter. Matt. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, ^ ST. LOUIS, MO. B^"A complete line of Wire DesiKni** H. L SUNDERBRUGH, Wholusalf Florist 4th and Walnut Streets, DAN'L B. LONG. FLOWEI^S AT WHOUESrtLE. Strictly Commission Business. UHTsKKKE. BUFFALO, N. Y. Mention American KlorlMt. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 16)2 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA, i8g6. The American Florist. 53 E. H. HUNT, Wholesale Plorist 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BULBS AND AIiL FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. KENNICOTT BROS. GO. Wliol68al6 GUI Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St, CHICAGO. If you want FlrBt-Class Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send ub your orders and you will Ket what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. iEI'^-' CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, .^^ CHICiVGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES Reinberg Bros. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS, 5/ WABASH AVENUE, Telephone Main 4937. CEXIOA.0^0. Onr Roses best them all. in qnality. Headquarters for fine American Beauties^ W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, » CHICA.OO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS. 41 WABASH AVENUE. ^ CHICAGO. We are prepared to All your orders with flrst-clasH flowers. Give us a trial order. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS, 88 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Cuna'BnmenlaBoIlclted. Prompt attention to all orders. WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET, Nrar Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS. ©Y'RofeAaPc Marftefii. Cut Flowers. NBW York. aur. 12 BOBBB. Beauty 2.110820 Meteor. Kalserln 4.00« II " all other varieties 50;-inch. $5 50 per 100 I'/j to I i-inch. $7 50 per 100 2 to 2;:-lnch. $9 50 per 100 Vaughan'sSeed Store CHICAGO: 84-36 Randolph St. NEW YORK: 14 Barclay St. R.FARQUHAR&CO. (Formerly K. & J. Far(|uhar & Co.) i5 actf IB South Market Street, BOSTON, MASS. Fall List of Choice Flower Seeds, Bulbs, etc., ready. Seeds of Cinerarias. P'imulas, Pansies, Calceolarias. Cyclamen, Gloxinias, etc. of unapproached quality. DO NOT FAIL TO WRITE FOR LIST AND TRY THEM. "ONLY THE BEST" supplied. PRIMULA SEED. This Year's Crop, Now Ready. Our puperb mixture contains onlv the chutcest fringed strains, and will give the createst satisfaction. Trade pkt. 50Ci Cineraria Seed. Our strains are unsuruassetl for richness of color as well as for size and perfection of form. Trade okt. 50c. HERRMANN'S SEED STORE, 4/3 E. 3^TH STREET, Near Long Island Ferry. NEW YORK. Agent for LYSOL. the ideal insecticide. VI HI I lion American hlnrlwl. WE ARE HEADQUARTERS ON BULBS FOR FORCING, FLOWER SEEDS FOR FLORISTS! ENGLISH MUSHROOI^ SPAWN. \ Special prices un application. JOHN GARDINER & CO., Seedsmen, 631 Market St., Philadelphia, Pa. WATSON'S ENGLISH MUSHROOM SPAWN. THE ^:^~Pr:::> BRAND. 1 am now booking orders for August and September delivery. Have your order in early to insure delivery on time. Make no mistake about your Mushroom Spawn, get the right article to begin with. My -- brand is always fresh, full spawned, and reliable, un- surpassed in quality and can be thoroughly relied on to produce a fine crop of the best mushrooms. My stocks are the largest and freshest in the country and 1 sell at rock bottom rates for first quality spawn. Guaranteed the best in the world. Prices Reduced. The first shipment is due to arrive at this port about the 20th of August. I shall be pleased to have your order. Second shipment due at this port about September 20th. Price $6.50 per 100 lbs.; S60.00 per 1000. CROP HANDLED — 1 am prepared to find a market at good prices for the jiiushroom crop of my customers Only those who buy their spawn of me direct are entitled to this privilege INQUIRIES. — Full particulars as to mushroom culture in mv 24-page booklet — tree to buyers or intending buyers, to others lOc. Your favois will be esteemed and will have my care'ul attention. Cueri Fertilizer, Bird Seeds. ipOltT<>(.Op Bulbs roK Fl c Fa Iter Gha^ FltLOi Gardl/*S£i 43;NDrttljiPi?^' VAN ZANTEN BROTHERS, Hillesom, Hollaixd. Extra quality of HIGH GRADE FORCING BULBS AT LOW PRICES. We now book orders for Azalea Indica, Palms, etc. The largest collection of sundry bulbs and P*^"*^- APPLY FO R WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. WALTER A. POTTER & CO., Seedsmen, PROVIDENCE, R. I. IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN Bulbs and Florists' Supplies. Florists' Seeds and Bulbs in tbeir season, and Supplies of all kinds constantly on hand at lowest prices. CLARK BROTHERS, Manufacturers and Prin'ers of of eveiy description, except Lithographic Bags 61 Ann Street, NEW YORK. Chinese Primulas, Stnini;. .Mnch |6.00 per 100 CYCLAMENS, 3-mch s.oo per iCO PROBST BROS. FLORAL CO . Kansas City. Mo. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. BULBS for FORCING and Gardening^, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD TIMES PRICES. HULSEROSCH BROS,, Englewood. N. J. Jno. F. Croom & Bro. WHOLESALE Tuberose and Caladium Bulb GI«OWEJI«S, — MAGNOLIA. N. C. VIOLETS. MARIE LOUISE struna heallhv plants, $.iHO per 1(«J UU IIU per WM Can have sample. Cash wllh order. Also a few hundred Carnattuns, clean. FELIX MENSE. Glen Cove, Long Islanil, - - New York. 56 The American Florist. Aug. ^5. Chicago. Business conditions remain unchanged. The extreme and continued heat, which was finally broken by a change on Tues- day, was very depressing to the trade, though productive of a large number ol funeral orders. Wednesday and Thurs- day the demand for white roses was much larger than the supply, and all white flowers sold well; prices of course remained unchanged. Sweet peas are now dwindlingdown to asmall quantity, and there is no undue amount of mourning at theirdecease. Astersareseen inquantity, the best being some of a fine chrysanthe- mum flowered strain cut by W. N. Rudd; they bring 75 cents, and from this price range down to 25 cents. Carnations, field grown, run from 50 to 75 cents. Aura- tum and speciosum lilies are very good, and like last week, there is a great quan- tity of gladiolus and hydrangea com- ing in. Mr. Dolph Mahoney, for many years a familiar figure in the flower trade here, died from heat prostration this week, his funeral occurring on Thursday. Mr. Mahoney was prostrated while on the street, and died at a hospital without re- gaining consciousness. •'Willie" Everett, an estimable young man who was formerly in the employ ot Walter Kreitling, met with a shockingly sudden death on Thursday through a fall from a step-ladder. His skull was frac- tured and spine injured in so serious a manner that he died within an hour from the effects. He was very well known in the trade, but has latterly been employed hv a bicycle firm in the same store as Mr. Krei.ling, wheie the accident occurred. He was only eighteen years old. J. Austin Shaw, representing Siebrecht & Wadley, New York, has an excellent display of sample palms, ferns, and dec- orative stock at Bassett & Washburn's Wabash avenue place, the palms being West Indian grown. Visiting Chicago: Mr. Henry Kroder, N;w York; J. Austin Shaw, New York; W. Mott, Philadelphia; George Souster, Elgin, 111. At the meeting of the Florist Club last Thursday evening it was decided to have a picnic and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Baldwin, Reardon, McAdams, Keenan, McKellar, and Palinsky, was appointed to arrange all details. The affair will take place within two or three weeks and the program will include a long list of star attractions, not the least of which will be bowling, baseball, music and dancing, and possibly shooting. Mr. J. Austin Shaw was a visitor at the meeting. At the bowling session some scores were made that would not look well in print. Macomb, III. — E. H. Smith has leased the Macomb Greenhouses from I. L. Pills- bury for a term of five years. He will make many improvements and add con- siderably to the stock on hand. Mr. Smith managed the greenhouses for Mr. Pillsbury for nine months prior to taking the lease. PANSY X SEED. The Jennings strain of finest American grown Pansy Seed. New crop ready June 15th. The grandest combination of colors ever sent out. The largest flowering. The strongest growing, and the most beautiful colors in great variety. Very finest mixed; Pkt. of 2500 seeds, 81.00; % oz. 83.C0; 1 oz. $6.00; 3 ozs. 81.5.00. White and yellow in separate pkts., same as above. Half pkts. 50 cts. CASH WITlt ORDER. E. B. JENNINGS, l. b. 254. Southport, Conn. Grower of the Hnest Pansles. Specialties. Specialties, THE GOTTflGE GARDENS. QUEENS, Long Island, N. T. Will offer the trade the coming season a full line of Standard CARNATIONS CANNAS CHRYSANTHEMUMS GERANIUMS (( As well as a choice selection of novelties of merit. Also a limited stock of nice, clean PALMS in desirable sizes. If you need any FIELD-GROWN CARNATION PLANTS write us. We keep the best varieties for Gommerciai Florists. ^m Crop 1896. Ready Now. PANSY. BARNARD'S FLORIST MIXTURE. A high class, up-to-date mixture that fills the bill " par ex- cellence" — made up from leading colors, producing flowers of the most perfict type. It gives you pansies that sell. Trade pkt. 25c, i s oz. $1.00, ' .. oz. $4.00, per oz. $7.00. Full assortment of separate colors ready now. New crop of high grade Flower Seeds corstantly arriving. W. W. BARNARD & CO. K:iiizi«^ »t. ^ inch pots, good assortment, at 3.50 per 100 Orders booked now for Carnations, lield-grown, for September dehvery. r^is^Ts i»i-eioisi>. Address NANZ & NEUNER, Louisville Ky. iRoemer's Superb Prize Pansies. I Tho Hnest Htniln of I'tinsles 111 the World. J Introducer and Grower of all the leading < ♦ Novelties. ' CatjiloKUe free on nppllciitlon. FRED ROEMER, SEED GROWER. Quedlinburg, Germany. When writing to any of the adver- fisers on this page please mention the American Florist. EXTRA PANSY SEED. MAMMOTH SUNBEAM STRAIN. A Ki'Jirid ft'llffiliiti (it yl;iMt tl^iwerlm: varl.'iles. vrry liirfcTO. «tl [HTlt'it Irriii aril fhu i-f coltirs, ciirftiiMy ►e- It'cttil itriil (■.\f.i.illrit;l> tliu- .M> t'liftuiiiers write that tlil» Is thi' tliiL'Hl >tr»lii t.t pjinsle-* ijiey can Ket re- quIrt'H no lu-ittT evileiu^rt ot [.iiptTlurlty. bJvery florist NduiiUI HOW ot till' liimr.pveil S' lain Tnuli'iiki .,rfKi!*fLMi^ ■J-.c's.::^'ki« r.t)c'» : r. i-kt-* $l.Ul. ■* ol ihi* tif w KiHiit vellovv pa^^v will •■ ^\ im order. A pkt be ailik'd I JOHN F. RUPP. Shiremanstown, Pa. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it ever> time you write an advertiser in these columns i8g6. The American Florist. 57 "Have never found anything lo excel your 'International Mixture.' " Oakwoods Cemetery. Chicago. Alex. Reid. Gardener. "Your International strain of pansy was magnificent." Davenport, la. J. T. Thmple. "I have tested a good many and believe you have touched high water mark in your International Mixture," W. N. Rudd. The Best From Many Growers. Not the Selection of One Grower Only. VAUGHAN'S INTERNATIONAL MIXTURE. This mixture has been made uj) and sold by us for the past nine years from the best strains known in Europe and America. We have in our files testimonials from leading floiisls in almost all the leading cities in the U. S. saying in effect "the best we ever had." Trade pkt. 50c., ' s oz. $1.50, oz. $10.00, less 10% for cash. GIANT MIXTURE. Large flowered Pansy plants will sell when small and mferior ones cannot be given away. For the last three years our sale of this strain shows marked increase. It contains the giant flowering kind only and we are yearly increasing the variety S GIANT MIXTURE. Trade pkt. 50c, ^4 oz. $1.35, oz. $5.00, PANSIES MIXED, choicest German, Pkt 25c,is oz. $l,oz. $6. PARKS, mixed, oz. $1.00, 14 oz. 30c, 1 ^ lb. $3.00. 10 Per Cent. Discount for Cash with Order. "The Pansies were a great success— many of them are still in bloom.'* Los Angeles, Cal. Elmo R. Meserve, Sup't Parks. "We never sold so near out of Pansies as we did this year with plants raised ftom your International Mixture." Portland, Ore. Clark Bros. of colors. VAUGHAN PREMIUM CHICAGO SPECIAL FALL FLOWER SEED CIRCULAR READY AT CONVENTION, OR MAILED ON APPLICATION. Vaughan's Seed Store/^'''"'"'*' *** 14 Barclay St., New York. nm% Worm Ralsino. NEW SEED. QUALITY A I. 3-lB ounce, Sl.OO; Vi ounce, 82.50; 1 ounce, M 00; 1 pound, $50.00. CA.SIT with: OR.I5EI?,. Plants in season. C. SOLTAD k CO., 199 Grant avb., jBisey Clly, N. J. H. Wrede, LUNEBERG, GERMANY. PANSY SEEDS. 128 First Prizes, the highest award. World's Fair. 4 Prizes. 3 000 Seeds, finest mixed. 25r. 1 oz. '* ** " #3 75 I2f Price List on appllcallon Cash with order. First Double Uuftla Pansy, by L. T- Senver. which Is awarded flrt-t prize by committee of the whole (iver nil other paT^sles In beauty and attractiveness and leada In style as does Wnrth In fashions. \Vhether trrown In tine ch:^rcoBl and bt' od. na has be»*n salii. matters not. but It la «bsolutelT certain that the seed and plants can be obtained only through L. T. SEAVER. PANSY KING. NORTH SOMERVILLE, MASS. Price, No. 1 plants In bloom. J4 (10 per KIO. No. -l ■• ■■ 8 00 Fall setllntjs, 2. (HI "JOHN." THE PANSY MAN. That's what they call me. J. B.'s CHALLENGE IS ALL THAT THE WORD IM- PLIES. I know it will please you. Try it. Trade pU 50c. and $1 00. cash. The ?1 00 pkt. contains two and one-half times as much as the .^Oc. JOHN BEIMFORD, Wilton Junction, la. Over 4.'>,(X)0 plants sold laet season of Eneie's Strain, Cropot ;tti better than ever (iive them a trial betide any strain at any price. Seed $^-inch 4c " Floweiing varieties, 2>^-inch.. 4c '• Metallica, 4-inch 6c Hardy Plants— Phlox. Coreopsis, Gaillar- dia, Poppies, etc 10c E. M. & H. N. HOFFMAN, I£J_]MII«A., IV. Y. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. ROSES.VIOLETS, DRACENAS, CUTSMILAX EXTRA FINE STOCK. I'lr 100 Roses La France, 3-inch 54 Ou Brides, 3-inch 4,00 Brides and Bridesmaids, 2>^ -inch 2.50 Violets California, j-incli 7.00 Dracaenas, 4-in. Australis& lndivisa....i5 CO Smilax, cut ^erdtz n, poo. " 15.00 Foelilmann Bros., MORTON GROVE, Cook Co., ILL. Mpntinn A niprlran VlnrUt. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist. 59 Herr's Pansies.. My customers tell me they are the best strain grown either in this country or in Europe. They should be, because they are a selection of the best of every good strain offered the past twelve years. Don't make the mistake of buying low priced plants, mine are not only Good Plants but they will produce Good Flowers and therefore, are ready sellers. $5.00 per 1,000, 75c. per 100. Reduction on lots of 2,500, 5,000 or 10,000. Herrs carnaiions All the varieties worth growing. Two new propagating houses, each J 00 feet long, a new stock house 250 feet long, and several smaller ones together with my original glass gives me the largest place in the United States devoted exclusively to Carnations. I give all my time and attention to the production of good, strong, and healthy cuttings for the trade, and it is a matter of dollars and cents to you to bear me in mind when in need of any Geraniums .. .. In these I have a careful selection of the most profitable sorts for the retailer to handle and will have rooted cuttings for sale November to April in any quantity, also Coleus and other stock in season. These are grown by my father in a separate plant, and you get the advantage of two specialists by writing or get- ting acquainted with Albert M. Herr, •>^— Lock Box 496, LANCASTER. PA. mmmmmmmmmmmmBamaBmmmmmmm^mmm»M€mme^m9BaBmBmsBamm»mmHm9mmmmi 60 The American Florist. Aug. IS, Pittsburg. We have been afflicted for the past week like the rest of the country with such tx- tremely hot oppressive weather that effectually put a quietus on outdoor busi- ness or anything rcquiringexertion which could possibly b? poslponed. At thesame time we have been more fortunate than many other cities, in that we did not tx- perience so many fatalities and prostra- tions, but it was bad enough to stagnate trade almost to a standstill, in fact funeral work has been the mainstay of all the florists for the time being. The club will have its regular meeting on the 13th, when all arrangements will be completed for the trip to Cleveland next week. Most of the members will go by the Cleveland & Pittsburg R. R. and will have a special car to themselves, several intend having their wives with them, among those are E. C. Reineman, Fred Burki, A. W. Smith, Gustave, Julius W. and E. C. Ludwig and O. A. C. Oehmler. Mr. John Bader will take his daughter, and by Thursday ni;ht it is txpected to have many more on the list, making a very lively party going from here. The bowlers have been busy prac- ticing and expect to give a good account ofthemselvfs in the contest. The same can be said regarding the shooters; they intend, if possib'e to do so, to bring several trophies home with them as an evidence, to those who cannot attend the convention, of their skill. It is impossible at the present writing to give the person- nel of either team. Mr. James Semple intends to take with him to the exhibit if the weather conditions are favorable to their proper development a fine collection of his celebrated strain of asters A goodly number of theclubalso intend going to Detroit on Friday evening, August 21 , accepting the very cordial invitation extended the club a few weeks ago by Mr. Harry Balsley, who writes: "The park commissioners (he is one of them) will show the acceptors of the invitation through the parks, etc. Wag- onettes will be in readiness on arrival Saturday morning." They will return to Cleveland that night. Regia. Sedalia, Mo. — E. L. Steinmetz, the flo- rist, died of congestion of the brain, aged 44 years. Stratford, Ontario. — A. Clarke has just started in business here as a florist, having completed the erection of two houses, each 100x16, heated with hot water. He will confine himself principally to the growing of roses and carnations. ALM <0^ee//< FRESH ON HAND Per 100 Per KKlfl iKt'iitiil ItoliiKireaiia $1.35 KIO IHI IKhiiIih I'ciihIi' Imiti 1.35 IIMIII (,niot»tl^ ft 6 00 2 ft 2 00 Elder, cut-leaved, 3 to 4 ft 5 CO Elm, Ulmus Americanus, 8 to 9 It 15 00 Forsythia suspensa, 3 It 5 00 Hydrangea pan grand., 3 ft 8 00 2 ft 6 00 Japan Pear, mixed. 3 to 4 ft 6 00 Maple Tartaricum Ginnala, 4 to 5 It . 8 00 Poplar Van Geertii (Golden-leaved), 6 to 8 It 6 00 Privet, California, 3 ft 3 00 Per 100 Aselepias tuberosa ^ 2 00 Hemerocallis flava 3 00 " fulva, double or single.. 3 00 " Dumortieri 3 00 liis, German, 10 sorts 7 00 " Japan, 10 sorts 7 00 " Pseud-acorus, yellow 7 00 Liatns scariosa 5 00 Lily of Valley, sod 3-in. square (not for forcing) .i 00 Psonies, mixed per 1000 $5') 7 50 Platycodon 5 00 Sabbatia chloroides, fall only 5 00 Ampelopsis quinquefolia -.. 4 00 American Arbor vits, 3 to 4 ll 10 00 Red Cedar, 12 to IS in 5 00 2 ft 10 00 Symphoricarpus vulgaris, 2 ft 4 00 Viburnum opulus, 3 to 4 ft 6 00 And many other equally salable Shrubs cheap for cash. Catalogue free. Send your list of wants. Priced T. R. WATSON, Plymouth, Mass. ILLINOIS. ROMAN HYACINTHS We have been shipping fine bulbs of these since July 18. Have you re- ceived yours'.' If not, how would you like '"All Florists Slock in Season"'.' VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE. S^:^?gr°k-. CAMPHOR TREES. (I.ilnrim <.'ain|ilioriis.) I'or the So\Uherii Stales theie is no Evergreen Oriiaincntal Tree to equal it in beauty of foliage or outline of shape. Young pl.ints from 3 to 4 inches high, out of 1^<-in. pois. at $20. UO per thousand, by 7444 St. Charles Ave., NEW ORLEANS. Moutton Am«rloHn FlorlMt. I'er 1(111 CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS, 2 inch....»3.00 PRIMULA, 2-inei 3 00 CINERARIAS. 2 inch 2C0 VINCA MAJOR, tield-grcwn 6.C0 CARNATIONS, tirld grown. Write for prices. C. LENGENFELDER, Oakteyand Cosgrove Avenues. CHICAGO. Prices Greatly Keduced. CAPE COD PINK POND LILY. For price lists, Plants and Cut Flowers address the original cultivators, CHIPMAN BROS., .S.\N1>\VI<'I1. (<-aii.' <'.>i|i. M.VSS. Always metilion the American Flo- ri.st when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist. 6L HARDY HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS. THE FINEST ASSORTMENT AND LARGEST STOCK IN AMERICA. FULL DESCRIPTIVE LISTS AND SPECIAL WHOLESALE QUO- TATIONS UPON APPLICATION. !!?'SPECIAL QUOTATIONS FOR THE 50 LEADING AND BEST SORTS. ALL STRONG, ESTABLISHED, OUTDOOR PLANTS FOR AUGUST TO OCTOBER DELIVERV. PerDoz. Per 100 Achillea Eupatorium (Noble Yarrow), yellow %\ 50 |10.00 The Pearl, double white 75 Ajuga Genevensis {Geneva Bugle), 6 inches, blue i 5o Anthemls tinctoria (hardy Golden Marguerite), 2 leet, yellow 1.00 Anthericum liliastrum var. major (St. Bruno's Lily), white 1.25 Arabis albida (Alpine Rock Cress), spring, fragrant, white 1.25 Ascleplas tuberosa (Butterfly weeai, orange 1.25 Aster N A. var. rosea (Pink New i;ngland Aster) 1.75 Boltonia latisquama (False Chainonii'e), 2 tt., lavender 1.25 Calllrrhoe involucrata ( Poppy Mallow ), crimson 1.25 Campanula Carpathica (Hairbell), i ft., blue i 25 " latifolla, 3 ft., showy soikes of blue l 50 Centaurea montana (Com Flower), 2 ft., rich purple... i.5o '■ " var. alba, white 1.75 Coreopsis lanceolata, 2 ft , golden yellow 1.25 Delphinium Chinensis or grandiflora (Chinese Lark- spur). 2 It., white and blue shades. One of the choicest of perennials for cutting 1.25 Delphinium formosum (showy Larkspur), 3 tt., white... 1.50 Dictamnus fraxinella (Gas Plant), 3 ft., purpl; 1 75 Doronicum plantagineum var. excelsum, 2 ft., yellow., i 25 Epimedium macranthum, elegant 2 oo " rubrum. t ft., spring, red and white, elegant 1.25 Erigeron speciosus var. superbum, 2 ft , rich purple... i 25 Euphorbia corlolata (flowering Spurge), 2 ft , fine white l 00 Funkia grandiflora or Subcordata (Corfu Lily), 2 ft., white 1 50 Gypsophila paniculata (Chalk Plant or Baby's Breath) 2 teet 1.25 5 00 lO.CO 6.00 SOO 8.00 8,00 12.00 8 00 800 SOO 10 00 10 00 12.00 8.00 8 00 10 00 12 50 8.00 15 03 8.00 8.00 6.0D 1000 SOO Per Ooz. Per 100 Gypsophila Stevenii, 2 ft , early, choice for cutting.... 1.50 10 00 Heienium Hoopesii, 3 ft., summer, orange yellow 1 50 lO.OO Helianthus Maximilliana, 6 ft., rich yellow i.50 lo 00 Hemerocallis flava (Yellow Day Lily) 2 ft., rich yellow, one of the best i 25 S.OO Hemerocallis Thunbergli, 3 ft , fragrant, lemon yellow, latf 2.00 15.00 Heuchera sangulnea, 2 ft., all summer, orange vermil- ion, elegant i.75 1200 Iberis sempervlrens (Hardy Candytuft), i ft., clouds ot white 1.75 12.00 Iberis Germanica, in choice mixture 75 5.0D Lathyrus latifolius albus (White Perennial Pea), choice 1.2S 8.00 Lychnis chalcedonica (Lamp Flower), 2 ft .scarlet 125 8 00 •' viscaria fl. pi. (Ragged Robin), 15 in ,dhl. red 1.50 10.00 " vespertina fl. pi. (Double White Campion) 175 1200 Monarda didyma var. coccinea (Scarlet Osage Tea) 2 It. 1.00 7.00 Papaver orientale, named varieties in leading sorts 1.75 12.00 Phlox, naiiiaa hybrids, a superb collection; finest vars. 1.50 10.00 Potentilla, named hybrids, a superb collection 1.75 12.00 Primula Siebold's Hybrids, in choicest named sorts; grand 2.OO 15 00 Pyrethrum uliginosum (Giant Daisv), 6 It , pure white 1.25 8.00 Rudbeckia speclosa or Newmanii, 3 feet; summer; orange and black 1.00 6.00 Scabiosa caucasica. 3 ft , elegant, lavender blue 1.75 12.00 Sedum spectabile, pink flowered 1.25 8 00 Silene VIrginIca (Fire Pink), cardinal 1.50 10.00 Spiraea palmata, 3 ft.; June; crimson spikes; fine 1.50 lOOO Veronica amethystina, 15 in.; rich blue 1.25 S.OO Veronica longifolia subsessilis, 2 ft.; rich deep blue, in long spikes 1.75 V/EEPINC MULBERRY; GOLDEN BARKED Wl LLOW; DEUTZI A ALSO SPECIAL STOCKS FOR WHOLESALE TRADE OF TEA'S CRENATA, FL. PL.: LICUSTRUM IBOTA: LICUSTRUM MEADIA: LONICERA MOROWII; STEPHANANDRA FLEXUOSA, ETC. WHOLESALE LIST READY. jTHB READING NURSERY,} ( ESTABLISHSD IN 1854. i JACOB W. MANNING, WANTED ! Customers for the Following Specialties: CITRUS TRIFOLIATA, The best hardy defensive hedge plant. LIQUSTRUM AMURENSE, The best evergreen hedge plant. AZALEA. CAMELLIA. MAGNOLIA FUSCATA. MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA. OLEA FRAGRANS. DWARF ORANGES and LEMONS, grafted. OTAHEITE ORANGES. BIOTA AUREA NANA, (New and b.st (fall the Biotas.) 100,000 Strong Fie!d=grown Roses. 25,000 M. Niel Roses, budded low, field-grown, 3 to 4 ft. branched. (Our Roses are not sappy, but well matured before sent out.) Palms in large quantities. Send for Trade List and Descriptive Catalogue. P. J. BERCKMAN'S AUGUSTA, GA. Box 2, BELLEVUE, FA. Specialist in ASTERS. Seed ready at proper season. LOOK OUT FOR ADVERTISEMENT. ANDORRA NURSERIES. WILLIAM WARNER HARPER, Hanager, Chestnut Hill, PHILA., PA. SPECIALTIES: ( Specimen Ornamental Trees, I Hardy Rhododendrons and Azaleas. LARGE PEACH ANimUM TREES. Large stock in Fall, 1896. Best var- ieties old and new. To buyers would say personal inspection invited, also corres- pondence sol cited. Can also supply ASPARAGUS ROOTS Two and three years strong, in any desired qunntitv. ALEXANDER PULLEN, Milford Nurseries. MILFORD, DEL. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. IRVINGTON NURSERY, IRVINGTON, IND. PEeonies io 100 uaraed varietits, lyr. growu since divisiou. Ciunamon Vines. 1 and 2 yr=.. $10 per ICOO. Hardy Mooufiower, selected roots. Wistaria, four best varieties. I to I years. Hibiscus. Crimson Eye, I and 2 yrs., hue. Hardy Shrubs, a large collection, for mail ing and larger. Honeysucklts, 4 or 5 varieties, J2.50 per 100 and ud. Japan Trailing Roses, Wichuraiana, 8*20 per 1.000. Gladiolus, fine named and mixed, Oxalis. A named soils. Bignonia Radicans, nice mailing and strong transplanted. Clematis Paniculata, 2 yrs., open ground. Lists Free. IRVINGTON. IKD., near Indianapolis. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. lO.fOO 5,000 10,000 200.030 200,000 10,0C0 62 The American Florist. Ajig. 15^ St. Louis. The dry and hot weather is still with us, and so is the dull business; there is nothing new in our line to be reported. Some of the dorists are talkingof conven- tion matters and from their talk I judge only a few are going from here, but will know more of who is going by Thursday, when the meeting of the Florists' Club take place. I have never seen such inter- est and enthusiasm as this year in the election of officers of our Florists' Club. The wholesale men are complaining of the poor stock coming in now; the best stock finds ready sale but so little of it omes in. Carnations are selling as low as 25 cents per 100, field grown, and bet- ter stock grown inside brings 50 and 75 cents per 100. Roses are selling at 3 cents; some extra fine, such as Meteors and Kaiserins bring 3 cents. Asters, gladiolus and tuberose stalks are plenti- ful. August 1 the firm of Sanders & Beneke dissolved partnership by mutual consent, I.J. Beneke will continue at the old stand, 1220 Olive street, and Mr. C. C. Sanders will be found 5600 Delmar avenue in the greenhouse business. Mr. Al. Bauerof Fleckenstein'shasgone north for a short trip. Will Young of C. Young & Sons left for a trip east last week, and will take in the convention on his way back. It was too hot for the bowlers Monday night, and only a few came, but we rolled just the same. Frank Fillmore was high man of the night in threegames; he rolled 563, and his single game was 245. E. Schray was second with 532, and Chas. Kuehn third, 523. The new alleys were good for some of the boys. Kunz was high on poodles, eight in one night, just think of it; better luck next time. J. J. B. Syracuse, N. Y. The organization of the Florists' Gun Club here was completed last Wednesday, and H. Bellamy elected captain, with R. Bard secretary and treasurer. The meet- ing was a very successful one and resulted in a membership of 12. Their first meet will be on August 11 at 3 p. m. It is to be regretted this club was not organized earlier, so that a delegation could attend the convention, but next year it is to be hoped a strong one will be seDt,aconven- tion fund of 25 cents per week each mem- ber being one of its by-laws. The rules of the American Gun Club Association were adopted. A 20-acre meadow has been very generously given to the club for its use, and is an ideal spot. The weather the past week has been exceedingly hot, the thermometer more than once touching the 100 mark. This makes work in the houses unbearable. Trade has dropped considerably, a little funeral work being about the only thing done. D. Campbell has returned from the other side and brings us interesting news. Alpha. NEVIN'S GreeniiousG Puuu Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing. IS APPLIED WITH PUTTY BULB. One jjnllon r.'d Uih ) will t^laze I.ikmi feet of uIjihs CohIh IHIc: per i>'Hll<)n, ..(ic.' per h;ilt-K'iill<'H. Siitlwliictlun j:imr- Hntffil HcUTtMK-t.' .lolin Ko^lm-h. i ; rcfritrcc Horn, I'n,; llurtiimii Itnm.. Atlct-liuny, I'n ; Krf.l ItiirkI, liflleviio, i*a. iMiiriuljicLviretl by T. H.NEVIN CO., P.O. B. 958, Pittsburg. S^^r^V """^ CATALOGUE QUOTES A LIST OF BULBS Which is surprisingly complete and prices low. We have a beautiful Sword Ferns WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE .. .. B. WHITNELL. PRES.) The largest and best assortment of A full variety of sizes and varieties. lot of WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, OF LARGE SIZE AND Cyperus Plants, Young Smilax, Roses, Field Grown Carnations, ■yT /E make a specialty of hand- ' ' ling pretty potted plants for Florist trade. We have every con- venience for caring for consign- ments of plants and have the best market. Any florist who has ANYTHING PRETTY should write us. Our LIQUID PUTTY is selling in 200 Hi. lots wfere samples were i?« 1 taken on trial a ^ear ago. WE CAN SUPPLY ALL AQUATICS. Milwaukee, Wis. i8g6. The AniERicAN Florist. 63 THIS IS THE PLACE TO GET THE LEADING 601 Flowers: Ro§6§. Carnaiions * Valley I Offer for Florists' Planting tlie Following Roses, Grown Expressly for that Purpose; Mrs. Pierpont Morgan, Belle Siebrecht, 3 inch, $12 00 per 100; Bride, Bridesmaid, Mermet, Hoste, Kaiserin, Perle, Sunset, Meteor, Wootton, Niphetos, 3-inch, $7 00 per 100; $65 0optr 1,000; 2^-inch, $5.00 per ico; $4500 per 1,000 Until sold 33 per cent cash discount. Field grown Carnations of all the leading varieties as follows: Ferdinand Hangold, Wm. Scott, McGowan, Daybreak, Meteor, Storm King, Alaska, fiinze's White, Helen Keller, Albertini, Emily Pierson, Puritan, Buttercup, Mrs. Stanley, $5.00 to $6.00 per 100. Marie Louise Violets, strong, healthy plants, $5.00 to $6.00 per 100. A. N. Pierson, Cromwelu Conn. Orchid-Flowering CANNAS ITALIA and AUSTRIA. They were immense under myj^lass last season. This year in the INGLESIDE NURSERIES they are simply wonderful. Notwithstanding a hot. dry summer, t'l-ery flower is perfect, every leaf com- plete. Ready for delivery in October. SENI> FOK PKICE. F. EDWARD GRAY, Ingleside Nurseries, ALHAMBRA. CAL. ROMAN HYACINTHS. We have been shipping fine Bulbs oi these since July IS. Have you received yours? If not, hov/ would you like "All Florists Stock in Season"? Vaughan's Seed Store, ^ CHICAGO. EW YORK. CUT SMILAX, 15 cts. Per String. Smilax Plants, i-in. pots. K.VI per UKl: »Sll per 100(1. 214-ln. pot. e. 110 per IIKI; jl.'i.lJll per WOO. JOSEPH E. BONSALL. 308 Garfield Ave.. Salem. 0. Tlxo IBojstoia I^^rrx. NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA VAR. The true stock ot this most beautiful fern. Plants bench-grown and can be packed in small space for shipment. All sizes from Thumb-pot size, per 100 Jl5 00, up to 7-in. Pot size per 100 $75.00. Also Ficus, 2 to 3 feet high, per dozen, |6 00. Cyclamens $8.00 per 100. Primroses $4.00 per 100. Choice Strains. WM. A. BOCK. Planting Stock i.-Ba ROSES, FERNS, SMILAX. German Pansy Seed. PRICE LIST ON APPLICATION. DAN'L B. LONG, i^^S BUFFALO. N. Y. FERNS IN VARIETY. Just the thing for this Fall. Well estab. lished in 2-inch pots. Adiantum (rom flats. Field-grown CARNATIONS in season. Write for varieties .^inl prices. EDGEWOOD GREENHOUSES, FERNS Pteris Serrulata. Tremula, Densa. Nana. Smithiana. Adiantoides. Adiantum cuneatum and pubescens. Nephrolepis tuberosa. M for f-3.uii: \m tor $:; .V): :mm for Jir> Wi; UXXl for r-T.-'id; 2i:UU fur $o(J. CMMb wllh urdt-r All out of li^^-in. pots C. F. BAKER, Utica, N. Y. 64 The American Florist. Aug. 15, St. Paul. In common with the rest of thecountry we have been panting with the heat and looking for the promised cool wavp. Work under glass heated to 110° or 115° has been almost impossible, consequently stock has suffered as well as human beings. Dullness prevails in every branch of the trade. Good stock is in fair demand, however, and prices for good roses and carnations are well maintained. Some emblem beds are still being laid out in honor of the old "vets," who are ex- pected here next month. Supt. Nuss- baumer has put forth extra efforts at the parks and everything is now looking extra fine. The ever popular Hydrangea paniculata grardiflora is just coming into full bloom and adds much to the beauty of the parks. They are grouped and massed. In the lily pond our residents have the first opportunity of seting Victoria regia in full bloom, also Victoria Randi. Other aquatics are nympba-as, nelumbiums, sajiittarias, water hyacinths, etc. The Zanzibar lilies are now in their prime. Tne hot wave has been accompanied by numerous storms, wind, lightning, hail and rain, the most serious damage done being the blowing down of shade trees, stveral fine ones in Rice Park being laid low. Our florist friends have suff.-red but little damage, probably because they carry hail insurance. We hear but little about the conven- tion and fear our Twin Cities are not to be represented again this year. The G. A.R. encampment will undoubt- edly help trade somewhat. There will be quite a demand for green wreathing, and some of the boys are already at work making it. A party of our brethren here recently ra d a visit to Clarine Bros, of Faribault, 65 miles and return. Part of them drove and part went on bicycles. They report a very enjoyable trip, though some of the wheelmen were nearly tired out. Recent visitors; W. G. Schucht of Mil- waukee; J. B. Kidd of San Francisco. Felix. C. H. JOOSTEN, IMPORTER, i93QreenwichSt., NEW YORK. SPECIALTIES: FORCING BULBS and PALMS. AZALEA INDIGA and HARDY ROSES. FOSTITE and MAGAZINE BELLOWS. Catalogues on Application. Represented at Convention by MR. J. E KILLEV. THE NEW - - Directory IS NOW READY. ,000 PALMS, FERNS, ETC. AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. My stock is in a line condition. The 10 and l2-in. Latanias are very fine, except a few if the bottom leaves are not quite perfect. Send me a trial order for other varieties and sizes. See Wholesale List. Send for it. pot hlerh leaves eflch 10 100 pot hierileavPs each 10 100 Corypha Australis... .o 20-24 6- i; $ .10 '• 4.00 *■ Canariensls. ti 24-30 3- 4 .115 8.00 ... t; 2l^:i0 0- 7 .la 11.00 •• Keellnata... 2!^ ti- H 2- 3» Otl .65 5 00 .L II ^ 32-3« 7-8 1 00 •J.W ... 3 10-12 2- 3» .11 .90 8.0U ...8 bt;-42 8-10 1 .75 10 00 ... 4 1.5-18 »- 4- n 2 00 KentlaBelmoreana.. 21i 8- 8 2- c .12 1.15 11.00 " ... 5 20-22 4- 5 .50 4 75 KorBtertana . 2i^ B- 8 2-3 .12 1.10 10.00 ... 11 74-211 4- 5 fi5 00 • .. 3 10-12 3- 4 .20 l.'M 18 («l " '• 7 2S-;41 5- 6 '«! 8 0) LatanU Borbonlca .. 2J^ 8-10 2- 3* .05 .45 4.00 ... 714 311-38 5- 6 1 » ... 3 10-12 3- 4> 10 .90 8.00 ... 8 38-10 H- 7 1 75 18.50 ...10 31-36 7- 8 3.00 ...10 42-18 7- 8 3 00 ...10 :«-42 8-11 4 00 '• TeDuls 5 18-20 4- 5 .50 4.75 46.00 ...12 44-60 IMO 5.00 " 11 M-28 5- .85 8.00 ...12 m-ta 10-11 7.00 ■• Pumlla. . . 5 20-22 4- 5 ..50 4.. 50 Oreodoxn Regta 5 30-18 2- 3 .75 7.00 •■ 21-28 4- 5 75 7.0U ■• t; 48-50 3 l.Bl Sel Bgloella Kmlllana 2 115 40 3.50 ' " . 7 60-75 3 2.00 3 07 .80 ;> .50 IMnenlx Canailensls. 3 lU-12 3« .10 .90 8.00 4 10 .90 4 15-18 3- 4 .V2 2.00 18.00 in .85 Hl«l "5 18-30 3- 4 .45 4.00 TERMS : Strictly cash, unless from pei.sons of k aown responsibility m-SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS FOR SPOT CASH ORDERS-et I will give the following discounts: All orders from 510 UO to $2r} 00 two per cent in additional plants. All orders from $2b i to 8100 00 four per cent in additional plants. All orders from 8101. CO to S'^OU.OO six per cent in additional plants. W. J. HESSEB, Plattsmouth, Neb GEO. WITTBOLD, GROWER OF PALMS I FERNS The largest stock of Tropical Plants in the west. A large stock of Ferns in leading varieties now ready to ship, from 2-inch pots, at $4.00 per 100, or $35.00 per J 000. ^ GEO. WITTBOLD. 1708 North Hulstcd Street, OHIO A. GO. SEND FOR LIST TO CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Mrs. Hurt Jlrs. I.,Mtl-! M. R: Jliss I'n-s. I'nul From 2-incli pots, extra choice, young stock, $2 00 per 100 L:i,4> .\utumn IJridi- Daydawn , at $-:..-in ].,.r IliO: $--'ll.no ]i. Tiflal IHOOnte VflUOHflN'S SEED STORE. •"'•o'SS'gV'""' SPECIALTIES IN BEST VAKIKTIBS. ROSES, from ;Hnch pots. CARNATIONS, tor fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. ,^ VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. FlSHKILL, N. Y. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. strong plains liom last fall, SJ.oo per ICO Youni; g'-od plants 2.00 per lOO A tine assorinieiit lor fall Hriccs on ap- piiL'alion. F. A. BALLER, Bloominglon, III. When writing to anyof the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri- can Florist. i8g6. The American Florist. 65 Dreer's Inviiaiion lo tlie Deleoates OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. Florists visiting the Convention to be held in Cleveland, August i8, ig and 20, 1896, will find our Exhibition of Decorative Plants, Such as Palms, Ferns, Araucarias, etc., to be the most complete and comprehensive display of the kinds and sizes that we grow in quantity. There will also be an exhibit ot Seasonable Bulbs. Our representatives. Messrs. Walter Mott and Geo. A. Strohlein, will be in attendance, and pleased to show stocks, furnish prices and give any information desired. Delegates passing through Philadelphia or New York en route to Cleveland will find it to their advantage and interest to call at our Nurseiy in Riverton, New Jersey, and personally inspect stocks that are admitted to be the best in the country. We are adding 52,000 square feet of glass to Five Acres alreadv under cover, and we can givr you an object lesson to prove home grown plants sold at moderate lates are what ihe people want. Time cards and information how to stop over, cheerfully mailed. HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelpliia. and Highest grade stock of most popular kinds at moderate prices. Strong, stocky and hardy home-grown plants. LOOK FOR EXHIBIT OF SAMPLE PLANTS AT CLEVELAND, S. A. F. CONVENTION. PA. HOLMESBURG. Philadelphia, PALM On hand In splendid condition. Per lUO Per 1000 Per 'MtS $150 $10 UO $47.50 1.50 10.00 47.50 1.75 12 00 55.00 1 75 12.50 60 00 Areca lutescens . . . Areca rubra . . . Geonoma gracilis. . . Geonoma Scholleana Nun Kermlnatlim seeds will be replaced. Our Palm Growers' Guide iree on application. SCHWAKE SEED CO. (Inc.) 404 East 34th St., NEW YORK. AZALEAS, the finest commercial varieties PALMS, large, healthy stock, well grown. ARAUCARIAS, from cuttings only. BAY TREES, rerfect shape, in all sizes. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOCK, 106 & 108 Liberty Street. NEW YORK. .SKNl) foil SI'KCI.AI, ulFtK. SPECIAL OFFER. AZALEAS BEGONIAS Jtoeffaert&gee, ▼ Cendbrugge-lez-Cand, • BBUGiUts/i, W and .'iti t'atliariue Street, 01 nY||J|AQi Liverpo ol, Kn gland. ^'■"^'"'''^S PALMS, ARADCARIAS.BAYS.&C NOTICE THE THEAP PRICES BELOW: I'er 10(1 Fancy *aladiiims, :3L<>liich puts ii'.\ ( (i to $-S ini n»med ^^V'nch pots... H.OO to 1:2.' 4-lnch plants .. S.(IO to l.'>.(») Antherlcum vlttmum vnr . 5c, (jc 123 to 20e. tliip plants. Typerus. yreen, ISctoaur;: variegated. 30c to oOj each. Colocasia Macrorulza. 16c 25c to 50c eacb. Valms and Pbrmlum. ver.v cheao P. J. ULBRICHT, T' B K.vi. Anniston. Ala. SPtGlflL, PLANT BARGAINS. Eucharis Amazonica, large plants in 4-in pots, will flower this Fall, per doz., $1.50; per 100, glOOO. Clivii Miniata, 3-year old flowering plants in 4-in pots, per doz , $2.00; per 100, $15.00. Smilax, strong, 2-inch, per 100, S2.50; per 1,000, g20.00. FERNS. Adiantum Farleyense, fine stock, 2-in. at $8 00; 2V2-in. at $10.00; 3-in. at $20.00; 4-in. at $40.00; 5-in. at S75.00. Adiantum Cuneatum, strong, 2-in., per 100, $4.00. Adiantum Fragrantissimum, 2y2-in., per 100, $4.00. Pteris Serrulata, 2'ii-in., per 100, $4.00. Pteris Serrulata Cristata, 2'/2-in., per 100, $4.00. Nephrolepis Exaltata, 2'2-in., per 100, $5.00; 3-in., per 100 $8.00; 5-in., 100, $20.(10, Selaginella Emiliana, 2l2-in., per 100, S4 00. A large stock of palms, Ficiis Elast'ca, Araucarias, etc. Write for prices. VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, 84-86 Randolph St., Chicago. THE GERANIUM FOR 1897. Particulars and prices for the asking. HENRY EICHHQLZ, Waynesboro. Pa. 15,000 Irish Junipers, 12 to is inches. 15.000 Carnations, strong, field-grown plants, good assortment. 5,000 Bedding Roses, from 2>^ and 3 inch Dots, Sunset, Herles, Pink and White La France, M. Niel, Bridesmaid, etc., etc. Send tor lowest ctish prices to JOSEPH HEINL. Jacksonville, III. E.G. HILL & CO.. Wll0l6Sal6Fl0rl8lS RICHMOND. INDIANA. We devote ojr whole attention to and not only have the LARGEST and BEST collection in America, but guarantee our stock true to name. We are now filling orders for trial grounds. Every SEEDSMAN and FLORIST interested in DAHLIAS should send for our new descriptive Trade List. W. P. PEACOCK At«o. N. J. 66 The American Florist. Aug. IS, Toronto. The extreme humidity is at the present time the sole topic of conversation. We could stand the beat, but the moisture along with it makes every one wilt. How is Cleveland for weather? Have they any cool spots there? Could we hie ourselves thither with the sure hope of obtaining an abundance of mint ju'ep, John Collins and other cool beverages that delight the heart of man during these terribly torrid times? I am aware that these are not proper subjects for a well organized horticultural newspaper to discuss, but I am sure the editor would wish us to keep cool during the conven- vention week, hence these frantic queries. I am afraid that after all the Toronto contingent to Cleveland will be a very diminutive one; various causes are given for inability to attend, but in spite of the short distance I think the principal cause with most of us is that we cannot either walk or swim there, and that to go by rail or boat would prevent our wives and families from fally satisfying the require- ments of their interior organizations, warm as it is, food and raiment appear to be still necessary to existence. The description of Cattleya chrysotoxa in last week's issue should have said that the lip was 2V2 inches across, the petals are from an inch to an inch and a half wide (my mistake). A new trouble with chrysanthemum culture seems to have arisen, although so far it does not seem to be widespread. Mr. Geo. Mills has shown me specimens of plants attacked. He says they first show signs of the complaint by wilting at the top, and then in a day or two the stem turns quite black, the bark being soft and easily peeled off. Has any one else seen it? Is it an insect or a fungus? Is there a remedy? E. Presumptions as to Letters Posted and Received. Not unfrequently,in these daysof doing immense volumes of business by mail, a great deal depends on the law's presump- tions regarding letters. As a general rule, it may be said that letters received in reply to others are presumed to have been written by the persons to whom the letters calling them forth were sent, if they so purport to be. On the other hand, a letter received by another through the mail, at least one not in response to a letter sent so the purported writer, the supreme court of Alabama holds, in the recently decided case of O'Connor Min. & Mfg. Co. v. Dickson, 20 So. Rep. 413, is not admissible against the purported writer, or a person for whom he is agent, without proof of its genuineness. The law presumes, says the court, that a let- ter prepaid and posted, properly ad- dressed to the party to whom written, at the usual place of receiving his mail was delivered in due course. It rests uponthe assumption that the post officials and post men discbarge their duties, but there is no presumption that a person whose name is signed to a letter is its author, merely because it was carried by the post. Kansas City, Mo — This city will have a great floral parade October 6 Many valuable prizes will be ofleredfor best dec- orated vehicles. Colorado Springs, Colo. — The fifth annual flower festival, August 6, inaugur- ated the carnival week commemorating the city's quarter century. The turnout-) and floats were numerous and gorgeous in their array of flowers. HAVE YOU MILDEW IN YOUR GREENHOUSES? GRAPE DUST is put up in 5 lb , 10 ft and 25 H). bags. 100 ft. kegs and 200 ft. barrels. Will p''f'*5ervp vonr ro«es rarnation*', e*-r., elaware and stop at the Riverton nurseries to inspect the beauties of the place and particularly view the magnifi- cent collection of cannas. There will be a luncheon provided, after which speeches will be in order. This will no doubt be a most delightful occasion and all should arrange their business so as to be pres- ent. K. Immortelles. We are now ready to hook whole- sale orders for Al quality at low- est prices J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. Sole Agent for Alphonse Roche, Ollloules. France. Dmeiisioiis ol ttiis Box : 2»s Inches Ions by 18 Incries wide and 12 Inches hl^h. Two sectlona. This wooden box nicely stained and vamlabed, 18x30x13, made:^ln two sections, one for each size letter, given away with first order of 600 letters. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER GO. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. Sizes 1H-in. and 2-in. 2.00 per 100. Patent lailen«r:with each letter. O0R NEW SCRIPT LETTER, $4.00 per 100. IT. F. UcCASTHT, I 13 Green St.. Treas. & Mangr. | Boston, Mass. Office, 84 Hawley Street. We have a new FASTENER wtalcb we consider a decided sncoess. Any cnstomers bavlng old style fasteners whicb they wish to excbanKe, can do so witbont additional cost by wrltlntr ns. These Letters are handled by all the Wholesalers Boston. .A.OrfllV'X'S • A. Rolker & Sons, New York. M. Rice & Co., 85 N. 4th St., PhUa., Pa. F. E. McAllister, 22 Bey St., New York. A. D. Perry Si Co., 33 Warren St., Syracuse New York. A. Herrman, 415 E. 34th St., New York. H. liayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A. C. Kendal. 115 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. J. A. Simmers, Toronto, Ont., Agent for Canada. E. H. Hnnt, 79 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Wisconsin Flon'er Exchange, 131 IViason St , Milwaukee, Wis. H. Snnderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts., Cin- cinnati, O. T. W. n'ood & Song, 6th and Marshall Sts., Richmond, Ta. Jaa. VIck's Sons, Rochester, N. Y. C. A. Kuehn, 1122 Pine St., St. Lonls, Mo. D. B. Long, BuSiilo, New York. Huntington Seed Co., Indianapolis. Ind. Geo. A. Sutherland, 67 ISroiulield.st., Boston. Welch itros., No. lA Beacon St., Boston. N. F McCarthy & Co., 84 Hawley Street, Boston. The Henry Phlllpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O. Walter A. Potter & Co., Providence, R. I. J. C. Vaughan. 26 Barclay St., New York. W. Ellison, 1402 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. THE METAL FLORAL DESIGNS .... I manufacture are the Bandsome&t, most natural, and in price most reasonable. In Oo^|30 I^lo^w^or-j^ I have the largest and best stock in the country. BASKETS, the newest designs. CYCAS PALM LEAVES , prepared by the latest process. Immortelles, Moss Wreaths, Wire Designs, Toothpicks, Grasses, Doves, Tinfoil, Immortelle Letters, Sprinklers, Vases, Chenille, and everything you need in the florist supply line. ^BND FOR CAI'ALOGUB Manufacturer of Metal Floral Designs, and Dealer in Florists' Supplies, NEAR FERRY 404-412 E. 34th St., NEW YORK. Mention American Kl ^r.at. A GOOD THING ! '^*" ™" '""" HOUSES WITH MASTICA. Elastic and Tenacious. Does not crack. Remains pliable for years. Easily applied. Awarded a Certificate of Merit at the S. A. F. Convention, Pittsburg, in 1895, and is already used extensively in greenhouse construction throughout the country. Mastica and Mastica Glazing Machine may be seen at the Exhibition Hall in Cleveland. Manufactured only by F. O. PIERCE & CO. 170 FULTON STREET. NEW YORK. i8g6. The American Florist. 69 ARE YOU AWAKE •• •• To the fact that we are one of the Largest Importers and Manufacturers in the line of y, Florists' Supplies y%/%.'%^%^%/% Call at our Spacious Stores, and be convinced that we have ©verytllillg in the line from a Small Fin, ("do you see the point") to a large ship, almost large enough to take you to the other side of the ocean where even there you can see our goods handled. WE CORDIALLY INVITE INSPECTION AND COMPARISON OF OUR STOCK OP Famous Wheat Sheaves, uauln w"eat'oniyT' Baskets, Domesuc'""' Cape Flowers. Doves. Cycas Leaves. Wire and Tin Foil. Milkweed Balls. Dried Grasses. Chenille. Celluloid and Enamel Pot Covers. Enamel Stands. Artificial Flowers and Leaves. Iron Plant Stands. Wax Flowers. Metallic Designs. Immortelles, Etc., Etc. In fact everything else in the Florist Supply line and too numerous to mention. Trusting to be favored with a call, and your patronage, we are, yours truly. 25 N. Fourth St., FHILADELFHIA, FA. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. USE W.C.KRIGK'S FLORISTS' lii]niortelleLeaers,Elc. Medal Awarded at the World's Fair. And Highest Award Wherever Exhibited. These Letters and Designs are made of the best Immortelles, wired on wtiud or metal frames, having holes drilled In them to In- sert toothpicks, by which they are fast- ened In tiie desltrn. Give them a trial. You will find these goods to be superior to any in the maritet. •,Mnch Letters. $2.50 per 100. 'Postage. 15 ets. per 100, For other styles of Letters. Emblems and Deslens. send for ciitaloyue. Before purchasing send for free sample and catalogue, and compare with any other letter on the market, W.C.KRIGK, 1287 Broadway, Brooklyn, N.Y. For sale by all Florists' Supply Dealers. A FULL LINE OF SAMPLES ON EXHIBI- TION AT THE CONVENTION. Tobacco Stems FINE FRESH STEMS ^'-rl^?-^^^^^^^^ Tobacco Dust. Genuine and the best quality guaranteed. 10 lbs- for 40 ceuts; 100 lbs. for 82,50. F. WALKER & CO., 644 Fourth Avenue, LOUISVILLE, KY. Lou'svlUe i» the Tobticco Market uf the World. BRILLIANT GREEN and BRONZE Galax Leaves. Alili sizes of GRIiIiN' Leaves in season, and I guarantee them to reach you in good condition if shipped by Express, any time after Sept. loth. The BRONZE Leaves in season: Small size about Nov. 5th; Medium size about Nov. 20th, and the Large size about Dec. ist. ALL ACCEPTED ORDERS BOOKED AHEAD WILL BE FILLED STRICTLY IN ROTATION, AND SHIPPED AT EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT THAT FiRSTCLASS STUFF IS OBTAINABLE. WHOLESALE FLORISTS generally, or write for full particulars to CHAS. H. RICKSECKER, Linvilie, Mitchell Co., N. C. Mention Ameiioan Florist. John Conley & Son, nianufaeturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. Mention Aiueiican Flortst. 70 The American Florist. Aug IS, The Cleveland Convention. To those -who are undecided about at- tending the convention I would say that a visit to that splendid city last week convinced me that a more beautiful city does not exist in this country, and it might with truth be termed the Flower city, for it seemed to me there were flow- ers everywhere. The parks and boule- vards are magnificent and are alone worth seeing. Euclid Avenue, with its five mile stretch of beautiful houses and churches would be hard to surpass. Taken altogether a very happy choice was made when Cleve- land was selected, and I always strongly advise every florist to go and judge for himself. The floral exhibition I was assured would be well worth seeing. H. YOUELL. Bangor, Me. Business, as usual at this season, is re- ported to be at a standstill, though no complaints are made by the florists. The spring trade has been very satisfactory, plants having sold readily and at fair prices and business in general has been good and encouraging. Mr. Adam Sekenger is building three additional houses, two of which, intended for carnations, will cover 65x20, and one for violets 50x15. With the additional houses Mr. Sekenger will have a total of 18,000 feet of glass. In addition to the greenhouses, Mr. Sekenger has built a handsome and commodious oflice, finished in natural wood and equipped with all the conveniences. Homo. Oswego, N. Y. Spring trade here was the heaviest ever known, some of the florists being cleaned out of everything and having to buy largely. They all feel very happy in con- sequence. The centennial anniversary of the evac- uation of Fort Ontario by the British, was observed in a most fitting way and was the means of drawing an immense crowd; the demand for plants and flowers was very heavy as almost everyone enter- tained guests and vied with each other in having their places look the best, to which the florists were not slow to add their suggestion and advice. H. Y. Schenectady, N. Y.— J. E. Felthousen has been making extensive additions to his establishment, having built about 10,000 square feet of new houses this summer. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower Pote. etc. Making a Specially Of Florist Standard Fots Send for price lli-l ami siuniiles iwhlcb will be sent freei and we know yini will clve ub your order: J. 6t SWAHN'S SONS, IVIiiineapolu!'Miiiii. HEADQUARTERS FOR Green Sheet Moss, Cane Stakes SPHAGNUM MOSS, ETC HOLLY AND fLlIH MOSS IN SEASON. J. CHAS. McCULLOUGH, Seedsman, N. E. Cor. Second & Walnut Sis., CINCINNATI. 0. n Jl C C ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Send for ULjIWU. Estimate. Satisfaction guaranteed. 102 South Otb AveDue. NEW ¥OKK CITY. WIND MILLS FOR PUMPING. FAIRBANKS-GALVD steeu. ECLIPSE-WOOD. BOILERS F°" HEATING. VALVES, PIPE AND FITTINGS. FAIRBANKS, MORSE & GO. Cor. Franklin & Monroe Sts., CHICAGO. H. M. HOOKEK COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO. FOR GREENHOUSES. ■Writ^ ior latest prions. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. oDhuru u/ADcuniiccc '' Kearney aiid Westside Aves., Jersey City, N. J. bKANtH WAKbMUUbbb. , jacknou Ave. and I'earson St., Long Island , N. Y. Ernst Welnhoeher \ I'.i . ClilcuKO. Salter Bros., UocheBter, N Y, J. M. c.aHser. Cleveland. O. Kred Dorner X Son. Lafayette. Ind. John Breltiueyer \ Sons. Delrult. Mich. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. Always mention the American Flo rist when writing; to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist. 71 .^^ WE CARRY CONSTANTLY ^>. A Large and Complete Stock OF AIR DRIED CLEAR - LOUISIANA - CYPRESS - LUMBER AND CAN FILL ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY. John C. Moninger Co. 412-422 HAWTHORNE AVENUE. COR. BLACKHAWK ST. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Don't Fail to see our Exhibit at Exhibition Hall, Cleveland. fil ROSE LEAF 11 EXTRACT OF TOBACCO, Our NEW PAMPHLET (1896) will be mailed "VOIU this month. It contains much additional information of value to ALL FLORISTS. If you don't think so, READ IT. LOUISVILLE SPIRIT CURED TOBACCO CO., LOUISVILLE, KY. do not affect the sales of the CHAMPION VENTILATING APPARATUS. Aside from the fact that It has the best features. It 18 sold at HAKL> TIMKS FKICKS. All practical florlets prefer It- A small book tells all about It. and Is lurnlshed free. AMERtCAN ROAD MACHINE CO., KennettSquare.Pa. To Pump Water ir vou \v:int water rci-anv purpose aiHltiave not Ibe facililies, or waul to change, write for catalogue of Ihe Celebrated DeLamater-Rlder and Delamater-Erlcsson Hot- Alr Pumping Engines. They will pump water from any source anil force it anywhere. .4ny kind of fuel can be useil. Aililress, deLamater iron works, 467 West Broadway, New "i orU City- HAIL Tor Insurance against damages by hail, ^^^^^^^^^^__ Address JOHN G. ESLER, Secy, F. H. ».. Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. YOU WILL SAVE ^2.00 if you patronize the Nickel Plate Road to Cleveland and return on occasion of the meeting of the Society of American Florists, August i8th to 2 1st, for which the Nickel Plate Road offers tickets on sale at one fare and a third for the round trip on the certificate plan, Aug. 14th, 15th, 17th, iSth, 19th and 20th, good returning up to Aug. 25th. For further information apply to J. Y. CALAHAN, Gen'i Agent, III Adams St., Chicago, III. 72 The American Florist. Ajig. ^5, Ottawa, Ontario. The buzz of the saw and the clang of the hammer are cheering sounds, indicating as they do prosperity and progress. It is most gratifying to note the many im- provements made, and the additional greenhouses that are being built in this city, the seat of the Canadian govern- ment. Mr. C. Scrim, aside from giving his en- tire plant a thorough overhauling, such as replacing the boilers, introducing the best heating and ventilating apparatus, etc., is building four additional houses, three 100x10 and one 100x18, intended for smilax and carnations. Mr. John Graham is likewise busy on his additional two houses now in course of erection. One of these will cover 125x 20 and the other one 125x11. Besides this Mr. Graham is making many exten- sive improvements about his place, such as replacing his old boiler by one of greater power, putting a new floor in the shed, etc. Mr. C. Scrim has been experimenting with the growing of carnation plants in the benches during the summer, the roof of the house being removed for the pur- pose, and replaced again in fall at the usual time for housing the plants. He tried one house this way and is so well satisfied with results that he intends to grow all his carnations this way in the future. Homo. Conneaut, O. The excessive heat for the past two weeks has seriously afftcted the growth of all winter flowering stuflF, especially is this so with carnations; thecopious rains of the past three days will force every- thing into a very rapid growth which it is feared will be soft; but as the florists will not have their new house completed until late, the growth may be sufficiently hardened up. The disease amongst the asters is as prevalent here as in Cleveland and every one has their own theory as to its origin. Miss Venen, who is an enthusiast and a very successful hybrid zer, pronounces it something entirely new to her. The stem just above the ground is the part first affected, which gradually turns black to the center, when the plants wither away; it is the largest ones just coming into flower that are most affected. I think it would be well to submit a specimen far scientific examination and ascertain if it is a new disease or is caused by the exces- sive heat, to which the trouble is at- tributed. Business is quiet, with the exception of funeral orders; loose flowers have cer- tainly taken the place of set pieces here; those who can afford it use cycas leaves with a bunch of flowers. H. Y. Bradford, Pa. There seems to be a general awakening among the florists in greenhouse building. Geo. Oliver is putting up two houses, one of which is 75x20 and the other 50x20. Florist Yelton is adding one more house 50x20. Mr. Graham has removed his plant to East Bradford and is quite busy putting things in good shape and order. Mr. J. C. Rockwell's chrysanthemums look promising, as do also his young roses. Of the former Mr. Rockwell has 700 planted in benches and 500 in pots. Homo. STANDARD! STANDARD! The new STANDARD is the most perfect machine offered to the public. 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CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, AUGUST 22, 1896. No. 429 ffii [i^^msmm ^mms^. Copyright 1896. by American Florist Company. EnUted as Second-Class Mail Matter. PU3LJSHZr EVZET SaTUILDAT BY The amerioan florist CoMPAinr. 323 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Solscripllon, f I.OO a year. To Europe. 82.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communicatioas to AlIERIOAN FLORIST COMPANY. 322 Dearhorn Street, CHICAGO. Ea»tem Ottlca: B7 Bromfleld St., lloston. Tbla paptprls a meml>er of the Aasodattd Trade Ptcm ano uf [he ChlcaKO Trade Press AflaoclatlOD. OFFICERS: WM. S^OTT. Buffalo, president; ADAM GtlAnAJr. OeTelanii. 0- Tlce-prealdent: W. J. STfTiVAnr, b7 Bromaeio St . B.Mior. Mass., secretary; n. B. BEATTr, Oil City. I'a.. treasnrcr. CONTEJVTS. The Clcvclaod Convention 77 -President Scott's address 77 79 SO 80 80 80 80 81 —Secretary's report ^Tucidjy afternoon . — Wednc^driy tnomiog — Wednc^^lpy cTCQing . — Thnrsii.iy raoroine What has been accomplished by the A. C. S. • •! (illu ■ —General view in exhibition hall (illus). -What has been accomplished by the C. S. of A. 82 — Presitlf nt-clect Graham (portrait) SI -Thursday afteraoOQ 8.'t —Thursday evening 83 -Competition la trade, its effects and abuses . 84 — Compi::.e bull Jing 00 The seel trade Clliroraia seeds . BoBion Oyster r.ay, N. V. Worcester, Mass. St . tjyiis Fern notes. , . . Sao Frandsco.. fiyracTise, N. Y. .92 .92 92 .91 .a; .96 Tnc Society of American Florists ■will hold i's neetiDg for 1897 in ProvitJence, R. I. OSccrs for 1S97 are AtJam Graham, Clevcbnt], 0., prcaident; Farqabar Ma- crae, Pro'.-idence, R. I , vice-president; W. J- Stewart, Boston, s- lished and I ask you to make yonrstif perfectly conversant with every cbcse that you may be able to vote with a pei" feet understanding of what you a re doing. Some of the changes proposed are radical but none the less worthy of your ap- j proval. The proposed relationship ^ \ tween the parent society and the locil | clubs thropghont the country is most iSg6. The American Florist. 79 important and in my opinion should mtct with unanimous approval. It is sincertly to be hoped that something of the same spirit will prevail in regard to the carnation, rose, chrvsanthemum and all other auxiliary societies. It cannot bnt strengthen both the parent and its offspring. The auxiliary societies that have devoted their time to the rose, the carnation and the chrysanthemum (and others may arise) have done good work for the cause in which tbey are interested. The carnation society both in the interest it has spread among the growers, the ex- cellent papers it has produced and the grand displays of the divine flower held at its meetings has been remarkably suc- ccssfnl. As nearly all members of these aniiliary societies are also members of the national society it is absurd to think there can be any rivalry or jealousy be- tween thcmand theparent society. They can be of valuable assistance to each other. The society thatdevotes its every thoaght to the advancement of any one flower mast assuredly improve on varie- ties that are grown and improve the cul- tivation of those varieties. May the good work go on, and may we be in closer relalion to them. The Hail Association is a purely busi- tes3 niatter, butof the greatest benetit to CTtry man who owns a foot of glass. Since the organization its management rtfiicis the greatest credit on the men who have managed it, and I will not ciaie any one jealous when I say that its efficient secretary, John G. Eslcr, de- serves the highest praise. Don't flatter joarseU that you are not in the hail belt. The h.-iil belt is as fletitious as Rudynrd Kiplir:g'3 Great American pie belt. Do joa sec the difference between the Hail Ass'n and a Florists' Mutual Fire Ass'n? Fire can be produced quite easily, but how impossible to call down hail from the donds. , k feature of this convention will be the 6ce flower show held by the Cleveland Florist Club. It is considered by many that this should be a feature of every fu'.nre convention. We are well aware that the present time, August, is not the most favorable season for holding a flower show, jet it has not all the disad- vaDtapcs that one might at Grst suppose. Yoa will remember the magnificent dis- play r::ade at Boston during the conven- tion week. It was as fine an aggrega- tion of grand plants as were ever seen in thiscnaotry. I trust the flower show as alcatuie of oar annual conventions will recdtc jonr earnest thought, for I feel Jnre it would add largely to our attend- accr. I am gratified it is a feature this jear and know yon will enjoy it, but however good the display do not let its attractions keep you away from the busl- nejs rni-etings ol the convention. One word about the business throngh- oiit the country. We all know there is a dcprr:sion in business all over the land acd ia every industry, but has our busi- cesi saSered as much or worse than oth- ers? 1 think not. You would believe there was little encouragement to build dcrin; these times and yet you hear of bcildmg on every hand. If this were ipric; lime and I was asked for advice I wen!.; say huld on, run what glass yon Have to the very best of your ability, and see what another year will bring forth. We ffiLst be thankful that our calling has bera a- prosjierous as it has during these dc'l t:.-n;-3. The future is shrouded in nj3tcry,bnt what is best for the greatest nin:t-;r will surely prevail in this favored U:d. .Vnd depend on it our business will paw year by year. Our products are no longer considered a luxury in the house. A palm for the window, a vase of flowers for the table, is now a necessity in all well ordered houses. Our friends in Cleveland have not for- gotten that while we are here to transact business which we hope will add to the advancement of our profession individu- ally as well as collectively, that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but while they are doing all that any set of men and women can do to make our stay enjoyable they have so arranged their program that not one minute of the busi- ness sessions will be interfered with. A great deal has been published of late about the social side of our conventions and I can only say that I feel positive the florists devote more hoars to the business sessions than any other convention of trade or profession that I have heard of, and I have taken notice of a great many that have met in my city this summer. A prolific cause ol a small attendance at our business sessions in some cities has been the local attractions to which our folks have strayed away. This is more often the case in the largest cities where sights of unusual interest aremost abund- ant. There is no lawto prevent this, and if we can secure these people as members of the society we must be satisfied. Another element, and they in some con- ventions have been quite numerous, admit they don't travel five hundred miles to listen to essays and discussions, but take the trip purely for the social enjoyment. While I would like to see afull attendance at every meeting, I have sympathy with those who seek out their own way of spending their vacation. An incentiveto many to attend the conventions is to renew old acquaintance, and a very wor- thy sentiment it is. What greater pleas- ure have we than an exchange of thought and ideas with our fellow men. In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, I ask you seriously to attend the business sessions of theconvention. It isinspiring to speak or read to a full house, but dis- couraging to address a small audience. I trust full expression will be given by the members on all topics that arise, particu- larly on the proposed constitution and by-laws. I have no doubt the best of feeling will prevail in all discussions, and remember, here in this hall is the place to give US your views, not next week or after the session is over. There Is little of the old-fashioned jealousy left among the florists. There is a greater disposition shown to help along a worthy brother, whoever is president next year. Wherever the convention is held I hope it will be an unqualified success, as I trust the present will be, and there is no better way to accomplish that than all to give an unselfish support to the society, attend the convention, not for any selfish motive alone, but if for no other reason, from loyalty to the business. Silence any grumbler and tell him to come along and bring bis friends and help to make the meeting his ideal of a convention. Once more let me say I am proud to be your presiding officer to-day. I believe our society has done noble work in the past and has glories yet to win. I be- lieve it is bringing us closer together to our mutual benefit. It is bringing us nearer the time when vye can realize that For a' that and a' that It's coming yet tor a' that When man to man the warld o'er Shall brothers be for a' that. Secretary Stewart's annual report, which was received with applause, par- ticularly that part atinouncing that the policy of the society would be shaped by I those who were in the society and not those who were out of it, was then read by that gentleman as follows: Secretary Stewart's Annual Report. Mr. President and members of the Society of American Florists: Since the last annual report of the secretary the instability and fluctuating character of our membership list, which has always been '.he weak spot in our organization, has been less marked than for a number of years past. D,:fections from the ranks and lapses on account of unpaid assess- ments have been fewer, and it would seem that the tide which was undoubtedly at its lowest ebb in Pittsburg has already turned, and that we are now more than holding our own. The number of members who had paid in 1894- and were on August 15, 1896, still in debt to the society for dues of 1893, was 183. Of these the majority arc old members who will at this meeting or in the near future make good their account with the society. 1S95 gave us but 68 new names, distributed amongthe dififerent states as follows: Ohio IS, Pennsylvania 15, NewYorkl3, Michigan 4, Kentucky 3, New Jersey 2, Illinois 2, Colorado 2, and Florida, District of Columbia, Maine. Maryland, Montana, Massachusetts, Vermont, Ontario and Belgium one each. Pittsburg, the con- vention city, actually showed a loss of two in representation, as compared with the previous year. Up to the present time a limited num- ber of suspended members have taken advantage of the very liberal provision for reinstatement provided by the Execu- tive committee at its last meeting, and this together with the number of new names continually coming in will in all probability make the showing in mem- bership for 1896 very favorable as com- pared with the previous year. The number of deaths among our mem- bers recorded since we last met has been but four: P. Bruno Meissner, Fiatbush, N. Y., died November 2, 1895; A. L. Bon naffon, Philadelphia, Pa., November 23, 1895; A. W. Bennett, Pittsburg, Pa., January 15, 1896, and August Rolker, New York, June 17,1896. Of those that formerly affi iated with us, death has taken during the past year: G. H. Leahy, David Allan, Geo. W. Atwood, C. M. Atkinson, P. R. Brogan, Tunis DePew, Thos. T. II jlton, G. Messeberg and John A. Scollay. The printed annual report has told you in detail the story of the Pittsburg meet- ing. In the matter of discussions, special committee work and general eff^tiveness it compared favorably withany that had preceded it. O^e feature in particular, the lecture by the late Wm. Hamilton Gibson, proved to be interesting and instructive beyond comparison. The trade exhibition also, at which there were awarded 17 certificates, 16 honorable mentions and 6 complimentary notices, was very comprehensive and proved a great attraction for the public. The Executive Committee meeting last spriug was an event of great importance, the many plans and ideas for a partial readjustment olthe society's relations to its memtiers and to other trade organiza- tions, which have been gradually crys- talizing for years, tookdefinite shape and yon have the result in the proposeid new constitution and by-laws which will be submitted to you for coasideration at this meeting. This plan for reorganiza- tion is no abruptly conceived project, for its distinctive features have been under careful deliberation by officers and other 80 The American Florist. Aug. 22^ octive mcnitxrri of thcBociety for Q period of five jenrs at least. Ever since the ciecutive meeting Qt \VasbiD;{ton the scheme has Ixcn maturing, iind as now completed it represents the earnest thooRht of many of our most sapaciouB memtjers. The Society of American Florists has found some heavy obstrnct ions in its path during the past two or three years. The widespread businessdepresaion has borne heavily upon our hard worked florists and money to spend in travelling 6ve hundred or a thousand miles to conven- tions has not been forthcoming. Then the loss of our national charter, at the moment when the grand results of years of persistent struggle by our champions at Washington seemed assaredto us, was a sore discouragement and the apparent waning interest furnished an incentive for attack, and unmerited abuse. But the Society of American Floristsis not on the defentive. It can point with pride to twelve years of useful service in its special line of work, and has no opologies to make, especially to q certnm class of critics from whom we have heard consid- erable during the past year, who have with ill-concenled gratification proclaimed our decreased numericalstrength, making use of the situation to point their selfish mornis ond to help support arguments often based upon assumed conditions that have at no time existed. Turning from these self-constituted regulators whose names stand, almost to a man, on our delinquent list, we find in the roll of names of those who have stood loyal, who through it all have been neither blind nor idle, a preponderance of the leading spirits in Amencan Boricalt- oral progress. Realizing that from such ranks come the forces that guide our organization we need ask for no stronfjer proof of its stability or guarantee of its future usefulness. When the Society of American Florists wants regulating its real friends will be found inside, not out- side, its own membership, and these are the men who mnv with entire confidence be intrusted with the work. The report by Treasurer H. B. Bealty showed receipts of $I0j3, which added to the old balance of S:J3i-l.2S made a total of $8397. '.'S. The eipenditnres were $17GS.77,leavingaba!ance on band of $1G2S.51. Messrs. E. H. Michel and John G. Esler reported for the committee on fire insur- ance, stating that they had eihansted every possible effort to have the various board 5 of underwriters favorably consider thercriuest for more equitable rates on greenhonse risks, but had failed to secure any action in the matter. In their opin- ion the only remedy was the organization of a mutual insurance company lormedof those in the trade. The committee was continued with rtqncst to farther con- sider the matter. The morning scjjion then adjourned. Tuesdiy Afternoon. TiK-5iIay altcrnnon si\ electric cars, freely ilcinr.ntcd with llowcr?. carrinl xvcral liur.'ircil ol the mcinlicrs iil the S. .\. K. to the he.iutiful grounds nt the rc5i- drnce of Mr. J. .M. (iasscr on the Like ' shore. Here they were \vcloKncscd new constitution was laid over till 9 a. m. Thursday, ami the morning session then ailjounietl. Wednesdiy Evening The evening session was especially ar- ranged to interest the general public, and would have iKen a great success but for one thing, and that was that thcnudience of .-xmateurs was not present to listen and enjoy the feast prepared for them. It seems by some loose advertising that the public were informed the lectures were to take place in connection with and form an attractive feature of the floral exhibi- tion in the Armory, and while some -1,000 people crowded the hall and were wait- mg for the speakers to appear these ex- perienced and practical men were explain- ing to a hundred or so of their equ.illy well informed associates in business that sat listening to them in Army and N'avy Hall, that kentias were among the best palms for the house and receiving in- structions how to water and treat the same. It is too had the mistakeoccurrcd, but as some of the speakers had prepared their papers beforehand, which will no doubt be published in the papers, all the labor will not be lost. Mr. Robt. Craig's remarks were em- phasized .Tnd illustrated by specimens of the plants that he recommended, and bis talk was full of useful information about their care and culture in the house. Mr. Lonsdale had prepared his pa|)er with care and it will prove verj- interest- ing reading to the amateur flower lover; in f.ict it contains much that many retail florists could read with profit. Mr. Grove P. Rawson's talk on "How not to do it" was of a humorous nature, his original way of put ting things pleased his audience very much, he closed his re- marks with an allusion to Mr. Carniody's comment on Adam losing his job, and saying, "Who knows but what Heaven may be ,i restored garden of Eden." Mr. Hill's short talk on roses was to the point. Over two million roses were planted in this country every year, he said, and thousands of these perished through ignorance. He gave valuable hints on their care and culture. Prof. Cowell's address on cannas was also interesting and profitable, as was Mr. J. C. Vaughan's paper on the pansy that was read by Mr. Carmody. Thursday Morning. After considerable debate upon the first section of the proposed new constitution the whole matter was on motion laid over till next year. T!ie ballot for officers resulted .as fol- lows; For president, Adam Graham, of Cleveland, ()., 103; J. I). Carmody, Ev- ansville, Ind., 41. On iiiotron of Mr. Carmody Mr. Graham's election was made unanimous. For vice-president, Farquhar Macrae, Providence, R. I.. 95; Timothy O'Connor, same city, 51. For secrctarv, Wm. J. Stewart. Boston, 106; E H. M'ichel, St. Louis, 41. For treas- urer, H. B. Beatty. Oil City, Pa., S9; J. M, Gasser, Cleveland, 0.,.")7. On motion of Mr. Gasscr, Mr. Bcatty's election was made unanimous. During the counting of the ballots Mr. W. K. Shelmire read his pajjtr on "What has been accomplished by the American Carnation Society." The healthy tone of this paper, the good eonimon sense it contained and the admirable deliveri- of s.ame caused it to be received with great applause and satisfaction. Whit His Been Accomplished by the American Carnation Society.' IIV W. U. PUILMIKK. AVOSnAl-i^ I'A. At a preliminaiy meeting held in Phila- delphia, October 15, 1891, at which tbe American Carnation Society bad in birth, the following preamble set forth the objects of the new society: 1— "To iucrcaie the general intcrr-*t la the ct!- tiTat;, WEST NEWTON, MASS. In order to properly handle this subject and present to you the results of the work of the Chrysanthemum Society of America, it will be far better to glance back at the conditions surrounding the Oueen of Autumn and her devotees before the formation of that organization. The chrysanthemum began its triumphal march toward popular favor in America In the early 80's and advanced very rapidly. In 1884 the importation and dissemination of a number of novel and meritorious varieties gave it quite an impetus and proved to the florists that the public was carefully watching tor new forms and colors. Seedlings had been grown in this country, long before this period, but only on a small scale, and nothing remarkable had been produced. The remarkable suc- cess scored by the novelties placed upon the market in 1884-5, led a few American growers to experiment with seedlings, and in the course of a year or two new novel- ties were offered from many different sources. Importations from Japan con- tinued to flow upon us. These came un- named and were also shipped to England and France at about the same time, and were of course called by different names in all three places, and a year or two later we would again purchase the same varie- ties that we already had under the name or names that they had received in either or both of those countries. New varieties appeared with wonderful rapidity, and it was quickly seen by many of the growers that something must be done to prevent the duplication of names and the foisting upon the public of a large number of infe- rior varieties. Novelties were at this time sold at large prices, and the proportion of meritorious ones was quite small. A grower who succeeded in securing two first-class varieties out of ten which he had purchased at the rate of $1 each, con- sidered himself very fortunate. Such was the condition in 1888, mur- murings of disapproval were heard on every side, and in the issue of the Ameri- can Florist of January 1st, 1889, acall was made, "for the formation of an American Chrysanthemum Soicety, in order that some organized action might be taken, owing to the rapid increase in the number of novelties, to avoid a hope- less muddle in their nomenclature, and means taken to eliminate duplicates and inferior varieties." This was followed in the next issue by a letter from Mr. John Thorpe, in which he advocated the forma- tion of a chrysanthemum society, and enumerated the difterent demands for such an organization; the principal work be- ing the proper classification and nomen- clature, and a general supervision of novelties. Consequently at the meeting of the executive committee of the Society of American Florists held at Buffalo, January 15, 1889, it was decided to call a meeting of those interested in the organization of a National Chrysanthe- mum Society, for the afternoon of the first day of the August meeting, and Mr. John Thorpe was appointed a committee to secure the cooperation of others and formulate a plan of organization to be submitted to the meeting at that time. The meeting was held according to pro- gram, a large attendance of the florists at the convention being present at the launch into existence of the National Chrysanthemum Society, manned by the following officers: President, John Thorpe; vice-president, William K. Harris; secretary, Edwin Lonsdale and treasurer, John Lane. The society immediately took hold of its work, and requested that all dissemi- nators and growers of seedlings should register the names of their novelties with the secretary of the organization before placing them upon the market. This would prevent duplication of both names and varieties. This met with very fair success, most of the disseminators avail- ing themselves of the privilege of register- ing. They next published a catalogue of the varieties then in cultivation, giving the names of the cross-fertilizer and dis- seminator when possible, and properly classifying them. This was found to be necessary, there being held many exhibi- tions where blooms and plants were shown under classes such as Japanese, Chinese, Pompons, etc., and a classifica- tion that was authoritive was needed, for i8g6. The American Florist. 83 ADAM GRAHAM. PRESIDENT-ELECT SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. disputes were of often occurrence at these exhibitions as to what class a certain yariety might belong, some growers ■sbowing it in one class and others in raiKither. In 1493, at the annual meeting held at St. Lo«ts, the name was changed to "The Chrysanthemum Society of America," it tbeing thought that, the society in Eng- Uand Ibearing the name "The National Chrysanthemum Society" there might be eomccoafuston, and the Eaglish society being so much older, it had a prior right to that name. While the society had already done mtich good work yet the one thing that seemed the most necessary, that is, the placing of the society's approval or dis- approval upon seedlings and new intro- ductions before their dissemination had not been accomplished. Premiums were 'ofiFered by the diflferent societies all over tthe country at their fall exhibitions for iseedlings, and large numbers were exhib- ited at these shows. Judges were procured and these premiums were awarded. It is probable that the best judges that were obtainable were secured, but too often they were either incompetent or too generous, and after the prizes were awarded a large number of certificates of merit were passed around, consequently manv worthless varieties would each year be ofiFered to the public with glowing descriptions to induce the progressive florist to part with his hard earned coin. Certificates of merit began to fall into disrepute, and the people began to buy only prize winners. But this did not help matters, for ofcen a cup winner at a small show would be very much inferior to a loser at a large exhibition. This mat- ter was freely discussed at the different meetings of the society, and plan after plan was presented only to be given up as im- practicable. At last at the meeting held at Atlantic City in August, 1894, the plan of having a committee of three in five or six of the larger cities to judge once a week or oftener if they desired, and have these dates published in the trade jour- nals, and judge whatever seedlings might be forwarded to them, was adopted. Judges were appointed, and men of integ- rity and the necessary knowledge of the chrysanthemum, selected. With many mis- givings on the part of some of the members the plan was given a trial in the fall of '94. The work of that year proved it to be an unqualified success, and it was again carried out in the fall of '95, with the exception that a scale of points for judging was adopted by the society and given a trial by these committees. Such has been the work performed by the Chrysanthemum Society of America, and much valuable time and labor has been spent by a few enthusiasts in carry- ing it out. Now what has it all accom- plished? Ask of the raisers of seedlings throughout our land. Ask of the dissem- inators of the country. Ask of the gar- deners and florists, who have carefully kept posted upon the doings of the society. Ask of all these and receive their answers. It seems to us that it might have been far better to have placed this subject In the hands of one of these than those of one who had been so actively and closely connected with this work. But in drawing to a close we will briefly state what advantages all might have obtained from the reports of the secretary which have been published from time to time in the trade journals. The society brought togetherchrysanthemum enthusiasts from the different parts of the country, that they might interchange ideas, and work as a unit for the advance- ment of the Queen of Autumn. It has given to the public from time to time a correct list of synonymous names with full descriptions, so that no grower need purchase a variety that he already pos- sesses under a different name, or grow two varieties that are identical. It has appointed judges of known integrity at shows that were held where no known authority resided in the immediate neigh- borhood. It has by itssystem of judging seedlings, placed its approval or disap- proval upon new varieties before their dissemination. So important and success- ful was this action that on every side is heard the remark "It was a grand move, and it has been well done." Although this work has been in operation but two years a prominent disseminator told me that if a seedling had not been awarded a certificate of the Chrysanthemum So- ciety of America it might as well be thrown into the rubbish heap, for it was a waste of money to attempt to advertise it. The judging is done carefully and by compe- tent and upright men, and they have un- selfishly given manv valuable hours for the good of all. A glance for a moment will show how the new varieties placed upon the market were increasing and how quickly they dropped when the society began to award its certificates. There were disseminated in 1889 36 varieties 1890 73 " " 1891 V2A 1893 206 1893 215 1891 172 1895 153 1896 123 Of those disseminated during 1S91, 1892, and 1893 many were worthless, but with the placing of certificates upon worthy varieties by the society the inferior varieties were never heard of. The paper on commercial law was also read by thesecretary, as Judge Hoitt was not present. This closed the morning session. Thursday Afternoon. The lecture on "The Beauties of the Flowers," by Henry T. Bailey, state supervisor of drawing, Massachusetts, was an intellectual treat such as florists have rarely had an opportunity to enjoy. Blackboard and chalk were made use of in illustrating the lines of beauty in the form and arrangement of the different parts of flowers and foliage, and the speaker proved himself to be a skilful free hand artist as well as most interesting talker. The relations of colors, tints and shades of color to each other and to sur- rounding objects were explained in a de- lightfully entertaining manner, color charts and fresh flowers being used as illustrations and examples of good and bad taste in arrangement of flowers with relation to form, position and color, were g^ven with plain practical advice. The attendance at the lecture was large and the enthusiasm at the close found vent in long continued applause. Thursday Evening. The evening session was quite well at- tended and the members were treated to some very excellent papers. That of Prof. R. C. Kedzie, M. A., M. 1)., of the Michi- gan Agricultural College, on the "Chem- ical tripod in floriculture," advanced a novel point, which, if practical should prove a most valuable one to the grower. He stated that it was quite possible by 84 The American Florist. Aug. 22. using the proper chemicals to force ;i vig- orous growth of flowering plants, ros s, etc., without a like production of flowers, but which could be produced almost at will in abundance when there was the most demand, by means of another sub- stance which checked this growth and threw them into bloom. The methods to produce this cftect were not at all diffi- cult, and the plan could be pursued by ax\y intelligent grower. The papers on competition by C. W. Ward, of Queens, N. Y., and Robt. Kift, of Philadelphia, were well received and caused some discussion. The hintthrown out by bo'h papers, that growers should have a better idea of what their products cost them, was further emphasized and some of the difiiculties of obtaining the same pointed out. Mr. Reuter answered the question, "What is the best remedy for rust?" and advised that it be not allowed to get a foothold at first. Mr. Hill spoke of the best earlj' and late chrysanthemums, and thought there was a good market for fine varieties at both ends of the season, and that efforts to get them extra early and to keep some varieties for late cutting would be war- ranted by price received. The use of ribbons and fancy paper in decorating plants and floral arrange- ments was considered advisable if used intelligently and not overdone. Mr. Ewing of Toronto defined a naturally grown plant so that all can now distin- guish such a specimen on sight. The final resolutions were offered by Mr. Shelmire on behalf of the committee. The city of Cleveland, the Mayor and the city council were commended, and espe- cially did the committee desire to thank the Cleveland Florist Club and also Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Ga«ser for their very gen- erous hospitality. They also praised the fine exhibition of plants and cut flowers. The press, for the generous treatment accorded the society, was also spoken of favorably and given the thanks of the society. The bowling prizes were presented by Vice-President Graham in a humorous address, after which the convention ad- journed. A handsome gold watch and locket was presented to President Scott by his many friends in the society. Competition in Trade, its Effects and Abuses. BY C. W. WARIJ, l^UEKNS. N. Y. Probably every person engaged in busi- ness sooner or later becomes aware of the disadvantages accruing to his business because of his competitors working into and securing a portion of the trade which he legitimately considers as belonging to him. This may be considered a plain practical definition of competition; a state of affairs which always exists in business and which has been repeatedly defended and guaranteed by law to con- sumers to such an extent that anti-trust laws have been passed by the National Government to prevent combinations forming to maintain prices and arrest competition. Competition can be divided into two classes, which may be termed respectively legitimate and illegitimate. Legitimate competition may be de- scribed as selling goods at a sufficient price to cover cost of production, interest on capital invested and a further margin of profit for the operation and risk of the business. Illegitimate competition may be de- scribed as selling goods below cost of production, or so near cost of production as to not leave a sufficient margin of profit to cover interest on the investment or leave a margin for the operator. Illegitimate competition is more often engaged in by those who have not suffi- cient knowledge of the actual cost of pro- ducing and marketing the goods they are selling, or who are not able to reckon the risks of credit and other risks attending mercantile transactions. Illegitimate competition may also arise when a merchant quotes prices below cost of production in order to drive his competitor out of the market, or where prices are lowered below said cost, from a spirit of revenge. Business consists in disposing of goods at a profit, and in order to know whether you are selling goods at a profit, it is absolutely necessarv to know the cost of production as well as all costs of sell- ing, packing, and shipping goods, as well as to be able to calculate the attendant risks of credits and various losses which are frequently liable to occur. There are times when prices may be legitimately quoted below the cost of production, such as at the close of a season when all stock on hand must be sold or otherwise become a loss and in such cases it is considered good business judgment to close out the left-over stock at a low price and turn it into cash so as to avoid a loss as far as possible. In such cases it requires good judgment to decide what probable effect upon future busi- ness the lowering of price will have, and if it can be foreseen that lowering the price at that particular time will cause a greater loss in the future, it then would be better judgment to losethe goods than to lower the prices and sell. Competition ought not to be seriously felt when there is not an over-production of goods, as nearly every one is able to sell out the entire stock that he produces. It becomes the most serious during periods of extreme business depression or over-production, as then there is not suffi- cient market to take the entire produc- tion, and efforts to sell must be much increased, the usual manner of increasing the sales being an effort to encourage consumption by lowering the price. So long as lowering the price encourages a sufficient increased consumption to take the entire or an increased production at a fair margin of profit, the price lowering may be defended, but when the lowering of prices does not so increase the con- sumption, or when it destroys the margin of profit, its advisability becomes a ques- tion. When overproduction exists, the remedy is to stop production rather than destroy material already produced. Pro- duction usually stops through the inabil- ity of producers to sell their product and meet their current expenses. While the margin of profits are large, most opera- tors make money, but when the margins become close, careless producers, and pro- ducers of undesirable and unsalable goods as well as producers who sell at less than cost, are eventually driven out of business. The remedy for the evils of competition cannot be eradicated by concerted action, but must be accomplished by individual action; by each and every producer keep- ing thoroughly posted and abreast of the times, studying the wants of his custo- mers and placing himself in a position to supply those wants in a manner to best please his customers, and above all things to know what it costs to produce the goods he offers for sale, as well as the cost and attendant risks of selling and to place his price at a figure that assures a legitimate business profit, and to main- tain those prices and seek to hold his trade by the reliable quality of his goods as well as the reliability of his dealings with his customers, coupled with a will- ingness and a desire to serve his custo- mers promptly, efficiently and honestly. When there are a large number of con- flicting interests, combinations to reduce production have eventually ended in an increase of production through the gen- eral bad faith of the members of the com- bination, some thinking that a reduced product would cause an advance in the price and that if he couid, unbeknown to his competitors increase his own product, he would make a corresponding extra gain. There have been cases where an agree- ment to restrict the output of a com- modity has resulted in increasing the out- put from 25 to 3313% and even more. Combinations of manufacturing con- cerns to maintain prices have usually resulted in the wiping out of the smaller concerns by the larger and stronger. This occurs from the fact that the larger con- cerns (who always dominate the combi- nation) are able to get at the inside facts of the affairs of the smaller concerns, to learns their vital points, and to so shape the policy of the combine as to injure the smaller concerns in these vital points to such an extent as to drive them out of business. There are several examples of this exist- ing in the United States to-day, chief of which may be mentioned the Standard Oil Co. and the American Watch Manu- facturers' Association. This last associa- tion existed until it was dissolved by judicial decision, but the two largest watch companies in the U.S. had already gotten such an insight into the business that they now control the entire American watch trade. In conclusion, we may assume that at the present time competition is the most keenly felt by florists inasmuch as every line of business is complaining of extreme dullness, stagnation, and no margin of of profit, but there is an end to this stag- nation, though the end may not be as near as we all would wish. Consumption steadily continues, while production is largely arrested, and the surplus stocks of goods are being gradu- ally consumed. As soon as the election excitement is over and confidence is restored business will revive. It will be necessary to largely increase manufactur- ing and then the worst evils of competi- tion will disappear to reappear again whenever a business depression recurs, which depression may be caused by a change of political parties, over-prodoc- tion of commodities, or a contraction of credits which have been too widely ex- tended or by some other unforeseen cir- cumstance that may operate to destroy public confidence. Competition m the Wholesale Cut Flower Busmess From the Retail Stand- pomt. HV KOIJT. KIFT, I'UILAI)KLrm.\. T'.\, In the present generally accepted meth- ods of turning cut flowers into money, there are four parties whose interests have to be considered. First, the pro- ducer or grower; second, the wholesale dealer who sells on commission; third, the retail merchant, who as a rule, is the only one known to the general public; the fourth and final, the consumers. Probably 20 per cent, of the cut flower supply of the country, outside of the city of New York, is disposed of in a retail way by the growers, who are so situated as to meet the consumers, and to whom i8g6. The American Florist, 85 DRACJINAS PLANTED OUT ON BENCHES. GHENT. THROOUH AMERICAN BYES. they sell direct. The other 80 per cent, reaches the retailer either directly from the grower, or indirectly through a mar- ket, or is supplied by the wholesale dealer, or commission man. It is the disposition of this latter stock that concerns us. When the supply and demand are about equal the present system seems to run along quite smoothly and there is very little complaint; but let either extreme occur and there is trouble at once. Then comes the competitor in trade, and gen- eral unsettling of prices that interferes with the best of systems and puts every- thing at sixes and sevens. The grower, during the short crop season, thinks on account of the more favorable returns of his neighboring competitor that he is not being treated right, and his next consign- ment is handled by another dealer. On the other hand, the retail storekeeper, on account of the scarcity and consequent high prices, turns over his stock with little or no profit, or in the other ex- tremity is driven to his wits' end explain- ing to his customers how it is that the fakir on the corner below him is enabled to sell just as good flowers as his atone-half to one-third the price. We believe that it is right here that the abuses in the business exist; the extremes of supply and demand being the cause of it all. When men are climbing over one another to get stock to fill their orders and there is not nearly enough to go round, not only do prices go up, but all sorts of fair and unfair methods are used on both sides to meet the emergency. As the supply increases the tension is removed and things move along smoothly. Presently, however, the stocks begin to swell and swell, although the demand may increase, it does not keep pace with the supply, until finally the other extreme is reached and the glut is on. The ordi- nary requirements of the business at this time only takeaboutone-half to one-third of the product coming in, and the balance having to be sold is disposed of to the ever-ready fakir. Flowers are frequently oflfered for sale on the street corners by these gentry at a far lower figure than was paid the same day by the retail dealer, and when his profit is considered it places his cost price very low indeed. This is a competitor that the storekeepers have to meet in all of our large cities at the present day. Personally, we do not fear the fakir; he has his place in the business, he can handle and sell at a profit the kind of stock that could not be readily disposed of in the stores. But we object most strenuously to the favor that is fre- quently, in fact, almost universally shown this class of buyers by growers and com- mission men, who, after having supplied their regular trade at the best possible figures, dump the balance into the arms of the fakirs at their own price. Why not give the storekeeper the benefit of this job lot price? He is the medium through which the stock is expected to be sold; the fakir is a secondary consideration, in fact he is a creature of the surplus, with- out which he could not exist. Another formidable class of competitors, and one that must claim the attention of the re- tail dealers, is the combination store. In all the larger cities they are handling plants and even cut flowers, and pro- vide another outlet for the grower. The plan of these large houses is to pur- chase in large quantities, get a bottom price and then turn their stock over quickly by reason of the low prices at which they are enabled to sell. Unless this system should develop largely and thereby be able to prove steady custo- mers, their trade should not be encour- aged, as the tendency would surely be toward lower prices, and such competi- tion would be ruinous rather than bene- ficial. Competition has done wonders in every line of industry, and the flower business has been greatly benefited by the stimulus its healthy action has aroused. The sight of well grown flowers offered for sale alongside of very inferior stock of the same kind set the poor grower think- ing and wondering how it is done. The improvement in the quality of roses and carnations has been very marked in the past few years, and the competition of one grower's stock with another has had much to do with it. As a result of com- petition in other lines, look at the daily newspapers of our large cities. In their struggle for public favor and recognition they have exerted themselves to the utmost, increasing their size and general attractiveness of their journals, and at the same time have so much reduced the cost that one cent per copy is now rapidly becoming the popular price, and their editions are mounting up to the hundreds of thousands. Could not a fair competition in this business be made to work to our advan- tage in a similar manner? It may be pos- sible to sell medium and cheaper grades of flowers at lower rates than the average currant yearly prices that now prevail, provided all are sold. It has been our experience that there is seldom too many first-class flowers in the market. It is the medium and cheap grades that cause all the trouble. There is one thing, however, that must not be lost sight of, and that is that no matter how strong the compe- tition, flowers cannot be sold for any length of time below the cost of produc- tion, and that a profit must remain for the grower, the commission man and lastly the retail merchant. The latter fixes his price according to the price he himself pays. The grower gets all that he can, using last season's prices as a prece- dent. I have asked a number of growers what it cost to produce roses of this or that kind in certain months, and have never yet received a satisfactory reply, not that they had anything to conceal, but they did not know; they had never figured it out. Wm. K. Harris, in speaking about the cost of pot plants, such as Easter and bedding stock, has often said on seeing a lot of plants sold, "That man thinks he has made a good sale, while he has lost money, as he cannot grow them for the price he received." It is intelligent com- petition that will benefit the trade. A man should have a fairly good knowledge of what his products cost him before he offers them for sale. Competition should have a market to work in, a place where the buyer could meet the seller. There should be in every large city a central point where the daily business of the wholesale and retail dealer could be transacted. This has been our thought for the past fifteen years, but for some reason Philadelphia won't have it. But that it is the best though of many others is seen in the successful markets estab- lished in New York, Boston, Cincinnati and other cities. Even the commission men see the advantage of being together and the principle New York firms are now located so close to each other that a good sized roof would cover them all. Bring all the interested parties together, bring the stock there and let the common law of supply and demand settle the price. The Trade Exhibition. The trade exhibit occupied a large slop- ing platform at one end of the immense Central Armory, of which the balance was used for the Cleveland Florists' Cen- tennial flower show. Upon the platform level tables had been erected, rising tier above tier to the back The long tables, extending from side to side to the balcony running entirel.v around the hall, were devoted to the trade plant exhibit, which was very complete The wall space at the liack and the balconies at the sides of the plant department were given up to florists' supplies and requisites. The ele- vation of this platform above the main floor of the hall gave ample room under- neath it for boilers, wagons, ventilating apparatus, pots and all heavy goods, which could be easily brought in on the ground floor by very accessible doors, making a very complete and satisfactory arrangement. 86 The American Florist. Aug. 22\ Detroit Flower Pot Co. displayed a gen- eral line, including azalea pots, in depth between the ordinary pot and a pan — a good thing for any shallow rooting plants. Several ventilating machines were shown, set up in miniature greenhouses. E. Hippard, of Youngstown, Ohio, showed the Standard Ventilating Ma- chine; the Evans Challenge Ventilator, Richmond, Ind., was resplendent in white and gold, and the John C. Moninger Co. machine, set up in a handsome young greenhouse was also in evidence. One of the most taking exhibits outside the plant department was a very hand- some wagon built by the Jacob Hoffman Co. and specially designed for florists' use. Irving Predmore, Barnegat, N. J., dis- played moss and peat. Lockland Lumber Co., Lockland, Ohio, showed cypress greenhouse material. Edwin Lonsdale, Chestnut Hill, Phila- delphia, evaporating pan. Wm. Scott, Buffalo, N. Y., exhibited a garland binder that seemed to work quicklj' and well. W. C. Krick, Brooklyn, N. Y., florists' letters. Louisville Spirit Cured Tobacco Co., Tobacco Extract. John C. Meyer & Co. had a display of green silkaline, a number one article for tying smilax and asparagus. Edwin R. Stabler, Brighton, Maryland, showed lawn mowers. Eagle Wire Works, Cleveland, Ohio, had a verv good display of wire work. N. Stefhns, 335 E. 21st street. New York, displayed wire designs. Peter de Voecht, Wilmington, Del., ex- hibited bouquet holders. Benjamin Chase, Derry,N. H., a display of wood labels. The Harriman Co.,of Harriman,Tenn., had a plant setter in operation that at- tracted considerable attention. The Deming Co., Salem, Ohio, staged a very complete lot of spraying apparatus, pumps, &c. C. S. Ford, Philadelphia, exhibited a line of letters, lettering and material. The Carter-Crume Co., of Dayton, Ohio, showed an unusually complete line of very good paper boxes of all sizes, suita- ble for pretty much everything in the flower line. H. Bayersdorfer & Co. occupied a large table and wall space upon the upper part of the trade exhibit platform, staging an extremely varied selection of florists' sup- plies, including wheat sheaves, metal flower designs of all sorts, baskets fancy and otherwise, lettering and all the other odd articles that a florist's fancy or his needs could make him desire. Hitchings & Co., New York, exhibited heating apparatus. Herendeen Manufacturing Co., of Gen- eva, N. Y., showed the Furman Boiler. Josephus Plenty's Horticultural Works exhibited Howatt boilers. S. Fish & Son of Milan, O., had an ex- hibit of flower pots which tended to show that man is indeed sprung from Mother Earth, inasmuch as their exhibit included a man built of pots. The gentleman was good if not handsome. Diamond Pottery Co., Akron, O., phowed a very complete line of pots of all si?es. Mt. Gilead Pottery Co., Mt. Gilead, O., had a varied exhibit of earthenware of all sorts adaptable to a florist's business, including pots up to sixteen inches diam- eter. Pittsburg Clay Mfg. Co. showed pots of various sizes. Daniel B. Longj g^ff^lo, N. Y., showed his floral photographs, field grown carna- tion plants and smilax. Myers Bros., Altoona, Pa., showed a carnation support, practical and good. Pitcher & Manda were represented by a very good display of palms, dracsenas and ferns in good trade sorts and sizes, as well as some novelties and more deli- cate varieties. Their exhibit contained some particularly good Licuala grandis, also Adiantum Farleyense. They also showed a novelty in the shape of a gol- den-leaved dwarf myrtle that looked promising for bedding purposes. Chas. D. Ball had a good table of trade palms, crotons, araucarias, etc., in very available sizes. F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y., staged an excellent display of foliage plants. Among other noticeable features of their exhibit were some very well grown pans of ferns in various sorts, araucarias and Pandanus Veitchii. They also made a varied exhibit of Dutch bulbs, Lilium Harrisii, Romans and different flo- rists' bulbs. Siebrecht & Wadley, New Rochelle, N. Y., had a large display of all sorts of greenhouse foliage plants. Some Areca lutescens in large sizes were particularly fine. They had also a display of dra- caenas in great variety and well grown stock. A few Japanese pines attracted considerable attention. Some Licuala grandis were also very fine, also some good sizes of Livistona rotundifolia. Henry A. Dreer staged a nice lot of araucarias, good Latania borbonica, a very good lot of small ferns for lerneries, also some nice small stock of Asparagus Sprengerii. Robert Craig staged a very fine exhibit of crotons in variety, including Czar Alex- ander HL Rudii, Dayspring, Sunshine, Williamsii, Morletii, Mortii, Albo-lineata and Fasciatus.also some very good arau- carias and nice small palms and lerns. W. A. Manda staged some Roman hya- cinths as well as a line of palms for trade purposes. Sander, St. Albans, England, showed some rare palms and draca;nas that came in for a great deal of comment. Dracaena Sanderiana, a slender growing sort with white-edged leaves is a beautiful thing and will become popular. Dracjena God- seffiana, a wiry stemmed sort, with spotted leaves, would never be recognized as a draca;na, save by the label. It is, however, very beautiful and decidedly curious. They also showed in rare palms small plants of Da^monorops cinnamo- meus and Ptychoraphis augusta, both very pretty. Storrs & Harrison showed a fine stock of assorted hardy cut phloxes as well as good blooms of cannas Italia and Austria. Gordon Gray of Cleveland showed a nevk' bronze-leaved canna, very bright red flower, that seemed to be verj' fine and a distinct advance over any of the standard sorts. Cushman Gladiolus Co., Euclid, 0.,had a fine exhibit of cut gladiolus in extra fine sorts, a good display of good clear colors suitable for florists' use. Henry Eichholz, Waynesboro, Pa., showed a novelty in single geraniums under the name of Mars; color very much in the way of G. W. Earl, habit very dwarf, veiy free in bloom; looks well. C. H. Joosten staged a line ot hyacinths, Roman and Dutch; good Lilium Harrisii and candidum, freesias, etc. A line also of small palms, araucarias and florists' supplies. W. H. Elliott showed asparagus cut, and some very fine Adiantum Farleyense in various sizes. D. B. Long exhibited smilax, carnation and violet plants, and R. Vincent, White Marsh, Md., Ladj- Hume Campbell violets. It may be fairly said that the trade exhibit did not suffer in the least by com- parison with those of the past in other cities. On the contrary, it was better than those that have been seen in many of previous years, and a great deal of credit is fairly due to Supt. Cushman and his assistants for the efficient and consci- entious work that brought about so sat- isfactory a result. The awards at the trade exhibition were as follows: PLANTS. F. R. Pierson Co., certificate of merit for display of salable palms and ferns. Pitcher & Manda, certificate of merit for display of palms and other decorative plants. Special mention to same for new golden mj'rtle. Myrtus communis aurea. Chas. D. Ball, certificate of merit for palms of useful sizes for the trade. Small exhibit, but excellently grown. H. A. Dreer, certificate of merit for dis- play of decorative plants, especially palms- and small ferns; also new Asparagus. Sprengerii. Siebrecht & Wadley, certificate of meriif; for display of rare and useful decorative; plants. Sander & Co., special mention for new plants. Robt. Craig, certificate of merit for well grown and highly colored crotons. GREENHOUSE APPLIANCES. Edwin Lonsdale, honorable mention for cast iron evaporating pan. florists' SUPPLIES. N. Steffens, honorable mention for wire-work. Otto Krumpe, Cleveland, highly com- mended for wire designs, plant stands, etc. Carter-Crume Co., honorable mention for patent folding box for cut flowers. W. C. Krick, honorable mention for exhibit of immortelle letters, etc. C. S. Ford, Phila., honorable me:,tion for immortelle letters and emblems. H. Bayersdorfer, certificate of merit for large and varied display of florists' sup- plies, and for attractive and artisticman- ner of arranging the same. HULBS AND SEEDS. F. R. Pierson Co., certificate of merit for assortment of bulbs. C. H. Joosten, honorable mention for display of bulbs. W. A. Manda, honorable mention for display of bulbs. MISCELLANEOUS. Deming Co., certificate of merit for spray pumps and nozzles. Irving Predmore, honorable mention for sphagnum and peat, cleanliness and style of packing being specially noted. D. B. Long, certificate of merit for floral photos. Jacob Hoffman Wagon Co., certificate of merit for florists' deliver)' wagon. The Bowling Match. In the bowling contest the Evans Chal- lenge cup, valued at $100 (to be won twice before becoming property of win- ners) was won by the Buffalo team with a score of 2,565. The Cleveland Florists' Club cup went to the Pittsburg team on a score of L', 273. The gold medal for highest indivi years' experience In this country. Am a goodgrower. A 6. careAm. Florlat. ylTLTATlON WANTED— By a competent young man O of 7 years' experience with general greenhouse work. Private or commercial. Steadv and sober. J. C. KELWAY, Chicago. QITUATION WANTED-By fcingle German; thor- lo ough knowledge of glass and outdoor gardening, laying out of grounds, etc KLOitiST, P. O. Box t), Falmouth, Me. SITUATION WANTED-By good all round florist; \'l years' experlnce; steady and sober. South or Southwest preferred. Address GEO. Spencek, CIO Uornhlll St., Peoria, 111. QITUATION WANTED— As foreman or assistant in O good commercial or private place; 14 years' expe- rience In U. S and Europe: aye ^8 Al references. Address II E, care Wm. Scott, Buffalo. N. V. QITUATION WANTED-On a private place, by a O Danish florist; age '28. single; forcing of roses a specialty. Also experienced In growing orchids. Ref- erences from last employer. Address A V. care American Florlat. SITUATION WANTED-In retail store about Oct. Ist. by Al deeigTier and decorator; 'l% years man- ager for present employers; age 27; married; sober and Industrious. Best of references. Address at once, HuSTLEK. care Carrier ;it. Atlanta. Ga. WANTED-A man who understands budding and grafting and general nursery work. NEwroHT Ni'HSEKV CO., Newport, R. I. W ANTKI>— One good, sioutall round florist. Voung married German preferred. Address A P, florist, Crown Hill. Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a Hrst-class chance to establish himself. Address D U B. care American Florist. WANTKD TO RENT-A place with the privilege of buvlng. to grow carnations, roses, violets and bedding plants. Eastern States preferred. Address S. Leaiiv, Colchester. Conn. WANTED- Second-hand pipe. 5(10 feet of ;H-lnch wrouKht Iron pipe; or .">UI feet of 1^ or 2-lnch pipe. Slate lowest cusfi price. Address C C W, Box ','l.s. Mexico, Mo, WANTKD- A man who has a knowleilgeot growing roses. Also a young man for general stock. State wages with board. Address ('OLE BitoH,, Box 577, Peoria, III. WANTED Kun'iiian for IIKI.OIM) sij. feet of glass, devtilru |iiliiclpally to roses. MuhI bo a man of marked abiHiy. whose record I.h siiccobb. Address BKANT cV Not:, Sub I'. O- Forest Glen, Chicago, 111. WANTED— In St. Augustine, Florida, from Jan. Ist to April let. IS'.rr, a young woman of good ad- dress to act as saleswoman In retail florist's estab- lishment. Must be expertencetl and artistic In table and room decoration. Traveling expenses paid. Ad- dress Ward i;. Fosteu, P. o. Box -'s;i2. New Vork. WANTED— Good, competent, energetlr working flo- rist; one who can grow roses, carnations, 'mums, violets and general stock of cut flower. Must under- stand design work, and be able to take charge of place. State age. nationality and wages required. Address S. .J. Wei>]>en, Belleville. Ontario, Canada. IpOR SALE CHEAP-Good second-handlSand 4-inch ' pipe for hot water heating. Address W. n. Salter. Rochester. N. V. FOR SALE— A good florist buslnesB on Crescent St. and .Jamaica Ave. . opposite the main entrance to the Cypress Hills Cemetery. Address M- C- Hall. Brooklyn. N. Y. FOR RENT— A large nursery and plant establish- ment of many years' standing at Washington, D. <'. For parilculars apply Box 4^, city P. O- Washington, D. C. FOR SALE- Retail florist business In a city of 4(100 Inhabitants; four greenhouses; no competition within :iO mllew. Will be sold at half price if taken at once. Good reasons for selling, Mus. E. ,J. Ma<;anell, Tuscola. III. FOR SAIjE— Four greenhouses well stocked with roses, carnations. 'mums smllaxand pot plants; \\^ acres ground; good dwelling, five rooms. A U new. Price ^UKIO; ^\t\ down, balance to suit purchaser. For further information addret-a Box ;;41. Portland, Ind. FOR SALE-At Park Ridge, Hi.. 5 greenhouses 12,* feet long. .". room cottage and barn, with about '1% acres of land; or will sell my cut flower store wlilch has been on present place H years. Reas*)n forselling. not atiie to run both places. Address or call. 11. E. Re]>elin(;s,hi4 Milwaukee Ave.. Clilcago. FOR SALE— The Creston greenhouses: more thsn an acre of ground, two greenhouse, each 2i)x',t0 feet, workroom rJxKi; dwelling of 7 rooms, all heated by steam; city water, good barn, orchard, ornamental trees and shrubs and good establlslied business Does wholesale business In a radius of 'A\ miles. Onlv thing of the kind In city per box f. o b. mMH"" Flower Pots 2, 1!!^. 3, .S^ and 4 Inch, at half price; neariy all new. One Tubular Boiler for J;')(l, in good condition. Address C. NKUNKK, Louisville. Ky. PLANT BARGAINS. (iOOD THRIFTY STOCK. Per 100 GERANIUMS— Bruant. Mrs, E. G. Hill. Fire- brand, Geu'l Grant, Dr. Jacoby, White Swan, ai^-inch pots $2 00 FUCHSIAS— Black Prince and Speciosa, 2-inch 1 50 BEGONIAS— Argentia Guttata, 6ne, 2-inch . . 2 00 Sandersonii Hydrida Multiflora . 1 25 PELARGONIUMS— Robert Green, 2J^.iuch pots 2 80 4S"Send us a list of what you want to purchase or sell. WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box S7. MILWAUKEE, WIS. SMILAX PLANTS. Good stock from 2^-inch pots, per 100, $2.50; 250 for J5.50; per 1000, $20.00 VAUGHAN'S GREENHOUSES, WESTERN SPRINGS, ILL. FARQUHAR. We can surpiv this ^rand Violet well- rooted, at $4.00 per 100. Also California and Lady Campbell, line cliunps, $4.00 per 100. ANCHORAGE ROSE CO. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Now ready tor sale I rom I to ^hicii puis: all latest and best vurlotlus from :^^^'K\ to yj,"i IHI per liKi, (ireen- boiise phinis of all varieties In best condition, at low prU'cn iii'W ready. \j,. V>. Kv, V. J. J. Lawrence, St. Mary3, O. i8g6. The American Florist. 89 Buffalo. There bas been more flowers than busi- ness of late. The extremely fine weather has made outdoor flowers most abund- ant. Hot it has been, as everybody on the continent is well aware, and humid as well, for every day or two we get a heavy shower. 1 never remember seeing as many asters, gladiolus, and other gar- den flowers in such abundance as they have been for two or three weeks, and with little demand. Our stores are filled up with truck. Last Wednesday was the florists' out- ing, and most commendable was the way in which every establishment closed at noon. A large sign in the store windows and a conspicuous place in the greenhouses announced the afternoon was going to be the florists' holiday, and it was, and I don't think we lost much trade. They took themselves to Crystal Beach, a favorite lake resort on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie, of which our fellow craftsman, Mr. Joseph H. Rebstock, is treasurer. The youths took to athletic games, while the ladies, of whom there was a grand turnout, looked on and ap- plauded the winners. The old men went to the bowling alley, and played a handi- cap tournament. 'The handicap was as follows: Edw. \. Mepsted, scratch; W. S. Scott, scratch; J. H. Rebstock, 10; G. Mc- Clure, 15; E. Calvert, 25; G. Troup, 35; James Braik,35; L. H.Neubeck,40. After a hard tussle the last heat was left to J. H. Rebstock and E. Mepsted, the latter running out by a score of 247, a good score for the alley. The prize is seven years old and came from Kentucky. There was a 100 yard handicap dash, P. Scott won; from scratch time lO-'i sec- onds. This is such a town for wheels that the sports most favored were bicycle races. There are thirty thousand wheels in use in this town, so you can guess that not only the florist has a wheel but his smallest errand boy owns a "Stearns," a "Globe" or a "White Flyer." The track was a half mile and a good one. The one mile bicycle was won by A. Byers, first; Jake Heiser, second; W. A. Adams, third, time 217. The two miles was won by W. Greever, first; W.J. Palmer, Jr., second, and Mr. Bnddenborg third; time 4:40. The five mile race caused lots of fun and for the distance travelled was remarkable for the close finish. Johnny Milley, an old hand, landed the prize only a few feet ahead of D. B. Long, who was that dis- tance in front of Sebastian Pickleman, time 13 minutes. The next on the pro- gram was the half mile bicycle for ladies. This overshadowed all other events and caused some hot talk among the boys in arguing the merits of their respective favorites. It was won by Miss Cotter, Miss Rachel Rebstock second and Mrs. J. Stafflinger third; time 1:07. The sports concluded with the boys half-mile race which was gallantly won by Palmer's "Jakey," pedigree unknown, Scott's "Frenchy" second and Mr. Anderson's "Nomination" third; time 1:15. The crowd then strolled to the pavilion where a refreshing repast was relished, and from then till 10:30 the light fantastic had its sway. It was lovely to witness the boys and girls tripping through the intricate figures of Money Musk, Crooked S, Tea- straw and other fashionable dances. The committee of management were W. A. Adams, W. Kasting and Philip Scott, and hard they worked. I believe the general opinion was that although a beautiful Beach and attractive place as Crystal beach is, a spot where we could be more together by ourselves would suit better for our annual outing. Whoever laughs or sneers at the holidays and absolutely closing down of business for half a day should remember that we poor florists have scarcely any holiday. Sundays we are wanted to fill orders. Christmas and New Years and Easter when other people are having a good time we are waiting on them,so we and our assistants must have some time for fun. W. S. Dracaenas in Belgium. Drac£enas were quite largely grown in Ghent and many growers were quite suc- cessful with this class of plants and said they found a good demand for well grown stock. The plan adopted generally is to plant them out on benches or walled-up beds inside the houses during the summer and lift early in the fall, when the plants soon fill the pots with roots and are ready to ship. The photograph is of a house or range of houses together at the estab- lisment of Mr. Ed. Story, Ghent, probably the largest of its kind that we saw. The gutters were about ten feet apart, under- neath each of which was a path about thirty inches wide. The table spaces were walled up with brick and the entire house filled with drac^nas, one or two tables being given to a variety. The bouse was 150 feet long by about the same distance in width. K. FLORISTS' HAIL ASSOCIATION. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 'I'll'- number of iii-'IiiImts in th«' Florists" Hail Associjition ouAii':tisi 1. iHltn, was (»5'J. Tin- risk ;it thnt time was upon -J.lM.f)!'.* squnn' feet, of sin- tr'r ttiick tilass: ou i.UU8,0T5 S(|u;iri' fn paid in one week. 37,461 square feet of sin^l<- thick glass belonging to members, and :il. 459 square feet of double thick glass have been broken diirini: the year by hail. Of single thick ■:l:is^ one squ:ire foot out of every 65 19554-37461, ;irul of (joulilc iliiok glass one square foot out of ev«Ty 137 I27S2-:il459 insured was broken. This is the hiriicst iiercentage of loss that the Association has ever sustaim-d in a single year. The Secretary' has been able to locate hail storms in 15 different" states and territories during the past year. Considering the severe test to which the Flo- rists' Hail Association has been subjected during the past year, its efficiency may be considered to liave been fully established. The new business for the past year has supplied the delinquencies from the sixth assessment, and has given a handsome increase besides, to the amount of glass already insured. Judging from inquiries received, a large increase of business may bn looked for during the ensuing year. JOHN G. ESLER. Secretary. TRFASURER'S REPORT. MISCELLANEOUS EXPENDITTRES. Augusts. 1895, A. T. DeLaMiire Printing and Publishing Co . . $ 7 50 August 27, 1895, Collection of interest ou bond . . 15 Sept. 7. 1895, John G. Esler expressage on books ... ... 1 70 Sept. 7. 1895, Wilson Humphrey A Co. as- sessment books 27 00 Sipt. 11. lM9r>. American Florist Co., ad- vertising .... 29 05 Sept. 30. 1H95. A. T. DeLaMare Printing and Publishing Co 2 50 Dec. 9. 1895, A, T. DeLaMnre Printing and Pul)lishing Co . . . Dec. 16, 1895. J. M. Jordan, settling Pierce mortgage JaTi. 9, 1896, Florists" Exchange, adver- tising' . .Ian 16, American Florist, advertising, Jan. 27, .lolm Ci. I'lsler, six inoiitlis salary. Feb. 24. Hackensiick Republican. . . Feb. 24, A. T. DeLaMare Printing and Publishing Co ... . April 1, Albert M. Herr. box rent and postage April 1, J. .V. Newby, refunded money . . April 15. John G. Esler, postage . . ' . . May 12, Hackensack Republican .... May 25, Market St. Printing House , . . May 27, A. T. DeLaMare Printing and Publishing Co . . June 19, A. T. DeLaMare Printing and Publishing Co July 2, J. M. Jordan, salary July 2, J. G. Esler. salary * July 2. Albert M. Herr, salary July 5. A. T. DeLaMare Printing and Publishing Co Julv 7. Florists* Exchange, advertising. July 13. J. G. Esler. postage July 18, Albert M. Herr. postage July 29, J. M. .Jordan, postage Tot.-il . Aug. Aug. Aug. ton Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. April HI LOSSES PAID. 8, IS95. H. .lacobs. Canton. O . ; 8, \V. H. Gullette A Sons, Lincoln. Ill 12, Andrew Washburn, Hlooraing- .111 14. J. H. Werks, Liberty. Mo . . 26. A. l. Maibe. Marshalltown. la. . 26, Mangold Bros., Atchison. Kan . 20, Fred Ehrbach, Cleveland. O. . . 13. 1896, Thomas Newell. Streator, .\liril 13, J. H. Meyer. Moberly. Mo. . . . April 20. S. H. Heaver. Seward, Neb . , . May 12, A. P. Steele. Wadsworth. O . . . Alav 12, R. Roy ])avis iV' Son, Morrison. HI May 18. C. M. Ellis .t Co.. Wyoming, HI . May 20, Mrs. Mary Eaton, Lyons, la. . . Jlay 25, Raymond Miller. Abilene, Ivans, May 25. I\Irs. S. H. Haglev, Abilene. Kans Juiie 1, AleMinder Waldbart. St. Louis. . June 1. Julius Stjijick. Moline, 111 . . June 1. Roljcrt Scott A Son, Philadelpliia June 1. S. H. Beaver, Seward, Neb .... June 1. S, W. Pike, Akron. O June 4, C. Young's Sons. St. Louis June 6, Charles Hal/.born. St. Louis . . . Juno 6, C. F. Rauinliiiugh. Fremont, O. . June 6, Felter A Brecker, St. Louis, . . . June 6, Roi)ert Tesson, St. Louis June 6. Michel Plant and Bulb Co., St. Louis June 8, Jordan Floral Co., St. Louis . . June 8, Oscar Wright, Moundsviile, W. Va June 9. Fred Sunimerfield. Springfield, Mo ... . June 9, Mrs. .7. E. Patton, Trenton. Mo. . June 17, B. Simanton. Falls City. Neb . . June 19, Mrs. J, W. Scott. .Vtlantic. la. . June 19. Mrs, J. E. Patton. Trenton, Mo . .fuTu- 22. John L. Brady. Medicine Lodge, K:ins .... ...... June 24. John G. Knoll, St. Louis June 24. N. S. Gritliths. Independence. Mo . . . . ... June 26, Mrs. M. D. Eggling. St, Louis. . June 27. Mrs, J. W. Scott. Atlantic, la. . June 29, F. Kuchenmeister, Wichita, Kans .... . , June 29, W. Horlacher, Junction City. Kiins ". .luly 6. Chas. A. Juengle. St. Louis. July 10. Elbert Corbin. Grand Island. Neb. July 24, George Clark, Denver. Colo . . . 2-1 50 8 .tO 5 95 200 00 350 7 8.5 14 09 10 25 75 7 GO 2 75 1 50 985 30 00 200 00 100 00 2 65 6 50 15 10 18 00 18 25 f 806 29 % 2 00 22 49 79 80 11 66 8 25 8 23 12 84 4 65 4 78 8 65 4 08 .=i7 76 2 24 21 08 18 50 3 35 69 80 17 50 59 32 21 25 91 18 3 739 86 27 40 6 61 19 25 893 02 1 109 60 143 78 5 61 8 25 7 00 50 32 206 21 7 00 14 70 102 54 14 60 379 10 36 19 4 76 17 76 50 00 4 30 3 68 ■I'otal . August 1, 1896, Total dishursemt'llts to . $7 380 85 BECEIPTS. I'nt Aun. 1, 1895. to Auk. 1 Buhince from last statenn Sixth assessment Pierce mort^iaj^e and interest New members 1st assessment Additionals 1st assessment Extra one half Extra whole Re-insurance ... .... Interest rei'Cived on investments for tin vear 13 039 36 4 868 18 557 ,66 277 76 314 62 10 80 1.60 45 87 18 167 60 Total $9 990 79 Expenditures 8 187 14 Balance .... $1 803 65 BONDS HELD. One 6 per cent. Lake View $ 500 00 One 4 per cent. Cityof ChicaKo 500 00 Two 6 per cent. County DuPaiie 1 000 00 One 4 percent. Village ol Evanston. ... 500 00 Two 6 per cent. Orville Twp 1 000 00 $3..60O 00 RcspectfuUv submitted, ALBERT M. HERR, Treasurer, 90 The American Florist. Aug. 22, Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, Si. 40; Column, S14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts. 6 times, 5 per cent; 13 times, 10 per cent; 26 times, 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising nepanment of the American Florist Is for Floristfe. Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines Onlv. Please to remember It. Orders for less than one-half inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure Insertion In the issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Tradescantia Reginae — Myrosma. Can you give me any information in regard to the culture of Tradescantia Reginas and also if there is such a plant as Myrosma canricefolia known to cultiva- tion. I bought one under that name, paying a fancy price for same, which proved to be that old plant known as hedychium or Butteifly lily. S.J.Y. Georgia. Tradescantia regirse is a warm house foliage plant and not specially difficult to cultivate. A rather light, open soil is best for plants of this class, and a com- post consisting of light loam, to which has been added about one-fourth of peat, and some coarse sand, and enriched with a small quantity of dry cow manure broken into small pieces, should prove quite a satisfactory mixture for the purpose. A moist atmosphere is also required, with a temperature of 60° to 70° at night, and the plants should also be protected from full sunlight by means of shading on the glass. So far as we can learn the plant that has been introduced of late years under the new name of Myrosma cannsefolia is none other than our old friend Hedychium coronarium, and the error is said to be due to a certain European firm, whose enterprise apparently exceeded the'rr care- fulness. W. H. Taplin. Greenhouse Building. South Framlngham, Mass., C. J . Power, one commercial house, 20x100. Cambridge, Mass., B. J. Macklin, one commercial house, 18x67. New York City, W. W. Astor, one con- servatory of brick and iron. Watertown, Mass., J. 0. Wellington, one conservatory. Warren, Pa. Mr. D. Offerle's new greenhouses are nearing completion. His 25x150 rose house is a model of the kind and is well worthy of a visit. Mr. Offerle will give his special attention this season to roses and carnations. Homo. Sharon, Pa.— Mr. I. J. O'Brien, who has been on the sick list for about three weeks, has left for Cambridgboro to recuperate his health. Savannah, Ga. — Wolf & Co. have erected a new house 18x75 feet, making their present glass area 4,000 feet. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that you saw the advertisement in the American Floris*: ""VJI^t NEW HARDY FERNS, 1896 Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER 1000 FROM NOW UNTII. DKCEMltEK 1st. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. When wTltlnn mention the American Florist. O0M^ELMf6UPPlJEi «worT $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of 81000 cash j for ONE PLANT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. I The offer was refused, a greater price being , asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative ( purposes, 81..50 per 12; $10 per 100, from 2^-mch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. The New York Cut Flower Go. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733. 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWER S IN THE WORLD FERNS IN VARIETY. Just the thing for this Fall. Well estab- lished in 2-inch pots. Adiantum from flats. Field-grown CARNATIONS In season. Write for varieties an-wriiar IjOissi».i*.Xjs;, Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, I (SII111..I1 ll.i PHILADELPHIA. PA. STRONG, HEALTHY, CLEAN PLANTS. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, from 4-in. pots at |6.oo per 100; $50.00 per 1000. Send for Sample. Cash with order. THEODORE KNOCKE, Princeton, N.J. THE NEW DIRECTORY IS NOW READY. i8g6. The American Florist. 95 Fern Notes. To ensure a good supply of well fur- nished plants for early spring trade it requires that the stock should have atten- tion early in the autumn. I find there are many ferns which if kept in heat will con- tinue to grow, but the growth made dur- ing November and December is not satis- factory, and only weakens the crowns for the spring growth. If they are kept quite dormant by giving only heat enough to keep out frost and sufficient moisture to keep them from shrivelling up, when they are removed to a warmer house, say about the middle of January, they will start away vigorously and soon over- take those that have been kept in heat throughout the winter. Where large quantities are grown there will generally be found a good number left on hand towards the end of the season. These if kept in cold pits until frosty weather sets in and then given a little protection, will not require much attention, and will make useful material for spring trade. Adiantums of the cuneatum type may be quite dried oif and all the old fronds cut away before they are started, but when this is done water should be given sparingly until they are started, after which, if the pots are well filled with roots, liquid manure may be used freely, or any artificial fertilizer, such as Clay's will be found very beneficial, but in using this care should be taken not to overdo it. A little and the dose repeated is much better than giving too much at one time. Pteris serrulata and varieties are among those which do better when rested during the winter. I have also seen cyrtomiums whicb have been kept in a cold pit throughout the winter, start away and make fine plants in a very short time. Of course it requires strong crowns which should be well matured in the autumn, to stand much cold. Young seedlings are better kept in warmth. The above remarks which apply to such are required in quantity, also apply to some degree to all ferns. I believe a great many choice ferns are lost through keep- ing them growing late in the year. I do not recommend extremes, but generally speaking, it is better to keep the tempera- ture a little too low than otherwise, until we begin to get the days lengthening out and more sunshine, after which even hardy ferns will make more satisfactory growth if given a little extra warmth. A. H. BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS, MERMETS and METEORS, 2-iii. S3.00 per 100; $25.00 per 1000. LA FRANCE, 3-inch 85.00 per 100; S-15.0O per 1000. 25 at 100, and 2.50 at 1000 rates. I«. F. TEJSSO:iV, West Forest Park, ST. LOUIS, MO. ROSES-FORCING. strong 4-inch, S5.00 per 100. BRIDE. BRIDESMAID, PERI-E, METEOR. Write for Special Low Prices on 500 and 1000 lots. HARKETTS FLORAL NURSERY, THE DIRECTORY For 18J)6 # Is Now Ready. Price $2.00. American Florist Co. DO YOU NEED STOCK? HOW DOES THIS STRIKE YOU? VIOLETS— 500 Schoenbrun, good thrifty 2"4'-inch stock $2.50 per 100 " 400 Swanley White, " 2X-inch stock 2.50 per 100 *' 2000 Marie Louise, " 2;4'-inch stock 2.50 per 100 " 200 Czar, " a^jj^-inch stock 2 50 per 100 Fine stock of H. P. ROSES, in 2^ inch pots, good assortment, at 3.50 per 100 Orders booked now for Carnations, field-grown, for September delivery. Adj,... ITANZ & KEUNER, Louisville, Ky. 7,000 FIRST QUALITY FORGING ROSES. I'lrst-flasH and perfectly healtby In every respect. Only select growth from flowering shoots used In propagation. ISO AMERICAN BEAUTY 600 MERMETS 550KAISERIN 700 SUNSET 75 PAPA CONTIER 325 WOOTTONS 300BONSILENE 650 BRIDE 1000 BRIDESMAIDS 375 NIPHETOS 200 METEORS 150 BELLE SIEBRECHT 1700 PERLES 75MME. HOSTE :i-lnch pots, ir).lJO per lUO. 4-lnch pots, K.OU per 100. ■^^APA MERMETS. Cl^SlNS. TESTOITTS. NIPHETOS. BKII>ES. HRII>ESMAII).S, .METEOR. HUSTE. Illl^k^ wATTEViLLEs, Al'G. VICTORIA. 2 3 and 4-lnch pol plants. Cash with order. Owing ■c^^b^ to number booked, they will be executed In rotation to assure prompt delivery. 1 1 Order early. ■■ Address for quotations. VILLA LORRAINE ROSERIES, MADISON, NEW JERSEY. IIICDinAU DCAIITV meteor, bridesmaid, bride, testout. perle. AfflCnlwAn DCAU I I f sunset, la FRANCE, KAISERIN. i and 4-iuch pots. M. LOUISE VIOLETS. ^Va, :i and 4 inch. CALIFORNIA VIOLETS, 2}^, 3 and 4-inch. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS, 3 and 4inch. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSI-'S iu 2j^-iuch pots which I will sell at SliUO per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Si xth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. Good, strong ^Vlnch stocfe. Per lUO MARY WASHINGTON !-' 00 MRS. DEGRAW 2 00 GOLDEN GATE 2 .50 MME. C. TESTOUT 3 00 CASH WITH ORDER. NATIONAL PLANT CO , Dayton, 0. 15.000 ROSES for ccxt tolooii::!. shall be glad to correspond with parties wish- ing Daily. Semi, Tri or Weekly Shipments. GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. From 2-iiich pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List uf varieties and prices furnished EIC:!X.N'GER. IREENHOUSE i AND Oi'1i;E R BUrtPINS M ATERIAL. ^ SonAfor our Illustrated BooK ^ "CYPjRESlS LUMBERAMsfrsUSES." { Send fo^^urSpeci&l Greenhous^5^HN; J. D. Carmody, Hvansville, Ind. Dear i"/*-.— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON, Gainesville, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for lUuatra »,ed Catalo^e. QUAKER CITY P/tACHINE WORkS Kirhniond, Ind. IMPROVED GLAZING! GASSER'S ZINC JOINTS Makes a root Air and Watrr Tltiht. No lapping N" hreakage from frusi or medlufn sized hall. S.ives fuel GASSERS IMPROVED PUTTY MACHINE-all metal. Most practical and lastit g Putty Machine in use. Price. $2.00. Cash with order. SENIi Ft)R CIKCtrLAR. J. M. GASSER. Florist, 101 Euclid Avenue, CLEVELAND, O. T «3??ABBL. 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Eastern Office: 67 BroinSeld St., Boston. This paper Is a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the ChlcaKO Trade Press ABSoclatlon. OFFICERS : W.M. Scott, Buffalo, president; Adam Graham, Cleveland, o. vice-president; W. J Stewart, ti; Bromfleld St., Boston. Mass.. secretary; H. B. Beatty, on City, Pa., treasurer CO.WTENTS. The Cleveland Convention 101 — The chemical tripod in floriculture 101 — The local exhibition at Cleveland 102 — The shooting tournanient 103 —The tally-ho ride 103 --Boston to Cleveland 103 — Philadelphians at Buflalo 103 —A visit to Detroit 104 Carnations— Notes 104 — Unhealthy carnations 104 Roses— Notes 10.5 — Crops and expenses 10.5 Chrysanthemums- Notes 10.5 New York 106 Philadelphia 106 San Francisco 107 Boston 108 Cleveland 108 Pittsburg 108 St . Louis 108 Toronto 109 Chicago 110 Obituary— Wm. G. Newitt 110 The seed trade 112 Detroit 114 Bay City, Mich 114 St. Thomas, Ont 116 Steubeuville, 116 Erie, Pa 118 Council Blufls, la 118 Terre Haute, Ind.— Fred. Wunker & Sons have gone into business as florists here, bavins erected five bouses 80 feet long and one 40 feet. Portland, Maine. — Tbe horticultural department of the New England Fair, which has been in progress during the past week at City Hall was an important feature. J. A. Dirwanger and Albert Dir- wanger of this city, and C. L. Marshall, of Lowell, Mass., were winners of most of the premiums. The final premium list for the 10th annual chrysanthemum show of tbe Soci- ety of Indiana Florists, to be held at Indianapolis November 10 to 14, has been issued. Copies may be had on ap- plication to the secretary, Mr. R. A. Mc- Keand, Gaifield Park, ladianapolis, Ind, THE CLEVELllND CONVENTION. The Chemical Tripod in Floriculture. 13Y l'U4)F- R. C. KEDZIE, [Read be/ore the Society of American F/onsts at the Cleveland Conz'ention.] Of the seventy elementary substances recognized by the chemist only thirteen contribute to the formation of vegetable substances. Out of this "baker's dozen" all the varied forms of leaf, flower and fruit are fashioned. Nature does not stand on either the monometallic or bimetallic platform In her annual cam- paign of beneficence, but out of five metals and eight non-metals, materials base as earth and fleeting as air, she car- ries her currency of beauty and fragrance. Of these thirteen organic elements, three make up more than nine-tenths of all cultivated plants, namely, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen-carbon and water. But while these make up the largest part of plants they are not classed as manures, because they are not applied by hand, but come to the plant from the atmosphere in the form of carbonic acid and rain; they are Nature's free gift to plant life and are borne on the wings of every wind that blows and the clouds that float aloft. Of the ten remaining vegetable elements, seven are found in ample supply in every garden soil. Many of these are abso- lutely essential to plant life, such as lime and magnesia, but the florist seldom finds it necessary to add these to his soil as manure; oxide of iron is usually in excess of the requirements of the plant. It is Nature's paint-box, colors and a variety of things. The decaying vegetable mat- ter or humus gives a brown color to most soils; when it is absent, the ground would be white as snow but for the color- ing by oxide of iron. In the world of life it colors the blood, it paints the rose and gives the green of forest and field. The three remaining elements, potas- sium, phosphorus and nitrogen, are of the highest importance to the florist for four reasons: First, they are absolutely indispensable to vegetable life because no plant can grow in the absence of any one of them; second, becausein availableform they are found in smaller amount than the other food elements; third, because they are soonest exhausted by cultiva- tion; fourth, because they are especially concerned in the early growth of plants up to and including the period of flower- ing. For intensive culture where we seek the largest product from the smallest area, the fertilizers containing these three materials are in special demand. By their judicious use results have been reached once considered impossible. For these reasons I call them the chemical tripod of successful floriculture. A review of the chemical conditions of vegetable growth will show the superla- tive importance of these three chemicals as manures. Carbon indeed is the leading element of plants, making one-half of the weight of their dry substance. The plant obtains this carbon from the carbonic acid of the air, which is absorbed by the leaf, decomposed in its green cells (chloro- phyll) and forms organic matter in the leaf by this carbon, combining in some unknown way with theelementsof water. It is only in the chlorophyll cell that this decomposition of carbonic acid and form- ation of organic can take place. In the vivid green color of the leaf you recog- nise its power to produce rapid growth. For the formation of the chlorophyll we have seen that oxide of iron is necessary, but after the chlorophyll cells are formed. Sir Henry Gilbert found that potash was essential to their assimilating activity. The very primary acts of vegetable growth thus depends upon potash, and no formation of the leaf and fibre is possi- ble in its absence. The very portals of vegetable life are held by potash, and even the assimilation of nitrogen seems to depend upon this basic substance. In farm crops yielding large quantities of carbhydrates, such as potatoes and corn, whose life history is brief— from three to four months — we find potash in large demand for perfecting such crops. In like manner the florist finds the rapid development and early maturity of bis special crop by the use of potash. The relatively large amount of potash and phosphoric acid found in the ash of all young plants is evidence of their impor- tance in the early stagesof plant growth, the phosphate of potash constituting about one-half of the ash of young plants, whereas in ripened plants lime, magnesia, and silica became leading materials in the ash. The formation of stocky, short jointed stems, seems to be aided by the combination of potash and phosphoric acid. PHOSPHORUS. The relation of phosphorus to plant life is of a controlling nature. The Ger- mans have a saying, "No phosphorus, no life." In the earliest development of life, and at every subsequent stage, phospho- rus is the hand-maid of the living princi- ple. Not only does phosphorus seem to come nearest in touch with the principle of life, and to be absolutely essential to its existence, but the presence and action of this element throughout the life of the plant seem to greatly promote its evolu- tion. The phosphate of potash in the earliest stages of growth seems to aid in the development of the root and leaf of the young plant; but every new root is an additional band to grasp soil food, and every new leaf becomes anothermouth to take in air food. Hence for forcing early growth we require fertilizers that will furnish available forms both of potash and phosphoric acid. 102 The American Florist. Aug. 2p^ NITROGEN. The great storehouse of nitrogen is the atmosphere, but this free nitrogen is use- less for the florist. It is only active or combined nitrogen that is available for the plant. This may be found in the form of organic nitrogen, ammonia or the nitrates. The office of nitrogen in the growth of plants is significent. The highest products of plant life are rich in nitrogen. Growth at all times requires it and where it is supplied in abundance the growth is rapid and luxuriant, the leaves acquiring a dark green color. Where associated with phosphoric acid, there is a large development of nitro- genous matter. Where nitrogen in the form of ammonia is in relative excess there is a tendency to an abnormal devel- opment of leaf and fibre with a checking of the fruit-forming process. This is especially true of ammoniain the gaseous form absorbed by the leaves of plants. In 1851 Ville of France states that green- house plants are greatly promoted in growth by gaseous carbonate of ammonia in a very dilute form, secured by placing lumps of carbonate of ammonia on the hot water pipes of the greenhouse. There is danger if this substance be used in excess, and it must not exceed one part of ammonia in ten thousand of air. Accord- ing to Ville the effect of the ammonia absorbed by the leaves is to increase the formation of leaf and fibre, greatly pro- moting vegetative growth with arrest of fruit formation, the flowers becoming sterile and falling off, and no flower buds forming for the time. The color of the foliage became dark green, and the plant exhibited great vigor of leaf growth. A similar riotous leaf-growth is exhibited when nitrates are applied to the soil, though in less degree. It would seem that the florist might take advantage of these facts in putting off the period of active flowering to some more opportune period. The times of special demand for flowers seem to be for weddings and festi- vals, for Christmas and Easter. Wed- dings and festivals are sporadic, and no forecast of their occurrence can be safely made by the florist, but for the Christmas holidays plans may be safely made. The corrective for this tendency of nitrogenous manures to excessive leaf- age is to be found in superphosphates, which have a special tendency to the formation of flower and fruit. This influence of soluble phosphates to pro- mote fruitfulress is recognized by farmer and gardener in promoting the early set- ting and ripening of various crops. Perhaps an instance in orcharding may make my meaning plainer. A farmer on our lake shore had set out a large orchard of pear trees, which grew vigorously from year to year till trees of a large size were formed, but no fruit. Wearying of seek- ing fruit there on and finding nothing but leaves, he asked me what to do? I called his attention to this peculiar tendency of phosphates to promote fruit bearing, and advised him to give the orchard a liberal dose of plain superphosphate, which he did. Soon after he sold his farm and moved to the Pacific slope, and I lost track of the experiment. Two vears ago in an address before our State Horticult- ural Society I spoke of this experiment and stated that I had heard no report of results of this use of superphosphate on a pear orchard, when a gentleman in the audience stated that after the dose of superphosphates the orchard produced a crop of pears in a single year that sold for enough money to pay for the whole farm. It the woody growth of a pear orchard may thus be turned to fruitfnl- nessa similar diversion of reformation to flower production may surely be made by our skilled florists. I have not the audacity to try to tell you how to run your greenhouses, but I candidly think that this suggestion of turning leaf growth and flowering by the alternate use of nitrogenous manures and super- phosphates, may be made practical by some florist here present. WHAT MANURES TO OSE. I shall probably surprise you all by mentioning wood ashes as first in the list. These contain all the mineral mat- ter of plant growth, and so far as minerals are concerned are an all-round manure. Without this mineral matter in some form, plants cannot grow. Con- sider also how large an amount of vege- table matter is represented by this ash. The mineral matter of a thousand dollars worth of flowers and plants will be held in a bushel of wood ashes. Then the potash of the wood ashes is more active than that in sulphate or muriate of potash, because it is in an alkaline condi- tion. The remaining ash elements are in a finely divided condition and capable of easy incorporation with the soil. For any additional supply of potash vou will use the Stassfurt salts, in the form of sulphate or muriate. If it were not for the high price I would recommend the nitrate of potash or saltpetre, which is a valuable manure both for its content of potash and of available nitrogen. NITROGEN. For nitrogenous manures your main reliance will be on nitrate of soda or Chili saltpetre, which is valuable mainly for its content of available nitrogen, of which it contains 16%. It is bettersuited to most soils and plants than the salts of ammonia. I would here mention as a valuable manure Peruvian guano if it were still a commercial article, but it seems to be a thing of the past. I venture to suggest a substitute for the nitrate of soda, viz.: dessicated blood. It is equally rich in nitrogen, gives out its supplies more uniformly, is not washed out of the soil by sudden rains, and does not "burn" the plants in a dry time. It also contains a noticeable amount of potash and phosphate, with a large amount of organic matter of some value. PHOSPHATES. For phosphoiic acid you turn to the various forms of phosphate of lime; to bones, opolite phosphorite, the South Carolina and Florida phosphates. Bones have a value in addition to the phosphate they contain because they con- tain animal matter rich in nitrogen; also because they are more easily dissolved than mineral phosphates. The claim once made for them that their phosphate of lime had become animalized and hence could "more easily go the rounds of life," is without substantial foundation, their relative value as phosphatic manures turns upon the comparative readiness with which they may be brought into solution. Dissolved mineral phosphates are just as valuable as dissolved bone phosphates, so far as the phosphoric acid is concerned. In coarse fragments bones act slowly because of the small extent of surface exposed to the solvent action of water, or the corroding action of roots. In fine powder or in fine dust like "float- bone" they act more rapidly, because of increased extent of surface, and because they can be more uniformly incorporated with the soil. , SUPERPHOSPHATE. No merely mechanical mixtures can dis- tribute any materia! so uniformly and completely through the soil as the apply- ing it in solution. Eyery particle of the soil that is wet by the solution receives a thin coating of the phosphate. The super- phosphate, though soluble in water, when applied to the soil does not long remain in the soluble condition, but is speedily precipitated by reaction with the com- pounds of lime, magnesia, iron and alumina in the soil. Each particle receives a thin coating of the phosphate, thus a mineral phosphate converted into super- phosphate by the action of sulphuric acid may be widelv distributed through the soil, and thus afford the plant roots everywhere a supply of this necessary ele- ment. The precipitated phosphate in this form is more active than in the original mineral phosphate. Asuperphosphateor soluble acid phosphate differs from the mineral phosphate essentially by its increased solubility. COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. A great variety of commercial fertilizers is found in the market, sometimes bearing names suggestive of the kinds of crops to which they are especially adapted. The name is nothing and may often be mis- leading; the composition of the fertilizer and the availability of its constituents are the matters that corcernthe florist. The fertilizers of commerce may be classed in five divisions; I. Ground bone. Containing a bone phosphate and animal matter rich in nitrogen. The more finely divided, the more active and valuable. II. Plain superphosphate or mineral phosphate made soluble in water by the removal of two equivalents of lime by sulphuric acid. The valuable element is phosphoric acid in available forms. Any insoluble phosphate is of small value in comparison with the soluble. III. Ammoniated superphosphates, which in addition to available supply of phosphoric acid contain available nitro- gen in the form of ammonia, nitrates, or organic nitrogen in the form of animal remains that readily decompose. IV. Numbers 2 or 3 with addition of potash salts in the form of sulphate or muriate. V. Nitrogenous manures such as the nitrate of soda, salts ot ammonia, etc. These are the most costly and need to be used with care in reference to the special quality of growth desired. The tables of analysis given out in the Bulletins of State Experiment Stations give the amounts and condition of these several fertilizing elements, from which you can determine the kind of fertilizer required. The Local Exhibition at Cleveland. The local exhibit staged by Cleveland florists brought out a surprisingquantity of plants and flowers for the time of year. Many Clevelanders were somewhat pessi- mistic in their opinion of the prospect for a successful show at the off time of year, either viewed from the standpoint of financial success or excellence in the mat- ter of quality. The result exceeded the most sanguine expectations from both points. The great Central Armory con- tained a large quantity of very good stuff and the paid attendance was very large. Even on the first day, thanks partly to the wide publicity given the affair by the local press and also very likely owing partly to the record of con- servative representatioa as to merit in the chrysanthemum show last fall, the attendance comfortably filled the ample space devoted to their use during the day and evening. But on the second and i8g6. The American Florist. 103 third days the attendance developed into a perfect jam. A perfectly good natured and highly satisfied crowd it was however. On the main floor were arranged five separate groups civering each four hun- dred square feet. These were entered in the competition for prize offered by the S. A. F. for best and largest display. One other group, making six in all, was staged on the balcony in the rear of the musicians. J. M. Gasser was first with a very good display, Mrs. E. G. Wilson second with an exhibit that displayed considerable originality. All the groups were very good and the merits of the groups were fairly equal. In tuberous begonias only three entries were made, the Williams-Wilson Co. securing first with ten different sorts very well done. A. Graham & Son took second on these. In cannastwo excellent displays were made by H. A. Hart and A. Graham & Son respectively. The plants were good and varieties liberal, including Queen Charlotte, Bonvier, Florence Vaughan, L. E. Bally, Progress, Chas. Henderson, F. L. Harris, J. D. Cabos, Pres. Carnot, Col. Dodds and many others. A. Graham & Son got first, H. A. Hart, second. The same gentleman received special mention on group of palms, first on two classes in asters, one second on same and a first and second in carnations, cut. A. Graham & Son secured second on gloxinias and first on cut lilies. E. H. Cushman secured all prizes on gladioli. J. M. Gasser took first on collection of plants in bloom, second on ten Begonia Rex, fancy caladiums, display of ferns, two vases of flowers, specimen ferns, red carnation and blue and mixed asters. Also first on display of carnations, ex- hibitor's selection of variety, white car- nations and hanging basket. It should be said that the fern exhibit was very good and competition very close. Mrs. E. G. Wilson got first on these. The same exhibitor drew second on blooming begonias and basket of flowers. W. J.Leitchgotfirst forspecimen geraniums and second on collection of six. Henry A. Dreer staged a very fine lot of choice nympbaas, which secured special mention. James Eadie was first on light and dark pink carnations and also on red, second on white, and third on basket of flowers. He also showed a very fine striped car- nation, white on Tidal Wave ground, a sport from that variety. Very beautiful, as free as Tidal Wave and tested for five years. This was awarded a certificate of merit. Wm. Parrot showed a fine collection of crotons, on which he took first, as also for specimen plant with a magnifi- cent Cycas revoluta. His very good allamanda got first for specimen flower- ing plant. L. D. Holden took second on fancy caladiums. Will Rock showed a finelily basket that took first for floral arrangement. There were many competitors with a great variety of designs and arrangements. A gondola of pink and white asters by J.M. Gasser took second. Probably nothing in the hall in the line took the public eye more than a floral exposition of Bryan's utterance relative to the crucifixion of the people on a certain golden cross of great renown. F. E. Carr showed a good collection of nympbaeas, secured first on blue and mixed asters and second on white. J. A. Smith took first on twenty pot asters and second on pink asters, A. Schmitt took first on collection of coleus and second on specimen. E. J. Paddock secured second on pair vases of flowers. Wamelinck Bros, secured certificate of merit on two classes of roses and second on two other rose entries. G. M. Stenger took first on hanging basket. Mollen- koff Bros, secured first on six geraniums in pots. D. Charlesworth & Son took second on coleus. The Williams-Wilson Co. took first on begonias, certificate of merit for American Beauties, second on tea rose and second on hanging basket. Siebrccht & Wadley obtained special mention for new and rare plants. Frank Smith took first on pair of flowering vases; J. M. Gasser second on cut lilies and first for collection of outside cut flowers. It may be said in conclusion that the local men are highly pleased in every way with the success of the whole affair, more especially as it was so largely experi- mental in its nature. A. The Shooting Tournament. The Philadelphia Club won the first prize by a score of 111, which was nearly twice as large as the next highest. Pitts- burg took second with a score of 68. Chicago followed with 50, Cleveland with 53, and New York with 37. George Anderson, of Philadelphia, won first individual prize — a gold medal — and John Burton, also cf Philadelphia, won second prize — a silver medal. These two tied in the tourney and shot ofi' for first at d second. The first shoot-off resulted in another tie, both hitting 9 out of 10. The result of the next shoot-off was: An- derson, 10 straight; Burton, 6. Edward Reid, of Philadelphia, tied with Ague, of Pittsburg, for third orize. In the shoot- ofi'Ague hit 9, Reid 7. The individual shoot was at twenty- five targets per man, known traps and angles, and resulted as follows: Burton, 22; Anderson, 22; Reid, 20; Ague, 20; Ball, 19; Wamelinck, 18; Elverson,17; Steffens, 17; Cartledge, 16; W. Scott, 16; Glover, 15; Craig, 14; Rindolph, 14; Altic, 13; W. B. Scott, 11; Negley, 11; Brown, 8; Hill, 2. The team match was at 25 targets, known traps and angles, six men on a team. The scores follow: PHILADELPHIA. I PITTSBURG. Burton 23 ! Elverson 14 Reid 17 I Randolph 14 Cartledge 19 ; Ague 17 Ball 17 , Murdoch 8 Craig 13 Negley 6 Anderson 22 j Altic 9 Total Ill ' Total . CHICAGO. P. Scott 12 Grant 4 W. Scott 12 Schweigert 1 Stanley, /^1 . — IQ A..T Glover J 9 Wilson 2 Total. 60 CLEVELALD. Sontag Wamelinck. . . . Schirring Aul. Hill. Total 43 Steffens 19 Manda ....... Hammond 3 Leuly NEW YORK. Brown 9 Sloan 6 Total 37 TheTally-Ho Ride. Friday was the Cleveland florists' own day. Cleveland hospitality was fully equal to the occasion and the ride through the parks will long be remembered with pleasure by those who participated. Ten o'clock was the time set for start- ing. At that hour Superior street in the vicinity of Army and Navy Hall presented an animated picture. On all sides were tally-hos, drags and carriages resplen- dent with bright gladiolus, geraniums and sunflowers, with harnesses festooned with evergreen and big hydrangea plumes nodding on the horses' heads At 10:15 the horns sounded and the great proces- sion was soon in motion, the sidewalks lined with spectators attracted by the gay parade. The route was through Cleveland's noted residential thorough- fare, Euclid avenue, to Wade and Gordon Parks, the natural beauty of which sur- prised and delighted the visitors. At the picnic grounds all dismounted and lunch was partaken of. The return to the city was through a densely settled section and the excursion- ists had high sport throwing the flowers which had decked the carriages to the crowds of excited and scrambling children who flocked by thousands all along the last two or three miles of the route. The affair was in all respects a grand success bringing to a close in a fitting manner a convention that had been marked throughout by loyalty, harmony and enthusiasm of the sort that always Boston to Cleveland. The car carrying the Boston party was named the Valparaiso. In view of the recent hot weather it was suggested that such "Chili" quarters would be very com- fortable. So it proved, for the weather and temperature were just right. One delegate had a good fright at the Union Station caused by the temporary disap- pearance of his satchel, and two caps were lost en route, but otherwise happi- ness reigned. There was a lower berth for everybody, and the presence of one lady, Mrs. Reuter from Westerley, gave a dignity to the aggregation that could not have existed without. Music in vari- ous degrees of discord was furnished by Messrs. Warburton and Rennie, neither of whom were seen to keep quiet for two consecutive minutes during the trip until the boat was boarded at Buffalo, when the lake air finally put a quietus upon them. On arrival at Buffalo on Monday morning the entire party started out for Niagara Falls, and the hackmen of that noted resort were made happy once more. At Niagara the party was augmented by the addition of Mrs. J. B. Deake and J. W. C. Deake of North Carolina, and at the boat the Philadelphia representatives appeared on the scene accompanied by W. R. Smith of Washington and others. In the evening a little event occurred which was not on the program. Mr. Deake had been carefully watching a package all day, which when uncovered disclosed a handsome cane, decorated with a North Carolina rabbit's foot. This Mr. Deake presented to President Scott with due ceremonial, informing him that the foot was a left hind foot and had been taken from a cross-eyed rabbit that had been killed at midnight at full moon, and would always bring him in luck in conse- quence. He also explained that he got this present in early, so as to "get ahead of the dog-goned Yankees for once in his life." President Scott made an appropri- ate response, and little speeches were also made by Robert Craig and several others. It was a moonlight night on the lake and was voted by all to have been one of the most enjoyable trips on record; 6:30 a. m. brought the ride to a close, and then we realized that we were in Cleveland. Philadelphians at Buffalo. In returning from the convention the Philadelphians lost their train and spent Saturday in Buffalo. They had a most enjoyable trip to Niagara Falls, and Pres- 104 The American Florist. Aug. 29, ident Scott gave the whole party a car- riage ride through the parks and princi- pal streets of Buifalo. It was a most pleasant finale to a thoroughly enjoyable convention. Q. C. A Visit to Detroit. All parties connected with the Pittsburg delegation to the Convention are un- stinted in their praise of the elegant hos- pitality distributed by the Cleveland flo- rists. That the convention was a success goes without saying with all who partic- ipated in it. Concerning the proceedings it is not necessary to say more than has been noted in your excellent columns. There was a little matter however con- nected with that convention, so far as the Pittsburg florists and a few gentlemen of the trade from other cities are concerned, that was calculated to enhance the pleas- ures of that delightful week, and leave for future times the most pleasant memories. I refer to the excursion to Detroit and vicinity planned by Mr. Harry Balsley, that most estimable gentleman from whom that excellent chrysanthemum takes its name. When the morning broke with the land- ing of the beautiful lake steamer "City of Detroit" at the wharf the weather cer- tainly looked inauspicious for any out of doors enjoyment, but when Mr. Balsley appeared at the Hotel Cadillac to wel- come us, that welcome was so warm and earnest that we forgot about the weather, whose frowns soon turned to smiles, and under Mr. Balsley 's guidance we were soon launched upon one of the most de- lightful day's pleasures it has ever been the fortune of the writer to have experi- enced. Leaving the Cadillac vye took the ferry to Belle Isle Park and after a two miles' ride upon the crystal waters of the Detroit river we landed upon that lovely spot, where large park wagons were in readiness to convey us among some of the beauties of that far-famed resort. What with primeval forest, trimmed out groves, clumps of shrubbery with beautiful eff'ects, sinuous lagoons edged with aquatics, flower beds with colors to please the artist's senses, carpet beds planned and executed with rarest skill and taste, and roads over which the horses pranced as if never to get tired, it was no wonder that with ever changing scenes, time flew swiftly. After traversing the park we brought up at the Casino, where a tasty lunch had been prepared for our refreshment, and from the balcony of which we were able to view a most splendid display of carpet bedding upon the lawn beneath with river in the near distance and far- ther away the tall spires of the great western city. Before leaving the Casino a vote of thanks, emphasized by three hearty cheers were extended to the gen- tlemen in charge of the party, to the park commission and the wholecity of Detroit. Then we drove across the long bridge connecting the "Isle" with the mainland and after viewing many of the beautiful streets and residences en route from park to park scattered over the city we brought up before the city business establishment of Breitmeyer & Sons, the leading florists of Detroit. Alter a careful inspection of this, one of the finest appointed florist stores in the country, we were committed to the care of young Mr. Breitmeyer, by Mr. Balsley who was called away by ill- ness in his family, and whom we did not see again until we were embarking on board the steamer late that evening, when he came with his best wishes for a safe return to our homes. It would be a long story for your read- ers if I were to relate the many pleasant experiences under Mr. Breitmeyer's escort. The twenty miles "trolley ride" to Mt. Clemens, where one of Mr. Breitmeyer's large floricultural and fruit farms is situ- ated was through a farmer's paradise. A rich soil and richest produce of orchard and garden and field met our eyes on every hand. From the cars carriages conveyed us to the greenhouses and farm. Everybody about their place showed skill and knowl- edge of their business and all were in- structed and entertained by the walk through the extensive range of glass and over a portion of the farm. We then as- sembled at the residence, where we were presented to the elder Mr. and Mrs. Breitmeyer and their beautiful daughters who received us with the grace and gen- erous hospitality for which they are lamed through all the country round- about. Again taking carriages we landed at the village inn where the time was filled in with an excellent dinner provided by our host; games of ten pins, music, etc., until the last car for the steamer that night. Soended thisenjoyable excursion, and as the great steamer turned her prow from the dock three hearty cheers rolled up for the Balsleys, the Breitmeyers, and the whole city of Detroit. A. W. S. Carnation Notes. We soon will be in the midst of lifting carnations, and transferring them to the houses. There is a general disposition to plant earlier this year, and we hear from quite a number that have planted some already. We ourselves planted a house this past week and are very much pleased with their behavior, some varieties show- ing scarcely any signs of wilting. Much valuable information has been given by other writers of these notes in former years on lifting plants and remov- ing them to the houses, and I somewhat hesitate to go over ground so much gone over before, but as we are all impressed with the importance of this phase of work in carnation culture, a few hints may not come amiss to a good many. I think to make my experience most serviceable to others, is to explain and describe how we proceed at our place. After a thorough cleaning of the house we treat the benches to a good whitewash with fresh slacked lime, and see to it that they are in a level position, for a bench where the water will run from one side to the other is very bad to manage, to keep an even moisture all through. Next the benches are filled with the prepared soil. At our place we wheel the soil in from the wagon. Much care is taken in filling the benches, to get the soil even in solidity, and if any clods they are broken up. To this end as the ground is wheeled in one or two men stand ready with hoe and shovel to break and pulverize the soil and throw it back with the shovel, filling the bench even in compactness. If dumped on piles and leveled off afterwards, it is often the cause of an uneven drying out of the soil; some spots are dry, while oth- ers are still wet. When the bench is filled a light person will pack the soil more firm by going over it with his feet. I would advise packing light soil rather firm. This done we take a narrow board with a straight edge, and long enough to reach across the bench, with a man on each side to scrape the board over the bench, filling in soil where too low, and taking off where too high, so the bench shows a perfect level surface. When ready to plant we give a good shading by applying a clay or mud wash to the glass. We use clay, for it makes good shade and is easier to wash off when shade is not wanted any more. Generally a good rain does that work. We mostly put the shade on while we are at work pre- paring the house, especially when clear and warm, to make it more comfortable for the -workmen. In lifting the plants, when large, it re- quires two men with spades, standing on opposite sides of the plant. The ground is all shaken from the roots by breaking the ball with the hand, the plants taken to a cool shed, where they are cleaned from all decayed leaves, taken to the house and planted at once. If there are men enough at hand the lifting, cleaning and planting will go from hand to hand and the roots stay exposed to the air the least possible time. In hard baked soil, when the breaking of the ball would break the roots with it, I would advise planting with a small ball. I advocate shallow planting. The stems of the plant should hold the branches aloft from the ground. I never allow planting where the branches are partly immersed in the soil. Most of the stem rot is caused by too deep planting. In planting, as our soil is rather firm, we use a trowel to dig a hole about six inches in diameter and three inches deep, with a little hill in the centre of the hole. On this hill we place the plant, with the roots radiating around, fill in the soil and press solid with the hands. We plant all in rows across the bench one foot apart, and mark the rows. In the row we plant according to variety or size of plants. For instance Uncle John we plant 12 inches, Scott 8 to 10 inches. Storm King 6 inches. We take in consideration what growth a variety will generally make, and try to allow it ample room. The distance of one foot between the rows, is the most convenient for our mode of sup- port. After planting we give a thorough watering, so the water will reach the bottom of the bench; after this the light sprinkling to keep the air moist in the house will be mostly sufficient to keep the soil in a moist enough condition, too, for in a soil moist, but so that it will break between the fingers, root formation will commence a great deal faster than when soaked. What is most needed the first week after planting is shade, a moist air, and, as much as the weather will allow, a cool air. This I will make the theme of my next notes. Fred. Dorner. Unhealthy Carnations. I have trouble with some Scott carna- tions; they die off on one side of the plant. Can you tell me the cause of the disease? I have had it for two years. They grow well in the field for the earlier part of the season. J. H. New Jersey. This is rather a hard question to an- swer, and very unsatisfactory to give advice without seeing the plants. If the dying parts constitute whole branches I would call it stem rot, but in this case it would eventually take the whole plant. i8g6. The American Florist. 105 DISPLAY AT A GHENT EXHIBITION. THROUGH AMERICAN EYES. If only a part is dying on one side, not being limited to one or more branches, but to all extending on that side, leaving the base of the branches sound, I would attribute it to local circumstances and treatment, and consider myself unable to define the cause without seeing plants and locality and learning of their treat- ment. Fred Dorner. Rose Notes, Now is the time to look over your plants very carefully once a week, or as often as you can find time and pick off every trace of spot you can see. It will be found unnecessary to pick off a whole leaf in a good many instances, but just the one part that may be affected. With the cool nights we will get from this time on if this is not done you will stand a good chance of its gaining such a f jot- hold that it willbeahard jobtoget rid of. Black spot is in my belief the worst of all fungus diseases of the rose, and one of the last that is thought much about by ,a good many small growers. They seem to think and worry more about mildew, whereas the fact is the former is fatal and the latter can be cured and more easily prevented. I have seen plants in a good many places killed, or if not they were only good for the rubbish heap, by spot, and when the people were asked if they did anything for it were even ignorant of such a disease. After making a good many experiments to find a cure for spot I must confess I have failed, and have come to the conclusion that strict atten- tion and prevention is the only course for us to pursue. I tried the ammoniacal solution of copper for cure; it seemed to aggravate it, but this was most probably due to its not being applied at the right time, as I have since used it as a prevent- ive and find very encouraging results. The best time to spray with this solution is at midday when the sun is shining, as it will dry and adhere to the foliage before night, not being easily washed off again by the syringe. It takes a much longer time for plants sprayed with this solution to dry off than with ordinary water, as the globules form a film over them, thereby retarding evaporation. When I say spray I don't mean to drench the whole house with it, but to put it on as fine as possible, not thick enough to drip off the leaf. You will not touch all the parts the same day, but in two or three applications you will. This makes them comparatively proof against the spores germinating. I don't mean to say that this will save you from spot entirely. The conditions advocated by Mr. Simpson in his many articles to this paper on the culture of roses are the ones that should be lived up to if you want to have fine healthy vigor- ous plants. This is a very important thing; a strong plant will ward off dis- eases, whereas a weakly one is only just ready to take the first thing that comes along. Spot is caused by a good many things; condensation on the foliage such as is caused by chilly nights, foliage not getting dry before night after syringing, low temperature, becoming starved, in fact anything that will give their growth the least check, and to be candid I don't think anyone knows them all. Fumigation is in my belief a very bad thing. The next morning after a house has been fumigated, and I don't care how carefully you do it, you will find that shining appearance that was on the leaves before gone, and when they are syringed instead of the water glancing off like off a duck's back the plants will have that saturated look with them which to every good grower is very distasteful. This is one of the best conditions for spot to luxuriate in. I might add that tobacco stems at this time of the year are very effective for fly if laid under the benches or anywhere in the house where they are dry. I have found it best not to syringe them, as it washes the goodness out and is even more effective without, the air at all times being impregnated with enough nicotine to prevent their combustion. A sharp lookout should be kept for red spider, as it is a very good thing not to have to svringe when you get some rainy or dull days a little lateron. Rain storms should be carefully watched; it may happen once in a while one comes in the night when you have lots of air on, you should then slip on your clothes as soon as possible and when you get to the houses knovy just where to put yourhand on the lantern and matches, then reduce your ventilators so as to prevent the rain coming in. This will save you lots of trouble and anxiety later on and will repay you a hundred fold for the liftle inconvenience it has put you to. H. H. Crops and Expenses. How many flowers can beexpected each month or for nine months (from first of S?ptember to firstof June) per plant, from Brides and Bridesmaids in first-class con- dition? What will be the expense of running two houses 20x110 with the same roses, heating by steam, houses put up in good shape, short-span-to-the-south, walls 3 feet high, double siding with paper between. P. G. P. Illinois. If P. G. P. can cut an average of four good buds per month from each plant for the nine months mentioned from Bride and Bridesmaids he will be getting an extra good crop. An average of three buds per plant may be considered a good yield. Regarding the expense of running two houses 20x110 it will entirely depend upon the price of labor and fuel in his sec- tion of the country. Ordinarily the two houses would require nearly alloneman's time to run it to the best advantage. To heat two such houses would require prob- ably 40 to 45 tons of anthracite coal, or a considerably larger bulk of soft coal, probably one-half more; your correspond- ent can estimate the cost of this in his own locality better than anyone else; add to these two items the cost of man- ures for mulching, tobacco for killing greenfly, etc., all of which vary in price in different sections, stakes or wire for tying, and sundry other small items, all of which probably can be covered with $25 outsideof the fuel, labor and tobacco; so that P. G. P. can get at the desired fig- ures by a very simple calculation. John N. May. Chrysanthemum Notes. The crown buds are setting very rap- inly now and should be taken just as soon as possible, except on those varieties that produce the best flowers from ter- minal buds. Do not wait for the shoots that accompany the crown bud to get too long before cutting out, for they grow very rapidly and strong, and will very quickly take all the strength of the plant, and the crown bud will begin to shrivel. The time that can be spent now upon a house of chrvsanthemums is hardly cal- culable; the side shoots spring from every eye the whole length of the stem just as soon as the bud sets. These must be 106 The American Florist. Aug. 2g, carefully removed at as small a stage as possible. It is the custom of some care- less growers to pull them out very roughly, and of course pull off the leaf at the same time. Take a good sharp knife and cut them off just as close to the stem as can be done. Water regularly with liquid manure, and by the 10th of September make the manure just as strong as possible, but keep a careful lookout all the time that they do not become overfed. The fungous diseases which attack the chrysanthemum are now beginning to attack the plants, and from every side come inquiries as to what is the matter with the plants; the leaves begin to grow brown and shrivel and sometimes the en- tire plant wilts down and dies. There are two of these fungous diseases very prevalent throughout the country. Sep- toriachrysanihenii and Cylindrosporium, and to the majority of growers there is nothing to distinguish the two. The for- mer can be kept in check by the applica- tion of Bordeaux mixture, but we have never yet heard of anything that will help the plants attacked with the latter. It frequently happens that this fungus will confine itself to one or two or more vari- eties and that they alone will be attacked. The best way if such is the case and the plants are badly affected is to pull them up and burn them, and either give up growing that variety or get a new supply of healthy stock. The plants grown for sprays should be now carefully tied up and a little liquid manure once a week will be greatly ap- preciated by the plants, and be amply paid for later. Plants grown in the ground can be lifted now at any time, and should be potted before the 5th of September. Those grown in benches in the house should also be placed in their blooming pots before that date. I well remember having a little argument with friend Scott at one time upon this question. I placed the date the last week in August and he said the first of September. I remarked that it made but little difference, but that some people were very apt to extend their first of September over to the 15th. Do not try to extend the date beyond the 5th, for the buds of many varieties begin to make their appearance at about that time, and if the plants are shifted later these buds will either blast or produce malformed flowers. Elijah A. Wood. Chrysanthemum Insects.— M. L. and J. R. are advised that the specimens sent were in such a dry condition when re- ceived that any insect life on same had ceased to exist, and was not discoverable under the microscope. New York. Dull times still prevail among the city florists and they find little to do yet excepting to hope for a speedy revival and to make such preparations for the same in the way of painting and repairing as may present themselves. The New York Cut Flower Co. has improved its estab- lishment greatly by the removal of the partitions that obstructed the room and by a fresh coat of white paint on the tables and benches. Charlie Millang Is constructing an apartment for the storage of palms and other useful plants, intend- ing to carry a line of these through the winter in connection with his flower business. Of choice flowers there are but few in the market. Roses are mainly from young plants and are mostly small, soft and short-stemmed, while carnations have the ungainly character always found in out-door grown stock. Asters, gladio- lus, hydrangeas and Japan lilies consti- tute the bulk of the stock coming in; they serve to make the windows look bright at small cost. The Vanderbilt-Whitney wedding at Newport used up the best of the choice stock obtainable, the Newport growers however, having had first chance at it, summer flowers being a specialty there. The decorations were by Cottonett & Tiffany, under the exclusive direction of Mr. W. A. Bridgeman. White and pink were the colors used. Asparagus, Adian- tum Parlevense and an abundance of tropical foliaged plants furnished a set- ting for unique and beautiful effects in lily of the valley, stephanotis. Bride and Testout roses, white and pink lilies, etc. The bridal bunch was made of stepha- notis and gardenias; the bridesmaids, of whom there were five, carried bunches of Testouts and lily of the valley tied with pink satin ribbon trimmed with lily of the valley, the groom wore a gardenia, the best man a white orchid and the ushers lily of the valley. The tables were decorated with plateaus of Bride and Bridesmaid roses and Farleyense ferns, garlands of valley and orchids being laid on the cloth. W. A. Hanft, formerly of New York has returned from St. Louis, where he has been for a number of years and has accepted a position in a prominent New York store for the coming season. Fred Hanfc of Hanft Bros, met with a severe injury whereby he has lost the sight of one eye, while participating in a shooting tournament at Highland Beach. A shell exploded prematurely, a piece of it striking him full in the eye. He is now at Dr. Knapp's hospital. The Madison Rose Growers' Club held its annual picnic at Lake Hopatcong on Friday, August 28. August Rolker & Sons have just un- packed a line of glazed vases and flower pots with agate finish, an entirely new thing in imported pottery ware. Fred C. Rolker will commence fall auc- tion sales with a consignment of plants from Philadelphia growers on September 15. A more important matter will claim his attention in the meantime, however, as on Sjptember 3 he and Miss M. I. Cavanaugbof Bayonne will be made one. Wm. Elliott has returned from his vaca- tion looking better than he has for a year. "Bowling on the green" is his favorite pastime, and at present takes precedence over business. His first auction sale will take place about September 20. Many of the smaller florists along Third avenue were depositors in the wrecked Murray Hill National Bank. Much hardship is sustained by the tying up of their funds, and it is felt also by the dealers on 34th street and elsewhere who have supplied goods to the florists in that section. The Brooklyn Floral Club, to the num- ber of 136, enjoyed a trolley ride to Ber- gen Bay Beach and Ulmer Park last Wednesday. AI.Lorefz of the Weir estab- lishment, managed the affair, which was a great success, with the exception only of the bill for refreshments at the beach, which broke both the treasury and the treasurer's heart. Chas. H. Allen con- tributed a lot of gladiolus flowers for the decoration. George J. Tragidis & Co., recently in the florisc business on Sixth avenue and on Columbus avenue, have disappeared, leaving an abundance of unpaid bills. Frank Millang and family have gone to the Allegheny Mountainsin Pennsylvania for a fortnight's recreation. John Weir and family have gone to East Quogue, L. I., for a brief vacation. Hitchings & Co. are building for Louis Dupuy at Whitestone another house 12x125, specially for the cultivation of ericas. Dealers say that Harrisii lilies, 7x9 size, are in short supply. Visiting New York: D. F. Roy, Maiden, Mass., and Robert Bottomley, Biltmore, N. C. Philadelphia. Hurrah for Cleveland! Now that we are all back safe and sound the more we think about it the better satisfied we are. The Cleveland Florists' Club is a great organization; they can manage anything from a grand flower show to the conven- tion of the S. A. F. both at the same time and with an equal success, of which they may justly feel proud. The weather was deligdtful, a trifle cool perhaps on the occasion of the very pleasant reception at Mr. Gasser's beautiful residence, where the breeze from the lake seemed chilly. The bowling contest as usual attracted considerable attention, and the way the Buffalo boys put them down the alley was a caution; they simply toyed «vith the rest of the bowlers. The Pittsburg contingent was largely in evidence and won the second prize by good plucky up- hill work. We prophesy that these Smoky City boys will be out for the Evans Chal- lenge Cup in Providence, and other aspir- ants want to keep their weather eye open when they are about. Our shooters are gentlemen; we are proud of them. They fairly shot them- selves into prominence and brought down all the trophies in sight. Bayersdorfer was a conspicuous name in the trade exhibition, and their display was certainly worthy of the firm. It was the best all-round collection of florists' supplies ever seen at a similar exhibition. We ftel that we must speak of the pleas- ant features of the trip both going and coming. Mr. Chas. D. Ball managed the railroad and steamboat accommodations like a veteran, keeping the party together and providing them with the best the companiesafforded. Mr. Westcott looked out for the inner man, and his remedy for a dry and dusty throat, buttermilk, was pronounced par excellence. A very pleasant feature of the returning trip was arranged by President Scott and Brother Dan Long. He managed matters so that we "put off at Buffalo" at 10 a. m. Saturday and left in their charge the balance of the day. A pilgrim- age was made to Niagara Falls, and after dinner a few hours' inspection of the beauties of this most wonderful of all nature's handiwork the party returned to Buffalo, where they were transferred to carriages in waiting and given a delightful drive through the park an^ over some of the truly beautiful avenues of the city. Delaware avenue, the pride of all the citizens, is a magnificent thor- oughfare, the roadway, the lawns, the trees and the fine residences that stand back a considerable distance from the sidewalks (there are no fences) are all in keeping one with another, the whole forming an ideal that it should be the ambition of every large city in the land to emulate. Henry F. Michell has been on a tour of inspection for ten days among the seed growers in New England and elsewhere. G. C. Watson has been hard at it with sleeves rolled up, shipping his first con- signments of mushroom spawn and early bulbs, while the rest of the boys were sweating over ten pins in Cleveland. i8g6. The American Florist. 107 exhibition plant op gloxinia crassipolia. Through American Eyes. Z. DeForest Ely reports trade in Romans and Harrisii bulbs very good. His Ber- muda stock reached him in extra fine condition this year. Henry H. Sheip & Co. are moving into their new factory this week where their tacilities for turning out seed and cigar cases are greatly extended. The Dreer picnic Monday, August 31, promises to be largely attended judging from the number who have already signi- fied their intention of making the trip. The plan of holding a shooting tourna- ment laid out by the Philadelphia Florist Club shooters at the Washington park affair seems to have been the ideal way. The Penn Gun Club of Norristown have arranged for a tournament on exactly the same lines September 15, and the Phila- delphia Turngeminde announce one very similar in connection with their other sports August 29. A. B. Cartledge, the obliging secretary of our Gun Club, is consequently in great demand for pointers. Our bowlers don't seem to be "in it" any more. The Dead March would have been appropriate for them on arrival home Monday last. Not a solitary tro- phy ot any kind for the once "Invinci- bles!" The auburn-haired ex-captain from Darby Road might change the luck if he can be induced to take the boys in hand again. Anything for a change! Smith & Whitely have now got thetr store attractions completed. The im- provement is very markSd and pleasing and will doubtless help trade materially. If Robert Kift and C. W. Ward had only had a talk with Professor Kedzie before writing those essays they'd have saved lots of thinking as to a remedy for the vagaries of supply and demand in the cut flower trade! If the plan of the mag- ical professor works, the automatic ven- tilator won't be in it with this automatic supply regulator! The dahlia men might give us a fore- taste of anything they have specially good Tuesday evening September 1, at the Florists' Club meeting, and thus help to advertise their big event on September 15, 16 and 17, for which the prize sched- ule has just been issued. Copies of the schedule can be procured from Frank C. Bruton,1711 Filbert street, Philadelphia. Wm. Hageman has returned from his European trip looking stout and hearty. He reports crops of French bulbs short and size not up to the average; but as is already well known, we on this side have to take what the French give us and say nothing. Apropos of this French bulb question, a recent caller here, Mr. L. Mertz, of Jack- sonville, FIa.,gave some interesting notes as to his experiment with growing Ro- man hyacinths in Florida. The soil and climate there he says suits these bulbs very well, but the great difficulty is want of manure, the freight on same being very high. Mr. Mertz savs if it was not tor this obstacle good bulbs could be pro- duced in Florida. He does not believe there is anv spot in North Carolina suit- able, notwithstanding the claims made for that locality; there being liability to frost that far north. There is said to be some prettv good bulbs of Romans from Bermuda this year, although none have appeared in the Philadelphia market so far. Last season they were certainly poor stuff, what few were seen in Phila- delohia. Wm J.Baker and Edward Reid did not come home with the main delegation of Philadelphians. They embraced the op- portunity of making some calls west of Cleveland. Time is nothing to these pushing wholesalers. Business can wait. Perhaps William J. was afraid to face the storm after helping not to win that bowl- ing trophy. John A. Shellem has just returned from a trip to the Thousand Islands and other interesting points across the border. D. D. L. Parson, Florist, is now the name on the window of the store No. 127 South 15th. We welcome Daniel to the society of the retail merchants. That he will always preserve the dignity of the profession goes without saying, and we wish him the fulfillment of his highest ex- pectations. W. K. Harris and wife have gone to Saratoga. Mr. Harris is recovering slowly and hopes to be benefited by drink- ing the waters of this famous resort. The Dennisons arecutting quite a lot of Bennett roses; they are the only ones about here who still grow this variety. They claim that it pays on account of its free flowering qualities. The palm men have their stocks In excellent shape and the lovers of this class of plants will soon be able to feast their eyes on the finest assortment ever offered in this city. There bids fair to be enough ficus, although there seemed an over sup- ply at this time last season, which, how- ever, was not nearlyequal tothedemand. The stock with all growers seems to be in the best possible shape and is regarded by them as one of their most standard plants. In the new houses now being erected by Robert Craig in place of the old ones removed, the pitch of the roof is much steeper, so as to better catch the sun in the dull days of winter. Mr. Craig's col- lection of crotons is worth quite along journey to see, the new varieties and specimens are an exhibition in themselves. There is to be still another annual exhibition of chrysanthemums in this vicinity, the Art Association of the Merion Cricket Club being out with a schedule of prizes which are offered and to be com- peted for by the members or their garden- ers. The show is to be held in their club house the 17th, 18th and 19th of Novem- ber. This event will mark a new era in flower shows and should similar organi- zations follow suit horticulture will receive a great impetus and large addi- tions to private greenhouse plants may be seen going up in the near future. K. San Francisco. The newly organized Floral Society of Berkeley held its first meeting on August 4. The chief object of interest was Prof. E. W. Hilgard's address on "Shade and ornamental trees." He suggested a sys- tem of tree planting that would make the whole town a series of beautiful avenues, each to be uniform and shaded by only one kind of trees. He claimed that the town might be divided into sections and various parts set apart for the growing of certain kinds of trees. Gas pipes and electrical wires also came in for consider- able consideration and Prof. Hilgard fav- ored immediate steps to prevent from being so laid as to interfere with the growth of the trees. Leaks from gas pipes were declared to be highly injurious and the speaker deprecated the custom followed in various cities of allowing the electric light companies to cut wide spaces through the trees to make room for their wires. In reference to the selection of trees the professor expressed the opinion that the city appeared to be much divided on the q uestion of what trees are the best, "Most trees that arecommonly used shed their leaves at some time," said the pro- fessor, "but there are some which do not remain bare as long as others. There is no reason why we should not have, with our climate, as extended variety and as perfect growth as any place on earth. We can have almost any tree we wish." Prof. Hilgard gave some interesting facts regarding the different available varieties of trees, at the conclusion of which Dr. Wilkinson spoke against the ordinance that prohibits the growth of trees over sixteen feet high. The engravings in last week's Florist illustrating different parts in Golden Gate Park were excellent and very highly spoken of in this city. The conservatory is looking very well at present. Under the central dome there is a large banana in full fruit, also some immense sea- forthias. We note also some excellent Pritchardia pacifica, which is a native of the South Sea Islands. There is also a very fine assortment of the different vari- eties of dracffinas. We saw an elegant specimen of Corypha australis about 30 108 The American Florist. Aug. 2g, feet high, also some very well grown Ficus elastica. The fancy leaved calad- iums have all made a good growth. Oae very interesting object to the public now is a Peristeria elata in full bloom. It is a beautiful specimen and is attracting much attention. We also saw some fine plants of that very interesting California plant, the darlingtonia, which seemed to be thriving nicely. In the third house we saw an excellent plant of aristolochia in bloom which covered half of the side of the greenhouse. The display of tuberous begonias is very creditable. They have many hun- dred plants in 8-inch pots which are mak- ing a fine show. Also a large number of albums and auratums are being grown in this house. The fourth house is where the fancy caladiums are being grown, also the an- thuriums. The fifth or tropical house is very interesting. In the center is an im- mense plant of Victoria regia, which is doing very well. There is also a great assortment of nepenthes and different ferns here also. The cattleyas in bloom at present are especially striking. The central dome shown in the Florist was erected in 1S78 and destroyed by fire in 1882. It was rebuilt by Chas. Crocker in 1883. The park consists of l,013i/2 acres and possesses many natural advantages. On Strawberry Hill is a reproduction of the Coliseum of Rome, which was erected at a great cost. The park never looked better than at the present time, and this is due to the untiring efforts of Mr. John McLaren, who has been superintendent of it now for quite a number of years. Meteor. Boston. A general renovating of store interiors is about all that is going on here as yet. Cooler weather has improved the quality of stock coming in, but the demand for stock of any kind is very light. Early closing comes to an end in a few days and then serious work will begin once more. Tuberoses, asters, gladioluses and hydrangeas are plentiful everywhere. Clematis paniculata, which is now in bloom, is made use of in choice funeral work and is with its fragrance and pure white color fully equal to jasmine, while it will bear handhng mucli better than that favorite flower. Next week occurs the grand annual flower and plant exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society which is expected to equal the best of its predecessors. Entries in the aquatic plant department are extensive and it is probable that this particular branch will attain a prominence never before ap- proached. The gentlemen who went to Cleveland all express great satisfaction with the convention and with the kindness shown by the Cleveland people. The selection of Providence for the next meeting is espe- cially pleasing to the Boston fraturnity. Cleveland. The convention and exhibition are over, and now there is time to look the matter over and see where we are at, to quote the language of a distinguished states- man. It goes without saying that the local florists are well pleased with the results in every way, but more especially with the financial showing made by the flower show. It is a somewhat unusual state of afl'airs to find that after enter- taining a national convention of florists (or men of any other occupation for that matter) to find that those who furnished the sinews of war are better off financially than they were before; yet at present that appears to be precisely the pleasant predicament of the Cleveland Florists' Club. It appears as though notonly will it be unnecessary to utilize the guarantee fund, but that the exhibition will show quite a balance above all expenditures. Just how much that balance will be it is not possible to say, as there are a num- ber of bills still to hear from. In any case there will be a balance, and this is a result utterly unlooked for by even the most sanguine. It was hoped there would be some surplus, but nothing like the eventual result was even dreamed of. It is felt that we are fairly entitled to shake hands with ourselves. We may be able to finance a convention and exhibition, but when it comes to bo wl- ing or shooting we are not in it, unless "it" happens to be soup. The Philadelphia contingent of shooters walked off with first team prize and first and second indi- vidual prize; Pittsburg got third. In the same way we didn't hang to a single bowling trophy. There being no poodle prize to compete for, we wisely stayed out, thereby being enabled to keep those other fellows in utter darkness as to our bowling abilities. Business continues extremely dull, save for an occasional funeral order that helps in some degree to keep down the surplus and half pay expenses. A. Pittsburg. The majority of our florists arrived home safely from the convention on Sun- day forenoon, those who did not go to Detroit arriving on Saturday. They are all well pleased with the convention, especially with the trade exhibit and flower show, which they considered to be as fine as any of the preceding ones, while in the social features the reception by Mr. and Mrs. Gasser and Mr. and Mrs. Hart were two bright spots in the week's entertainment, and were fully enjoyed and appreciated by those fortunate enough to be in attendance. In the bowling and shooting contests the Pittsburg club fared reasonably well, they securing the second prize in each, and the third individual prize in shooting tournament by Mr. Wm. B. Ague of Highland Park conservatory. Consider- ing that two of our best shooters were unavoidably absent, the team is to be congratulated on the showing made; we hope for better luck next year, therefore look out, Buffalo and Philadelphia, for we are after you sure, and will endeavor to have the first prizes come to Pittsburg instead of to your cities. Everyone hopes that the Providence people take more to bowling than the Clevelanders do, and that they have good up-to-date alleys; the poor ones in Cleveland were a great detriment to most of the players. On Friday evening, 21st inst., about 24 of our club withtheir ladies, Mr. Graham, president-elect, and Mr. Siebrecht of New York went to Detroit by boat, accepting the special invitation of Mr. Harry Balsley of the park commission and of the Detroit Flower Pot Co. to visit that city. After a very rough passage (caus- ing several to know something about the beauties of seasickness) they landed bright and early on Saturday morning, going to a hotel for breakfast. Mr. Balsley met them there and escorted them to a boat, where the rest of the park commission and Messrs. Breitmeyer were awaiting them. They went to IJelle Isle Park, where taking wagonettes and car- riages were shown all over it; at the Casino an elegant repast was furnished, and after full justice had been accorded this Mr. E. C. Reineman took the chair, and he, Mr. A. W. Smith of Pittsburg, Mr. Graham and Mr. Siebrecht of New York entertained with some very inter- esting remarks, and the encomiums passed upon the beauty of the park were unanimously indorsed by everyone, all pronouncing it one of the handsomest ones in the country. The party were then taken through the other parks, boulevards and finest por- tions of the city. Special trolley cars, handsomely and profusely decorated, were then taken for a trip of about 25 miles to Mt. Clemens; this ride proved a very enjoyable one, the country being so entirely different from what we have hereabouts, it being perfectly level, while we have numerous hills. On arrival at Mt. Clemens a carriage ride to Mr. Breit- meyer's greenhouses and place was in order. Here a most lavish and hearty hospitality awaited them; the greenhouses were thoroughly inspected, and all were made to feel perfectly at home, and an adjournment was made to the summer hotel of young Mr. Breitmeyer nearby, where a sumptuous supper was ready. After that a fine singing club furnished entertainment until it was time to return to Detroit, arriving in ample time for the return boat to Cleveland. This trip was most enjoyable, and the parties who par- ticipated and our club feel under many obligations to the park commissioners, Messrs. Breitmeyer and Mr. Harry Balsley for the royal way in which they showed them Detroit and how they do such affairs there. Only one thing marred the perfect enjoy- ment of the day — while at Belle Isle Park Mr. Balsley received a message to return at once, as his child, who was sick, had taken suddenly worse and could not live. Happily this proved untrue, for he came down to the boat shortly before its departure with the cheering news that his child was considerably improved. He had the hearty wishes of all for its com- plete recovery. The many friends of Wm. F. Lauch thought he was lost after the return to Detroit, but just before the boat left he turned up. The band played "The wan- derer's return," and with three times three for Balsley et. al.as the boat backed out the day's excursion commenced to be a memory. Business here for the week past has been of the kind suitable for nearlv every- one to be away, and about 40% of the club were absent. Wm. F. Drewes has had to succumb to dull times; his place was closed by the sheriff a few days since. It is hoped he may be able to arrange affairs so as to continue. His, place has only recently been fixed so as to do a larger business. The club meets on the 27th inst., when a full report is expected from the con- vention. Regia. St. Louis. Trade in cut flowers for the past week was fairly good for the middle of August, though the bulk of business done con- sisted largely of funeral work, and there was plenty of stock to be had for any orders that came. The cool weather of late had a good effect on roses. They are looking better than any time this summer some very fine Kaiserin, Perles, Meteor, and Brides- maid can be seen at the wholesale houses. The best sell at $3 and the second class at $2. Carnations are also looking better i8g6. The American Florist. 109 but not as plentiful as roses and the price has gone up a little on them; they now bring 75 cents and $1 per 100. There is at present a rather large supply of out- door flowers more than enough to meet all demands. The store men all say that this has been a good August for business. C. A. Kuehn, J. M. Jordan and E. H. Michel returned home Monday from the convention very much pleased with their trip, and all agree in saying that Cleve- land is 0. K. Wm. A. Hanft and family left last week for New York. John W. Kunz of the Jordan Floral Co. left last week for a ten days trip north. Chas. G. Fleckenstein who has been laid up in bed for a month with a sprained ankle is out again but not on his wheel. Fleck says he must ride that wheel if it kills him. The chief attraction at the Schwaben fest at Concordia Park last Sunday was the fine work of the Beyer Bros.; the decorations were superb and attractive. The August series of the Bowling Club ended Monday night. J. J. Beneke wins the medal with 2,106 in 12 games, Emil Schray second, 2011, and Frank Fillmore third, 1,831. The highest single score in the series was by Fillmore, 245; Kuehn second, 233, and Kunz third 209. Next Monday night a new series will begin and the picnic prize will be rolled for during this series. A number of florists have signified their intention to join the bowlers just as soon as the weather gets cooler and some of our old members will also be in line. J. J. B. Toronto. "Canada's great fair," which will be held from the 1st to the 12th of Septem- ber, is the great excitement. As the city is full to overflowing with visitors on these occasions thereisconsiderable activ- ity in business circles, which, however, is only temporary. Concerning the horti- cultural show in connection with the fair it is impossible at the present time to make any forecast. There is no lack of material in the city to make a first class show, but whether it will be exhibited seems to be a little doubtful. Truly a lamentable state of affairs in this city where we have formerly prided ourselves on holding the best flower shows east of Boston. However the reality may turn out better than the expectation. We shall see. The weather has at last moderated and has been fine and cool all this last week, but it is still very dry round Toronto, no rain of any account has fallen and vege- tation is suffering considerably. We are anxiously awaiting news from Cleveland. Did any one see the Toronto contingent there? No one here has heard of its re- turn yet. Did any one see it start? Several large funerals have occurred lately, making the design trade a little livelier. Retailers have not much else to depend on these days except those who dabble in fruit or British Columbia gold mines. Chrysanthemums are coming to the fore now and are promising well. Not many large specimens will be shown this year. The Gardeners and Florists' Asso- ciation will probably talk chrysanthe- mum show at their meeting to-night. Chestnut trees which were denuded of foliage by the Tussock moth are now making fresh growth and some are flowr- ering; a strange phenomenon. E. Bath, Maine.— J. H. Ramsay & Co. of this city are adding 30 feet to eacli of their five houses, and are also erecting a house for carnations and roses 75x29; an exhibition house 40x29, and a potting shed 125x16. They propose to carry a fine collection of ferns and palms. In ad- dition to their greenhouse plant they are establishing an extensive nursery. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. AdTertlHementa under tbte head will be Inserted at tbe rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) eacb Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this bead. ITUATION WANTED— By flrst-elass tiorlst, 15 years' e-xperlence: yood designer, single. German. F S, care American Florist. (;blcaKO. s SITUATION WANTBD-Seedsman, experienced In Europe and U. S,; German, single. Fked Siegel, Greneva Hotel. No. State St., Chicago. SITUATION WANTED-By practical florlet and gar- dener not afraid of work; life experience. English. age 28. Temperate. H. 8\vaby. St. t'harles. 111. SITUATION WANTED— By a competent young man on a private or commercial place; steady and sober; best of reference. J. ('. Kelway, Chicago. SITUATION WANTED-By a competent young man on private or commercial place; steadyand sober; references. Address ,1. Croucher. \i. Burroughs PI., Boston, Mass. SITUATION WANTED-By single German; thor- ough knowledge of glass and outdoor gardening, laying out of grounds, etc. Florist. P. O. Box (5. Falmouth. Me. SITUATION WANTED— By single German, thoi^ ough knowledge of glass and outdoor gardening, laying out grounds, etc. References. Address Florist, P. O. Box 6. Falmouth, Me. QITUATION WANTED-As foreman by an experl- O enced gardener and tiorlst; single; prlvateorcom- mercial place. For particulars address Gardener, hox 42, East Haven, Conn. SITUATION WANTED-By good all round florist; 13 years" experlnce; steady and sober. South or Southwest preferred. Address Geo. Spencer. 3 North 1st St., KnoxvUle, Tenn. SITUATION WANTED— By a young man. age 20; have had t; years' experience; either private or commercial; can furnish best of references, Address John Clark. 224 West Second St , Portsmouth, O. SITUATION WANTED— By young man with grower of florists' flowers, as bookkeoer. etc. and to work part time In houses. Good experience In the trade. Stenographer. Ginta, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By German. single. 13 years' experience, first-class grower of cut flowers, gen- eral pot plants, forcing of bulbs, etc ; sober and relia- ble; state wages. N W. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-By practical, all round flo- rist: roses, carnations, pot plants, etc. Good prop agator; 20 years' experience; married. First-class ref- erence. State wages. Address G. Hackensack. N. J. SITUATION WANTED-As foreman by a thoroughly practical florist In all the different departments of trade, palms, ferns, florists' stock; expert at roses, carnations, 'mums, smllax, violets, etc. Address Florist, AltS5. Carbondale. Pa. QITUATION WANTED-As working foreman, by O single man; experienced In roses, 'mumB. carna- tions, palms, etc. Good wages expected. Western states preterred. Address Foreman, care L. Unverzagt, Capitol Ave., Sprlngfleld, 111. SITUATION WANTED-Practlcal plantsman of ex- perience and executive ability, posted on all the requisites of commercial places, rosea, cut flowers, etc.; general proprgatlon. Inside and outside opera- tions, the nurseries; best of references of ability, habits, etc.; for more particulars address Plantsman, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED-By flrst-class nil round flo- rist and gardener; middle aged, English, of good business ability and iong experience. Anyone requir- ing the services of a thoroughly reliable, trustworthy man to help push and develop their buslnesa, should address H. Y., Box 4(;2. Conneaut, O.. stating wages with board. A comfortable place preferred to large wages. __^_______^_^___ W ANTED— One good, stout all round florist. Young married German preferred. Address A P, florist. Crown Hill. Indianapolis, Ind. WANTED TO RENT— Three or four greenhouses— without stock— In tlie vicinity of Chicago. Ad- dress Carnations, care American Florist. WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrstclass chance to establish himself. Address DUB. care American Florist. WANTED TO RENT-A place with the privilege of buying, to grow carnations, roses, violets and bedding plants. Eastern States preferred. Address S. Leahy, Colchester, Conn. WANTED— A man who has a knowledge of growing roses. Also a young man for general stock. State wages with board. Address t'OLE Bros., Box ."iVV, Peoria, III. WANTED~In exchange for flrst-class carnations, or for cash, 2. 3 or 4-lnch pipe and fittings. Also violets wanted. Address Theake Van der Meulen. Dunkirk, N. Y. ANTED— An experienced tiorlst; must know how to grow roses, palms, carnations and bedding plants; a permanent situation for a well recommended married man; wages $10 to $13 per week with house and garden. Address Chas. Fremi>. Rve Nurseries. Rye. N Y. lOR SALE— Five greenhouses located In the health- iest climate of the South. For particulars address E. E. Brown. Ashevlile, N. r. W F InOR SALE CHEAP— Good second-hand 3 and 4-Inch ' pipe for hot water heating. Address W. H. Salter. Rochester. N. Y. FOR SALE OR LEASE— In live western city of lii.OUO. three greenhouses. Good paying business. Address JAY, care American Florist. FOR RENT— A large nursery and plant establish- ment of many years' standing at Washington. D. t'. For particulars apply Box 4>U. City P. O.. Washington, D. C. FOR SALE— Florist s covered wagon, costing origin- ally $350: tine 1300 pound horse same value: will sell both for $340 net. Vaughax'sSeed Store. Box iHS, Chicago. FORSALE ATA BARGAIN-Well established retail flower store In Chicago; very good location. Must be sold ai once on account of owner leaving the city. Address B K. care American Florist. FOR SALE AT A RARE BARQAIN-In a live manufacturing town of about .'>0U0; no competi- tion ; 5000 feet of glass, stocked with roses, 'mums. etc. Carnations In field. Gas for fuel. Small cash pay- ment, good lime on balance. Write for particulars. Lock Box 5*;i, Dunkirk, Ind. FOR SALE-At Park Ridge, ill., 5 greenhouses 122 feet long, 5 room cottuge. and barn, with about 2^ acres of land; or will sellmy cutflower store which has been on present place n years. Reason forselllng, not able to run both places. Address or call. H. E. Redelincs.siw Milwaukee Ave.. Chicago. FOR SALE CHEAP-HavIng sold the real eatateon which my greenhouse stands, I Intend to take It down, and offer all my plants, orchids, etc., including all the piping and glass for a house 20xs4 feet: also about 5000 pots from 2-lnch to 12-Inch, standard sizes. Write for panlcularn to A. C. Parfrey. Richmond Center, Wis. FOR SALE— As I am going Into polltlcs-and will convert the east to tree silver— therefore 1 am selling off all my possessions pertaining to my tiorlst business. Palms, fixtures, Ice box, vases and many other useful things that are necessary for tiorist's business. Many things and all things, just what you want, will go at half their cost. So come and be early, as everything must be sold by Wednesday. 5'22 North State St.. Chicago. I would like to get a medium aged, single, strictly sober ail-round man to take charge of about .1.000 feet of glass: house run princloally In interest of hotel: will pay $15 per month with board androum; no fir- ing; steady employment: this would he a good place for some man wanting a home. W. A. Duke. Vandercook, III. Thoroughly experienced makers-up; those who are accustomed to high- class work and decorations. Good wages to the right parties. FLEISCHMAN, Florist, HOFFMAN HOUSE, NEW YORK. TO RENT FOR TEN YEARS. An old greenhouse establishment leieven houses), established 40 years. Owner wealthy, and health fall- ing, wishes to retire. Rent $100 per month. Located In one of the best, prettiest and aristocratic cities of New England. Electric cars pass every three minutes, Ave minutes' from postottice; population 100.000; large manufacturing Industries, colleges, etc.; one hour to Boston, and surrounded by a dozen or more cities, all within two or three hours by rail. No applications will be considered unless from responsible parties, or fiarty with backing, who means business. For further nformatlon and views ot the place, correspond with THE LfcNOX SPRAYER CO., Pittsfield, Mass. For CHICAGO FLORISTS. On September 5th, at 61 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Mr. Shaw, representing Sie- brecht & Wadley, of New York, will have on exhibition and lor sale, at LOWEST WHOLESALE PRICES, the finest lot ol Palms ever seen in this city. These are for tlorists only. No retailing. First choice to whoever comes first. One price to all, and no better stock in this country. 110 The American Florist. Aug. 29, Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, 10 Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Column, $14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent; 13 times, 10 per cent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising Department of the American Flokist Is for Florists, Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines ONLY. Please to remember it. Orders for less than one-hall inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure Insertion in the issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Chicago. The program of sports at the picnic of the Florists' Club, to be held at Sharp- shooter's Park, corner Belmont and Western avenues, Wednesday, September 2, includes a 100 yard dash ior men, the same for single ladies, a sack race, fat men's race, married ladies' spoon race, a hop step and jump, potato race, three jumps standing, 100 yard dash for boys, same for girls, a base ball game, shoot- ing tournament and bowling match. There will also be music and dancing. Tickets are 25 cents, children free. A big turnout is expected. Take Clybourn or Lincoln avenue car. Siebrecht & Wadley, of New York, will on September 5, open a Chicago branch for the sale of palms to the trade at 61 Wabash avenue, comer of Randolph street, in charge of Mr. J. Austin Shaw. Chicago at least kept away from the tail end in the bowling and shooting tournaments atClevelaud. If Gloverhad had any support in the shooting match the team could easily have held second place. Charge it up to the Klehm brothers who should have been on deck with their guns. In the bowling games J. Zech took third individual prize. Including a few from outside points the Chicago party numbered 18, which was at least an improvement over last year. Bassett & Washburn have broken ground for a new range of honses, com- prising one violet house 12x300, nine rose houses 21x300 and one asparagus and smilax house 30x300, with boiler house 36x50, having brick chimney 100 feet high. The heating will be done by three boilers, two of 150 H. P. each, and one 65 H. P. Patent smoke consumers will be a novel feature, coal being the fuel. The rose houses will be chiefly devoted to Beauties. Chas. W. McKellar wi 1 open a cut flower commission house September 5 at 59 Wabash avenue. Ed. F. Winterson will be manager. A wedding will occur shortly at the old Kennicott homestead, when the daughter of Pr. J A. Kennicott will be married to Mr. Beck of the Chicago Times Hetald. The market is still very quiet, and prices remain unchanged. If it were not for the dullness stock would be very scarce, as there is no great surplus of it even now. Good roses arc in limited quantity, though they are a little im- proved by the cool weather, Beauties be- ing better in color. Retail flo ists find trade very dull, and collections e.xtremely slow. Several large failures in the busi- ness world last week seemed to affect all lines of trade, andcomplaints are general. Visited Chicago: Wm. Hunter, Tampa, Fla.; F. E. Allen, Marshfield, Wis.j Carl Hirsch, Hillsdale, Mich, FANCY. DAGGEH. NEW HARDY FERNS, 1896 Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER 1000 FROM NOW UNTIL DKCK.'VIISKK Ist. Also Dealer In BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BR AGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of 81C0O cash i for ONE FIiAMT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer Ts^as refused, a ^rtatfrr price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative j purposes, 81.50 per 12; $10 per 100, from li^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANC & CO., Phila., Pa. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brigliton, IMass. CUT SMILAX, is< laer striiigj. JOSEPH E. B0NS4LL. 308 Garfield Ave., Salem, 0. SMILAX PLANTS. Field-grown; better than 4-inch pot plants, $2 25 per 100; 820.00 per 1000. Sample by mail 6 cents Cash with order. J. H. DAMN Sl son, Westfleld, N. Y. WILLIAM G. NEWITT. William G. Newitt, for many years prominent among Chicago florists, died this week at the residence of his step-son, W. G. Matthews, of the Dayton Floral Co., Dayton, O. Mr. Newitt was in busi- ness in this city for 25 years, being at the head of the Chicago "Floral Co., 3800 Grand Boulevard. Three jears ago he turned this establishment oyer to his sons and went to Dayton, where he assumed the management of his step- son's plant. He was in Chicago during the recent intense heat and was pros- trated; as soon as able to travel he returned to Diyton, but was taken seri- ously ill, and never rallied, the direct cause of death being heart trouble. Mr. Newitt was a native of Yorkshire, Eng- land, and was 72 years of age. He was the father of a large family, including a step-son and daughter. The interment occurred at Mt. Greenwood. Florists' Hail Association. In the treasurer's report of receipts printed on page S9 of last issue an item of $527.38 received as membership fees was omitted. Montgomery, Ala — W. B. Paterson, proprietor of Rosemont Gardens, has just added one new house 125x27 for 'mums and a propagating house. Roses, carna- tions and 'mums are all in spK-ndid order, in spite of excessive heat. COMPUTE UNL%6UPPU[. The New York Cut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Strfel. Telephone 733. 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . GHAS. W. McKELLAR will be open for business Saturday, SEPTEMBER 5, at 59 Wabash Ave., Chicago. Coii.si^nnieiits Solicited. ED. F. WINTERSON, Manager. C. A. KUEHN. Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, — ST. LOUIS, MO. tyA complete line of Wire DeHl^iin. H. L SUNDERBRUGH, Wholtsalt Florisi 4th and Walnut Streets, DAN'L B. LONG, FLOWERS AT WHOUESflLE. strictly Commission Business. Supplies, Etc. .-...__.. _ LisT.siKKE. BUFFALO, N. Y. Mention American Florist. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Het. Market A rhewtnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, (06 & 108 Liberty Street (Basement). i8g6. The American Florist. Ill E. H. HUNT, WHOLESaLBpLORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BUIiBS AITD AI.Ii FI.OBISTS' SUPFI-IES. KENNIGOTT BROS. CO. WHolGsaiG GUI Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St., CHICAGO. If yon want Flrst-Class Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you wlU get what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO., EH^-" CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. Reinberg Bros. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS, Sf WABASH AVENUE, Telephone Main 4937. OmO.A.OO. Onr Boses liest them all. In qnality. Headi^aarters for fine American Beauties- W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, ^ OHIOiVGO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60., Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE, - CHICAGO. We are prepared to fill your orders with flret-claBs flowers. Give us a trial order. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS, 88 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Cons'cnmflntp solicited. Prompt attention to all orders. A. L. RANDALL, wtioiesaie Fiona 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ©Y^fiofciiaPe MarftefA. Cut Flowers. NBW YORK, Auk. '^t:. Roses. Beauty 2.00a2tl 00 Meteor. Kalserln 4.(loa r.,(M all other varieties .'iOw 4.00 Camatlonfl. ordinary 25® .50 fancy 50® l.UO Sweet peas perlOO bunches 20® .35 Valley 1.00 IlarrlBll. Auratum 2.00® 3.00 Asters 10® .25 Oladlolua 100 MlCTonette MS) 1.00 Adlantum 75 ® 1.00 Asparanus JO.OOiA.'iO.OO Smllax 8.UU(« 10.00 Boston. Aug. 20 Roses. Gentler. NIphetos 1.00i» 2.00 Perle, Mermet . , 2.li0® 8 00 Bride. Bridesmaid, Meteor 2 11)® 1 00 Beauty 5,00@15.00 Carnations 263 .50 fancy J09 l.lXl Valley 4 00 Asters : 1-00 lihidlolua 2.00 I'liik p..n(1 lilies 8.00 Sweet peas 20® .25 Adlantum 1.00 Smllax 10. 00612. 00 Aspara>rus 50. OU PHILADELPHIA AUR. 2li. Uoses Beauties li.OOa K.OO Brides. Bridesmaid, La Franceeto... 2.00a 4.00 •■ Kalserln 3.00® 4.00 small teas 1.00<.5 2 00 namatlons 40® .75 Sweetpeae 20® .'25 Smllax 1!.00«. 15.00 AsparaKUS 35.0O4'-inch stock 2.50 per 100 " 200 Czar, " 2%-\r\ch stock 2 50 per 100 Fine stock of H. P. ROSES, in 2^ inch pots, good assortment, at 3.50 per 100 Orders booked now for Carnations, field-grown, for September delivery. Ada,... NAKZ & METTITER. Lonlsville. Ky. 7,000 FIRST QUALITY FORCING ROSES. Urat-class and perfectly healthy In every respect. Only select growth from tloweiln^' Bhoots used In propagation. 600 MERIVIETS 550 KAISERIN 325 WOOTTONS 300 8ONS[LENE 375 NIPHETOS 200 METEORS 1700 PERLES 75 MME. HOSTE :i-lnch pots, Hn.m per IIIU. 4-lnch pots, SS.OU per Ml. J. I^. I>II.,I-,01V, :iBloo»:»3.st3»^r8: 150 AMERICAN BEAUTY 75 PAPA OONTIER 1000 BRIDESMAIDS 150 BELLE SIEBRECHT 700 SUNSET 650 BRIDE I»ci. MERMETS. CUSI.NS, TESTOUTS. NIPHETOS. BRIDES, BRIDES.MAIDS. .METEOR. HOSTE. WATTEViLLES, Arc. VICTORIA. 2 3 and 1-lnch pot plants. Cash with order. Owing to number booked, they will be executed In rotation to assure prompt delivery. 1 1 Order early. ■■ Address lor quotations, VILLA LORRAINE ROSERIES, MADISON, NEW JERSEY. ROSES ) ■ UCDinill DCAIITV METEOR, BRIDESMAID. BRIDE, TESTOUT, PERLE, AInCnIuAll DCAU I I ; sunset, la FRANCE, KAISERIN, S and 4-inch pots. M. LOUISE VIOLETS, '^J4, 3 and 4 inch. CALIFORNIA VIOLETS. 2}^, 3 and 4-inch. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. 3 and 4-inch. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in 2j^-inch pots which I will sell at 82,k0 per 100. The followiug varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Si xth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS, MERMETS and METEORS, 2-in. $3.00 per 100; 825.00 per 1000, LA FRANCE, 3-inch $5.00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. 25 at 100, and 260 at lOOO rates. West Forest Park, ST. LOUIS, MO. 15,000 ROSES Shall be glad to correspond with parties wish- ing Daily, semi, Tri or Weekly Shipments. GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. From 2-iiicIi pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of varieties and prices furnished on application. NATHAN SMITH & SON, JUST RECEIVED— Von 8lon I lyncliUhs, Crocus, TiillpB. etc. t)r.ierf* liuoki'd now lor liiillan A/.alGHS. Palms. AraucBrlns. Uho.loiUMHlnuiM, Clenintls llydnin ^.'oaB, Splra'as. hiuI KC'ierul ruirsory Block. L. C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. Branch ot The Horticultural Co.. Boskoop. Holland. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writiiig to advertisers. ROSES.VIOLETS, DRAGENAS, GUTSMILAX EXTRA FINE STOCK. I'er 100 Roses La France, 3-inch f400 " Brides, 3-inch 4,00 Brides and Bndesinaids,2^-inch 2.50 Violets California, 3-inch 7,00 Dracaenas, 4-in. Austra!is& Indivisa.,,,15,00 Smilax, cut per doz:n, |2 00. ,15.00 Foehlmann Bros., MORTON GROVE, Cook Co., ILL. Mflntlon Aroerlfian Florist. Pteris Serrulata Densa. Pterls Adiantoides. Adiantum cuneatum and pubescens. Nephrolepis tuberosa. m lor J2.(XI; llltl for Si .W; it» lor $15 00; 1000 for K7.S0; 2000 for $,=>0, Cash with order. All out ot 2H-ln. potM. C. F. BAKER, Utica, N. Y. Adiantum Farlyense EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices upon application. ■EllZfW TTS XJC7KBSI3.A.XJEI, Wyndmoor. near Chestnut Hill, (Station II, 1 PHILADELPHIA, PA. STRONG, IlE.^LTIIY. CLEAN PL.^NTS, MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, from 4-in, pots at $6,00 per 100; J50.00 per 1000, .Send for Sample, Cash with order, THEODORE KNOCKE, Princeton, N.J. ROSES-GROWN IN FRAMES. MrB. ,1, 1'. Morunn :i-lneh pots $0,00 MrB ,1. I'. MurKnn. 2-lnch potfl 4.00 I'apii (lontler. ;;-lnch pots .'vOfl Strong plants, ready to make tine Krowth. THE FLORAL EXCHANGE, 614 Chestnut St.. Phlla. i8g6. The American Florist. 115 Field-Grown Carnations. GOOD STOCK. 1st Size 2nd size Per 100 Per 100 BRIDESMAID J8 00 $5 00 METEOR S 00 5 00 STORM KING S 00 5 CO UNCLE JOHN 8 00 THE STUART 8 00 5 00 E. A. WOOD 8 00 GOLDFINCH 5 00 DIAZ ALBERTINI 8 00 5 00 WM. SCOTT 8 00 5 00 DAYBREAK 8 00 5 00 DAZZLE 8 00 5 00 ALASKA S CO ivo utrsT. F. DORNER & SONS CO. /->» FAYETTE, IND. SURPLUS Carnations . About 4000 Rose Queen, Alaska, Daybreak, Scott, etc., grown for own use. FIRST-CLASS. MOUNT GREENWOOD, ILL. H. WEBER & SONS, Garnationists, Box 57, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MD. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. WABD, Mgr. QUEENS, L. I., N. V. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Geraniums. Mftntlon American Plortpt. Per 100 CARNATIONS, Held -grown plants. Write for prices. VINCA MAJOR, extra strong $6 00 CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS(Umbrella plant), 4 i/^-inch pots 10 00 CYPERUS ALTERNIF0LIUS,2 in.pots 3 GO C. LENGENFELDER, Oakleyand Cosgrove Avenues. CHICAGO. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VARIBTIKS. ROSES, from S-lnch pots. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. „ VIOLETS. PrlceB low. Send for llel. WOOP BROTHERS. FlSHKILU, N. Y. A GREAT TRIH^CARNATIONS SCOTT, DAYBREAK and McGOWAN. Gilt-edged, field-grown plants of these and a gen- eral assortment at S3 to 80 per 100. Sample for 25c. THE BOOL CO.. ITHACA, N. Y. GARNATIONS-Field-Grown. Atiout S««J Daybreak. Silver Spray, I'ortla, Tidal Wave, and Emily Plerson. Write for prices. .. .. CEO. SOUSTER, Elgin, III. m PER CENT. DISCOUNT. We make tbis excepjtional oflFer on tbe below mentioned stock, subject to tbe following conditions: CASH WITH ORDER IIVIIVIEDIATE D ELIVERY. Per do/,. Per 100 ARECA LUTESCENS, 4-inch pots, 15 to 18 inches high. 3 plants in :\ pot $ 4.50 .j; 35.00 ARECA LUTESCENS, 5-inch pots. 20 to 24 inches hish. 3 plants in ii pot 6.50 50.00 ARECA LUTESCENS, (i-inch pots, 28 to 30 inches high. 3 plants in a pot. bushy 12.00 100.00 ARECA LUTESCENS, 6-ineh pots. 30 to 36 inches hiKh, 3 plants in a pot. bushy 18.00 150.00 ARECA LUTESCENS, T-incli pots. 30 to 36 inches high. 3 plants in a pot. e.vtra strong and bu years. Clumps uvenige Id t<> 1',' Inclips across; healthy and clean himI oompact. %U.\\W per lOd. CASH \S\V\\ CIHIIKH. J. J. LAMPERT, XENIA, OHIO. Mention American Klonai. i8g6. The American Florist. 117 SHEEPJflNURE 1 will furnish this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b. Mitchell, South Dakota: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED. ...75c. per 100 Terms cash in 30 days after date of ship- ment. Orders accompanied with cash, 10 per cent discount WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA . H. BAYEKSDORFER & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS' SUPPLIES ONLY, FHIItABELFHIA, FA. Onr new flatalosrae U now out* free npoQ application. Immortelles. We are now ready to book whole- sale orders for Al quality at low- est prices J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. Sole Agent for Alphonse Roche, OPioules. France. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of TIIV I^OIIv 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, TH£ FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlet, write to LOlllSVILLF Spirit Ccked Tobacco Co. Louisville, Ky MILLIONS OF ELECTROTYPES Mammoth Catalogue and ridiculously low prices on receipt of 10 cts. stamps. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. Lk CROSSE. WIS. THE DIRECTORY For 1896 # Is Now Ready. Price $2.00. American Florist Co. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. Oliieiisions of ttiii Box : 2t5 Inches long by 18 InohoB wide and 12 Inches high. Two Beotloni. made in two sections, one for each size letter, BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market, SIzet 1M-in. and 2-ln. 2.00 per 100. Patent laitenerlwith each letter. ODR HEW SCRIPT LETTER, $4.00 per 100. N. F. MoCAKTHT, I 13 Green St., Treas. & Mane:r. | Boston, Mass. Office, 84 Hawley Street. We have a new FASTENER which we consider a decided sncoeSB. Any onBtomers baring old Btyle faBteners wbtoh they wlBb to exchange, can do bo witbont additional ooBt by writing db. These Letters are bandied by all the Wholesalers Boston. nicely stained and varnished, 18x30x12, given away with first order of 500 letters. .A.OrEirr'X'S • A. Rolker Si SonH. New York. M. Rice & Co., 85 N. 4th St., Phlla., Pa. F. E. McAllister, 88 L>ey St., New York. A. D. Ferry Si Co., 33 Warren St., Syracuse New York. A. Herrman, 415 E. 34th St., New York. H. Bayersdorfer Si Co., FhUadelphia, Pa. A. C. Kendal. 115 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. J. A. Simmers, Toronto, Out., Agent for Canada. E. H. Hant, 79 Lake St., Chicago, lU. Wisconsin Flower Exchange, 131 Mason St-, Milwaukee, Wis. H. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts., Cin- cinnati, <>. T. W. Wood & Sons, 6th and Marshall Sts., Richmond, Va. Jas. Vick'H .Sons, Kochester, N. Y. C. A. Kuehn, 1182 Pine St., St. Lonis, Mo. D. K. Long, Buffalo, New York. Huntington Seed Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Geo. A. Sutherland, 67 llromfleldSt., Boston. Welch Bros., No. lA Beacon St., Boston. N. F McCarthy Si Co., 84 Hawley Street, Boston. The Henry Phllipps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O. „ . Walter A. Potter & Co., Providence, R. I. J. C. Vanghan,'86 Barclay St., New York. W. Ellison, 1408 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. ES1ABU5HED 1866. MANUPACTURCD BV 335 EA5T 21^' ST. . STEFFENS Mention American Florist. NEW YORK. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS, I^SrCOHrOSt-A-TED. HoniGuiiural flrcliitecis and Hot Water Engineers Send for Catalogue, enclosing 4 cents in stamps. 130, 1^1, 1-^3 Cerxtei:' St., IVEJW ^^OFiK:. /^ I n O O f^'"' Greenhouses, Conservatories, /^ I fl O C 111 n W Graperies, Hotbeds, and all other I \\ fi j\j\ \JL1 iWC/ purposes, at Lowest Rates. VyLi IC/C^ N. GOWEN'S SON. 392 & 394 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. Get our Figures before buying Class. Mention American Florist. II»" Estimates freely given. GreenSseVuui) Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing. IS APPLIED WITH PUTTY BULB. One gallon O) lbs ) will Klaze \.m) luet of elass. ('oste 90c per gallon, r>i)c per half-gallcn. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Reference— .lohn Rogers. (Jreentree Boro. Pa.: Hartman Bros.. Alleghany, Fa.; Fred Burkl, Bellevue. I'a. Manufactured by T. H. NEVIN CO., P. 0. B. 958, Pittsburg. Mention American KlorlBt. Always mention the American Flo- I rist when writing to advertisers. WOOD LABELS. Nurserymen and Florists will be interested in our Exhibit at the coming Florists Conventi'in. We also call attention to our Exhibit of .. FLOWER STAKES. .. BENJAMIN CHASE, Derry, N. H. Mention Amerlcnn Klorlft, :bxjck:i^K^ THE STANDARD Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A Bnniple mailed for ;itl cents. FRANK L. MOORE. CHATHAM, N. d. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 118 The American Florist. Aug. 2g, Erie, Pa. Mr. Henry Niemeyer is about to com- mence remodelling his Stale street flower store. He contemplates making many improvement?, chit f of which will be the replacing of the two small sized show windows, which are utterly inadequate for his purpose, by one French plate show window of immense size; the entrance will be on the side. He will also intro- duce electric lights, and the store through- out will be repainted and repapcred. Mr. Niemeyer's greenhouses, though in splendid condition, will also besomewhat overhauled, and among other things a new 50-horse power boiler will be soon placed in position to take the place of the old one. Mr. Niemeyer's young rose plants are coming out nicely, and his vio- lets and chrysanthemums have never looked finer. Mr. E. C. Hill has in course of erection two additional houses, both 120x20. Homo. Council Bluffs, la. J. F. Wilcox and family are spending the month of August at Hot Springs, S. Dak. Mr. W. is remodeling his carnation houses. McPherson & Reed are putting up two new houses 22x100 on a plan of their own; if they prove satisfactory others will follow in the spring, and the old houses will probably be changed. Their plan is a change in the size of glass, ven- tilation and bracing. This makes six large houses the firm will operate this coming winter. Mr. McPherson has 16 acres in grapes on his fruit farm, which are breaking down with fruit. Prospects are good for the heaviest crop of several years past. G. R. H. JOHN .. CO. 412x0 422 lAWTHORNE CHICAGO. FLOWER POTS. We Miituitacture all kinds of Flower Pole, etc, MakliiK a Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price Il^-t and samples (which will be sent free) and we know you will clve us your order; J. 6i SWAHN S SONS, IVliiinenpoirHVMl""' Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. WIND MILLS £OR PUMPING. FA1RBANKS-GALVD steel. ECLIPSE-WOOD. f>0,t><)0 A.lrefi«I;v' Sold. W^ boilers™ HEATING. VALVES3 PIPE AND FITTINGS. '^ FAIRBANKS, MORSE & GO. Cor. Franklin & Monroe Sts., CHICAGO. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street, GHICAGO. N atural {m Mffi 6lM. FOR GREENHOUSES. •Writ© for icitest prloes. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia. Pa. BRANCH WAREHOUSES: Kearney and Westside Aves., Jersey City, N. J. JackHon Ave. and Pearson St.. l^ong: Island Cityt N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. % OUR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-clas.s and we assure you they will give good satis- faction. We call your attention to our new pots 6. 7, S and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. * SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. SYRACUSE, N. Y. ouie stock: of Standard Flower Pots is all right, of good weight, well burnt and a cherry red color. When in need of Pots just try us on once, and we will show you what a first-class Standard Pot is. DETROIT FLOWER POT M'F'Y, Estb. 1S53. P. 0. Address 490 Howard St., DETROIT, MICH. The originators of the Standard lUilb or Kem Fan; as to their general use- fulness and quality we would refer you to Wm Sicolt, MiitTnlci. N. Y. .lohnli, Ilelnl, Terra llnute. Ind. W. .1. I'aliiier, Itiiiralo. N. V. Ernst Welnhoeber .S: Co . Chicago. Salter Ititin . K'VEI33 Greenhouse = Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Boilers made of the best of material, shell, firebox sbeeta and heads (if Hi^el. water space nil around (front, sides and back .)\Vrlte fur Information. ClrPRESlS IS MUCH MpRE DURABLCTHANPINE. SASH BARS] UP TO it. FEET »< UNGTH or LONGER. IREENHOUSE AND oVtfE R BUH. DIN6 MATERIAL. Sontfiforourllluatrattd fiooK "CYPjRESjS LUMBER A»» (rs USES." Send fo>-Vur Special GreenhouWOijcular. THe/LT Srea?!^ tymber (b., When wTltlnK mention the American i^'lokist J. D. Carmody. Evansville, Ind. Di^ar 5/r.-— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON, Gaines^nlle, Ga. i EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS, Klchmond, Ind. IMPROVED GLAZING! GASSER'S ZINC JOINTS Makes a roof Air and Water Tight. No lapping. No breakage from frost or medium sized hall. Saves fuel- BASSER'S IMPROVED PUTTY MACHINE-all metal. Most practical and lasting Putty Machine in use. Price, $2.00. Cash with order. SEND FOR nUCUL.^U. J. M. GASSER, Florist, 101 Euclid Avenue, CLEVELAND, O. «3??ABBL. I H.A.STOOTHOFF. l3ISt1ADIS0NAVE.NEWY0IIK.CITr. x>i,m \GRCENlHOUSt^ Clear Cypress Greenhouse Material We have had many years' experience in this line. We introduced Cypress for greenhouse construction. We have made many improvements in the construction of green- houses. We carry in stock many different designs of Raft- ers, Sash Bars and everything else from the bottom of gut- ters up. Our facilities are large, and we are prepared to fur- nish on short notice material of ourowndesignsor any spe- cial designs, and all of open-air-dried clear Cypress Lumber which we have bought for many years of one party because this particular growth of Cypress is as soft as White Pine, and has none of the knots, sap and other defects so com- mon to White Pine. Every foot of our stock is guaranteed Spot Clear. 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Review of sweet pea show 121 Carnations— Notes 122 — Carnation crops 123 Leaf spot of water lilies (illus.) 123 Farfugium grande 12:) Chr>'santhemums— Notes 124 —Crown and terminal buds 124 Miscellaneous seasonable hints 124 Through American eyes (Illus.) 12o Problems in heating 125 Heating greenhouses 125 An afternoon at Riverton (illus.) 126 New York 126 Boston 126 Philadelphia 127 Chicago 127 Buflalo 128 Pittsburg 1S9 Milwaukee 130 Lowell, Mass 130 The seed trade 132 Montreal 132 Toronto 132 St . Louis 132 St. Paul 134 Kansas City, Mo 136 Owosso, Mich 136 Omaha, Neb 138 PiTTSFiELD, Mass.— John White will reopen his store on Sonth street about September 15. Marshfield, Wis.— F. E. Allen is going into business htre as a retail florist, and has erected three houses 20x40. Clinton, Mass. — The annual exhibition of the Clinton Amateur Horticultural Society will be held at Bigelow Hall on September 5. Melrose, Mass.— The Melrose Amateur Gardeners' Society will hold its annual show on Monday September 7. Worthington, Mass. — A flower exhibi- tion and festival was held here on August 27 and proved very successful. Marblehead, Mass.— The sixth annual flower show took place at Abbott Hall on August 22. The contributors were numetous and the exhibits excellent. Review of the Sweet Pea Show at Springfield, Mass. We do a good deal of talking about sweet peas in this neighborhood, and back it up with plenty of hard work, and an expense of time and money that ought to show the flower at its best. Our annual exhibition is now past. It was chiefly remarkable for the disappoint- ments connected with it. We expected to make it the best on record and ourregular exhibitors started in in the spring to out do themselves. An extraordinary num- ber gave notice of entry. F. A. Blake of Rochdale, our first prize man last year, and who has fine conditions for growing this flower, stocked up with the finest seed of every sort, but could only make one third of a showing. 0. H. Clark of Woodmont, Conn., who goes into sweet peas strong, and has splendid shows at bis own place, could not enter at all. 0. H. Dickinson of Brightwood, with three or four hundred feet of rows of the best sorts, was still waiting for them to bloom at the time of the show. L.D. Robinson, one of our best amateurs and prize- takers, could enter only the class calling for six bunches. As for myself, I could make a moderately respectable showing simply because I had a thousand feet of rows to pick from. Had it not been for the widely advertised date of our show we should have postponed it a week or two. Our main difSculty this year has been rankness of vine and tardiness of bloom. We have had exactly the conditions to produce this. We did not have a single frost after we planted in the spring. The seed came quickly and germinated abund- antly. One of the great secrets of early bloom is to check a too rapid start by early planting. In rich ground especially they need to be steadied down at first. A series of frosts and a cool May are bless- ings to the sweet pea, all the more so where the land has been prepared for high culture. If we had been after foliage we could not have had finer vines than we had during May and June. Then we have had rain, rain, rain. When the vines got four feet high, and even five, without showing buds, and then what buds did show either blasting or producing but one flower to the stem, I said, "This is the 'fast habit,'" the occasional vice of the sweet pea. My vines threw out scat- tering buds at five feet in height, and now some of them are frotu eight to nine feet high, blooming more freely, requiring a step ladder to pick the blossoms. I bush strongly six feet, and when I saw them beginning to bloom at the top of my brush I set in nine foot posts with arms on them like a telegraph pole and stretched four tiers of wire to hold the upper growth. Other growers probably have not had exactly my experience, but this story of rank growth and delayed bloom is quite general with us. Then our quantity of bloom has been greatly reduced by a "scald." One day the vines would almost snap with the growth which the abundant rain induced and the next the sun would pour its sultriest heat upon them, and every where the tips with their little buds peeping out would wilt beyond recovey. One or two days of this have seemed unprecedented, and left the vines in a deplorable condi- tion. The blight made havoc with some growers, and a new pest in the shape of a very minute louse that infests the under side of each leaf has contributed seriously to our misfortune this year. Still we had a creditable show. Mr. Burpee was with us, but coming recently from the California fields in full bloom I don't think he carried away any extrava- gant praise of our ex hibit. ur secretary , W. F. Gale, deserves great credit for his thorough preparation under difficulty for all our Hampden County shows. Through his faithful eflfort the public are well informed beforehand of what is coming, and are promised something good. We have no horticultural hall, but depend upon some vacant store generally. Our sweet pea show filled two stores. A vacant store on the ground floor has some advantage over a ball up one flight of stairs, although a store is rarely well lighted in the day time. Before speaking of the meritorious points of the floral exhibit one very inter- esting feature of the occasion was a large display of stock from the Cornell trial grounds sent by Prof. L. H. Bailey. Of course, shipped as it was in crates, it was not sent with the idea of its opening out as fresh as the bouquets grown in the immediate vicinity and it was not entered for competition. But Prof. Bailey's idea was to have the stock com- pared with true stock of each variety for the purpose of verifying the nomencla- ture, and of taking notes that would be of value to him in his Cornell trial grounds. Mr. A. P. Wyman, who had charge of the sweet peas at Cornell last year when the sweet pea bulletin was issued, had charge of the stock which was sent to Springfield. Although I had criticised the Cornell bulletin I had a delightful visit with Mr. Wyman, and we went over the Cornell stock thoroughly, and then went over the best stock of the other exhibitors, and last of all went over the Cornell bulletin with great care, weeding out the fictitious names that are not recognized outside of individual houses that have tacked them on to their local trade. If Mr. Wyman is a sample of Prof. Bailey's students I would put him first as the most meritorious point in our exhibit. The study which he made of sweet peas in those two days well illus- trated the training he must have received of close observation, accuracy and the right kind of pertinacity in finding out all there is to know. It is an education to 122 The American Florist. Sept. J> meet such students who represent the best training of to-day. The sweet pea will not suffer at the hands of Mr. Wyman. I sincerely hope Prof. Bailey and be will be the enthusiastic friends of this flower for years to come. My own exhibit was not entered for competition. It consisted of about seventy-five vases, chiefly of the standard sorts, and, however, it seemed to others, was a disappointment to me, because the 1896 and 1897 Eckford novelties had not then come into bloom. I introduced with my exhibit a new sweet pea vase. It is patterned in form after Mr. Eckford's. 1 had a hundred made, two of the points being to have them inexpensive and non- breakable. The baseisiron, japanned; the upperpartistin. They takeapart so that the tops can be nested together in pack- ing, the latter being enameled in white. They are ten inches high, the vase oart being plain and tapering like a fish horn made in difftrent diameters at the top. They cost about ten cents apiece, noth- ing suitable in glass being obtainable for anything like that sum. I call it the "Springfield vase." It is tall, slim, firm and comports with the grace of the fljweritis made for. No patent. You have already published a list of our exhibitors and prizes taken. Eckford's best novelties are holding their type well with the exception of Countess of Radnor, which has been allowed to deteriorate badly in color. The trade stock of this now is flushed with rosy mauve, spoiling its original soit lavender color. The Eckford sets which came to us in 1892, 1893 and 1895 produced the Eckford boom in this country. Her Majesty and Mrs. Eckford, two of the 1892 set, are to-day two of the best four of all the varieties. All the '93 set are fine and make magnificent bunches at all our shows. They are Blushing Beauty, Duke of Clarence, Emily Eckford, Firefly, Gaiety and Venus. Of the '94 set Lady Penzance is the most popular sweet pea in the California cut flower trade, and it is grand anywhere. Stanley is the best dark maroon. Lady Beaconsfield will be displaced by Coquette. Ovid is inferior to a strain that comes out of Mikado stock. Royal Robe has with me run very close to Blushing Beauty, but we had some of the former in our show that was deeper in color than I had ever seen it. Of the '95 set Blanche Burpee is gaining ground. It is a grand white. Duke of York is worthless. Duchess of York is so utterly beaten by Ramona that it will hardly hold a place. Eliza Eckford is very pretty and bouquets with fineeffect. Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain is of such giant size that some rank it amongthe "best four." Meteor is richer than Orange Prince and of better substance but the size is not up yet. The same may be said of Novelty. The 1896 set is disappointing as a whole. The California growers bestow consider- able praise on Crown Jewel and Countess of Aberdeen. But the latter runs in two directions, and neither of them come quite up to the type set. Both these varieties make large flowers of finest form, but as I saw Aberdeen in Mr. Eckford's exhibit in England it was a very soft pink with a pretty decided edge of deeper pink, having almost the {fi"ect of a pink edged white. Little Dorrit has caused the greatest dis- appointment. In California, Blanche Ferry, is ahead of it. I have been taken to task for praising it, but I brought home from England a description as I saw it. I am waiting to see my planting of it bloom. Alice Ecklord makes a delicate effect in bouquets, but it quickly fades and has little size and substance to commend it. Captivationis goodinform and size, but the color doesnotcaptivate. Mikado does not come true, most of it coming a large sized Ovid. I feel one great shadow of disheartenment about Mr. Eckford's sealed packets. He develops his novelties at Wem to a high degree of perfection, gets a row of each trued up to just the type he wants, then sends the seed stock off to be grown by another man, and it is set back by poor growing so that we get deteriorated stock. About all I ever get from an Eck- ford sealed packet the first year is a sug- gestion of what they are. It takes one or two years of good growing on our Pacific coast to put Mr. E:kford's Essex- grown seed back to its Wem size and quality. I have Mr. Eckford's 1897 set coming into bloom. I retain a glowing picture of them as I saw them at Wem, but Mr. Eckford wouldn't own them as they show up in my garden the first year. In two years we will put back into them what has been lost, and then they will be all right. It is partly a matter of acclima- tizing, but unless Mr. Eckford can grow his own trade stock, the onlv right thing to do is to trust his fine Wem stock as soon as possible with a reliable Pacific grower. It would not lose anything in quality and Mr. Eckford would be twice as rich in pocket. This is an impudent gratuity, but it is an utterly disinterested opinion. And just here another very important matter comes to the front. It is plain, now that such varieties as Ramona, Grey Friar and Juanita have been put out by California growers, that we are to look to that source for some of our finest novelties. Among the new California sorts for next year is an orange-salmon stripe that has the immense size of Mrs. Chamberlain, and is a sweet pea of this most perfect ideal. It illustrates what we are to expect from California here- after. But it shows something else. These grand California sorts are all really Eekfords. They are products of the Eck- ford stock plus the grand California con- ditions. It is a pleasure to get a novelty that at once shows up at its best, and gives you free bloom to pick from. Where we ordinarily can get but a few imperfect stems the first year to show from the Eckford sealed packets, we get from the California novelties unstinted abundance. But Mr. Eckford's twenty years work has really given us the grandiflora type wherever it novv appears, and California is reaping what he hasso patiently sown. And now the very interesting news comes from California of recent success ia cross- ing Eekfords finest sorts, the result being that our growers will in this way come into possession of the finest things Mr. Eckford has among his reserve stock. Tdere is no law against this crossing of the latest Eckford novelties and the inter- esting thing about it is that the product is such a "breaking up" of the varieties crossed that in time this California work- shop will show as many fine things as Mr. Eckford himself has. This is a per- fectly legitimate way of stealing all the results of Mr. Eckford's long labor, and California has this advantage, that she can stock the market with a finer class of seed than can possibly be grown in England, supplying us promptly with all the new ones with seed that doesn't need acclimating, but at once yields a fine showing for our exhibitions. I have not felt elated over recent California develop- ments, for I want Mr. Eckford to enjoy the little monopoly he has so deservingly earned. Even now I hope he can main- tain his lead, so as to command a fair price for his stock and hold an honored place in our American market. But at the same time I should cheer on our Cali- fornia friends who are bending their energies to supply the novelty market with the finest introductions. When I look at Ramona, and at that new orange- salmon striped beauty, I feel like saying, "Go it, California." I know three grow- ers who have the latter, and so no one of them will have a right to name it. Some one asked me to name a sweet pea, Clara Barton. I suggest that name for this grand new sort. I can pick a good bunch of the Sunset Co.'s novelty, Red Riding Hood. That the sweet pea is a coquettish flower is apparent in many ways, but for a freak of roguishness this little red bonnet takes the cake. It resembles a snap dragon more than a sweet pea. But it is really a cute little hood and well named, and if novelty is the spice of the seed trade we have in this new candidate. Its pecu- liarity is an abortive standard that is drawn like a little night cap over the wings, so that they stick out like the sides of a hood. The whole habit of the vine is identical with ordinary sweet peas in other respects. One excellent out-put from Morse's through Burpee will be a stock of Coun- tess of Radnor brought back to its original delicate lavender shade. It is a pleasure to see this in bloom and thus recall how beautiful Radnor was at first. But it can only be held up to type by an expense of rogueing that will make the stock high priced. I say again, more of the fine sorts can be held up to their grandiflora type so as to make good exhibition stock at the prices which com- petition now figures at. I can't for the life of me make out where some of the poor trash I see comes from. W. T. Hl'TCHINS. Carnation Notes. What plants most need when fresh transplanted to the house is a moist, cool atmosphere; an atmosphere that will pre- vent or cause as little evaporation through the leaves as possible. The leaves we preserve are subject to the same draft of the air, as before the plants were lifted. Of the roots we have only a part, and these checked in their function of ab- sorbing water and food from the soil, can scarcely balance the evaporation through the leaves, hence the wilting. To keep this balance intact, without which the plant is unable, or will proceed very slowly in the formation of new roots, we have to resort to keeping the atmosphere in the house moist and cool, to reduce the evaporation through the leaves as much as possible. This is most effectually done by shading and an occasional syringing, and keeping the ventilators closed or nearly so, an operation that otherwise would be harmful, so it must not be car- ried out any longer than absolutely nec- essary. At night the ventilators should bp kept open and air freely given. On warm bright days, with all the shading and svringing the house will get warm, but even a warm, moist atmosphere is preferable to a cooler but dry one. i8g6. The American Florist. 123 ^4^j|^B^^ <^ ^^ ^ @ F LBAF SPOT OP THE WATER LILY. I have said in my last notes, that in a too wet or soaked soil," root formation will not commence as readily as when in a more dry natural state; so in the effort to keep the plants from wilting we must be careful that after the first thorough watering, the soil does not become over- watered. If a plant is set in water, it will keep the leaves fresh for some time, but no roots will start, and eventually it will die like a cut branch or bloom. The sooner root action commences, the quicker the plant will revive, and this the plant is enabled to do, when the absorption by the roots and the evaporation through the leaves is kept in balance, and when the plant is imbedded in a soil drained from all surplus of water. Under such conditions the plant is enabled to keep up its breathing and working, its strength, the stored up resources will assert itself, the sap enriched from these sources will flow in its natural return to the roots, and new roots will be formed. Again a newly transplanted plant has lost its power of discrimination in taking up food by the roots, in fact it is unable to take up any, for the fine hair roots performing this function are destroyed. It will take up water out of the soil, and some food present by chance, but it is liable also to take up any soluble matter, indigestible and uncongenial with the water, and here the danger increases when the ground is kept saturated, and the roots are as if immersed in water. As soon as the little rootlets with the fine hair roots bristling around them are started the power of discrimination is re- turned, the plant is able to take up food, and soon the equilibrium between roots and leaves is established again. But this first effort has to come from the plant itself, and when the new rootlets start out in a soil favorable to its development and find ready food, the time of becoming established on the bench is shortened very much, and little time will be lost in the transfer from field to house. Now as soon as the plants show signs of root action, gradually more air should be given, a part of the shading removed (that is very easily to be done with the hose); as they proceed they require more air, more light, to accustom them finally to the full air and light without any check to their now tender growth. Much judgment has to be employed, circum- stances may require different treatment, but these are the points we have to aim for in sustaining the plants in this critical and delicate phase of carnation culture. To use the common phrase, we are top- ping our plants yet, but in fact we do not top them, we pinch and pull every shoot leading for a bud as fast as they appear, and will do so as long as they stand in the field. I believe such plants will sooner bear large perfect blooms than when transplanted with buds or topped when lifted. Fred. Dorner. Carnation Crop. Being on hand while the contents of four carnation houses were consigned to the fire pile, and having an accurate count of all flowers cut from these houses from the 1st of last October to the 1st of Sep- tember (yesterday) I thought it may interest a few of your readers to know the results. The houses are 125xl9each, two tqual span and two short span to the south, all filled with carnations except one side bench used for violets and one half of a side bench for propagating and the young plants. One house was all Daybreak, another all Scott except the violet bench, another all Silver Spray, McGowan and Bride of Erlescourt. The fourth held Portia, Rose Queen, Helen Keller and Cartledge. The Daybreaks were thrown out early in July, they were played out. Half of the white house was planted with asters end of June. The red remained in. Altogether there were planted ip the houses last September 8,700 plants. The total cut to September 1 this year was 220,000. Not more than ten thousand of these were picked short stems, and they were the McGowans. Now although I was always satisfied with the yield, particularly at Easter week, when in 6 days there was 18,300 picked, yet when reduced to figures it looks disappointing, and may belt should be considered so. It is only about 25 flowers for each plant. I am certain in the old days 20 years ago that I have picked from La Purite and Edwardsii from 75 to 100 blooms per plant, but they were all short stems. I feel sure that had we picked this winter's crop short stemmed it would have been with the Scotts, Silver Spray, and Cartledge, at least treble the count that I have now to be satisfied with. I should like to hear from some expert grower whet her I should be satisfied or if I must do better. One thing I do know; there was more money in growing carnations 15 years ago and selling them short stemmed at an average for the season at one cent than there is now and getting two cents for the whole year sacrificing 3 or 4 buds to every flower you sell. Wm. Scott. Corfu. Leaf Spot of Water Lilies. For some years the writer has noticed a spotting of the foliage of water lilies, but not until the present season have leaves of these plants been sent me with com plaint of their being seriously affected. When growers of any plant begin to seek for information concerning a blight upon or other trouble with his crop it is time that inquiry be made as to the prevalence of the disease. The appearance of a spotted leaf is well shown in the accompanying engraving made from a sun printof a leaf of Nymph- sea Kewensis and shows all parts nat- ural size. This leaf spot is caused by a fungus of the genus Cercospora and apparently a species not yet recorded. As shown by the engraving the spots are small, circular and numerous. The af- fected portions soon become sunken, and dry down to a thin film bearing the mul- titudes of spores in minute tufts upon the upper side. It is not unlikely that these spores get into the water and are distrib- uted by it to all parts of the pond or whatever water inclosure the plants may be in. The spores germinate quickly and the fungus therefore propagates rapidly and leaves become infected before they have had time to obtain much size. Attempts will be made to check this cercospora by the use of fungicides, but it is readily seen that the conditions are unusual and quite unlike those that sur- round the ordinary terrestrial plants. Shiuld any reader of the Florist have aqu itic plants and spotted leaves the undersigned would be pleased to receive specimens that the study of this blight may be as full as possible under the cir- cumstances. Byron D. Halsted. Exp'm'c Station, New Brunswick, N J. Farfugium Grande. What is the proper treatment for Far- fugium grande? Mine are continually dying down. A. G. S. Ontario. Farfugium grande is a cool house plant, and the difficulty noted may be due to keeping it too warm. This plant is not very exacting in regard to soil, a good loam of rather heavy character, and a moderate amount of well-rotted manure being all it requires, A temperature suit- 124 The American Florist. Sep/. able for camellias, say 45° to 50°, is suffi- ciently high, and during the summer a shaded cold frame in which the pots should be plunged, will be found a satis- factory place in which to grow farfugi- ums. Plentiful watering is also needed during the period of active growth. W. H. Taplin. Chrysanthemum Notes. The hands of a grower with a house of chrysanthemums are kept on the move every spare moment, and some that are not spare, but actual working hours, picking off the side shoots that spring from every eye on the plant from the soil to the very tip of the plant. Go over a bench to-day and in a day or two it will look as if there were a swamp of young undergrowth all through it, and one who keeps all the side shoots cut out before they get strong enough to rob the plant will tully appreciate that old remark "Eternal vigilance is the price of good chrysanthemums." The small crown bud cannot of course take up in its earliest stage all the strength that is flowing through the plant, and the cutting out of the top shoots throws back the sap and all eyes in the axils of the leaves burst out and form branches. These should be removed as fast as they appear and it will be necessary to go over the plants every day. The plants should now be in such a con- dition that they will readily absorb a very strong liquid manure, and it should be given to them as often and as strong as they will stand. By strong liquid manure we mean the water that will strain through cow manure without diluting at all. If the buds are swelling a little nitrate of soda dissolved and placed in the manure tank will give the plants a little push and help them along wonder- fully. We use a 4-inch pot full of nitrate of soda dissolved in a water pot full of water to a half hogshead of manure water, about 30 gallons, and we have never yet found that at this strength it has injured the plants in the least. Keep the plants well tied up at the top so that the stems may not become crooked, and if they have out grown their stakes put in some longer ones, for a good flower on a crooked stem is just as un- marketable as a poor bloom. Elijah A. Wood. Crown and Terminal Buds. In selecting the flower buds of chrysan- themums is not the large bud appearing on end of flower stalk preferable to any of the smaller buds, surrounding the large one? Is not this larger bud called a terminal? I am informed that the smaller ones are terminals and the larger crown buds. Subscriber. In answer to "Subscriber" we will say that all the buds to which he refers are terminal buds, whether it be the center or the surrounding buds, and in taking a terminal bud always take the large centre one, carefully removing the small ones clustered around it and also those that spring out along the entire stem. The crown bud appears much earlier than the terminals, and if left to itself will not produce a flower. The plant really forms this bud in order to check the flow of the sap to the tip of the plant, and cause the eyes all along the stem to open and throw out shoots. Immediately after the formation of the crown bud from the top eyes strong laterals will will appear which if allowed to grow take all the strength that the plant sends to the top and later on will produce ter- minal buds, the crown bud in the mean time will have shriveled up and disap- peared. Many plants rooted late in sea- son do not produce any crown buds, their first buds being a terminal. Thefe buds were illustrated and their difference pointed out in the American Florist, issue of August 10, 1893, page 8. Elijah A. Wood. Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints. The month of August ends the easy times for the average florist, and with the advent of September work of all kinds is before him. If you have not sown seed of herbaceous plants and desire to raise some either for your own planting or to supply your customers you can yet do so. Delphiniums, hollyhocks and almost all the perennials will be all right if sown early in this month. In the convention number of the Florist herbaceous plants were given special notice, and directions f jr sowing and care, as well as lists of the most desirable species and varieties, will be found, and as all of you keep such a fine number as that on file I will merely refer you to it. Many have a difficulty in wintering that best of all alternantheras, parony- chioides major. I should have reminded you four weeks ago; it is yet not too late; take off thecuttings and dibble them into flats of very sandy soil or a flat filled with two inches of soil and one inch of sand on the top. They will root quickly any- where, and the flats can be kept during winter on a warm dry shelf. It is no easy plant to winter, and unless the tempera- ture is very high they should be allowed but little water during the dark days. The coarser growing varieties can be increased by lifting a few old plants and potting or placing in flats. They will give you plenty of cuttings in March and April. That standard favorite and best of bed- ding plants, the zonal geranium, must be thought of now. If you have all the cut- tings you can use on your plants oucside and put in the whole batch at once you can leave them till the end of month or before a frost comes. If you have not this abundant supply you had better put in all the available cuttings you can get now. The old plants will have time to give you another crop of cuttings before frost or they will be in excellent condition to lift if you have the need to. The cut- tings can be put in the sand in the ordi- nary way or potted singly in 2 inch pots. Your cutting bed is usually well filled in this month, and potting will do very well, and they make stocky plants better than they do in the sand. Pot firm, get your fingers down through the soil, act- as a wedge to firm the soil against the bottom of cutting, not thumbing it like an old woman thumbs her pie crust to make a decoration on the edge of the great American dish. After a thorough water- ing geraniums don't want much water kept about, as you would do if they were rooted plants. In the sand all cuttings can and should be watered freely, but that is different. Water passes quicklv through sand, while soil holds it much longer. 1 have seen thousands of cuttings of gera- niums turn black in a single night in warm August weather; this was not a fungus; the succulent stem was over- charged with water and the heat aggra- vated the trouble. You need not be told that the medium ripened cutting of a geranium always strikes root much surer than the young sappy growth and makes the best plant. That's why you should always give your stock plants out of doors plenty of room so they can get room to spread and receive light and air. The ivy geraniums, a beautiful class now- adays, are much best rooted in the sand, and the same with the favorite roseleaf and other scented varieties. If you are short of propagating benches, flats of sand will do equally as well for these fall struck plants, lor you are not using bot- tom heat, and you can move the flats to suit your convenience. Two plants that we use largely for window boxes and vases, viz., vinca and the drooping varie- gated abutilon, should be on the sand by middle of the month. The abutilon is a wretch to wilt and must be shaded and constantly moist. While on the subject of propagating benches allow me to say that it makes no difference what kind of sand you use so long as it is sand. Pit sand if half loam would not be desirable, but pit sand with- out the loam is just as good as the finest grade of lake shore sand, even if you did send 50 miles for the latter. The fungus of the cutting bench used to be very troublesome, and mostly where the house was damp and close. The ammoniacal mixture applied to the sand at every fresh batch of cuttings will effectually keep the anthracnose away, and if that is not enough you can water the bed, cut- tings and all, without harm to them. To save you the trouble of looking up the formula of this mixture I will give you mine — 1 pound of sulphate of copper dis- solved with 1 quart of aqua ammonia; when dissolved pour into 35 or 40 gal- lons of Aqua Niagara, Potomac, Dela- ware, Hudson or Mississippi, or the pump if it's most convenient and you don't hap- pen to live on the banksof these babbling brooks. There are many plants you have to lift, some important crops, and it takes time, so don't leave everything till your senses tell you there is going to be a frost to- night. There are the azaleas that were unsold last spring and planted out. They should be lifted by the middle of the month. That useful common plant Sievia serratifolia won't stand any frost, but is best kft out as long as possible to retard it. I have planted out in open ground a hundred or two of that most desirable plant Bougainvillea Sanderiana; although midsummer before they arrived in the country they have made a good growth. Lilt thtm before there is the slightest dan- ger of frost. For fall and early winter decorations a large pot of the Crozy type of cannas makes a very acceptable plant. If lifted carefully at once and potted with a liberal sized pot they will go right along smiling and blooming, and will be found useful. When no longer ornamental they are just as good for stock. If you have raised a batch of these cannas from seed, which we nearly all do nowadays, mark the good ones before they are out of flower. Cannas come largely true from seed, for as Prof. Cowell very lucidly explained to the public at Cleveland, bees, wind and other external influences don't cut any figure in fertilizing the cannas. i8g6. The American Florist. 125 A PLATE GLASS ROO*' Wl'l'M l^AWEB o.\y FEET Through American Etes. GHENT. Dutch bulbs will now arrive. If you desire to have tulips and narcissus at New Year's and Dutch hyacinths middle of January you must box them at once. If ihev are not well rooted by the 1st of Decembar it is useless to try and force them, so don't let them lie round the shed. Take a third of all the early varie- ties and get them boxed and outside as soon as they arrive; for later crops a month or six weeks later will do. I have so often written about flats for tulips, etc., that I feel diffident to repeat. Would merely say let all your flats be of uniform size and to suit your benches. Three inches of soil is plenty, and place the bulbs as thick as you like. I get in a flat two feet long and twelve inches wide 60 Yel- low Prince and smaller bulbs like La Reine 72. Last year I listened to a well meaning young man who said "What's the good of putting this early lot of tulips and Von Sion out of doors? Why not put them on the violet house floor? it's cool there." In a fit of absent-mind- edness I said all right, but it was far from all tight; it was all wrong, and I lost about five thousand good tulip bulbs by this progressive innovation. Allow me to digress a moment and repeat what a retired and successful merchant said a few years ago "Where you have to listen to other people how to run your business it is time you retired," Ifyouhaveby your own knowledge built up your business don't let go unless you let go for good. Many an employe can give his boss points on some cultural matters. Listen to him most respectfully, and then do as your judgment dictates after the confer- ence. Place your flats out of doors on some dry spot. I put strips of wood underneath the boxes. After a most thorough watering sprinkle a little of the buckwheat husks on the surfice; it helps the soil you cover with to break away nicely from the soil in the boxes. I make the beds 6 feet wide, any length you re- quire (not 6 feet, as I was reported to have said at Cleveland), and keep the beds 6 feet apart. Throw 2 inches of soil on the boxes, and 5 or 6 inches at the edge of the beds, for there is where frost will most trouble you. Nothing more is needed till the approach of very severe weather, when I cover the beds with 5 or 6 inches of litter from the stable. If the fall is dry the bed should be copiously watered at least once every week. The Roman hyacinths and paper white nar- cissus, both of which can be had nicely in early November, should be treated at once in the same way. The Dutch hya- cinths in 4 and 5 inch pots I place in a frame on a dry bottom and prefer to have the means of covering them with glass or shutters in addition to the soil covering; if much freezing occurs with them you will have too many broken pots. William Scott. Through American Eyes. PLATE GLASS HOUSES. One of the most curious ranges of glass seen in Ghent was being run or operated in the interests of an institution which had advanced money to the former owner and were obliged to continue the business on his failure. The houses were of the most substantial nature, being built of brick with massive buttressed walls. The glass was thick hammered plate, the large panes being nine feet by five; these were supported on a heavy iron girdered frame. There was an apparatus along the ridge through which air could be admitted. The houses vvere about 150 feet long and the large central structure contained a second story, the lower por- tion being used as a shed for storing and packing. The stock of plants here did not seem to be any the better grown, and the general opinion was that strength had been developed at the expense of utility, and it seemed as if they were destined to outlast their usefulness. K. Problems in Heating. We have a heater made of gas pipe. We set the brick casing, leaving one inch space. We put in a magazine in center of coil; this we had to take out, as the draft was insufficient. Now is a magazine a desirable thing in a small place of 3,000 or 4,000 feet of glass? What space should be left between cas- ing and heater where soft coal is used? Is there any particular gain in a closed expansion tank? We use city water; if we should connect it with coils in heater what would be gained? When city stand-pipe is full the pressure perhaps would be too great, as it is 130 feet high; how is this? We use an open expansion tank set outside on roof 15 feet above boiler. We have only a small place and we had hoped by using a magazine to do away with a night fireman except in very severe weather; would this be practicable? Kansas. J. W. M. J. W. M. does not say what size his coils are or whether the boiler is made of one single or a double section. Under these circumstances it is rather guess- work to give any definite advice, but in setting such boilers the space betweed the outside of the pipes of the coils and the brick work should be sufllicient to admit of easily cleaning the same at all times, otherwise the accumulation of soot, etc., will soon choke up the soace so badly that the fire will not burn free enough to cause combustion, without which no boiler will do its work properlv. I do not think a magazine is any advantage to any boiler for greenhouse heating. If a boiler has a reasonable sized fire box, and contains sufficient heating surface for the work required of it, with ample size ash-pit. and door in same so arranged that the amount of draught can be regulated to any sized opening required, according to the varied temperature we get at all times during the season; with good, free draught from the outlet at the boiler to the chimney, and the chimney high enough to cause a good draught, there should be no difficulty about leaving the fire for eight or nine hours without attention, even in very cold weather. The space between the casing and the heater for soft coal should be at least 2 to 2^2 inches. In the closed tank (expansion) in very cold weather, when firing hard, you get considerable more strain on the boiler, piping, etc., as it simply meant heating by pressure. Connecting your city water direct to your boiler would give yon 65 pounds pressure on it when the stand pipe is full. This would be running considerable risk. I should prefer your present method as much the safer. John N. Mav. Heatmg Greenhouses. We are building two greenhouses 11x125 running north and south. How many runs of 4-inch hot water pipes will it take to heat each houseevenly ? Should there be an extra run toward the south end? How much of a raise ought the pipes to have from the boiler tothesouth end to make good circulation? K. B. K. B. will require for each house described above to maintain a tempera- ture of 56° in all kind of weather four rows of 4-inch pipe in each, if they can be placed so as to get all advantage of radia- tion from them equally distributed. If the pipes have to be hung one above the other and placed on the extreme outsides of the houses, then one additional pipe should be added on themostexposedside. This calculation is made presuming that there is to be ample boiler power for all emergencies. K. B. does not say what temperature is desired, so have taken the above as a guide. If it is much higher or lower than the figures given, then due allowance must be made accordingly. The crown of the boiler should be at least 126 The American Florist. Sept. 5, three feet below the lowest point of the return pipes in the houses, and if the houses run level from end to end, a rise of one-eighth of an inch to one foot, or say 15 inches rise in the 125 feet. This should maintain an even temperature all through. With such a rise in the pipes as this, there is no need of additional pipe at the south end, as that part of the houses will have the advantageof additionalsun heat whenever it shines. John N. May. Heniy A Dreer's Afternoon at Riverton. The trip of the florists and gardeners, together with their wives and sweet- hearts, to the H. A. Dreer nurseries at Riverton, through the courtesy of the firm, last Monday afternoon, was a most enjoyable affair. In point of attendance it was a record breaker; there were over twelve hundred people in the party, all of them being in some way connected with the business. The boat chartered to carry the party was filled to overflow- ing at 1 p. m., the time of starting, and as it left on the hour, all late comers were brought up by another boat half an hour later. The ride up the river was much enjoyed, the weather being pleasant and cool. Arriving at Riverton the party, after a short walk through the town, were ush- ered into the nursery, where they pro- ceeded to make themselves at home and enjoy the beauties of the place. Every- thing was in apple-pie order and in the great ranges of houses which were in- spected first, the stock of palms, ferns, araucarias and other foliage plants were found to be in the best possible condition. They are to be seen in all stages of growth from tte tiny seedling in the seed pan up through the various sizes to the magnifi- cent specimen, fitted for the conservatory or fjr the exhibition hall. Words of ad- miration were heard on every hand, and it was the general opinion that such an extended and various stock of plants was not equaled in this country. The new one-acre house, or range of houses erected last season, has proved to be evtn better than was expected and every foot of the table space is filled with fine healthy stock. The new ore-acre addition, a counter- part of the one of last year is well under way and will be completed by the first of October. The Rochlord ventilator, with an improvement by Mr. Eisele, is to be used and is already erected in one of the completed sections. The necessary stock to fill this addition is now on the place in seed pans, boxes and on tables crowded together, so that even when completed and filled up there will be no empty spaces. Mr. Eisele keeps every foot of table in ser- vice and always seems to have something coming on to take the place of the stock sold. The dry weather has told on the stock outside, the cannas seeming especially to suffer, and but few varieties appeared at anything like their best. The dahlias too were much affected and were almost en- tirely devoid of flowers. A large section filled with petunias, for which flower this firm is noted, looked well, and the hardy phloxes, while not large plants, bore immense trusses of beautiful flowers and attracted consider- able attention. The water gardens or lily ponds were much admired and it would seem from the favorable comments of the visitors that this class of plants have a future before them. Along one side of the stock lily ponds a long table had been spread and fairly groaned with the wealth of good things to eat and drink that were heaped upon it, and to which the visitors did ample j ustice after their inspection of the grounds had been completed. On behalf o( Mr. Wm. F. Dreer, who is now in Europe, Mr. Otto Wilow wel- comed the visitors in a neat litte speech, in which he said that he was glad that they had been able to fulfill the promise made last winter, and given them all a chance to see what the grounds looked like in their summer garb. He then intro- duced Mr. Robert Craig, who after turn- ing aside in his modest way some reference made from his audience regard- ing his resemblance to Mr. Bryan said that "We as Philadelphians should feel proud of the success of this grand estab- lishment, which was began 40 years ago is a very small way, and now has grown to rank among the finest in the world.'' Mr. Pentland of Baltimore had told him that when John Dick was about to start in Philadelphia, there were three other firms already established, and he was ad- vised that he could not succeed as there were too many in the business already. But he did not listen to them and com- menced in a small way in partnership with Mr. James Ritchie, in Richmond, the upper part of Philadelphia, and was very successful, and that now there were several places about Philadelphia that every year grew and sold more than all four of them put together. He said in the light of the several pleasant similar occa- sions of the past year, he thought that the florists of the city couldn't do better than come and live with Mr. Dreer all the while and forget all about the hard times. He spoke of the genius of Mr. Eisele, who had done so much to make the business what it is. Mr. Chas. H. Allen, president of the New York Florists' Club, was then intro- duced and marvelled at the magnificent attendance and said that when he saw how the people of the trade like to come to Mr. Dreer's establishment, he thought the Society of American Florists could not do better than make him their presi- dent and thus be sure of a good attend- ance at its gatherings. The place was growing rapidly and it showed that the firm had confidence in the future. He thought before many years the sale of plants and cut flowers would be con- trolled by combinations of growers who would come together to manage produc- tion and control prices. Thesmall grow- ers need have nothing to fear, it was not a case of the large fish gobbling up the little ones, as in the New York market, the smaller grower generally had the fin- est stock and consequently received the best returns. Trusts and combinations were for the good of the people if justly managed, and he predicted they would before the good of all concerned when thoroughly understood. Every one was at this time told to look his best, and a photographer mounted on a high platlorm managed to get a fine picture of the assemblags. A slight rain setting in a procession was formed to the boat which after a trip down the river to League Island, returned to the city about 7 p. m. Thus ended one of the most pleasant occasions in which the trade of this city has ever taken paet. K. New York. The receipts of flowers at the wholesale establishments are growing larger every day, and the effects of age and cooler weather on the roses coming in begin to show, the stems being longer and stronger and the buds firmer. Many growers who have kept away from the market during the summer months are now beginning to send in daily, and the usual fall ava- lanche will soon be on. City retail trade has not yet developed any appreciable activity; each year the season seems to start later than the last. Chas. Thorley has gone to Yellowstone Park. Visiting New York: W. A. Bock, North Cambridge, Mass. In the autumn of life, yet hale and hearty, a perfect type of the old-fashioned gardener which we rarely meet in this country, is Mr. Thomas Young, Sr. His seventy-eight years seem but a slight load to carry as he hastens to extend a kindly greeting to the visitor at his cozy home in Chfton, a welcome which Mrs. Young heartily unites. It is a rare privilege which "the boys" are permitted to enjoy, that of having the old folks to visit after one has reached the prime of life. May it be their privilege for many years to come. Boston. The first of September brings with it the usual activity and bustle about the floral establishments which mark the ap- proach of fall and a general confidence that business is about to start in soon, even though it has not already begun. A slight improvement is noted all around since cool weather set in; people are re- turning from the summer resorts and the trade feels it at once. As to stock there is not a large quantity coming in at pres- ent and the better grade of it sells readily. Good white carnations are rather short in supply, and this is the more noticeable since white asters passed their prime. Out of town florists are busy housing their carnations and other stock, which according to reports from various sources is first-class in every respect, better in fact than for several years. The only exception reported is in the case of vio- lets, both Marie Louise and Lady Camp- bell, which in some sections died out badly early in the season, owing to the effects of the very drv weather then prevailing. Thursday, September 3, marks the com- pletion of a quarter of a century of Jack- son Dawson's connection with Harvard College. How well he has filled the posi- tion, all the world knows. A rare man is Jackson Dawson, "None know him but to love," for his twenty-five years of ser- vice are thickly strewn with kind deeds and good cheer. Always ready to give freely from his store of useful knowledge in his special field, he has exerted an influ- ence that cannot be overestimated. On Tuesday, September 1, the local flo- rists and gardeners to the number of twenty-five enjoyed a fishing trip in the harbor. The weather was glorious and the refreshments which had been liberally provided by the committee in charge, Messrs. Geo. Sutherland and M. H. Nor- ton, disappeared rapidly under the influ- ence of the bracing sea air. The older and younger elements were well repre- sented the most conspicuous of the former being the veterans John Galvin and F. L. Harris, and there were two guests pres- ent, Messrs. Joseph Fuller of Leominster and Martin Finaghty of Lenox. The excursion was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The new store to be occupied by the Twombly Company on Tremont street is a beauty and excellently located as to light, etc., for the displaying of plants. On Saturday, October 3, will occur the annual dinner of the Cut Flower Grow- ers' Co-operative Association. A good time is promised. 1896. The American Florist. 127 THE VISITORS AT H. A DREERS LAST MONDAY AFTERNOON. Charles Ingram is building a new car- nation house at Reading, 18x118. Visitors in town: H. Huebner, Groton; Martin Finaghty, Lenox; Miss M. S. Newman, St. Louis, Mo. Philadelphia. The past week breaks the record of the year for dullness; business has been at a standstill. Oaeof thegrowers.on hearing a man saying that business was bum, replied "Well, this is a bum time of the year." Since the first of the month theie has been a slight improvement, and it is to be hoped tbat it will continue. Rain is very badly needed; all outside stock suffers intensely. Hydrangea pan- iculata on the lawns hangs its wilted heads of bloom. Cannas show great bunches of dried up flowers, and dahlias that should be in all their glory at this season scarcely average a blossom to a plant. The H. A. Dreer Co. have been making some important changes in their store, 714 Chestnut street. New counter seed cases have been put in and the vegetable seeds moved up nearer the front of the store, so as to better expedite matters during the busy season. Vegetable seeds are now all done up in regular packets of convenient size, so that customers do not have to wait to have their orders meas- ured out. The move is a good one and will enable the firm to better handle their increasing trade. The September meeting of the Florist Club held last Tuesday evening was poorly attended; those present, however, were treated to a very pleasant surprise in a display of dahlias made by L. K. Peacock of Atco, N. J. There were some L'5 varieties, and considering the dry weather they reflected great credit on the ability of Mr. Peacock as a grower. His favorite nymphaea showed up well, and is certainly a valuable florists' flower. Snowclad, a miniature white, will also be found useful, and there were a number of new kinds that it is tbought will grow rap- idly into public favor. Mr. Peacock said that while it was not hard to grow the dahlia it did require somecare and would respond to good culture. His plan was to train the plant to a central shoot and then pinch this back, and thus get a bushy plant. He believed in keeping the ground well worked up even after they had begun to bloom. He predicted a great future for the dahlia as a florists' flower and thought the retail florists should do more to push it. Edwin Lonsdale spoke of his experience in forcing dahlias for cut flowers in win- ter, which he said was easily done. He had not tried the double varieties, but had had good success with the single kinds. He had used them as a second crop to follow chrysanthemums, etc. They did well with him, but for one thing, the single kinds would drop their flowers, and so he was obliged to drop them. Robert Kift gave an account of what was accomplished by the Cleveland con- vention, praising the various papers read and giving as his opinion that articles to be read before that body should be pre- pared at least a month btfore the date of meeting and some copies distributed to active workers in the society, who would then be in a position to discuss them in a thoughtful and intelligent manner, the discussion often bringing out much that was of value. He praised the work of the Cleveland Florists' Club and the able manner in which they conducted the various feat ures of which they had charge. Mr. Lonsdale spoke of the carriage ride, of the beautiful decorations of the vehi- cles and of the great pleasure the flowers, which the occupants scattered to thechil- dren on the return trip, seemed to give to them, many of whom seemed to him to have hardly ever possessed a flower be- fote. He also in speaking of Prof. Kedzie's paper said that he scarcely thought that his ideas of production of flowers almost at will could be carried out, at least with the knowledge we now have. It was all most florists could do now to keep their plants in a good healthy condition, and that when men began experimenting with artificial manures, and he had done so frequently, it was generally to their sor- row. It might be possible to control things as the speaker suggested, but he thought it hardly probable in his day. The club room subject came up for dis- cussion, and it was thought likely that the November meeting would be held in the magnificent new hall of the Horticult- ural Society. David Rust is to be the essayist of the October meeting — subject, "Early chrys- anthemums; their value as cut flowers." An effort will be made to have as many different varieties as shall be in bloom at that time on exhibition; this will make a very interesting display. J. J . Styer of Concord ville, the carnation- ist and hothouse fruit grower, has rented stalls 900 to 904in the 12th street market, and will handle his products in a retail way there; his wholesale carnation busi- ness will still be handled by W. J. Baker as before. At the semi-monthly shoot of the Gun Club for the Donaldson Medal, held August 28, George Craig again came oft" victorious, winning the medal for the third time with a score of 18, which with his handicap of 6, gave him 24 points. The other actual scores were: Burton 20, A. B. Cartledge 18, Chas. D. Ball 20, L. D. Ball 13,J. W. Colflesh 14, George Anderson 21. K. Chicago. The first picnic of the Chicago Florist Club, held last Wednesday, was a decided success. The attendance far exceeded the expectations of the doubters and a picnic will undoubtedly be an annual event in the future. It was an ideal day and those present enjoyed themselves thoroughly. In the 100 yard dash for men there were 10 entries and some great sprinting was done. It was "worth the price of admission" to see this race alone, and a view of the spikes in Scotty's shoes was worth another quarter. Geo. R. Scott came in first, spikes and all, by a good margin, and will wear with pride the cuff buttons provided for the winner. The necktie provided for second man is now the property of C.J. Reardon. The race for single ladies was very pict- uresque, all five contestants wearing an assortment of ribbons that fluttered in the wind with great effect. Miss Joseph- 128 The American Florist. Sept. 5, ine Pruse arrived first and was awarded a fine silk handkerchief for her prowess. Miss Alda Grant was second and was re- joiced to learn that the second prize was a box of candy. There were but three entries in the sack race but the three were daisies. One turned a complete somersault and pro- ceeded as though nothing had happened. R. Avers took the cufi' buttons provided for first prize, while C.J. Reardon will in future suspend his trowsers with the sec- ond prize. But the fat men's race was the gem. There were six entries and the earth trembled as the runners approached. How they did run! Geo. Rtinberg was first and undoubtedly had immediate use for the walking stick awarded him. F. Oblund was second and becamethe happy Bossessor of a cigar-holder. But we think it must have been a full hour before any one of them recovered his breath. The spoon race for married ladies made *he spectators laugh till the tears ran. Of the five contestants only one kept the marble in her spoon the whole distance. The otlers were continually dropping 1 heir marbles and making frantic grabs for them in the grass. First one was ahead, and then another, and the excite- ment was at fever heat. Mrs. G. L. Grant finally came in first and received the souvenir spoon. Mrs. L. Kelly was second and was awarded a bottle of per- fumery. Some great efforts were made in the hop, step and jump, Chas. Balluff being first and J. P. Smith second. There were unfortunately but three entries in the 100 yard dash for boys. Waller Grant was first and Willie Keenan second. The entries in the race for girls were also few. Cariie Ludlow was first and Mamie Liebl second. The baseball game was a hummer. The wholesalers are probably running bases yet. At last report they had 25 runs to the retailers' 5. Had not the park been unusually large the ball would have been over the fence most of the time. W. E. Lynch was the umpire, and it's no wonder he had a policeman to protect him. Billy had lots of fun with both nines and the superior manner in which he turned down protests was as refresh- ing as a summer shower. One would have thought he had a regiment of regu- lars at his back. A box of cigars was the prize and the wholesalers soon fumi- gated the park so thoroughly that insect life will be undiscoverable there for months to come. The proceeding used up so much time that the shooting and bowling had to be omitted, and those who remained after sunset devoted their attention mainly to the dancing pavilion. There was rain during the evening but the day had been delightful and all voted the picnic a great success. The committee of arrangements is certainly entitled to much credit. The flower market showed a slight im- provement this week, since the cool weather set in. There is a distinct advance in quality; prices are about the same. The roses have more substance and better color. The main demand has been for white stock, and white carna- tions are a trifle scarce. Some good asters are seen; among them Semple's strain seen at W. E. Lynch's were partic- ularly fine, the colored selling at $1, and the white $1.50 a hundred. The light pink are especially beautiful. The first cold storage valley is seen at Bassett & Washburn's; it is especially fine— large bells and deeply colored foliage. It is held at $4. Another accession to the ranks of the wholesalers is the Illinois Cut Flower Co., whose establishment is at 59 Wabash avenue. J. B. Deamud is manager. They will do a general commission business, and act as growers' agents. Recent visitors: J. D. Carmody, Evans- ville, Ind.; S. Skidelsky, PhilaHelphia; L. Bemb, Detroit, Mich.; Miss Kaber, La Porte, Ind. Buffalo. The writer has been rusticating for the past ten days, resting under apple trees whose branches have to be propped up to keep the enormous crop of this most useful of all fruit from breaking down. Such is the state of the apple crop in many counties of western New York. Such is the state of affairs that in Livings- ton County it is estimated there is one hundred bushels of apples to every man, woman and child. The writer sold to a shipper to-day 25 barrels off two trees. They were the "King of Tompkins' Co." and he received $1.25 per barrel. This is not floriculture, but is letting Mr.Rawson know the kind of news that will be sent in when our national society adopts the name of horticulture, for then pomology will be a strong feature, and to the general reader the apple crop will be more interesting than tne crop of rust on Daybreak. We are having ideal weather for lifting carnations, cool and showery. Some of the village carnationists have already begun to life. There is a wide diversity of opinion about this lifting. You hear the best of growers from Long Island say they filled some houses befort; the 20th of August, and then again you hear Chester Co., Pa., men say the second week in October is right for them. It depends largely on the state your plants are in, and also on varieties. There has been quite a loss of plants with some growers here by the dying off process. The stem becomes decayed, the plantdries op, while the roots to all appearance are vigorous. I may get called down for this assertion, but I will chance it because I know I am right (and when you are right you should go ahead). Of all miserable mistakes that the carnation grower can make it is to water his plants in the field. Never mind what the soil is or how dry the weather. If watered sensibly and well when planted never put water to them again, trust to the gentle rain that falls from heaven upon the earth beneath. If the powers above have forgotten to let it fall for a month or two in vour particular locality don't worry; eat H. O. for break- fast and then go and hoe, hoe. I have once more seen this demonstrated at a neighbor's, but I knew it twenty years ago. Your correspondent has a bad kink in his back brought on by showing the boys how to take bigshovelfulsandquickly, or perhaps the germs of the disease were laid by handling the heavy sphere on the slip- pery alleys, a game to which he is a com- parative stranger. So he is absent from the busy marts of our city. From reports I glean there is nothing very rushing. The nights are growing cold, very cool in Buffalo, and we hope it is in Italy and at our own seaside, and that it will drive our people home, where they can lead a decent life and buy flowers. Carnations are at a low ebb, butafew hundred arrive in town each day. There is a great sup- ply of fine asters. The white and light pink sell well, the deeper colors go slow. There are some fine American Beauties coming from friend George Fancourt of Wilkesbarre. The copious rains have given sweet peas a new lease of life, and they are fl iwering well. Altogether we never had such asupply of outside flowers as this summer, far more than was needed. To the truck farmer or country florist I would say "don'c go into that line of business so heavy, plant more horseradish, the market is^- much more reliable." Mr. C. F.Christenson. wife and family, have just returned from their second trip to Atlantic City this summer. "My dear boy, it is the onlv place I care to go." What a pity he did rot know this when the convention was there two years ago. Comments on the late convention are now rather late but I have had no pre- vious opportunity to speak my little piece. It is gratifying, particularly to some people, to believe that the conven- tion was a success; socially it was un- doubtedly and we may hope that when Secretary Stewart reads his next annual report it will prove to have been a good increase to the society's exchequer. We live and learn, and the next convention can be much better than any that have gone before. The earnest, honest, and dignified man who will be at the head of affairs next year augurs well for the future of the society. The attendance was fair, perhaps good compared with some previous conventions, but oh my, think of the absent ones. All of us can think of hundreds of men who had no possible excuse for their absence, simply indiffer- ence, never mind, "go mark him well, ior him no funeral note will knell." Philadel- phia always was the banner city for attendance and is yet, and all honor to them for it. The fact of the matter is there are too many florists with small narrow minds (much smaller than their pockets) who will not sacrifice either their time or a little money for the welfare of the national society or our profession. Their little minds are wrapt up in their business or their baby. The sun rises and sets on them, they are the centre of the universe (in their mind). They would rather be a big toad in a very small and common puddle than be just an ordinary person in a large assemblage of bright and intelligent people. They sreer at their neighbor who receives honors, and ask each other what benefit the conven- tion is to them, poor creatures. When illiteracy, ignorance and selfishness are eliminated from the great bulk of the florists of this country we will have glorious c inventions. When I stood in the Central Armory on Wednesday, charmed with the glorious sight and the heavenly music I could but wish and wished it sincerely, that every florist in the land was there that night. My own city made a miserable showing in point of numbers, but no worse in proportion to size than some others. Where, oh where, is fair O itario? I am ashamed of her, so near and yet so far. They hardly raised a triplet to represent the maple leaf. Now after what might have been it is cheerful to know that in Cleveland we found a number of men who lavishly spent their time and a g"od deal besides their time, to make us happy, and right well they did their part. Names I cannot mention, they all deserve our hearty thanks and I know that if not voiced by all everv visitor from his heart thanked them. I must make one exception, Mr. Cushman was never seen but at work, and it is absolutely safe to say that our society never had a superintendent of exhibits who worked harder or whose exertions were crowned with greater i8g6. The American Florist. 129 success. A noticeable change in the con- ventions of the last few years, and it is a feature or rather absence of a feature, is the exemplary behaviour of the entire attendance, with the exception of the harmless sports of shooting and bowling the members confine themselves to the business of the convention or decorous sight seeing. That noisy hilarity, practi- cal joking, champagne suppers, and many other weaknesses are dying out, and well it is so, for it was very distaste- ful to many of us. We now would pass muster for a convocation of the Anelican church. We are awfully glad the Phila- delphia men lost their train. Theirloss was our gain and it was a fitting end to a most pleasant convention. Several of our men have ordered a No. 12 hammerless Parker, so look nut. Darby Road and Chestnut Hill. You have rubbed it in long enough; even the worm will turn after a time. W. S. Pittsburg. The regular meeting of the Florists' Clubwas held at thtir rooms in Allegheny on Thursday evening, the 27th ult., with a very full attendance; some very inter- esting accounts of the convention were given, also a full descriotion of the trip to Detroit after the adjournment of the S. A. F. and a letter of thanks was or- dered sent as expressive of the feeling of the members. The beautiful silver cups won by the bowling and shooting teams were exhib- ited and greatly admired. The teams tendered them to the club, so as to be put in with the other mementoes, and on mo- tion the offer was accepted with the thanks of the club to each team for the prizes and the able manner in which they upheld the c'ub's name in the contests. Mr. P. S. Randolph of Randolph & Mc- Clements brought before the meeting a matter of great interest to all; he said a few days ago he was looking over a bed of 'mums and discovered that some worm or insect was feeding on them, attacking the centre of the plant first and then eat- ing downward. It always left its track behind by droopings.but for several days he failed to find out what caused the damage, always supposing it to be a cricket or grasshopper, or possibly a cat- erpillar, but failed to find either of them, then finally deciding that it must be a night feeder, he laid in wait for them. The next night about 11 o'clock he caught 4-4 large-bodied grey worms, about I'l- inches in length; he also discovered that they burrowed in tbe earth during the daytime. Nobody at the meeting could give any infjrmation about them. They are now almost dormant, having begun to go into the chrysalis state. They are exceeciagly destructive but only attacked one kind of 'mums, the Bonnaffon, al- though another variety was close by those attacked. I learn that Mr. Theo- doie F. Beckert of Nevil'e Island has had a like experience. Mr. Heary H. NegJev has taken several of them to keep until they develop iato a moth or butterflv. Trade generally has been exceedingly dull, and no improvement is looked lor before the return of "society" from sum- mer journeyings. Mr. James Semple of Bellevue sent a trial shipment of aster blooms to London, England, on Saturday last. He wishes to introduce his variety there, and be- lieves this is the simplest and best method. He has had some fine lots in market this week, flowers measuring five inches with petals 7-16 inch broad and 1-h inches long, showing a full swirled centre, high built flower, not an eye showing in either pink, white or lavender; many persons readily mistaking them for chrysanthe- mums. We trust his success across the •water will equal his anticipations. Mr. Julius W. Ludwig went to Butler to compete in acut flower show. Butler- ites will have to hustle to beat the display he intends making. Mr. Rice, of M. Rice & Co., of Philadel- phia was with us this week. Regia. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. AdTertlsements under thlB head will be Inserted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTB1)-By all around Horlst and gardener; private or commercial place. Refer- ences. W B. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— (iardener and florist: pri- vate or commercial : 2o years' e-vperlence: Scotch; married. D M. care American Florist. ITUATION \VANT?:i)-SlnBle American. Si years old. .s years' experience: KOOd references. K. C BLtiu.MFlKl.il, l!i; W. ''ouKress St.. Chlcajio. S^ SITUATION WANTED— By practical florist and gar- dener notafraldof work; life experience. English. RKe'-is. Temperate. H. Swabv. Stctiarles, 111. SITUATION WANTED— Ae florist and (iardener. on good private place. For particulars and references address Ehwari) Bean. Forest Home. Ithaca. N. Y. SITUATION WANTED— By a competent young man on a private or commercial place: stea'iv and so- ber: best of references. J. ('. Kelwav. (.'hlcago. SITUATION WANTED— By youngmarrlodtTennan; 12 years' experience on larye placet*. Bewt of ref- erences. F. SCHE.MBS. t;'2:i^ W. Madison St., Chlcajio. SITUATION WANTED-By a practical cut flower grower with 1'.; years' experience; age :tU. State wages. Address Florist, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED— By a competent young man on private or commercial place: steady and sober; references. Address ^. — One good, stout all round florist. Young married German preferred. Address A P, florist. Crown Hill. Indianapolis. Ind. WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrst-class chance to e8tal)llsh himself. Address D U B, care American Florist. WANTED—Flrsl-clasB grower of cut flowers. State wages. Send references to Fort Rou<;e Grlknhouse Co .Winnipeg. Manitoba. WANTED— Catalogiies and wholesale Ils's for the following hpeclaltles: Palms, rosea, ferns and all kinds of greenliouse plants to fill two greenliouses. J. C. FLCCKiGER, Clayton. N. Y. WANTED— Young man; working foreman; must thoroughly understand growing roses, carna- tions and violets. State wages. Address W H K. Box t;. Langdon. D. C- WANTKD— In St Augustine. Florida, from Jan. Ist to April 1st. 1897. a young woman of good ad dress to act as saleswoman in retail florist s estab- lishment. Must be experienced and artistic in table and room decoration Traveling expenses paid. Ad- dress Ward G. Foster. P. O, Box 'IKXl, New York. WANTED— By managing owner of a large and tlirlvlng place In Europe (continent) as foreman rose grower, a young man who has worked some years In Al American establishments. Salary "iiKI francs per month, future reserved: board during suy Passage prepaid. Trial allowed. Eventually passage back also paid. References forthcoming. This Is a special op- portunity for a settled situation, as the right man would be appreciated. If married, now or later, nice house, fuel and vegetables given Instead of t)oard- FuUy detailed statement as to past career, name of employers, requested. Photographs pollclted— will be returned. Adddress Yecrissen, Ub Marche Soullers. Antwerp, Belgium. lOR RENT— 4 greenhouses and stock good location. Apply to Walter Bctler, Keadvllle, Mass. F F lOR SALE— Five greenhouses located In the health- iest climate of the South. For particulars address E. E. Brown. AshevUle. N. C. Y lOR RENT— A large nursery and plant establish- ment of many years' standing at Washington. D. For particulars apptv Box 1.^, City P. O.. Washington. D. C. FOR SAT,K -Florist 8 covered wagon, costing origin- al I v $"-Vi(i: Hne 1200 pound horse same value; will sell both for*'14iinpt. Vauohan's Sekd Store. Box us-s, Chicago. FOR SALE CHEAP— Having sold the real estate on which my greenhouse stands. I Intend to take It down, and offer all my plants, orchids, etc., including all the nlplng and glass for a houee ,;i)xs4 feet: also about .ilNti) pots from :i-lnch to I'Mnch, standard sizes. Write for particulars to A. C Parfrev, Richland Center, Wis. FOR SALE-At Park Ridge. 111.. .'» greenhouses \'il feet long, :^ room cottage, and barn, with alwut 2^ acres of land: or will sell my cut flower store which has been on preseat place '' years. Reason forselllng. not able to run both places. Address or call. H. E. REDELiNGS.Stw Milwaukee Ave.. Chicago. FOR SALE— Four greenhouses, In good town of oOOU Inhab'tants; no opposition; ti.oOlt feet of glass; houses well stocked with roses, carnations, "mums and smllax; good assortment of pot plants; one and one- half acres o^ around, good dwelling, five rooms. All new. Price ^\ UtXi; fsiKidown, balance to suit purchaser. For further Information address John Wagoner. Box :m, Portland. Ind. Thoroughly experienced makers-uD; those who are accustomed to high- cl'iss work and decorations. Good wages to the right parties. FLEISCHMAN, Florist, HOFFMAN HOUSE. NEW YORK. MARIE LOUISE, fine, healthy field-grown plants $4 per 100. Cash with order. CHAS. L. DOLE, Lockport, N. Y. THE GARDENING COMPANY. A special meeting of the Stockholders of this company will be held at the Astor House, New York City, at l p. m. Thursday, September 17th. W. ATLEE BURPEE, Pres. DaiedSept. 4, '.«;. J. c. VAUCHAN, Sec'y. ■^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^« $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of $1000 cash | for ONE FliANC each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERH . The best novelty for Florists' decorative i purposes, $1.50 per 12; fflO per 100, from 2^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANC & CO., Phila., Pa. 130 The American Florist. Sept. 5, Subscription $1.00 a Year, To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Column, $14.00, Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent j 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The AdvertlslnK Department of the American FLORIST is for FlorlBtfl, Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines ONLY. Please to remember It. Orders for less than one-liall inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure insertion in the issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Milwaukee. A new florist'ja establishment opened August 27 at 417 Milwaukee street; this is the fifth florist in this block, making the locality quite a "flower center." The store is tastefully fitted up in white and eold. The new enterprise is headed by Miss Mary McKennv, who has been for some time with the Whitnall Floral Co. and has acquired a knowledge of the retail flower trade which should insure her success. The trade in general has improved. For two weeks past all good roses have sold; American Beauties have sold well lately, and some very fine sweet peas which made their appearance this week have met with ready sale at 25 cents. The suc- cess of the lily crop has been gratifying to Milwaukee florists this summer. Almost everyone who grew either the auratum or speciosum declares he will plant more next season. Miss Ida Forness, who conducts the floral department in D. R. Jones' drug store, took a week's vacation this sum- mer, closing the department for the time. A. M. York, whose place of busicess is in Ladd & Jansen's drug store, has had the annoyance of builders and plasterers all summer. They are about fi nished now and he will have one of the best corners in town to sell flowers from. The Bliss Floral Co. has suspended operations indefinitely. The parties from whom they sublet their portion of store room failed, and they did not feel war- ranted in taking the whole of such an ex- pensive store alone. Barrett's one cent store will start up their floral department October 1. Mr. A. Billings has closed his Wisconsin street store; he found that the profits did not compensate him for the time lost from his Cudahy establishment, where he is quite successful in growing special lines. Probably the most marked improve ment in any one place here this season has been made by Mr. Freytag in Forest Home avenue; several new greenhouses, a work-shop and store convenience and a beautiful dwelling, which gives the place a very decided airof prosperity and thrift. Mr. Wm. Freytag is an expert grower and the various improvements just made are sure to promote gratifying results under his management. Archie Middle- mass has made some alterations in both of his places calculated to improve the quality and increase the quantity of out- put this season. C. B. W. Lowell, Mass. The second annual outing of the Lowell florists took place at Willow Dale on August 25. Baseball, bowling and other athletic games were indulged in and all had a most enjoyable time. NEW HARDY FERNS, 1896 Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER 1000 FROM NOW UNTIL DKCEMUEK 1st. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. vKworT The New York Gut Flower Go, 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brigliton, Mass. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, Jl^ ST. PAUL, MINN. FERNS IN VARIETY. Just the thiug for this Fall. Well estab- lished in 2-inch pots. Adiantum from flats. CARNATIONS— Wm. Scott. Daybreak, But- tercup, Thos Cartledge Kittie Clover, Eldo- rado, L. McGowau, strongplauts from field. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Glenslde, Pa. Burkl's New yellow MarQU6ril6 ETOILE DE LYON. •if. Hooted Cuttings for *1.00, by mail. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers, Blooms the year round. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. W lUtl.KSALE FLOltlST. PADMATinUQ RO-'E queen field-grown, uAnnA I lUllOi strong plants, S.5.00 per lUO. or $40.C0 per 1000. CCDMC ADIANTrMCrNEATUM,2^ in. pots rLnllOt »a per 100, 3 in. 88, 4 in. 815. 5-in. 825 PTERIS TREMir.A,2;^-iuch pots. 85 per 100, :i inch 88, 4-inch 815, 5-inch 820. VIOLETS, field-grown. 85 per 100; 840 per ICOO. <".Of'Virc Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO., GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS in 88 Wabash Avenue, .^ CHICA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. Reinberg Bros. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS, 61 WABASH AVENUE, Telephone Main 4937. OXXIOJ^OO. Onr Boses best them all, In qaallty. Headgaarters for fine American Beauties' W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET. — ^CHICA.GO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60., Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. ^ CHICAGO. Wo are prepared to fill your orders with flratrOlaBS flowers. Olve us a trial order. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS, 88 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. ConsitmmentBBOllclted. Promot attention to«IiordorB. A. L. RANDALL, wnoiesaie Fiona 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ©yftoPeAaPa Marftafii. Cut Flowers. «SW YORK. Sept. I. Roses. Beauty, e.vtra 15.00:50.00 Adiantum 100 CHIOAGO, Sept. 4. Roses, Beauties 8.00@li;.00 seconds 4.00® (i 01 Brides. Bridesmaid 1.00® :t.00 Meteors 3.00 Perle. Wootton l.OOt" 2.00 Teslout 4.0O Kalserin 4.00 Carnations T5.@ 1,00 Speclosum 0,00 Auralum ti.00®12.00 Tuberoses 4.00w (;.00 Asters 25(f'! .75 Swalnsona. per dozen bunches 1.00 (ilHcllolus 2.00 HydraiiKCa 4,00 Vttllev 4.00 Smilax 10,00®12 60 Adiantum 100 ST. Loins, Sept. :t. Roses, Beauties, long., short.. " select stock . . . general stock. . . Carnations Sweet peas Aslers Hollyhocks Gladiolus Smilax Ferns, Adiantum 10 00 4.00 3.00 1.00 1.00 .26 1 00 .50 3,00 .10.00@16.00 1,00 Agent for Onest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers. GEORGE fl. SUTHERLAND, Successor to PECK & SUTHERLAND. Successors to WM. J. STEWART. Cut Flowersi Florists' Supplies 67 Bromfield St., BOSTON, MASS. New England Agent for the GREAT ANTIPEST. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS" SUPPLIES, METS, '^^'^^ -^ FLORISTS BRIDES, ^^ ^^^O^ VASES. GONTIERS, CARNATIONS ALWAYS ON HAND. 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON, MASS. HORTICULTDRAL ADCTIONEERS, Mention American Florlai WELCH BB.OS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET. Near Tremont St.. BOSTON, MASS. John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Grown particularly for summer trade. EXTRA FINE LONG ASTERS. CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. THOS. -VOUJVG, Jr., 43 W. 28th St.. NEW YORK. WflUTER F. SHERIDAN, WHOLESALE 59 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street. NEW YORK. WHOLESiLE ' FLORIST. Careful Shipping to all parts of the country. Price list on application. Furdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30th St., NEW YORK. Good Flowers , ARE HARD TO GET IN MID-SUMMER. FOR CHOICE STOCK SEND TO JOHN YOUNG, 51 W. zaxH Street. NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34lh Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK, JULIUS LANG, Dealer in WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY, MILLANG & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, Corner 30TH St.. NEW YORK. ConglgnmentB Solicited. 132 The American Florist. Sept. s, irft« $««il Srac^A. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. Wood. Pre».; Alex. Kodgers and J. B. Klce, Vice-Presidents; A. L. Don, 114 Chambers Street. New York. Sec'v and Treas. Kansas has produced an immense crop of Meadow Fescue. White clover will be lower. Other grass seeds continue to go down. Visited Chicago: L. L. Mav, J. E. Northrup, F. Barteldes, S. B. Dicks. Kentucky blue grass is reported firm in first hands and a corner is said to have been planned. The letting of the Government seed contract interests many dealers at this time; definite news was expected about September 1. but is not yet forthcoming. The impression prevails, that like last season, the winners have been chosen early. Some pilgrims have already been nottd on the way to Washington. Nebraska Seed Crops, Sweet corn is all right, very heavy and with much less ravages from worms than for two years past. Cucumbers will turn out heavy. Muskmelons fair. Winter squashes have been hurt by both bugs and borers, but with an increased acreage the gap is likely to be filled. Watermelons are setting sparingly. In general the outlook is unusually good. The best growers don't like 10-cent prices they are asked to submit to, but there are plenty of growers who are will- ing to grow at those rates. We hear of one land owner who insists that his rent- ers pay more attention to milk farms. The only losses by failure of seed houses was by the Stimmel failure three years since. Grower. Holland Notes. A friend of the Florist who has just returned from Holland reports as follows; The seed crop is so far very good, cauli- flower extra fine and promises to turnout first-class, other cabbage also very good; spinach good, but owing to the very low prices of the last two years not much cultivated. In bulbs hyacinths are small, not many first size, but the bulbs are very sound and good for forcing. Tulips extra fine, more demand; some sorts will be short; prices are getting higher. Crocus, no sur- plus stock; crop in general not so good. Narcissus, good crop; not quite as large as la't year, but good sound bulbs. Spii£ea suif-jred very much from the drouth. H. P. roses extra fine, tree roses good; clematis, rhododendrons, etc., seem to come extra fine; some ornamental trees in poor condition owing to severe drouth. Palms not over-good; fine stock very scarce, especially Kentia Belmoreana. Azaleas (Indian) seem to come extra fine and promise plenty of flower buds. Araucarias looking fine, but mostly sold. Lily of the valley good, but higher in price. Onions for Fall Sowing. Replying to "Be.'der," who itquires regarding the above on page 1378, August 1 issue of the Florist, the best onion to plant in the fall, leave out over winter and produce early green onions in the spring for market is the Egyptian or Perennial Tree onion. They should be planted about September 1 in furrows three or four inches deep. A hoe will do first rate to make the furrows for small patches, but for half an acre or more it is cheaper to use a marker drawn by horse power. The large old fashioned harrow teeth put in a piece of scantling five feet long and bolted to the frame of the harrow through the holes where the hind teeth were makes a very good marker for horse power. The object of planting them deep is to keep the frost from lifting them out of the ground during the winter, and to have the onions blanched white four or five inches up from the root. It also saves weeding. When the onions have a pretty good start you can go over the patch with a rake eight irches wide and work the soil into the furrows. If the onions are wanted with extra long white stems, after the ground has been worked level they can be ridged up with a small sized shovel-plow drawn by two men. Other varieties of onions wouldn't stand this treatment, but these thrive under it, are earlierin the market, more productive and are as good for table use as any other kind. Ralph W. Mayer. Willow Street, Pa. Montreal. The Gardeners' and Florists' Club held the second o( their series of summer ex- hibitions August 26, which waseminently successful in every respect, the exhibits of asters, gladiolus, cannas and phlox filled three tables the full length of the hall, besides another long table of miscel- laneous fljwers. The stage was also tastefully decorated with palms, large vases of helianthus, golden rod and peren- nial asters, etc The attendance of visit- ors was very good, considering that it was not advertised further than by news items in some of the daily papers. No admission was charged, so the exact num- ber who attended could not be ascer- tained, but there must haveover five hun- dred people between S and 10:30 p. m. that being the whole time the show was open. The favorable reports given by the local press of the show the next day were very gratifying to the club, and it is felt that an increased popularity of the shows of the club will be the result. The juHgfs were Mr. Thomas McHugh and Mr. T. W. Burden, and their awards met with general satisfaction. P. McKenna & Son exhibited geraniums and carnations, not f jr competition, and there were cannas, gladioli, asters and other cu^ flowers. ex*iibited bv G. Robin- son, J. Perrln, W. Wilshire and others. T McHughshowed Saintpauliaionantha, and there were many oihtr interesting displays. Beaver. Toronto. By the time this is in print our great exhibition will be in full blast. This (Tuesday) is the opening day, but as things are generally in a chaotic state the first day or two it is useless goiii .; uo to get a report just yet. Mr. Geo. Vair, chairman of the horticultural committee, told me yesterday that there would be a fair show of plants. Cut flowers come in the second week. The weather is fine and cool and the biggest number of visitors on record is expected. The Gardeners' and Floris's' Associa- tion met on Tuesday Idst. The attend- ance was pretty good, but as there was no particularly iateresiing business on the meeting adjourned early. Mr. John Fursey, of Yockers, N. Y., who with his wife and family have been making a short sojourn in the city was present and told us how they manage to make things in- teresting in the New York Gardeners' Society meetings. Our next meeting will be a canna meeting and everyone is re- quested to bring blooms of desirable sorts, old or new, that their merits may be discussed. Mr. Chas. Arnold has aeain started business at his old stand on Queen street. His old customers will no doubt return to him. The bu=iness had been sadly let down by Mr. Grant, who bought out Mr. Arnold last spring. E. St. Louis. Business of late has shown some slight improvement over the previous week, more esoecially in the line of funeral work. There are flowers enough of all kinds for the demand except carnations and Beauties, of which more could be sold. Asters are still coming in great abundance, but very poor. There seems to be an unusually largecropof Kaiserins coming in just now, and the best with good long stems bring 3 cents, and the poorer ones sell for 2 cents. Brides, Mete- ors and Bridesmaids sell at 3 cents; Perles go at 2 cents. Carnations are selling at $1 per 100, asters the same. Should this cool snap keep up a little longer pric -s will go up a notch or two by September 15. Visitors in town last week were Paul Berkowitzof H.Bayersdorfer & Co., Phil- adelphia; Mr. Ford, representing Mr. Herman of New York, and Mr. Koeppen of Koeppen & Steinmetz, Sedalia, Mo. Albert Bauer of Fleckenstein's returned with his family after a month's trip up north. Will Young got back Saturday from the convention much pleased with what he had seen at Cleveland. John Kunz had a good time uo north fishing and hunting for a week. John Young and family, who are spending a few weeks at Atlantic City, writes that thev will be back by Saturday, September 5. The exhibition committee will meet at Weber's store Wednesdav night. The next meeting of the Florists' Club will be held on Thursday, September 10, at 3 p. m. President Kunz expects the attendance to be as large as tbp last one; the installation of the new officers will take place and other matters will come up that will be of great importance to all members. At this meeting Mr. Kunz will tell us all about his trip fishing and hunting up north. Monday was one of those nights that make a bowler feel good; it was cool, and some good scores were made during the evening. Col. Paul Berkowitz of Philadelphia was a visitor at the alleys. The night's rolling ended with Fred Weber on top with 5-fM in three games. Frank Fillmore was second with 536 and Beneke third, 519. H. Helwig was high man on single score, 231, with Weber second, 224, and Beneke third, 204. J.J. B. fansies Worm Raisino. SEED almost all sold, but we can coutimie fur lushiug single packages of 3-IK ounces each for $1.00. Cash with order. PLANTS will be ready about Sept. 1.") or JO. C SOLTAU & CO . 199 fiiaiil Ave., lerseY nny. N. 1. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist. 133 California Grown GfiLLflS Carefully cured, with sound center shoots, now ready lor shipment from our New York or Chicago stores. SIZES and PRICE: W to lii-inch, $5 50 per 100 1V4 to I'i-inch, $7.50 per 100 2 to 2>2-inch, $9 50 per 100 Vauglian's Seed Store CHICAGO: 84-86 Randolph St. NEW YORK: 14 Barclay St. PRIMULA SEED. This Year's Crop. Now Ready. Owr superb mixture contains onlv the choicest fringed strains, and will give the prentest satisfaction. Trade pkt. 50c. Cineraria Seed. Our strains are unsurpassed fur richness uf color as well as fur size and perfection of form. Trade pkt- 50c. HERRMANN'S SEED STORE, 473 B. 34TH STREET. Near Long Island Ferry, NEW YORK. Agent lor LYSOL, the ideal insecticide. BULBS for FORCING and Gardening, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD Tl M ES PRICES HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood. N. J. Siebrecht & Wadley's PALMS. FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N.Y. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦t : ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ SURE CROP^ * Special prices '( on application MUSHROOM SPAWN LILIUM HARRISil, DUTCH BULBS. ■•FLORISTS" FLOWER SEEDS. WEEBER & DON. IrA""'"'"''' 114 Chambers St. Growers. NEW YORK. TRY DREER'S GflRDtN Seeds, Plants, Bulbs & Requisites. They are the best at the lowest prices. Trade List Is- sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. HENRY A. DREEB, FhUadelphla, Fs. OSCAR KNOPFF&CO. SEED GROWERS. Sole Agent for the t'nlted States and Canada: M. RUTTENAU, 16 to 25 Whitehall St.. New York. Trade Cataloniies and estimates cheerfullv furnished. Orders promptly filled direct from nurserlesat Erfurt. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. EVEN THE BOY ORATOR with i6 to I in his favor cannot dispute the fact that our values in BULBS are not exceptional. PER 1000 ROMAN HYACINTHS, II to 12, - $18.00 12 to 15, - 23.00 LILIUM HARRISil, 5 to 7, - 20.00 7 to 9, - 40.00 CALLA LILIES, large, per 100 $8.00 " " small - " 5. GO BAMBOO CANES for your chrysanthemums, 7.00 LEMON OIL, sure death to all low life. (SAMPLE QTS. 75 Cts.i WRITE FOR OUR TRADE LIST AT ONCE. WM, ELLIOTT & SONS, New York. VAN ZANTEN BROTHERS, Hillegjom, Holland. Extra quality of HIGH GRADE FORCING BULBS AT LOW PRICES. We now book orders for Azalea Indica, Palms, etc. Ttie largest collection of sundry bulbs and P'*"tS. APPLY FOR WHOLESALE CATALOGUE. Mushroom Spawn. New imoortation arrived ^ept. ird: per ttj lOC: 10 llis. for SiOC: too Itis. for ?7.00. FULL LINE OF HOLLAND BULBS READY NOW CHINESE NARCISSUS arrived from Hong Kong Aug. 2Stli. They open up splen- didly. Get our special prices. OUR RECORD FOR PROMPT DELIVERY IS UNBROKEN W. W. BARNARD & GO. 186 East Kinzie St., CHICAGO. "THE DAHLIA" m' L.WVKKNXE k. rEACOl K. A PRACTICAL TRE«TISE that should be cata- loeued by every SEEDSMAN HUO FLORIST oflering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. P. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. Atco N J. Cemetery Men and Florists. For HEMLOCK and CEDAR EVERGREENS, used for lining and covering graves and decorating purposes, writing to E. J. VODRA, Two Rivers, Wis. the only Headquarters in the Ui S. that wiU guar- antee satisfaction in ^very Te=pect in this line. I*Ieaae mention American Florist. PRIMROSES. Per 100 I'OIIO PRIMROSES, mixed. 'J"; inch pots. . . $ 2..50 500 CARN.4TIONS, 6eld grown BOO 1000 CHRYSANTHEMUMS, Sand li-in. pots 15 00 25.000 PANSY PLANTS. ... per lOOO SlOO, .BO PANSY SEED, '/i oz. $2 00; oz. 8S.50, to close out. Cash with okdek Please. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. f^o:r oa.«sh:. per loo Mnch MAKIE LOUISE VIOLETS $2 (1(1 :j-lnch " •• •■ ;j,.^( i Inch " " •• 4 .5(1 PANSr PLANTS, ready Oct. 1 1.0(1 SMILA.X PLANTS. S-lnch ■; M F. J. ROBINSON. Oak Park, ill. Please mention the American Florist erery time you write to an advertiser. ALM <£i^ee^ FRESH ON HAND PerlOO Per 1000 Per:iCUO IKentIa For8teriaua..Jl-2,"> *1U.OO -Ko.OO We book ordersnow for the Plant Novelties: Mosella Roses: Canna Austria and Italia. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. i^U^STo/iire new season s musliroom spawn Is due at this port September 2o; will guarantee delivery on time If have your order at once. Reduced tkices. Write me to-day for full particulars, <;. C. WATSON, 43 North 10th .Street, Phila- delphia. IT. S- A.. |J^"Owner of the celebrated **\V P." brand (Wateons Prolltici Mushroom spawn. My 34-page booklet on Mushroom Culture free to buyers or intending buvere; to others. 10 cents. JUST RECEIVED. Von Sion Hyacinths, Crocus, Tulips, etc. Orders booked now for Indian Azaleas, Pa'ms, Araucarias, Rhododendrons, Clem- atis, Hydrangeas, Spirsas, and general nur- sery stock. L C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. Branch ol The Horticultural Co.. Boskoop. Holland. E.G. HILL & CO.. Wiioiesaie Florists RICHMOND. INDIANA. CLEMATIS, large flowering, in splendid as- sortment for fall. SMILAX, strong plants, tf2.00 per 100; $15 00 per 1000. PAEON lES, a large stock and assortmeut, verv low. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY, 1 .t -iyeai. fine tilants. OBL. POET'S NARCISSUS, averylarge surplus stock. ENGLISH DAISIES, for winter flowering. F. A. BALLER, Bloomington, III. 134 The American Florist. Sept. 5, St. Paul, Minn. Convention news as noted in the Flo- rist is interesting reading, and we all wish we might have been at Cleveland to participate in the pleasure. But so far I have not heard of a single florist from here or Minneapolis who went. Trade is dull, but no duller than usual for this season. Good stock is not very plentiful. White flowers in general are scarce, and more good roses and carna- tions could be sold. Asters are coming in in fair quantity and qualit}'. Sweet peas are not very abundant. A great many vines are affected by a sort of bud blight. The buds set, but do not develop, though the vines are very strong and thrifty. The city parks never looked as nice as now. At Como park everything is on dress parade for the G. A.R. encampment to be held here this week. Planting has been going on all summer and every available spot has its appropriate em- blem in flowers— here a large flag, there a G. A. R. emblem, on a commanding loca- tion a miniature fort with cannon and balls; the American eagle, true to color, in immortelles, surmounts the fort. The season has been very favorable for outside stock, and carnations and violets are looking very well. Roses and 'mums being all planted, repairing seems to be the order of the day. The following improvements and addi- tions are noted this season: Chris Hansen, a large rose house, con- taining about 4,000 feet of glass; Fred Franke, three new houses; Fred Schulze, one new short-span-to-the-house house; J. C. Fleischer, one old house remodeled and enlarged; E. F. Lemke, seven houses formerly run by L. G. Venzke thoroughly repaired and put in serviceable shape. C. D. Elfelt has been in the hospital undergoing a surgical operation. James Souden has been badly poisoned with poison ivy, but has nearly recovered from Its effects. L. L. May is in the east on a business trip. S. S. Skidelsky of M. Rice & Co. was a recen'; caller. Felix. PALMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WITTBOLD, '^°^ V^^^ll'o AZALEAS, the llnest commercial varieties. PALMS, large, healthy stock, well grown. ARAUCARIAS, from cuttings only. BAY TREES, perfect shape, in all si/es. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOCK. 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. SKNI> FOK SPECIAI, OFKKK. AZALEAS BEGONIAS SPECIAL OFFER. TOEFFAERT & GEE, ' Cendbrugge-lez-Cand, • BELGIUM. 9 Rnd 'Mi (;at liariiie Str*'**l , n riYINIA^i l.lverp.H.I. KiiKlaiiil. OLUAmlflO f ^^^^^^ mPCARlAS.BAYS.&c CHRYSANTHEMUMS Nuw reiidv tor sale from 1 to T-lncti puts: hII latest and best varieties from ST). fK) to $3n.(Hl per IIKI <;reei»- hoiise plants of all varieties In best condition, at low prices now ready. L. B. No. 2. J. J. Lawrence, St. Marys, O. Mention Amerloan Florlal. 7,000 FIRST QUALITY FORCING ROSES. F'lretHiIasB and perfectly healthy In every respect. Only select Krowth from flowerintr shoots used In propaKatton, 100 PAPA CONTIER 300BONSILENE lOOMERMETS 100 METEORS 300NIPHETOS 700 SUNSET 550 KAISERIN 3-ineh pots, $.1.00 per 10(t. 4-lnch pots, 18.00 per 100. DOSES ' ■ ArlfirfiHa fnp n MERMETS. CI'SINS, TESTOUTS. NIPHETOS. ItKIDES. BRIJ^ESMAIDS, METEOR. HdSTE. WATTKViLLES. AUG. VICTOHIA. 2 3 and 4-lnch pot plants Cash with order. Owlnj; to number booked, they will be executed In rotation to assure prompt delivery. Order early. Address for quotations, VILLA LORRAINE ROSERIES, MADISON, NEW JERSEY. AMERICAN BEAUTY, t^ll%^: M. LOUISE VIOLETS, 2>4, 3 and! inch. CARNATIONS, strong plants, all the lead- ing kind.s. 1st size W per 100; 2nd size 81. BRIDESMAID, BRIDE, TESTOUT, PERLE, LA FRANCE. KAISERIN, 3 and 4-inch pots. CALIFORNIA VIOLETS, 2i4, 3 and 4-inch. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS, 3 and 4 inch. A, S. MacBBAN. LAKEWOOD, N. J. From 2-iiich pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. Lint of varieties and prices furiiislied on application. NATHAN SMITH & SON. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. WARD, Mgr. QUEENS. L. I., N. V. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Geraniums. Mftntlnn Amerlonn Florlut, Per 100 CARNATIONS, field -grown plants. Write for prices. VINCA MAJOR, extra strong $6 00 CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS(Umbrella plant), 4"^-inch pots 10 00 CYPERUS ALTERNIF0LIUS,2 in.pots 3 00 C. LENGENFELDER, Oakley and Cosgrove Avenues. CHICAGO. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VARIETIES. ROSES, from .S-lncb pots. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prlcea low. Send for Hat. WOOD BROTHERS, FiSHKILL, N. Y. Adiantum Farlyense EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices upon application. Wyndmoor. near Chestnut Hill, (Stutlon U.i PHILADELPHIA. PA. STRONC, HRAI.THV, CLEAN l'I,ANT.S. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, from 4-in. pots at $6.00 per IOC; f50 00 per tOOO. Send for Sample. Cash with order. THEODORE KNOCKE, Princeton, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. WANTED TO EXCHANQE. Fine stock 2}^-\x\ch Brides and Bridesmaid Roses, or Palms, fur Scott, Uncle John and Daybreak Carnations, or others of same color. Smilax plants and Marie Louise Violets. B. P. CRITCHELL'S SONS, Cincinnati. 0. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in 2K-inch pofcs which I will sell at $2.00 per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Si xth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS, MERMETS and METEORS, 2-in. 83.00 per 100; SiiS.OO per 1000. LA FRANCE, 3-inch 85.00 per 100; 8-15.0O per 1000. 25 at 100, and 250 at 1000 rates. West Forest Park, ST. LOUIS, MO. 15.000 ROSES foi* ovxt l3looj:x:i.« Shall be glad to correspond with parties wish- ing Daily, riemi, Tri or Weekly Shipments. GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. I have In the field 30,000 fine stocky LIZZIE McGOWAN CARNATIONS, The best White for winter. 20,COO I plant myself, 10.000 1 otTer at >3 50 per too, or $io 00 per lOOO. H. SCHILLER, Niles Center, III. CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. strong, healthy plants of DAYBREAK, WM. SCOTT and ROSE QUEEN, and MARIK LOUISE VIOLET. LOUIS A. GUILLAUME. FLORIST. East Onondaga, N. V. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. WE ARE NOW READY TO SHIP, SKNI) KliK I'KirK LIST. J. A. TRACHT & SON, Galion, O. K.xtrH tine storn troin ".'-inch pots, at %\.l*} per UNt. llrliloHMiiiltl. i.ft France, NIphetoB, Wouttuns, Poprt (Joiitlor. CARNATIONS- *.'■ Kl per 1110 R. ROY DAVIS. Morrison. III. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist, 135 Field-Grown Carnations. 1st size 2nd Size Per 100 Per 100 $5 00 5 00 5 00 GOOD STOCK BRIDESMAID f8 00 METEOR S 00 STORM KING 8 00 UNCLE JOHN 8 00 THE STUART 8 00 5 00 E. A. WOOD 8 00 GOLDFINCH 5 OD DIAZ ALBERTINI 8 00 5 00 WM. SCOTT 8 00 5 00 DAYBREAK 8 00 5 00 DAZZLE 8 CO 5 00 ALASKA 8 CO I«0 H.XJST. F. DORNER & SONS CO. LA FAYETTE, I NO. SURPLUS Carnations . About 4000 Rose Queen, Alaska, Daybreak, Scott, etc., grown for own use. .. FIRST-CLASS. .. MOUNT GREENWOOD, ILL. H. WEBER & SONS, Garnationists, Box 57, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MD. 25,000 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS $5.00 PER HUNDRED. Fisher, Hose Queen, Daybreak, Portia, Hector. FRED. BURKI. BELLEVUE. PA. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Good medium sized planls, at a low price. UOLDFINCU I IIINZES WHITE I CHKSTBR PRIDE PORTIA . I GRACE WILDER } At M.OOptr 1110. PRBS. GARFIELD I L. L. LAMBORN LIZZIE McGOW AN I SILVER SPRAY I WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. 12,000 Good Stock for Sale. CARNATIONS, 5000 Field-grown plants, six varieties.. 1000 SWANLEY WHITE VIOLETS. 600 CACTI, mixed sorts. 4000 CALIFORNIA PRIVET, 2 years. 1500 EUONYMUS, Japan Evergreen hedge plant. WRITE FOR PRICES. HENRY HULICK. Florist, EATONTOWN. N. J. A GREAT TRIO OKARNATIONS SCOTT, DAYBREAK and McGOWAN. Gilt-edged, field-grown plants of these and a gen- eral assortment at ii to S6 per 100. Sample for 2.5c. ' THE BOOL CO.. ITHACA, N. Y. Unexcelled Carnation Plants. All the leadloK varieties— Daybreak, Uoee t^ueen, Scott. McGowan, etc, extra strong, healthy, Btock. Also MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS. L. E. MARQUISEE, Syracuse, N. Y. FIELD=QROWN CARNATIONS. LARGE STOCK OF SPLENDID PLANTS. The weather here has been very favorable for Carnation plants, and our stock this season is in extra fine condition. Order early to avoid disappointment. Terms, cash with order. I \ff\ D V Our New White Seedling is sure to be a winner. Pure white, large size, 1 V WlV I and for productiveness about 16 to 1 with any other white. IVORY ALASKA . . . McGOWAN. . DAYBREAK . . ROSE QUEEN LIZZIE GILBERT GOLDFINCH 8.00 Large plants Smaller plants Per 100 Per 100 . . 810 00 ia.oo .... 8.00 B.OO . . . . B.OO . . . . 8.00 6.00 .... 8.00 ti.OO (i.OO G.OO Large plants Smaller plants Per 100 Per 100 SILVER SPRAY $ 8.00 S6.00 WM. SCOTT 8.00 6.00 BRIDESMAID 8.00 6.00 PORTIA ... .... 800 METEOR. ... 8.00 6.00 TRIUMPH (new pink) . . 12.00 10.00 GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. CARNATIONS, •''&H'?,w N. PER 100 Alaska $10.00 Delia Fox 10.00 Ivory 10.00 Daybreak 8.00 Dean Hole 8.00 Helen Keller 8.00 Kohinoor 8.00 Lizzie Gilbert 8.00 PER 100 Lizzie McGowan $8.00 Minnie Cook 8.0O Portia 8.00 Rose Queen 8.00 Silver Spray 8.00 Tidal Wave 8.00 William Scott 8.00 GREENHOUSES. WEST&RN SPRINUS. ILL. VflUGttflN'S SEED STORE/' *^^c"A^?.rGV.^""^ LARGE FIELD-GROWN BLOOMING Per too WM. SCOTT $6.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 6.00 SILVER SPRAY 5.00 CARNATIONS. ~ ■"" Per too PORTIA $5.00 NANCY HANKS 5.00 MRS. FISHER 5.00 REINBERG BROS.. 51 Wabash Avenue. CHICAGO. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS GOOD STOCK. NO RUST. ler 100 DAYBREAK S5.00 WM. SCOTT 5.00 NANCY HANKS S.OO LIZZIE McCOWAN 5.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 5.00 PORTIA 5.00 Terms cash with order. ROGERS PARK FLORAL GO. 41 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. CARNATIONS -Field-Grown. Large and Uealtliy. I'er 100 LIZZIE McGOWaN $4 0(1 SILVER SPRAY 4 00 WM. S^OTT ... 5 00 DAYBREAK 5 00 Also a limited number of Portia at. 4 00 Sweetbrier, Uncle John and E. A. Wood at . 5 00 CASH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. DAYTON. 0. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. SILVER SPRAY, LIZZIE McGOWAN, DAYBREAK, and other leading vaiieies. Strong, healthy plants, $'1)03 per 100. D. M. BEICHARD, SI. Joseph, Mo, SURPLUS CARNATIONS. 1000 McGOWANS, and 500 DAYBREAKS. Extra tine stock, grown for our own use. Write for prices. W. A. WETTLIN, Hornellsville, N. Y. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS Large healthy fleld-grown plants. None t>etter. iBt size. 2nd ^Ize. SCOTT ST OO $,i.00 DAYBREAK 7.00 6.00 DIAZ ALBKRTINI 7.00 .I.IIO SILVER SPRAY 7.00 5.00 PORTIA 7.00 ii.OO GARFIELD 7.00 5.00 GRACE WILDER 7.00 5.1X1 DRAC/ENA INDIVISA-SIO.OO, worth S20.00. in 4-lnch. ready for a shut A snap for the price. Must sell to make room. Cash wltn order. Samples if desired. FRANK BERRY, Stillwater, Minn. CARNATIONS IMost varieties ready to plant NOW. 25,000 FIELD-GRDWN PLANTS, Leading varieties. Write for prices. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Field Carnations. Fine healthy plants In splendid condition, at 315.00 per 100. Cash with order. WM. SCOTT, ROSE QUEEN. TIDAL WAVE, pint. KOHINOOR. BRIDE OF EliLBSt'OURT, white. Small plants of DEAN HOLE, yellow, and STORM KING, white, at Mil). t^~Speclal prices on large lots. Address J. F. KLIMMER, Oak Park, III. Mention American Florlet- CARNATIONS-Field-Grown. About »<«I0 Daybreak. Silver Spray. Portia. Tidal Wave, and Emily Plerson. Write for prices. .. CEO. SOUSTER, Elgin, III. 136 The a mer i ca n F l oris t. Sept. 5, Kansas City, Mo. The lesular monthly meeting of the Kansas City Florists' Club was held Thursday, August 20, at the greenhouses of Mr. Chas. Heite(Heite & Son) at Mer- riam, Kansas. The ride out, about 8 miles, was very mt-ch erjoyed by the members of the club, who turned out in good number, going out in their own rigs, the road leading through the old Government Post of Shawnee Mission, famed in early Kansas and Indian history. After transacting the usual business of the club, '"mums" was the subject taken up, in connection with the annual 'mum show; the pros- ptcts for a grand show werenever better. After the meeting the club was served wiih an elegant supper by Mrs. Chas. Heite, assisted by Miss Nellie Heite, which was partaken of by all with great relish. Afterwards came cigars and some choice n-usic and singing by the "Merriam Glee Club," who came over to serenade the visiting florists, then came the drive home by moonlight. The 14-inch 'mums being grown by Mr. Chas. Heite for the show are something wonderful for size and shape; they would be prize winners anywhere. A fine 6eld of carnations was also seen. Mr. Jas. Payne is sending in some fine asters. He has the trick of turning them out just a little better than anyone else and in spite of bugs and drouth. W. J. Barnes is putting in a new boiler pit 40x12, with stone walls, a 40-foot brick chimney and a 34 in.xl4 foot steel tubular boiler. Arthur Newell lately turned out a splen- did piece of floral work, made for a fire- man who was killed in Kansas City,Kas., an immense pillow with standing hook and ladder, the piece was unusually large and well made. Such pieces are like anpels' visits, few and far apart. The Kansas City Florists' Club would kindly request that all members and non- members in the trade making improve- ments of any kind, and a list of same to the club's secretary, Mr. E. F. Brown, or to W. J. Barnes as. sec 'y, or direct to the American Florist for publication, in that way keeping Kansas City to the fore. W.J.B. Owosso, Mich. Mr.Schleider's new houses are receiving the finishing touches and will soon be in working order. In addition to the houses, Mr. Schleider has built a windmill. ]. H. Deal is adding two fair sized houses to his plant. J. B. Woodin contemplates publishing a neat and attractive weekly bulletin for the benefit of bis trade. The first issue will appear aboutSeptemberl. Homo. The OAKS GREENHOUSE CO., Jackson, Mich. offer for Immediate acceptarce. the folluwlop: at prlceit annexed. t*ei HHi Smllax. from L'V^-lncb pots, good strong plants — i-Voll C . peruH AlternliolluB, •l\i-\ncti ^ {JJ :i!^-lach tj UO Grevillea Robusta. 2'4-lnch 300 :i!,^-lnch |' W» Dracipna Indlvlsa, 2*4 Inch '^.-^Jt) BegonlaB. HowerinjE In var.. 2H-lneh, our selection f oO Hex, ■' " " " ■* ^^^ Cash with order. R.Cof allgen'lBtocfeat usual prices. Mention American Florist. Sheep Manure of prime quality, deposited by highly fed eifhihi- tion animals, and under sheds. Price. $1.75 per hundred, in sacks or barrels. Special prices on large quantities, upply of this piime article limited. Write soon. FRED COOK, Florist, Taylorville, III. Mention American Florist. HERR'S PANSIES. None better at any price; none cheaper at any price. Don't make the mistake of not buying them. Plants, $5.00 per 1000; 75c. per 100. Lots of 2500 and over at reduced price. HERR'S CARNATIONS. Field-grown plants of Scott, Tidal \Vave, McGowan, Cartledge, Keller and Stuart. Good plants at reasonable prices. rv. :b. *»e. ALBERT M. HERR, Lancaster, Pa A LIVE AND RELIABLE Florist Wanted FOR CORRESPONDENT IN EVERY CITY OF THE WORLD. An enterprise pleasing to your customer and proSt- able to yourself. For particulars apply to G. B. WHITNALL, box 87, Milwaukee, Wis. ADIANTUM CUNEATUM. We have a surplus of fine plants in 2'.^ and 3-inch pots, and will sell Ihem very cheap for cash. Write for prices on any quantity you can use. THE WILLIAMS-WILSON CO., Wholesale Florists, .lust arrived In splendid condttlun. Per 100 Per 111 Chamxrops excelsa $ .50 $ 3.50 Phoenix reclinata 1.25 10.00 ((ienulne species from Natal.) Musa Ensete 2.00 15.00 Non germinating seeds will l>e replaced. Our Palm Growers' Guide free on application. SCHWAKE SEED CO. (inc.) 404 East 34th St., NEW YORK. PLANTING STOCK NOW READY. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS. Healthy pot-grown stock. 2«-inch S2.2.5 per lut); $20.00 per 1000 4-inch 5.00 per 100; 40.00 per 1(1011 RISLEY FLATS SMILAX. 8;).50 per 100; 830.00 per lOOO. 250 at 1000 rate. Samples on application. Field-grown Carnations, Bulbs, Pansy Seed, etc. Send for lists. DAN'L B. LONG, JOBBING FLORIST, ^■ij:e':e'j».IjO, iw. C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. SPEIC^X.A.IJ'X'XEJS. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stoclcs. CatalOBues on applicat ion. 8Ta1."d"aRD BUCKLvl^ Mal «& CO. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOCUE NOW READY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. WOOD LABELS. Nurser\men and Florists will be interested in our Exhibit at the coming Florists Convention. We also call attention to our Exhibit of .. FLOWER STAKES. .. BENJAMIN CHASE, Oerry, N. H. LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. ^^Plans and estimates furnished on application. Largest bnllders of Greenhonse Stractnres. Six blgbest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CEHTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTftATEO CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO., Aicmtectiiral Oice, 160 Fifth Ave., COR. TWENTY-FIRST ST., FACTORY: IRVINGTOIST-ON-HUOSON, N. Y. New York Gity. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS, Honiculiural flrcHiiecis and Hot Water Engineers Send for Catalogue, enclosing 4 cents in stamps. 130, l-il, 1^3 CGXxtGt* St., IVE^^W^ ^^0I«K:. GLASS For Greenhouses, Conservatories, Graperies, Hotbeds, and all other purposes, at Lowest Rates. GLASS N. GGWEN'S SON. 392 & 394 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. Get our Figures before buying Class. Mention American Florist. S:?~ Estimates freely given. SHEEPJLflNURE 1 will furnish this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b. Mitchell, South Dakota: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED.. .75c. per 100 Terms cash in jO days after date of ship- ment. Orders accompanied with cash, 10 per cent discount WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA. NEVIN'S iFOR SALE BY Seed Stores. I'*or Fret- Pamphlet, write to LntllSTILlE ISpirit Ccked Tobacco Co. Louisville, Kv THE F.MERSON mEllIB»IBE& Price postpaid 7". CENTS. 1 Address American Florist Co. cn]C.\c,o. yniGH T£DJ Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. Gr66llllOUS6 Puuu Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing. IS APPLIED WITH PUTTY BULB. One gallon i2i) lbs ) will glaze l.iidf feet of tlacs (^osIb nor ha I f-i/n 1 li n SatlsfaCltOIl gUaT- Boro. Pa.: Bellevue xjuv ^uiiuii I ~" i"o ; will niat.V! i.iiv^i urci ui Kinr:? ' '.tOc perualloD. .'iiic per half-gall' n Satlsfaclton ^ anteed. Reference— John Hogera.lireentree Boro. Hartman BroB., Alleghany, Pa.: Fred BurkI, Belle Pa. Manufactured by T. H. NEVIN CO., P. 0. B. 958, Pittsburg. Montlnn American Florli»t. GREEN-HOUSE HEATING. MYERS & CO. 1618 & 1520 S. 9th St. PHILADELPHIA. Send for catalogue and price list. which l8 absolutely perfect for modem greeuhuuRe coustruction. ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, 3end for EBtlmates. Satisfaction Guaranteed. REED GLASS CO.. 102 South 5lh Avenue. NEW YORK CITY. THE DIRECTORY For 189($ # Is Now Ready. Price $2,00. American Florist Co. 138 The American Florist. Sept. 5, Omaha, Neb. August has been very satisfactory for the retail trade; business somewhat heav- ier than several years past for the same month. Funeral work has formed a greater part of the business, owing to the deaths of several very prominent people and a railroad wreck of a party of pic- nickers from our city, killing upwards of thirty outright and injuringagreatmany more. The death of Rev. C. H. Gardner, dean of Trinity Episcopal church, one of the foremost and wealthiest denominations of our city, occasioned a heavy demand for flowers. There were undoubtedly more flowers used at this funeral than any other ever held in Omaha. Sjme- thing over a hundred pieces weresentand at least three-fourths of them were loose and fiat bunches. The deceased was a member of several orders aside from the different bodies connected with thechurch, and all werelargecontributorsof flowers. The unusual heavy rains have damaged the sweet peas not a little, still thev are a glut and move very slowly at twenty cents. The best stock of roses bring $3, ■with the lower grades from $1.50 to $2.50; carnations 75 cents, and quality very poor at that. China asters arequite plentiful, but no demand for tbem. J. W. Arnold has returned from his trip to the mountains looking hale and hearty. Lewis Henderson at South Omaha is building a house 25x100 for palms and ferns. He has also enlarged his space in the Omaha store, and now has a front window. A. Delaney, also of South Omaha, will content himself vyith his present glass, but will devote more space to cut flowers than heretofore. Samuel R. Faulkner has put up a small house 17x50 which he will use for general stock until next year, when he intends to build two or three more. Mr. F. has a very good stock considering the length of time he has been operating his plant, a little over a year. He has discontinued his downtown store and put in a telphone at the houses. John Edever & Son, 30th and Bristol streets, are putting up two short-span- to-the-9outh houses, 18x60; alsoasmaller one 12x60. They have just finished set- ting an 80-horse-power steam boiler that will heat their residence, which is near-by, in connection with their plant. Hereto- fore they have run their houses with two 15-horse-power boilers, one steam and the other hot water. Peterson Bros, are putting up a house 17x100 for chrysanthemums. They re- built their old houses last year, also put up four new ones, making twelve in all; four houses will be devoted to carnations, of which Daybreak will be very plentiful; four for roses, and the balance for a gen- eral stock of potted plants. Mr. August Peterson, the junior member of the firm, with his wife started July 28 for a three months' visit to the old country. Thiy expect to return to Omaha the eartv part of October. G. R. H. FLOWER POTS. We ManiilJtttiirf nil kliidn nf l-lower I'oty. etc. Makliit.' a Specially nl Florist Standard Pots Send for price Whi and samples {which will be sent free) and we know you will (five us your order; J. Gi SWAHN'S SONS, Mi>ine»|>oli"VMIl)ii. SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. Kor prices, apply to GEO. W. HAMILTON. 176 Sidney St.. Dorchester. Mast. WIND MILLS FOR PUMPING. FAIRBANKS-GALV'D steel. ECLIPSE-WOOD. 450,000 ,A.lreta«ay Sold. M^^ boilers™ HEATING. ^ VALVES3 PIPE AND FITTINGS. ^ FAIRBANKS, MORSE & GO. Cor. Franklin & Monroe Sts., CHICAGO. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W, Randolph Street, GHIGA60. N flTURflU GM Mffi fl UflSS. FOR GREENHOUSES. ■Wrlt^ for lEi.1;^s1; j>«rlo^s. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. DDAMnu u/ADcuniiccc. S Kearney and Westside Aves.i Jersey City. X. A. bKAKOn WAKbHUU&bd. ^ jacksou Ave. and Pearson St., Long Island City. N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. When wrltlnK mention the American Florist. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. * OUR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- laction. We call your attention to our new pols 6, 7. 8 and 9-iiich. called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perft-ct drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember; these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO . SYRACUSE, N. Y. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it ever), time you write an advertiser in these columns. i8g6. The American Florist. 139 Kroeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse -Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Boilers made of the beet of material, shell, firebox flheeta and heads of stpel. water space nil around (front, stdea and back .)\Vrlte fur infurmatlon. PRES SASH BARS OP TO $Z FBET >« UNGTH or LOHSER. iREENHOUS AND OTIi^E R BUILDIN6 M ATERIAL. Sena for our Illustrated BooK "cypAess LUMBERamo^tsUSES; Send fof^urSpecitl Greenhousfe^rlculir. SThe;VX STea.ri^ lumber (o. Wben wrltinB mention the American klorist ml THE -^•NEW DEPRflTURE<" 'VENT)l.<\TIN& f\PPL)aNCEr' J. D. Carmody. Evansville, Ind. Dear 5'?>;— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E- JACKSON. Gaines\nlle, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write (or Illustra ted Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS, Klchmond, Ind. IMPROVED GLAZING! GASSER'S ZING JOINTS Makes a roof Air and WatPr Tlcht. No lappine. No breakage from fr<.tst or medium sized hall. Saves fuel. GASSER'S IMPROVED PUTTY MACHINE-all metal. Most practical and lasting Putty Machine in use. Price, $2.00. Cash with order. SENI> FOR CIKCCLAH. J. M. GASSER. Florist, 101 Euclid Avenue, CLEVELAND, O. «3??ABBL. I H.A.STOOTHOFF. l3l5MADIS0ll1iVE,NEWY0IIK.CITr. Clear Cypress Greenhouse Material We have had many years' experience in this line. We introduced Cypress for greenhouse construction. We have made many improvements in the construction of green- houses. We carry in stock many different designs of Raft- ers, Sash Bars and everything else from the bottom of gut- ters up. Our facilities are large, and we are prepared to fur- nish on short notice material of our own designs or any spe- cial designs, and all of open-air-dried clear Cypress Lumber which we have bought for many years of one party because this particular growth of Cypress is as soft as White Pine, and has none of the knots, sap and other defects so com- mon to White Pine. Every foot of our stock is guaranteed Spot Clear. Write for circulars and estimates. No trouble to furnish plans wh?n necessary. LOCKLAND LUMBER CO r.rOCK;ivAj»fr>, o. HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAIVi ♦ BOILERS. They possess to tlie highest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CHICACO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL & CO., 77 Lake Street. CAPACITIES FULLY Send for Catalogues GUARANTEED. GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., Cor. Congress, BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. i NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPAhD, YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS CHICAGO GREENHOUSE MATERIAL V,/ni^MVa»-i. Detamater-Rider and DeLamater-£ricsson Hot-Air Pumping Engiues Will pump water troin any suuif.?, aiKi force it to any deigtit aiiu uis. taii'-e. Sjm[>]e, safe anil free from car.-. Will burn any kind of fuel. For supplMns water on fai'ms, country anil c'ltv i-esidences-, dairy and stock farms tliey are unsurpa-sbed. Send for catalogue. The dklamater iron works, 46" West Broadway, N. Y. City. HAIL For Insurance against damage by hail, ^^^^__^^^___ Address JOHN G. ESLER. Secy. F. H. A., Saddle River. N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. VALVES, FITTINGS AND Ventilating apparatus. coldwell- WILOOX CO., Newburgh, N. Y. THE NEW DIRECTORY Is Now Ready. 140 The American Florist. Sept. 5, Index to Advertisers. Adv Rates Amenean Boiler Co. Am Road Mch Co. . . BallerF A Barnard W VV & Co. . Berry F Baeeett & Waeli.^urn Bayersdorfer H & Co Blanc A &Co Bobblnk LC Bool Co Boneall Jos E Boston Letter Co BraKueL B Burkl Fred 130 Carmodv J D Chadwlck Chas Cliase Beni ('oldwell Wilcox Co... Cook Fred (;onley John & Son Cottage Gardens Cowen's Son N Crabb & Uunter Crltchell's Sons B P. Cunningham J H Kavls K Roy Oeljamater Iron Wks Uletscta A & Co Dillon J L DoleCL .. DornerFred ASons Co. DreerH A Elchholz U Blllott W H Elliott Wm & Sons... Ellis & Pollwonn Fairbanks Morse Co.. F'lelachman Gardening Co Gasser J M GulUaume LA Qurney Heater Co Hall Ass'n Hamilton G W Hancock & Son Herr Albert M Hermanns Seed Store, Hews A H & Co Hill EQ&Co Hlppard E Hll«hlnKB&Co Hooker H M Co HoranBdw C Hullck 11 Hulsebosch Bros HuntEH Illinois Cut Flower Co, Jennings E B Joosten C U Kennlcott Bros Co Kllmmer J F Knocke Theo Knopff Oscar Koeppen Chas Kroeschell Bros Co Kuetm C A KuhlGeo A Lan(? Julius Lawrence J J Lemke K F Lengenf elder C. l(OCkland Lum Co Long D B 130 Lonsdale Edw Lord & Bumham Co.. LoulBTlUe Tobacco Co. .130 .140 .UO .i:« i;b .135 .131 , 137 .129 .ISi 135 .130 .137 .130 135 .lii .13T .1311 .XX, 137 .l:U .137 .135 .l:J4 .IIB 133 13!) 1311 131 129 i:s ,133 130 i:« 1.30 .138 .129 129 139 lat 139 .139 138 i;C) la; i:b 138 133 ,139 140 1.38 131 ]:s 13:5 131 130 ISO 136 131 ,135 IS4 13:5 i:m i:J9 130 1.34 131 ,i:« 130 134 isll \% i:« 137 137 r.Tnch WK 131 MacBean AS W4 Marijulsee L E i;i5 ..c( »nny N f SCO.. .131 .MtKellnr I' W Vm Mlllang Frank :..131 Mlllang& Co i:)l Moore FL . 13li MonlngerJ C Co l:i7 Myers \ Co 137 National PInntCO 135 Newbury K c 1,37 Nev'n T II Co 137 N V Cut flower Co i:«i Nickel Plate Road ....lis Nlemever H A Kio Oaks Greenhouse Co. .i:}t: Peacock w P I:i3 Pennock Sam l S i:50 Prince AG & Co 131 PurdyA Blauvelt 131 QuakerClty Mc'h Wk6.139 Randall A L 131 Kaynor J 1. 1:51 Itedtleld Bradley .... 1:50 Keeu Glass t;o 1:57 Relcharrt I) M l:i5 KelnbergBroB 131 1:55 Rice M& Co 1:57 Rlckspcker C H i:5t; Robinson F J l:;3 Rogers P'k Floral Co i:;i Roiker Ai Sons.' !!!.!. 140 Rolker A & F 130 Rudd W N 1.35 Sanaer & Co 134 Schiller H 134 Schiller J L 133 Schwake Seed Co 1315 Sheridan W F.. 131 Slebrecht & Wadley .i:t5 Situations. 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Carnations— Notes l-ll Roses— Diseased plants 141 — Roses and chrysanthemums 142 Lilium Harrisii (illus.) 142 Fern notes 142 Plant notes 142 Alkali in soil 143 Heating questions . . 143 Leaky gutters — Packing flowers 144 Bone fertilizer . . 144 Remedying uneven temperature 144 Mass. Hort. Society exhibition . 141 Public garden in Moscow, Russia (illus.). . . . 14.5 New York 146 Flatbush, N. Y 140 Philadelphia 147 Indianapolis 147 Avenue oi Larix sibirica (illus.) 147 St. Louis 148 Chicago 148 Pittsburg ... 148 Toronto 148 Terre Haute, Ind 149 Boston 150 Worcester, Mass 1.50 Clinton, Mass 150 The seed trade .... 152 MUwaukee 152, 154 The Pitcher & Mauda receivership 152 Syracuse, N. Y 156 Tacoma. Wash. . 158 Iron Mountain, Mich. — The firm of Plowman & Armstrong has dissolved partnership. Mr. Plowman, having rented Armstrong's interest, will continue the business under the name of G. F. Plowman. Since opening here last Decem- ber business has been very satisfactory. Decatir, III.— W. H. Gullett & Sons of Lincoln, 111., have opened a new cut flower store in the Millikin Bank Building in Decatur. Their formal opening was held Thursday afternoon and evening, September 3, when more than 1,800 ladies called and received floral souvenirs of the occasion. Carnation Notes. A good many may think Dorner is put- ting on too much red tape, that is too much work, too many expenses. To those I will say it has paid me well so far. Any work systematically done is done in half the time and at half theexpense, and now is the time when it requires work, and when done careful and judiciously it will pay in time. I may say by the first of December our cultural work is done, and what there is to do from that time on is routine work. The pi ants are clean, have their support, we have nothing to do but to give water, feed (liquid manure) attend to temperature and ventilation, and cut the flowers. We never do anything to the soil, and very seldom have to clean the plants from decayed leaves. We have this past season from December on, never found it necessary to remove any dead leaves, for the reason there were none. I repeat it again, the more careful and thorough you do the work now, the less you will have to do afterwards. If your plants are in a first-class condition how much better will be the results, the return =, not to speak of the pleasure and satisfac- tion you will erjoy whenever you look at them . The old adage "a stitch in time saves nine" is never more true than at this time in carnation culture, as regards do- ing the work carefully and thoroughly right in the beginning. I just come from tte house we planted first, August 20. The plants look very fine, are now in a very good growing condition, and I will describe the work we now proceed with. We have been over them, cleaning them from all old decaying leaves caused by the transplant- ing, or leaves that show any sign of spot. I may mention here, the last severe hot weather we had, with such great humidity and heavy dews, bred bacteria and spot. Another warning to keep the foliage dry in the houses, especially over night. Just now we are putting in a mulch and the A shaped wire netting. Our soil is of rather a heavy texture, has been packed and consequently is now rather solid on top, although the young white roots coming through are visible all over. Our mulch consists of light sandy soil with one-sixth part of very short stable manure, some wood ashes and a sprinkle of fine horn shavings, all well mixed. This mulch has the appearance of a very light soil, that never will become hard and baked. To proceed with the work it requires two men, one on each side of the bench. They have two light boards one-half inch thick, six inches wide, and longenough to reach across the bench. One of the boards is pushed between the rowsunderthe plants across the bench, raised up against one row so it presses the plants a little to one side, and held there with a stake on each end. Now the other board is slipped in easily and placed against the other row on the other side in like manner. The soace between the rows is now laid open, and the plants are protected by the boards. The first is to clean out the weeds by pulling them or by scratching the surface of the soil. Now mind, I say only scratching, for as compact as the soil may be, I do not want to have it broken, not even to the depth of one-half inch. I had that soil packed before plant- ing, and do not want it loosened again, for the young roots are there already, and surely they have come therefore purpose^ The shade they find under the plants and the even moist condition of the soil has invited them to come nearer to the air, and in quest for the food that is more readily soluble where the soil is exposed to the atmosphere. Now surely I do not want to destroy these roots, make them lose their hold in the soil; no, I want to protect them with the mulch, this loose light soil penetrable to the atmosphere, but keeping that compact soil in a moist condition sustaining them in their exist- ence, preventing the soil from becoming- dry and parched, that would cause their destruction. When the weeds are attended to, the mulch is spread in, evened ofT nicely, the A shaped wire netting put in place, and the boards removed to the next rows. Fred. Dorner. Diseased Rose Plants. Have received from Mr. Baker, Colo- rado, diseased specimens of Bride and Mermet roses, together with communica- tion describing character of soil, manure, etc., and asking an opinion as to the na- ture of thedisease and a probable remedy for the same. I am sorry to inform Mr. Baker that the plants arrived here so completely dried up that it is impossible to more than guess at the trouble. It is often very d fficult to discover the cause of plant ailments when we have them growing before our eyes and can watch them constantly, so I trust our friends 142 The American Florist. Sept, 12, who are seeking information will not judge us too harshly if we are unable sometimes to give a satisfactory reply. The roots showed no trace of eel-worm, and I think it is safe to say that it has not caused the disease; there is a strong probability, however, that the rose anthracnose is chiefly responsible; dried up though they were, it showed plainly on both leaves and stems. If this is de- stroying the plants Mr. Baker will find brown, almost black, spots on the stems, small at first, but ultimately covering the stem in some cases; it attacks the strong shoots that spring up from the base oftener than the other parts of the plant. Another sure sign of its presence is the dying back to the first leaf of the shoots left after the flowers are cut. In this case it is not probable that the disease was communicated to the plant by the soil or manure, still it is not impossible; anthrac- nose might have existed on the straw in the stable manure. It is more than likely, however, that the disease was on the plants before they were planted in the iDcnches. If they are in very bad shape it may be time and money saved to clean out the house and replant with fresh stock; still, if they are not too far gone a systematic course of treatment may restore them to perfect health and vigor. I have seen very bad cases of anthracnose completely cured in from two to three months. I would suggest that all dead tips be cut out, and thus get rid of as many spores as possible, that all dead and badly dis- eased leaves be picked ofi' the plants and surface of the soil, and the latter worked over lightly to sweeten it and permit air and sun to penetrate it; repeat the clean- ing and stirring weekly as long as may be necessary. Allow the soil to dry out a little more than usual; the plants are not taking up much moisture through the roots and in their present debilitated con- dition they will form new roots much more quickly in medium dry soil. Give gentle stimulant weekly in form of liquid manure, alternating with nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia; a 3inch pot- fnl to 50 gallons of water will be suffi- cient of either of the above. The above treatment aims only to encourage the plants into a more active growth, but will avail little in theend unless the spores are killed or robbed of their destructive- ness. To this end I would suggest spray- ing thoroughly one a week with the solu- tion of ammonia and carbonate of copper. This is prepared by taking 3 ounces of copper and stirring into it just enough water to form a paste, then add to it one quart of ammonia, strength FFFF; shake together thoroughly and keep tightly corked until used; ',4 pint will be sufficient for 3 gallons of water. If Mr. Baker will patiently and faithfully carry out the above treatment I think he can free his plants from anthracnose and restore them to perfect health. RoBT. Simpson. anthemums cannot be used the same sea- son by any of the tea roses, but there are many growers who use the houses wherein were grown chrysanthemums for the forcingof hardy roses. Another good crop to follow this flower is bulbs of all kinds, and especially L'lium Harrisii and longiflorum. Elijah A. Wood. Roses and Chrysanthemums. How do chrysanthemums come in as an adjunct in rose growing wherethe lat- ter is the specialty of the place? What Is the routine for the use of houses, etc? X. Z. In answer to inquiry of X. Z. will say that many of the large rose growers of the country are also extensive growers of chrysanthemums, which it is supposed they handle at a profit, for they continue year after year to grow them and to be among the first to purchase the meritori- ous novelties. The houses used for chrys- Lilium Harrisii. I send a photograph of a Lilium Har- risii. In moving it to the house last fall I accidentally broke off the leading shoot, and after a long time it sent up a number of shoots, of which I removed all but three of the strongest. Although the blossoms were not so large as usual they were very fine. Has anv one had a like exoerience? Edward Burt. [We referred this inquiry to several large growers of L. Harrisii, and append their replies.— Ed.] Such an occurrence is not common, but is heard of occasionally. I have seen quite a number of lilies that have branched, and have tried by propagating such sports to fix such a characteristic, but have found that such changes were acci- dental and would not perpetuate them- selves. It is not usual for Harrisii bulbs to throw extra stems, but if a stem is injured under certain conditions and at certain periods of growth it will branch. Tarrytown, N. Y. F. R. Pierson. I have known a bulb to make two or three flower shoots when first flower shoot broke ofi', but it is unusual, and only happens occasionally when a bulb has several eyes or crowns. Philadelphia, Pa. Robt. Craig. It is no unusual thing for Lilium Har- risii to send up later flowering stalks. In fact if the first stalk is cut off and if the bulb is strong and in good growing con- dition they will send up two or three small flowering stalks, which bear fairly good flowers. In fact I have had them to do so after having flowered the first stalk. J. C. Vaughan, perj. S. W. Western Springs, 111. In regard to Harrisii lily throwing up extra stems, would say we find it a very common occurrence where the main stem of the bulb has been broken or destroyed to have the bulb throw up shoots from the bottom, but never as strong as from the top. We never have known one to start from the top after the main stem has been broken. O. P. Bassett. Hinsdale, 111. Fern Notes. Blechnum braziliense: Although not extensively grown for our London mar- kets, this may be recommended where larger plants are in demand. As a small plant it is too tender to be of much ser- vice, but in larger specimens the fronds are of more substance. The variety cor- covadense diflers only in the young fronds having a beautiful rosy red tint when young, which gradually changes to a pale green with age. Among seedlings some will be found to have a brighter tint than others. Care should be taken to select the best form for saving spores from. The spores may be treated as recommended for the lomarias; they are rather uncertain, sometimes large batches may be raised with little trouble, while it may happen several sowings may be made of what appear to be equally good spores without getting a crop. After once well started they grow rapidly, and will make good sized plants in a compara- tively short time. They should be potted in a rough compost and have plenty of drainage. While young they like a stove temperature, but well matured plants will do well in a cooler house. B. occidentale is a useful fern and makes a nice plant for a 5-inch pot; it is also very pretty in a smaller state, and may be used for the small fancy pots; it is of free growth and does not require a high temperature. Grown in a loamy compost and well exposed to the light, the young fronds will have quite a bright red tint. There are several other blechnums which come near to this. I believe that known as B. australe is identical. B.glandulosa closely resembles it, but grows moreerect and has longer stipes. B. polypodioides is of similar habit with narrow pinna. B. rugosum is another nearly allied species or variety. Any of those referred to are worthy of a trial, and when well grown make nice plants, which are more appre- ciated now that the pterises have become so common. B. latifolium is a broader fronded species; the young fronds of a dis- tinct purplish hue, changing to a dark metallic green. Gracilis is a slender grow- ing variety of this. I may mention that though distinct and pretty, they are not so free as those of the occidentale type. Doodias: Of these D. aspera and its crested variety are the most useful, but they can hardly be recommended as market ferns. They require similar treat- ment to the blechnums and when grown on freely make very pretty little plants. They are seen at their best in a 4-lnch pot. The young fronds have a very bright tint, which livens up the more somber hue of the older fronds. I find they lose the bright tint much quicker when allowed to get too dry. Being of slender growth care should be taken not to over-pot. They like plenty of leaf mould and peat in the compost, a good drainage. D. media is another slender growing species worthy of attention where small ferns are in demand; when grown on freely it makes a fair sized plant, but is seen at its best in a 4-inch pot. D. Kunthiana is a larger growing species requiring stove treat- ment, though very pretty it is not free enough for general use. A. H. Plant Notes. Phrynium variegatum. — I find many growers have failed to do this plant sat- isfactorily this season. Being in a hurry to get the plants in early they have been started beiore their usual time, and al- though at first the variegation has shown well, they have quite run out before they were large enough for use. The best way to ensure keeping this useful plant in good character is to take ofl" the suckers or young shoots soon after they get above the ground. They may then be potted in some light sandy compost, and will soon start into growth again, and do not have time to get too vigorous. While plants frequently divided will retain their varie- gation well, plants grown on without disturbing the roots will almost invaria- bly run out until they become almost wholly green. Cyperus alternifolius variegata is an- other useful silver variegated plant which requires careful treatment to prevent it reverting to the normal green form. I find it is best to divide as soon as a plant is large enough to handle well; say when the roots have got fairly well round a 4- inch pot. Divided into two and potted back into the same size, they will soon make nice plants. When a good batch is iSg6. The American Florist. 14: ^?i ' ^JEM r ¥i 1 -^^^^^^^^^K'- 1 \ _0 ^^^KiKiiaHIBfl ^^^^^^ HARRISII LILY WITH THREE FLOWERING STEMS. once established there is little difficulty in keepiog up a succession. Ficus elastica variegata. — This has not proved so satisfactory as many growers anticipated, even when well grown, it goes off so quickly if exposed. I find this may be obviated to some extent if the foliage is kept quite dry. Damp and cold combined are thechief causes of the leaves turning rusty brown. The sun cjming on the leaves while they are wet is also damaging. Crotons are now much used by our London florists, and very effective they are. It is plants in 5 inch pots that are most in demand; well colored tops rooted and grown on until they are from 15 to 18 inches high make fine table plants. For this purpose the narrow-leaved vari- eties find most favor, but forgroups some of the broad-leaved varieties aie moie iffective. Reedi, Alexander III and Thotn- soni are among the best of large-leaved sorts. Vitis heterophylla variegata is a usi ful plant for spring use. It is quite hardv, but the plants must be established in pots. If put into warmth early in the year they soon start into growth. The long slender growths with pinksterasand almost white leaves are very pretty. Carnations. — The hot dry summer has been generallv unfavorable, and blooms have gone c ff quickly, but in some in- stances plants have done remarkably well. On visiting a friend who makes the border varieties a specialty I was sur- prised to find a large stock all in the most robust condition. There has been quite a number of new varieties this season, manv of which have gained certificates from the Royal Horticultural Society. Although new varieties of the summer flowering section are so numerous, we do not seem to make any great advance in the winter flowering varieties. A. Hemsley. Alkali in Soil. I am trying to grow a lawn of blue- grass on soil c mtaining considerable alkali but have tailed in my t ff irts, asthe water will bring the alkali to the surface, destroying the grass. Can anychemicals be applied that will render the alkali harmless, or is there any species of grass adapted fjr the above purpose in cultiva- tion that will thrive in this soil? H. S. If the alkali is carbonate of soda (or what we call "black alkali" because it blackens water which stands in puddles upon it) it can be rendered innocuous bv free dressing with land plaster (gypsum) and such a dressing accompanied with copious sprinkling should remedy the evil unless the amount of alkali in the soil should be very large. If the alkali does not blacken water as described above it is "white alkali" or sulphate of soda which is not affected by gypsum. The remedy in this case is drainage which prevents evaporation from the surface and consequently pre- vents the rise of the alkali. Free vvater- ing, accompanied by good under drainage mechanically washes or leaches the alkali out of the soil and if this is successfully done the grass will respond readily to ordinary lawn f.-rtilization. In any case thorough tiling at two feet (if outflow cannot be had for deeper til- ing) should brirg the foil into good shape for grass though deeper rooting trees and shrubs might suffer. I send you by this mail a pamphlet which enters minutely into the alkali problem and I mail one also to your correspondent. Copies will also be sent to other readersof the Amer- ican Florist who mav apply fjr them. Berkeley, Cal. ' E.J.Wickson. Heating Questions. I have a house 100x20 feet, bench alcng south side and solid bed in center. I now have f ur rows out and tack on south side under bench of 2 inch pipe; one pipe out a d back on north side. The pipe is boiler tubin ; and too thin to cut thread on so I used sleeves and calked with iron chips. Washed chips with soda to take ofl" oil and then added sulphur and sal ammoniac to cause rusting. The work was done last fall and I was troubled all winter with leaky joints. There must have been some mistake; perhaps the chips were too oily to rust. Would he be better than soda? Can you tell me where filings can be obtained and would I run any risk of leaks if I try again or had I best get a special die made and cut threads. Ordinarily the tempera- ture ran 8^ to 0° lower at farther end from heater. In coldest weather when heater was crowded temperature was more even. If I place valves in flow pipes so as to shut off part of water in moderate weather would not that throw more heat to farther end of house, the smaller amount of water being hotter? The company from whom I bought heater said no, but are they right? Have I a good arrangement of pipes, or would it be advisable to pull out and re-arrange? There are 35 leaky joints out of 100. Can you give a good rule for calking? How long should the joints be left before turning on the water? Massachusetts. E. H. A. Replying to E. H. A., I think he would find it much more satisfactory to change his piping somewhat in the greenhouses; to maintain a fairly even temperature throughout the same he should leave the four rows under the south bench and increase those on the north side to six at least, that is if they are ordinary 2-inch tubes. With regard to thecalkingof the joints, there should be no difficulty about this, that is if E. H. A. will take common tar rope cut in lengths sufficient to go about 2'2 times round the pipe; roll enough strands of this together to fit fairly tight into the socket between the pipe and the sleeve, then with a plumb caulking tool flrive this back to the endof the pipe, then moisten the iron borings with clear water, no salt or acid to be used; neither is it necessary to wash these, but it is necessary to hammer these till thej- are quite solid; in doing so, use a caulking tool with a flat square end so that the boring can be packed cjuite solid, and every part of the joint be equally packed. If this is done i here should be no trouble with leaking joints. The joints which have been leaking all winter could not 144 The American Florist. Sept. 12^ have been well made, or thej' would have rusted up right in two or three weeks. Such borings as are suitable tor this pur- pose can usually be procured from any large machine shop, where they are made. To overcome the difficulty of one end of the house being warmer than the other, return the pipes across the end, as the extreme end from the boiler is invariably much more exposed, and the water neces- sarily gets considerably colder before it reaches that point; hence the reason for providing additional piping there. By placing two valves on the flow pipes, one on either side, the heat can certainly be controlled much easier. With regard to the length of time the joints can be left before turning on water if well made as above described, they should all be tight enough to resist water in two weeks, _but_pf course if they can be left longer, so much the better. John N. May. Leaky Gutters — Packing Flowers. Kindly advise the best treatment for white pine and cedar gutters that leak. The wood is sound yet, but the seam opened where nailed together. If there is a mineral or other paint better than heavy thick white lead would be pleased to know it. What is best manner of packing roses in summer for long distance in extremely hot weather? What is best way to pack roses and other cut flowers for long distance in win- ter, extremely cold weather? Iowa. M. &R. M. & R. will find it difficult to prevent gutters from leaking by the simple appli- cation of paint alone. If it is possible to get a very thin caulking tool into the seam, then I would advise getting some oakum, saturate the same with thick paint made of white lead and Prince's metallic in equal proportions. Reduce the same to a thick paint with linseed oil, and then pack the seam as full and tight as possible with the oakum, after which give the whole a coat of paint made of the same materials and proportions; all of which should be done when the wood is quite dry. I think the leaks will be stopped effectually, at least such a treat- ment has cured a good many leaky gut- ters for the writer. The best system I have ever found for packing roses in summer is to put some cracked ice in the bottom of the box. To secure this and to keep it from melting as long as possible, the box should first be lined with three or four thicknesses of newspaper, between the layers of which place a sheet of waxed or oiled paper, then cover the bottom of the box inside the paper with a very thin layer of clean excelsior, in which place lumps of ice of nearly even size. The excelsior will keep it steady in position. Over the ice cover two or three sheets of newspaper or me- dium manilla; finish off with a sheet of wax paper. Then pack the flowers on this as closelv as possible without crush- ing them. If the box is not quite filled up with the flowers, tack small strips of lath across the stems to prevent their shaking; cover the whole with tissueorwax paper, over which lay the first sheets which form the lining of the entire box. It's very important to have these top sheets of paper lay as closely together as possible to keep as much air away from the flow- ers as practical. Nail the cover down tight and mark the lid with the address plainly and also mark it in such a way that the express people will keep it right side up, that is when they do not forget to put it wrong side up, but as a rule, if the special marking is quite clear and dis- tinct, the box will go through to its des- tination in good order. For packing flowers in winter for long distance travel there is nothing better that I have found than plenty of paper. Select good tight made boxes, then take three or four thicknesses of clean newspa- per folded or cut so that it will cover one side and allow an inchlapon each corner; let the bottom be nearly covered and allow the top side to hang over the edge of the box several inches; cover the other side and the two ends in the same way; next take sheets of cotton wadding cut to fit the box in the same way, then take two or three more sheets of paper and re- peat the same process; finally cover the whole with sheets of wax paper, then pack your flowers as described for sum- mer packing; cover the srhole in the same proportions as the sides and bottom of the box. I have shipped flowers from Summit to Colorado and Nebraska by this method in the coldest weather, and they have gone through in Al condition, but for such long distances it is usually necessary to wrap some moist tissue paper round the stems or they get badly wilted. Of course special marking as to keeping from freezing, etc., must be put on the boxes, and for both summer and winter shipments the flowers should be cut 6 or 8 hours before shipping and be placed in deep vases of water with at least two-thirds of the stems covered with water. John N. May. Bone Fertilizer. Regarding the use of phosphorus and potash for manure, I make an excellent fertilizing material as follows: A large cauldron of lye is made by leaching wood ashes, as for soft soap. A quantity of bones are boiled in this lye; as it boils away more is added. The bones crumble and settle at the bottom, the grease and lye being at the top. Any bones that are not dissolved are taken out and added to the next kettleful. I then take dry earth or leaf mould and mix it with the fertilizer until dry enough to handle; it is then packed away in boxes or barrels till needed. A teaspoonful or less is enough for a plant in a 4-inch pot used as top- dressing. For onions, carrots, etc., I sow it in drills or broadcast. The crumbled bones could easily be kept by themselves, as they settle at the bottom, giving the phosphate; the liquid gives nitrate and potash. Where bones and wood ashes are more plentiful than money I think this a good plan. Potash or soda could be used if ashes were scarce. I have used this mixture for the past twenty years with good results, both on flowers and vegetables. P. N. McIntosh. Brookton, Ont. Remedying Uneven Temperature. My house is heated by 4-inch hot water pipes, one flow and two returns, plan inclosed. Now what I want to know is how to increase the heat at end nearest the boiler without making any changes in the present plan (the difference in temper- ature is 8° to 10° on very cold nights). I know it needs pipes across the end near the boiler, but what is the simplest plan of arrangement? A Subscriber. Kansas. "A Subscriber" should use what is known in hot water heating as a Y, which is simply the same fitting he now has at each end of his two return pipes. Cut the flow pipe or pick the joint if there is one close to where the same enters the house, then pick another joint at about one-third the way up the house, then put in two of the Ys and add another pipe, which sim- ply means making two flows for one-third the length of the house instead of one, as now arranged. If this one additional pipe is not enough to make the tempera- ture even throughout the house, then I would add 9 or 10 feet in the same way on the other end of the pipes; but if the first suggestion is acted on and the addi- tional pipe placed on the coldest side of house, whether it be next the boiler or next the expansion tank (it matters not so long as the addition of piping is made), "Subscriber" will find this much easier to arrange than putting cross piping. In making these changes all the joints must be left loose till all the piping is fit- ted into place, otherwise it will be difii- cult to get them in place to fit. If the short length is put in as well as the longer it may be necessary to use a sleeve so that it can be slipped on over the pipe and drawn back over the joint whenthat is fitted. John N. May. Massachusetts Horticultural Society An- nual Plant and Flower Exhibition. The first impression on entering the exhibition halls was oneof confused over- crowding. The lack of sufficient space for the exhibits was never before so apparent. Beautiful specimen plants were crowded together like bushes in a thicket and some of the passage ways between the groups were not wide enough for two persons to pass at once. The society cannot get new quarters any too soon if it is to maintain a high standard in its exhibitions. New exhibitors are constantly coming into the field and where we miss one old reliable contributor of former years we find in his stead three or four new ones, both young and ambitious. That the younger element among the gardeners are well worthy to fill the shoes of their predecessors the exhibition just past fully demonstrated, for while the many enormous specimen palms, etc., from the old collections, that have done duty for many a year in the past, were missing, yet it can truthfully be said that the display of well grown moderate-sized specimen stove and deco- rative plants generally excelled in quality and variety anything of the kind seen here for years. On the stage in each hall was a bank compris ing thousands of dahlias arranged in juvenile style, that might, with great benefit to the general effect, have been omitted. They were the most flagrant instances of bad taste seen in these halls for a long time and the best that could be said of them was that one was worse than the other. There was plenty of material crowded together on the floorof both halls that might have been arranged to advantage on the stage and the ap- pearance of the halls would have been greatly improved. Another glaring defect in arrangement was the use of wooden boxes to elevate plants in the center of groups and elsewhere. No florist of repute would ever think of putting up a decoration through which "Pearline" "Satin Gloss Starch" and similar labels stared at the guest and no horticultural society can afford to do it. There is no good excuse for it, as plenty of neat and unobtrusive plant stands are on the market and can be procured at reason- able prices. G. A Nickerson's group (D. Monteith gardener) occupied the center of the lower hall. Noticeable in it were the many large dracsnas and crotons, a monster i8g6. The American Florist. 145 A PUBLIC GARDEN IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA. sptcimen Davallia Mooreana spreading over six to eight feet and some fine adian- tums. Adjoining was a group of large palms and cjcads from J. W. Howaid, above which hung a basket of Asparagus Sprengeri, its pendent branches covered with flowers and fruit, tor which Mr. Howard was awarded a certificate of merit. Most of the plant groups were located in the upper hall. Here were the Harvard Botanic Garden (Robt. Cameron, gar- dener) with a great collection of foliage plants in varieties rarely seen, J. S. Bailey whose gardener (Wm. Donald) staged a group of gems that cearly took the breath away from his older competitors. Dr. C. G. Weld (Kenneth Finlajson, gar- dener), with his usual superb display of dractenas, palms, bright-colored crotons, caladiums, ferns and lycopods; E. S. Con- verse (D. F. Roy, gardener) with perfect specimen ferns, etc.; N. T. Kidder (Wm. Martin, gardener) with a grand group of which a ten-foot pyramidal Eurya lati- folia variegata formed the center and bordered with polished maranta, showy caladiums and lycopods; J. H. White (Jas. Wheeler, gardener), with a superb collection of stove p'ants, adiantums and fuchsias, John Jeffiies with gigantic speci- men nephrolepis and adiantums and John L. Gardner (Wm. Thatcher, gardener), showed a large group of palms, varie- gated stove plants and ferns, among which was a pair of Cocos Weddeliana of unusual size and peifection. A specimen of Nephrolepis davallioides furcans multiceps in Mr. Bailey's collec- tion was grtatly admired and he was awarded a silver medal for a plant cf Ma- ranta rosea-lineata of surpassing beauty. In the group from the Botanic Gardens a stately Nephrolepis acuta and a very large and perfect Agave Victoriae reginK were ammg the most noticeable. The speci- mens of Adiantum Farlevense and Gym- nogramme Peruviana argyrophylla in E. S. Converse's display were well-nigh per- fect and among Dr. Weld's best plants were Curculigo recurvata variegata and Nephrolepis rufescens tripinnatifida. Mr. White's extensive group of fuchsias added greatly to the general effect, flowering plants being difficult to get at these September exhibitions. The best of these fuchsias was a lovely specimen of the new variety Phalene, which was introduced last year, but its location on one of the balconies caused it to be overlooked by many. It is of low spreading habit and blooms most profusely. On two corners of the stage were trained plants of Dipla- denia amabile and Dipladenia profusa, a silver medal being awarded for the latter. They were from George McWilliam, who always excels in the cultivation of such plants. Mr. McWilliam also received a certificate of merit for Caladium ninus erubescens, a novelty with singularly shaped foliage. Jas. L. Little made a very creditable exhibition of begonias includ- ing the tuberous rooted and rex types Well-flowered specimens of Allamanda Williamsii and Clerodendron Balfourii pdded much to the effectiveness of N. T Kidder's group. The cut flower department was a be- wildering display of lilies, cannas, dahlias zinnias, asters, nasturtiums, marigolds, diantbus, verbenas, salpiglossis and phloxes, which like the plants, suffered for lack of room in which to show up properly. L. W. Goodell's Phlox Drum- mondii grandiflora, of which he showed thirty-three varieties in bright markings and soft new colors were beautiful. Goodell's name on an exhibit of annuals is always aguaranteethatthey are worth seeing. Jas. L. Little's and W. H. Cow- ing's cannas were as good as could be with cut blooms displayed in scanty vases. The only way to exhibit cannas and do them justice is as pot-grown plants. A spike of Italia in Mr. Little's collection gave a good idea of the merits and faults of this much-talked-of variety. Dahlias were very much in evidence. There were ten large exhibitors and the blooms were, in most cases, of the highest perfection. W. W. Rawson's chrysanthe- mum flowered sunflower showed up favorably and T. C. Thurlow's display of hardy phloxes comprised forty-three named varieties. James Comley showed flowers of a new pea, said to be a hybrid between sweet pea Blanche Ferry and Lathyrus lati- folius. It is of the softest and most pleas- ing shading of pink and white and has all the character otherwise of the perennial pea. J. F. Huss brought from Lenox a vase of the new Pennisetum Rupellianum, whose upright spikes of bright purple bloom attracted much attention and fjr which Mr. Huss was given a certificateof merit. The greatest interest was displayed in the tanks of aquatics, of which there were eight, the exhibitors being Henry A. Dreer, John Simpson (Jas. Brydon, gardener), L. W. Goodell, Oakes Ames (Carl Blomberg, gardener), and E. S. Converse (D.F.Roy, gardener) the latter showing the lace plant, Ouvirandra fenestralis. The show- ing of nympbaeas was superb despite the fact that it was two weeks past the time of their highest perfection, there being enough altogether of these showy blos- soms to complete a much larger exhibition provided they were displayed under favorable surroundings. It is easy to im 146 The American Florist. Sept. 12, agine a display of thischaracier arranged in irregular basins banked with sarrace- nias and mosses and bordered with clumps of tall sedges and bog-loving plants. Until arrangements for such an exhibition are provided we shall not see aquatic plants as they deserve to be seen. Mr. Goodell included in his collection sag- gitarias, pistias, wild rice, limnccharis, cichbornias, papyrus, etc,; Mr. Brydon and Mr. Blomberg also used some of these accessories, but there was not enough in either case to produce any great effect. One of the most beautiful nymphaeas ever shown was a bloom of N. rubra in Mr. Goodeli's collection. Several of Mr. Tricker's seedlings loomed up grandly in H. A. Dreer's tank. These looked better on the second day, having been somewhat wilted on the journey from Philadelphia. Nympba'a ignea and N. Robinsoniana were fine in Mr. Brydon's group and Carl Blomberg's seedling, Mrs. Anna C. Ames, the result of a cross between N. zinzibarensis and N. z. rosea, was awarded a certificate of merit. Hot house grapes were shown in quan- tity, all the popular kinds being exhibited by Mrs. J. W. Clark (John Ash, gardener), J. H. White (Jas. Wheeler, gardener), and K. S. Converse, (D. F. Roy, gardener), prizes to the amount of fifcy dollars being divided among these exhibitors, Mr. Ash getting highest honors with fruit of un- equalled finish. The entrances to the halls were orna- mented with a comprehensive exhibit of hardy coniferous trees from J. W. Man- ning's nurseries and the H. H. Hunnewell prize was here awarded. New York. The home-coming of absentees, reopen- ing of theatres and general resumption of activity in city life has naturally a bene- ficial effect on the flower trade, and there is "something doing" all along the line. The revival is not yet sufficiently pro- nounced nor the demand quick enough to make an advance or even any more than a mild stiffening in wholesale prices prac- ticable and the constantly increasing product as the season advances is likely to favor a continuacceof theseconditions for some time. Roses are coming in quite freely, espe- cially Bride and Bridesmaid, but it will be quite a while before the average quality approaches the ideal of the average buyer. American B.-auty from some growers is showing up well and some flowers really fine in color, size and form are being cut. With the best the limit of quantity is quickly reached, however, and in this exceptional case prices are slowly but surely advancing. Carnations are an unimportant feature, the receipts being li jht, quality mediocre and their place be- ing satisfactorily tilled for the time being by a late ciop of superb asters, big loose flowered beauties in white and Daybreak pink, with long stems. The new rose President Carnot appears very much at home at Ernest Asmus'. Mr. Asmus has six houses ol it, two houses be- ing well advanced and showing some- thing of what may be expected of the variety. In growth, foliage and fragrance it much resembles Kaiserin Augusta Vic- toria, but the buds are rather longer and more giaceful in shape and the color inclines to a soft and pleasing pink. Mr. Asmus says that, unlike Kaiseiin, it is a good all-lhe-year bloomer, giving flowers abundantly throughout the winter. The greenhouses on the roof of the Siegel Cooper Co.'s big store are com- pleted and are being filled with stock preparatory to the opening of this mam- moth establishment. There is a central palm house 31 feet in height and three wings which are filled with decorative plants of all descriptions, and Mr. Sie- brecht says the plan is to erect six more houses each 130 feet long. The progress of this enterprise will be watched with interest as, if successful, it must have a far-reaching effect on the legitimate flo- rists' trade of this city in the future. There have been lively times in the Cut Flower Company's neighborhood during the past few days. Trouble started with the expulsion of a Greek from that estab- lishment for misconduct. Backed up by a number of his followers he insisted on returning to the place on successive morn- ings until arrested and fined on complaint of the manager, Mr. Allen. The next step was a boycott of the Cut Flower Com- pany by the sympathizing Greeks and the thrashing of one of their countrymen whom they detected buying flowers there. The assailant was arrested and held in $500 bail. On Tuesday noon Mr. Allen was assaulted by a couple of the Greeks as he left his office and upon attempting to draw his revolver in self-defence he was overpowered and an officer arrested Mr. Allen and a Greek, Polykranas. Thecase was tried in Jefferson Market court on Wednesday, and Polykranas was held in $500 bail for trial at the court of general sessions. Mr. Allen was fined $10 for carrying concealed weapons. The Pitcher & Manda Corporation has gone into a receiver's hands. Rumors of approaching collapse have been in the air for some time and the end was precipi- tated by the employesof theconcern, who on Friday last made a combined demand for wages due. The annual outing of the J. J. Foley Association, formerly the John Thorpe Association, will take place at New Dorp, Staten Island, on Sunday, September 27. Congratulations are now in order at Summit, N. J. for Mr. J. N. May is the happy father of another young son, who arrived on Thursday, September 3. Jas. I. Donlan, secretary of the New York Gardeners' Society, has been very ill with pleurisy, but is now reported as rapidly recovering. The establishment of Mr. Thos. Young, Jr., is resplendent in a new coat of white paint and business in that vicinity will soon begin to hum. Ernst Asmus and family have gone to Waretown, N. J., where thereisgood fish- ing, for a few dav's recreation. A. Warendorff's store has been thor- oughly renovated and presents a very attractive front. Visiting New York, James D'lay, Bos- ton, Copeland & Cooper, Brockton, Mass.; P.R. Quinlan, Syracuse, N. Y.,and Wm. Appletou, Providence. R. I. Charles Thorley has returned from Yellowstone Park and talks interestingly of the sights in that wonderful region. M. B. Maguire sailed for Europe on the Teutonic on Wednesday, September S. John 1. Raynor received 16,000 sorays ot asters on one morningthis week, 6,200 being from one shipper. Miss Schumann of 13 avenueA will sail for Europe on September 24. Flatbush, N. Y. The Flatbush brotherhood are all busy. Carnations are being housed rapidly and chrysanthtmums are watched and nursed with closest attention, but their owners manage to stop lorigenough occasionally to take breath and to tell of how next year at Providence they are a going to redeem their vanished reputation and take sweet revenge out of Buffalo on the bowling alleys. The Flatbush team will be very much in evidence next season and none but high rollers need apply. Louis Schmutz came near getting into trouble the other day. In his absence a caller appeared and asked and obtained permission to make an application of a wonderful compound labeled "Prof. White's Eureka Insect Destroyer" which was to put prompt end to the earthly career of every green fly and other vermin within its reach. A number of badly blackened and withered chrysanthemum tops bear silent testimony to the powers of the "Destroyer" and the inference is that a liberal use of it might be found serviceable in reducing the chrysanthe- mum surplus. Inthemeantirae thegreen- fly is still waiting for another call from the "Professor" and so is Louis. The area in front of Mr. Schmutz' greenhouses is brilliant with masses of cannas, salvias and coleus which are a rich treat to the eye of the passer-by and the very best kind of a sign for a florists' establishment. Inside the houses are plenty of well-grown plants in all desira- ble sorts. A bench of primroses is partic- ularly good and it represents money, for primroses are scarce this season. The houses are not as new as they were once and their owner realizesthat the time has come when the location is too valuable *"or greenhouse purposes. Consequently, lie says, he has to buy no firewood, for when wood runs short he goes out and pulls down a greenhouse or two. A good story is told of a couple of Flat- bush worthies who returning from Cleve- land arranged to stop off at Buffalo and spend a day at Niagara Falls, yet pur- chased and paid for sleeping-car accom- modations through to New York. "Rome" Suydam was not one of the vic- tims, for he was not there, being busily engaged in filling his six houses of carna- tions. Here is the ideal home of Lizzie McGowan; such grand plants cannot be found elsewhere. Suydam's farm is one vast extent of perfect potting soil, all ready for use. The only defect in the car- nations is a touch of thrips which, how- ever, is not so extensive as it was last year. Dailledonze Bros, have closed out on roses, American Beauties and all, and carnations, chrysanthemums and mignon- ette will hereafter be depended upon to bring fame and fortune. About half the carnations are housed already, most of the balance being left in the field until chrysanthemums are over, when they will take their place in the houses. Two houses have bten rebenched this season, iron supports and brackets being used. They appear very serviceable, but their cost, at present, is in the way of their more general adoption. Speaking of theirexperience with carna- tions during the past season Mr. Daille- douze says that they have given up Bouton d'Or on account ol its late bloom- ing and tendency to burst, a trouble which he thinks might disappear with lighter soil. For yellow he will this year run Eldorado. Its worst fault is rust, which has caused the loss of a large num- ber of plants. In scarlet they are trying a few Hector, a variety which they dis- carded five years a^o. Jubilee is badly rusted but it has been housed and an tffort will be made to get it free. In whites, Ivorv proves to be a fair grower but Storm King has grown very poorly. Crystal, although a fine grower, gave so many bursted flowers that it was dis- carded. A few Edith Foster are being i8g6. The American Florist. 147 AN AVENUE OF LARIX SIBIRICA NEAR MOSCOW. RUSSIA. TREES PLANTED IN 1863. tried and they look fairly well. McGowan and Scott have made a fine growth in the field but both have been badly stung by thrips. All varieties have been damaged more or less bv this pest, but these two most of any. Alaska has made big strong plants but it cannot be depended upon for a crop in midwinter. Rose Queen bursts so badly that it had to be dropped. He finds no variety so useful for side benches as Tidal Wave. These look well, as also does Helen Keller, which is clean and healthy, a result which Mr. Dail!e- donze attributes to careful selection of stock, assisted by a favorable season. In the chrysanthemum houses the most noticeable noveltv is the new Eaglish early white Lady Fitzwygram. It is and has been all summer covered with buds. Why would it not make a good outdoor bedding variety? As a grower inside it seems to be a failure, producing "luds in abundance but making no growth and the flower appears loose and shapeless. Mrs. Perrin appears delicate and lacking in constitution as seen here. Marion Henderson is all right and will probablv be earlier than it was last year. Autumn Bride, a new white nceived from Nathan Smith & Sors, is an elegant grower and full of promise. George Zeiner, Jr., has demolished two old houses and is replacing them with modern structures, each 12x100. Philadelphia. Brother Lonsdale has sometimes been heard to make the remark "Tell us all you know; it won't take yon long." It shouldn't take many minutes to record the happenings of the past week. Busi- ness is scarcely worth mentioning, there being so little doing; a very slight zephyr on the placid waters occasionally since the first of the month is the foreruuner of the trade winds that all are looking for so anxiously. The uptown stores are brisk- ing up a little since September 1, their customers returning a week or two sooner than thoseof themorearistccratic districts south of Market street. The stock is improving considerably with the cooler weather. Fould's Brides- maids are assuming a full fledged appear- ance. He does the Brides and Brides- maids well, and has no trouble to sell them. Beauties are seen with quite long stems and good flowers. Good astersare abundant, and a few fair carnations are (o be had. Prices are about the same as for the last month. New crop rubbers, ferns, palms and crotons are now seen about the doors and in the windows of the stores, brightening them up and arrest- ins the attention of the passers-by. We are glad to say that Wm. K.Harris is about and much improved in health; his trip to Saratoga seems to have done him a lot of good, and it is to be hoped that his recovery will be but a question of a short time. Pennock Brothers are making an im- provement to the front of their store. The west door is done away with and the new window is being set out to the ex- treme building line. Mahogany is the wood used; when completed this will be the largest single bulk and the most im- posing front of any cut flower storeinthe city. At the medal and monthly shoot of the Gun Club last Tuesdav afternoon the trophy was won by Chas. D. Ball, with a score of 22, four points of which he se- cured out of his (5) handicap targets. A new system of handicapping was tried at this match. The old plan was to give a man so many points, but the new way is to give him more targets, and make the score from them. Robert Crawford is putting some touches to the interior of his store. New paint and gilt is being used, and the elec- troliers which before had a silver finish are being changed to gilt, so astobemore in keeping with Mr. Crawford's senti- ments on the great question of the day. "Sammv" Pennock's new wagon is a dandy. We are assured that while the quality of the stock sold from this vehicle is to be better than ever, nothing will be added to the price. K. Indianapolis. The season has been an unusually dull one, with collections slower than ever before known; still a brighter feeling is noticeable since the first of the month. The National Democratic Convention made things livelier for a week; a good deal of golden rod and other yellow flow- ers were in demand. The decorations of the convention hall were in charge of Ed. Bertermann of Bertermann Bros, as chair- man on the committee on decorations. The decorations were attractive, and made the hall look unusually cheerful; smilax, palm leaves and a few paper roses here and there on a white back- ground, with new handsome flags, gold eagles and gold wreaths around name of each state, with handsome foliage plants on stage and entrances, were the chief items. The outing of the Florists' Club occurred July 28. Bowling was themain feature, which was indulged in until late at night. Prizes were well divided. A good substantial supper was provided and taken part in by about 40 people. A heavy rain and slight hail storm made other amusements out of the question. On July 27 a meeting of those interested in the chrysanthemum show took place at the Dennison Hotel; Messrs. Hill, Stewart of Anderson, W. W. Coles of Kokomo and others were present. Details for the show were discussed and the final premium list ordered printed, which has since been done, and may be bad by writ- ing to Robert McKeand, Garfield Park, Indianapolis. John Rathsam. who some time ago moved from College avenue to Lexington avenue, has now built one greenhouse, store room, etc., at 20th street and Broadway. John Fohl, for some time running the old Haughey greenhouses, is now only attending to his own place on Central avenue. W. A. Lilly, formerly with A. Wiegand & Son, will build a greenhouse 16x175 for palms and decorative plants on Senate avenue, between 4th and 5th streets. The Huntington Seed Co. have elected new officers, Will A. Eshbach, president, Robert Vail, vice-president, and George Eitel, secretary and treasurer, deposiUfC the former officers, J. F. Huntington and T. V. Page, who under the firm name of Huntington & Page have started a gen- eral seed store, also flour and feed, at the old stand on East Market street. Sonnenschmidt & Yunge have enlarged 148 The American Florist. Sept. 12^ their house for carnations, making it now a house of 28x100. Their roses are look- ing well, and their carnations look very promising. The Indiana delegation to the conven- tion were well pleased with their trip to Cleveland, and are already figuring on how the could entertain the convention at some future date; it is a big job, but the Cleveland bovs solved it in a substan- tial manner. However, one thing the boys missed in Cleveland — a good bowl- ing alley down town. Cut flowers areslowly improving; there are less good flowers, however, than last year at this time, the many rains seem- ingly having exhausted many plants in forcing them too severely in growth. Asters have sufiered again very much by the black beetle; some remedy that will kill them without danger would be a great blessing. Chrysanthemums are look- ing up fine; prospects are for a big cut of the very best varieties. Several visiting florists were in the city during the political convention, taking advantage of the low railroad rates. W. B. St. Louis. Stock is looking better every day, and the business is about the same. Tran- sient trade has begun to come in with the retailers. The opening of the exposi- tion will do the florists some good. Lots of stock is being used for decoration, mostly palms and cut flowers. Good roses that are coming in are Kaiserins, Bridesmaid, Meteors, Brides, La France, Testouts, and Ptrles, and they are very good. Those with good long stems bring 3 cents and the shorter ones sell at 2 cents. Beauties are in great demand but very scarce. Carnations are short in supply and only bring $1 per 100. Asters have been in demand, especiallv white; they bring $1 per 100. Plenty of tuber- ose stalks at 3 and 4 cents. A few good heavy showers last week made vegeta- tion look better, and the hose will be of no use outdoors this year. Housing car- nations is progressing favorably, though some will nt t lift until October 1. Build- ing is bting pushed as much as possible, nearly every one being a little late and trying to get done before frost gets around. Visitors in town last week were S. S. Skidelskv, Philadelphia, and Joe Rolker of Aug. Rolker & Sons, New York. Iiivitati'ins are out for the seventh annual Shaw banquet for florists, nur- serymen and market gardeners, to be held at the MercantileClubSeptemberl6. We read with regret in a recent issue of the Florist of the death of our old friend William G. Newitt of Chicago. Mr. Newitt was well known in St. Louis among the florists, he being foreman for J. M. Jordan some twenty-five years ago. Mr. Sherman of the Sherman Floral Co., returned from a month's trip north; he reports lots of ground pine this year. Chas. Flecke:jstein and Ed. Buechel have gone on a fishing trip for a week or two. The Florists' Gun Club have their shoot every Sunday morning ou'' at Tesson's; any florist wishing a good Sunday morn- ing's sport should seeRobt-Tessonat625 Olive street. The big attendance at the bowling club Monday night was owing to the cool night and the election of officers. After the three games were rolled Beneke came out ahead with 531, Kunz second, 478, and Weber third, 474. The highest single score was by Chas. Kuehn, 218; Kunz second, 197, and Robt. Beyer third, 185. The election resulted as follows: Fred. C. Weber, president; J.J. Beneke, secretary, and John Young, treasurer. The club will continue to roll everv Monday night through the winter months. J.J.B. Chicago. The executive committee of the Horti- cultural Society of Chicago held a meet- ing last Wednesday afternoon at which arrangements were completed for the coming annual chrysanthemum show. Scales of points for judging plants, blooms and floral arrangements were adopted, and these will be printed in the revised premium list soon to be issued. Com- mittees on special premiums, program, advertising, judges, etc., were appointed, and a large amount of routine business transacted. Battery D has again been selected as the place for holding the exhi- bition. President Chadwick was unable to be present, having had some misunderstand- ing with his bicycle which resulted in both bemg laid up for repairs. "Thus doth the busy wheel improve each deadly hour." Siebrecht & Wadley's collection of palms, ferns, etc., on sale to the trade at 61 Wabash avenue, is really excellent and the quantity very large. The large storeroom is hardly of suflicient size to show the stock to advantage. The dis- play is well worth a visit, and Mr. Shaw's welcome is worth still more. At the meeting of the Florist Club last Thursday evening the report of the picnic committee showed that 155 persons had attended the picnic, in addition to chil- dren. The proposed canna meeting was again discussed, and it was finally decided to call a special meeting of the club, to be held at the greenhouses of J. C. Vaughan at Western Springs, III., the afternoon of Wednesday, September 16, for the special consideration of the canna question. It was believed that a better idea of the rel- ative value of the new varieties could be had by examining the growing plants in the fields than through an exhibition of the cut blooms. Mr. Vaughan gener- ously agreed to provide free transporta- tion to all members of the club attending this soecial meeting. The train will leave the Union Depot at 12 noon next Wednes- day, September 16, and Mr. Vaughan's representative will be at the depot with t'ckets for the members. At the next regular meeting of the club, to be held Thursday evening, September 24, the special subject for discussion will be crop prospects and the business out- look. Though not in as good condition as ten days ago, the cannas at Washington Park are still magnificent, and any florist who has not yet visited the park this sea- son should do so at once. Paul F.Lauof River Grove died August 25 of paralysis. He was well known as a carnation grower, and had been in busi- ness about Chicago for a number of years. He was 38 years old, and leaves a widow and two children. During the cool days earlier in the week stock improved greatly, and some revival of business was looked for, but the he it and humidity of Wednesday and Thurs- day caused a collapse of all trade. Ship- ping has been better than local trade; indeed, the latter is entirely dead, and the I retailers are very conservative in their ' purchases, complaining greatly of poor collections. Roses are very plentiful, and though a certain proportion of short- stemmed ^tock is seen jt is Hsually very good. Geo. Reinberg is cutting Golden Gate, which is a rew variety to our mar- ket. It should prove a favorite, being a particularly good keeper, and its charm- ing flesh tint is very attractive. Beauties are much improved, but the price has been fluctuating. Carnations are not very good yet; asters are excellent, and there is an over-abundance of gladiolus. We are promised chrysanthemums very early this year; the growers say they have advanced to an extraordinary de- gree, which is rather depressing news to rose growers. W. J. Pentecost of Cleveland., O., and Robt. Lundstrum, I'ittsburg, were visit- ors this week. Pittsburg. Daring the past week a marked im- provement is noticeable in the florist bus - ness here, and while not any too brisk yet, it shows a healthy start for the fall trade, although it is very evident that there will not be any boom or anything approaching one, at least until the politi- cal situation is settled in November. Messrs. Randolph & McClements have completed some improvements in their greenhouses at So. Highland and Baum street, where the salesroom is, putting in cement walks, altering the arrangement of the benches and repainting the houses, and have them fully stocked with a fine collection of palms, foliage plants and ferns nearly all together, their stock for cut flowers being grown at their larger plant on Forbes street near Schenley Park entrance; they will be better fixed this winter than heretofore to compete for the growing trade of the East End. Messrs. Elliott & McGinness, successors to the B. A. Elliott Co., 54 Sixth street, have finished the alterations intheirstore room, and have had it re-decorated in a very tasteful manner; the place is much improved by the changes made, and is now one of the best display rooms in the city. Mr. Gustave Ludwig exhibited this week a fine specimen of the cotton plant in bloom, grown bv Mr. Fred Burki of Bellevue; it divided attention with a bloom of Colocasia esculenta grown on one of our residence lawns. Mr. Walter Harvey is absent on a visit to Mr. John J. Murehi of Sharon, Pa. Mr. Harris, superintendent of Union- dale Cemeteries, has returned from a trip to England looking well and hearty, and says he enjoyed his trip very much indeed. Mr. Andrew Nelson, representing the F. R. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. \'., was a visitor this week. Prof Cowell of the B itanical Gardens, Buflalo, was with us the early part of the week. Regia. Toronto. The exhibition of plants at the great fair now in full swing does not come up to the notch reached in former years by a long chalk and is, when looked into by one who has seen former shows, a rather shadv sort of affair. I do not intend to give the causes of this decadence here, those most interested know them well enough without any more telling ancl must if thev care anything at all about progress in horticultural matters deplore the effects exceedingly. Of course there are individual exhibits of merit as usual, which one must admire, and there are ex- hibitors whose steadfastness one must admire also, but the exhibitors are so few in number and the circumslt^nceaiso pecu- liar that the show taketi ^s a w^ole is i8g6. The American Florist. 149 not a fair sample of what the city can do, and I do not propose to mention any of the exhibits or exhibitors individually. The show of flowering plants is alto- gether a little above the usual standard for this time of year. Ferns are very good but fewer in number. Palms be- sides being fewer in number do not alto- gether come up to the usual standard of excellence. The same may be said of large stove and greenhouse foliage plants, although there are some very fine speci- mens amongst them. The weather has not been too favora- ble for the welfare of the tair, though most of us were glad to see the rain. Every one, however, would be glad to see it fine during the coming week for the sake of the crowds that will visit us and the trade they bring. Amongst those in the trade noticed so far were Mr. W. Wilshire of Montreal, who acted as judge of the plants, Messrs. Lovell and Rae from Gait. Mr. W. Scott of Buffalo will act as judgeof cut flowers, when I hope to see him. E. Terre Haute, Ind. Mr. John G. Heinl has a house full of Nephrolepis cordata compacta which is a fine collection well worthy of seeing. Mr. Henry Graham has added a 100x10 violet house to his plant. Both Mr. J. G. Heinl and Mr, Graham have recently returned from their pleasure trips, the former hav- ing spent an enjoyable time at Dpluth, Mackinaw Island and otherresortsalong the lake?, and the latter having put in two weeks in Philadelphia. Homo. SITUATIONS, WANTS. FOR SALE, AdvertlBements under tiile head will be Inserted at tbe rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTEI>-By experienced all-rouml florist, flret-class grower and maker up. S C. care American Florist. Cblcago. SITUATION WANTED-As florist and gardener, on private place. References froni employer. Ad- dress English, care Ameilcan Florist. SITUATION WANTED- By an all round young man. steady and sober; speaks (Jerman Private place prelerred. Address Private, care Am Florist yiTUATION WANTED— By a competent, trusty O young man with good references. Not afraid of work. Address geumax, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By a competent youngman. In Iowa or Illinois. Best of reference. Private or cumraerclal. Address Iuwa. care Am Florist. SITUATION WANTED-By good florist and gar- O dener to take full charge on private place. Ger- man: steady and sober. U, care Am. Florist. u ITUATION WANTED— By a party fully competent O tutake complete control of private place: satis- faction guaranteed. U C I>, care Am. Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By Scotchman; married, no children: to tabechsrge ot prlvatep'ace. Good references. Gardener, tw Mill Si.. Westtleid, Mass. SITUATION WANTED— Ab florist and gardener, on O good private place. For particulars and references address E])WARIj Bean. Forest Home. Ithaca. N. Y. C1ITUATI0N WANTEI>-By a Danish tlorlNt. single, O age 25; t'. years' experience In general greenhouse and private work; good references. Audrcss U L. care American Florist. yiTUATION WANTED-By a practical cut flower lO grower with 12 years" experience; age ;kl. State wages. Address Florist. care American Florlet, Chicago. SITUATION WANTED-By flrst-ilass grower of O roses, carnations, general pot plants, etc. Ger- man; \'l years' experience Address References, care Amer'can Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By good all round florist; r_' years' experience; steady and sober. South or southwest preferred. Geo. Spencer. 'I North 1st St . West KnoxvUle. Tenn. SITUATION WANTBD-By German gardener and florist; has U years' experience: Is sober, indus- trious, and understands his business thoroughly. Ad- dress G L. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-As gardener by man :-il years O old. '26 years' experience under glass and outdoor; small private place where nice work Is wanted. Address r t G,. care M. F. Smith, U B. I2o, Rochester, N. ^. SITUATION WANTED-By gardener, well experi- enced In all branches, private or commercial ; ex- cellent references, age :Ki. married. 'X children: New England or vicinity of New Yorlt preferred. Address G \V, Boxiitil. Manche-ter. Mass. SITUATION WANTED-By single man to work In commercial greenhouse in western states. Wages no object— but a home- practice aLd more experience. (Jood references. Address A A, care American Florist, Uhleago. SITUATION WANTElt— Practical plantsraan of ex- O perlence and executive ability, posted on all the requisites of commercial places, roses, cut flowers, gen- eral propagation and outside operations, tbe nurseries, etc , etc.; best references of ability, habits, etc. For more particulars a— Catalogues and wholesale Ilsia for the following eueclaltles: Palms, roses, ferns and all kinds of greenhouse plants to flll two greenhouses. J, C. Fll^ckiger. Clayton. N. Y. WANTED~At once, experienced gardener who un- derstands carnations roses and bedding plants; must be quick and active, willing to work; wages $45 to I.XI per month; references required. BEERS' floral Conservatories, Bangor. Me. WANTED— By managing owner of a large and thriving place in Europe (continent) as foreman rose grower, a young man who has worked some years In Al American establishments. Salary 2i)t) francs per month, future reserved; board during stay. Passage prepaid. Trial allowed. Eventually passage back also paid. References forthcoming. This is a special op- portunity for a settled situation, as the right man Would be appreciated. If married, now or later, nice house, fuel and vegetables given instead of board. Fully detailed staH^nient as to past career, name of employers, requested. Photographs pollclted-will be returned. Adddress Yel'RISsen. Ub Marche SouHers, Antwerp. Belgium. lOR RENT— 4 greenhouses and stock good location. Apply to Walter Bctler. Readvllle, Mass. F tpOR SALE— Two nine-section Carmody boilers. In ' order, and cheap for cash. Lewis Turner, Kenosha, Wis. FOR SALE— Five greenhouses located In the health- iest climate of the South. For particulars address E. E. Brown. Ashevllle, N. C. I?OR SALE— At Park Ridge, 111.. ;> greenhouses 122 ' feet long, 5 room cottage, and barn, with about ■.'»^ acres of land; or will sell my cut flower store which has been on present place tl years. Reason forselllng. not able to run both places. Address or call. H. E. REDELiNdS. S(H Milwaukee Ave . Chicago. FOR SALE CHEAP'-Havlngsold the real estate on whicn my greenhouse stands. I Intend to take it down, and offer all my plants, orchids, etc., including all the piping and glass for a house 20x84 feet; also about o ere SIEBRECHT & WADLEY have the Imest exhibit of PALMS, FERNS, DRAC/ENAS, Etc., ever seen in Chicago. No freight to pay, and your own selection, from 10X1 Nephrolepis cordata compacta. .V)(l Kentlas. aU fixes. .Mm Arecas. from.iUcts. toJt^O. 100 Phoenix llm I.atfinlaB. 100 I.lvlatona rolundlfoUa. 1000 Cocoa Weddeliana. lOllO Mixed Ferns, Dracasnas, llhapls, Pandanus. etc.. etc.. etc. OPEN EVENINGS. From 2-iiich pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of varieties and prices furnished ou applicatiou. NATHAN SMITH «S, SON. SPECIALTIES IN BBST VAR1ETIB8. ROSES, from :i-lnch pots. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for list. WOOD BROT HERS, FiSHKILI., N. Y. fl Adiantum Farlyense EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices upon application. Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, (Station H.I PHILADELPHIA, PA. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. Ward, Mgr. QUEENS, L. I., N. Y. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Geraniums. M«nt1nn Am«r1n<,n Florist MARIE LOUISE, fine, healthy field-grown plants $4 per 100. Cash with order. CHAS. L. DOLE, Lockport, N. Y. Per lIKl CARNATIONS, field -grown plants. Write for prices. VINCA MAJOR, extra strong $6 00 CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUSfUmbrella plant), (i^-incli pots 10 00 CYPERUS ALTERNIF0LIUS,2 in.pots 3 00 C. LENGENFELDER, Oakley and Cosgrove Ave nues. CHICAGO. Unexcelled Carnation Plants. All llie icndlni: varletlca 1 Jaj break. '.Uose (.>ueen, Scott. Mctlowan, etc.. extra stroiiK, liealtliv. stock. Also MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS. L. E. MAROUISEE, Syracuse, N. Y. 150 The American Florist. Sept. J 2., f ihiiE LkmMmm IFil@@o@7 Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, Si-40; Column, $14,00. Cash with Order. No Special Pogition Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent; 13 times, 10 percent; a6 times, 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising; Bepanment of the American Klohist Is for FlorlBts. Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember it. Orders lor less than one-hall inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure Insertion in the Issue for tbe following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Boston. The principal event of the past week has b;en the horticultural exhibition. It attracted a good many visitors to Bos- ton, among whom was the grand old man, the venerable Louis Menand of Albany, now eighty-nine years old. Mr. Menand is as bright as ever, and his acquaintance with current horticultural news is remarkable. He was accompa- nied by his daughter. Other visitors were Ferd. Boulon and daughter. Sea Ciiffe, N. Y.; J. F. Huss and Jas. K. Paul, Lenox, Mass.; Wm. Tricker, Kiverton, N. J ; Walter Mott, Philadelphia; and G.-o. McWilliam, Whitinsville, Mass. N. F. McCarthy has returned from his vacation on the Maine coast, greatly ben- efited by the rest. He is preparing for the fall auction sales, of which there will probably be six, beginning about Septem- ber 17. A. P. Calder is fitting up a new and very desirably located store at 182 Boyl- ston street, where he will open about middle of September. Worcester, Mass. The condition of trade remains un- changed, and the usual August dullness prevails, although funeral work has been coming in quite steadily. Flowers are plentiful enough to supply all demands with the possible exception of roses, though we are getting a few good flow- ers from the newly planted stock. Car- nations are rapidly being housed now, and although the plants will average much smaller than last year are in very good condition. Eldorado and Urc'e John are showing a few rust pustules and Delia Fox is showing bacteria in several localities. Violets are also in good con- dition; Chas. E. Parker of Holden has two houses in excellent condition. At the regular weekly exhibition a fine showing of peas and zinnias was made, and an especially good lot of tuberous begonias was exhibited. The following first premiums were awarded: Scabiosa, C. H. Robinson; zinnia, E. A. Weeks; Lil- ium speciosum, W. J. Wheeler; peas, F. A. Blake; begonias (tuberous), A. H. Brown. A. H. L. Clinton, Mass. The annual exhibition of the Clinton Amateur Horticultural Society was held at Bigelow Hall, on Saturday afternoon and evening, September 5. It was a suc- cess in every way. The j udges were C. T. Fletcher, J. C. Clarke and E. O. Orpet. ■yjL^L^ NEW HARDY FERNS, 1896 Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER lOOD FROM NOW UNTIL DKCKMIiKK Int. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BBAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. /All-'"'^v/l5. The New York Cut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . Evergreen, Ala.— Fannie E. Caldwell, wife of Geo. W.Caldwell (the woodsman), died September 4- after a very brief illness. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, ^ ST. PAUL, MINN. CUT FLOWERS, WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, FIELD CARNATIONS. Bought and Sold. SOME BARGAINS ON HAND. Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. 15.000 ROSES Shall be glad to corresooud with parties wish- iug Daily, semi, Tri or Weekly Shipments. GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. CARNATIONS. or J-10.00 per 1000. KO-iK UURKN field-Rrown, stroug plants. So.OO per 100, FERNS. ADIANTUMCrNEATUM,2!^ inpc .'! in. »8. 4 in. 815, 5-ia. J2.5 ids I. 8.5 per 100. PTERIS TREMULA,2>^.inch pots, 85 per 100, 8 inch 88, J-inch 815, 5-inch 820. VIOLETS, field-grown. 85 per 100; 810 per 1000. Cooti stock. Cash with order. HENRY A. NIEMEYER, Erie, Pa. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, <;IVK MK YOUR OKDKliS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of altentiun K'ven to the c lilpplnj: trarle. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED F. WINTERSON, Mgr. CHICAGO. Mention this paper ILLINOIS GUT FLOWER CO. .1 H. DEAMUD. I\Igr. CUT FLOWERS, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, -t^-. ST. LOUIS, MO. ^F"A complete line of Wire I)e8ig:nH. H. L. SUNOERBRUCH. Wholcsak' Florist 4th and Walnut Streets, DAN'L B. LONG, FLOWERS AT WHOLESALE. strictly Commission Business. 8UPPL1E.S, KTC. .-..,.-.-«■ ,^ .. w LisTsFKKB. BUFFALO. N. Y. Mention American Florist. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market A (^hcBtnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 & 108 Liberty Street iBasenient). CUT SMILAX, JOSEPH E. BONSALL. 308 Garfield Ave., Salem, Q, i8g6. The American Florist. 151 E. H. HUNT, Wholesale Plorist 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BUI.BS AND AI.I. FI.ORISTS' SUPPIiIES KENNICOTT BROS. GO. wnolGsalG Gut Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO. If you want FIrst-CIaflB Flowers, properly pacfeed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you will Ket what you want. GUT FLOWERS VJc are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS in 88 Wabash Avenue, .^ CHICA.OO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES Reinberg- Bros. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS, 51 WABASH AVENUE. Telephone Main 4937. CmCA.OO. Oar Soaes best them all. in quality. Headqaarters for fine American Beanties- W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Iffire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, ^ CHICiVOO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. -CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS. 88 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAOO. ConslimmenlBBOllclted. ProniDtftttentlon toallnrdor*. A. L. RANDALL, wnoiesaie Fiorisi 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ABCnt for Unest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers. ©y/ftoPeAaPe MarftefA. Cut Flowers. NEW YORK. Sept. 8 Roaes. Beauty. e.\tra l.i.OO@;JO. " ■• common '2.flil(" .5. Meteor, Testout 3.009 .t. KKlaenn. Bride. Bridesmaid l.lWi.^ 4. all other varieties 50('_' 2. CamatlODB. ordinary 2.'j@ . fancy 50m; 1. Valley 3.00(" 4. Asters 3.S@ . Gladiolus ■ .W(<" 1. Adiantum 60 ® 1, A sparaKUB 40.00(- 50 Snillax 10.00<5'12 Boston. Sept. 8. Roses, Gontler, Nlphetos 1,U)® 2, Perle, Mermet 3.00® .5 Bride, Bridesmaid, Meteor :i.U0® Beauty 5.00O15, Carnations 25® ..to fancy 608 1.00 Valley 4. 00 Asters : 25@ M) Gladiolus , 2.00 Tuberoses .50 Adiantum 1.00 Bmllax 10.00n, under date of Septemtier 7. Take notice that application will be made to the Honorable Henry C, Pitney, one of the Vice Chancellors of the Court of Chancery of New Jer- sey, at his chambers in the city of Morristowu, Morris County. New Jersey, on Saturday, Septem- ber 12, 1896, at 10 o'clock a. ra., for permanent injunction against, and the appointment of a permanent receiver for, the corporation Pitcher & Manda; an order to show cause with provisional restraining order having heretofore been made and a temporary receiver appointed. The "plan for a laree cityplace" which appeared on page 41 of our issue of August 15 should have been credited to Mr. H. A. Capirn, Pittsburg, and not to Mr. Elliott, The error was ours. ransles Woriti Raisino. SEED almost all sold, but we can continue fur- m>.hiug single packages of 3-lH ounces each for 81.00. Cash with order. PLANTS will be ready about Sept. 15 or '20. (1,'SOLTAU & CO,, 199 Slant Ave., Jersey Cliy, N, ], THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY'S Directory FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN SEEDSMEN UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AND REFERENCE BOOK, I^Oie 1806, Contains the names and addresses of all the Florists, Nurserymen and Seedsmen in the United itates and Canada, arranged alphabetically in States and Provinces, the exact branch of the business each is engaged in being indicated by a Key. A list of Trade Organizations, both National and Local, with names and addresses of prin- cipal officers, t'liie and place of meetings and date of organization. Statistics regarding Floriculture, the Nursery Industry and Seed Growing from the last U, S. Census report, A list of firms in the trade that issue catalogues, with a key indicating the prominence of each branch of the trade in same, A list of leading Cemeteries in which attention is paid to Ornamental Horticulture, A list of leading Park Superintendents and of the Botanical Gardens of the United States, Seasonable Hints for the year about the practical work of the Florist, written by Wm, Scott, giving instructions not only when to do certain work, but how to do it most eiTectJvely and economically. A complete alphabetical list of t?oses in commerce in America, brought up to date and of incalculable value for reference. Similar lists of Chrysanthemums, Carnations and Cannas. Historical sketches to date of the Society of American Florists, American Carnation Soci- ety, National Chrysanthemum Society of America, Florists' Hail Association, American Seed Trade Association and American Association of Nurserymen. A list of Leading Horticultural Societies. Full and accurate information about Express and Postage rates. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 DEARBORN ST., 7,000 FIRST QUALITY FORGING ROSES. 'Irst-ilaHs ami perfectly liealtby In every re»pect. Only select tjrowth from tlowerloK shoots used In propagation. 550 KAISERIN 300 BON SILENE 300 NIPHETOS 700 SUNSET .'Mnch pots, J.i.l)0 per 100. t-lnch pote, $S.tiO per 100. MEKMETS. CrSINS, TESTOUTS. XIPHETOS. HRIDES, HKIDESMAIUS. METEOR, HoSTE. WATTEViLLES. AUG. VICTORIA. 2 Hand 4-lnch pot plants Cash with order. Owhin to number booked, they will be executed In rol«tlon to assure prompt delivery. t)rder early. Address for quotations. VILLA LORRAINE ROSERIES, MADISON, NEW JERSEY. DOSES ' ' Adfirpss for n AMERICAN BEAUTY, t^ll%^: l^ M. LOUISE VIOLETS, '.iyi, Sand 4 inch CARNATIONS, strong plants, all the lead- ing kinds. 1st size $8 per 100; 2nd size St. IDESMAID. BRIDE, TESTOUT, PERLE, FRANCE, KAISERIN, 't and 4-inch pots. CALIFORNIA VIOLETS, 2;j, S and t-inch. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS, 3 and 4 inch. A. S. MacBEAN. LAKEWOOD, N. J. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of SIOOO cash I for ONE FI.AITr each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. I The offer was refused, a greater price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative | purposes, SI 50 per 12; 810 per 100. from 2^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A^BLANC&CO^ When yoLi write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that you saw the advertisenient in the American Flnr :■" Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in 25^-inch pote which I will sell at 82 ijO per HX). The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Si xth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA. MO. BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS, MERMETS and ME rEORS, 2 iu. $3.00 per 100; 825.00 per 1000. IrcEJ> pkices. Write me to-day for full particulars. <;. C. WATSON. 43 North 10th Street, Vhila- deluhia. U. S. A.. I^"Owner of the celebrate I'lllt rill"'!'; LIST, 4. A. TRACHT & SON, Gallon, O. AUCTION SALE at 15 Providence St., BOSTON. Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 10 O'CLOCK, OF Ornamental Plants from HERMAN DRYER. EDWARD HATCH, Auctioneer PLANTING STOCK NOW READY. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS Healthy pot-grown slock. 2J^-inch. . . 82.iT per IIP; 820.00 per 1000 4-iuch .i 00 per 100; 40.00 per lOCO RISLEY FLATS SMILAX. f:i.nO per 100; 830 00 per UXO. 2.50 at 1000 rate. Samples on application. Field-grown Carnations, Bulbs, Pansy Seed, etc. Send for lists. DAN'L B. LONG, VtZV^^. C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stocks. Catalogues on application. • SPECIAL OFFER. Jtoeffaert&gee, DCmMIAC Cenclbrugge-lez-Canc), DLUUniAO f BELGIUM. § mid ;tG Catharine Street, Pi riYIMIA^ i l.ivvrpool, Eii^laiiil. "^"« PALMS, ARAOCABIAS, BAYS, &C Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. AZALEAS i$g6. The a mer i ca n Pl orist. 155 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. GOOD STOCK. PerlUO PerKK) BRIDESMAID 1st size. *■■<. Ill- 2nd ilze. K.UO METEOR STORM KINC UNCLE JOHN THE STUART S.UO.... all sold al .S.UO.... ,S(IU.... 8.1X1.... ■■ S.OU ... all sold a S.OO.... .S.OO--- RUST. S CO,, La Fayette, o.UO .vuo sold .j.Ul GOLDFINCH DIAZ ALBERTINI \A/M SCOTT .'lUII j.UO .i.UO nAVRRFAK Isold DAZZLE :,.oo ALASKA NO F. DORNER & SON Ind. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS COOD STOCK. NO RUST. rer ion DAYBREAK S5.00 WM. SCOTT 5.00 NANCY HANKS 5.00 LIZZIE McCOWAN 5.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 5.00 PORTIA 5.00 MRS. FISHER 4.00 Terms cash with order. ROGERS PARK FLORAL GO. 41 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. Field-Grown CARNATIONS New and Standard Varieties. .^i^Send for price I.ist. H. Weber & Sons, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MO. 25,000 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS S5.00 PER HUNDRED. Fisher, Rose Queen, Daybreak, Portia, Hector. FRED. BURK1, BELLEVUE, PA. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Gnod medium sized plants, at a low price. GOLDKINCII I HINZK s WHITE I ('HKSTER I'KIDE POKTIA I GKACE WII.DBR i At WOO per 1110. PRES. GARKIELD j L. L LAMBOHN UZZIE McGOWAN I iilLVKK SPRAY J WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. 12,000 Good Stock for Sale. CARNATIONS, 5000 Field-grown plants, six varieties. 1000 SWANI.EY WHITE VIOLETS. 500 CACTI, mixed sorts. ■lOOO CALIFORNIA PRIVET, 2 years. 1500 ErONYMUS, Japan Evergreen hedge plant. WRITK FOR PRICES. HENRY HULICK. Florist, EATONTOWN. N. J. Field Carnations. Fine healthv plants In splendid condition, al i^VOti per 100. Casb with order. WM, SCOTT, KOSE OUEEN, TIDAL WAVE, pink. BRIDE OF ERLESCOURT, white. ALASKA, white, *ii.U) per hundred. Small plants of DEAN HOLE, yellow, and STORM KING, white, at U.W. lI^"Speclal prices on lar^e lots. Address J. F. KLIMMER, Oak Park, III, A GREAT TRIO OmRNATIONS SCOTT, DAYBREAK and McGOWAN. Gilt-edged, field grown plants of these and a gen- eral assortment at 83 to t^6 a lUO. 5 samples for Z3c. THE BOOL CO., ITHACA, N. Y. FIELD=QROWN CARNATIONS. LARGE STOCK OF SPLENDID PLANTS. The weather here has been very favorable for Carnation plants, and our stock this season is in e.xtra line condition. Order early to avoid disappointment. Terms, cash with order. I \//^ D V ^"'' '^^" White Seedlinj; is sure to be a winner. Pure white, large size, 1 V WlV I and for productiveness at30ut Hi to l with an prod Large plants Smaller plants Per lOO Per 100 IVORY $10 00 88.00 ALASKA 8.00 li.OO McGOWAN. . . .... li.OO DAYBREAK 8.00 (i.OO RiiSE QUEEN .... 8.00 li 00 LIZZIE GILBERT B IX) GOLDFINCH 8 00 IJ.OO SILVER SPRAY WM SCOTT . BRIDESMAID PciRTIA . . . MhTEOR. TRIUMPH (new piuk) y Other white. Large plants smaller plants Per 100 Per IM , , « 8.00 8b 00 . . . . 8 00 ()l)0 .... KOO (iCO .... SOO 8.00 . B.OO I.'.IO 10 00 CARNATIONS, GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. FIELD GROWN. PER 100 Lizzie McGowan $8.00 Minnie Cook 8.00 Portia 8.00 Rose Queen 8.00 Silver Spray 8.00 Tidal Wave 8.00 William Scott 8.00 PER 100 Alaska $10.00 Delia Fox 10.00 Ivory 10.00 Daybreak 8.00 Dean Hole 8.00 Helen Keller 8.00 Kohinoor 8.00 Lizzie Gilbert 8.00 GREENHOUSES. WEliTERN SPRINGS. ILL. VflUGfiflN'S SEED STORE /^^^^A^rG^o'^""^- LARGE FIELD-GROWN BLOOMING Per 100 WM. SCOTT $6.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 8.00 SILVER SPRAY 5.00 CARNATIONS. " ■" Per too PORTIA $5.00 NANCY HANKS 5.00 MRS. FISHER 5.0O REINBERG BROS., 51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. CARNATIONS Very tine field-grown planis of the followint; varieties: Uncle John, Puritan, Storm King', Helen Keller, Scott, Tidal Wave, Bridesmaid, Horner, Stuart, Meteor, Daybreak, Albertini at $5,00, $7,50 and $10,00 per 100. according to size. The smaller sizes are strong plants. Samples sent at same price. W. J. & M. S. VESEY, 90 Thompson Ave,, FT. WAYNE, IND. Mention Aniprlean FInrlst CARNATIONS -Field-Grown. L;irye and lleallliy. I'er H'O LIZZIP; McGOWaN $4 Oil SILVER SPRAY 4 CO WM. S-OTT . , , 5 00 DAYBREAK 5 00 Also a limited nnmber of Portia at. 4 00 Sweetbner, Uncle John and E. A Wood at . 5 00 C.\SH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. DAYTON. 0, FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. SILNER SPRAY, LIZZIE McGOWAN, DAYBREAK, and other leading vaiieies. Strong, healthy plants, |6 0J per 100. P. M. REICHARD, St. Joseph, Mo. I have In the field 30,000 fine stocky LIZZIE McGOWAN CARNATIONS, The best White for winter. 20,COO 1 plant mvself, 10,000 1 offer at $j 50 per 100, or |30 00 per lOOO, H. SCHILLER, Niles Center, III. CARNATIONS I^rge healthy tield-grown plants. None better. Ist size. 2nd elze. SCciTT DAVBKBAK DIAZ ALBERTINI. MI.VER SPRAT.... POKTIA OAKFIBLD GKACK WILDER .. $7 UU $5.00 7.00 5.00 7.00 o.lO 7. DO 5.00 7.00 ."..Ul 7.00 o.UO 7.00 5.1X1 DRAOENA INDIVISA-JIO.OU, worth yitt.W, In 4-Inch, ready Jor a shut A snap for the price. Must sell to make room. Cash with order. Sumples If deslreil. FRANK BERRY, Stillwater, Minn, CARNATIONS Most varieties ready to plant NOW. 25,000 FIELD-GRDWN PLANTS, Leading varieties. Write for prices. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids. Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. 1 INK. HE.\I.TH\ SIUll' Per H»i Per ll««l SII.VKI! St'KAV *j.Utl WiMI II.AVIiKK.lK o.UO 45.00 l"OKTI4 4.11U ;iolO <1K.4C1<1 \V II.Lll!.K 4 i;u ,'15, (Kl .SCOTT II l«l .-*l.llll H. L. SUNDERBRUCH, 4th and Walnut Streets. CINCINNATI. 0. 1,000 SCOTT CARNATIONS. iM.'lil-^irouii 111 li with iir,li-r. HARMON, BURR Be CO., Savvens, N. Y. 156 The American Florist. Sept. 12^ Syracuse, N. Y. The horticultural exhibition at the State Fair far surpassed any that had hitherto been made, the whole of the building proper being filled. Messrs. P. R. Quin- lan & Co. made a very extensive sbow; their tuberous rooted begonias, zonal geraniums and French cannas vyere finely flowered and much admired. The class for 12 plants of geraniums struck me a: being a grand combination, the varieties being W. P. Simmons, M. E. Gaillebet, Alpine Beautv, Deuil de Mirabel, Juliet, Sdlmon Bruant, S. A. Nutt, Mrs. J. M. Gaar, Mme. Christ. Dabouche, Ernest Kel- way. Spotted Beauty and Reflector. Two gems in the French cannas were Eldorado and Queen Charlotte. Mr. Campbell, who was another very large exhibitor, staged a fine group of firns, his plants all being large specimens and in good condition. In his collection of stove and greenhouse plants a large plant in the center of Eucalyptus globu- lus probably attracted more attention than any other one plant in the hall. Geo. Ham's collection of celosias was exceedingly good, also his French cannas. Mr. Bechstedt of Oswego showed some grand sweet peas and asters. Some idea of the extent of the cut flowers can be imagined when it took 2,500 quart fruit cans to hold part of them; this has been found a very superior way of staging the flowers over putting them in sand, and next year it is said they will all be done this way. Gladiolus was in abundance and very good, some 1500 spikes being shown; they made a great display, and were the center of attraction in the cut flowers. Peter Kay of Syracuse was superintendent, and Geo. Savage of Roch- ester and PeterCroweofUtica the judges, who performed their work in a very com- mendable manner. The Gun Club had Messrs. Savage and Crowe for guests Tuesday afternoon at their grounds and at night had a jolly time on the bowling alley. Shooting seemed to have trimmed a good many eyes, as some great scores were made. Trade is still very dull; home grown roses are beginning to come in and are good for the time of year. The weather has been very cold lately, and indications look very much like an early fall. Visitors in town: Mr. Beatty of River- dale, N. Y., and J. Elletson, Auburn. Alpha. The OAKS 6REENH0USEG0., Jackson, Mich. oiler fur Immeillate acceptance, the followlntr, at prices annexed. I'er HH) Smilax. from 2Va-lnch pots, good stroDg plapts. ■ • .*2 51] CypeniB AlterolfollUB, 2is-!nch ■! UU S!.t,-lnch |) DO Grevillea Uobusta, 'JUlnch 3.1)0 :ih.-lDch I; UO I)raca?na Indlvlsa. -."j-incll. 'l'^ BeKonlas, tlowerlng In var.. 2}i-lDch, our selecllun I. M Kex *' " " " 4 uu Cash with order. R. ( '. of all gen'l stock at usual prices. Mention American Klorlst. VIOLETS — Marie Louise, tine lar^e plants, at »5.00 per 100. CARNATIONS — Lizzie McGowan, Daybreak and Wm. Scott, at f 5 oo per lou Addiess JOHN WELSH, 2833 N. Hoyne Ave.. Station X, CHICACO. Surplus Stock of DRACiENA INDIVISA. Fine field-grown plants, 6 and 7-inch pots, 35c each; $3 50 per doz,; S25 per lOd. cASEi w rni (HtijEii, EAST SIDE FLORAL CO., Champaign, III. Mention Amerloan Florlat. HERR'S PANSIES. None better at any price; none cheaper at any price, the mistake of not buying them. Don't make Plants, $5,00 per 1000; 75c. per 100. Lots of 2500 and over at reduced price. HERR'S CARNATIONS. Field-grown plants of Scott, Tidal Wave, McGowan, Cartledge, Keller and Stuart. Good plants at reasonable prices. r^. :b. *t>e. ALBERT M. HERR, Lancaster, Pa. ADIANTUM CUNEATUM. We have a surplus of fine plants in 2V2 and 3-inch pots, and will sell Iheni very cheap for cash. Write for prices on any quantity you can use. THE WILLIAMS-WILSON CO., Wholesale Florists, _ci:^i5X''E:rvA.Jvi>, OHIO. ZIRNGIEBEL'S GIANT MARKET AND GIANT FANCY PANSIES are the Leading Strains up to date. Extra Large Size and Superb Colors. Liberal trade pacliets of either strain at ONE DOLLAR EACH S. 100,000 NOW READY. The Jennings strain of finest American grown Pan- sles jire up to date, and just as good as they make them; but on account of the hard times the price Is down. The grandest combination of colors ever nent out. All large flowering in great variety. Flue stocky plants, fleld-grown, will bloom In October, mi by mall Tie; 1(KH) by express %^ itO; ^i^M $is,u(i. Extra plants added with every order. :m (KHJ ready In October for cold frames. PANSY SEED of above strain. 3>1.(R) per pkt. of ■-'.5(XI seeds. Cash with order, E. B. JENNINGS, l. b. 254. Southport, Conn. Grower of the finest Pansles. IRVINGTON NURSERY, IRVINGTON.InD. 5,000 Pseonies in 100 named varieties, lyr. grown since division, cinnamon Vines, 1 and 2 yrs., 810 per 1000, Hardy Moonflower, selected roots. Wistaria, four best varieties, 1 to 4 years. Hibiscus. Crimson Eye, 1 and 2 yrs., tine. Hardy Shrubs, a large collection, for mail iug and larger. Honeysuckles, 4 or 5 varieties, J2,50 per 100 and up. Japan Trailing Roses, Wichuraiana, S20 per 1,000. Gladiolus, fine named and mixed. Oxalis, 4 named sorts. Biguonia Radicans, nice mailing and strong transplanted. Clematis Paniculata, 2 yrs,, open ground. 10,000 ,=i,roo 10,(XIU 10,000 5,000 200,000 200.UOO 10,000 Lists Free. IRVINGTON. IND.. near Indianapolis. THB TMERSON rmiBi^Dsn Price postpaid 75 CENTS. I Address I American Florist Co. CHICACO. «'GHf£S7 M. BAYEK«UUK*'EK & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS' SUPPLIES ONLY, FHILADELFHIA, FA. Our new^ CataloKQ'^ Im now out. free apon^ Application. Importers anil Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET, .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. MILLIONS OF ELECTROTYPES Mammnth Ca'alnjjue and ridiculously low pi ices on receipt ot 10 cts. stamps. JOHN A. SALZER SEED GO, LH CROSSE, WIS. Convention opinions on MARS. 'i'lie t'lorlat; A very trood tiling. TheCatHlogueimin: How many linni can you give uie The Ladies: The sweetest IhhiK In the hull. Our Own: Vou cannot do business without MAKS In IS-.IT. Address the introducer. HENRY EICHHOLZ, WAYNESBORO, Franklin Co., PA. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, Ktir DfOiiratlDK and nil l-'kirlsta' hi'»!(.'"H. CH4S. H. RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitchell Co.. N. C. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. 1896. The Americax Florist. 157 SHEEPjyiNURE I will furnish this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b. Mitchell, South Dakota: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED ..75c. per 100 Terms cash in 30 days after date of ship- ment. Orders accompanied with cash, 10 per cent, discount. WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA. NEVIN'S Greentiouse Fuuy Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing. IS APPLIED WITH PUTTY BULB. One gallon Ol lbs ) will glaze l.lKJO feet of glaps Costs 90c per gallon. .'>iic per half-gall'-n Satisfaction guar- anteed. Reference— John Rogers. GreentreeBoro. Pa.; Hartman Bros,, Alleghany. Fa.; Fred Burkl. Bellevue Pa. Manufactured by T. H. NEVIN CO.. P. 0. B. 958. Pittsburg. TOBACCO STEMS FOR FLORISTS. For Sale, packed in bales 200 to 250 lbs. No charge for deliv- ering to depots. $10.00 per ton. 81.50 per single bale. p. C. FULWEILER & BRO., 248 Ho. Ninth St., FHII.AI)EI.FHIA. FA. FOR SALE. BV Seed stores. Kor Free Pamphlet, write to LollSTILLE ISPIRIT ri'llED T(IBAC( Co. Louisville, Ky AI flQ.Q ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Send for VlLilOw. Estimate. Satisfaction guaranteed. X1.EIS]^ OXJ.A.SS CO., 102 Sonth 6th Avenue, NEW TORE CIT¥. DincDsloiis o[ this Box : iDCbea long by 18 Inches wide and 12 Inches hltth. Two sections. V-. ■ This wooden box made In t^o sections, one for each size letter, BOSTON FLORIST LETTER GO. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Marltet. Sizes IM-in. and 2-in. 2.00 per 100. Patent ladenerwilh each letter. OUR HEW SCRIPT LETTER, $4.00 per 100. N. F. McCARTHT, I 13 Green St.. Treas. & Mangr. | Boston, Uass. Office, 84 Hawley Street. We t:ave a new FASTENER which we consider a decided saooess. Any cnstomers taavInK old style fasteners which they wish to exchange, can do so wlthOQt additional cost by writing ns. These Letters are handled by all the Wholesalers Boston. nicely stained and varnished, 18x30xlli, given away with first order of 500 letters. A. Rolker & Sons, New York. M. Rice * Co., 35 N. 4th St., Phlla., Pa. F. E. McAllister, 22 Uey St., New York. A. D. Perry Si Co., 33 Warren St., Syracuse New York. A. Herrman, 415 E. 34th St., New York. H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A. C. Kendal, 115 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. J. A. Simmers, Toronto, Ont., Agent for Canada. E. H. Hunt, "9 Lake St., Chicago, 111. WisconHlu Flower Exchange, 131 Mason St-, Milwaukee, Wis. H. Stmderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts., Cin- cinnati, O. T. W. Wood Si Sons, Gth and MarshaU Sts., Richmond, Va. Jas. Vlck's Sons, Rochester, N. T. C. A. Kuehu, 1122 Piue St., St. Louis, Mo. D. B. Long, Builalo, New York. Huntington Seed Co , Indianapolis, Ind. tieo. A.Sutherland, 67 Hromfield St., Boston. Welch Bros., No. lA Beacon St., Boston. N. F McCarthy & Co., 84 Hawley Street, Boston. The Henry Phllipps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O. Walter A. Potter & Co., Providence, R. I. J. C. Vaughan, 26 Barclay St., New York. W. Ellison, 1402 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. NEPONSET * FLOWER ' POTS of Waterproof Paper, light, durable, unbreakable and cheap Tomato Growers have used them with success and proved their appreciation by repeated orders. Cabbage Growers have tried them and duplicated their orders. Market Growers of Verbenas, Alyssum, Coleus and other plants, which do not shun moisture, have used them e.xtensively in repeated seasons Recommended for light and safe packing of tender and valuable plants, for the marketing of Ferns, Dutch Bulbs, Lily of the valley and the like. Cost about 40 per cent less than earthen pots, and weight considerably lighter, thus saving in first cost and freight. For Price List and further particulars address AUGUST ROLKEK & SONS, Station E, New York. R. Si J. FAKgUHAR & CO., - - Boston, Mass. Who furnish samples, by mall, postpaid, on receipt of 10 cts. 11 ots. 14 ct". 17 Cts. 22 ctB. 40 ct». 60 ctn. For 1 dozen ■i\i\Tl. 2)i-ln. SH-ln. b-incb pots. F. W. BIRD & SONS, Sole Manufacturers, EAST WALPOLE, MASS. ESIABUSHED 8 66. MANUFACfyREO HFi' . STEFFENS %%S EAST Z\^J ST NEW YORIL FUMIGATE WITH NIKOTEEN THE ESSENCE OF TOBACCO. It kills all insects and does not injure delicate blooms Costs 111 cents to fumigate a house 100x20 feet. If you cannot get it locally, write SKABCURA DIP CO., Station S, CHICAGO. Always mention the American Flo- I rist when writing to advertisers. WOOD LABELS .. AND .. Flower Slakes. BENJAMIN CHASE, Derry, N. H. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 158 The American Florist. Scf^t 12, Tacoma, Wash. After demonstrating beyond a shadow of doubt, that Tacoma is the city of flowers the enthusiatie flower lovers of the city requested the local Gardeners' and Florists' Association to have a fall flower show. With very short notice and no special preparations a show was got- ten up and held at the Fife Hotel. The exhibition closed on Saturday, August 29, after having continued for three days. The exhibition was perhaos the best exhibition of late summer fljwers given in the Pacific northwest. The room presented a gorgeous appearance, deco- rated with palms, garlands, smilax and crowded with all the rich colois that be- long to the month of August. There were sweet peas, roses and other familiar floral favorites in profusion, but the feature of the exhibition was the display of dahlias and asters. No such display ol these two flowers has certainly ever been seen in Tacoma, and flower lovers of the city have had a rare treat. The best mixed display was made by H. Oster- houdt, gardener to Nelson Bennett, whose garden is the admiration of the city. He showed some very fine asters and sweet peas. B. Lehmann led with a splendid display of dahlias; W. Russell of old town showed the best collection of swtet peas, also a fine seedling canna. H. W. Manike from bth avenue showed some fine carna- tions and gloxinias. F. R. Miethke made a splendid display of decorative plants. John Wedemejer and G. Keller from the cemetery made a gigantic display of dahlias and annual and perennial flowers. P. C. Smith from Ft. Steilacom showed very good asters and heliotrope. A unique and artistic exhibit was made by Supt. Robert from Point Defiance Park, consisting of a large collection of most highly colored leaves from native shrubs and trees, making a superb tff'ect. Northern Pacific steamers Annandale and Olympia brought several thousand cases and baskets of bulbs from the orient. H. W. Manike is building a rose house 20x75. W. Russell is building carnation house 18x60. La France. He Was a Dream. She.— "Who is that dream of gold cord, buttons and G. A. R. badges on the bicycle?" He.— "Why, that's J. D. Carmody, the florist." She.— "You don't say so. Ithoughthe was the generalissimo of the G. A. R. How handsome he is! "—^Z'aw-sj///^ (Ind.) Bugle. The Gurney Heater Manufacturing Co., Boston, Mass., send us an unusually well printed pamphlet entitled "How best to heat our homes." The title page is a work of art and the whole booklet is excellently illustrated and printed. We have no doubt a copy will be mailed free to any florist on application. FLOWER POTS. We MiinutHcture uM kinds of Klower Pots. etc. Miiklnt: a Spediilty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price llet and samples (which will be sent free) and we know you will Klve us your order: J. G. SWAHN'S SONS. M...,L';,.".°r3nn... SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. For prlcee, apply to GEO. W. HAMILTON. 176 Sidney St., Dorchester, Matt. WIND MILLS Fo? PUMPING. FAIRBANKS-GALVD STEEL. ECLIPSE-WOOD. S0,000 .A.lr*t?4;i time you write an advertiser in these columnSn i8g6. The a mer ican Florist. 159 Eroeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse = Boiler, 29 to 59 Eiie St., CHICAGO. Boilers made of the ttewt oi material, ehell. firebox Bbeetfl and heads eci&l 6reenhou«<1rcular. NeVonseriH ^ssTftN, Mass" When writing mention the American Florist. THE ■•NEW DEPRRTURE." ^'^"^ "VENTILATING J\PPl.lflNCE>;^^ J. D. Carmody, Evans\nlle, Ind. Dear 5zV;— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly. J. E JACKSON. Gainesville. Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS Rlchiuon8t or medium sized linll. Stives fuel. GASSER'S IMPROVED PUTTY MACHINE-all metal. Most practical and lasting Putty Machine in use. Price. $2.00. Cash with order. SENIJ FOR ClRCn.AK. J. M. GASSER, Florist, 101 Euclid Avenue, CLEVELAND, O. $3??ABBL. I H.A.STOOTHOFF. l3ISIUDISIINWE,NtWY0ltt(,CITT. Clear Cypress Greenhouse Material We have had many years' experience in this line. We introduced Cypress for greenhouse construction. We have made many improvements in the construction of green- houses. We carry in stock many different designs of Raft- ers, Sash Bars and everything else from the bottom of gut- ters up. Our facilities are large, and we are prepared to fur- nish on short notice material of our own designs or any spe- cial designs, and all of open-air-dried clear Cypress Lumber which we have bought for many years of one party because this particular growth of Cypress is as soft as White Pine, and has none of the knots, sap and other defects so com- mon to White Pine. Every foot of our stock is guaranteed Spot Clear. Write for circulars and estimates. No trouble to furnish plans when necessary. LOCKLAND LUMBER CO HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAM ♦ BOILERS. They possess to the higfhest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. CAPACITIES FULLY Send for fiatningTicg GUARANTEED. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CHICAGO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL & CO., 77 Lake Street. GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., Cor, Congress. BOSTON. MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. i NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD, YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., CHICAGO. MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. DeLamater-Rider and DeLamater-Ericsson Hot-Air Pumping Engines Will pump water from any homce, anil foroe ii to anv height ana ois- tance. Simple, safe and free from can-. Will Imrn any kind orfuel. For suppl> iiig water on farms, country ami fitv lesuiences, dairy and stock fai'ms tlifv are unsurpassed. Send for catalupue. theDklamater ironworks, 467 West Broadway. N. Y. City. HAIL Tor Insurance against damage by hail, ,^,^^,^_^_^__ Address JOHN G. ESLER. Secy, F, H, A.. Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. VALVES, FITTINGS AHO Ventilating apparatus. COLDWELI.- WILCOX CO.. Newburgh. ^, Y. THE NEW DIRECTORY Is Now Ready. 160 The American Florist. Sept. 12^ Index to Advertisers. Adv Rates... l.W American Boiler Co...lt» Am. 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Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. .Vfi Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Eastern Office : 67 Bromfleld St., Boston. This paper Is a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Assoclatlun. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. Wm Scott, BufTalo, president; Adam Graham. Cleveland, O , Tlce-presldent : W.J. Stewart. Bos- ton, secretary; H. B. beattv, Oil City, Pa., treasurer. OFFICER.S FOR IS^i;. — ADAM GRAHAM. cteve'and.O.. president; FAUt.tUHAR Macrae. Providence. R. 1.. vice-president. Secretary and treasurer as before. The thirteenth annual meeting will be held at Prov- idence. U. I., August, ISIT. CONTENTS. Roses— Notes 161 Carnations— Notes 161 chrysanthemums— Notes 162 Propagating altemanthera 162 A canna excursion 162 Fern house, Lincoln Park (illus.) 163 Defective circulation 163 Heating capacity of a boiler 164 Boston 164 Philadelphia 165 New York .... 165 Herbaceous garden, Lincoln Park (illus.) . . 165 Buffalo 166 Omaha, Neb 166 Main parterre. Lincoln Park (illus.) 167 Toronto .167 San Francisco - 168 Obituary— William Sfeas. 168 —William Robinson 168 --ElieAbel Carriere 168 Chicago 170 Catalogues received 170 The seed trade . 172 — Government seed contracts 172 Cleveland 174 St. Paul 176 West Hoboken, N. J 176 Des Moines, la 177 St . Louis 178 Wichita, Kans.— Chas. P. Mueller has been laid up for several weeks with a broken leg, the result of an accident while riding. Independence, Ia.— E. M. Bissell has finished a new carnation house 50x16, making 3,000 feet of glass In all; he has also remodeled the older houses and added a new boiler. Groveland. Mass.— Ferguson & Scott is the name of a new firm which opened business here on September 1. Their houses are well stocked with chrysanthe- mums and carnations. The parties inter- ested are Messrs. Robt. Ferguson and John Scott. Rose Notes. I suppose that every rose grower who expects to cut flowers this winter will have his plants benched long before this, if he hasn't I would remind him that he is very late, and that it costs just as much to heat and care for a house lull of small measly plants as it does a house of large vigorous ones, and there is not half as much pleasure, to say nothing about profit. I have always found that it paid in time saved, and also kept the house looking very much neater, besides making syringing and watering easier, to stake and tie almost as soon as the house is planted, and then keep them neatly tied; if it is left until they are very large it be- comes a long, tedious job and difficult to do satisfactorily. No. 9 galvanized wire stakes four feet long, with a No. 18 wire running along the top, to which the up- right stakes are tied, is the neatest and most satisfactory arrangement for roses that I have met with so far. One of the most important things to occupy our attention just now is the con- dition of the atmosphere in our rose houses during the night. When the even- ings are warm and the mornings cool and damp we have all the conditions neces- sary to make lots of trouble. At this season of the year it is very important that watering and syringing be done early in the day in order that the moist- ure may be dried up befote night, neglect- ing these precautions, we are liable to find the edges of the leaves studded with drops of water, the result of condensation. A novice might say, 'What of that? is there any more reason why condensation resting upon the foliage should injure it, than that water from any other source should do so?" I only know that roses can no more be given a cold sweat and not suffer, than could a human being. Any one not having had experiecceof this kind, and desiring to gain some, can very easily satisfy himself. The most beauti- ful house of roses imaginable can be ruined for several weeks by improper handling during just one week. The safest plan to follow when there is any probability that the temperature out- doors will fall below 60° during the night, is to start a gentle fire late in the evening if hot wateris used, and merely warmthe pipes; and if steam is used turn on one pipe at say midnight at the same time, leaving the ventilators open a few Inches, there will then be no possibility of con- densation. It may be argued that this would necessitate the expense of firemen and fuel where they might be saved, but is it ever economy to refuse our plants the necessary conditions of growth, the food, the air, the labor and attention? If we would have perfect satisfaction, and ideal plants and bloom we must deny our plants nothing that would conduce to that end. If on account of changes being made in the heating apparatus we are unable to have fire heat as early as is de- sirable, the next best thing is to give free and copious ventilation during the night. Wheaever possible utilize the heating pipes to keep down mildew by coating them with lime and sulphur. I often think it must be useless and un- necessary to urge attention to matters, the importance of which all practical rose-growers concede and understand, and yet I have long since discovered that it is not lack of knowledge that in a ma- jority of cases gets us into trouble, but neglect, putting off uatil to-morrow what we should have done to-day. Some of the places I have known that were noto- rious for disorder, mismanagement and lack of thrift were owned by men whose knowledge of plants, both practical and theoretical, could not be disputed. We see a few specks of mildew this morning as we cut the flowers, but we had other work planned for to-day, and as as it is not very bad we will leave it until to- morrow morning; well when we finally get ready to apply the sulphur we find to our astonishment that the few specks have entirely covered the house. Of course had we stopped to consider the matter we could have foretold exactly what would be the result of our neglect, so it does not always happen that the gaining of new ideas is the florists' great- est desideratum, but a suggestion that will lead us to act out the knowledge we already possess may prove of even|greater value. Robt. Simpson. Carnation Notts. I recommend wood ashes as a manure for carnations. My experiments with this material are very satisfactory on our soil. I have related already that I use it in the preparation of our bench soil, use it again to mix with the mulch and then we still use it in our liquid manure. I find it very efficient in liquid manures in connection with all kinds of stable ma- nures and bone. Prof. R. C. Kedzie says 162 The American Florist. Sept. ig^ in his paper "The chemical tripod in flori- culture," read before the Cleveland con- vention, "The mineral matter of a thou- sand dollars' worth of flowers and plants will be held in a bushel of wood ashes," and he places wood ashes at the head of manures. Now as efficient as I find ashes I would advise being very cautious that it is not used to excess. In some soils it may prove very beneficial, in others not so, and it is well touseitvery judiciously. This is especially the case in soils that contain much lime, as ashes contain much lime and such soils would not be benefited by it. When a soil becomes greenish on the surface it shows a deficiency in lime, and ashes will always act beneficially, although the most valuable part of wood ashes is the potash it contains. The liquid manure we use for most all plants, and esptcially tor the carnations, we prepare in the following manner: We have a tankwhich isdivided intwoparts, one about two-thirds smaller than the other. About two feet from the top the sections are connected by a two-inch pipe. In the small part we throw the manures and fill up about two-thirds with water, ard let it ferment. A steam pipe runs through this small tank, to warm the mass in cold weather to hasten fermenta- tion. When ready for use we fill up the tank entirely with water and stir it up well. To do this I use a one-inch pipe long enough to reach the bottom conve niently; to this pipe I attach the hose and stir up the ms ss in the tank with a stream of water, and fill the tank up at the same time. We are supplied by the city water- works, and the high pressure we have stirs up the mass to perfection. After this 30 minutes will be sufficient time to allow it to settle, and the clear liquid can be drawn off into the big tank ready for use. We keep this tank in operation and manage it in this way: When started once we add from time to time fresh material in small quantities. Wten theclear liquid is drawn oflf, we let the remaining stuff in the tank stand two or three days, when we again stir and fill it up, and draw off again. This we repeat two or three times, then add a new supply of fresh ma- terial and repeat the same process. When frebh material is added to the old it will ferment very quick, for the old is acting on the fresh like yeast. When the leached out matter accumulates too much we re- move a part of it. This gives us a con- stant supply of an even strength liquid manure. Now for the proportions of the diffierent ingredients that we generally use. When we add a fresh supply we take a bushel of clean cow manure, one peck of hen ma- nure, two or three shovels full of wood ashes, and about a shovel full of bone meal or horn shavings, or both together. This is what we generally use, but any- thing may be added in the shape of ma- nures desirable and soluble. To this liquid ready for use we add a few hand- fuls of common salt. I believe in a mix- ture of different manures; we are more able to supply the plant with the proper nourishment, for surely the plants will not take up one ingredient necessary to Us development at one time, and another one at another time. No, all should be there at the same time, ready for con- sumption; and this is best done in a liquid manure. We have this week lifted and housed the largest plants that have ever grown at our place, and they wereUncle John, some measuring 18 inches in diameter with from 60 to 80 well developed shoots. I believe in large plants; they are rather bulky for shipping, but when they can be had I prefer them to the smaller ones. In the first place I want a good founda- tion, especially if for early blooming, and next they are the healthiest, for second size plants, when not planted later, and smaller on that account, are always of the same age, and the largest plants surely possess the most vigor. Fred. Dorner. Chrysanthemum Notes. On the plants which set their crown buds too early or failed to set them at all the terminal buds are beginning to ap- pear. Those should be taken as early as possible. This bud when it first shows itself has clustered around it a number of smaller buds that sit so closely to it that it looks like a bunch, but the center one, which should always be selected, soon grows out of the cluster, and then the smaller buds can be easily rubbed out. This should be done as carefully as possi- ble, for the center is supported upon a very small tender stem and is easily broken off. On many of the plants now the lower leaves will turn brown and have a wilted look; especially is this so with plants that have been kept too wet; these should be removed and carried out of the house. The ventilators should be kept open at night and the plants allowed a'l the air possible both day and night. The wood hardens better and we have had better results from this course of treatment than when closing the ventilators too early in the season; especially is this so with the early varieties, for if they are subjected to much heat they do not come into bloom quite as early as those which are grown colder. The only explanation that we have heard given for this is that when the plants are grown warm they continue to grow and the wood remains soft and succulent, but when grown cool, it being the nature of the chrysanthemum to bloom during the cool weather after the summer, the wood ripens and hurries along the flower. The bush plants should now be housed and given a ni:e light airy bench. They are far safer in the house in such a place than out of doors, where an early frost might catch them, and if it does you may be sure that a large percentage of the flowers will come def)rmed. Under no circumstances place them in some dark corner or under other plants, or they will very quickly become drawn and lose their foliage, and the summer's work is thrown away. Eliiah A. Wood. Propagating Alternanthera. The following comes from "S. H." "When is the best time to propagate alternanthera in order to have a good color in the spring? My young stock of alternanthera is always green as grass in the spring." Very recently has appeared in your col- umns some hints about the propagating of these high colored little weeds. They can all be increased readily by lifting some plants from the beds before being injured by frost and either potted or a number of them planted in a box or flat. The beat colored one, paronyehioides major, is dif- ficult to winter, and a good way to keep a stock over winter is to propagate it in August or early September. Put the cut- tings in 2 or 3 inches of sandy soil; the? ivill root qu'ckly and are much best left in the flats till the following April, when they can be potted singly into 2 or 21 2-inch pots and placed in a hotbed, the only place to get a good growth in any alternanthera. When they are growing fast they will be green or a dull red, which is nothing but a sign of health, so don't grumble at that. When hot dry weather comes they soon color up. W. S. A Canna Excursion. The excursion of the Chicago Florists' Club to the establishment of J. C. Vaugban at Western Springs, as arranged f jr at the last meeting of the club, took place on Wednesday, the 16th. The train left the Union Depot at nooa with a party of twenty-five on board, be- ing accompanied by Mr. yaughan as host, assisted by Mr. Cropp. The attendance though not as large as might have been expected was creditable under the circum- stances, as the weather was threatening rain. Those who did attend enjoyed the trip heartily and were well repaid if for nothing else than the magnificent display ofcannas, the viewing and judgment as to merit of which formed the main object of the excursion. Among the visiting members of the craft were Mr. G. E. Hunt, son of thelate Myron A.HuntofTerre Haute, Mr. Lund- strom, Schenley Park, Pittsburg, and Mr. F. S. Allen of Joliet, the latter an enthusiastic devotee of floriculture of the class generally termed amateur, but which as a matter of fact is often fully as well posted on ornamental floriculture as any professional. The parks were repre- sented by Mr. Mahonv, superintendent of tbe West S de parks, Edwin A.Kanst.son ofsuperintendent of the South parks.Chas. Zibel of D juglas park and Max Kreppin of Humboldt park. Commercial growers and gardeners of private establishments, with a sprinkling of retailers and commis- sion men, made up the balance of the party. Arriving at Western Springs the party was welcomed by manager Wilson. After a preliminary view of the grounds the members entered the greenhouse shed, where mine host proceeded to do the honors with a most generous repast of both solid and liquid kinds. These were duly appreciated by the guests. The inner maa having been satisfied and the system well fortified against the effects of damp feet, we sallied forth to inspect the cannas. The party so on dispersed all over the fields, and ingroups of twos and threes, earnestly discussed the merits and demerits of the various sorts. Unfortu- nately the recent heavy rains partly ruined the gorgeous beds, but a couple of bright days havingintervened the blooms that had opened during this time were of exceptionally bright and fresh color, and on the whole the display was very fine. After about an hour's time spent among the cannas the party again met in the aforesaid greenhouse shed and proceded to discuss the subj -ct. This being a special meeting of the club all formalities were dispensed with, Mr. Chas Held acting as chairman, called the meeting to order. Mr. Edwin A. Kanst, being called on iSg6. The American Florist. 163 THE PERN HOUSE, LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO, AT DATE. for an opinion as to the merits of sorts for a general collection, named the followiDg as among the best, suitable fjr our climate, with this r,;serTation howevtr, that the sorts named were judged by their appearance as seen on the grounds at the present time. Oi gie.n leaved varieties, Chicago, Mme.Crozy, Florence Vatghan, Columbia, Vaughan's new yellow seed- ling No. 1; the above he considered the very test, but in a general collection he adds Alphonse Bouvier, Queen Charlotte, Midway, M. Mesnier, P. J. Berckmans, Mme. Alphonse Bouvier, Paul Marquant atd Gotave Miraleau. Of the bronze, Egandale, J. C. Vaughan, Gen. Dodds, J. D. Cabos, and Leonard Vaughan. Mr. Wilson being asked as to the merits of the new types as represented by Bur- bank and Icalia stated that for bedders these sorts are of no particular merit, since there is never more than two or three new flowers on the stem before the older ones are fided. la his opinion these varie- ties are most valuable either for cors r- vatory use orgrownforthtir bloom in the winter months. Both Messrs. Held and Pdlinsky were of the opinion that these varieties were just of the type suitable for commercial purposes grown as pot plants, the fine foliage and sturdy growth of the plants as well as the unusually large flowers making them specially valu- able for such purpcs!. The concensus of opinion was that with these two sorts to work with this type would soon be developed to prjduce varieties more florescent, and still retain the immense size of bloom. Mr. Chas. Z ibel of Douglas Park regards the following as among the best: Chicago, Leonard Vaughan, Midway, Eldorado, Florence Vaughan and J. W. Elliott. The following were recommended by Mr. Kanst as a beautiful combination, running from clear yellow into the yellow spotted varieties: Vaughan's Yellow No. 1, Eldorado, Florence Vaughan, and Vaughan's No. 19, all four sorts being of the Florence Vaughan type. Mr. F. S. Allen of Joliet considered Souvenir d'Antoine Crozy In his judg- ment, as the most effective for a large bed. The speaker further stated that to him it didn't matter much whether a variety was of tall growing or dwarf habit, as you could regulate the growth of your plants by the preparation of the soil, the richer the latter the taller the growth of the plants; in this, however we should also take account in setting the plants close together or farther apart, plants being set closely together will draw up to a greater height. Supt. Mahony disclaimed any knowl- edge of cannas, but would if confined to but one variety choose Chicago, and this by the way seemed to be the verdict of most of those present. Vaughan's new yellow was highly spoken of by all present; it certainly ap[);ars to good advantage, is of good haoit, fine foliage, and flowers very freely. The fame grower's No. 21, a seedling from Q ueen C harlotte, was also considered of gieat merit. The discussion as a whole was most interesting and instructive. A vote of thanks being tendered to Messrs. Vaughan, Wilson and Cropp for their genial hospitality the meeting adjourned amidst great good humor of all present, who heartily voted the trip as a great success. B. Defective Circulation. The last season we made some change in our piping (which has never been first- class) piping our two houses after the plan of A. L. Shriver, Hoopeston, 111., as described in Florist of March 21. But we find we cannot get good circulation in our pipes. We cannot go down deep enough with our boiler pit on account of striking water. Our boiler is in the cellar under office at north end of houses, (2 houses lSx50 foot); the boiler u set so that the top is on a level with the floorof greenhouses. The flows extend to middle of houses with a raise of 2 inches in 7 feet, then rise perpendicular to within 18 inches of ridge of house, have a fall of 2 or 2V2 inches in length of house, 50 feet. At south end the flow divides so as to supply returns under benches. The re- turns have a fall of 5 to 6 inches in length of house toward boiler. The returns are gathered into single 4inch pipes. The returns from the opposite side of the house where they enter a single pipe drop 164 The American Florist. Sept. /9, with an elbow to return, falling at bottom corner of boiler. The piping is all laid true; there are no dips or bumps in it, all rests were built to a line before the pipe was laid and from flow at north end of houses, which is highest place, falls all the way back to boiler. All pipe is 4-inch cast iron. In firing we do not seem to be able to get a circulation through the re- turns under benches. We have fired so that the 6ow was so hot we could not bear our hands on it, while the returns at north end of house where drooped under floor were scarcely warm. Have an ex- pansion tank connected to one of the re- turns just before it enters boiler. Tank is located 5 feet above highest point of flow. Flow is supplied with air cocks. Illinois. W.H.D. &Co. If W. H. D. & Co. will change their flow pipes so as to run up hill to the extreme end farthest from the boiler, then drop into the returns, giving these a steady fall back to the end, and there allow them to drop direct into the boikr without any traps, or other impediments to circula- tion, I think their trouble will cease, but I think they would have a much better circulation if they carried two flows to the end and returned as now through six pipes. It is scarcely commou sense to think that any 4-inch pipe can feed six with sufficient volume of hot water to give out the desired heat. The pipes leaving the boiler should also be of larger size to get the best possible circulation. John N. May. Heating Capacity of Boiler. Will you please tell an interested voung florist, through the columns of the American Florist, how many fett of glass a return tubular boiler, 16 feet long and 54 irchcs across, 60 horse power, presumably, will heat by steam to anight temperature of not less than 60°, where tbe wind has a clean sweep from the northwest, and the outside temperature is likely to go down to 15° below zero? Also what kind of coal, anthracite or bituminous, is found to be the cheapest and most satisfactory to use? Young Florist- In reply to "Young Florist," would say that a return tubular boiler, 16 feet long, 54 inches in diameter, 60 horse power, should heat 15,000 square feet of glass, or six houses, 100 by 20 feet to a night temperature ot not less than 60°, with condilionsas described, namely an out- side tempt rature likely to go down to 15° below zero, and with wind having a clean sweep from the northwest. To heat thisamount of glass, the houses should be built tight and be well piped, and the boiltr set properly. You should have not less than filtten 1V4 inch pipes to each house. By having the boiler set properly, I mean having it put deep enough under ground to allow tbe condensed steam to ret urn to the boiler freely, and to have the chimney plenty large, both in height and diameter to insure a good strong draught. It is very important to have a large and free main flow. Do not try to feed tour or five pipes from one ol the same size. To do this work properly you should, of course have a good reliable night fire- man, so as not to leave the fires long on cold nights. During the coldest weather, the boiler would be pushed to its utmost to keep up the right temperature, and the tubes should be kept clean and free from soot. We have found anthracite coal to be the most generally satisfactory, not on ac- count of price, as it is not always the cheapest, but on account of itscleanliness. With bituminous or soft coal, the boiler tubes should be cleaned out at leastevery other day. In either case, whether anthracite or bituminous coal is ttsed,the tubes should be plenty large, not less than fjur inches in diameter, and when bitumin- ous coal is used, they should be even larger; from four and a halfto five inches. There are two sizes of anthracite coal which are best adapted to steam heating. These are pea and buckwheat. We prefer these to the larger sizes on account of cost. Of the two, pea gives the best results. If buckwheatis used, you should have a very strong draught, and even then you cannot obtain the same amount of work frotn the boikr as with pea. In using buckwheat, care should be taken to have the grate bars close enough together to prevent the coal falling through. They should at the most be not more than 5 16 of an inch apart. In some parts of tbe country, anthracitecoal may be more difficult to obtain than bituminous. In this case, if you use the soit coal, you should have a very high chimney so as to carry the soot away from the houses. In the spring and fall when the ventilators are open more or less, the soot from soft coal is liable to fall upon the flowers and plants and thus do them considerable damage. Around Philadelphia where the temper- ature rarely falls below zero, the same boiler would heat 4,000 or 5,000 square feet more glass. John Burton. Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. If the apparatus is properly set, chimney of ample size to give a perfect draught, main steam pipes properly covered where not needed for heating, circulation pipes in the houses so laid that there are no water traps requiring high pressure to make steam circulate and with tbe houses in good condition the boiler will heat 20,000 feet of glass and still have some reserve power. Of course a great deal depends on the stoker. A man who un- derstands firing and who keeps his flues and boiler tubes perfectly clean will make a good deal more steam with his boiler than will the ordinary greenhouse hands. For steam heating the bituminous coal will be found the most satisfactory and also the cheapest, but to in-ure the best results from it there must be perfect draught. Alex Montgomery. Natick, Mass. Providing said boiler has a fair propor- tion of grate surface and good free draught with corresponding height of chimney, in short, if the boiler is well set and in good condition and kept clean, there certainly ought not to be any diffi- culty in making it heat bv steam at a minimum of 60° 18,000 to 20,000 feet of glass very easily with very moderate fires, and if the tubes are not less than 3 inches in diameter, bituminous coal can be used equally as well as anthracite; if the proportionate price of the soft coal is very much in its favor, then I should advise using it. Tbe principal objection to its use with most people is that the fire needs more attention to keep a steady supply of steam, and the fluesmore clean- ing than with hard coal. The proportionate value of anthracite over bituminous coal is very hard to estimate without knowing just what class of both are easily obtainable, as both classes of coal vary in value greatly even from mines within a few miles of each other, but in a general way with soft coal at $2.00 per ton and hard coal at $4.00 their relative value mav be con- sidered as about equal for producing steam, that is counting the extra labor required, stoking, cleaning tubes, handling additional bulk of coal, etc. With many there is one other consideration about the use of soft coal, namely extra smoke and corresponding amount of soot flying around the greenhouses and other nearby buildings. In many places this is a serious objection. John N. May. Summit, N. J. I should not recommend a greater amount than from 25,000 to 30,000 feet as a limit. Furthermore, as a measure of safety I would prefer two thirty-horse- power boilers to one sixty horse. Not that the danger of serious accident is great, but when these things do come they almost invariably come at the time of greatest need for all your heating capacity. Should an accident happen then to one boiler, it can be shut off and the other serves to keep frost out till repairs can be made. As to the most economical fuel, I prefer bituminous coal, unless the anthracite can be procured at not more than 35% per ton excess price over the bituminous. Twentj-five per cent, of this is for greater heating efE:iency, and ten per cent, for cleanliness and freedom from smoke. Adam Graham. Boston. During the past week a large quantity of rain has fallen in this section and be- tween times damp foggy weather has been the rule, so that asters, cannas, lilies and such outdoor bloom have been badly used up and it is only the sunflow- ers, marigolds and the like which are tough enough to withstand any amount of abuse that are left to make the gardens bright. This shortens up the available stock for fljrists' everyday use and starts a little activity in indoor grown flowers. One garden flower that every florist who grows outdoor stock for his own use needs is Althjea totus-albus. This little gem, whose value to the florist is not yet generally known blooms when but a few inches in height, flowering pro- fusely from midsummer until hard frost. The flower is single, pure white, of good substance and either in bud or full bloom makes up effectively in any kind of short- stemmed design work. White Japan lilies are grown more ex- tensively every year as commercial cut flowers. Some growers give them pro- tection from the weather and it pays, for the bloom is of richer texture, clearer white and the pollen stains which are sure to follow exposure to dew or rain are avoided. These lilies are much used here even in the choicest combinations for baskets and funeral work. Last Saturday's show at Horticultural Hall was a meagre one from a floral standpoint. A well flowered specimen in tub of crape myrtle from Wm. Martin, a few dahlias and some handsome celosias were the principal contributions, the rain having ruined outdoor flowers so that the expected display of hardy perennials was an impossibility. But the fruit and vegetable department was very full and attractive. It is expected that Mr. Emil Mische of the St. Louis Botanic Garden, who has been studying in the Arnold Arboretum through the summer will read a paper before the Gardeners' and Florists' Club at its October meeting. In Boston, L. C. Bobbink and Julius Roehrs, Rutherford, N. J. i8g6. The American Florist. 165 VIEW IN THE HERBACEOUS GARDEN. LINCOLN PARK. CHICAGO Philadelphia. The meetinp of the Horticultural Soci- ety held last Tuesday evening had a snap and go to it that was quite refreshing. It was the first n eating since June last, the society having at that time decided not to meet again until September. The D-ihlia Society, who were to have held an exhibition in conjunction with the society at this lime weie obliged on account of dry weather to postpone their show until a week later, when they will hold it on their own account in St. George's Hall, ISth and Aich street, on September 22, 23 and 24. The rainy weather of the past few days has had a wonderful tffect on this flower, and there promises to bea full and beautiful display. Mr. Peacock, Atco, N. J., filled a table with dahlias and gave in a colled ion of 40 varieties some idea of what his exhibit at the dahlia show will be like. All the fl >wers were of good form and color, and being nicely arranged attracted considerable no- licelrom the members present. Acommit- tee was appointed to examine them, and awarded a certificate ot merit. The particular feature of the evening was the adoption of a new code of by- laws. Some of the merely ornamental committees were dropped and others authorized that will carry out the work of the society. These by-laws had been coming up trom time to time, but when once they were taken hold of they were pu^ through with a rush. Trade is not picking up much as yet; there are plenty of fljwers at almost any price. Much of the stock offered is too good to be sold at a sacrifice, but what the dealer cannot sell the dealer will not buy, so the preliminary work of the grower offers little reward. Violets are coming in, but have little but their fra- grance to recommend them. The seedsmen are all busy, the bulbs having arrived mostly in good condition. The Harrisii lilies from Bermuda are not as good as they m'ght be, and some sizes are all sold out already. There seems to be such a desire to get them on the mar- ket to catch the early sales that quanti- ties are packed before they are properly cured and dried, and when the shipment arrived many heated boxes are to be found. The big new range at Dreer's is nearly completed; a change from the original plan of ventilating the house has been made. The Rochfjrd system was to have been adopted and one house was fitted with an improved form of this machine, but after a trial it was not considered sat- isfactory , and the Evan's Challenge, which has worked so well on the other one-acre range, is now being put into the new one. The outside grounds since the rains are now at their best, and make a beaufiful show. K. New York. Trade has been disappointingly dull for several days. No good reason is apparent but the fact is indisputable. The rapid increase in the product of cut flowers has added to the demoralization, and as to prices, there are none that may be called stable or representative. The quantity of roses being recti ved is already very large, even American Beauty, which one week ago seemed in short supply, being at present badly overstocked with possi- ble prices for extra stock ranging down in the third-rate neighborhood. Of asters and carnations there is an enormous sur- plus, carnations although mainly of out- door growth being of good quality on an average but bringing low prices, with a prospect of a continuance of same until asters are out of the way, at least. Then there are rumors of very early chrysan- themum crops in several localities, which serve to make the prospects somewhat disappointing for the rose and carnation growers, who know from experience that while chrysanthemums last remunerative returns are seldom in sight. The first violets, both single and double, are in market and are particularly good for the season. The first meeting of the Florists' Club this season was held on Monday evening, 1-tth inst. The attendance was much larger than usual, there being some fifty or sixty members present. S.'cretary Young announced that owing to a de- plorable accident to Mrs. Allen, President Allen would not be present and ex-Presi- dent Jas. Dean was selected to preside. Mr. Withers reported for the committee on fall show that it appeared unwise and impracticable to attempt anything more this year than a hearty co-operation indi- vidually in the exhibition of the American Institute which would take placeat Mad- ison Square Garden in October. The secretary exhibited the diplomas and medal awarded to theclub at the World's Fair, which had been recently received and was instructed to have them framed and hung on the club room walls. A vote of thanks was recorded in favor of all who had in any way contributed to the success of the exhibition held in conjunc- tion with the Gardeners' Society last June at the Newsboys' Home. 166 The American Florist. Sept. /p, On the tables were some vases of fine canoas. Mr. Withers showed a spike of flowers of Austria and described its good points, its value also being endorsed by Mr. O'Mara. From Siebrecht & Wadley came Mrs. Fairman Rogers and Colum- bia, and W. A. Manda exhibited two seedlings named Robert Christie and Manda's Ideal, which appeared to be re- markably free flowering varieties, also a golden-foliagcd Salvia splendens. The rules of the club regarding exhibition of new varieties and methods of making awards on same were criticised by Mr. Donlan and defended by Mr. O'Mara. Quite a canna discussion was thereby precipitated which threatened to occupy the entire evening but it finally came to a close and after a vote of sympathy with President Allen and his family had been unanimously passed, the lecturer of the evening, Mr. Grove P. Rawson of Elmira, was introduced and given acordial recep- tion. Mr. Rawson's subject was "The Florist and his Trade." He talked for an hour and a half, the first twenty minutes being a sort of analysis of the florist's business, its characteristics, development and pos- sibilities. He favored education of the public horticulturally as the best means of benefiting trade, attracting public at- tention and arousing interest through the medium of the press, and defined luck in business as a combination of energy, foresight and opportunity, all of which must be supplemented by fair dealing, the quality of a man's work being the best guage of his talent. The balance of the address was mainly a string of anecdotes whose humor was presumed to be height- ened by mimicry of the peculiarities of ex- pression of German, Irish or negro speech, and which were supposed to illustrate the various vexations, impositions and pernicious practices from which the florist and his business suffer. Church fairs, crape pullers, charity beggars, insurance adjustors and intemperance were de- nounced, and jealousies, bad accounts, water rates and coal bills complained of; plant auctions, commission men, babies and pug dogs were deprecated; plant novelties, newspaper inaccuracies, gar- deners' employers, the New York carna- tion banquet and women as customers were held up to ridicule and even S. A. F. finances did not escape in the general round up. Mr. Rawson was tendered a vote of thanks. Over at West Hoboken last Tuesday was organized the North Hudson County Florists' Bowling Club. Its objective point is Providence in August, 1897, and Its ambition is first prize at that event. For practice the club will be divided into two teams, one of married men, the other of single men, Mr. Chas. Deitz being cap- tain of the former and Mr. Paul Fischer of the latter. The first meeting is set for Saturday night, 19th inst. The list of essavs and lectures delivered before the N. Y. Florists' Club during the year 1895 has been printed and distrib- uted to the membtrs. It contains in full the following paoers: Disease of Lilium Harrisii, by F. K. Pierson; Propagation of carnations, C. W. Ward; Some factors influencing the health of plants under glass. Prof. B. T. Galloway; Cannas, J. I. Donlan; Orchid culture and hjbridization, R. M. Grey; The S. A. F. c invention at Pittsburg, P. O'Mara; The progressive development of plants, Leonard Barron; Communion with the saints, C. L. Allen; also a list of the club members. Mrs. Chas. H.Allen sustained a fracture of the limb, caused by falling down a flight of stairs at her home in Floral Park on last Monday morning. Julian Slaughter of Madison, N. J., was married to Miss Anna Pickering of Bridge- pott. Conn., on September 8, under cir- cumstances unusual and romant'c in the highest degree. J. L. Schiller has been given the sole agency of a big Hamburg house for the sale of lily of the valley. John G. Esler had his injured finger amputated on September 10. The Gardeners' Club held a large and enthusiastic meeting on Saturday, Sept. 12, their being about 60 members present. A. Dimmork arrived on September 12 per steamer fimbria from England. Julius Roehrs and L. C. Bobbink have gone to Boston on a visit. Peter Devoy & Son aie sending fine double violets to John Y'oun?. Mrs. H. Kuhl of West Hoboken died September 16, aged fifty-one. Mrs. Emily Peot, daughter of Chas. Keller, died in Brooklyn September 6, aged 37. Visiting New York: W. Atlee Burpee, Philadelohia; Wm. Falconer, Pittsburg; G. L. (irant, Chicago; W. A. Barry, Rochester, N. Y. Buffalo. That week of rain and cold did drive a good many people home, and thecolumns in our Sunday papers devoted to the doings of "Sassiety" have lots to tell of weddings just past and weddings to come, and all other kinds of recreation. The weddings announced, although most likely intensely interesting to the con- tracting parties, have caused little excite- ment in the trade. They are not of the first magnitude. Buffalo has four good sized conventions this week, chief among them the New York Democratic state convention. We expect the hair of the tiger to stand straight up and the fur to fly generally. I hope among the thousands of visitors many will see the necessity of presenting each other with bouquets. It's been quite a fad here lately to present our sec- ond-class ball players with a basket of flowers. We ought to encourage the use of flowers anywhere and every where, and yet there are occasions when you blush to see them used. A pound of good plug tobacco would be better relished by the average ball player. Roses are coming in much better in quality and quantity. The first pick of new crop carnations has appeared. I don't think there will be the glut of carnations that usually occurs in October and November, for our growers are having to lift them early and without buds, so there won't be that useless lot of stuff dumped on the market. Mr. Edw. I. Mepsted, so many years well known in our city, has accepted a position with Mr. Charles Scrim of Ottawa, Canada. Mr. Fred Leurs of Lock port and Mr. Wheeler, manager of the Red Rock rose houses, were were in town last week. A very short visit to the Botanic Gar- den recently was two hours well spent. We found the professor in his usual placid state of mind, which is wonderful, consid- ering that he is just recovering from a recent visit of the army worm. They came suddenly, quickly got in their work and disappeared entirely in this part of the country. Their sudden collapse is a mystery, but although the professor at- taches little importance tothecoincidence they disappeared shortly after the publi- cation of the Chicago platform. A botanic garden is the place to study genera, spe- cies and varieties, not to see displays of our popular bedding plants, and a vast number of our native plants as well as hardy generas from "foreign parts" are there. The aquatic pond has been a rev- elation to many thousands, and will spread a taste for these beautiful plants in many homes. You can see acres of cannas, and although there is no attempt at formal flower gardening Mr. Cowell has large blocks of our best known hardy annuals, which in their general effect are grand. There is much heavy work yet to he done, and just as well for the commun- ity at large that it is yet to be done. It means work, the mainspring to all our prosperity, but there is enough completed already to make it the bright spot of our eity. Much as I am proud of our parks and know their beauty there is no view in all the system so commanding or pic- turesque as the view from Limestone Ridge. While the ordinary run of green- house plants is but a small feature, Mr. Cowell knows that visitors appreciate bright colors in winter time, when the color of the grass is "invisible green," and most marked among greenhouse plants is a few hundred cyclamen. They were sown last November and are now in 7 and Sinch pots, with a hundred buds in sight and many more to come. It may interest some readers to say that they have been plunged outside during sum- mer in ashes and shaded only a few hours each day. After being dropped for two years as a judge at the Toronto Fair I was again honored this ^ear. What a fair it is! There is nothing like it on this continent, at least that part north of the Gulf of Mexico. One hundred thousand people there on the Monday that Li Hung Chang attended. Your humble servant had the honor to lunch and talk with Lord Aber- deen, the GDvernor-General. He is tall, well built, with a full black beard, an ath- lete, speaks with a most finished Oxford accent, and is just as plain a man as any of the boys. We tried to see more of the Toronto men than we did, but we saw little George Vair was there with his silk hat, looking the nobleman that he is. Mr. Ewing was just as genial and pleas- ant as usual, but we had far too short an interview with the intellectual man who signs himself "E." The fact of the matter is our wives were along, and they had a string on us; if not for that we could have been more with the boys. Everybody asks "How can Toronto have suchafair? why can't we?" I answer by tellingthem to read Mark Twain's "Survival of the fittest." W. S. Omaha, Neb. There has been no material changes in the trade since last reports. The quality of stock is improving steadily and the demand is about equal to the supply of good first-class stock. Roses are $3, white carnations are bringmg $1. Asters are quite plentiful and sell for from $1 to $2 Hess & Swoboda have opened up a branch store at 115 S. 16th street. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Stewart spent a few days visiting friends and relatives in Lin- coln, Neb., the early part of the month. A. Donaghue has gone to the mountains and the Pacific coast for an indefinite length of time. Mr. Donaghue's health has been failing for some time and his physicians advised him to absent himself from active business until winter opens up. The floral display at the Nebraska State Fair for 1S96 has excelled all previous exhibits. The large teuton the west was required and then one exhibitor was com- pelled to retire to the horticultural build- i8g6. The American Florist. 167 THE MAIN PARTERRE, LINCOLN PARK. CHICAGO ing on the north with his display. The addition to the floral hall which was pro- posed last year did not materalizj, but there is strong talk of it again this year, which we hope will result in something more than talk. Both quality and quan- tity are far ahead of the exhibit for 1895. Chapin Bros, of Liccoln are represented in the horticultural building with a large collection of palms, pleasantly mingled in with the long rows of plates containing the fruit. This firm also has a large col- lection of potted begonias, carnations, roses, ferns and geraniums. In the plants they were awarded two first premiums, feven seconds, and two thirds. Their floral piece was a large harp. Paul B. Floth of this city has a large collection of palms, thirty-six different varieties and sixty-five distinct varieties of ferns and selaginellas, forming an exhibit by themselves. His plants are his principal exhibit, only a few cutflowers being stea. He was awarded on plants five first, orizes, eight seconds and two thirds. With the cut flowers shown Mr. F.oth secured second onpansiesand third on asters. Lewis Henderson's display consisted of cut flowers and floral work only. His design rock of ages took first. He also took first on collection of cut flowers, second on roses, three of a kind; third on pansies, first on carnations and first on floral wreath. J. W. & E. E. Arnold, also of Omaha, exhibited cut flowers and floral viork only. The principle feature of their dis- play was their design, a hook and ladder, securing third premium. Tbev were also awarded second on gladiolus, first on geraniums, second on collection of cut fljwers, second on basket of cut flowers, third on floral wreath and threes onds on bouquets. E. C. Erfling has a large collection of plants in the tent and floral hall also. His plants secured three first, one second and three third premiums. With the cut flowers he got fourth on general collec- tion and third on gladiolus and gera- n utns. Peterson Bros., of Omaha have a large collection of palms and foliage plants in the floral hall. They have thirty -two diff'erent varieties of palms in their exhibit. Their plants were awarded four first, two sfcond and four third premiums; in cut flowers, one first, four third and fourth on design, which was a large cross. R. H. Davey of Omaha makes a spe- cialty of cacti and aloe plants, of which he has a large stock numbering something over 300 plants, aside from a good collec- tiyn of palms. He secured first on collec- tion of bulbous plants, pair of baskets, collection of aloes and cacti and second on five specimens of aloe and cacti. Dr. Roberts of Creighton, Neb., also a cacti and aloe specialist, has 400 different varieties in his exhibit, several very rare plants being noticeable, in fact the only ones in the state. He was awarded second on general collection of aloe and cacti and first on fine specimen of same. In the tent Ben Haas is found occupy- ing the most prominent position and almost two-thirds of the entire space. His palms and foliage plants are arranged in the center of the space and have the advantage of location; about 600 plants in number. Mr. Haas secured <'our first, one second, and one third premium on plants and five first and three second on cut flowers and designs. G. R. H. Toronto, Now that the exhibition is over we shall probably see a continuation for a few weeks of the dull times that existed previously. For the last two weeks the city has been simply over-run with visitors, many of them Americans and there has been a fair amount of business doing in the cue flower line, though noth- ing very startling, the majority being agriculturists who take more stock in fat cattle, big mangold wurzel and such like articles. The exhibition itself has been an immense success this year as regards attendance, which to a large extent is attributable to fine weather and Li Hung Chang. On Monday the 7th the attend- ance was about 115,000. Next year we are to have bigger things still — a Domin- ion affair — during the stay of the British Association, whose annual meeting will be held here. The show of cut flowers which opened on Tuesday the 8th, was very good, and a decided improvement was seen over that of former years, the flowers in the majority of cases were of better quality and were set up in better style, and in a suitable building would have made a strik- ing show. The present horticultural building is clumsy, heavy, badly arranged and so hot and close that cut flowers wilt and look seedy in a very short time. Have not the Gardeners' and Florists' Association and the Horticultural Society combined, enough influence to impressthe exhibition directors with the necessity for a new and more suitable building? Cannas owing to recent rains and wind did not show up to their advantage, but the gladiolus were very fine and in great quantity. Of sweet peas there was also a large and first-class exhibit, an ama- teur sweet pea specialist (Mr. Uttley) taking first prize with vases of almost every variety in cultivation. By far the prettiest exhibits of sweet peas were those shown with their own green. A magnifi- cent bowl of water lilies was a great attraction; the name of the exhibitor did not appear. Annuals, hardy herbaceous phlox, dahlias, verbenas, petunias, mari- golds, zinnias, asters, stocks, etc., were there in great profusion and of very good quality. Roses were shown by the big growers and were very good for the time of year. Beauties were especially fine. Designs were as good as they make them, grand and showed great good taste. And here I will take the opportunity to say that when my deathnoticeappears it will bear the legend "No pillows," although there are even worse things than pillows, a floral lawn-mower or spade and hoe intertwined for instance. •'Great Scott" of Buffalo acted as judge in the cut flower class and gave universal satisfaction. But it is curious how flo- rists get on to a judge's style, a florist took me round before the judging was done and said "That pillow will take first, that wreath will get there, he will give that basket first" and so on. Mr. Scott's style, however, is very tasty and good though in my humble opinion a lit- tle inclined to be heavy with too many flowers. Mr. S. has so many friends to see in Toronto that he finds it impossible to do justice to all of them, and I much regret that I was unable to give him more than Chinese salutation (how old are you). Mr. T. Clayton and son also of Buffalo were at the show and of course Messrs. E. Townsend and F. G. Foster of Hamilton. And there were others. Now for the chrysanthemum show. E. Correction. In auction advertisement of Edward Hatch in issue of September 12 the ad- dress should read "15 Province street" instead of Providence street. 168 The American Florist. Sept. ig^ San Francisco. The trade in this city during the past few weeks has been the poorest that we have ever known. Asters, which in for- mer years have always held up pretty well, could be bought for 3 cents a dozen. The market was completely glutted with them, and they could not be disposed of at any price. Amaryllis are nearly all over. They were quite plentiful this sea- son, and for several weeks back sold fairly well. Roses are in little demand, and the stock of thera as a general rule is very poor. Perle seems to be about the best rose we see these days. Beauties are scarce and very small. The same may be said of Caroline Testout. Kaiserin is the best white rose coming in. In lilies aura- tums and rubrums have been very plenti- ful, and have bad a fair sale. They are about past now. Sweet peas are past, with the exception of a few late plant- ings, which one sees once in a while. They are away "off color" at this late season, and also the form is nearly com- pletely lost. We note some early chrys- anthemums coming along. About the earliest of all are the Mrs. J. G. Whilldin and Mme. L. Cassagneau, which arenow in bloom fmposed of Mr. A. Cfun and Alfrod Parkir, who will c in- tinue the biT i e s ; s hereti fore. Mr. John Jacks, w ho f>r several vears hasbein with the Sut set Seed ard Pant Co. at Menlo Park, ha" resigned his pos'- tion and is at rresent in San Frpnci^co. Mr. J"hn McLaren, super'rt-ndei t of Golden Gite P-irk, who has b en spend- ing his vacation at Lake Tahoe, has re- tuTed to the city. J. H. Schloessler & Co. have opened a floncr store at 314 Sutter strfihow in O t')ber. They have added roan\ valuable ptizesto the prtfissional classes to induce the growers t > comp°te. We anrource with sorrow the death of Mr. A. Cox. the founder of the well- known Cox S ed and Plant Co. of this city. O' late years owing to old age Mr. Cox has not taken the interest in thefced business which characteriz-d him in the €arly days. Mr, Cox was possesse<} of a perfect knowledge of the business which he pursued, and to the efforts of him and the firm of which he was a member can be attributed much of the success which has led to the development of the seed business on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Lester L. Morse of Santa Clara was a visitor in town this week. At M. Lynch's nurseries at Menlo Park the foreman, Mr. Kenneth Murray, late of Diyton, 0., is busily engaged in re- planting the rose houses. Mermet has been discarded at this place in favor of Bridesmaid, They are also largely plant- ing Kaiserin. Brides and Testouts are also standard sorts at this nursery. The replanting of the carnation houses was also going on. Scott and Portia are the chief sorts grown here. The chrysanthe- mums are looking splendidly now. We found a house planted with Bonnaffon, Queen and Dailledouze. The chrysanthe- mums growing outdoors are also in sp'endid condition. There are about 32,000 chrysanthemums planted at this establishment this season, chiefly of the standard sorts. The growers have nearly all received their bulbs by this time, and are all busily engaged in planting them. Owing to the low prices of hlies last season the growers have not bought as heavily as formerly. A visit to Coop & Seelig's place at Sin Carlos shows their large stock looking in excellent condition. Th years ago. has paid every year; 9 tiouses. 14 OWl ft ot Blass. built :i years, steam heat, flue stock tor winter trade, roses, carnations, "mums.smllax and general stock of pot plants. wag*tania borlM>iii<'a, tr nch pots, flue 9.0(1 TO.W Areca ruL*ra. 5 Inch puts, extra flue ti 00 Pln»'ni»c and Prltchardia fllifera, -Vin. puts tine plants t'l.CO Cocos VVeddeli-ina and Oeononia g:rat'lli8, for center pieces, extra fine plants 4,00 Keiitia i*e'mor»'aua and Forsteriaiia from $2 00 each up. ISoiivardia Hutu oldtii, .Vtnch pots. pure white y UU Kri<''t pr;fstau8( pure white. D-Inch pots, in full bluum HOG 45.00 Erica prjfstans. extra well shaped U.OU Araucaria exceLsa, ti and T-lnch pots. well shaped IS 00 Arauoarn. excelsa, l«rKe plants 24.00 Arauraria glauoa, (1 and T-lnch pots, frumjl .5Uto$.i 110 each A'wi'Ss Ijc:»i«sid.a.Xj:e3, Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, I (Stiitiun [1.1 PHILADELPHIA, PA. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. W.4RI>, Msr. QUEENS, L. I., N. V. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Geraniums. ^Viole^t!». MARIE LOUISE, fine, healthy field-grown plants $4 per 100. Cash with order. CHAS. L. DOLE, Lockport, N. Y. Per UICI CARNATIONS, lield- grown plants. Write for prices. VINCA MAJOR, extra strong $6 00 CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS(Umbrella plant), 4!^-ineh pots lO 00 CYPERUS ALTERNIF0LIUS,2 in.pots 3 00 C. LENGENFELDER, Oakley and Cosgrove Avenues. • CHICAGO. 170 The American Florist. Sept. yp, fLisiiE Mmmmtm ^'mmm Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Colunin, $14.00, Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent; 13 times, 10 per cent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The AdvertlslDK Department of the American Florist Is for FloristB, Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember It. Orders lor less than one-hall inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday tose- cure Insertion in the Issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Cbicago. Business in the city is at a standstill, the only activity noticed being in ship ping orders, which are inadequate to dis- pose of the quantity of material coming in. Prices show a slightly falling tend- ency this week, the result of the large quantity of stock coming in. In roses there is a glut of short-stemmed Beauties, and prices are depressed on better stock by them. Large teas are selling from $1 to $3, the latter price being quoted for good shipping stock, but the poorer go for unquotable prices. Ali the fakirs who have been selling fruit all summer are now going into the flower business again. Dahlias have now made their appear- ance, chiefly yellow and red; they sell for 15 cents a bunch of one dozen. Very good asters are seen. Gladiolus are over- plentiful, and sell very slowly for $2 a hun- dred . It is the general opinion that trade this summer is very much less than last year. Walter Kreitling has moved from his old location on Wabash avenue to 10 Van Buren street, near Michigan avenue, where he will have improved business facilities. John O'Connor, known in local trade circles as "Wire John," who has been with the firm of Kennicott for some ten years, has now severed his connection with that house, and will hereafter be found at 59 Wabash avenue, where he has secured space with the Illinois Cut Flower Co. On Wednesday the Florists' Club was invited by Mr. J. C. Vaughan to visit his place at Western Springs, with the pur- pose of viewing the cannas there. About twenty-five guests availed themselves of this invitation, and a very agreeable afternoon was spent there, of which a full report appears elsewhere in this issue. Visiting Chicago: E. E. Shed, Val- paraiso, Ind.; Geo. E. Hunt, Terre Haute, Ind. Catalogues Received. H. F. Michell, Philadelphia, bulbs; W. Baylor Hartland, Cork, Ireland, daflfodils; same, tulips; C. H. Joosten, New York, bulbs, plants, etc.; J. W. Austin, Pilot Point, Texas.nursery stock; W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J., bulbs, seeds and plants; Haage & Schmidt, Erfurt, Ger- many, bulbs and flower roots; Vilmorin Andrieux & Co., Paris, France, seeds and bulbs; Schlegel & Fottler, Boston, Mass., bulbs. Sander & Co., Bruges, Belgium, azaleas, araucarias, bayp, palms, etc.; John Peed & Sons, West Norwood, London, Eng- land, bulbs and tubers, etc.; James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, London, England, bulbs; E. H. Krelage & Son, Haarlem, Holland, bulbs; J. H. H. Bojrd, Cagle, Tenn., tree seeds. ^^lyyKpr NEW HARDY FERNS, 1896 Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER 1000 FROM NOW UNTIL DECKMBEK 1st. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. Ii. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. All First-Class, Strong FIELD- GROWN STOCK. p,,,oo Anemone Japonica Alba $5.00 " Japonica Rubra 5.00 Whirlwind 5.00 Clematis Davidiana, 2 years 8.00 Day Lily, white and yellow 5.00 Eulalia Jap. Varlegata and Gracllllma 3.00 Hollyhocks, separate colors 6.00 Hibiscus Crimson Eye 3.00 Iris Germanica 1.50 Yucca Filamenfosa, 2 year 8.00 VICK & HILL CO., I«t>f liestfr, :iv. "V. The New York Cut Flower Go. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733. I8th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton. Mass. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, .M^ ST. PAUL, MINN. CUT FLOWERS, WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, FIELD CARNATIONS. Bought and Sold. SOME BARGAINS ON HAND. Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. "^^e: tire gji-o-w-iiij*: 15,000 ROSES for ovil: t>looiTL3.. Shall be glad to correspond with parties wish- ing Daily, aemi, Tri oi Weekly Shipments. GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. CARNATIONS, ''°"' '^y^^^-^^i^-^^°^.^~- or 840.00 per 1000. strong plants, 85.00 per 100, FERNS, ADIANTUMCUNEATUM.2^ in. pots I, 85 per 100. .') in. S8, 4 in. 81.5, b-in. 825 PTERIS TREMULA, 2!.;-inch pots, $5 per 100, 3 inch 88, -i-inch 815, 5- inch 820. VIOLETS, field-grown. 85 per 100; 810 per 1000. Good stock. Cash with order. HENRY A. NIEMEYER, Erie, Pa. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please m'-tition the Ameri< CAN Florist. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, (ilVK MK \UI,K OKnKK.S. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of attention i:lven to the shipping: trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED F. WINTERSON. Mgr. CHICAGO. Mention this paper. ILLINOIS GUT FLOWER CO. .1 |{. I) KAMI' I). Ulcr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CMICA.GVO. Manufacturers of Wire Work, C. A. KUEHN. Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, ^ ST. LOUIS, MO. fWA complete line of Wire Ueni^nfi. H. L SUNOERBRUGH. Wholf salt' Floribi UTH AND WALNUT Streets. OJxs.olx:ixxca'tJ« O. DAN'L B. LONG. FLOWERS AT WHOUESflLE. strictly Commission Business. Supplies. Etc. diiccai /-» ki vr i^isTsFBBK. BUFFALO, N. Y. Mention American Florist. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market* Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A. & F. ROLKER. Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 4 I08 Liberty Street (Basementl. CUT SMILAX, JOSEPH E. BONSALL. 308 Garfield Ave., Salem, 0. i8g6. The American Florist. 171 CUT FLOWERS E. H. HUNT, Wholesale Plorist 68 Lake Streei, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BTTI.BS AND AI.Ii FI.OBISTS' S17PFI.IES. KENNICOTT BROS. GO. Wliol6sal6 Gut) Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue. CHICAGO. WIRE WORK A SPKC1AI,TV. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO. It you want FIrst-ClasB Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you will Ret what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS in 88 Wabash Avenue, M OMICA.OO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can All all orders on short notice wlili all leaning; varlelles of Koees and Carnations. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERI TAN BEAUTIES Give UB atrial and convince yourself Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, » CHICA.OO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60., Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. .^ CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEtUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS, 88 Wabasfi Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Cons'smmentBBOllclted Prnmot attention to Hlinrdem, WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET, NearTremontSt., BOSTON, MASS. ©yftofeAaPe Marfter*. Cut Flowers. NEW YORK. Sept. P.. Roses. Beauty, extra ii.noai.i.OO common 2.00i" .',.1)1) Meteor, Testout 1.00* :i-0() Kalserln, Bride. Bridesmaid 1.00(" ii.lKI all other varieties .50(012.00 Carnations, ordinary 15(3 ■'■^^ fancy 50fii 1. 00 Valley 3.00(" 4.00 AHters -i',^ ..',0 lihullolus .W® 1.00 Adlantum 60 @ 1.00 AsparaKUS JO.OOw'.'iO.OO Smllax in.00a fancy joa 1.00 Valley 400 Asters : 25fe* .50 Gladiolus 2.00 Tuberoses .50 Adlanium 1 .00 Smllax 10.00(sl2.00 Asparagus 50.00 PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 111. Roses Roautle« ll.OOS H.OO Brides. Bridesmaid, La Franceetc.. . 2,lloa 4.00 '• Kalserln 3.00® 4.00 ■, small teas 1.00® 2 00 Cumalion. 40® .75 Sweet peas 20f''. .25 Smllax I>.00er 100 Per 1 000 Per 30OO iKoiitla Kor8teriaiia..SI.K »10.00 »i.(KI We t korilersnow for the Plant Novell les: Mosella Roses: Canna Austria and Italia. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of 81000 cash I for ONE PI.AITX each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. I The offer was refused, a g^reater price being asked. Price now on application. , NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative j purposes. SI 50 per 12; 810 per 100, from 2>^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. OSCAR KNOPFF&CO. SEED GROWERS, Sole Apent for the United States anil Cnnada: M. RUTTENAU. 15 to 25 Whitehall St.. New York. Trade Catnli'i-'iies and ewtlniates eheorfully furnished. Orders proniptly tilled direct from nursenesat Krfurt. Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 25 cents; per hundred, S20.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per tliousand, 8*.i 00; per ten thousand. $IS CH. KOEHLER, Oxiord Church P. , Phila . Pa. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist. 173 gf* -C-W H.ELLI& • -' - -'-^ •C.C. POLLWORTM: YOU NEED THESE NOW LOOK OVER THIS LIST. Per 100 Plants Large. Small IVORY SIO.OO $8.00 ALASKA 8.00 6.00 McCOWAN 8.00 6. GO DAVSREAK 8.00 6.00 ROSE (^UEEN 8.00 6.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 8.00 6.O0 GOLDFINCH 8.00 6.00 SILVER SPRAY 8.00 6.00 WM. SCOTT 8.00 6.00 Per 100 Plants, Large. BRIDESMAID $8.O0 PORTIA 8.00 METEOR 8.00 TRIUMPH 12.00 TIDAL WAVE 8.00 GARFIELD 8.00 BUTTERCUP 8.00 HINZE'S WHITE 8.00 ALBERTINI 8.00 Small S6.00 6 00 6.00 10.00 CHRYSANTHEMUM PLANTS. These are fine, bu^hy, well shaped plants, and only the best varieties are offered, including IVORY. MUTUAL FRIEND, MINERVA. CLINTON CHALFANT. MAJOR BONNAFFON, LINCOLN, ACHILLES, VI VI ANO-MOREL, All g:oo cents e.tcli. CONSTELLATION, Etc., Etc. CYCLAMEN PLANTS-Grcwn from best strain of setd, 3-inch pots, $10.00; 4 inch pots, $15.C0; 5-inch pots, $25.00 per ion. VIOI FX PI A NTS Large bushy clumps, field-grown, f 5 00 per 100; j;40.00 per 1000. ''''-^*-'— ' ' L/ll^ lO Pot-grown, 3;4-inch, $7.C0 per 100; 4 inch, $7.50 per 100. UMBRELLA PLANTS— 4-inch, |10 per lOD. AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII-> inch, |1 25 per dozen. DRAC/ENA INDIVISA— 4 inch, large plants, $1 50 per dozen; 510.00 per 100. Fine and large crop &f Roses and Carnations in all varieties are coming in. Also violets. You can safely entrust all your Cut Flower orders to us. WE LEAD in Wire Work, both in wotkiinnship and price. Send for our list. ELLIS & POLLWORTH, Box 75, Milwaukee, Wis. Siebrecht & Wadley's PALMS, FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N. Y. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 'SURE CROP 33 V Special prices ' un application MUSHROOM SPAWN. LILIUM HARRISII. DUTCH BULBS. FbOKlSTS" FboWER S-KEDS. Seed Merchants and Growers. 114 Chambers St., NEW YORK. WEEBER & DON, ♦ ♦ ♦ X ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ I ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ T"v DRHER'S Garden Seeds, (Plants, Bulbs & Requisites. I They are the best at the / lowest prices. Trade List la- ' sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. H£NRT A. DBEEB. PhUadelphl», Fa. Always mention American Florist. BULBS for FORGING and Gardening, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD TIMES PRICES. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood. N. J. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. PRIMULA SEED. This Year's Crop, Now Ready. Our Huperb mixture contains unlr the choicest fringed strains, and will give the ereatest satlafactioD. Trade pkt. 50c* Cineraria Seed. Our strains are unsurpassed for rtcliness of color as well as for size and perfection of form. Trade pkt. 50c. HERRMANN'S SEED STORE, 473 E. 3^tTH STREET, Near Long Island Feny, NEW YORK. Agent for LYSOL. the ideal insecticide. Burki's New yellow Marau6rit6 ETOILE DE LYON. 25 Rooted CutiiiiKs f"r *1.00, by mail. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. \VHOI,KSAi.K KT.OHIST. WAIVTEI) for lash. 4 pounds Seed Clara Bedman Dwarf Salvia. 4 ozs. Japanese and Chinese Chrysanthemum Seed. V. H. HALLOCK & SON, Queens, N. Y. PRIMROSES. PerlOO 2000 PRIMROSKS, mixed, 2',i inch pots . .$ 2.50 500 CARNATIONS, field-grown 6.00 1000 CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 5 and 6-in. pots 15 00 2.5 000 PANSY PLANTS. ... per 1000 84,00, 6D PANSY SEED, oil per hundred. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, SI 110 per IniDdred. MISS P. A. BAKER. MEDIA, PA. Unexcelled Carnation Plants. All the lea break. Kuse t,>iieen. Scott, McrluwHi). etc., extra Btrunfct. healthy, stock, $;').W). MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, IH.m- L. E. MARQUISEE, Syracuse, N. Y. I MARIE LOUISH. SWANI.EV WHITE, ( and the C/AR, Strong field-grown plants. Ntver had disease in my stock. «4 50 per 100. miO 00 per 1000 E. McNALLY, Anchorage. Ky. VIOLETS FIELD GROWN CARNATIONS SPLENDID STOCK FOR FALL PLANTING. BRIDESMAID DIAZ ALBERTINI E. A. WOOD PER 100 ....$,S 00 .... 7 00 .... 7 00 6 00 6 00 6 00 .... 8 00 SHIPMEN PEACHBLOW PORTIA RAMONA, tine dark red PER 100 ...|6 00 ... 5 00 6 00 HELEN KELLER MRS. FISHER SYLPHIDE, variegated. Free hloomer ... 6 00 MRS. REYNOLDS METEOR READY FOR IMMEDIATE TIDAL WAVE WM. SCOTT T. TERMS: Cash with order. .... 6 00 .... 7 00 FOREST CITY GREENHOUSES, ROCKFORD, ILL. 4 Acres Field-Grown Carnation Plants, 96,000. Our Carnations are grown with the greatest care. Free from disease and packed light by our improved system of packing, by which we can send them to all parts of the United States and Canada in perfect condition. DEAN HOLE STORM KING BRIDESMAID %\..i\ per dozen. *^s,(ni per liundre*!. HELEN KELLER ADELAIDE KRESKEN ADA 8VRON BRIDE OF ERLESCOURT DAYBREAK UNCLE JOHN *l.',*.i i»er ilu/en. H'> INl per hundred. L. L. LAMBORN LIZZIE McCOWAN GRACE WILDER GARFIELD SILVER SPRAY TIDAL WAVE WM. SCOTT HINZE-S WHITE ROSALIND i^l-INl per do/.en. i^vlNl per hundred. s^l,'> («i per thousand. BUTTERCUP NICHOLSON ALBERTINI SWEETBRIER MRS. CARNEGIE PORTIA PURITAN Special Offer. PHCENIX RECLINATA, $S oo per 1000; J22.50 per 5,000; genuine variety troni Natal. LILIUM LONGIFLORUM (Japanese) 6 to S in. $22 50 per 1000. cash with order. SCHWAKE SEED CO. (Inc.) 404 East 34th St., NEW YORK. CYCAS. FICUS. FERNS. A large stock of CYCAS, all sizes iu leaf, from 25c, 50c, 75c up to $"5.00 each, for fine trunks with splendid heads of perfect leaves. FiCUS, fine plants iu 4 and 5-inch pots, from 9 to VZ leaves. 86 00 per dozen; 6 to 8 leaves, 4 inch pots, $4 50 per dozen. The grand new Sword Fern NEPHROLEPIS CORDA- 1A COMPACTA. fine plants, 4 and 5 inch pots, PH. 00 per dozen; 3-inch pots. 83.00 per dozen; 2;2-inch pots, f2 25 per dozen. NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA. 3-inch pots, 8150 per dozen; very fine plants, 4-inch pots 82.40 per dozen. NEPHROLEPIS PECTINATA (Dwarf Sword Fern), li'-iiich pots, 81-0 per dozen. lOHN e. HEINL i> SON. Ttrrt Haute. Ind. AZALEAS , PALMS, tlie finest conimercial varieties. large, liealtliv stock, well grown. ABAUCABIAS , BAY TBEES, trom Cuttings only. PALMS AND FERNS. GEO. WITTBOLD, The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. 1703 N. Halsted St.. CHICAGO Mention American KlorlHt. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. WE ARE NOW READY TO SHIP. SKNI) KOU I'KICIC I.IS'I'. J. A. TRACHT & SON, Gallon, O. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri- can Florist. perfect shape, in all sizes. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOCK. 106 & I08 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. Mention AmerlCAn Florist PLANTING STOCK NOW READY. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS. Healthy pot-growu slock. 2J^-inch 82.2.5 per 1U1; 820.00 per 1000 4-inch 5.00 per 100; 40.00 per 1000 RISLEY FLATS SMILAX. S.-i.50 per 100; 830 00 per 101)0. i')0 at 1000 rate. Samples on application. Field-grown Carnations, Bulbs, Pansy Seed, etc. Send for lists. DAN'L B. LONG, ft^^^^. C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stocks. Catalogues on application. CINERARIAS. CINERARIAS. lOO.OOO We are the largest growers in the country. ttur slock is all grown from seed saved from the best and most showy plants, taking First Prize wherever exhibited. ■i'l-lnrli isa.r.o per 100: »20.00 per 1000. S. WHITTON & SONS. Wholesale Florists. «;ltv anil n ,St8.. UTICA, N. V. Please mention the American Florist :very time you write to an advertiser. iSg6. The American Florist. 175 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. GOOD BRIDESMAID lUiETEOR ST 1st size. RU5 S CO. OCK. er IIXI Per ll«l ts.Ull....-,'ii(ttl/,e. *.'j.l«l ,s.(w •• J.UH STORM KING UNCLE JOHN THE STUART c A WOOD .. . ■• ."i.im all sold nil siilo S.llO.... •■ a.lXI S (K) " GOLDFINCH " 5.0U DIAZ ALBERTINI H.Ul.... •■ 5.10 H.OU ... •■ .>,IK) 8.00. ... " 5.(]ll H.OO.... NO F. DORNER & SON >T. , La Fayette. Ind. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS GOOD STOCK. NO RUST. I'er 100 DAYBREAK S5.00 WM. SCOTT S.OO NANCY HANKS 5.00 LIZZIE McCOWAN 5.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 5.00 PORTIA S.OO MRS. FISHER 4.00 Terms cash with order. ROGERS PARK FLORAL CO. 41 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. Field-Grown CARNATIONS New and Standard Varieties. ■tt^Send for price I,ist. H. Weber & Sons, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MD. 25,000 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS S5.00 PER HUNDRED. Fisher, Rose Queen, Daybreak, Portia, Hector. FRED. BURKI, BELLEVUE, PA. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Good medium sized plants, at a low price. OOLDKINCU 1 HINZES WHITE i C'HBSTBR PRIDE POKTIA I UKACE WILDER ! At WIO per IIH. PRES. GARKIKLD I I,. L LAMBORN l.I/.ZIE McOOWAN I SILVER SPRAV I WILLIAMS & SONS CO.. Batavia. III. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. SILVER SPRAY, LIZZIE McGOWAN, DAYBREAK, and other leading varieties. Strong, liealthy plants, $A 03 per 100. D. M. REICHARD, St. Joseph, Mo. Field Carnations. Fine healthv plants In splendid condition, at $.'>.C4I per IWl. Cash Kith order. WM. SCOTT, TIDAL WAVE, pink. BRIDE OF BRLBSCODRT, and ALASKA, white. Small plants of DEAN HOLE, yellow, and STORM KING, white, at N.INI. B:^-Speclal prices on large lots. Address J. F. KLIMMER, Oak Park, 111. CARNATIONS SCOTT and DAYIiREAK, tield-grown. well budded, healthy plants. $;') (10 per UKI; * (0 per 1000. Cash with order. Would exchange same lor palms. CEO. MUNICH. Batavia. N. Y. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. FIELD=QROWN CARNATIONS. LARGE STOCK OF SPLENDID PLANTS. The weather here has been very favorable for Carnation plants, and our stock this season is in extra tine condition. Order early to avoid disappointment. Terms, cash with order. I \//^ D Y Our New White Seedling is sure to be a winner. Pure white, large size, 1 V v_y rv I and for productiveness about 16 to i with any other white. Large plants Smaller plants produ Large plants Smaller plants Per 100 Per 100 IVORY $10 00 J8.00 ALA'-K\ 8.00 6.00 McGOWAN. ... .... B.OO DAYBREAK 8.00 S.OO RO-iE QUEEN 8.00 6.00 LIZZIE GILBERT BOO GOLDFINCH 8 00 6.00 SILVER SPRAY Per 100 . t 8.00 Per 100 to 00 WM. SCOTT . . . . 8.00 6.00 BRIDESMAID . . PORTIA . . . METEOR. TRIUMPH (new pi jk). . . 8,00 . . 800 . . 8.00 . . 12.00 6.00 6.00 10 00 GEO. HANDOCK & SON. Grand Haven, Mich. CARNATIONS, ''l\^o^,N. PER 100 Alaska $10.00 Delia Fox 10.00 Ivory 10.00 Daybreak 8.00 Dean Hole 8.00 Helen Keller 8.00 Kohinoor 8.00 Lizzie Gilbert 8.00 GREENHOUSES, WESTERN SPRINIiS. ILL. PER 100 Lizzie McGowan $8.00 Minnie Cook 8.00 Portia 8.00 Rose Queen 8.00 Silver Spray 8.00 Tidal Wave 8.00 William Scott 8.00 YflUGHftN'S SEED STORE. 84 & 86 RANDOLPH STREET. CHICAGO. LARGE FIELD-GROWN BLOOMING P»r 100 PORTIA $4.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 4.00 TIDAL WAVE 4.00 SILVER SPRAY 4.00 REINBERG BROS., CARNATIONS. ~ '"" Per 100 MRS. FISHER $4.00 STORM KING 4.0O NANCY HANKS 4.00 51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. CARNATIONS Very fine field-grown planis of the following varieties: Uncle John, Puritan, Storm King, Helen Keller, Scott, Tidal Wave, Bridesmaid, Borner, Stuart. Meteor, Daybreak, Albertini at $5.00, $7.50 and $10.00 per 100, according to size. The smaller sizes are strong plants. Samples sent at same price. W. J. & M. S. VESEY, 90 Thompson Ave., FT. WAYNE, IND. . CARNATIONS -Field-Grown. LjirKe and Healthy. l*er 100 LIZZIE McGOWaN $4 00 SILVER SPRAY 4 00 WM. SCOTT 5 00 DAYBREAK ,5 00 Also a limited number of Portia at. . . 4 00 Sweetbrier, Uncle John and E. A. Wood at . ,5 00 C.\SH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. DAYTON. 0. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. B.Ktra strong Pcott. Daybrenk. Hose (.'ueen, Meteor, Stunu King and McCjOwati. Also MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS AH the above mentioned at J;'>perliiu. Cash with order. LOUIS A. GUILLAUME. East Onondaga. N. Y. I have in the field 30,000 fine stocky LIZZIE McGOWAN CARNATIONS, The best White for winter. 20,CO0 1 plant myself, 10 000 I offer at ?5 50 per 100, or |30 00 per lOOO. H. SCHILLER, Niles Center, III. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. CARISIATIUNS Large healthy field-grown plants. None better. Ist elze. 2nd size. SCOTT Ifr UO $:">.1X1 DAYBREAK 7.00 5.00 DIAZ ALBBRTINI 7.00 5.0U MLVEH SPRAY 7.00 5.00 PdUTlA T.UO 6.00 UARFIELI) 7.00 5.00 URACE WILDER 7.00 5.0CJ DRAC/ENA INDIVISA-$10,U(I, worth M).00. In 4-Inch, ready for a shut A snap for the price. Must sell to make room. Cush wltn order. Samples If desired. FRANK BERRY, Stillwater, Minn. CARNATIONS Most varieties ready to plant NOW. 25,000 FIELD-GROWN PLANTS, Leading varieties. Write for prices. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids. Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CARNATIONS. SCOTT, ROSE QUEEN, STORM KING, Mc- GOWAN, 86.00 per 100. ELDORADO, $8.00 per 100. VIOLETS— Extra strong crowns, 4-inch pots, S-'i.CO iier 100. Cash with order, or C. O. D. GEO. E. FANCOURT, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1,000 SCOTT CARNATIONS. Ki,>l.l-'.;r.i\Mi, ;il t.'v(KI p.T IIKI. (I,,.,,! \,ilil.-. r.'ish uilh oniiT. HARMON, BURR & CO., Sawens, N. Y. 176 The American Florist. Sept. ig. St. Paul. Good stock is not over-plentiful. Roses are of fair quality, Beauties exceptionally fine. Carnations are very scarce. Asters plentiful, but in poor demand. The G. A. R. encampment the first of the month helped the trade somewhat. The dtmand for green wreathing was good, and those who had it to sell dis- posed of it readily at a fair figure. This week has been dark and rainy, and heat has been necessary nearly every night. The price of soft coal is less than last year, while hard coal is much higher. Carnations are about all housed, and those who force bulbs extensively are busy planting them. L. L. May & Co. are building two cool houses for azaleas and other E^sterstock. The annual meeiing of the Society of Minnesota Florists was held in the office of Aug. S.Swanson on Thursdayevening, September 10. The following cffictrs were elected for the ensuing vear: Aug. S. Swanson, president; Gust Malmquist, vice-president; R. W. Latham, secretary; E. Nagel, treasurer. The attendance at the meeting was small, but all present were enthusiastic in their desire to con- tince monthly meetings this year. The next meeting will be held in Minneapolis the second Thursday in Octobtr, the sub- j.ct for the evening to be carnations, their culture and sale. Callers lately were: The genial poet, J. Austin Shiw; J. Comont of London; S. B. Dicks of London; Geo. A. Kuhl of Pekin, III.; Martin Reukauf of Philadel- phia; Frank Mesenburg of St. Cloud, Minn. Felix. West Hoboken, N. J. Chas. Wache is planting his houses for the coming season. He will fill his seven- teen houses with Perle, Niphetos, Brides- maid and smilax. The latter has been quite a remunerative crop the last two seasons, for the reason that many florists do not grow It. Another place when roses and smilax are grown for the wholesale trade is that of T. Bomann. He has grown Wootton with much success, and found it quite salab'e. Kogge Bros., who do a local trade are preparing for the coming season. Their place is very neat and the plants all have a good healthy look. Several houses of Bride, Bridesmaid, Niphetos and Per|e just started look very well, the foliage is is so healthy. John Birnie's carnations are still enjoy- ing country air out on the farm at Secaueus. Mr. Birnie says "Carnations need plenty of good pure air and never do their best if planted in a field surrounded by bricks and mortar." He expects grand results this winter, for he never had such fine plants before. He is growing in quantity Lizzie McGowan, Scott and Daybreak. S. M. T. Convention opinions on MARS. The Florist: A very jjood thing. The Catalogue man ; How many lUUU can you plve me The Ladles: The sweetest thing In the hall. Our Own: You cannot do business without MARS In 1S97. Address the introducer. HENRY EICHHOLZ, WAYNESBORO, Franklin Co., PA. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, For Itecoratlnn and all Florist*" DeBlfins. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitcliell Co.. N. C. Always mention the American Flo rist when writing: to advertisers. HERR'S PANSIES. None better at any price; none cheaper at any price. Don't make the mistake of not buying them. Plants, $5.00 per 1000; 75c. per iOO. Lots of 2500 and over at reduced price. HERR'S CARNATIONS. Field-grown plants of Scott, Tidal Wave, McGowan, Cartledge, Keller and Stuart. Good plants at reasonable prices. r^. -^. -%»6. ALBERT M. HERR, Lancaster, Pa. PALMS IN DECORATIVE SIZES, CHEAP. The following Palms are in excellent condition and fit to send out at once. They are well-furnished, and measurements are taken above the pots, as the plants stand in a natural position. If ordered soon they can be safely shipped by Irt. Later, during cool weather, by expiessonly. (We have low special rates ) AKBCA LUTESCENS, single stem. 30 Inches hlirh. $1 (0 each: $111 (HI per dcizen. 3t; Inches hl^h. JI .")(J each r il.j tKJ per (iDzen. CYCAS KEVOr.UTA. Brand stock In all sizes. 1 KiK leaves !.'< Inches wlin hir.iP strorn stems $1.75 each; li to 8 leaves. 2 feet blKh, $2.50. and 8 to 12 leaves, 30 to HU Inches hlKh W.OOnndSo.OOeach. LATANIA BORBONICA, 15-18 inch. 25c each ; $2.25 per dozen; $18,00 per 10(). 24 Inches or over. $1. 00 encn; S12.0U per dozen. MARTINRZIA CARVOT.fCFOt,IA. 24 to .1(1 Inches. Jl.oOesch; $1,') 00 per d zen, OKEODOXA REGIA. ;!2 to 40 Inches :(.iceach; $:),,'iO per dozen; $23 [«l per 100 ;M> to 48 Inches 2 or .1 grown lonether, T.'ic each : $7-.'>0 p T dozen. PIIffiNI.X PUMILA. 30 to S-Un. $1 each; $10 per doz. PIUENl.Y RECLINATA, 21 to 30 In, 60c ench: SSperdoz, KUPICOIjA, l(;to20ln 40ceach; $4 perdoz. ■ 30 to 3i; In, $1 each; SIO perdoz. We pack In best manner, and you cannot make a mlstnke In trvlnj; some of our stock Send tiT caial -Kue of many other choice palms, etc REASONER BROS., ONECO, FLORIDA. ZIRNGIEBEL'S GIANT MARKET AND GIANT FANCY PANSIES are the Leading Strains up to date. Extra Large Size and Superb Colors. Liberal trade packets of either strain at ONE DOLLAR EACH racjena Indlvlaa. 2V4-lncu 2 50 Begonias, flowering In var.. 2!4-lDCh. ».ur seltcilun 2.50 Hex. ■• •■ 1 00 Cash with order. R. C of all gen'l slock at usual prices. Mention American Klorlm. F^CDI=? ^.A.i_E:. VIOLETS — Marie Louise, tine: large plants, at S5.uu per too. CARNATIONS — Lizzie McGowan, Daybreak and Wm. Scott, :it |5.co per luo. Addie s JOHN WELSH, 2833 N. Hoyne Ave., Station X, CHICACO. Roenier's Superb Giaut Prize Pansies— the finest strain of I'ausies iu the world — grower of all the leading novelties. Plants, by mail, per 100 75 cts. ) Sample rf plants " by express, per 1000 54.00 / and cut blooms Aq CAbH WITH ORDKR OR C. O. D. PETER BROWN, Lancaster, Pa. Mention Amerloan Florin. SURPLUS CARNATIONS. Silver Spray, Dayl>reak, Will. Scott, Portia, Mc(;owan, Mrs. Fislier, Puritan. Tidal Wave. Kxtra strong, healthy plants, 84.00 ana J5 00 per 100. SWAINSONA ticents. JAMES C. MURRAY. 401 Main Street, PEORIA, ILL. CARNATIONS. 2000 SCOTT and PORTIA, extra fine. Will cover the ground when set 12 in apart, at S5 per 100 2000 McGOWAN. medium, »3 00 per lOJ. All healthy. No rust. Packed light, and ship- ped at plant rates, from the best snipping point in New York State. CASH. J. E. ANGELL, WAVKKLV, Tioga Co., N. Y. Field-grown. Large & healthy ■ \ $5, a) per 100 25,000 CARNATIONS, LIZZIE McCOWAN t'idal'wave .....:;:;:::;;:;; :i**'*p"i'**'- CHOICE FERNS. From 2 Inch pote ip. per 100; 2^-lnch potB W per 100. Horan's Perfect CARNATION SUPPORT, Only perfect support on the market. Write lor circular and price. JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport. Conn. CARNATIONS Large, Healtliy, Field-Crown. Mrs. Fisher. Silver Spray. Daivbrenk, Tidal Wave and I'ortla. fc.uil per U«), cosh. A. R. ALDRICH, Floriit Springfied. 0. 200000 Giant Mixed Strong Pansy Sets WILL BE SOLD FOR MO.'.T NOTHING. L. T. SEAVER, No. Somerville, Mass. THE DIRECTORY For 18$)G # is Now Ready. Price $2.00. American Florist Co. i8g6. The Am eric ax Florist. 17' Des Moines, Iowa. Trade 19 not as lively as we could wish for, in fact an occasional funeral or wed- ding is all that one gets now. Carnations are being put into the housfs at a lively rate and some of us are nearly through. 'Mums are coming along finely. , W. L. Morris has overhauled part of his houses this season. A. Anderson is rebuilding his entire place, and putting in a new steam boiler. J. Ledig has a new florist at his place since August 31. She is quite small and will be of more service in sixteen or seven- teen years than at present. The state fair was held last week and the displav of fruit and flowers in Horti- cultural Hall was the finest in the history of the state. In the professional list of greenhouse plants Morris took first premium and Kollinson second. On design of natural fljwers, Fulmer took first on a floral urn and Morris second on a floral elephant. The amateur display of both house plants and cut flowers was exceptionally good. The State Horticultural Society has lost a valued member by the death of J. W. Wragg of Waukee, which occured the 4th of September. J. T. D. F. Malden, Mass. — Mischievous boys re- cently destroyed nearly fifteen hundred panes of glass in the greenhouses owned by J. F. Eaton on Salem street by throw- ing stones. Four boys have been ar- rested, the oldest not over 10 years of age. SHEEP MANURE 1 will furnish this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b. Mitchell, South Dakota: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED ... 75c. per 100 Terms cash in 30 days after date of ship- ment. Orders accompanied with cash, 10 per cent, discount WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA. H. BAYEKSDOKFEK & C0„ WHOLESALE FLORISTS' SUPPLIES ONLY, FHILABBLPHIA, FA. Onr new CJataloeae Is now ont, free npt?:^ application. Ad. IiIOE> «& 00. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOCUE NOW READY. John Conley & Son, Manafacturers of 2 AND 4. DOMINICK STREET, You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY'S Directory - FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN -SEEDSMEN UNITED STATES AND CANADA, ■ AND - REFERENCE BOOK, Contains the names and addresses of all the Florists, Nurserymen and Seedsmen in the United btates and Canada, arranged alphabetically in States and Provinces, the exact branch of the business each is engaged in being indicated by a Key. .A.XjSO A list of Trade Organizations, both National and Local, with names and addresses of prin- cipal officers, time and place of meetings and date of organization. Statistics regarding Floriculture, the Nursery Industry and Seed Growing from the last U. S. Census report. A list of firms in the trade that issue catalogues, with a key indicating the prominence of each branch of the trade in same. A list of leading Cemeteries in which attention is paid to Ornamental Horticulture. A list of leading Park Superintendents and of the Botanical Gardens of the United States. Seasonable Hints for the year about the practical work of the Florist, written by Wm. Scott, giving instructions not only when to do certain work, but how to do it most effectively and economically. A complete alphabetical list of Roses in commerce in America, brought up to date and of incalculable value for reference. Similar lists of Chrysanthemums, Carnations and Cannas. Historical sketches to date of the Society of American Florists, American Carnation Soci- ety, National Chrysanthemum Society of America, Florists' Hail Association, American Seed Trade Association and American Association of Nurserymen. A list of Leading Horticultural Societies. Full and accurate information about Express and Postage rates. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 DEARBORN ST., Ijohn c. CO. CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL 412 T<) 422 ^HAWTHORNE AV. ^CHICAGO, ILL OF ANY DESCRIPTION. SEND FOR CATALOCUE. GreenToii'seVuuo Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing. IS APPLIED WITH PUTIY BULB. One gallon (2(i lbs ) will ginze l.iUJii feet of glass (usts 9(.lcpergnllon, jOc per hill f-^ullun. Putty Bulbs T.'x'eaL'li. Satisfaction guarantepd. Kef erence— John Kogera. iireenlree Boro. I'a.; Hartnian Bros.. Alleghany. I'n \ Fred Burkl, Bellevue. I'a. Manufactured by T.H.NEVINCO., P.O. B. 958, Pittsburg. FUMIGATE WITH NIKOTEEN THE ESSENCE OF TOBACCO. It kills all insects and does not injure delicate blooms. Costs 12 cents to fumigate a hous-t 100x20 feet. If you cannot get it locally, write SKABCURA DIP CO., Station S, CHICAGO. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO., 13 Green St., U(JSTON, MASS. Ottice, 84 Hawley St. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. sizes 1^-lnch and 2-lnch, 12. Ou per luo. Patent fastener with each letter. With orders for 500 letters we give away a nicely stained and varnished box. See cut In next week's American florist. Our letter Is handled by all the wholesalers In Boston. A0ENT8: A. Rolker 4 Sons. New York: M. KIce & Co., 26 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; F. K. Mc- Allister, 22 Dey St., N. T.; H. Bayersdorfer i Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; A. D. Perry 4 Co., St Warren St., Syracuse. N. Y.; A. C. Kendal. 115 Ontario St., Cleve- land, O. ; B. H. Uunt, 79 Lake St., Chicago; Wisconsin Flower Exchange. Kil .Mason St., Milwaukee, Wis.; H. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts., Cincinnati. O.; T. W. Wood & Sons. i;th and Marshall Sts. Richmond. Va.; Jas. VIck's Sons. Rochester. N. V.; Dan'l B. Long, Bulfalo, N. Y.; C. A. Kuehn. St. Louis, Mo. ; Hunt- ington Seed Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; W. Klllson, 14U2 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo.; A. Ilerrman, 415 B. »4th St.. New York; Geo. A. Sutherland. tJ7 Brom- Held St.. Boston; Welch Bros.. No. lA Beacon St., Bos- ton; N. F. .McCarthy & Co.. 84 Hawley Street, Boston; The Uenry Phlllpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O., Walter A. Potter 4 Co.. Providence, K. I.; J. C. Vaughan, 26 Barclay St., New York. J. A. Simmers. Toronto. Ont.. Agent for Canada. Mention American Florist. WOOD LABELS .. AND .. Flower Slakes. BENJAMIN CHASE, Derry, N. H. THE FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. I'or Free Pamphlet, write to I.onsviiLK ■Spikit Cfkkd n ToB.iccoCo. |LouisviIIe,Ky Mention Aroerloan FIorlBt. 178 The American Florist. Sept ig. St. Louis. The Florist Club held its regular meet- ing Thursday afternoon; the attendance was not so good owing to its being very hot. The newly elected officers were at their stations, with President Kunz in the chair. The committee on chrysanthemum show reported everything favorable; the trustees were instructed to hold a meet- ing and have essays read at all the meet- ings hereafter. After the regular order of business the meeting adjourned until October 8. The cut flower trade is improving slowly. Everything is plentiful, with the exception of good carnations. Roses that come in now are good and can be bought in 1000 lots at $5. Beauties areallshort stems and sell at 5 cents. Carnations are still selling at $1. Asters bring $1, but are not good. Violets have made their appearance, but are small and not sala- ble. Smilax is scarce and in demand just now. Visitors in town last week were: A. L. Burnham, representing E. H. Hunt, Chi- cago, and F. S. White of the Cleveland Seed Co., Cape Vincent, N. Y. E. C. Buechel of the Riessen Floral Co. and Chas. G. Fleckenstein are back from Okawville. The Association of American Cemetery Superintendents met at the Planters' Hotel this city this week, 15, 16 and 17, and a very handsome and elaborate pro- gram for the three days' session has been issued. The address of welcome was de- livered by Mavor Walbridge, and R. Graham Frost was down for an address thesecond dav. Papers wereread onsuch subjects as "The cemetery as a work of art," "Advantages of nurseries and green- houses in cemeteries" and "A plea for the perpetual care of cemeteries." The asso- ciation will visit the various Ice il ceme- teries and parks, and enjoy a banquet at the Mercantile Club and a lunch at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The officers of the association are O. C. Simmonds, Chicago, president; Geo. W. Creesey, Sa- lem, Mass., vice-president; Frank Eurich, Toledo, O., secretary and treasurer. Monday night was the most enjoyable time we ever had at the Bowling Club, some 15 members rolling, the occasion being the birthday of our good friend John Young. All members were surprised as they came in — a large spread of refresh- ments and good cigars. Speeches were made by President Weber and Mr. Young. The visitors were Charles Hill and James Young, old time members of the club. They enjoyed themselves so much that they became regular members once more. After rolling three games Beneke was first with 617, Fillmore second, 576, and C. Beyer third, 520. The highest single score was by Fillmore, 225; Beyer and Beneke were a tie fjr second plac; with 214-. Oj a motion it was decided that alter this evfry member's birthday must be cele- brated in the sime manner, and every member of the club shall mail the date ot his birthday to the secretary of the club at once. J. J. B. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds ot Klower I'uts. etc. Maklnt.' ii Specliiliy <»! Florist Standard Pots Send for price Hf-t and sampleH (which will be eent free) and we know you wnl Klve iitj your order: I'. O, Box TS. Minneapolis, Jliiiii. J. G. SWAHN'S SONS, SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. For prlcOH, apply to GEO. W. HAMILTON, 176 Sidney St., Dorchetter. Msm. FAIRBANKS-GALVD steel. ECLIPSE-WOOD. ^^my^m MILLS FOR PUMPING. 7ft^ BOILERS f»« HEATING. VALVES. PIPE AND FITTINGS. FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO. Cor. Franklin & Monroe Sts., CHICAGO. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W, Randolph Street, CHICAGO. N flTURflL G3S Mm fi LflSS. FOR GREENHOUSES. ■Write ior l^t^st: pricses.. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. RRAuru u/ADcuniiccc* ^ Kearney aiul Westside Aves., .lerHey C'itv. N. *!. cnMinbn ¥V«HLnuuata. ; jack^ou Ave. and Pearson St., l.ons Island City, N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pofs should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. When wrltlnK mention the American Klorlet. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. * /^UR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- ^-^ faction. We call your attention to our new pots 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the '"Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO . SYRACUSE. N. Y. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this pa^e. You will benefit (he American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these column'^ i8g6. The American Florist. 179 Kroeschell Bros. Co. ian»«.c>"V":EJii> Greenhouse -Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAUO. Boilers made of the best of material, shell, firebox sheetB a.nd heads of stpel. water space all around ffront. sides and back .) Write fur Infurmatlon. CYPRESS IS MUCH MjORE DUIlA8i.E' THAN PINE. \SASH BARS UP Toi^Z FEET >H LENGTH or LOIifGER. GREENHOUSE AND 0T>;E R BUILDIN6 M ATERIAL. Sendifor our Illustrated BooK "CYPIIESJS LUMBERANofrsU^ES.' Send foJ^ur Special Greenhousfr^irculftr. L THE;^X STe&rfivs lymbef (o Wnen writinz mention the American florist -'"NEWDEPRRTURE," 'VENTILATING f\PPLI8NC&r' J. D. Carmody, Evansville, Ind. Dear Sir: — Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly. J. E. JACKSON, Gainesville, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for IllUBtrated Catalogue QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS, Kictimond, Ind. IMPROVED GLAZING! GASSER'S ZINC JOINTS Makes a roof Air and Water Tltrht. Nurn..l71 Bayersdorf er H & Co. . 177 Bennett N M WJ Berry F 1T6 BlancA iCo 1T2 Bobbins IjC 173 Bonsall .los E 17u Boston Letter Co 177 Braguel-B liO Brown P 17ti Buckbee H W 171 Burkl Fred 173 175 Carmody J D 17a Chadwlck Chas 175 Chase Benj 177 Coldwell Wilcox Co.... 17a Conley John A Son 177 Cottage (iardens la Cowen'B Son N 18IJ Crabb A Hunter 17y CunnlnKliam .J H 173 DeLamater Irun Wks.l7a DletschA&Co 17a Dillon JL 172 171 DoleCL 163 DomerFred &SonB Co. 175 DreerH A 173 Elclibolz H 17(i Elliott W 170 Elliott Wm & Sons. ...172 Bills & HollworiD 173 Fairbanks Morwe Co. . .178 Fan court lieo E 175 Flelscliman Ifja Gasser J .M ITa GuIIlaume LA 175 Gurney Heater C-o 170 HallAss'n 17a Hallock V H & Son. . . .173 Hamilton u W 178 Hancock&Son 175 Harmon. Burr& Co 175 HelnlJ G iSon 174 HerrAlbertM 176 Hermanns Seed Store. 173 Hews A U & Co 178 HlllBG&Co 173 HlppardB 17a HltcblDKS&Co 180 Hooker U M Co 178 Koran Edw o. 171 Horan J & Son 176 Hulsebosch Bros 173 HuntBH 171 Illinois Cut Flower Co. 170 Jennings E B 176 Joosten C U 174 Kennlcott Bros Co 171 KllmmerJ F 176 Knopf! 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JiWBrica is "the Fiz-jj af ths I/esseI; there mau be ir.ore comfort Piir.iiship-, b-^t a-e are the first la touch Unknown Seas,' ¥ol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 26, 1896. No. 434 f OillE ZAOilliliD^M) iFlL@lS[!@7 Copyright 1896, by American Florist Company, Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by The American florist CoMPAjry. 333 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription, 81.00 a year. To Europe, 82.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. ■.\f: Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Eastern Office : 67 Bromfleld St., Boston. This paper la a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chleanu Trade I'ress Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. WM Scott, Buffalo, president; Adam Graham. Cleveland. O . vice-president; W. J. Stewart. Bos- ton, secretary; H. B. BEATTY, Oil City, Pa , treasurer. Officers for ISitr.— adam Graha.m. rieve'and.o.. president: Farql'har Macrae. Providence. R. I., vice-president. Seci eta* y and treasurer as before. The thirteenth annual meeilng will be held at Prov- idence, K. I., August. 18Vr:, CONTENTS. Herbaceous plant notes 181 Propagating clematis 182 Sotrel 1S2 Roses — Notes ... 182 —At Tarrvtown, N. Y . . . . IkS Canna tieds at Washington Park (illus.) .... 18.3 Carnations— Notes 183 Heating capacity of boiler 181 Tight joints in pipes 181 Heating in mild latitudes 184 Boston ... . ... 185 Pond of hardy aquatics at Washington Park (illus ) 185 New York 186 Philadelphia 186 St . Louis Mixed planting, Washington Park (illus.) . Rochester, N. Y Cleveland Syracuse, N. Y Hagerstown, Md. . . Obituary— Wm. Robinson (with portrait) . San Francisco . . . Wash to protect plants from aphides . . . Chicago Worcester, Mass The seed trade . Seed report from California 192 Toronto 19t Pittsburg ... 196 Chambersburg, Pa 196 Sea Bright, N.J 198 Middletown, Pa 19S Gait. The sixth annaal exhibition of the Gait Hoi t cultural Society was held August 26—27. There was a slight iLcrease in entries, principally in the amateur class, and also an increase in admissions. A display of mounted wild flowers b3' Mr. Hcrriott was the great attraction. Messrs. Ivey and Hayes, from Brantford, were the judges. Walker & Co. have added one house. D. McGeorge. Herbaceous Plant Notes. The spring and summer flowering hardy plants are past, but the herbaceous bor- der looks as gay and bright as ever in the second half of September, and in a well arranged border we can see no flowerless patches of any size, the taller fall bloom- ing plants now have spread out and over- prown their dwarfer spring and summer flowering companions to such an extent as to almost hide them from view, but they are there, carpeting the ground with their dense green foliage, like the iberis, the subulata section of the phloxes, the asperula, the dwarf silenes, Alyssum saxatile compactum, etc., etc. Although we have a number of low dwarf plants in bloom now, the majority of our late bloomers are rather tall, and it is well that this is so, for this strong growth not only fifectually hides some of the more unsightly and half burned foliage of such things as the early campanulas, uvularias, ranunculus, spirteas, etc., which in their flowering line were gayly covered with bloom, but this taller growth also protects and furnishes par- tial shade to some of our tender shade- loving plants during our bright summer months. A patch of primulas is thus pro- tected by being interspersed with a few clumps of platycodons and some Aconi- tum autumnale. Trilliums are entirely overgrown with Lobtlia cardinalis and CimicifugarEcemosa; the platycodons are in fairly good condition yet, but are past their best, and the aconitums are just opening out to take their place. Mobt of the trillium leaves have perished by this lime, and the foliage of the Lobelia cardinalis, with its brilliant red spikes of flowers, and the taller cimicifuga, loaded with its pure white, painted racemes almost cover the ground entirely, keeping it cool for the doimant trilliums. Amongthedwarler plants nowin bloom we must mention the beautiful pink flow- ered Silene Schafta and also the pretty Lychnis semperflorens plenissima, which is still in finest conditions, although it has flowered continuously since June; Daphne Cneorum is flowering freely in some localities at this time of the year, and Campanula carpathica is still cov- ered with its blue or white bells. C. rotundifolia is sending up its fine wire- like flower stems, crowned with little blue flowers continuous! v, and the foliage covers the ground as effective as the fi>r- mer, only as it lies closer to the earth. Aster alpinus will not always flower as late as this, but this year it came out good with a second crop the latter part of August, and is now densely covered with large blue flowers, the whole plants not being over six inches high. Some of the helianthemums are still full of white or rosy flowers every day. A little taller, but nevertheless a ground carpeting plant, is the white flowering Polygonum cuspi- datum of dense and very compact growth with glossy dark, cordate foliage and a multitude of pure white flowers in little racemes, springing from the axils of the leaves and almost covering the bushes. The golden yellow CEnothera Youngiiand the white flowering CE.speciosa are good yet, and their dense growth covers large patches under Aster sibiricus and the blue Lobelia syphilitica, which has been in flower since the latter part of July, and is in first class condition now. Rud- beckia maxima is full of its large and last- ing flowers as late as this, also R. purpu- rea. Papaver nudicaule blooms well dur- ing September, and P. pilosum we have in good shape on the border, although the first blooms are past months ago. The bright colored Gaillardia grandiflora will last well until severe frost cuts it down in November. Seabiosaochroleuca is a mass of bloom planted among the pink and magenta Centranthus ruber, Lepachis pinnata has been sending up Its many branched flower stalks since early in August, and is now profusely covered with its uniquely shaped yellow flowers. Chrysocoma Linosyris is a mass of bloom all over the plants. Monarda didyma is blooming freely in moist places, Catanan- che coerulea and C. bicolor are both free flowering plants for dry places, also the light and the dark colored varieties of Linaria triornithophora, Epilobium ros- marinifolium has a mass of beautiful pink bloom yet, and we wonder where all the flowers come from on such a compara- tively small bush during the many months it is in bloom. Coreopsis lanceolata, C. grandiflora and the tallC. tiipteris are in fine shape where the old decayed flower- stems have been removed once or twice during the summer. Anthemis tinctoria and its variety A. Kelwayii do not stop their blooming until November, and the stately Galtonia candicans is better now than in the past hot months. Achillea ptarmica plena, the Pearl, has done well all summer and still keeps up its reputation as a fall bloomer where it was divided last spring; the old beds are past. Heucherasanguinea keeps on sending out new panicles of its beautiful flowers in profusion, and be- sides our native asters we may mention the superior A. Amellus bessarabicus with its large-sized blue flowersand the broad- leaved A. corymbosus, which has been in over a month ago and continues in good condition. The dark pinkish Saponaria caucasica plena deserves to be introduced largely everywhere, not only for its long and continuous flowering season, but also on accountof its charming and rare color. The tall Polygonum amplexicaule is very effective with its pink drooping spikelets ; it forms a large bush and requires plenty of room and rich ground to do it well. The pink Boltonia asteroides is no more than fully out now and when seen in large masses has no equal at this time of the year in the garden. B. latisquama: The American Florist. Sept. 26, will not be out for a w Dearborn St.. near Saratoga Hotel. Good location for tioiiat. OSTRANDER & BUEHL, \i' per month. Located In one of the best, prettiest and aristocratic cities of New England. Electric cars pass every three minutes, live minutes from poHtofflce; population UX) 000; large manufacturing Industries, colleges, etc.; one hour to Boston, and surrounded by a dozen or more cities, all within two or three hours by rail. No applications will be considered unless from responsible parties, or party with backing who means business. For further Information and views of the place correspond with THE LENOX SPRAYER CO , Pittsfield. Mass. Thoroughly experienced niakers-up; those who are accustomed to high- ckss work and decorations. Good wages to the right parties. FLEISCHMAN, Florist, HOFFMAN HOUSE. NEW YORK. Bids on two English Ivies, one is 50 feet long, 3 feet wide^ the other is 30 feet long and ly^ ft. wide. Address MORRIS FLORAL CO., Morris, III. FIXTURES WANTED. We desire to purchase Seed Case suitable for a seed store. The same must be in good condition and cheap. Full description with prices and photograph if possible is requested at once. HDNTINGTON k PAGE, Seelsien, Indianapolis, Ind, Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 25 cents; per hundred, 820.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, ^l.QO\ per ten thousand, $18. CH. KOEHLER, Oxford Church P. . Phila . Pa. CARNATIONS. We have a few thousand left, strong, healthy plants, very heavy. McGOWAN, SCOTT and DAYBREAK $5.00 per hundred. P. R. QUINLAN & CO., Syracuse, N. Y. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. KI.VE HEALTHY STOCK. Per 11)0 Per 1000 SILVER SPRAY So.OO «0.00 DAYBREAK 5.00 45 00 PORTIA 4 OO 85.00 GRACE WILDER 400 36 00 SCOTT 600 50.00 H. L. SUNDERBRUCH. 4th & Walnut Streets, CINCINNATI. 0. CARNATIONS. Alaska, McGowan, Daybreak, Tidal Wave, Scott. strong plants, free from rust, 85.00 per 100. Extra strong. $7.00 per 100. Samples at same price. G. VAN BOCHOVE & BRO., Carnation Growers, Kalamazoo, Mich. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in 2H-inch poks which I will sell at 82.00 per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. FERNS IN VARIETY. Tust the thing for this Fall. Well estab- lished in '2-inch pots. Adiantum from flats. CARNATIONS— Wm. Scott, Daybreak, But- tercup, Thos. Cartledge Kittie Clover, Eldo- rado, L. McGowan, strong plants from field. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Glenslde, Pa. All First-Class, Strong FIELD- GROWN STOCK. peMOO Anemone Japonica Alba $5.00 " Japonica Rubra 5.00 Whirlwind 5.00 Clematis Davidlana, 2 years 8.00 Day Lily, white and yellow 5.00 Eulalia Jap. Varlegataand Gracillima 3.00 Hollyhocks, separate colors 6.00 Hibiscus Crimson Eye 3.00 Iris Germanica 1.50 Yucca Filamentosa, 2 year 8.00 VICK & HILL CO., THE DIRECTORY FOR 1896 IS NOW READY. PRICE $2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 190 The American Florist. Sept. 26, ITiiiii l!k^mmi§im lFiL@@i!@f Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, 10 Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Column, S14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Gnaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent; 13 times, to percent; 26 times, 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising Department of the American Florist Is tor Florists. Seedsmen, and dealers in T7area pertaining to those lines ONLY. Please to remember It. Orders for less than one-half inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure Insertion in the issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Chicago. There is no change in the market this week. City trade is practically dead; nothing is doing, and the store men buy very cautiously. Shipping trade is a lit- tle better, but there is a great glut of roses, and the poorer stock goes at wretched prices, while even good material brings very little. General rose stock sells for $1 to $3, the latter beine the best. Fair average stock is $2. White carnations are a little scarce, and the de- mand for them is better, owing to a slight slackening in the supply of asters. These, like other outdoor flowers, have suflfered from rain and cold. The fine white asters, Semple's strain, are still held at $1 50, colored $1. This season the dark purple has sold better than lav- ender, a change from usual conditions. Dahlias are coming in rather more, but are not specially plentiful, and there are few whites. Some few straggling bunches of cosmos have been seen, but it is not really in yet. Gladiolus are about over, with no great regret. Tuberoses are very good, and sell for $4 to $5. Valley has sold better the past week, and is still held at $4. The new violet house at Bassett & Washburn's is now finished and planted, and by the middle of next week the new carnation house is to be ready for plant- ing. Mr. Chas. H. Allen of Floral Park, N. Y., was in the city this week, also Mr. Geo. Leadley of Detroit and Mr.W. Mott of Philadelphia. Worcester, Mass. Trade is just recovering from its sum- mer dullness, and though the recovery is slow it is encouraging; several large funeral orders have helped us out lately. The fall palm and fern trade is beginning to pick tip and indicationsgenerally point to a very fair business this winter. Car- nations are all housed and are looking very good, about one-third as many more than were grown last year and more fancy varieties than usual. Although we have not had a frost yet everything is being housed as rapidly as possible. At the weeklv exhibition, S.ptember 17, a fine display of nymphseas, which excited a great dial of admiration, was shown by Carl Blomberg, No. EiSton, Mass. Among the exhibit were some of Mr. Blomberg's seedlings, the most noticea- ble being N. Anna C.Ames (zanzibarensisx zanzibarensis rosea) and N. Eastoniensis. Following are some of the most striking varieties shown; N. Marliacea Candida, N. purpurata. N. scutifolia, N. odorata sulphurea, N. Robinsoniana, N. rubra, N. Devoniensis, N. gracilis, N. z inzibarensis and N. z. rosea. A. H. L. NEW HARDY FERNS, 1896 Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 7Sc PER IDOO FROM NOW UNTIL DECEMHEK 1st. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. OOHPUTEUNt^OfSUPPUfi The New York Gut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24tli Street, Telephone 733. 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brigliton, Mass. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventti Street, JMm. ST. PAUL, MINN. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE COMMISSION * FLORIST. 88 WABASH AVENUE, Consignmints Solicited. CHICAGO. PRIMROSES. Per 100 •2O0O PRIMROSES, mixed, i'/i inch pots. . . $ 2.50 500 CARN.\TIONS, field grown 6.00 lOOO CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 5 and Bin. pots 15 00 25 GOO PANSY PLANTS. . . . per 1000 81.00, 60 PANSY SEED, \i oz. 82 00; oz. 8S 50 to close out. Cash with ouukk 1'i.eask. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. PADMATinM? ROSE QUEEN field-grown. UAnllA I lUnO. strong plants, 85.00 per 100, or SiOMO per 1000. CCDM? ADIANTUMCUNEATUM,2}^ in. pots rLnllO* 86 per 100, 3 in. 88. 4 in. 815, 5-in. 82.5, PTERIS TREMULA, 2M-inch pots, 85 per 100, 3 inch 88, •1-inch 815, 5- inch 820. VIOLETS, field-grown. 85 per 100; 810 per 100(1. <^~,ood stock. Cash with order. HENRY A, NIEMEYER, Erie, Pa. Always mention the American Flo RisT when writing to advertisers. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, « GIVE ME iK,Kii OUIIEKS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of attention given to the eiilpplng trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED F. WINTERSON, Mgr. CHICAGO. Mention this paper. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER CO. .1 ]!. DEAMUI), Msr. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CMIC.A.CiO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINB STREET, ^^m- ST. LOUIS, MO. lyA complete line of Wire DeHig^nn. H. L. SUNDERBRUGH, Wholesale Florist 4th AND WALNUT STREETS CSJKi.oltr»natl, O* DAN'L B. LONG, FLOWERS f\T WttOLESftLE. strictly Commission Business. StTPPLIES, ETC. raiim=AI/~> Kl V LISTS FBKE. BUFFALO, N. Y. Mention American Florist. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market & Cheatnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 4 108 Liberty Street illnnenientl. CUT SMILAX, JOSEPH E. BONSALL, 308 Garfield Ave., Salem, i8g6. The American Florist. 191 E. H. HUNT. WHOLESaLfiPLORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BUIiBS Ain> Alili FIiOBISTS' SUFFI.IES KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. Wliol6sal6 Gut Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 85 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIRE WORK A SPKCIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St., CHICAGO. If yon want Flrst-ClaBO Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send ub your orders and you will get what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRIT E US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. ^isB^ CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, .^ CMICA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBEBG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF GUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all orders on short notice with all leadlnK varieties of Roses and Carnations. We ARE Headquarters lor fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give 118 a trial and convince yourself- Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, » CHICA.OO. ROGERS PARK FLORftL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. - CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORISTS, 88 Wabaah Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. C^nsiffnmenUBOllclted. Promptattantlon to all orders. WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, wo. S BEACON STREET. NearTremont St., BOSTON, MASS. #V\^ftofe*aP« Marker*. Cut Flowers. N«w YORK, Sept. 23. Roses. Beauty, e-xtra 6.(i0ia]5.00 " '• common 2.00@ 5.00 Meteor. Testout 1.004 3 00 Kslserln, Bride. Bridesmaid 1.00® 3.00 all other varieties 50® 2.0O Carnations, ordinary 15® -35 fancy 60® 1.00 Valley 3.00(S> 4.00 Asters 26® .60 Adlantum 50 ® 1.00 Asparagus 40.0O@5O.0O Smllax 10.00@12.00 Boston. Sept. 23. Roses. GoDtler, Nlphetos 1.00® 2.00 Perie, Mermet .. 2.00® 3 OU Bride. Bridesmaid, Meteor 3 DO® 6 00 Beauty 5.00®16.00 Carnations 25® .50 fancy 608 1.00 Valley 4 00 Asters : 25® .50 Tuberoses .50 Adlantum 1.00 Smllai 10.0O@12.0O AsparaguB 60.00 PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 23 Roses Beauties fi.OOS 8.00 Brides. Bridesmaid. La Franceetc... 2.0O® 4.00 Kalserin 3.00® 4.00 small teas l.OOCo 2 00 Carnations 40® .75 Sweetpeas 20<«. -26 Smilax n.00»15.00 AsparaKUS 35. 00® 50. 00 Adlantum 100 CHIOAOO, Sept. 25. Roses. Beauties ii.OOaiO.OO seconds 4.00 Brides. Bridesmaid 1.00® 3.00 Meteors 1.00<» 3 oi Perle. Wootton 1.00® 2.0O ■■ Testout 3 m.t 4.00 Kalserin 3.0Oa 4.00 Carnations .~5 Tuberoses 4.0O(« 5 OO Asters 25® .75 ABlers, extra stock l.OOj* 1.50 SwalnBona. per dozen bunches 1. 00 Gladiolus 2 00 Dalillas 1.00 Valley „ iM SmllM 10.00(812 01 Adlantum 100 8T. Loms, Sept. 24. Roses, Beauties, long., short., select stock ... " general stock. .. Carnations Sweet peas Asters Hollyhocks Gladiolus Smllax Kerns, Adlantum 10 00 4 00 3.00 1.00 1.00 .25 1 OO .60 3.00 .10.00315.00 1.00 GEORGE ft. SUTfiERLflND. Successor to PECK & SUTHERLAND, Successors to WM. J. STEWART. Gut Flowersi Florists' Supplies 67 Bromffeld St., BOSTON, MASS. New England Agent lor the GREAT ANTIPEST. Mention American Florist. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS* SUPPLIES, FLORISTS' VASES, METS, BRIDES, GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND. 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON, MASS. HORTICDLTDEAL ADCTIOSEEES. Mention American Florist A. L. RANDALL, wiioi6sai6 Fiona 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, -NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Agent for finest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers, EXTRA FINE LONG ASTERS. CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. THOS. 'VOUIVO, Jr., 43 W. 28th St.. new YORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN, WHOLESALE 59 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application, Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street NEW YORK. WHOLESALE • FLORIST. Careful Shlpplne to all parts of the country. Price list on application. Furdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30th St., NEW YORK. Prepare for Fall Trade. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, Address JOHN YOUNG, 5/ W. ZBth Street, new YORK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange, NEW YORK. JULIUS LANG, Cofflissi"*ta"Cit Flowers, WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS 601 Sixth Avenue, CORNER 30TH St.. NEWi.YORK. Conslg^nments Solicited. 102 The American Florist. Sept. 26, ^fts ^aatl ^racja. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. WOOD, Pres.; Alex. Kodqehs and J. B. Rice, Vice-Presidents: A. L. Don, 114 Cbambers Street. New rork, Sec'y and Treaa. Seed Report From California. This season has been a peculiar one in many ways for the seed grower. A few months ago, during a visit through our largest seed farm the onion crop was looking excellent, in fact it was not pos- sible for them to look better, but a great change has come over them, caused by sudden warm days and changes again to foggy weather, until the crop will fall away short of expectations. This is par- ticularly true of seed in the Santa Clara valley and down at Gilroy. Up towards Sacramento where some seed is grown it is turning out a little better, but taken as a whole the California crop will be very poor. Lettuce has turned out well and is all harvested, the same can be said of spinach. Sweet peas have done very well in Santa Clara but thecropwill not be as large as last year's. At Menlo Park sweet peas have turned out very poorly. The recent rains did much damage in some sections to crops which were not covered. Beets in all probability will have the color of the seed changed a little. The growers, however, were prepared for the rain and so the onion crop that was out was nearly all secured from the rains. Asters have done very poorly this season all through the state. The peculiar weather we are having here lately in the seed growing districts is greatly retarding the work of harvest ing. The sweet pea crop is all harvested and is not as large as former years. The onion crop at Menlo is harvested but at Santa Clara and Gilroy they are not quite through yet. Asters are go'ng to seed rapidly, but the crop will be small. In the Lima bean growing districts of Ventura county and Riverside the crop is reported very short. Some put theyield at about 50% of last season's crop and others at 40%. For some unknown cause the pods did not develop good this season which accounts for the shortage. The low prices these have been grown for will make it doublv worse with only half a crop, although we understand there is a surplus in the warehouses yet from last season. The rains have mildewed some swett peas of the newer sorts which were late in ripening. Cupid sweet pea is still bloomin» in some of our seed farms. A primrose Cupid is said to have sported on the coast this season. Meteor. Visited Chicago: S. Y. Haines, Minne- apolis, C. H. Allen, Floral Park, N. Y., H. M. Clare. Montreal, P. Q. — Mr. Eugene Schaet- tel of Vilmoiin & Co., is in town this week. Geneva, N. Y. Mr. R. G. Chase has returned from the Adirondacks not much improved in health. The fixtures of the N. B. G. Co. at Chicago were sold bv the assignee at auc- tion on the 16th for $500 to J. H. Brad- ley; same included a seed cleaner valued at neatly $1,000. Niagara Falls, N. Y.— Mr. John Deg- nan representing J. C. Vaughan was here at the time of the visit of Li Hung Chang and is said to have been mistaken for one of the distinguished visitor's suite. YOUR NAME ® ® ® AND ADDRESS, IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED OUR TRADE CATALOGUE. Prices compare with the same downward trend as the following items do: Per l(«l Per llKKI HYACINTHS White Roman, fl to 12 cent $2.00 $18. DO White Roman, 12 to 15 cent. 2.50 23.00 " Dutch, separate colors, first size 2.50 23.00 NARCISSUS Von Sion 1.50 13.00 " Chinese Sacred, basket of 30. $1.50 4.50 40.00 TULIPS— Queen Vic (La Reinei, white 60 4.00 '■ Artus, scarlet 60 4.00 " Yellow Prince 1.25 10.00 LILIUM HARRISM, 5 to 7 2.25 2O.00 •• '■ 7 to 9 4.50 40.00 " " 9 to II 8.50 80.00 WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, New York. ROMANS. Late and last shipment just re- ceived Bulbs open up splendidly The finest lot we have seen for years. Write for special price lis! Our Wholesale List. September edition, contains Special inducements to buyers W. W. BARNARD & GO. 186 East Kinzie St., CHICAGO. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of SK'tM.) cash | for ONE PIiANr each of the New CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The cfter was refused, a greater price being asked. Price now on application. I NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . I he best novelty for Florists' decorative | purposes. SI 50 per 12; $10 per 100, from 2'*.-iuch pots. S«nd for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANC & CO., Phila., Pa. Newburyport, Mass — Thos. W.G )nd- win, an old time florist of this city, died on S.ptember 20, aged 70 years. Henderson, Kv. — Mr. Wm. R. Cono- ver and Miss Alice V. Graves were united in marriage September 9, Both are con- nected with the trade in this city. Circular 201 of the Department of Agriculture informs us that during the next year each senator and representa- tive will have 30,000 packets of seed, valued at $288.89. AuiiuRN, Maine. — The Eastman Seed Company has been organized for the pur- pose of conducting a general seed busi- ness. Capital stock, $10,000, of which $400 is paid in. The officers are: Presi- dent, W. H. Eastman, East Sumner, Me., treasurer, W. H. Eastman, of East Sum- ner, Me. New York — In town J. E. Northnip, Minneapolis and Mr. Brown of Brown Bag Filling Machine Co., Fitchburg, Mass. Mr. Bruggerhoffof Thorburn'sis illand has been unable to attend to business for the past two weeks. There was a large number of Bermuda visitors in town last week, among them S. P< nniston, W. H. James and T. B. West, all lily growers. ALM <£f^Bez/< FRESH ON H.4ND Per 100 Per 1000 PerSOOU iKeiitIa Korsteriana Jl 25 $10.00 Sao.UO We l>«)uli orders now for the Plant NovellleB: Mosella Roses: Canna Austria and Italia. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. rrom 2-iiich pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of varieties and prices furnislied on application. NATHAN SMITH & SON. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VAK1BTIK8, ROSES* from :i-lnch pots CARNATIONS, Tor fall delivery CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low Send for lisl. WOOD BROTHERS. FiSHKILL, N. Y. Adiantum Farlyense EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices upon application. Wyndnioor, near Chestnut Hill, I iSl.itlon 11. 1 PHILADELPHIA. PA. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. VV Wahi>. M«r. QUEENS, L. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Geraniums. A CAREFULLY prepared report on the onion crop of 1896 by the Nezu England Homestead places the same at 2,200 000 bushels, or nearly 25% smaller than the crop of 1895 and 33% smaller than 1891. This should be encouraging to seedsmen. i8g6. The American Florist. 193 PRIMULA SEED. This Year's Crop, Now Ready. Our puperb mixture contains onlv the choicest fringed strains, and wUi give the greatest satisfaction. Trade pkt. 50c. Cineraria Seed. Our strains are unsurpassed for rlcliness ol color as well as for size and perfeciion of form. Trade okt. 50c. HERRMANN'S SEED STORE, 413 E. 34TH STREET, Near Long Island Ferry, NEW YORK. Agent for LYSOL, the ideal insecticide. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦{ ♦ BULB BARGAINS. , Carrying a full general line ot Forcing Bulbs, we are often by reason ♦ of large stocks, able to make exceptionally low offers on some standard kinds. Florists who can use to advantage Harrisii, Longiflorum, Callas, Romans, Narcissus, or other kinds at a c/ose price are asked to write us (mentioning kinds they can use) for sizes and prices of our special bargains. LILIUM HARRISII, EXTRA. 9-11 INCH, PER 100 $9.00. VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, «^^««c"f.rcTG"J.^""' t GREENHOUSES: WESTERN SPRINGS. ILL ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦< TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. sZrnWil^e new season's mushroom spawn Is due at this port Oitober 26; will guarantee delivery on time If have your order at once. Reduced i'Kices. Write me to-day for full particulars, (i. C U WTSON. 43 North lOth Street, Miila- delphia. C. S- A., f^* Owner of the celebrated **\V V." brand (Watcon's ProllBct Mushroom Spawn. My 24-page booklet on Mushroom Culture free to buyers or Intending buyers; to others, 10 cents. r ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ , "SURE CROP" : T MUSHROOM SPAWN, ^t.„(,,„| prices 2 ♦ '■"dutch 'bulbs: ion application 4 ♦ '-FLOKISTS" FLOWER SEED.S. ♦ ♦ WEEBER & DON, lTAl'::iT' ♦ S 114 ChambersSt., NEW YORK. 4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Siebrecht & Wadley's PALMS. FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N. Y. Neponset Flower Pots of Waterproof Paper are sold as follows: Terms— Net cash with order. If ordered stilpped by trel^hl. add .tO cents cartage. PHCfeed In Gross Weight Size. Crates of per 1 (Xl pots Per 100 Per lOOO TRY DREER'S Garden Sttos, 1 Plants. Bulbs & Requisites. ( They are the best at the I lowest prices. Trade List is- sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. HENKY A. DREER, Philadelphia, Pa. Always mention American Klortwi S2 (10 3.;« 2.SU 4.U0 5.00 8 30 13.35 2«-lnch 1000 aboutSdlbB. 2U, ■ 1000 •• 23 ■■ M) 3 " •' 1(100 ■• 34 " 36 3W •■ 1000 .... •• ii •■ 50 4 •• 500 •• T(i •• m 5 •• .. 500 •■ 1110 •■ un 1; •■ 5IJU " 150 " 1..0 Standard Pol Measure. Less quantities than full crates at 100 rates. F. W. 151 KD & SONS, Manufacturers A4I2 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry). NEW YORK CITY. will find our October Catalogue a ^eat convenience. WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. BULBS for FORCING p^ant auction sales UVtmW lUI I VIIWII1M cucDv TiicvnAv tun cpintv and Gardening, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD TIMES PRICES. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Fnglewood, N. J. JUST RECEIVED. Von Sion Hyacinths, Crocus, Tulips, etc. Orders booked now for Indian Azaleas, Palms, Araucarias, Rhododendrons, Clem- atis, Hydrangeas, Spira;as, and general nur- sery stock. L. C. BOBBINK. Rutherford, N. J. Branch of The Horticultural Co. Boskoop. Holland. ~E. G. HILL & CO.. WI)0l6§dl6Fl0rl§l§ RICHMOND. INDIANA- "THE DAHLIA" BY LAURENCE K. PEAtXXK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST oBering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade I.ist of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. Atco. N J. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY At II o'clock A. M. 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW VORK. A NOTABLE SALE. A Grand Collection of the Finest PALMS and Decorative Plants from the well-known growers JULIUS ROEHRS, Rutherford, N. J. and J. M. KELLER, Brooklyn, N. Y. ON Wednesday, Sept. 30, AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M. No. 15 Province St. and 10 Chapman Place, BOSTON, MASS. EDWARD HATCH, Auctioneer. STaT^T^ARD BXJCiiirvE^ Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A aniuple mailed for 'M) cents. FRANK L. MOORE, CHATHAM. N. J. Please mention the American Florist CTcry time you write to an advertiser. ii'^ ^H j|«| wj^iar. 'i-^ \-^m HmM ^^^ ^SPnr^n {^ N^OK^ S ^Pl J Hi DECORATIVE PLANTS READY FOR SALE NOW. D(.z. 100 Rubbers, ii anil T-lnch puta. well furnlahed 24 to ;}»; Inches hUh »i.00 WS.WI Areoa luteH-eiiR T-lnch pots, o plants In a pot ;«) to ;«; inches high, fine 18.00 Areoa Mite(*rni,s K-inch ptts ;i plants In a pol, 'M\ to 4'2 Inches ht«li.e.\tra 24,00 l.aiaiiia borboiiica. -Vlnch pots, fine — (i.OO 4.S.IH1 LiHtania borhfuiira, ^r nch pots, fine — 9.00 TO. 00 Areca rubra, h Inch pots, extra fine ti 00 Phti^Dlx and Frltcliardia tllifera, .Vlu. pots fine plants t>,00 Coc'os Weddelinna and Geonoma Krarllis. for center pieces, extra fine plants 4.0(1 Kentia t^e luoreanaand Forsteriana from ^3 iKfeach up. Bouvardia Hum tddtU, Mnch pots. pure white 3 00 Krira pra-HtanB, pure white, .Vlnch pote, In full binom t; 00 l.VU) Erica pra'stans. extra well shaped. .. '.i.OO AraiH'arla excelsa, fl and 7-lnch pots. well shaped.... 18 00 Araucaria excelsa, InrRC plants 34.00 Arauoaria plauea, t> and 7-Inch pots. from i^\ .Ml to $-i 00 each Adiaiituiii cuneHtuin. i>-lnch pots 3.00 SelaKineila KiuiUana. 4-lnch pots 3.00 Other Ferns, :! In a .Vlnch pot. fine 3.00 For later and for ChrUtuiHs and New Yean* we have In Howerlng plants: Chry»*nthemuni8. Tin. pots, extra tine; Cyda- iiien 'perHicuui, all sizes, also extra eipeclnien)*: Daisies, a few extra larKoones; Frlca AViluio'e- aiia. fine pink trumpet; Krica fragrans, while with dark center, all sizes. Also Azalt-asatall prlcts. Win. Srott, extra fine plants, $40 00 per 1000 Daybreak. f40.00 per 1000 ANTON SGHULTHEIS, College Point, L. I, I9th St . 3rd and 4th Aves. P. 0. Box 78. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. 194 The American Florist, Sept. 26, Toronto. The canna meeting held by the Garden- ers' and Florists' Association was quite a saccess, all the available tables being well filled with blooms of all the leading vari- eties, and many seedlings, which in the opinion of many altogether eclipsed the older sorts. Mr. Reeves of Reservoir Park brought down two large bunches cut long, mostly seedlings, some of them very fine. Mr. E. Carter brought some very fine heads of leading varieties and some seedlings, one of them a white which if worked up will likely produce some- thing good. Mr. Ewing brought fine specimen blooms of Alphonse Bouvier (still a standard variety) and Konigin Char- lotte. Mr. PragntU brought specimea leaves and bloom from a seed obtained in England, the flower is after the style of Ehemanni and lasts well. The leaves were 2 feet 8 inches Ion? and 13 inches wide, much like those of a musa; the plant is quite dwarf. Messrs. Manton, besides cannas, brought some fine spikes of del- phinium in variety, which were much ad- mired. Last but not least the Steele, Briggs S:ed Co., though Mr. J. Riggall, the foreman, brought a magnificent col- lection of seedlings, some of them bting to all appearances better than anything yet seen. A committee consisting of Messrs. Vair, Jay and Laurence was ap- pointed to report on the merits of all these, and they reported most favorably on the latter collection. The Association, however, withheld a diploma pend ng further inspection. An excursion to Mr. H. Dale's estab- lishment at Brampton was decided on for Wednesday, the 23rd inst., Mr. Dale kindly promising to entertain all who could come. A largecrowd will probably go and a good time, intellectual, social and physical is expected. There will be a considerable increase in the area of glass In and round Toronto this year. The Toronto Floral Co. has put up about 6,000 feet more; the Steele, Briggs Co. is putting up two new houses 100x10; Dunlop put up two houses in the spring; John Cotterill is erecting a more extensive plant on his new place; Mr. E. Worden has put up a new plant altogether, and there are others which have escaped my memory. Although there has been no frost yet the weather is beginning to feel quite fall like, and it behooves the careful gardener to be prepared for acold snap, which may descend on him any time now. Chrysanthemum lore is coming to the front now. I have seen several very nice healthy lots lately with the buds begin- ning to form on many of them. Cut flower trade dull, but beginning to pick up a bit. E. Fine WM. SCOTT CARNATIONS, 5.') 0(1 per hundred. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, S4 00 per hundred. MISS P. A. BAKER, MEDIA, PA. Unexcelled Carnation Plants. All the leading varletlea—Uaybreak, Hose Vueen, Scott, McGowan, etc.. extra alronif, healthy, elock. $o.OO. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, W IK) L. E. MARQUISEE, Syracuse, N. Y. 1Tf/\I I>nr«C ( MARIE LOUISE. VlULIv 1 O SWANLEY WHITE, ' ^^"■-' » '-' (and the CZAR. Strong field-grown plants. Never had disease in my stock. W4 50 per 100. »40 00 per 1000. E. McNALLY. Anchorage. Ky. Please mention the American Florist CTery time you write to an advertiser. 4 Acres Field-Grown Carnation Plants, 96,000. Oar Carnations are grown with the greatest care. Free from disease and packed light by our improved system of packing, by which we can send them to all parts of the United States and Canada in perfect condition. DEAN HOLE STORM KINC BRIDESMAID BUTTERCUP $i..V) per dozen. sy^.OO per hundred HELEN KELLER ADELAIDE KRESKEN NICHOLSON ADA BVRON BRIDE OF ERLESCOURT ALBERTINI DAYBREAK UNCLE JOHN SWEETBRIER .^I,-'.i Iter (l,izen. $t: mj per hundred, L. L. LAMBORN LIZZIE McCOWAN GRACE WILDER MRS. CARNEGIE GARFIELD SILVER SPRAY TIDAL WAVE PORTIA WM. SCOTT HINZE'S WHITE ROSALIND PURITAN $1.IKI per dozen. $.,.INI per hundred. a^oim per thuusard Special Offer. PHffiNIX RECLINATA, $5 00 per lOOO; 122.50 per 5,000; genuine variety troni Natal. LILIUM LONGIFLORUM (Japanese) 6 to 8 ill. S22 50 per 1000. Cash with order. SCHWAKE SEED CO. (Inc.) 404 East 34th St., NEW YORK. CYCAS. FICUS. FERNS. A large stock of CYCAS, all sizes in leaf, from 25c, 50c. 75c up to $5.00 each, for fine trunks with splendid heads of perfect leaves. FiCUS, fine plants in 4 and 5-inch pots, from 9 to 12 leaves, 86 00 per dozen; 6 to 8 leaves, \ inch pots, $4 60 per dozen. The grand new Sword Fern NEPHROLEPIS CORDA- lA COMPACTA. fine plants, i and 5 inch pots, JH.OO per dozen: 3-inch pots, $3.00 per dozen; 2^2-inch pots, *2 25 per dozen. NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA. 3-inch pots, SI .50 per dozen; very fine plants, 4-inch pots S2.40 per dozen. NEPHROLEPIS PECTINATA (Dwarf Sword Feru), 2V2-inch pots, 81,20 per dozen. JOHN G. HEIItL i, SON. Telle Haete, Ind. AZALEAS , PALMS, the finest commercial varieties. large, healthy stock, well grown. ARAUCABIAS , BAY TREES, from Cuttings only. perfect shape, in all sizes. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOCK, 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW VORK. Mention Amerlr.Hn FlorlBt. PALMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WITTBOLD, "°"^c".^'.tU'6 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. WE ARE NOW READY TO SHIP. SEND VOV. I'UI^K LIST J. A. TRACHT & SON, Gallon, O. When -writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri- can Florist. 100 PLftNTING STOCK. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Good variety. Price, W.CO to 88 CO per FIELD-GROWN VIOLETS. MARIE LOUISE, of healthy character. Price. 85,00 per 100; 845.00 per 1100. POT-GROWN MARIE LOUISE. ■IVi inch. 82.50 per 100; 820,00 per IffO. 4-inch. 84 60 per 100; 837..50 per KOO. ^S*SAMPLKS ON APPLICATION. Asparagus plumosus, Poinsettia, Pansy Seedlings, etc. Lists free. DAN'L B. LONG, VtlV^^. When writlne mention the AMBRtrAV Florirt PTERIS LONGIFOLIAandSERRULATA 2-inch pets. 1 er 100, $2; per louo, *1S Also 500 PRIMROSES, 2 ■^-inch pots, good strain, per 100, fj 00. Cash with order. ART FLORAL CO., 280 East 40th Street, CHICAGO. I^e>i^J3^»« THE FINEST STOCK GROWN. PTERIS SERRULATA. PTERIS OUVRARDII, 2K-inch pots, 8! 00 per 100, $35.00 per 1000. Cash with order. J. F!*. ICIIiWEL'I^, 3810-3824 Wentworth Ave., CHICAGO. C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stocks. Catalogues on application. CINERARIAS. CINERARIAS. 100,000 We are the largest growers in the country. Our slock is all grown from seed saved from the beht and most showy plants, taking First Prize wherever exhibited. •J'l-iiich **3.50 per 100: »20.00 per 1000. S. WHITTON & SONS. Wholesale Florists. ritv Mitfi <;r#»»»ii stR . i^TirA. n. v. Carnations ^ Violets. McGOWAN. tlrst sl/.e Jo.OU perlOO second size S. .'SO per 100 MRS. FI?HEU flratelze j.UJperUXI MAHIK LOUISE VIOLKTS. good plants free from bdoI .'vO' per 100 Bo'h carnations and violets arw etronj;. bealtny plants, entirely free frcun disease. Cash with order, H. B. WEAVER &, BRO., WHEATLAND MILLS, Lane. Co., PA. Mimev Order Otfite Liiiioaster. CARNATIONS Extra Strong, Field-Crown DAYBREAK, SCOTT, LIZZIE McGOWAN, $4.00 per hundred; $35.00 per thousand. H. E. JACKSON. 3319 N, Western Avenue, CHICAGO. Mention American Florist. i8<)6. The American Florist. 195 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. GOOD STOCK. Per lOU Per luo BRIDESMAID Ist size. $8.0U....2nd size. ^.UU METEOR SCO.... " 5.U0 STORM KINC u.UU UNCLE JOHN all sold all snii] THE STUART " 8.00.... " 5.0O E. A. WOOD •• 800... •• GOLDFINCH •• 5.00 DIAZ ALBERTINI.. 8.00.... .5.1X1 WM. SCOTT ■• S.OO.... .1.00 DAYBREAK " all sold nil sold DAZZLE " 8.00..., " r.OO ALASKA 8.011. ... NO RUST. F. DORNER&SONS CO., La Fayette, Ind. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS GOOD STOCK. NO RUST. Per 100 DAYBREAK $5.00 WM. SCOTT 5.00 NANCY HANKS S.OO LIZZIE McCOWAN 5.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 5.00 PORTIA 5.00 MRS. FISHER 4.00 Terms cash with order. ROGERS PARK FLORAL CO. 41 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. Field-Grown CARNATIONS New and Standard Varieties. ^S'Send for price Li.st. H. Weber & Sons, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MD. CARNATIONS. I still have 500 McGowans, 400 Day- breaks and 200 Scotts, they are extra tine and first size, and will sell them tor $4.00 per 100. Cash with order. W. A. WETTLIN, Hornellsvllle, N. Y. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Good medium sized plants, at a low price. GOLDFINCU 1 HINZBS WHITE I CHESTER PRIDE PORTIA I GRACE WILllER 1 At S4. 00 per 100. PRES. GAKKIKLD I L. L LAMBORN LIZZIE McGOVVAN I SILVER SPRAT J WILLIAMS Sl SONS CO., Batavia, III. FINE FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Wm. Scott Orange Blossom Thos. Cartledge Mrs. Fisher Albertini Hinze's White Portia Garfield Tidal Wave Storm King Helen Keller, at S5.00 per 100. Also MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, tine at J6 00 per 100. Cash with or.Vr. GEO. B WHITEHEAD, Lock Box 116. GREENS FARMS, CONN. F^OFi O.A.Sf];. Per 100 Mnch VIOLETS S2 Oil :i-loch •• a.i'jO 4.1nch ■■ ^..W :Wnch SMILA.X. strong 2.50 F. J. ROBINSON, Oak Park. III. CARNATIONS li°vVKEAl, fleld-KTOwn. well budded, healthy plants. Sfj.OO per UNi; * 00 per 1000. Cash with order. Would exchange same tor palms. CEO, MUNICH. Batavia. N. Y. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. FIELD=QROWN CARNATIONS. LARGE STOCK OF SPLENDID PLANTS. The weather here has been very favorable tor Carnation plants, and our stock this season is in extra fine condition. Order early to avoid disappointment. Terms, cash with order. J \j C\ P Y Our New White Seedling is sure to be a winner. Pure white, large size, 1 V Ly rV I and for productiveness about i6 to l with any other white. IVORY $10 00 ALASKA 8.00 McGOWAN DAYBREAK 8.00 ROSE QUEEN 8.00 LIZZIE GILBERT GOLDFINCH 8.00 Large plants Smaller plants Per 100 Per 100 Large plants Smaller plants Per 100 Per 100 8.00 6.00 SILVER SPRAY WM. SCOTT . . % 8.00 800 86 CO 600 0.00 BRIDESMAID . 8.00 600 B.OO 6.00 B.OO 6.00 PORTIA ... METEOR. TRIUMPH (new pink) . 800 . 8.00 . 1^.00 6.00 1000 GEO. HtNCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. CARNATIONSField-Grown. ALASKA, $10.00 per 100. DAYBREAK, HELEN KELLER, KOHINOOR, LIZZIE McGOWAN, MINNIE COOK, PORTIA, ROSE QUEEN, TIDAL WAVE, WM. SCOTT, S8 per 100. CALIFORNIA VIOLETS, FAKSIxiS, large plants for Fall blooming. Per 100 $1.00; per 1000 87 00. Large stock of Ficus Elastica, Ferns, etc. Write for our BOOK FOR FLORISTS extra large, field-grown clumps. Per 100 810; per lOUO 875. Small plants, per KO 83.00. GREENHousEs.^_ YflUGHflN'S SEED STORE/* *%";i^?>rG"o^""^' WESTERN SPRINliS. LARGE FIELD-GROWN BLOOMING Per 100 PORTIA $3.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 3.00 TIDAL WAVE 3.00 SILVER SPRAY 3.00 REINBERG CARNATIONS. " " Per 100 MRS. FISHER $3.00 STORM KING 3.0O NANCY HANKS 3.OO BROS., 51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. r* ARTVr ATTOTVr^ Albertini, Jacqueminot, Portia, Puritan, Van Leeuwen, ^-'**-'-^-l-^ r\. X XV/X^ vJ clean, healthy and vigorous, )f 5 00 per too. AMERICAN BEAUTY and other Forcing Roses. MARIE LOUISE, SWANLEY. CALI- FORNIA and CAMPBELL VIOLETS. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. «iii-ct, i-«i.i .^L.^ 19- AAcfto^S J:J.^^J^ , XjHl<.e>-wc3o^f!!l>&^:ii»j. At*!, 00. M.UO, $5.00 and *<;.00 per 100: WM. SCOTT. MRS. FISHER. LIZZIE McGOWAN, ELDORADO. DAYBREAK, ALASKA, TIDAL WAVE, PORTIA, ROSE QUEEN, DAISY BELL, L. GILBERT. CARTLEDGE. GOOD PLANTS. FREE FROM DISEASE. I study to please e\erv patron, and pack every order myself— IN LIGHT tOXES. I guarantee en- tire satisfaction, and big value for the money. CHAS. T. SIEBERT, station B, "ITTSnUKG, I'A. Mention Amnrlcan Flnrlnl CARNATIONS No Rust. BUFFALO, N. Y. We have a surplus which can be bougrht reasonable. 304 l«ain Street, BUFFALO, N. Y. CARNATIONS -Field-Grown. Lurffe Hnd Healthy. l*er lot) LIZZIE McGOWaN $J 0(1 SILVER SPRAY 4 00 WM. SCOTT 5 00 DAYBREAK 6 00 Also a limited number of Portia at. . . 4 00 Sweetbrier, Uncle John and E. A. Wood at . 6 00 CASH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. DAYTON. 0. CARNATIONS. Good, healthy, field-grown plants. STUART IM 00 per 100 PORTIA 4.00 " SCOTT 4.00 '-■ PURITAN . . ... 4 OJ " DR. WARDER, good crimson color. GROVEDALE NURSERIES. Fisher's Lane, east of 2nd SI. Pike, PHILA. PA CARNATIONS 5000 Scotts left, tirst-class stock, extra size plants. About 1000 Daybreak and Tidal Wave. Also a few Rose Queen, Goldflnch and Emily PierSOn. samples and prices on application. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS . MICH. CARNATIONS. SCOTT, ROSE QUEEN, STORM KING, Mc- COWAN, 86.00 per 100. ELDORADO, $8.00 per 100. VIOLETS— Eitra strong crowns, 4-inch pots, 8.°i.00 per 100. Cash with order, or C. O. D. GEO. E. FANCOURT, Willtes-Barre, Pa. f,000 SCOTT CARNATIONS. l'i.l.l-t;r.jun. Mt .$.1.00 pt-r 1(10. Uo..J viilui-. Cash witii ordiT. HARMON. BURR A CO.. Saw ena, N. Y. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. 196 The American Florist. Sept. 26, Pittsburg. The club held a regular business meet- ing on Thursday night, 10th inst., but only business of routine form was trans- acted; several affairs of interest to the club were laid over until the next meet- ing, 24th inst. Trade is in about same condition as last report, and prices continue the same as have prevailed for the past few weeks. The trade in bulbs has commenced with a fairly good demand; the stock has not all arrived yet, but from present appear- ances it is thought a good fall trade in them will ensue notwithstanding the hard times. Elliott & Ulam report business fair and looking up. Along with their other busi- ness they decorated the Masonic Temple on Fifth avenue, the lobby and three par- lors of the Monongahela House for the state conclave of Free Masons, held last week; their work was very much admired. Mrs. D. D. Shepard, representing the Diamond Pottery Co., Akron, Ohio, was a visitor the early part of the week. An- other visitor was Mr. Martin Reukauf, with H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadel- phia. Business continues to be only fair, noth- ing very brisk in a social way going on, but there was considerable demand for funeral work, and in the present condi- tion of business affairs all are satisfied if there is any demand at all. About thr-fc weeks ago Mr. James Dell's store, 508 Smithfield street, was badly injured by water, a fire having started in the upper stories of the building. He has had his place newly papered, painted and decorated throughout, and he is to be congratulated on the artistic and tastetul manner in which it has been done; it is a very handsome, bright storeroom. Mr. Dell reports business with him very fair. Mr. Walter Breitenstein has returned from his vacation and re-opened his place of business on Smithfield street, behaving closed it for the summer in July last. Regia. Chambersburg. Pa. Byer Bros, have built six equal span houses, two of which, intended for roses, cover 20x60, two for carnations 10x60, and two 10x60 for general stock. In ad- dition to the houses they have put up a fine and commodious ofSce. This firm intends to deal in seeds as well as in cut flowers. Homo. IRVIN6T0N NU RSERY, IR VINGTON, IND. 5,000 Pseonies in 100 named varieties, lyr, grown since division. Cinnamon Vines, 1 and 2yrs., 810 per 1000. 10.000 Hardy Moonflower, selected roots. 5,000 Wistaria, four best varieties, 1 to 4 years. 10,000 Hibiscus, Crimson Eye, 1 and '2 yrs., fine. Hardy Shrubs, a large collection, for mail ing and larger. 10,000 Honeysuckles, 4 or 5 varieties, 82.50 per 100 and up. 5,000 Japan Trailing Roses, Wichuraiana. S'20 per 1,000. 200,000 Gladiolus, fine named and mixed. 200,000 Oxalis, 4 named sorts. 10,000 Bignonia Radicans, nice mailing and strong transplanted. Clematis Paniculata, 2 yrs., open ground. Lists Free. IRVINGTON, IND., near Indianapolis. Mention American tnoriBl. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES. For I>ecuratlnK and all Florist*' DealKna. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER, Linville, Mitchell Co.. N. C. Always mention the American Flo rist when writing to advertisers. HERR'S PANSIES. None better at any price; none cheaper at any price. Don't make the mistake of not buying them. Plants, $5.00 per 1000; 75c. per 100. Lots of 2500 and over at reduced price. HERR'S CARNATIONS. Field-grown plants of Scott, Tidal Wave, McGowan, Cartledge, Keller and Stuart. Good plants at reasonable prices. L,. :b. -»»e. ALBERT M. HERR, Lancaster, Pa New, Rare and Beautiful Plants LOKU PENZANCE'S New Hybrid Sweetbrlers. Old Garden Ruses. New Ruses. Standard Hoses. PHILADELFHIIS LEMOINEl; NEW 1.1- LAt;J-i I.ONICEKA HI I.I>KI{KAM)T1I ; SHIR^A "ANTHONY WATEKER," A large collection of rare Hothouse and Greenhouse flants ANTHUklUMS. ALOCACIAS. ORCHID^. RARE CONIFERS, and other iSeautiful evkr(;reen)s. MAGNOLIAS, JAPANESE MAPLES, with other Choice TREES and SHRUBS. P.EONIES.— A large collection ot the finest In cul- tivation. Hardy Perennials, Phloxes. Japanese Iris. Roses, Clematis, etc. New and Standard Fruits, etc. ty Catalogues on application JOHN SAUL. Washington. D. C. ZIRNGIEBEL'S GIANT MARKET AND GIANT FANCY PANSIES are the Leading Strains up to date. Extra Large Size and Superb Colors. Liberal trade packets of either strain at ONE DOLLAR EACH. fl^Separate colors if wanted in Blue, Black, White and Yellow. Also plants of above strains at $5.00 per 1000. DENYS ZIRNGIEBEL, NEEDHAM, MASS, Mention American FlorlBi. 100,000 NOW READY. The Jennings strain of flnest American erown Pan- sles are up to date, and just as ^ood as they make them; but on account of the hard times the price Is down. The grandest cumblnaiion of colors ever eent out. AH large flowering In great variety, tinestocky plants, fleld-grown. will bloom in octot>er- 100 by mall 7.^: lUlXI by express $4 IK); 5000$1S.0(I. Blxtra planlB added with every order. jOO 000 ready In October for cold frames. PANSY SEED of above strain, fl.OU per pkt. of 2.500 seeds. Cash with order. E. B. JENNINGS, l. b. 254. Southport, Conn. Grower of the finest Panslea. The OAKS GREENHOUSE CO., Jackson, Mich. offer fur Immediate acceptarce. the folluwlng at prices annexed. Per 100 Smllax. from 2J^-lnch pots, good strong plants — $2 .tO Cj peruB Alternttollus, 2!^-lncd 3 00 :iVt-lnch U 00 GrevUIea Robusta, SV^-lnch 3-00 3W-lnch : 00 Dractena Indlvlsa. 2H''ich , 2 ."JO Begonias, flowering In var,. 2t^-lnch, cur selection 2.50 •■ Rex. *■ •■ ■' ■■ 4 00 Cash with order. R. C. of all gen'l stock at usual prices. Mention American Florist . 1897 THE ONLY "MARS" 8°*?™™ Prices on application, HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro. Pa. Roenier's Superb Giant Prize Pansies— the finest strain of I'ausies in the world — grower of all the leading novelties. Plants, by mail, per 100 75 cts. ) Sample of plants '• by express, per 1000 S^. 00 ) and cut blooms 4c CASH WITH ORDKR OR C. (). D. PETER BROWN, Lancaster, Pa. Mention American Florlit. Carnations, LIZZIE Mc(i()W.\N. Wil. SCOTT, EHII>Y flKKSON, UNCI.E JOHN, HELKN KELLEK, ALASK4, TIUAI. WAVE ».5.00 per 100 MARIE LOUISE. . . $5,00 per 100 25,000 CARNATIONS, Violets Ficus Elastica, TeX^/rdozen Also a large lot of PALMS BEKMUDA I.Oi!IGIFLOB.Uni BULBS. H. C. STEINHOFF, 578 Hudson Boulevard, WEST HOBOKEN, N, J, when wiitlDR mention American Florist SURPLUS CARNATIONS. Silvt»r Sprav. Daybreak, \\m. Scutt, Portia, McGowan, Mrs, Fisher, Puritan, Tidal Wave. Extra strong, healthy plants, 84,00 ana $5 00 per 1(50, SWAINSONA 6cents, JAMES C. MURRAY, 401 Main Street, PEORIA, ILL. CARNATIONS. 2000 SCOTT and PORTIA, extra fine. Will covet the ground when set 12 in. apart, at $5 per 100 2000 McGOWAN, medium, 83 00 per lOi). All healthy. No rust. Packed light, and ship- ped at plant rates, trom the best shipping point m New York State. CASH. J. E. ANGELL, WAA EKLY. Tioga Co.. N. Y. Field-grown. Large & healthy WM^'IcOTT*"*'*'^ /MllUperlOO TIDAL WAVE'.;.;.:.;;;::;:::::: s*'"*'p«'-i'w- CHOICE FERNS. From .; Inch pots j:i per UXJ; 2i^-lnch pots H per 100. Koran's Perfect CARNATION SUPPORT, Only perfect support on the market. Write for circular and price. JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. Mention Anipncnn FInnoi CLEMATIS* large flowering, in splendid as- sortment for fall. PAEONIES. a large stock and assortment, very low. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY, I & 2yeat, fine plants. OBL. POET'S NARCISSUS, a very large surplus stock, ENGLISH DAISIES, for winter flowering. F. A. 8ALLER, Bloomington. III. ransiGS Worth Raising. PLANTS READY NOW. at 82.50 per 600; J4 00 per 1000. Free on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at $I.(X) per plit, CASH WITH ORDER, C. SOLTAU & CO,, 199 Grant Ave,, lerse? Cily, N, J, Biirki's New Yellow MarQuerile ETOILE DE LYON. •ir, K<>utr |1 41 2 TO 422 i^^AWTHORNEAV. CHICAGO, ILL./ SHEEP JLflNURE I will furnish this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b. Mitchell, South Dakota: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED ...75c. per 100 Terms cash in 30 days after date of ship- ment. Orders accompanied with cash, 10 per cent, discount. WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA. H. BAYERSDORFER & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS' SUPPLIES ONLY, FHILADELFHIA, FA. Our new Oatalosrne Is now onti free upon application. :im:. i^ioe> «& co. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. THE EMERSON Price postpaid 75 CENTS. I Address 1 American Florist Co CHICAGO. '^R/GH T£OJ When you write an advertiser please state that you saw the adv. in the FLORIST. Dineislois ol iMs Bo: : v> Inches long by 18 Inches wide and 12 Inches hlKh. Two seotlons. This wooden box nicely stained and varnished, 18x30x12, luade In two sections, one for each size letter, g:iven away with first order of 600 letters. A. Rolker & Sons, Ne^v York. M. Rice & Co., 35 N. 4th St., Phlla., Pa. F. K. McAllister, 32 Uey St., New York. A. D. Ferry Si, Co., 33 warren St., Syracuse New York. A. Herrman. 415 E. 34th St., New York. H. Bayersdorfer Si Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A. C. Kendal. 1 15 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. J. A. Simmers, Toronto, Ont., Agent for E. H. Han't, 79 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Wisconsin Flower Exchange, 131 Mason St , Milwaukee, Wis. U. Sunderbrnch, 4th and Walnut .Sts., Cin- cinnati, O. T. W. Wood Si Sons, 6th and Marshall Sts., Richmond, Va. Jas. Vlck'fl Sons, Rochester, N. Y. C. A. Kuehn, 1133 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. D. B. Lone, Bufl'aio, New York. Huntington Seed Co , IndiaDapolls, Ind. Geo. A. Sutherland, 67 Bromfield .St., Boston. Welch Bros., No. lA Beacon St., Boston. N. F McCarthy Si Co., 84 Hawley Street, Boston. The Henry Phllipps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O. TYalter A. Potter & Co., Providence, K. I. J. C. Vanghan, 36 Barclay St., New York. W. Fllison, 1403 Pine St., St. Lonis, Mo. the American Florist. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER 00. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. Sizes 1M-in. and 2-in. 2.00 per 100. Patent tattener with each letter. ODR NEW SCRIPT LETTER, $4.00 per 100. N. F. McCarthy, i 13 green st.. Treas. & Mangr. | Boston, Slass. Office, 84 Hawley Street. We bave a new FASTENER wblota we ooDSlder a decided success. Any castomerB having old style fasteners whtoti tbey wish to ezobanffe. can do so wlthoat additional cost by writing as. These Letters are bandied by all the Wholesalers Boston. When writing mention ESIABUSHED 18 66. MANUFACTURED N. 5TEFFENS 33S EAST 2|V ST. NEW YORK. GreenToiiseVuuy Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing. IS APPLIED WITH PUTTY BULB. One gallon (20158 1 will glaze 1,000 feet of glass Gusts imc per gallon. 60c per half-gallon. Putty Bulbs 75c each. Satisfaction guaranteed. Reference— John Rogera. Greentree Boro. Pa.; Hartman Bros., Alleghany. Pa.; Fred Burkl. Bellevue. Pa. Manufactured by T. H, NEVIN CO., P. 0. B. 958, Pittsburg. Mention American FlorlHt FUMIGATE WITH NIKOTEEN THE ESSENCE OF TOBACCO. It kills all insects and does not injure delicate blooms. Costs 12 cents to fumigate a house 100x20 feet. If you cannot get it locally, write SKABCURA DIP CO., Station S, CHICAGO. John Conley & Son, ManofactarerB of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, ^^ TiTr i~r~ "Vorlt. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns MILLIONS OF ELECTROTYPES Mammoth Catalogue and ridiculously low prices on receipt of 10 cts. stamps. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. U CROSSE. WIS. WOOD LABELS .. AND .. Flower Stakes. BENJAMIN CHASE, Oerry, N. H. TH£ |FOH SALE BY Seed Stores, For Free Pamphlet, write to loi'istille Spirit Cckkh tobacioco. |LouisvilIe,Ky Mention Amerloan Florlit. 198 The American Florist. Sept 26, Sea Bright, N. J. Some of the finest roses ever seen in New York came from Frank McMahon's place at Sea Bright last winter. Sea Bright in summer is a land of delight. It lies between the North and South Shrews- bury rivers, far famed for their ovsters, and its nearest neighbors are Long Branch, Elberon, Oceanic and Pleasure Bay, where all along the edge of the Atlantic the solid and wealthy men of New York have made their summer homes, and expended millions upon mill- ions of dollars on cottages, lawns and drives. A drive with Frank McMahon along the famous Remsen Road is an ex- perience not soon forgotten, for Frank is the ideal guide and host, and takes his reward for the fatigues of a long winter and busy spring by enjoying to the fullest extent tue leisure of summer and sharing the same with bis visitors. Sea Bright is not exactly an ideal rose growing place, however, and roses are not produced in this locality without considerable extra labor and expense. The nearest spot where suitable soil and sod can be procured is several miles away, the native soil being little better than pure sand. Mr. McMahon has twenty- two houses devoted to carnations and roses. Bride and Bridesmaid being the principal crop. Like a number of other growers for the New York market he has become a convert to the system of carry- ing over the old rose plants for a number of years in preference tore-planting annu- ally. Last season was Mr. McMahon's first satisfactory attempt with carried- over stock, but his lack of success in pre- vious years he attributes to too severe drying-oflT. Last year's experience was so gratifying that this season the most of his stock is being so treated, some of the bushes being in their third year, and not over a thousand young roses having been planted. At present these old bushes look most promising, being full of strong shoots breaking from the old wood, and indicating that from these houses will soon come roses of the same high grade as were produced last year. Some budded stock, on Manetti, has been tried here, but with rather indifferent success. Mr. McMahon says that the budded plants made a phenomenal growth, but that the flowers were inferior to those cut from own-root stock, and he sees nothing in the method to compensate for the extra labor and expense. Middletown, Pa. Bander Bros, are about to commence building five additional houses, each 120 xl8 feet for roses and carnations. The houses will be heated by steam, will run east and west with the short span to the south. Messrs. Bander's chrysanthe- mum'd look exceptionally fine and well grown, being decidedly the finest that I have beheld during my recent travels. Homo. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower Pots, etc. Making a Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price Met an'l miiiipleM iwhich will be sent free) and we know yuu will K've us your order; Ji Oi SWAHN S SONoi IVIinneapoll8/j>[lnn. Please mention American Florist. SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. For prlcea, apply to GEO. W. HAMILTON, 176 Sidney St.. Oorchetter, Mm*. ^A^WIND MILLS ^m PUMPING. FAIRBANKS-GALV'D steel. ECLIPSE-WOOD. «0,000 A.lrec»tly- Sold. BOILERS F«" HEATING. VALVES, PIPE AND FITTINGS. FAIRBANKS, MORSE & GO. Gor. Franklin & Monroe Sts., CHICAGO. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO. NflTURflL 63s Mm fl LflSS. FOR GREENHOUSES. ■^^Trlt^ for l^t^st: prioes. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. .A. .FXJXjXj XjXTB'ZI 0:^ sxjxj^ f*.A.prs. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BRANCH WAREHOUSES: Kearney and Westside Aves., Jersey City, N. J. Jackaon Ave. and Pearson St.. Long: Island City, N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pofs should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. When wrltlnK mention the American Florist. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Sauoers. * /^UR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure yon they will give good satis- ^-^ taction. We call your attention to our new pots 6, 7. 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO SYRACUSE, N. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it ever> time 3011 write an advertiser in these columns i8g6. The American Florist. 199 Kroeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse 'Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Boilers made of the best of material, shell, firebox Bheeta a,nd heails of steel, wiiter spsice all around (front, Btdea and back .)\Vrlte for Information. CYPRESS IS MUCH MpRE DURABi.C7HAN PINE. SASH BARS UP Toilt FEET iHUNGTH orLOH'GER. IREENHOUSI AND OT^E R BUILDIN6 M A'pfeRIAL. Soni.forourlllustraU^ Booh "CYP|R E S5 LU M B ER AHB frs US ES." Send for-SurSpeciil fireenhouse^rcolttr. the/ J. D. Carmody, Evans\'ine. lad. Dear 5"/^.— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON. GainesWlle, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for lUustraied Catalogue. QUAKER CITY AflACHINE WORKS. Klchmond, Ind. TOBACCO STEMS FOR FLORISTS. For Sale, packed in bales 200 to 250 lbs. No charge for deliv- ering to depots. PRICE: 810.00 per tou. 81.50 per single bale. p. C. FULWEILER & BRO., 248 No. Ninth St.. FHII.A.DEI.FHIA, PA. $3??ABBL H.A.ST0OTHDFF. il5MAPIS0NAVC,NEWY0ltK.CITr. Clear Cypress Greenhouse Material We have had many years' experience in this line. We introduced Cypress for greenhouse construction. We have made many improvements in the construction of green- houses. We carry in stock many different designs of Raft- ers, Sash Bars and everything else from the bottom of gut- ters up. Our facilities are large, and we are prepared to fur- nish on short notice material of our own designs or any spe- cial designs, and all of open-air-dried clear Cypress Lumber which we have bought for many years of one party because this particular growth of Cypress is as soft as White Pine, and has none of the knots, sap and other defects so com- mon to White Pine. Every foot of our stock is guaranteed Spot Clear. Write for circulars and estimates. No trouble to furnish plans wh?n necessary. LOCKLAND LUMBER CO HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAM ♦ BOILERS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 Sl 84 Center Street. 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Carnations— Notes 201 — Watering in field 201 • — American Carnation Society 201 — Diseased carnations ... 202 Roses— Notes 202 — Disfigured foliage 202 — Long I>land notes 202 Miscellaneous sea-onable hints 20,3 Pond of aquatics (illus.) 203 Atdisia crenulata 204 Chrysanthemums- -Black aphis 204 — Kate Brown grown to crown bud 201 — New York chrysanthemum committee . . . 204 Expense of building 204 Cannas in 1896 204 New cannas .... 203 Keeping cannas over winter 20.5 Fancy bedding (2 illus.) 20-5 Plant bed cloth 205 New York 20i Boston 206 Philadelphia 2( 6 Chicago 206 Buflalo 206 Toronto 207 Bed of cannas (illus.) 207 Pittsburg ... 208 Rochester, N. Y 208 St . Louis .... 208 Indiauapolis 208 Kansas City, Mo 209 Syracuse, N. Y 209 Springfield, 111 209 Milwaukee 210 Newport, R. 1 210 The seed trade 212 Greenhouse building 214 News notes 216, 218 The American Institute Fair, held at the Madison Square Garden, New York, includes displays of flowers and plants, extending over a period of three weeks, beginning October 5. The chrysanthe- mum display is October 19-24. Generous premiums have been offered. Particulars may be obtaired from Dr. F. M. Hexamer, 52 Lafayette Place, New York. Carnation Notes. In my notes of September 19, No. 433 of this paper, giving a description of our liquid manure tank, I should have been a little more explicit, for several communi- cations received touching this matter reminded me that I missed giving the size of our tank, so one may ascvrtain how much fresh materials to use to make it of the same strength as ours, in smaller or larger tanks or barrels. The small part of our tank, the reservoir of the fiesh ma- nure, holds 335 gallons, or about 7 bar- rels. The larger part is about three times that size, but it is immaterial how large it is, as it is only to receive the ready liquid for use. As the different drawings from the small tank cannot be of even strength (for the first drawing after new material has been added, will certainly be the strongest) the receptacle to receive this should be large enough to allow a stirring and mixing of the same. The proportion of material given in my de- scription in No. 433 of this paper, will to my estimation make a liquid that can be freely givtn and needs no further dilution with water; it will not be too strong. To explain further. When I add fresh material in proportions as described be- fore, the mass will rise to the surface and will raise from 6 to 8 inches above the level in the tank inside of 24 hours. When I want to draw off I fill up with water as described. The stirring and thinning with water stops fermentation tempora- rily, and the mass w ill settle very quick, leaving the clear liquid on top when I draw it off. The mass begins to feiment again inside of 12 hours and rises again to top, so only the stirring and mixing with water enables me to obtain the clear liquid, and this is now diluted enough for ready use. I can draw off from 'i tt-iVi of the contents in the tank when filled up to the top, but will repeat again, only fill up with water preceding the drawing off again, otherwise I will have no chance to do so, for most of the mass will be on top. To start with preparing liquid manure in this manter: For the beginning take double the amount of manures as given when only to add to that already used, and fill up with water to make the recep- tacle about half full; it will take then a week or two before the mass will fully fermt nt. When once in full fermentation operation can be run on fast. Now when the time comes that we must occasionally have fire beat, take advan- tage of it and place sulphur on the heating pipes. It is the best cure and preventive for spot and fungous diseases altogether. Fred. Dorner, Watering in Field. I notice what Mr. Scott says on page 128 about watering carnations. I don't think that Mr. Scott would have to live in Kansas more than one year before he would change his mind. I have often read in our trade papers the time to water plants was when they weredrv; that was intended for plants in pots. I think that is a good rule for plants in the field or open ground. I have always made it a rule to keep the soil well stirred and pulverized, and not water anythirg until the ground is dry enough for plants to wilt, then I give them a good watering (not sprinkling) stir the top as soon as dry enough to work, and keep on so through the season. I am just putting in my carnations and they are as nice plants as any eastern plants I ever saw. During our dry season, which lasts from five to eight weeks, mercury dancing up and down from 98° to 106° in the shade, and at times hot winds blowing at the rate of 25 to 30 miles an hour scorching everything green in its wake, look at your plants and see their need of water. Chas. p. Mueller. The American Carnation Society. At a meeting in Cleveland the following scale cf points was adopted as the ofBciai scale of this Society, to be used in judging all seedlings: Calyx 20 Size 15 Stem 15 Substance 10 Form 15 Fragrance 10 Plant 15 Total 100 There was some discussion as to what would constitute the points on a plant, and it was decided to instruct the judges to be governed in their decision by the habit, health, freedom of bloom and its general adaptability to make a good commercial variety. The premium list will be issued at the usual time, and similar to the one used last meeting in New York. The same charge will be made for three- year-old seedlings competing for the Society's cer- tificate of merit, namely: Five dollars for each seedling so exhibited. Those varie- ties that were exhibited in New York as two-year-old seedlings can be entered in the three-year-old classin Cincinnati upon the payment of three dollars. Two-year- old seedlings can compete for a prelim- inary certificate upon the payment of two dollars, and they can then compete at the next meeting in the three-year-old class for the society's certificate of merit upon 202 The American Florist. Oct. 3, the payment of an additional three dol- lars. The dividing line between light and dark pink for this meeting will be William Scott instead of Tidal Wave, as per last list. A number of names were suggested for essays — they and their subjects will be announced later on. The question box will be a prominent feature, and ques- tions can be forwarded to the secretary at any time prior to the meeting. It has also been suggested that a number of growers (the more the better) keep a memoranda of the different varieties they grow; how they have grown in the field; how they transplant into the houses; how they grow them inside; their freedom and quality of bloom, and any other items of interest to the society they may present during the season good as well as bad, such memoranda to beforwarded to the secretary the first week in February, 1897. Originators of new varieties as soon as they have them named should send in the names with a short description of the variety to the secretary for registration, and thus avoid the confusion resulting from the duplication of names. This ap- plies to those who are not members of the society as well as to those who are, and there is no charge connected with it in anyway. H. L.Sunderbruch, Pres. Diseased Carnations. Ed. Am. Florist. — We send you by ex- press samples of carnation plants which we are in doubt whether to bed in ornot. Kindlv give us your o(.inion of the plants. Iowa. M. & R. The plants have been badly affected with bacteriosis, that caused half of the leaves to dry up; and the young growth shows the same disease, but not so badly as it evidently had been before. With proper care the plants will outgrow this disease, but it will be quite a time before good blooms can be expected from such plants. Fred. Dorner. Rose Notes. ', J. I. A., Michigan, writes that his roses planted in June are showing an inclina- tion to weak ttem?; the buds seem to be too heavy for the stem to support; other- wise the plants are in fine condition. What can be done to stiffen up and strengthen the stems? The answering of this question shall torm the basis of my notes this week. Thin stems a"d weak growth are often caused by insufficient ventila ion and lack oflifiht. It si.meiimes happens that the shading put on the glass in the spring sticks tenaciously all through the sum- mer, doing no harm perhaps while the sun is high ani the days long, but if it is not removed before a given time in the fall, say the middle of August, it is pretty certain to cause trouble. Again 1 have known men in charge of rose houses who were literally scaie 1 to death if a puff of wind through the ventil&t ir3 should strike the plants, and consequently when- ever there happened to be a little breeze the sashes must be opened only just so far and no farther, regardless of the tem- perature of the house. The excuse is the plants will surely get mildew, and they must guard against that at all hazards. It seems to me that this is inline with the conduct of some people in regard tocatch- ing cold, they keep the temperature of their houses at 80° and upwards and when they are compelled to venture out- doors, notwithstanding theirextra wraps they take cold; yet they Wcnder how it is that some people who appear to be indifferent to heat or cold are healthier than they. It is next to impossible to always keep the cool air from our plants so it is much more sensible to grow them in such a way that the air will be a bene- fit to them rather than an injury. I would suggest that the ventilators if closed during the night, be opened in the morning as soon as the temperature reaches 63°, and be kept open during the day just as wide as j'our judgment will permit. Too much water at the root will cause a weak growth, and especially if accom- panied by a close high temperature; justa trifle on the dry side is always the safest, especially in the fall. It is possiblethat the soillacks nitrogen, in which case J. I. A. might improve his plants by giving them a mulch. Roses benched as early as June will as a rule be ready for a little extra nourishment. The heavy waterings necessary during the hot weather wash out the soil and reduce its bu k, and a covering of one inch of good rich material will assist them very materially at this time, giving the roots a chance to strike upwards where the sun and air can act upon them. In place of all manure as is sometimes used, I prefer half manure and half soil, and unless we have reason to think our plants are already well supplied with these materials I would sprinkle through the compost when mixing some fine ground bone and wood ashes. I much prefer mulching at this season of the year to manure water; the latter is liable to produce a sofc growth, very susceptible to mildew and other diseases, and the result may be the very opposite of that for which we were striving. Before putting on the mulch the plants should be tied neatly, the dead and decay- ing leaves picked off and the surface of the soil loosened; after the operation of mulching, the paths should be cleaned, the space under the beeches raked to sweeten it and we shall then have a respectable looking hou»e that we can take pleasure in. Robt. Simpson. Disfigured Foliage. Have received several rose leaves from A. B.C., Philadelphia. Comp'aiutis made that plants here and there all over the house have the foliage disfigured similar to that enclosed in the letter. The first thought of A. B. C. was that the leaves were burned by bad glass, but he is now convinced that there is some other cause for the trouble. As far as I can judge from the dry foliage, there is sun burn caused by blisters or imperfect glass, scjj Id, the result of too hot and dry an atmosphere, and perhaps a strong breeze at the same time, which seems to compel the foliage to throw off moisture more rapidly than therootscansupply it, hence the scald. Ttiere is also the appearance of black spot; though of this I am not Vositive. As a preventive I would suggest that the glass be looked over very care- fully on the first cloudy day and every blister, small or large be covered on the inside with white paint, by using a very small brush this can be done without making the roof look unsightly. The only remedy for scalding as far as I know is to maintain a moist atmosphere during the hottest part of the day by spraying overhead and sprinkling the paths. Houses with solid beds and brick walls and cement walks are more liable to have the plants injured in this particular way than would a house having raised wooden benches. For black spot I would refer A. B. C. to "Rose notes" in last week's issue where the subject is treated quite fully. I think there is nothing very serious the matter with the house of roses and there is not much cause for alarm. Robt. Simpson. Long Island Notes. Like many another grower for the New York market who in the past has raised chrysanthemums extensively and in great variety, Mr. J. H. Taylor has come down this year to three sorts. Major Bonnaffon, W. H. Lincoln and Mrs. Jerome Jones, and the number of these planted is not large. Mr. Taylor had at one time under cultivation one hundred and thirty-nine varieties. This place is the place in which to see tea roses two, three or even seven years old in the benches and producing flowers with stems that are impossible on young stock. About thirty per cent, of Mr. Taylor's roses are thus treated. The plants are pruned and started into growth at different times, a space of about two weeks elapsing between the different prunings so that the crops will be distributed. About six weeks from the time of pruning the first crop may be ex- pected. The second crop is ready to cut after another six weeks and is the most important, as the first crop gives many small inferior blooms. Later in the sea- son the variation in flowering caused by pruning at different periods, disappears. The advantages or otherwise of prun- ing low down, also the comparative results from bushes left upright and those with the canes bent horizontally are be- ing carefully tested by Mr. Taylor and his conclusions will be of great value to rose growers. On the side benches tying down is the only available plan with plants that grow vigorously. In one set of side benches where the young roses were planted as late as last July the long shoots are already tied down and a great crop of buds is in sight. Medium length stems are of course all that can be ex- pected in this case. When the plants get crowded every alternate row is removed to give room to the rest. Bride and Bridesmaid constitute the great bulk of the roses grown here. An interesting point is a house of American Beauties, three years old which have received the treatment usually given to hybrid perpetuals and on which the main crop is expected early in November. There is a fine lot of Meteors, young plants mainly, Mr. Taylor having noted a disposition in this variety to produce overneavy buds on the strong wooel which grows on old plants and where this is the case Meteoris no good. The John Henderson Company's place at Flushing is in pretty good shape this season. The greatest drawback which Mr. Hillman has to encounter in running this establishment is that the houses are most of them old and their aspect such that they get but little good light in the winter months. Nine of the oldest struct- ures have been demolished the past sum- i8g6. The American Florist. 203 POND OF AQUATICS. HUMBOLDT PARK, CHICAGO. mer but there is still a big establishment left. Brides in their second and third year on shallow benches are breaking finely and look very promising. Some of the old plants have been cut back very hard, a process regarded generally as rather risky, but these appear to be all right at this date. One house is filled vtith Brides- maids which have been transplanted from the house in which they bloomed last winter, and these too seem to be in good form. Outside are the boxes of hybrids such as Magna Cbarta, etc., which will be taken in later on. The houses intended for these are being utilized for a crop of chrysan- themums. The low price of chrysani he- mums in the cut flower market, and the even worse cordition of the hybrid per- petual industry since the American Beauty and Meteor came to the front makes results from this combination of crops exceedingly doubtful and there is less of it done the present season in this neighborhood than ever before. Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints. From now on for the next month is a critical time with the houses. Many days it will be too warm to need a fire and many days it will be damp and cold. It is poor economy to save a few tons of coal even with the commonest plants. Rose growers will tell you how essential a little fire and air is at this time of year, not only essential but absolutely neces- sary, if success is looked for, so all damp cool days fire up and open your ventila- tors and you will have a healthy atmos- phere in the houses. Before the frost has injured the roots of cannas they should be lifted and stored away for winter. I find no better place to winter the roots than beneath a rose house bench or any bench where the tem- perature does not go below 50°, and where there is not much water falling on them; don't place them on the ground, for the m jisture will start them growing which you don't want, place them on boards. If you want to increase any new choice variety you need not put them to rest; you can dividethem when lifting and either pot the divisions or place them on a bench in 4 ar 5 inches of soil. In this way you can greatly increase your stock of all standard varieties. It is better to trust to buying yourstockin early spring than occupy space with them during win- ter, fjr they are now sold very low; such immense quantities of all the leading varieties are now planted that stock is always plentiful. If you grow any Linum trigynum it is not too late yet to give itonemore shear- ing; a loose scrambling plant of this showy yellow flower is useless, while a perfectly cc mpict round plant sells well; with all its tendency to quickly drop its flowers there is such a multitude of them that it 19 a gay plant for two months. The coolest house will grow them. An- other cool house plant, chiefly valuable at Easter, is the Cytisus racemosus. It will bear any amount of clipping, but this is about late enough to give it its last stopping. If yon want any early fuchsias and have kept over some plants they should be allowed very little water for two or three weeks, when thev will ripen their wood. Then shake off the old soil, shorten back the weak shoots, and start going agfiin ia a warm house and keep well syringed; they will soon break and give you good cuttings. I heard only a few days ago from a neighbor who has just returned from a holiday in England that the world renowned firm of Veitch of London have taken up the fuchsia and are growing it in immensequantities. If it is the tad there for a few years it will sure to be here, so be prepared for it. Time was when we used to ge': three times the price for a fuchsia that we asked for a geranium, but that day is gone, and they are so easily raised and now raised in such quantities that they have found their level, and a little below it; familijrity has bred contempt, but after all what a beautiful plant it is. In these days you must keep your cinerarias as cjol and light as possible; they cannot have too much air, and never let them get pot-bound. If you expect good cinerarias keep them shifted as they need it. Their great enemy is the green aphis. I never saw the greenfly fatten up so quickly on any other plant. If I were going to raise the greenfly for exhibition fu''pcs;s I showed certainly feed it on cineraria. So many times have good gardeners written about fumigating that I can add nothing, butremind you thatin a well regulated greenhouse the aphis should not be seen. If you have once got the fly killed a weekly fumigating will keep them down; do the smoking as 204 The American Florist. Oct. J, regularly as you would the watering. You would not dream of letting a bench of plants go for another day if they were in need of water, so consider your time for fumigating just as important. We have found this fall that the Rose Leaf extract of tobacco has been a wonderful help to us, but it is not so easy applied on all plants. On chrysanthemums, cjcla- men and Harrisii lilies it is all you want. A strength one part of the extract to fifty of water is sudden death to all aphis, not only that, but it gives the foliage a fine glossy green appearance, and quite possibly it is somewhat of a stimulant; there is certainly no injurious effect from it. You will soon be called on to plant tulips and hyacinths for your customers; don't plant too thin. For a good effect tulips should not be more than six inches apart and hyacinths not more than eight inches; closer is better. And get them well down in the ground; six inches deep is not too much, they will work up to the surface before they are in flower. The varieties of tulips are endless. Five first- class varieties are the following: La Reine, white, Rose Grisdelin.pink, Water- loo, scarlet, Yellow Prince, yellow, and Kaizer Kroon, red and yellow. They are all single and early, that's agreat advan- tage because they can be rested a week or two after flowering and be out of the way before the time for planting geraniums, cannas or other summer floweringplants. You won't get your azaleas and rhodo- derdrons for a week ortwo, but when you do please don't forget to soak the ball of roots in a tub of water for five minutes; they often arrive quite dry and if potted in that state no amount of watering In the usual way would penetrate the ball. Pot firmly, ramming down the new soil firmly with a blunt stick. I never found it injured the azaleas in the least to cut off a portion of the big ball of earth and roots that they usually arrive with; a sharp hatchet will answer the purpose finely. If you kept all the roots on they would need a pot that would be entirely too large for appearance sake or for the benefit of the plant. Acool house or cold frame kept rather close for a few weeks is the best place for them when first potted. William Scott. Ardisia Crenulata. This good old plant is grown quite ex- tensively by Mr. James Dean, Bay Ridge, N. Y., as a pot plant for store sales and be has never had enough of it to fully meet the demand. The plant is of slow growth and must be two years old to produce berries. The two year old size is very largely used as a centerfor fern pans and gives much satisfiction, as it will carry its pretty red btrries all winter and even into the following summer. He gets his seed from plants that come unshapely or are unsalable from some similar reason and sows in boxes in spring. It takes the seed about two months to germinate. When of sufficient size the seedlings are potted into small pots. Some growers grow them along in the house during ^the summer while others plant outside in partial shade. The plants should have an abundance of air and should never be forced, which rule applies of course to all hardwooded plants, to which section the ardisia be- longs. If forced the result will be a weakening of the growth upon which the berries are produced the succeeding year and as a result the berries will lack size and color, and these are thetwoessentials of a first-class, salable plant. In winter the temperature in the house should be kept at about 50°. By the second vear the plants will be in 4-inch pots. This is the size most largely used lor fern pans. Those to be used as speci- men pot plants should be 3 to 4 years old. At wholesale the 4-inch size sell in the New York market at 35 cents to 50 cents each, according to the way they are ber- ried. The specimen pot plants, 3 to 4 years old, biing from $1 to $3 each, but the major part of the stock is marketed while ot the 2-year size. The seed can be had from the larger seedsmen, or a good way to establish a stock would be to get a half dozen plants from someone who grows the ardisia and save the seed from these to start with. This would insure having the seed fresh. Black Aphis. Will you please tell me how to get rid of the little black bug on the chrysanthe- mums, also a white slimy substance form- ing on and near the bud. I find a little yellow bug or egg. Does this foreign substance injure the plants? W. M. G. The little black bugs to which W. M. G. refers are probably the black aphis and thej' can be killed by constant fumigation with tobacco smoke. If the plants are not in the houses sprinkle tobacco dust upon the plants, particularly where the bugs are and on the ends of the shoots and this will keep the insect in check. The slimy substance referred to we have never seen, unless the sticky substance formed by the aphis is what is meant. Elijah A. Wood. Kate Brown Grown to Crown Bud. I have a bench of Kate Brown chrys- anthemums that commenced to set buds August 25. I disbudded all but thecrown bud and now the3- have grown to a good size, but they al! seem to keep on in stem and look as though there was no solid bud below, throwing out small, long leaves as they grow. Are these buds all right to bring good flowers early; if not is there any remedy for the mistake? Iowa. In reply to "Iowa" I should say that his buds were all right, but do not quite understand what he means by saying that there is nosolid bud below. Itseems that he, from his letter, has taken the crown bud and if that bud is selected, all the shoot shou'd be grown to a single flower and all the buds that form on the off-shoots below the bud should be re- moved. We have not grown Kate Brown f jr years, and do not know what its pe- culiarities when grown to crown buds might be. Elijah A. Wood. New York Chrysanthemum Committee. The committee on seedling chrysanthe- mums of tbe New Yoik Florists' Club will meet at Madison Square Garden Music Hall on October 3, 10 and 17, to pass on the merits of such flowers as shall be submitted. Packages should be addressed New York Florists' Club, care Dr. F. M. Hexamer, Madison Square Garden, New York City, and expressage should be prepaid. Eugene Dailledouze, Chairman. Expense of Building. I have spent $1,750 for the following work: Two newgrcenhouses, onel9xl00 glazed with double diamond glass 16x16 inches, the other 25x100, with 10x12 single glass. The houses join one another. The walls around tie two houses four feet high, double plank, and concrete between the planks. All the wood work had two coats of white paint. A small boiler shed 25x12; also a 50 horse power tubular boiler, steam, two rows of IVi-icch pipe overhead, return 5 rows of inch pipes on each side in each house with necessary valves, and iron smoke stack to boiler 40 feet high, diameter 30 inches, this putting in necessary pipes for steam in two oH greenhouses 60x17, which were previously heated with hot water; build- ing small porch 8x10 and a glass shed 12x60 to connect the old and new houses together using old sash for the shed, the two new houses having continuous venti- lators, worked by crank, and have the necessary tables in them. Did I get value for money? Subscribhr. "Subscriber" has done well, not only well but he has a great bargain. The price he quotes as cost of his two bouses IS only about one-half what a reputable horticultural builder would want for that amount of greenhouse, but they would possibly use iron rafters and purlins and perhaps iron posts where "Subscriber" has used wood. When the boss him3elf is a good deal of a builder and throws in his valuable time and some labor, and best of all his experience, and builds houses 20 feet wide all ready for the plants ten dollars per lineal foot is building cheaply, and then you can't heat old houses on the side or build porches. "Subscriber" gives a small sketch of the two houses three- quarter span and attached. He does not say which way they face. If the short span is to the south he will get light, and it is to be hoped that he has not made the mistake of joining them together with the long span to the south, if so half of the north house will be useless. In conclu- sion if "Subscriber" find finds his houses satisfactory in every way he will confer a favor on his brother florists by adver- tising his contractor. Wm. Scott. Cannas in i8g6. In addition to the new varieties of cannas described in our annual report to the Society of American Florists in Au- gust last I ought to mention a few sorts not in bloom at that time. Yellow Burbank, from California, is probably the best yellow in cultivation now, very large flowers of a handsome bright shade of nearly pure yellow. That variety, however, like Italia and other crosses of flaccida type, requires to be grown under good conditions to develop well. AmiPeseux (Crozy),a canna with flow- ers similar to Chas. Henderson, hut much earlier and freer to bloom, will, in our estimation, prove a good substitute for Alphonse Bouvier. A further trial of Pres. Cleveland (Pfis- ter) confirms our high opinioo of that variety. The sturdy habit ot the p'.iat, with its large massive trusses of blooms, which are the largest of the canna tribe. i8g6. The American Florist. 205 FANCY BEDDING. HUMBOLDT PARK, CHICAGO. SO freely produced, and bright red color, places it at the head of all our cannas for practical purposes, not even excepting Mme. Crozy. Other new varieties in our collection have not proved of sufficient value to be noticed, and are superseded by better ones. Denys Zirngiebel. Needham, Mass. New Cannas. The award committee of the New York Florists' Club has given certificates of merit to four of James Dean's seedling cannas. The committee, consisting of J. N. May, E. Dailledouze and P. MacDon- ald, handed in the following report: Wm. McKinley: Almost identical in color with Chas. Henderson, but a more robust grower, blooming earlier and more freely, having a strong vigorous consti- tution. Defender: Pale yellow deeply marked and heavily blotched with bright red, slightly deeper than Cmzy color. A handsome canna with bold round petals, distinct and effective. Embla: Yellow ground with deep red shaded throat, gradually gro jving fainter toward the edge of the petals, wh'ch make it a very effective and distinct canaa. Oae of its best features is the gladiolus-like shape of flower, giving it a distinct and artistic finish. An unnamed seedling: Clear yellow throughout, nice round petals; an acquis- ition in this color. Keepmg Cannas Over Winter. In lifting cannas take upas much soil as possible with the clumps and place under the benches in the greenhouse. They keep best in a house with a temperature of40°to45°. Never water them when in this temperature and c irefuUy avoid drip fnm the benches. If in a house with a higher temperature than above the usual hosing and syring- ing in such a house will generally supply sufficient moisture to keep tbe clumps from dryiDgout, but they should be exam- ined frequently and moisture given where a tendency to dry out is noted. J. D. Plant Bed Cloth. The following from Newark, NY'.: "We frequently have occasion to use water proofed cloth for covering cold frames, etc., but have not yet found any prepara- tion that is thoroughly satisfactory for rendering the cloth thoroughly water- proofed and for preserving ic. We believe that some preparation which has par- afine in its composition is the best for the purpose, but do not knowjust what pro- portion of parafine to use or what other material is necessary. Can vou give us any information upon the subjectthrough the columns of the Florist?" I have used for covering cold frames in the spring and fall a material known as patent plant bed cloth. The medium grade is ttick erough, costing about 7 cents per yard. After being fastened on the sash frames I gave it two coats of linseed oil and is the sash has a dip of 6 inches in 6 feet very little water will pass through the cloth. There may be a com- position that would renJer it absolutely water proof, but while doing so I fancy it would render the cloth too opaque to grow plants tinder. Wm. Scott. New York. It is fortunate that so many rose grow- ers are agreed at the present time upon the wisdom of disbudding. A great many of them are picking off the buds as last as they appear. A grower who does so while p-esentconditions exist not only strengthens his plants for the winter crop but assists the local market materially by keeping down the surplus and is thus a real benefactor to the iDusiness in gen- eral. Tbe present week is like the last, charEclerized by dullness in all depart- ments. Prices are unchanged and every- thing remains as reported last week, ex- cepting that chrysanthemums are slowly but surely multiplying. Mr. E. G. Uihltin, one of the commis- sioners of the West Side Parks, Chicago, has been in New Yjrk for a few days and has visited a number of establishments in search of rare botanical orchids, a spe- cialty in which he is deeply interested and of which he has the finest collection in the United States. He has just completed an extensive ran^e of glass which is to be de- voted exclusively to them. The schedule of premiums offered in the horticultural department of the American Institute Fair has been issued. The exhi- bitions vsill be held in the Concert Garden of Madison Square G irden from Ojtober 5 to 24 inclusive. Ornamental plants, dahlias, gladioli, sweet peas and miscella- neous cut flowers are provided for in the first week, and competition is open toall. It is hardly the season in which to expect much in the way ejf sweet peasor gladioli. In the second week commercial gardeners, florists and nurserymen are excluded from competition. The daily papers have given currency to a harrowing tale of a young lady (an actress, asusual) who wash idly poisoned by the odor of a box of violets received from California. Not at all surprising. The odor of a violet after a trip across the continent will never become popular with perfumers. Better procure them nearer hone. 206 The American Florist. Oct. s, Opoosite George Stumpp's store near the 59 1 h street entrance to Central Park stands a horse-chestnut tree which at pres- ent is well covered with blossoms and attracts much attention. Wm, Elintt is running two auction sales a week now, and last week be squefzed in a third one at the Lovett Compiny's place in Little Silver. The old gentleman is tough as whalebone. The Bi-ideeman Company has been in- corporated with a capi al of $4 000 to transact a plant and flower business in this city. Mr. S. Keller of R ed & Keler, arrived from Europe last Friday on steamship Columbia. The Rosary Flower Company will re- move to 365 Fifth averu" on October 1. Visitors ia town: L. I. N ff, Pittsburg, Pa.; J. Comont, ot "Carters'," L^"don; W. C. Langbridge, Cambridge, N. Y.; H. G. Faust, Pniladelphia; E. S. Haskell, New B .riford and A. Ingram representing Hugh Low & Co., England. Boston. The garden committee of the Mass. Horticultural S'ciety with other invited guests spent a very pleasant afttrnoonon S ptember 23 visiting the estate of Mr. D ivid Nevins at South Framingham. Tre place comprises sbout five hundred acres and was, until Mr. Ncvins acquired it six years ago, a wild, unimproved tract. It is now a beautiful estate with trees and shrub! ery, lawns, fl >wer-beds and well-kept drives. Alex McKay has been the gardener in charge for the past four years and has well seconded his employ- er's wishes. Conifers are planted exten- sively and all the finer and rarer varieties are seen in great numbers. In violets Mr. McKay specially excels, having taken most, of the first premiums at the exhibi- tions of late years. The plants aremostly in T-icch pots in frames and are simply grand. Marie Louise, Farquhar, Camp- bell, Czar, Califnrnia and Swanley White are all in beauiful condition, each plant being a mound of healthy dark green foliage without a trace of disease. Stuck frequently comes here with disease on it, buc Mr. McKay invariably cures it. Tbere are many violet growers about here who would give considerable to be able to do likewise. Among the most at- trac.ive things inside the greenhouses are some grapes in 12 inch pots well furnished with luscious bunches of fruit Mr. Mc- Kay has a pure yellow canna; flower well formed and color deep and brilliant. Last Saturday at Horticultural Hall, George HoUis sh'wed a fin; collection of hardy asters, including S'.me 36 species and varieties. A dec ded improvement in this useful flower is difcernable each year. On Saturday, October 3, 'h; annual election of cfiicersot the Sjciety occurs. The ticket is almost identical with that elected U st year and no opposition is at present in sight. Andrew McDrrmott, an old-time florist and J urserjman.ditd at his home inR x- bury on September 24, at the age ot 76 He retired from business some years ago and was reported to be wealthy. The Boston Myccilogical Club's exhi- bitions at Horticultural Hall this season have been remarkable, and theattendance and interest displa J ed have been simply astcn shing. L'-ist Saturday's show com- prised nearly 150 species of edible and poisonous musbrc'Oms, correctly named, some of them beau'ifully colored. N. F. McCarthy & Co. s jld at auction on 28. h ult. a fine lot of palms and dec- orative stock from Siebrccht & Wadley's New Rochelle establishment. Prices ob- tained were very good. Ed. Hdtch sojd a similar lot for Julius R >ehrs and J. M. Keller on Wednesday, 29 h ult., also with satisfactory results. A un que feature of The Twombly Com- pany's new store is an octagonal-shaped refrigerator which is placed in the center <-f theflnor. The interior is divided across by a double mirror, so that the view from two sides of the refrigerator is different. It is a very ingenious contrivarce. P.Welch and Fred Mathieson have gone on a trip to Montreal and Buffalo. Visiting Boston: Martin Rtukauf, Phil- adelphia; Winfried R ilker. New York; Wm. Appleton, Providence. Philadelphia. It is just as difficult to gather a few items this week as it was last- More familiar sun-browned faces are appearing on the street, but most of these still fight shy of the interior of the stores, but it is f 'und on comparison to be little, if any, w 'rse than other Septembers. Tfe grow- ers are doing their part, and the stock of all kinds except pofsibly carnations is fully up to standard; many carnations almost ready to open their buds have been left on the plants, and these on developing are not very good, but they seem to go at some price. The question of the fiikir who handles n'arly all the surplus is still an open one, and we pre- sume will forever continue, especially when the stock is plentiful. House plants seem to be moving a little, and it would seem that the corners and windows of the room are beautified before the tablets noticed. The stock of violets is a very strong one, and tbere are more about than can be used; a number of new grow- ers are appearing. The new dahlia Clifford W. Burton, sent in by W. P. Peacock this week and exhib itedii; J.Kift & Son's window, is the finest thing of the kind we have ever .seen. At a short distance it resembles a fine chry s- anthemum, the shape of the flower and length of stem giving it that appearance. K. Chicago. The grand collection of native asters now in bloom in the heibaceous garden at Lincoln Park makes a splendid show and speak volumes for the value of the native aster in making an eff ciive late fall display. The collection was made by Mr. J. A. Pettigrew while superintendent of tne park, and includes a number of varieties collected by himself and not usu- ally seen in gar fens. Poehlmann Bros, of Morton Grove, cut and sent in on S.'ptember 29 fourteen blooms of the pink chrysanthemum Mar quis de Montmort, ard cut three to four Oi zen blooms October 1. They have five houses of chrysanthemums this year. Merry Monarch looks fii e and will be in bloom next week. They have one house of Bonnaffon and Jines with stiff stems four feet and over in length. These will be in about show time. Nearly all the others are showing color. Although city trade is still very dull, shipping has been better during the past week.Hiid an early improvement is looked for. Tbere is not quite such a glut of stock; rosesare better, and aood shipping stock is tolerably firm at $3. Carnations of all kinds are scarce, but ispcially white; no doubt the process of lifting has lessened the quantity. They are firm at 75 cents to $1. Asters are about done, and tuberoses are growing scarce, thus further limiting the available white stock. Violets have mide their appeararc.both double and single; they are held at 75 cents and $1. S^me of the Califotnias are very fine, and really preferable to the doubles. S jme growers have experi- mentcl with violets inside all summer; such plants, especially Californias. are said to be blooming now more freely than those which have suffered the check of lifting. Cosmos has made its ap- pearance, and is sold three bunches for a dollar. Dihlias are not very plentiful. There is still a plentiful stock of gail- lardias, marguerites, mignonette, etc. Miss Letta Spencer, who has had for some time a retail stand in the Illinois Central Station, died this week after a very brief illness, of pneumonia. Miss Spencer was greatly resp;cted by all who knew her, and her many estimable quali- ties gained her warm friends in both busi- ness and social life. Mr. Washburn is at present sufferirg from a badly inflamed hand and wrist, the result of a scratch received in hand- ling roses. The trade is discussi ig the possibility of taking part in the Sound Money paradeon Chicago Day, by the exh.b.tion of a handsome and appropriate float. R cent visitors: A. E. Jacobs, repre- senting Thompson. Anderson & Kennedy, Sr. Lou s; J. A. Evans of Quaker City Machine Works, R'cbmond, lud. Buffalo. On the morning of the 22d this part of the world was visited by a heavy frost, five or six degrees, unusually early even for this locality; I have n Jt heard of any serious loss among thecrafr, but doubt- less all were more or less unprepared. It settled outside fl)wers and made the demand for roses and carnations livilv. Business is sli>winsr signs of improve- ment, but take all things together, was there ever a worse timi ? The d.ffieulty of collecting accounis is appalling. Let us h pe whatever happens in N jvember that the result will be an improvement. Mr. S. A. Anderson hdS taken the coun- t E.\-chani;d St.. Buffalo. N. V. SITUATION WANTED-By Al rose grower; ,S years' experience: Mge2,S; single: steaayand tober. Kx- perlence with general greenhouse work- South pje- ferred. Address BAG. care American p'lorlst. SITUATION WANTEO-By a flrst-clasa cut flower grower. Speelallet In ruses, (^apable of taking charge of place, t'lrst-cliiss relerences. Age '•'K). State wages. Address T. H. R.\NI)Al,L. ;i.'>4 Central Ave., Cleveland. O. SrrUATlO.V WANTED— By young woman to work under successful retail florist and grower 01 cut flowers. Wages no object. Some experience. Wis- consin or vicinity. Miki.\.m .IKWtTT. care Sparta Nurseries. Sparta, Wis. SITUATION WANTED— By thorough, practical gar- dener with ■-'() years' expeilence: married; age ;ij First-class references. Krull, plant and vegetable growing; also care of lawns and shrubbery. For par- ticulars address Box !i;i, Marion, Mass. SITUATION WANTED-By florist of -211 years' expe- rience In Europe and the United States; (Jenuan. sing e. iV> years of age; temperate, and not afraid of work. Will take care of greenhouses. Best references given. Address P. O. Box 88. Onarga, III. SITUATIO.N WA.NTED-Praclical commercial gar- dener and florist, also good maker-up, well ac- (junlnted with the leading cut flower trade, also In growing ferns, palms, cyclamens, violets; age 33 sin- gle, r. years' experience. R S, care Am, Flurlst, SITUATION WANTBD-In Europe; middle aged man, speaks, writes English German and Frencn: specialist In raising roses, carnations and all kinds of cut flowers; for flve years and at present fo'-eman for the largest rose and plant grower of New Jersey. Best of references, I.ATANIA, care Am, Florist. ANTED— A flrst-class rose grower at once. Ad- dress KosEGltowER, care Am l^lorlst. w WANTED— Practical correspondent to write "Floral Notes' for monthly magazine devoted to flori- culture. O K G, care American Florist WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrst-class chance to establish himself. Address 1) U B. care American Klorlst. WANTf^D— A flrst-class grower of ruses, carnations, violets, 'mums, piilma, and ageneral lot of stock, to t'ke charge as wurktnK foreman. State wages and send references. J. F. Wilcox. Council Bluffs, la. TV"^ ANTED— A lady or gentleman with experience In VV retail store competent to wait on customers, make up floral designs and do general store work: flrst-class references necessary. Address, stating age, e.xperlence and salary expected, P. O. Box 680. Pawlucket. R 1. FOR SALE-Or will rent: 8 greenhouses 100x20 well stocked with carnations and calias. Kor partic- ulars address Mrs. P. F. Lai', River Grove. HI. FOR SALE-Two No. 7 and one No. ^ Ilerendeen boilers in splendid condition; only been used two years. Cheap Apply to G. K. JONES. 1011 Tacoma Building. Chicago. Large plants and shrubbery, such as Laurustlnue, Lemon Trees (seedllngsi. Flcus Elastk-a and Australia, Pomegranates, Orange Trees. Ijaorus Noblle. Olean- ders. Agaves. large English Ivies, Euphorbias, etc. For particulars Inquire of THEO. NOEHLE, Creen Bay, Wis. TO RENT FOR TEN YEARS. An old greenhouse establishment (eleven houses), established 40 years. Owner wealthy, and healtli fall- ing, wishes to retire. Kent *10ii per month. Located In one of the best, prettiest and aristocratic cities of New England. Electric cars pass every three minutes, flve minutes from postofflce: population UX) 000; large manufacturing Industries, colleges, etc. ; one hour to Boston, and surrounded by a dozen or more cities, all within iwu or three hours by rail. No applications will be considered unless from responsible parties, or party with backing who means business. For further Information and views of the place correspond with TnE LENOX SPRAYER CO . Pittsfield. Mass. Thoroughly e.xperienced makers-uo; those who are accustomed to high- cl-\ss work and decorations. Good wages to the right parties, FLEISCHMAN, Florist, HOFFMAN HOUSE, NEW VORK. For Sale or Exchange. We have in stock 30,000 ECHEVERIA PLANTS whicii we wibh to sell, or Exchange for Palms or Tropical Plants ,\in>iii-:ss C3MMISS ONERS OF PARKS AND BOULEVARDS. Rooms 7, 8 & 9 Peninsular Bank BIdg, Detroit. Mich, PRIMROSES. Per 100 1000 PRIMROSES, mixed, 2",^ inch pots, . . 8 2,50 5U0 " " 3-inch pots, . , 3,,V) 503 CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 25var,o-in, pots 10,00 40.000 PANSY PL.\NTS , . . .per 1000 8:i,,50; .60 C.\,SH WITH ORDEK PX,EA,st;, JOS. H, CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. ROSE QUEEN, field-grown, strong plants, 85,00 per 100, CARNATIONS, or 540,ti0 per 1000, CCDM? ADIANrUMCUNEATU.M,2^^ in, pots rLnllOl 85 per 100. Sin. 88, 4 in. »l.i, b-in. 8i5 PTEKIS TREMULA, 2H-inch pots. $5 per 100, 3-inch 88, 4.inch 815, 5-inch 820, VIOLETS, field-grown, 85 per 100; 810 per lOOl. Good stock. Cash with order, HENRY A. NIEMEYER, Erie, Pa. Don't Delay. Now is your time to buy CARNATIONS, not infetior surplus hut 'Jim iJandy" pUnts. 100 of either Daybreak, Emily Pierson, Hinzes White, or Wm, Scott tor $5.00, or 25 ot each tor the same money. A few hundred SMILAX PLANTS. ■"~\ n., pots, 8^,25 per 100. These plants are the best wc ever ofTered and are sure lo please, D. WM. BRAINARD, Florist, THOMPSONVILLE. CONN. 210 The American Florist. Oct. J, Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. A.dvertisements, to Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Column, $14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 percent; 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times, 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising Depai-tment of the American Flokist is for Florists, Seedsmen, and dealers in wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember it. Orders for less than one-half Inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure insertion in the issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Milwaukee. Trade the past week has been on the dull order, caused chiefly by the continual rainy weather. Several large weddings livened up things a little, in which Edlef- sen & Scott, C. B. Whitnall and Chas. Schneider figured most conspicuously. The flower business has at last drlft(d into the depaitment stores, Fred Fost^ r starting up in Gitnbel's dry goods hous?, and the Espenhain dry goods Co. opened up with a flower department also. So far they have not created any special furor among the florists. A. Klokncr and John Arnold, both local florists who have been sojourning in Europe, have returned. Mr. Wilson, in chargeof J.C. Vaughan's greenhouses at Western Springs, came up by boat from Chicago, and experietced one of the roughest nights of the season. Mr. Wilson will return by rail, which decision he probably reached before landing. Ellis & Pollworth have made additiors to their stock by adding a complete and extensive line of palms and ferns. Rtcent calkrf: E Haentze and wifj of Fond du Lie; J. E. Mathewson of She- boygan, Wis. Incog. An attractive wedding decoration was arranged by C. F. S.hneider at the Hotel Pfister on the 9th; in the dining room Beauties were used principally, while in the parlor an altar was arranged of palms and lilies. Arrangements are being made for the establishment of a clearing house by the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association, increased business making this accommo- dation necessary. C. B. W. WM. SCOTT, Pres. H. B. BUDDENBORC, Mgr. Newport, R. I. Hodgson informs me that of all years this year's business has excelled— that it is the best season he ever had here. The stores of Siebrecht & Wadley, Gib- son Bros, and Fadden never presented such magnificent show windows and artistic taste in the display of cut flowers, etc. as they did this season. Miss Emma Anderson, for many years with Hass, has opened a store on her own account. Her experience gained while with Mr. Hass certainly entitles her to success. Newport can now boast of two lady florists. Frank Houghton of Houghton & S nitb, Boston, has for some years been the skill- ful assistant of Fadden, the florist, in this city during the busy spell. Mr. Hough- ton is at present the victim cf a bad attack of rheumatism, and he has the sympathv of his many friendsin Newport in his affliction. C. J. M. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED! YOU SAVE 50'^'^ in time and wages by making your Green Garlands and Wreathing on our binding machine. 30 days to responsible parties. Pvice of Machine $8.00. On cash orders 10% o£f. Send for descriptive circulars. THE SCOTT BINDER CO.. 'O :iV;l£iln. street. :BUI^FA.r^O, IV. Y^. wIrEworT WE. — .IMPORTERS OF The New York Cut Flower Go. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. E. F. LEMKE. Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, .^ ST. PAUL, MINN. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET, Bet. Market ,!t Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 & 108 Liberty Street (Basement). i^i riTTr~n~ ^vosck:. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES. For DecuratliiK and all Flurlsta' DcbIkhs. CHAS. H. RtCKSECKER, Linville. Mitchell Co.. N. C. Afl nnn assorted apple TRFES. wholesale. H'UfUUU Yz price. t)rdtr Nurseryman's Revised Financial Directory lO.OUO addre-ses. payable when Bryau is elected -if d^ feated, free. Would ycu buy were offer reversed? Invaluable to horticulturists. Write with references. NEW FRUIT WHOLtSALE NURSERY. New Fruit. Ky. CHAS. W- McKELLAR, GIVE ME YOUR OKDEK.S. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of attention given to the tililpplng trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED. F. WINTERSON, Mgr. CHICAGO. Mention tills paper, ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER CO. .1 15. IJEAMUD, Mgr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CMIC.A.<30. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING. WHOLESALE COMMISSION t FLORIST, 88 WABASH AVENUE. Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN3 Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, — ST. LOUIS, MO. jyA complete line of Wire Desiffim. H. L. SUNOERBRUGH, Wholusak^ Florist 4th and Walnut Streets, DAN'L B. LONG, FLOWERS AT WHOLESALE. strictly Commission Business. LisTsFKBK. BUFFALO, N. Y. Mention American Florist. CUT SMILAX, JOSEPH E. BONSALL, 308 Garfield Ave.. Salem. 0. i8g6. The American Florist. 21] E. H. HUNT, WHOLESaLBPLORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BULBS AND AI.I. FLORISTS' SUPPLIES KENNIGOTT BROS. CO. wnoiGsaio Gut Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIRE \VOKK A SPECIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO. tf you want Flrsi-ClaBs Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you will Ket what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO., ^ST CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, -^ CMICA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all urdera on nhort notice with all leading varieties of Koses nnfi C.irnntlons. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give Us M trill 1 and eunvtnce vourself Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. IiYNCH WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, ^ CHICA.OO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. » CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, Wlioiesaie Florist). 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Agent for finest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©VVRofeAaPe Marfter*. Cut Flowers. NKW YOKK. Sept. 30 Roses. Beauty, e.ttra 6 00 '15 OU common 2.00© 5.00 Meteor. Testoiit l.OOnSO" Kalserin, Bride. Bridesmaid 1.00(3 3.00 all other varieties 50® 2.00 CamattonB. ordinary 15f(« S5 fancy 50® I.IXI Valley 2. mis 3.00 Asters , 25^ ..50 Adlantum .50 AsparaKUS 40.000'!^ 00 Smllax S.UOglO.OO Boston. Sent. 30 Roses. Gontler, NIphetoa 1 Ollii -'.00 Perle. Mermet 2 tlO# 3.(10 Bride. Bridesmaid, Meteor 3 OOS m Beauty 500gl5.llO Carnations 253 50 fancy 50a 1 00 Valley 4 00 Asters : 25® .50 Tuberoses .50 Adlantum 1.00 Smllax.. 10-OOSJ12.0O Aspara^s 50 00 PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 30. Roses Beauties 6.00*8 00 Brides. Bridesmaid. La Franceetc.. . 2.00.9 4.00 Kalserin 3.00® 4.00 small teas 1.00® 2 00 Carnations 40® .75 Smllax I'.OO- 1.". («) Asparagus 35.00(5 50.00 Adlantum 1.00 CHICAGO Roses. Beauties seconds Brides. Bridesmaid 1 Meteors 1 Perle. Wootton 1 Testout 3 " Kalserin 3. Carnations Tuberoses Cannas .35c per bunch Swalnsona, per dozen bunches 1. 00 DaUllas Val lev Smllax 10. Adlantum ST. Louis, Roses. Beauties, long short select stock " general stock Carnations Asters Smllax 10. Ferns, Adlantum Oct 2. .00(810.00 4 00 .OOa 3.00 OOO 3 00 .m-i 2.00 00(.< 4 CO OOal 4.00 ,75(a 1 00 4.U0 1.00 4.00 00912 00 1.00 Oct 1. 10 00 4 00 8.00 1.00 1.00 1 00 00@15 00 1.00 GEORGE fl. SUTtiERLflND, Successor to PECK & SUTHERLAND, Successors to WM. J. STEWART. Gut Flowersi Florists' SuppUes 67 Bromfield St., BOSTON, MASS. New England Agent lor the GREAT ANTIPEST. Mention American Florist. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, FLORISTS' VASES. METS, BRIDES, GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND. 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON. MASS. HORTICtJLTOEAL ADCTIOSEEES. Mention American Florist. WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET, Near Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS. Mention American Florist. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, -NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. THOS. -VOUIVO, Jr., 43 W. 28th St., NEW YORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN, WHOLESALE 39 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street. NEW YORK, WHOLESALE » FLORIST. Careful Shipping to all parts of the coontryi Price list on application. Purdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS. 57 W. 30lh St., NEW YORK. Prepare for Fall Trade. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, Address JOHN YOUNG, 51 W. saTH Street, NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG3 CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34lh Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK, JULIUS LANG, Dealer in WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, Corner 30tm St., NEW YORK. Consignments Solicited. issiTCfllFlmrs, 212 The American Florist. Oct. j> IfRa ^aail ¥rac^a. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. Wood, Pre8. ; Alkx. Rodqers and J. B. Rice, VIce-PreKldenta; A. L. Don, 114 Chambera Street, New York, Sec'v and Treas. The Union Trust Co., Indianapolis, was appointed receiver for the Hunting- ton Seed Co. September 28. Claims are said to aggregate $40,000. Charles P. Braslan has connected himself with Joseph Breck & Sons (Corpo- ration) of Boston. Mr. Braslan will give his personal attention to receiving the growing crops which he formerly con- trolled. He will in addition care for the trade of his friends in the west and south. His present address is 901 Walnut street, Chicago. Jos. Breck & Sons, Boston, have pur- chased the pea and bean growing con- tracts of the Northrup, Braslan, Goodwin Co., in the vicinity of Manitowoc, Wis. Mr. Chas. P. Braslan will undertake the management of the men who have been handling the stock seed, records, and roguing, during the summer season, and will proceed with receiving and ware- housing the crops. Object to Giving Away Seed. Washington, Sept. 22 — D. M. Ferry & Co., the well known seed dealers of De- troit, have applied to the distiict courts for an injur ction to restrain the secretary of agriculture and his assistants and any other person connec'ed with the free dis- tribution of seedsby thegovernmentfrom executing the law of congress directing free seed distribution. The bill claims that the business of Ferry & Co. will be damaged $20,000 by the execution of the act of congress and the sale of 5,000,000 packages of seed taken from the firm. The "Monon Seed Co." Scheme. In his annual report the Postmaster General mentions the above, which devel- oped to astonishing proportions in a very short time. The report says: The plan consisted in advertising prizes valued at from $10 to $100 to persons who forwarded the greatest number of words made up from the let- ters contained in the phrase,* Monon seeds grow." Every competitor, however, was required to send from twelve to fifteen 2-ctnt stamps for a sample package of seeds. After the receipt of the list of words another letter was sent to the contestant commenting on the excellency of the list and an- nouncing that thiee extra ' neighborhood prizes" were offered for the lucky three in that section whose lists were of a superior character. These prizes were gold watches, silver tea sets, etc., but in order to be eligible for this contest it was neces- sary to forward 82.75, in return for which forty beautiful flowering bulbs would be sent the com- petitor. Being thus apparently assured of a prize, the 82.7.^ was as a rule promptly remitted. Soon after this a third letter was sent announcing that the address had won the prize, which would be forwarded on receipt of 81. for which value seeds would be sent. Of course no prizes and but few seeds were ever received by the victims. Although in operation only about two months this scheme netted its promoters about 830,000, and after the fraud order was issued prohibiting the delivery of mail addressed to them about 812.000 was received at Chicago and returned to the senders. The man- agers of the scheme were indicted and are under bond pending trial It may not be out of place to add that the American Florist supplied the P. O. officials with their first information re- garding the operations ot this concern and that material supplied by us formed the basis for the investigation which re- sulted as noted in the report. R. R. Seed Exhibit. The Salzer exhibition car is now being dressed and stocked for its fall tour, and Ahead $ -75 1.25 13.00 7.00 17.00 1.7.-, of all other offers in this line of Bulbs and Florists' Sundries. TISSUE PAPER, 24x31;, ream, 480 sheets, SPHAGNUM MOSS, fresh, barrel, .... RAFFIA, extra, braided, per pound 14c; 100 pounds, CANE STAKES, per 1000 ...... STRAW MATS, 6x6, $1.50 each; - - per dozen, SINGAPORE FIBRE, indestructible, 6V2X6, - each, SEND FOR OUR BULB LIST AND SAVE MONEY. WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, New York. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦4 ^ BULB BARGAINS. j Carrying a full general line ot Forcing Bulbs, we are often by reason < of large stocks, able to make exceptionally low offers on some standard 4 kinds. Florists who can use to advantage Harrisii, Longiflorum, Callas, 1 Romans, Narcissus, or other kinds at a close price are asked to write us j (mentioning kinds they can use) for sizes and prices of our special bargains. \ LILIUM HARRISII, EXTRA. 9-11 INCH. Per 100 $9.00. \ :♦♦ 14 Barclay Street, NEW YORK. VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, 84 4 86 RANDOLPH STREET, CHICAGO. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ PRIMULA SEED. This Year's Crop, Now Ready. Our superb mixture contalDB only the choicest fringed strains, and will give the preatest satisfaction. Trade pkt> 50c. Cineraria Seed. Our strains are unsurpassed for richness of color as well as for size and perfection of form. Trade okt. 50c. HERRMANN'S SEED STORE, 413 E. 34-TH STREET, ^ Near Long Island Ferry, NEW YORK. Agent for LYSOL, the ideal insecticide. TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. s^VnieXS new season's mushroom spawn Is due at this port October 25; will guarantee delivery on time If have your order at once. Redi'CED ritiCEs. Wrltf me to-. ROMANS. Late and last shipment just re- ceived Bulbs open up splendidly The finest lot we have seen for years. Write for special price list. Our Wholesale List, September edition, contains Special inducements to buyers. W. W. BARNARD & GO. CHICAGO. 186 East Kinzie St. Special Offer. PHtENIX RECLINATA, |5 oo per lOOO; 122.50 per 5,000; genuine viriety troiii Natal. LILIUM LONGIFLORUM (Japanese) 6 to 8 in. $22.50 per 1000. cash with order. SCHWAKE SEED CO. (Inc.) 404 East 34th St., NEW YORK. BULBS for FORCING and Gardening, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD TIMES PRICES. HULSEBOSCH BROS.. Englewood. N. J. JUST RECEIVED. Von Slon Hyacinths, Crocus, Tulips, etc. Orders booked now for Indian Azaleas, Palms, Araucarias, Rliododendrons, Clem- atis, Hydrangeas, Spineas, and general nur- sery stock. L. C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. Branch of The Horticultural Co., Boskoop. Holland. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that you saw the advertisement in the American Flors^ i8g6. The Americax Florist. 213 ea * Indioa. OUR importations of AZALEAS are now on the way and will reach us early this month. Our growers report the plants as being even of better quality than last season, which, considering the fact that we distributed last year 25.000 plants without a single complaint, will assure the purchaser that he will receive plants this season that will give entire satisfaction. Our stock is especially grown for us by the most successful cultivators of this plant in Belgium, who have been specialists in this line for many years, and always furnish the best quality procurable. All our plants are repacked at our own Nurseries, so that customers may rely on receiving plants that have stood the journey, and are well set with buds. We handle only varieties adapted to the American trade, principally BERNHARD ANDREAS ALBA, DEUTSCHE PERLE, MME. VAN DER-CRUYSSEN, VER- \ V^NEANA, QUEEN OF WHITES, APOLLO, EMPRESS OF INDIA, EMPEROR OF BRAZIL, SIMON MARDNER, HERMIONE, SICISMUND RUCKER, SACANT- TALA, A. BORSIC, NIOBE, MME. DE CREVE, MME. P. DE SCHRYVER, and other similar sorts. V\iE OFFER WELL'BUDDBD, BUSHY STOCK, Crowns, from 10 to 12 inches in diameter 84.50 per dozen; S3.5.00 per 100 Crowns, from 13 to 15 inches in diameter 88.00 per dozen; S60.00 per 100 Specimen Plants, 18 to 20 inches in diameter 830 00 per dozen HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut St., PHILA., PA. When writing mention American Florist, PALMS AND FERNS. LOOK OUT FOR GOLD WEATHER. Order your winter supply of PALMS and FERNS now, thus avoiding, heavy express charges and taking chances of freezing during winter months. We have an extensive and complete line of Palms and Ferns in all sizes. Get our Palm list and general supply catalogue at once. Try us on Cut Flowers— you can safely entrust your cut flower orders to us. Write ELLIS 8z: POLLWORTH, Box 75, Milwaukee, Wis. ALM (Sf^e-e4/< FRESH ON HAND PerlOOPerlOOOPerWn iKentIa Forsterlana.. II. ■.•.■. $10.00 So. 00 We tMjok orders now for the Plant Novellles: Mosella Roses: Canna Austria and Italia. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. WTien wTltlna; mention the American Kt.orist. C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. sr» Eci A.ii.."ri Bs ■ Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Slocks. Catalogues on application. CINERARIAS. CINERARIAS. 100,000 We are the largest growers in the coutjtry. Our stock is all grown from seed saved from the best and most showy plants, taking First Prize wherever exhibited. SM-inch W2..50 per 100: »30.00 per 1000. S. WHITTON & SONS, Wholesale Florists. rity ami Oreen StR . UTICl. N. Y. STANcfARD ^BXTCKIIvE^ Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A sample mailed for yo cents. FRANK L. MOORE, CHATHAM. N. J. When writing mention ttie American Florist. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of SICOO cash 1 for ONE FI.ANr each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price being , asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPREN6ERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative j purposes, 81 50 per I'J; 810 per 100, from -i^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. ^jBUHC&COj, Phila. , Pa. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VARIKTIK8. ROSES, from ;i-lnch pots. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRVSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. _ VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. PlSHKILL. N. Y. SAdiantum Farlyense EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices npon application. Eixs'wxre' XjOi«sx9/vxjf:, Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, (Station U.l PHILADELPHIA, PA. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. the finest commercial varieties. large, healthy stock, well grown. AZALEAS , PALMS . ABAUCARIAS , "oS;" "=' BAY TREES, perfect shape, in all sizes. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOCK, 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. PALMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO, WITTBOLD, 1708 N. Halsted St.. CHICAGO Siebrecht & Wadley's PALMS, FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. RoseHill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N.Y. 214 The American Florist. Oct. J. Greenhouse Building. Fairhaven, Mass, J. S. Peckbatn, two commercial houses, one 24x41, one 20x65. Stoughton, Mass., H. K. Southworth, one violet bouse. Adams, Mass., Adolph Koch, one com- mercial house. Bryantville, Mass., J. T. Fuller, one commercial house. No. Beverly, Mass., G;o. W. Glines, one commercial house. Hartford, Conn., D. A. Spear, one com- mercial house. Gloversville, N. Y., G;o. Main, one com- mercial house. Braintree, Mass., Hayden & Bates, one commercial house. City Island, N. Y., Mrs. B. Knapp, one hot house by Hitchings & Co. Keene, N. H., Ellis Bros., one commer- cial house, 21x100; 36x24. Philadelphia, Pa , Tnos.Meehan&Sjn, one commercial house, 55x100. Brunswick, Maine, John McManus, one comm:rcial house, 20x150. Peabody, Mass., J. M. Ward & Co., one violet house. Middletown, N. Y., Martin Bartho'o mew, one commercial house. Pawtucket, R. I., E. D. Tucker, one greenhouse. South Portland, Maine, Niles Nelson, range of greenhouses. East Douglass, Mass., C.J. Batchellor, one greenhouse. Williamsport, Pa., Evenden Bros., one commercial house, 50x170. Swansea, Mass , Raymond Buffington, one commercial house. Shrewsbury, Mass., H. A. Cook, one commercial house. Brockton, Mass., W. L. Minor, three violet houses, each 10x56. Brighton, Mass., W. H. Elliott, one asparagus house, 40x100. Braintree, Mass., M. L. Belcher, one commercial house. Chelmsford, Mass., A. E. Dutton, one greejhouse. Torresdale, Pa., R. H. Foerderer, two conservatories, eacn 20x135. Adams, Mass., A. Koch, one commercial house. Waterville, Me., H, R. Mitchell & Son, range of commercial houses. Randolph, Mass., B. L. Clark, one com- mercial house. Mt. Vernon, N. Y., M. Duramett & Son, one commercial bouse 25x80. Southwick, Mass., Edw. Gillett, one commercial house. So. Portland, Me., Miles Nelson, lange of hothouses. Portland, Conn., Chas. H. Sellew, six greenhouses, each 100 feet long. Danbury, Conn., Louis S.-aman, one commercial house, 18x75. Carlisle, Pa., John Miller, one commer- cial house, 20x100: South Braintree, Mass., Miss L KcKey, one commercial house. Raleigh, N. C, Agricultural and Mechanical College, one horticultural building, and 6ve greenhouses. Eist Derry, Mrs. J. N. Cullen, one con- servatory, 139 feet in length. Newport, R. I., Robt. Gjil.-t, a rangeof greenhouses. will find our October Catalogue a great convenience. WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. PANSIES. CARNATIONS. LANCASTER, PA., October, 1896. Fki.low Florists: — This month 1 solicit }oiir patronage for They are right up to the top notch of perfection and will fill your every want. They are also, taking quality in'o consideration, very cheap at the price, 75c per 100; $5.00 per 1000; with a discount on large orders. Fine field-grown plants of McGowan Scott, Wave, Cartledge, Alberiini. Rose Queen and Stuart, at the uniform ra^e of $5 00 per 100; $45.00 per 1000. Early in November I will have Rooted Cuttings ol Geraniums (a fine assortment of varieties) and some other miscellaneous stock. It is no trouble to answer inquiries, and I would li e to hear from you. ir*0S13©0t frilly yoxax-s, r.. B. *£>e. ALBERT M. HERR, Lancaster, Pa. 4 Acres Field-Grown Carnation Plants, 96,000. Oar Carnations are grown with Uie greatest care. Free from disease and packed light by our improved system of packing, by which we can send them to all parts of the tJnited States and Canada in perfect condition. DEAN HOLE STORM KINC BRIDESMAID J1.5(l per dozen. JSOli per hmiared. ADELAIDE KRESKEN BRIDE OF ERLESCOURT UNCLE JOHN $1.^5 per dirzen. ^\ (XI per hundred. LIZZIE fVlcCOWAN GRACE WILDER SILVER SPRAY TIDAL WAVE HINZE'S WHITE ROSALIND $l.lld per dozen. »,',.(» per hundred. $40. UO per tiinusand, J. Iv HELEN KELLER ADA BYRON DAYBREAK L. L. LAMBORN GARFIELD WM. SCOTT BUTTERCUP NICHOLSON ALBERTINI SWEETBRIER MRS. CARNEGIE PORTIA PURITAN i:>iivi-,oiv, :BiooM:i®t»tJirg:, f»£*. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. WARli, Mgr. QUEENS, L. I., N. Y. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Geraniums. CARNATIONS. Alaska, McGowan, Daybreak, Tidal Wave, Scott. strong plants, free from rust, 8.5 00 per lOO. Extra strong, $7.00 per 100. Samples at same price. G. VAN BOCHOVE & BRO., Carnation Growers, Kalamazoo. Mich. Carnations ^ Violets MCGOWAN. drat size ifii.UO per 100 second size 3.50 perlOO MRS. FI?H1SR first size 4.00 per 100 MAKIK LOUISE VIOLETS, good plants free from spot S.DJperlOO Bo^h carnatktns and violets are stroiic liealtuy plants, entirely free from disease. Cash with order. H. B. WEAVER & BRO., WHEATLAND MILLS, Lane. Co., PA. Money Order Office Lancaster. CARNATIONS Extra strong, Field-Grown DAYBREAK, SCOTT, LIZZIE McGOWAN, S4.00 per hundred; £35.00 per thousand. H. E. JACKSON, 3319 N. Western Avenue, CHICAGO. Carnations, MZZIK McGOW.\N. WM. .SCOTT, KUILY t-IKKSON, UNCI.E JOHN, HEI.KN KKLLEK, ALASK ». TIDAI. WAVK »5.00 per 100 MARIE LOUISE. . . $5.00 per 100 I^e^i?x:L«». THE FINEST STOCK GROWN. PTERIS SERRULATA. PTERIS OUVRARDM, 2^-inch pots. 81.0O per 100. $:r).00 per 1000. Cash with order. J. Fi*. jcuawEr^iv, 3810-3824 Wentwortti Ave., CHICAGO. Burki's New Yellow MarQuerlte ETOILE DE LYON. 85 Rooted CutlinKS f»r Wl.OO, by malL A valuable plant for Cut Flowers, Rlooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. WHOLESALE Fl.OUlST. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. Violets f iCUS £laStlCa, $1^0 per'dozen Also a large lot of PALMS BERMUDA LOJSGIFLOB.UM BULBS. H. C. STEINHOFF, 578 Hudson Boulevard. WEST HOBOKEN, N. J. when writing mention American Florist 25,000 CARNATIONS, Cifg^eThTauhy yZZIf MCGOWAN ^K.OOperlOO TIDAL WAVE .....:.:.:::;:::: iwu-wp^i""- CHOICE FERNS. From 2 Incli pots J^i per 100; 2!*-Inch pots }4 per 100. Horan's Perfect CARNATION SUPPORT, Only perfect support on the market. Write for circular and price. JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. Wflntlrm ATnarlnnn KInnm Hooo HELEN KELLER CARNATIONS Fine, healthy plants, at |6 00 per 100. Freight prepaid to your place, CASH WITH OKDKK. HENRY EICHHOLZ. Waynesboro, Pa. CARNATIONS. We have a few thousand left, strong, healthy plants, very heavy. McGOWAN, SCOTT and DAYBREAK S5.00 per hundred. P. R. QUINLAN & CO.. Syracuse, N. Y. Unexcelled Carnation Plants. All the leading varieties— Daybreak, Hose Queen, Scott, McOowan, etc.. extra struiiif, liealth.v, Btock,$5.lK). MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, i^.ml L. E. MARQUISEE, Syracuse, N. Y. CARNATIONS. blue lielfl yrowii |)laiits lor wale cheap. 1000 DAYBREAK, 2000 McGOWAN, 300 HINZE-S WHITE. Would exchantio lor tiooil Htock ol HrUleanil Brides- maid UOM'S. HOFFMEVER, Box »1, Carnegie, Pa. i8g6. The American Florist. 215 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. GOOD STOCK. Per lOO Per 1(10 BRIDESMAID 1st size. $8,00, .. .2nd elze. $j.00 METEOR STORM KING UNCLE JOHN THE STUART E. A. WOOD GOLDFINCH DIAZ ALBERTINI,. WM. SCOTT DAYBREAK DAZZLE ALASKA 8,00.... 5.00 all sold all sold all sold all sold 8.00.... 5.00 8 00.... all sold all sold 8.00.... 5.00 8.00.... 5.00 all sold all sold 8.00.... 5.00 all sold all sold NO RUST. F. DORNER & SONS CO., La Fayette, Ind. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS GOOD STOCK. NO RUST. I'er 100 DAYBREAK S5.00 WM. SCOTT 5.00 NANCY HANKS 5.00 LIZZIE McCOWAN 5.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 5.00 PORTIA 5.00 MRS. FISHER 4.00 Terras cash with order. ROGERS PARK FLORAL CO. 41 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. Field-Grown CARNATIONS New and Standard Varieties. -^^-Send for price List. H. Weber & Sons, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MD. CARNATIONS. 1 still have 500 McGowans, 400 Day- breaks and 200 Scotts, they are extra lire and first size, and will sell them for $4.00 per 100. Cash with order. W. A.WETTLIN,Hornellsville, N. Y. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Good medium sized plants, at a low pilce. OOLDKINCH HINZKS WHITE CHESTER PRIDE PURTIA GRACE WILDER PRBS. GARKIELD I... I- LAMBOKN LIZZIE McGOWAN SILVER SPRAV WILLIAMS Sl SONS CO, At $4.00 per 100. Batavia, III. FINE FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Wm. Scott Thos. Carttedge Albertirij Portia Tidal Wave Helen Keller, Orange Blossom Mrs. Fisher Hinze's White Carfieid Storm King at $5.00 per 100. Also MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, fine at ;f(:>CiO per 100. Cash witli order. GEO. B WHITEHEAD, Lock Box 116. GREENS FARMS, CONN. CARNATIONS WM- SCOTT, 1st size H.IIOperlHI LIZZIE McGOWAN. Ist size 4.i:(lperllK) Terms Cash. 2426 Bancroft St., Philadelphia, Pa. CARNATIONS^^ fleld-tn-owD. well budded, healthy plants. $.t 00 per 101); $ D 00 per 1000. Cash with order. Would exchange eame tor palms CEO. MUNICH, Batavia, N. Y. FIELD=QROWN CARNATIONS. LARGE STOCK OF SPLENDID PLANTS. The weather here has been very favorable for Carnation plants, and our stock this season is in extra fine condition. Order early to avoid disappointment. Terms, cash with order. IW/^p Y O""" '^^'■^ White Seedling is sure to be a winner. Pure white, large size, 1 V WiV I and for productiveness about \( prod Large plants Smaller plants Per lOO Per 100 IVORY $10 00 J8.00 ALASKA. 8.00 6.00 McGOWAN. . . .... 6.00 DAYBREAK 8.00 6.00 ROSEQUKBN .... 800 6,00 LIZZIE GILBERT 6.00 GOLDFINCH 8 00 6.00 16 to 1 with any other white. Large plants Smaller plants Per 100 Per 100 SILVER SPRAY 8 8.00 85.00 WM. SCOTT 8 00 6 00 BRIDESMAID 8.00 6C0 PORTIA 800 MKTEOR. ... 8.0O 6.00 TRIUMPH (new piuk) . . 12.C0 10.00 GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Granil Haven, Mich. CARNATION S-Field-Grown. ALASKA, $10.00 per 100. DAYBREAK, HELEN KELLER, KOHINOOR, LIZZIE McCOWAN, MINNIE COOK, PORTIA, ROSE QUEEN, TIDAL WAVE, WM. SCOTT, $8 per 100. CALIFORNIA VIOLETS, re'rToSm^'l'i^aTp^antfpe^rUO^Ilio^'^'*'^ FAIv SIXaS, large plants for Fall blooming. Per 100 $1.00; per 1000 87 00. Large stock of Ficus Elastica, Ferns, etc. Write for our BOOK FOR FLORISTS. .GR,E„ENHOySES.^ YflyQJ^fl,^.^ SEED SJORE /* ' '' '"'°'"''" ''"'" WESTERN SPRINUS. IL CHICAGO. LARGE FIELD-GROWN BLOOMING Per 100 PORTIA $3.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 3.00 TIDAL WAVE 3.00 SILVER SPRAY 3.00 CARNATIONS. ~ '"" PerlOO MRS. FISHER $3.00 STORM KING 3.0O NANCY HANKS 3.00 REINBERG BROS., 51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. ("* A R l\r A TTOlVr^ Albertini, Jacqueminot, Portia, Puritan, Van Leeuwen, >-^i»--L^-J- » -i*. J- IvylNvJ clean, healthy and v.gorous, J5 Oo per 100. AMERICAN BEAUTY and other Forcing Roses. MARIE LOUISE, SWANLEY, CALI- FORNIA and CAMPBELL VIOLETS. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. 20.000 CARIfATIONS Fine, healthy, tleld-.rown. j& CHEAP FOR CASH. (jS*«,'^B;jf •^"Kaif^^I^j, At j:i lie. S4.I1I. $5.00 and fli.lXI per IIW: WM SCOTT, MRS. FISUBR. LIZZIE McGOWAN, ELUORADO. DAYBREAK. ALASKA. TIDAL WAVE. PORTIA. ROSE QUEEN, DAISY BELL. L. GILBERT. CARTLBDGE. GOOD PLANTS. FREE FROM DISEASE. I study to please e\erv patron, and pack every order myself— IN LIGHT BOXES. I guarantee en- tire satisfaction, and big value for the money. CHAS. T. SIEBERT, station H, I'lTT.SHlTRG, •A. Mpntlon Amftrlcan Klnrls,. CARNATIONS No Rust. Strong Plants. ■%;^7"Brltc> to BUFFALO, N. Y. We have a surplus which can be bought reasonable. 304 Main Street, BUi^FALO, N. Y. CARNATIONS -Field-Grown. I,ars:«* and Uealtliy, rer I<'0 LIZZIE McGOWaN |1 00 SILVER SPRAY 4 00 WM. S.OTT 5 00 DAYBREAK 5 00 Also a limited number of Portia at. . . 4 00 Sweelbrier, Uncle John and E. A. Wood at . .5 00 CASH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO., DAYTON. 0. CARNATIONS. Good, healthy, field-grown plants. STUART »4 00 per 100 PORTIA 4.00 SCOTT 4.10 PURITAN 4 00 DR. WARDER, good crimson color. GROVEDALE NURSERIES. Fisher's Lane, east of 2nd St. Pike, PHILA., PA. Mention American Florist CARNATIONS 5000 Scotfs lelt, iirst-class stock, extra size plants. About 1000 Djybreak and Tidal Wave. Also a few Rose Queen, Goldfinch and Emily Pierson. samples and prices on application. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHAOWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CARNATIONS. S:OTT, ROSE QUEEN, STORM KING, Mc- GOWAN, 86.00 per 100. ELDORADO, 58 00 per 100. VIOLETS-Extra strong crowns, 4-inch pots, 8.'). 00 per 100. Cash with order, or C. O, D. GEO. E. FANCnURT, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Extra strung Scott. Daybreak. K<)8e <.)uoen. Meteor. Storm King and MctJowau. Also MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS. AH the above mentioned at Jo per uu. Cash with order. LOUIS A. GUILLAUME. East Onondaga. N. Y. 216 The American Florist. Oct. ? Recoi* RofeA. CoFFEEN, III.— E. Harris has started in business here as a retail florist. West Chester, Pa— Isaac A. Pass- more is building another lOO-foot house for carnations. Okauchee, Wis — D. E. Tierney has purchased the greenhouses and stock of E. A. Peter at this place, and will manage it as a retail florist's business. Lancaster, O. — A large new conserva- tory has been erected at the Boy's Indus- trial School here at a cost of over $5,000. Henry Evans is the florist in charge. Mt. Pulaski, III.— Chas. S. Capps, of the nursery firm ot J. Capps & Son, died here September 20, aged 66 years. Mr. Capps had been a paralytic for several years. Peoria, III. — Trade is improvirg, with American Beauties most indemana. Cole Bros, have finisted their new houses. The stock at Murray's looks extra well, especially his house of Beauties. Pleasant Hill, Mo.— Geo. M. Kellogg basjust completed his new houses.giving him now 40,000 sq. ft. and one of the most economically and best constructed for cut flower growing in the west. Portland, Conn— Mr. Chas. H. Sellew has this season completed six green- houses, each 100 feet in length, and has stocked them with carnations, which he proposes to grow for the wholesale trade. Macclennv, Fla.— The business here- tofore conducted by W. D. Griffiag has been transferred to the GrifEng Bros. Co. The management will remain practically the same, W. D. Grifling being president of the company. Clarksville, Tenn.— James Morton is about to move from Evergreen Lodge to Porter Blufl Park, where the park com- pany will permit him to erect six first- class modern greenhouses and office. The surroundings will be most attractive. Muscatine, Iowa.— The firm of C. Kranz's Sons is now dissolved. George Kranz formerly of this firm, has goneinto 'ousicess for himself, erecting three new houses, two 20x100 and one 12x100. He intends to erect another in the spring. The old establishment of C. Kranz's Sons will in future be operated by Emil Kranz. Tacoma, Wash.— Mrs. Lena W. McCoy recently gave a very attractive sweet pea exhibition at her establishment on C street. A numberof varieties were shown, and the surroundings were beautifully decorated with plants, flowers and foli- age. It was the first sweet pea exhibi- tion ever held in Tacoma, and was visited by a great many, the local press giving it warm commendation. Lenox, Mass— The Lenox Horticul- tural Society makes an announcement that prizes will be awarded for the great- est improvement of places on certain streets in Lenox during the fall season. The prizes are contributed by a number of prominent representatives of the town, and apply to places of a value not exceed- ing $3,000. J. R. Paul, A. H. Wingett and A. Albury are the committee on awards. Fine WM. SCOTT CARNATIONS, firtOi) per hiuKlred. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, $^ (H) per hundred. MISS P. A. BAKER, MEDIA, PA. GYCAS. FICUS. FERNS. A large stock of CYCAS, all sizes iu leaf, from 25c, 50c, 75c up to 85.00 each, for fine trunks with splendid heads of perfect leaves. FICUS. fine plants in 4 and 5-inch pots, from 9 to \'l leaves. 86 00 per dozen; f> to 8 leaves. \ inch pots. $4 60 per dozen. The grand new Sword Fern NEPHROLEPIS CORDA- lA COMPACTA. fine plants, 4 and 5 inch pots. Sfi.OO per dozen; 8-inch pots, 83.00 per dozen; 2^-inch pots, %% 25 per dozen. NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA. 8-inch pots, $150 per dozen; very fine plants, 4-inch pots 82.40 per dozen. NEPHROLEPIS PECTINATA (Dwarf Sword Fern), 2J-2-inch pots. 81 20 per dozen. JOHN G. HEINL & SON, Terre Haute, Ind. All First-Class, Strong FIELD- GROWN STOCK. p,,,oo Anemone Japonica Alba $5.00 " Japonica Rubra 5.00 Whirlwind 5.00 Clematis Davidiana, 2 years 8.00 Day Lily, white and yellow 5.00 Eulalia Jap. Variegataand Gracillima 3.00 Hollyhocks, separate colors 6.00 Hibiscus Crimson Eye 3.00 Iris Germanica 1.50 Yucca Filamentosa, 2 year 8.00 VICK & HILL CO., Field Plants LflDYGMPBELL VIOLETS. $4.00 per 100. $30.00 per 1000. Orders can be sent to KENNETT SQUARE orournewplaceat WAWASET, PA. EDW. SWAYNE. A. & F. BOLKER'S PLANT AUCTION SALES EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY At (( o'clock A. M. 106 &. 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES iu 21^-inch poks which I will sell at 82.1>0 per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEOALIA, MO. FERNS IN VARIETY. Just the thiug for this Fall, Well estab- lished in 2-inch pots, fldiantum from flats. CARNATIONS— Wra. Scott. Daybreak, But- tercup, Thos. Cartledge Kittle Clover. Eldo- rado, L. McGowau, strong plants from field. BRADLEY REDFIELO, Glenside, Pa. CLEMATIS, large flowering, in splendid as- sortment for fall. PAEONIES. a large stock and assortment, very low. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY, 1 & 2yea>. fine plants. OBL, POET'S NARCISSUS, averylarge surplus stock. ENGLISH DAISIES, for winter flowering. F. A. BALLER. Bloomington. III. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please tn'-ntion the Ambri- ON Florist. From 2-isch pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of varielieH and pt-ices furnlsheil on apiilication. NATHAN SMITH & SON. ZIRNGIEBEL'S GIANT MARKET AND GIANT FANCY PANSIES are the Leading Strains up to date. Kxtra Large Size and Superb Colors. Liberal trade packets of either strain at ONE DOLLAR EACH. S. Mention Amencao Klorlet 100,000 NOW READY. The Jennings Btraln of finest American irrown Pan sles are up to date, and just as tiood as thev make them; but on account of ihe hard times the "price Is down. The grandest combination of colors ever eent out. All larce tiowerln^' In j^reat variety. Klnestocfev plants. tleld-Krown. will bloom In October. laiby mall :r>c; UNNI by express 34 00; oOOOJlS.OO. Extra plants added with evtry order. .SIN) iifiO ready In October tor cold frames. PANSY SKKD of above strain. $1,(X) per pbt. of 2.500 seeds. Cash with order. E. B. JENNINGS, l b. 254. Southport, Conn. Grower of the tlneat Panslea Roeiner's Superb Giant Prize Pansies-the finest strain of Pansies iu the world— grower of all the leading novelties. Plants, by mail, per 100 75 cts. ) Sample of plants '• by express, per 1000 ff-1.00 )" and cut blooms 4c CASH WITH ORDER OR C. O. D. PETER BROWN, Lancaster, Pa. ransies Worm Raising. PLANTS READY NOW. at 82..50 per .500; SLOOper 1(X)0. Free on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 02. at $1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH ORDEK. C. SOLTAD & CO., 199 Grail Ayb., Jersey City, N. I. The OAKS GREENHOUSE CO., Jackson, Mich. offer for Immediate lufcptiince. the folluwlnjj. at pr!.-«sa,iiic\ed. Per 100 hmllax. from ..'Vlnch iiola. yuod strong plants.... $:; 50 Cjperus Alternliollus, L'Vlnch 3 OO ii^-lnch r.«00 Grevillea Uobusta, ".i'^-lnch 3.00 of^-lnch t; 00 Draca>na Indlvlsa. 2>4-luch 2 50 BeKonlas, flowerlnK In var.. 3J^-lnch, uur seleoiibn 2.50 Hex. ■■ ■• •' '■ 4 1)0 Cash with order. R. <; of all Ken'l stock at uaiml prices. Mention American Florist. " 1897 THE ONLY MARS" 8"* ?!f ™ Prices on application. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. Bismarck Apples. 1 year olil L'.'ictMls; per huntlrecl, 81.UOO. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per Ihou.sanil, fZM; per ten lllon.sanrt, 8S18. CH. KOEHLER. Oxford Church P. 0., Phila . Pa. i8g6. The Am eric ax Florist. 217 BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO., 13 Green St., BOSTON, MASS. Offlce, 84 Hawley St. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. Sizes 1^-lnch and 2-Inch. $2.00 per 100. Patent fastener with each letter. With orders for 500 letters we (five away a nicely ■talned and varnished box. See cut In next week's American Florist. Onr letter is handled by all the wholesalers In Boston. AGBNT8: A. Rolker & Sons. New York; M. Rice & Co.. 25 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.; F. E. Mc- Allister. 22 Dey St., N. Y.; H. Bayeredorfer & Co., Philadelphia. Pa.; A. D. Perry & Co., ;« Warren St., Syracuse. N. Y.; A. C. Kendal. 115 Ontario St.. Cleve- land. O.; E. U. Hunt, 7!) Lake St.. Chicago; Wisconsin Flower Exchange, 1:^1 Mason St.. Milwaukee. Wis.; H. Sunderbruch. 4th and Walnut Sts., Cincinnati, O.; T. W. Wood & Sons. *;th and Marshall Sts. Richmond, Va.; Jas. Vlck'a Sons. Rochester, N. Y.; Danl B. Long. Buftalo, N. Y.; C. A. Kuehn. St. Louis. Mo.: Hunt- Inifton Seed Co., Indianapolis, Ind ; W. Ellison, 14U2 Pine Street. St. Louis. Mo.; A. Herrman. 416 E. 34th St.. New York; Geo. A. Sutherland, tu Brom- fleld St.. Boston: Welch Bros.. No. lA Beacon St., Bos- ton; N. F. McCarthy & Co.. 84 Hawley Street. Boston; The Henry Phltlpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo. O.. Walter A. Potter & Co.. Providence, R. I.; J. C. VauKhan. 2tj Barclay St., New York. J. A. Simmers. Toronto. Ont.. Agent for Canada. H. BAYEESDORFER & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS' SUPPLIES Wl\ FHTLADELFHIA, FA. Onr new flataloene is now oat, free upon •pplloatioa. JML. RIOE> «& CO. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET, .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. TALL CATALOGUE NOW READV. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalosue. issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manufacturer of METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry). NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. Benjamin Chase, WOOD LABELS, E. G.HILL & CO.. Wlioi6sai6Piorisi§ RICHMOND. INDIANA. "THE DAHLIA" HY LAWHKNCE K. PKACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- loRuedby every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST oflering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Datilia Specialist. AtCO. N J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. LORD &, BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. \x Plans and estimates famished on application. Largest bnllders of Greenhonse Structures. Six highest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAOE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO., FACTORY; ircliitectiiral Pice, I60 Fifth Ave., COR. TWENTY-FIRST ST., IRVINGTON-ON-HCDSON, N. Y- New York City. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS. IlTCOK.I=OIJ,.A.TEI3. Honicuitural flrcliltects and Hot Waier Engineers Send for Catalogue, enclosing 4 cents In stamps. 13©, l-il, l-i3 Center St., T'ifEJ'W ^VOJeiC. GLASS For Greenhouses, Conservatories, Graperies, Hotbeds, and all other purposes, at Lowest Rates. GLASS N. COWEN'S SON. 392 & 394 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. Get our Figures before buying Class. 8^" Estimates freely given. SHEEP MANURE 1 will furnish this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b. Mitchell, South Dakota: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED .75c. per 100 Terms cash in 30 days after date of ship- ment. Orders accompanied with cash, 10 per cent, discount WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA. FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free I'amphlet, write to Lonsvii.i.f JSPIKIT ClIlEII ToBAaoCo. Louisville, Ky '^«/GH 1"E0J Always mention the American Flo HIST when writing to advertisers. GreenSseVuuy Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing. IS APPLIED WITH FUTTY BULB. One gallon (20 lbs) will eiaze l.OWJ feet of glass Tosls !X)cpertialIon,.'>iicperhiiIf-(;aIlon. Puttv BulbsT'tceach. Satisfaction jjtuariinteed. Reference— ,T oh n Kogers. Greentree Boro. Pa.; Hartman Bros., Alleghany, Pa.: Fred Biirkl. Bellevue. Pa, Manufactured by T. H. NEVIN CO., P. 0. B. 958, Pittsburg. Mention American Florial. FUMIGATE WITH NIKOTEEN THE ESSENCE OF TOBACCO. It kills all insects and does not injure delicate blooms. Costs 12 cents to fumigate a house 100x20 feet. If you cannot get it locally, write SKABCURA DIP CO., Station S, CHICAGO. which is absolutely perfect for modem greenhouse construction. ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, Send for Estlmatea. Satisfaction Guaranteed. REED GLASS CO.. 102 South 6lh Avenue. NEW YORK CITY. Mention American KlorlBt When you write an advertiser please state that you saw the adv. in the FLORIST. 218 The American Florist. Oct. 3, j^lea^lA ^oteA. Alameda, Cal.— G-o. N. Tyler is build- ing four houses 16x110. Chester, Pa. — Busby Bros, have been addicg new houses to their establishment-. MoNTELLO, Mass —Geo. Spear has moved his business to East Bridgewater. Springfield, Mass. — The Miellez Floral Co. has opened a store at 77 West Bridge street. Tipton, Ind.— J. H. Week has sold his florist's establishment at this place to Robert Johnson. Lake City, Iowa. — A. M. East is build- ing greenhouses here, with the intention of going into business here as a florist. Tuscola, III.— J. C. Kelso has pur- chased the florist business of T. Z. Mag- gerel and vfill hereafter manage it as a general retail place. Louisville, Ky.— Victor Maltbi^ has bought out the business formerly cor- ducted by F. W. Wrampelmeier at 2423 Bank stieat. Topeka, Kans— The Kansas State Horticultural Society will hold its thirtieth annual meeting in the State Capitol here December 9, 10 and 11 . Sayre, Pa. — The citizens of Sayre are agitating the question of a public park. It is proposed to buy one hundred acres of land on the east bank of the Susque- hanna for this purpose. Albion, Mich. — Henry F. Dew, the flo- rist, who has been on the sick list for a number of months, is now at a hospital at Ann Arbor for treatment, this step being taken as a last resort for health. WoBURN, Mass. — Chas. Gumming is building another carnation house 27x170, which gives him a total of about 17,000 square feet of glass, devoted chiefly to carnations and chrysanthemums. This year he will houseabout 10,000 carnation plants. Wm. Spillsbury is manager. Hagerstown.Md.— The Dayhoff green- houses on East North street were badly damaged by fire September 9. The dam- age is estimated at $500, partly insured; the stock suflfered severely. The green- houses were recently purchased by Charles E. Roach, and were conducted by Mrs. J. W. Dayhoflf. Franklin, Pa.— W. T. Bell has added a small rose house, that is planted with Meteor, and is finished on the out- side of the walls with slate, instead of weather-boarding; making a substantial and pleasing appearance. He is also building a carnation house 11x120 feet, with ventilation on one side of the roof, and a bench in the center of the house, with walks around the outside. FLOWER POTS. We Miinulactiire nil kinds of Klower I'otei, etc. MakluK a Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price Il-t and siiiiiptes (which will be sent free) and we know you will Ktve us your order: J, Gi SWAHN oONSi MinneRpoUs, Mliin. IMease mention American Florist. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. WIND MILLS ^oR PUMPING. FAIRBANKS-GALV'D steel. ECLIPSE-WOOD. SO.OOO A.lret»tl;>r Sold. V boilers™ HEATING. VALVES^ PIPE AND FITTINGS. IRBANKS, MORSE & ( Cor. Franklin & Monroe Sts., CHICAGO. nP FAIRBANKS, MORSE & GO. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO. H flTURflu 6fls Made 6im. FOR GREENHOUSES. Wrlt^ for l^t^st prio^js. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 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You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns Jimsrica is ' 'the Prou/ af the 1/essei; thEre mag ie ir.-re comfort /Jmidships, bwers will not appear for some time. On Thursday afternoon there was quite a largf gathering of dahlia enthusiasts aud others at the meeting held under the auspices of the Farmers' Club at Madison Square Garden. The exhibition of dah- lias in connection therewith was very comprehensive, and a full description thereof will appear in our next issue together with a list of awards, etc. Information has been received from the expedition sent out last March by the American Society for the Promotion of Scicnti6c Horticulture in quest of rare orchids, that the explorers are meeting with satisfactory success. Thev are now on the southern slope of the Himalaya Mountains, and when they return, some time next year, it is confidently expected that thev will have collected much mate- rial and information oi great value. Mr. and Mrs. Rehder of Wilming- ton, N. C, arrived in New York from Europe by steamship Saale on Septem- ber 29. A. T. Boddington has returned from a three months' trip to England and has resumed his work "on the road" for Pitcher & Manda. Henry W. Baylis succeeds Wm. S. Allen as managerfor the New York Cut Flower Co. The American Institute awarded a cer- tificate of merit to Dailledouze Bros, for seedling chrysanthemum Yellow Mon- arch. Buffalo. There is little to record for the pist week except the visit of some world- famous men; who should walk into town on Sunday last but Mr. P.Welsh and Mr. Fred. Mathison of Waltham, Mass! Their advent here upset all our good in- tentions for one day at least. What a couple to go round together. I iliink they travel together to show off e ch other's points. Poor Mathison is but the shadow of his former self, and does not weigh now over 320 pounds. Mr. Welch looks no older than he did ten years ago and has the same clear-cut marble features with which he was al- ways adorned. But his hand is not mar- ble, oh no, it's a warm Celtic hand. They were taking the trip purely for their health, and they iooke \ as i( they had not struck many poor hotels. We showed them the alleys on which some men have learnt to immortalize themselves, and only one little game was indulged in, and the heavy weight had to pay expenses. Then we had a short drive and a look at our beautiful cemetery and a few residence streets, landing finally at the greenhouses of C, V. Chris tensonon Delaware avenue. The cordiality that appeared to exist be- tween Mr. C, Mr. W. and Mr. M. was wonderful to behold, and we were glad to see it. Mr. Christenson related several anecdotes chiefly based on his own per- sonal experiense that were greatly relished by the bean-eating gentlemen. Mr. Math- ison seemed little to care for horticultural subjects, but the office of Mr. C. had a great attraction for him. If they (the visitors) hadn't been in such a hurry we could have made it interesting for them, but they flew away on a fast train to Rochester. May good luck attend them, for they are good b 5ys. Mr. Palmer and his worthy son have been to Toronto and looked over the great establishment of Harry Dale and of course that other notable place owned by John Dunlop. Both of them are wonders. Mr. Palmer tells me that Mr. Dale does not expect any man to look down his 600 foot house at one look; it takes threemen to S€e down it all standing together. The first one looks 200 feet and then the next man starts his vision where the other left off, and so on till the end is reached. I have just parted with Mr. A. Ingram of London, whose chief object in life is to advance the interests of the biggest hor- ticultural firm on earth, Hugh Low & Co of Clapton, England. It does a man good to talk a little while with such a man. They are little given to brag over there, but when he tells you that it takes more than 100 boilers to keep the place warm vou can form some idea of the little firm. Mr. George Pickleman has retired from the florist business and is now decided on a trip to Northern Brazil. Gold is what he is after, but incidentally should orchids appear in his path he will pluck them and ship to Buffalo. I cannot do better than give you George's own words, "Yes, sir, we shall go down there and hire a lot of coolies and get the gold out of the hills." W.S. 226 The American Florist. Oct. TO. Boston. The annual dinner of tbe Boston Co- operative Flowfr Growers' Association took place at Young's Hotel on Saturday evening, October 3. where a company of about tlairty healthy, hearty and happy florists sat down to refreshlhcinnerman, and to exchange c ingratulations on the past ani plans for the future. President W. C. Stickel presided, and on his right and left at the head of the table sat toast- master W. H. Elliott, Vice-president Geo. Cartwright, Treasurer W. VV. Tailby and the three guests rf tbe evering. Messrs- F. W. Fletchf r, of the New England Flo- rist. W. K. Wood, of tbe Florists' Ex- change, and W.J. Slewart of the Ameri- can Florist. An amusing mistake in printing the menu, wherein the party was represented to be "flout" growers furnished the text fjr a witty introductory speech by the toast master, when the smoke-talk course was reached. The first speaker called upon was W.J. Stewart, who congratu- lated the association on tbe prosperity indicated by tbe balance sheet just issued by the treasurer, and took the opportu- nity to urge upon the growers present their duty to see to it that Boston's prc- eminerce florieulturally be not allowed to pass away, pointing to the recent sales of thousands of dollars' worth of palms here by remote growers and the daily consumption of New York-grown roses by the loral stores, as furnishing food for serious thought. W. K. Wo id was the next speaker. He also ex ended congratulations upon the condition of the company, especially on the unusual fact that every stall-lease for the coming year had been signed and every premium paid in full, and predicted a prof p"rnus season for all. He was fal- lowed by F. W. Fletcher, who said that his journal was tbe baby of the family and asked that when his hearers should compare it with the other papers it should be not as these are to-day, but as they were at the same youthful age. President Stickel then ex' ended a hearty welcome to the visitors and said that tbe corporation would pay a dividend of 40% this year, an announcement that was ap- plauded to tbe echo. Treasurer Tailby dfclited to speak at length, saying that the balance sheet would give his speech. Stjperintendent W. J. Kennedy btingcalled upon to tell how he managed the "turbu- lent element" during the morning hours at the market, rose up, pulled down his vest, set his foot firmly on the floor, re- maiking ttat he intended to enforce tbe ruUs, and told of the good and bad points about that "necessarv evil," the street fakir. Tbos. A. Cox was asked to speak on roses, Ge"). Cartwright on Jacqueminot roses and Wm. Ncholson and Peter Fisher on carnations, and each responded acceptably. Mr. Nicbolson made partic- ular stress on the necessity of drawing the line between commercial and txhibi- tion varieties in the exhibitions of the Carnation Sciety, and advised that all seedling growers test their novelties at least three years before disseminating them. Messrs. Mann, Edgar and Pierce re- sponded briefly for the chrysanthemum and Mr. Sutermeister for the Dutch btilb. John Fee was asked to speak for the ladies but upon earnestly disclaiming any knowledge of the subject was permitted to sit down and then the annual meeting of the directors was called. All of last year's oflicers were re-elected. About two dozen members attended the initial meeting of the season, of the Gardeners & Florists' Club, and were re- paid for the efi'ort by the privilege of lis- tening to well written scholarly paper on "Horticultural Education at the Shaw Garden, St. Louis," by Mr. Euil Mische. There were present to make to occasion still further interesting Me-srs. A. Millar and A. M. Rennie of the Providence Club, who to'd of the enthusiastic manner in which the members of that organization are attacking the work of preparing for next year's ereat convention. At the close of Mr. Mifche's paper (we shall pub- lish it next week) he was warmly con- gratulated by his auditors, and it be- ing anounced that he was then leav- ing for New York to go thercetoEig- laad, where he proposes to pursue his studies at Kew and elsewhere cordial good wishes were extended the young man for his continued progress and suc- cess. The discussion began somewhat tamely but when Mr. Norton had stiJ a few w ords in favor of education on the line of a sirgle specialty rather than tbe effort to cram the head full of too many branches, and Mr. Robt. Farquhar had made allusion to the poor results of much of the education in the agricultural colleges and tbe more useful training obtained in practical experience and con- tact with an active business life, Mr. Jackson Dawson's indignation was aroused and he made one of the most forcible speecbcs of his life. He contended that a man cannot have too much educa- tion, that it a young student should prove a failure it would be his own fault and not that of the school and that if for every dozen useless ones a college should turn out one brilliant success the entire outlay would be jastifieJ. He applauded the methods of instruction pursued at Shaw Garden and predicted a great and honorable future for that institution, which he said was destined to be the foremost horticultural educational power in the United States, and that the more we have of such schools the better our gardeners will be. Messrs. Westwood, Stewart, Finlayson and others joined in the fray and Presi- dent Cotter was greeted with an uproar of applause upon asserting that "when a scientific man comes and tells you that there are three hundred and eighteen bac- terial diseases affecting roses and you don't know two of them you realize your lack of the advantages of a thorough educition." A committee of five was appointed to drsfc resolutions on the death of Mr. Wm. Robinson. October 1 and 2 was the date of the annual fruit and vegetable show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The display was exceedingly good and the halls were well fillet' with visitors. lathe vegetable department, which occupied the lower hall, the appearance was greatly improved over previous years by the groupir g of some of the exhibits in collections, many of which werearranged with great taste. In plants and flowers there was but little to be seen. Carl Blomberg was awarded a certificate ol merit for a collection of cjpripediums, and J. S. Bailey showed some well bloomed specimens of Cattleja labiata. The annual election of c fficers and stand- ing committees of the Mass. Horticult- ural Soc'ety was held on Saturday, Oct. 3. Francis H. Appleton as president and all the other incumbents of last year were re-elected for 1897 without opposition. Chairmen of exhibition committees areas follows: Arrangements, J. H. Woodford; establishing prizes, Wm. J. Stewart; fruits,E. W.Wood; flowers, J. Woodward Manning; plants, A. C. Bowditch; veg- etables, C. N. Bracket. Supt. Doogue of public grounds has been experimenting with various com- pounds to find an exterminator for the army worm, and thinks he has now found the long-sought article in hard wood ashes and slacked lime. He com- bines these in the proportion of two- thirds ashes to one-third lime, the ashes to contain not less than eight per cent of potash, and sifts it evenly over the sur- face after grass has been mowed close and if possible just before a rain storm, in quantity about four tons to an acre. Cut flower trade is very dull, and prices do not advance any as yet, although the quality of stock coming in, especially roses, violets and carnations, is improv- ing steadily. Chrysanthemums are in, but in small quantities, and sell fairly well at $1 50 to $2 per dozen. The frost has held ofifup to present date, and gar- dens are still gay, salvias, nasturtiums, geraniums and cannas all being in fine condition, but there is little of the out- door-grown product now that is of any value as cut flowers since asters and lilies came to an end. The chrjsanthemum show will be held at Horticultural Hall on November 10-11- 12-13, opening at 2 p. ra. on Tuesday, 10th. A good display is looked for, both in olants and flowers. Visiting Boston: S. S. Skidelsky. repre- senting M. Rice & Co., Phila.; Mr. Dryer, representing A. Heritiann, New York; A. M. Rennie, Wm. Appleton, Providence; E. O. Orpet, Lancaster, Mass.; H. Huebner, Groton, Mass.; A. T. Boddington, Short Hills, N. |.; Julius Roehrs, Rutherford, N. J.; J. M. Keller, Brooklyn, N. Y. Berj. Grey is quite sick at bis home in Maiden. Pittsburg. Florists report a slight improvement in the demand for flowers this week. Nearly all of the society people have returned from their summering out of town, and with the weddings and other social func- tions scheduled for this month, the de- mand is likely to continue and improve. Flowers arc very plentiful. Chrysanthe- mums are beginning to come in in fair quantities and improved in quality as i8g6. The American Florist. 227 LOOKING TO THE FRONT. looking to the rear Fleischman's New Store. New York. well. VioIetB and lily of the valley are freely offered, but they are brought from the east. Randolph & McClements report busi- ness very fair for the season, one or two days they were very much pressed. One of their orders was somewhat out of the ordinary. A leading lady in society died very suddenly; they had charge of the floral part of the services. The church was profusely decorated with palms, etc., the pew was covered all around with roses, while the inside was entirely filled with the crested leaf fern, at the door of it was a large bunch of white chrysan- themums, these decorations completely covering the pew trom view. The floral offerings were very many and very fine, but instead of taking these to the ceme- tery as is usually done, the husband had the florists send them to six of the hos- pitals, those his wife had taken very great interest in during her lifetime. Mr. McClements has finished moving into his new home, having onlvncently purchased it. The lot is 50x2.50 on Lib- erty avenue, E. E., and is well filled with fruit trees, grapes, etc.; it is located in one of the pleasantest parts of the city, and just a convenient distance from his sales- room. Mr. James Semple's greenhouses are looking well, his 'mums are in good shape. One side of one of the 125 ft. houses is devoted entirelv to the Ada Spaulding, although most of the growers have given this variety up, Mr. Semple does not; he says it is one of the best money-makers he has, and prides himself on the fact of having grown it in the same place and same soil, only adding some cow manure and lime, for four years, and always suc- cessfully. He has a sport from it, but it is yellow in color, is a very strong, healthy grower and looks like a winner. The carnations and other stock are looking healthy and well. The houses are heated with steam, and have been so for five years, usirg natural gas for fuel. Mr. Semple has been kept busy the past week receiving congratulations; he is a grand- father for the first time, and endeavorsto look unconcerned, but his smiles are very broad. Reoia. Philadelphia. Tfce OL;toler meeting of the Florists' Club was ore of the old-fashioned kind; it was full of snap and vim. Th.re was a good attendance and a lively in ere 5t was taken in the proceedings by all tfce mem- bers present. The cew meetingroomand future home of the club received considerab'e atten- tion; it is pronounced by all to be an ideal place, and when its central location is considered and its adaptability to the wants of the club are found out by all the members, the attendance will no doubt be largely increafeJ. It was voted, to raise by short t nice Mme. Bergmann Monday the 5th inst. Weber & Son of Oakland, Md. arrived on the 7th with fine blooms of Marion Henderson and Mrs. E.G.Hill. In a few days they will no doubt be plen- tiful enough. The price now is from 1.50 for medium flowers of M. Davis to $4 for best of Mrs. Hill. All other stc ck is about the same as last week in price, but show- ing a shade of improvement in quality. Mr. Lonsdale has a nice lot of oichids in flower, his cattleyas being very fine. The opening of Horticultural Hall the past week has been a great success, thou- sands of people attending and admiring the great beauty of the building. It was nicely decorated with plants from the different city florists placed under the direction of the committee. We will not attempt to describe the beauties of the interior; it really seems as if it was made to be admired, and not to be used for receptions, meetings, church fairs, horti- cultural shows, and such like entertain- ments. Bat it is, and we hope will be- come as popular as it is beautiful. K. Chicago. The accident to President Chad wick of the Horticultural Society, was really quite serious. In slowly riding his bicycle along the side of a country road a number of tough weeds caught on the pedal of his wheel with the result that hewasthrown heavily into a deep ditch, dislocating his knee joint and badly tearing the sur- rounding ligaments. He was carried in an ambulance seme five or six miles to his home where he has been confined to his bed for over a month and is not through with bis troubles yet, as it is now neces- sary to break the joint again and resetit. His many friends in the trade will regret to learn of the severity of the accident and will wish him a speedy and safe re- covery. Prefaraticns for the annual chrysan- themum show are now being rapidly com- pleted. The press agent has been selected and is now at work. Battery D has been secured and plans are being made for a new method of arrangement and decora- tion of the building. The revised premium list has teen issued and copiesmay behad on application to Mr. W. N. Rudd, room 202. 185 Dearborn street. There is some improvement in lusiness this week, and prices are certainly stiffer. Stock is a little scarcer, outdoor material being pretty well at an end in consequence of several stiarp frosts. The demand tor Beauties has been good, and good Brides and Bridesmaids are held at $3, some ex- tra Kaiserin and Testout being $4. A few Siebrecbts are cut, but not many yet, though it is expected thatthis rose will be much better this year than last. Carna- tions are very scarce, and the price is all the way from 75 cents to $1.50. S;me choice Hectors are sent in from Ohio. Cosmos is not at all plentiful, that being received coming from some little way south of Chicago. In this immediate vi- cinity the plants made a tremendous growth, and were only just showing bud when caught by sharp frost. Violets are coming in quite freely, but the doubles are rot extra good, even for the time of year. Chrysanthemums are not rushing in quite as quickly as anticipated. Poehl- man Bros, and W. N. Rudd are cutting a few flowers: Bassett & Washburn have open flowers, but are not yet marketing them. Mr. Washburn, of Bassett & Washburn, is afflicted with a serious carbuncle on his hand, and several boils on the back of his neck; in the opinion of his friends he is qualifying for the same position as the Patriarch Job. At the meeting of the Florist Club last Thursday evenirg there was quite a dis- play of flowers. This included a very interesting collection of clematis flowers from F. A. Bailer, Bloomington, III. The varietiesshown wereHenryii,a very large white; Duchess of Edinburg, a very hand- some semi-double white; Princess Alexan- dra, very large purple; Mme. Baron Veillard, large purplish pink; Fair Rosa- mond, a pretty white of medium size with purple stamens; Duke of Norfolk, a good purple; Mme. Ed. Andre, magenta; Sie- boldii, lilac; Countess Lovelace, a very large lilac; Jackmanii and Jackmanii superba, the latter with broader petals and a better made flower than the type; Gen. Grant, a new seedling, of Jackmanii type but inclined to red in color. Mr. John Reardon, gardener for Martin A. Ryerson, showed quite a little collec- tion of orchids, including Cattleyas Bowringiana and Eldorado, Cypripe- diums Harrisonianum and Asbburtonix, Oncidiums incurvum and Cavendishia- num, Ltelia prffistans and Lycaste Skin- neri. He also showed American Beauty, Testout and Kaiserin roses to show what could be done with these by the private gardener. Speaking of orchids commercially Mr. Reardon believed that Cypripedium Harrisonianum and Oncid- ium incurvum ought to prove very profit- able as producers ot cut flowers as they were so free flowering and took up so little space. A vase of superb blooms of Mme. Berg- mann chrysanthemums came from Mr. A. McAdams. He called on his grower, Mr. Jos. Reeves to tell how they were "done" there being much curiosity as to how the magnifiient foliage was pro- duced. Mr. Reeves said that he strikes this variety as early as March or April and takes the crown bud about August 28. He believes sheep manure is the best fertilizer. W. N. Rudd displayed a nice collection of carnations. In speaking of the varie- ties, Mr. Johnson, his grower, said Rose Queen is not only the bes'; pink, but the best carnation they have. E dorado is their best yellow; Goldfinch is treer, but doesn't even up in other respects. They like Uncle John for white and have no trouble from disease. Kitty Clover they find a good flower, but a cropper. Scott is still a bread winner. They had D.lla Fox on exhibition, but haven't given long enough trial to speak of its merits. There was in the collection a vase of promising seedlings of their own. From J. C. Vaughan came vases of CIo- thilde Soupert, Pink Soupert and Yellow Soupert (Mosella) roses, and spikes of cannas Italia and his seedling yellow. Mr. Cropp said that the Pink Soupert does better outdoors than under glass, and he considered it an excellent bedder. Hopp & Lemke, East Grand Rapids, Mich., displayed a large vase of grand blooms of their carnation Morello. Geo. Hancock & Son, Grand Haven, Mich., sent a large number of blooms of seedlings, many of which seemed very promising. From Walker Bros., Flint, Mich., came a vase of a pale yellow carnation with good stem, and calyx and otherwise promising. Mr. Albert T. Hey of Springfield, 111., was a visitor at the meeting. At the next meeting of the club, Octo- ber 22, occurs the annual election of officers, and the work of the year will be closed. St. Louis. Cooler weather has reduced the cut flower receipts, roses are not in abund- ance as they \vere last week. We are pleased to note a general improvement in the trade. There is a good demand for all kinds of roses, but more especially for long Beauties and Meteors. Kaiserin and Bridesmaid are also good sellers. All varieties of carnations are scarce and have advanced in price accordingly. As to chrysanthemums the outlook is as yet indefinite, the general impression seems to be that there will be more stock grown than last year. The first 'mums came up fi-om the south last week; they were very small, the variety Bergmann. Violetsare coming in more plentifully and in better shape. The chrysanthemum committee had a meeting Monday afternoon at Tesson's store, and they decided that all special prizes for the show must be in the hands of the committee by Monday, October 12, without fail. The trade expected on the day of the Veiled Prophets' ball was about the same as last year; some of the florists reported an increase. Beauties of course were first choice, with Meteors and Bridesmaid sec- ond. The decorations were verv fine and elaborate and were the work of the Jor- dan Floral Co. James Wilson, with J. C. Vaughan, Chi- cago, and Edgar Sacders, representing the Florists' Exchange, were our visitors last week. W. S., of Bufi'alo thinks the St. Louis bowlers ought to be the champions of the countiy; no ought about it, they are; and as far as cyclones are concerned it was not caused because we shoot on Sunday morning, the place where we shoot not a leaf was blown from the trees. I am sorry that we shocked our eastern breth- ren by advertising our shooting for Sun- day morning. I will say for tte benefit of our eastern brethren that everything is wide open on Sunday in good old solid St. Louis. The paragraph which ap- peared in the Florist that W. S. has reference to was not intended for our Eastern brethren but only for home flo- rists, but we will meet those Buffalo chaps some day at bowling and then we will see if too much practice is bad or a rest of a few months beneficial, perhaps at Providerce next year, if not then at Milwaukee in 1898 sure. The bowlers were at it again as usual on Monday night; our old friend Alex Waldbart is again one of us, and our old time St. Louis boy, Jim Wilson, now of Chicago, was with us. Carl Beyer was high man in three games, 626; Chas. Kuehn who is again in form was second with 626. The highest single game was rolled by C.Bever,252, and Chas. Kuehn, second, 236. This gives Carl Be^er first chance at the bowling prize, a beautiful cigar case. J.J. B. Rochester, N. Y. The improvement in the demand for cut flowers goes on mighty slow, but still the sales are on the increase, the scores keep up a finer and more elaborate display in the windows, and managed to dispose of most of their stock. Prices have not ad- vanced over last week's, there is too much hardy stuff in the market yet. Palms, dracjenas, ficus, ferns, etc, are offered everywhere, but sales are not up to the average for October; small sizes go off i8g6. The American Florist. 229 first, showing that people are inclined to save their money wherever they can. Store decorations are still in vogue and are greatly appreciated by our florists these dull times. We had a rainy and unpleasant week and no doubt this had a depressing influ- ence on the trade in general; it was also the week selected by the Western New York Agricultural Society for their annual exhibition. The exhibitors in Floral Hall were not many, the inducements and pre- miums are so very meager that but few are lempted to show any plants or flow- ers In the fruit department there was a better competition; Ellwanger & Barry captured nearly all the first premiums in this line, and in the plant and cut flower department with hardly any competition it was an easy matter for the J. B. Keller Sons to take the first premiums in nearly everything. F. J. Keller is one of the di- rectors in the society and has charge of the flower and fruit department, his efforts to induce our Rochester florists to exhibit were met with indifference by the majority, only two or three firms could be induced to exhibit in Floral Hall. If the society would offer higher premiums, the show would turnout farmorecredita- ble to the so-called Flower City and to the society. Floral Hall is and has been one of the principal and most interesting attractions of the exhibition, and always draws a large crowd, but if the manage- ment is not willing to offer adequate in- ducements to the professionals in the way of premiums, the attendance will sink down to so low a figure that the society will at the end find no profits in their ex- hibitions. Instead of reducing the premi- ums as they have done for the last few years, they should raise them to a figure high enough to induce growers to raise plants purposely f jr exhibition and then I am sure the attendance would largely increase in numbers. J. B. K. San Francisco. Trade in gereral is picking up now that the 'mums are coming in. The growers around Menlo Park are suffering much damage Irom the heavy dewsevery night, which are very unusual at this season of the year, and aie rotting a lar^e number of the b'ooms before they get fully devel- oped. The lady bug is also proving to be a great pest here during chrysanthemum season, destroying great numbers of blooms. Ivory is now in good shape and is in fair demand. The Japanese growers at Oakland are sending in some of the grandest Queens that we have ever re- ceived in tnis market. Tdey are bringing $2 per dozen. 'Mums are just beginning and from now on for several months everybody will he busy handling the large stock. Carnations are rather scarce and are likely to continue so for a while. There are some excellent Mrs. E. G. Hill in themarketand they arefinding a ready sale as it is about the only good pink we have at this season. In roses Testout is leading and the stock and qualitv is rap- idly improving. Someexcellent Kaiserin, Bride and Bridesmaid are also coming into the market. Violets have now begun in earnest and are selling very well at $1.50 per dozen. Californias are coming in slowly and are bringing a higher price than any other violet. Loose Marie Louise violets arc also in good demand, as they present a prettier appearaEC? and are far more graceful than when tied \>\ tight bunches. Lady Hume Campbell violet is also coming in in limited quan- tities. Smilax as yet is not very good, but the demand is increasing slowly; they bring only about $5 per 100 strings. There has been quite a demand for potted ferns during the past few weeks, plants in 6-inch pots selling the best. Mr. M. Lynch is on the sick list, being troubled with bronchitis. Mr. John Home, who has been with the Northrup, Braslan, Goodwin Co., has ac- cepted a position in the seed department of the Sunset Seed & Plant Co. The beautiful new lodge at theentrance to Golden Gate Park has been completed. Owing to the untiring eft'jrts of Supt. McLaren it was decided to build i^. The superintendent's office and the offices of the board of commissioners are in this bnildiua; no w. Much work is being done on the immense grass beds at the park; they are all being dug up preparatory to re-50wing of new grass. The family of Mr. Sidney Clack have returned Irom an extended trip through Canada. The growers are locking forward to a busy shipping season as all the Pacific Coast cities send to San Francisco growers for their annu il supply of 'mums. Over in Oakland, Djmoto Bros., the Japanese chrysanthemum growers, have Jour immense hcusesfilled with Queen and Diilledouze, which are indeed a sight and are attracting many of the growers. The flowers are immense and have stems about four feet long. These gentlemen have made a study ot growing their 'mums indoors and are growing nothing but the standard sorts. Mr. Chas. C. Navlet of San Jose was a visitor during the week, as was also Mr. R. D. Fox of the same place. Meteor. Cleveland. The special meeting called for Friday evening, October 3, brought out a good attendance. The purpose of the meeting was to finally consider the premium list for the chrvsanthemum show to be held November ll,12andl3 in armory of the Cleveland Grays. The list offers oppor- tunities in the way of cashprizesamount- ing to upward of one thousand dollars and can be obtained of theclub secretary, Mr. G. A. Tilton, 85-87 Woodland avenue. The Cushman Gladiolus Co., showed a fine lot of standard varieties of dahlias at one of the meetings as well as a num- ber of very promising seedlings of their own raising. Some of these latter were remarkably good and attracted a great deal of attention from club members. Williams & Wilson desireit to be under- stood that they intend to supply the wholesale trade only at their store on Etie street. A previous statement to the effect ih It they would also engage in the retail trade was an error which they would like to see corrected. Business on the who'e lately has been very dull with the exception of one or two slight spurts that amounted to very little. Flowers, however , have been in such limited supply owingto the wretched weather, that not much has gone to waste. Roses seem to have been tbemost plentiful of anything not only here, but in Chicago, whence some stock has been shipped for the purpose of "slaughter sales." A. Toronto. Outside flowers are now completely done for with the exception of a very few herbaceous things which don't count in the trade, consequently there is a little more demand for roses and carnations, and prices are stiffening. Carnations appear to be rather scarce, but roses are plentiful. A few chrysanthemums are to be seen, just a sort ot introduction. I visited Mr. E. Worden's new place the other day. He has three houses 20x85, all roses, looking very healthy and fine, which he has not allowed to crop ye'; they have made splendid growth though, and will no doubt make their mark later on. Mr. Worden has done all the work — building, glazing and piping — himself, and has made a first-class job of it. The executive committee of the Gar- deners' and Florists' Association met last Tuesday evening and arranged prizes for the chrysanthemum show list. Owiig to hard times there were no increases, but a few decreases. The full prize list wi'l be printed and published after adoption by the association. Indications for a fine show are good. E. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. Advertisements under this head will be Inserted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTED-By thorough florist, single, German, aee 25 Address M C. care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTKD-By an all round yuung Mo rlst. Not afraid of work, tiood references. Ad dress Wisct)Nsl.\, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By young man as decora tor. designer or retail store woVk. Have had 12 years' experience. Very best of references. Address G A. I'.t E.TChangd St.. Buffalo. N. Y. SITUATION WANTBD-By Hrst-class gardener, age 2,s: 10 years' experience: slogte: native of (Jer many: pilvate or commercial, near Calcafcro. Addr-'ss 8. Kahlek r.l'.f.t Broadway, West Troy, N. Y. SITUATION WANTED-By florist and gardener of long practical experience: married, agellO. Highly recommended by oast and present employers. Ad dress Edward BE.\.\. care Bool Co.. Ithaca. N. Y. SITUATION WANTBD-By a competent florist: tJerman. :i'l years old: I'.i years' experlenca: mar- ried: grower of palms, ferns and general greenhouse stock Eastern states preferred. Address Box Ji; Hinsdale. III. THANKS for catalogues and price lists. Will send all my orders by Occober '2llth. J. C. FLUCKKlER, Clayton, N. Y, WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrst-class chance t^ establish himself. Address DUB, care American Florist. WANTED— Man for general greenhouse work, grow roses, carnations and pot plants Steady place to sober, live man. C. H S.MCHEI.L. Kalamazoo. Mich. WANTED— To exchange for vl.^lets. palms and hardy perennials, flrst-class carnation plants of Daybreak. Scott. Kitty Clover and Peachblow. Theahe Van deu .Melilex. Dunkirk, N. V, WANTED— A flrst-class grower of roses, carnations, violets, mums, palms, and a general lot of stock, to t'ike charge as working foreman, state wages and send references. J. F. Wilcox. Council Bluffs, la. WANTED AT ONCE-A good all round man, sin- gle — (ierman preferred. Must be up In roses and carnations: strictly sober and not afraid of work. Send references, and wages expected with board, Ohio Boy, care American Florist. WANTED— To lease or rent, with privilege of pur- chase, an established florist business In growing town. Middle or Western States preferred. Address, stating terms, amount of glass, character of stock, quantity of land, etc.. I A K, care t-'i7 Bromfleld St., Boston. Mass. FOR SALE— Two No. ' and one No. t; iierendeen boilers in splendid condition: only been used two years, cheap Apply to G. K. Jo.NES. loll Tacoma Building. Chicago. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN -Greenhouse of 1500 feet of glass. In West Plains, Mo , a town of :tbOU Inhabitants, good general stock of plants. 1*1, acres of land, superb location, cistern and out buildings, all In good repair. No competition between Sprlngfleld. .Mo. and Memphis. Tenn.: flne local trade. Winters mild. An excellent chance to make money. Price %'.ii cash. Address F. G Cakpentek. '.'42 Ward St.. Clilcat-'u. or W.M.C RudiiES, West Plains, Mo. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in ;i;^-iiich pofcs which I will sell at S2.u0 per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. Mention American Ktorlst. 230 The American Florist. Oct. 10. Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Column, S14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts. 6 times, 5 per cent J 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising Department of the American Flokist is for Florists. Seedsmen, and dealers tn wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember it. Orders lor less than one-hall inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure insertion In the issue tortile following Saturday. Address THE AIMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. For a National Society of Gardeners. The following call lias been issued to the gardeners of America: "The necessity lor a national society of gardeners in this country has long been felt by every member of the profession. We live and labor in a comparatively new country, where horticulture is still in its first growths; its future deptiids on the gardeners, and need we say that the gar- dener's future depends on his knowledge of his art. The great difficulties accruing from climatic intiuences and innumerable local peculiarities make successful horti- culture in many cases very difficult. We venture to assert that there is a yearning in every gardener's heart for a better knowledge of plant life, and with it a longing lor the society of his brother gar- dener. The exchanging of ideas and dis- cussion of methods are the best mediums for rendeiing cultural problems less diffi- cult. It is to afford a better acquaintance with univeral horticulture, to create means by which gardeners all over this continent may be brought in touch, may be, as it were, joined together in links of knowledge and friendship, and to adopt measures by which the profession may b; br.'ught to a higher standard, where it will justly demand a better appreciation, that we desire your assistance in the formation of a national socitty. We be- lieve that the occasion of the American Institute Horticultural Exhibition at the Madison Square Garden, New York City, on Saturday, October 17, 1896, will be an appropriate one for the holding of a convention of gardeners, and the agri- cultural committee of the institute has courteously offtred us accommodation. The meeting will be held in the reception room, acijnining the concert hall of the Madison Square Garden, at 5 p. m., on above date. We earnestly hope you will be able to attend." This is signed by 68 gardeners, and this number would alone make a meeting of good size. Further information may be had by addressing James I. Donlan, secretary of the New York Gardeners' Society, 51 West 28th street, New York City. Lynn, Mass. — The annual exhibition of the Houghton Horticultural Society took place at Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 29 and 30, and was a most successful event as to ex- hibits and attendance. Wild SmilaxflGreen NOW READY. See our New Catalogue lor prices. . . . WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. WM. SCOTT, Pres. H. B. BUOOENBORC, Mgr. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED! YOU SAVE 50'^' in time and wages by making your Green Garlands and Wreathing on our binding machine. 30 days to responsible parties. Piice of Macbins $8.00. On cash orders 10% off. Send for descriptive circulars. THE SCOTT BINDER CO., ■^T& JMtiiin «Sti*eet, iBun^^vr^o, Bf. -V. O0MPLtTEUND^0r6UPPU[( f^^l^^% TheNewYork Cut Flower Co. 1-19 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton. Mass. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, .M^,^ ST. PAUL. MINN. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 & 108 Liberty Street (Basement). BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, Kor DecoratliiK and all KluriBtH DenlKna- CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitchell Co.. N. C. yin nnn assorted apple trees, wholesale, H-UiUliU % price. Order Nurseryman's Revised Financial Directory 10.000 addrer-ses, payable when Bryan is elected— if defeated, free. Would ycti buy were offer reversed? Invaluable to horticulturists. Write with references. NEW FRUIT WHOLbSALE NURSERY. New Fruit. Ky. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, •a cr (ilVE ME YOUR ORDERS. WHOLESALE GOMMISSION FLORIST Beat of attention given to the shipping trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. WIRE WORK. Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED F. WINTERSON. Mgr. CHICAGO. Mention this paper. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER CO. .J, 15. DEAMIU). MtiT. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CMICA.OO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE GOMMISSION f FLORIST. 88 WABASH AVENUE. Consignrmnts Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, .^ ST. LOUIS, MO. B^^'A complete line of Wire DeslgnH. H. L SUNDERBRUGH, Wholesale Florist 4th AND WALNUT STREETS, Ol £1.0133 Xl^tl* O. DAN'L B. LONG, FLOWERS AT WttOLESflLL strictly Commission Business. Supplies, Kto. miir^iti /-» ki \r LISTS KBEK. BUFFALO, N. Y. Mention American Florist. CUT SMILAX, JOSEPH E. BONSALL. 308 Garfield Ave.. Salem, 0. i8g6. The American Florist. 231 E. H. HUNT. WHOLESaLSPLORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BUIiBS AND A^Ii FI.OBISTS' SUPPLIES. KENNICOTT BROS. CO. WtiolGsalG GUI Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. AVIKE WORK A SPKCIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St, CHICAGO. \t you want FlrBtrCIaas Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send ub your orders and you will get wbat you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUO & CO.. ^sE^ CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all orders on ehort notice with all leading varletlew of Kosea and Carnntlons. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give us a trial and convince yourself Salesroom. 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. IiYNCM WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, -— CmCA.GO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60., Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS. 41 WABASH AVENUE. .^ CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 iSi 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. I'roiiipt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, wtioiesaie Fiona 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Agent for Hneat Krades Waxed and Tissue Papers ®V^RoPe*afe MarftafA. Cut Flowers. NEW York. Oct 7. Roses. Beauty, extra innni'>inn " Meteor. Testont. . . 2 00<» 4 IXI Bride. Bridesmaid. 2.00® 4. a) " all other varieties. 1 00@ 3 00 75® 1.50 Valley Violets 50 Adlantum .... . 50 50 00 Koses. Gentler. Nlphetos. Perle, Mermet Bride, Bridesmaid, Beauty Boston. Oct. 7. 50^ l.UO 1.00^ 2 IKI Meteor 'd.iM® i IKI 5.IIOg2=> UO fancy 1 ooa 2 00 Violets . .. . 50(01 1 UO Valley Adlantum Smllax Asparagus 75-f l.UO 10.UUtg<12.U0 50 00 Roaes. Beauties Bride. Bridesmaid. Philadelphia. Oct. 7. U. 00*12 00 La France, etc. . . 3.003 4.00 50® 1 IK) Vttllev Violets, double 503 -76 Smllax 1> OOal.'i.lll.l AeparaKUs Adlantum »5.00<5 50.00 1 00 Rosea. Beauties Chicago Octr y. ti.00(al0.00 Brides. Bridesmaid " Meteors l.OOS 3.00 1 00® 3 00 " Perle. Wootton.... Testout 1.00® 2.00 3 00® 4 UO Kalsertn 3.00:4 4.00 75® 1 50 Tuberoses _ 1 ii\ CoBmos 3dc per bunch Swalnsona, per dozen bunches 1. 00 Dahlias i nn Valley Bmllax 10 00312 00 Adlantum Roses Beauties, long short " select stock Keneralstock 1.00 8t. Loms, Oct 8. 1000 4 00 3.(W 1.00 Asters 1 00 Ferns, Adlantum 1 nn GEORGE h. SUTfiERLfllHD, Successor to PECK & SUTHERLAND, Successors to WM. J. STEWART, Cut Flowersi Florists' SuppHes 67 Bromfiald St., BOSTON, MASS. New England Agent for the GREAT ANTIPEST. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. METS, ^W^~~^»^ FLORISTS' BRIDES, ^W ^^"^S^N VASES. GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND. 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON. MASS. HORTICDLTDRAL ADCTIONEEES. WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET. NearTremontSt.. BOSTON, MASS. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it ever> time you write an advertiser in these columns John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, -NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. TMOS. ^"OUJVG, Jr., 43 W. 28th St.. NEW YORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN, WHOLESALE F^I— CDI=RI« 39 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street. NEW YORK. WH0LE8BLE » FLORIST. Careful Shlppinsr to all parts of the country* Price list on application. Purdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30th St., NEW YORK. Prepare for Fall Trade. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, Address JOHN YOUNG, 57 W. SBth STREET, NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK. JULIUS LANG, Dealer in WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WH0LE8J1LE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, Corner 30th St.. |MEW YORK. Coiisit^iiiiieiits Sulii'iteil. 232 The American Florist. Oct. ro, ¥ft« $eaOCACIAS, ORCHID*. RARE CONIPEKS, and other Beautiful EVEKCi KEENS. MAGNOLIAS, .JAPANESE M.API.ES, with other Choice TREES Hiiil SHRUBS. PjEONIES.— A large collection of the finest In cul- tivation. Hardy Perennials. Phloxes. Japanese Iris. Roses, ClematlB. et«. New and Standard Fruits, etc. ty^Catalogues on application JOHN SAUL. Washington. D. C. .. CDLJF=? .. Trade )i^ Directory REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896 Contains a vast amount of valuable reference mat- ter in addition to the Directory List. F»rlc!e ^a OO. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 DEARBORN ST. CHICAGO. BULBS for FORGING and Gardening^, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD TIMES PRICES. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood, N. J. JUST RECEIVED. Von Sion Hyacinths, Crocus, Tulips, etc. Orders booked now for Indian Azaleas, Palms, Araucarias, Rhododendrons, Clem- atis, Hydrangeas, Spir;eas, and general nur- sery stock. L. C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. Branch ol The Horticultural Co.. Boskoop. Holland When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper ^\e:\st say that you saw the advertisement in the American F'or'-:* i8g6. The American Florist. 233 OUR importations of AZALEAS are now on the way and will reach us early this month. Our growers report the plants as being even of better quality than last season, which, considering the lact that we distributed last year 25,000 plants without a single complaint, will assure the purchaser that he will receive plants this season that will give entire satisfaction. Our stock is especially grown for us by the most successful cultivators of this |)lant in Belgium, who have been specialists in this line for many years, and always furnish the best quality procurable. All our plants are repacked at our own Nurseries, so that customers may rely on receiving plants \ that have stood the journey, and are well set with buds. We handle only varieties adapted to the American trade, principally BERNHARD ANDREAS ALBA, DEUTSCHE PERLE, MME. VANDER-CRUYSSEN, VER- V^ENEANA, QUEEN OF WHITES, APOLLO. EMPRESS OF INDIA, EMPEROR OF BRAZIL. SIMON MARDNER, HER Ml ONE, SICISMUND RUCKER, SACANT- TALA, A. BORSIC, NIOBE, MME. DE CREVE, MME. P. DE SCHRYVER, and other similar sorts. WH OFFER WELL-BUDDED, BUSHY STOCK. Crowns, from 10 to 12 inches in diameter 84.50 per dozen; 835.00 per 100 Crowns, from 13 to 15 inches in diameter 88.00 per dozen; 860.03 per 100 Specimen Plants, 18 to 20 inches in diameter 830.00 per dozen HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut St., PHILA., PA. When writing mention American Florist. Great Auction Sale of ORCHIDS iivcivXjrujVG 1000 DENOROBIUM PHALAENOPSIS SCHRODERIANUM, in splendid condition. The finest Dendrobe for cutting. CATTLEYA TRIANAE AND CATTLEYA LABIATA, in large quantities, together with a superb lot of established and imported ORCHIDS from F. SANDER & CO., St. Albans, England, ^^^^^ A. & F. ROLKER. 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK, WILL SELL ON THURSDAY, OCT. I5tli, 1896. C^t^logjt-i^s now r^t»cly. f^AdiantumFarleyense \M EXTRA FINE PLANTS. 8 In the varlons sizes. Prices npon application. — Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, (Station U.) PHILADELPHIA. PA. PALMS AND FtRNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WiTTBOLD, ""^VAV^ll'o C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stocks. Catalogues on application. STANDARD ^^5XTOIC^Il/E^ Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A sample mulled for 30 cents. FRANK L. MOORE, CHATHAM. N. J. When wTltlDK mectlon ttie American FlorlBt. Siebrecht & Wadley's PALMS, FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N. Y. SPECIALTIES IN BKST VABIKTIKS. ROSES* from (Hnch pots. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for Hat. WOOD BROTHERS, FiSHKILL, N. Y. AZALEAS , PALMS, the finest commercial varieties. large, healthy stock, well grown. ARAUCABIAS , BAY TREES, from Cuttings only. perfect shape, in all sizes. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOCK, 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. siooTrefusedT I A year ago we made an offer of $1C00 cash j for OWE FIiAH'T each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative purposes, »1.50 per 12; 810 per 100, from 2^-iuch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. ]., Pa. A. BLANC & CO., ALM iii,i.,oiv, :Bioo«xast3vt*-a:9 r»£i. Climbers. 15.000 «MPEL0PSI5 VEITCHII. verv fine, from :i-in. pots, 2 to 3 ft. top. 86 00 per 100; S.50.00 per lOUO; Irom 2-in. pots, 85 00 per 100; J3-5 per 1000 5.000 AMPELOP-IS EN'^LEUAMI and QUI^QUE- FOLIA, 2 years, strong, 88.00 per 100. 10,000 R0S« WICHURAIANA, 2 years, very strong, $10.00 per 100; 090.00 per 10 0. 1 year, strong, 8S 00 per ICO, 87,i).U0 per 1000. 5.000 PRAIRIE QUEEN and BALTIMORE BELLE ROSES. 1 year, 86 00 per 100. 2 years, 88.00 per 100. 10,000 CLEMATIS PANICULATA, 2 years, J8.00 per 100. ;S years, 8I2.C0 per lUO. 20,000 HONEYSUCKLES (climbine), Halleana Chinese, Evergreen, Japan Golden and Flex- uosa, plants from open ground, 86 00 per 100. 5.000 ENGLISH IVY, 1 year, from open ground, 86.00 per 100. 2.000 VINCA (mostly variegated) , 3 to A ft. top, 87.00 per 100; 860.00 per 1000 An immense stock ot TREES and SHRUBS. Send for our New TRADE LIST. THE WM. H. MOON CO., Morrisville, Pa. 60 Miles from N. Y. City. 30 Miles from Phila. IRVIN6T0N NU RSERY, IR VINGTON, IND. 5,000 Pfeonies in 100 named varieties, lyr. grown since division. Cinnamon Vines, 1 and 2 yrs., 810 per 1000. lO.rOO Hardy Moonflower, selected roots. 5,000 Wistaria, four best varieties. I to 4 years. 10,000 Hibiscus. Crimson Eye, 1 and 2 yrs., fine. Hardy Shrubs, a large collection, for mail ing and larger. 10,000 Honeysuckles, 4 or 5 varieties, 52.50 per 100 and up. 5,000 Japan Trailing Roses, Wichuraiana, 820 per 1,000. 200,000 Gladiolus, fine named and mixed. 200.000 Oxalis, 4 named sorts. 10,000 Biguonia Radicans. nice mailing and strong transplanted. Clematis Paniculata, 2 yrs., open ground. Lists Free. IRVINGTON. IND.. near Indianapolis. Mention American Florist. For Sale or Exchange. We have in stock 30,000 ECHEVERIA PLANTS which we wish to sell, or Exchange for Palms or Tropical Plants ADIJltE.SS COMMISSIONERS OF PARKS AND BOULEVARDS, Rooms 7, 8 & 9 Peninsular Bank BIdg. Detroit, Mich. PADMATiriMQ rose queen, field-grown, uAnnAI lUnOi strong plants, 85 00 per 100, or 840.00 per 1000. ADIANTUMCUNEAT0M,2>^ in. pots J5 per 100, 3 in. 88, 4 in. »15, 5-in. J25 PTERIS TREMULA, 'i'^-inch pots, 85 per 100, FERNS 3 inch 88, 4-ineh $15, 5-inch J20. V lOLETS. field-grown. 86 per 100; 840 per 1000. Good stock. Cash with order. HENRY A. NIEMEYER, Erie, Pa. 800 CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS, 4-inch pots, strong plants at |S 00 per 100. GARFIELD PARK ROSE CO.. 1688 W. Madison Street, CHICAGO. Fine WM. SCOTT CARNATIONS, jriOil per liundred. MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, Si 00 per huudred. MISS P. A. BAKER, MEDIA, PA. Ill 8[>Iendid condition. Areca lutescens SO.UO per 1000 rubra 5.U0 Brahea dulcla 10.00 tlllfera 50 t'aryota urene 10 00 *' rhama-Tops excelsa 3,50 " Ulon edule 15.00 Geonoma Splxlana Imperlalts 7.50 Schotteaoa 7.50 " Phoenix can -trlensls 3.50 " KEOLINATA 5 00 Thrlnax argentea 5.00 " WashlD^tonla robusta 1.00 " Musa ensete 15.00 *' SCHWAKE SEED CO. (Inc.) 404 East 34th St., NEW YORK. E.G. HILL & CO.. Wtl0l6Sal6Fi0rlSl8 RICHMOND. INDIANA. "THE DAHLIA" KY LAWRENCE K. PEACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST oflering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. P. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. Atco. N. J. T^^Ifc. -**-*-» «* THE FINEST ■MS^ ^:^A ^JL^9* STOCK GROWN. PTERIS SERRULATA. PTERIS OUVRARDII, 2ji-inch pots, $4.00 per 100. $35.00 per 1000. Cash with order. J. F*. liirjwEivi^, 3810-3824 Wentworth Ave., CHICAGO. Burki's New Yellow MarQuerlte ETOILE DE LYON. 25 Kouteil CutliutfS for )»1.00. by mall. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. w iiu[,h:s.\[,K Fi,oHt.sr. CLEMATlSi large flowering, in splendid as- sortment for fall. PAEONIE5* a large stock and assortment, very low. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY. 1 &2yeai, fine plants. DBL. POET'S NARCISSUS, a very large surplus stock. F. A.'BALLER, Bloomington, 111. 20,000 GERANIUMS ^S?TfN°os All the best varieties, as Double Gen. Grant, Bruant, Silver I.fal Mme. Salleroi, $1.60 per 100; $U.0O per 10(X). AGERATUM, blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooteii, $1.00 per 100; $!l UO per 1000. All strongand well-rooted. The same out of 2;4.inch pots, $2.00 per 100; $2U.O0 per 1000. Cash with order. MAX KRUSCHKA, LAWRENCE STAT, ON, N. Y. i8g6. The American Florist. 235 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. GOOD STOCK. „ ^ Pernio Per 100 BRIDESMAID Ist size. $8.00. ...2nd size, S5.00 METEOR ■' S.OO.... " 5.00 STORM KINC •■ allsold all sold UNCLE JOHN ■• allsold allsold THE STUART " 8.00.... " 500 E. A. WOOD •■ 8.00.... •• GOLDFINCH " allsold allsold DIAZ ALBERTINI.. " 8.00.... " 5.00 WM. SCOTT " 8.00.... •• 500 DAYBREAK " allsold allsold DAZZLE " 8.«t.... " 5.00 ALASKA allsold allsold NO RUST. F. DOR NER&SONS CO., La Fayette. Ind. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS GOOD STOCK. NO RUST. Per 100 DAYBREAK $5.00 WM. SCOTT 5.00 NANCY HANKS 5.00 LIZZIE MCCOWAN 5.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 5.00 PORTIA 5.00 MRS. FISHER 4.00 Terme cash with order. ROGERS PARK FLORAL CO. 41 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. Field-GrownCARNATIONS New and Standard Varieties. .e®"Send for price Ijst. H. Weber & Sons, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MD. DIIT IKI CARNATIONS AFTER rUI in CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott. Ivory. Silver Spray. Rose Queen, and Garfield, fiom cold frames, at $8 00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. LARGE FIELD-GROWN BLOOMING CARNATIONS ^ PER 100 Portia S3.00 Tidal Wave 3.00 Mrs. Fisher 3.00 REINBERG BROS.. 51 Wabash Ave., Chicago. FINE FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Wm. Scott Orange Blossom Thos. Cartledge Mrs. Fisher Albertini Hinze's White Portia Garfield Tidal Wave Storm King Helen Keller, at S5.00 per 100. Also MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, line at |6 00 per 100. Cash with order. GEO. B WHITEHEAD, Lock Box 116. GREENS FARMS. CONN. 50.000 FERNS. Choice varieties from 2 inch pots, at 83 00 per 100; 825 00 per ICOO Samples sent by mail on receipt of 10 cents in stamps. Koran's Perfect Carnation Support. The only perfect one on the market. Write for circular and prices. JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to adrertisers. PANSIES AND CARNATIONS. LANCASTER, PA., October, 1896. Fellow Flor STS:— A round dozen letters in one week from florists say- ing my Pansies are "the best they ever had" is pretty conclusive evidence that they are first quality and worth the price I ask. 75 cts. per 100; $5.00 per 1000, with discount on large orders. When I make a shipment of field-grown Carnation plants a recommenda- tion is almost sure to follow. A common inquiry is "How do you grow such fine plants?" 1 will be pleased to supply you with plants of the following varieties: McGowan Albertini. Cartledge. Scott, Wave, Keller, Stuart, and Rose Queen at the rate of $5 00 per 100, or M5.00 per 1000. If you need any Rooted Cuttings of any kind, CARNATIONS, GERANIUMS, COLEUS, etc., write to me, it is no trouble to answer mquiries. L. B 496. ALBERT M. HERR. LANCASTER. PA. CARNATIONS Field-Grown. ALASKA, $10.00 per 100. DAYBREAK, HELEN KELLER, KOHINOOR, LIZZIE McCOWAN, MINNIE COOK, PORTIA, ROSE QUEEN, TIDAL WAVE, WM. SCOTT, $8 per 100. CALIFORNIA VIOLETS, ;iX^oT75\''^^fnf;i°p^°utpe^ricoT.^"°''''^ P^USIES, large plants for Fall bloottiing. Per 100 $1.00; per 1000 87 00. Large stock of Ficus Elastica, Ferns, etc. Write for our BOOK FOR FLORISTS. GREENHOUSES, \/nil/MinU»C CCCrv CTARC 84 & 86 R4ND0LPH STREET. WESTERN SPRINUS. ILL. VflUGttflN'S SEED STORE. CHICAGO. /-* A OAT A nrir^lVrd Albertlni, jacqueminot, Portla, Puritan, Van Leeuwen, V^r\.I\.iN t\ 1 IWiN O clean, healthy and vigorous, S5.00 per 100. AMERICAN BEAUTY and other Forcing Roses. MARIE LOUISE, SWANLEY, CALI- FORNIA and CAMPBELL VIOLETS. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. riflNTlNG ST06K. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS, Good variety. Price. 84.C0 to $8 00 per 100- FIELD-GROWN VIOLETS. MARIE LOUISE, of healthy character. Price, J5.00 per 100; 845.00 per lUOO. POT-GROWN MARIE LOUISE. ■IV, inch, 82.,50 per 100; SSO 00 per 1000. 4 inch, 84 60 per lOD; 837.50 per 1000. *5*SAMPLES ON APPLICATION. Asparagus plumosus, Poinsettia. Pansy Seedlings, etc. Lists Kuee DAN'L B. LONG, VtlV^t^. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. WAKI), Mgr. QUEENS, L. I., N. Y. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnaiions, Cannas, Chrysanthemums, Geraniums. 1,000 HELEN KELLER CARNATIONS Fine, healthy plants, at |6.00 per 100. Freight prepaid to your place. CASH WITH ORDKR. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro. Pa. CARNATIONS -Field-Grown. LarKe and Healthy. Per HiO LIZZIE McGOWaN $4 0(1 SILVER SPRAY 4 00 WM. S-OTT 5 OO DAYBREAK 5 00 Also a limited dumber of Portia at. . . 4 00 Sweetbrier, Uncle John and E. A. Wood at . ,5 00 CASH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO., DAYTON. 0. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. 17 ;> to 4-tncli PALMS and :.' FBUNS for Ki.UU. 10 4 to 6-Inch PALMS and 2 FERNS tor Jti.SU. MONTHLY AND TEA ROSES, ADIANTUM FERNS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND CAR- NATIONS in pots. LABELS. MOSS, ETC. SEND FOB LISTS. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. CARNATIONS. Good, healthy, field-grown plants. STUART 84 00 per 100 PORTIA 4.00 SCOTT 4.(0 PURITAN . . 4.00 DR. WARDER, good crimson color. GROVEDALE NURSERIES. Fishers Lane, east of 2nd St. Pike, PHILA., PA. Mention American Florist CARNATIONS 5000 Scotts left, tirst-class stock, extra size plants. About 1000 Daybreak and Tidal Wave. Also a few Rose Queen, Goldfinch and Emily PierSOn. samples and prices on application. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Carnations, LIZZIK McGOW.VN. WM. SCOTT, EHILY VIKRSON, DNCI.E .JOHN, HELKN KELLER, ALASKA. TIDAI. WAVE $5.00 per lOO Violets MARIE LOUISE. . . $5.00 perlOO Ficus Elastica, rs'go'p^^rdozen Also a large lot of PALMS BERMUDA LONGIFLO&UM BULBS. H. C. STEINHOFF. 578 Hudson Boulevard. WEST HOBOKEN. N. J. when wrttlnir mention American Florist. Hydrangea Pan. Grandiflora FINEST OF ALL HAKDV SHRUBS. REDUCED PRICES. 15 inches, nicely branched, at ]%c ; l]^ to 2 feet, fine bushy plants at 3c ; 2 to 3 feet, fiLe bubhy plants, at 5c. Packing free. W. H. SALTER, Rochester, N. Y. 23G The American Florist. Oct. lo Columbus, O. The first week of September witnessed the Ohio State Fair, held on its beautiful grounds in this city. The floral show was about as usual, the space being lim- ited, as is also the size and number of premiums allowed, but an effort is being made to have a new hall erected before next year, to be used exclusively for flori- culture. The premiums this year went prircipally to Mr. Charles and Mr. C. A. Roth of this citv, and Mr. Geo. F. Brehmer ofChillicothe, Ohio. Mr. Ed. Underwood is taking an ex- tended trip through the east. Trade is much better since September, bringing cooler weater which sends peo- ple home shivering from the summer resorts. Prices are also on the rise for good stock. Recent visitors: Wm.McKellarand Geo. F. Brehmer of Chillicothe, M. Hart, Cleve- land; F. E. Blake, Marion, O. Foreign bulbs are now mostly all in and are displayed for the retail trade by local firms; sales are rather slow as yet. A. W. Livingston's Sons have rented more space in the building which they are now in, and are puttingin some improve- ments. Stock is good and steadily improving, as is also trade, and by the first of Octo- ber we all hope to be busy. A visit to the Franklin Park Floral Co. was made by the writer this week; he finds everything in splendid order and stock lookirg very fine. They are cutting some exceedingly fine roses for the season. Collections are exceedingly slow and we are all waiting till "after election." B. K. Trenton, N. J. J.F. Ribsam, whosome time agoopened a nursery and florist business here in com- petition with the old established firm of C. Ribsam & Sons has disappeared and the creditors have taken possession of the State street establishment. In trade cir- cles his financial afifiirs have recently be- come the subject of comment, and his fail- ure is not much of a surprise to those who have had dealings with him. Concord, N. H. The annual exhibition of the Ntfw Hampshire Horticultural Society was held in Phoenix Hall, September 22, 23, and 24.. The display was one of the best ever given by the society. The exhibit of plants from the New Hampshire Insane Asylum filled the stage, and was exceed- ingly good. W. S. Wilson, Warren Colby, Geo. Main and others were among the large contributors of plants and flowers. Hazleton, Pa. Mr. S. A. Smith has remodeled and equipped his Broad street flower store with all the comforts and conveniences that make a place of this kind attractive. He has also built a fine conservatory 54x10. Mr. Smith reports a steady im- provement in business. Homo. Cleveland. The Williams-Wilson Co., state that the store they have opened is for wholesale trade only. They will handle cut flowers and florists' supplies and will sell at wholesale only. f\ JICC ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Send for ULTlOO t Estimate. Satisfaction guaranteed. XIZIXIZ3 C3rXj.A.SS CO., 10% South 6tb Avenue, MEW YORK CITT. .,lt.ll.il,.lt-*l..ll.ll.,l..lt «l.il..ll.ll.>l,.ll.llLjfl.ll.iir p^troiiaget and will l>e pleased to send samples and r I prices on applicatiun I^"OKOEK WILL BE PROMPTLY FILLKD. \ THE COURIER LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY, Buffalo, N. Y. \ From 2-iiich pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of ▼arieties and prices furnished on application. NATHAN SMITH <& SON. ZIRNGIEBEL'S GIANT MARKET AND GIANT FANCY PANSIES are the Leading Strains up to date. Extra Large Size and Superb Colors. Liberal trade packets of either strain at ONE DOLLAR EACH 4-lnch :i.UO sy-lnch (iOO Dracffina Indlvlca. 2!^-lncb 2.50 Begonias, tlowerlntt lu var.. 2^-lach, our selection 2.50 Hex. •• •■ ■■ •■ 4 00 Cash with order. R. C of all nen'l stock at usual prices. Mention Atnerlaan Florist. Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 25 cents; per hundred, 820.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thous.iiKl, 82, 0<); per ten thousand, $18. CH. KOEHLER, Oxford Church P. 0., Phila., Pa. All First-Class, Strong FIELD- GROWN STOCK. p„,oo Anetnone Japonica Alba $5.00 " Japonica Rubra 5.00 Whirlwind 5.00 Clematis Davidiana, 2 years 8.00 Day Lily, white and yellow 5.00 Eulalia Jap. Variegata and Gracillima 3.00 Hollyhocks, separate colors 6.00 Hibiscus Crimson Eye 3.00 Iris Germanica 1.50 Yucca Filamentosa, 2 year 8.00 VICK & HILL CO., Field Plants LflDY CAMPBELL VIOLETS. $4.00 per 100. $30.00 per 1000. Orders can be sent to KENNETT SQUARE or our new place at WAWASET, PA. EDW. SWAYNE. A. & F. BOLKER'S PLANT AUCTION SALES EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY At M o'clock A. M. 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. 1897 THE ONLY "MARS" ""^^51?^ i™ Prices on application. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. FERNS IN VARIETY. Just the thing for this Pall. Well estab- lished in 2inch pots. Adiantum from flats. CARNATIONS— Wm. Scott. Daybreak, But- tercup, Ihos, Cartledge Kittie Clover. Kldo- rado, L. McOowan. strong plants from field. BRADLEY REDFIELD. Glenside, Pa. GhrysanthemumslPansies Per urn flOD CHRYS.\NTHKMUMS,25var.5-in.pots 10.00 40,000 PANSY PLANTS . . . .per 1000 J8.50: .60 Cash witu Okdek IM.EAst. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAIM, Delaware, 0. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist. 237 1^^^ 412 TO 422 ^'lAWTHORNEAV. fcHICAGO.ILL. Neponset Flower Pots of Waterproof Paper are sold as fallows: Terms— Net cash with order. If ordered shipped by freight, add 5(1 cents cartage. Packed In Griiss Weight Size Crates of per 1 0(1 pots Per 100 Per 1000 IH-'-?""- 1000 ... ..ab"Ut20 lbs.. S0.25 S2 00 lOOO . " 23 •• .. :« 2.30 3 •■ . lUOO ... ... •• 3t " . 35 2.80 3^ •• . 1000 ... ... •• 45 ■• .. 50 4.00 4 •• .. 500.... ... •• 76 " .. liO 6.00 5 •■ .. 500.... .. ■• 100 •• .. 1)0 8 30 11 •■ . 51X1 ... .. " 150 •• . .. .. 1.60 13.35 titandard Pol Meaaure. Lesfl quantities than full crates at 10(1 rates. F. W. BIKD & SONS, Manufacturers. Address orders to our General AgentSi August Rolker&Sons New York, p o. station E, or R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.. Bsston, Eastern Agents. H. BAYEKSDORFER & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS' SUPPLIES ONLY, PHTT.A'DELPHIA, FAa Our new Oataloene is now oott free npiT'is. :m[. i«ick^ «& CO. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. . .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HtLPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manufacturer of METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry). NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, DintisioisoftliisBDi; 20 iDObes lODK by 18 Inches wide and 12 Inches hlKta. Two sections. This wooden box nicely stained and vamlghed, 18x30x12, raade In two sections, one for each size letter, given away with first order of 500 letters. A. Rolker & l$ons. New Vork. M. Rice & Co., 86 N. 4th St., PhUa., Pa. F. E. McAlllHter, 22 Dey St., New York. A. I>. Ferry & Co., 33 warren St., Syracuse New York. A. Herrman. 416 K. 34th St., New Vork. H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A. C. Kendal, 115 Ontario St., Cleveland. O. J. A. Simmers, Toronto, Ont., Agent for Canada. E. H. Hunt, 79 Lake St., Chicago, III. Wisconsin Flower Exchange, 131 Mason St , MUwankee, Wis. H. Sunderbrnch, 4th and Walnnt Sts., Cin- cinnati, O. T. W^. Wood * Sons, 6th and Marshall Sts., Richmond, Va. Jas. Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y. C. A. 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STEFFEN5 335 EAST %\^ ST. NEW YORK. TOBACCO STEMS FOR FLORISTS. For Sale, packed in bales 200 to 250 lbs. No charge for deliv- ering to depots. PRICE: SIO.OO per ton. S1.50 per single bale. Address p. C. FULWEILER & BRO., 248 ITo. Ninth St.. PHII.&Si:i.FHIA, FA. Mention American Florl.t. Benjamin Chase, WOOD LABELS, Always mention American Ktorisi V«,GH reoj" IFOR SALE BY Seed Stores. Kor Free Pamphlet, write to LonsTiLLE [Spikit Cckbd Tobacco Co. jLouisville,Ky FUMIGATE WITH NIKOTEEN THE ESSENCE OF TOBACCO. It kills all insects and does not injure delicate blooms Costs 12 cents to fumigate a house 100x20 feet. If you cannot get it locally, write SKABCURA DIP CO., Station S, CHICAGO. When you write an advertiser please state that you saw the adv. in the FLORIST. 238 The American Florist. Oct. 10, San Jose. Business has been very dull here all during the summer, there being practi- cally nothing doing until a few weeks ago, when things began to pick up and are now moving along briskly. Pan- danus was the first chrysanthemum to come in but they did not move very rapidly, being so small. However, 'mums are now beginning to come in from the outside growers and are of much better quality. The chief roses we have are Kaiserin, Bride and Biidismaid, La France is also grown here yet. Mr. Chas. C. Navlet's window is a splendid sight and is arranged most artistically with its artificial pond. Mr. Navlet has quite a good show of roses and chrysanthemums. Mr. E. W. Parsons who lately sold out his business to the Garden City Floral Society has gone east but he expects to come back in a few months. Mr. Arthur Parker and Mr. Cann, who bought out Mr. Parsons have their houses looking in good condition. Their chrysanthemums promise to do well as also do the carnations and the roses, of which they have quite a number of plants, all looking healthy. Miss M. Ridley has still charge of the city store. Mr. E. Bourguignon's rose houses are looking splendidly and his cULumber houses are also. Mr. Bourguignon is the chief rose grower we have here in San Jose and his stcck is always largely sought for. Meteor. St. Paul. There is but little new to report in the way of trade. Roses are plentiful and of good quality. Other good stock is scarce, carnations especially so, owing to the replanting of houses at this season of the year. Severe frosts have killed all out- door stock, and the main supply must now come from the greenhouses. Night firing is now a necessity. The city parks are giving away their surplus bedding to the citizens. This is the usual custom each year, and is very popular with the poorer classes. Mr. Rolker of New York was a recent caller. Felix. Williamsport, Pa. There is a decided improvement all along the line, trade btirg brisk and the prospects brighter and more encourag- ing. A string of weddings of more or less prominence to come off in the near future will no doubt keep the florists hustling. Evenden Bros, have recently added two houses to their plant. Of these one for carnations covers 167x50, and the other, for chrysanthemums, 100x22. The houses run east and west, with the long span to the south, and are heated by steam. Among other things Evenden Bros, intend growing violets on a larger scale than heretofore. Their general stock looks fine, healthy and well grown. Homo. FLOWER POTS. We MumifHCture all kIndH of Klower Pots. etc. Making a Specially of Florist Standard Pots Send for price lift and samplcB (which will be sent free) and we know you will give us your order; r. (). Box :s. MiiineapollH. Minn. J. G. SWAHN'S SONS, Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. WIND MILLS FOR PUMPING. FAIRBANKS-GALVD steel. ECLIPSE-WOOD. S0,000 .A.li-eticly Sold. ^boilers™ HEATING. 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Adv UateB ZMi American Boiler Co...24n Amllng E C 23(1 Baker PA 3M BallerFA 2»4 Bassett & Wa8b;iurn..2.'ll Bayersdorfer H & Co. :IK Blanc A &Co 2,i:i Bcbblnk I, C 232 Bonsall Jos E ...im Boston Letter Co 2s: Burkl Fred 2S4 California Nurserj Cu23! 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Whitehead Geo B Williams « Sons Co Winter & Glover. . Wis Flower Kix — Wlttbold Geo Wood Bros Toungjno- Voung Tbos Jr — . Zlrnglebsl D .... We note that Mr. Wm. Scott has arranged to place hismachine for making wreathing of bouquet green, etc., on the markft. As seen at the Cleveland conven- tion it seemed capable of turning out wreathing at a speed to utterly discour- age hand competition and the quality of the work was excelknt. As the machine costs but $8 00, it will undoubtedly prove a good investment for anyone hav- ing any great quantity of wreathing to make. It is being manufactured and sold by the Scott Binder Co., 479 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. HEADQUARTERS ,^ FOR -=^5^ ^fero FRESH CUT MGUSTROLKER&SONS -136 WEST 24'nHST. -^ NEW YORK- VILMORIN-ANDRIEUX&GO., Paris. 125 NEW DESIGNS. New Supplement of Electros, FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES, NOW READY. Please apply to AUG. RHOTERT, 26 Barclay St., New York. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. 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Roses— Notes 241 —Reply to query 241 —The Bon Silene rose 2(2 Chrysanthemums— National society 242 — Judging new chrysanthemums 242 — Chicago chrysanthemum committee 242 — Two early chrysanthemums 242 —Cuckoo spit on chrysanthemums 242 Asters (4 illus.) 242 Azaleas . . . , 243 Herbaceous plant notes 244 Horticultural education at St. Louis 2-44 Propagating araucarias 246 Boulevard planting, Chicago (illus.) 247 Treatment of pelargoniums - 247 Sweet pea puzzles . . 247 Hardy perennial phloxes 248 New York 249 Buffalo 249 Boston 2)9 Rochester. N. Y 250 San Francisco 2,^0 St. Louis 250 St. Paul 251 mica. N. Y 2il Toronto 251 Syracuse. N. Y 251 Philadelphia 252 Chicago 252 Pittsburg 2.52 Worcester, Mass 253 Milwaukee 253 The seed trade 256 Penna. Hort. Society 256 Fall River, Mass 258 Kingston, Pa 258 Brockton, Mass. . . 260 To make water proof cloth 260 Fishing note 260 News notes 262 Lakeland, N Y.— R. M. Ball has pur- chased land in this town upon which he expects to conduct the florist business. Norwich, N. Y.— Norman Squires, a well known gardener and florist of this town, died on October 3 after an illnessof several months. His age was 57. Not until the last few years have grow- ers paid much attention to the subject of disbudding; the strong branching shoots springing from the base of the plants were allowed to pursue the course of nature as completely in this particular as if they were growing in a wild uncultivated state. I remember the first bench of Mme. Cusin that I saw struck me as looking very natural indeed. I did not inquire ot the happy possessor what dis- position he made of the cut blooms, but had the color been right I should have concluded that he did a good deal of funeral work, and growing them in the manner he did there was no sacrifice of stem. The custom was to cut the center flower of a cluster which usually is the best, with short stem and then have from two to four more insignificant blooms with stems a trifle longer, from the same cane. To have suggested taking out all the side growths and throwing the full strength of the shoot into the one center bud. and then cutting it with a fine long stem would have been considered posi- tively wicked by a great many, and a useless expenditure of time by others. This system of growing and cutting was all right probably as long as people were willing to pay out their money for them, but will hardly do at the present time. We occasionally run across a florist how- ever, who thinks it is not worth the time it takes to disbud his roses and who acts upon the principle that what was good enough ten years ago has got to answer now, but I fancy that if his customers are at all critical and he happens to have an up-to-date competitor in the town that he will be liable to have his blooms in the ice box until his neighbors are all sold, or else practically give them away. The work of disbudding should be gone through about twice a week, and theside shoots snapped ofi' while they are young and brittle; if lefc too long they become tough and a knife must be used, which consumes much more time. The result is a clumsy job and a partial frustrating of the main object for which we disbud, namely larger blooms with more sub- stance. The Meteor house will require close attention from now on. I read a short time ago that quite a number of the Philadelphia florists had given up grow- ing the Meteor because of its disposition to mildew. If the statement be true there must be some fault with their method of growing it; with us it is comparatively free from this tendency, much more so in fact than Bride or Bridesmaid. It would seem strange if while here and there over almost the entire country it is being grown to a degree of perfection such as was not even dreamed of eight or ten years ago, it should be discarded in the very locality where it was first grown and introduced. I often contrast the fine blooms of Meteor now cut in midwinter with those we cut in the winter of 1886 just before it was disseminated. Such flowers! the Greek peddlers I think would hardly look at them if ofifered now. Had we at that time known the secret of growing it successfully, and could have seen the future that was in store for it, the introducer would have sold 50,000 plants instead of a few hundreds as was the case. I have found that to grow it satisfactorily it must be given a very light house, be planted early, be liberally fed and as soon as there is any sign of cool nights in the fall have fire heat enough to keep the temperature above 65° all night; this latter is the most important item of all, for once the plants begin producing poor colored blooms, as they surely will if checked much by cold, they are liable to keep on indefinitely. After this date the night temperature should be 65° to 68°, and during the day 73° to 85°. The strong heat is great for red spider, and syringing in earnest must be resorted to every favorable day, in the event of the day turning out cloudy after syringing fire heat must be given at once to dry ofi" the foliage. Apply a mulch now if it has not been put on already. This season fully confirms me in the be- lief that as a spring, summer, and fall rose Kaiserin has no equal; but in order to have it do its very best it should be planted in a solid bed well drained, rested during part of the winter by allowing the house to almost freeze, pruned similar to a hybrid, and grown from year to year. Old plants when in good shape make stems and flowers that are simplv immense. It is liable to suffer from black spot late in the season, so it is advisable to take any cuttings that may be needed as early as possible. Instead of having to hold on to the old Brides long after the blooms are no good in the summer, and then be compelled to cut from the young plants too early in order to have some white roses for your trade, it is much better to have a house of Kaiserin to cut from during that sea- son, and give your Brides a good chance to get established and strong, besides giving both you and your customers the satislaction of having first class stock all the time. Robt. Simpson. Reply to Query. A Wisconsin florist writes complaining of unfair treatment at the bands of a, 242 The American Florist. Oct. ^7, ■western firm. Last spring he purchased from the party in question 100 Bride and 100 Bridesmaids, and planted the same for winter bloominp, but having allowed them to bloom, he finds thit he has less than 50 Brides, the remainder being all Bridesmaid. The loss will be considera- ble, as he will have too few Brides and too many Bridesmaids for his trade. He complains that when notified by him of the facts in the case the party who sold him the plants did not even reply to his letter, and adds that if the law will up- hold a transaction of this kind then he will in future advertise geraniums and furnish potatoes. I do not feel qualified to act as judge in a case like this, espe- cially when I have only one side of the story. The probability is that the firm which received and filled the order, did so in good faith, the error may be the result oi carelessness on the part of an employe; in which event they should certainly have expressed their regrets and stosvn a wil- lingness to make good the loss as far as possible. Had I made such a mistake I might have offered to send free of charge the number of Brides missing, and those the very best plants that I could furnish. As a rule I think it pays to be liberal in all our flealings with our fellow men, the Golden Rule put into practice daily does not tend to poverty, and goes a long way towards making life worth the living. RoBT. Simpson. The Bon Silene Rose. I would greatly appreciate any infor- mation or history of the Bon Silene rose that couid be had. I believe if a few of the men who were successful when that rose was popular would give their expeiieoce it would be very interesting reading. For instance, Mr. Thomas Cartledge, or Mr. John Westcott of Philadelphia, and men in Boston and New York of like experience, could tell a great many little instances of that time that would be a revelation to many of your younger readers or to men who were not in our business at that time. A SuBscRiBRR. Chrysanthemum Society of America. The committees on seedlings will hold sessions for examining new varieties on October 10, 17, 24., 31, November 7, 14, 21, and 28. Those having seedlings to be considered by the committee should forward them by prepaid express to any of the follow- ing: Fewkes, Horticultural H. Boston — A. Hall. New York — New care of Dr. F. M, Square G^irden. Philadelphia— Ed win Chestnut street. Cincinnati — R. Witferstaetter, corner 4th and Walnut streets. Chicago— W. N. Rudd, Room 202, 185 Dearborn street. York Florist Club, Hexamer, Madison Lonsdile, 1514 Judgmg New Chrysanthemums. The committee for judging new chrys- anthemums for this year are practically the same as last. The only change being Mr. Chas. W. Johnson instead of Mr. Stollery on the the Chicago committee. At the Cleveland meeting "for commer- cial purposes" was appended to the heading for scale D, and scale E. was adopted for varieties suitable only for exhibition purposes and is as follows: Distinctiveness 25 Color 15 Form 15 Sze 15 Foliage 10 Stem 10 Fullness 10 100 By the adoption of this scale it will be possible for varieties thnt do not score 85 points under "Scale D" to receive a certificate as exhibition varieties. Exhibitors are required to pay an entry fee of $2 for each variety exhibited with the privilege of exhibiting the variety be- fore as many of the committeesashemay see fit. The entry fees should be remitted to the secretary with statement of varieties to be entered not later than Tuesday preceding the date they are to be shown. Shipping directions and dates of these inspections will be found under another head in this paper. Elmer D. Smith, Sec'y. Adrian, Mich. Chicago Chrysanthemum Committee. On October 10, the initial meeting for the season, two varirties onlv were exhibited; these were Yellow Monarch from Dailledouze Brothers, Flatbush, N. Y., and Midge from Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich. Yellow Monarch is a good sized flower of clear vellow inclining to a buttercup shade. The center is whorled and incurv- ing, outer petals straight and recurved, somewhat straggling. It is a showy and handsome flower, its one noticeable defect being the amount of long bare stem before the beginning of the foliage. No complaint about bare stem could be possible with the Midge, for this flower had a stem thickly clad with fine foliage right up to the calyx, reminding one of Mrs. Jerome Jones. The parentage oi this variety is Autumn Bride X Berg- mann, color clear white, slightly shaded with cream in the center. The form is full and deep, peta's broad, a decided im- provement over Bergmann. It is dwarf in growth, and its luxuriant foliage is a distinct attraction. A certificate was recommended by the committee. Two Early Chrysanthemums. Oa October 13 we received from Bassett & Washburn blooms of their chrysanthe- mum Kale B. Washburn, the white sport from Mrs. E. G. Hill, and a yellow sport from Mrs. Henry Robinson, which is called Mrs. 0. P. Bissett. The white, first seen last year, is large and shapely, like Mrs. Hill in all respects except color; it is a strong grower. The only apparent defects are the long bare neck and a hard greenish center, though this last trouble may disappeir when the flower is nearer maturity. The vellow sport is in color a clear sulphur. It has the shape of Mrs. Robinson, but according to our recollec- tion of the latter, it is not quite so well finished a bloom; like Yellow Monarch it is a trifle straggling. It would seem that even and well-ficished form and good foliage are two great points to be studied in our early blooms. The Washburn, however, certainly aopears to be one of the largest and shapeliest of our early whites. Cuckoo Spit on Chrysanthemums. The "white slimy substance with a yel- low bug or egg in it" W. M. G. asks about in October 3 issue, page 204, is probably the cuckoo spit, Aphrophora spumaria. It is an ally of the aphis, and secretes this watery substance in which it is enveloped to protect itself, probably as much as anything from the sua, for when exposed it quickly dies. It is irju- rious and should be fought in the same wayas aphis. It has never beena serious trouble here in Massachusetts, but in some localities in England it is quite plentiful. I never knew it to trouble plants under glass. T. D. Hatfield. Wellesley, Mass. Asters. The accompanying engravings of the aster fields of Mr. James Semple, Bellevue, Pa., are from recent photographs and very correctly show the appearance of the fields and also some vases of his mag- nificent flowers. They show very clearly the habit of the plant with the profusion and uniformity of bloom; the plants are five feet in height, main stem ■''i to over 1 inch in thickness, the blooms many of them over 5 inches in diameter with stems from 15 to over 30 inches in length. The flowers in the vases show the size and in- dividuality of the blooms, with their swirled centre, which is typical of this strain of asters; they are produced in but three colors, viz., white, pink and laven- der. Mr. Semple very courteously acceded to your request for information about grow- ing asters, and prevention of disease among them, by giving to the public for the first time his method of cultivation; his uniform success and the great beauty of his strain of asters are sufficient proof of the correctness of his mode. For the soil he uses a light loam, and is very, very particular that no horse ma- nure is used, not even a shovelful of it, but, if the soil should require enriching, a very small quantity of two-year-old cow manure proves beneficial. He manures with a small quantity of crushed un- slacked lime, about twenty-five bushels to the acre, spread over the field so that it will receive the full benefit of the gases generated when it is turn=d under, and Duts it oninthis way, spreads the lime on in small quantities just ahead of the plow, plowing It under immediately, thus insur- ing its being covered up without delay, and preventing exposure to the atmos- phere. Sow the seed outside as soon as possi- ble after April 12 (in this latitude) for the main crop, sowing in drills about one inch deep, covering the seed with good potting soil; this method facilitates weed- ing and the plants grow up hard}' and stocky, a great desideratum. Mr. Semple sows a few inside in the third week of March, afterwards growing them outside, but the gain in time of blooming is only about five daj's; these asters being a late variety, they do not bloom in ordinary seasons until about the twentieth of August. By growing them in the greenhouse continuously, one can have them in bloom about two weeks earlier. i8g6. The American Florist. 243 ASTERS GROWN BY MR. JAMES SEMPLE, BELLEVUE, PA. In reference to diseases of the aster, Mr. Semple is unable to speak from personal experience as to causes and cures, for be has had so little disease in all the years be has devoted totheirimprovement,that he has never had occasion to look up or use a remedy; he thoroughly believes that to the use of the lime, in the condition and applied in the manner recommended, his freedom from aster diseases is attributable; his be- lief is, that the gases developed from the lime prevent fungus and other diseases; that this viev? is correct seems to be as- sured, for he has grown asters forfive suc- cessive years in the same place and same soil with entire freedom from disease, and only treating the ground in the way de- scribed. When his main crop is grown (he had this season three large fields in asters, besides some smaller lots) it is a light, loamy, black walnut soil, and is the finest he has ever tried for them. The aster family appears to be well suited at his place, Mr. Semple says it is indigenous to the soil, and showed the writer ten dif- ferent varieties of wild asters growing between his greenhouses and the main road. Mr. Semple's ambition is to further im- prove his present strain, and also produce new ones, and is still hybridizing to that end. He has a special of last vear that promised well but he is now fearful it will not establish itself, it will require one or may be two yearj more of trial before it can be definitely determined, if successful it will be entirely difierent from the pres- ent kind. Mr. Semple heretofore, as many florists well know, has been very reticent regard- ing his method of growing asters, but he says that now he is not as young as he used to be, in fact, growing old! He has concluded to give to the boys (and the public) the benefit of his experience and therefore discloses in fuU his method and mode of treatment, and hopes others may be as successful as he. Regia. Azaleas. Mr. James Dean, Bay Ridge, N. Y.,says the following are his leading varieties o. azaleas: Mme. Vander Cruyssen, Sig 244 The American Florist. Oct. //, niund Rucker, Bernhard Andreas alba, Sacantala, Vervaeneana, Dr. Moore, Simon Mardner, Empress of India, Em- peror of Brazil, Chas. Leirens. Deutsche Perle he considers very useful for a small grower but it is not good for his purpose as the flowers do not all open together and this is necessary in a plant which must be a complete massof flowers to be salable. But this same habit makes the plant very useful in suppljing flowers for cutting. For inexperienced growers he recom- mends Mme. Vandtr Cruyssen, double rosy pink; Bernhard Andreas alba, white; and Mme. de Greve. white and pink. He says anyone can flower these varieties and they give a good selection of colors. Herbaceous Plant Notes. To arrange a border of hardy plants for a continuous efi'ect may appear an easy matter to some men, but as I said before it requires an intimate knowledge of all the plants to be used, and also years of experience, and above all a good taste so as to insure not only a succession of bloom but also a succession of har- monious views and pictures; from month to month they are changing as the spring advances to summer and from summer to autumn, a different picture every few weeks. We may see and admire this month a colony of plants bearing snowy white flowers, next month the same spot may be covered with pink blossoms of an entirely difierent species, and still a month later blueoryellowflowerssucceed the others. If the arranging and planting is entrusted to an experienced and practi- cal man, or if it is done under his advice, much annoyance and perhaps failures are avoided, and a no viceshould never under- take such planting. As to the shape of the border I prefer the irregular outlines and varied widths, il the groundsare of fairsizeand economy in space is needless; thelengthalso should be ample. Shrubberies or ornamental trees and shrubs combined will form an admairble background, the hardy plants will there show off to full advantage and if the shrubbery has been planted properly in irregular outlines, the recesses formed are especially well adapted for the accom- modation of some of our hardy plants. Large stones or rocks may be laid here or there projecting from the shrubbery and reaching out into the border, the ground heaped up around them, forming irregu- larities in the surface. Diversity in the shape and outlines of the ground as well as in the plants used in the border male- rially aids us in the production of pleas- ing effects, a straight wall in a garden or a straight row of trees is no thing of beauty in our eyes, and we pass them without notice, while a heap of stone arranged carelessly into a rockery, when properly planted, or an irregularly planted clumps of fine specimen trees in such a place cannot fail to attract our attention immediately we set our eyes on it. In most places the borders are not laid out wide enough to be efl"ective; the plants have not room enough there to develop their full beauty without crowd- ing their near neighbors, so that neither of thtra can show its special characteris- tics to full advantage. If there is not room enough to widen the border, we should then only use the dwarfer and compact growing plants, and remove all the tall ones to other quarters. In field culture, where the rows are 3Va to 4 feet apart, we can see for instance the Japan- ese anemones over 5 feet tall and corres- ponding in width, flowering most pro- fusely; the foliage is healthy and clean down to the ground , while in another place plants of the same age planted 18 inches apart in a bed are much inferior to the first mentioned , both in number of flowers, height and color of foliage. All other plants under the same circumstances would show the same defects and it is surely good policy to allow plenty of room for all the taller growing plants at planting time, filling in the spaces with some ground covering plants so as not to leave any part of the ground bare. Bor- ders arranged and planted in this manner do not need to be forked, spaded or hoed over every year, the ground does not need stirring up and very few weeds will appear among the plants in the densely covered ground, those that will come up right after planting may be pulled out by hand. The soil will soon be covered with the luxuriant growth of our hardy plants and there is no chance for the weeds to come up among them unless the soil should contain thistle roots or quack- grass, but in a well prepared border such pests are not to be allowed. In the above I expressed my views of arranging or grouping plants in the bor- der for a continuous effect, here no flow- ers should be cut from the plants at any time, it would disfigure and spoil the whole affair. The general cultivation of herbaceous plants in the field or garden is easy enough if we only grow them for cut flower purposes, and artistic group- ing and combinations would here be entirely out of place, for by continuous cutting we are sure to spoil the beauty of the plants, and as no display is contem- plated we are at liberty to mix them up indiscriminately without regard to color, shape or height if we wish to do so. Raising plants and cut flowers for the market is an entirely separate affair and at some future time I may say a few words about the matter and at the same time give a list of desirable species for the purpose. J. B. Keller. Rochester, N. Y. Horticultural Education at St. Louis. \^Read bejore the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of Boston by Mr. Emit A/lsche.] By request, a synopsis of the course of instruction in horticulture at the Missouii Botanical Garden with a review of its purposes and method is here outlined. In the pursuits of life, a progressive mind is contmually confronted by problems and phenomena of which the governing laws are entirely or partially unknown. To a student, and especially a young person, the vast array of known facts which relate to his woik, must be mastered be- fore he is lifted to a plane of intelligent insight and observation as to the devel- opment of the everyday evolvings of nature. Since knowledge has steadily increased since the appearance of man, there have been, and are, ever and anon, mysteries being solved as to the means nature adopts in revealing htrjelf. For simplification in study, research has been divided and subdivided repeatedly from wide comprehensive heads into minute details, each being honored with its mas- ters until not only do mechanics, zoology and art find their professors in a broad sense but extremely minute branches are supplied with their investigators. This must needs be to continue abreast with modern invention and discovery and at present the depth and greatest resultant remuneration is only found by these same specialists' labor when united for the common good. It is absolutely essential in economically employing the laws that science and art teach that one must be well grounded in the elements thereofere hecan direct them to the ends for which they are used. In all pursuits, there are certain forces employed, whether the operator is aware of them or not and the greatest eventual benefit is only accomplished when they are thoroughly undtrstood. Particularly in horticulture, nature forms the greatest proportion of working material and hence the ablest insight to the simple or the concerted action of its forces is only gained by a clear under- standing of their properties. Manual dexterity, keen observation and intuition serve to elevate numerous men in the respective branches of their choice, and not infrequently do these rise above a college-bred man with all the attached learning, but this by no means reflects discredit upon schooling. Aside from genius, every one has the identical start- ing point and it is but reasonable to grant that if an attentive and persistent person be favored by a hiafher systematic course of intellectual training, it cannot but result in lifting him above where he would land if deprived of it. To accumu- late the known facts of involved princi- ples of a pursuit and retail them in graded form, enabling a pupil to acquire firmly, accurately and lucidly isthe funda- mental object of all educational institu- tions. The word "science" is repugnant to many a scholar intending to be fitted for a life work by the erroneous idea of its signifying impracticable theory and hence unremunerative except to a scientist, while in reality, it is but a systematized arrangement of facts, causing them to be more frugally applied and most speedily perceived and adopted. In this view every institution of learning accepts it by endeavoring to familiarize a scholar most rapidly, thoroughly and concisely to em- ploy the principles which his labor involves. From this point of view, horti- cultural education in this country has been fairly represented. In the higher classes of our agricultural colleges admission is restricted to at least a grammar school education. Aside from horticulture in thecurriculumforadegree, its teachings as a specialty is more or less restricted to its rural application to agriculture and eitherexcludes entirely or adds and teaches such branches as floriculture and landscape gardening in a manner unworthy of the title. Gjod teaching demands high class instructors and thorough equipment and illustrative objects, and the two latter are to a great extent wanting in these branches in our agricultural colleges. But while a bril- liant man may, and frequently does acquire a lofty position in practical branches without technical college tui- tion, it ordinarily is in a monopolized specialty of a vtry confined breadth and the possibility of its attainment is con- siderably easier to one having a technical schooling. It is but logical to suppose depth and coerced breadth in practice thus gained are at the expense of scope which the inrlividual otherwise could carry. It is held by some that technical educa- tion is unnecessary in gardening, it being a trade best learned in the practice alone, but elevating of such men to the peers of their craft unless gained in after years is sadly wanting in substantiation. It is true excellent practitioners are thus turned out, but the reasoning in juggling the higher problems involved in their practice not infrequently demonstrates their dwarfed scientific preparation. It is now generally conceded that the i8g6. The American Florist. 245 ASTERS IN THE FIELD AT MR. JAMES SEMPLBS. BBLLEVUE. PA THE LOWER PICTDRB SHOWS SEED PLANTS. most efficient result in developing men in this line is best accomplishtd by a supple- ment of manual labor with the technical studv to better interweave the force of the facts given into their mental tissue and to avoid indisposition by its neglect. To best fit one for an inclination to per- form the more humble operations con- nected with the routine of vegetable cult- ure after the fundamental principles are mastered, courses are not shortened, but the teaching is conducted to instill a love for its inspiring dignity and the impor- tance resting upon it. Of the agricultural colleges considerable dissatisfaction has been expressed by the tendency of pupils to branch off to other subjects that are more inviting or seem more profitable than tilling the soil, and Michigan aptly illustrates this by the number of Alumni now holding pro- fessional positions, although a good pro- portion have returned to the farms and are ably conducting them. This, how- ever, is being rapidly overcome by revised methods of teaching and shorter courses. The agricultural colleges afford in various degrees of efficiency excellent opportuni- ties for young men desirous of learning the principles of horticulture as applied to the farm, orchard, and vegetable gar- den, but none in the ordinary course have a curriculum based upon the special intent to graduate men suitable for park super- intendents, landscape gardeners or super- intendents of large private estates. By the munificent bequest of the late Henry Shaw it was made possible to give special attention to a course founded so as to enable any intelligent energetic young man to stand upon a self-support- ing and financial par it intending to be- come proficient in gardening, without, however, duplicating the agricultural college courses, and to this end scholar- ships at the garden have been provided to fit similarly to the agricultural colleges, although quite definitely different, such persons. While it is limited to six regular pupils with the specified supporting grants, two years ago the desirability of providing special scholarships covering the identical course but subject to none of the regular scholarship grants, but rather to a tuition fee of $25.00 yearly manifested itself and was provided. The entrance requirements are a grammar school education at least, from which the best schooled are selected by competitive examinations, and while quite liberal it is still exacting to personal discrimina- tion to serve the best interests of the institution. At St. Louis the regular course is four years, devoting the entire first year to garden operations, being successively promoted from simple to more responsi- ble tasks according to merit. The labor is manual and precisely that of the regular employees and without theoreti- cal tuition, but each is expected to keep abreast with the current literature, especially that bearing on his present work, and ample facilities are afforded for this. Of the remaining three years each forenoon is given to manual labor, the student being shifted every three months to the various departments to enable him to become familiar with the method upon which each i3 conducted. Individual tendencies are developed by allowing every student some selection in the departments of his choice after hav- ing made the rounds of all to the satis- faction of the authorities. In this manner the greatest possible value is derived by greater experience in the chosen lines afterward to be pursued as a life work. The teaching is by class exercises, lec- tures, and laboratory work, executing all practice out of doors, in the forcing houses or laboratory, whenever possible. The equipment is a museum, largelibrary and herbarium and that derivative from the affiliation with Washington University. In land there are one hundredand twenty- nine acres, forty-seven of which are the garden proper, divided into fourteen for the Arboretum, seven for the Fruiticetum and twenty-six for the garden with its retinue of decorative trees, shrubs, herba- ceous plants, plant houses, architectural structures, etc. Twenty acres are soon to be added as a synoptical order, repre- sentative of the hardy United States flora arranged in botanical sequence with land- scape effect and the remaining sixty-two acres are reserved for a synopsis of the universal flora hardy at St. Louis. A few acres for the necessary working ground, stables, sheds, nurseries, etc., have also been reserved. The present Arboretum which is to be replaced by that in the larger area con- tains also the wild garden, ponds, bogs, and the Mexican garden, where the arid vegetation is grown during summer. While the trees are aged and massive and afford illustrative purposes, the collec- tion is as : et quite incomplete. The fruiticetum has for the past several years been undergoing a gradual and complete renovation until to-day a fairly repre- sentative and young collection of most of the fruits, their species and varieties are thriftily developing and bearing. This, also, contains a portion of the vegetable 246 The American Florist. Oct. n, garden exclusive of the vegetable forcing structures. The main garden marked by the geometrical walks, c'ipped hedges and high bounding walls commemorates the drift of the founder's taste and the prevalant conception of landscape art at the date of its inception, (1858). Here are fourteen plant houses, forcing, propagating, growing and storage, together with a number of frames and hot beds. Oae large house is devoted to a large collection of ma- jestic specimens of palms, one to agaves, another to cacti, two to economic plants, one to orchids, two to stove, one to prop- agating, one to seed and the remainder to a multifarious collection. The hot beds and two houses are largely utilized in growing the thousands of exotics em- ployed in conjunction with the contents of the majority of other houses in the summer decoration of the garden. Out of doors considerable bedding is executed in numerous styles for study and decora- tion. This with the municipal parks, private estates and commercial estab- lishments serve the greater portion of demonstrative purposes Microscopical work is mostly carried on at the Shaw School of Botany of the Washington Uui- versity. In the Art School a special course suited to garden pupils is given in mechanical drawing. The major portion of the course is occu- pied in teaching the propagation and cul- tivation of plants, and all studies are in- terdependent and co-related with it to that end. Entomology is given to the extent of enabling a student to analyze and classify insects and determining their habits, preventives and remedies. Sur- veying comprises the use of engineering instruments to the extent of fitting one to determine topography, boundaries, drainage courses, roads, walks, etc. Bookkeeping covers single and double entry to serve a systematic and commer- cial conducting of the business necessary in a moderate proportioned business. Botany extends through the elements, fruit, weeds, house plants, and twigs of woody plants ia their winter condition, to facilitate their recognition in a dor- mant state in which most deciduous rep- resentatives are planted. Orchard culture covers the selection of sites and soils, planting, varieties, pruning, tilling, fer- tilizing, etc. Floriculture: Propagating in the vari- ous ways, heating, ventilating, watering, potting, forcing, bedding and eeneral management of forcing houses. Vegeta- ble physiology and economic mycology are most comprehensively taught and give the student a good knowledge of the functions of organs. The root, stem, leaf, cells, transpiration, respiration, the con- duction of sap and cell contents, miter- als, gases, light, atmosphere and every detail connected in the organic evolution is thoroughly studied to govern one in the supplying of environments and food conducive to growth, and extends through the insii;ht necessary in detecting symp- toms of unsalubriousness in growth in its first stages and assists in the intelli- gent fertilizing, fruiting, flowering, forc- ing, propagating and growing of all plants. The mycological side embraces the clas- sification and life history of Fungi, Alga; and Lichens to permit a student to ana- lyze a fungoid growth, to apply prevent- ives and remedies, to mitigate or eradi- cate its growthandlessenits propagating possibilities by avoiding as far as possible environments and inviting circumstances conducive to its welfare. At the present day with ever-increasing possibilities of most plants hitherto immune or at least of unknown susceptibility to attack, it is an admirable acquirement and timely and thoroughly taught. Vegetable gardening and small fruit culture comprises their culture from begin- ning to end. Forestry covers the study of the efiects of forests on climate, tempera- ture and the fertility of the soil, geo- graphical distribution of forest trees, planting and management in general. Landscape gardening extends through the principles involved; the various schools, planting, planning, roads, walks, grading, architecture, etc., to fit one to plan an estate aesthetically with due re- gard to utility and economy and present it clearly and well, and plant it. Actual work of ideas and plans are prosecuted as more thorough practical instruction. Municipal work on parks and streets is investigated in the course of c instruction and tuition in all brarches given as prac- ticable as possible. Special gardening comprises the study of an optional branch which the student intends to follow as a life profession and requires a final prac- tical thesis in the form of a feasible plan of the theory studied. It should beunderstood thatthiscourse does not fit one to accept a high position in a commercial establishment at gradua- tion. It does, however, enable one to enter such an establishment and given a fair opportunity to rise to the highest stage. To sum it up, only such branches are adopted as are very intimate with an essential to the end intended to develop into and these are very thoroughly and practically taught. As to suitable appli- cants individual merit difi'ers: First, an applicant ought to be thoroughly con- vinced that horticulture is to be adopted as a life occupation and is congenial — the experiment tending toward a decision should be made before entering the gar- den. But the degree of efficiency to which each student rises depends greatly upon the individual. The renown of any centre of learning is frequently judged by the success of the alumni. Many a college-bred young man recedes to the lowest office in his profes- sion after graduating, while his class- mates ascend to the highest. The busi- ness world to-day, and it is that with which every one must deal sooner or later, is more inviting and willing to trust young men with responsibility than ten years ago. Butploddingand efficient routine is not sufficient to advance any one to a high position as a rule. The man who comes in the morning and starts and ends with the clock, per- forming only the work prescribed, is not grasping his opportunities. One must think deep and high as well as broad. Certainly the position filled must be properly filled, perfoiming perfectly every detail connec.ed with, but they should do that and a little more. Such a one makes a position, the position does not make him. To do this every energy must be concentrated on his work, both during and out of working hours. He should avoid the distracting influences and study to maintain good health, thus giving to each succeeding day deeper and clearer thought to the problems before him. With time he gradually but assur- edly reduces the workings of his charge to the most frugal ends, and as hisexperi- ence widens and knowledge increases his ability overflows his immediate allot- ment. When an employe can tell an employer a better mode of operating his department he is on the high road to suc- cess. The interest of one is that of the other. Diligence, close application and concentration must be combined, and he should understand the workings of the positionjustabove him as well as his own. The qualities are necessary in every ambitious young man, be he college bred or not, or interested in horticulture or any other walk in life. If the best is beyond reach it is at least nearedby mak- ing use of the chances at hand and mak- ing the most of them. The highest state of ability is where these qualities arc nat- ural and spontaneous in a person, but they can be acquired to a certain extent. Hence it must be obvijus that time event- ually lands everyone in the position which he can properly fill, seldom below or above. A thoughtful person, one of ideas, originality and creative ability possesses grand acquisitions. Meeting the de- mands of the age demands progression. No superior will wantonly intrust a doubtfully capable person, especially when his decision decides a heavy outlay. The rill of a moving world stirs up the every characteristic in every person, and after studying in the best line for which one is fitted to follow as a life profession the approximate end to which each will eventually drift is more or less pronounced in all. It is consequently apparent that a person may take the best advantage of a poor school or the least of a good one. But unless scientifically bent in the ordi- nary business life of to-day one need not feel hampered by the lack of a coUegeedu- cation. The colleges of to-day arc estab- lished on such a broad and liberal basis thaJ._no one desiring it need feel its want. In horticulture the Missouri Garden is particularly efiicient, both in the quality of its teaching and its assistance to the unfavored (financially) student. A refer- ence to the trans Atlantic schools com- piled from data collected by Dr. Trelease in 1893 evinces the comparative position of those cis- Atlantic. It is noticeable that manual labor enters into many; science is taught by most, and the higher classes of the graded schools cover from two to four years. [Mr. Mische here read a list of the European schools of horticulture, giving number of pupils, support, subjects taught, cost to pupils, etc., in cf.ch.] Propagating Araucanas. Would like to be informed as to the best method and season of the year to propa- gate araucarias, and method of cultiva- tion of plants. Araucaiia excelsa is propagated by three methods, — that is: By seeds, by cut- tings, and by grafting. The seeds are of rather uncertain quality, sometimes ger- minating quite readily when sown in light soil and placed in a greenhouse having a temperature of about 60°, but the seed- lings are frequently long-jointed and do not make such shapely plants as those secured from cuttings. The best cuttings are those formed from young leaders, or shoots from the main stem of a plant that has been cut back, and the cuttings are more likely to root when taken cfi" wicha "heel" or section of the older wood at the base. The cuttings should be dibbled into pots or pans that are filled with sandy soil and well watered in, just as one would do with the cuttings of many other conifers, and should then be placed in a cutting frame where the supply of air and moisture is well under control. Very high temperature is not needed for araucarias at any time, and the cuttings are likely to rot off if kept above 60°, and also require careful watering and protec- tion from sunshine. Cuttings ol these i8g6. The American Florist. 217 -^ ^^. i E-^^^ — ;:--.%>^ • ^^^^T^l — ■ ■fl-yfw." »W— TW iitSS. ■."- .. ■ -J.' V '>^.' PLANTING ON DRBXEL BOULEVARD, SOUTH PARK SYSTEM. CHICAGO. plants do not root quickly at any time, but during the latter part of the winter and in early spring is the most favorable time for this operation. When grafted Araucaria imbricata is usually the plant chosen for a stock, this species germinat- ing freely and being hardier and stronger growing than A. excelsa, and the treat- ment ot the grafts is very similar to that briefly noted for the cuttings, care in watering being a prime factor in the op- eration. The cultivatijn of the plants is not spe- cially difficult, good loam with a sprink- ling of bonedust being a satisfactory soil, the pots to be well drained and the plants potted firmly. After theplants areestab- lishcd in the pots abundant watering is needed, and during summer they should be syringed twice a day ia bright weather. Shade from full sunshine and give abun- dant ventilation both day and night, and do not crowd the plants if perfect speci- mens are desired. During the winter a night temperature of 50° is quite suffi- cient, greater heat only inducing a weak and lanky growth. Many large growers put the araucarias out of doors during summer, placing them beneath a lath shelter or in a frame, but though excellent plants are grown this way the growth is not quite so rapid as it is under glass. W. H. Taplin. Treatment of Pelargoniums. Kindly advise me what I should do with a batch of pelargoniums I have; I should like to bloom them next year. Please exp'ain treatment, etc. Subscriber. "Subsc:iber" does not say in what shape his batch of pelargoniums are, whether they are young plants that have been propagated this autumn or plants that flowered last May and June. If they were the latter and have not been cut down they should be at once, in fact late August or early September is the best time to cut back and propagate the pelargonium. In cutting them back they should be cut down to within a few inches of the pot. It is not necessary 1o leave any leaves on the old plant; after being shotttned back the plants should be kept almost dust dry for a few weeks, in which time they will be showing a number of breaks where no eyes were visible be- fore. In a month from the time that the plants were cut back they will be ready to start on their future life. Shake ofi' every particle of soil, trim back the straggling roots and repot firmly in a smaller sized pot than they were in before. If they flowered in a 5-inch then put them in a 4 inch. If in a 7-inch a 5-inch will be large enough. They have after this per- fect rest, few if any active roots and need but little soil; when in their new pots and soil they will grow rapidly, and as the pots are filled with roots should get a shift. There is no diflScuIty in getting them to flower, no more thau there is of the com- mon zonal pelargonium so invariably known as the geranium, except that the geranium is almost in continuous bloom, while the pelargonium has but a season of flo wt r, which is as we grow it in April, May and June. The conditions which suit the pelargonium are chiefly these: A rather heavy loam, firmly potted. In the winter months a night temperature of 45° to 50°. The lightest place you have in your houses, no matter whether they be 6 inches or 16 feet from the glass, as long as they have light and a free cir- culation of air on all occasions when it is possible to give air. They should be shifted into their flowering pots not later than early March and always rather firmly potted. In the winter months from November to February they should never be overwatered. They will in fact winter with less water than the common geranium. For a commercial plant the old plants that have been treated as above need no further stopping or pinching, as there will be plenty of shoots to make a good showy plant large enough for the florist's demand. They will submit to a good deal of forcing in the spring, and old plants that have been cut down and started in August can be had in good flower by April or even earlier, but while giving them that early warmth be sure it is ac- companied by an abundance of light and fresh air. Their chief enemy is the green- fly, and fumigation must be never neg- lected. It is perhaps worth mentioning here that oi all plants that suflfer in the month of May when ia bloom for lack of fire heat the pelargonium is the worst. I have seen a thousand plants in flower ruined (as far as sale was concerned) in a few dull damp days for the sake of a ton of coal. The petals drop and they drop on the leaves and decay begins immedi- ately. While the pelargoniums will thrive during the dark winter months in a cool temperature, and with little water, as flowering time approaches they want a warm, genial, airy condition or they will be a failure. If "Subscriber" started this fall with a batch of cuttings struck in August or September they should be in 4 inch pots by November, in which they will winter all right and be shifted into 5 or 6-inch, their flowering pot, in February or March. The young plants should have one pinch or stop, which can be done as soon as they are well rooted in the 4 inch. This will make them fine stocky plants. For a florist the autumn propagated plants are the most useful, for they make the most compact salable plant. The pelargonium was for years one of the greatest attractions of a flower show, and perhaps still is across the water, but in this wide land it has taken a back seat for many years. It is a far better plant than many whose praises are loudly sounded. Wm. Scott. Sweet Pea Puzzles. The Emily Henderson, grown since its introduction without isolation, has given us no particular trouble about roguing until this season. The first planting this year came one-third Blanche Ferry and the dark purple that crops out in all va- rieties and in all seasons. Blanche Bur- pee, before it was rogued, passed for a row of mixed peas! What appeared to be Her Majesij' and Duke of Clarence are recalled as occurring several limes in this row. A row of Venus in this planting contained a number of Countess of Rad- nor vines. This might easily have come from an accidental mixing of the two dark colored seeds. The same explana- tion would not serve for the other cases because the Blanche Ferry, Duke of Clar- ence, etc., that appeared as rogues are all dark seeded varieties and only white seed was planted. If there was wholesale hybridizirg of the Blanche Burpee why were the dozen other varieties grown in the same trial row last vear not afifected? A second planting of Emily Henderson had a smaller percentage of rogues, and some of the same seed sold to other grow- ers came almost strictly true. Is it pos- sible for soil or fertilizers to cause a whole- sale sporting or reversion in two or three varieties out of a dozen? In this case the soil was a rich loam, to which added a liberal dressing of rotted manureand two applications of a soluble high graHe fer- tilizer with nitrate of soda added. Under this treatment the Emily Henderson, planted Apiil 14, gave a cutting for mar- ket June 26. It madean unusual growth of vine and throughout the season was literally covered with a mass of large, long-stemmed flowers. Of the dozen va- rieties in the plot all made rank growth; half bloomed freely, half not so freely as in other years. Some of the rows are on an inverted sod of violets; but success and failure seem independent of previous treatment of the soil. Do diSerent varie- ties require difi'erent treatment for best success? A planting of over 2,000 feet of rows 248 The American Florist. Oct. 17^ was made for seed on May 5. Soil and manure as in the April planting, but no commercial fertilizers. May was hot and dry, and growth was slow until rains came in June. A luxuriant growth of vines followed and they are still fresh, October 5. Extra earlv Blanche Ferry was in full bloom July 5, is still b'ooming, acd has given the only seed we shall have from the 34 varieties in this field! Emily Henderson has bloomed fairly well. Most of the others had a few straggling, mostly ofT-color blooms during August and September. Cupid and the Eckford '96 novelties have not shown a single flower. Mr. Hul ch- ins very kindly gave me some Countessof Radnor seed direct from Mr. Eckford. A dozen poDr little September blooms has been the entire crop. Only about a week earlier than this planting was one which Mr. Stelye, of Jas. V.ck's Sens, made of Bride of Niag- ara, in clay shale soil, high up on a steep side hill. The soil contains only a fair amount of humus, and manure can not be obtained in the locality. Some nitrate of soda was ustd in June. Under these cir- cumstances I should have expected early maturity and a large crop of seed. While the guest of Mr. Seelye at his summer home on Canandaigua Lake I was su-- prised to find this field still in full bloom, and particularly nottd that the flowers looked as though in the flush of the sea- son, while my own were badly streaked and off color. The vires were six feet high, green almost to the base, and well covered with flowers and pods. Some seed had been gathered at that time, but Mr. Seelye tells me the crop will be light. They have been blooming since early in July and still hold their color. Is it the soil? As seen here the Bride of Niagara had a larger percentageof flowers with two and three standards than the catalogue de- scription led me to expect. Quite as in- teresting were the flowers with single standards that had broadened to the ut- most limit without dividing. The widest of these in the bunch gathered measured two inches in the broadest part, and some of the flowers with double standards have a still greater expansion. If it will hold its character elsewhere I believe it will te a profitable cut flower; and I in- tend trying it next season, along with some other vaiieties which throw a fair amount of double flowers. The single sweet pea is on the wane as a florist's flower in this city and 1 hope to revive the trade, for a time, with the novelty of the double flowers. Taken all in all, the season's experience has been puzzlingand unprofitable. Even a carefully planned comparative trial of deep vs. shallow planting, owing to the absence of midsummer drouth, gave only negative results. To those with a wider experience, and trained powers of obser- vation, the cause of the results above given may be clear. Any explanation that will answer all the conditions will be thankfully received. Rochester, N. Y. Geo. Arnold, Jr. Hardy Perennial Phloxes. The improvement in size and colors of the highly ornamertal Phlox dccussata or paniculata within the last decade or so is most remarkable, the individual flowers as well asthe panicles have devel- oped to almost twice the siz; of the old varieties, and their colors are now more distinct, bright and vivid shades are more abundantly represented and many varie- ties have tie advantage of dwarfer and more compact growth and still will pro- duce the extra size panicles and large rounded florets in all shades. To French growers we are indebted mostly for the introduction of the brighter colors, while Scotland and England gave us the larger and better shaped flowers. These plants are of decided decorative value, in the smallest flower garden as well as in the largest parks, planted as single specimens or in great masses, in beds, borders, or in the shrubbery, they are AL!.. 354 Central Ave., t.'leveland .O. OITUATION WANTED-Wlth landscape gardener, k> as foreman or manager; have had HI years prac- tical experience, and am willing to go lo any part of the country. Address S W. care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED— As foreman, commercial or private— commercial preferred— 14 years' expeii- ence In greenhouses good grower. Al references. Total abstainer; age ;iU. Address G. Tavlek, 13" Charles St , Boston, Mass. SITUATION WANTED- As foreman or manager by a llrst-class grower of roses, carnations, 'mums, violets, etc.: -M years' experience: age :>*'•: married: sober and reliable. Good references given. Address CoMi'iiTE.NT, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTBD-By thorough, piactlcal Ho- O rlst of 20 years' experience; learned trade In Europe. Can speak tJerman and English; age .'i'j. sin- gle: temperate and Industrious. Flrst-clats references. Moderate wages. Position In commercial establish- ment preferred. Address P. O. Box 8.S, Onarga. 111. SITUATION WANTED-Asworktngforeman: roses, chrysanthemums, palms and bulbs a specialty, and has a thorough knowledge of all kinds of tiorlsta' stock. No small concern need apply. Chicago or west preferred. Keferences exchanged. State wages paid when writing. Address Henkv, care American Florist. WANTED— A practical florist with little monev can hear of a flrst-class chance to establish hlmselt . Address 1) U B. care American Florist. WANTED- Soon, a good, sober, single German, all around florist. Steady place for the right man; wages $5,110 per week with board. Address <; h. care American Florist. Chicago. WANTBD— A middle aged, single, sober man; one whocan take charge of 2000 teet of glass. Ad- dress, stating wages expected, Mrs. W. NiEiiEVKH, '.12:1 State St.. Brie. Pa. WANTED AT ONCB-A good all round man. sin- gle-German preferred. Must be up In roses and carnations: strictly sober and not afraid of work. Send references, and wages expected with board. Ohio Boy. care American Florist. FOR SALE— Two No. T and one No. 11 Ilerendeen boilers In splendid condition: only been used two years. Cheap Apply to G. K. JoXES, 1011 Tacoma Building. Chicago. InOK SALE OR RBNT-Greenhouse plant, well stocked for commercial purposes. In one of the best towns of Wisconsin. t'OT particulars address Bi.Lls \- PoLLwoKTH. Box 75. Milwaukee, Wis. FOR SALE— Greenhouse with ample grounds, nor- mal school In city; also supply surrounding towns with plants and cut flowers. Good opening for good florist. Address Jcli.a M. Buiiiges, Carbondale 111 LOOK HERE! Read a few of the Premiums ottered by the Society of Indiana Florists at their 10th Annual CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, To be held at TOMLINSON HALL, INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Nov. lOth to 14th, 1896. CHRYSANTHEMUM CUT BLOOMS. 1st 'Jnd 3rd 2.5 Blooms Major Bonuafi'ou . . *2o.00 81.5.00 $10.00 25 Blooms Mayflower 'iiCO 15.00 10.00 25 Blooms Viviand-Morel. . . . 25.00 15 00 10.00 25 Blooms E. M. Bigelow. . . . 25.00 1503 10 00 10 Blooms H. W. Reiman. . . . 10.00 Largest and best ten blooms, one variety 10 00 5.00 By Nathan Smith & Son -Best six blooms, one variety, production of '9B. $.5 00 BEST DISPLAY OF CUT ROSES. Not less than ;500 or more than -100; varieties cou- ditioQs and arrangements considered, 1st $50.00 2nd 835.00. Cut blooms must be iu position by 5 p. m. Tuesday. Display Roses by 1*2 m. Thursday. 4S^For complete Premium List mail card to R. A. McKEAND. Sec'y, Garfield Park, INDIANAPOLIS^ IND. NOW READY. WHITE VARIEGATED ASPIDISTRA. liHl leaves iHls; :m for Ur.s: IIXIU for2S:'i8; tireen ones, KOud leaves, ;is per liW. S-ia per KXKI. iiHIs for '>(I00. Orders for July. August. September and October, given now definitely, are carefully at- tended to. Credit up to 3. 5, 7 months given by respectable references. HCH. SCHULTHEIS. NURSERIES: Steinfurth. Nauheim, Bath, Hesse, Germany. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in 2^-inch pots which I will sell at $2.00 per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEOALIA, MO. FOR SALE. PerlOO CHINESE PKIMROSB. mixed, nice, ready for 4-lncli pots $2.50 GRKVII-LBA. nice 3.00 CVPBRl'S. 1-Inch BOO Stock plants LA FAVORITE GERANIUMS 5.0O CASH WITH ORDEU. M. & S. DYSINCER, Albion, Mich. FLORAL DESIGNS. I will furnish first-class Floral Designs from my own greenhouses for any florist. 10 years' expe- rience. Address M J B, care American Florist. TO PARK SUPERINTENDENTS, ETC. For sale at a SACRinCE, the finest collection of Hardy Herbaceous Plants in America, includ- ing all the newest and best known varieties of new Anemones, Campanulas, Heuchera san- guinea. Lychnis flos-cuculi, Faeonies, Phlox, etc., etc. For full particulars address Yi Mi Ai, care American Flon'sf. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. 254 The American Florist. Oct. 17, rtHiii Lm Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, 10 Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Column, $14,00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Gnaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent; 13 times, 10 per cent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising Department of the American Florist Is for Florists, Seedsmen, and dealers in wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember it. Orders (or less than one-liaif inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday tose- cure insertion in the Issue for the f ollowingSaturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. A NEW EDITION of tbe Nursery Book by- Prof. Bailey has just been published. It has been thoroughly revised, some new matter being added, and is brought up to date in every way. It will be found valuable to both florists and nurserymen. (Macmillan & Co., publishers, New York. Price $1.) New CACTUS journal — Mr. Fred. W. Heinz, Sharon, Pa., announces that in view of the suspension of the Baltimore Cactus Journal he has decided to begin the publication of a raonthlv periodical to be known as the Sharon Cactus Guide. The subscription price will be 50 cents a year. We have received from Geo. Han- cock & Son, Grand Haven, Mich., sample plants of their carnation Ivory. They were fine, stocky specimens, showing abundance of good short shoots and fibrous roots, and evidently made a fine growth in the field. Such plants should bear transplanting admirably, and take hold of the soil inside with very little check. We have received from Chas. F. Baker, Utica, N. Y., two seedling carna- tions, which made a very favorab'e impression. One was a red. No. 47, some- what similar in color to Morello. It is fringed, very full in the center, like Albert- ini, with robust stem and foliage and fine calyx. Its parentage was Daybreak X Richmond. The other, No. 42, is from Daybreak x New Jersey. It is a large and shapely flower, very slightly fringed, color bright pink tinged salmon. Both varie- ties are promising enough for further test. Propagating "Rubbers." "Subscriber" will find in previous issues of the Florist full instructions for the propagation of Ficus elastica. FRED. EHRET, wnoiesaie Florist. No. 1403 Fairmount Avenue, Teleplione. Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. Wild Smilax^/Green NOW READY. See our New Catalogue lor prices. . . . WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE. WIS. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. WM. SCOTT, Pres. H. B. BUDDENBORC, Mgr. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED! YOU SAVE 50'^^ in time and wages by making your Green Garlands and Wreathing on our binding machine. 30 days to responsible parties. Price of Machine $8.00. On cash orders 10% off. Send for descriptive (;lrculars. THE SCOTT BINDER CO., ■iVO jyTcxi±-k. Street, BlTl^FA^rvO, IV. ^V. mmTimmbwmii ^T. j< (Ui^^'^'S The New York Cut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733. 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . Cut Strings, 8 to 10 leet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brigtiton, Mass. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, .^ ST. PAUL, MINN. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 4 108 Liberty Street (BaBement). BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES. For DecoratlnK and all Klurlsta' UeaUns. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. LinvJIIe. Mitchell Co.. N. C. ^n nnn assorted apple trees, wholesale. ^'UfUUU J4 price. Order Nurseryman's Revised Financial Directory 10.000 addre>ses, payable when Bryan is elected— if defeated, free. Would you buy were offer reversed? Invaluable to horticulturists. Write with references. NEW FRUIT WHOLESALE NURSERY. New Fruit. Ky. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, GIVE MB YOCR ORDERS. WHOLESALE COMIMiSSiON FLORIST Best of attention Klven to the slilpplnn trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED. F. WINTERSON. Mgr. CHICAGO. Mention this paper. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER GO. .1 15. DEAMl'I), Mgr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Ag-ents. CHrCA.GtO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE COMMISSION f FLORIST, 88 WABASH AVENUE, Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN. Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, .^m- ST. LOUIS, MO. ^^A complete line of Wire Uealf^rnf** H. L SUNDERBRUGH, Wholesale Florist 4Tri AND WALNUT STREETS, OJnol£i:r-i.i»'tl, O. DAN'L B. LONG, FLOWERS AT WttOLESflLE. strictly Commission Business. LisTsKREE. BUFFALO. N.Y. Mention American Klorlst. CUT SMILAX, JOSEPH E. BONSALL, 308 Garfield Ave.. Salem. 0. i8g6. The American Florist. 255 E. H. HUNT, Wholesale Florist 68 Lake Streef, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BITIiBS AITD Alili FLOBISTS' SUFFI.IES. KENNIGOTT BROS. CO. Wliol6sal6 Gut Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WI RK •yVOKK A 8PKCIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 27 Randolph St, CHICAGO. If yon want Firat-Clags Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you will get what you want. V/e are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO., ^BB^r CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, .^ CMICA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all orders on short notice with all leading varieties of Roses an-i (^arnations. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give Us a trhtl and convince yourself Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave.. CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, ^ CMICA.GO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL GO.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. .mmm^ CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEJUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Attention to all Orilprs. A. L. RANDALL, WHoiesaie Fiorisi 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Agent for finest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©V^fiofeAaPa Marftef*. Cut Flowers. New Yohk. Oct. i:i Roses. Beauty, extra 10 00 I'M 00 common 2.00("' 5.00 Meteor. Testont 2.00 a 4 00 Bride. Bridesmaid 2. OX.* 4.00 ■■ e-xtra 4.00(.i) 0.00 all otber varieties 1.00® 3.00 Carnations T.Va 1 Oil extra 1 50® 2.1X1 Valley 3.00 Violets _ .50 Chrysanthemums 5 00('.il5.CO Adlantum .50 ,= inUtt,\ SCOfSlO.OO Asparagus 50 00 Boston. Oct. 13 Roses. Gontler, Nlphetos 50* 1 OO Perle. Mermet l.UOa 2 00 Bride. Bridesmaid, Meteor 2.003 4 OO Beauty 500s2>00 Carnations 1.003 150 fancy 1504 2 0.) Vlolels 60(aj l.llO Valley 3 O0(.i 4 mi Chrysanthemums 4.00:" li IM fancy lo.lOi.'SO.oo Adlantum 75(tii i.oo Smllai 10.00»12.00 Asparagus 5*1 00 Philahelphia. Oct. 14. Roses, Beauties 6-OO4I2 00 Bride. Bridesmaid, La France, etc... 3 009 4.00 Kalserln 3.00(5j 4.00 small teas 1.0U(* 2 00 Carnations 50(» 1 00 Cosmos 50vL'J .To Valley 3.00® 4 to Violets, double 503 .Td Smllax l>.0OaI5 00 Asparagus 35. 00, VASES. GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND. 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON. MASS. HORTICIJLTDBAL AnCTIOSEERS. WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET. NearTremontSt.. BOSTON, MASS. Please mention the American Florist erery time you write to an advertiser. John !• Raynor, 49 WEST 28tli STREET, NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Carnations %Clirysanthemunis CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK ■ AND NOVELTIES. THOS. YOUJVO, Jr., 43 W. 28th St.. NEW YORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN. WHOLESALE 59 IVest 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street, NEW YORK, WHOLESilLE » FLORIST. Carefol Shipping to all parts of the cooBtry* Price list on application. Purdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30lh St., NEW YORK. Prepare for Fall Trade. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market. Address JOHN YOUNG, 51 W. SBth Street, NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK, JULIUS LANG, Dealer in WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, Corner 30TH St.. NEW YORK. Consignments Solicited. ^56 The American Florist. Oct. ^7. ^fta ^*fA ^racja. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. WOOD, PreB.; Alex. Rodqers and J. B. KIce, Vlce-PresldentB; A. L. Don, 114 Chambers Street, New York, Sec' 7 and Treas. Business Troubles. George Hermann, dealer in seeds at 41.3 East Thirty-fourth street, is reported to have sailed for Europe on the steamer Havel on the 6th inst., leaving debts un- paid. Deputy Sheriff Kenning took pos- session yesterday of his store on an at- tachment for $3,162 in favor of Adolph Herrmann, a brother. Before going avyay George gave a bill of sale of the business to Peter Schmidt, an employee, veho did not pay any money for the trans- fer. Mr. Schmidt says in an affidavit that Mr. Herrmann told him that he could not carry on the business longer without going to Europe and endeavor- ing to raise some money, and that he would make the bill of sale to stave off creditors. Mr. Herrmann, it is said, never kept any complete set of books, and the exact amount of his liabilities is un- known. The books show $5,272 debts, besides the amount due Adolph Herrmann, but it is believed he owes considerably more. The assets consist of stock $2 000 and ooen accounts $2,500.— A^ew York Sun, Oct. lo. It is understood that Messrs. D. M. Ferry & Co. will appeal their suit against the Sec'y of Agriculiure if beaten in the lower court and prosecute it so long as there is a possible show of success. The seed trade generally are believed to be heartily with the firm in this matter. Cambridge, N. Y.— The Jerome B. Rice Seed company is building a brick house 20x30 feet south of the warehouses erected last year. A twenty-ti^ht horse power oil engine will be placed in it, to be used to run their seed cleaners and separators. Baltimore, Md.— The Maryland Agri- cultural Co., 32 West Pratt stnet, made an assignment on October 1, to D. P. Smelser, bonds being fixed at $20 000. Bad collections were given as the cause of failure. Hubbard Squash is reported a light crop in Douglas County, Neb. Visiting New York: D. L. Slo^n, of Palo Alto, Cal. Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. The regular monthly meeting of the society will be held in Horticultural Hall, Broad street, Philadelphia, on theevening of October 20 at S o'clock. The meeting will be held in the lower hall,theentrance to which will be by the side door on Ivardner sreet. A full attendance is requested as mat- ters pertaining to the annual exhibition in November will be considered. The following premiums "as per schedule of 1896" will be competed for. Premiums offered by W. Atke Burpee & Co., for Cupid sweet peas. Premiums offered by Henry A. Dreer f)r vegetables and flow- ers. David Rust, Secretary. BICYCLE CARRIER Good as new, in use one season. PRICE, S50.00. CHAS. A. DARDS. 341 Madison Ave.. New York City. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. Ahead of all other offers in this line of Bulbs and Florists' Sundries. TISSUE PAPER, 24x3(;, ream, 480 sheets, SPHAGNUM MOSS, fresh, barrel, .... RAFFIA, extra, braided, per pound 14c; 100 pounds, CANE STAKES, per 1000 ...... STRAW MATS, 6x6, $1.50 each; . - per dozen, SINGAPORE FIBRE, indestructible, 6i/jx6, - each, SEND FOR OUR BULB LIST AND SAVE MONEY. WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, New York. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦J ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ $ -75 1.25 13.00 7.00 17.00 1.7.-. BULB BARGAINS. Carrying a full general line ot Forcing Bulbs, we are often by reason of large stocks, able to make exceptionally low oflers on some standard kinds. Florists who can use to advantage Harnsii, Longiflorum, Callas, Romans, Narcissus, or other kinds at a close price are asked to write us ^ (mentioning kinds they can use) for sizes and prices of our special bargains ' LILIUM HARRISII, EXTRA. 9-11 INCH. PER 100 S9.00. BOUQUET GREEN. IN QUANTITIES AT CLOSEST RATES. VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, 14 Barclay Street, NEW YORK. 84 &86 RJNDOLPH STREET. CHICAGO. ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Bargains ....Bulbs To close quick, a late consignment. Lilium Harrisii, 5-7 in per lOO, f3C0 The oris^inal case of 500 per case 10 00 Paper white grandiflora per lOO, i.oo The original case of 1000 per ca""PP»™>'0" ♦ ♦ ' ri.<)KlsT.><" F1,<»\VEK !«EEI)S. ♦ ♦ WEEBER & DON, IrAlZt'"'' | : 114 Chambers St., NEW YORK. ^ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Calla Bulbs. i'A to \3^ inches in diameter, $4.00 per lOO; jS35 00 per lOOO. Address CALIFORNIA NURSERY CO , BULBS for FORGING and Gardening, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD TIMES PRICES. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood, N. J. JUST RECEIVED. Von Sion Hyacinths, Crocus, Tulips, etc. Orders booked now for Indian Azaleas, Palms, Araucarias, Rhododendrons, Clem- atis, Hydrangeas, Spir;eas, and general nur- sery stock. L. C. BDBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. Brancti ol The Horticullural Co., Boskoop. Holland 'special clearance offer. :.'IIH»I KOMAN IIVAt'lNTllS II to IS c-ni. In circum.. the tliu'Mt timt InivL' coiite tu Imtid this vuiir. llOs per IIKKI. III.IKI I'-' t" 1.. 0111. '.ills per IIKKI. HARTUNC & CO., Long Acre, London, ».('. ("Hhle Address. "t^eltiKlneUa, Ijondon. ' i8g6. The American Florist. 257 le^o^ % Iixclico^. Our importations of AZALEAS have arrived in excellent condition, and are fully equal to last season, which considering the fact that we distributed last year 25,COO plants without a single complaint, will assure the purchaser that he will receive stock to his en- tire satisfaction. Ovir stock is especially growu for us by the most successful cu'tivat^rs of this plaut in Belgium, who have beeu specialists in this liue for many years, and always furnish the best qua'ity procurable. All our plants are repacked at our own Nurseries, so that customers may rely on receiving plants that have stood the jjurney, and are well set with bud^. We handle onlj' varieties adapted to the Ameiican trade, principally BERNHARD ANDREAS ALBA, DEUTSCHE PERLE, MME. VAN DER-CRU YSSEN, VER- V/ENEANA, QUEEN OF WHITES, APOLLO, EMPRESS OF INDIA, EMPEROR OF BRAZIL. SIMON MARDNER, HERMIONE, SICISMUND RUCKER, SACANT- TALA, A. BORSIC, NIOBE. MME. DE CREVE, MME. P. DE SCHRYVER, and other similar bltIs. WE OFFER WELU-BUDDED. BUSHY STOCK. Crowns, from 10 to 12 inches in diameter JL50 per dozen ; $35 00 per 100 Crowns, from 13 to 1.5 inches in diameter . . .88 00 per dozen; SCO OD per 100 Specimen Plants, IS to 20 inches in diameter 830 00 per dozen HENRY A. DREER, 714 Chestnut St., PHILA., PA. When wrlUng mention American Florist. r»^^ iv:ivx OUR STOCK IS UNSURPASSED. AND THE FOLLOWING SIZES OFFER EXCEPTIONAL INDUCEMENTS TO TME CASH PURCHASER. ARECA LUTESCENS. 4-incli pots, 15 to IS iiichfs liiiili. Iliree plants in a pot. ^..Ml ptr tlo/cii: ^i.MHt \»-y liio. 5-ineh pots, 20 to 24 inehos hijzli. three plants in a pot. $(>.50 p*-r du/.-n: .|r.O.(Hi ih-i- HXi. (i-inch pots. 28 to 30 inches high, threi^ plants in a pot, bnsh\ . ifl'i.OO pi^r dozen; $HXJ per 100. 7-inch pots, 30 to 36 inches high, three plants in a pof. pxtra stront; and bush v. $2 each: $24 pel' dozen. 8-inch pots. 36 to 40 inches high, threo plants in a pdt, bushy" S^.-iO each; $30.00 per dozen. KENTIA BELMOREANA. o-incli pots. 18 to 20 inches high. 6 to 7 leaves, stocky i»lants. $1> 00 per dozen: $75.00 per 100. 7-inch pots, 24 to 28 inches high, 5 to 6 leaves, stocky plant.s, $2.50 each; $30.00 per dozen. 7-inch pots, 28 to 32 inches high, 6 to 7 leaves, stocky jilants. $;150 each: $42.00 per dozen. 7-iTich pots. 36 1o 40 inches higli. 7 leaves, stocky plants. $5.00 each. 7-inch pots, 40 to 42 inches high, 7 leaves, extra strong stocky plants, $6.00 each. 8-inch pots. 48 to 54 inches high. 6 to 7 Icavi-s. ^tr^>Il■.:. $7.."i0 each 10-inch pots, 52 to 56 inches high. 7 tn s |.-:i\ !■>>- liin- Iiivl'i- sifi-hii'Mis, $12.00 each. KENTIA FORSTERIANA. 8-inch pots, 50 to 52 inches high. 6 to 7 leavt-s. tine sin'_'I'* »teiu. $(i.00 and $7.00 each. 10-inch pots. 48 to JSO inches high. 4 plants in a pol, bushy. $7.50 each. 10-inch pots, 50 to 56 inches high, 4 plants in a pot. bushy. $10.00 cacli. LATANIA BORBONICA. 7-inch pots. 30 to 36 inches high. 7 leaves. c\1r;i Iin<-, sit.r]<\ pljints. $2..50 each. 8-inch pots, 30 to 36 inches high. leavfs, r\ti;i iin«\ ^hM-k\ plants. $:i.iOcach. 9-inch pots, 36 to 40 inches high. 12 h■:lv«■^. cMia lhi«-. si..ck\ jdants. $5.00 each. LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 5-inch pots. 12 to 15 inches high. 7 to H leaves, line strong plants. $1..50 each ; $18.00 per dozen. 6-inch pots, 15 to 18 inches high. 8 to H leaves. Hue stronii plants. $2.50 each : $30.00 per dozen. PRITCHARDIA (LICUALA) GRANDIS. 5-incli pots. 16 to 18inclies high. 7 to s leaves, line ]danis. $1.00 each; $12.00 per dozen. 0-inch pots. 20 to 24 inches high. >; to ;i leaves, line planls. $2.iHleacli; $24 (10 per dozen. A Discount of I2H per cent, allowed from above prices if cash accompanies order. JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. Mention iMuenran Kionm PALMS AND FtRNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WITTBOLD, ""'V^'i'^^ll'b C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stacks. Catalogues on application. STANDARD I5XTOI"i^IvlV Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A sample mailed fur :'ii cent^. FRANK L. MOORE. CHATHAM. N. J. When writlntf mention the American Flurlut. f^AdiantumFarleyense ^ EXTRA FINE PLANTS. Vj Xu the various sizes. T/ Prices upon application. (^ uaawrpsr i.oj?»^iz>.A.Tj:tj, — Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, (StathmH.i PHILADELPHIA. PA. Siebrecht & Wadley's PALMS. FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you i;uod value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N. Y. SPECIALTIES IN BKST VAK1KTIK8. ROSES, from .'Vlnch pot«. CARNATIONS, fur fall delivery, CHRVSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. I'rlces low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. FiSHKILL, N. Y. AZALEAS , PALMS , ARAUCARIAS , BAY TREES, the finest commercial varieties. large, healthy stock, well grown. from Cuttings only. perfect shape, in all sizes. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOOK. 106 & 108 Liberty Street. NEW YORK. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of 81000 cash for ONE FIiANT eacfi of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price beins asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative purposes, SI oO per 12; 510 per 100, from 'J'4-inch pots. Sand for Catalogue of Novelties, A. BLANG & CO., Phila.,Pa. ALM (Ste^^ FRESH ON HAND Per 100 Per 1000 I'eraolKJ iiHa For8teriaua..$1.2,'> $10.00 $2.i.0(l We 1,0'tkoi'flersnow for the Plant .Novelties: Mosella Roses: Canna Austria and Italia. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. WhMii wrtt.intf nientliin thp AMWUrrAM Ki.nHi.«T CINERARIAS. CINERARIAS. 100,000 We are the largest growers in the country. Our stock is all grown from seed saved from the bebt and most showy plants, taking First I'rize wherever exhibited. '^'i-iiich #a.r»0 per 100; !#i'30.00 per 1000. S. WHITTON & SONS. Wholesale Florists. City and Greeu Sts.. UTICA, N. Y, Mention American Florist. 258 The American Florist. Oct. I J, Fall River, Mass. Fall River florists propose to be in it at the Providence convention next year. A bowling club has been organized and commenced practice first of October, which they will keep up regularly twice a week until convention time. The Tounger element in the trade are especially inter- f sted. The alleys here are said to be the finest in the county. One s?t recently built contains fourteen alleys, and an- other eight. Warburton's house completed thissum- mer has be;n planted mainly with Beauty, Meteor and Morgan roses. In one house Mr. Warburton has carried over his roses for a second year, and they look very promising. A house of Wm. Scott ard Hector carnations is in splendid form. These p'ants were housed at time of Cleveland convention in August and are now in full crop. Alaska is the most sat- isfactory white up to date here. Ivory is being given a trial. Hector 13 all rightas a scarlet, with the exception of its weak stem. George Smith is happy in the possession of one of the cleanest, healthiest houses of roses that can be found anywhere. Brides- maid, Bride and Perle are the principal contents. His old houses will be demol- ished early next season, and extensive rebuilding is contemplated. As in all old houses ferns grow here in the greatest luxuriance, and there are not enough to supply all the neighbors. Woodcock & Lannigan.the most recent addition to the local fraternity, will build additional bouses next season. Their main crop is carnations, which they do extremelv well. Personally they arepop- ular with the trade, ani are a welcome addition to the young progressive element. There was a time when Fall River pos- sessed many fine private estates well kept up, but now there is but one left that can compare favorably with the fine places in other localities. This is Mr. J. S. Bray- ton's, where John Burgoyne ha? been in charge for twenty years. The planting of the grounds is very well done, and there is about 3.000 feet of glass devoted to grapes and greenhouse plants. Mr. Burgoyne excels especially in primulas, cinerarias and standard fuchsias and chrysanthemums. Kingston, Pa. Geo. W. Carr's new carnation — a sport of Daybreak — promises to attract a sood deal of attention in the near future. Per- haps its greatest merit is its free and vig- orous growth, the stem being long, the calyx perfect, the flower well shaped. Its color is a salmon pink — something be- tween a Scott and a Rose Queen. When faded it is a perfect Daybreak. Mr. Carr intends exhibiting this sport in Philadel- phia during the chrysanthemum show in November. Mr. Carr has overhauled his houses, having everything in the best of shape and working order. Homo. DON'T FAIL TO AVAIL YOURSELF of the brilliant opportunity to visit the home of the Republican Presidential Candi- date Oct. 2lst and hear his views on the political issues of the day. The NICKEL PLATE ROAD will sell tickets at J4.50 for the round trip, Chicago to Canton and return, "Illinois Day," Oct. 21st. Further particulars given on application to J. Y. Calahan, Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams St., Chi- cago. 152 Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. 4 Acres Field-Grown Carnation Plants, 96,000. Ojr Carnations are grown with the greatest care. Free from disease and packed light by our improved system of packing, by which we can send them to all parts of the United States and Canada in perfect condition. DEAN HOLE STORM KINC BRIDESMAID BUTTERCUP $1.."jO pur (luzen. ^s ini per humlred, HELEN KELLER ADELAIDE KRESKEN NICHOLSON ADA BYRON BRIDE OF ERLESCOURT ALBERTINI DAYBREAK UNCLE JOHN SWEETBRIER $1.2.0 per duzen. $»'• IKJ per hundred. L. L. LAMBORN LIZZIE McCOWAN GRACE WILDER MRS. CARNEGIE GARFIELD SILVER SPRAY TIDAL WAVE PORTIA WM. SCOTT HINZE'S WHITE ROSALIND PURITAN Jl.im per dozen. $.yiKl per hundred. j4j i*i per thousai]d. J. Iv. I5IIvlwOP«jr, :Blooi::nsT:>cti'g>:9 r»«*. Climbers. 15.000 AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII. very fine, from H-in. puts, 2 to 3 ft. top. 8(i Ol) per 100; J50.00 per 1000; Irom 2-in. pots, $.5 tO per 100; 835 per 1000 5.000 AMPELOPolS ENGLEVItNII and QUINQUE- FOLIA. 2 years, strong. S8.00 per 100. 10,000 ROSA WICHURAIANA, 2 years, very strong, SIO.OO per 100; «90,00 per 10 10. 1 year, strong, SS 00 per ICO, 87.3.00 per 1000. 5.000 PRAIRIE QUEEN and BALTIMORE BELLE ROSES. 1 year, 86 00 per 100. 2 years, 88.00 per 100. lO.OOO CLEMATIS PANICULATA, 2 years, 88.00 per 100 :i years. J12.C0 per lOO. 20.000 HONEYSUCKLES (climbing), Halleana Chinese, Evergreen, Japan Golden and Flex- uosa, plants from open ground, 86.00 per 100. 5.000 ENGLISH IVY. 1 year, from open ground, 86,00 per 100. 2,000 VINCA (mostly variegated), .3 to 4 fl. top, 87,00 per 100; 860.00 per 1000. An immense stock ol TREES and SHRUBS. Send for our New TRADE LIST. THE WM. H. MOON CO., Morrisville, Pa. 60 Miles from N. Y. City. 30 Miles from Phila. 20.000 CARNATIONS I'lne. healthy, tleld-xrown. 'Am'mW'^i-'s.'Sii. cheap for cash. tjT^.lt'W'^'&.^-i-JI^!. At $:).00. »4.(». $.1.00 and $i;,Oll per UK); WM. SCOTT, MKS. FISHER, LIZZIE McGdWAN, ELDORADO, DAyBKBAK. ALASKA, TIDAL WAVB, PORTIA. ROSE yUEE.N, DAISY BELL, L, GILBERT, CARTLBDCK. GOOD PLANTS. FREE FROM DISEASE. I study to please every patron, and pack every order myself-IN LIGHT BOXES. I guarantee en- tire satisfaction, and big value for the money. CHAS. T, SIEBERT, Station B, PITTSBURG, PA. Mfttitlnn Amflrlcan n'UirtBt Hydrangea Pan. Grandiflora l'INId:.ST Ol'' ALL llAHDV SIIKUBS. REDUCED PRICES. 1.5 inches, nicely branched, at IWc; \y% to 2 feet, fine bushy plants at He ; 2 to 3 feet, fine bushy plants, at 5c. Packing free. W. H. SALTER, Rochester, N. Y. OADUATinUC ROSK guHKN. field-grown, llAnNAI lUNOi strong plants, 85.00 per 100, ^^ a.in ^ift -t^ar- innn FERNS, IV n I IWI1WV Siruug piuuLS, «^.uu p^i luv, 840.(10 per 1000. |M(? ADIANTUMCUNEATUM, 2}< in.pots inOl 8-5 per 100. :i in. 88, i in. 815, 5-in. 825 prKRIS TREMULA, 2)2-iuch pots, 85 per 100, 3 inch 88, 4-inch 815, 5-inch 820. VIOLETS, field-grown. 85 per 100; 840 per 1000. Good stock. Cash with order. HENRY A. NIEMEYER, Erie. Pa. 800 CYPERUS ALTERNIFOLIUS, 4 inch pots, strong plants at J.SOO per 100. GARFIELD PARK ROSE CO., 1688 W. Madison S treet. CHICACO. 1000 VIOLETS SWANLEY WHITE, tield clumps or pot plants. Send cash price to THE GOOD & REESE CO., Springfield, O. Wanted In spleiKlid condition. Areca lutescena $5.00 per 1000 rubra o.OO Brahea (liilcls 10.00 flllfera 50 Caryota ureris 10 00 " Chnmivropa excelsa 3.50 " Dion edule 15.00 Geuaoma Splxiana Imperlalls 7.50 " Schotteana 7.50 " PhiKnIx canariensls 3.50 " KKrLlXATA 5 00 Thrlnax ar^entea 5.00 '* WaehlriKtuola robusta 1.00 " Musa ensete 15.110 SCHWAKE SEED CO. (Inc.) 404 East 34th St., NEW YORK. E. G.HILL & CO., wtioiesaie Florists RICHMOND. INDIANA. "THE DAHLIA" BY LAWRENCE K. PEACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST oflering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. Atco. N. J. THE FINEST STOCK GROWN. PTERIS SERRULATA, PTERIS OUVRARDII. 2iX-inch pots, 81 00 per 100, $55.00 per 1000. (bash with order. J. Pi'. itii>wE;rvi:v, 3810-3824 Wentworth Ave., CHICACO. Burki's New Yellow Marouerite ETOILE DE LYON. %ry Kooted Cuttings for .0, by m»U. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. W HOI.KSAT.E Fl.OKIST. CLEMATISi large flowering, in splendid as- sortment for fall. PAEON I ES. H large stock and assortment, very low. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY, 1 & 2year, fine plants. OBL. POET'S NARCISSUS, a ver3' large surplus stock. F. A. BALLER, BloominRton, III. 20,000 GERANIUMS ROOTED CUTTINGS All the best varieties, as Double ('.en. Grant, Bniant. Silver I.i-al Mnie. Salleroi. SI. 50 per 100; $11 00 per 1(100. AGEKATUM. blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooted, 81 00 per 100; 80 to per 1000. All strong and well-rooted. The same out of a;<-inch pots, 82.00 per 100; 820.00 per 1000. Cash with order. MAX KRUSCHKA. LAWRENCE STATION, N. Y. i8g6. The American Florist. 259 FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. GOOD STOCK. Per lUO Per 100 BRIDESMAID Ist size. S8.0O. . ..2nd elze, *5.U0 METEOR •' 8.00.... " 5.00 STORM KINO •' alUold all sold UNCLE JOHN all sold all sold THE STUART " 8.00.... '• 5.00 E. A. WOOD " 800... GOLDFINCH " all sold all sold DIAZ ALBERTINI.. " 8.00.... " 5.00 WM. SCOTT '■ 8.00... " 5.00 DAYBREAK " all sold all sold DAZZLE '■ 8.«)-- '■ •>«0 ALASKA " all sold all sold NO RUST. F. DORNER & SONS CO., La Fayette. Ind. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS GOOD STOCK. NO RUST. l*er 100 DAYBREAK $5.00 WM. SCOTT 5.00 NANCY HANKS 5.00 LIZZIE McCOWAN 5.00 LIZZIE GILBERT 5.00 PORTIA 5.00 MRS. FISHER 4.00 Terms cash with order. ROGERS PARK FLORAL CO. 41 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. Field-Grown CARNATIONS New and Standard Varieties. fl®=*Send for price List. H. Weber & Sons, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MD. DIIT IM CARNATIONS AFTER rUI Ml CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have slill a good stock of Wm. Scott. Ivory. Silver Spray, Rose Queen, and Garfield, fiom cold frames, at JS.OO per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. LARGE FIELD-GROWN BLOOMING CARNATIONS PER 100 Portia $3.00 Tidal Wave 3.00 Mrs. Fisher 3.00 REINBERG BROS.. 51 Wabash Ave., Chicago. FINE FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. Wm. Scott Orange Blossom Thos. Cartledge Mrs. Fisher Albertini Hinze's White Portia Garfield Tidal Wave Storm King Helen Keller, at $4.00 per 100. Also MARIE LOUISE VIOLETS, line at J6 00 per 100. Cash with order. GEO. B WHITEHEAD, Lock Box 116. GREENS FARMS. CONN. 50.000 FERNS. Choice varieties from 2 inch pots, at 83 00 per 100; %lh 00 per 1(00 Samples sent by mail on receipt of 10 cents in stamps. Koran's Perfect Carnation Support. The only perfect one on the market. Write for circular and prices. JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. PANSIES AND CARNATIONS. LANCASTER, PA., October, 1896. Fellow Florists: — A round dozen letters in one week from florists say- ing my Pansies are "the best they ever had" is pretty conclusive evidence that they are first quality and worth the price I ask. 75 cts. per 100; $5.00 per 1000, with discount on large orders. When I make a shipment of field-grown Carnation plants a recommenda- tion is almost sure to follow. A common inquiry is "How do you grow such fine plants?" I will be pleased to supply you with plants of the following varieties: McGowan, Albertini, Cartledge. Scott, Wave, Keller, Stuart, and Rose Queen at the rate of $5.00 per 100, or $45.00 per 1000. If you need any Rooted Cuttines of any kind. CARNATIONS, GERANIUMS, COLEUS, etc., write to me, it is no trouble to answer inquiries. L. B. 496. ALBERT M. HERR. LANCASTER, PA. CARNATIONS Field-Grown. ALASKA, $10.00 per 100. DAYBREAK, HELEN KELLER, KOHINOOR, LIZZIE McCOWAN, MINNIE COOK, PORTIA, ROSE QUEEN, TIDAL WAVE, WM. SCOTT, S8 per 100. #>l A T TT1/^T9 TCTT A TrXrfcT T'T'C! ^^^^t" large, field grrown dumps. Per 100 SIO; V/JCVJjXX V A>JX XXL V XVJJXiXO, per 1000 87.5. Small plants, per ICO SJ.OO. PANSIES, large plants for Fall blooming. Per 100 $1.00; per 1000*7 00. Large stock of Ficus Elastica, Ferns, etc. Write for our BOOK FOR FLORISTS. wfs?E¥N^T.?,yu¥^LL. VflUGttflN'S SEED STORE. 84 & 86 RANDOLPH STREET. CHICAGO. /"* A TD TVr A TTTr^lVr^ Albertini, Jacqueminot, Portia, Puritan, Van Leeuwen, V^r^iViN t\. 1 IV^iN O clean, healthy and vij;orous, $5.00 per 100. AMERICAN BEAUTY and other Forcing Roses. MARIE LOUISE, SWANLEY, CALI- FORNIA and CAMPBELL VIOLETS. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. lOO. rLflNTlNG STOGK. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS, Good variety. Price, 84.C0 to 88 00 per FIELD-GROWN VIOLETS. MARIE LOUISE, of healthy character. Price, 8.5.00 per 100; 8t5.00 per ICOO. POT-GROWN MARIE LOUISE. 2!^ inch, 82.50 per 100; 820 00 per 1000. 4inch, 8-1.50 per lOO; 837.50 per 1000. aS^SAMPLES ON APPLICATION. Asparagus plumosus, Poinsettia. Pansy Seedlings, etc. Lists kree. DAN'L B. LONG, VtlV^^. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. WARD, Mgr. QUEENS, L. I., N. Y. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Cannas, Chrysanthemums, Geraniums. 1,000 HELEN KELLER CARNATIONS Fine, heallhy plants, at $6.00 per 100. Freight prepaid to your place. CASH WITH ORDER. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro. Pa. CARNATIONS -Field-Grown. Larjie and Healthy. Per loO LIZZIE McGOWaN $1 ou SILVER SPRAY 4 00 WM. S^OTT 5 00 DAYBREAK 5 00 Also a limited number of Portia at. . . 4 00 Sweetbner, Uncle John and E. A. Wood at . 5 00 CASH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. DAYTON. 0. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. 17 3 to 4-lnc:h PALMS and ■• FKKNS for $3.00, 10 i tu o-lnch PALMS iinil 3 KEKNS lor $.> Ml MONTHLY AND TEA ROSES, ADIANTUM FERNS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND CAR- NATIONS in pots. LABELS, MOSS, ETC. SEND FOR LISTS. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. SURPLUS STOGK. Bouton d'Or and Scott. All clean and healthy, $4.00 per 100. McGOWAN, small size, healthy, your own price, for cash. A BARGAIN. WM. SALING, Rahway, N. J. CARNATIONS 5000 Scotts left, iirst-class stock, extra size plants. About 1000 Daybreak and Tidal Wave. Also a few Rose Queen, Goldfinch and Emily PierSOn. samples and prices on application. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Carnations, I.IZZIK McUOWAN. WM. SCOTT. K»II1-Y ••|KKS<)>, CNC:l.K .JOHN, HEI.KN KELLKK, ALASKA, TIUAI. WAVK »r..00 per 100 Violets MARIE LOUISE. . . $5.00 per 100 Ficus El^SZlC&t, $6^0 p° r'dozen Also a lar^e lot of PALMS BERMUDA LOM6IFLORUM BULBS. H. C. STEINHOFF, 578 Hudson Boulev.ird. WEST H080KEN. N. I. Always mention the American Flo rist when writing to advertisers. 260 The American Florist. Oct. 17, Brockton, Mass. During the fair held here last week the varieties of cut flowers shown and the display of handsome and unique floral designs was never perhaps equalled in this town before. The plow made by H. E. Barrows was a very attractive piece; it was made of whiteandplnk carnations and red roses. Copeland & Cooper showed a basket of flowers in a frame, the whole mounted on ao easel. Both H. E, Barrows and Copeland & Cooper had in addition to the designs mentioned, large scales representing gold versus silver. Barrows showed also two handsome wreaths of roses. Copeland & Cooper had one wreath and E. M. Fisher displayed a good sized bicycle made of white carna- tions. Among other exhibitors, Miss Flora Pratt had a fine display of assorted cut flowers and H. F. Burt showed a nice lot of dahlias. Frank Rumley of Stoughton had a fine show of violets, roses and car- nations. Barrows and Copeland & Cooper had also fine displays of palms and decorative plants. Homo. To Make Water-proof Cloth. Take one quarter pound refined bees- wax, place in an iron kettle and melt over a charcoal fire. When melted pour into the kettle containing the wax one gallon benzine. Place kettle over char- coal fire again and let the benzine and wax get to bl )od beat or as hot as you can bear your hand in. Now have your canvass stretched on frames, apply the preparation with a brush. The benzine evaporates quickly and leaves the cloth with a very thin film of wax, which fills up all spaces and renders water-proof. Do it outdoors as the fumes of beozineare inflammable. No danger in heating the benzine where there are no flames. I have performed this operation a dozen times and am alive yet. Use a charcoal braz'er such as a plumber uses to heat his solder- ing irons in in heating wax and benzine. Geo. W. Caldwell- Fishing Note. ANOTHER SUCKER CAUGHT. On June 23 a well dressed stranger walked into the establishment of the Kemble Floral Co., Oskaloosa, la., and represented himself to be Frank A. Reese, a florist in business at Aurora, III. After being shown around by the proprietor (who probably was considered too fly for his purpose), he approached an employee of the establishment who wore a Knight Templar charm, has travelled over agood share of two continents and ought to have known better, and claiming to be a mason said he was on his way home from Denver and was short a few dollars for his fare. "The sucker" promptly fished out $5 and handed it to him. On writing to R. Rees& San, of Aurora, he elicited the fact that they were the only florists of that name doing business there, and the name of Frank A. Reese was unknown to them, neither is there a member of that name on the rolls of the masonic body he claimed to be a member of. Confreres take warning. W. E. H. "ILLINOIS DAY" AT CANTON, 0. The Mecca of Men of all Political Parties. The NICKEL PLATE ROAD offers a rate of $4.50 for the round trip Chicago to Can- ton and return Oct. 21st. For sleeping car accommodations, etc., apply to J. Y. Cala- han, Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams St., Chi- cago. 153 -j.il, .it.ii,ji„ii.i..ii.. ATTENTION, SECRETARIES ! OF ,. „ CHRYSANTHEMUM CLUBS AND EXHIBITIONS. ■> The season of Chrysanthemum Exhibiions bting close at hand, we have, as in seasons past, placed ourselves in position to supply your Club with our beautiful CHRYSANTHEMUM LITHOGRAPHS. We have ' " — ^ , just issued, at a very great expense, two ntw lithographs {a full sheet and a half sheet), which we believe are the handsomest yet offered, Th^y a-e entirely new in design, and, being highly illuminated are admirably fitted for adve tising your coming exhibition. I \V<» respectfully solicit your patronage, and will be pleased to seud samples and " j prices on appli«ation. [IJ^OKDER WILL HK PKUMPTLY FlLI>ED. \ THE COURIER LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY, Buffalo, N. Y. \ rik'«,i'|i-«"i''U'ii"l''iP''i"i'',c«l"k» "r'i''irki"i',i'i"i» n'"i'',k't|"i»kC'r'l''«''l"i»',rM"(' u"i'ti «l"i» kr'i''k' 'l"l''ii«r'l' ic'i'-it ,i'0(l DiKJ ready in Octuber for cold frames. PANSV SEED of above strain. Jl.ai per pkt. Of 2.500 seeds, ("ash with order. E. B. JENNINGS, l. b. 254. Southport, Conn. Grower Of theflnest l^anaiea. Pansies Worm Raisino. PLANTS READY NOW, at $2.."i0 per 500; 84.00 per 1000. Free on board of^ express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at $1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH OKDEK. C. SOLTAU & CO., 199 Brant AvB., Jersey nay, N. J. TheOAKS GREENHOUSE CO., Jackson, Mich. olTer for Immediate aeceptarce. tiie lollnwlnn at priief Miine.ved. I'er 100 SmItax. from 2H-ln<:li putt*, uuud .'(tronK plants — $"-' ii\ Cj'perus Alternilolius, ■^'.Uj-lnch :i 00 ;{Vlnch ti 00 Grevlllea Robusta, 2'4-lnch S.OO ;iU-lnch ti 00 Draca'na Indlvlsa. 2}-4;-i"ch 2..')0 Betionlna. t1<.)werlnK In var.. 2hi-\nc\i, uur aelectlon 2.50 Uex, *• •■ ■• ■■ 4 00 rush with order. K.<"-of all Ken'l slock at usual prices. Mention Ara-^rlcan Klr)rlsl. Bismarck Apples. I year old 2-') Cfuts; per hundred, 8-0.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, 82.00; per ten thousand, $18. CH. KOEHLER, Oxford Church P. 0., Phila , Pa. All First-Class, Strong FIELD- GROWN STOCK. p,,,oo Anemone Japonica Alba $5.00 " Japonica Rubra 5.00 Whirlwind 5.00 Clematis Davidlana, 2 years 8.00 Day Lily, white and yellow 5.00 Eulalia Jap. Variegata and Gracillima 3.00 Hollyhocks, separate colors 6.00 Hibiscus Crimson Eye 3.00 Iris Germanica 1.50 Yucca Filamentosa, 2 year 8.00 VICK & HILL CO., ROBERT CRAIG. Roses, Palms, -A.asrx) Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. S. J. THOMPSON, Proprietor of FALLS CITY WIRE WORKS 261 W. Jefferson Street. Send for catalogue. LOUISVILLE, KY. A. & F. ROLKER'S PLANT AUCTION SALES EyERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY At II o'clock A. M. 106 &. 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. 1897 THE ONLY "MARS" ""* ?SIil"™ Prices on application. fI.EI.A.XS'S' iT.A.'IS. Int. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. FERNS IN VARIETY. Just the thiug for this Kail. Well e?.tab- lished in 2-iuch pots. AdJantum Irom flats. CARNATIONS— Wm. Scott. Daybreak. But- tercup, I'hos. Cartledge Kittie Clover, Eldo- rado, L. McGowau. strong plants from field. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Glenside, Pa. GhrysanthemumslPansies Per \m .WO CHRYSANTHKMUMS,2Svar.5-in.pots 10.00 ■10,000 PANSY PLANTS . . . .per 1000 83.50; .60 CASH WITH OlIDEK PLEASE. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0, iSpd. The American Florist. 261 If deliveries on ]V[OSS WREATHS are a few days late, don'i gsi impitieat. These goods are scarce, but we ha.ve them, now in port and being unloaded. New Immortelles are in, and they are fine. Cape Flowers are extra large, and you can have all you want, if you ordered UOW. Cycas Leaves and Wheat Sheaves. These are our leaders always. Price, quality and quantity handled far beyond all other dealers. All seasonable stock in Baskets, Jardinieres, Pols, Letters, Ar= tificial Flowers and Foliage Plants, AT BARGAIN PRICES. A good time to replenish your stock. H, BAYEESBOMR & CO., Importers and Manufacturers, so Pf. ^tli street, PEILADELP3IA. PA. Ad. ICIOE^ i& OO. importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manufacturer of fVIETAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLOfllSTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry). NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. 1^ "rrrr-T-T- "Voris:. which is absolutely perfect for modern greenhouse construction. ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, Send toT Estimates. Satisfaction Guaranteed. REED GLASS CO.. 102 Soulli Stii Avenue. NEW YORK CITY. THERE IS MONEY IN ... Greenwood s. We have demonstrated our superior facilities in executing promptly and satis- factorily all orders for BOUQUET GREEN, EVERGREEN WREATHING, HOLLY, ETC. No enterprising florist can take chances of getting left on these "money makers," and therefore should place orders with us. We have Green also when it's scarce. Let us estimate. We are HEADQUARTERS and know how to keep at the head of the line. W. W. BARNARD & CO, 186 East Kinzie Street, CHICAGO. Rates via the Nickel Plate Road between same points for like classes of tickets are lower than via other lines. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO., 13 Green St., BOSTON, MASS. Office, 84 Hawley St. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. Sizes :)^-lnch and 2-lnch, K.UU per lUO. Patent faetener with each letter. With orders for 5(J0 letters we Rive away a nlceiy stained and varnished box. See cut In next week's American Florist. Our letter iB handled by all the wholesalers In Boston. AGENTS: A. Etolker & Sons. New York; M. Rice & Co.. 25 N. 4th Street. Philadelphia, Pa.; F. E. Mc- AlllBter, 22 Dey St.. N. Y.; H. Bayeradorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; A. D. Perry & Co.. :« Warren St., Syracuse, N. Y.; A. C. Kendal. 115 Ontario St.. Cleve- land, C: E. H. Hunt. 79 Lake St.. Chleai;o; Wisconsin Flower Exchange, VM Mason St.. Milwaukee, Wis.; H. Sunderbruch. 4th and Walnut Sts.. Cincinnati, O.; T. W. Wood & Sons, nth and Marshall Sts. Richmond. Va. ; Jas. Vlck's Sons, Rochester. N. Y. ; Dan'l B. Long, Buffalo. N. Y.; C A. Kuehn. St. Louis, Mo.;Hunt- Inition Seed Co.. Indianapolis, Ind ; W. Ellison, u62 Pine Street. St, Louis, Mo.; A. Herrman, 415 E. H4th St.. New York; Geo. A. Sutherland. t;7 Brom- tleld St . Boston; Welch Bros.. No. lA Beacon St., Boa- ton; N. F. McCarthy & Co.. 84 Ilawley Street. Boston; The Henry PhlUpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O.. Walter A. Potter & Co.. Providence. R. I.; J. C. VauKhan. 26 Barclay St., New York. J. A. Simmers. Toronto. Ont.. Asent for Canada. Benjamin Chase, WOOD LABELS, IDei-i-j.^, IV II. You will benefit the American Florist by mentioning it every time you write an ad- vertiser in these col- umns. Ijohnc CO. CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL 412 TO 422 mWTHOBNEAV. .CHICAGO, ILL OF ANY DESCRIPTION. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. IFOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlet, write to Louisville [Spirit Ccked Tobacco Co. Louisvine,Ky When writing mention Amertcan Florist FUMIGATE WITH NIKOTEEN THE ESSENCE OF TOBACCO. It kills all insects and does not injure delicate blooms. Costs 12 cents to fumigate a house 100x20 feet. If you caunot get it locally, write SKABCURA DIP CO., Station S, CHICAGO. GREEN-HOUSE HEATING. MYERS & CO. 1518 & 1520 S. 9th St. PHILADELPHIA. Send for catalogue and price list. 262 The American Florist, Oct. 77, i^ecoift ^oteA, Fall River, Mass — Victor Sch-jeider opened on Wednesdav, Oct. 7, a florist's establishment at 206 Rodman street. RiEGELSViLLE, N. J.— John Stone will soon move from this town to PhiUips- burg, this state, where he will engage in business on a larger scale. Louisville, Ky. — S. J. Thompson has bought out the Falls City Wire Works, and will continue to manufacture a full line of florists' wire designs, Jefferson City, Mo. — Busch&Purzner have added two new houses each 18x90, one for palms and drac;cnas and one for carnations. Also an cflice building and a propagating house 7x30. Lowell, Mass. — The horticultural sen- sation of the town last week was a mush- room measuring 33 inches in circumfer- ence and 7% inches in height, said to beloEg to the edible species. Syracuse, N.Y. — The Central New York Horticultural Society has arranged to hold a chrysanthemum show at the Alhambra on November 11, 12 and 13, at which $300 in cash prizes and some special prizes will be comreted for. Arrangements are in charge of Pres. A. D. Perry. Pataskala, O. — Miss Rosa Joseph, the florist, met with a peculiar accident recently. While moving a ladderin a pear tree a pear fell and struck her on the temple rendering her unconscious for some time. The pear weighed thirteen ounces and fell 26 feet. Goshen, Ind.— Owing to the passage of a new road through his greenhouse prop- erty E. N. Burt has moved to a new site just west of the town, where he has pur- chased five acres. He has erected a new brick boiler room 18x25, and added a 50 horse power boiler, also a new green- house 200x25. Peoria, III. — A very at'^ractive wed- ding decoration was recently arranged by J. C. Murray. Bothchurch and house were freely adorned with palms, smilax, etc. The table decorations were much admired, the bride's table having a large centerpiece of Bride roses, another table being arranged with Bridesmaid roses, and a third with American Beauties. The bride carried a bunch of valley. Murphysboro, III.— E. I. Bradley was badly damaged by fire on the night of Friday, September 24, losing boiler shed, tools, pots, seeds, ends ot two green- houses and some $600 worth of stock, besides badly damaging a bench of roses and one of carnations. The fire was un- doubtedly of incendiary origin and occur- ring as it did when everything was housed and in A 1 condition the loss was badly felt. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower PotP, etc. Making a Specialty of Florist Standard Fots Send for price Met and samples (which will be sent tree) and we know you will give us your order: J. G. SWAHN'S SONS, Mimieapolli'! 'mIiiii. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. ^^^WIND MILLS EOR PUMPING. f<^^y\ ■TV^X^H'*''^?]?/ FAIRBANKS-GALVD STEEL. ^^OgLl^siiE^^' ECLIPSE-WOOD. UA?==\'®^-''=^~-J- =;£2^^^ «50,000 Already' »olcl. W boilers™ HEATING. 1 VALVES, PIPE AND FITTINGS. ^ FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO. Cor, Franklin & Monroe Sts., CHICAGO. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO. FOR GREENHOUSES. ■^^TTlt^ for l^t^st prions. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia. Pa. BRANCH WAREHOUSES: Kearney and Westside Aves.* Jersey City, N. J. Jackt«ou Ave. and Fearson St., Long Island City, N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled, A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. When writing mention the Amerlcfin Florist. »^5rii^VOUSE> I»OararK^I^^5e^ CO. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. * OUR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- laction. We call your attention to our new pots 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. SYRACUSE, N. Y. NEVIN'S Greennouse Fouy Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing, IS APPLIED WITH PUTTY BULB. OncKallon (2lHb8 ) wilitlaze l.iiOd feet of yliif;^ Cunts '.<(lf |jert:allun.:)(icper hiilf-t'ollon. Putty BuU)n .,h-<.';h-Ii. Sutlafiictlun Kuanmteed. Kefertnce -.lohii li'iyurt*. (Jreentree Horo. I'a.; Hartman Bros,. Alk'^hiiny. i'li,; Fred Burkl. Bellevue. Pa. Manulactured by T. H.NEVIN CO., P.O. B. 958, Pittsburg. SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. For prices, apply to GEO. W HAMILTnN. 176 SidnAvSI.. Dnrch«>li>r. Mnit. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. SHEEP MANURE I will furnish this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b. Mitchell, South Dakota: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED. ...75c. per 100 Terms cash in jO days after dale of ship- ment. Orders accompanied with cash, 10 per cent, discount. WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri- can Florist. i8g6. The American Florist. 2G3 Kroeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse = Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Boilers made of the best of material, shell. flrebOT Bbeete and heads of Btpel. watur space nil around ffront. sides and back .j Write lor infurmatton. CfPRElS :h more durablethanPINE. \SASH BARS UP TO it FEET i« LENGTH or UWGER. GREENHOUSE AND OTt^E R BUIU DINC MATERIAL. Si>-\''ir'ourIllu4trat«d BooK "CYPjRE,;;)j LUMBER-wofrsUSES." , Send rof^'ur Special GreenhouWcftlcular. / THE/^x Sreart^ lumbei- (b., Net ^nseiH J59ST9N. ^^ ss' X^X THE KVENT)1./\TIN& f\PPLiaNCE> J, D. Carmody, Evansville, Ind. Dear ^z* .— Knclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly. J. E. JACKSON, Gainesville, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS. Kichmond, Ind. THE AMERICAN FLORIST'S Color Chart is now accepted as the standard in preparing color descriptions, bv tnanv foreign honses as well as in America. PRICE 15 CENfS POSTPAID. AMERICAN FLORIST CO.. 322 Dearborn Street, CHICACO. f3??ABBL. I H.A.STOOTHOFF. i3l5l1ADISONWE,NfWYOI!K.CITr. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. Clear Cypress Greenhouse flaterial. This with us means the best growth of Cypress Lumber and the best grade of that growth ; and from this grade all the sap — bright sap, which only experts can detect — as well as stained sap, knots and other defects cut out. Others do not equal our quality if they do beat our i)rices. It is not hard to see the reason : You can not buy gold dollars at fifty cents each. E.xperienced growers know that the best is not too good and cheapest in the long run. Lockland Lumber Co., LOCKLAND, O. W^rite for Circulars or Estimates. HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAM ♦ BOILERS. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. NEW VORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CHICACO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL & CO., 77 Lake Street. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for ritilnirnn ^m GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., Cor Congress, BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogrue. NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD, YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. i CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., CHICAGO. MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. To Pump Water If \uu \v:int wuUT for .any purpose anil nave iKit the laiiiiu.!.. ur ivai.t to ^-haiiye, write fnr catalogue of the Celebrated DeLamater-Rlder and Deiamater-Erlcsson Hot- Alr Humping Enalnes. Tliey will pump walei- from any source and force it anywhere. Any kind of fuel can be used. Addresa, deLamateriron works, Per Insurance against damage by hail, ^^^^^^_^____ Address JOHN G. ESLER, Sec'y, F. H. A.. Saddle River. N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL OlTHr TRADE D IJ^EGTORY REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. I=K,ICE S2.00 AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 264 The American Florist. Oct. //, Index to Advertisers. Adv Rates '254 American Boiler Co...2t>l AmllnK B C 2M BallerF A 2S8 Barnard W W & Ck). . . .%! Basaett & Wa8tiourD..2D5 Bayeredorfer H 4 Co. .2tjl Blanc A & Co 257 Bobblnk I, C 25B Bonsall Jos B 251 Boston Letter Co 2i;i BurkI Fred 258 California Nursery Co2of> Carmodv J I) 2lSi Chadwlck Chas 25a Chase Benj 261 lAjnley Jonn & Son 2H1 r^ttape Gardens 259 Courier Lithographing • o 260 Cowen's Son N 261 Crabb & Bunter 25'J Crald Kobt 26il Cunningham JH 2(» Dnrds Chas A 256 l>eljamater Iron Wk8.263 Uletsch A & Co 263 Dillon J L 268 DornerFred ASons Co 2oy DreerU A 257 DyslngerM & S 2o3 Enrel F 254 Blchholz n 259 260 Hlllott W H 254 Elliott Wm & Sons.... 256 Kills & Pol Iwonij 254 Fairbanks Morse Co. . 262 Garfield I'ark Kose Co2.')8 Good & Reese Co 25s Gurney Heater Co 26:{ Hall Ass'n .....26:) Hamilton W 262 Hancock & Son .... .250 Hartung CW&C0....256 Herr Alberts! 250 Herrmann A 261 Uews A H & Co 262 HllJ BG4C0 258 Hlppard B 263 HlicningBiCo 2IW Hooker U M Co 262 Horan Edw C 265 Horan J & Son 260 HutsebOBch Bros 256 HantB U 255 Illinois Cut Flower Co. 254 Jennings E B 260 Joosten C H 257 Kennlcott Bros Co 256 Kldwell J F 258 Knoulf Oscar 256 KoehlerCh 260 Koeppen Chas 26:1 Kroeschell Bros Co... .2K1 Kruschka Ma.x 258 Kuehu CA 264 Lang Julius 256 Lemke E F .... 264 liOCkland Lum Co 263 Long DB 2M 250 Lonsdale Edw 267 Lord & Bumham Co.. 264 Louisville Tobacco Co 261 Lynch W E 255 MacBeanAS 260 McCarthy N F&Co.. . McKeand R A McKellar C W Mtllang Frank ;.. Mlllang& Co Moon W H Co Moore F L MonlngerJ C Co Myers & Co National flantCo Newbury EC New Fruit Nursery NeyinTHCo N T Cut Hower Co.... Nickel I'lnteKoad Nlemever II A Oaks Greenhouse Co.. Peacock W P Pfnnock Sam l 8 Pitcher \- Manda Prince AG & Co Purdy & Blauvelt QuakerClty Mch Wks Randall A L Raynor J I. Redfleld Bradley ... Reed Glass Co KelnbergBroB 255 Rice M & Co RickseckerC H Rogers P'k Floral Co Rhotert Aug 264 Kulker A & Sons. . .266 264 Bolker A & F 251 260 Saling W 250 rtander&Co 257 Salter WH 2&S Mcnlller J l 257 Scbulthels H 253 rtchwaae Seed Co 2.58 Scott Binder Co 25S snendan w F 256 Slebert C T 268 Sleorecht & Wadley .2,57 Situations Wants, etc. V5:t SkaU-uru Dip Co 261 Smltn Natn & aoo 26.0 SoltauC & Co 2W1 Stearns Lumber Co 26,3 Stelnhoff H C 250 Stoothotr H A 2ia SunderbruchH L 2M Sutherland Geo A 2,55 SwahnsSons J O 262 Syracuse Pottery Co.. .262 Thompson SJ 260 Vaughan J C 256 2,60 Vlck&HlU Co 260 Watson GC 2.56 Weathereds Sons T W.2t;4 Weber H& Son 260 Weeber & Don 2.6 Welch Bros 256 Wbllldln Pot Co 262 Whltton S&Sons . Whitehead Geo B.. Williams & Suns Co. Winter* Glover. .. Wis Flower hiX Wlttbold Geo Wood Bros Youngjno 255 Young Thos Jr 255 Zlrnglebel D 260 , .257 .2,50 .260 255 .254 , 267 , 267 Yokohama, Japan — Information has been received here that Mr. L. 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Sawdust will rot very slowly, and often makes itself known in that way. All carnations when cut should be placed in water, and set in a cool place for 24 hours, whether they are for ship- ping or home market. They will improve greatly, gain in size, and improve their keeping qualities. Fred Dorner. Seedling Carnations. Seedling carnations, new varieties — we hear of them now again from all parts of the country. It seen;s every grower has a few plants and wants to try his luck in producing the same in carnation culture, or at least a variety ihat may do well at his place and in his locality. How these seedling plants are atched, nursed and attended, especially when it is a first experiment in that line! When buds are seen, with what eagerness th ir opening is awaited. They open mvi • , too slow; the points of the calyx are thrust a little aside, only tosee whatcolo. it will be. But wait, for disappointment comes soon enough. There are single flowers, deformed ones, some withbursted calyx, undesirable colors and many other defects. But all are not bad; among them are some fair flowers, some good ones and a few very fine ones that will raise our hope again. It may be the aspect is quite different, and the single and bad ones are in the minority, the lair, good and extra more than were expected. What a streak ot luck! But disappoint- ment lurks here too, only it is delayed a year or two. And how are new varieties often judged by their originators? Love and emhusi- asm, coupled with inexperience, lead eas- ily to an undue admiration, and tne orig- inator's op nion is pnjudiced by tne admiration of his own product, and he anticipates wonders. Olttn a greaterror is made in treating seedling plants as pets. Probably if the general stock would receive the samecare and attention better results would be obtained. I sometimes receive seedling blooms on which I am asked to pass an opinion, but it is most reluctantly given, for convinced in my experience of the instability of most seedlings and asked f jr my honest opinion it is nearly always to discourage, where I would like to encourage. There are gen- erally such high hopes based on their new productionsby the inexperienced that an honest opinion is very often disap- pointing, or is taken as given in a spirit of partiality or jealousv. Many a grower of new varieties has felt the disappoint- ment of failures, found his ideals shattered, has learned to look at his pets as being very common. Even experienced growers are taken in with the fii;kle beauty of their first year's seedlings, naming them for registration, and may be in the course of time nothing is left of them but the name and description on the books of the secretary of the carnation society. They have vanished, gone out of existeccs and bf en found worthless. A better fate may await them; they may become va'uable in localities, but very few are acknowl- edged as standard varieties over the whole country. When a variety has passed a satisfac- tory three years' trial, is honored by first- cla"- irrtificate from more than ore place icre it has been on exhibition and is OHcred for dissemination, it is still aques- tion whether it will find favor before the public, whether it can begro wn anywhere with p. ~t. "^he standard of excellence has become qtu..^ ^h, and it takes a very fine flower . ith the best growing quali- ties to reach this height. There are so many requirements that come into con- sideration. With ' he consumer, thelover and buver of the flower it is their beauty and usefulness; with the grower it is the profitableness with whiehit canhegrown and sold. I do not wish to discourage the grow- ing of new varieties, for I am too much imprfssed with the importance of this part in carnation culture. O d varieties degenerate, lose vitality, die out; new ones are bound to take their place. And who will deny the importance and attractive- ness of something new in the markets, especially in articles of luxury as which our flowers to a large extent are still classed. In showing the dark side I wish to remind that when we know the source andnatureof anevil it gives ustheknowl- edge to guard against, to abate it. I wish to remind the inexperienced not to be too sanguine. I wish to destroy illusions by stating facts that my experience has taught me to regard. It is my purpose to make the grower of new varieties unders and that only the very best has a chance to succeed, that it requires at least several years of trial to ascertain what is the best and to find out whether 266 The American Florist. Oct. 24^ the merits of a new variety are of a stay- ing quality. And when the grower is honestly and fully convinced of its suferi- ority and ventures at dissemination suc- cess is not yet assured, but his responsi- bility ceases there, for he cannot be held accountable for any failure in other local- ities; for a new variety enters by its dis- semination on its final trial where every- body is interested in it. Again, I do not wish to discourage, no, I wish to encourage the growing of new varieties, but I also wish to show in this brarch of carnation culture the danger of the wild speculations often indulged in, and the reverse and bad effects it has on the evolution of our divine flower. I do not claim that our way in conducting this branch of carnation culture is perfect in all its parts, although we try to make it so to the best of curability; but I think it may not be uninteresting to many to hear of our experience, our disappoint- ments and successes in this line, and on these I will dwell in my next notes. Fred Dorner. Diseased Carnations. I enclose some cuttings from diseased carnation plants. Will you kindly te'l me what ails them and suggest a remedy? M. M. M. These cuttings are affected with bacteriosisand should not be u?ed for cut- tings i a this state, for they would scarcely develop strength enough to strike roots. If left alone and with good treatment these plants will outgrow the bacteria in a short time and bring good flowers. Avoid watering overhead, give nourish- ment in liquid form providing your soil has not been overrlch at the beginning and spray once in two weeks with the copper solution in ammonia. Ammonia is the best stimulant, but there must be some- thing more substantial in the soil or ammonia is not of much avail. Fred Dorner. Chrysanthemum Notes. The early varieties are now in bloom and some of them cut, and possibly a word of advice to many growers may not be out of place. Every fall sees the mar- ket overcrowded with large quantities of undeveloped flowers that wilt almost as soon as they are placed in the large vases in the stoies or in the parlors of the cus- toms rs, Tnere is no excuse for a grower cutting his blooms now before they have matured; there is no rush to get them into market, for there is probably no shortage and the time gained for a subse- quent crop is mure than lost in the returns from the immature blooms. There is some excuse for the grower who can cut a fairly well-opentd flower the first or second week in October, for the chrysanthemum at that season is not at all plentiful and the blooms will bring considerably more remuneration if cut partly open than they will a week later. There are some varieties that should be cut and marketed before they are fully open, we willingly acknowledge, but there are those varieties that are not fully double and show the large yellow center when matured, but the larger num- ber of varieties in general cultivation should be left upon the plants until the center of the flower has expanded. The blooms are then much larger and if placed in large vases of water immediately after cutting and kept in a cool place over night will stand in almost any good posi- tion for two or three days and look fresh. We learned not to cut immature blooms, to our sorrow, some years ago. At the chrysanthemum show held in New York in 1891 we staged for Mr. H. A. Gane in the seedling class, Mrs. Jerome Jones. We had grown it ourselves the year pre- vious and had seen it with the originator and felt confident that it would capture a prize. The flowers were not far enough advanced when we left to take them with us and as the day for showing seedlings was the third day of the exhibition arrangements were made that they be sent on two days later. They arrived on time and were duly staged, but it ciuld be easily seen that they had not reached maturity. Two hours after being placed upon the table they were so badly wilted that the judges hardly looked at them as they passed around to award the premi- ums. This variety if left on the plant will grow harder and we have kept it as late as the last week in November in good condition. We use this variety only as an example, for the m^ijority of the mid- season varieties are very similar. The bush plants are now almost in bloom and the tips mavbe so heavy that the stems cannot hold them erect and consequently hang over the sides and every other way. A neat little way to tie them up came to our notice a few years ago that we have adopted and it has given us entire satisfaction. Take a piece of wire (telegraph or telephone, or about that size) and measure from the bottom of the pot to the height w here the branches should be tied and then bend it at a right angle, carry it horizontal for about six inches or a toot according to the size of the plant and then form a cir- cle. Place this carefully in th; pot and tie the branches to the wire. If the plant is quite large or has a large number ot branches the wire may be formed in a spiral instead of a circle. Elijah A. Wood. Growing Brunner in House With Beauty. I planted a row of Ulrich Brunner rosc5 iti my American Beauty house June 2, they grow very well, have strong canes, four feet long, but don't show any sign of a flower bud. Are planted in a bench, 5-inch soil. Ulkich Brunner. Ulrich Brunner is a true hybrid remont- ant and for that reason could not be expected to bloom under the same treat- ment as is accorded the tea or hybrid tea section. I remember having seen a florist plant a batch of Her Majesty the first season that rose was on the market in a house with Mermet, Perle, etc., and the disappointment he felt on account of its failure to bloom. In this case I would advise taking the plants out of the benches as carefully as possible so as not to irjure the roots, and either potting them into 8 inch pots or putting them into wooden boxes as may seem most desirable. After they have become accustomed to the change they may be gradually ripened by withholding water, not withholding it entirely, but giving only sufiicient to prevent the wood shriveling; after a period of rest of say six weeks they may be pruned to within six inches to a foot of the pot, and started into growth in a temperature of 50° same to be gradually increased as the growth progresses, allowing 56° to be the maximum tem- perature. In attempting to grow hybrid roses we must not lose sight of the fact that a period of rest is absolutely essen- tial, otherwise there can be no fl iwers worth the mentioning. Nature provides for this by giving cold weacher, and if we cannot follow nature we must at least imitate her, so the custom is when hybrid roses are wanted in bloom earl 1 to lipen the wood and rest th.- plants by a pro- tracted season of drying fff. RoBT. Simpson. Rose Notes. On making inquiry, I find that there are comparatively few growers who keep a strict and complete rt cord of the flow- ers cut from their houses during each season. This perhaps is not very surpris- ing as the average florist is often a very poor business man, whatever his abilities may be as a grower of plants or cut flowers. I think it may be stated with- out much fear of contrad.ction that the men are few who can tell precisely what it costs to grow the various plants they handle, or what is the ratio of profit or loss that can be set down for any partic- ular species or variety. I verily believe that quantities of plants are grown year after year, by hundreds of florists at an actual loss, simply because they haven't taken the time and trouble to figure out the cost of production, and the market value of the same. At the same time they may have been successlul in business, for the loss that resulted from handling one variety was more than made up by the profitableness of anotder, how mu.h mure successful would such a business be- come, however, if nothing was grown to anv exrent butsuch plants as had proved sufficiently remunerative. Guessing at the relative value of differ- ent varieties of roses or carnations grow- ing in the same or adj icent houses, will lead one farther from the actual facts than almost anything that I cjuld men- tion. After watcting c'osely all the sea- son, I have often found when the total for the year, was given flat the honors fell where I had not exp.c'ed. It doesnot always follow that becausea certain rose is the greatest monev maker when sold in the New York market, that it will be equally profitable for the Philadelphia or Caicago men to handle. In the first place the demand may not be so great and hence the same prices can not be obtained in the one market as in the other; or the soil in one locality may be perltotly suited to that particular variety, and not at all adapted to it in the other. I have known some soils that would not produce a first-class Mermet or Bride under the best of culture, but the same would grow the Perle to perfection, and vice versa, so it seems that the only satil^factory line of conduct for any one to pursue is to prove i8g6. The American Florist. 267 VIEW IN THE HERBACEOUS GARDEN, LINCOLN PARK, CHICAGO. for themselves which variety produces the p;reatest number of blooms, and also which is the most satisfoctory to handle and the most profitable at the end of the season. The plan we follow arid which has proved very satisfactory, is to have a sheet of paper, large or small according to the number of bouses, lined horizon- tally and longitudinally, with the date at the beginning of the horizontal spaces, and the number of the greenhouse and name of variety on the top of the longi- tudinal columns; a column is reserved for each house or if several varieties are grown in a house, one column for each kind. The sheet is tacked up convenient to the flower ro )m, and each man marks down his flowers as they are cut and stoied. When the paper is full the figures are copied into a hook, and we have finally the daily cut, the monthly, and the season's cut from each separate house. By this method we not only know which variety is the most productive, but also which house gives the largest cut. le natural result of this system is to make the men having charge of the various houses, ambitious to make a good showing, and he who is the most fortunate, or perhaps a better term would be the most skillful, lias something to feel pround of for a year to come. By the way, when an employe has done well and deserves credit, it will, not hurt him in the least to give all the credit that is due him. Judging from the attitude of some employers and foremen toward their men, I should say they thought it would be prejudicial to thtir interests to do anything but complain and grumble, give a man a little praise and you'll spoil him completely; not if he is a man. My experience with a large number of men leads me to think that with very few exceptions, the best and most faithful service can only be secured by stimulat- ing and encouraging them in a kindly and friendly way. Eye service is dear at any price, but get men interested in their work, each striv- ing with might and main to have the finest set of houses, and cut the best and largest number of blooms and there will be little occasion for watching and urging. While on this subject of record keeping I would suggest that it extend to the taking of cuttings, potting, character of soil brought into the benches, kind and quantity of fertilizers used, date of plant- ing, size and condition of plants, etc. These matters are often very handy to refer to when memory fails to come to our assistance. Where hybrids have been dried off in pots or boxes witha viewto bavingthem follow early chrysanthemums, it will be well to lose no time in bringing them in, it is far better to sacrifice a few small straggling 'mums than to lose a week on the roses; the difference in the price of the blooms before, and during Lent is always considerable, and we must not forget that it usually requires from 13 to 14 weeks to mature a crop. I have found a night temperature of 53° the best at this season, a few weeks later 50° would be sufficient, but as early as November the buds break stronger and grow more vigorously if kept a little warmer. Any plants which must remain outdoors until late chrysanthemums arecut should have some protection from severe frosts. A few inches of coarse manure or meadow hay over the roots will answer admirably. Brunner will endure rather hard freezing without suffering very much, but Baroness and its class, Mrs. John Laing, Rhodo- canacbi and some others suffer greatly if exposed to a very low temperature. Teas in the benches and beds need to be tied frequently to prevent them hang- ing over the walks and getting bruised and broken, also to keep the stems straight and make syringing easy and thorough. Plants neatly and properly tied add very much to the attractive appearance of a rose house, and as far as time is coaceined, it does not take much longer to do a good job than it would to do a bungling one. However, it so necessarv first to know how, and then it have sufficient pride in the work to be willing to take pains. We have seen some plants which only needed a trifle heavier stake to suggest a home made broom. The unnsual amount of damp cloudy weather latelv experienced is very liable to make soft growth, and that means extra precaution against mildew. The heating pipes should be kept well coated with sulphur and no more water used than is absolutely necessary. This is per- haps the most critical period of the year, and if we can keep the plants in perfect health during the next few weeks weshall have smoother sailing the remainder of the season. Rodt. Simpson. Rose Plants — Mealy Bug. Where can I get Perle and Bride roses in 5 or 6inch pots, large bushes in bud and bloom, and what price? Also what is good to destroy the mealy bug? Delaware. A Subscriber. If subscriber looks over the pages of the 268 The American Florist. Oct. 24^ Florist he will probably find the roses he is looking for offered there. It is late in the season, however, to buy good stock. One of the best remedies for mealy bug is Fir Tree Oil; another valuable prepara- tion is Gishursta Compound. These can be procured from most of the large seed houses with full directions for their u-e As a rule if such plants as roses, palms and others, that will bear hard syringing receive the proper attention, the hose will keep down the mealybug veryf ffcctually. Try it and see if it is not better to prevent than to cure. Robt. Simpson. Notes on Decorative Plants. Dracjenas.— These noble foliage plants are but little grown in the trade as yet, many of them being too lender to stand much exposure, at least when taken out without proper preparation. The measure of preparation needed is however, sometting for which no hard and fast rule can be laid down, but should include a hardening-cffprocessin a bright and airy house for a period ranging from one to three weeks, according to the con- ditions under which the plants have been growing. DraiEena fragrans seems to meet with less favor in some localities than a few years ago, but well grown specimens of this species in 6 or 8-inch pots are often quite useful and salable. Dracaenas in general grow more rapidly when potted in a rather coarse and open com- post, and enjoy good living, bone dust, soot from soft coal, sheep manure and some of the prepared fertilizers being among the stimulants used by various growers for this class of plants. Feeding with liquid manure is not required when a rich compost is used, except when the plants become much potbound. From the multitude of bright colored draca;aas, it is somewhat difficult for the novice to select, but for general usefulness, hardi- ness and rapidity of growth, few if any, are superior to the well-kcown D.termin- a'ij stricta, whi'e D. Youngii, D. Lielzei, D. magnifies, D. nigro-rubra and D. ama- bilis are also notably good. Among the noveli ies of the past tvyo or three years we find Dracseaa Sanderiana, the pure white variegation of which is very strikirg. This is quite a dwarf grower, and eijiys a warm and moist atmosphere, ar.d in the future may be- come popular as a center for fern pans, providing the young plants can be pro- duced rapidly and cheap'y enough to warrant its use in this way. Dracsena GodscfEana was another novelty on exlibition at the Cleveland Convention of the S. A. F., and has broad, glossy foliage, of dark green color and profusely spotted with yellow in a similar manner to the 'caves of some of the aucubas. D. Godsiffianais a singular looking plant, the growths being thin and wiry, and admitting of being trained around a trellis, thus differing greatly from the accepted idea of a dracasaa, and remind- ing one more of a true smilax. Pandanus. — Various more or less new species ot pandanus are being put upon the market from lime to time, and tnany of these are doubtless valuable for private collections, where novelty and variety are desired. But for trade purposes there seems to be none as yet more useful than Pandanus Veitchii and P. utilis, and these two continue to be the standard species of this genus. Cuttings of Pandanus Veitchii are always in order, that is, they may be put in at any season with a rea- sonable expectation of their rooting, though they naturally take longer to pro- duce roots in the fall and winter than in spring and summer. A fair degree of bot- tom heat (for example, about 75' ), and care in wateiing are two esseniials in propagating pandanus, a little on the side of dryness being preferable to over- watering. Sbort and stocky cuttings, taken off with a heel of the harder wood at the bottom, ^will root more quickly and m&ke the best plants. P. utilis is propagated from seeds, an abundance of which is offered by the larger seedsmen and importers most seasons, but where only a small number are grown it pays better to purchase youngplantsforgrow- ing on than to experiment wit h seeds, the quality of the latter varying considera- bly. A disease, probably of fungoid origin in some instances, and in others caused by one of the "mites," has frequently appeared on the folipgeof Pandanus utilis in the form of irregular pots and blotches that uliimately develops into large patches of dead tissue. A severe case of this disease soon ruins a plant, and as it seems rather difficult to treat, it piys best to burn the infected plants as soon as discovered. Ficus elasticj variegata is a besutiful plant when in good condition, but many growers have doubtless found that this variety is more tender than the type, and this combined with the hieher price has tended to prevent its becoming a popular plant. For the benefit of those unfamiliar with peculiarities of this plant it may be stated that a light house with a tempera- ture of 65 degrees, and but little syring- ing during the winter are points to be observed in its successful cultivation, too much water on the foliage during the winter months having a tendencv to dis- color the variegation. W. H. Taplin. Retail Trade in New York. In some respects business at present may be considered worse than in July. A ddily investment of five dollars during midsummer is suflScient to keep up an ap- pearance of business, and the loss of stock amounts to but lilt'e. Now, how- ever, one must be prepared for customers, must have violets, lily of the valley, a variety of roses and carnations, etc., and one day they are sold, while on the n.xt day they are not, and the e is no way to prepare for it. The main decoration in tl e florists' windows consists of plants, an odd vase or two of cut flowers giving the necessary relief. Customers as a rule do not want flowers that have been in the window, and the principal stock is kept in the icebox, which by the way has now come to be one of the most impor- tant as well as most decorative features of a well equipped florists' establishment. With plate glass front, tiles and carvings outside and mirrors inside it is easy to run the cost of one of these affairs up into thousands of dollars, and those who do it say that it pays. As yet there is no indication as to what particular flower may be society's special favorite the comir g season. Vio- lets did not last season hold the position in the fashionable far cy that they did in the previous years, and it is well known the chrysanthemum has been losing ground in this respect for several seasons, its advent now causing no more of a sensa- tion than does the arrival of the first tulip or hvacinth. But, after all, it is the masses rather thnnthe ultra-fashionables upon whom the fl rist must depend for his prosperity, even in the most fashiona- ble sections of the metropolis, and so long as the every-day people love roses, carna- tions, chrysanthemums and violets and buy them freely it matters little what stand the exclusive element may assume as regards one variety of fljwer or an- other. Frequent inquiries are received as to the fashions prevailing in this city in miking up flowers and for directi' ns as to how it is done. In reply to such it may be said at the outlet that among the florists pat- ronized by refined and intelligent people all baskets, bouquets or other arrange- ments wh chinvolve in their constru.tion the breaking of a leaf, the shortening, wiring or otherwise mutilating or dis- torting the stem or flower from its natu- ral form, other than perhaps the removal of tlorns,are entirely out of date, except- ing when wanted for theater presentation or similar purposes of a public nature, where sensation or loud display is the object so'ight. A purchase of flowers usually means a gift from the purchaser as a delicate per- sonal attention to some friend or in nc- ognition of circumstatces which at the time make their receipt specially accepta- ble, and in the m^j jrity of cases this takes the form of a box of loose cut flowers, whether the buyer be rich or poor or the purchase expensive or otherwise. Abili- ties in the line of old-time design construc- tion count for nothing here, and it is upon the quality of the individual blooms and the artistic taste of the salesman in arrangement and color effect that the standing and reputation of the establish- ment will rest. First impressions count here as elsewhere, and there is abundant scope for the display of refined taste in putting up a box of cut flowtrs, so that when first opened the contents will ap- pear to best advantage, and upon the effect produced here depends much of the prosperity of the establishment whose name appears on the box, whose pre-emi- nence must be carefully maintained through some subtle finishing touch which will invariably give individuality to every transaction. Thus it will be readily understood that explicit directions or rules as to this very important department of a florist's work are out of the question. Uader oU-time methods a regulation florist was easily made, for it was only necessary to give him a few object lessons as to what size of wire one should mount a camellia, rose or bit of stevia upon, how to stuff a wire receptacle with moss, to build a pyra- midal bouquet and similar details, and he was then a full fledged "floral artist." But now a nice discrimination in color combinations and correct taste in group- ing plants in harmony with their aicbi- tectural or decorative surroundings is the first requisite, and it follows that the floral artist of to-day is " born, not made. ' ' Crotons at Craig's. Robert Craig may fairly claim most of the credit for having demonstrated the beauty and adaptability of crotons as bedding plants in this latitude, and in their cultivation for interior decorative purposes such as jardinier filling, and table and mantel dressing for special occasions he has taken the lead and now begins to see the results of his persistency in a rapidly increasing demand for these showy foliaged plants. Neat, quickly grown specimens twelve to fifteen inches high in 5-inch pots are the most useful and the call for them this fall already far exceeds expectations. They are seen in over sixty varieties at Mr. Craig's in all variations of netted, blotched, veined and shaded jcUow, red bronze and green, tBg6. The American Florist. 269 POND OP AQUATICS. WASHINGTON PARK. HARDY AQUATIOS, WASHINGTON PARK. CHICAGO PARKS. some with broad massive foliage, others ■with long wavy and twisted leaves grace- fully drooping and resembling perfect little fountains. No claim is made for their permanency as a house plant. The foliage is bound to drop off after two or three weeks in the dwelling house, but customers are not discouraged on being told this fact frankly, for they realize that in keeping qualities these plants far sur- pass cut flowers and they have many points of superiority in decorative effect. A few of the newer varieties most prized by Mr. Craig for their brilliancy, symmetrical growth and general effective- ness are here enumerated: Cronstadti, an ideal jardinier plant of the "fountain" section. Superbissima, also of graceful drooping form. Czar Alexander, broad foliage, elegant every way, and unquestionably the most brilliantly colored variety up to date. Princess Matilda, almost a self-yellow, very striking. MagnoliEiolia, a noble foliaged plant with leaves equal in size and texture to a ficus. Angustifolia, very narrow leaves, exceedingly graceful habit. Mrs. Chas. Heine, a rich combination of dark mahogany shades. Mrs. Swan, very strikingly spotted and blotched with yellow. Flambeau, the darkest red of all but unfortunately a poor grower. Sunshine, Sunbeam, Brilliantissima, and Golden Ring are also among the most desirable. Besides the usual method of striking cuttings from crotons, Mr. Craig em- ploys frequently the plan adopted in rooting ficus, that is by tying moss around an incision in the stem. By this means fine specimens are quickly secured with foliage clear to the ground. Crotons also seed well in this country and there is a promising future for seedling raising. The new forcing rose. President Carnot is in most promiing condition here. It seems to have every good point required to make it a standard variety in the cut flower trade. The blooms are elegantly formed and they are produced in great abundance, the foliage and stem too are all that can be desired. Mr. Craig has a good word to say regarding the rose Maman Cochet, which he pronounces to be the best rose for out-door culture ever introduced into this country. In the open field it produces flowers equal to winter grown Bridesmaids. It is a very vigor- ous grower and hardy as La France. This IS the rose that Ernst Asmus f.ll in love with when he saw it abroad and for which he offered one thousand dollars. On being tested as a forcing rose it proved a failure, the buds being too heavy and solid for winter forcing. Another invaluable rose for the garden in Mr. Craig's estimation is the Pink Soupert, a deep colored sport from Soupert. In chrysanthemums one finds here a big lot of the crack varieties, in smaller assortment, however, than was the case in former years. This fact is generally noticeable among all the large chrysan- themum growers. Liberty looks as though it might be the best of the late yellows. Should the coming election go gold-ward Liberty will be a good chrysanthemum to have in stock. Bessie Burton, a white, sport from Mrs. E. G. Hill has proved to be a valuable early sort, flower well formed and stem sturdy. Mr. Craig has rebuilt three houses this year. Herbaceous Plant Notes. Aside from their usefu'ness in the bor- der many of our hardy flowering plants possess additional merits, which are gen- erally overlooked by the average florist. A large number of them may be forced under glass in a similar way as we grow violets, some of them contribute their share in making up more of a variety in our cut flowers, whileothers are decidedly ornamental and find ready sale as pot plants. Take, for instance, the single or double forms of Primula veris, planted in pots or pans and brought on under glass near the light in a cool house, they will form a mass of bloom in less than two months and take readily in the market any time in late winter or early spring. The double forms and hybrids of P. elatior with their pretty many-flowered umbels of pale and dark yellow, are marked vari- ously with deep reddish or purplish brown. The auriculas in their endless variation of coloring, are marked in dis- tinctly dtfined circles, their tube or throat usually is more or less bright yellow; next come two circles of various colors, either some shade of yellow, dark velvety ma- roon or a rich shade of purple, and the last circle is the edging, which is green originally, but in most varieties is so densely covered with a dust-like powder as to hide the green almost entirely. These if brought on slowly in a c 30I house will do admirably for pot plants, as also will C. curtusciies and C. c. Sie- boldii, which are either soft pale pink or of a deeper rose color. Many other spe- cies and varieties of primroses are equally desirable for flowering in pots, but they should be potted in early fall, selecting good strong plants with five or more well 270 The American Florist. Oct. 24. developed crowns and the pots should be kept in cold frames or in an unhealed greenhouse until after January 1, when it is safe to give them a little more heat, but the slower they are brought on, the more perfect their flowers will be. Hepaticas will do under exactly the same treatment, and if kept cool, and protected from the direct rays of the sun will last a long time after being fully expanded. They bloom so profusely, and the young foliage has such a glossy bronzy color while in a soft state that they never fail to attract admiration. Of iberis in the evergreen class, I. cor- reaefolia being of a very dense and com- pact growth is much to be preferred for pot culture to the common I. sempervi- rens, gibraltarica or tenoriana, the um- bels and individual florets are also much larger in size and of the purest white, while the other varieties have a more un- sightly, straggling growth, although if short young plants of these are available, thej' may be used for the purpose, for it requires about two weeks less time to bring out their flowers, I. corretefolia being naturally a later bloomer. Iris pumila and Olbiensis force well if brought on slowly and are unmistakably well suited for flat dishes or pans. Both species are dwarf and compact in growth and flower freely, the blooms, too, are very lasting in a cool and half shady house, much more so than when out doors exposed to wind, rain and sun. As we have but very few good winter bloom- ing plants with blue flowers and we may forward this variety of iris at almost any time after being well established in their pots, they are much sought after and are sold readily at sight. Heuchera sanguinea with its delicate long and slender spikes of coral-scarlet flowers and pretty foliage is a good sellmg article in pots and will also be found to be decidedly useful as a cut flower. From New Years on, a succession of spikes are freely produced from these plants which should, however, be well established in their pots, and therefore the old clumps must be taken up in August or September to be potted up, set in shaded frames and kept well watered until new roots have made some headway and new foliage is produced. Such early potted plants may be brought in a much warmer house than any of the hardy plants mentioned before. Last year we divided some of the plants into single crowns with perfect success, and this is perhaps the better way to grow them, every individual crown start- ing with more vigor than those left at- tached in the clumps; five ormore crowns may be planted in a 5 or 6-inch pot, or in pans. The feathered hardy pinks are used in both ways, as pot plants, and for cut flowers, planted out in beds or benches; although not so desirable for cut flower work as the carnations, they come in very handy at times. Even if planted in cold frames and treated like violets, thf j- will be found very profitable for cutting in early spring, and in a rather sunny or well-sheltered position we maj- often, if not always have them in full bloom at Easter time without any artificial heat. As pot plants they sell readily, especially the pure white and the pink varieties. Clematis recta requires difiVrent treat- ment from any of the foregoing hardy plants and must be thoroughly well established in pots before we undertake to force them. Good clumps should be potted in early spring and encouraged to make all possible growth the first sum- mer, removing all flower buds as they appear. By September they will have filled their pots with roots, and should be ripened off' gradually by giving them less water, and exposing them to the full action of the sun, and when cold weather sets in, the plants being thoroughly ripened and the soil rather dry, it is best to lay them over on their sides and allow the frost to act on them for a while. Alter this we may force them on, at first in very gentle heat, and when they have made 5 or 6 inches of growth, more heat and also liquid manure or a liberal top dressing will be found beneficial. If they are required for pot plants they should be grown near the glass with full exposure to light and sun, this will keep the plants bushy and stocky, but for cutting pur- poses they may as well be grown a little taller in a less favorable position or planted out in a bench at the end of a house. The fine large clusters of fragrant white flowers sell well and it pays to grow a stock of them for planting in a bench where late chrysanthemums were grown. The same plants if planted out the following spring and allowed to re- main there undisturbed for one or two winters, may be used over again the sec- ond or third year with equal success. Orobus vernus, a compact plant 12 or 15 inches high with pretty purple and blue pea-shaped flowers springing from the axils of the glossy small leaves in many flowered peduncles, forces very easily when well established clumps are available; but young plants are not desir- able for this purpose. Phlox subulata , the white and the rose-colored are readily forced into flower in a very cool and airy house; being very profuse bloomers, they remain in full beauty for a long period if kept cool, but the plants must be well established before an attempt is made to bring them on, else the flowers will come out irregular and at different times. P. amcena in 4 or 5 inch pots also sell ex- ceedingly well, especially towards spring when everybody is anxious to have a few bright flowers around the house, and these phloxes may safely be planted out whenever the frost is out of the ground for like pansies the occasional spring frosts do not afi'ect them, Alyssum saxatile compactum with its mass of golden yellow flowers covering the entire plant is another desirable plant for the early spring sales; they, like the phloxes will come on in an unheated house or in a cold frame, but we must not neglect to give them all the air we possi- bly can whenever the weather is moder- ate in winter or we may lose the foliage by too much dampness. One year-old plants are best for the purpose, and just the right size for a 6-iach pot. If not wanted in flower before May, March or early in April is time enough to pot them up, but if we desire them earlier we must winter them in frames. Myosotis palustris is a splendid low plant for early spring sales and remains in good condition for months but has to be treated cool, we do not need to pot them up in the fall months as the clumps may be heeled in a frame close together and potted subsequently as they are required; a few days only are needed to establish them in their pots and in a lew days more they will be in flower, but they will not force much earlier than the middle of March. Well established little plants of Lotus corniculatus will come out in full bloom if placed near the light towards spring; such small creeping plants are just the thing for early spring bedding and the bright yellow and red pea-like flowers continue to come out in succession for some time until the real hot weather sets in. It is best to prepare for a stock in early fall and let them make a good growth before the winter sets in. Arabis albida, especially the variegated form of it, is a very attractive pot plant when in bloom and is as easily managed as the iberis. The Armeria maritima and other sorts also maj' be brought on towards spring and surely will find purchasers. Dicentra eximia, the plant that holds its flowers from spring until fall and has such pretty finely divided foliage, must not be omitted; the plants can be heeled in a frame and potted up anytime when required, its growth is very compact and not over 12 inches high. Another remark- ably fine thing is Alyssum alpestre, it never grows over three inches in height and is covered with very lasting little golden yellow flowers, and the grey-green, densely set roundish foliage is very orna- mental after the flowers are past. The stately Lychnis viscaria plena can safely be brought on in March without much trouble, and plants of all sizes flower well; even in 3inch pats we can have three or four good flower stems but larger and older plants are more profita- ble, 12 to 15 inches is their height when grown in pots. It is a good plant to force for Easter, if strong clumps are on hand, as the flowers are very showy and carry well; in a cut state they are excellent keepers and should find ready sales early in the season. Paonia ofiicinalis is forced in some parts of the country as an Easter plant but is rather large and bulky, and there:'ore requires plenty of space; P. tenuifolia is a much better and more graceful plant; the finely lacerated foliage is more ornamental, its growth dwarfer and not so spready, requiring far less room on a greenhouse bench and alto- gether is a much more desirable plant, with the same vivid colored flowers as the other, although smaller in its dimen- sions. Anemone sylvestre makes a very good and lasting pot plant and blooms Ireely When grown in a cool house the foliage is abundant and the flowers stand well above it. For cut flower purposes I will mention the lemon-colored Heme- rocallis flava, which responds readily to a little heat after the plants have made a few new roots in their pots, therefore early fall planting is best for them. Many more desirable spring blooming plants might be mentioned which possess all the qualifications required for early bedding, but as herbaceous plants are not yet generally grown for this purpose, and I do not know how soon they may come to the front, perhaps enough has been said on the subject to arouse the interest of some of our growers in this most interest- ing class of plants. Sooner or later, I am sure they will be offered in quantity by all the florists, and in time they will become as plentiful and universally used as the geraniums are at the present time. The advantages of variety in color and shape of flowers as well as in growth can not fail to attract the public taste, and do away with the present tiresome and monotonous style ot planting beds year after year with the same old sorts of bed- ding plants, no matter how gorgeous the color of their flowers may be. Rochester, N. Y. J. B. Keller. Hydrangeas for Easter. In answer to a question as to the cause of the great fill off in the demand for pot plants of hydrangeas at Easter, e:c., which are now grown in very limited quantity compared with the large num- bers formerly marketed every year, Mr. James Dean, Bay Ridge, N. Y., said he be- i8g6. The American Florist. 271 ARCHITECTDRAL GARDENING. GARFlELD PARK. CHICAGO Heved it was due to the marketing of so many overforced plants which would not last well after being taken from the green- house. If properly hardened off the hydrangea will last as well as the azalea. The azalea will hold its flowers better than the hydrangea when both are forced right up to the time they are wanted, though azaleas that are properly hardened off will last much longer than those that are not. But in hardening off the plants, after the flowers have reached the proper state of development the change to a cooler temperature should be graduated to a few degrees at a time, and the next change made only when the plant has fully ad- justed itself to the first one. It is sur- prising to what a degree the plants can be hardened if the changes in temperature are properly graded, and how long plants can be kept in prime condition in a low temperature after having been put through this process of gradually accus- toming Ihem to it. Of course the lower the temperature the less the amount of of water that should be given. Cement Pipe for Chimney. In a recent number of the Florist Mr. J. N. May advised using cement pipe for the inside of chimney. What size pipe would it take for a chimney fifty feet high. W. F. Replying to W. F. would say that the tile lining to his chimney must depend entirely upon what size his furnace re- quires. For a boiler heating about 1000 feet of ordinary 4-inch pipe, a 10-inch flue is large enough, but if the boiler is of much larger size, then a 12inch flue will be necessary. If it is contemplated to carry the smoke of a boiler equal to heat- ing 7000 or 8000 feet of glass, then not less than a 14-inch flue pipe should be built, 16 inch would do better; or if the smoke from more than one smaller boiler is to be carried up the same flue, the larger size should be used. There is no economy in building too small a flue, as it certainly means forced draught to get the desired heat out of the boiler. W.F.is slightly mistaken in saying that I advised cement pipe for lining chimneys. What I did advise and have used almost exclusively, is ordinary earthen ware drain tile, and nearly every factory will un- doubtedly have on hand enough of any size somewhat damaged. These they are generally quite willing to take half price f.)r, and they answer every purpose equally as well as the best quality. By placing them with the socket downwards and filling in all the corners and crevices between the outer wall and tile with broken brick or stone, and then grouting it with thin mortar, it makes a complete tight funnel. For chimney 50 feet high, I should ad- vise W. F. to build an S-inch wall for at least 28 or 30 feet from the base, and from there up gradually reduce it to a 4- inch wall. Thus for a 12 inch flue which would be 14 inches outside measure be would require to make the brick work 28 inches, and for the other size flues the same proportions. John N. May. Piping for Steam Heat. I wish to know the number of square feet of radiating surface required, with steam heat, to heat 1,600 square feet of glass to a temperature of 60° to 65° in a latitude where mercury reaches 20° to 30° below zero at times. The house is hip-roofed, 70 feet long, with side wall of wood, well built, containing 800 square feet. A. T. S. Fargo, N. D. A. T. S. will require to heat his green- house with absolute safety under all con- ditions likely to arise in his locality 4V4 inches of radiating surface to each square foot of glass, or in other words, he would require equal to sixteen 1-inch pipes through the house; this of course is cal- culated for steam heating. He can run his main flow pipe overhead if preferred, and drop into the smaller pipes at the farthest end from the boiler. These should be so arranged that they all fall towards the boiler, which will bring all the con- densed water back to the boiler. If this system is followed a 2-inch main should be used, and this should be hung from the ridge with loose chain support, giving it ample room for expansion. Or the pipes can be arranged to branch from a main pipe where they enter the greenhouse, carrying each pipe to the extreme end of the house on a down grade, and return- ing the same way, emptying into a larger pipe in the boiler cellar, and by it return to the boiler. By this system each pipe can be run independently, and if the eight flow pipes have a valve where they enter the house they are always under perfect control, so that any portion of them can be shut off when not needed. This sys- tem has some advantage over the first, as in the first named you alway have the heat of a large main whether you need as much or not; while with the other you need only have one small pipe circulaticg ifnomoreis required, which often hap- pens in early fall and late spring. Each pipe should have an air cock placed where it is convenient to get at, and all pipes should have ample room for expansion and contraction. The majority of the florists who have steam heating to-day, I believe, consider that 1-inch pipe for the bulk of the heating is the best, and such has been our experience here. John N. May. Heating Questions, Etc. I have one greenhouse heated by hot water, and now wish to build another on the shed roof, heating by furnace burning wood. What is the best way to build the furnace, its height and size of flue? What is the best way to bleach celery? Iowa. R. F. W. If R. F. W. wishes to build a furnace to burn wood only to heat his proposed greenhouse on his shed roof, I think he will have a nice little job on his hands, as I know of no hot water boiler that is suitable to burn wood only. Of course such a boiler could be made, but it would have to be quite different from present patterns, and would be correspondingly more expensive, and building a flue on a shed would be quite a novelty, to say nothing of the extra heat required for a greenhouse so elevated. I should advise R. F. W. to build his proposed greenhouse on solid ground, as I think there must be room enough left in his state yet for at least one more greenhouse without his imitating the city buildings; elevators are not exactly desirable adjuncts to a green- house establishment. If he decides to build his greenhouse on solid ground, he can build a furnace to burn wood by making it large enough to admit of a good body of wood to be piled on at a time, otherwise he would have to be continually feeding it as long as he re- quired heat. To build such a furnace, the grate surface should be at least 4 feet 6 inches long and 2 feet 6 inches wide, with an ash pit of the same width and length and about 15 inches deep. This should be built of good bricks and have a 12-inch wall all round with an iron door in front directly under the fire door, 12 inches by 15 inches; on the front and rear ends of the furnace proper two heavy iron plates must be built into the wall to carry the grate bars. From the bottom of the grate bars the furnace should be lined with fire brick and should be not less than 24 inches deep, with a large fire door hung on an iron frame built into the wall; the top of the furnace should be covered with large firebrick or else arched over with fire brick. On top of this should be not less than twelve inches of brickwork to confine the heat as much as possible. From the rear end of the fur- nace the flue should rise at least 3 inches to the foot till it reaches the grade where it is to be carried throughthe greenhouse; this grade should not be less than half a 272 The American Florist. Oct. 24^ inch to the foot. The flue can be made of good sound building brick for the bottom and sides, but the joints must all be well filled with mortar, and the v pink seedline after the style of M -jor B mnaf- fon, which is selling very readily and at f lir prices. Diilledouze has made its first appearance and is holding its share of pop- ularity. The bright sunny days have put a stop to the blight or rot which was inf.cting all theoutdoorchrysanthrmums of late. S ime novelties were not aff cted at all, but others like Viviand-Morel, Niveus,Col. W.B.Smith a ad 01 her statd- ard sorts were entirely destroyed. Violets haveimproved wonderfullv with the coot nights, and the stems and flo wers are of much better ejuality than hereto- fore. This is especially true of the Cali- fornia, which is very fine indeed at pres- ent. Marie Louise and Czar have also improved accordingly. Roses are begin- ning to come fast now that the fall crop is on, but they are very cheap. Kaiserin is about the finest white at present com- ing into the market. Mr. Lynch is send- ing in some excellent roses, also some extra fine carnations of the new crop. Daybreak and Scort are rather scarce and of ponr quality. Smilax is bringing $5 per 100, but the quality also is rather poor. Mr. John Home of the Sunset Seed and Plant Co. has returned to San Francisco fromMenIo Park, where he has had charge of the seeds. Mr. F. G. Krause is spending bis vaca- tion in Calistoga. Mr. Lester L. Morse was a visitor this week. Mr. J. M. Kimberlin of J. M. Kimbcrlin & Co. has departed on his annual eastern trio in the intere-t of the s ed tra-le. Mr. Jas. T. Lynch, representing M. Lynch, paid a visit to Santa Clara during the week. i8g6. The American Florist. 273 -t'^^lSM r RIBBON BED. WASHINGTON PARK. a bed of gbranidms, washington park. Chicago Parks. Frank Pelicano & Co. of Kearney street have the finest display of cut blooms of chrysanthemums to be seen in town, and thev are daily admired by large crowds. Mr. Groetz'in, the superintendent of publ c parks in Fresno, was a visitor dur- inethepast week. Hehas anavenueover 11 miles lonsin the park.a'ong which are planted over 3.000 specimen palms, thus giving an outsider an extent of the park. Mr. Frank Sbibley of Sutter street paid a visit to the growing district in Menio Park last week. D )menic & Co.'s new store is looking excellent now since they made so many new chinges. They report business as Increasing. The wholesale men report that the ship- ping trade is beginning to open up a little now that the cold days are coming on. TLis is an important branch of the busi- ness of several of the leading growers. Preparations for the chr_\santhemum show at Redwood City have been nearly completed, and all are looking forward to an excellent display from both ama- tturs and professionals. The growers are congratulating them- selves on the absence of frost so far this season. Gfnerally we have frost before this date, but the weather is very benefi- cial to all growing stock, being sunny and not too hot. Meteor. Pittsburg. A visit to Mr. Chas. T. Siebert's place on Stanton avenue, found everything in good condition, he has fourteen green- houses, several of them erected within a year, heated by steam from two tubular boilers, one 100 H. P., theother60. Most of these houses have a cistern in them, collecting the rain from the roofs, and so connected that this wateris pumped from them up to the large reservoir -tO feet square hy 14-V2 feet deep, on the highest part of his place which is on top of one of the highest of our hills, heretofore he experienced .n great deal of trouble, owing to lack of water facilities but now has abundance at all times with all the press- ure requisite. Three ot the houses 160x24- each are devoted to carnations; for white he grows Fisher, .\laska and Ivory; for pinks. Daybreak, Delia Fox and Emma Wochcr; for red, Portia and Scott; tor crimson, lago and Meteor; for dark pink Tidal Wave. Two houses are used for roses of which Meteor, Bride and Brides- maid are the principal ones grown with a few Woottons and Perles. Three houses are used for palms, ferns ; nd foliage plants, while two are filled with chrysan- themums, and which he has just com- menced cutting, they are looking well, foliage is good and plants healthy; he grows all the leading varieties and some of the new ones too. The other four houses are used for bedding and bulbous stock. Mr. Siebert is growing as one of his specialties large quantities of the Harrisii lily and for ten years has suc- ceeded in having on the market the first of an\- of the growers here. The glass in the last two houses erected is put on with- out putty, he uses candlewick on top of the glass, screwing the cap down on it, and also uses the Gasser joint, and says he will hereafter put up all houses on the same plan. Mr. Siebert has had quite a wholesale trade in plants this fall in car- nations especially, and has received many flattering acknowledgements of the quality of them A great deal of work has been done to his place this j^ear, grad- ing, etc., and hasimprovedit wonderfullj', he can now work it to much better ad- vantage, and with much less labor. Everything in the florist business is moving along quietly; the general de- mand for cut flowers at the stores has not improved to any great extent during the week, yet the number of weddings, etc.. have helped to an increase in the dec- orative lines; this, together with the funeral work, has made a week of pretty good business all round, but the feeling prevails that until after the election is decided no general improvement will take place. James Dell, oOS Smithfield street, says business was pretty good with him last week. He had several very fine decora- tions, one of them the most elaborate of the season, it being the dinner and recep- tion given by Mr. VVestinghouse of air brake and electric fame to the imperial minister of ways and communications of Russia. Prince Michael HilkofT. In honor of his countr}', red was the prevailing color in the decorations. The tablecover was crimson plush, service gold; in the center stood an immense gold vase filled with roses, while near it was a stork, its body covered with crimson satin, with the upper half filled with roses; near the end was a vase with the same flowers tied with ribbons in empire knots; at each comer was a design carryingoutthesame brilliant coloring, a border of smilax and roses around the whole. The house, which is very large, was decorated in the same lavish and elegant manner; in the reception hall was the most elaborate arrangement and design, being fullv seven feet high; the roses used throughout were Jacqueminots and American Beauties; the onlv change in color made was in the art parlor, where the only flower used was lily of the vallev. W. B. McCrea, lately with Mrs. E.Will- iams, has left the city, accepting a situa- tion with the Penna. R. R. Co. at Altoona, they having a very extensive range of glass there. Regia. Philadelphia. Business keeps up very well and there is demand for even more first-class stock than is being sent in. There seems to be considerable funeral work just now and white carnations are particularly scarce, still the price has not advanced much; $1 for short stems and $1.50 for long sttms is now the price. The growers and com- mission men have a way peculiarly their own in fixing prices; at certain times in the fall the word is passed round that flowers are going up a notch next Mon- day, and no matter whether scarce or plentv $1 a dozen is put on the Beauties and $1 per hundred on the teas; carna- tions and violets a'so have 25 to 50 per cent added to their price. LdSt Monday was the date for this periol of the season and $4 is now asked for all good teas and $2 to $2.50 is found on the bill for a doz;n eood B auties.theseconds bringing from $1 to $1.50. Chrysanthemums are now to be had in most all the colors that this flower is heir to; whites, yellows and pinks of different qualities are selling at from 50 cents to $4: per dozen. Mme. Bergminn, Merry M jnarch and Marion Henderson are about done and some growers are rushing in a few Ivory, cut at least three days too soor; Kate Brown is also plentiful but can scarcely be called a standard variety any mure. A few 274 The American Florist. Oct. 24, Whilldin are to be seen and we must not forget to mention Mr. Heacock's Sim pson, a beautiful pink, truly and clearly ahead of anything of its color at this time. Mrs. Wm. Robinson is a revelation, any one must be bold who says that the 'mum is in its zenith, for this superb white, new this year commercially, as Mr. Heacock grows it, is distinctly aht a 1 of any other white at any time in the season and has the advantage of being early, having been cut on the 13th inst. These fine blooms were quickly taken at $4 per dozen. Next week will no doubt introduce the job lots and the fakirs will be in their glory. Chestnut Hill is away at the frontwith the Beauty, Mr. Burton has six houses 20 feet wide by 150 long filled with Beau- ties, and three houses the same size of Belles. Mr. Burton has great faith in the Belle, and as it is grown with him is as good as B.auty and several distinct shades lighter in color. His Beauties are in peifect form, no black spot or other disease. He is cutting quite freely but aims to make his biggest crop for the holidays and the busy season afterwards. Edwin Lonsdale has also largely in- creased his stock and has superb beds quite up to his standard of excellence. He is smoking his greenhouses with tobacco dust heaped upon strips of news- paper the length of the sheet. This paper is first soaked in saltpetre which makes it burn slowly and surely and thus dried out on the steam pipes which curls up the edges so they ho!d considerable to- bacco. This is placed around the house in the evening and slowly smoulders all night. Mr. Lonsdale recommends it as effective and safe. Myers & Samtman are also cutting fine Beauties and have increased their plant for this rose another house the past season. In John Welsh Young's new Beauty house is a new ventilator. It is essen- tially an inch gas pipe that slides on rollers up near the roof; light chains attached to this pipe are each passed over a small roller and are fastened to a 2 foot Ikinch rod, that projects down from the sash. Cog wheels and a heavy chain enables the pipe to be drawn quite easily and this raises the sash evenly the entire length of the house, a chain from the bottom of the sash through a roller and then to the main pipe prevents the sash from being blown back. Mr. Young is much pleased with it so far. K. Chicago. The South Park Board has authorized the superintendent to have plans drawn for a new conservatory to cost $50,000. This action is merely preliminary, but the erection of the conservatory will undoubt- edly follow. Mrs. Emily Taplin-Royle, for the last four years on the staff of the Florist, has returned to New York and will take a position on the staff of the Rural Nnc Yorker. During her stay in Chicago Mrs. Royle made many warm friends in the trade, and she will be greatly missed from local horticultural circles. She carries with her to her new field of labor the best wishes of all with whom she came in con- tact while here. At the meeting of the Florist Club last Thursday evening the annual election of officers resulted as follows: W. N. Rudd Pres.; C. J. Stromback, Vicc-Pres.; T. F. Keenan.Sec'y; Jas. Hartshorne, Financial S;c'y; W. W. Barnard, Treas.; Trustees— J. S. Wilson, Edgar Sanders, P. N. Neig- lick, C. W. Johnson, John Reardon. The sum of $50 was appropriated to be A BOUQUET OF RUDBBCKIA LACINlATA FL. PL offered as a special premium at the com- ing chrysanthemum show. The newly elected officers were ap- pointed a committee to arrange for the club's annual supper, to be held Novem- ber 12. At the bowling session Mr. Aug. Dressel covered himself with glory by making four strikes in succession in the first four frames, but he set too fast a pace to keep it up. The banner score of the evening was 194, made by G. L. Grant. Superintendent W. N. Rudd says: "From present indications the exhibits at the coming flower show will exceed the c ipacity of the hall. It is requested that all entries be made early, not later than November 5, so as to enable the society to secure such additional room as may be needed." Frank Goschell has bten held to the criminal court in bonds of $2,500 on a charge of stealing pot plants from vari- ous north side florists. Djring the past week business has picked up considerably, the outside trade having been better than for some time past. Stock is improving materially also, particularly roses and chrysanthemums. Good roses have advanced a notch and are bringing from $3 to $4; extra Testouts are selling at $5. The Reinbergs are cut- ting several hundred Kaiserinsa day, and also exhibit some fine Li France and Meteors, all of which are held at $5. Extra Beauties are selling from $6 to $20. Kennicott Bros, have some good Marie Louise violets which arc selling well, and at the same prices of last week. Lily of the valley and smilax are look- ing fine and are selling well for this sea- son of the year. Carnations are very scarce, especially the white. Some of the select went up to $2 this week, but the average price is $1.50. There are still a few good asters on the market, but they are not going off very fast. The dealers all say that their customers do not care for outdoor flowers when the season is so far advanced, unless they are urged to take them. Chrysanthemums too, go off more rap- idly when the exhibition is the topic of conversation. The store windows are beginning to decorate with 'mums quite lavishly, and the street fakirs are going into business. Rudbeckia laciniata fl pi. This double cone-flower is new to culti- vation and is well entitled to enter the list of florists' flowers. It is a hardy perennial of easy cultivation, requiring a rather moist situation for its most perfect development, but doing fairly well under ordinarycultivation. In moist situations it will attain a height of eight feet, while in the border it seems limited to six. It forms a tuft of rather large laciniated leaves about two feet high from which spring up tall many-branched stems. These main stems have from ten to twelve long, slender but wiry side branches again dividing, and producing at their terminus their double flowers. Their color agrees very closely with the pure yellow in the American Florist's color chart. The petals are reflexed slightly, very double even to the center, and form a flower two and one-half to three inches in diameter. The crown flower is often larger. Some people take them for chrysanthemums, others ask if they are asters. They bloom in early August, and a i8g6. The American Florist. 275 A PLANT OP RUDBECKIA LAOINIATA FL. PL. plant remains in perfection of bloom for nearly a month. When cut they are splendid keepers, and their long, wiry, semi-pendulous stems, carrying two, three, and sometimes four flowers, lend themselves more gracefully to decorative purposes than thedoublesunflower which blooms about the same time. Scattered along the side branches are small, deeply cut leaves, which furnish enough green to set off the flowers. The group illustrated contains three young plants and is eight feet high. The bouquet was 4 days old when photo- graphed. -W. C. Egan. Highland Park, 111. Syracuse, N. Y. Business the past week has taken a very lively turn, five or six weddings having caused a good call for flowersand decora- tive plants. The continued bad weather has shortened up the supply of flowers considerably, which were not over-plenti- ful. If it was not for the chrysanthe- mums a good many florists would not know how to put their orders up. Two fine pink varieties in market to-day are Lady Playfair and pink Ivory. Georgi- enne Bramhall is very early with us and stands pre-eminent among the yellows as a good seller and commercial variety. Ivory for white is now in and is a prime favorite. A few fine flowers of J. Troy are seen, but this beautiful variety, I am sorry to say, is very susceptible to rust, and therefore is being grown less and Kss every year. Violets are in great demand, with but a very few to supply it. The buyers don't seem to be very particular as to their quality as long as they can get them. A visit to Henry Morris' establishment at Elmwood, a suburb of this city, shows he is pushing to the front very fast. Mr. Morris does not pretend to know much about plants, but his roses, carnations and violets show he is on the right track; he is also very successful with cvclamens, and grows a large quantity, which sells readily at a good figure. At a special meeting of the Central New York Horticultural Society last week it was decided to have two flower booths in connection with the chrysanthemum show and six or more young ladies dressed a la Japanese to conduct them. A fifteen minutes' talk on the cbrvsanthe- mum is promised by Grove P. Rawson, which will undoubtedly draw a large crowd, as since his lecture here last win- ter on the philosophy of plant life he has become verv popular. Correction —In last week's items it should read, we had secured the serv'ces of G. P. Kawson as judge, instead of he had tendered his services as such. Alpha. Toronto. The chrysanthemum show which is to be held here will certainly be the last on the list. The executive committee of the G. & F. Association, after long, calm and careful consideration of the pros and cons in the situation, decided that the date should be fixed for November 24-27, and I have come to the conclusion too that considering all the circumstances they could not have done better. The pavilion has been engaged for the second week in November, as the first week would be too early, and by having the show in the first week would be too early, and by having the show in the fourth week we are only five days later than last year; then too we get Thanksgiving Day included. A first rate show can be made even at this late date, and we will get a larger attendance on Thanksgiving Day than all the other days put together. We partic- ularly want the people to attend, and they can and do attend on that day. Even though it is late we all will do our best to make the show a success in spite of drawbacks. We shall at any rate catch many of the beautiful blooms of late sorts seldom seen at exhibitions, and I would just say here that the committee will be glad to receive and exhibit any blooms from the brethren across the border line, or better still, their own shows and the election will be over by that time, and we can assure them of a hearty welcome if they will come and visit us and bring their blooms along. If they are of a speculative turn of mind we will put them in the way of making a million or two in gold mining stock, just en passant as it were. Mr. C. Tidy reports trade as being excellent; some very fine chrysanthemums are coming in and selling at very fair prices. Prices all round are stiffening considerably, and florists' windows are handsomely decorated these days. E. Boston. Chrysanthemums are coming in in daily increasing quantities and in better qual- ity. Outside of chrysanthemums there is no surplus in this market, and at times during the past week there has been a decided shortage on carnations and roses. The earliness of chrysanthemums this season make it apparent that it would have been better had the date for the exhibition been set one week earlier. All indications otherwise are for a most suc- cessful show of both plants and cut blooms. On Saturday, Oct. 17, James Bryden showed at Horticultural Hall superb blooms of several early varieties of chrys- anthemums, including Mrs. Henry Robin- son and Ivory. The exhibit of mush- rooms under the auspices of the Boston Mycological Club was very large and attracted a big crowd of visitors. The annual distribution of the plants that had done duty in the various parks and Dublic gardens in the city took place on October 13-15. Each applicant re- ceived a package containing about half a dozen varieties. Thos. A. Cox entertained a few of his friends at Ed. Hatch's cottage at Scituate on the 22d inst. A flower counter has been started in the Thorndike Hotel. Visitins Boston: C. B. Knickman, rep- resenting J. C. Vaughan. Cincmnati. Business the past week has been what may be termed good, and our wholesale houses report a fair shipping trade. Chrysanthemums are coming in good quality as well as quantity. The varie- ties now offered for sale are Bergmann, Monarch, Gloriosum, Her Majesty, K. Brown, M. de Montmort and the best of all, Mrs Robinson, a pure white incurved and of good size; flowers measure from 6 to 7 inches. This variety is surelv the best up to date (among the early). Roses and carnations are moving moderately well, with little call for violets, which are 276 The American Florist. Oct. 24^ excellent for this time of the year. On October 17 we had a very severe frost, which killed all out-door stuff. Market last Saturday was dull, owing to disagreeable weather. A special meet- ing of the standholders was held at the society's meeting room in the evening. The object of this meeting was to secure the market house to hold a chrysanthe- mum show and sale in the second week of November. Mr. Ben George presided and a committee of three was appointed to wait upon the trustees to see if they could secure it for that purpose. All members aie in favor of this show and indications are that it will prove a success. H. SCHWARZ. Milwaukee. The trade here has experienced a decided shortage of stock the past week, flowers of all descriptions being very scarce. The death of a prominent newspaper man caused considerable comment among the florist, on account of the insertion with the funeral notice "please omit flowers." By invitation of Mr. Wm. Freytag the Florist Club held their special meeting at his place Tuesday afternoon. Nearly all the mtmbers were present. A game of baseball was indulged in in which the McKinleyies beat the Bryanites by a score of 27 to 9. The featureof the game was the superb pitching of Archie Middle- mass and Wm. Freytag and the terrific batting of Mr. Dunlap which caused the suspension of rules in order to look for the ball. After the game refreshments were served and the order of business fol- lowed. The coming 'mum show points to suc- cess as considerable interest is taken in it bv the merchants who are liberal with special premiums. At the close of busi- ness a vote of thanks was given Mr. Freytag for his hospitality and the enter- tainment given the club. Address requests for premium lists and all communications regar.^ing the show to Wm. Freytag, 794 Forest H..me avenue. Incog. Rochester, N. Y. Never bf fore was the scarcity of white flowers felt so much as in the past week, the outdoor flowers are practically at an end, with the exception of a few white antirrhinums and asters or anemones, and our main standby, fhe white carna- tions, do not arrive in sttficient quantities for all purposes; white chrysanthemums are plentiful it is true, but these ate a lit- tle too exptnsive tobe used extensively in the ordinary fureral designs; anything in the line of white fliwers sells readily in these days, even stuff of second and third quality finds eager purchasers. Kosesare lavishly used in place of carnations and the price of both of these has advanced all around. Violets are now quite plenti- ful and very good io quality, plants grown in frames all summer are at present giving best satisfaction, the flowers being larger and fuller than those picked from newly planted beds in the houses, though we can only depend on a supply from the cold frames as long as we have pleasant and moderate warm weather, as soon as hard frosts set in we gradually will have less fl iwers on these pi mts and soon after they will stop blooming altogether until March or April. Still it is an advan- tage to have a few violet frames at this time of the year ant* they pay equally well in the spring months. Chrysanthemums are in fair supply but go off slowly, prices realized are con- siderable lower than those obtained last year, people will not even look at them if $2 or $3 a dozen is asked for the very best stock. Not half as many chrysan- themums have been grown around this neighborhood as formerly and this fact may assist in keeping up a more uniform price for all flowers throughout their sea- son. The lower figure obtained now for the earlier varieties will not likely be followed by an unproportionate drop in the price when the main crop comes in, as was the case last year, and at the end the growers may be better off than if the price for their first flowers had been as high as in former seasons, while the mid- seasons crop was then sold for anything they could get for them. Trade in general has been better during the past week than for some time past and we are in hopes that it will now continue in this course all through the winter, for the majority of our fljrists have experienced an unusually long season of extremely dull times and deserve the change for the better. J. B. K. Mahonay City, Pa. The recent hail storm has played much havoc with glass in this vicinity. Among those who suffered most were Mr. Wm. Geiger, who is quite busy justnowreglaz- ing his three hous s, and Mr. Nelson of Tamaqua. The latter's loss at a con- servative estimate will foot up in the neighborhood of $1 800, not a pane of glass having been left untouched, and scarcely a plant but what is a total loss. So tremendous was the force of the egg- siztd icicles, that even the rafters and sash were broken in many places. Homo. Care of Aquarium. I am building a small aquarium for gold fish, 5 feet long, 2 !eet high, and 2 feet wide inside. Is there anything that will grow in it? How often shou'd the water be changed for the fishes, and what is best to feed them on? Subscriber. The best plants for your aquarium are the fanworts and arrowheads, Cabomba virtdifolia and Sagittaria natans. Put three inches of pure sand in the bottom of the aquarium and plant them in this, using pieces of rock to hold them in posi- tion till they are rooted. Do not change the water at all, only restore what is lost by evaporation. The best food is German fish food, sold by all dealers in aquarium supp'ies. Washington, D. C. Edw. S. Schmid. Lady Bugs and Chrysanthemums. Your San Francisco correspondent in your issue of October 10, says that the lady bug is proving a great pest during the 'mum season. We have alwavs looked upon it as a florist's friend. Will he kindly state how it is proving a pest? How does it affect the chrysanthemums? Does it not destroy the green and black aphis? R. Mearns. Toronto, Oat. [This query is quite pertinent. We know that many growers hold the views expressed by Mr. Mearns. — Ed.] SITUATIONS, WANTS. FOR SALE. AdvertlBements under this head will be Inserted at the rat« of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTED - In flrat-class cut tlower store or wholesale commission house. Ablemaker- up and decorator. Good references. Address B W, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTKD-Asheadgardeneron private place. Flrst-clafs American and Kuropean refer- ences. Single; age 'Si. Address G H. ti7 Bromfleld St.. Boston. Mass. SITUATION WANTKD-As tlorlBt and gardener: practical In all branches: married, age :il). Refer- ences from past and present empio ers. Address Box 2, Forest ilome, Ithaca, N. Y. SITUATION WANTBD-By practical florist, experi- enced plantsman : Dosted on the requisites of com- mercial place. F'or particulars address PKACTICAL. care American Florist. yiTUATliiN WANTBD-By practical florist in or kj near <'hlcngo. Thoroughly reliable. Can give best of references. Address R K, care American Florist Chicago. SITUATION WANTED- By flrst-class cut flower grower. Specialist In roses: *.iO years' experience. References. Address J. J. Ring. care Kennlcolt Bros. Co , 88 Wabash Ave . Chicago. QITUATION VVANTKD-As foreman, by first class O grower of roses. CHrnnttons mums and general stfick: 'XI years' e.xperlenc,^: age:t;j Bestof references. Address Rose Gkowek. care Am. Florist. SITUATION WANTBD-By an all round German florist: .'10 years old. married: is years' experience. Bestof references Eastern states preferred. Want place by Nov. 15 or Dec 1. Address N C. care American Florist. UITDATION WANTBD-WIth landscape gardener, O as foreman or manager: have had 10 years prac- tical experience, and am willing to go to any part of the country. Address S W, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED— Ab foreman, commercial or private -commercial preferred-U years' e-vpeil- ence In greenhouses good grower. Al references. Total abstainer: age :iO Address G. Tavlor, 1,37 Charles St , Boston, Mass. SITUATION VVANTED-By single young man: age 24. In wholesale or retail flower store: experienced plantsman and maker-up. Also bookkeeper: strictly temperate: polite and obliging, l^ow wages at rtrst. Address I) W. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTBD-By gardener and florist: 31 years old. single: l:i years experience: private or commercial: steady and sober Best of refer -nces. Private place near Cincinnati. Hamilton or Richmond preferred. Gaude.neii. care American Florrlst. WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrst-class chance to establish himself. Address DUB, care American Florist. FOR SALE— Two No. 7 and one No. K Herendeen trollers In splendid condition; only been used two years. Cheap Apply to G. K. Jones lull Tacoma Building. Chicago. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP Don't fail to have an adv. ready for our annual chrysanthemum number to be issued November 14. Norfolk, Va.— Harris & Pttrie, the florists, took one diploma and thirty-one premiums at the Norfolk fair. NEW YORK, October 19, 1896. The partnership heretofore existing under the firm name of siebrecht & Wadley, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent. The busiuess will hereafter be carried on under the firm name of Siebrecht & Son, which new firm will assume and pay all liabilities, and to whom all outstanding accounts due the firm of Siebrecht & Wadley will be payable, HENRY A. SIEliRKCHT. ALBERT WADLEY. FOR SALE! At LOWEST WHOLESALE prices: Palms, Rubbers, Araucarias, Ferns, Dracaenas, etc., etc. All small, healthy plants, Just Arrived, and suitable for FlorJStS, at 61 Wabash Avenue, corner Randolph St., Chicago. Better see them at once. Present supply limited. Remember the place. 61 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. JS^LAST CHANCE THIS SEASON. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper ^^lease say that you saw the advertisement in the American Flor''/ i8g6. The American Florist. 277 Grand Rapids, Mich. The regular meeting of the Florists' Club was held October 20 with a full attendance, the majority of those present being the prime promoters of the chrys- anthemum show which is to be held November 16—22. Much enthusiasm is evinced, and the plants are in fine condi- tion. There will be fourteen booths at the show which will be conducted by the ladies, fancy articles will be on exhibition but chrysanthemums will be the particu- lar attraction. There was enough work laid out at this meeting to keep everyone busy, and there is no doubt but that the show will be a success. Ours is a real live club, for although much pleasure is derived from it, the members all remember the old adage and put "business before pleasure," or, better still, combine the two. S .me progressive florist always brings a sample of his choicest flowers, and on this occasion Crabbe & Hunter displayed some fine chrysanthemums. Various plans were discussed for advertising the show, and it was decided to use local daily notices. A liberal supply of bills, posters and colored lithographs will be used also. A huge bank of palms will be made in the centre of the hall, and in the center will be a miniature cave where a gypsy will essay to tell fortunes. On Sunday during the show a sacred concert will be given, but no traflSc will be allowed. Mr. Geo. Crsbbe was ap- pointed as chairman of a special commit- tee to ask the city for its loan of plants from the city greenhouses. When every member is made to feel a personal interest and responsibility, it can not help but create the necessary amount of enthusi- asm and energy to make a club a success. E. A. Kittaning, Pa. The summer here has been a very wet one, which has been very beneficial to the growth of carnations, violets and 'mums (plunged out). Of the latter, J. W. Glenn has some remarkably fine plants. He is a large grower of the pompon varieties; last year he had one plant that carried 6403 perfect flowers. It is a seedling, the color a beautiful shell pink. Mr. Glenn will have a chrysanthemum show on his own account in a large vacant store early in November. Business is pronounced as fairlv good in spite of the hard times. H. Y. New Jersey Floricultural Society. The fall exhibition of the New Jersey Floricultural S >ciety will be held Novem- ber 10, 11 and 12, in the Orange Athleiic Club Hall, Orange, N. J. Schedu e's and entry forms can be had from Peter Duff, secretarv. Orange, N.J. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. WAKD, Mgr. QUEENS, L. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Chrysanthemums, Cannas, Geraniums. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. IT 3 to 1-Inch PALMS and 2 FEKNS for S3. 00. 10 i to 5-Inch PALMS and 2 FERNS JorSl.aO. MONTHLY AND TEA ROSES. ADIANTUtVI FERNS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND CAR- NATIONS in pots. LABELS. MOSS, ETC. SKNI> FOR LISTS. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. Bouquet Green. WE give close watchful care to the TIME deliveries of this PROFITABLE stock, and he'ieve l5 years' e.xperience has taught us how to do it. In QUALITY, we claim to AVERAGE better than rmny dealers, and much better than any COMMISSION stock. SOLIDLY PACKED. WELL BERRIED. FRESH FOLIAGE. Write for our Special "Green Circular.' l4Barclay'st. YAUbHAN 6 OttU 6 I Untf 84-86 Randolph St ON FORCING BULB BARGAINS WE MEET QUALITY COMPETITION. PANSIES AND CARNATIONS. LANCASTER, PA., October, 1896. Fellow Florists : — A round dozen letters in one week from florists say- ing my Pansies are "the best they ever had" is pretty conclusive evidence that they are first quality and worth the price I ask. 75 cts. per 100; $5.00 per 1000, with discount on large orders. When I make a shipment of field-grown Carnation plants a recommenda- tion is almost sure to follow. A common inquiry is "How do you grow such fine plants.?" 1 will be pleased to supply you with plants of the following varieties: McGowan, Albertini, Cartledge. Scott, Wave, Keller, Stuart, and Rose Queen at the rate of $5.00 per 100, or $45.00 per 1000. If you need any Rooted CuttinRs of any kind. CARNATIONS, CERANIUMS, COLEUS, etc., write to me, it is no trouble to answer inquiries. L. B 496. ALBERT M. HERR. LANCASTER, PA. /"* A TPIVT A TTr^lVTQ Albertini, Jacqueminot, Portia, Puritan, Van Leeuwen, V^rVIxlN /\ 1 1 WIN O clean, healthy and vigorous, »5 00 per 100. AMERICAN BEAUTY and other Forcing Roses. MARIE LOUISE, SWANLEY, CALI- FORNIA and CAMPBELL VIOLETS. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. CARNATIU.MS ! f'^LD-GROWN CAJATIONS, After the early cluysantliemums are thrown out, many florists plant carnations. We have a few thousand good plants heeled in, in the cold house, suitable for this pur pose. McGOWAN, PURITAN, PORTIA, GARFIELD, MME. ALBERTINI, ADA BYRON, SILVER SPRAY, NICHOLSON, GRACE WILDER, B. OF ERLESCOURT, HINZE'S WHITE, Buttercup, 2nd quality STUART, Helen Keller, " ROSELIND, Uncle John, S4.00 per 100. J. L. DILLON. Bloomsburg. Pa, Field-Grown CARNATIONS New and Standard Varieties. ^S^Seud for price List. H. Weber & Sons, Floral Park, OAKLAND, MO. PUTIN CARNATIONS after CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott, Ivory. Silver Spray, Rose Queen, and Garfield, fiom cold frames, at $8 00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. LARGE FIELD-GROWN BLOOMING CARNATIONS PER ino Portia $3.00 Tidal Wave 3.00 Mrs. Fisher 3.00 REINBER6 BROS., 51 Wabash Ave., Chicago. GOOD BRIDESMAID STOCK. PerlOO 1st size. $S.00....2n(l 8.00.... all sold all sold , " 8.00.... 8.00.... all sold 8.00.... 8.00.... all sold 8.00.... all sold RUST. S CO., LaFaye PerlOO size. $0.00 6.00 STORM KINC UNCLE JOHN THE STUART E A WOOD .. . all sold aU sold 5.0O COLDPINCH all sold DIAZ ALBERTINI. WM SCOTT 5.00 5.00 DAYBREAK all sold 5.00 ALASKA all sold NO F. DORNER & SON tte, Ind. CARNATIONS 5000 Scotts left, first-class stock, extra size plants. About 1000 Daybreak and Tidal Wave. Also a few Rose Queen, Goldfinch and Emily PierSOn. samples and prices on application. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHAOWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CARNATIONS -Field-Grown. LarRe and Healthy. fer H'O LIZZIE McGOWaN $4 00 SILVER SPRAY 4 00 WM. S.OTT 5 00 DAYBREAK 5 00 Also a limited number of Portia at. . . 4 00 Sweetbner, Uncle John and E. A Wood at . 5 00 CASH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO., DAYTON. 0. 278 The American Florist. Oct. 24^ Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, 10 Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 51.40: Column, 814.00. Cash with Order. Xo Special Position Gaaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 percent; 13 times, 10 percent; 36 times. 20 per cent; sz^times.go per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertislne Department of the American Florist Is for FIoristB, Seedsmen, and dealers in wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember it. Orders for less than one-half inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure insertion in the issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. The title page for our annual chrysan- themum number, to be issued November 14, will make a sensation. We have received from Messrs. F. L)or- ner & Son, Lafayette, Ind., a box of blooms of their carnations Mrs. C. H. Duhme, pink, and Mrs. Geo. M. Bradt, variegated. All were of the highest grade and spoke well for the value of these two varieties. Size, color, stem, calyx and foliage were all above criticism. We shall publish our annual chrysan- themum number November 14. It will have an unusually striking special title page and will contain a large amount of valuable matter pertaining to the"Queen of Autumn," all freely and handsomely illustrated. Though this number will be of extra value as an advertising medium there will be no increase in rates. Send advs. early so we may have time to get them up in our best style. Youngstown, O. Mr. E. Hippard has overhauled his en- tire plant, replacing the benches, board walks, etc. A propagating house 175 fdet long and a rose house covering 37x 100 are recent additions to his plant. The rose house is built in a very substan- tial way, being equipped with all the modern appliances. Mr. Hippard is cut- ting fine roses and carnations, and his 'mums, of which he grows many varieties, present a sight well worth seeing. Homo. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. Wild Smilaxf Green NOW READY. See our New Catalogue tor prices. . . . WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 a 1614 BARKER STREET, Bet. Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, Kor Decorating and all KlorlBts' Designs. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER, Linville, Mitchell Co., N. C. WM. SCOTT, Pres. H. B. BUDDENBORC, Mgr. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED ! YOU SAVE 50''*''' in time and wages by making your Green Garlands and Wreathing on our binding machine. 30 days to responsible parties. Price eKi^iii4. H. L SUNDERBRUGH. Wholesale Florist HIH AND WALNUT STREETS, Oltt.oltm»tJ, O. DAN'L B. LONG, FUOWERS AT WHOLESALE,. strictly Commission Business. SUPPLIES. ETC. olIdTAIZ-k Kl V LI8TSFREE. BUFFALO, N. Y. Mention American Florist. CUT SMILAX, JOSEPH E. BONSALL, 308 Garfield Ave.. Salem, 0. i8g6. The American Florist. 270 E. H. HUNT, WHOLBSaLEPbORIST 68 Lake Sfreef, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BUI.BS AND AIiL PI.ORISTS' SUPPIIES. KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. WtiolGsalG GUI Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIRE WORK A SPECIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph SU CHICAGO. If you want FlrstrCIaas Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send ub your orders and you will set what you want. GUT FLOWERS, We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE U S FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS in 88 Wabash Avenue, .^ CMICiVGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all orders on short notice wltli all leading varieties of Roses and (.'arnntluns. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give us a trial and convince yourself Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 &. 21 RANDOLPH STREET, ^ CHICA.GO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60., Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. .^ CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPRUES. 88 8t 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Atteutioit to all Orders A. L. RANDALL, wtioi6sai6 Fiona 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Agent lor flnest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©yv'RofeAafe Marfter*. Cut Flowers. New York. Oct. '30. Koses. Beauty, e.\tra 10.00a25.00 common 2.00^5.00 Meteor. Testout 2.004 4.00 another varieties 1.00® 3.00 Carnations 75® 1 00 extra 1.60® '.i-OO Viilley 3 00 violets .50 Chrysanthemums 2 00(a 8.00 Adlantum .50 Snillax 8.00@10.00 AsparaKUB 50.00 Boston. Oct. '30. Koses. Gontler, NIpbetos 603 1.00 Porle. Mermet 1.00® 2 00 Bride, Bridesmaid, Meteor 2.00® 4 00 Beauty 5.00S25.00 (;arnatlons 1.008 l-M fancy l.aoa 3.00 Violets 60(9 1.00 Valley 3 OOw 4 00 ('hryaanthemums 4.00'" I'.. 00 fancy io.(itii"2:V(io Adlantum T6f» 1.00 gmllax 10.008112. 00 Aspara^B 50.00 Philadelphia. Oct. 21. Koses, Beauties 0.00812 00 Bride. Bridesmaid, La France, etc. . . 3.003 4.00 ■• Kalserln 3.00<'i. 4,00 small teas 2.00(.!i 3 00 Carnations 50(3» 1 00 Cosmos 50'!' .75 Valley 3.00(« 4 00 Violets, double 7581 .00 Smllax I!.00el5.00 Asparagus 35. 00® 50. 01 1 Adlantum 1.00 Chicago Oct. 23. Roses. Beauties 0.00620.00 seconds 5.00 Brides. Bridesmaid 1.008 3.00 ■• Meteors 1.00® 3 00 Perle. Wootton 1.00® 2.00 Testout 3.00® 5.00 Kalserln 3.003 5.00 Carnations 1 00^ in.pots rLnllOi S5per 100. Sin. S8, 4 in. S15, 5-in. S2.5 PTKKIS TkEMULA, 25<-inch pots, $5 per 100, 3inch 88, 4-inch 815, 5- inch 820. VIOLETS, Beld-grown. 85 per 100; 810 per lOOO. Good stock. Cash with order. HENRY A. NIEMEYER, Erie, Pa. ^ MUSHROOM SPAWN, loo lbs. for $8.00 ,-^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ TISSUE PAPER, 24x36, ream, 480 sheets, - - - 75c Oi SPHAGNUM MOSS, fresh, W) per barrel, - $1.25 ^ RAFFIA, extra, braided, lb. 14c; 100 lbs. $l3 CANE STAKES, per 1000, $7.00 6x6, $1. 5o each; per dozen, gl7.00 SINGAPORE FIBRE, inde- f^ structible,6U-x6ea.$1.75 w Send for our BULB LIST and save money. WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, New York. FINE MIXED DUTGfl HYflGINTHS. COLORS SEPARATE. DOUBLE or SINGLE, RED and WHITE, DOUBLE or SINGLE, BLUE and PURPLE, - DOUBLE or SINGLE, PURE WHITE, DOUBLE or SINGLE, WHITE and TINTS, EARLY WHITE ROMANS, 12 cm. and over, FINE MIXED SINGLE TULIPS, FINE MIXED DOUBLE TULIPS, Per 100 Per 1000 S2.50 $22.00 2.50 22.00 250 22.00 2.50 22 00 2.25 20.00 .50 4.00 .50 4.00 CHINESE SACRED LILIES, - - - Baskets (3o Bulbs), gl.35 Bales of Four Baskets (120 Bulbs), $5.00. ROBERT BUIST COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. MentlOD Amerioan Florist. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ J "SURE CROP" ♦ I MU^SHRJX,M^SPAWN | ♦ DUTCH BULBS. ' onnpplicatlon 4 ♦ "FLOKl^TS" FLOWER !>EEDS. ♦ : WEEBER & DON, '^.W^^lt^l""' \ Z 114 Chambers St., NEW YORK. ^ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. „7;uS'i,?.re new seHsons muBhroom spawn 1« due at tbls port November 25: will guarantee delivery on lime If have your order at once. KEnrcki) prices. Write me to-day for full particulars, (i. C. W\TS4». 4a North lOtli .sir*-et. »'hila- wE;i-,L,, 3810-3824 Wentworth Ave., CHICAGO. Burki's New V ellow Marguerite ETOILE DE LYON. •^5 Rooted Cuttiugs lor »1.00, hy mail. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. WIKH.ESAI.E KLOHl.sr. Selaginella Emiliana. Extra fine plants, from 3V2-inch pots, - - $8.00 per 100 2-inch pots, - 4.00 per 100 CAST! WITH OHDKK. W. A. WETTLIN. Hornellsville, N. Y. Please mention tbe American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. THE FINEST STOCK GROWN. LOOK HERE! Read a few of the Premiums oftered by the Society of Indiana Florists at their 10th Annual CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, To be held at TOMLINSON HALL. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Nov. lOth to 14th, 1896. CHRYSANTHEMUM CUT BLOOMS. 1st 2nd 3rd 25 Blooms Major Bonnaffon . . it2.5.00 815.00 810.00 25 Blooms Mayflower 25.00 1.5.0O 10.00 25 Blooms Viviand-Morel. . . . 25.00 15 00 10.00 25 Blooms E. M. Bigelow. . . . 25.00 15.00 10.00 10 Blooms H. W. Reiman. . . . 10.00 Largest and best ten blooms, one variety 10 00 5.0O By Nathan Smith & Son— Best six blooms, one variety, production of '96 85.00 BEST DISPLAY OF CUT ROSES. Not less than 300 or more than 400; varieties con- ditions and arrangements considered, 1st $50.00 2nd 83r>.00. Cut blooms must be in position by 5 p. m. Tuesday. Display Roses by 12 m. Thursday. 4S="For complete Premium List mail card to R. A. McKEAND, Sec'y, Garfield Park, INDIANAPOLIS, INO. CLEMATIS, 83 00 per doz,; 822.50 per 100. PAEONIES. 8125 per dozen, 88.00 per 1(X). Plenty of whites. DBL. POET'S NARCISSUS. 50 els. per 100; 83 .50 per 1000. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY. 82.00 per 100 1 year. 81 00 per 100 2 year. Very low rates in quantity; tine, well grow stock. F. A. BALLER. Bloomington. III. 20,000 GERANIUMS SS?TfN°as All the best varieties, as Donble Gen. Grant, Bruant, Silver I,fal Mme. Salleroi, 81.50 per 100; 814.00 per 1000. AGERATUM. blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooted, 81 00 per 100; 8il UO per 1000. All strongand well-rooted. The same out of 254inch pots, 82.00 per 100; 820.00 per 1000. Cash with order. MSX KRUSCHKA. LAWRENCE STATION. N Y. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in 2>4.inch pols which I will sell at 82 uO per 100, The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio St3., SEDALIA, MO. Per 100 nilNESK I'KIMROSE. mixed, nice, ready for 4-lncli pota $2. SO (illBVIlJ-KA. nice 3.00 CVPBUl'S t-lnch I> 00 Stock plants LA KAVOKI'lMi; CKUANIU.MS 5.00 c.\SH \\rru oiinEU. M. JL S. DYSINCER, Albion. Mich. You will benefit the American Flo- ri'^t by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns- FOR SALE. r3g6. The American Florist. 283 'C ^ym.ukHJ t^P-VVA1iV.\tO An EXPERT Opinion of our New SWEET PEAS In Seplt'inbtT. 181".). we iniiilpil ;iii ilhisd-aird r-ir- culur of our New Sweet 1'eas fok 1897 to tin' soell.lKJl,ll.il. The season of Chrysanthemum Exhibilions being close at hand, we have, as iu seasons past, placed ourselves in position to supply your Club with our beautiful CHRYSANTHEMUM LITHOGRAPHS. We have ; just issued, at a very great expense, two new lithographs (a full sheet i and a half sheet), which we believe are the handsomest yet offered. They are entirely new ; in design, and, being highly illuminated are admirably fitted for advertising your coming ; exhibition. We respectfully solicit your psitroiiag'e, and will be pleased to send samples and ~ prices on application S^^OKDEK AVILL 15E PKUMPTLY KILLED. \ THE COURIER LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY, Buffalo, N. Y. \ From 2-iiich pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of vaideties and prices funiislied on application. NATHAN SMITH & SON, .Adrian, IVflolTL* ZIRNGIEBEL'S GIANT MARKET AND GIANT FANCY PANSIES are the Leading Strains up to date. Extra Large Size and Superb Colors. Liberal trade packets of either strain at ONE DOLLAR EACH. ^Separate colors if wanted in Blue, Black, White and Yellow. Also plants of above strains al $5.00 per 1000. DENYS ZIRNGIEBEL, NEEDHAM, MASS. 100,000 NOW READY. The Jennings strain of tlnest American grown Pan- sles are up to date, and just as liood as they make them; but on account of the hard times the price Is dowD. The grandest combination of colors ever sent out. All lartte flowering In great variety, ttnestocky plants, fleld-grown, will bluom in October. lOOby mall7.jc; UKH) by express $4 00; 5000 $18.00. Extra plants added with every order. 500 000 ready In October lor cold frames. PANSY SEED of above strain, $1.00 per pkt. Of 2.500 seeds. Cash with order. E. B. JENNINGS, l. b. 254. Southport, Conn. Grower of the finest Panales- ransles Worm Raisino. PLANTS READY NOW. at S2.50 per 500; $4.00 per 1000. Free on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at $1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH ORDKK. C. SOLTAO & CO., 199 Grant A?e., Jersey City, N. I. The OAKS GREENHOUSE CO., Jackson, Mich. offer tor immediate acceptance, the following, at prices annexed. Per 100 Smllax. from 2!^-lnch pots, good strong plants $2 50 Cjperus Alternltollus. 2!^-lnch :> 00 3MDch (J 00 Grevlllea Robusta, 3U-lnch 3.00 3)*-lneh t; 00 Dracsena Indlvlsa, 2Vi-inch 2.50 Begonias, flowering In var.. 2J^-lnch, our selection 2.50 Rex, •' ■• ■■ ■■ 4.00 Cash with order. R. C.of all genl stock at usnal prices. Mention American Klorlst. Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 2.5 cents; per hundred, 820.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, 82.00; per ten thousand, if IS CH. KOEHLER. Oxford Church P. 0.. Fhila,. Pa. New, Rare and Beautiful Plants LORD PKNZ.VNCK'S Ntnv Ilybrl.i Sweetljrlera. Old Garden Ruses. New K'.ises. Standjird Roses. PHILAUKLPHIIS LEM<>I^'EI; NKW Ll- t,A<:s; bONlCERA HI LDKURANDTJI; SPIR^A "ANTHONV WATKKKR," A large collection of rare Hothouse and Greenhouse Plants ANTHURIUMS. ALOCACIAS. ORCHIDS. RARE CONIFERS, and other Beautiful KVER(iREENS. MAGNOLIAS, JAPANESE MAPLES, with other Choice TREES and SHRUBS. P.a;ONIES.-A lart'e collection of the finest In cul- tivation. Hardy t'erennlals. Phloxes, Japanese Ins. Roses. Clematis, etc. New and Standard I-Yults. etc, J^Tatalogues on application JOHN SAUL. Washington. D. C. ROBERT CRAIG, Roses, Palms, Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. S. J. THOMPSON, Proprietor of FALLS CITY WIRE WORKS 267 W. Jefferson Street, Send for catalogue. LOUISVILLE, KY. A. & F. ROLKER'S PLANT AUCTION SALES EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY At II o'clock A. M. 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. 189T THE ONLY "MARS" 8"* ?Sf ™ Prices on application. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. 2-INCH FERNS. READY TO SHIFT. P. serrulatii, Onychlum japonlcimi. P. aermlata crestata, Blechnum bccldentale. P. serrulata " densll, I^astrea varieeata, P. adlautoides. Adlantxim cuneatum. Above at 34,00 per llKt;$:i5.Llu per imni. AdlanUim, from liats JL-V) per 100 Blechnum occidentale. 3-lnch j*'.00 per 100 General astiortment. ;Mn. vars.. $7 per 100; $*W per KlOO Pterls GhluabrlKbtll and Reglnte. 2-lnch, $t; (W per lOU; 3-lnch. $10 00 per 100. Complete list on application. Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Clenside, Pa. GhrysanthemumslPansies Per liHi 5O0 CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 25var..5-in. pots 1(1.00 40,000 PANSY PLANTS . . . .per 1000 S.3.50; .60 Cash with Ohdek Please. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 284 The American Florist. Oct. 24^ Erie, Pa. Mr. Henry A. Niemeyer is cutting some excellent Beauties, while his other roses have never looked better. This ho'ds true also as regards his carnations. His "Niemeyer sport," a spotted pink variety, is doing splendidly. He has fine houses of chrysanthemums and among other varieties, the Philadelphia, Mrs. E. G. Hill, J. E. Lager and Mrs. H. Robinson seem to predominate. These are grown to the single stem. The Sehluraff Floral Co., aside from having added five houses to their already extensive plant, viz.: one 11x96 fjr car- nations, two 20x70 for roses, and one 20x70 for miscellaneous stock, have made many other improvements about their entire plant, putting everything in the best of order. They have also enlarged their potting shed and built a handsome office. Mr. Schluraflf reports business im- proving. Mr. E. C. Hill, the Eliot avenue florist, is putting the finishing touches to his office, adjoining the greenhouses. Mr. J. Busick, heretofore connected with the bu^iaess of Mrs. W. Niemeyer, has withdrawn his interests from the firm, Mrs. Niemeyer continuing the business at the old stand. Mr. Henry Niemever has recently added a second boiler of 50 horse power. Homo. Columbus, O. The first chryFanihemums made their appearance on October 6, Hatton Bros, displaying them. The McKellar Floral Co. of Chillicothe have opened a retail cut flower store in this citv at 190 South High street, Mr. James M> Kellar bemg in charge. Karl Brown was in Springfield last week. He reports stock as looking ex- ceeding well. Mr. Aldrich is cuttingsome fine 'mums, Kate Brown being the first to bloom. Trade is still improving slowly, and stock is good. We all look for a boom after election. B. K. Warning. There is a man giving the name of John A. Kramer, Fred. A. Kramer, etc., who has been using our name to work the Illinois florists. He has been giving and receiving orders in our name and from one flor st that we heard from he bor- rowed $10. This fl irist describes him as a man ot medium height, dark mustache, hair tinged with grey, his right arm par- alyzed or rheumatic so that he could not use his hand, and an easy, alfdble talker. He represented himself to be the junior member of our firm. I. N. Kramer & Son. Cedar Rapids, la. THE BEST FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlet, write to L(li;i3TII,LE [SPIKIT OlIllFII T(»BAll«C(). Louisville, Ky when WTltInK mention American FlorlBt FUMIGATE WITH NIKOTEEN THE ESSENCE OF TOBACCO. It kills all insects and does not injure delicate blooms. Costs 12 cents to fumigate a house 100x20 feet. If you cannot get it locally, write SKABCURA DIP CO., Station S, CHICAGO. JUST RECEIVED! Our New Crop of IMMORTELLES, all colors. MOSS WREATHS and CROSSES, all sizes. METAL DESIGNS, all styles. Unexcelled CAPE FLOWERS, white and colored. Excellent CYCAS LEAVES, all sizes. WAX FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS and LEAVES, of all descriptions. In fact anything and everything in the line of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. SEND US A LIST OF YOUR WANTS AND WE'LL CHEERFULLY QUOTE PRICES FOR YOU. AX. I^ICE> ^ CO. 25 North 4tli Street, PHILADELPHIA. ES1ABU5HED 1866. BMAHUFACTURED BV STEFFENS \%S EAST 2 IV ST. NEW YORK. r\ JICC ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Send for vJLlloOi Estimate. Satisfaction guaranteed. 102 Sooth 5tb Avenne, NEW TOKK CITT. GROUND FINE ^« HOLLY. We stand ready to supply THE RIGHT QUALITY AT THE RIGHT TIME AT RIGHT PRICES. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. DAN'L B. LONG, VtlV^^. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalosue. issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manufacturer ol METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry), NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. i8g6. The American Florist. 285 If deliveries on IVCOSS WREATHS are a few days late, don't get impatient. These goods are scarce, but we ba,vs them, now in port and being unloaded. New Immortelles are in, and they are fine. Cape Flowers are extra large, and you can have all you want, if you order HOW. Cycas Leaves and Wheat Sheaves. These are our leaders always. Price, quality and quantity handled far beyond all other dealers. All seasonable stock in Baskets, Jardinieres, Pots, Letters, Ar= tificial Flowers and Foliage, AT BARGAIN PRICES. A good time to replenish your stock. H, & •) Importers and Manufacturers, S© r«f . ^tla street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Always mention American Florist. Neponset Flower Pots of Waterproof Paper are sold as foUows: Terms— Net cash with order. If ordered shipped by freight, add .'lO cents cartage. Packed In Gross Weight Size Crates of per 1 00 pots Per 10(1 Per 1000 2>i-lnch 1000 about20 1bs m.ib S2 00 S li ..1000 ...1000 . ...1000 , .. 500.. 500.. ... 500 . 23 34 45 7B 100 150 .30 .:io .50 .00 .SO 1.50 2.30 2.80 4.00 5.00 8,30 13.:« Standard Pot Measure. IjCsb quantities than full crates at 100 rates. F. W. BIRD St SONS, Manufacturers. Address orders to our General Agents, August Rolker&Sons New York, p. O. station E, or R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.. Boston. Eastern Agents. TOBACCO STEMS FOR FLORISTS. For Sale, packed in bales 200 to '250 lbs. No charge for deliv- ering to depots. PRICE: glO.OO per ton. 81.50 per single bale. Address P. C. FULWEILER &, BRO., 248 No. Ninth St.. FHII.ADi:i.FHIA. FA. Mention American Florist. DiicisioisoltlilsBoi: 26 Inches lonx by 18 Inohea wide and 12 Inches high. Two sections. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. Sizes IK-in. and 2-in. 2.00 per 100. lattener with each letter. Paten) This wooden box nicely atalned and vamlehed, 18x30x12, naade In two eectlons, one for each size letter, given away with first order of 500 letters. .A.OrEIPI'X'S ■ A. Rolker & Sons, New York. M. KIce « C'o., 26 N. 4th St., PhUa., Pa. F. E. McAllister, 23 Dey St., New York. A. D. Perry a Co., 33 Warren St., Syracuse New York. A. Herrinan, 415 E. 34th St., New York. H. Bayersdorfer * Co., PhUadeliihla, Pa. A. C. K«ndal. 115 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. J. A. Sliumers, Toronto, Out., Agent for Canada. E. H. Hunt, 79 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Wisconsin F^lower Exchange, 131 Mason St , Milwaukee, Wis. H. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts., Cin- cinnati, O. T. W. Wood St Sons, 6th and Marshall Sts., Richmond, Va. Jas. Vlck's Sons, Rochester, N. Y. C. A. Kuehn, 1132 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. D. B. Long, Bufiklo, New York. Huntington Seed Co , Indlanauolls, Ind. Geo A. Sutherland, 67 llr<>mfleld>t., Boston. Welch Bros.. No. lA Beacon St., Boston. N. F McCarthy St Co., 84 Uawley Street, Boston. The Henry PhUlpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O: Walter A. Potter St Co., Providence, R. I. J. C. Vaughan. 26 Barclay St., New York. W. Ellison, 1403 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. the American Florist. ODR NKW SCRIPT LETTER, $4.00 per 100. K. F. McCABTHT, I 13 Green St.. Treas. & Maagr. | Boston, SlasB. Office, 84 Havvley Street. We have a new FASTENER which we consider a decided BUOcesB. Any onBtomers havlnfr old style TaatenerB which they wish to exohanfie. can do ao without additional cost by wrltlnK as. These Letters are handled by all the Wholesalers Boston. When writing mention THE ANNUAL CHRYSANTHEMUM NUMBER OF THE ANERCAN FLORIST ...WILL BE ISSUED... IT will have an unusually striking special title page and will contain a large amount of handsomely illustrated, up-to-date matter about the "Queen of Autumn." NO INCREASE IN ADV. RATES . Send advs. early so we may have time to set them up in our best style. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn St. 0HI0^\.O0. 286 The American Florist. Oct. 24^ ^ecoA ^ote*. Auburn, Me. — Mr. Geo. Roak is re- ported to be on the sick list and confined to his bed. BiDDEFORD, Me — Mr. I. W. A. Smith has built an additional 100x18 house for carnations. Tamagua, Pa.— N. Nelson, the florist, is about to take unto himself a wife. His friends extend congratulations. NoRRisTOWN, Pa. — Edwin Metcalf has opened a new flower store at the Mar- shall street end of the market. Itisfitted up in the most approved manner. Newport, R. I —Mr. H. McK. Twom- bly has disposed of the plants in his large greenhouses, and all of the houses will be removed, with the exception of twosmall ones. Caryngham, Pa —Florist John Hutton says it's no use trying to ride a bicycle over a sleeping pig, even in the dark. He is now a warm advocate of a pound law for porkers. Norwich, Conn.— Mr. Joseph Smith has repainted and overhauled his entire plant and has replaced his old boiler by one of a more modern design and of greater power. Newburyport, Mass —Mr. E. W. Peirson has rebuilt and remodeled his houses, putting things in the best of order. Mr. Peirson has also built a fine windmill with an observatory on top, which is both usefal and attractive. Elgin, III.— John D. Bush has built seven hous-es here, two 12x40 for roses, two 12x80 for carnations, one 16x40 fjr palms, one 16x40 for smilax and one 9x40 for violets; also an cfiice 16x16, boiler house 12x26 and dwelling house. Ft. Wayne, Ind.— The first autumnal flower show of the Northern Indiana Hor icultural Societv will be held in this city November 5 to 7. Copies of the pre- mium list may be had by aldressing John L. Hanna, secretary, 402 Broad way, this city. "If you don't believe what this little book contains it won't do you any good. Neither will the Bible do you any good unless you bflieve what it says." This was the confident assertion made by Mr. E. N. Squires, of Geneva, N. Y., general eastern manager of the Kewanee Boiler Co., when distributing at the Cleveland convention little books telling about the good points of his boilers. But Mr. Squires has evidently never heard Brother Carmody tell of the faith inspired by a short sojourn at his famous "saints' rest," though why boilers should be essential to a saints' rest is not quite clear. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower PotB. etc. MaklnK a Specialty ol Florist Standard Pots Send for price Il'-t and Bumples (which will be sent free) and we know you will Klve us your order: Ji 6i SWAHN'S SONS, IHliiiieapuluVMlnn. Mention American Florist. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street. CHICAGO. N flTURflL Gas MTO fi LflSS. FOR GREENHOUSES. "Writ^ for 1^1:^jSt: i3J?io^s. Mention American Florist. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BRANCH WAREHOUSES: Kearney and Westside Aves., Jersey City, N. .1. Jack<«ou Ave. and Pearson St., L.ongr Island City, N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled, A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. When writing mention the American FlorlBt. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. ^ OUR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- iaction. We call your attention to our new pots 6. 7, 8 and 9-iuch. called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO., SYRACUSE, N. Y. Rates via the Nickel Plate Road between same points for like classes of tickets are lower than via other lines. NEVIN'S Greentiouse Puuy Prepared Specially for Greenhouse Glazing. IS APPLIED WITH PUTTY BULB. One gallon (20 lbs ) will glaze 1.000 feet of tlass. ('oats iK)cperKallon.50cperhalf-gallon. Putty Bulbs 75ceach. ^iHtlsfiictlon Kuaranteecl. Kef erence— John Koner». (ireenlree Boro. Fa.; HarliUHn Bros,. AlleKhnny, Pa.: KreU Burkl.Bellevue. Pa. Manufactured by T.H. NEVINCO., P. O.B. 928, Pittsburg. SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. For prices, upply to GEO.W H«MlLTnN.17BSidnoySI .nopchotlor. Mail. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. SHEEP MANURE 1 will furnish this Fertilizer until sold out, put up in sacks or barrels, f. o. b. Mitchell, South Dalcota: NATURAL 50c. per 100 PULVERIZED 75c. per 100 Terms cash in JO days after dale ot sliip- nient. Ordeis accompanied with cash, 10 per cent discount WRITE FOR PRICES ON CAR LOTS. E. C. NEWBURY, MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri- can Florist. i8g6. The American Florist. 287 Kx oeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse = Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. ijnjnjnj'iJTJ"iJiJ' iJ ijnjxnj'ijrijn-rL r Open-Air-Dried Cypress Lumber Is more dunibU'. and belter suited to Green-liini:-.e eonditiuiis, than kiln-dried stock. But you cannot get it from those that are cngaiicd in the business in a small way— even though their entire business is confined to green-house material— for it takes a long time for the lumber to thoroughly dry and this means an investment in lumber that only those of large cajdtal can make. The only way to have oir-dried lumber is to buy green lumber and hold it until it dries. Those tliat order dry lum- ber from the producers of Cypress get kiln-dried stock. It is cheaper for them to kiln-dry than to hold the stock long enough to season it in the open air. We carry a large stock and fill all orders with open-air-dried Cypress clear of knots, sap and Lockland Lumber Co. LOCKLAND, OHIO. . JTTUnJT JTJIJ-IJI. JTJlJ~Ul.JTJlJn_rLn.T\ CsaVj HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS STEAM ♦ BOILERS. J. D. Carmody, Evausville, Ind. Dear 5iV;~Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON, Gainesville, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CHICAGO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL & CO., 77 Lake Street. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for Catalogues _^^^&. GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., Cor Congress, BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for IlluBtra ted Catalogue. QUAKER CITY AflACHINE WORKS, fiichniond, Ind. THE AMERICAN FLORIST'S Color Chart is now accepted as the standard in preparing color descriptions, bv niaiiv foreign houses as well as in America. PRICE 15 CENTS POSTPAID. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 Dearborn Street, CHICACO. 1 «3??ABBL. I H.A.STDOTHOFF. l3tSIUDiSIIIIAVE,NEWY0ilK.Cin. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., CHICAGO. MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. Delamater-Rider and DeLamater-Ericsson Hot-Air Pumping Engiues Will pump water troni anj' .^uuicl-, and force It tu anv uelgtil aiiu uis. tance. simple, safe and free fnim care. Will burn an.v kimloffuel. For supplvliie water on farms, countly and cltv lesiilences, dairy and stock farms th.'y are unsurpassed. Send for catalogue, Thedklamater ironworks, 4(i7 UV-it ProniiwnV. N Y. CitV For Insurance against damage by hail, ^^^^^__^___ Address JOHN G. ESLER. Secy. F. H. A., Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL TRADE P lREGTOi^y REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to ihe directory list. I»R,ICE *2 oo AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 288 The American Florist. Oct. 24, Index to Advertisers. Adv Kates 278 American Boiler Co... 288 Amllnc B C 278 Bailer K A 282 Bassett & Washburn.. 27'.l Bayersdorfer H & Co. .285 Blanc A & Co 281 BobblnkLC 280 BonBall Job B 278 Boston Letter Co 2as Bulst I'o Robt asil Burkl Kred 2S2 Burp.'C W Atiee & Co 283 California Nursery Co 28U Carmodv J D 287 Chadwlck Chas 277 Chase Ben] 284 txinley John & 8on 2^4 Cottaae Gardens 277 Courier Lithographing o 283 Cowen's Son N 288 Crabb & Hunter 277 Craig Robt 28:J Cunningham J H. McCarthy NF& CO.. .279 McKeand R A 282 McKellar C W 278 Mlllang Frank :..27!l Mlllang & Co 27'.l Moon W H Co 2,82 Moore F L 2S1 MonlngerJ C Co 2*( National Plant Co 277 Newbury EC 28i; New Fruit Nursery 280 Nevin T 11 Co 28B N y Cut Klower Co 278 Nickel Plate Road 28(1 Nlemever 11 A 280 Oaks Greenhouse Co.. 283 Peacock W P 2,82 Pennock Sam 1 S 278 Pitcher A Manda 281 Prince AG & Co 27» Purdy & Blauvelt 27a QuakerClty Mc'h Wks.2S7 RandallAL 27'.) Raynor J 1. 279 Redtleld Bradley ... 283 DeLamater Iron Wk. .287 ReedGlaosCo .284 lileuoh AiCo ,2.87 Reed& Keller .2H4 Dillon J L 2VV Beimels J 2811 DomerFred ASons Co. 277 Rein Derg Bros 27' 279 DreerH A 2H1 RlceM&Co 284 DyslngerM & 8 .28-2 RlckseckerCH ,278 Ehret V 2'|8 Rogers Pk Floral Co 279 Elchholz H m3 Rhotert Aug 2,88 Elliott W H .278 uolker AS Sons... 285 288 KUlottWm & Sons.. .280 Rolker A & Sons.. 285 288 Rills* Pollwono... 278 -lander & Co .281 Fulweller P C i; Bro 2.8.> Saul John .283 Uurney Heater Co.. .287 Schiller J L .281 Hall Ass'n Hamilton G W 2.87 .281 .2,Sti Scott Binder Co .278 ■*77 '278 Sheridan W F Slebrecht & Wadley •^79 Hart H A .281 Herr AlbertM 2VV Situations. Wants. et< ^iti Herrmann A ,■84 Skabcura Dip Co .284 uews A U& Co •',8tl 7>mltn Natn at cjon..,. .2,s:t Hill KG &Co. .287 SoItauC & Co Steams Lumber Co.. ••83 HlppardB .287 HlxhlngsiCo .288 Steffens N .281 H'loker H M Co 28ti Stoothofr HA Styer J J 278 Horan J A Son Wl SunderbruchH L 278 Hulsebosch Bros.... •Nl Sutherland Geo A.. . . .279 Hints U 271* SwahnsSons J G. ... .28(1 Illinois Cut Flower Cc .278 Syracuse Pottery Co. .2Sti Jennings E B .2,h:( Thompson S J .28;! Joosten C H 281 Vaughan J C 27 282 Kennlcott Bros Co... 'm Watson GC ,280 KIdwell J F ,282 Weathereds Sons T W.M8 KoehlerCh 283 Weber H& Son 282 Weeber&Don .281) Kroeschell Bros Co.. 2,8V Welch Bros ,279 ,282 Wettlln w A 282 .278 Whllldln Pot Co .28(1 Lane Julius ,279 WhIttonS&Sons .. .281 Lemke B F ... 2V8 Williams & Sons 00. . .277 l/OCkland Lum Co .. ,287 Winter & Glover. ... 2V9 Long DB 273 284 Wis Flower Kx .2';8 Lonsdale Edw .281 WlttboldGeo 281 Liord Si Bumham Co .288 Wood Bros ... 281 Louisville Tobacco Co 284 Young Jno 279 Lvnob W B 279 VouneThoB.ir 2i9 MacBeanAS .277 Zlmglebel D .28:^ Greenhouse Building. Reading, Mass., Chas. Ingram, one car- nation house 18x118. Warren, Pa., W. M. Lott, one commer- cial house 18x100. Pawtucket, R. I., M. J. Leach, one car- nation house 25x125. Overbrook, Pa., Samuel Humphrey, one conservatory 19x20. West Bridgewater, Mass., Copeland & Cooper, one commercial house. Plainville, Conn., C. M. Woodford, one commercial house. Rjckport, Mass., G. F. Stevens, one commercial h )use. Wild Orchard, Pa., Mrs. Josiah White, one conservatory. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. L:ilu.bt Supplfiueut to our Fall Catiilut^iH' jusl issued, containing our Novelties and many reductions in prices of Tinfoil, Cycas Leaves, Baskets, Etc., mailed flee to ai>itliL*unt> in tin' Iradf. W llnIl■^;ll.■ only. Send business curd. New York: 136 West 24tli Street. I', o, stall. Ill v.. VILMORIN-ANDRIEUX&CO., Paris. 125 NEW DESIGNS. New Supplement of Electros, FLOWERS AND VKGBTABLE8. NOW READY. PleRBC apply to AUG. BHOTERT, 26 Barclay St., New York ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS ANO BUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTURERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE, GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent Iron Frame Construction. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street, NEW YORK. LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. ^T'Flans and egtimates fnmlghed on application. Largest bnllderg of Greenhonge Structares. Six highest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO., ArcWtectmal flllce, I60 Fifth Ave., COR. TWENTY-FIRST ST., FACTORY: IKVINGTOV-ON-HCDSON, N. T. New York City. AN ARMY of men in our employ, and all of them experts in their par- ticular branches of work; the largest factories; heaters that "do the work"; the best materials obtainable; and back of us the experience of a quarter of a century — is it any wonder that our Hot Water Heaters and Steam Boilers have gained such an enviable reputation? Illustrated Cata- logue of all our Heaters free American £&oi7er Compani/ ^eh CHICAOO: 84 Lake Street. eat the World." NEW YORK: 94 Center Street. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS, Hortlcyliural flrcliiiGCis and Hoi Water Enoineers Send for Catalogue, enototDing 4 cents in stamps. 130, 1^1, l-i3 Ooi^tc^r St., IVE^XAr Y^Oieiil. GLASS For Greenhouses, Conservatories, Graperies, Hotbeds, and all otiier purposes, at Lowest Rates. GLASS N. COWEN'S SON, 392 & 394 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. Cet our Figures before buying Class. JS^ Estimates freely given. Jimenca :s '".he r^rzu/ of the J/essel; tkere ms-j be iu:rB comfort Ri. 'are the first to truc.i Ur.knaii'a Seas." Vol. Xll. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, OCTOBER 31, 1896. No 439 f IHIIE /ALKSlSiSllliMi iFlL@L@(!@7 Copyright 1896. by American Florist Company. Hntered as Second-Class Mail Mailer. Ptblished every Saturday by THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 3^3 Dearboru Street, Chicago. Subscription. 81.00 a year. To Europe. S2.00. Subscriptious accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. :i'JJ Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Eastern Office : 67 Bromfield St., Boston. This paper Is a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chlcafro Trade Press Assoclutlon. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. WM SCOTT. Buffalo, president; Adam Graham. Cleveland. O , vice-president; W.J. Stewart, Bos- ton, secretary ; H. B. Beattt, Oil City. Pa., treasurer. Officers for l.s'.t;.— Auam Graham. cleve'aDd.O.. president; Farquh.\r Macrae. Providence. K. I., vice-president. Secretary and treasurer as before. Tbe thirteenth annual meeting will be held at Prov- idence. K. I.. Auifust. IS^;. CO.XTEJVrS. Chrysauthtmums— Preparing for the exhibi tions — Coming exhibitions . . . . —Chrysanthemum society of America —Chicago chrysanthemum committee —New yellow Golden Dawn (illus.) Carnations— seedling carnations Carnation spot. ... Collecting fern spores Palms Derivation of "'mastacanthus" Roses— Use of bone meal — Reply to quer>* Miscellaneous seasouable hints Orchids— Catasetum gnomus (illus.) Steam hepting troubles. Sea sand for propagating New York Philadelphia Boston Buffalo Caryota urens fruiting (illus.) St. Louis Toronto Chicago San Francisco Pittsburg ... Morristown. N. J Obituary— Baron F. Mueller The seed trade Cleveland Cincinnati Rochester, N. Y Greenhouse building Newport. R. I Springfield, Mass Davenport, la News notes 290 290 290 291 290 291 291 291 291 292 292 292 292 203 293 293 291 291 291 299 29li 296 293 297 297 295 297 .300 300 300 .3' 2 We have received from Secretary Stewart the printed proceedings of the Cleveland convention of the Society of American Florists. It is, as usual, well compiled and printed and is an exceed- ing useful book of reference. The report is alone well wjrth the annual member- ship fee. The annual chrysanthemum number of the American Florist will be issued November 14. Preparing for the E.xhibitions. The shows are now right upon us and by the time tbi? reaches ourreaders those intending to exhibit their blooms will have made up their minds what they intend to use, therefore a few words as to tbe best manner of exhibiting and keeping blooms may be just in time to help some reader: The first thing necessary for a successful exhibitor is to carefully read the sc jedul-, and make your plans just in what classes you are going to show; then become familiar enough with the demands of the prize list so that when you arrive at the exhibition, you can immediately set to work stagingthe blooms without making any mistake, eithtr as to rioht numberor variety. If this is done a considerable time will be saved, a great deal of trouble prevented, and a word of blessing will arise from the committee in charge of the hall. Next make up your mind that you are perfectly willing to abide by the rules of the exhibition and the dec sions of the judges. If there is anythhi^ that mars the pleasure of the directors of the exhibit and spt is the good nature of all con- cerned it ii to have an exhibitor arrive at the hall at a late hour, not knowing the requirements of the schedule, or in what classes le desires to enter. Allin a hustle he comp'a'DS aboutthe rules, thatnobody could get their plants and blooms staged at the prescribed time, and thea winds up by kicking at the judges decisions and calling all of them a set of ignoramuses, or some other such pretty (?) names. Ic does seem as if every exhibition has one or m jre just such exhibitors, and if the eyes of any such chance to read this I hope he will profit by his experience in the past, look around fci n and see the sys- tematic way ia which the man who is successful in attaining premiums goes to work, and watch the genial smile spread over his lace when he sees where he is beaten. Perhaps he may not have so muc 1 better blooms than yourself, but they areall wellstagedand look tidy, and although he has peihapsdone more work than you, he looks as cool and pleasant as can be. If the show committee does not furnish cards with the names of the varieties printed upon them, procure sjme small blank cards and have neatly written or printed thereon the names of those varie- ties that you intend to exhibit. V ju are noiv ready to start to get ready for the exhibition with the exception of procur- ing the flowers and plan s whichit is sup- posed that you already have, so we will try and stop piciching and come down to practical work. Cut the blooms with good long stems as soon as they reach maturitv and when they look at their best; afer removing the lower leaves place them ia good sized receptacles, either deep jars or vases, full of water. We have found that butter firkias make very good vases, but if they are used it will be n:cessary to build a framework over them to hold the blooms erect, for they should never be allowed to fall over to one side; if they do, and remain hang- ing in one position a day or two, the petals will fall away from the upper side and leave a hole. Tne firkins should be placed in a cool, dark cellar for at least 24 hours— 40 hours is b ttter— before carry- ing them to the show. We prefer a cell ir to an ice-chest for the blooms will last much longer on the exhibition table if they have been kept in the former place, instead of with ice around them. If the flowers are kept more than one day, the water should becbang.'d every morning and a short piece of the stem cut off. The leaves should not be allowed to stand in the water, but remove those from that part of the stem that stands ia the vase. In picking the blooms for shipment to the hall, pack each class by itseif so that the work of stagirg- may be more easily and quickly perfoinied. Etch bloom should be carefully laid in the box and a piece of wax paper placed between the flowers so that there will be no friction. 1 1 sorting out the blooms for each class, have them as uniform in size as possible; that is, in an exhibit of twenty-five blooms of one variety do not, if itcanbe avoided, put in one or two extra lar^efl jwers and then have the balance much smaller, but make an exhibit of twenty-five blooms as nearly alike as you can in size and finish. Always have one or two extras ii each class to replace ia case of an accident. In staging the blooms always have an eye for the general efl'ect which the exhibit makes. Ia classes of long stemmed bloom 3 in large vases, arrange them so that each bloom will show for itself individually and give a light, airy arrangement. In arranging single blooms in vases make the back row taller than those in front, keeping the tallest in the center and slop- ing a little towards each side. In this class make the best arrangement of color that you can. This may seem quite un- necessary to some but we have seen an exhibit carefully and neatly staged cap- ture the coveted prize from one that con- tained just as good blooms slovenly put up. After everything is properly placed, brush off all the leaves that may have dropped and place the cards upon the table in their right places, then leave your exhibit for the judges, but above all things 290 The American Florist. Oct. J/, don't hang around while th pounds of supposed pure bone in a 100 foot bench three feet wide. Our plants were all burned out and upon investigation we find that the bone meal contained from 3 to 57c of potash. We claim that the potash did the damage, the fertilizer company claim not. Can you enlighten us through your valuable paper ? Subscriber. The amount of bone meal used, 12 V2 pounds to a bench 3x100 feet was so small that even if it did contain from 3 to 5% of potash, it would be very remarka- ble if it should burn the roots or foliage of the roses in the manner indicated above. Unless the bone meal contained considerable sulphuric acid, or other similar chemical, it is not probable that it is responsible for the damage done. I have mixed potash in the form of wood ashes in the rose soil at the time of plant- ing and used it as a top dressing after- wards very much stronger, or rather in much larger quantity than was done in the case above cited, but have never to my recollection se;n it irjure root, leaf or flower; on the contrary I believe it to be a very valuable fertilizer. Perhaps the manure or soil, or both are to blame, or it may be the plants suffered after plant- ing by the ball of eaith around the roots drying out severely and remaining so for a considerable length of time under a hot sun, in which event both root and foliage would suffer. I have known this to hap- pen very frequently when the surface of the soil was quite moist, and everything apparently was just as it should be. RoBT. Simpson. Reply to Query. "Subscriber," St. Paul, Minn., has trouble with his Bridesmaid and Perle, which were planted June 12 and 25 re- spectively. A plant of each forwarded for our inspection showed very fine growth, were perfectly clean and apparently healthy and had fine fresh roots. There was nothing in their appearance with the exception of the half developed buds to indicate that they were not all that could be desired. "Subscrlber"saysinhis letter that for some time they have dropped a large percentage of the buds, while those still left on the plants are deformed and practically useless. Bridesmaid has been known to drop its flower buds quite often, and it is sometimes very difficult to account for it, in fact any conclusions that we may arrive at in regard to the cause and nature of the trouble, are largely the result of corjecture rather than the deductions of established facts. In such cases I have always supposed that there was not a perfect equilibrium between the root, foliage, sap and flower, or in other words, too large a percentage of the elements extracted from the soil were used in leaf and stem production, and too little lifi energy concentrated in the embryo flower, the result being exces- sive growth, luxuriant foliage, but de- formed and shriveled buds. These condi- tions may have been fostered in the present instance by too much feeding. According to the statement they were mulched with cow manure sometime during July; again in August they had a top dressing of air slacked lime and bone meal, and later still a top-dressing of one inch of cow manure. My opinion is that too much ammonia has been furnished the plants and that as it becomes ex- hausted the trouble will disappear. The letter also states that the plants have been fumigated regularly once a week, and the question is asked, "could the smoke injure the buds without burning the tender foliage?" Most certainly it could. Only gross carelessness in fumi- gating would burn the foliage, but it is hardly possible to smoke such varieties as Bride and Bridesmaid and not icjure the blooms. It may be that the fumigating is altogether responsible for the trouble, but at any rate it is positively injurious and I would advise trying some other method of keeping down greenfly. Smok- ing may be the cheapest as regards first cost, but it is expensive nevertheless in flowers deformed and spoiled. RoBT. Simpson. Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints. The extraordinary early frost found many of us without a geranium cutting being propagated and my own experience was that I had to put in a very shabby looking lot. Tbey were put into 2-inch pots firmly potted and after the first good watering they have for 30 days been kept on the dry side and the loss is less than 10%; that is a good result considering that the cuttings were almost leafless. Now they should be stood over, the soil stirred up, cleaned up; given more space and they will begin to grow. Too many inexperienced florists keep geraniums too warm during the dark winter months; light, cool and dry is the proper condition to winter these common but popular plants. The azaleas that are freshly potted should have a cool house with plenty of syringing and never let them suffer for want of water. They are now a great Easter plant and also sell well at Christ- mas. A few varieties are easily brought ijto flower for the haiidays; pie- eminently above all varieties for this pur- pose is the well known "Deutcbe Perle" a beautiful well formed white, S'mon Mardner" is a fine colored variety and can be had in bloom at the same time. The middle of November, those wanted for Chrismas sales should be put into a warm house, 65° at night will bring thetn along all right. It is usually rather d.ffi- cult to keep your main crop ejf azaleas till Easter, particularly if it is a late Eas- ter, still it is better to have them in bloom before than after that date. I found last year that fine azalea plants had to go after Easter for half the price they would have brought in March. You must watch the varieties and notice the progress they are making. In a temperature of 40° to 45° all night during the winter Mme. Vander Cruzen would be in flower about April; while Emperor de Brazil in the same house would not open for another month. On all imported plants you will notice a few strong growths that stand up above the budded shoots, they are blind so cut them out for two reasons namely: they impair the symmetry of the plant and weaken the flowering shoots. After a rainy summer and autumn we are having two or three weeks of dry, balmy weather; now look out for the bulbs that are boxed and placed outside and covered with a few inches of soil. You watered thoroughly if you did your duty when they were first planted, but that is not sufficient unless we have fre- quent rains. When planted intheground there is a different condition entirely. When a dry time comes there is a spring of moisture always rising to the surface; how else could many of our summer plants thrive in mid-summer without a drop of rain either from the clouds or the hose? But remember the bottom of the box stops this natural provision in a dry time, and therefore jou must water copiously at least once a weeek. Y'ou cannot err on the side of moisture with your bulbs. Roman hyacinths will soon be seen in our store windows. A succes- sion should be kept up by bringing in the desired quantity every week, unless you need them in a great hurry; they are so much finer when grown cool, but the ear- liest batches want a good brisk heat. I have not seen much profit in paper white narcissus for some years except for Christ- mas and New Year's; bringtheminatonce and give them a light bouse and no more heat I ban sufficient to get them open for the desired time. When grown in much heat they run to leaf, weak stem and small flower. You will soon have relief in your houses as the 'mums are cut and sold, and much it is needed just now. Your main crop of Easter lilies are still in frames, and while the weather is fine are as well off as in the greenhouse, but be prepared in case of heavy rain to cover them with glass, and don't let them have a sudden and severe frost. Two years ago in November I had several hundred marred by a severe frost. Nothing is more troubled with aphis than the Bermuda lily, and they get in the work deep down in the leaves, where fum- igation will hardly touch them, therefore every two weeks give them a syringing with the Roseleaf extract. A strength of 75 to 1 will keep off the greenfly, and 50 of water to one of the extract will kill the brutes. W. S. Catasetum Gnomus, Linden.* The blooming of this tropical South American species, which seems not closely related to any other known catasetum, has given opportun'ty for the following notes. In color it is quite unique, the sepals, with inflexed margins, being olive, much penciled with purplish maroon. The lower petals are of an olivaceous color, rather finely maroon-dotted on the back and with coarser blotches of the same color within, the margins paler. The bluntly conical labellum is of a yel- lowish olive color externally, with fire maroon dots, and most curiouslv trans- versely ridged along the center. The dis- tal portion of the ridge, which is strongly reflexed and of an ivory white, somewhat tinged with cream near the middle, is *C. Gnoraus, Linden, in lit.: Reichenbach, Xenia Orchidacea. ii. 171, pi. 170. fig;. V. 2, 3.— Andre, lUustratiou Horticole, xxiv. 2lt, pi. 270. i8g6. The American Florist. 293 CATASETUM GNOMUS. LIFE SIZE. finely fimbriate and acuminate. The basal half, below the crest, is of a green- ish color, with coarse maroon blotches. Within, the entire labellum is greenish white with similar coarse blotches of maroon. The column, greenish white down the face, is strongly maroon- mottled on the outside, and, with the usual large stigmat'C chamber of the true staminatecatasetums, has a pair of ten- tacles, one of which runs almost straight out into the lower part of the sac of the labellum, while the other arches across the base of the column and almost or quite in contact with it. The lower petals, which are pendent, have their inner edges caught by the pendeat lower sepal, which holds them together a short distance back of the column. The flowers exhale, especially in the early part of the day, a very strong fra- grance, somewhat suggestive of winter- green, and, as is usual with catasetums, the f jod which they offer to insects, and advertise by this odor, seems to be the thick, fleshy labellum. Experiment shows that both tentacles are irritable, a light touch with a pencil point on either caus- ing the prompt ejection of the poUinium, which accurately affixes itself to the iatruding object at some distance from its end. In nature, there is no reason to doubt that, as with C. tridentatum and otter species having the labellum above, bees alighting on the flower will do so on the top of the latellum reaching over its face, and in this way will receive the pollinia on their backs. Persons inter- ested in the pollination of this genus should consult Darwin's book on the fertilization of orchids. So far as I know, no ecological observations have hereto- fore been recorded on the species. Wm. Trelease. Steam Heating Troubles. I have two rose houses, one a little above the other on a slope of ground, both sunk so that the ground level comes nearly to the gutter. The pipes are only about eight inches above the water line of boiler. When firing, and with say ten pounds steam pressure, the water backs up into the pipes. Is there anyway this can be remedied ? We are so situated we can not lower the boiler or raise the pipes. Would a ball check valve help matters any? The pipes are I'i-inch feed overhead with 1-inch returns and 5 inches fall in 60 feet. Young Florist. "Young Florist" will have some diffi- culty in keeping an even circulation in his steam pipes and preventing the water backing up into bis pipes; with the boiler so near the surface level of the pipes; but he can help it considerably by placing a good check valve on the main return pipe near boiler, and in doing so I would advise him to drop the main return pipe with an elbow to the lowest point possible; as soon as it enters the boiler cellar carry along the floor of same till opposite the inlet to boiler, then rise with another elbow direct to same. By placing valve somewhere in this depressed piece of pipe which in itself will form a trap and be always full of water, the pressure of steam from the circulating pipes will force the valve open to allow the water to pass back to the boiler, providing there is only a moderate pressure of steam in the boiler; but with 15 pounds of steam, I am afraid "Young Florist" will always have some difiiculty in get- ting the water to return to the bailer sat- isfactorily. He does not say if the returns all drop into one larger pipe near the end of the house or on entering boiler room, but presuming that it is already arranged so and he has a union somewhere in it, it will be a very simple matter to arrange the return as advised above. Of course if he prefers to place the check valve where the main return leaves the greenhouse which is as he describes it 8 inches above the water line in his boiler, he can do so, but if he does it would still be a great help to make the drop in the pipe as much as possible, as it acts as somewhat of a deck to the back pressure at all times, being full of the coldest water in the whole system. It would have saved him much trouble and annoyance had he built his houses above the ground line, thereby gaining considerable rise for his piping above the water level, but it is hardly practicable to change now. If the above suggestions do not remedy the trouble, I should ad- vise adding two or three more pipes to each house, filling the whole system with water and running it as a hot water cir- culation under pressure; then the trouble will be eliminated at once. John N. May. Sea Sand for Propagating. A subscriber would like to know through the American Florist whether sea sand is of any use for propagating. Should like to hear from anyone who has used it with success. G. G. Sea sand is not a suitable material for the propagating bench on account of the quantity of salt contained therein. Prob- ably this objection could be removed by repeated washings, but it is doubtful if this would be a paying operation from the fact that a better material in the form of clean bar sand or quarry sand can be had at quite a moderate price. W. H. Taplin. New York. Beginning with the middle of last week, since which time the weather has been very favorable for the production of flow- ers, trade has shown a downward ten- dency and prices received by producers and wholesalers have fallen off considera- bly. Chrysanthemums have taken the biggest drop, amounting to fully fifcy per cent in all grades. Roses arein large sup- ply and with the exception of American Beauty also feel the effects of the stagna- tion which will doubtless continue now until after elcctiLn is over. Carnations, too, are beginning to drag, it being diffi- cult to realize over $1.50 per hundred for even the higher grades. Violets are com- ing along s'o wly with most of the grow- ers, but there seems to be a sufficient supply in market to meet the average de- mand. On lily of the valley, supply and demand are very evenly balanced at pres- ent. Cattleya labiata is seen now in per- fection in the leading store windows. The number of good chrysanthemums raised from seed every year is probably much underestimated. The world hears only of those that are submitted to the chrysanthemum society for approval, and of these only those that are certificated enjoy any extended popularity. But the standard has now been raised so high that many of the smaller growers possess seedlings that a few years ago would have created a sensation but which, although considered good enough for market purposes, are not regareled as available candidates for certificates. So we find all through the market varieties in great number, unheard of outside the circle of the grower who raised them, and bearing names never registered. Some years ago, predictions were made that in time chrysanthemum seed would resch such a quality that growers would raise their own stock from seed annually as is done with pansies and to some extent these predictions seem to have been already realized. The visitor to M. A. Hart's Thirtieth street bargain store finds himself almost buried behind a mountain of white chrys- anthemums every morning, but M. A.'s smile and dimples have a hypnotic effect upon every customer that goes west of the corner of Sixth avenue and by noon time the pile has vanished. 294 The American Florist. Oct. 31, One of the best selling chrysanthemums among the early varieties has been Glory of the Pacific of which C. W. Ward is send- ing large quantities to John Young. J. N. May's seedling pink chrysanthe- mum Elvena was awarded a well-deserved certificate of merit at the American Insti- tute exhibition. Mr. L. M. Noe, than whom there is no more successful American Btauty grown in the country, says in reference to the tbrips pest of wH^'h so many complain that he has found a most effectual remedy in Paris green dusted over the young plants before plan' ing tfcem in the benches. The Charles Trauth Co., wl o run the old Btrgmann place at Flatbush, are happy in the possession of a big lot of cyclamens of unequalled size and beauty. This was always a lucky spot for cycla- mens. Henry Siebrecht, Jr., has resigned his position as buyer for Siegel-Cooper & Co. to become a member of the firm of Sie- brecht & Son. Peter McDonald succeeds him. Rumor has it that Jerome Leahy has left the employ of John Lewis Childs and contemplates going on the stage. W. H. Young's new wagon is a dream of oriental magnificence and unique as a color scheme. W. S. Allen will start in the cut flower commission business at 17 West 28th street on November 1. Wm. Ellis for many years employed as a gardener by Alex McConnell, died on October 17. A. Herrmann reports the metal design and supply business as rushing on orders but slow on money, a very general com- plaint. A greenhouse 30x60 is to be built at the Flatbush hospital and convict labor will be utilized. Philadelphia. The committee having in charge the decoration of the new club room are mak- ing haste slowly; they have been unable as yet to get possession, but hope to bein the coming wetk. It was thought to have everything in readiness for the chrys- anthemum show, and it may be done yet, but at this writing it is not at all certain. The Horticultural Society is moving the library to their quarters in the new hall. Secretary Rust, whose cffice will occupy a corner of the same room, has his quar- ters about fixed up; when the question of heat is settled he will be glad to see the members of the society at any time. The entries for the show are coming in all right, and the exhibition promises to be a fine one. While there will not be much of a collection of pot plants, the display of cut blooms will be grand. It is said here and there that quite a num- ber of seedlings of merit will grace the tables. Mr. Harris has not been heard from lately, but is said this season to be grooming a dark horse or two. Almost any of the larger stores are stocked up with 'mums to such an extent that each seems to be holding a show of its own. There are a number of fine vari- eties about, chief among which are Mrs. Robinson, pink, and Ivory, white; the pink shade of the latter variety is well liked by the trade generally and is considered a great acquisition; Marie Louise, Domira- tion. Queen, H. Sundt rbrucb, Mrs. Whill- din, G. W. Childs and others. A few Bon- naffon are also on the market, but it seems singular to see them so early. Robert Craig has a fine house of this variety; the plants are in splendid condition, but not as yet a particle of color showing; another of Liberty, the late yellow, are in about the same condition. We can't help saying a word about his cyclamens; they are a magnificent lot of plants, and should equal anything yet offered to the trade in this section. The flowers are fast appearing, and the plants are very full of buds. Busicess the past few days has been quieter, some of the boys seem to be in it with special decorations, but the transient trade has really fallen off. There is an abundance of stcck and of fine quality. Roses, carnations and violets, are all im- proving, but the prices rem; io much the same as last wtek. 'Mums are being shaded a little, and it takes a fine dozen now to brirg $2.50; $1.50 to $2.00 is oftener the price, while good Ivory short to medium stems go for from 50 cents to $1 per dozen. A few extra teas bring $6 per hundred, but for the best oidinary $4- is the outside figure. Carnations sell fairly well at from $1 to $1.50. California violets 50 flowers to the bunch go at three bunches for $1 and many of these flowers arebunched wretchedly. D >ubles are getting better, but there is still lots of room for improvement; they sell from 50 to 75 cents. Mr. James Dean has been sending some plants of the "Boston" fern to this mar- ket, as grown by him it makesa fineplant and should sell well. The Gunters had a medal shoot last Tuesday afternoon and the trophy changed hands again, this time being won by A. B.Cartledge. Messrs. Harris, A. B. Cartledge and Anderson were tied with 20 targets hit in the first trial, but Mr. Cartledge was the only one to do so well in the shoot off and won; his handi- cap was four targets. Our commission men, Messrs. Reid, Pen- nock and Baker are carrying large stocks of chrysanthemums. Mr. J. J. Styer has hung out his shingle at 1305 Filbert street. He has a very commodious store room and refrigerators, and is fully equipped to do a large business. He expects to handle a large stock of carnations the coming winter. R. Krienberg is his right hand man and will have charge of the city business. K. Boston. Lovers of the beautiful and rare in flow- ers will be grieved to learn that it is pro- posed to considerably reduce the size of the orchid collection of the late F. L. Ames at North Easton, and that the lovely grotto which has been admired by thousands is to be demolished. It is very beautiful now and the ferns and begonias which carpet the ground were never more luxuriant. Among the rare orchids now in bloom are Cattleya Bowringeana in many fine varieties, one marked illacina being especially noticeable for its delicate, almost lavender blue, color. Cattleya Cassandra, a Ijelia hybrid, is very odd in color and appearance; a spiked ten flow- ers is just opening. Among Miltonias M. Moreliana Black Diamond attracts the eye by its unusual dark crimson color. Many cypripediums are coming into bloom, some of them being seedlings raised by the late Mr. Robinson and now about to show their first flower. Cypri- pedium Chas. Canham, a cross between villosum and superbiens, bears flowers of enormous size, and oneof the handsomest plants in the entire collection is the very rare white form of Selenipedium Dominii. In the stove house pitcher plants, crotons, palms and anthuriums are seen in grand form. The invitation to Scituate on October 22 was accepted by a goodly number of the friends of the host, Mr. Thos. A. Cox, and the trip was enjoyed to the highest degree. The day was perfect as though made to order. "Eat, drink and be merry" was the duty and privilege of the hour. It was the same old crowd that has so often in the past sung itself hoarse in the home of the "Old Oaken Bucket" and the time-honored melody never re- ceived a more enthusiastic rendering than on this occasion. One solemn moment only there was when the name of Wm. Robinson was spoken and every one rose to his feet to pay a silent tribute to the memory of a beloved friend and companion who had always beeo preeminently the life of these enjoyable reunions. Chrysanthemums are everywhere in all colors and sizes, with prices very low when handled in quantity. A tendency to moderation in size of bloom is noticea- ble this season, only a limited quantity of enormousflowers being in evidence and these causing no special excitement among the buyers. Except for exhibiiion pur- poses it is evident that the day of striv- ing for size of bloom as a first requisite, is past. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Dawson have gone for a few days' visit to Lenox, Schenectady and vicinity. Wm. Doogue has, as predicted in these columns some months ago. been reap- pointed to the position of City Forester. Geo. A. Sutherland's store looms up in a new coat of white paint in anticipation of a big winter's business. Buffalo. There may be a good many fall wed- dings going on, but they are not making much stir in the floricultural lite. The heavy-weights are to come. Neither have any "buds " appeared on society's hoii- zon. Oh, we do like those sweet buds to come out! They charm the soul and pocket of the florist more than weddingF, receptions or any other social affair. The stringency in the flower market is over, carnations are coming in much more freely, violets are not yet up to standard; roses of good quality are now plentiful. Strange to say, there are some first-class roses cow cut at Cold Springs, mostly Bride, Bridesmaid, Morgan and Wootton; it must be an accident, nevertheless it's a fact. It seems we can't do without the Cana- dians. A good worthy young Canuck is turned back at the bridge by a brutal immigration inspector whose nationality strives to own every soft job in this coun- try, while thousands of the most degraded people of southern Europe are welcomed at the gates of New York. Why is this thus? It's strange, and yet it can be eas- ily explained in its proper place, but not in a horticultural journal. But as I was saying, we can't give the Canadians the entire cold shoulder, for more than one firm here get daily magnificent roses grown by that prince of rose growers. Hairy Dale, and they are far ahead of anything we see, either sent here or in our travels. They are wonderful! Some peo- ple say there is nothing in a name, but I think otherwise, for Harry Dale is a truly poetical name. Canada produces the best barley in the world and the best ale, except Burton, and as ale and Dale is a good rhyme there is surely something in it. And Burton John comes in again as the great Beauty grower, an association all round, see? Chrysanthemums are here in full force, but there is hardly yet the demand for good blooms that we would like to see, Day Dawn, Mrs. Robinson, Yellow Qu'cn, Viviard-Morel, Lager and Ivory arc now i8g6. The American Florist. 295 CARYOTA URENS FRUITING. CEYLON. at their best. Atout two weeks ago we rtceived from Dailledouze Bros, a few blooms of Yellow Monarch. They said in their letter that they cut the first flow- ers October 1. The flowers were full size, of fine form and of theshadeof Hitzeroth. The Monarch surely must command first place as an early yellow. Mr. Dennis O'Connell just dropped in to say that his house of American Beau- ties is a sight just now, and any cuts over eight dozen a day he is willing to dis- pose of; remember this, brother towns- man, as it may help you out some time. The success of Mr. O'Connell is a complete refutation to the assertion that youcan't grow high grade roses within the city limits. Mr. Wm. A. Kasting is about to sever his connection with Mr. D. B. Long. Mr. K. has for several years largely managed the cut flower commission businessof Mr. Long, and is very popular with all the retailers. It may happen than Mr. Kast- ing will assume that part of Mr. Long's multifarious business, if so it will please everybody all round. Mr. Long has just received from Belgium a fine lot of Azalea indica which are of extra quality. Wm. Scott has improved his store by 296 The American Florist. Oct. 31, tearing out the front door, and has placed the entraKce to one side, giving him an 11- foot window. He was kindly assisted by his corpulent landlord with a grin and a nod. The florists had a eood meetingearly in the month at the office of Prof. Cowell, botanical director, and a great deal of postponed business was disposed of. We were all so impressed with what Mr. Cowell has done with his meagre appro- priations that we resolved when city appropriation time come around again that our influence shall be used with all the power we can muster to get him some glass worthy of this city. For the benefit of our St. Louis friends I want to say that Philip S. played a match of bowls last week with one of the champions of this much bowled city. The florist vanquished his opponent and made an average of 186 in 10 games, missing only three possible spares. We seldom play except at conventions, but a revival may take pkce, as there is a match on for a supper between W. J. Palmer, Sr., and W. S., 10 games, the veteran W. J. to give W.S. 15 points in every game. Youboys don't know the old man; 20 years ago he was a terror on the alleys. W. S. St. Louis. The heavy receipts of roses that were coming in last week have decreased some- what, but the market for them does not improve, however, owing to the increased crop of chrysanthemums. Home grown 'mums are coming in now in larger quan- tities and some that could be used for prize blo( ms. Thesouthern grown stock is slow in selling and only at cheap prices; good large house grown 'mums bring 25 cents each and southern grown are gen- erally a loss to the shipper. Yellow 'mums had the call last week and enough cou'd not be had. Business has improved somewhat the past week and flowers are sel'ing a little faster but the supply is too great to keep pace with the demand. The prices hold up very well considering the competition. The growers generally ex- press themselves as being fairly well sat- isfied. Beauties are $1.50 to $2 per dozen. Extra good Brides, Kaiserins, Meteors and Bridesmaids bring $3 to $4 per hundred. Peiles and other roses go at $2. Carnations are very fine for the season. Daybreak and Scott are the best sellers and bring $1.50 to $2 for the best. Vio- Itts are plentiful and sell at 20 cents per hundred. Valley is bringing $4 and smi- lax 15 cents per string, but it is not extra good. The lithographs forthechrysanthemum show are out and in the windows of the florists and other stores are making a good appearance. The committee reports everythingfavorable and prosptcts good. The program is in the hands of the printer and will be distributed in a few days; it will be larger than last year. The club's special prize this year is $40 for handle basket not less than 12 inctes and not more than 16 inches in diameter; $25 for first and $15 for second. The next meeting of the club will be held Thurs- day afternoon, November 5, at 3 p. m. This being the last meeting before the show every member is requested to be prestnt to receive his tieketsforthe show, and other busiatss of great impoitance to all will come up at this meeting. Visitors in town this week were £d. Herms representing W. A. Manda of South Orange, N. J., and P. W. Von Bocklemann of Gretn Co., Floral Nursery, White Hail, Ills. Wm. Trillo w of 0!d Orchard is sending in some fine roses as good as any coming to this market. Eugene F. Wiegel, for eight years park commissioner, died last wetk at his home at Geyer and Ohio avenues. A large number of florists attended his funeral. Mr. Wiegel was well liked and respected by all who knew him. The death rate among the trees at For- est Park has been unusually large during the past summer, about 800 were killed by the tornado, 600 died from natural causes and 100 more succumbed to the regular winds. The park commissioner is preparing to replace them with 2,000 new saplings. Charlie Kuehn was ill for a few days last week; he must have been very sick, as he did not bowl Monday night with the boys. A miniature prairie fire swept over a large part of Carondelet Park last Sun- day, and that it did not result in serious damage is due to a fortunate circum- stance. The flames could not cross the embankment and finally died out from lack of fuel. A plat of several acres had everything on it consumed, much of the shrubbery and trees being injured. The bowlers were out in full force Mon- day night and had a good time for three hours, bowling four games. C. Beyer came out on top with 538 in three games Benecke second 536, and Fillmore third 500. Beyer was also high on single score 216. This gave him the silver cigar case having made the three highest single score in four Monday nights. This will be presented to him filled with cigars next Monday night. A great time is expected, perhaps a banquet, who can tell. JJ-B. Toronto. Whether it is owing to the gold mine boom or the raise in the price of grain, I don't know, but it is a fact that trade in our line has been very good for this time of year, although some other lines are said to be in a bad way owing to depart- mental stores and other causes. Chrys- sanlhemums of course are the mainstay at present. Tidy reports that he received this morning, some beautiful Viviand- Morel and Mrs. Robertson; Dale is send- ing in some very fine Beauty and Whit- ney Roses, also Marie Louise, Farquhar and California violets. Carnations are still very scarce. A contemprary wants to know "what is the matter with the clubs." Well, we don't think there is muchthematter with our club, or association as we call it. Summer meetings are always sparsely attended and I suppose always will be; the many gardeners and florists who have to work hard, and often late, dur- ing the hot weather can hardly be ex- pected to clean up and rush down town. But our October meeting last Tuesday was very we'l attended and was really livelv and interesting. A lot of business mostly connected with the coming show was attended to, all voting on the various questions raised as if anxious to help things along in the right way. The great mistake made by many ciubs is that they try to keep things up to a fever heat all the time. It can't be done; a fever subject either dies or returns to his normal con- dition with a wholesome dread of all fevers. It is proposed this year to have a sup- per on Wednesday, November 25, of the show week and a committee has been appointed to consider ways and means, and requested to report at the next regular meeting wh'ch will occur the week before the show. Something of the sort would be very apropriatein order to have a sociable time with guests, judges, visitors, etc. Messrs. Palmer (junior) and Meyers of Buffalo were in Toronto last week and looked In at the association meeting. Mr.J. H. Dunlop, first vice-president of the association was also present. On reading his notes in the last issue your correspondent had to take a serious retrospect of what happened on the day they were written, was he "inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity" or with something worse? No, he was perfectly sober in all respects. If it was the correspondent himself, be humbly apologizes for the mixture as he meant to say that the Pavilion had been already engaged by other parties for the second week in November; the first week was out of the question heing altogether too early and the show might as well be held dur- ing the fourth as the third week it being only five days later than last jear and four days later than the year before, and that although everyone admitted that the date was too late there need be no doubt about the success of the show if all did their best. E. Chicago. Business is not booming here just at present, although last week the sales all around were large, and bade fair to con- tinue so. I'nfortunately the tide has taken a turn, and the contrast to last week is all the more striking. A few days ago it was almost impossible to get enough roses and carnations to supply the demand, and now there is not enough demand to get rid of the supply. Violets never looked better and the market is filled with fine Marie Louise, Californias and Luxonnes, but the deal- ers all say that they cannot sell them at any price. Carnations are coming in at a great rate in all colors, and the white varieties are more plentiful, bringing a good price. The market is overstocked with chrys- anthemums, and fine ones too, which make the dealers all wish that the show came a few days earlier. The warm weather has been favorable to overpro- ductiveness, especially when the date of the show is a week later. In spite of the business depression, the commission men all take an optimistic view of affairs, and feel sure that business will be better soon, which is certainly a sensible way to look at matters. Mr. Geo. Wittbold was on; of the vic- tims of the plant thieves who have been making life a burden to north side florists. Some of Mr. Wittbold 's houses abut on the street and after 10 nights watching for the theif he was caught in one of these houses. It was discovered that he made entrance through one of the ventilators and passed plants out to an accomplice. While Mr. Wittbold can not say exactly how much has been taken he thinks his losses will foot up to at least $1 000. The stealing has been going on for over a year. In one night a dozen fine kentias were missed, plants that would wholesale at $5 each. The West Park Board has awarded contracts for a new greenhouse in Doug- las Park. Mr. E. G. Uihlein will as usual make a fine display at the annual exhibition. It will include the rare Ptivnix Koebelini and a lot of almost unique specimens recently received by him from Brazil. Word has been received that Edwin R )yle, husband of Emily Taplin RoyI?, died at Detroit, Mich., early the morning i8g6. The American Florist. 297 of October 27, wbile on the way from Chicago to New York. Mr. Royle had been seriously ill for some time, and it was hoped that the trip east would be beneficial to his health, but it seems he was not destined lo reach his old home alive. Mrs. Royle will have the sincere sympathy of her many friends in her bereavement. San Francisco. The beautiful summer-like weather we are having here is still heiping to keep all the 'mums in theirglory. As yet we have been perfectly free from frosts and rain both of which prove so injurious to all our outside cbrysanthemnm?. It is gen- erally believed that the first great rush of 'mums is nearly over and firom this time on the quantity will be gromiag smaller, which no doubt will be beneficial to both the growers and the lelailers, as the very low prices which 'mums have been bring- ing this season has hardly paid the grow- ers the cost of production. The Chinese growers, our greatest competitors, still have immense quantities of cheap small stuff which they dump on the market every morning at any price that is offered to them. High grade stock such as Queens, Dailledouze and Bonnaffon, how- ever, still seem to hold up the prices. We note the new white Mrs. Robinson com- ing from Mr. Lynch's place and judging by its sale conclude that it is going to be a standard sort in this market. It is cer- tainly a beautiful thing, having much more substance than either Niveus or Queen. Major Bonnaffon seems to have captured the popular favor and is all the rage in yellow. Roses are improving every day, the color is getting darker and also much bet- ter flowers. As a general rule they are bringing 20 cents, with the possible ex- ception of Beauty, which still holds out at $1 per doz;n. Carnations are coming in a little faster than last week. S:ott and Daybreak are scarce. Mr. Sydney Clack is sending in some excellent white ones. We notice that several of our lead- ing growers have planted quite a lot of that new California while "Redondo" which is without any question the most prolific white carnal ijn we have seen. Owing to the unusually warm weather that we have been having the violets do not seem to come out very quickly, although the California has improved wonderfully during the past week. Lady Hume Campbell is quite popular when picked loosely. We do not see so much of that old favorite. Czar anymore; it has been nearly superseded by the Califor- nia. Swanley white also is scarce, with but little demand. Plant business seems to he improving slowly, ferns especially being in demand. Wesawat Mr. Lynch's place a beau'iful sport from the W. H. Lincoln chrysanthemum being almost identical with its parent with tiie excep- tion of color which is a light brorze yel- low. It certainly looks very promising and has been much admired. Mr. David V. Tuttle who has charee of Mr. C. M. Felton's place at Menlo Park has many new and interesting things to show us in the chrysanthemum line. The one in particular which is attra.-ting much attention is the rew white called "Western King," a production of Nathan Smith & Son. It is claimed to be an im- provement over Niveus and it ceitainly is. He has one bloom 17 inches across and 5V.> inches deep which he considers very excellent. His seedling cannas have given very satisfactory results and his chrysanthemums also. A floral fair was held in Pleasanton last week which was well attended. Very few professionals showed, although a large number of amateurs turned out. This is the first flower show in this place and it is to be hoped that others will follow. Mr. M. Dooley formerly with Donnelly & Dunne in Hollister has returned to the city and has opened business at 319Copp street. Mr. Chas. Navlet of San Jose was a visitor during the week. Mr. Frank Pottet of Sixth street spent last Sunday visiting the growers at Menlo Park. The conservatory in Golden Gate Park is now attracting much attention. The Victoiia Regia has bloomed again for the sixteenth time. This seems to have done very well here and is looking exceedingly healthy. Several of the different orchids are now blooming as also many cypripe- diums. The Drac^aasare fine and all the decorative stock is looking very healthy. The display of chrysanthemums is very excellent, all the old standard sorts as well as the newer sorts are being shown. They have succeeded in getting a sport from Edwin Molleneux which they con- sider very promising. The Santa Clara County Floral Society has decided to hold a chrysanthemum show this fall but up to the present I have been unable to ascertain the date of the show. The Floral Show at Redwood City which opens next week promises to be very good. Many of the largest growers have entered, also some amateurs. Meteor. Pittsburg. Business continues to move along in about the same volume as last week. Chrysanthemums are coming in in quan- tities, good variety and quality; some extra finespecimens were exhibited, prices ranging from 50 cents per dozen for small, inferior stock up to $4 and $6 for fine and extra fine. Carnations and roses plenty; no change in prices. Elliott & McGinness report business fair. Bulb trade is very good, but prices low, not what they ought to be. Along with other orders they had an extra rose efecoration in Washington County this week at a swell reception given by one of the oil piincesses of that county. Messrs. Gibbs & Son, Woodville, Pa., sent in this week very fine Cal fornia vio- lets; this variety has proved a success with them, the foliage good and the blooms very large. They have also just commenced cutting 'mums, which are up to the standard for quality. Miss E. B. Maxwell, Wilkinsburg, has succeeded in working up quite a good business in the short time since commenc- ing here about one year ago; she says there is considerable Improvement notice- able in the demand for flowers this month. Miss M. still adheres to her pol- icy of only keeping first-class stock, and to which she attributes in a great meas- ure her success, even if she is the only flo- rist in this flourishing (12,000 popula- tion ) suburb of Pittsburg. The club held a regular meeting on Thursday night, 22d inst., with about thirty members in attendance, being the first time a quorum has been secured since early in September. The call was marked "social." After the routine business had been disposed of a very earnest discussion ensued regarding the best ways and means required to arouse the waning inter- est evidenced by non-attendance. Social meetings have been tried for some time, and only on those special nights did the members turn out in any desirable force, the between nights being conspicuous by having no quorum present. It wasfinally settled that the social meetings would be discontinued, and that a committee of three arrange to have an address or lec- ture for each meeting, and they not to confine themselves to members of thsclub for material to carry this idea to a satis- factory conclusion. It is expected that Mr. J. A. Sbafer of Carnot, Pa., (a member) will give us the first "talk" at the next meeting, Novem- ber 12 — subject, asters. He has recently been actively engaged in classifying the asters of this region and has, I under- stand, nearly three dozen different varie- ties on his list at present. As he is a fine botanist his address ought to prove instructive as well as interesting. It was a!so determined to have a ques- tion box opened. This should be pro- ductive of good results, and it is confi- dently anticipated that the members will attend in good number, for they cannot now rightfully complain of "nothingto be learned or nothing going on of interest," as many have done heretofore. Mr. J. W. Glenn of Kittanning was pro- posed for membership, and a satisfactory report of the financial condition of the club was read. As the club has not a room with exclusive privileges, so they could be properly cared for, it was re- solved to return to each the trophies won at Cleveland in August by the shooting and bowling teams; they will soon arrange a tournament, the result of which will decide who will becomethe fortunate possessor of the trophies. S. S. Skidelsky, representing M. Rice & Co., Philadelphia, was here the early part of the week. Regia. Morristown, N. J. A Florists' and Gardeners' Club for Morris County, has been organized with the following officers: A. Harrington, President; W. Duckham, vice-president; William Charlton, treasurer; William H. Thimas, S' cretary; R. H. Herms, Richard Hanson, David Sbannon, William H. GrifSn, J. and T.Jones, H.C.Holmes, and and Cbarles H. Atkins, executivecommit- tee. Twenty-five members in addition to the above have been enrolled. The club has decided to hold an exhibition in in Lyceum, Morristown, on November 10, 11, 12, 1896. OiBITUA.ie'V. Baron Ferdinand Mueller, the well known botanist, died at his home in Melbourne, Australia, October 9, aged 71 years. His contributions to botanical literature have been numerousand valua- ble and his death is a serious loss to science. The reference lists in the new Directory and Reference book give descriptions and other valuable information regarding 2,543 varieties of roses, 2,988 varieties of chrysanthemums, 495 varieties of carna- tions and 524 varieties of cannas. Hagerstown, Md. — A greenhouse be- longing to L. A. B. Roche was destroyed by flre last Wednesday evening. The title page for our annual chrysan- themum number, to be issued November 14, will make a sensation. Thompsonville,Conn.— D.Wm. Brain- ard is erecting a carnation house 16x44. 298 The American Florist. Oct. 31^ Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe, $2.00, Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, 10 Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 51.40; Column, S14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed* Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent j 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times, 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The AdTertlsing Department of the American FLORIST l3 for Florists, Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those tinea Only. Please to remember it. Orders tor less than one-half inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure insertion In the Issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. We shall publish our annual chrysan- themum number November 14. It will have an unusually striking special title page and will contain a large amount of valuable matter pertaining to the"Queen of Autumn," all freely and handsomely illustrated. Though this number will be of extra value as an advertising medium there will be no increase in rates. Send advs. early so we may have time to get them up in our best style. Vegetation in Ceylon. We present in this issue the first of a series of engravings from photographs showing the growth of palms and some other subjects in Ceylon, which will, we telieve, be a revelation to our readers, particularly those showing well known species of the palm family in bloom and fruit. Heating Capacity of Boiler. In writing my reply to "Young Flo- rist," which appeared on page 184 of the American Florist, I used a small pad, one of the leaves of which was unintention- ally left out in mailing same. The omis- sion of this leaf, which happened to con- tain the most important item in my com- munication made the reply so incomplete thit I would ask you to state that in my judgment the boiler mentioned would heat 20,000 square f^etof ground surface, provided the houses are constructed as I recommended. S.J. Redter. Westerly R. I. WM. SCOTT, Pres. H. B. BUDDENBORC, Mgr. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. Wild SmilaxflGreen NOW READY. See our New Catalogue tor prices. . . . WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE. WIS. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet, Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, YoT DecoratlDK and all Florists' DobIkdh. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitchell Co.. N. C. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED! YOU SAVE SC^'" in time and wages by making your Green Garlands and Wreathing on our binding macbine. 30 days to responsible parties. PfiCB of Machine $8.00. On cash orders lO'/t oflf. Send for descriptive circulars. THE SCOTT BINDER CO., ^T& :^l£L±±-». {Street, :BUFFi"A.I^O, IV. "V. C^PgEpW6UPPlJE] vKworT /AlL^ Wl^'^ The New York Cut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733. ISth St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . CONSIGN TO HVY FROM M. A. HART, Commission "^^N^" Cut Flowers, 113 WEST 30TH STREET. NEW YORK CITY. THE 15EST MARKET IN NEW YORK. TRAENDLY & SGHENCK, Wholesale Florists, Control Ihe stock of many celebrated growers and are prepared to quote prices on First Grade Cut Flowers. All varieties. 38 West 28th St.. and Cut Flower Exchange, Tel. HGl 18th Street. NEW YORK CITY. FRED. EHRET, Wli0l6sai6 Fiorisi), No. 1403 Fairmount Avenue, Telephone, Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. J. J. STYER, Wholesale Florist 1305 FILBERT STREET, ' ===1 PHILADELPHIA. A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 It lOS Liberty Street (BasenieDt). CHAS. W. McKELLAR, 5 \ GIVE ME YOUR ORDERS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of attention Klven to the shipping trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED. F. WINTERSON, Mgr. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS GUT FLOWER CO. .1. 15. DEAMUD, Mgr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Ag-ents. CmCA.GrO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE COMMISSION * FLORIST. 88 WABASH AVENUE. Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, lies PINE STREET, -^^ ST. LOUIS, MO. tWA complete line of Wire DeslgiiH. H. L. SUNOERBRUCH, Wholesale Florist 4th and WALNUT STREETS, E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, i^ ST. PAUL, MINN. CUT SMILAX, lGt>. iJtsr string;. JOSEPH E. BONSALL, 308 Garfield Ave.. Salem, 0, t8g6. The American Florist. 299 E. H. HUNT. Wholesale piiORisT 68 Lake Streef, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BULBS ABD AIiL FI.OBISTS' SUFFIiIES. KENNIGOTT BROS. CO. WHolGsalG GUI Flowors and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 55 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIKK WOKK A SPKCIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO. If you want FlrfllrClasa Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, aend us your orders and you will Ret what you want. ^Ve are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. EBi-' CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, .^ CMIOA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all onlers an abort notice wlili all leading varieties of Hoses and CarnntlonB. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give ua a trial and convince voiirself Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W". B. IiYNCH! WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. .^m- CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Attention to atl Ortlers. A. L. RANDALL, wtioi6§aie Fiona 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. AKent for finest urades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©yfiofeAafa MarfteU. Cut Flowers. New York. Oct. 2S Roses. Beauty, extra 10 00325 00 common 2.00('ii 5.00 Meteor. Testont 2.00* 4 00 all other yarletles 1.00® :t. 00 Tarnations 75® 1 110 extra 1-50® 2 IKI Valley :100 Violets 50® 1.01 Chrysanthemums S.OOfe' 5. CO Adlantum .50 Smilax 8.0O@I0.0O Asparagus 60.00 Boston, Oct. 28. Roses. Gontler. NlphetoB 60a 1.00 Perle. Mermet l.OOa 2 III) Bride. Bridesmaid, Meteor 2.0O9 4 oil Beauty 6 008 2i (JO Carnations 1.003 150 fancy 1503 2 00 Violets 60(51 1.00 Valley 3 00f.o 4 00 Chrysanthemums 2.00(" II.IIO fancy 10.roi.i20 III Adlantum 75<" 1.00 Smilax 10.00ijl2.00 Asparagus 50 00 PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 2S Roses, Beauties t;.00'*12 00 Bride. Bridesmaid. La France, etc... 3.009 4 00 Kalserln 3.00i.s 4,00 smallteas 2.00(9 4 00 •' extrateas li Oil Carnations 1 00® 1 50 Cosmos 50® .75 Valley 3.0l«i 4 10 Violets, double 7.iSl .00 Smilax I'.OUol."! (10 Asparagus 35.0O(S.5O.UI Adlantum 1 .00 Chicago Oct m. Roses. Beauties O.0O(fl'2O.0O seconds 5 110 Brides. Bridesmaid 1.003 3.00 Meteors 1.00(S; 3 oo Perle. Wootton l.OOi.i 2,00 Testout 3 00(.< 5 CO Kalserin 3.0U* 5.00 Carnations 1 IKIi" 175 " extra se'ect 2.00 Cosmos :i5c per bunch Swalnsona, per dozen bunches 1.00 Dahlias 1.00 Chrysanthemums, se'ect, per doz. l.CO^l.50 southern grown 2.00® li.OO Valley 4.10 Smilax 10.00312 00 Adlantum 1.00 St. Loms, Oct. 29 Roses, Beauties, long SOOisso.OO short 5 00(« li OO select stock 3.00(" 4 00 generalstock 1.00(.i 2.00 Carnations l..')0®2.00 " common 1 00 Vloletsslngle .25 '■ double 50(.' 1.00 (."hrysanllieiuums home grown 1 50(" 3 00 southern grown 2 00(" 4,00 Valley 4 .W Asparagus 35 00(".i0.00 Asters 1 00 Smilax 10.00815 00 V'erns, Adlantum 1 . 00 GEORGE fl. SUTttERLflND, Successor to PECK & SUTHERLAND, Successors to WM. J. STEWART, Gut Flowersi Florists' Supplies 67 Brompeld St., BOSTON, MASS. New England Agent tor the GREAT ANTIPEST. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS* SUPPLIES, FLORISTS' VASES. METS, BRIDES, GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND. 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON, MASS. HOKTICULTDEAL ADCTIOSEERS, WBLCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET, Near Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS. John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Carnations ^Chrysanthemunis CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. THOS. ^^OUJVG, Jr., 43 W. 28th St., NEW YORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN, WHOLESALE 39 West 28th Street. NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street, NEW YORK, WH0LE8EE » FLORIST. Carefnl Shipping: to all parts of the coiiiitry« Frfce list on application. Purdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30lh St., NEW YORK. Prepare for Fall Trade. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, Address JOHN YOUNG, 5/ W. SSth Street, NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG3 CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34lh Siraet, Cut Flower Exchange, NEW YORK. JULIUS LANG, Dealer in WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, CoRNmR 30TH St.. NEW YORK. Consig:niiierits Solicited. 300 The American Florist. Oct. 31, Sfta gaaS Irac^s. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. Wood, Pres.; Alex. Rodoers and J. B. Rice. Vice-Presidents; A. L. Don, 114 Chambers Street, New York, Sec'T and Treas. Visiting New York: J. M. Kimbsrlin, Santa Clara, Cal. Visited Chicago: Max Wilhelmi, Chas. W. Betbe. Well posted travelers in the seed trade report business at an absolute standstill, saying nothing whatever cin be done before election. Owing to the very favorable season the growers are all through harvesting seeds. Asters have just been cleaned up and have proved a shoit crop but as California is now leading in the pro- duction of aster seed this will hardly make any material difference in the mar- ket. Nasturtiums have been almost a complete failure. Several of the seed growers are busily engaged cleaning seed at present. Sweet peas are all harvested and also nearly all shipped. Owing to the short crop in some places many varie- ties are completely sold out. Cupid is making good the statements of its intro- ducer as to its blooming qualities. At this late date it is still in blootn and is likely to continue so until the frosts appear. Meteor. Free Seeds. The application of D. M. Ferry & Co., the great seed merchants of Detroit, for an ir junction to restrain the secretary of agriculture and bis assistants from executing the law of congress directing free seed distribution, will attract atten- tion orci more to this most obnoxious form of paternalism which has had the emphatic condemnation of the secretary, the press and the people. In defiance of popular protest congress voted to expend the usual amount of the people's money for seeds with which the congressmen will endeavor to purchase the good favor of theirruralconstituents. It is probable that the D.troit firm has hit upon the best plan for attacking this grave abuee, which is so entirely out of consonance with the snirit of our demo- cratic institutions.— (T^zVa^o Herald. Cleveland. Business until the past week has shown but little life, but with the advent of the chrysanthemum in considerable quantities things seem to have taken on a great deal more animation. In fact, trade has been very fair during the last week. Neither has any surplus flowers of any kind been developed through the coming of the chrysanthemum season. Carnations have been rather scarce and have sold at from $1 to $1.50 per hundred. Roses are of a good quality and havenotgoneto waste; they have held at former prices which are however, slightly below rates for corres- ponding time last year. The fact that the crop is off with some growers and on the wane with about all the others may have had a very great influence on the prices. In chrysanthemums, Bergmann, Kate Brown, Marion Henderson and E. G.Hill are pretty well through blooming, but Ivory, Mrs. Henry Robinson, J. E Liger, Whilldin and Viviand-Morel are now offered in good quality. They seem to sell fairly well at from $1 to $3 per dozen according to grade, however, to retail at the latter figure they have to be extra fine. There is no diificulty in carrying around the profit on them so far as can be discovered. Out door flowers are all gore and do not seem to be wanted any- how, so that roses, carnationsand chrys- anthemums have the field entirely to themselves. The meeting of the Florists' Club held Tuesday evening was very lively by rea- son of various matters connected with the exhibition, whichit was finally decided should be held upon the dates originally contemplated, namely, November 11-13. There had been some thought of makiag it one week later on account of the apparent lateness of all chrysanthemum stock suitable for exhibition, but other conflicting attractions at the later date, combined with the fine weather of the last few days, which has hurried 'mums considerably, caused the original plans to be adhered to. A long list of special priz s from various business firms and private individuals, was announced. It was also decided to hold the next regular meeting in the Cleveland Grays' Armory, where the exhibition is to be held. It was thought that inasmuch as this meeting fals upon the night immediately preced- ing the opening of the exhibition, a better attendance would be secured than by ask- ing busy members to adjourn to the regular meeting hall. A. Cincinnati. During the early part of last week trade was fairly brisk, owing largely to several important weddings. Wholesale prices in cut flowers remain about the same as in the week previous, in fact no change is recorded in roses, carnations and violets. Chrysanthemums are coming in freely and prices have fallen somewhat, still there is a fair demand for the choice. The Rosebank greenhouses are cutting some excel'ent American Beauties, which find a ready market. Fred. Walz has a house full of seedling carnations, among them several of great promise; nearly all are in their second year and will be heard from during the winter season. Fred is also the lucky possessor of a yellow sport of the M s. Robinson chrysanthemum. The flower, growth and foliage are identical with those of its parent. Mr. Theo. Bock of Hamilton exhibited a vase of a seedling 'mums at the market house on October 24. The flowers were of enormous size, measuring 8 inches across; it is a pure white antl Mr. Bock claims it can be had in bloom as early as Mrs. Robinson. The Sixth Street Floner Market on Saturday was well worth seeing; the 50 stands were well decorated with 'mums but prices are not up to former years. The committee appointed a week ago to wait upon our trustees to secure the mar- ket house for a three day chrysanthemum show and sale, reported that our worthy trustees are not in favor of it this year, although they never objecled in former years. Nearly all the stand-holders are very much disappointed and from all appearances now it seems as though it would be declared ofl'. H. Schwarz. New Bedford, Mass.— The ninth an- nual chr_\santhemum exhibition of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of New Bed- ford, will be held at Adelphi Rink, Novem- ber 9 to 12, followed by a g-aid ball Friday evening, November 13. Several uew varieties and some very fine plants of theolderonesareexpectcd to beshown. Further information can be had from A. J. Fish, Sec'y, 78 Allen street. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. Advertisements under this head will be Inserted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTBI)-By Horlst and gardener; practical In aJl branches. Can be well recom- mended. Address W P, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED - In flrst^class cut flower store or wholesale conimlaalon house. Able mafcer- up and decorator. Good references. Address B W, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTKI)-By practical florist, experi- enced plantsman ; Dusted on the requisites of com- mercial place. For particulars address PRACTICAL, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED -First-class German florist; age :iO; long experience. Pilvate place preferred. Three years with last employer References Address Chas. Vorbeck. \U\ Ilerndon St., Chicago. SITUATION WANTED-As foreman In good com merclal or private place, by thoroughly flrst-class single man who is well known in the trade. Address GR<»wi:R, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED~By good all round florist and gardener: married. Private or commercial, where faithful worit will be appreciated and paid for. Address F, care Henry Evans, Lancaster, 0. SITUATION WANTEI)-By a German gardener and florist; single; 22 years' experience; conversant with roses, miscellaneous cut flowers, palms and gen- eral plants. Can furnlnh proof. Address H N B, Florist, TSi N. Main St., Providence, R. I. SITUATION WANTED-By gardener and florist; 31 years old, single; i:i years experience; private or commercial; steady and sober. Best of references. Private place near Cincinnati. Hamilton or Richmond preferred. Gardener, care American Florrlst. SITUATION WANTED-By a flrst-class grower of cut flowers and plants. Life experience In first- class establishments In England and America. Parties wanting a reliable man, whose aim la the top, should correspond with Roses, care F. R. Utlls. Maywood, ill. SITUATION WANTED— In commercial or private O place, by practical florist and gardener: good grower and propagator; 13 years' experience; German, single, age '27. First class references Want place by November 15 or December 1, in New York. Address A S, care American Florist, Chicago. ANTED— A second-hand boiler to heat a green- house r2x2o feet. Address Lock Box No. 20, Blllcottvllle. N. Y. w WANTED— A practical tlorlBt with little money can hear of a fl^8^cla88 chance to eetabllsh hlmeelf . Address DUB, care American Florist. FOR SAI.S— A retail tlorlst store In a thriving city of 7000 Inhabitants, the only one In the city. A bar- gain If sold ut once. Address A D, care American Florist. Chicago. FOR SALE— Two No. 7 and one No. t; Ilerendeen boilers In splendid condition; only been used two years. Cheap Apply to G. K. Jones. 1011 Tacoma Building. Chicago. 8IEBRE6HT & SON'S PALMS, FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N. Y. Mention American Florist. CHINESE PRIMROSES, fine 3-inch stock, white and red $4.00 per 100 BEGONIAS — Rex and Flowering, 3-incli stock $5.00 per 100 Choice line of 4-in. pot Roses, $5. CO per too TFRMS C.^Sn WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. When writing mention the American Flokits .. CDLJF? .. Trader Directory REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896 Contains a vast amount of valuable reference mat- ter in addition to the Directory I.ist. Px-io^ ^a.oo. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 DEARBORN ST. CHICAGO. i8g6. The Americam Florist. 301 r »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ "SURE CROP" I •FLORISTS" FLOWER SEEDS. I ♦ WEEBER & DON, lft?S,r" , :* ri4 Chambers St., NEW YORK. \ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Calla Bulbs. \Yi to \)i inches in diameter, ;f4.00 per 100; jS35 00 per 1000. Address CALIFORNIA NURSERY CO., BULBS for FORGING and Gardening, NOW QUOTED. AT HARD TIMES PRICES. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood, N. J. C. H. JOOSTEN. Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. SPEIC^X.A.TJ'X'XEISi Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Slocks. Catalogues on application. TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. K^t^tre new seasuii'B luushruom spawn l8 due at this port November 25; will guarantee delivery on time If have your order at once. REnrcED pkices. Wrlt« me to-day for full particulars, Ci. C. WATSON. 43 North lOth Street, Pliila- deluhia, U. S- A., J36^0wnerof the celebrated '*\V P.'* brand (Watpon's I'rullOc) Mushruura Spawn. My 24-page booklet on Mushroom Culture free to buyers or Intending buyers: to othera, 10 cents. Robinson. 5(ic,; Kalcuner. $1..^. Lily of the Valley Pips. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. SOLE AGENT FOR F, C. POMRENCKE, Hamburg. 50,000 FERNS. Choice varieties from 2-inch pots, at $3.00 per 100; $25 00 per 1000. Samples sent by mail on receipt of 10 cents in stamps. Koran's Perfect Carnation Support. The only perfect one on the market. Write for circular and prices. JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, C. W. Ward. Mgr. QUEENS, L. WHOLESALE SPECIALTIES: Carnations, Cannas, Chrysanthemums, Geraniums. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. 17 3 to 4-Inch PALMS and 2 FERNS for J3.00. 10 1 to .Vlnch PALMS and 2 FERNS torW.iJO. MONTHLY AND TEA ROSES, ADIANTUM FERNS, CHRYSANTHEMUMS AND CAR- NATIONS in pots. LABELS, MOSS, ETC. SEND FUK LISTS. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that you saw the advertisement in the American Flor-s* GOODtOHOLD MUSHROOM SPAWN, Elliott'sSpecialMilltrack. Use tlie best and avoid failures, per lb. 10c. ; per 100 lbs. $8.C0. HYACINTHS, Early Roman White, guaranteed, 12-15 ctiiis,, fine stock, not lieated or soft in any way, per 100 J2. 50; per lOOO $23.00. STRAW MATS, made of tiie best rye straw, well tied witti tar rope, very duralle, size 6x6, $1 50; J15.00 per dozen. We have a surplus of Dutch Hyacinths. Tulips. Narcis- sus, Spiraea. Lily ol the Valley, etc. WRITE AT ONCE FOR OUR LOW QUOTATIONS WHILE THEY LAST. WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, New York. PANSIES AND CARNATIONS. LANCASTER, PA., October, 1896. Fellow Flor STS: — A round dozen letters in one week from florists say- ing my Pansies are "the best they ever had" is pretty conclusive evidence that they are first quality and worth the price 1 ask. 75 cts. per 100; $5.00 per 1000, with discount on large orders. When 1 make a shipment of field-grown Carnation plants a recommenda- tion is almost sure to follow. A common inquiry is "How do you grow such fine plants.?" 1 will be pleased to supply you with plants of the following varieties: McGowan, Cartledge, Wave, and Stuart, at the rate of ^5.00 per 100, or IS45.00 per 1000. If you need any Rooted Cuttings of any kind. CARNATIONS, GERANIUMS, COLEUS, etc., write to me, it is no trouble to answer inquiries. L. B. 496. ALBERT M. HERR. LANCASTER. PA. CARNATIONS Albertini, Jacqueminot, Portia, Puritan, Van Leeuwen, clean, iiealthy and vigorous, 15.00 per lOO. AMERICAN BEAUTY and other Forcing Roses. MARIE LOUISE, SWANLEY, CALI- FORNIA and CAMPBELL VIOLETS. ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. CARNATIOIMS After the early chrysanthemums are thrown out, many florists plant carnations. We have a few thousand good plants heeled in, in the cold house, suitable for this purpose. McGOWAN, PURITAN, PORTIA, GARFIELD, MME. ALBERTINI, ADA BYRON, SILVER SPRAY, NICHOLSON, GRACE WILDER, B. Of ERLESCOURT, HINZES WHITE, Buttercup, 2nd quahty STUART. Helen Keller, ■' ROSELIND, Uncle John, S4.00 per 100. J. L. DILLON, Bloomsburg, Pa. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VABIKT1B8. ROSES, from 3-lDCh pota. CARNATIONS, for fall dellTery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. FiSHKILL, N. Y. PUTIN CARNATIONS after CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott, Ivory, Silver Spray, Rose Queen, and Garfield, from cold frames, at $8.00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. Always mention American Florist. EACH METROSIDEROS SEMP.. nice bushy planU . . S .4.5 ACACIA PARADOXA 35 ACUBA, variegated, 1 foot, pot-grown 10 ACUBA, gieen foliage, with berries which turn red by Christmas. 30 KALMIA LA1IF0LIA, specimen, extra fine, bushy plants full with buds. 75 TREE ROSES at hand now. L. C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. Branch of The Horticultural Co., Boskoop, Holland. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS. GOOD STOCK. Per ino Per 100 BRIDESMAID Istslze, $8.00. .. .3nd size. $5.00 METEOR •• 8.00.... " 5.0O STORM KINC " allBOld allsold UNCLE JOHN " allsold aU sold THE STUART " 8.00.... • 5.00 E. A. WOOD " 8.00.... •■ GOLDFINCH " allsold allsold DIAZ ALBERTINI.. " 8,00.... " 5.00 WM. SCOTT " 8.00.... •■ 5.00 DAYBREAK " allsold allsold DAZZLE " 8.00.... " 5.00 ALASKA " allsold allsold NO RUST. F. DORNER & SONS CO., La Fayette, Ind. Mention Amnrlc&n Florist CARNATIONS. SOOd SCOTTS, TIIJALS left. Immense size, at a barfjaln. A few CHRYSANTHEMUMS. stock plants of MME. BEWiMANN, YELLOW (,H'KEN. MUTUAL FRIEND, PKES. W. R. SMITH. J. H. TROY. THE yUBBN, and 100 other leading vailetles. l.j cts, each. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box M, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. STRONG FIELD-GROWN STOCK. AI.I, 1-IK!ST-CL-\*S. Peril) PerlU) Aquilegla canfidenHlw $ .711 ifti.UO Durandl.H.pl 70 r..00 verva^neana. fl pi 711 li.OO Chelone barbata cocclnea (JO 5. CO Digitalis grandlllora purpurea 60 5.00 alba t» 5.00 Hollyhocks, mixed colors 50 4.0O Salvia argentea 2 00 15 00 Primula veriselatlor 50 101) GalUardlagrandltlora 1.00 8.00 WM. DECNER, Muscatine, Iowa. 302 The American Florist. Oct. 3t, Rochester, N. Y. The demand for cutflowersisstillahead of the supply, though the scarcity has not been so pronounced as it was the previous ■week. Chrysanthemums are more plenti- ful, Queen of England, Bramhall, Robin- son and Ivory are now taking the lead. Carnations are not coming in fast enough for the demand and prices are going up. Roses of ordinary quality have not sold so readily as funeral work has not been up to the average and second class roses have had to suflfer, while good and selected stock has sold well. Violets are In brisk demand and are fine, 50 to 75 cents according to quality is the piice in the market at present, with an upward tendency; Californias are very fine in size and color and take the lead so far. A great many pansies are used this season which is a very favorable one for a good fall crop; they still continue in excellent shape unprotected. The past Saturday was rather a poor day for the retailers, big street parades and political excitement going on, and a good many flowers were left unsold, but on an average the week just past may beset down as a fairly good one, there being a number of elaborate table and church decorations divided among our principal florists. The sales in palms and orna- mental plants are better than they have been at any time since fall, though the demand for the larger and higher priced specimens is not up to former years. J. B. K. Greenhouse Buildmg. Pittsfield, Maine.— .\. J. Loder, one commercial house. Baltimore. Md.— Graham Bros., one commercial house, 100 feet in length. Phladelphia, Pa.— F. J. Palmtag, one commercial house. Lowell, Mass.— II. B Greene, four com- meicial houses, each 20x60; one propa- gating house. Westerly. R. I.— S. J. Renter, one com- mercial house. Faithaven, Conn.— S.T. Bradley, violet house 10x35; palm house, 20x60; office 16x25. D.;rry, Conn.— L. Schlottman, oae com- mercial hcu'e. Ctes(er, Pa.— Thos. F. D.lahunt, one carnation house. Uniontown, Pd.— F. H. Smith, one greenhouse. Flatbush, N. Y — Flatbush Hospital, one conservatory 30i60. Saddle River, N. J., J. G. & A. B-ler, two commercial houses. Concord, Pa., Sharp'ess 8l Son, five commercial houses, and four mushroom houses, each 100 f.-et in lergh. Hattfo.d, Ctna., Mrs. M. C. McClunie, two commercial houses, 15x22; J. G. D. Newton, one greenhouse, 80x26. Milford, Mass., W. B. Howard, one greenhouse. Newport, R. I. On Thursday evening, Oct. 28, a meet- ing of the gardeners and florists of New- port was held at the hall of the Newport Horticultural Society to take intocontid- eration the approaching convention of the Society of American Florists, and to discuss the matter of Newport'sco-opera- tion with Providence in making prepara- tions therefor. Secretary W.J. Stewart of the S. A. F. was present by invitation and addressed the meeting. C. J. M. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. PALMS aND FERNS. LATANIA BORBONICA, 4-inch pots, 12-IS inches high per dozen, $4.00 5-inch pots, 16-18 inches high " 9.00 ARECA LUTESCENS, 4-inch pots, (5-18 inches high " 3.00 KENTIA FORSTERIANA, 6-inch pots, 30-36 inches high Each, 1.50 CVCAS REVOLUTA, with fine crowns, in all sizes. Write for size and price. ADIANTUM FARLEYENSE FERNS. Kxtra fine plants. Send for samples by mail. 2-inch pots per 100, $8.00 3-inch pots per 100, $18.00 2'-.-inch pots " 10.00 4-inch pots per doz. 4.00 ASSORTED FERNS FOR FERN PANS, per 100, $4.00. ^^"•^"°"¥^LL. VflUGttflN'S SEED STORE/' ^^yA^^PiS'o^'''"' WESTERN SPRINGS. Climbers. 15.000 AMPELOPSIS VEITCHI1, very 6ne, from H-in. pots, 2 to 3 ft. top, 80.00 per 100: 850.00 per lOUO; Irom 2-in. pots, Jo.OO per 100; 835 per 1000 5,000 AMPELOPSIS ENGLEMANII and QUINQUE- FOLIA, 2 years, strong, $8.00 per 100. 10,000 ROSA WICHURAIANA. 2 years, very strong, SIO.OO per 100; 890.00 per 1000. 1 year, strong, 88.00 per lOO; 875.00 per 1000. 5.000 PRAIRIE QUEEN and BALTIMORE BELLE ROSES. I year, 86 00 per 100. 2 years, $8.00 per 100. 10,000 CLEMATIS PANICULATA. 2 years. 88.00 per 100. 3 years, $12.00 per 100. 20,000 HONEYSUCKLES (climbing), Halleana Chinese, Evergreen, Japan Golden and Flex- uosa, plants from open ground, $6 00 per 100. 5,000 ENGLISH IVY, 1 year, from open ground, $G.00 per 100. 2,000 VINCA (mostly variegated), 3 to 4 ft. top, 87.00 per 100; 860.00 per 1000. An immense stock ol TREES and SHRUBS. Send for our New TRADE LIST. THE WM. H. MOON CO., Morrisville, Pa. 60 Miles from N. Y. City. 30 Miles from Phila. E. G.HILL & CO., wiioi6sai6Fiorisi.s RICHMOND. INDIANA. "THE DAHLIA" BY LAWRENCE K. PEACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST offering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. AtCO. N J. PTERIS SERRULATA. PTERIS OUVRARDII, 2i^-inch pots, $1.00 per lOO, $35.00 per 1000. Cash with order. J. F!". liirswEr^Hv, 3810-3824 Wentworth Ave., CHICAGO. Burki's New Yellow Marouerile ETOILE DE LYON. 25 Rooted Cuttings for Wl.OO, by mail. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. THE FINEST STOCK GROWN. WHOLESALE FH)U1ST. Selaginella Emiliana. Extra fine plants, from 3'/2-inch pots, - - $8.00 per 100 2-inch pots, - 4.00 per 100 CASH WITH ORDER. W. A. WETTLIN, Hornellsville. N, Y. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. PflUMS AND FLRNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WITTBOLD, ""^V^'i'^ll'o Mention American Florist. ALM <£f^ee4^ FRESH ON HAND Per lOO Per 1000 iKentla Forgteriana SI. 26 $10.00 I Pandanus utills (scarce) 1.50 12:50 I Musa Eiisete (expected) 1.25 10 00 J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. CLEMATIS, 83 00 per doz.; 81'2 .50 per 100. PAEONIES, 8125 per dozen, 88.00 per 100. Plenty of whites. DBL. POET'S NARCISSUS, 50 cts per 100; 83 50 per lOOO. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY. 82 00 per 100 1 year. 81 DO per 100 2 year. Very low rates in quantity; fine, well grow stock. F. A. BALLER, Bloomington. III. CINERARIAS. CINERARIAS. 100,000 We are the largest growers in the country. Our slock is all grown from seed saved from the best and most showy plants, taking First Prize wherever exhibited. 3!4-lncli I8t2.60 per 100: «i20.00 per 1000. S. WHITTON & SONS, Wholesale Florists. City and Green St8.. UTIflA. N. V Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSKA in 2>4-inch pots which I will sell at 82 (jO per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEOALIA, MO. ChrysanthemumsiPansies Per UKI .WO CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 26 var.5-iu. pots 10.00 40,000 PANSY PLANTS . . . .per 1000 8;J.50; .60 Cash witu ouuek Pleask. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. ROBERT CRAIG3 Roses, Palms, Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. i8g6. The American Florist. 303 From 2-iiicli pots, GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of varieties and prices fiirnislied on application. NATHAN SMITH &. SON. ZIRNGIEBEL'S GIANT MARKET AND GIANT FANCY PANSIES are the Leading Strain.s up to date. Extra Large Size and Superb Colors. Liberal trade packets of either .strain at ONE DOLLAR EACH. ^Separate colors if wanted in Blue, Black, White and Yellow. Also plants of above strains at $5.00 per 1000. DENYS ZIRNGIEBEL, NEEDHAM. MASS. 100,000 NOW READY. The JemilnKS strain of finest American grown Pan- sles are up to date, and juet as ^ood as they make them; but on account of the hard times the price la down. The grandest cumblnatiDn of colors ever eent out. All larue Ilowerlnt: In jfreat variety. Flnestocky plants, fleld-grown, will bloom In October. 100 by mall7.ic; mw by express $4 00; 5000 $18.00. Extra plants added with every order. 500 000 ready In October for cold frames. PANSY SEED of above strain, $1.00 per pkt. of 2.500 seeds. Cash with order. E. B. JENNINGS, l. b. 254. Southport, Conn. Grower of the finest Pansles. Pansles Worm Raising. PLANTS READY NOW, at 82.50 per 500; (t4.00per 1000. Free on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at $1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH ORDER. C. SOLTAn k CO., 199 Grant Ave., lersey City, N. ] . GHRYSftNTHBMUMS. strong stock plants. Ready now. MBRKY MO.VAUCU, M. I)E MONTMORT. MARION UKNDBKSON. MRS H. ROBINSON. WM. SIMPSO.N. ETC. A limited number of all the latest and standard varie- ties. Send for price list W. WEBER & SONS. Oakland, Md. A. & F. ROLKER'S PLANT AUCTION SALES EyERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY At II o'clock A. M. 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. 1897 THE ONLY "MARS" "»* ?™™ Prices on application. fl.'EI.A.X>'S' iTA-Sa. 1st. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. 2-INCH FERNS. READY TO SHIFT. P. serrulata. Onychlum japonlcum. P. serrulata crestatii, Blechnum occldentale. P. serrulata ■" densll, Lastrea varlecata, P. adlantoltles, Adlantum cuneatum. Ab'ive at um per 100; $:i3.00per 1000. Adlantum, from tlats $1.50 per 100 Blechnum occldentale. S-lnch Jtj 00 per 100 General ascortment. .'f-ln, vara., $7 per 100: $110 per 10^10 PterlsGhlesbrlKbtll and Reelna-. 3-lneh. $6,00 per 100; :) Inch. $10 00 per lOO. Complete list on application. Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Clenside, Pa. ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI. You can not afford to omit offering this desirable new species in your next catalogue, ■^ it being a plant that is certain to be in good demand by th; retail buyer. We have prepared a large stoclc of it, and are therefore enabled to xDfter it at a low pi ice. Per 100 Pfr 1000 STROKG, 2-IN. POTS, $.0 00 $80.00 SIROUe, 3-IN. POTS, 15 00 140.00 )HENRYA.DREER, ^jj 714 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. HARDY FLOWERING PLANTS. Now is the time to plant this class of summer flowering plants, so useful for embellishing parks and private places, and for cutting purposes. We carry the largest assortment in the country of the best varieties in cultivation. Per 100 A«-InIU'ft scrrata plena -'The Pearl*' $ 5.00 Ain-iiHun- j;ipiiiii'-:i i'l''i::tns 5.00 Ant- til* IMC iapimir:! W hirlwind 5.00 Aiiuilcizins. tine ini\«Ml varieties 5.00 I 'nri'upsis l;i nceoluta 5.00 l»<*l]'liiniiinis. in variety 5.00 Kiinki;i •■nniata variegata 4.00 G:iill;irilia ^MMnclifiora 5.00 Ilt'liaiillnis liiM-apf talus mult, grand 6.00 Ileliopsi.s I'it.-heriana 4.00 Ht-merooallis Kwaiis" !l. pi t'.OO Per 100 Iberis cordifolia 6.00 Iris ^rcnnaiiica. in variety 4.00 Lychnis ^■is'■a^ia splendens 5.00 Pa-onii'.s. (l.mble, separate colors 20.00 Pa-onifs, double, assorted varieties 12.00 Pa-onics, single, assorted varieties 10.00 Papa\«-r orientale 6.00 Phlox panieulata. choicest named vars 5.00 Seduin spectabile 5.00 Spira'a Anthony Waterer. 4-in. pots 13 00 \'t'r"nifM Iriniriiolia subsc ssilis 6.00 A DISCOUNT OF 12 1-2 PER CENT. ALLOWED FROM ABOVE PRICES IF CASH ACCOMPANIES ORDER. PITCHER & MANDA, JOHN N. MAY, Receiver, SlTlOI-t Hills, 3V. J. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an otfer of 8100O cash I for OKE FIiANT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative | purposes. 81.50 per 12; 810 per 100. from 2^-mch pots. I Send for Catalogue of Novelties- A. BLANC & CO., Pliila., Pa. ense EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices upon application. ■ss'JO'wi.va Xj<3rBisx3.A.xjf:, Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill. (Station H.l PHILADELPHIA, PA. AZALEAS , PALMS , ABAUCARIAS , BAY TREES, the finest commercial varieties. large, healthy stock, well grown. from Cuttings only. perfect shape, in all sizes. 8 Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 2.'? cents; per hundred, 820.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, 82.00; per ten thousand. $18. CH. KOEHLER. Oxford Church P. 0.. Phila.. Pa. SANDER, Bruges, Belgium. Agent: A. DIMMOCK. 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. Mention American Fiorlm JUST WHAT YOU WANT. HEADQUARTERS for iiowering ERICAS (Heather) at all times PALMS from 1 to 7 feet high. CYCLAMEN, LARGE DAISIES, AZALEAS, all sizes and extra fine. CHRYSANTHEMUMS in pots, compact, 10 to 23 .'ingle stem flowers, FERNS and RUBBERS. PINK HYDRANGEAS for forcing, uow ready, well- branched 810 0() per 100. Two year old plants, fine for specimens, ?2,3.00 per 100. A. SCHULTHEIS, p. O. Box 78. COLLEGE POINT, L. I. staTTd^ard BUOKXvK^ Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A sample mailed for 30 cents. FRANK L. MOORE, ChathaV. N. J. When writing mention the American Florist. 304 The American Florist. Oct. JA Springfield, Mass. Charles R. Miller & Co. have one of the stalls at the new city market and make a very attractive lookine; place of it. They hope also to make it an especially desira- ble place to trade. Flowers of all kinds are quite scarce, owing in part to dull weather, carnations and roses suffering the most. Trade has been fairly good, but does not come up quite to last year at this time. There have been a number of weddings, mostly falling into the hands of Miller & Co. The greenhouses formerly owned by O. L. Hall have been leased to a man from Mittineague, who is fixing them up, pre- paratory to growing a general stock of bedding plants. Prof. Stone of Amherst addressed the Amateur Horticultural Society this week. D. W. Brainard of Thompsonville, Conn., has completed a new house for carnations; he sells the most of his sur- plus stock in this place. The prospects for the Hampden County Horticultural Society's chrysanthemum show are very encouraging. The exhibi- tion will be held November 1719; a pri- vate inspection to members and invited guests will precede the regular opening hour. The entries have begun tocomein, and the secretary is kept busy answering the queries of correspondents. It is reported that Barnes Bros., seeds- men and dealers in agricultural goods, have failed, offering 30 cents on the dollar; they have been in business here but a short time, succeeding A. F. Leonard & Co. B. M. Davenport, la. Chas. Dannacher has this summer built five new houses, one 12x204 for carna- tions, one 12x125 for palms, one 12x100 for violets, one 8x80 tor carnations and one 8x56 for Harrisii lilies. Mr. Dannacher is cutting 10 dozen Ani. Beauties a day and says these sell well at from $1.50 to $3 a dozen. Meteors and Brides are plentiful and sell at 60 cents a dozen. Other roses go rather slow. Car- nations are in large supply and sell at 25 cents a dozen. Business is fair, but not rushing. Mr. Dannacher has some splendid chrys- anthemums for the exhibition. He has standards eight feet tall and bush plants six feet across. He will also have 4-0.000 blooms from single stem plants, all now in piitne condition. But he longs for chrysanthemum time to be past, so he can "again settle down to business and start up for Christmas trade." Another recent im pro vement at his place is a new boiler, 72 inches by 18 feet. Baltimore. — Maurice A. Hantske, flo- rist, Gittings avenue, has made an assign- ment for the benifit of creditors to Frank P. Clark, who has filed a bond of $2,000. The court has assumed j urisdiction of the trust. JOHNC. MONING^ CO. CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL 412 T<) 422 . HAWTHORNE AV. \CHICftGO.ILL OF ANY DESCRIPTION. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. SOMETHING NEW Brower's Floral Photograplis. By Permission of WM. H. BROWER & SONS. NONE SOLD EXCEPT SUCH AS I WOULD BE PLEASED TO SHOW TO OUR OWN CUSTOMERS. When you write for list and terms would suggest that you enclose a postoffice order for $1.25 for two photographs (imperial size) so that you may form an estimate as to their artistic value and utility. They will be mailed and registered. WM. I. BROWER, 955 Broadway, NEW YORK. Care WM. H. BROWER & SONS. Bouquet Green. A X 7E give close watchful care to the TIME deliveries of this PROFITABLE stock, ' ' and believe 15 years' experience has taught us how to do it. In QUALITY, we claim to AVERAGE better than many dealers, and much better than any COMMISSION stock. SOLIDLY PACKED. WELL BERRIED. FRESH FOLIAGE. 14 Barclay St. VAUUnAll U uttU OlUllLl 84-86 Randolph St. ON FORCING BULBS, WE OFFER BARGAINS TO BOTH McKINLEY AND BRYAN MEN. NEW HARDY FERNS. Warranted First PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER 1000 FROM NOW UNTIL DECEMBER Ist. Also Dealer In BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. GROUND PINE ^Nc HOl^LY. We stand ready to supply THE RIGHT QUALITY AT THE RIGHT TIME AT RIGHT PRICES. SEND FOR PRICE LIST. DAN'L B. LONG, VtlV^t^. The Directory IS NOW READY. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., _CMICA.OO. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ LYGOPODIUM. I ♦ ♦ WE ARE ♦ ♦ . . . HEADQUARTERS for this valuable HOLIDAY CREEN. Snow In Creen District has stop- ped the pickers. WRITE TO-DAY for quotations. PRICES WILL ADVANCE SOON. Uni I Y Well-berrled. Superior nULL I I quality. Low prices. LL. 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See cut in next week's American Floriet. Oar letter Is handled by al! the wholesalers In Boston. agents: a. Rolker & Sons. New York: M. Rice i Co.. 25 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia. Pa.; F. K. Mc- Allister. 22 Dey St.. N. Y.; U. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; A. D. Perry & Co., Si Warren St.. Syracuse, N. Y.; A. C. Kendal, 115 Ontario St., Cleve- land. O.; B. H. Hunt. 79 Lake St., Chlcajjo; Wisconsin Flower Exchange, i;il Mason St., Milwaukee, Wis.; H. Sunderbruch. 4th and Walnut Sts., Cincinnati, O.; T. W. Wood & Sons. tJth and Marshall Sts. Richmond. Va.; Jas. Vlck's Sons, Rochester. N. Y.; Dan'l B. Lonji. Buffalo, N. Y.; C. A. Kuehn, St. I^ouIb. Mo.; Ilunt- Inpton Seed Co., Indianapolis. Ind ; W. Ellison. 1402 Pine Street. St. Louis, Mo.: A. Herrman. 415 E. ;i4th St.. New York; Geo. A. Sutherland. t>7 Brom- tleld St.. Boston ; Welch Bros.. No. 1 A Beacon St., Bos- ton; N. F. McCarthy & Co., 84 Hawley Street, Boston; The Uenry Phlllpps Seed and Implement Co.. Toledo, O., Walter A. Potter & Co.. Providence. H. L; J. C. VauKhan, 2H Barclay St., New York. J. A. Simmers. Toronto. Ont.. Ajient for Canada. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept, 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manufacturer of METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry). NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, |FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free P.iinphlet, write to LOriSTILLE [Spihit ('iked tobacooco. Louisville, Ky FUMIGATE WITH NIKOTEEN THE ESSENCE OF TOBACCO. It kills all insects and does not injure delicate blooms. Costs 12 cents to fumigate a house 100x20 feet. If you cannot get it locally, write SKABCURA DIP CO., Station S, CHICAGO. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisera. Now Let us Have your Order! Immortelles, Cape Flowers, Moss Wreaths, Cycas Leaves, Grasses, Metal Designs, Baskets, Doves, Chenille, Enameled Plant Stands (Myers), Iron Plant Stands (Myers), Artificial and Wax Flowers, Also Leaves. OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE, AND PRICES THE LOWEST. ]VI. ieiCE> & CO. 25 North 4tli Street, PHILADELPHIA. THE ANNUAL CHRYSANTHEMUM NUMBER OF THE ANERCAN FLORIST ...WILL BE ISSUED... IT will have an unusually striking special title page and 'will contain a large amount of handsomely illustrated, up-to-date matter about the "Queen of Autumn." NO INCREASE IN ADV. RATES. Send advs. early so 'we may have time to set them up in our best style. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn St. CHIC^OO. S. J. THOMPSON, Proprietor of FALLS CITY WIRE WORKS 261 W. Jefferson Street, send for catalogue. LOUISVILLE, KY. Benjamin Chase, WOOD LABELS, 306 The American Florist. Oct. ji, ^ecuid ^oCeA. Bloomfield, N. J.— The body of John Greder was found in the woods near this place on the 15th inst., the circumstances indicating that he had committei suicide. OsHKOSH, Wis — At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Oshkosh Florists' Club it was regretfully decided to postpone the chrysanthemum show till next year. West New Brighton, N. Y. — The firm of Dietrich & Holtermann, florists of this place, have dis;oIved partnership, and Mr. Holtermann will continue the busi- ness in his name. Woodbury, N. J.— J. C. Gibson, a well known florist of tbis town and afrequent advertiser in the columns of the Ameri- can Florist, died suddenly from heart disease on October 19. Los Angeles, Cal— Mr. F. Edward Gray has opened a floral store at 140 South Spring street, under the title Ingle- side Floral Co. The nurseries and green- houses are retained at Alhambra. MiLLBURY, Mass.— Wm. Darling, who has been manager of the Millbury Green- houses since they were built two years ago, has leased the property, and will continue the business in his own name. PiTTSFiELD, Mass. — The Berkshire County Gardeners' and Florists' Club have decided not to hold the fall exhibi- tion this year. Instead thereof a small exhibition, free to the public, is contem- plated, to be opened one day and evening, only. AsHEViLLE, N. C— As the north and west were not represented at the National Flower Congress it was deemed inexpe- dient to make a recommendation to Con- gress at this tini", though it was evidently the sense of the body that the columbine is the most suitable flower. Saddle River. N. T —After ten weeksof suffering John G. Esler, secretary of the Florists Hail Association, is again able to use his right hand which is minus the fore finger which was amputated. A hand poisonedby the wound, amputation and malaria in ten weeks reduced his weight 17 pounds. Plant Pots Pedestals. 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BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. f NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD. YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS CHICAGO. GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. wiiivi-i^w. To Pump Water If \ou w:utt water foi-any purpose ami have not the facilities, ur wai.i to chaMKi', write for catalogue of the Celebrated DeLamater-Rider and Delamater-SrIcsBon Hot- Alr Humping Engines. Tbey will pump water from any source anil force it anywhere. Anv kind of fuel c-an be use.l. AiMress delamatek iron WOKKS, ' IKl W.'sl Hl■.>;^cl^vi<^ .N"" 'i "rk City. For Insurance against damage by hail, ^^^^^^__^_^ Address JOHN G. ESLER. Secy. F. H. A.. Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL TRf^DE D IRECTORY A. IT 13 REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. FE.ICE S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 308 The American Florist. Oct. 31, Index to Adveitiseis. Adv Rates 2'.in American Botler Co.. .:>0.s Amllng B C 2'.is Bailer FA :iii-' Baeaett & Washburn. .2'.i'." Bayersdorfer II & Co. .iiO."i Blanc A i- Co :il« BobWnkl.C :«ll Boneall Jos B 2',l» Boston Letter Co y05 Brague LB 304 Brower w I :«< Burkl Fred :)U2 California Nursery Co :iOl Carmodv J D :«7 Chadwlck Chas :iul Chase Benj SO.i uonley John & Son ;i(b Cottage Gardens :i01 Cowen's Son N 'M* Crahb \- Hunter ;10I CralK Robt ml Cunningham J H '•'iSl Degner W ;«1 DeLamater Iron Wks.:lOT Uletsch A Sl Co :w Dillon JL ™i DornerFred ASons Co 3U1 Dreer H A :«Ei Ehret F .. 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Anyone meeting Mr. James Dean, the well known florist of Bay Ridge, Brook- lyn, N. Y., would never imagine him to be a collectorof weapons. But apoearinces are sometimes deceitful, and Mr. Dean, who to those in the trade he has casually met s?emed entirely wrapped up in plants and flowers, has another side to his char- acter. He has in his home a large room the walls and ceiling of which are thickly covered with a mcs" iateresting and com- plete cjUection of weapons, both ancient and modern. The collection vou'd be creditable to any museum. Some light upon Mr. D-an's taste in this direction is given by the fact that he was a soldier during the war and is now Commander of U. S. Grant Post No. 327 of the G. A. R., Department of New York. August Rblker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. Latest Supplement to our Fall Catiilogoe jti^-i issui'd. containing our Novelties and ni!in.\ ifdiii-lioiis in jirii-*',.; ol Tinfoil, Gycas Leaves, Baskets, Etc., niiiilod free* to .ipplk-nnts in the trade. Wholesiil'' onlv. Send business card. New York: 136 West 24th Street. r. (I siuiic.ii 1;. VILMORIN-ANDRIEUX& CO., Paris. 125 NEW DESIGNS. New Supplement of Electros, Kl.dWKKS A.Ml VKGKTABl.FS, .VOW KEADV. Pleaoe apply In AUG. BHOTERT, 26 Barclay St., New York HLitolxirxg:^^ ^ Oo. ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTURERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE, GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent Iron Frame CoiiStruction. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street, NEW YORK. LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. ^"Plans and estimates furnished on application. Largest b ■^vi-^' fm Mmmmm tlny@iiif .Jimerica is "the Frow of the l/essel; there may be mare oomtom ' Pooz} 'e are the first to touch Unknown Seas,' ¥ol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, NOVENIti^ , 1896. No. 440 f lifliE Ik^mmsim jFilpisss? Copyright 1896, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by THE American florist Company. 399 Dearborn Street, Chicago. ■Subscription, 81.00 a year. To Europe. 82.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. S'-i'i Dearborn Street, CHICAUU. Bagtem Office : 67 Bromfleld St., Boston. Thle paper Is a member of the Associated Trade PresB and of the Chlcajjo Trade Press Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. WM. Scott, Buffalo, president; Adam Graham. Cleveland, O., vice-president : W. J. Stewart, Bos- ton, secretary; H. B. Bkattt, Oil City, Pa., treasurer. Officers fob 1897.— Adam Graham. Cleveland, O., president; Pakquhar Macrae, Providence. R. I., ^Ice-president. Secretary and treasurer as before. The thirteenth annual meeting will be held at Prov- idence, R. I., August. 1837. CONTENTS. •Chrysanthemums— Coming exhibitions . . . ,309 —Sports -509 — Diabroticas not ladybirds '. . . 309 — Diseased chrysanthemums, t ,310 —Chrysanthemum Society of America 310 — Chicago committee 310 — Boston committee . 310 Roses- -stunted La France .310 —Reply to Query 310 Avenue of palms (illus.) 311 Carnations— seedlings 311 — Carnation prizes ;312 Miscellaneous queries. . . 312 Miscellaneous seasonable hints 312 Corypha umbraculifera in bloom (illus.). . . . 313 Boston 313 New York 314 Philadelphia 314 Toronto 314 (Banyan tree (illus.) 315 San Francisco 315 St. Louis 316 Chicago 316 Pittsburg 316 Cincinnati 316 Rochester, N. Y 317 ■Syracuse, N. Y 3'20 Providence, R. I ^ . 320 Worcester, Mass 322 Omaha, Neb 324 Bradford, Pa 324 News notes 326 Don't fail to have an adv. in the spe- •cial chrysanthemum number, to be issued next week, but send at once or you may be too late. New Haven, Conn. — In common with a. number of other tenants in the neigh- borhood, Geo. A. Dickerman, whose greenhouse was located on Chapel street, has been notified to remove his establish- ment within twenty days, the land being required for real estate improvement. You can't afford to do business with- out a copy of our trade directorv and reference book. Coming Exhibitions. Germantown, Pa., Nov. 9. Chrysanthemum show Germantown Hort. Society, New Bedford. Mass , Nov. 9-72. Chrysanthe- mum show New Bedford Gardeners' and Florists' Club. A. J. Fish, Sec'y, 78 Allen St. Kansas City. Mo , Nov. 9-14. Chrysanthemum show Kansas City Florists' Club. W. J. Barnes, Sec'y, 38th St. and Euclid Ave. Grand Rapids. Mich., Nov. 9-15. Chrysan- themum show Grand Rapids Florists' Club. N. B. Stover, Sec'y. Providence, R. I., Nov. 10-12. Chrysanthemum show Rhode Island Hort. Society. C. W. Smith, Sec'y, 61 Westminster St. Orange, N. J., Nov. 10-12, Fall exhibition New Jersey Floricultural Society, Peter Duflf, Sec'y, Orange, N. J, Worcester, Mass., Nov. 10-12. Chrysanthe- mum show Worcester County Hort. Society. Edw. W. Lincoln, Sec'y. Montreal, Nov. 10-12. Chrysanthemum show Montreal Gardeners' and Florists' Club. Fred Bennett, Sec'y, 255 St. Martin St. Boston, Nov. 1013. Chrysanthemum show Massachusetts Hort. Society. Robert Manning, Sec'y, Horticultural Hall, Tremont St. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 10-13. Chrysanthe- mum show Milwaukee Florists' Club. Wm. Frey- tag, Sec'y, 794 Forest Home Ave. Philadelphia, Nov. 10-14. Chrysanthemum show Pennsylvania Hort. Society. David Rust, Sec'y, 1514 Chestnut St. Chicago, November 10-14. Chrysanthemum Show, Horticultural Society of Chicago, W. N. Rudd, Ass''t Sec'y, 185 Dearborn street. Indianapolis, Nov. 10-14. Chrysanthemum show Society of Indiana Florists. Robt. McKeand, Sec'y, Garfield Park. Cleveland, O., Nov. 11-13. Chrysanthemum show Cleveland Florists' Club. G. A. Tilton, Sec'y, 85 Woodland Ave. Syracuse, N. Y.. Nov. 11-13, Chrysanthemum show Central New York Hort. Society. R. H. C, Bard, Sec'y 904 W. Genesee St. Poughkeepsie. N. Y., November 11-13. Chrys- anthemum Show, Dutchess County Horticultural Society, W. G. Gomersall, Flshkill-on-Hudson, Sec'y. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 11-14. Chrysanthemum show Society of Kentucky Florists. S. J. Thomp- son Sec'y. 261 W. Jefferson St. St. Louis. Nov. 11-1.5. Chrysanthemum show St. Louis Florists' Club. E. Schray, Sec'y, 4101 Pennsylvania Ave. Carthage, Tenn., Nov. 12-13. Chrysanthe- mum show Carthage Chrysanthemum Society. Wm. B. Hale, Sec'y. Hagerstown, Md., November 12-14, Chrysan- themum Show, Washington County Floricultural Society, Newton S. Owen, Sec'y. New Orleans, Nov. 12-14. Chrysanthemum show New Orleans Hort. Society. Paul Abele, Sec'y, Cor. Joseph and Laurel Sts. Springfield, Mass., Nov. 17-19. Chrysanthe- mum show Hampden County Hort. Society. W. F. Gale. Sec'y. Toronto, Nov. 24-27. Chrysanthemum show Toronto Gardeners' and Florists' Association. E. H Carter, Sec'y. 280 Gerrard St. San Fr.\ncisco, Nov. . Chrysanthemum show California State Floral Society. Hartford, Conn., Nov, . Chrysanthemum show Hartford County Hort. Society. Edw. I. Young, Sec'y, 60 Oak St. Chrysanthemum Sports. I would like to inquire if it is a very tin- common occurrence for chrysanthemums to have blooms of different distinctivecol- ors on the same branches, with one bloom half one color and the opposite side another color the style of New Life geran- ium. I have a Chas. Davis with terra cotta, pink and light yellow on the same branch, would plants propagated from this have the same peculiarity ? L. C. L. It is not a common thing tohavechrys- anthemum plants sport, nor yet is it a great novelty for many good varieties in culture to-day are sports. Chas. Davis, of which L. C. L. writes of having a plant producing vari-colored flowers, is itself a sport of Viviand-Morel, a variety which has been much given to producing sports for the last three or four years. It first sported a light vellow which is now named Chas. Davis, and afterward sport- ed in three diff^jrent places the same year to white. It is very doubtful if cuttings from the root of this plant of L. C. L. would show another year the same pecul- iarities. When it is desired to perpetuate a sport the eyes of the blooming stem are propagated. There occurs occasionally however, root sports where the entire plant will sport to an entirely different color or shade, this, of course, can be per- petuated by root cuttings. We do not know the chrysanthemum that flowers from June to late autumn. The gardeners at Newport grow large quantities of Yellow Fleece, a small yel- low variety that commences blooming during August and cantinues until the heavy frosts kill it. It makes a very handsome plant for planting In borders along a walk. Elijah A. Wood. Diabroticas not Ladybirds. Mr. R. Mearns of Toronto in yourissue of October 24. is rightly troubled lest the old and well founded trust in ladybirds as aphis eaters and consequently benefi- cial insects should be shaken by the claim from California that the "lady birds" were injuring the chrysanthemums. I hasten to 'assure Mr. Mearns that he can instantly dismiss his apprehension. The insect to which your San Francisco correspondent evidently alludes is not a ladybird at all, though in common par- lance in California that good name Is too often applied to a very bad insect. The foe not alone of chrysanthemums, but of carnations, roses and in fact of nearly all garden bloom in the summer and fall in this state, is the Diabrotica soror. It is about the size of a common ladybird and has a rough resemblance to it in form, though if one should make any effort at comparison he would see that it was much slimmer than a ladybird, had a more distinct head and antenna several 310 The American Florist. Nov. 7, times the length of those of the ladybird's and of different form. It is, however, more obviously distinguished by its light green color, which never appears in the ladybirds (cccctnellidae). On this green color it carries on its wing covers 12 black spots, and the spots as well as the shape have led to its wrong naming. The diabrotica genus is best known in the east by the small yellow with black stripes cucumber or squash beetle. We have that species (vittata) also in Cali- fornia, but it is far outnumbered by the soror species above alluded to. They both belong to the family chrysomelidae, a set of hungry leaf and blossom eaters, while the ladybirds belong to the family Goccinellidae, which are just as hungry insect eaters, and therefore beneficial. E.J. WiCKSON. . State University, Berkeley, Cal. Diseased Chrysanthemums. I enclose a couple of leaves cut from one of my chrysanthemums. Will you kindly tell me what the black spots are and the cause and remedy? The leaves first turn brown or yellow. J. S. In reply to J. S. would say that the leaves forwarded to us, are, we should say, affected with Phyllosticta chrysam- themi. This disease was first found by Mr. Dearness at London, Canada, and published in the "Canadian Record of Science" for January, 1893. We have never been troubled with this fungus and have never heard of any complete cure, but would spray with ammoniacal solu- tion of cairbonate of copper if it appeared early in the season. If it appeared so late as not to injure the blooms, we would let it have its course, but be very careful not to propagate any young stock from the plants afftcted. Elijah A. Wood. Chrysanthemum Society of America. The committee on seedlings will hold sessions for examining new varieties on October 10, 17, 24, 31; November 7, 14, 21 and 28. Those having seedlings to be considered by the committees should forward them by prepaid express to any of the follow- ing: Boston — A. H. Fewkes, Horticultural Hall. New York — Eugene Dailledouze, care of New York Cut Flower Co., 119 West 23d street. Philadelphia — Edwin Lonsdale, 1514 Chestnut street. Cincinnati— R. Witterstaetter, comer 4th & Walnut streets. Chicago— W. N. Rudd, room 202, 185 Dearborn street. Hinsdale, III. This is a lemon yellow sport from Mrs. Robinson and is identi- cal with that variety except in color. It has already been noted in these columns. Chicago Chrysanthemum Committee. At the meeting of the committee last Saturday but two varieties were passed ■ upon, and no certificates were recom- mended. A pink incurved of the Ada Spaulding type sent by Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., was certainly a beautiful flower, and it came within two points of the number necessary for a certificate. The color was excellent, and the only defects were a trifling lack of fullness at the center and not as much fo'.iage at the ntck as could be wished. That a flower possessing so many good points should fail shows how conscientious the commit- tee is in its work. The other variety shown was Mrs. 0. P. Bassett, from Bassett & Washburn, Boston Chrysanthemum Committee. On October 31 these were entered for examination by the Boston committee: "Quito" and "Chandos" from James Bry- don, and "The Darkev"from C. S. God- dard. The result of the committee's de- liberations is withheld for the present, by instruction of the chrysanthemum society it is said. This is perhaps wise but the society should be consistent and see to it that the same rules and regulations are in operation uniformly throughout the country. Stunted La France. L. H., Omaha, sends specimens of his La France, which are growing in a house along with other varieties; the Perles, Brides and Meteors are growing satisfac- torily, but La France is not. The ques- tion is asked, "Is anything wrong with the soil, is it too rich, or is some worm working on the roots; can anything be done to improve them?" Oa removing the soil from the roots I found that the plant taken out of the pot had quite a number of galls, indicating eel-worms; those lifted from the bed, however, were evidently free. The La France rose is more difficult to grow I think than any of the so-called forcing roses, except in local- ities where the soil is just suited to its requirements. Visiting the various rose growing establishments in different parts of the country, I have frequently seen all the other kinds grown doing remarkably well, while the house of La France, if they happened to grow that variety, was wretchedly poor; and again, I have vis- ited places where it was unquestionably the finest and best paying variety. As a rule there is no middle ground with this rose; if it fails to do well it is generally a complete failure. L. H. is having the same experience in all probabilities that many others have had, and unless past successes with this variety have convinced him that the soil of his locality can be made to produce satisfactory results, other conditions being favorable, I would advise him to drop it from his list of forc- ing varieties. Several of the Philadelphia fioristshave grown this rose well for a number of years, giving it exactly the same treat- ment as the other roses of its class; with them it is generally healthy, vigorous, blooms fieely and the flowers are of good quality. As far as my observations have extended, I would say, their soilisaheavy loam of a light yellow color, with a large amount of mica mixed through it, very sticky when wet and hard as a rock when dry. I have seen La France growing finely in other localities in soil containing no mica, but it was invariably of this color and texture. I am not prepared to say that it cannot be grown to a higher degree of perfection in any other kind of soil, but simply make the statement that I have never seen it growing and bloom- ing finely in any other. The plants in question showed a good deal of black spot, which alone would rob them of much of their vitality. I am of the opin- ion that little can be done except to free them from black spot if possible, and give them the same liberal treatment that the other varieties receive. RoBT. Simpson. Reply to Query. A. J. P., Pa., wishe? an answer to this query. "Will Kaiseiins freeze in a light well built greenhouse nothavingartificial heat? Plants are intended for summer bloom. They were planted in the solid ground last spiing, and were then one year old, have made a good growth dur- ing the summer, and are now fairly strong and healthy. The same house was planted with Kaiserin the previous spring. Young small stock, which made little growth and though they were mulched with coarse manure in the fall to keep the ground from freez'ng, in the spring they were nearly all dead, will the stronger plants of this season go through the win- all right, if accorded the same treatment as those last fall? House has been made tighter and more impervious to cold, and it is hoped that they will winter all right." If theconditions are the same this year as last the probability is that the plants will- suffer almost as much, notwithstanding the fact of their being one year older and much more vigorous. Ualess there are very good reasons tor not doing so, I would advise putting into the house about four steam pipes, and with them keeping the temperature above freezing all the time; this would insure the plants against any possible harm from cold and I am quite sure the money spentin piping, etc., would be returned the first year through the prolonged season, and the vastly superior quality of the blooms cut. Late fall is the time when Kaiserin will make the longest stems and the largest and choicest flowers, but if the temperature drops very low during the night black spot is pretty certain to attack them, the flowers will open very slowly, become spotted with the condensed moisture and be practically unsalable after October 1; with a little heat, however, they will be fine until December 1. So apart front the question of winter killing I would say, have pipes in the house by all means. You can't grow Kaiserin or any other rose satisfactorily for more than three months in the summer without them, and that is entirely too short a season to be profita- ble. The only alternative to this plan that I can suggest if the plants are to be carried safely though the winter, is to cover the glass outside with either boards, or straw, the latter is prefer able to keep the sunlight from the plants. The damage caused by frost is not simply the result of a very low temperature, but of alternate freezing and thawing. It must be peif.ctly plain to anyone who gives the matter the least consideration, that a day tempera- ture of 40° to 60° and a ni^ht tempera- ture of 10° to 20° must soon prove fatal to plant life; each bright day the sap is encouraged to flow only to be frozen up at night. Our object should be to get the plants into a condition as near dormant as possible early in the winter, and then maintain that condition until spring. Thatching the roof is the surest means to this end; making the sides of the house tight will not help much, unless provision is made at the same time tor excluding the sunlight. Regarding the other part of 1896. The American Florist. 311 AVENUE OF PALMS ^.o,. ^'uj. CEYLON. the query "What causes the young foliage of Kaiserin to crinkle and turn a pale color," I only know of two causes that might be assigned. One is greenfly, which somehow or other hurts the foliage of this rose more than any of the other forc- ing roses. A very few aphis will cripple the leaves badly. If the soil is allowed to get very wet and remain in a sodden state for any length of time, the root action is arrested and the leaves will then take on a pale unnatural color. RoBT. Simpson. Seedling Carnations. In my last notes an error crept in that I feel obliged to rectify. It reads as if Mr. M. A. Hunt had disseminated all of the 1889 varieties. All were disseminated by Mr. Hill, and only one variety, Nancy Hanks, sold by Mr. Hill to Mr. Hunt under number, was named and dissemi- nated by that gentleman. The selection from the second years' blooming of the 1890 crop for another trial were 30 va- rieties, 100 being discarded. From these 30 varieties came the set of ten dissemi- nated the next year, 1893. I will name them in rotation as to their merits in my estimation at that time: Albertini, Rich- mond. Mrs. Reynolds, Spartan, Bl juche, Dr. Smart, Purdue, Wabash, Western Pride, Wm. Scott. How are they classed now? Wm. Scott is now not only at the head of this set, but sofarbas maintained its reputation as the best market variety up to date. Albertini is grown jet at many places, and Mrs. Reynolds I see once in a while mentioned in some adver- tised list, but the rest have disappeared. There were eight too many, two left from 2.000. And how they were admired at the convention in Buffalo! I had them all named except their peer; as it was consid- ered inferior I was in doubt as to name and included it in the set. In my estima- tion the beauty of Wm. Scott is surpassed by many other varieties, but not enough to outweigh its stability and growing qualities, that makes it so profitable and dear to every grower, and it is now more universally grown than any other variety. Thus it will be seen into what errors a grower of new varieties may uncon- sciously fall. Beauty takes the eye, but when not coupled with profitableness it will soon be thrown aside by the trade. Of the beauty and apparent profitable- ness of a variety the originator, and even a dozen other growers who have it on trial, may be convinced, but whether this last point will hold out everywhere, can only he ascertained by a general dissemi- nation, and this I have said is the last final trial, and decisive of its future. Therefore disseminators should not be too severely judged on the failure of anew variety. If a new variety is not pre- sented for general cultivation we will never learn its true value; we will never have a Wm. Scott. The experience gained on these 1890 seedlings, cleared away the rest of my overconfidence that was left and settled my views and ideas on a basis of solid facts, by which I have been governed siLce. The results of 3,000 seedlings grown in 1891 are four varieties dissemi- nated in 1894: Uacle John, The Stuart, Gildfinch and E. A. Wood. Of these Uncle John, if blessed with the hardy con- stitution of Scott, would excel this va- riety, but its rapid and rather soft growth makes it very susceptible to bac- terial and fungous diseases. TOe result of the 1892 cr>p are two varieties dis- seminattd in 1895, Bridesmaid and Met- eor, ai^d one yet in my possession. Mrs. C. H. Duhme. Of those of 1893 I have only one left, Mrs. G:!orge M. Bradt. Of the following years I can not speak, but there are quite a number on trial, and as I have said before, I will not express an opinion unless I am thoroughly con- vinced of what I say, as experienced in my cultivation. Thus I h ive grown since 1890 from 2,000 to 4,000 seedlings every year, and even of tots vast number I can not even show one variety for every year, of the value of Wm. Scott. This year's crop is 4,000 seedlings of which I have housed 650. Taking this branch of carnation culture from a business standpoint, there is more imaginary profit than real, as viewed by a large part of the trade, al- though when carried on systematically, there will be no loss. As I have said be- fore we aim to have all our seedlings ma- ture and bloom in the field, of these we select those that show a saleable flowerof good form; thus we manage to bouse 312 The American Florist. Nov. 7, only plants, that may at least pay ex- penses for their keeping. When the best of these are selected for a second and third years' blooming it will very much increase the returns and bring it nearly equal to the cultivation of stan- dard varieties. I have learned to re- gard seedlings as very unstable, and if throui^h the course of the several years' trial I find one or two, that retains and Improves their good qualities, so it may warrant a dissemination, I considerthese an acquisition. However, if one depends upon these to pay expenses for the seed- ing and growing of the whole lot, he may be left in the lurch and hold anempty bag. The growing of new varieties has a fas- cination for many, and is entered into with much zeal and enthusiasm. It is indeed a field of the greatest interest and fascination to observe to what extent cultivation and cross fertilization will change and improve the original form and habit, to what extent these changes often develop into freaks, while at the same time a portion strives to regain their original form, and again where nature calls a stop to further reproduc- tion. If one enters into this branch with a spirit and love of the seeker to explore the workings of Mother Nature among this genus of plants, he may learn much and will find great satisfaction in the work; if entered into only for gain, then do not place your expectations too high; do not loose yourself in illusions, for you may meet disappointment. Fred Dorner. Carnation Prizes. Mr. C. W. Ward, of the Cottage Gar- dens, Queens, N. Y., offers the following special prizes for competition at the exhibition, of the American Carnation Society at Cincinnati next February: 1st. Commercial Cup. Silver cup, value $25, for best commercial light pink car- nation. Vase of 24 perfect blooms 6 buds showing cole r, 6 buds half open. Open to commercial growers only. 2d. Commercial Cup. Silvercup, value $25, for best commercial whitecarnation, vase of 24. perfect blooms, 6 buds show- ing color and 6 buds half open. Open to commercial growers only. 3d, Amateur's Cup, Silver cup, value $25, for best exhibition carnation, any color. Open to amateurs only for seed- ling originated and grown by the exhibi- tor. Vase of 24 perfect blooms, 6 buds showing color, 6 buds half open. 4th. Gardener's Cup. Silver cup, value $25, for best exhibition carnation, any color, open to private gardeners only, for seedling originated and gtown by the exhibitor. Vase of 24 perfect blooms, 6 buds showing color and 6 buds half open. CONDITIONS. In each case the varieties contesting must never have been exhibited before this society nor have been awarded any certificate or piemiuni by any other society. The judging as to points to be according to the rules of the American Carnation Society. These premiums will be offered each and every year >o long as the American Carnation Society maintains its separate independent existence, and so long as it holds an annual meeting with an annual exhibition of carnations. Premiums 1 and 2 shall alternate in color wilh alternate years, as follows: The exhibition coming, the premium shall be offered respectively for the btst light pink and best white; then for the next year, for the best scarlet and best yellow, and for the exhibition succeeding that, tor the best variegated and the best dark pink, and then to rtturn to the light pink and white, and follow the same routine. In competing for these premiums each contest- ing vase shall consist of exactly 21 perfect blooms, 6 buds, showiug color and ti buds half open. By a perfect flower shall be meant one that has not a bursted calyx and has a stiff stem at least 15 inches long and otherwise reasonably perfect iu form. No premium shall be awarded to a variety that possesses a weak neck, that is, one that does not hold the flower erect. No premium shall be awarded to a seedling in the commercial class the flowers of which shall be less than 2J^ inches in diameter, and no premium shall be awarded to a seedling in the exhibition class the flowers of which shall be less than 3 inches in diameter. None of these premiums shall be awarded to an exhibit of a seedling which in the opinion of the judges is not at least equal to the existing btst varieties of its class but whenever such premium shall not be awarded, the judges may award the same with the consent of the donor to any special exhibit which may have no other premiums and which in the judges opinion may deserve an award. Miscellaneous Queries. I have a greenhouse of roses and carna- tions under the same glass. What tem- perature ought to be kept at night and day, and how long can it go without injury to plants? What is the best mode ot ventilation during moderate weather? Sun heat throws it up to 80° and 90° in mid-day. Roses have some mildew. What must be done for them? Will it do to dis- bud carnations. Daybreak, Scott and Uncle John? What is the best plan to make sulphur stay on 2-inch pipe? W. M. G. There is considerable to answer in the above. First, it is the old story of trying to grow two different and dissin^ilar plants in the same temperature, when to grow both successfullv in this way is next to impossible. But W. M. G. is not ask- ing for that information; the house is planted, the trouble has begun, and now what is best to be done? Expert rose growers all agree that 56° to 58° is the ideal night temperature for roses, as this will suit all our standard Tea roses, such as Bridesmaid, Bride, Cusin, Morgan, Perle, etc. Meteor must have 10° higher to grow it well and of the right color. Almost all growers ventilate by the ven- tilators which open at the ridge, and it is far better to have this ventilation contin- uous than at intervals; to be explicit, it is better to have ventilation sash 18 inches deep from ridge and t he entire length of the house than it is to have the sash 3 feet deep and at intervals of every 6 feet. It will never do in our northern climate to use any side ventilation. If we did and caused a draught we would have mildew in twenty-four hours. When sun heat raises the temperature to 75° air should be given. To allow the heat to go up to 90° without ventilation would be most disastrous. There are many days in July, August and September when it is impos- sible to keep the temperature down below 90°, or even 100°, but as the nights as well as the days are then warm and you have, or should have, your ventilators away up no harm is done. Next to having a thoroughly well drained bed or bench 1 consider the greatest factor toward good rose growing is the never ceas"iig care of the ventilation. During the months of October and November the man in charge should never be far away, and if that man's outer skin is a sensitive thermom- eter it will be well for the crops. If the rose house runs down occasionally to 53° or 54° no harm will be done, but don't expect as many roses. There is a wide difference of opinion of what is the best temperature for carna- tions. It depends of course somewhaton how long you expect to keep them in the house. The months of October and November they never should have a high temperature, for if you gave them a forc- ing heat then no future care and atten- tion could ever restore to them the robust growth and strength which alonecan pro- duce stout stems and large flowers. Then again, varieties of carnations differ. Daybreaks, with a night temperature of 45° will be far superior in size and color to those that are kept at 55°. I would say that the ideal night temperature for carnations is 48°, and a drop to 45° will not do the slightest hartn. Disbudding carnations is now the rule with all grow- ers whose sales demand good flowers. Don't wait, however, till the buds are large; rub off all but the leading bud just as soon as you can handle them. The application of sulphur to the hot water or steam pipes is not the only means of preventing or killing the mildew, but it is one of the best. Mix the sulphur with linseed oil till it is about the consistency of syrup and apply with a brush; it will not only stick all right, but many grow- ers believe the strong and not over-pleas- ant fumes from the oil is also an antidote to the mildew. Now I hope our correspondent will be able to make a compromise between the two and produce a condition that will fairly well suit both the rose and carna- tion, and as the queries come from Ken- tucky I believe it will be a much easier matter to suit both than it would be on the shores of Lake Erie. Wm. Scott. Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints. Those who have early primroses should now have them in their flowering pDts,4, 4Vi or 5-inch. A cold damp house will not do them justice; a light, moderately warm house is what they want, when flowering a night temperature of 50° is about the correct thing, and to make them a handsome little plant they must not be crowded, but have room to fully develop the beauty of their foliage. No flowering plant is worthy of notice, what- ever flowers they be adorned with, unless the foliage is perfect, and particularly is this true with primulas and cyclamens. The latter are now coming into bloom, and we have no more beautiful plant for our customers. It is conceded by all our patrons to be one of the best of house plants. It will pay you well, Mr. Florist, to give them the best ofcare; to be cro wded now will spoil them. It will pay to set them on an inverted 5 or 6 inch pot; they will then get a free circulation of air all round them. As cyclamens should be well drained, you are not likely to overdo them with water, and if allowed to be dry on a bright day they will quickly wilt. Greenfly is the chief enemy of the cyclamen, and in addition to regular fumi- gation some fresh tobacco stems placed between the pots will helpgreatly to keep down the aphis. Although by no means a hothouse plant, the cyclamen will not do its best in a house where cinerarias will make strong plants. When bloom- ing the right night temperature is about 55°. Under a bright sun they sometimes wilt, but alas! from November until Feb- ruary we are little troubled with this. How many of you grow the California violet? I did last year to a small exteat, only 100 plants, but I found out itssccret then; never pick off the runners, for it is from them that you get the flowers. Now manyof you who have been discour- aged about this single sweet scented vio- let may think it is not worth house room. I have only to siy let it grow wild on your beeches (free of weeds of course), for from the runners will come the best flowers. There are thousands of places v\ here the Marie Louise cannot be grown, but everyore can grow these single vio- lets, and they are worth your attention. There is only one quality in a violet that places it supremely above even an agera- i8g6. The American Florist. 313 CORYPHA UMBRACDMFERA IN BLOOM. OBTLON. turn — that is its unequalled odor, anl the single have that equally with the great favorite Marie Louise or the rest of that type. As I write only reminders and am not supposed to say a word about the lead- ing flowers in our business. I cannot tell you just how to manage your carnation house, but I can tell you that it is a good plan to sow a few seeds of sweet peas at the posts or pillars of your carnation benches; long before the roots of the sweet peas have robbed the carnations of anything that legitimately belongs to them the carnations will have produced its most profitable crop, and before these side crops have any chance to interfere. I have been called down by several worthy men, but old fogies nevertheless, and they tell me that you cannot grow two crops on one place; it is doing nothing of the sort when I tell you to grow sweet alyssum, sweet peas and myosotis on the side of the benches; this I will swear to, and prove by demonstration. Look out for the pansies you have in frames for next year's sales; let the snow fall on them, but don't let them get too dry because it is "fall"; remember what an orchidist once told me, and which is a real truth — that all plants go to rest better wet than dry. If you want first- class pansies to sell at fifty cents a dozen next April, be prepared to cover them with glass at the approach of very severe weather. They are a hardy plant, and will survive the worst of winters, but to make them profitable to the northern flo- rist they must have the protection of glass, and in addition to this a few hem- lock boughs laid over them will keep off the results of the sudden changes of our fickle climate. Don't sell your 'mums too soon; there will be more demand for them in a month than there is to-day. Wm. Scott. Boston. The event of the week was the annual visit of the florists and gardeners to Waban Conservatories at Natick. There were about thirty in the party and on arrival at Wellesley, wagons were found ready to convey them to the greenhouses where they were met by Mr. Wood and Mr. Montgomery and conducted through the vast establishment. Chrysanthe- mums were the especial point of interest. It was noticeable that some of the favor- ites of last year and many of the favor- ites of former years were either missing or represented by but a few specimens. But Philadelphia, Golden Wedding, Maj. Bon- naffon, Yiviand-Morel, Mrs. Jerome Jones, Eugene Dailledouz;, Minerva, May flower. W. G. Newitt and Mrs. J. Hood-Wright were seen in abundance, and in such mag- nificent form as to leave no doubt of the wisdom of giving them a place in such a collection. Among the newer aspirants Mrs. Perrin led the aggregation and was the acknowledged favorite with all. Other recent acquisitions that were en- thusiastically received were Modesto, which Mr. Montgomery regards as a dangerous rival for Eugene Dailledouze, but having one weak point, that of being somewhat soft; Constellation, which ap- peared to excel Inter Ocean, especially in the abundant foliage close up to the flower; Mrs. J. Peabody, May's hand- some creamy white of last year; Gretchen Buettner, a noble white; H. W. Rieman, very much superior to W. H. Lincoln and Wm. Simpson, the lovely pink sent out by Mr. Heacock. In dark shades John Shrimpton appeared to please generally. Violescent was badly aflected with fungus and was not attractive in either color or form. The rose houses were visited and much interest was manifested in the solid beds which were in fine shape, one bed of Brides- maid particularly which had been planted as late as last July being pronounced by good judges the best they had ever seen. A new refrigerator has just been completed. It measures 32 feet in length by 10 feet in depth, is 9 feet high and will hold eight tons of ice. Another improve- ment of this season is the addition of 45 feet to the height of the big chimney. After the visitors had inspected the establishment sufficiently, teams were taken for Bailey's Hotel, where dinner was served in royal style, and when ap- petites had been satisfied there followed a couple of hours of speech making in which the boys waxed eloquent as they spoke of the generosity of their host, Mr. E. M. Wood, the skill of Mr. Alex Montgomery and the beauty of the display they had seen. M. H. Norton acted as toastmas- ter and was as successful as usual in drawing out the humorous abilities of Messrs. Mathison, Welch and Hatch, the oratorical powers of Messrs. Hoitt, Cal- der and Woodford, the musical talent of Elijah Wood and the modest response of the more retiring and diffident members, of whom there were many. The principal business before the Gar- deners & Florists' Club at its meeting on Novembers was election of officers for 1897. The nominating committee brought in the name of Kenneth Finlay- son for president, but that gentleman re- fused to serve on account of his health and his declination was reluctantly ac- cepted. The officers as finally elected were as follows: President, Thos. J. Grey; vice-president, Geo. M. Anderson; secre- tary, Chas. J. Dawson; treasurer, Ed- ward Hatch; extcutive committee, Thos. Westwood, Geo. A. Sutherland, Robt. Cameron, Robert Farquhar. A general discussion regarding the future work of the club followed and a number of excel- lent suggestions were made whereby the meetings of the coming year might be made especially interesting. At the De- cember meeting F. R. Mathison is ex- pected to address the club on a subject of interest and later on Mr. John Farquhar will entertain the members for anevening with a series of stereoptican slides which he brought with him from Europe. Mem- bers will be asked to bring specimens of choice flowers and plants to the next meeting, also insects and other pests of the greenhouse for identification and comparison. "Nothing lives very long unless it is useful," said Robert Farquhar, and the Boston Club seems prepared to 3l4 The American Florist. Nov. 7, show a good title to long life. Resolu- tions on the death of Wm. Robinson were presented and adopted. In the cut flower trade but little is doing, the national election and the pleas- ant spring-like weather being together responsible for prevailing conditions. Chrysanthemums are naturally the most talked of commodity. It is worthy of note that the main mission of the huge specimen blooms seem to be to adorn the florists' show windows and to be sold individually, and that for everyday de- mand the more moderate sized flowers are decidedly preferred, delicacy and purity of color counting for more than mere size. Those who have chrysanthe- mums grown in clusters find a ready sale for them and theie is every indication that well grown sprays bearing three or four flowers of medium size but of good form and color are likely to enjoy the greater popularity with cut flower buy- ers in the immediate future. Whilechrys- anthemums are abundant the rose indus- try languishes. Carnations seem to have lifted themselves out of the obscurity which the chrysanthemum in past sea- sons has imposed, and there is a healthy demand for them. Violets, too, sell very well, although at moderate figures. H. E. Hartford, dealer in moss, ferns, bouquet green, etc. ,hasmade a voluntary petition in insolvency. No statement of assets or liabilities is yet given. Visiting Boston: S. S. Pennock, Phila- delphia; Dr. F. Bradley, president of the Newport Horticultural Society. New York. At the meeting of the New York Florists' Club on Monday evenirg, November 9 there will be an interesting exhibition of novelties and otherseasonaV)leplants and flowers. It is expected that the display of new chrysanthemums by local growers wiil be especially fine. Awards will be made by the exhibition committee of the club. Entries should be made before hand, addressing John Young, secretary, 51 West 28th street, New York City. This exhibition, in connection with the fact that on the sameeveningnomination of < fficers for the coming year will be in order, should bring out a large attend- ance and on such an occasion every num- ber should make it his business to be present. The present week is about as bad as it possibly can be, for the cut flower busi- ness. Commencing with an enoimous overproduction of every variety now in season, caused by the continued warm and bright weather, it did not require the distraction of election day to demoralize things generally. This combination of overproduction and cessation of trade was runious in its effects and recovery must necessarily be slow. Y'ellow chrysanthemums were expected to reap a harvest of the equivalent of the yellow metal on Saturday, the day of the big sound money parade in this city. Doubtless these expectations would have been realized if the growers had not made the mistake they invaiiably make at the holidays, ot being twenty-four hours late. Friday was the day on which yellow chrysanthemums sold at sight. On Satur- day they came in by tens of thousands and the market was spoiled. Thos. Young, Jr., is receiving a nice lot of Roman hyacinths every morning of very fine quality. They are the first of this season's forcing and, as such, are a decided novelty. Supply dealers are complaining of the Yray in which the French houses have loaded them up on Roman hyacinth bulbs. It is the same old game of reported scarcity early in season followed by over- stock and smashing of prices. Cosmos is unusually good this season and finds a place in the stock of all first- class florists. The flowers are very large, nearly double the size of those received a few years ago. So much for seed selec- tion. Visiting New Yoik: Peter Boll, Maiden, Mass; Harry Bayersdorfer, Phila. Philadelphia. President John Burton in his inaugural address to tUeFlorists'Clublast Tuesday evening made a very practical and telling speech. He said in part, that the meetings of the club must be made entertaining as well as instruct- ive, for while a man might attend and hear something new, yet if he were not entertained he would not be as apt to come, and might soon forget the meeting nights. The papers prepared should be such as would interest the members and induce free discussion. There are many members who, when two or three are gathered together are very free to discuss the living issues of the business, but when similar subjects are up for discussion be- fore the club they ofcen have nothing to say. Mr. Burton thought that these members should be encouraged to "speak out in meeting" so that all might be berefitted. He thought men should be appointed to lead the discussion on a paper read and thus help to draw others out and encour- age debate. The preparing of seasonable articles on the care of plants in the house, on bedding and lawn decoration, on the arrangement of cut flowers and other like subjects to be published in the public journals ot the day, for the education of the general public, he thought would be a good thing for the club to do. There are so many incorrect and confusing state- ments about plants and flowers and the business in general appearing so frequently in the public press, that such matter com- ing from the club and having its endorse- ment, would no doubt be accepted eagerly and its publication make the club a power for good in increasing among the people a love for flowers and thus incidentally help the business. He also advocated the holding of special flower exhibits, such as cannas, dahlias, carnations, etc., as they did much to attract and interest the mem- bers. The relation of the national society to the Florists' Club he thought should receive lull consideration and their pro- posal taken up and looked into. The social feature has much to do with the life of the club and should always be kept well to the front. All work does not suit the florists as a rule and a little recreation helps to sweeten the toil. Robt. Craig thought Mr. Burton's remarks pregnant witn usefulness, and he also thought the club had the right man for president. His idea on timely topics on plants and flowers for publica- tion in the general newspapers is a most excellent idea and Mr. Craig hopes that the ideas thrown out by Mr. Burton will not be like the seed that fell on stony ground but will find good fertile soil and grow and bear fruit. The club were dissapointedin not being able to meet in their room in the new hall, but we are glad to say that at a con- ference with a committee of the Florists' Club and the managers of Horticultural Hall all matters in dispute were amicably arranged and the club will get possession of the room at once. The annual chrys- anthemum banquet will be given there and mark the ( fficial opering on Wednes- day evening November 11. To this ban- quet all members of the craft from other cities and parts of the country are most cordially invited to be present and help the club to christen their new quarters. It will be a gala night and the club would like to have the largest out of town attendance in its history. The exhibition of the society promises to be a very good one. Secretary Rust says that entries are coming in freely and enough have been received to guarantee a good show. Business has been a trifle slow, with the exception of last Saturday when the demand for white 'mums for All-Saints' Day, and for yellow flowers of the same, to help people emphasize and show their preference for sound money, cleared out the stores. Golden Wedding, Maj. Bon- naffjn, Niveus, G.W. Childs, Philadelphia and several other minor varieties have been added to the collection the past week and have sold fairly well. The top price is $2 per dozen but with the exception of selected flowers $1.50 is the price and from that down to $3 per hundred. Roses are very plentiful, the mild weather bringing them on fast, very good short Beauties are peddled by the handful on Chestnut street and almost given away as they are sold so cheap. The stores are asked to pay $S per hundred for just such stock. Wonder where the fakirs get'em? Violets are very plentiful and many go to waste. Carnations are also slumpy and $1 is now high, 5 cents a dozen is the fakirs price. Oscar Newman has moved his business from 10th and Green to 1222 Girard avenue where with increased tacilities he hopes to build up and inrease his growing business. The shoot of the Gun Club next Wednes- day promises to be a great affair quite a number of out of town florists have again given notice that they are coming and if the weather is fine it will no doubt be one of the most successful events ever given by the club. K. Toronto. Evidently this is going to be a good country to live in in the course of a few years. In addition to gold mines galore both in Ontario and British Columbia, some One has now found coal north of Georgian Bay and some other lucky one has struck a deposit of conundrum which is worth $80 a ton and which contains precious stones worth, well it is too much to take in all at once. This is not strictly horticultural news I suppose, but it is very welcome news to horticulturists all the same. It seems as if we were on the eve of the best times thecountry eversaw and of course we all hope to benefit there- by. Never mind brother W. S. of Buffalo we understand all about it perfectly well, we know well that you and the majority in your adopted country have your heaits set in the right place and we are going to be "brithers a' "in spite of demagogues or any other gogues. Do the maples, the elms the birches and a thousand others know a boundary line between us? It is only sovie men are vile. We are all right. The weather lately has been fine and comparatively mild and it has brought the chrysanthemums on a pace, though not too fast yet to meet the demand which has been very large. The trade on Hallow e'en is reported to have been larger than ever before. It is to be feared that many of the best blooms will not keep until the show i8g6. The American Florist. 315 BANYAN TREE CEYLON. owing to its lateness, but we must all hope and try all we know how for the best. The show is a great advertiser and must not be let down. It must be earlier next year, there is altogether too much risk in having it so late. The prize list has been pcblished and will be forwarded on application to Mr. E. H. Carter, 280 Gerrard street E. E. San Francisco. Trade is reported from all quarters as improving every day and the prices and stock are better than for several weeks past. Of course 'mums are still holding full sway. There has been an unusually large call for yellow chrysanthemums during the past week and to-day the growers have been nearly cleaned out of all the yellow ones they could find on account of the big parade of the gold men. Over thirty thousand men were in line and each one wore a yellow 'mum. Major BonnafTon is nearly over in this market but we still have plenty of Daille- douze to take its place. Inside stock of Dailledouze is bringing $2 per dozen. Queens also are get ting scarce. The severe stotm we had this week did a great damage to all outside 'mums. As yet we have had no frost and the growers are happy. Roses have gone up to 25 cents per dozen, and are intairly good demand. Brides selling very well. Quite a few Beauties are in the market and sell very rapidly. In violets the California stands pre-eminentlv at the head. They bring from $lto $1.50 per dozen, Marie Louise sell at the same price also Lady Hume Campbell. For the first time this season I saw a consignment of the new violet the "Golden Gate". It seems all that could be desired in the way of color although the stems are not as long as those of the California. Itis also lacking in fragrance, but on account of its color and size is destined to become as popular as the California. They are coming in from A. Ratto at Ocean View. Plant trade seems to be a little livelier than for weeks past. Small sized kentias selling very nicely, also cycas, carnations are bringing about $2 per hundred, Portia and Scott being being the leaders. Redondo, the new variety, seems to be a very good white and also sells well. The retail flo- rists report the sales of all bulbous stock as rather slow. The Santa Rosa Floral Society have decided to hold a floral show this month. This will be the first exhibition of this new society and we hope it will prove successful. J. A. Carbone the introducer of the California violet and formerly of the firm of Carbone & Monti has opened up a new store on Sockton street. Mr. Arthur Cann rf the Girden City Floral Co. was married last week to an estimable young lady from Napa. Mr. Frank Bourguignon of E. Bour- guignon, wholesale florists at Sin Jose was a visitor during the week. Mr. Bourguignon reports trade as improving in his city and hopes for more improve- ment after the elections. Mr. John Carbone of West Berkeley who is well known as one of our most prominent chrysanthemum growers, isto hold an exhibition of his stock in Pili- cano's store on Kearney street during the greater part of next week. As the Cali- fornia Society has no show this season we will have an opportunity of jadgingsome of the novelties at their best. A meeting of the Santa Clara Floral Society was held in Pythian Hall last week at San Jose. Much interest was manifested in the pr parations for the bulb show wh'ch this sncietv has decided to hold next Mirch. Tne bulbs have all been ordered and are expected soon when they will all be distributed by the society. Mrs. Dunlop showed a fine col- lection of chrysanthemums. Mrs.Lormier showed many varieties of outside roses which were greatly admired. One new member was admitted to the Society. A number of new fl )ricultural publications were added to the librarv. The socirty was invited by Mrs. Wilkes to visit her chrysanthemum exhibition. Mr. Dunlop made a very excellent exhibition of Cali- fornia violets. The sccetary reported the society as in a flourishing condition. The Redwood Citj- Flower Show opened on the 29th ult, and in point of excel- lence is far ahead of any previous exhibi- tion that they have held. Tbis is accounted for mostly by the interest the growers took in it. M. Lynch of Menlo Park had the finest display of cut blooms. Mr. Lvnch showed his new seedling from W. H. Lincoln which was greatly admired. His Mrs. Robinson and Puila- delphia were the finest blooms we have seen in a long time. His Queens and Dailledouze were also fine. He showed over 100 varieties including the latest introductions. Miss McClellan of Laurel Cretk also made a splendid exhibition of cut flowers chief among them being 316 The American Florist. Nov. 7, Queens, Dailledouze and Craig Lippincott. Her display of roses, and carnations were also fire. Mr. T. Mclntjre who is well known as one of the best amateur grow- ers on the coastshowedhisusualexcellent lot of blooms. They were indeed very excellent and were greatly admired. Mr. E. D. Jones of Woodside showed a mixed collection of chrysanthemums. The Sun- set Seed and Plant Co. showed some decorative plantsincludingcycas.kentias, latanias, etc., which were also very excel- lent. Mrs. Geo. C. Ross showed a fine collec- tion of ferns, pansies pelargoniums, coleus, etc, Mr. Chas. Josselyn also had a creditable showing. Theshow was well attended and undoubtedly will add quite a sum to the treasury of the society. Your correspondent paid a visit to the Japanese growers at Fruitvale, Domoto Bros. These gentlemen have an excellent reputation for the quality of stock they send out. They erected ten chrysanthe- mum houses this summer; the houses aie 110x22 and are built after the style of Dreer's continuous houses at Riverton and are proving very satisfactory. The chief stand by of this firm is Eugene Dail- ledouze and here indeed one can see it growing to perfection both in solid beds and boxes. Mrs. Jerome Jones is another standard sort, also Bonnaffon. This sea- son they have an excellent white seedling resembling Western King. They have a sport from Good Gracious called Buff Grove which is a very excellent thing, having a stiff neck. They also showed us a bronze seedling from Vivand-Morel which was much deeper than its parent. Their new silvery pink seedling Mrs. W. S. Hannon they prize very highly. Achilles they rely upon as a good late white. New York also showed up well. They have a tremendous stock of cycas revoluta in all stages from seedlings to specimen plants which occupy seven houses. They report a growing popularity out here for this plant. They showed us a house of Livis- tona rotundifolia which they claim is more satisfactory than latanias and of much more rapid growth. They have two large lath houses mostly filled with camellias and hardy Japanese plants. They showed a large impoitation of Dicksonias which looked splendid. Meteor. St. Louis. Trade for October has been better than expected. From the beginning of the month to the end flowers of all kinds have been plentiful, especially roses and chrysanthemums. It is estimated that on October 31,15,000 yellowchrysanthe- mums were sold by the floiists. The wholesalers were crowded with them. There were 'mums on the pavements, In the windows and in the ice boxes. The sellers row are Ivory, Queens, Spaulding, E. G. Hill, Viviand-Morel, some fine spec- imen blooms of H. Sunderbruch, Mutual- Friend and Niveus. From $2 to $4 per dozen is asked for these blooms and smaller stock brings from $3 to $12 per hundred. Roses, with the exception of Beauties are more than plentiful. Good large Beauties are scarce and bring from $12 to $25 per hundred; other roses. such as Brides, Bridesmaid, Meteor and Kais- erin are selling at from $1.50 to $2 per hundred. Perles sell as low as $1. Car- nations are beginning to come in now in large quantities and should they continue to do so the prices will have to go down with them; the price now ranges from 75 cents to $1.50 per hundred. Daybreak, Scott and any white have the call. There are plenty of violets in the market, both double and single, and lots of them going to waste, but still the commission men bold up the price on them, 20 cents being asked for single and 50 cents for double. Valley still holds its own at $4. Smilax is scarce and what docs come in is not very good, but the price is 15 cents per string. The bouvardia that comes in red, white and pink is good and sells at $1 per hundred. Said one wholesaler, "If the grower keeps this thing up much longer in send- ing in so much stock what are we going to do with it? These 'mums knock the starch out of everythingelse and keep us busy after our customers are supplied. We put the roses and carnations in the ice box only to bring them out again the next morning and put more on top of them, but we hope for better days now that the election is over." The prospects of the coming chrysan- themum show are very flattering. The public seems to take more interest this year than ever before. On Monday, No- vember 9, the floor of the hall will be laid to cover the orchestra chairs and private boxes; on Tuesday the committee will do the decorating and lay out the space for the exhibitors, and when the doors are open Wednesday morning the florists can go to work and make their display with- out any one in their way. We expect to have everything in place by 4 p. m. when the hall is opened to the public. Among the nursery men the packing season and fall trade in their line has been highly satisfactory, especially in orna- mental trees and shrubs. Only a few of the bowlers were at the alley Monday night, but we rolled our three games just the same. Beyer was high in three games with 558, Kuehn second 494; D. Helwig was high on single score 232; C. Beyer was second. We hope to have a better attendance next Monday night. J.J. B. Chicago. The evening of Friday, October 30, quite a number of florists paid a visit to the conservatories of Mr. N. M. Freer at Oak Park, in response to a special invita- tion from that gentleman. After a view of the conservatories and their contents an excellent lunch was served while a quartette of colored gentlemen dispensed sweet music. This was followed by solos by Mr. Geo. Baldwin, the gardener in charge, and duets by Messrs. MtKellar and Masterson. Interestiag addresses were made by Prof. Gardener and Messrs. McAdams, Vaughan and Shaw, the re- marks of the latter being in bis usual happy vein and interspersed with humor- ous personal references. The National Floral Emblem Society of America met at the Audi:orium Hotel, October 31, and elected Mrs. H. W. R. Strong, Los Angeles, president, and Mrs. Norah Gridley, 61 University Place, Chi- cago, corresponding secretary. The soci- ety was organized during the World's Fair, and is reported to now have local organizations in thirty states. Business is still somewhat at a stand- still, which is no doubt due to the two bugbears, bad weather and election. To-day is bright and pleasant, and trade is picking up a little. The commission men all appear cheerful. Outside trade is excellent, but even the best stock is sold at shockingly low prices. The market is glutted with roses and carnations. 'Mums are very plentiful, and are selling fairlv well. Some fine specimens of Ivory, Queen, Mrs. H. Rob- inson and Minnie Wanamaker are to be seen this week. The dealers all regard these as their standard shipping varieties, but complain of Queen dropping its petals. There is positively no sale for violets, and valley is also a drug on the market. Smilax is slow, as is all green stuff, and nothing in this line looks first rate. The first bouvardia of the season is on the market this week, and according to all reports is destined to become rather popular again. There is but little of it grown here, but what there is is selling well. Superintendent Rudd has had so many applications for space at the chrys- anthemum show that its has been neces- sary to secure the adjoining armory, and the two large buildings will undoubtedly be filled. It will certainly be the largest exhibition of the sort ever seen inChicago. Pittsburg. The demand in the florist line continues fair. October 31 was a big day for flo- rists as in the afternoon there was an immense parade of the republicans and there was a great call for yellow flowers, chrysanthemums largely taking the lead. It was a wonder to all where so many yellow ones came from, but with all the number furnished the supply was not equal to the demand. The democrats held their parade the same night and light or silver colored flowers were called for, not to the extent of the daylight call, however, but enough so that some of the florists closed out all of their stock. Miss A. Klopfer has, this week, moved to 208 Smithfield street, which is a much more preferable location in every particu- lar; she will have a much larger room, with greatly increased facilities for trans- acting business, and when the contem- plated improvements, such as a new front, remodeling and decoration of the storeroom are completed, she will have one of the best appointed floral estab- lishments in the city. Mr. E. H. Becker, Penn avenue. East End, reports business as very fair with him and fully up to his expectations for this fall, and he is looking for a steady improvement from now on. Messrs. T. P. Lang'aans & Co., in Alle- ghany Market_, commene-es business on the 31st ult., notwithstanding the incom- pleteness of their stand; however, enough was finished to give one a very good idea of how it will look when completed. The top of the counter is white marble, the sides plate glass, thus permitting of a dis- play in the space underneath the marble; the electric lights are concealed, but ar- ranged so as to throw their light directly downward. The stand is to be finistei in white and gold and will be one of the handsomest in the market house, the counter space occupying three sides of a square, the ice box the fourth and rear side. They opened with a very fine dis- play of first quality flowers, and they are feeline very happy over the manner in which business has opened for them. The informal opening will be followed by a swell affair when the stand is completed. Mr. Ford, representing Mr. H. Herr- mann of New York was with us this week. Regia. Cincinnati. The weather for the past week has been delightful, which madea marked improve- ment in the retail trade. On October 31 the gold-bugs had a mammoth parade of at least 50,000 strong, and from all ap- pearances there were at least 15,000 yel- low chrysanthemums worn by these j8g6. The American Florist. 317 patriots. H. L. Sanderbruch emptied one house forthis occasion, and sold them at fair prices. Fred Walz has accepted the judgeship for the coming chrysanthemum show at Louisville; the exhibitors may well be proud of their selection, for Mr. Walz shows no partiality and is up to date in 'mum culture. Last Saturday afternoon about ten vases of seedling chrysanthemums were staged in our meeting room before a set of competent men. The judges consisted of Messrs. Sunderbruch, Walz and Wit- terstaetter. The following certificates were awarded: To Hill & Co., Rich- mond, Ind., for Golden Dawn. This is a beautiful bright yellow, extremely full, petals open and short, but the bloom when finished is very nicely rounded and incurved; it promises to prove a valuable second early yellow, following Marion Henderson nicely. With handsome foli- age quite up to the flower and strong, stiff' stem, this variety will make an ideal pot plant. No. Eleven, another yellow variety, but in marked contrast to the above: The blooms are of large size, with petals both long and broad, forming a smooth, rounded incurved form, the style so much admired; the color is a canary yellow deepening about the outerthird to golden yellow; this is a great improvement on Dr. Callendreau. Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., showed a beautiful pink seedling, for which they were awarded a certificate. The flower is large and incurved, color of the much admired sea shell pink order; it has every indication of being first-class. Hill & Co. were also awarded a certifi- cate for their new rose Souv. Pres. Carnot. This is a hybrid tea with large foliage; the bud is of the largest size, very long and pointed; thecoloris pearl white, thick and wax like, deepening to soft, clear pink in the center; the stems are stiff, holding the magnificent bloom upright. Too much cannot be said in favor of this rose. H. Schwasz. Rochester, N. Y. Exceedingly warm and pleasant weather for the last two weeks has been very favorable for the development of the late outdoor flowers. Sweet peas are flowering again; carnations that were left in the field are in fine bloom, violtts may be picked every day and quantities of pansies are to be seen. Many of the herbaceous plants were not hurt by the several severe frosts we have had, and beds of petunias, verbenas and antirrhin- ums look better to-day than they did three weeks ago. Scabiosa, stocks and late asters are just as good as in early September, but all these plants may be destroyed any night by a severe frost. We like to enjoy the late fall flowers as long as we possibly can, and therefore have not cleared our beds yet, hoping that the unusually favorable weather will continue for a week or two longer, espe- cially as it does not seem to affect the trade of seasonable cut flowers in the least. Chrysanthemums keep up in price, though they are very plentiful at present. Carnations hold their own at last week's prices, but as there was but small de- mand for funeral work many of them were left over; the same may be said of roses, and quantities of them found their way to the ash barrel. Chrysanthemums, being plentiful, have the preference over roses and carnations. Violets sell well and more of them could be disposed of here in town. J. B. K. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. AdvertlBementa under tdts bead will be Inserted at tbe rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this bead. SITDATION WANTED— By Hrst-class grower of pot plants, cut tiowprs; good designer and decorator. Klrst-class testimonials. A. care Am. Florist. OlTUATluN WANTED - In tlrst-clasa cut flower O Btoreorwhulesalecoiiimlsslon house. Ablemaker- up and decorator. Good references. Address B W, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED -FtrstK^lass Uermnn florist; age .30: long experience. Pilvate place preferred. Three years with last employer References Address CHAS. VuuBKCK. lo(l llemdon St.. Chicago. SITUATION WANTKD-As foreman In good com- mercial or private place, by thoroughly flrst-class single man who Is well known In the trade. Address Gkuwek. care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED— By thorough, practical flo- rist and grower: commercial or gentleman's pri- vate place: single, age oU. Personal references. Ad- dress Z, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTBD-By single young man. 27 O years of age, as assistant florist and gardener; 7 years' experience: sober, reliable and Industrious. Best of references. F^ P, care American Florist SITUATION WANTBD-As foreman, by flrst-class grower of roses, carnations, 'mums and general stock: 2"3 years' experience: age :Ho. Best of reference. Address Florist. u;1 Falrmount Ave.. Philadelphia. SITUATION WANTED— By young Scotchman: prac' tical gardener and florist. Best American and European references- Private place preferred, or commercial place. Address T U. care American Florist. Chlgago. SITUATION WANTED-In California, by a prac- tical floriculturist and landscaper as superintend- ent or assistant superintendent on public or private grounds; fully understands cemetery work. Address CALIFORNIA, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-ln commercial or private O place, by practical florist and gardener: good grower and propagator: l;l years' e-xperlence: (ierman. single, age -*7. Hirst class references. Want place by November 15 or December 1, In New York- Address A S, care American F'lorist, Chlcago- SITUATION WANTED-As design maker by young man, just returned from Europe; flrst-class maker-up; well experienced in flower stores in France, Germany- England and America— "the latest " Only well known Arms need apply- Please state full par- ticulars. Address Artist, care Am. F'lorlst. SITUATION WANTED-By a practical worklngfore- man, on commercial place: has a thorough knowl- edge of the trade. Roses. 'mums, palms and bulbs a specialty. Chicago or weatof It preferred. References mu'^l be exchanged. Give lull particulars with wages paid, when writing. CHICAGO, care Am. Florist- W ANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrst-class chance to establish himself - Address DUB. care American F'iorist. FOR SALE— Two No. 7 and one No. t> Herendeen boilers in splendid condition; only been used two years. Cheap Apply to ti. K. Jones. 1011 Tacoma Building. Chicago. FOR SALE— A tubular boiler In best of condition, with connection pipes: cost $;iOO. for j:oO net f- o- b- Wlli heat l.')0O feet of 4-inch pipes. Address A. A. NeuneR, tv,'4 Fourth Ave., Louisville, Ky. IMPORTED BY CATALOGUE Wednesday, Nov. U/96 AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M. .No. IS IPr-o-viiioe St. BOSTON. MASS. EDWARD HATCH. Auctioneer. Mention American FlorlBt. CARNATIONS After tlie early chrysanthemums are thrown out, many florists plant carnations. We have a few thousand good plants heeled in, in the cold house, suitable for this purpose. McGOWAN. PURITAN, PORTIA, GARFIELD, MME. ALBERTINl, ADA BYRON, SILVER SPRAY, NICHOLSON, GRACE WILDER, B. OF ERLESCOURT, HINZES WHITE, Buttercup, 2nd quality STUART, Helen Keller, " ROSELIND, Uncle John, S4.00 per 100. J. L. DILLON. Bloomsburg. Pa. CARNATIONS. ■.>IK»I SCOTTS. immense size, at a bargain. A few TIDALS left. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. stock plants of MME. BERGMANN. YELLOW (.iUKKN. .MUTUAL FRIEND, PRE.-S. W. R. SMITH, J. 11. TROY, THE OUEEN. and 1(X) other leading vailetles. l.'icls, each. GRABS & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VARIKTIKS. ROSES* from 3-tnch pots. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRVSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Pricea low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. PiSHKILL. N. Y. DIIT IM CARNATIONS AFTER rUI 111 CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott, Ivory, Silver Spray. Rose Queen, and Garfield, fiom cold frames, at $8.00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. EACH METROSIDEROS SEVIP., nice bushy plants . . « .45 ACACIA PARADOX* 35 ACUBA. variegated, 1 foot, pot-grown 10 ACUBA. gieen foliage, with berries which turn red by Christmas. . .30 KALMIA LA1IF0LIA. specimen, extra fine, bushy plants full with buds. 75 TREE ROSES at hand now. L. C. BOBBINK, Rutherford, N. J. Branch of The Hartlcultural Co.. Boskoop, Holland. CARNATIONS. F. Dorner & Sons Co. LA FAYETTE, IND. You Need Our TRADE DIRECTORY REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896. PRICE $2.00. SPECIMEN CUT 'MUMS. ^IS.OO t»ei' lOO. SIlVGIIvEJ STEJIVX r»XvA.I^T«S, doz. $4.00. CYCAS LEAVES, WILD SMILAX. FERNS, ASST., FINE, per 100, $4.00. Last call now for Falm and Decorative Plant orders before dangerous weather, GREENHOUSES, X/AIIAIJillU'C CCCrv CTARC 84 & 86 Randolph STREET. WESTERN SPRINGS, ILL. VnUUnnllO OLLU oIUIVL. CHICAGO. 318 The American Florist. Nov. 7, Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe. $2.00, Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Column, S14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent J 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising nopartment of the American Flokist Is for Florlsta. Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines ONLY. Please to remember It. Orders for less than one-half inch space not accepted. Advertlsementsmustreachusby Wednesday to se- cure Insertion In the Issue tor the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Anna M. will find the information she wishes on p^ee 223 of our issue of Octo- ber 10 (No. 436). Double Petunias —Mr. C. Humfeld, Clay Center, Kans .sends us some double petunia flowers of excellent qualitj'. One measuring four inches across, exceedingly full and of pleasing color, is the flnsst double petunia we have yet seen. Messrs John Breitmcyer & Sons, De- troit, Mich., are certainly happy in their selections of printed matter to send their customers. The invitation to their"pub- lic view of chrysanthemums" at their store and adjoining conservatory Novem- ber 4 to 7 is one of the most artistic and effective bits of printing we have ever seen. The survival of the unlike is the title of a new boolj hv Prof L. H. Bailey, and published by THe MacMillan Co., New York, price $2.00. Part 1 consists of "Essays touching the general fact and philosophy of evolution," part 2 of "Essays expounding the fact and causes of variation, and part 3 of "Essays trac- ing the evo'ution of p irticular types of plants." The book contains some 500 pages and is provided with a copious index which latter will greatly enhance its value as a book of reference. Its use- fulness is apparent from the titles of 1 he several pirts. Its purpose.as we take it, was to brine together in convenient form all known facts regarding evolu'i in as it bears upon horticulture, to which has been added the observations of the author. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. CUT FLOWERS, BARGAINS IN Cycas stems and Collection of Orchids WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. SAMUEL S. PENXOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market & rheetnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. BRIttlANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, For Decorating and all Klorlstfl' DealtinB. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. Linville, Mitchell Co.. N. C. WM. SCOTT, Pres. H. B. BUDDENBORC, Mgr. MONEY SAVED IS MONEY EARNED! YOU SAVE 50'^'' in time and wages by making your Green Garlands and Wreathing on our binding machine. 30 days to responsible parties. Price ot Machine $8.00. On cash orders lO'/J off. Send for descriptive circulars. THE SCOTT BINDER CO., ■^T& IVIcilrx Street, IBUJPI^A.IwO, IV. ^^. C0NPLtTEUN^0f6UPPU[] The New York Cut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . CONSIGN TO I5Uy FKO.n M. A. HART, Commission "r" Cut Flowers, 113 WEST 30TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. THE BEST MARKET IN NEW YORK. TRAENDLY & SCHENGK, Wholesale Florists, Control the stock of many celebrated growers and are prepared to quote prices on First Grade Cut Flowers. All varieties. 38 West 28th St.. and Cut Flower Exchange. Tel. itfil ISth Street. NEW YORK CITY. FRED. EHRET, wnoiesaie Fiorisi No. 1403 Fairmount Avenue, Telephone, Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. J. J. STYER, Wholesale Florist 1305 FILBERT STREET, ===51 PHILADELPHIA. A. & F. ROLKER, Down-town Wholesale Florists, 106 & 108 Liberty Street (basement). CHAS. W. McKELLAR, VK ME YOUK ORDERS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of attention Klven to itie slilpplnt: irsulp Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. WIRE WORK. Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE. ED. F. WINTERSON. Mgr. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS GUT FLOWER CO. .) i;. DEAMIII). niRr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Ag-ents. CHICA.GrO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE COMMISSION ^FLORIST. 88 WABASH AVENUE, Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, -Ml— ST. LOUIS, MO. tyA complete line of Wire I>eHig:iiH. H. L. SUNDERBRUCH, Wholesale Florist 4th and WALNUT STREETS, E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, ■fc ST. PAUL. MINN. CUT SMILAX, JOSEPH E. BONSALL, 308 GarHeld Ave.. Salem, 0. j8g6. The American Florist. 319 E. H. HUNT, WHOLESaLSPLORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BUIiBS AND AI.I. FI.OSISTS' SUFPIilES KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. wnoicsaio Gut Fiowors and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. W IKK W<)RK A SFKC1AI.TY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph SU, CHICAGO. If you want FlratrClaBB Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you will get what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. EH^-° CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, ^ CHICA.OO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can till all onlera on sburl iiutlce with all leading varieties of Koses and ('arrmtluriB. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES (jIve us atrial and convince yourself Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. Wire Designs a Specialty. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, --— CHICiVGO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. -CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEtUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt .\ttentioii to all Orders A. L. RANDALL, winoiesaie Fiorisi 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Agent for finest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©VVRoPeAafa Marfier*. Cut Flowers. Nkw York. Nov, 4. Koses. Beauty, extra 10 00"2.i 0() common 2,00m .i.M Meteor. Testoiit 2,00* 4 00 all other varieties 1.00® :t.0O Carnations 7.5® 1 00 extra 1.60® 2.00 Valley S.OO Violets S0«) 1.00 Chrysanthemums 3,00(51 5.00 extra O.OOe 12 0(1 Roman hyacinths 3.0O Cattleyas ... 25.00035.00 Adlantu m .50 Smllax 8,00(5110.00 Asparagus 50.00 Boston. Nov. 4, Roses. Gontler, Nlphetos Uia 1.00 Perle, Mermet l.lioa 2 i«i Bride. Bridesmaid. Meteor 2.003 4 no Beauty 6.11082.1,00 Carnations .T.'>^ 1 00 fancy 1603 2 011 Violets 6(K5i .7.1 Valley 3 00(S' 4 00 Chrysanthemums 2.00c' (i.lKl fancy lO.rili.' 20,1111 Adlantum 75<« I.IHI Smllax 10.00,912, Ul Asparagus 50 00 Philadelphia. Nov. :> HowCB. Beauties — f., 00^12 00 Bride. Bridesmaid, La France, etc. . . :««IS 4,00 Kalserln :i,(«k" I TO small teas 2.00©otfvaHy yc»v»rs. L. B 496. ALBERT M. HERR, LANCASTER, PA. ADIANTUM FARLEYENSE. of this popular Fern we have the largest and finest stock in the country, and devote six bouses entirely to its culture. We offer, in splendid condition, the following sizes: Each. Per Dozen. 3-INCH POTS, EXTRA STRONG $ .25 S3. 00 4-INCH POTS, EXTRA STRONG 50 4.00 5-INCH POTS, STRONG 75 9.00 6-INCH POTS, EXTRA STRONG 1.50 15.00 7-INCH POTS, EXTRA STRONG 2.50 25.00 A discount of 12^- per cent, allowed from above prices if cash accompanies order. PITCHER & MANDA, JOHN N. MAY, Receiver, «-t Hills, :^ff. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ SURE CROP" \ Special prices t on application MUSHROOM SPAWN LILIUM HARRISII, DUTCH BULBS. "FLORISTS" FLKWKR SEEDS. WEEBER & DON, llfZ^'e^l"'' 114 Chambers St., NEW YORK. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ FAXON'S 'WHITE HOUSE" PANSIES. The best mixture in cultivation, fl FI>K AtiKNT KOK F. C. POMRENCKE, Hamburg. i8g6. The American Florist. 321 From 2-iiicli pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. LiHt of varietieH ainl prices furnlslied on applicatiou. NATHAN SMITH & SON. ZIRNGIEBEL'S GIANT MARKET AND GIANT FANCY PANSIES are the Leading Strains up to date. Extra Large Size and Superb Colors. Liberal trade packets of either strain at ONE DOLLAR EACH. .^-Separate colors if wanted in Blue. Black, White and Yellow. Also plants of above strains at $5.00 per 1000. DENYS ZIRNGIEBEL, NEEDHAM, MASS. 100,000 NOW READY. The Jennings strain of finest Amerlciiii t:ru" n Tan- sies are up to date, and just as yuud as they make them; but on account of ihe hard times the price Is down. The iirandestcomMnatkin of colors ever sent out. All lame tlowerlnf.' In preat variety, tinestocky plants, field-grown, will bloom In October. 100bymallT.>c; KXX) bv express H 00; 5000 SIS.OO. Extra plants added with every order. 500 000 ready In October for cold frames. PANSY SEED of above strain. $1,00 per pkt. Of 2,500 seeds. Cash with order. E. B. JENNINGS, l. b. 254, Southport, Conn. Grower of the finest Pansles. ransies Worm Ralsino. PLANfS READY NOW, at 82..50 per .500; 84.00 per 1000. Free on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at $1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH ORDER. C. sOLTAn k CO., 199 Gran Ak., Jersey City, N. J . GHRYSflNTHEMUMS. strong stock plants. Ready now. MERRY MONARCH. M DE MONT.MORT. MARION HENDERSON. MRS. U. ROBINSON. WM. SIMPSON. ETC. A limited number of all the latest and standard varie- ties. Send for price Met H. WEBER & SONS. Oakland, M. A. & F. ROLKER'S PLANT AUCTION SALES EyERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY At II o'clock A. M. 106 & 108 Liberty Street, NEW YORK. 1897 THE ONLY "MARS" "»* ?«™ Prices on application. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. 2-INCH FERNS. P. serrulatu, P. semi lata crestata, P. serrulata " densU, P. adlantoldes READY TO SHIFT. Onychlum japonlcum. Blechnum occldentale. Lastrea variewata. Adlantum cuneatum. Above at W 00 per 100; $35.00 per 1000. Adtantum. from flats $1.50 per 100 Blechnum uccldentale. 3-lnch $**. OU per 100 General assortment. S-ln. vars., $7 per 100: $tiO per 1000 Pterls Ghk'sbrlghtU and Reglnte. 2-lDeh. $ii tlO per 100; a Inch. $10 00 per imi. Complete list on application. Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Clenside, Pa. ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI. ^ou can not afford to omit offering this desirable new species in your ne,xt catalogue, it being a plant that is certain to be in good demand by the retail buyer. We have prepared a large stock of it, and are therefore enabled to offer it at a low piice. Per 100 Per 1000 STROBG, 2-IN. POTS, $10 00 $80.00 STEONG, 3-lN. POTS, 15,00 140.00 HENRYA.DREER, 714 Chtslnut Street. PHILADELPHIA, 200,000 ROOTED CUTTINGS 200,000 GERANIUMS ! %l'^rTl°.tl%°''- EVERY WIDE AWAKE FLORIST knows that if he desires to hold a tine class of cus- tomers, he must carry a full line of first-class geraniums. WE HAVE BEEN TESTING the newer introductions for the past five years and offer a select list of forty-five varieties comprising the cream of the best Geraniums in existence. Our list covers scarlets, dark crimsons, white, pink, salmon pink and various fancy varieties in singles, doubles and Bruants. SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, QUEENS, L. I. E.G. HILL & CO.. wnoiesaieFiorisu RICHMOND. INDIANA, "THE DAHLIA" BY LAWRENCE K. I'EACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST offering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. AtCO. N. J. Biirki's New yellow MarQuerile ETOILE DE LYON. 35 Kooted CutliiijiK lor !«tl.OO, by mail. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of 81000 cash | for ONE FIiANT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative I .urposes. 81 50 per 12; $10 per 100, from J4-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. c A. BLANG & CO., Phila., Pa. ?; EXTRA FINE PLANTS. 5 In the various sizes. Prices upon application. rE X J W irg ijOi«si>.a.ij:E, ^x Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, W) iStatlunU.i PHILADELPHIA. PA. Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 2,^ cents; per hundred, 820. (X). NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, 82.00; per ten thousand, $18. CH. KOEHLER, Oxford Church P. 0., Phila.. Pa. WHOI.FSALE FI.OUIST. staTId^ard I3XJdC!IvE^ Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A sample mailed for :jO cents. FRANK L. MOORE, CHATHAM, N. J. wh«n wTltlTie montinn thp Aniorlnnn Florist. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 322 The American Florist. Nov. Worcester, Mass. Business is progressing very favorably here, and though it might be better, on the other hand it could be decidedly worse. Chrysanthemums are selling even better than last season, though the de- mand seems to be for the smaller sizes, retailing from $1 to $3 per dozen; whether this is caused by shortened purses or by a change in taste is hard to determine. Yesterday (Oct. 31) was flag-day, and to celebrate and show our enthusiasm for sound money we had a parade, with fif- teen thousand men in line. This caused a great run on yellow 'mums, as nearly everyone, in line or not, wore one as the most appropriate button to be had, and people used yellow flowers almost exclu- sively. Preijarations are being made for the chrvsanthemum exhibition which will be heldNovember 10 12. Carnations are coming in better, both in quality and quantity, though we are not getting near tnough to satisfy the demand, even though the Queen of Au- tumn's reign has just begun. A visit to Cook's greenhouses at Northboro, which are entirely devoted to carnations, was very much enjoyed oneday this week, and will amply repay anyone interested in carnation culture. Mr. Cook is a strong advocate of solid beds, and his whole establishment is planted in this way, while nearly all the new varieties are rep- resented in the trial house; the whole place is planted with Scotts, Daybreak and a white seedling of Mr. Cook's that is certainly a fine thing, with an enor- mous crop of flowers in sight. A new house about 150x30 is planted with this seedling, and certainly looks very promis- ing. Roses are also improving and sell- ing well at $1 to $3 per dozen. The weather continues to be death on roses, and everything else for that matter, for we are getting about sixten dark days to one bright one. Violets, both double and single, are selling well, and we are fairly well supplied. Visitors in town last week: Farquhar Macrae, and M. J. Leach and Son of Providence, and P. Welch of Boston. A. H. L. Now come the exhibitions. Full reports of all will appear in next and following issues. Peoru, III— Mr. J. C. Murray, theflo- rist, is confined to the house by injuries resulting from a fall on a slippery floor. Parkersburg.W. Va. — Geo. Obermeyer has rented the establishment of Thos. Butcher and will continue the business. The glass will be devoted mainly to bed- ding plants. Grand Rapids, MiCH.-Crabb & Hunter gave a free exhibii.ion of chrysanthemums at their greenhouses last week which was attended by over 2,000 people. They will repeat the invitation this week and will display a large banner advertising the coming exhibition of the local club. New, Rare and Beautiful Plants L,ORU FKNZANCK'S New Hybrid Sweetbriera. Old Garden Roses. New Roses. Htandard lioses. PHIL.ADEI.PHUS I.EM01NEI; NEW H- LAt:s; LONICEBA HILUKI{KANI>TII; SPIR/EA "ANTHONV WATEKKK," A larKC collection of rare Hothouse and Greenhouse Plants. ANTHIJKIUMS. ALOCACIAS. ORCHIDS. RAKE CONIKKKS, and other Beautiful EVKIUi KEENS. MAGNOLIAS, JAPANESE MAI'I.ES, with other Choice TKEES mii»£-xc553iej:a.^s — 4-in''!i pots, gninr>.im per KKI. I^^nxs — 3Vo-inch pots, $4,00 per 100. Nephrolepis Cordata Compacta. 5-inch pots, 50 cents each, $5,(XI per dozen; 4-inch pots, 35 cents each, $4.(XI i>er dozen, Pteris, 4-inch pots, fine plants, 35 cents each, $4,00 per dozen; 5-inch pots, fine plants, 50 cents each, $5.00 per dozen; 6-inch pots, e.xtra fine, bushy, selected. 65 cents each. A.i?^«ji.C5ti.K*i^ 152^0^1^5^ — 5-inch iiots. 75 cents each; 5-inch pots, selected, bushy, 3 tiers, $1.25: 6-inch pots. 4 and 5 tiers. $1.50. l^^'lotis El^stlc!^— 5-inch pots. 13 to 15 inches, $35.00 per 100; 6-inch pots, 15 to 20, $50.00 jier 100; 7-inch pots, 30 to 36, 75 cents, 85 cents and $1.00 each. SIEBRECHT & SON. Rose Hill Nurseries, New York Office, 409 5th Ave. NEW ROCHELLE, N. T. PALMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WITTBOLD, "°^V%-^1I'6 ROBERT CRAIG, Roses, Palms, Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. CHINESE PRIMROSES, tine Mnch stock, wliite and retl f4.00 per 100 BEGONIAS — Rex and Flowering, 3 inch stock $5.00 per 100 C lioice line of 4-ln. pot Roses, %i to per 100 TERMS CASH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. 33 ,**-■« TOPI, OHIO. When writing mention the American ^'lorits GhrysanthemumslPansies ^ ' Per 100 .7)0 CHRYSANTHKMUMS,25var. 5-in.pots 10.00 40,000 PANSY PLANTS . . . .per 1000 $3.50; .HO Cash with Okdeu Hi.eask. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. Always mention the American Flo I vist when writing to advertisers. ALM ^^^^*^^^^*^- ON HAND Per 100 Per 1000 Keiitia ForBterlana SI. 25 SIO.OO I'andaiius iitilis (scarce) 1.50 12:50 ^Musa Eiisete (expected) 1.25 10 00 J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in '2K-iDch po4s which I will sell at ff2.u0 per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Si xth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. CLEMATIS, J3 00 per doz.; Si;.a) per ICO. PAEONIES. 812.5 per dozen, 88.00 per 100. Plenty of whites. OBL. POET'S NARCISSUS. SO els. per 100; $3 .'lO per 1000. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY. 82,00 per 100 1 yeai. 81 IKI per llX) L> year. Very low rates in quantity: fine, well grow stock, F. A. BALLER. Bloominston. III. CINERARIAS. CINERARIAS. lOO.OOO We are the largest growers in the country. Our stock is all grown from seed saved from the best and most showy plants, taking First Prize wherever exhibited. S!^-lncli »2.50 per 100: S30.00 per 1000. S, WHITTON & SONS. Wholesale Florists. °ch 1000 about 20 lbs. 5 ...1000 ..,1000 . ..1000 , . 600., 500.. .. 50O . W U 45 7S lOO 150 .») 25 .;« .X, .50 .«) .90 1.60 *2 00 2.30 2.80 4.00 6.00 8 30 13.35 Standard Pot Measure. Less quantities than full crates at 10(1 rates. F. W. BIKD & SONS, Manufacturers. Address orders to our General Agents, August RoIker&Sons New York, p. o. station E, or R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.. Boston, Eastern Agents. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. A.. HEJI«I«IVXA.1VI«, Manufacturer of METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry), NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. IFOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free ramphlet. write to locisvillr Ispikit Ccued TOB.lfCOCO. Louisville.Ky Always mention the American Flo- KiST when writing to advertisers. DON'T FEEL U NEASY Your order will receive our prompt and personal attention. We can give you the VERY BEST the market affords at the LOWEST PRICE for BEST Quality. OUR STOCK IS COMPLETE, and to avoid any delay, let us have your orders AT ONCE. MOSS WREATHS, IMMORTELLESULtrnJ CAPE FLOWERS, CYCAS LEAVES, BASKETS, POT COVERS (°r '-inds) WHEAT SHEAVES. PLANT STANDS, (FAMOUS ) ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS and LEAVES. OUR LATEST FALL PRICE LIST FOR THE ASKING. ]VI. I^ICE> S& CO. IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS. 25 North 4tli Street, PHILADELPHIA. THE ANNUAL CHRYSANTHEMUM NUMBER OF THE AMERICAN FLORIST ... WILL BE ISSUED ... IT will have an unusually striking special title page and will contain a large amount of handsomely illustrated, up-to-date matter about the "Queen of Autumn." NO INCREASE IN ADV. RATES. Send advS. at once. They must reach us by the 12th inst. at latest to be in time. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn St. CHICAOO. S. J. THOMPSON, Proprietor of FALLS CITY WIRE WORKS 26/ W. Jefferson Street. Send for catalogue. LOUISVILLE, KY. Benjamin Chase, WOOD LABELS, 326 The American Florist. Nov. ^ecuift ^oCeA. Decatur, III. — N. Bommersbach has added two new houses, which gives him 3,000 feet more glass. Richmond, Va. — Geo. W. Kirkham, an old and well known citizen, for many years doing business as a florist, died recently. Knoxville, Tenn. — The annual chrys- anthemum show of the Knoxville Flori- cultural Society will be held November 10 to 13. Marion, O. — F. E. Blake, florist, made an assignment to A. F. McNeal October 28. Assets are reported to be $13,000 and liabilities $8,000. Grand Rapids, Mich.— The dates for the chrysanthemum show have been changed to November 9 to 15, one week earlier than dates previously announced. This change was made on account of the warm weather bringing out so many flowers early. Springfield, Mass. — Secretary Gale announces that the clause in the schedule of the Hampden County Hort. Society for the exhibuion to beheld November 17 — 19, which limited the length of the stem of cut chrysanthemums has been removed and growers may use any length of stem thev choose. Carthage, Tenn. — The third annual exhibition of the Carthage Chrysanthe- mum Society will be held November 12 and 13. Copies of the premium list may be had by addressing the secretary, Wm. B. Hale. Mr. Elmer D. Smith, Adrian, Mich., will act asjudge, and will also say "A word about chrysanthemums" the evening of the 13th. Trenton, N. J.— B. C. Kuser continues the store lately occupied by Joseph Rib- sam, which will be run under the name of the Trenton Floral Company. Mr. Kuser bought (at Sherifi's sale) for $100, the store fixtures, plants, etc. of the retired florist, whose liabilities were stated by the papers at $22,000. Mr. William Moore who has won a good deal of pop- ularity, and is well known in Trenton for his taste and the urbanity of his manners, will act as manager of theconcern. There Is a large block of houses some distance out of town which are underthe manage- ment of the retired Ribsams foreman. Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots; values from 25 cts. up to $150 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants, (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St., BOSTON, MASS. .lEUd.ME .UiNES, I'reB. S, A. STK.ATTiJN. Treiis. When wrltlnK mention American Florist FLOWER POTS. 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Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 328 The American Florist. Nob. 7» Index to Advertisers. AdT Rates ;ns Amencan Boiler Co... 328 AmllDg B C 318 BaUerFA 322 Barnaul W W .4 Co.. 323 Basaett & Wasta>iurn..31tl Bayeredorfer II & Co. -'A'*^ Blanc A & Co 321 Bobblnk LC 317 Bonaall Job E 318 Boston Letter Co 3-'4 Bramie L B 323 Burkl Fred 321 Carmodv J D 327 Chadwlck Chas 317 Chase Benj 325 Conley John & Son 32.'> Cottage Gardens 321 , Cowen'8 Son N 334 . 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McKellar C W Mlllang Frank : Mlllang& Co Moore F L Monlnger J C Co Morris Floral Co Nan/, .V Neuner National ^iHutCo... Nevin T H Co N Y Cut Flower Co.... Nickel Plate Road Peacock W P Pennock Sam') 8 Pitcher ..^ Manda Prince AG &Co Purdy & Blauvelt Quaker City Mc'h Wks Raniiall A L Havnor J I. Redtleld Bradley .... ReedGln^sco Repil & Keller Kelmels J UelnbergBrOB RIceM&Co RIcksecker C H Rogers P'k Floral Co R ilker A& Sons. ..335 Kolker A & F 318 Sanaer & Co Saul John Schiller J L 320 Scott Binder Co Bhendan W F Slebrecht & Son Situations. Wants, etc SkalMi^ura Dip Co Smltn Natn & Bon Sultau C .t Co Stearns Lumber Co Steffen N Styer J J Sunderbruch H L : Sutherland Geo A Swahns Sons J G Syracuse Pottery Co.. Thompson S .1 Trnendly A Schenc^. Vaughan J C 317 Watson GC Weathereds Sons T W Weber H& Sons Wee her k I>on Welch Bros Whllldln Pot Co WhlttonS &Son8 . . Williams & Sons Co. . . Winter i Glover Wis Flower Bx Wlttbold Geo Wood Bros Youngjno Voung Thos .Tr ZIrnglebel D 319 .323 .319 .318 .319 .319 .321 .324 .:e3 .323 .322 .321) .328 .32tj .321 .318 32U 319 319 319 319 321 328 335 323 319 326 318 319 328 321 320 322 32 i 318 319 322 318 323 321 321 327 ,3;3 318 318 319 32(1 32ti 325 318 323 320 324 321 320 319 32(i 322 3211 319 318 322 317 319 319 321 This is the last call for advs. for our special chrysanthemum number to be issued next week. Advs. must reach us by the morning of the 12th inst. at latest to be in time. Allentown, Pa. — A. B. Ellsworth is making a superb display of chrysanthe- mums at his greenhouses and store this week. Great Neck, N. Y.— J. Walker, a well- known florist of this town, died on Octo- ber 26. He leaves a widow and two children. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. 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When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. g-»^3 i^&'^^-s,'TH(ife»^ /imerica :s "the Prnu/ of the 1/esseI; there may be mare comfnrt Amidships, but we are the Rrst to touch Unknau/n Seas,' Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 14, 1896. Ko. 441 New Varieties From the Commercial Standpoint. ItY W. X. Kl'DD. The most important thing to beconsid- ered is the color question, and to make up your mind as nearly as possible how man}- of the different colors and what proportion out properly. For instance, one year the demand will be for yellow, another for pink, and another will bestill tor something else; so we have largely to guess at that part ol it. While you may not be able to discount the demand there will be for j'cUow, j'ou can always out of a dozen varieties pick the particular shades of color that will be wanted by the majority of buyers. It has been my experience that the weak yellows — the pale yellows — are not salable, that is, not with any certainty, but that the deep or rich colors, such as Golden Wedding, Dailledouze and Modesto, will always be wanted. In the pinks you have abso- lutely to bar out the magenta shades, and the whites mtist be pure white. In regard to color also you must consider not only the color of the flower when the color you have to consider the form, which is perhaps the next most important thing. Find out which is the desirable form and weed out the ones that are defective in that respect Then you have to consider the qvialities of the bloom that make it easily handled without damage. Some of the most beautiful flowers we have are almost useless com- mercially because you cannot get them to the commission house without bruising the outer petals. Along that line the shipping qualities of the flower must be considered, and we have also to consider the keeping qualities. The matter of stem and foliage is an important one. A variety with any tend- ency to a weak stem must absolutely be discarded, and good foliage well up to the flower will be a great aid in its sale. The DISPLAY BY E. WIENHOEBER & CO AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. proportion of these colors you are to grow. By watching the markets and lis- tening to the talk of customers, and stand- ing around in the commission houses, you can get a very close idea forthis year.bvit the changes in the fashionable color from year to j'carin woman's dress has a great effect on the demand for certain colors, and makes it very difficuit to figure the fully developed, but you must consider the change which takes place after it is kept a day or two; especially is this true of the pinks. There are some very pleas- ing pinks which on the day they are cut are very desirable — twenty-four hours afterwards the are very washy affairs. When you have selected a good list of varieties for color and keepingqualitiesof matter of substance, while having weight in determining the keeping and shipping qualities, also bears upon the difficultj' we have with certain beautiful flowers in developing them thoroughly without getting the outer petals more orlessdam- aged or spotted. When we have gone over the whole list in this way we have weeded them down 332 The American Florist. Nov. 14^ to a. pretty select lot; then we have to consider these varieties on the dollar basis, that is, which variety will yield tis the most dollars from a given amount of bench space. We must consider that there are two points — one is what will the perfect individual flowers bring in the market and the other is how many per- flowers. Of course it is understood that we are not discussing this matter from the mechanical part of the growing standpoint. We consider that thegrower understands the peculiarities of his varie- ties as to whether he shall take early or late crown or terminal buds. We arecon- sidering that in each case the variety has DWARF SINGLE STEM PLANTS AT THE CHICAGO SHOW, feet individual flowers can we get from a given bench space. It then becomes sim- ply a question of mathematics. Many of the growers who get a new variety and have some very fine blooms from it will cut a dozen of the finest and take them into the commission house, and everybody will go into raptures over it, and the commission man will tell the grower "That is a thing to grow by all means," and he will go home and forget his mathematics. He will fail to count up the number of plants that he has grown, the number of perfect lilooms and been grown to its best so far as the grower has been able to do so. Another point that I have always made is if I do not succeed with a variety one year 1 don't try it agai". It may be entirely my fault, but there alwaj'S are enough varieties in the house that I have succeeded with, and know that I can suc- ceed with, to make it a very foolish thing to try experiment on those that I have failed on once. Mrs. Robinson is a very beautiful vari- ety, and when it is at its best has been a very good seller, and yet from its tend- throws, and we can go on through the list indefinitely in this way. Of course, a coarse growing varietv, naturally with heavy foliage, cannot be so closely' planted as a variety w-ith small foliage, like Ivory, and unless the price per bloom is very much greater will not yield as much per square foot of bench. To the best of my knowledge and belief Mrs. Jerome Jones is the best chrysanthe- mum extant. If propagated early and grown to the limit on terminal buds it produces a ver^' beautiful pink flower; on the crown buds it is a jjure white, and either shadeof colorl have found the most salable and profitable through a number of years. The foliage, of course, adds greatly to its desirability, and it is a very sure bloomer. Among the yellows, Golden Wedding is pre-eminent, but its tendency to disease makes the profit uncertain. Dailledouze, 'when well done, in color and form is mag- nificent and is always salable. It is too long, and when not grown to perfection is apt to be weak in the stem. Modesto is one of the finest j'cUow blooms I have ever seen, but I am afraid the stem is hardly strong enough. Bonnaffon, while not so deep and rich a color and not hav- ing (juite the substance of the others, can be planted closely, is a verj' sure bloomer and has been very salable, but at a some- what less price than the others. We have found it very profitable; flowers averaged well in quality. We have grovi'n Ivory in quantity for years. It has not brought the price this year and has not been so much in demand as formerly. W^eare considering seriously what to do about it another year. Perhaps the finest pink that we have is Mrs. Murdock. It requires to be fully developed, and the color improves as the flowers approach perfect development. Niveus is always fine when well done. It is a little too tall; fairly good keeper and A CORNER AT THE CHICAGO SHOW, the number of defective ones, and forget to see whetherthepercentageoffir.st class blooms that the variety is likely to give him will make it profitable to him even if he gets the top price for the best. The are man}- of our beautiful varieties that cannot be profitably grown cither on account of a tendency to vary in color or from a tendency to produce too large a percentage of imperfect or malformed ency to throw defective buds, to spot its lower petals before fully developed, and from the fact that you cannot plant as closely as you can Ivory, it has not provetl nearly so profitable as the latter varietv-. Agnes L Dalskov is perhaps, when at its best, the most beautiful pink that I have ever seen, and yet I doubt if it will prove profitable because of the large per- centage of ofl'-colored flowers which it seems to be fairly well thought of as a shipper. The color is pure white. May- flower is a very attractive flower to many, although the color is not a pure white, and it is a very coarse, heavy foli- aged variety. Rigelow is the only red. The demand for red flowers is of course limited, but a really good red is fairly salable. We have been disappointed in Oakland this year i8g6. The American Florist. 333 GROUP OF DECORATIVE PLANTS BY THE WEST PARKS AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. While the flower is almost ideally perfect it has shown a decided tendency to a naked, slender neck. Another question that the growermnst figure on carefully is — shall he grow very early, medium early or late varieties? Previous to this year we have found the very early varieties exceedingly profita- ble; this year our experience has been the reverse and we shall grow very sparingh' of those varieties for next year. In this connection of course one must consider that a variety that can be completely cut out a month earlier than another variety has a certain element of profit in it, from the fact that j-ou can have your second crop growing a month sooner. We have uniformly found that the demand for chrysanthemums and the best prices were during the flower show, and we aim to have all our blooms cut if possible by the last day of the flower show. Still, we are aware that houses of late chrysanthe- mums frequently bring very good prices; at other times they bring very poor prices. This uncertaint)' as to the price, taken with the much longer time that the house is occupied, has caused us to dis- continue the growing of late varieties. 1 am very much tfmpted to grow a small quantity of the anemone varieties another year to see how the market will take them. The great drawback to the anemone varieties with which we have experimented is that they almost uni- formly have a weak neck, and by the time thej' reach the commission house the flower is bottom side up. Experience with Chrysanthemum Seed- lings. In reply to your inquiry' as to our experience with seedling 'mums, it cer- tainly makes irregular reading. As far bock as 1883 we became inter- ested in chrysanthemum novelties and annually imported from Europe lull sets often fifty to seventy-five from a single grower; these we grew to the best of our ability, and were greatly delighted with the pin wheels and balls of cord, the laciniated florets, the dragon's claws incurving over a large hollow center, and all the other freaks and oddities of the day. In a standard list of the same year not one variety there offered is now before the public, either here or abroad, except- ing Geo. Glenny and C. H. Glover which are still grown in England. The list of 1885 shovvsa very similarrecord;in 1886. Domination was sent out as a novelty among six others, now forgotten, and the general list was expanded until it con- tained 53 varieties, among them Christ- mas Eve, Diana and Jessica, which ai'e still remembered. the incurved form was a happy surprise. In this year Mrs. Frank Thomson was warmly received. It may be remarked, in passing, that this varietj' has been the seed parent of a very large number of our good sorts. Further down the list White Christine is described and "wearestrongly tempted to class this as the best of all white varieties," was said of it. Compare it f3 '"Si ■J I'-*' k"'- -^JP ^ 1 ^ % -■ - ii PINK CHRYSANTHEMUM IVOIRE ROtE. Mr. Jno. Thorpe's efforts in behalf of the chrysanthemum were being elt, and his specimen blooms were attracting attention. I remember in 1886 a bl loni of Mrs. C. H. Wheeler, among others, which was a wonder and a delight to us all; the combination of red and gold in with the reigning beauty of 1896 in whites, Mrs. H. Robinson and then sa^' there is nothing in noveUies; they are not all a delusion and a snare! 1887 was a notable yeararaong Ameri- can growers. Then were produced the 12 varieties which were disseminated in 334 The American Florist. Nov. H^ 1888 and which were known as the "Philadelphia prize set." The varieties were: Mnie. Drcxcl, Mrs. I. C. Price, Mrs. M. J. Thomas. Mrs. A. Blanc, W. W. Coles, Elkshorn, Mrs Jno N. May. Mrs. A. Wiegand, Mrs. C. H. Clarke, Mrs. K. EIIiott.'D. E Striker. ThcT were warmly received and the record of the majority of them is still easily recalled, four of them still strug- gling to retain a foothold. 1889 saw the adventof Mrs. A. Hardy, L. B. Bird, Wm. H. Lincoln, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie; Mrs. W. K. Harris; E. H. Fitler, Miss Mary Wheeler, Mrs. Irving Clark, Mrs. L. P" Morton, Mrs. G. D. Coleman, Sunnvside, Beautv of Kingsessig, Rose Hill, Colossal. Mt! or Snow, Mrs. A. C. Burpee and The Bride. The trade price for each of these was $1, except for Mrs. Carnegie and Mrs. Harris which was $2 each; another item of contrast between that year and the present. in growing seedlings with any purpose; the year before we had hand fertilized some fifty plants; the seed had been sown and the young plants, which were quite numerous, were set in the field; they were brought into the house early in Septem- ber and disbudded to a few flowers Mrs. F. Thomson had been largely used as a seed bearer, and the pollen of very full flowers applied; the results, when bloom- ing time came, were marvelous in our eyes, and we felt as if we were working in some unknown way with a wonderful magic; notwithstanding our yearly added experience up to the present time we have never had so large a percentage of fine full flowers as we had that first year or it seems so to us in looking back. We had prepared a bed on the floor ol the green- house, well drained, and looking down upon the hundreds of plants, it was a beautiful sight; among them was August Swauson since improved upon by numer- Eugene Dailledouze, fertilized by Kioto. In the spring of 1893 we had 14- varie- ties, twelve of which were of our own raising. Among them were A. T. Ewing, Geo. R. Cause, Joey Hill, Judge Hoitt, Mrs. J. W. Crouch, Kobt. Mclnnes, W. G. Newitt and W. N. Rudd. The set as a whole was a decided advance but a hard fate seemed to folio a^ onr fine reds, for while Joey Hill was another pure velvety red, and unsupasscdin size by any variety that we have seen, it developed a habit of growth much like a grape vine! In 1893 were shown a host of good new varieties, but this is still fresh in the minds of your readers. It took us two years to find out that the variety Mrs. E G. Hill iiiiist be taken from the second bud only to bring a smooth, clean flower, and it must be planted about June 5 to prevent a thin- straggling habit. Eugene Dailledouze should not be over- VAUGHAN'S TWISTED STANDARDS AND COLLECTION OF ODDITIES AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. BUSH PLANT AT THE RIGHT IS THE VARIETY "SHAVINGS.- THE LARGE With the year 1890 began the present regime of the 'mum; full "sets" were sent out by various growers, 56 varieties in all; the most notable wereH. E Widener, Molly Bawn, Carrie Denny, Ada Spauld- ing, E. G. Hill and Minnie Wanamaker. Not one of the rest is now a familiar name. In 1891 six full sets were sent out. In scanning these introductions we again find the survivors very few, though some of them were highly prized for a time and really proved valuable seed producers, being the progenitors of im])rovements in each se])arate type. The most widely known were I'lora Hill, SugarLoaf, Mrs. Whilldin, R. Maitre, Mistletoe, Mermaid, Kda Prass, Lizzie Cartledge and Mrs. Jno. Westcott. The French gave us this year Etoile de Lyon and our indispensa- ble early white, Mme. F. Bergmann, which is not likely to be jostled out of place for a time at least, though several years in meeting recognition. This was the first year that we engaged ous bronzes of brighter colors; R. Maitre, very similar to Mr. Dorner's mistletoe, both of which have since given place to "improvements" without number in the silver and magenta class, (of which L' Amethiste is probably the best exponent for the present); Elmer D. Smith, an enormous flower of the Wheeler-type, but hollow centered. The following year. 1892, we went through a verv similar experience, except that the proportion of single, and semi- double flowers was much larger for some reason; out of some 1,000 seedlings we saved four varieties. Dr. Covert, a good late yellow which displaced Mrs. W. K. Harris for commercial |)urposes; t). V. Hassett the loveliest pure velvety red that the eye ever looked upon (we think I, but after the first year it simply would not grow; t\ B. Whitnall still retains a place, and together with Abbie Mendcnhall, is used much more in England than in this country; the latter, a very beautiful soft yellow variety, was the seed parent of fed or a bad case of bronzing will result. We believe that a great number of novelties have been discarded by florists from insufficient trial. Every new variety should be trie! with all three buds before judgement is finally passed upon it; much blame lies with the disseminators, also, who should be so familiar with their own seedlings as to buds, time, and habit, that the general public may be advised how to proceed without losing two or three years in finding out one peculiarity after another. We are all improving in this line, and there is room for further prog- ress; we are slowly learning the value of a note hook containing the personal experience throughout the growing s-ea- son; trusting to memory and guessing as to ])roper points of procedure must be relegated to the past— with the forgotten novelties! We h;ul an odd experience with Miss Johnson this year which is in its third season with us. Last fall we were sur- prised to hear that several growers were i8g6. The American Florist. 335 SOME BUSH PLANTS AT THE CHICAGO SHOW much dissatisfied with it, both on account of form and color; we thought them over- critical; this season our grower took the second bud and fed well and then we un- derstood the criticism. The blooms pro- duced from this bud were smooth, shin- ing, round incurved flowers, badly colored, with a bronze that was almost a brown; from the first bud, as we had always seen it previously the majority of the petals incurve while the outer ones are quite horizontal, the finish is velvety instecd of shining, and the color is as clear as that of Lincoln. Henry Rieman is another variety which shows a wide divergence in the shape of its flowers; the first and second buds pro- duce ball, or perhaps to be more correct, conical shaped flowers when taken from the first and second buds, but on the third or terminal bud the flower is of globular shape, so much so that good growers have looked upon the flowers from the terminals as being a totally different variety. The varietj' in question is cer- tainly to be desired in the form produced from terminal buds over those from the earlier buds. The Chrysanthemum Society of America is doing a grand work for the flower itself, for the disseminator and for the general florist; it stands as a barrier between the trade an- Bros, were first with superb blooms of Golden Wedding; second, Poehlman Bros., finely grown Major Bonnaffon. Best G blooms, one variety, pink, first Stollery Bros, with Maud Dean, second E. Hansen, gardener to P. D. Armour, Jr., also Maud Dean. Best 6 blooms, one variety, red first, W. N Rudd, with Oakland; second, E. G. Hill & Co. with Fisher's Torch. Best 6 blooms, one variety, bronze, first, E. G. Hill & Co. with Moucherette; second, W. N. Rudd with Chas. Davis. Best 6 blooms, one variety, any other color, first, E. G. Hill & Co. with hue blooms of I'Amethyst. Best 12 blooms, Mrs.W.C. Egan, first, E.G. Hill & Co.; second, Stollery Bros.; tliird, W. N. Rudd. For 12 blooms. E. M. Bigelow, W. N. Rudd made the onlv entry. For 12 blooms Mrs. S. T. Murdock, E. G Hill & Co. were first, and H. Weber & Son second. Best twelve blooms, Chas. Davis, first, K. G. Hill & Co., second, F. Dorner & Sons' Co. Best 12 blooms, Niveus, first, II. U ebcr & Son; second, E. G. Hill & Co. ^H ^1 ■■ jH / ^^^^^" ■'' Vl ^^P|K ft '* » ./^^ "41. ^' liHl 1 m^jjft^ J ^^^K m W IP** -^>»J P3^4'^ ^^■k^^^i t ^-'-.t i^l^m 1 ' ri#lH| ^k^^^^^^^^tolf^ ^y^^L v^^' ♦-''^B ' >■• "^ ■^^H^^ i^^^^^a^^ Aid A '^ II j| ^^H S|H NEW ROSE SOUVENIR DD PRESIDENT CARNOT. For 12 blooms Ivory first went to W. N. Rudd, second to Vaughan'sSeed Store. H. Weber & Son were first on 12 blooms, Mrs. H. Robinson, Vaughaa's Seed Store second. For a dozen Mayflower, Hill & Co. were first, W. N. Rudd second. For a dozen Viviand-Morel premiums went in same order. For dozen Major Bonnaffon Poehlmann Bros were first and Rudd second. Hill & Co. were first on dozen H. L. Sunderbruch and Vaughan second. On dozen yel'ow Oueen, John C. Ure was first, Vaughan second. Hill & Co. were first for dozen Geo. W. Childs, A. McAdams taking second. For 12 Dailledouze, Hill & Co. werefii st and Rudd second. For best collection named varieties, 1 bloom each, not less than 4-0 varieties, first went to N. Smith & Son; second to E. G. Hill & Co.; third to Vaughan's Seed Store. All were very interesting,- Smith & Son having staged many more varieties than the necessary 40. Collection Anemone varieties, N. Smith & Son were first, their collection includ- ing the following: Satisfaction, saffron 3'ellow; Enterprise, light pink ray florets; Judge Hoitt, light pink; W. W. Astor, an English variety, single row of ray florets, highh' built, center light yellow; Garza, pure white with a very full centre; Con- dor, magenta. Second, went to W. N. Kudd. N. Smith & Son also stalled a complinientary exhibit of Marie Stuart variety. E. G. Hill & Co. made a specinl display of a large vase of mixed Chinese varieties containing 40 flowers of the following va- rieties: Mrs. Kingston, pink; Chas. Curtis, yellow; Louise D. Black, saffron yellow, and Gladys Spauluing white. CHRYSANTHEMUM l'L.\NTS. In both quality and quantity these were far ahead of any shown here before. All were well done but Mr. Kudd's plants were worthy of special note being grown in handsome pyramidal form. In specimen white W.N Rudd was first with a magnificent plant of Mutual Friend; M. A. Rverson second with Dean Hole. For specimen yellow Rudd was first with Mrs. J. N. May; M. A. Ryerson sec ond. Vaughan's Seed Store was first in spec- imen pink with L. Boehmer, W. N. Rudd second with Eda Prass. For specimen plant any other color M. h.. Ryerson was first with The Bard, Rudd second with Oakland. For single standard, white. Vaughan was first with Marie Louise, M. A. Ryer- son second. For specimen standard, pink, W. N. Rudd was first with Mrs. Murdoch, M. A. Ryerson second. Specimen standard, yellow, Vaughan's Seed Store first, with Mrs. .\ H. Fexvkcs; J. Algots second. For 5 specimen plants, ii varieties, in not over 10-inch pots, W N Rudd was first, his varieties being Pink Ivory, Oak- land, Dean Hole. A. H. I'en kes and W. H. Lincoln. .\11 were magnificent sjieci- niens grown in pyramidal form and very evenly flowered. Second went to M. A. Ryerson for a grand lot that would have had a walk.away anv previous year. For 10 S]icciinen jilants, iK)t less than .5 varieties, in not over 8. inch pots, W. N. Kudd was first, his varieties being A. H. iSp6. The American Florist. 337 PART OP THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW. Fewkes, Ivory, Oakland. Mrs. Perrin, W. H. Lincoln, Mrs. Jerome Jones, Millbrook, C. B. Freeman, Zou Zou, and Pink Ivory. M. A. Rverson took second. In 25 plants in 5-inch pots, not less than 10 varieties, bush form, Vaughan's Seed S'.ore was first and was the only entry. A very pretty lot. For 25 single stem plants in 6 inch pots, white, Vaughan was first with a group of Mayflower; Kudd was second with a group of Mutual Friend, of which the tallest was not over 15 inches and some no more than S inches, though all the flowers w ere of good size. For 25 single stem, yellow, Vaughan was first with Jeannie Falconer; A. Mc- Adams second. For 25 single stem, pink, A. McAdams was first and Rudd second. For 25 red or bronze Rudd was first with Oakland, a very uniform lot aver- aging about 18 inches in height. For 12 plants, hairy varieties, not less than 6 varieties, first went to W.N Rudd, his varieties including Enfant des deux Mondes, L. Boehmer and Golden Hair. In the class for market plants in 6-inch pots, M. .\. Ryerson was first for 10 white and 10 yellow, while Vaughan's Seed Store was first for 10 pink and 10 assorted colors. These classes were very interesting and instructive. Certainly such plants would retail quickly at 50 cents each and one of the exhibitors said they could be profitablv grown to whole- sale at $25 a hundred.' Vaughan was first for collection of plants, one variety, best illustrating vari- ous results produced by diflferent methods of cultivating and training. The variety was Geo. W, Childs and it was shown as standard bush plant, single stem, and trained in various forms. Vaughan's Seed Store also had the only grafted chrysanthemum. It was a stand- ard, one side The Bard and the other Crystaliua. It was awarded second prize. k more effective display in tie same line was that by Vaughan including four standards formed by twisting two or three plants together as they grew. One combination was Enfant des deux Mondes and L. Boehmer, and another was Mrs. Gov. Fifer, Hicks Arnold and Geo. \V. Childs .\ plant of "Shavings' in the same group wa- a fine exhibition feature. It attracted great attention from the general public as did also a plant < f a pompon of the antediluvian type stand- ing side of that pretty pompon Miss Ma3' Williamson. MISCELLANEOUS PLANTS. The geranium competition proved a very taking feature. The ten shown by W. N. Rudd and which received first prize were gems and must have given the vis- itors to the show some new ideas as to what can be done with the best varieties of this old plant. The varieties were Glorv de F'rance, W. P. Simmons, Mary Hill," Mme. Fagee, Heteranthe, M. Phel- zer, Le Cid, Mrs. E. G. Hill, Mme. .\mi Chevralier and Beaute Poitevine. Second prize was taken by Crabb & Hunter. For 18 heliotropes Rudd was first with a fine lot, .\. Fuchs second. For 10 cyclamens Crabb & Hunter were first. .\it Floral Co. second. Rudd took first for 10 carnation plants, but they were not in good bloom. Vaughan took second for 10 flowering plants other than orchids, the first not beini awarded. For white marguerites Crabb & Hunter were first. F Calvert & Son second, .\. Fuchs third. For 5 yellow, Calvert & Son were first, Vaughan second, Fuchs third. Calvert & Son were first for 5 cosmos, and .\lbert F'uchs second for 5 pots mignonette. For best collection of cypripediums E. G. Uihiein was first with a grand collec- tion in which was a host of varieties. J. .\lgots was first forcollectionof ferns, a splendid lot, Vaughan second with a collection worthy of commendation. E. G. Uihiein was first for 10 foliage plants in 6 varieties with some choice specimens; M. A. Rj'ersou second. For 10 coleus A Fuchs was first. Rudd second and Vaughan third. J. .Mgots took first for specimen palm, vVrt Floral Co. second. Specimen arau- caria, first. .\rt Floral Co. Specimen decorative plant, first, Vaughan's Seed Store; second, .A. Fuchs. 6 araucarias. first, no award; second, .\rt Floral Co. Pair araucarias first, Martin ■\. Rver- son; second, .\rt Floral Co. Pair palms, first, J. .bigots, gardener to Geo. M. Pull- man; second, Vaughan's Seed Store. Pair decorative plants, first. J. .\lgots; second, Vaughan's Seed Store. ROSES. In the rose competition on Wednesday some splendid blooms were shown. Rein- 338 The American Florist. Nov. 14^ NEW YELLOW CARNATION MAYOR PIKGRBE. berg Bros, were the leading exhibitors and they took firsts for 40 Kaiserins, 40 Testout, 40 Bride, 40 Bridesmaid, 40 La France, 40 Meteor, 40 Belle Siebrecht, 40 any other variety (Golden Gate), 25 Ameriean Beauty, 6 American Beauty, 12 Kaiserin, 12 Tes'tout, 12 Bride, 12 Brides- maid, 12 La France, 12 Meteor, 12 Mrs. W. C. Whitney, 12 Belle Siebrecht and 12 any other variety. Poehlmann Bros, took first for 40 Perles and W. A. Ken- nedy was first for 12 Ferles. Poehlmann Bros, and Wietor Bros, took many sec- onds in the other classes. A vase of the new rose Souvenir du Pres. Carnot, displayed by E. G. Hill & Co. was much admired. C.\RN.iTIONS. Thecompetition in the carnation classes on Thursday brought ou*^ a really re- markable display. The quality of the flowers entered was in many cases so equal that the judges found it Impossible to discriminate and to extricate them- selves from their dilemma awarded two, three, and even four first and second prizes. Honors were therefore nearly equal. The principal competitors were H. Weber & Son, John C. Ure, W. N. N. Rudd, Wieter Bros., StoUery Bros., Weber Bros., Reinberg Bros, and Poehl- mann Bros. John Breitmeyer & Sons displayed a handsome bunch of their new yellow carnation Mayor Pingree. Poehlmann Bros, were first on violets, both for hundred double and hundred single. For best orchid basket there were three entries. First went to E. G. Uihlein for a handle basket containing a remarkably varied lot of beautiful varieties; second to Art Floral Co. for a handle basket of cypripediums. W.J, Smyth's entry was a silvered hamper and was certainly the most novel arrangement. Thecover was nearly closed and a spray of Vandacceru- lea was trailed over the outside of the cover. The effect was excellent. The judges of plants and flowers were Messrs. Adam Graham, Cleveland; Philip Breitmeyer, Detroit, and E. A. Kimball, Chicago. Their task was an unenviable one, as the exhibits were scattered over an acre of floor space and in many classes the competition was so sharp that every point had to be weighed with the great- est care. Mr. John Reardon is gardener to Mar- tin k. Ryerson and to him belongs the credit of producing the magnificent plants entered by that gentleman. On Friday certificates of merit were awarded to N. Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich , for new white chrysanthemum Western King and for new chrysanthe- mum Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson. Honora- ble mention to .\. McAdams, Chicago, for new white chrysanthemum. Certificates of merit to John Breitmeyer & Sons, Detroit, Mich., for display of new seed- ling yellow carnation Mayor Pingree; to Hopp & Lemke, Grand Rapids, Mich., for new red carnation Morello; to StoUery Bros., .-Vrgyle Park, 111., for new pink car- nation Argyle; to Fred Dorner & Sons Co., Lafayette, Ind, for new variegated carnation Mrs. Geo. M. Bradt. Honora- ble mention to John H.Sievers.San Fran- cisco, for general display of seedling car- nations. Certificate of merit to E G. Hill & Co., Richmond, Ind , for general display and excellent quality of new rose Souvenir du President Carnot. Philadelphia. The exhibition of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society opened at 6 p. m. Tuesday last in a blaze of glory. The magnificent new hall was brilliantly illuminated with electric light, which showed off the colors of the flowers to their best advantage. On entering, the attention of the visitor was at once attracted to the grand stair- case; this was decorated on either side with dwarf evergreens in pots, while at the base ^vere vases of clir\'santhemums. A few feet away, one on each side, were two large lawn vases filled with hand- some foliage plants; these were exhibited by John Westcott and were first-class in every respect. The view looking up from this point to the main hall was a beautiful one; tall palms were placed about the balustrade surrounding the area of the stairs, and the little balconies underneath the large stained glass windows also contained fine specimens. Vases of cut chrysanthemums were placed on the steps of the upper stairs. The main hall contained .the plants in pots. These were arranged in effective groups about the room with rather lim- ited aisles between. The center of the hall had several round tables arranged very prettily. One by Robert Craig, filled with specimen crotons, attracted consid- erable attention; the croton is certainlj' forging ahead and is fast developing into a plant for house decoration. The star table was that exhibited by Hugh Graham; it was filled with orchid plants in flower. These were arranged in cork bark over mirrors representing water and embellished with Farlej-ense ferns, a heavy border of these being ar- ranged around the table. Along the sides of the room were groups of foliage and flowering plants arranged for effect. The groups exhibited by Hugh Graham and John Westcott were fine specimens of the florist's handiwork, and it took the committee a considerable time to come to a decision, the Westcott group finally carrying oft' the prize. The chrysanthemum plants were rather an uneven lot; there were some nice specimens, but many were not up to the standard of other years. The displaj' of plants, single stems in 6 inch pots, was quite large and varied, and the large blooms produced made them a very interesting and attractive portion of the show. What was lacking in the plant section was, however, more than made up by the wealth and extent of the cut blooms. These were arranged on tables in the front part of the building around the grand staircase and were the center of attraction at all times. There were many exhibitors, but Joseph Heacock stood out among them so as to be almost in a class by himself, as he won first in nearly every class he entered. His six vases ibr the Luzon prize were grand, the varieties being Viviand-Morel, Golden Wedding, E. Dailledouze, Mayflower and Maud Dean. Among the varieties that seemed to stand out in his other collections were: Hitzeroth, Silver Cloud, Pluto, W. Sew- ard, lora, Bonnafton, Maud Dean, Golden Wedding. Mrs. W. J. Randall (unique), Dailledouze, Mayflowers and others but little inferior. In the collection of cut flowers Maud Dean was easily the most popular pink. Golden Wedding and Dailledouze had a struggle for first honors, with Bonnafton a close third, in the yellows. Mrs. Robinson, Mayflower, Oueen and Philadelphia were the most popular whites, if the latter can be classed with this color. Either existing varieties arc hard to improve upon or else the raisers of new chrysanthemums are not as energetic as they were, for there were no surprises among the lot oflcred for inspection. Hugh Graham received first prize for best pink seedling and a certificate of merit for a pretty, close, medium pink flower, the color a good bright pink; it looks as i8g6. The American Florist. 339 PART OP THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW- if it would do commercially. Robt. Craig offered a liglit yellow of good form called Dr. Chapin. C. P. Knapp of Chestnut Hill had a heavy light pink flower almost a blush; it is a close gl 'bular bloom and received the certificate from the National Society; it is called Mrs. Charles Good- man. There were several others. Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., rtcived first for best seed ing white and certificate of merit; it is a promising flower. R. G. Carey, for best seedling, any other color, first for a large light pink. A very pleasing and attractive part of the exhibition was to be seen'in the foyer in front of the building. This is decorated in red, and here were displayed the ferns, begonias and other ornamental foliage plants. In a large vase of water over which was suspended an electric light was a fine specimen of Ouvirandra fenes- tralis or lace leaf plant; it was much admired. Mr. Blanc had a very fine plant of Asparagus Sprengeri with sprays four to si.x feet long; he received first prize forthis entry. Mr. Harris had six of his perfect dwarf oranges, for which he received a special prize. He had no 'mums in the show, a fact worth mentioning, as he is the father of the flower— in this city at least. He won his spurs as a pioneer and seems con- tent to rest on his laurels won in former shows. H. A. Drecr Co. had a fine table of ferns in all sizes, fine specimens of the best vari- eties, also a lot of plants in -i-inch pots suitable for house decoration. A number of dinner table ferneries also graced his exhibit. Their collection of Farleyense was much admired, and received first premium. Wm. Monteith, gardener to Clarence H. Clark, exhibited a collection of ferns in large pans; each plant was from 3 to -t feet in diameter, and a perfect specimen; he received first prize. J. E. Krayer, gardener to W.E.Garrett, was first for 25 ferns in large pans, every one a perfect specimen. Two additional pans added lustre to this displa3'; they were: Polypodiuni aureum and Nephro- lepis davalloides furcans; both plants were from 5 to 6 feet in diameter. On Wednesday there was a fine displaj' of cut roses and carnations. Strauss & Co. of Washington sent a vase of Presi- dent Carnot rose, as did also Ernst .\smus of West Hoboken. Both exhibits were fine, those of Mr. Asmus having a little deeper color. This rose is certainly a beautiful flower, and when keptonedge as regards color it will surely be a good seller. The carnations and roses were arranged on tables in the lower hall, and made a good display; at this writing the awards had not been made. Further details next week. K. Boston. The chrysanthemum show of the Mass. Hort. Society which opened at Horticult- ural Hall, on November 10 was, without doubt the finest of its class ever .staged in America. Competent judges from other localities did not hesitate to make this acknowledgement unqualifiedly as re- gards both plants and cut blooms. Still more, Mr. James Kelway of Kelway & Son, Somerset, England, who was a visi- tor, said that he had never seen its equal in England. The average high (piality of the exhibits was very remarkable. Plants occupied the upper hall In the competition for the prizes offered for twelve specimen plants there were three giants concerned, Wm. Martin, gardener to N. T. Kidder, T. D. Hatfield, gardener to Walter Hunnewell and John Barr, gardener to Mrs. B. P. Cheney. So close did these competitor.s come in the final wind up of points that the committee had a long and difficult task to determine their grade but the first prize was at last awarded to Wm. Martin, Messrs. Hat- field and Barr following in the order named. Mr. Martin excelled in general effect; his plants were very even and the foliage was excellent, lora, Louis Boeh- mer, Theo. and Minerva were superb. Mr. Hatfield's plants were not so regular but two of them, W. H. Lincoln and Garza a lovely anemone, each seven feet through were surpassingly fine and would be selected at once as the two best speci- mens in the hall. Mr. Barr's plants were perfect models, regular and very dwarf but suffered in general eftectand the stak- ing was as in a number of Mr. Hatfield's rather prominent. S. J. Trepass had the best set of twelve plants, assorted varieties grown to single stem and flower. Jas. L. Little, Dr. C. G. Weld and J. W. Howard were also exhibi- tors in these classes and the premiums were pretty well distributed among them. 340 The American Florist, Nov. /^, Mr. Barr's set of large specimens six incurved and six reflexed were awarded first premium, but Mr. Martin beat him on specimen incurved. Mr. Hatfield's winner as specimen reSexed was Silver Cloud, a splendid plant. Second in this class went to Thomas Hubbard, a new contributor. Savannah, from John Barr, was the best pompon and it was a gem. The groups arranged for effect with palms and foliage plants filled the center of the hall. There were six entries. This method of arranging chrvsanthemums is hardly satisfactory it being difficult to find foliage plants that look in harmony with the big blooms, but the exhibitors made the best of the opportunity and in two or three cases the arrangement was verj' effective. S, J. Trepass finished his group nicely with an edging ol little decorative plants and got first prize in consequence. Dr. Weld came second, J. W. Howard third, E. S.Converse, fourth and James Coniley fifth. W. H. Elliott had a nice collection of small commercial sized plants on the stage. The cut flower displays filled the lower hall completely. Prizes on this depart- ment had not yet been awarded at time of writing. The grandest feature was the row of big vases at the entrance, each vase with its contents standing fully eight feet in height. A vase of assorted blooms and one of Mrs. Jerome Jones from James Bryden excelled anything in the cut flower line ever seen here. K curious feature about the Mrs. Jerome Jones blooms was that the t'Crminal blooms were of a lovely pink color while the crown blooms were pure white. In the collections of single specimen blooms Mr. Bryden led all competitors. Among the most prominent varieties were Ruth Ellis, Modesto, Margery Hoff- man, Maud Dean, H. W. R iman, Quito and Mrs. Potter Palmer. The latter was the biggest flower in the hall, measuring 25 inches in circumference in any way, a perfect solid globe. Next to Mr. Bryden's blooms in quality werethose staged by J. H. White, (James Wheeler, gardener) and W. Slack. Both of these gentlemen staged large groups in all the classes, of superb blooms. Other contributors in the general cut flower classes were Chas. H. Souther, John Jef- fries, E S. Converse (D. F. Rov, gardener) Walter Hunnewell (T. D. Hatfield, gar- dener) Oakes Ames, Wm. Nicholson, James Coraley, Mrs. E. M. C.ill, Hon. Frank Jones (R. Patterson, gardener) J. W. Howard and Jas. L. Little. The showing of anemone flowered varieties was much larger and more varied than on any former occasion, Messrs. Hatfield, Little, Howard and Slack all contributing full collections. 01 pompons there was but a small re presentation and they attracted no attention. The vases of ten long stemmed blooms each were superb. Of these none were finer than those from Waban Conservato- ries in which Minerva, Viviand-Morel, Edwin Molyneux, Mrs. Jerome Junes, Inter-Oc an and Eugene Dailledouze were shown in unapproachable perfection. Mrs. Cheney (John Barr, gardener) showed fourteen vases which filled a table thirty feet in length. The color of Viviand-Morel in this lot was luiusually brilliant, and Mrs. Geo. West, Major Bonnaffon and Inter-Ocean were among the best. An immense vase of beauties from David Nevins occupied a central position. The only competitor in class for twelve introductions of present year was J. W. Howard. The most attractive and prom- ising varieties in the set were Miss Helen VASE OF LONG-STEMMED BLOOMS EXHIBITED BY JAS. BOSTON SHOW. BRYDEN AT THE Wright, Mrs. Perrin, Mrs. Peabody, Modesto Daydawn. Pluto and Clarence. Among the seedlings and novelties shown were the following. By James Bryden, Quito, deep pink incurved. By J. H. White, Li Hung Chang, pink incurved. By J. Eaton, Jr. Nonquit, white incurved; Sunbeams, orange; Quis- set, pink Japanese. By A. H. Fewkes, Chameleon, pink and white. By W. Hun- newell, Kitty Sanders, red reflexed; Sun- ray, orange incurved. ByC. S. Goddard, Katahdin, pink incurved; Casco, deep crimson, mentioned last week as The Darky. Nathan Smith, Western King. Ernst Asmus showed a fine vase of the new rose. Souvenir du Pres. Carnot. From V. Supiot came a very fine collec- tion of violets, single and double. Wm. Nicholson had a good exhibit of carna- tions and Norton Bros., Cattleya Bow- ringeana. A new deep pink seedling car- nation from Carmichael & McDonald was much admired. New Bedford, Mass. At the chrysanthemum exhibition of the New Bedford Gardeners' and Florists' Club, which opened on November !), the exhibits are fully equal to those of previous years, and insome respects supe- rior. Thetriennial silver cup prizearound which the greatest interest centered, was won bj' Jas. Ga thley, gardener for Mr. H. H. Rogers. In the class for twelve plants distinct varieties, John P. Rooney, gardener tor Mr. Frederick Giinnell, was the only exhibitor, and took first prize. Wm. Keith was the only competitor on three Japanese plants, and vv'on sec- ond prize. Jas. Garthley was first on single specimen, with a grand plant of Wm. H. Lincoln; Dennis Shay came sec- ond with Minerva. Chas. N. Riley, Jas. Driscoll and Wm. Keith won the prizes for standards in the order noted. Peter Murray, gardener for Mr. W. Windsor and Wm. Keith took first and second prizes consecutively for twelve plants grown to a single bloom, both the collec- tions including many fine specimens. In groups arranged for eflect there weretwo entries, Wm. Keith securing first prize and Jas. Garthley second. .\ group of orchids from Mr. Windsor made a very telling effect. C. J. Wood, gardener for Mr. H. A. Holcomb, showed a vcr3' prettv group, composed mainly of cypripediums. The cut flower disjjlay was exception- ally fine. Peter Murray took first prize for twenty-four distinct varieties, twelve Japanese and six Japanese, the second premiums in these three classes being taken by Wm. Keith, C. J. Wood and A. MacLellan. The display of blooms on long stems, ten flowers in a vase, was an excellent one, and included vases of red, white, pink, yellow and bronze, on which C J.Wood, las Garthley and Peter Mur- ray were all fortunate in securing first premiums. Jas. Gai thley was awarded first premium lor a basket and Wm. i8g6. The American Florist. 341 PART OP THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW. Keith was first on a large vase of cbrjs- anthemums. Three seedlings were en- tered; first prize in this class went to A. MacLellan for a fine incurved white; very promising in its class. Jas. Garthley showed a plant in five-inch pot, of the Jaoanese variety, Le Colosse Grenoble, grown to a single bloom, which was truly remarkable. It bore a monstrous flower, twenty-three inches in circumfer- ence, the plant being but eighteen inches in height. The flower was silvery pink in color, and exceedingh- full. A. H. F. Cleveland. The second annual exhibition of the Cleveland Florists' Club was opened the afternoon of November 11, at one p. m.. promptly on time. The show was held in the Armorj- of the Cleveland Grays, a much larger hall than that used last year, and as a consequence stuff was less crowded and showed off to much better advantage. In addition there were a great man)' more entries, so that in every way, so far as can be told at present, the affair is much more successful than the last. As it is too early at this writing to make any prediction as to the attend- ance, the financial outcome is still in the dim future. Competition in many lines was very close, so that the judges' work was rendered rather difficult. For 25 varieties, 3 blooms each, Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., took first with a collection comprising Golden Wed- ding, Georgiana Pitcher, Chas. Davis. Nyanza, Miss Helyett, Western King, Mutual Friend, Maud Dean, Dean Hole, Cheabeague, Modesto and others; Mo- desto and Golden Wedding were extra good. Cheabeague is an excellent pink. First for 15 varieties, three each, went to the same growers, with some splendid stock, including fine Lincoln, Mrs. Perrin, Philadelphia, Morganza, a very large solid built blush white; also some fine Reine d'Angleterre. First for fifty blooms white went to James Eadie for Queen, as did also first for fifty red, Geo. W. Childs. First for fifty yellow went to Nathan Smith &Son for Modesto, certainly one of the finest of yellows when as well done as these were. Third went to Major Bonnaft'on. First for fifty pink went to MoUenkopf Bros., who showed Helen Bloodgood; second to A. Graham & Son for Viviand-Morel; third to James Eadie for the same variety'. Certificate of merit went to Erie, a bronze yellow, several shades darker than Chas. Davis, and more solidh' built. A flower built like Jerome Jones but show- ing a tinge of pink on the lower petals, was much admired. The ground color is a beautiful shade of yellow, and the flower in all points of foliage, flower and stem gives promise of being a standard sort. It originated with Mr. E. J. Paddock of this city. In pot plants first for best standard went to J. C. Vaughan for The Bard, sec- ond to James Eadie and third to William Stade. For best and largest display of pot plants second went to J. M. Gasser, third to James Eadie. For 15 plants white in 7-inch pots Mol- lenkopt Bros, were first, E. J. Paddock second, A. Graham & Son third. For 15 yellow J. M. Gasser was first. MoUenkopf Bros, second and E. J. Pad- dock third. For 15 red, Mollenkopfs was only entry. For 12 plants in lOinch pots Gasser was second, Paddock third. Merkel & Sons were first on specimen bush plant, J. C. Vaughan second and Gasser third. Specimen standard, Vaughan first, Merkel second, Eadie third. For 12 single stem white Paddock was first and Ella G. Wilson second. F'or 12 single stem mellow Paddock first, Wilson third. For 12 pink Wilson was third. In cut blooms N Smith & Son werefirst for 25 varieties, 3 blooms of each; H. Tong second. Paddock third. For 15 varieties, 3 blooms each. Smith & Son were first, P. Hageub rger second, C. Merkel & Son third. Vase 50 blooms white, Eadie first, Merkel second, MoUen- kopf third. Vase 50 red < r bronze, Eadie first, .A. Graham & Son third. Vase 50 yellow. Smith first. Paddock second, Mol- lenkopf third. Vase 50 pink, MoUenkopf first, Graham second. Eadie third. N. Smith & Son took second for 5 varieties pompons. In roses firsts went to Graham for American Beauty, to Oakwood Rose Gar- dens for Brides and Bridesmaids, to Gas- ser for Perles and to G. W. Ilciser for Meteors. In carnations Gasser was first on 50 white, 50 red and 50 yellow; H. .\. Hart on 50 pink. 342 The American Florist. Ahw. /^, For 200 violets Grove Rawson was first, G. W. Heiser second. For best display of decorative plants Graham was first, Heiser second, Hart third, Wilson fourth. For display of dec- orative plants, limited to 100 square feet, S. N. Pentecost was first, Gasser second, Wilson third. Gasser was first on collection of orchid plants and blooms. In the class for table decoration of chrysanthemums on first day Eadie was first, Gasser second, Graham third, A. Graham & Son won the special pre- mium for best palm. One of the feattjres of the show was a display of gladiolus flowers by the Cush- man Gladiolus Co. Further details later. A. Indianapolis. The tenth annual chrj'santhemum show of the Society of Indiana Florists opened Tuesdaj' evening under auspicious cir- cumstances as regards completeness in arrangements andquality of exhibits, but the usual chrysanthemum show weather put a damper on the spirit of the exhibi- tors and members. However, bright weather is promised for the balance of the week, and consequently a good at- tendance is assured. The general arrangement of the hall was changed differently from former years. In entering the hall two large beds of decorative plants obstruct the view, but after passing around them a full view of the arrangement is shown. Eight long beds of large and single stemmed plants are seen with a large cir- cular bed of elegantly grown single stems in the center; from each side a diamond- shaped bed reaches out east and west. Tables of the choicest blooms reach out from the north and south sidts. Pot plants are more numerous than former years, omaccount of more premi- ums and also the favorable weather of the summer. Single stemmed plants have never been shown better. Tables are arranged in front ol the stage and under the galleries for cut blooms, roses and other flowers, and baskets. No premiums were offered for designs, table decorations, etc. The orchid display had to be omitted on account of non-arrival of flowers. The stage was set with specimen palms and aspidistras. The decorations of the hall w^ere not elaborate, it not being necessary, as the newly frescoed walls with incandescent lighting gave the hall a new and cheerful appearance, and with better janitor service a great improve- ment was shown; however, decorations for eftect ought to be a main point with any exhibition; garlands of green and flags can be seen most any time at small occasions, patrons want new ideas in that direction. In cut blooms many choice flowers are shown; there are also many more ab- normal blooms than usual, large and coarse; this is a feature that should not be encouraged. Some ver3' choice roses and carnations were on the tables, but the principal show in ihat direction will be made Thursday. Canary birds in fancy cages and goldfish aquariums add very much to the general displaj'. Among the jilantsthe following may be mentioned as firstclas for pot culture: Lincoln, Domintaion, L. Canning, Major Bonnaffon, Queen, Murdock, CuUingfordii, Ada Spaulding, Princess Beatrice, Fred Walz, Louis Boehmer, Minerva, Mme. Felix Peri in, Ivorv, Enfant des deux Mondes, E. G. Hill Jos H. White, Mrs. Henrv Robinson. SPECIMEN ANEMONE GARZA IN MR. HATFIELD'S GROUP AT THE BOSTON SHOW. In single stems the following showed up to good advantage: Golden Wedding, Mme. Felix Perrin, Mrs. Henry Robinson, Major BonnaflTon, Queen, Dailledouze, Mayflower, Helen Bloodgood, Golden Gate, Pitcher & Manda, Philadelphia, G. W. Childs, G. Bramhall, Hicks Arnold, Jos. White. In cut blooms the following were notable: Marion Cleveland, Lorelei, Geo. S. Conover, Betty Bock, Mme. Felix Perrin, Mrs. S. T. Murdock, Bonnaffbn, Fred Walz, Irma, Thanksgiving, Queen, Mrs. H. Reineke, Philadelphia, Golden Wedding, Niveus, Nyanza, Western King, Morganza, Lenawee, W. H. Lincoln, Dean Hole, Enfant des deux Mondes, Modesto, Violescent, Inter Ocean, H. L. Sunderbruch, Golden Gate, Mayflower, H. W. Rieman, Eugene Dailledouze, Dins- more, Achilles, SilverCloud, Golden Gate, E. M. Bigelow, Indiana, St. Laurent, Miss Fl. Pullman, F. L. Atkins, Viviand- Morel, Mrs. Robert Craig, White Swan. Of the seedlings shown onlf two carried off a certificate: "Adelaide," in- curvej white, good foliage up to flower, grown by H. W. Rieman; "Western King," incurved white, grown bv Nathan Smith & Son. Among Dorner's carnations shown, the following are Al: No. 17, pink, 189-t, Daj'break cross; No. 24, j'cllow with a shading of stripes, good grower, good stem, 1894; No. 54, 1894, a beautiful white, most perfect flower, Daybreak style, a larger average flower. His Mrs. Geo. M. Bradt and Mrs. Duhme showed up in their full glory. Breitmeyer & Sons' Mayor Pingree came in perfect condition and is keeping its reputation as the best yellow. Among the roses shown Prcs. Caniot in W. W. Coles' collection took the lead; some excellently grown Brides and Bridesmaids in Stuart's collection were noticeable. Hunt's Terre Haute displaj- of roses came in too late for competition on account of some misimderstanding of program. Several entries are in for the choice rose display Thursday. A complete list of awards and descrip- tion of displavs will follow in next issue. W.B. Milwaukee. The flower show this season opened Tuesday with weather unfavorable for a good attendan e. Wednesday and Thurs- day were more encouraging and the at- tendance gratifying to those who had labored for success. The Town Hall, which was occupied, is a pleasant build- ing for a show. The management was good, as was the exhibit, butthe arrange- ment of plants could have been made more pleasing; the hall could have been made beautiful with half the material, but each exhibitor arranged his plants into a bed iipon the floor, which created a monoton\-, although the material taken in detail was of the best. The prizes were distributed among the competitors quite generallj-, the most conspicuous exception was in the case of Mr. Adam Zender, who en- tered five varieties of roses and won five prizes, two firsts and three seconds. There was more harmony on the whole than at any other show conducted by the club; the one great trouble is that there comes with the annual show the annual deficit; there are not patrons enough;5, 000 people might just as well have enjoyed this shovi- as 2,500 without adding to the ex- pense; this is a oroblem which will be out of place to discuss here, but it must be solved before more ventures of this kind will likely be made in Milwaukee; a solution has already been suggested and we hope to see an impiovement before long. One fact was noticeable during this show, viz., people are tired of large 'mums. In the chrysanthemum plant classes A. Billings was first for display of 15 plants, one of a kind, 3 yellow and 12 bush plants in f> varieties. N. Zweifel for 3 white, white standard and yellow stand- ard. Wm. Frcytag for 2 pink, and group of 25 single stem plants. |. C. Vaughan for specimen plant and 12 single stem plants in 12 varieties. [. .V. Wilson for 20 single stem plants of one variety. The first prizes for pink standard and stand- ard of anj' other color were divided be- tween Wm. Frcytag and F. P. Dilger. In other plants ICdlcfscn & Scott were first for general disjjlay of plants ar- rSgd. The American Florist. 848 SOME CUT BLOOMS AT THE BOSTON SHOW. ranged for effect. C. Valoni for 12 ferns. .\. Billings for 12 begonias. \V. Freytag for 12 cyclamens. In chrysanthemum cut blooms N. Zwci- fel was first for 12 named varieties and vase of 15 blooms pink, and 15 blooms any other color. A. Billings for 10 named varieties, G named varieties, 15 yellow and single flower. J. \. Wilson for 15 blooms white. In cut roses H. Staeps was first for 12 Brides and 12 Bridesmaids. Jacob Meyer for 12 Perles and 25 any one varietj-, Adam Zender for 12 Kaiserin and 12 red any sort. Wietor Bros, for 6 American Beauties. J. A. Wilson for 12 Belle Sie- brecht. In carnations Wietor Bros, were first for 25 white, collection of 10 varieties 12 of a kind, and 50 blooms any one color. Wm. Freytag for 25 red. N. Zweifel for 25 pink other than Daybreak. H. Staeps for 25 Daybreak. First on violets went to Otto Sylvester. Certificates of merit were awarded to Geo. Volk for a display of palms and the finest palm on exhibition; to F. P. Dilger foradisplay of carnations; to E.Haentze, Fond du Lac, for a display' of 12 varieties of carnations; to A. Billings for specimen ofCyperus altemifolius; to C. Valom lor a display of palms, and honorable men- tion to Edlefsen & Scott and Miss M. .\. McKenney. In floral arrangements Miss M. A. Mc- Kenney was first on mantel decoration, A. Klokner second. Table decoration .\. Klokner first, Miss McKenney second. Basket of chrysanthemums Wm. Freytag first, F. P. Dilger second. Basket of roses Edlefsen & Scott first, A. Klokner second. Carnation basket Miss McKen ney first, Wm. Freytag second. Vase of chrysanthemums A. Billings first, Edlef- sen & Scott, second. Bouqiiet of assorted flowers F. P. Dilger first, Edlefsen & Scott second. Germantown, Pa. We are seven — Henry Diehl, Charles Leisy, John Holmes, Albert Wolteraate, David Clifte, C. A. Knapp and Robert Craig— unlike the original seven, none of us '"in the church-yard lie" but all are up and doing and sent their very nicest plants and flowers to the annual chrvsan- themum show. The premium list was a very small one this year and this fact, with the opening of the new Horticultual Hall in Philadel- phia, sent many of our local growers townwards. What was lacking in quan- tity was abundantly made up in the quality of the exhibition, this was the general opinion. The attendance was most encouraging, the hall being crowded from the time the doors were opened at two in the after- noon until ten in the evening. Many people prominent in business and social circles as well as many horticultural lights being present. The chief features of the show were the vases of 25 cut blooms among them a vase of Mrs. Goodman, a fine pink seed- ling, which was also shown in an almost pure white form caused by forcing, some promising seedlings in pots; a good col- lection of orchids aud Adiantum Farley- ense, some fine palms, crotons and arau- canas, also some new violets and carna- tions. Too much credit cannot be given to the secretary and treasurer Mr. George Reders, Jr., without whom the exhibition would indeed be like the play of Hamlet with the Dane left out. In the chrysanthemum plant classes John Holmes was first for 6 plants in 10-inch pots. Chas. Leisy first for 6 plants in S-inch pots and for G plants in R-inch pots. In chrysanthemum cut blooms John Welsh Young was first for 6 pink, 6 yel- low and 25 blooms any color. Albert Woltemate was first for 6 white and 6 red. Henry Diehl received certificate of merit for collection of three seedlings and best seedling in the show. Special men- tion to Robt. Craig for vase ot handsome blooms and to John Holmes for vase of 25 bioonis in 25 varieties. John Welsh Young was first for 12 cut roses and 25 cut carnations. He also received a certificate of merit for seedling carnation. Special premiums were awarded Albert Woltemate for table decoration of orchids and ferns and corner group of decorative plants and to John Welsh Young for .\diantum Farleyense. Special mention to Henry Diehl for chrysanthemums in pots and vase of blooms. To Chas. Leisy for seedling car- nations and chrysanthemumsin pots. To David Cliffe for a vase of bronze chrysan- themums and small single chrysanthe- mums, and a vase of cut white chrysan- themums; to Albert Woltemate for three vases of violets and specimen palms, and to Charles Knapp a certificate of merit was awarded for a vase of large white new seedling ciirysanthemums, "Mrs. Colonel Goodman." J. W. Y. Hartford, Conn. The annual chrysanthemum exhibition of the Conn. Horticultural Society was held in Good-W'ill Hall on November 9, 10, 11. The display was fully up to that of former 3'ears and was well patronized by the flower loving public. The jvidges were Robert Veitch of New Haven and Rev. Magee Pratt of Kensington. The following is the list of awards in the pro- fessional classes: Display of 15 named plants, James Smith, first; James Young, second. Display of eight named plants, Thomas Drvden, first; G. Minge, second. Display of four plants, all white. G. Minge, second. Display of four plants, all pink, G. Minge, second. Specimen Japanese, James Smith, first; J. H. Slocombe, second. Specimen Chinese, J. H. Slocombe, first; James Smith, second. Specimen Pompon, J. H. Slocombe, first; G. Minge, second. Specimen Anemone, J. H. Slocombe, first; Mrs. J. H. Phelps, second. Ten specimen blooms, S. Delbar, first. Six specimen plants, James Smith, first. Twenty-five cut blooms, A. N. Pierson, first; S. Delbar, second; W,B. May, third. Ten cut blooms, A. N. Pierson, first; John Coombs, second. Best specimen bloom, James Smith, first; A. N. Pierson, second; fohn Coombs, third. 844 The American Florist. Nov. /^, Twenty cut sprays, N. Slocombe, first; 1. H. Slocombe, second; W.B.May, third. Twelve specimen blooms, yellow, James Smith, first; A. N. Piei-son, second. Twelve specimen blooms, pink, A. N. Pierson, first; John Coombs, second. Twelve specimen blooms, white, James Smith, first; A. N. Pierson, second. Twelve specimen blooms, red, John Coombs, first; A. N. Pierson, second. Best seedling finest exhibition, J. H. Slocombe, first; G. Minge, second. Best cut bloom of seedling, J. H. Slo- combe, first, second and third. Twelve cut roses. A.N. Pierson, first. Largest and best group of plants, W.B. May, first. Ft. Wayne, Ind. The first annual chrysanthemum show of the Northern Indiana Horticultural Society opened in this city on Thursday, Nov. 5, at Library Hall, with the weather about as unfavorable as possible, the city being visited b}' the first snow storm of the season, accompanied by a violent gale. For a first attempt the display was an extremely creditable one; the groups of decorative plants were very artistically arranged and the competitive exhibits tastefully staged. In chrysanthemums E G. Hill & Co. of Richmond carried off first honor, winning 12 firsts and one second. Nathan Smith & Son of Adrian, Mich., got four firsts, carrying oft" the two chief prizes of the exhibition, offered for 50 blooms, all dif- ferent, and 50 blooms, assorted. W. J. & M. S. Vesey of this city received three firsts and five seconds; their display in all classes was the most extensive at the show, and it was greatly through their efforts that the exhibition in this city was made possible. W. N. Rudd of Chicago exhibited in but two classes, winning one first and one second, though in the opinion of many he was entitled to first prize in both cases, the judging being done by local men not professionals. In loses and violets all the firsts went to W. J. & M. S. Vesey. The firsts for carnations were divided between W. J. & M. S. Vesey, E.G. Hill& Co. and Markey Bros, of this city. Geo. W. Doswell and the Indiana School for Feeble Minded Youth, both of this city, captured several prizes for potted plants. A fine vase of the new rose Souv. du Pres. Carnot, exhibited by E. G. Hill & Co., attracted more attention than anj'- thing else in the hall, especially among the ladies, who admired the exquisite col- oring of this rose. Owing to the extremely disagreeable weather, which kept down the attend- ance, the exhibition proved to be a losing venture to its promoters. Jno. L. Hanna. Chrysanthemum Society of America. The committee on seedlings will hold sessions for examining new varieties on November 21 and 28. Those having seedlings to beconsidered by the committee should forward them by prepaid express to any of the follow- ing: Boston— A. H. Fewkes, Horticultural Hall. New York— Eugene Dailledouze, care of New York Cut Flower Co., 119 West 23d street. Philadelphia— Edwin Lonsdale, 1514 Chestnut street. Cincionat' — R. Witterstaetter, corner 4th and Walnut stie^ts. Chicago— W. N. Rudd, room 202, IS.'J Dearborn street. Chicago Chrysanthemum Committee. Three seedlings received points suffi- cient to entitle them to certificates at the meeting of the Chicago committee last Saturday. Mrs. John J. G'essner was the name of a very large lemon yellow of the Mayflower type, from N. Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich. Its parentage was Ed. Hatch and Mrs. Jerome Jones. It scored 90 points. The grower's record reads "Planted June 10, height 5 feet, terminal bud taken September 15; cut November 4." From Nanz & Neuner, Louisville, Ky., came The Times, a large loose-petaled, incurved pink with good stem and foli- age. It scored 91 points. Evangeline, a beautiful white of medium size, very like Kioto except in color, came from John N. May, Summit, N. J. It is a remarkably pleasing flower and has good stem and foliage. It scored 90 point ?, and would have gone higher except for some spotted petals and lack of size. N. Smith & Son also sent Chito,a large bronze of Niveus shape, but not so full as that variety. Itscored 81 points. Parent- age Mrs. C. D. Avery and Lipoincott. Pianted June 10. Height 5 feet. Ter- minal bud taken September 15. Cut November 4. From Mr. May came also Mavourneen, apinkish white reflexedflowerthatscored 69 points, and Symphonia, an incurved majenta pink of Ivory type that scored 81 points. Boston Chrysanthemum Committee. The Boston committee had before them on Saturday, Nov. 7, the following seed- lings; From T. H. Spaulding, Marcia Jones, white anemone; recommended for a cer- tificate. King Cole, Japanese incurved. Souvenir, deepcarmine.Japanese incurved. From J. N. May, Mavourneen, flesh pink, Japanese incurved; recommended for certificate. Symphonia, carmine pink and silver, Japanese incurved. Evange- line, white, Japanese incurved. Japanese Arrangement. The accompanying engraving is from a photograph of three vas; s arranged in jopanese style by Prof. Choyo, and shown at the Chicago exhibition. The small vase in the center is over 300 years old, and that at the right is over 200 years old. The flowers are held in posi- tion by pieces of broken stems of chrys- anthemums wedged in the vase cross- ways. The vases at the ends are a pair for a wedding. The one at the left has white flowers above and red below, and is in- tended to be placed in the house of the groom, while in that at the left end the color arrangement is reversed, and this is to be placed in the house of the bride. Prof. Choyo explained that in the Japanese symbolism white flowers repre- sent purity and strength, and are there- fore masculine, while red flowers repre- sent beauty and delicacy, and are there- fore feminine. The ceotral vase was arranged simply as a study and has no special symbolism. It should be noted that in no vase are two flowers placed at exactly the same height, and in no case are the lines of the stems parallel . In speaking of the use of flowers Prof. Choyo said that a Japanese would never wear a full blown flower. That would signify that he had nothing further to look forward to. The half opened flower is always used for wearing, and signifies hope. The Japanese name of the chrysanthe- mum is pronounced "Keeko." The chrys- anthemum is not only the national flower of Japan, but it is the badge of the Im- perial household. Its adoption as the Imperial bat'ge came about through the resemblance of the single varieties to the disk of the sun with its rays of light. The Japanese Emperors are said to be des- cended from a god that came from the sun. The national hrllday is called "Chrys- anthemum Day," and on that day all citizens decorate their houses with the national flower and exhibitions of the flower are given. Rose, Souvenir du President Carnot. [See illustration, page 336.] This, the latest conspicuous addition to the list of forcing roses, starts out on its American career under most favorable auspices, having made an unusually good impression on all who have seen it under cultivation. It is notable that no 'less than four prominent growers have, been carefully nursing stock of this rose imported under the impression that no one else had it, and consequently there will be an abundance of young stock to offer to the American trade the coming season. The flowers of this variety are beautifully formed in either bud or full- blown state, co!or soft pink deepening to the center, and deliciously fragrant. In every instance where it has been seen growing, the habit appears to be all that could be desired in a forcing rose, free growing and prolific blooming at all sea- sons and unexcelled as to stem and foliage. A great future is confidently predicted for it. Inferior Roses. The buds on my roses all grow very small and weak, yet the plants are ex- ceedingly healthy and strong. What is the cause? The soil is rich, mixed with cow manure. Previous to this under the same conditions have had the best results. Reader. It may be that the weather, which dur- ing the first three weeks of October was warm, cloudy and rainy almost every day, had an influence on the plants and tended to produce inferior flowers with weak stems. Unless the closest attention is given to watering and ventilation dur- ing such a long, cloudy spdl it is almost impossible to bring the plants through without harm. The safe course to pursue is to never syringe unless there is a good prospect of their drying cif before night; keep the soil in the benches quite a good deal on the dry side, which will help to mature the growth as itis made, and give all the ventilation during the day that it is possible; nothing can be worse than to maintain a close, humid atmosphere in such weather. During the night when the temperature indoors is too high to permit fire heat it is safer to have a very little, and raise the ventilators at the i8g6. The American Florist. 345 CHRYSANTHEMUMS ARRANGED IN JAPANESE STYLE BY PROP, OHOYO AND DISPLAYED AT THE CHICAGO SHOW same time so as to keep the proper degree of heat. If the plants are strong and healthy and the soil rich I would not advise any additional feeding until after January l.but to harden the growth and foliage by abundant ventilation and a nierht temperature not exceeding 56° to 58°. Robert Simpson. Reply to Query. E.W.Wakefield, Mass., writes in regard to his roses, that he has never seen any healthier looking plants, but lately some of them have made a very rank growth, which usually terminates with a small imperfect bud, which drops ofi instead of maturing and opening. The composition of the soil is as follows: One part well- rotted cow manure and three parts soil, to which was added at the time of mix- ing a good sprinkling of bone (a rather indefinite quantity). The roses are plant- ed on benches, and the one bench where the trouble isthemost noticeable rectived in addition a layer of one itch of manure before the soil was brought in. They were planted about June 18, and were given a too dressing of cow manure in August. The letter says they have been grown quite cool, the temperature some nights tailing as low as 48°. The ques- tion is asked also, "Is a mulch of soil and sheep manure advisable?" On page 292, Oct. 31, issue of the Florist, E. W. will find a cise which closely resembles his, so much so tVat the reply made to "Sub- scriber" will answer very well in the pres- ent instance. If as the letter states, the compost heap consisted of manure, one part, and soil three parts; and on the bench which is say five inches deep, there was one inch of manure, we shall have when planted two parts manure to three parts soil, but if to this is added a 1-inch top dressing of manure we shall then haveab^ut equal quantiti(s]of the two. In my judgment this would be entirely too rich to secure any satisfactory re- sults. It is possible to take soil of the very best quality and render it practi- cally useless for rose growing purposes by adding too much manure. In some instances the result is a gross unnatural growth, with little bloom and that of poor quality, at other times the plants take on a yellowish sickly appearance and make scarcely any growth. Too large a proportion of manure to soil is liable to make the latter, after it has been in the benches for a time, very open and porous, a condition which in my opinion is not at all desirable. The roots of the rose prefer a firm, adhesive, com- pact soil in which to run. It is not un- common when emptying the old soilfrom the benches to find a piece of very tough clay completely filled with tiny rootlets. I would advise K. W. to give his plants no more stimulants, nothing in fact but clear water and good care until the trou- ble disappears. It was a mistake to al- low the temperature to fall as low as 48°, such a state of things is pretty cer- tain to cause trouble. When plants are making a soft rapid growth with bright sun and a high day temperature nothing could possibly be more harmful to them than sudden and extreme changes. If in our cultivation under glass we attempt to go contrary to Nature, that fickle dame is pretty certain to get balky and unmanageable. Copy and improve on her we may, and be eminently success''ul, but ignore her and we must pay the pen- alty. RoBT. Simpson. Weak American Beauties. "Subscriber," Lawrence, Kansas, wishes to know what is the matter with his American Beauties. Same are making a long slender growth; some of the shoots, however, are too weak to support the flower. The letter states that the soil is 50% Blue grass sod, rather sandy but fertile, 30'X very heavy black soil from low land, and 20% very good manure. There are so many things besides soil which go to make success or failure in rose growing that it is dfficult to p'ace the blame for any failure or partial fail- ure without first knowing a good deal about the methods employed; such for instance as condition of the soil as re- gards water, average night and day tem- perature, etc. Too much fire heat and too little air, accompanied by a good deU of moisture at the root at this season is pretty certain to produce a soft immature growth. Themost satisfactory nieht temperature for Beauties is from 58° to 62°, according to season and con- dition of the plants. In cloudy weather, and especially if, as in the present in- stance, the growth is weak, it will be safer to keep near the lower figure. The best Beauties I have seen have usually been growing in a rather heavy loam, sometimes in a very strong clay loam, and I think "Subscriber" would perhaps have better success if he could add to his Blue grass sod about an equal quantity of very strong loam or even clay. This of course would only be pos- sible another season; for the present keep the plants clean, the soil sweet and a good pure atmosphere at all times. As an experiment try a good sprinkling of wood ashes as a top dressing, say about a barrel to a house 100x20 feet. RoBT. Simpson. Diseased Carnation. We send diseased Portiacarnation. The disease extends up into the bud. Would like to know name of disease and remedy for it. G. H. B. This disease is the spot, and it is at times very troublesome. Wesucceed best in keeping this disease in check by picking ofi" the diseased leaves and then syringing with the copper solution. Common salt is often used, a 2'inch pot full in three or four gallons of water, and sytinge. This disease is mostly brought on by watering over the plants in cloudy weather when it takes a long timeto dry them off again. Our rule is not to water at all over the plants through the winter months, and we find this the best preventive for fun- gous disease. Sulphur applied on the heating pipes the same as f jr mildew in rose houses should never be neglected in carnation houses, and most of all aim to have at all times a proper temperature and a light fresh air regulated by venti- lation and fire heat. Fred. Dorner. Carnation Troubles, What is the cause of the carnation Alaska bursting its calyx, and also show- ing weakness at the joints? The plants 346 The American Florist. Nov. 14, seem otherwise healthj; the flowers are large, and clear in color. The Sweetbrier and Grace Wilder are inclined to do the same. I. G. At this time of the season it is most likely an abundance of nourishment work- ing on the petalsof the flower, on a ready formed stem and calyx. The free bloom- ing of Alaska and Grace Wilder and its rather fine leaves and slender but wiry stems corroborate this idea. The devel- opment of the bloom is faster than that of the plant, but this will change all later on. .\gain the cause may be insufficient venti- lation and light, and too high a tempera- ture, all tending to a soft growth, very easily promoting the condition com- plained of, especially in varieties where the stieagthof the stem is not in itsthick- ness but its wiryncss. Fred Dorner. Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints. As this is the time when you are saving your stock chrysanthemums I am not, I trust, intruding if I mention an experierce I had du-'ing the past year. As is well known some of our best varieties are liable to come blind and that is a serious defect. Djmination (Mr. Ballock) is one that has that tendercy and so I find that good late pink Ermcnllda afF.cted the same way. Last year one-third of my Domination were blind, but Iwasvdy particular to take cuttings only from plants that had given a fine flower, the result is this year a bench of fine fl weis with scarcely an exception. Ermenilda was thisyear30% blind. Is hall be partic- ular hereafter to select cuttings of every variety from only the best plants and those that tave the best flowers and I feel sure it is tbe wise thing to do. This of course is only what we should do with all tbe plants we propagate, but it is often neglected to the deterioration of our stork. With this little innovation on another man's territory I will subside. I often see plants of that most elegant of all conifers Araucarla excelsa placed in the warmest corner of the greenhouse. It it is an ideal house plant except that it is generally in too warm a room; florists should know better as many do but they are careless. It thrives in a cool moist situation with a n'ght temperature of 50° and it will thrive in much less heat. It may be that some of your readers are not aware of the conditions of its native land. It is, I b.lieve, only found in Nor- folk Is'and from whence its familiar name comes. Norfolk Island is a small affair lately colonized by the oveifljw popula- tion from the romantic Pitcairn islanders. It is in about the latitude of South New Z -aland, and cool although frost is never known, neither is the climate ever hot. Hence you can form an idea of what suits the araucaria. Tbe writer had thecare of one when he wa3 15 years old that was at least 12 feet high and 6 or 7 feet broad at the base. It was surrounded by orange trees tint bore bushels of fruit. The conservatory was heated by a flue and more than one winter do I remember when the fire was never lighted. This was in the south of England. It may be interesting to some to know that many years ago (perhaps 50) the fossil remains of this beautiful pine was found deep down in a coal mine in the south of Scotland its trunk or section of trunk was some 50 feet long and 3 or 4 feet through, thus showing that we have with us to-day the survival of a very ancient tree and also proving that Scot- land had once a very diff r.nt climate than it has to-day. It is Scotland that has changed not the tree although I have heard Englishman insist that it was the bag pipes that hastened its departure. Keep your excelsas cool and moist and they will grow better and possess that beautiful color which forms much of their beauty. Another plant, the Metrosideros sem- perflorens which has the late few years been taken up by Europeans and grown as nice little trees which when their bottle bluish flower is developed is very attract- ive. It also should be kept cool, but be walchful and if it is inclined to flower too early don't be afraid to give it any tem- perature just above freezing for like all hard wooded evergreen plantsit is injured by bcirg allowed to get very dry when in pots. The Metrosideros is yet a novelty in many places and will sell the coming sea- son and at Easter will bring the best price. Oje more plant that is often overdone with heat is the pretty little trees of the Otaheite orange. During winter months when bearing fruit keep them cool. Many people think because you hear so much of oranges in Florida that it is a tropical fruit but it is not. In the winter time anything above freezing will do. I have often something to say about poinsettias it is perhaps because they pay and grow well with us. This is the time to grow, and give them the warmest and lightest house. You often see them los- ing their leaves from now on to the time their bracts are fully developed. A long lanky leafless stick with a small head of flower is a sickly sight but a plant 18 inches high, leaves down to the pot and bracts 15 to 18 inches across is attractive and sells here for $1. It is not alwaystbe lack of heat which is the cause of yeliow leaves, but exhaustion; that is proved by the younger propagated plants retaining their leaves much better than the older ones. So before the leaves begun to show the yellow tinge give them liquid manure twice a week, that is much better than giving them a larger pot for that won't pay at this date. Wm. Scott. Violets not Blooming. Can vou make any suggestion about violets? My plants were put in a month ago and are looking finely, making good growth, and in good health; yet the buds are few and the flowers not so large or darkas usual. Soil was a light clayey loam originally, with one-third dressing (mixed and rotten sods and leaf mold added), with a very slight spi inkling of bone- dust. A while ago I told the gardener to put on a sprinkling of lime (air-slacked) which I am in the habit of doing in certain kinds of weather, etc., and always here- tofore with good results. This time, hovrever, I think the application was rather liberal. Would thit have the effect above mentioned? If so, what would you recommend to rid ones'self of the trouble as rapidly as possible? I have watered often thinking that would wash the lime out if that should be the cause. Wou'd nitrate of soda be good? Have given them one very mild dose. The violets are Lady Campbell and we run as hitherto 65° at night and 70° to 75° daytimes, which temperature our previous experience proved desirable. We use the Farquhar violet also, but as we have a limited number of plants and this is our first year with them I do not know whether they are sharing in the effects of treatment or soil, or whatever it may be which causes a lack of bloom on the part of the Campbells. Any suggestions as early as possible will be appreciated. Portland, Me. A. G. Wright. In answer to A. G. Wright's inquiry as to his violets not doing well, I would say in the first place that his temperature is altogether too high; 65° at night would grow Meteor roses. Drop your night temperature to 45° and not over 55° or 60° in the daytime, and that only with tun heat. Your violets do not want any nitrate of soda as you say they are grow- ing freely. Nitrate will force the foliage at the expense of the bloom. I should say that your soil is all right, and the air-slacked lime you applied would not hurt them. Don't over-water them; keep the soil in a moist growing condition and give plenty of fresh air on all favorable occasions. The high tem- perature is what has kept your violets from bloc ming. Stick to the temperatures I have given you; don't jump up and down, and your violets will be better in a month's time. Keep a sharp lookout for green fly, as they spot the flowersand cripple the young leaves just as they are unfolding. Wecall it the curl, but in nine times out often aphis is the cau3e. Wm. G. Saltford. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Azaleas for Easter. An inquiry comes from "H. K." ask- ing "how to treat Azaleas to have them in flower at Easter." In very recent numbers of the American Florist have appeared several hints on the treatment of azileas, but as "H. K." has not ob- served them, I will briefly say, te must remember that Easter is a moveable date and varies from the last days of March to the end of April. This coming Easter is, I telieve, a late one. Suppose your plants are those imported this fall, they should be now in a cool house; 40° at night is plenty warm enough. After the end of February there is increased sunshine and the azaleas will show an inclination to flower. In an average night temperature of 45° the majority of the varieties would be in full bloom about the first week or two of April, but some varieties such as Deutche Perle will be out long before that, while Flag of Truce and Emperor de Brazil would be three weeks later. So if you want all your plants for Easter sales you must watch the different sorts and treat accordingly, retarding the early ones and giving more heat to the later sorts. Never let your azaleas become dry and when they begin to make the young growth from the base of the flower, rub them off or the buds will shrivel up and take the strength of the p'ant which should develop the flower. If old plants that you havecarried over, theconditions regarding temperature are the same. W. Scott. Three Familiar Planis. "G. M." sends specimens of three well known plants of which he wants the name. The succulent fleshy plant is the mesem- bryanthemum, a plant that 40 years ago was prominent in all the flower gardeas of Europe. The small white foliage plant is Santo- lina iccana used largely in carpet bedding; it is almost or quite hardy in our northern climate and will stand as much clipping and shearing as the well known box edg- ing- The fern is Aspidium annulare proli- firuni; if that is too long for you leave ofl' i8g6. The American Florist. 347 GOLDEN WEDDING AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. the last adjective. It belongs to the exten- sive class known as poroliferous ferns which means that its ready means of reproduction is by bulbils appearing on the fronds which become independent plants. It is a cool house fern, and as there as so many handsomer kinds it is not much cultivated. Wm. Scott. Philadelphia. The annual chrysanthemum banquet of the Philadelphia Florists' Club was held in their new club room in Horticultural Hall, last Wednesday evening. The room was decorated with palmsin the windows and about the walls. The large pillars were entwined with wild smilax and on the tables were placed vases and baskets of roses and chrysanthemums; some pretty crotons were also used with good effect. A vase of the new rose President Carnot sent by Ernst Asmus was a special feature. There was a large gath- ering of the local brethren and some twenty-five visitors from other cities. After an excellent m nu had been dis- cussed, President Burton rapped for order and after extending a welcome to the visitors he proposed as the first toast the new club room, and called on Robert Craig to respond. As Mr. Craig arose he was met with cries of Bryan, boy orator, 16 to 1 etc., on account of an introduc- tion by Mr. Asmus earlier in the evening. Mr. Craig said that his first thought was one of welcome to the visitors on behalf of all the members of the club. He hoped that this gathering was but the fore-run- ner of many similar occasions. It had grown to be the custom to have these gatherings in connection with flower shows and he hoped it would never die out. Nothing personally gave him more pleasure than to attend such gatherings where persons of the same calling come together and exchange ideas. The trustees of Horticultural Hall had recognized in the florists the workers of the society and had in orderto keep them in the family, provided a room in the same house. The society might have died a natural death but for the interest that the florists took in it's work and welfare. Tt is action on their part should rouse the florists to renewed interest in the work. The society now had the finest building he had ever seen; there was no such view anywhere as was given by the vista through the main stairs and it was a thing of beauty throughout. Rethought the trade had hardly risen to the occasion this time but would be better prepared next season. They had an opportunity not enjoyed by florists of other cities. There were many good things in the show, notable among them being the orchid table by Hugh Graham and he hoped that more men 1 ke Mr. Graham would develop, as he had done so much for the show. The club was now starting on a new era it had the right man for presi- dent and to the health of that gentleman he desired the club to drink. Mr. Burton responded in a few words and proposed as the next toast the S. A. F. to which sutject President Scott made his usual happy address. He thanked the club for the treatment he and his friends had received at their hands; he was proud that he was president until next January. Anyone who wanted statistics about the society could get them from "My Secretary" nodding to Sec'y. Stewart who sat near by. The florists' clubs owed a great deal to the S. A. F. Without the mothersociety it was scarcely possible they could exist. He had tried to do his duty and his ambition had been if possible to approach the record made by our beloved Eiwin his illustrious predescessor. He said his suc- cessor, Mr. Graham, was a big hearted, noble, honest gentleman, and whf n the time came for the speaker to shuffl-ofl' the mantle of office no man in the society would occupy it with greater dignity than Mr. Graham. More men should attend the conventions, they should go there for loyalty to business, don't stay away and be a business man in your town, but get out and let the whole country know you. He congratulated the club on the new quarters and hoped that many there now would live to see and erjoy sole owrer.-hip in thirty years to come. Philadelphia is a great city with it's great tower five hundred and thirty-five or seven or nine feet high, and also for it's titled people, for it was the home of the famous Duke of York. He referred to the shooting match and said that even when two of the greatest shots in the country. Burton and Ander- son, were laid off' the team, it was so strong that the visitors couldn't beat them. To be sure he had somehow won a purse but he would rather have had something useful. He told several stories which convulsed his audience one of them tcing Dean Hole'saccount of howthedog ate up a part of the parson's sermon. C. L. Allen, of the New York Florist CIu*!, responded to the toast, "The Flo- rists' Clubs of the United States" Mr. Allen said that he felt sure he voiced the sentiment of every club in the country when he cot gratulated the Philadelphia club on this occasion of the opening of their new quarters. All will be glad to hear that you have receivel this recogni- tion from your cilizens. The Horticult- ural Society from whom ycu have received this room feels they are under obligation to you and the same is true of every other Horticultural Society to the Florists' Club of it's city. Few people appreciate how imporlant the club is to the trade. Since they had been organized, fforists as individuals had grown better, their association with one another had rounded i ff' the sharp corners and polished them. All hands appreciated this fact to the fullest extent. Y in can rest assured that all the clubs of the country are in sympathy with you to-night and on behaif of the New York Florists' Club I extend to you its best wishes. Ex-President Wm. R. Smith, of Wash- ing! on, was introduced with "To him ihe country turns for all that's best in bot- any and all that's best in Burns." He said he was proud to be with them and wished he could talk like President Scott or had the eloquence of his fiiend Craig, but in his own humble way he desired to thank them for their courtesy and hoped they would stay as they now were, always in the lead. Mr. Lonsdale then told of the origin of the gun club and the important part he took in it and how note, no not evt none, had been able to duplicate hcs great feat in shooting a crow. Before letting him go he was compelled to sing two verses of his new song entitled "The Brave Old Duke of York." W. J. Stewart responded for the Horti- cultural press, and said that the best thing he could say was it gave modest people a chance to get into print. About the show he would say little, as for the past month there had been 'mums to the right and 'eft of us, before and behind us, they were everywhere. He r m mhered with pleasure the Gardeners' Monthly, nearly the only paper of its time and how he prized its monthly visits. What progress there had been since then. N iw, if a man wanted to know if orchids or candytuft paid best, or remedy for green fly or about S. A. F. delinquents he tried thecolumnsof the horticultural pressand fjund out without money or price. The daily pre S3 should receive the attention of florists so as to correct the absurd mis- takes they so often make. Mr. Geo. Fancourt, of Wilkesbarre, read an original poem on the chrysanthe- mum. Messrs. Farson and Craig had their annual sparring match, each trying to outdo the other in their complimentary remarks. Mr. John Donn answered for the Balti- more contingent and congratulated the club on their new quarters and explained the difficulty they labored under in get- ting a suitable building for their sho-v. Robert Kift showed how to get money out of the chrysanthemum and incident- ally from the hair and whiskers of the growers. Mr. Hogan, a gentleman with a fine tenor voice rendered several songs to the delight of the company, his Annie Laurie 348 The Amer/cax Florist. Nov. H. being very fine. The company broke up at a late hour with the singing of Auld Lang Syne. Ths dinner was one of the most enjoya- ble affairs ever given by the club. Among the visitors present were President Scott and his two sons, W. R. Smith and Ben- jamin Dnrfee and W.S.Clark of Washing- ton; C. L. Allen, Arnst Esmus and F. Kel- ler of New York; John Donn, Conrad Hess, William Cook, Chas. Cook. C. M. Wagrer, John Bauer, Wm. Simpson, Philip West, H. Fischer, and F. Fischer of Baliimore; (V. A. Hammond of Richmond and W. S. Canfield, of Springfiild, Ills.; Geo. Carr, G. E. Fancourt and B. F. Dor- rance of Wilkesbarre; Bob't Lockerbie, Wilmington; J. L. Dillon, Bloomsburg and A. M. Herr, Lancaster. K. Boston. The past week has been a busy one for the Garden Committee of the Massa- chusetts Horticultural Society, who have been called upon to visit and inspect a number of places entered in competition for the awards offered for the best houses of pot grown and bench grown chrysan- themums. Wm. Nicholson, T. D. Hat- field, John Barr and James Comley were visited on successive days and at each place the company were entertained with great liberality. Mr. Nicholson is as successful with chrysanthemums asheis with carnations. One large house filled with medium and late blooming sorts is very beautiful now and of the score or more varieties in flower there is not one that id not in the finest condition of health and cleanliness. Mrs. Perrin is here as elsewhere the most admired. Ada Spaulding, rarely seen nowadays, looks well and Mrs. Jerome Jones, Helen Bloodgood, Major Bonnsffon and John Shrimpton are among the best of the collection. The latest bloomers are W. H. Lincoln and Cullingfordii which are only just com- mencing to open. Mr. Nicholson has built one house the past season and this is filled with begonias, ferns, etc.; outside of this, with the exception of one rose house, the greater part of the establish- ment is devoted to carnations. Day- break, Scott, N cholson, Alaska, Minnie Cook and Edith Foster are all planted in quantity and are giving full satisfaction. Crystal is a fine flower, but there is too much "grass" for the quantity of flowers produced. Delia Fox is not liked as to color. Ivory's main fault is a weak stem. Freedom is very pure white and promising in all points. White Queen, like Crystal, produces too much plant and too little flower. Helen Keller throws very few perfect blooms. Camp- fire, a seedling from Hector, is a splendid scarlet, a little lighter shade than Hector, and very fragrant. It is a good grower and prolific bloomer. A scarlet sport from Thos. Cartledge also looks promis- ing. Henry Irving is a new crimson of remarkably vivid color. There is a seed- ling from Scott & Nicholson that shows the fine form and other characteristics of Scott with the deep glowing color of Nicholson, but the flower appears rather heavy for the stem. A seedling white raised by H. A. Cook, of Shrewsbury, shows a fine habit and may prove valu- able. One house from which early chrys- anthemums have been cut is filled with white anthirrhinums for cut flower pur- poses. On Thursday South Natick was visited and Mr. Barr's collection inspected, there being a considerable number of invited guests in addition to the members of the committee. The first thought on view- ing this estate is one of gratification that while some of the places once famous horticulturally are passing into history there are new ones constantly cominp; forward to fill the vacancies. Mrs. B. P. Cheney's beautiful estateatSouth Natick, adjoining Wellesley, wh:reJohn Barr is gardener, is one of these new comers which has acquired prominence through the high quality of its contributions to the exhibitions of the Horticultural Society. There are two hundred acres of well kept lawn, garden and grove, also a range of bouses which, although of moderate extent, yet contain much that is highly creditable, especially at the present time, when two of the houses are filled, one with trained chrysanthemum plants and the other with bench grown plants for specimen blooms. In the first mentioned house were seen forty-two remarkably well grown dwarf specimen plants, very uniform, each about five feet across and embracing an unprecedented range of color. Among them stand out preeminently as perfect pot-plants Hansen's Pink Ivory and C. J. Dawson's White Theo, also Mrs. Mur- dock. Sunrise, Savannah, Gold Dust, lora. Mutual Friend and Mrs. Robt. Craig. In the house of bench grown single bloom plants the picture was a dazzling one, the selection of clear bright colors and the exclusion of dull, muddy shades being especially noted. Among those most admired here were Mrs. Perrin, Helen Bloodgood, Silver Cloud, Major Bonnaffon, Mrs. H. Robinson, Mrs. Phipps, H. W. Reiman, Maud Dean, Georgienne Bramhall, Viviand-Morel and Philadelphia. All these and many others were superbly grown and doubtless will make a favorable record at the exhibi- tion this week. The visitors were enter- tained at dinner at Bailey's Hotel. At Mr. Hatfield's the committee were treated to a private vi w of the plants in- tended for the exhibition, twenty-five gigantic specimens wonderful in perfection of flower and foliage. These are described in detail in the account of Massachusetts Horticultural Society's exhibition in another column. On Saturday. Nov. 7, at Horticultural Hall resolutions in memory of the late A. S. Fuller and William Robinson were presented and unanimously adopted. The executive committee reported favor- able action on the appropriation for prizes for 1897 amounting to $8,100. the same sum as appropriated fjr 1896. It was voted that hereafter all exhibits of poisonous fungi be so designated by cards of special color. The cut flower trade is in bad shape and has been so ever since November 1. A shortening up of chrysanthemums and the advent of weather that will cause a diminished cut of other varieties of flowers will be necessary before any great improvement mav be looked for. Violets are selling rather better than other flowers. Single varieties are in greater abundance than ever before in this market and seem to be gaining in popu- larity. McCarthy & Co.'s series of auction sales for the fall have concluded, the prices realized being generally satisfac- tory. Ed. Hatch has one sale on for this week of dormant stock from C. H. Joosten. Hartford & Crowell succeed H.E. Hart- ford in the moss and fern business. Sam Lippman has opened a flower stand in Clark's Hotel. Thos. Pegler has leased the greenhouses of Walter Butler at Readville. The exhibition of childrens' herbariums will take place at Horticultural Hall on Nov. 27-28. Visiting Boston; Louis Mereaud and daughters, Albany, N. Y.; A. Dimmock, New York City; James Kelway, Somerset, England; Robt. Simpson, Cromwell, Conn.; Ernst Asmus, West Hoboken, N. J.; J. H. Taylor, Bayside, N. Y.; Geo. Thompson, Lenox, Mass.; E. 0. Orpet, South Lancaster, Mass.; Robt. Patter- son, Portsmouth, N. H.; Carl Jurgens, Newport, R. I. New York. Cut flower trade in this city is at a standstill. It isdeclar.d by those who have watched its progress for many years to be demoralized beyond anj' com- parison with conditions in previous years. The horse show is on but the flower trade profits nothing by it and indeed appears to suffer because of it. Violets, as was the case last year, are apparently scorned by the visitors to the show and the scenes of two years ago when the violet was one of the leading feattires of the show and was quadrupled in price in consequence, will probabh' never be repeated. Carna- tions are in the same fix as other flowers, even where of finest quality. Roses, with the exception of American Beauty, go a-begging and lily of the valley is far too abundant tor the demand. All this, how- ever, niaj' change at an3' moment for if cold and stormy weather shoxdd reach us there will be a shortage without doubt. The ice chests in the wholesaler's estab- lishments are gorged with chrysanthe mums. Prices on these are very low. A few verj' special novelties have been reported as sold at figures as high as $6 per dozen but the prevailing price for such averages less than a dollar a dozen and for fair flowers of medium quality one dollar a hundred is nearer to the figure realized. The poorer grades of chrysan- themums are now all cut and the bulk of stock to come in is of high quality. At the November meeting of the New York Florists' Club nominations for officers for next year were made as fol- lows: For president, Samuel Henshaw, Henry McCrowe; vice-president, Wm. Plumb; secretary, John Young; treasurer, C. B. Weathered; trustees, Lawrence Hafner, A. L. Don, W. J. Stewart. I). D. L. Farson of Philadelphia was present and made some entertaining remarks. The exhibition of novelties in flowers was not large but interesting. A new cres- cent wreath from W. I. Brower was rec- ognized with a silver medal. Galax leaves, white chrysanthemums and purple ribbon were its components. Ernst Asmus showed the great novelty of the year, the new pink rose Souvenir du President Car- not. It received a certificate of merit. Honorable mention was awarded to C. Besold for seedling carnations Nero and Mrs. S. Joost; to John Harrison for car- nation Harrison's white; to F. Boulow for violete Princess de Galles, California and Luxonne; to T. Dcvoy & Son for Marie Louise violets and to Henry Miller for pansics grown in Neponset paper pots. John I. Kaynor is receiving mignonette long and strong, exceedingly good for so early a date, biit the market is slow on it as yet. A. F. Schrader, of Newtown, received a package of dynamite evidently intended for some one else, by express on Saturday last which he opened with an axe. For- tunately for him it did not explode. W. I. Brower reports a gratifying de- mand for his new floral photographs. i8g6. The American Florist. 349 Mr. Thos. W.Wheatland returned from England last week, looking well. Visiting New York: Carl Jurgens, New- port, R. I. Chicago. The supper of the Florist Clnb at the Hotel Bismarck last Thursday night was a very enjoyable affair. Mr. Adam Gra- ham was introduced as a judge who had discovered the only true way to satisfy all exhibitors, namely byawarding afirst prize to each one. He responded with words of praise for the excellence of the flowers shown at the exhibition and said that the work of the judges had been re- markably difficult in many cases on ac- count of the uniform excellence of the ex- hibits He spoke of the value of such ex- hibitions in advancingthe profession, and of such gatherings as the present in which all came together for the common good, and to learn what splendid men your fel- low craftsmen are. He asked the mem- bers not to forget that the Society of American Florists was doing in a broad national way what each of the clubs was doing locally and urged the members to give the national organization the sup- port it deserved. Mr. J. Austin Shaw read two original poems, one embodying his views as to Chicago and its future, in which he fairly outdid the type of Chicagoan depicted by the humorous paragrapher, and one en- titled "Chrysanthemum," in which he brought forth some decidedly original ideas as to the production of new vari- eties. Both sets of verses were received with laughter and applause. Messrs. W. A. Harktt, Dubuque, la., Harry Balsley, Detroit, our own EJgar Sanders and others made interesting addresses while Messrs. Baldwin and McKellar supplied some excellent vocal music. The show has not had a tendency to in- crease the cut-flower trade, though some of the dealers report business as picking up. The quality of stock is certainly im- proving and some extra fine blooms of carnations and chrysanthemums are to be seen en the market. The former are going ofiF very slowly as they are entirely eclipsed by the latter. Lizzie McGowan and Storm King are superb and are great favorites here. The best whites are sell- ing at 75 cents, pinks and reds at 50 cents, 'mums are bringing $3 and $4. Violets have been very slow here for sev- eral weeks and for a time they could not be disposed of at any price; this week, however, there is a good demand and the best doubles are selling well at 75 cents. Lily of the valley still keeps at $4, but there is not much call fjr it. Smilax, as- paragus and f.-rns are looking a great deal better and promise ready sales. The prices are practically unchanged, and if anything are lower than last week. Pittsburg. Trade has been fair this week. Now that the election is over business is reviv- ing, and the florists all anticipate better times. Chrysanthemums have sold well, with the supply fully equal to the demand and generally of first-class stock; prices remiin unchanged. Carnations and roses were not much called for, although very plentiful; just at present 'mums over- shadow everything else. Messrs. Randolph & McClementsreport business very good with them. They had several decorations at very swell recep- tions; these with their regular store trade this week make them satisfied with the outlook for the season. Messrs. Elliott & Ulam likewise note an improvement in sales this week and are convinced that it will continue. Wm. F. Drewes' many friends will be pleased to learn that he has made ar- rangements to continue business in the same place on Fifth avenue. East End, where he is now conducting it as agent. He feels that as there is likely to be aeon- tinned increase in business he will get a share of it, and hopes to soon be "on his feet" again. J. W. Wyland of Heron Station had the misfortune to have a steam pipe burst on the 6 th inst.in one of his chrysanthemum houses; quite a large lot were destroyed, but f irtunately nothing else was irjured. Mr. Wj land is as successful this year as he was last year with his mums, which are fully pqual to any in the market, his roses being especially fine. Julius W. Ludwig was busy on Mon- day seeing his numerous friends; it was his forty-second birthday celebration. The American, a social club, gave him in honor of the event a big dinner on Sun- day; their rooms and tables were hand- somely decorated with plants and flowers. The chrj'santhemum show is at its height at the Phipps Conservatories in Schealey Park. During this exhibit the houses are lighted bv electric lights and remain open until 10 p. m. to accommo- date those who cannot attend in the day time. During the week and on Sunday it is almost impossible to admit all who visit the place. E. M. Bigelow, director of public works, received word of two out of town excursions coming for Sunday, one as far west as Massillon, Ohio, and the other from Denniston, 0., on the Pan Handle Railroad. Three houses and part of afourthone are devoted to thedisplay; in one the plants are planted in the benches, in the other they are all in pots. In one of these a very fine efiect is pro- duced by using cosmos as a background, next to the glass on the side benches, and as an edging on the circular ends of the middle or center bench, which is on the floor level; as arranged it heightens the beauty of the chrj'santhemnms and has been greatly admired. The blooms in this house are exceeding good and comprise many varieties which present a most beautiful appearance. Mr. Falconer says he never saw a better house of chrysan- themums anywhere. The writer meas- urtd several of them, and they ran from 10 to 111/2 inchesin diameter, the lattermak- ing a circumference of a little more than 36 inches; some of the plants were 9 feet high, with excellent foliage. Varieties attracting greatest admiration and given precedence for excellence were: Whices — Mrs. H. Robinson, G;n. Dodds, Qaeen, Minnie Wanamaker, Mrs. Robt. Craig, Marie Louise, Mutual Friend, Dr. A. Wakely, Beacon and Cecil Ray; the petals of the latter are one inch broad. Yellow — Major Bonnaffon, Minerva, Mrs. Geo. H. Morgan, Philadelphia, G'orgi- enne Bramhall, Golden Gate, Mrs. F. G. Ames and Golden Wedding. Pink — Mrs. W. R. Merrion, Vi viand-Morel, lora, Maud Dean, Angus Perrin, Mermaid, Mrs. Higginbotham and Titian. Purplt — Mrs. Geo. West, Creole and C. B. Whitnall. Red — Mrs. A. J. Drexel, Black Beauty, Sunrise and E. M. Bigelow. Bronze — Magaret Jtffords, John M. Knipa and Harry May. Yellow and bronzt — Mrs. S. A. Hill and Ethel Spring; the latter isa seedling from CuUingfordii and Nemesis, and was named by Mr. Falconer after a daughter of Mr. Joe Spring, foreman of the conservatories. The hairy section was well represented by L. Boehmer, Plumed Knight, Enfant des Deux Mondes, Robt. M. Gray and the old favor- ite, Mrs. Alpheus Hardy. Varieties grown as standards were fully up to the excellence of the others, having from forty to fifty-five blooms on each one. There was also shown a fine collection of the anemone varieties: these not being generally grown, attracted con- siderable attention, Mrs. F. G. Dexter, Red Robin, Garza and Titmouse being among the best of this class. A few of the Artemesias or Pompon variety were in evidence. Next year it is very proba- ble that more attention will be given to these, and a much larger display made of them, for they proved a very pleasing diversion from the large flowered section. Mr. Falconer, superintendent of Schen- ley Park, informed me that the credit f jr this magnificent exhibit is due to Mr. Joe Spring and Mr. John Jones; they had exclusive charge of the 'mums, and cer- tainly they have reason to be proud of the result. The exhibit required the using of about 30,000 plants, and the excel- lence of culture is shown in every way, in freedom from disease, the great number of extra fine blooms and foliage, very strong, large and grown clear down to the ground. Mr. A. W. Smith of Mt. Washington, South Side, had in the window of his Sixth avenue store a display of nineof bi.« own seedling chrysanthemums that were above the ordinary in merit; they are worthy of a more extended account than can be given in this number; however, the names he has given them are to sev- eral of them indicative of theircolor; they are as follows: Gold Standard, Free Sil- ver, Lavendera, Lemoniee, Northern Lights, Mrs. MiKinley.Mrs. W.J.Bryan, Oliver Twist and Peach; the latter isa per- fect bloom, not dark, but peach blossom in color. Regia. Buffalo. It's not often that politics are produc- tive of a call for flowers, but there was an exception to that in this city on Saturday, October 30. There was a "sound money" parade of mammoth proportions, some 35,000 marching eight abreast up our clean-swept asphalt pavement. One of our wide-awake florists advertised "There is no golden rod to be had, gentlemen, you must wear a golden chrysanthe- mum." The gentlemen caught on and from 10 to 1:30 it was a continual shovel out of yellow Queens, Chalfonts and Lagers. The daily papers with their usual (?) correctness said any price was paid, the fact is the price charged was very pop- ular. The florists turned out 75 strong, marshalled by W.S. who broke his North Carolina rabbit's foot canetryingto keep his men in the right step. Tcere were a few absent ones from our ranks. Joe Rebstock and Billy Palmer marched with the bankers, Christenson joined the brew- ers, and Mr. Anderson and Mr. Budden- borg joined the real estate crowd. The florists from the surrounding towns showed up well. There were few floral emblems, but one was worthy of note; at the h%ad of 400 druggists was carried aloft a huge mortar and pestle, and our own Mr. O'Connell carried a standard yellow 'mum whose golden rays blended with the autumn tints of the standard bearers' beard. Our more than beautiful three weeks of Indian summer was broken up ruthlessly on Thursday by a zephyr. It came up from the southwest at a seventy two- mile an hour gait; no particular damage done except a few lights of glass to re- place. The fine weather was a great fac- tor in making flowers very plentiful, roses 350 The American Florist. Nov. /^, of first quality are plentiful, carnations are in abundance and good in quality, violets are more plenty than buyers. That wonderful strong-stemmed, long- lasting, bright rose, Pierpont M )rgan, doesn't seem to take as its quality would warrant; but it will, I am certain, when its manygood pointsare known. Ithink many growers cut it too soon; it should be left till it is well out and will then hold the color much better. Scott and Diybreak easily lead as the two favorite cirnations. Alaska in this locality is proving a fine white, and at present appearances will distance all the other whites. 'Mums have gone rather slow, that is the hest grades, and the price is certaialy 30% less than last year. It looks as if the later ones will pay best. There is no quantitv of any new ones grown here. Mrs. Robinson has proved a grand flower which everybody should grow. Among older varieties that are proving thtir sterling qua'it'es are Miud Dean, Niveu', M j or B iunaff jn, D >mina- tion, and who will ever have the luck to raise a betterchrysanthemurathanlvorj! There are only a few Mrs. Perrin grown here, but there will be moi-e; it is a h\t departure from any previ >us pink and comes near bein? pink. Dailledouze we will have to give up. It is too weak necked; if it only had the stoutness of the gentleman it was named for it would be grand. A few of the craft here start for the S uth on Monday aceomraaied by fowl- ing pieces. They don't intend to join Grover oa the Potomt c, oh no, they are not afcer canvasbacV, they will be sat- isfied to bag the m. jority of the prizes offired bv those hospitable men, the Phila- delphia Florist Club. Tne contemplated sale by Mr. Long of his commission flower business came to a 8 tisfactory conclusion and Mr. Wm. Kasiing is now proprietor at Mr. Ling's old stand. Mr. K tsting is energetic, has a thorough knowledge of the business and no doubt will prosper. Mr. Long retairs all oiher branches of the business, florists' supplies, plant jobbing, etc. W. S. San Francisco. It may be safely said now that the great annual rush of chrvsanthemums is over for the season. Token as a whole 'mums have betn much cheaper this sea- son than ever before. This may be acciunted fir by the hard times and the increased acreage. However one thing was thoroughly demonstrated to the growers and that is that herenlter more attention mint be paid to the growing of 'mums under glass and li-ss to outside 'mums. Good stock grown in greenhouses always found a ready market during this season and those who were fortunate enough to have manv planted besides reaped a harvest. Wideners and Lin- colns are now the chief outside yellows while D lilledouzp still holds the lead on all inside stuff. Very few B innafi"ons are now to be seen. Q leens are about over, also Niveus. In pink the "Sunset Pink" is about the leading variety. Few good whites are to be h id, although there is an abundance of cheap whites fir funeral work, etc. Even to the present date we have had no trosts to damage the outside crop. This 19 somfthing unusual as seldom, if ever does t he frosts hold bick to such a late date. One thing is apparent that when it does make its appearance most of the outside blooms will be cut and the damage will accordingly be yery small. Roses of all kinds have made wonder- ful improvements lately in color and size. This is especially true of Testout which is simply grand at present, and I may also add that there is no more popular rose in our market than this variety. Bridesand Bridesmaids have improved wonderfully also Perles, but as a rule very low prices are prevailing. Beauties are scarce. Violets are also scarce on account of the warm sunny days. California's are in great demand as is the new Golden Gate. Carnations are coming in more freely of late, especially Portias. Plant sales are reported rather slow among the retailers. Tuberoses are about gone with but very little demand. Plenty of coreopsis are to be seen everywhere. Smilax goes slow at $5 per 100. At this season of the year Cloverdale is a veritable chrysanthemum garden. Hun- dreds assembled in Library Hall last week to witntss the fourth annual exhibition of chrysanthemums. As Cloverdale has derived considerable prominence from her citrus fairs so have her annual chrysan- themum shows proved agreat attraction in northern S jnoma. There were six competitors for the best collection. The most artistic display was made by J. F. Hoadley and Miss Grace Cook. Miss Armstrong received first for the best single bloom. The Ball was prettily decorated and the show proved a financial success. The chrysanthemum show in Redwood City which closed last week proved to be the most successful in the history of the society. Mr. Lynch of Menlo Park received the first premium for the largest and best collection. He also won first for the best single bloom with a magnificent fl iwer of Mrs. Henry Robinson. Miss MtClellan of Liurel Creek won sec ind prize, also first for the best twelve blooms and the most artistic display. Tnos. Mclntyre of Menlo Park received first in the amateur class for the best collection of 'mums. He also received first for the best twelve in the amateur class. Mrs. Geo. Josslyn received second in the ama- teur diss. Special mention was awarded E D. Jones, Esq. of Woodside and Lee Ross of B-lm int. As there is to be no show in S in Francisco this season this venture was watched withmuch interest. However it did not prove much of a finan- cial success, to the disappointment of all concerned. Mr. Waldo Rohnert manager of the fl )wer seed department of C. C. Morse & Co. is spending several days in this city. Mr. F. G Krauss has returned from his vac ttiun and is again installed at Menlo Park. On November 12, Auburn will have a chr3santhemum show lasting lor three days. This is Auburn's first attempt in this line and already great interest is manife ted and its success seems assured. They have decided to follow in the path of the spring shows or "Carnivals" and have elected Miss Lilv Davis to preside as qiieen during the exhibition. O *ing to some misunderstanding the California State Floral Society have at last decided not to hold any chrysanthe- mum show this fall. This is to be much regretted as many of the leading growers are constantly producing new things in this line and tli»y always wish to show them in this city. As the case stands there are probably many valuable aquisi- tions in the chrysanthemum line which our florists will not have i he opportunity to see or to judge of their merits for our cut fl jwer market. Among our seed growers nearly every- thing has gone forward by this time. Although as yet in some sections the harvest is not all over. For instance, quite a lot of carrot and leek are yet to be warehoused. In flower seeds nastur- tiums, morning glories and verbenas are yet out. Aster seed is nearly all cleaned. Most of the growers are receiving their consignments of onions for next season's planting. There will be no shortage of carrot this season, as a good crop has been harvested . S j me gro wers are entirely sold out of sweet peas. Chas. Navlet of San Jose was a recent visitor. Mr. Lester L. Morse of C. C. Morse & Co., spent several days in Gilroy and Watsonville last week. He reports crops as being nearly all harvested in that sec- tion and expects to begin soon for next season's plantings. Meteor. Newport, R. I. For two months the be Is and borders have been gay with the chrysanthemum Yellow Fleece, Newport's favorite hardy variety. Nothing makes so brilliant and pleasing an effect at this season of the year. The fall has been very mild and in the protected corners of the lawns on Bellevue avenue may be seen stray clumps of salvias and geraniums still bright with with scarlet bloom. Inside the greenhouses, however, is where one would look now for beauty of foliage and flower and in Newport he will not have to hunt long for there aie scores of conservatories and ranges of greenhouses presided over by experts, where everything choice or new may be seen under most favorable surroundings. At Mr. J. E'lis' place on the corner of Bellevue and Ruggles avenues we find Alex. MacLellan, the popular secretary of the Newport Horticultural Society, who, it is asserted, actually h ilds the society together by a rare combination of force and diplomacy exercised at the proper time. He is a fern grower par excellence . and the cream of the lot is Lowiaua Blechnoides, of which he has some grand specimens. Here are seen also at the present time many fine chrys- anthemums. Two of them are seedlings raised by Newport's own Dick Gardiner, an incurved silver and pink named Countess de S?rs, and a creamy white with lemon center which has been called Gladys Vanderbilt. The latter is a splendid full flower with long narrow petals recurving until it forms an enormous globe and is one of the most popular varieties with the local growers. Minerva is regarded by Mrs. MacLellan as the best yellow for Newport, and May- flower is unequalled as a pure white. Viscountess Hambleden, an incurved Japanese, light garnet in color, is one of the best of its class. Mr. MacLellan has a box of interesting seedlings from Puritan and I'Enfant de Deux Mondes which show a surprising variety of colors and twists. At Mr. VV. S. Welles' Andrew Meikle presides. Here are some superb ferns, especially Adiantum Farleyense. A back wall in the palm house has been covered with moss and planted with selaginellas and ferns among which none do better than the Farleyense and over (he door a big specimen of the Stag's Horn fern makes an appropriate center piece. Mr. Meikle has transformed a grape house by running a g'ass partition lengthwise, the cold side being filled with chrysanthe- mums and the other with gardenias which are now an indispensable part of the outfit of all well-conducted Newport hothouses. i8g6. The American Florist. 351 But when it comes to noveUies, Robt. Lawrie at Mr. Cornelius V inderbilt's establishment holds and intends to hold the record. He can detect a novelty by intuition, and with him anticipation is an all powerful stimulant. A most inter- esting and attractive spot is a house devoted to streptccarpuses and Begonia socotrana finished oft" with a front row of Saintpaulia ioanth a covered with its pretty blue flowers. Chrysanthemum Glady's Vanderbilt is seen here as else- where in grand form. SITUATIONS, WANTS. FOR SALE. AdvertlBementfl under this head will be Inserted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant adTS. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTED— Byaflrst-class florist. Ger man, In private or eommprclal pl«ce; best of ret* erences. George Kranz. *>47 orchard St., Chicago. SITUATION WANTED -First-class German florist; age -JO: long experience- Pilvate place preferred. Three years with last employe'" References Address (.'HAS VuUBECK 150 Uerndon St.. ChicaKo SITUATION WANTBI>-By single youHR man. T^ vears of age. as af^slstant florist and gardener 7 years' experience; sober, reliable and Industrious. Best of references. F P, care American Florist SITUATION WANTED -In the south. Florida preferred, as gardener or manager on oranye grove or hotel grounds: 20 years' refe ences; will leave present situation In January. Address Florida, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-By thorough, practical gar- dener with 20 years' experience: married; age :i.'i. First-class references. Fruit. pl»nt and vegetable growing; also care ol lawns and shrubbery. For par- ticulars address Box '.ti. Marlon. Mass. SITUATION WANTED— By florist who has worked under some of the best rose growers and propagat- ors In America: wed up In all greenhouse work, pn vate or commerilal; good references: give full par- ticulars. Address K S. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-By practical gardener, ex- perienced on all the requisites of commercial places, roses, cut flowers general propagation. Inside, outside. Items of the nurseries, etc.; best references. For particulars ad's Practical, care Am. Florist. SITUATION WANTED-By young experienced flo- rist, capable of waiting on c stomers. or take charge of small place, or second In lar*:e place; sober, reliable. Best references. Expe'lenced In store and general greenhouse stock. PuiMrLA.care Am. Florlct. SITUATION WANTED-By a practical working fore- man. ()n commercial place; nns a thorough knowl- edge of the trade. Koses "mums, palms and bulbs a specialty. Chicago or westof it pref>-rred. Kefernnces mu-»t be exchan«ed. Give lull particulars with wages paid, when writing. Chicago, care Am. Florist. WANTKD^A practical florist with little nionev can hear of a flrst-class chance to establish himself. Address DUB. care American Florist. WANTED— An all-round florist one who can grow roses, carnations and violets for cut flower trade: state wages and give reference; 1 have about 5.000 squnre feet of glass E. Power tYankfort. Ky. WANTED— To rent a small commercial place with greenhouses In good ordpr. with some land at- tached; must be near some thriving town: would pur- chase after a year s trial: give full particulars In writ- ing. J NO. 8. Watts, lock box ;« Sandusky, uhlo. IpOR SAi E CUEAP-Commerclal greenhouse and small dwelhng with two acres of land. Address C. W Notes Prophetstown. III. FOR SALE— A tubular boiler In best of condition, with cnnne<-tlon pipes; cosfJ.'JOO. forSoOnetf. o. b. Will heat 1.jOO feet of 4-lnch pipes. Address A. A. Neuneh. ir,4 Fourth Ave.. L- ulsvllle. Ky. FOR SALE-Three greenhouses. 2 OUO feet of glass, well stocked, heated by furnace, located In city of 4.000; no other florist within '2.1 miles If t -ken at once all goes for *lo0. Florist Tuscola. 111. FOR SALE— A retail store In city, stocked with fre.«*h and artificial flowers; good location established H years; we are going out of business and will make reasonable teims. Address L. care Am. FIorl>t FOH SALE— Five greenhouses a')xl25 In tlrst-class repair, hot water new windmill, *;0-barrel tank. .V room c ttage. barn. 2"^. acres land sheltered bv tluiber. 40 minutes ride fri m city: greenhouses stocked with nluM thousand carnations of th verv best market vari- eties and In flnest possible health (cuttlnKfluwers from most varieties nowi; r-UO smilax Terms reasonable to responsible parties. Address K. care Am. Florist. ^^^^^^^i^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^B F^CDF=e Dwelling, greenhouses and stock. Price *;i.2O0. two- thirds down, balance easy. A rare chance for anyone who wants to bul d up a large business. Am no florist, yet have bultt up this bus ness and made It pay In two of the dulleat years we have had. Address LESTER PARK GREENHOUSES. Duluth, Minn. ThlN nd. appears but once. The Grower's Box for Cut Flowers. The grower who carries his floweri to market should not be a day without our "Grower's Box." This box has now been two years on the market, and grows more popular every day. Extra strong for its weight braced with cleats outside and inside; has strong brass corners; is the right size and shape for a commercial box; heavily shellaced and absorbs no moisture No. 1, size 36 X 12x6 inches, in sets of 3, per set, |2 70; No. 2, size 30 x 12x6 inches, in sets of 3, $2 55 per set. ClKriFERTIUZEM. Bird Sebds. LARGE PA LMS FOR DE GORflTION WE HAVE A LARGE AND FINE STOCK, IN PERFECT CONDITION, WHICH WE OFFER AT THE FOLLOWING CUT RATES: ARECA LUTESCENS. i:ach 7-in. pols, 3B-40 in. tiij;li, S plants in a pol . ..$ 3.00 8-iu. pots, 40-45 in. hitjh. 3 plants in a pot 2.50 8-in. pots. 45-50 in. higli, 3 plants in a pot — 3.00 KENTIA BELMOREANA. 7-in. pots, 2S-3C in. lii^'li, 8-in. pots, 48-53 in. hiiili. 10-in. pots, Ji2-56 in. liis-'Ii 1)7 I'v's.busliV plLs. ;i.,iO 6-7 Ivs. Ijii.sli\ Jjlts. 7..50 7-8 rvs. bushy pits. 12.00 KENTIA FORSTERIANA. Kad. 8-in. i>ots, 50-56 in. liiKlj,6-7 i'v's, single stem $6,00 10-in, pots, 60-72 in lii(!li, 6-7 Iv's, sinsjlesteni 10.00 10-in. pots, 50-56 in. liigl). 4 pits, in a pot, bushy 7,50 LATANIA BORBONICA. 7-in. pols. 80-36 in, lii^l], 7 r\'>,i'Xlra stron};. 2„50 Sin. pots. 36-40 ill. hii;li. " ^ 4.0(1 .^i-iuch pots, strong 75 ft.(K) fi-iiH'li pots, extra strong 1.50 15.00 T-iii'-li pots.extr:) strong ^ZM) ','5. 0(1 FORCING LILAC CHARLES A. We also have a fine lot of this useful forcing variety, in extra strong plants averaging 20 to 25 flower buds each, at $30 per 100. A DISCOUNT OF 12 1-2 PER GENT. ALLOWED FROM ABOVE PRICES IF CASH ACCOMPANIES ORDER. PITCHER <&, MANDA, JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. THE NEW DIRECTORY IS NOW READY. The only reference list of cannas is to be found in our new directory and refer- ence book. The list is arranged alphabeti- cally and gives name, date of introduction name of introducer and a brief descrip- tion. 352 The American Florist. Nov. 14^ St. Louis. Basiness is fair with occasional spurts. The last few days have been cold and bracing, the stock generally is showing up better but the prices are away down, great quantities of roses and carnations are coming in and are selling for almost nothing. You can buy carnations in 1,000 lots at $5. and roses are not bring- ing much more. The finest stock in roses can be bought at from $1.50 to $3 per 100. Chrysanthemums are in full force now and crowding the others from the field to some extent; the best cut chrys- anthemums are sold at $1 to $2 per dozen. Violets are more plentiful and much better in quality, singles sell at 15 cents per 100 a ,d doubles go at 75 cents per 100. but the demand is not so good. The Florists' Club held a special meet- ing Thursday afternoon, and it was well attended; the meeting was called only to talk chrysanthemum show, the executive committee was on hand and reported everything in readiness and that present indications are for a successful show. The program of premiums made its ap- pearance at this meeting and copies have been mailed to all florists, by the time this issue is out, the show will be at its full heighth, for it does not open until Novem- ber 11. A full report will appear in the next issue of the American Florist. C. Young & Sons Co. held a tree chrys- anthemum show at their greenhouses last week, the magnificent display of chrysanthemums at this establishment attracted an immense crowd all the week. The exhibition was complete and artistic in every detail, the 'mums which were naturally the chief feature of the exhibition were unus- ually fine and included the choicest as well as the most popular varieties. The other flowers, orchids, roses, ferns and palms also attracted a great deal of at- tention. Free exhibition as a rule always draws well and it also advertised our big show to some extent and acted as a kind of advance guard. The horse show last week was also a good thing for the flor- ists; the decorations were elaborate and flowers of all kinds were used by all the ladies who attended. Chas. G. Fleckinstein moved to his new quarters last week; the store was especi- ally built for him and this will give him more room. It has been rumored that he will put in a stock of florists' supplies, heretofore he has sold cut flowers exclus- ively. The bowlers were at it again Monday, some good scores were made, Beneke being high man, in three grames rolling 561; C. Beyer second, with 500; highest single score was also made by Beneke 213, and C. Beyer second, 185. Next Monday night a meeting of the club will be held and all members are requested to be pres- ent without fail. Visitors in town last week were Mr. W. A. Chalfant of Springfleld, Mo., and Mr. Smith, representing W. W. Barnard & Co., Chicago. J- J- B. The Morris Floral Co., Morris, III., send us a lot of carnation blooms in which is included blooms of K jbin Hood. They are very much taken with this var - ety. Their 200 plants gave them 44 blooms to the plant last winter, and the whole cut sold readily at $1 a dozen. The color is certainly excellent, and the flower of good size. Michigan City, Ind.— H. F. Dew has opened a cut flower store in this place which will be well fitted for retail work. A. H. Dew will continue the business at Albion, Mich. THE LEADING FLORISTS SUPPLY HOUSE in AMERICA is Bayersdorfer, PHILADELPHIA. The Largest Manufacturer of WHEAT SHEAVES in the country. The dealer who has first choice as the largest importer of Cape Flowers and Immortelles is BAYERSDORFER. You will find the most complete stock, the freshest novelties, the goods that sell at sight, the most original and artistic arrangements in Metal and Porcelain Flowers, an unequaled line of Fern Dishes, Baskets, Immortelles Letters, and all fancy stock, at BAYERSDORFER'S. The house that will not be undersold on straight goods to straight customers; that issues the Catalogue which every florist should have always on his desk is BAYERSDORFER'S, Wholesale Dealer, Manufacturer and Importer of all FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 56 N. Fourth Street, PHILADELPHIA. Send for Catalogue for list of HOLIDAY GOODS, weeks till llie Holidays. Only six CARNATIONS. strong and Healthy Field-Grown Plants. l.dOO Wm. Scott, 1 200 L. McGowan, i - At $4.00 per 100 These have been dug up aud healed in, were never frosted and ready to make immediate re- turns. W. P. BRINTON, CHRISTIANA. PA. MUMS. A Leading Dozen for Market: KoliliiHon. Ivory, (.'ueeii, Watiuinnker, Latrer, Chul- lant. Lincoln. Phtliidelphla. Mrw. I Mil, Nemesis. Morel. C'hllds. Stdctt plants, $1.1KI per duzen; *o.Ullper UKI. JOSEPH E. BONSALL, Salem, O. CYCLAMEN SEED. CICANTEUM MACNIFICUM. A inHKnltlcent i-iitleclltm (il tho rtiie-l Klant tlouerluK varlPtleH; Inr^iest lli.wers anil tient colors. Per trade pkl. 'J.". CIS : :l pktH uictM ; 1, pktH *1.(lll. JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. Palm, Rose, Carnation & 'Mum PLANTS. High. Dozen Areca lulesoens. ;>-lnch, ;t plants to pot. 10-luch — $;i.(Xl 1-Inch, " " 13-Inch.... 4 00 ;Vlnch, " ■■ 2-,'lnoh ... '.I.IIU -.-Inch, ■• " 2j^to:(fl..;«(» Lilt. Borbonlca, 4-lnch pot plants 10-lnch.. T &8rv8.1.'V-lnch.. s JicHl'TS.'.'-Mnch.. 30 Inch.. :ill-lncli.. 13 Inch.. 34 to u ft. Kentia Forster. . .'l.OU .ll.OU .20.«l .lO.tXI .l.VOtl .10.011 .13.1NI r--lnch 7-lnch rinch il-lneh i'andanus utUlH. r.-Incli FlcUB elastlcn, il-luch Bride and Perle Hoses. ;i-ln. put plant.s. $j per 100. Carnations, t;-lnch pot plants, strong il.UO fhrysanthemunis. il-ln. pot KTOwn plants. yj.JOlo 4 00 J. W. COLFLESH. 53rd & Woodland Ave., PHILADELPHIA . You will benetit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these column? i8g6. The Americas' Florist. zm I hereby extend a cordial invitation to all my friends and rose lovers in general to come and see my NEW ROSE— - Souv.du PresidentCarnot THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON. Won the Highest Honors wherever Shown. American Institute, Diploma at Madison Square Garden, New York, Oct. 24, '96. Certificate of Merit, New York Florists' Club, Oct. 24, 1896. Orange, Certificate of Merit. Poughkeepsie, Certificate of Merit. Philadelphia, Silver Medal. The strongest imaginable grower, blooms can be cut with three-foot stems if desired. Blooms mostly produced singly on stiff stems with large beautiful dark green foliage. An Ai forcer as well as bedder and good for all purposes, blooming abundantly, both in and out-doors. No florist can afford to be without it. Read the opinions of some of the most critical buyers in the New York market and elsewhere regarding it. CHAS. A. DARDS, FLORIST. N. K. cor. Madison Av. 4-lth and St. , NEW YORK. New York, Nov. 4, 1S96. MR. E. ASMUS, Dear Sir: — The Souvenir du President Carnot you were good enough to send me on the 2d inst. I have kept on the open counter every day putting them in the ice bo.x at night, and this evening five of the flowers are still unopened, the others are grand open tlowers and none of them have shattered and the stem just below the base of the flower is still stiff The color is pleasing and being distinct from anything on the market at pres- ent makes it a very desirable commercial rose. Yours very truly, (Signed) CHAS. A. DARDS. FLEISCHMAN, HOFFMAN HOUSE FLOKIST. Cor. 25th St. and Broadway, M.iDisoN sauARE. New York, Nov. 6, 1896. MR. ERNST ASMUS, Dear Sir:— Tirsi allow me to thank you for your kind gift of roses, the President Carnot. In regard to the keeping qualities and beauty I am pleased to say it is without a doubt, the best keeping flower 1 know of, and must surely do you credit in growing such high-class stock. I find a great many in- quiries as to the quality of the tlowers ana I am quice sure it will be a good seller. Hoping you will make a success of your new venture, I remain. Yours very truly, J. FLEISCHMAN. "THE ROSARY" FLOWER CO. 275 Fifth Av., AND WESTBURY, L. I. NEW YORK, Nov. 4, '96. E. ASMUS, Esq , Dear Sir:—\ want to thank you for the sam- ples of your President Carnot roses which you sent me. 1 think them very handsome and have already sent some to a large buyer of roses who admired them very much. Yours very truly, (Signed) R. L. COFTENET. F. WARENDORFF, lis East 14th St., New York, Nov. 5, 1896. E. ASMUS, Esq , West Hoboken, Dear Sir: — I thank you very much for the beautiful box of your new roses you sent me. There is little doubt of their being just as great a success as your Mme. Testout. As to their keeping quilities, why they look just as good to-day as they did when we received them last Mon- day. We were only able to retain a few as all of our customers who were fortunate enough to see them insisted upon taking one. With best wishes for a success, I remain Very truly yours, (Signed) MRS. F. WARENDORFF. N. PATTERSON, FINE FLOWERS. 511 Market St., cor. Liberty Ave., PITTSBURG, PA., Nov. 9, 1896. MR. E. ASMUS, West Hoboken, N. J., Dear Sir:— Your new rose "President Carnot" is a charmmg addition to the rose list and seems to possess all the points that go to make up a commercial success, as well as having artistic habits that few roses possess. Enclosed find a clipping from our society paper, Mr. Black, the proprietor, happened in the second day after the "President" arrived and he admired it very much, and 1 told him it was the rose's first appearance in Pittsburg and showed him your little note that came with it — you see the result — a boost we are not en- titled to. Yours truly, (signed) N. PATTERSON. CLII'PING FROM THE PITTSBURG BULLETIN. J. W. BLACK, Prop. A Superb New Rose.— Patterson Bros , the llorists ot Market street, introduced on November 5, to tlower lovers hereabouts a superb new rose, the "President Carnot." This regal flower is very large of a delicate pink hue, waxy petals and posessing a sweet subtle fragrance. It is altogether a magnificent addition to the list of those queenly flowers and must have instant and pro- nounced success in this community of rose lovers. The firm re- ferred to deserve credit for introducing the "President Carnot." Orders booked for plants now, propagated from the finest and healthiest stock in the country, not weakened by over-propagation. Be sure to come and see it before ordering elsewhere. Strong, healthy plants from 2-inch pots, $15 per 100, $125 per 1,000, 500 at 1,000 rates; ready after Jan. i, 1897. "Vot;»rs Trvxl^", x^v-E^so^ h[o:bok:e>iv, iv. j. 354 The American Florist. Mc 'ov. 14, Copyright 1896, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 333 Dearborn Street, €hicag:o. Subscription, $1.00 a year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANT. 33'J Dearborn Street, <:llIUA. Eastern Office : 67 Broinfleld St., Boston. ThlB paper Is a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. WM Scott, Buflalo. president: Adam Graham. Cleveland, o , vice-president; W.J Stewakt. Bos- ton, secretary; H. B, Beatty, Oil City, Pa , treasurer. Officers for1SV»7.— Ada^i Graham, cievp'anrt.o.. president; I'arquhah Macrae. Providence. K. I., vice-president. Secieta' y and treasurer as before. The thirteenth annual meeting will be held at Prov- idence, K. 1., AuKUSt. 18W. CONTENTS. Chrysanthemums— New varieties 331 —Experience with seedlings 3« — Ivoire Rose ( Alili FI.OBISTS' SUPPMES KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. Wliol6sal6 Gut Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIRE WORK A SPECIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St, CHICAGO. If you want FlrBt-CIasa Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you will net what you want. GUT FLOWERS We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. W RITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS in 88 Wabash Avenue, - CHICA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all orders on short notice with all leading varieties of Roses and Carnations. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give us a trial and cunvlnce vuurself Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave.. CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, isr"*^ CUT FLOWERS. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, Fine Stock a Specialty. CUIC-A.OO. ROGERS FftRK FLORftL 60., Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. M CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, Wltioiesaie Fiorisi 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Ajrent for tinest to'ades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©yv'Rofeifcafe MarftefA. Cut Flowers. New York. Nov. ll. Roses. Beauty, extra lO.OOSM.OO " " common 'i.OO® 5.00 Meteor. Testout 1.00« S.OO all other varieties oO@ S.OO t'arnatlons 50a .75 extra 75® l.UU V;illey 2.00!nonette 2 006' 4.00 Cattlevas 25.00®35.00 Adlantum .50 Smilax 8.00O10.0IJ ABparaimis 50.00 Boston, Nov. 11. Roses, Qontler, Nlphetos 508 1.00 Perle. Mermet 1.009 2 00 Bride, Bridesmaid, Meteor '.i.OOS S 00 Beauty 5.00a2a.(,10 Carnations 75^100 fancy 1 OOa 1 aO Vlulets 60® .75 Valley 2.00® 3 00 Clirysanthemums 2.00® 6.00 fancy 8.C0O12.00 Adlantum 76® I.OO Bmllax 10.00®12.00 AsparaRUB 50.00 Philadelphia. Nov. 12. Roses. Beauties 6.0O912.O0 Bride. Bridesmaid. La Fiance, etc. . . 3.00® 4.00 ■■ Kalserin 3.00® 4.00 •• small teas 2.00® 4 00 e.vtraleas •'.00 Carnations 1-00 Clirvsanthemus 3.00 Cosruos 50(« .75 Valley 3.00® 4 00 Violets, double 75!S1 .00 Smilax 1!. 00*15 00 Asparagus 35.00(950.00 Adlantum 100 Chicago, Nov. 13. Roses. Beauties 0.00820.00 seconds 5.00 Brides. Bridesmaid 1.00(3 3,00 ■■ Meteors l.OOfS. 3 00 Perle. Wootton 1.00® 2.00 •• Testout 3.00® 5.00 Kalserin 3.00® 5.00 Carnations 76® 1.00 extra select 2.00 violets, double .75 Chrysanthemums, select, perdoz. 1.00@1.50 southern grown 2.00® 6.00 Valley 4.00 Smilax 10.00813 00 Adlantum 100 ST. Lotns. Nov. 12. Roses, Beauties, long 12.00®25 00 short 6.00® B.OO " select stock 3.00(a 4.00 Keneralstock 1.50® 2.00 Carnations 1.00® 1.50 common 1-00 Violets single .15 double .75 Chrysanthemums home grown I.OO® 200 southern grown 2.00® 4.00 Valley 4.00 Asparagus 35 00® 50 0(1 Smilax.. 10.00®15.00 Kerns. Adlantum 1-00 GEORGE A. SUTHERLAND, Gut Flowersi Florists' Supplies WHOLESALE. 67 Bromfield St., BOSTON, MASS. .\,-i,Eiighi„dAgeiilforllie GREA TA.XTrPEST. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, METS, "^^'^^ -^ FLORISTS' BRIDES, ^^ ^0>r~N VASES. GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON. MASS. BORTICULTDRAL AUCTIONEERS. WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET. NearTremont St., BOSTON, MASS. John 1. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, -NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Garnations%Glirysantliemums CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. 43 W. 28th St., NEW YORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN, WHOLESALE 39 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street. MEW YORK. WHOLESALE » FLORIST. Careful Shipping to all parts of the coimtryi Prfce TlBt on application. Furdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS. 57 W. 30IK St., NEW YORK. Prepare for Fall Trade. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market. Address JOHN YOUNG, 51 W. ZBth Street. NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG3 CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange, NEW YORK. JULIUS LANG, Gmissira°'f'CBtFliwers, WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, coRHER 30th St.. new YORK. Coiisigiiiuents Solicited. 356 The American Florist. Nov. 14^ Iffts ^saS. @ra(^a. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. WOOD, Pres.; Alex. Kodqkrs and J. B. KIce. Vice-Presidents; A. L. Don, 114 Cbambere Street. New Vork, Sec'T and Treas. S. F. Leonard is in New York. Visiting Chicago: J. Ullathorne, C. H. Breck. It is a general complaint among the commission box trade that returns are much short of former years. The ques- tion, what became of the usual volume of seed orders in the spring of 1896 remains an open one. Catalogues Received. Glenn St. Mary Nursery Co., Glen St. Mary, Fla., fruit trees and ornamental nursery stock for Texas, Florida and Lower South, illustrated; Frederick Roeh- mer, Quedlinburg, Germany, list of nov- elties in flower seeds for 1897; A.Cauchois, Orleans, France, new roses; Ellis & Poll- worth, Milwaukee, Wis., price list of plants, cut flowers, supplies, etc., illus- trated ; Ri voire Pere et Fils, Lyons, France; catalogues of novelties; Cushman Gladio- lus Co., Euclid, 0., treatment of gladioli under glass, with photo engraving of Gladiolus May; Sweet Pea Review, Sun- set Seed and Plant Co., San Francisco, Cal., Culture Des Orchidees, Paris, France, new orchids; Probst Bros'. Floral Co., Kansas City, Mo., miscellaneous plants and bulbs. Clinton, Iowa. — Mrs. John A. Barker, wife of Jno. Barker, florist, died of pneu- monia on the 4th inst. WiLLiAMSPORT, Pa. — Evcnden Bros, have recently finished a fine and substan- tial carnationhousel70x50. It is strictly up to date in ventilation and heating facilities. The same firm have also built a show house 22x100 feet, which is well filled with good stocky chrysanthemums. OSCAR KNOPFF&CO. SEEO GROWERS, Sole Agent for the United States and Canada: M. RUTTENAU. 15 to 25 Whitehall St.. New York. Trade Catalotfues and estimates cheerfully furnished. Orders promptly filled direct from nurseries at Erfurt Mention American Florist ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ t t ♦ ♦ ►♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ : : I ♦ ♦ SURE CROP" '^"uLIU^?"HA^R'msi^ * special prices ■■'dutch BUlIs." < on application ••FI.OKIi^TS" FLOWKR SEEDS. WEEBER & DON, lll'of.TJt."'' 114 Chambers St., NEW YORK FAXON'S ITo^Jsl.. PANSIES. The best mixture in cultivation, flowers vtiy large, thick and velvely; of superb colors and markings. The perfettinn of f'orm and texture. In Trade Packets at $1,00 each. M. B. FAXON, Lock Box 1528, Boston, Mass. Cirri'spondence eohciti'd. Lily of the Valley Pips. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. SOLE AGENT FOR F. C. POMRENCKE, HamburK. M ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI, You can not afford to omit offering this desirable new species in your next catalogue, it being a plant that is certain to be in good demand by the retail buyer. We have prepared a large stock of it, and are therefore enabled to offer it at a low price. Per too Per 1000 STRONG, 2-IN, POTS, $10 00 $80.00 STRONG, 3-IN. POTS, 15.00 UO.OO HENRYA.DREER, 714 Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. ^Outlook Encouraging and prices were never lower on the following; 100 1.000 SPIREA JAPONIGA - $3.50 $30.00 LILY OF VALLEY °^*^*"-' Cases 2,500 21.00 BOUQUET GREEN ^nffs^''^'^ 2.00 TOBACCO STEMS,'S $1.25 Ts 5.00 White Roman Hyacinths'ir2. 25 20.00 W. ELLIOTT & SONS, NEW YORK. BALTIMORE A new Pink Carnation, color ot Craig, large, high build, fragrant, stiff stem, good keeper. Al. Ready March 15, 1«97. Rooted cuttings, ;^10 per 100. CONRAD HESS, 329 Friendship Ave., Baltimore, Md. BULBS for FORCING and Gardening, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD TIMES PRICES. HULSEBQSCH BROS.. Englewood. N. J. C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stocks. Catalogues on application. I'lease mention Anioiican Florist. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri< CAN Ft,ORIST. CARNATIONS After the early olirysaiitheiminis are thrown out, many florists plant carnations We have a few thousand good plants heeled in, in the cold house, suitable for this purpose. McGOWAN. PURITAN. PORTIA, GARFIELD. MME. ALBERTINI, ADA BYRON, SILVER SPRAY, NICHOLSON, GRACE WILDER, B. OF ERLESCOURT, HINZES WHITE, Buttercup, 2ik1 quality STUART, Helen Keller. " ROSELIND, Uncle John, $4.00 per (00. J. L. DILLON. Hloomsburj.. Pa. CARNATIONS. F. Dorner & Sons Co. LA FAYETTE. IND. i8g6. The American Florist. 357 i^^e:w^ PRESIDENT CARNOT. Our stock of this superb forcing Rose is in the finest possible condition. Ready for dehvery Feb. i, 1896. Strong plants from two and one-half inch pots. PRICES: $3.00 per Dozen, $15.00 per 100, $125.00 per 1000 500 AT THOUSAND RATES. CDL-JF=e ^t"czdc:;]k: cdf^ PALMS, FICUS, ARAUCARIAS, Etc. FINE STOCK. PRICES LOW. CROTONS, THE FINEST COLLECTION IN AMERICA. 49th and Market Streets. PHILADKLPHIA. 10.000 CARNATIONS bine, healthy. __ tield-grown. '■^*-^iMWMM^ CHEAP for CASH. ll«l. according to size; WM. SCOTT, ROSE (.lUKEN, ELUOKADO. PORTIA, MRS. FISHER, LIZZIE GILBERT. GOOD PLANTS. FREE FROM DISEASE. I study to please every patron, and pack every order myself— IN LIGHT BOXES. I guarantee en- tire satisfaction, and big value lor the money. CHAS. T. SIEBERT, Station B, PITTSBURC, PA. Mention American Florist. PUTIN CARNATIONS after CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott, Ivory. Silver Spray, Rose Queen, and Garfield, from cold frames, at $8.00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. CARNATIONS. •2000 SCOTTS, Immense size, at a bargain. A tew TIUALS letl. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. stock plants of M.MB. BBItCMANN, YELLOW (.HIEBN. MUTUAL FRLENU. PKES. W. R. SMITH, .1. H. TROY. THE QUEEN, and lOO other leading vailetles, Idcis. each. CRABB &. HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich . CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, kock Box M, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ I Herr's | i Carnations: ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ LASCASTER, PA. Fellow Florists:^ With facilities to grow and the stock to produce over a million Rooted Cuttings of Carnations, I am in a position to fill your orders and give a written guarantee that the cuttings will be satisfactory or money refunded. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I Geraniums I land Pansies* ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦J -W>''. One of the oldest established commission houses in New York. BEAUTIES AND VIOLETS. All other Flowers in market in abundance. Careful Packing and Shipping a Specialty. CONSIGNMENTS OF BEAUTIES AND VIOLETS SOLICITED. 34 Wcst 29th St., NEW YORK. 360 The American Florist. Nov. 14, Trenton, N. J. At Mr. Roebling's place a fine rockery has just been completed. It is 40 feet by 65 leet in area and is covered by a glass dome 36 feet in height. Mr. Clinkaberry has planted it with great taste, and ^Yhen the plants have had a few months' growth in their new home it will be a lovely spot. One plant, Aglaonema costata, a low growing richly variegated white and green foliaged plant, is ad- mired by all who see it, and Phoenix Roebliana is one of the most distinct and graceful palms in the collection. The orchid collection here is rapidly increas- ing. It already contains the finest group of white cattleyas in this country, there being no less than thirteen white varie- ties of thirteen distinct species. At present the display of Cattleya labiata and Dendrobiumphaljenopsisin bloom is very rich. There is a grand specimen of Seleni- pedium Sanderiana now bearing eleven full blown flowers. Mr. Clinkaberry has seedling cattleyas by the hundreds, and as they are from crosses of the rarest and finest species he looks forward to future developments with great expectations. Ribsam's nurseries are the largest in the state. A visit to them is a treat, par- ticularly if under the escort of their genial, hospitable senior proprietor, Mr. C. Ribsam. There are seventy acres planted with nursery stock, a field of fifty thous- and Norway spruce, ofeven growth about two and a half feet high, being one of the features. There are also Norway maples, California privet and conifers in great variety by the hundred thousand. In another location is a range of eight large rose houses where Perle and Niphetos are seen at their best, the soil seeming to be especially suited to these varieties. Mr. Ribsam is a very busy man, but his cordiality is at all times inexhaustible, notwithstanding. Akron, O. There is a noticeable improvement in business over that of last week, cut flow- ers selling readily, and on the whole com- manding fair prices. Bolanz Bros, have added two more houses to their plant, one 22x100 for chrysanthemums and the other one 10x60 for violets. These are built in a substan- tial way, being equipped with all the modern appliances. Their new flower store on South Main street, the principal business thorough- fare in town, deserves a few lines of description. The store covers 20x55. An attractive French plate show window of immense size, lighted with a dozen or more incandescent lamps is one of the chief features of the establishment. Every- thing else about the place is correspond- ingly attractive, the white marble top counter,the show casesandthe icebox, all of which are of the latest design and workmanship, fully harmonizing with the white and gold bordered ceiling and walls. The store would indeed do credit to a much larger city than Akron. Bolanz Bros, gave a chrysanthemum show at their store which drew a large attendance. Homo. New Haven, Conn.— One of the boilers in the greenhouses of Frank S. Piatt of Sherman avenue exploded early on the morning of November 2. The boiler and shed in which it stood were totally destroyed. Damage $1,000; no insurance. Baltimore, Mn.— Black's greenhouse property on Constitution and Chase streets was sold at auction to F. W. Trimble on October 30. MONEY FOR VIOLETS. That is what you grow them for and you want all there is in it. We have a steady demand for them and lirst-class and others will learn something to their advantage by corresponding with us at once. MILLANG & CO.. -COMMISSION DEALERS IN- Cut Flowers and Plants 501 SIXTH AVE. Cor. West 30th St. NEW YORK CITY. All kinds of CHRYSANTHEMUMS for all kinds of money. Plenty of them for THANK SGIVING WEEK. ROSES, VIOLETS f GflRNflTIONS, Right on deck for consignors and customers. COME IN AND MAKE MONEY. M. A. HART, Commission— FLOWERS — Wholesale, 113 West 30th Street, NEW YORK. Meollon American Florist. NEW HARDY FERNS. Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75d PER 1000 I'ltOH NOW UNTll, I)K< KMIiKK Isl. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. FOR SALE. Field Grown. 2,000 var. vincas,4 inches, extra strong jSi per 100; 125 per M; 2,000 var. vincas strong, 3 inches, $2 per 100; Jl5 per M; XX Mammoth Verbena seed, % oz., .'JOc; % oz., 75c. CASH WITH ORDER. MRS. J, C. GIBSON. WOODBURY, N. ^), FERNS%FERN SPORE OF ALL LEADING FLORISTS' SORTS. Fern Spore ;^c per package, 3 packages $1. Ferns from flats, 81.75 per ICO; from 2 in. 83.75 per 100; 3-in. 86 per 100; large specimen plants 15c to 3.5c each. All good value lor cash with order. tDW. 0. DROWN, Weldon, Pa. i8g6. The American Florist. 361 *: Ques. Ans. Ones. Ans. Oucs. Ans. Where is the great center of the cut flower trade of America? West 28tli Street, New York. Who runs the commission house close to the 6th Avenue elevated R. R. station on West aSth Street? J. k:. ^s.T^rvE>P^, and his number is 57. Why is this estabisbnient so crowded every fore- noon? Because there is always an abundance of stock on hand, such as the every -day /lorisf requires for his every-day customers. Come and see. Note this. — No connection with any other store on the block. v^ GROUND PINE ^NB HOLUy. We stand ready to supply THE RIGHT QUALITY AT THE RIGHT TIME AT RIGHT PRICES. SENU FOK I'KICE I.InT. DAN'L B. LONG, VtlV^l^. Christmas Greens. HARDY CUT FERNS, CHRISTMAS TREES, BOUQUET GREEN, LAUREL ROPING, HOLLY. EVERYTHING GREEN. AT THE <>LI> STANI) 18 Chapman Place, BOSTON, MASS. H. E. HARTFORD, Mgr. STANI^ARD I3XJOIi^I^J3^ Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A sample mailed for ;H) centH- FRANK L. MOORE, Chatham. N. J. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. BOSTON'S CHOICEST For Thanksgiving Day and Ihe Holidays. A full line of high quality flowers., Prize Ghrysanilieiiiynis ivo'W' xps^ ■x'ia::E: Xj:e:.a.z3. Roses, Carnations, Violets, Vailey, Smilax, Ferns and Asparagus ARK ABUNDANT AND PRICKS LOW. ALL FLORISTS' SUPPLIES AT MANUFACTURERS' PRICES. Everything rfquirect for the outfit of a prosperous up-to-date florists' business can be obtained here. Catalogues and regular price lists on application. The old established wholesale commission and shipping establishment. GEO. A. SUTHERLAND, 67 Bromfieid SI. BOSTON, MASS. FERNS! FERNS! FERNS! .lust tlilnk of It, nice hitrJy cut lerim. tiinoy or dapyer. wan anted _ tlrsl iiiiallty. 75 cts. a lOOO. I>nu<|iiet r. Christmas HoUyiBouquet Green Should both be engaged now to secure best quahty, cheapest rates, and timely DELIVERY. FROM DECEMBER 10, forward we shall furnish Well berried Holly at J5.00 for single bo.ves. two boxes for 9.50 the two. five or more boxes for 4.50 the box. Bouquet Green, best Eastern, in original sacks of 40 to 50 lbs. original weight, at Sets, the lb. TERMS, f. o. b. cars or express, Net cash 30 days, or for prompt Cash, 10 per cent Discount. J ,. • J Delivery from December 10, lorward; a limited quantity of Bouquet Green is ex- pected in November rate 8 cts August Rolker & Sons, New York, 136 West 24th St., or P. O. Station E. PELARGONIUMS. lu the following varieties, Mabel, Mme, Thi- bault, Criterion, Dr. Andry, Lord Napier, Empress Kugeuie, etc., 'J^-inch pots, $1 per doz.,$S per 100. CYCLAMEN GIGANTEUM. ;i-inch pots, iu bud, ready for repotting, $1 per doz., 88 per lOO; will exchange for Palms, H, P. Roses, or Azaleas. CASH WITH ORDER LAWRANCE'S NURSERIES, OCDENSBURC, N. V. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. STUDER OFFERS fine plants iu different varieties and sizes of Palms, Ferns, Dracienas. Crotons. Aspidistras, Marantas, Alocasias, DiclTeubachias. Araucarias, Ficus. Paudauas, Otaheite Oranges, with fruits, Solanums with berries. Aralias. Caladiurus, Fritouias. Salagiuellas. Sausaverias, Marguerites. Anthuriums. Cissus Discolor Allamaudas, Clero- dendrons, Boucainvilleas. Jessamines, Gooseviue, Roses, and all sorts of bloomiDg and bedding plants. Hardy Plants and Vines, Shrubs, Ever- greens, etc. N. STUDER, Wholesale Florist. WASHINCTON, D. C. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. i8g6. The American Florist. 363 CUT I^IvO^STV^BI^^. BEST STOCK. WELL PACKED. PROMPTLY SHIPPED. By the Oldest and most Reliable Firm in Chicago. Our Consignors include all the best growers tor the Chicago market, and we yield to none as to experience and ability in handling same to the best advantage of both grower and buyer. HEADQUARTERS TOR FANCY VALLEY. We are handling E. Asmus' stock and it is fancy. PRESENT QUOTATIONS-Suhject to change without notice. p. & D. COST. Per 100 Am. Beauties (doubtful) " fancy (doubtful) Meteors $ 3.oo to % 4.oo Brides 3 00 to 4.00 Bridesmaid 3.00 to 4.00 Perles 3.oo Kaiserin 4.C0 to 5.00 Roses (our selection) 2.50 Chrysanthemums 4.00 to 6 00 P. & D. COST. Per 100 Chrysanthemums, tancy $12.50 to |i6oo Carnations 1 00 to 1.25 •' fancy 1.50 to 1.75 Valley 4O0 to 5 00 Violets 1.00 Asparagus (doubtful) Smilax 12.00 to 15.00 Adiantum 75 to i.OO Common Ferns perM|2C0 .25 All flowers in season at lowest market price. Our store is open till 6:3o P. M. and on Sundays and Holidays till noon. Full Line of Florists' Supplies and Wire Work a Specialty. KENNICOTT BROS. CO. 88 Wabash Avenue. ^ CHICiVOO. TEAS. Ariam Tea. Mme C. Kuster. Aurora. Mme. Jos. Schwartz. Bouaere. Mme. Lambert, TelB Tea. Marie Ducher. Clement Nabbonnaud Mrs. Jessie t-'remont. Cointe de I.^ barthe. Susanna Blanchet, Douplas. or CrImBon Tea. ?ouv. d un Ami, Dr. Grill. Souv. de Victor Hays. Jules Flnjjer. James Sprunt. Louisa lie la Hive, Pink Daily. Lk Princess Vera. Oueens Scnrlet. Empress Kugenle, Mme. Rravv. Mme. Camllle. Mme. Bosanquet. HYBRID PERPETUALS. Vlck's Caprice. Louis Van Iloutte, Alt red Colorab Mme. Masson. Admiral Nelson. Rnslerlste .lacobs. Caroline de Sansal. Ellea Boelle CLIMBERS. Bnltimore Belle. Tennessee Belle. Grevllle, Pride of Washington. i,*iieen of the Prairie. NANZ & NEUNER, Louisville, Ky. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer ul gItllH) cash for ONE PLANT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative j purposes. Sl.oO per 12; 810 per 100, from 2^-iuch pots. I Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANG & CO., Phila., Pa. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper ^^lease say that you saw the advertisement in the American Flo'''* Prize Winning Roses 18 FIRST PRIZES OUT OF 20 OLISSES is our record in the competition in Roses at the Chicago Exhibition this week. The varieties included American Beauty, Kaiserin, Testout, Bride, Bridesmaid, La France, Meteor, Belle Siebrecht, Mrs. W. C. Whitney and Golden Gate. Order your flowers from us and be sure of the best to be had. REINBERG BROS., 51 Wabash Ave. OHXO^^OO, Julius Roehrs, HEADQUARTERS FOR SPECIAL OFFER: 2000 half standard French Roses, 2 to 3 ft., fine, S3 per doz.; 520 per 100. List on application. p. O. Address, CARLTON HILL, N. J. SPECIAI. OFFER. ILtKIRiiSK QIHKN Cain.qlinii plants, at .5c. .\ private collection of ORCHIDS. 1000 lbs. CYCAS STEMS, various sizes. .\URATUM aud SPECIOSUM LILIES. Will sell all or part at a bargain, rarticulars on application. WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Nephrolepis Exaltata Bostoniensis. THE BOSTON DROOPING FERN. The most desirable house plant introduced for years. For Retail Florists no better money maker; easily grown; rapid seller; strong plants from bench, for 5-inch pots, at $25 per 100; 6 in , $35; 7-in., $50. Order now and pot up tor Christmas sales. 23,000 small plants ready now tor gieen- house men to grow on and quadruple your money, at from $40 to $200 per ICOO. Orders hooked for Spriiis of 1S97. Cash unknown hll^erg. 45 King Strest, DORCHESTER, MASS. CALADIUM ESCULENTUM, extra fine, DWARF PEARL TUBEROSE BULBS. DWARF BOX, for edging. NATIVE BOG PLANTS. send for prices. SUN NTS IDE FLORAL NURSERY, Lock Box 55. FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. 364 The American Florist. Nov. i^. Cincinnati. The market florists have had an un- settled and not altogether satisfactory business here of late. Pot chrysanthe- mums have been selling slowly and at low prices. Trade all rround has been decidedly disappointing. One of our wholesale houses filled one chrysanthe- mum order of $250 on Nov. 9; 2,000 choice carnations went along with the same order. Roses come in at present over plentiful; the same may be said of carnations. Violets are not in great demand, and sell at 50 to 75 cents per 100. Attending chrysanthemum shows: R. Witterstaeter left to day, Nov. 10, for Indianapolis, F. Walz for Louisville and H. L. Sunderbruch for Chattanooga; this speaks well for Cincinnati. H. SCHWARZ. Utica, N. Y. Trade is somewhat slower than last week and as a consequence flowers arc more plentiful. Chrysanthemums are in evidence, some fine blooms being offered. The first varieties cut in this section were J. E. Lager, J. H. Troy, Mrs. Henry Rob- inson and Mrs. E. G. Hill, the latter vari- ety being of a more even pink than last year. In addition to these we now have G. W. Childs, Niveus, Queen, H. W. Rie- man. Although the best blooms have been disposed of as fast as ready, there does not seem to be the snap about the demand that there has been in former years. Carnations are selling at all prices ranging from 25 cents to $1 per dozej, the last figure being asked and paid for a pink seedling of Baker's. Roses are in short supply. The first Beauties are in and gone, and none to come for sometime. There will be no flower show here this fall as concerted action could not be had in proper season. F.J. B. Greenhouse Building. Great Barrington, Mass., J. Raifstanger, one palm house 20x40. Manchester, N. H., Ira Parker, one veg- etable forcing house 20x300. Woburn, Mass., Chas. Cummings, one carnation house S0xl75. Fitchburg, Mass., C. E. Mansfield, one commercial house 16x65. Lebanon, N. H., E. S. Haskell, onecom- mercial house. Philadelphia, Robt. Manley, rebuilding three houses, each 14x90. A. G. Humphrey, one conservatory. Newtonville, Mass., H. A. Wheeler, one conservatorv. A GOOD JOKE on a Chicago florist is causing a general laugh. At a recent ex- hibition in an adjoining state, where non- professional judges acted, his vase of Mrs. Jerome Jones came in competition with a vase of the Queen. The judges awarded first to the Queen "because the stem is better, not being covered with foliage up to the flower," as was the case with the Mrs. Jones. Thisexplanationof the mat- ter has had a peculiarly depressing efiect upon the Chicago florist. From a daily paper we learn that a Baltimore florist has "a new lily, royal purple in color, which is a cross between the Jimson weed and the common yellow white lily." This will be startling news to florists generally. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. CHRYSANTHEMUMS! ALL THE Best Standard Sorts AND New Varieties. Be sure to write us before you place your order. NATHAN SMITH & SON, ADRIAN, MICH. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. STRONG STOCK PLANTS. READY NOW. NIRS. H. ROBINSON, MERRY MONARCH, M. DE MONTMORT, MARION HENDERSON, WM. SIMPSON, 25c. each; older standard varieties l5c each. Special prices for large quantities. H. WEBER & SONS, Oakland, Md. There was a great rivalry anioug the exhibitors, great difference of opiuiou among the judges and still wider opinions among the people. It is safeto say that the princess in the whites is "Mrs. Robin- son." sent by H. Weber from Oakland. Md. It is as perfect as a ball of ivory turned by machinery, — Times-Herald, Nov. II, '%. Spiraea astilboides floribunda, tine clumps per 100 - Sio.oo Spiraea palmata, red tlowering, for forcing tine clumps, per loO - 7.00 Kalmia latifolia, tine budded, each - - - - .75 Metrosideros semp., nice bushy plants, each - - - -45 H. P. Roses, Tree Roses, Clematis, Rhododendron, pot-grown Lilacs, Deutzia, Hydrangea, Magnolia. Indian Azalea, Etc. L. C. BOBBINK, rutherford, n. j. Ilranch of the Horticultural Coiiipany, Boskoop, Holland. Gnrusanitieniums. stock plants from the bench. Merry Monarch, Marlon Henderson, M. de Montmort. J. E Lager, Nemesis, Yellow Queen, Mrs. Robinson. Maud Dean, Marie Louise, Mme. Bergmann, And many others. 15c. to 20c. Each. BROWN & CANFIELD. {»*l>fiai(>:f '♦^■••-l* 111. You will benetlt the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these colnmnss Society of American Florists. This is to Certify that 1RVIN(; PRHDMORI^; is entitled to Honorable Mention tor clean and well-packed Sphagnum and l^eat. Exhibited at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 18-21, '96. WM. scorr, wm. j. stewakt, I'reeldotit. .'^ecrotiiry. Mention American Klorlst. i8g6. The American Florist. 365 A. L. RANDALL, WHOLESALE FLORIST. Beauties, i ?ancy' SPECIALTIES. Carnations, f WRITE FOR SPECIAL RATES ON LARGE ORDERS. 126 Dearborn Street, PHIPAPO TELEPHONE 1496. V> I I I V> i »\JV-/» GUrysaniMiULs In due season— F'"« Wealthy stock of the leading Novelties:— Modesto, Violescent, Yanoma, Sunclad, Mrs. Perrin, Glory of the Pacific, Gretehen Buett;ier, Miss H. Wright, Betty Bock, Wm. Siinpson, Chebeague, Mrs. W. C. Egan, Pink Ivory, etc., etc. Also large stock of Mine. Ferd. Bergmann, Marion Henderson, Mrs. H. Robinson, Katheiine Leech, Miss M. M. Johnson, Mrs. H. McK. Twombley, Wm. Seward, etc., etc. THEO. F. BECKERT, Neville Island. GLENFIELD, PA. 'J miles below Pittsburg, t*a. GHMNTHEMUM STOCK PLANTS. Immense stock finest new and standard sorts and novelties. Strong healthy plants at wonderfully low prices. Before you buy send us list of your wants to be priced and we will surprise you. Ben Mains Co., New Albany, ind. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. r. :; t to iHTform. imisy March awakes Nature frt)ni slunilier. and soon she covers Earth with a Krt**^'" mantel that is spangled With colors that art cannot copy, and the Choirs of the fields and woodlands make music Like the songs of heaven, and April, smiling. Waters thy earth with tears of joy, and spring Is here, and soon the May-morning air is Laden with fragrance, and the fields and waysidi-s Are garnished with that beauty, that nature Only can give, and the world is made good For man to live in, for God is everywhere. A leading florist of New York City, who has han- dled part of the rubber product of most of the rub- ber growers of this country, and has seen much of Europe's product, says that Harris is the best rubber grower in the world. I have a large stock of Rubbers (Ficus Elastica) in various sizes and shapes, that will iiplnild niv former repuation. Prices fur I ret- -^hii pe nr pl;i iiis with many branches, from %-l ii> tr> I'ucti. Stmi^'lii stem, foliage to the soil, frnm TiOfi-nts in $"3.50 (■;!(■ Ii. I have a house full of large Latania IIoi-l»>nir:i in 10-inch pots, some double crowns and sotm- sin- gle. Better phi nts never were grown. Prife$.Tf:i.-h. Also lijive a large house full of Orangi-s. 1 will say nothirm ahmit their quality, as I only have 50 large phiiits left to sell. Prices for plants with from 30 to 10 fruits on, $5 to $".,^0 each. Draca-na Sanderiana is a little gem and as tough as an aspidistra. I have :i large stock of this new vjiriegiited l)rae;i'n:i, l>nt am not anxious to sell; ciin spjire ;i fi-w ill :i im-h pots, ti to 8 inches high, at 7.S cents eaeli ; %l .H) jn-r doi'.en, $.tO per hundred. My Paudanus Veitchii are as good as usual, strong plants, well colored, 8-inch pots, $24 to $3U per dozen. Areca Lutescens, three plants in a 6-inch pot, 18 inches high, $12 per dozen. &5th St. & Springfield Ave.. W. PHILADELPHIA. PA. SIEBRECHT & SON, TRADE. GflTflLOGUt OF PALMS. Don't wait until cold weather sets In. We can send by fast freight now. By and bye we will have to send by express. Ijii-iiii-li |..its. Ijiishv. 1;.> to 1.5 iuchi-s. $3.00 per dozen, J^K.OO prT KX); 4-incli pots, bushv, 18 to 20 iiiclirs, %\.n) p.T .loz.-n. $30.00 per 100; 5-iiicli pots, 22 to 26 inches, $6.00 per dozen; 8 and 9-inch pots, 3H.00. $.MH) :ni(l $ti.ri(l e;ieh. 2'o-ineh pots, extr.i Hnc'. R and ti leaves. $2.00 per dozen. $1.5.00 per 100; 3-inch pots strons;. $2..')0 per dozen, $20.00 per 100; 3-ineh pots, bushv. heavy. $3.00 per dozen. $25.00 per 100; 3-inch pots. e.\tra se- lected. 6 to 8 leaves, $4.00 per dozen. 5-iiieh pots, extra stron|,j, 18 to 20 inches high, 75 cents eacli; 6-inch pots, extra stron<;, 2 to 2^ feet, $1.50eni'h; 7-ineIi pots, extra Strong, 2 to '2^2 feet, extra Selected. $2.00 each ; 7-itich pots, perfect spiTJuiens. 31) to :{(i inches. $2..50 each; 7 and 8-ineh pots, decorative, grand shape plants. 36 to 40 inches. $:!..50 to .$6..tO each. 6-inch pots, strong, 4 to 5 leaves. 2',i feet. $1.50 each; 7-incli pots. 2'/. to 3 feet, $2.50 eacli; 8 to9-incli pots, 4!'n to 5 feet, $3..50 to $4.00. (Stock limited.) 6-inch pots, perfect specimens. 7 to 8 leaves, $12 00 per dozen; 7-incli pots, perfect specimens, 7 to s leaves, $1.50 each; 7 to 8. extra fine and heavy, 2 to 2^ feet, $2.00 each. 5-inch pots, 12 to 15, $18.00 per dozen; 6-inch pots, 18 to 20, $22.00 per dozen. IZ>mc5£aer:k£iLS — 4-iiir-h pots, grand stock, $3.00 per dozen; 5-inch pots, selected, $4.00 p<'r dozen- Crlusa Kiisete (expected) 1.25 10 OO J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in 2j^-inch pols which I will sell at 82.U0 per 100. The I'ollowiug varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, IVIO. CLEMATIS, S:!00 per doz.; 82'J .tO per 100. PAEONIES. 8125 per dozen, 88.00 per 100. Pleuty of whites. DBL. POET'S NARCISSUS, SO cts. per 100; 83 .'* per 1000. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY, 82 00 per 100 1 year. 84.0(1 per 100 2 year. Very low rates in quantity; fine, well g^row stock. F. A. BALLER, Bloomington. III. CINERARIAS. CINERARIAS. lOO.OOO We are the largest growers in the country. Our stock is all grown from seed saved from the best and most showy plants, taking First Prize wherever exhibited. !J>i-lll
  • l I \3. others. Per dozen, *3.00. Surplus Bulbs ALL IN A NO. 1 CONDITION. Special low prices quoted for quantities. Perluo HYACINTHS. Kouuin Wliiti-. 11-12 L-tras .$1.75 ll-lnctms 2.25 12-15ctins 2.35 Light Rose 1..50 Dark Rose I. .50 Singlelilue 1.50 Dutch. 1st size, named 5.00 Single, separate colors 2..50 LILIUM IIARRISII. 5-7 inch a..50 LONGIFLORUM (.lapan grown), 5-7 inch 2.50 NARCISSUS Van Sioii, select 1.50 Mammoth 2.00 " Trumpet Major (forcing) 1.00 " Chinese (Chinese grown) 4..i0 Paper White Graiidiflora 1.00 .lONtJUILS, single, sweet scented 50 ( )RX ITHOGALU.M A R,\ BUT JI 1 .25 IRIS. Spanish mixed 75 CALLA, Wliite. 1>4 to I'4-inch 4.00 Spoll.'d l>eaf 4.00 DIF.LYTRA SI'KCTAHILIS e..50 SPIRAEA .lAPONICA 4. .50 GRAPH HYACINTHS. Hlue 35 TULIPS, Cottage Maid $1.25 $11.00 Keizer's Kroon 1.00 8.50 " Queen Victoria 60 5.00 Prince of Austria 1.50 12.00 Due Van Thol, scarlet .50 .3..50 '■ rose 1.00 7.50 And a number of other good varieties. List mailed on application. .\]] of above subject to being unsold on receii)t of order. Our "GET THERE" Holly is still in it. Others say they have "as goo(i as Vaughan's," which means ours is the STANDARD, for TIME, QUALITY and SOLID PACKING, per case, $4.00 to $5.00. If you want the smooth-leaved Southern Holly, we can supply it at $3.50 a case in Chicago. HOLLY WREATHS, extra heavy, 12-inch, $2.00 per dozen; $12.50 per 100. Our GREEN Circular of October 29 covers the Lyco= podium subject as it has never been covered before. Write for a copy, and our latest prices. We have the stock. MISTLETOE, very fine, well berried, $5.00 a box. CAPE FLOWERS, IMMORTELLES, etc. RATTAN for wreaths, lb. 25c; 10 lbs. $2.00. When you WANT HOLIDAY STOCK, write or wire us. You \yill get it. NEW YORK: 14 Barclay St. 84 & 86 Randolph St., CHICAGO. 1897 THE ONLY "MARS" """^.^Sf i""" Prices on application. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. 2-INCH FERNS. P. serrulata. P. serrulata crestata, P. serrulata " densll, P. adlanloldes, READY TO SHIFT. Ooychlum japonlcum, Blechnum occldentale. Lastrea variegata. Adtantum cuneatum. Above at ^.00 per KX); $;i5.00per lOOl). Adtantum. from tlats $1.50 per 100 Blechnum occldentale, :Mnch ftJ.OUper KRt General assortment, a-ln. vars., $7 per 100: $t'iO per 1U(I0 PterlBGblesbrlKhtll and Reulnte. 'Mnch. $t;.U0 per lOt); 8-Inch. $10 UO per KIO. Complete list on application. Tenns cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Cienside, Pa. Always mention American Florist. 20,000 GERANIUMS SS?TrH°as All the best varieties, as Double Geti. Grant. Bniant, Silver I,eaf, Mme. Salleroi, 81. .50 per 100; 814.C0 per 1000. AGERATUM. blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooted, 81.00 per 100; 89.00 per 1000. All strong and well rooted. The same out of 2H-inch pots, 82,00 per 100; 820,00 per 1000. Cash with order. MAX KRUSCHKA, LAWRENCE STATION, N. Y. Mention American FlorlBt. E.G. HILL & CO.. Wholesale Fiorisu RICHMOND. INDIANA. Mention American Florist. "THE DAHLIA" BY LAWRENCE K. PEACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST offering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist, AtOO, N. J. Burkl's New Yellow MarQuerlle ETOILE DE LYON. 35 Rooted Cuttings for iHll.OO, by mall, A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. WHOLESALE FLOHIST. When writing mention Che Ambrican Florist. VERBENA KING. I will have 500,000 ROOTED VERBENA CUHINGS to offer the following season; 55 of the finest named varieties in cultivation : 60c per tOO: $5.50 per 1000; 5000 for $25.00; 10,000 lor $45.00: Express prepaid. NO RUST or MII,DEW. Satisfaction guaran- teed in every way or money refunded. ROOTED PETUNIA CUTTINGS. 25 NAMED VARIETIES NOW READY: Dreer's and Henderson's latest strain, the finest on earth. $1.25 per 100: $10.00 per 1000: Express prepaid. C. HUMFELD, J^ CLAY CENTER, KAN. Mention American Florist. 5O3OOO FERNS. Choice varieties from 2 inch pots, at $3.00 per 100; 825.00 per 1000. Samples sent by mail ou receipt of 10 cents in stamps. Horan's Perfect Carnation Support. The only perfect one on the market. Write for circular and prices. JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. Mention this paper. 368 The American Florist. Nov. /^, Toronto. The Horticultural Society held a very well attended meeting on Tuesday. There was a long and lively discussion over the matter of devoting part of the funds to the chrysanthemum show, which is of course under the management of the Gar- deners' and Florists'Association. Finally it was left in the hands of the directors to settle on the understanding that if they consider it advisable to hold a spring show all the funds of the society are to be devoted to it. but if they think it inadvis- able, then $100 is to go to the chrysan- themum show. Several members drew attention to the delinquencies of the directors in not look- ing more after the welfare of the society and (though a director myself) I must say that I think their censures were well deserved; the directors from the president down have simply done nothing since last May, but let things rip. Perhaps now that we know each other we may be able to arrange things better at the next an- nual meeting. At present the professional element outweighs the amateur to too large an extent, and amateurs are afraid to come and exhibit their comparative ignorance at the meetings, though many of them really are not so ignorant after all. At any rate some means must be adopted to induce more of the amateur elemtnt to join; it can be done, and just now, when times are getting better and are likely to be very good in a few years, is the time to set to work in earnest to do it. A fine future lies before us if we wake up and seize our opportunities as they come. Let us have no "boom," but be careful and keep within our capacity. If we build solidly we can be a power in the city, and when storms come can stand firm and dictate terms. Dunlop reports the chrysanthemum trade very large this season, and the sale of violets unprecedented, owing perhaps in some degree to the fine quality coming in. Roses are very fine, particularly the teas, and the demand is good, considering their rivals, the 'mums. Carnations are only just beginning to equal demand, though better varieties are still scarce. Store windows are full of chrysanthe- mums of very fine quality, and in variety too numerous to mention. Plants in pots don't appear to grow much row. E. It costs 4 cents for each 600 feet of floor space. Does not injure the most sensitive plants. Endorsea Nikoteen by prominent florists. Used for fumigation or spraying indoors or out. 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen. Bold by seedsmen. Circular free. BKABCURA DIP CO., CHICAGO. ^Quickly M Does ^ It. ^ YOU NEED OUR Trade Directory Reference Book PR.ICE as oo AMERICAN FLORIST CO.. 322 Dearborn Street. CHICACO. Please mention the American Florisi tvery time you write to an advertiser. GLADIOLUS MAY." The above engraving was taken from a photo of MAY grown under glass. EVERY BULB PLANTED THREW ONE OF THESE FINE SPIKES. You can grow the same. The spikes shown were grown in a carnation house without e.xtra labor more thin the planting. Notice the two heavy side spikes, they are characteristic of this variety. The spikes whole- saled in Cleveland at {1 to {t.50 per dozen. PL,flNT THE, Mfly. THE BEST VflRIE.Ty FOR THE MONEY OUR AMERICAN HYBRIDS ARE UNSURPASSED. MAY, line light pink, nearly white - - - - per 100, $2.00 AM. HYBRIDS, finest mixed - per 100, 1.25 Gladioli under glass, tree on application. VJe Empuoy No Agents, send for Price List. Cushman Gladiolus Co., EUCLID, OHIO. i8g6. The American Florist. 369 BURPEE'S NEW SWEET PEAS Aurora, Brilliant, Creole, Golden Gate, Maid of Honor and Burpee's New Countess. ■\ A/E PREDICT that a new imjetus will be given to the growing ' "^ popularity of Sweet Peas by the introduction of our superb Novelties for 1897. The six new varieties named above are thoroughly established, and come true from seed. They make the most remarkable set of Novelties ever introduced in any year. They are entirely distinct from existing varieties and all are well worthy of introduction — there is not a "poor one" in the lot. In addition to the above, we now offer for the first lime the wonderful NEW AMERICAN SEEDLINGS Also seed in bulk of ECKFORD'S NOVELTIES for 1896— ALICE ECKFORD, COUNTESS OK ABERDEEN, CROWN JEWEL. LITTLE DORRIT AND MIKADO. For full desciiption of the above and ADVANCE OFFER OF SWEET PEAS. writ.' for our new Twelve-Page Circular of Sweet Peas, special to the trade only. Mailed on applicatiou. Messrs. HURST & SON, London, England^ CQPVR\GHTtO \595 \M.A..B!eolal Offer. Adiantum Farleyense, 4-inch, per doz jS5 00 5-inch, " '■ 8,00 " Cuneatuni, -f-inch, '■ " l 00 " '■ 5-inch, " " 1 50 Cyclamen Persicuin, 4 inch, " " l.oo 5 inch, " " 1.50 Primula Sinensis, 3-inch, per 100 .... 5 00 Probst Bros, Floral Co. KANSAS CITY, MO. ransles Worm Raising. PLANTS READY NOW. at 82..50 per .500; $4.00 per 1000. Kree on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at $1.00 per pkl. CASH WITH ORDER. U, SOLTAU & CO., 199 Grant Ave., Jersey Cily, N. ] , TheFINESTPANSIESGROWING in bud and bloom, $5 & $7.50 per 1,000. Also, to make rooiii. will sell ^heap. Ferns, Aspidistras, Specimen Genistas, Bracze- uas ani-lnch and 2-lnch, J2.0U per lUO. Patent fastener with each letter. with orders for 600 letters we (rive away a nlcelj stained and varnished box. See cut In next week's American Klorlst. Our letter Is handled by all the wholesalers In Boston. AQBNTS: A. Holier & Sons, New York; M. Rice & Co.. 25 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.: F. R. Mc- Allister, 22 Dey St., N. T.; 11. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; A. D. Perry & ('o., ICi Warren St., Syracuse, N. Y.; A. C. Kendal, nh Ontario St., Cleve- land, O.; K. H. Hunt, 71l Lake St., Chlcauo; Wisconsin ('lower KxchanKe, l:il Mason St., Milwaukee, Wis.; n. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts., Cincinnati, O.; T. W. Wood & Sons. Hth and Marshall Sts. Kichmond, Va.; .las. VIck's Sons, llochoster, N. Y.; Dan'l B. Long, BufTalo, N. Y.; C. A. Kuehn, i3t. Louis, Mo.; Hunt^ Inirton Seed Co., Indianapolis, Ind.j W. Ellison, 14IB Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo.; A. Ilerrman, 415 K. 34th St., New York; Oeo. A. Sutherland. i;7 Brom- Beid St., Boston; Welch Bros.. No. lA Beacon St., Bos- ton; N. V. McCarthy & Co., »1 Hawley Street, Boston; The Henry Phtllpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, 0., Walter A. Potter & Co., Providence, R. I.; J. C. VauKhan, 2ti Barclay St., New York. J. A. Simmers. Toronto. Ont.. Agent for Canada. FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. l-'or Frtrc I'aniphkl, write to Lniiinvil.l.i SriKiT Cnii I TttBArMtCll. Louisville, Kv When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. gifc^lg r(jrlrjl=;fet fctfe;tatsifcHCTteia; tj;Ktli^ HAMMOND'S [RAPE DUSTI ^LS MIDEW ON SOSE ^ OHD'S SLUG SHOT '2 New yobi^. REMINDERS. MOSS WREATHS— Scarce; if you want them, order at once. NEW IMMORTELLES are in, and they are fine. CAPE FLOWERS are extra large, and pure color. CYCAS LEAVES and WHEAT SHEAVES are our leaders always. Price, quality and quantity handled far beyond all other dealers. All seasonable stock in Baskets, Jardin- ieres, Pots, Letters, Artificial Flowers and Foliage, AT BARGAIN PRICES. A GOOD TIME TO REPLENISH YOUR STOCK. H. k ■I Importers and Manufacturers, *50 IV. -itlx Street, PSILADELPEIA, PA. Mention American KlorlBt- ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. A.. HI3;i«Jf«]VJ:.A.lVIV, Manufacturer of METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISfS' SUPPLIES, 404-412 East 34tli Street, (N ear the Kerry), NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOHfllNICK STREET, Bismarck Apples. I y«ir old ■J.'icfiils; pt-r hiimlrcl, WM.M. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thous.tud, $2.00; per len thousand, .$1S. CH. KOEHLER, Oxford Church P. 0., Phila., Pa. ^^W.C.KRICK'S FLORISTS' lniinonelleLeuers,Eic. Medal Awarded at the World's Fair. And Highest Award Wherever Exhibited. These Letters and Dt'Hl^'ns are made of tlif hest Immortelles. wirt'iion woodnrmetal frames, having holes drilled In them to In- sert toothpicks, by which they are fast- ened In the desicn. i;lve themairlal. Vou will Hnd theaeK""dsto be superior to any In the market. 2-lnch Letters, 52.50 per 100. 'Tostage. \b cts. per 100. Kor other styles of IjCtters, Emblems and Designs. yend for catalogue. Before purchasing send for free sample and cataloaue. and compare with any other letter on the market. For sale by all Florists' Supply Dealers. Perfect Flower Pot Handle and Hanger Is iisi'.l fi.r lifting plarii,y "iiil i)f jardln- k'PL's. alf fur lianglng lip plant.-* f<'r ctecorii- tiuns un walls, etc. Will sustain a weight of IIKI I ha. No 1 will fit from 2 to .'i Inch pots, per do/.. Xm.-; No. J will tit from ,■> to s 111 pills. ptT doz. .^*ic; No :; wtll tit from s to iMii pots, per doz. liiic itv mall 10 cents ovtra perdo/tn; sam- ple pair li'j. ptjstpald. W.CKRICK, 1287 Broadway, Brooklyn, N.Y. greenliouHe <'ii. ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, Send for Kstlmatos. Satisfaction Guaranteed. REED GLASS CO.. 102 South 5th Avenue. NEW YORK CITY. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. iSg6. The American Florist. 371 "AN ELEPHANT ON HIS HANDS" Is what one often hears when orders are placed with other houses. M. RICE Our Catalogue FREE for the asking. As OUR STOCK of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES is always FRESH, COMPLETE, and up-to-date. IMMORTELLES (get our quotations). WHEAT SHEAVES, CYCAS LEAVES, WAX FLOWERS, MOSS WREATHS. CHENILLE. DOVES. CAPE FLOWERS. ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS AND LEAVES, PLANT STANDS. (Iron, Enameled and Plain i, &^^^\ Importers and \^ \J . g Manufacturers, 25 North Fourth Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. IK VOtI HAVR NOT RECEIVED OUR CATAT-OGUE WRITE FOR ONE. Bouquet Green and \m% Holly WIRE WORK OTJ'llU'" '"""^ "^' '^' '" C^\ 1"^ Cr I 0\A/I^R^ You can safely entrust your '^'^ • r^l— V^W¥^nv3 cut-flower orders to tis. PALMS -° FERNSJ;L?.:,^feVtfp".^.^:^ I Florists' Supplies Sl-v«, Doves, Baskets, Etc., J^ ^^ .A. T^ BH^ J^ S& We still have a fine lot of these plants on hand, best vari;;ties. ; is complete. Asemts for* the JSoott iBiiadei'. ELLIS & POLLWORTH. BOX 75. iVIir^W^^VUI-SIE^E:, WIS, 372 The American Florist. Nov. /^, Kansas City, Mo. The November meeting of the Kansas City Florists' Club was held the 12th inst. at the store of R.Jarrett & Son, in the Midland hotel. O wing to the show being close at hand there was a full meet- ing, which helps to encourage those who attend regu'arly. Everything is "slow," and everybody s;ems to be pushing it. Promises are made to eclipse all former displays, and there certainly is an im- mense lot of plants and flowers in the cit}- to make it successful. Q jite a num- ber of premiums were reported as sub- scribed, enough to be quite encouraging. A good deal of work is being done this year to better the comfort of visitors at the show, and it 13 believed that it will pay. Arrangements are made to seat a greit many more than last year, better music, and refreshments are being served by a competent caterer. Business must be picking up, or money getting more plentiful among the boys, as the chink comes rolling in, everyone pay- ing all dues up to date; this makes the treasurer smile audibly. There has been a great deal of building done here the present year, now the building season 13 over it is easy to s;e just how much has been done, fully one- half more glass than was in use has been added. I believe every florist has built more or less. Trade is reported among the stores as picking up. • W. J. B. Watertown. N. Y. Mr. A. Stoeckle has rebuilt one of his carnation houses a ad has overhauled his entire plant. Mr. Wm. Clark has likewise overhauled his houses, putting things in the best of order. Mr. Clark's stock, carnaticin especially, looks exceedingly well. The florists report a decided improve- ment all along the line. Hoiio fc 412 TO 422 rHAWTHORNI \CHICAGO. FLOWER POTS. We Miinufaeture nil klndw of Flower Puts. etc. MaklriK u Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price list ami Bamples (which will be sent free^ and we know you will Klve us your order: V. n. HoxTs. Miiiiieapolls, Minn. Mention American Florist. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street, GNIGA60. . M flTURflU GflS IVlffi ft LflSS. FOR GREENHOUSES. "Warit^ for l^t^sl: i>i:«io^s. Mention American Florist. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Hxcelsior Bottom, which is a gr^al advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. RpAuru wAREuniicpQ' S Kearney and ^Vestside Aves., Jersey City. N. J. BHAnibn WAHtnuusca. ^ jackson Ave. and Pearson St., Long; Island City. N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pois should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere, Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. When wrltlnu mention the American Florist. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. * OUR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- faction. We call your attention to our new pots 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot." They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and yaw will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO., SYRACUSE, N. Y. Rates via the Nickel Plate Road between same points for like classes of tickets are lower than via other lines. J. 6. SWAHN'S SOKS, Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes aiiil colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots, values from 25 cts. up to jSlSO each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants, (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St.. BOSTON. MASS. .lEito.ME .UtN Ks, l*res. S. A. SiHA 1 TON. Treas. When writing mention American Florist Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. Neponset Flower Pots of Waterproof Paper are sold as follows: Terms— Net oasli with order. If ordered shipped by frelKlit. add 'M ceuts cartage. I'a(;ked In tiross Weight sue Crates of per 1^00 pots Per 100 Per 1000 2W-lnch KKX) aboutM lbs «).2o J2 00 •IMs •■ 1000 . ■ - :i " 1000 :ito' •• lam 4 •• TiOO •■ 7i; '■ .... .^ •■ .. 500 ■■ 100 •• .... t; •• 5(X) " l.iO ■• .... standard Pot Measure. Less Miiantltles than tuH crates at UX) rates. F. W. liIKU J^ SONS, niaiiurHctiirers. Adflre§s orders to our General Agents, August Rolker&Sons New York, p. O. station E, or R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.. Bsston. Eastern Agents. 23 ;<4 45 .:« .06 .60 1.50 2.;io 2.S0 4.00 6.(10 s.:« i;i.M i8g6. The American Florist. 373 Kx oeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse = Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St.. CHICAGO. Boilers made of the best of material, shell, firebox Bbeetfl a,nd heads of steel, water space all around ffront, sides and back .) Write for information. cypRESs IS MUCH M9RE DURABLEtHAN PINE. \SASH BARS i UP ToM FEET iNlXNGTH OKLOr^GER. C|REENHOUS£ AND OTHER BUILDIN6 MATIeRIAL. SenAfof our Illustrated BooK CYPjRESB LUMBER^«»frsU5ES; \ Send fo^-surSPeciil Greenhous^CircuUr. THE "^•NEW DEPARTURE," ^~^^ rf^ VENTILATING f\PPLIflNCE>5^S^ J. D. Carmody, Evansville, Ind. •p^ Dear 5";>.— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON. Gainesville, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for lUustrated CatalogTie. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS. Kichmond. Ind. GREEN-HOUSE HEATING. MYERS & CO. 1518 & 1520 S. 9th St. PHILADELPHIA. Send for catalogue and price list. SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. PVir pnces. apply Vi GEO. W HAMILTON. t76 Sidney St.. Dorchetter. Mast. Always mention the American Flo- tist when writing to advertisers. SIMPLICITY IN GREEN-HOUSE CONSTRUCTION. ^ur/na our /on^ cj^pertGncG u/i BallerF A Still Bancroft J 3111 Baseett & Wa8n;iurn. .'ibb Bayeradorfer H St, Co. .352 370 Bcckert Tlieo F 365 Blanc A &Co 3113 BobblnkLC 3lis Bonsall Jos E .'i.j^' Boston Letter Co 3iii BraKue L B :itji BreltmeypF J & Sons. 3il."t Brlnton W. P :».; Brown & C»nfleld 3i;i Burpee W A \ Oo....3i;;i Burkl F^ed 367 Carmody J D 373 I'hadwlck Cbas 3o7 ColfleBh, J W 3*1 rolllns T :«1 vjonley John &8on 370 Cottafte Gardens 4th cover Cowen's Son N 374 Crabb & Hunter 3o7 CralK Kobt .t'i7 »a; Cunrilnsbani J H 366 Cushnian Gladiolus (_'o370 DeLamater Iron Wks.373 uletscli A at Co 373 Dillon JL 366 DomerFred ASons Co 35<'> DreerH A :«; Drown B D 3(»l Bhret F 3V1 Blchholz n .3117 KlUotl W H 3.M 2nd cover BUlottWm & Sions.. .3.V,' ElUs* Pollwortn...3Ji 371 Foster L H i»i3 Faxon M B Ifi6 Ulbson J C 3im Gurney Heater Co 373 HallAss'n 371 Mains Co Ben 363 Uamllton « W 371 Hammond Beni 370 Hancock a Hon 357 Harris W K Wi Hart M A 354 360 Hart J 362 Hartford U B 361 Herr Albert M 357 Herrmann A 370 Hesser W J Ii6.> Hess C 1^56 Uews A H & Co 372 HlllBG&Co 367 .3.55 HlppardB. Hltchlngs&Co... Hooker H M Co. Horan Edw c Uoran J v't Son . , Hulsebosch Bros UumfleldC HujtK U Illinois Cut Flower Co. 354 JennlnKS E B 360 Jones McDufly & Strat- ton 372 JooBten C H :i51 SkalK-ura I Op Co :»K Smitn Natn & »on 364 SoltauCi Co 369 Stearns Lumber Co — 373 Studer N.- 362 Styer J J 35t Sunderbruch H L 364 Sunnyslde Floral Nur- sery 3(>j Sutherland Geo A. .116.1 361 Swahns Sons J G 372 Syracuse Pottery Co. . . 372 Traendly ,>t Schenck.H54 VauRhan J C 367 Watson OC 3.">l Waverly Greenhouses 369 Weathereds Sons T W.H74 Weber U& Sons 3(a Weeber&Don '&'> Welch Bros 355 359 Wbllldln Pot Co .372 Whllton S iSons . ..306 Williams & Sons Co 366 Winter A Glover 3.55 Wis Flower Kx 363 Wlttbold Geo 366 Wood Bros 369 YouhKjno 366 368 VountfTbosJr 355 ZlrnKlebel D 369 Messrs. R.UIrich and Chas.W. Leavitt, Jr., have entered into partnership under tie firm name of Ulrich & Leavitt as landscape architects and civil engineers, with office at 15 Cortlandt street, New York. The new directory contains a total of 9,528 names and addresses, of which 5,252 are florists who do a general local trade, having greenhouses and retailing the product of same, 797 are florists who grow for the wholesale market only, 645 are retail store florists who have no greenhouses, 52 are wholesalecommission dealers in cut flowers, 1,524 are nursery- men, 543 combine the business of florist and nurseryman, 364 are seedsmen, 24S combine the business of florist and seeds- man, and 97 who combine all three branches of the business. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. Latest StipplonuMit to our Kail Ciitiiloiiuo jiisi issued, contjiiuiiitj; our Xov<-lties :intl ni;iii> i-e(liii-1 iiMis in |iri.-fs itl" Tinfoil, Cycas Leaves, Baskets, Etc., nuiiled free lo :ipi.Iic:iiil> in llu: tradi-. \Vhc)].',s;i 1.' uu]\ . Si'iid l(ii.siiM"s,s e:ird. New York: 136 West 24th Street. r. (1. siMiiMH i:. HitolxLnLg:?^ & Co. ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTURERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. WS5JJV'**- -■ THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE, GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent Iron Frame Coiistructlon. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street, NEW YOBK. LORD &, BURNHAM CO., Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. VPlans and eRtlmates fnmUhed on application. Largest ballders of Greenhonse Structures. Six highest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CEHTS POSTAOE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO., ilCtlltECmral Cfflce, I60 Fifth Ave., COR. TWENTY-FIRST ST., FACTORY: 1 RVINGTOTV-ON-HrOSON. N. Y. New York Gity, WORTti BLARING IN MIND . You buy your heater once, but your fuel you buy every year. It might be well to bear this in mind if you are in need of a greenhouse heater. Among other features which have made the "SPENCE" HOT WATER HEATER famous is the fuel-saving feature. "Spence" users are not troubled with large bills from the coal dealer. "SPENCE" CATALOGUE FREE. American ^3 oiler Company CHICAQO: 84 Lake Street. NEW YORK: «4 Center Street. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS. Honiculiural flrcHitecis and Hot Water Enoineers Send for Catulugue, enclosing 4 cents in staiups. 130, 1-il, l-i3 Center St., IVEJW 'X'ORII-s:. GLASS For Greenhouses, Conservatories, Graperies, Hotbeds, and all otiier purposes, at Lowest Rates. GLASS N. COWEN'S SON, 392 & 394 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. Get our Figures before buying Class. Ci^" Estimates freely given* r:*..' RmErica is "the Praw of the I/essel; thers may bs more comfort Rmidships, but we are the first to taucti Unkno Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 21, 1896. No. 442 fm Lik^mm^im IFiL@di0€7 Copyright 1896. by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by The American Florist Company. 32% Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription. 81.00 a year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. •.Vii Dfiirliorn Mieet, «IIlC'A^^^H w *1 ^^^^^^^^^^M^-^^^'^^^^^?™;^—^ W i '^^^^l NEW WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM WESTERN KING. enclosed in an envelope which was endorsed with the class number and also that of the exhibitor; as soon as the judges had awarded the prize in any class, the envelope was opened and a sticker indicating the prize attached and the job was done. The exhibitors num- ber was scarcely the same on any two entries, heretofore his number had been the same on all exhibits. In the class book as the entries were received they were numbered, and in this way while Mr. Smith might be No. 2 in his entry in class 40 for 12 Brides he might be No. 8 in class -H for 12 Bridesmaids, etc. Every- thing was very systematically done and the society can congratulate itself on its very efficient secretary. THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EXHIBITS. While pears and apples were less in evi- dence than last year the foreign grapes were especially fine, one sample of Gros Colman, exhibited by J. H. Ball, being as fine as anything the writer ever saw either here or anywhere else. Barbarossa and Aluwick seedling were also exceed- ingly fine. The chief honors were carried off by James H. Ball, who had three firsts and three seconr's. The other prize win- ners in this section were Gebhart Huster and Wm. De Shields. The vegetable exhibit was larger and finer than anything we have ever had before; the liberal prizes offered by the different seed firms, supplementary to the society 's regular offerings, having brought out a large number of competitors. Tljese efforts by the seedsmen to encourage their customers is highly (oramendable and has already borne good fruit, and will in course of time bring the vegetable and fruit department up to the standard. The Michell and Dreer premiums were made several timcsduringthe wcekadi'ed considerably to the show, and while fresh, were the centers of attraction. H. Weber & Son, Oakland, Md.; C. W. Ward of the Cottage Gardens; H. D. Rohrer, Lancaster; DeVocht & DeWilde, Wilming- ton, Del.; John Breitinever & Sons, Detroit; F. G. Christie, Clilton Heights, J. W. Young, Myers & Samtman, and Hugh Graham, were the prize winners in the carnation displays. Hugh Graham's Victor, a sport from Daybreak, and between it and Scott in color, is certainly a fine thing and will be likely to becomea standard variety. The quality of the blooms in all the entries was quite up to date. 1 he rose displays were not up to the standard of other shows. Many of the growers and dealers for some reason did not enter, what there was were fairly good, but very little was truly first-class. Robert Crawford's table of roses and chrysanthemums was very attractive and as he replenished it daily it justly received a special premium. M. Heron exhibited a pretty handle basket of roses and orchids, and a pla- teau of chrysanthemums; entries for these classes could not heretofore be counted on the fingers of the hand because there was no competition this year. Messrs. Strauss and Asmus, vases of the Carnot rose were at all times surrounded by an admiring group. The display of violets was a small but pretty one and seemed to be much admired. Messrs. R. M. Eiscnhart, R. D. Rohrer, Chas. Leisey and F. Supi jt were the prize winners. A. Blanc and W. H. Ritter received special prizes for their exhibits of cacti. These were interesting collections. H. Graham's orchid table was grand, it was clearly the finest exhibit in the hall NEW WHITE CHRYSANTHEMUM MRS MARTIN A RYERSON. which was given first prize. Secretary Rust was a very busy man and kept his end up in a first-class man- raer. He introduced a new system of en- tering and marking exhibits that worked like a charm. All that was necessary to put on the cards for each exhibit, with the exception of the award, was written out before the first day of the show and the most keenly contested. The cauli- ffower and lettuce exhibits were exceed- ingly fine. Celery was not extra, being but little blanched and most of the sam- ples somewhat rusty. The White Plume seemed to be particularlv affected, the Golden Half Dwarf and Golden Self Blanching showing up better. Most of the samples of turnips and radishes were t8g6. The American Florist. 379 HUGH GRAHAM'S TABLE OP ORCHIDS AT THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW. too large and soft. It is difficult to imagine any cook accepting some of these overgrown specimens as a gift, and yet size evidently cut considerable of a figure with the judges. The same criticism is true in regard to the parsnips beets and carrots. Salsify, peas, potatoes, cucum- bers, spinach and cardoon were very good, the exhibit of the latter, the large variety, by Joseph Early in the Dreer Span- ish section being especially fine. This is a vegetable that ought to be more largely grown. Although rather rough it is ex- cellent when peeled and is far superior to the artichoke. If the three most noticeable exhibits in the show were to be mentioned the writer would give the palm to the Snowball cauliflower in the Michell section exhib- ited by Mr. Lauder, the Matchless Brus- sels sprouts from the Dreer experimental grounds and the cardoon already men- tioned. Henry J. Michell's exhibit of bulbs and horticultural sundries was large and most tastefully arranged, containing a splen- did assortment of jardinieres, watering pots, thermometers, plant tubs, flower- stands, mushroom spawn, lawn grass, etc. H. G. Faust & Co. had a small but tasty exhibit of bulbs and roots. Henry A. Dreer Corporation were as usual well represented with a fine display of bulbs and sundries, their hyacinths, tulips and narcissus being noticeably large and fine. The most original feature of their display, however, was the Japan- ese rice farm in miniature, which Mr. Wm. F. Dreer purchased in the Kiota Exposition during his visit to Japan last summer. James Wotherspoon made an interesting display of galvanized water- ing pots and fumigators. Montreal. The ninth annual chrysanthemum show of the Montreal Gardeners and Florists Club opened at Windsor Hall on Tuesday, the 10th inst., and closed on Thursday night The attendance on opening night was very fair, but on Wednesday it rained all day, consequently there were but very few visitors; towards evening, however, the weather cleared up and in consequence there was a good attendance Thursday afternoon. The school children were ad- mitted for five cents and many took ad- vantage of this so that the attendance in the evening was very good. A first-class orchestra discoursed choice selections from 8 to 10 o'clock each evening. The exhibits on the whole were far ahead of anything seen here before, both in point of numbers and excellence. It is doubtful whether a better lot of cut blooms conld be staged anywhere, and the plants were the finest ever seen here and would certainly be difficult to beat. In the section for 12 specimen plants there were only 2 entries, but every one of the 21- plants was as near perfect inform, quality and quantity of blooms as will be seen anywhere this season. The cut flowers were displayed on a table 18 inches high, 85 feet long and 13 feet wide. The vases of chrysanthemums and the twelves were ranged down the middle, which was slight'y elevated. The other sections, 24, 12, 6 and 3 dis- tinct varieties, were arranged in two rows on eachside, each jar containing 3 blooms the space under and between being filled in with small lerns in 3 and 4 inch pots, which made a fine setting for the big blooms. The specimen plants were arranged along the walls two deep, the space be- tween these and the cut flower stand was occupied by 10 groups, 5 on eacb side. The groups of chrysanthemum plants were very fine, but the improvement over former years was not so marked as in the other sections, with the exception of the group of foliage plants and orchids put up by Mr. Holliday, which was the finest group seen here for some time. Therewas a falling off in the competition in the man- tel decorations and dinner-table sections. The judging on these latter sections as well as the made-up work was done by a dozen society ladies; a card was given to each with the entry numbers on it with spaces for comments, each lady was con- ducted alone around the exhibits and re- quested to make whatever comments she wished and when these cards were handed in to the committee they were found to contain very valuable hints to the florists on the use of ribbons, leUering, etc., on their work. To Thomas McHugh, gardener to the Forest and Stream Club, Dorval, first for 24 blooms, finally winning the silver chal- lenge cup; first for 12 blooms distinct va- rieties; first for six varieties; first for 3 blooms, distinct varieties; first for 3 blooms, distinct varieties; first for 3 blooms of pink, one variety; first for 3 blooms, red or crimson. To George Robinson, gardener to Alfred J yce, Esq.: First for 12, 6 and 3 speci- men plants, distinct varieties; first for one specimen plant; first for 12 plants in 7- inch pots, not more than 3 blooms per plant; first for 12 plants in 6-inch pots; first for 25 plants in 5inch pots, one bloom each; first for best plant in show; second for 24 blooms, distinct varieties; third for 6 blooms, distinct varieties; sec- ond for 3 blooms, yellow; second for 3 blooms, pink; first for 12 white, one va- riety; first for 12 blooms yellow, one va- riety; first for 12 blooms pink; first forl2 blooms crimson and bronze, one variety. To George Copland, gardener to McGill Botan'cal Gardens: Second for group of chrysanthemums on 50 feet of space; sec- ond for 12 specimen plants; third for 24 blooms. To William Harobin, gardener to Mrs. Reed: Fourth for specimen fern; fourth for 24 blooms chrysanthemums; second for 12 blooms, distinct varieties. To Wm. Wilshire, gardener to R. B. An- gas, Esq.: Third for 6 specimen plants, dis- tinct varieties; third for 1 specimen plant; first for specimen fern; first for tree fern; first for 6 palms; first for 6 orchids; first for 3 orchids; second lor6 primulas; third for 12 blooms, distinct varieties; second for 3 blooms, distinct varieties; third for 3 b ooms, distinct varieties. To Jules Betri<, gardener to .\ndrew Allan. Esq.: First for group of chrysan- themum and foliage plants; third for tree fern; first or specimen palm. To A. Pinneteau, Logan Parkgardener: First for group of chrysan hemums on 50 feet of space; first for group of chrysan- themum 25 ftet of space; first for 6 Sola- num Capsicastrum. To George Cadman, gardener to A. A. Ayer, E-q.: Second for group of chrysan- themum and foliage plants on 25 feet; sec- ond for 6 Solanum Capsicastrum. 380 The Ameri CA ;V Florist. Nov. 21 , EXHIBIT OF VEGETABLES AT THE PHILADELPHIA SHOW. To William Alcock, gardener to Hugh McClentian, Esq.: Second for chrysan- themums on 25 feet; first for specimen Epiphyllum. To George Pascoe, gardener to Robert Reford, Esq.: Third for group of chrys- anthemums on25feet; secondibrtreefern. To C. A. Smith, gardener to T. A. Dawes, Lachine: Second for 6 specimen plants; third for 3 specimen plants; second for 12 plants in 6-inch pots; first for 3 palms; second for 1 palm; first for6 prim- ulas; first for -t cinerarias; third for 6 So- lanum capsicastrum; second for 1 calla; third for 2 geraniums. To F. C. Smith, Lachine: First for 3 specimen plants; second for 1 specimen plant; second for 25, 5-inch pots; first for 12 5-inch pots. To John Walsh, gardener to W. W. Ogilvie, Esq : First for 6 specimen ferns; second for 1 specimen fern;first tor 1 orchid ; first for 1 specimen Ruelliamacrantha. To Fred Bennett, gardener to Robt. McKay Esq.: Third for specimen fern; second for 1 orchid; second for 3 callas. To James Bray, gardener to Wm.Yuile, Esq.: Second for Epiphyllum; second for 2 geraniums; third for 3 orchids. To William Whiting, gardener to H. Mussen, Esq.: Second for 6 specimen ferns; fourth for one palm; second for 3 orchids; first for 3 callas; first for 3 abu- tilons. To Wilshire Bros., florists: First for 50 ferns in 4-inch pots; first for 100 ferns in 3-inch pots; second for funeral wreath; first for wreath of chrysanthemums only; first for basket of flowers. To Joseph Bennett, florist, Lachine: Second for 100 ferns, 3-inch pots; second 50 ferns 4-inch pots; first for 25 ferns, 5- inch pots; second for 12 Bridesmaid roses; second for 25 light pink carnations. To Walter Wilshire, florist: Third for 100 ferns; second for 25 ferns; first for mantel decoration; first for basket of chrysantemums; first for funeral design; second for 12 Bride roses. To H. Dale, florist, Brampton, Ont.: Third for 12 blooms white; third for 3 blooms pink; third for 3 blooms white; second for 12 blooms white; first for 12 yellow; second for 12 blooms pink; second for 12 crimson; first for 12 Brides; first for 12 Bridesmaids; first for 12 Sunsets; first for 12 Mme. Hoste; first for 12 Woot- tons; first for 12 M'teors; first for any other variety; first for vase of 50 roses. To C. Scrimon, florist, Ottawa, Ont.: Second for 12 Sunsets; second for 12 Mme. Hoste; second for 12 Woottons; second for 12 Meteors; second for any other variety. To North Toronto Floral Co., Toronto, Ont.: First for 25 white carnations; sec- ond for 25 reds; second for 25 dark pink; second for 25 blooms fancy; first for 100 Daybreak; extra prize for 3 bunches of violets, California, Marie Louise and Farquhar. Wm. Holliday, gardener to Sir Wil- liam Van Horn, received afirst prize with Rieman, and his new one, a yellow sport from Mrs. J. H. Starin. Geo Robinson's 24 are as follows, tak- ing second prize: Philadelphia, Viviand- Morel, Chas. Davis. Nemesis, F. L. At- kins, H. W. Rieman, T- Geo. Us, J. H. Starin. Georgiana Pitcher, Silver Cloud, Joey Hill. E. Dailledouze, Hallowe'en, Mayflower, Niveus, Inter Ocean, G. H. Morgan, Geo. West, The Queen, Pitcher & Manda, Minerva, Gordon Dexter, Good Gracious and Major Bonnaffbn. Wm. Harobin's 24 blooms were Gov. Mathews, Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs. H. T. Murdock, President W. R. Smith, Hal- lowe'en, Louise D. Black, Georgiennc Bramhall, The Oueen, V. H. Hallock. Edw. Hatch, Helen Bloodgood, No. 413 (P. & M., '93) Princess, Mrs. G. M. Pull- man, Geo. W. Childs,Viviand-Morel, Col. W. B. Smith, Silver Cloud, Harry Balsey, Indiana, Niveus, Pitcher & Manda, Mrs. Henry Robinson, J. H. Troy. The first prize for 12 white was won by Niveus; first for 12 yellow by Mi- nerva and G. Pitcher equal points; first for 12 pink went to Viviand-Morel again this year. The prize for the best plant in the show was awarded G. Robinson for a grand plant of Georgiana Pitcher; it was gener- ally conceded that it was the finest plant ever shown here, it was about 3' 2 feet through and 3 feet high from top of pot, and had about 100 perfect blooms which would average GVa inches in diameter. The following gentlemen acted as judges: Chrysanthemum plants, Thos. McHughand [.Standford; on cut blooms, Joseph Bennett and Walter Wilshire; cut roses and carnations, Alfred Wilshire; miscellaneous plants, John Doyle and James Nairn; superintendent, James Mc- Kenna. Be.wer. Indianapolis. The tenth annual show is now only in memory; it closed in a blaze of glory, the weather except the opening evening being perfect, the best exhibition weather we have ever had. VAUGHANS GROUP OP SINGLE STEM PLANTS AT THE CHICAGO SHOW honorable mention for his magnificent group of foliage plants and orchids. The 24 blooms with which Mr. McHugh carried off' the $75 cup were: Golden Wedding, Mayflower, C. B. Whitnall, Mrs. E. T. Br'agan, E. Dailledouze, Mrs. Jerome Jones, Mrs. G. A. McGee, Princess of 'Mums, Louise D. Black, Silver Cloud, Major Bonnaffbn, Georgiana Pitcher. Mrs. Geo. West, Mrs. J H. Starin, 'Enfant du Deux Mondes, Mrs. Gordon Dexter, Minerva, Dorothy Toler, The Queen, Mrs. Irving Clark, Inter Ocean, lora, H. W. The experiment of reducing the admis- sion the last evening to 25 cents brought out a considerably larger attendance, but the sales at the flower booth were much lower than expected and were disappoint- ing. It has been suggested that if another show be held it would be well to make one evening "gala night," with some special attraction, admission to be $1. The weather always has to be reckoned with; one bad night spoils the best in- tentions. Visiting florists from out of the state t8g6. The American Florist. 381 A CORNER AT THE BOSTON SHOW^ were not so numerous as in former years, but those that did attend went away fully pleased as to quality of chrysanthe- mum exhibits and other special displays. Hopp & Lemke, East G and Rapids, Mich., put on exhibition their new scarlet carnation "Morello." It is a good flower, color somewhat dark, with crimped ap- pearance. Hill & Co. showed their white seedling carnation Flora Hill, a very fine flower, but at the present time stem somewhat weak. The Hunt Estate's dis- play of roses for the first evening did not arrive through some misunderstanding until Wednesday; had they been in time some of the varietiesfwould certainly have carried ofl" first premium. There were first-class Morgans, Perles, Brides, Mete- ors and Maids. The special rose display Thursday ($50 and $35) consisted of three exhibits. Bertermann Bros, received first. Their table was arranged with fine Farleyense and other adiantiums, cocos and vines, fine jardenieres and vases setting oft' the roses to very good advantage. The dis- play consisted of 16 different varieties all in good condition. The Hunt Estate, Terre Haute, took second. W. W. Coles received third. He was short in varieties and arrangement, but the flowers were above the average; S'tne specimen Pres. Carnot attracted universal attention. Following is the complete and official list of awards and certificates: Six plants chrysaiithenuinis. six viirirtifs. lit-r- terman Bros., Thro. Bock, IT. \V. Rieman. Specimpn white. .J. C. Vau^han. BerltTin.-iii Bros., Stuart .t Hausih. Specimen yellow, Stuart \- Hauj^h. \. Wii-irand, HiTt'.^rruaiin Bros. Six'cinioTi red, ,1. (_*.\'ani.^han, Bi-rternianii (Ir-is., H. \\'. Ricnian. Specimen pink. Stuart iV llau»:li. liertevniann Bros., Theo. Bock. Siuele stem, 2o white, H, W . llienian. Stuart iV Haugh. John Ilartje. Siligle stem. 3n \el!uw. Hill A t.'o.. .loliii llarlje. Stuart & Haus;h. ' Single stem, 25 red, E. lluekriede. .\. Wiej^aml, Single stem, 25 pink, H.W. Rieman. .-V. Wiegand. Fred Uorner, Fred Dorner, Single stem. 50 white, John Hartje. Hill A Co., 11. W. Rieman. Single stem, 50 red, John Hartje, Hill A Co,, K. lluekriede. Single stem, 50 pink. E. Huckriede, Hill A ( 'o,, \. Wiegaiid. Single stem, 50 yellow, John Hiirlje, H. W. Rie- m;in, E. Huckriede. 50 single stem chrysanthemums in variety, Stuart iV" Haugh, Hill it Co.. Bertermann Bros. 25 var. cut blooms. 3 of each. Hill it Co., Nathan Smith it Son, Bertermann Bros. 15 var. cut blooms. 3 of each. Hill A (.'o., Nathan Smith iV Sou, H. \V. Rieman. •J.T.-ut 1.1. iouis yellow, N. Smith itSon.H.W. Rie- nia 11, Sluarl iV ilaugh. •J,'> cut blooms white, Stuart it Haugh. John Hartjc. Theo, Bock. •,',%cuf, blooms, red. Hill A ('o., Stuart it Haugh, lieu Hains, 2,1 cut blooms, pink. Hill A Co. Ben Hains, 25 cut blooms, Major Bonnaffnn, Stuart it Haugh. H. W. Rieman. 25 cut Mayllower, H. \V. Rieman. Fred Dorner, Ben Hains, 25 cut Viviand-Morel, Hill it Co., Fred Dorner. H. W, Rieman. 25 cut E. M. Bigelow, H.W. Rieman, F'red Dorner. 25 cut Eug. Dailledouze, Stuart & Haugh. Hill it Co. 10 largest blooms. Hill it Co.. Theo. Bock. 10 sprays 5 var. pompons. Nathan Smith it Son, Fred Dorner. 15 blooms 5 var, Chinese, Hill it t.'o. 15 blooms 5 var. anemones, Nathan Smith it Son. 15 blooms 5 var. hairy, Nathan Smith it Son, Hill it Co. .^0 cut blooms ttiiite carnation. Stuart it Ilaugh. H. \V. Rieman. 50 cut blooms red carnations, Stuart it Haugh. .50 cut blooms pink carnations, Stuart A Haugh, Fred Dorner. 10 roses Perle des Jardins, Stuart iV Haugh. H. \V. Rieman. 10 Belle Siebrecht, W. W. Coles. 10 Brides, H. \V, Rieman. Stuart it Haugh. 10 liritlesniaids, Stuart it Haugh, II, \V. Rieman. 10 Meteors, \V. \V. Coles. lOTeslouts. Sluart it Haugh. lOI'ierponI ,\liirgaii,Sluarl ,\. Ilaugh, W.VV. Coles. 10 Kaiscrin Victoria. W. \V. Coles. Stuart A Haugh. 10 .\merican Beatities, W. VV. Coles. 10 new variety. W. W. Coles. .50 Bridesmaid special, Mrs. Larsen. 15 cyclamen plants. Bertermann Bros., B. F^ohl. 10 Rex begonia. Berternuinn Bros., Stuart it Haugh. 10 vases 5 spikes in each eanna bkuims. CJarlleld I'ark greenhouse, W , W. Coles. Display cut roses not more than 400,Berterma nn Bros., Hiint Estate. Display carnations not less than 300 blooms. Stuart it Haugh, H. W. Rieman. 10 blooms H. W. Rieman chrysanthemums. Hill it Co. 12 plants chrysanthemums. 8-inch pots, six or more varieties, Stuart it Haugh, Theo. Bock. 6 plants chrys., white, Stuart it Haugh. 6 " "" yellow, *■ 6 ■' ■■ red 6 •■ ■' next best, H. W. Rieman. Best display of chrys. plants independent of other lots. H. W. Rieman. Theo. Bock. Best basket carnation blooms, Feed Dorner. 12 single-stem chrys., 12 varieties, Stuart A Haugh, John Hartje, 12 plants ferns, 13 var.. B. M.Thornton, Anderson. Basket of roses, Bertermann Bros., Stuart A Haugli. Mantel decoration. Bertermann Bros. Basket chrys. blooms, H. W. Rieman. V\;\\ baskei of roses. Berternian Bros. f) liloi.ms chrys., one var.. 1896, John Hartje. Certificate to John Rreitmeyer A Sons. Detroit, for Mayor Pingree carnation; to H. \V. Rieman for chrys. Adelaide; to Nathan Smith A Son for chrys. Western King. NOTES. Ex. Pres. Harrison and wife were among the interested visitors. Pres Stuart took them in charge. Mayor Taggart opened the exhibition with a few appropriate remarks with re- sponse by Pres Stuart. The social gathering by the Indiana- polis Florists' Club and the visiting flor- ists occured on Wednesday eve; refresh- ments were served and a very enjoyable evening was spent. Railroads landed many visitors from surrounding towns Wednesda3' and Thursday, in fact, somewhat of a crush was experienced at the Union station Thursday. Many visitors were looking for design work and orchids; both were missing; orchids through some misunderstanding were not ordered although advertised. Among the visitors were Harry Balsley, Detroit; Mr. Elverson,New Brighton, Pa.; Mr. Giesey, Lockland Lumber Co.; Mr. Evans, Quaker City, Machine Co. The flower booth, presided over by the Misses Dorner and Mr. Fred Dorner, Sr., netted a good sum. 382 The American Florist. Nov. 21. At the auction Saturday everything was disposed of, prices ruling low, how- ever. The financial results will show that after paying all expenses and premiums in full a small surplus may be left. W. B. Chicago. The competion in table decorations extended over four days — Wednesday to Saturday inclusive — the competitors be- ing at liberty to change the arrangement daily, judging to be by points each day. The first prize of $100, was taken by thCj Art Floral Co. Their first day arrangement was a centerpiece of Brides- maid roses and Adiantum cuneatum and was scored 55 points; second day, a cen- ter trumpet vase of Bonnaffon chrysan- themums with a few flowers of same laid around the foot of the vase, which scored Friday, a central bowl of violets, with four smaller bowls of same around the central one, and loose violets spraj'ed on the table, scoring 98 points; Saturday, a nearly square center piece of orchids, including cattleyas, cypripediums and Yanda ccerulea, scoring 97 points, a total of 325 points. The other competitor was Mrs. Bert Cassidy.wife of a local newspaper artist. Her Wednesday arrangement ^vas a cen- tral bowl of Bridesmaid roses with favors of the same rose tied with ribbon; Thurs- day, a central globe containing gold fish, surrounded by very small vases of lily of the valley; Friday a trumpet vase of Daybreak carnations and .\diantum cuneatum placed in the center of a plateau of the same; Saturday, a trumpet vase of Meteor roses in a plateau of Meteors and Adiantum cuneatum and favors of same. The competition in arrangement of chrysanthemums in vases by students of SPECIMEN PLANT O*' W H LINCOLN [CIRCUMFBRENOE 22 FEET] AT THE BOSTON SHOW. 96 points; third day, a plateau of Kaiserin roses, which scored 94 points; fourth day a plateauof adiantum, withalarge bunch of California violets in the center and small loose bunches of white marouerites around it. with bunches of California violets as favors, this scored 100 points. making a total of 345 points out of a possible 400. The second prize of $75 went to P. J. Hauswirth. His Wednesday arrange- ment was a plateau of Farleyen'e with a bowl of Bridesmaid roses in center, and scored 53 points; Thursday, a center piece of Cocos Weddeliana on a mirror, with small cocos set around same, favors of vallev and violets, this scored 79 points; Friday, a plateau of Farleyensein which were arranged Cypripedium insigne and small cocos, favors of cypri- pediums and Farleyense, scoring 99 points; Saturday, a trumpet vase of American Beauties, the base decorated with Cypripedium insigne and Adiantum Farlevense, scoring 98 points, a total of 329 points. Third prize, $50. was taken by Chas. A. Samuelson. For Wednesday his arrange- ment was a simple central mound of Testout roses, scoring 55 points; Thurs- day a plateau of Bonnaffon chrysanthe- mums and mignonette, scoring75 points; the Art Institute proved very interesting. We shall illustrate these a: d let the pict- ures tell their own storj'. Certificates were awa ded to two new chrysanthemums exhibited by Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., both of which are illustrated in this issue, viz.. Western King and Mrs. Martin A. Ryer- son. The former is a large, incurved white, and the latter a large full globular flower, also white in color. Both seem very promising new sorts A large globu- lar pink exhibited by Nanz & Neuner, Louisville, Ky., was also certificated. First prize for collection of begonias was taken by Paul Stoever, gardener to A. Pchoeninger. Chas. W.Johnson was the grower of the fine chrvsanthemums shown bv W. N. Rudd. The prize-winning specimen plant yel- low, shown by W. N. Rudd, was the variety Major Bonnaffon, and not Mrs. J. N. May, as reported last week. An error was made in announcing the first premium in cyclamens last week. Art Floral won first instead of as pre- viously reported. The total paid admissions ran a little over 7 000 and it is likely there will be a balance on the right side. On the open- ing day it rained steadily all day and evening but on the four following days the weather was all that could be desired. The evenings of the second and last dav Miss Izola Forrester recited Mr. Water- loo's poem "Chrysanthemum" and this proved quite a feature. Saturday even- ing the recitation was followed by an interesting talk on the chrysanthemum by Mr. John Thorpe. He reviewed the progress of the chrysanthemum from its introduction into England to the present day and was listened to with marked attention by the large audience present. Poughkeepsie, N Y. The Duchess County Horticultural So- ciety covered itself with glory on the occa- sion of its second annual exhibition which took place at the armory in this citj' on November 11-13. There were no less than two dozen special premiums on the prize schedule, including cups and cash prizes, besides the regular prizes offered by the society; the response was a list of entries much larger than last year ami the quality of both blooms and plants shown surpassed anything ever grown in this district before. The officers and ex- hibition committee were not only almost to a man, prominent exhibitors, but they individually- and coIlectivel5' worked for the success of the show in the most effect- ive manner, and they have good reason to feel proud of the results. The hall, which is admirably adapted for flower exhibition purposes was elab- orately festooned with evergreen, the white cloth which made a neat finish on the fronts of tables and stands being also prettily draped with the same material, and the general an-angement of tables and groups was well planned throughout. Music on the afternoon and evening of each day added to the pleasure of a visit and the public attendance was large and appreciative. The old style of exhibition on green boards was adhered to in the chrysan- themum cut flower section. The flowers shown were of the highest grade. In the class for 24 blooms the best flowers were shown. Thomas Harrison, gardener to the Hon. Levi P. Morton, leading the list and closely followed by James Blair, gar- dener to Ogden Mills, and W.G. Saltford, whose exhibits were of so even qualitv that the judges made the same award to each. Other large exhibitors in these classes were W. G. Gommersall and I. L. Powell. The display of long-stemmed chrysan- themums in vases was exceedingly fine. One vase of Mrs. Henry Robinson from 1. l» Powell, gardener to Samuel Tliorne, attracted especial attention and the blooms were pronounced by all to be the grandest specimens of this variety ever shown Another superb display was that by V\m.(i. Russell, gardener to Chas. F. Deiterich his Golden Wedding, Viviand- Morel, Philadelphia and Cullingfordii being exceptionally fine, the flowers large and deep, and stems long and strong. W. G. Saltford had some fine Minervas and his vase arranged for effect was very good. Thos. Harrison, Jas. Blair and Lochlin Kennedy were also large contrib- utors in this section. The silver cup offered by F. K Newbold for the best four vases was won by W. G. Saltford the varieties shown being Golden Wedding, G. W. Childs, Mayflower and Krmenilda. Mr. Saltloril also'took the R. B. Suckley prize for 36 liloomsshown on boards and the I'". R. I'ierson prize for 30 in vases. The groups of chrys.iiithemuni jilants arranged lor eflect were among the most prominent and attractive features of the i8g6. The American Florist. 383 VIEW OF THE EXHIBITION AT POUGHKEEPSIE, N Y. exhibition. That arranged by S. B. Sex- ton, which was awarded first prize, had Draca;na terminalis lor a border. Jas. Horrocks, gardener to Archibald Rogers, came second with a group edged with crotons, etc , and W. G. Saltford received a certificate »f merit, his group and also that of Fred Newbold being edged with adiantums. Of specimen plants there were but few exhibitors. I. L. Powell and his assistant gardener, Rob'tHilloar, each showed a fine specimen of W. H. Lin- coln, and Jas. Meharg, assistant to W. G. Russell, a good white. F. R. Pierson Co., Jas Horrocks and Isaac Fricker arranged superb groups of foliage plants, each covering an area of 100 square feet and the prtmiunis were awarded in the order mentioned. David Gindra contributed manj' fine stove and decorative foliaged plants, also a variety of ferns. His specimen of Solandra grandi- flora, in bloom, ten feet high, attracted much attention. A collection of new plants from F. R. Pierson Co., included Heliconia illustris rupicaulus, Abutilon Savitsi, Bentinckea nicobarica and Rex begonias Saunder's Masterpiece and Lady Annisley. Louis Eisenlohn, gardener to Mrs. Newbold showed a small group of well-flowered orchids; Isaac Fricker a table of cj'pripediums and Clarence Lown several gigantic specimens of platyceri- ums. This section of the country beats the world on violets and it was natural that great interest and the keenest competi- tion should develop in the contest for the premiums offered in this class. Sloan Bros., who were the fortunate exhibitors last season, took first honors again, and also won the Howatt cup offered for the best 250 blooms. There were eleven com- petitors in the latter class, all of them superb, and James Blair coming danger- ously near the winning mark. The vio- lets from T. Devoy & Son, Wood Bros, and M. J. Moore were also good enough to give the judges a difficult task to de- cide. Wood Bros, took first prize on Swanley white, Paul Gindra on singles and George Saltford's new variety, Mrs. J. J. Astor, was greatly admired. The Reginald Rives cup for best collection of carnations went to Wood Bros. C. W. Ward was highly commended for display of 300 carnations. The sale booth was conducted bv M. J. Lynch and was at all times a most at- tractive feature, its proprietor's time being well taken up between it and the self-imposed duty of making things pleas- ant for the strangers who came to visit the show, of whom there were many. The judges were J N. May and A. D. Rose on cut flowers, andWm. Turnerand R. W. Allen on plants. Louisville. The seventh annual chrysanthemum show of the Society of Kentucky Florists was held in the new Liederkranz Hall, November 11 to 13, and was a decided success, for never in the existence of the association has there been such an appre- ciation shown as was evinced this 3'ear. All of the expenses were met out of the door receipts, and the promoters feel very greatly encouraged. The first day opened auspiciously, the patronage being much larger than any one expected and the artistic arrangement was certainly more effective than it has been in former years. The feature of the opening day was the chrysanthemum, and over seven hundred plants of every conceivable color; and in infinite varieties were on view. Along the sides of the entire hall cut blooms were placed in rows. The stage and comers were filled with palms, and other tropical plants, while through the middle of the hall were the tables of cut flowers. The improvement in specimen plants was marked. In one exhibit was a plant placarded "One of the original chrysan- muras as shipped to this country some years ago." The date of tlie shipment was not on the plant, but it served to illustrate the degree of cultivation that it has reached at the present date, and the contrast was all the more apparent by the side of the specimen plants. A delightful musical program was given the first evening, and during an interlude, Hon. C. D Jacob made an eloquent address on the flower show speaking of it as "a sort of school for the cultivation of the beautiful;" and he called the chrys- anthemum the "Star-eyed Goddess." h. number of prominent society women were invited to act as patronesses, and Mr. Fred Walz of Cincinnati was requested to act as judge. In the plant display points considered were 20 of the best grown bush plants in 20 varieties, awards as follows: Tilt' l)est five white plants: First Jacob S.'hultz: second. E. G. Reiraers; thirJ, G. E. Mar- ret: fourth. Nanz ^*i: Neuner. For hest five yellow: First. Nanz A Neuner; second. .Tacob Sl-hultz: third, G. E. Marrett. Best five pink: First. .Jacob Schultz: second. Nanz A: Neuner; third. E. G. Reimers; fourth. G. E. JI arret. Mest five of any other color; First, Nanz A Neuner; second, E. G. Reimers; third, Jacob Schultz. Specimen plants: First, Nanz it Neuner; second. G. E. Marret; third, Jacob Schultz; fourth, E. G. Reimers. Best five standard^: First. .Facob Schultz: second, G. E. Marrel: third. E. G. Reimers. Hest fancy trained plants: First, G. E. Marrct: second, E. G. Reimers. Hest seedlins of this year: The improved .ferome Jones, first, was awarded to Nanz A: Neu- ner. Hundred single steins: First. Nanz tt. Neuner: second. JacobSchultz; third. Hen Hjiins Company, of New .Vlbany, Ind.; fourth, G. E. JIarret. Hest fifty sinjile stems: First. Nanz tV: Neu- ner: second. Lichtefeld it Son; third. Jacob Schultz. Hest ten market plants: Firts. G. E. Marret; second. IC. G. Reimers; third, Jacob Schultz; fourtli, Nanz ,V Neuner. In chrysanthemum cut blooms the com- petition was sharp and Nanz & Neuner carried off their share of honors. Fifteen plants, three blooms each: First prize. 384 The American Florist. Nov. 2T^ Nanz & Neiiner; second, Jacob Schultz; third, J. C. Man-et; fourth, Ben Hains A Co., of New Albany. Twenty blooms, white; First prize. Nauz & Neuner: second, William W'altier; third, Jacob Schultz: fourth. Hen Hains iV Co. Twenty blossoms, yeliow. first prize, Nanz it Neuner: second, AViiliam Walker; third, Jacob Schultz; fourth, lien Hains A Co, Twenty blossoms, pinl<. first prize. Nanz it Neu- ner; second, "William Walker; third, Jacob Schultz, Ten blossoms, pink, first prize. Nanz it Neuner: second, William Walker; third, E. J. Reimers; fourth; Charles Schlueter, Kest ten blossoms, white, first prize, Nanz ^ Neuner; second. William A\alker; third. Hen Hains A Co,; fourth, Jacob Schultz. Best ten blossoms, any one color, first prize, Nanz & Neuuer. No other displays were entered. Certificates of merit were issued" to the Kentucky Floral Society and to Smith »V Son, Adrian, Mich., for displays'of seedlings. An exhibition by ¥. Lichtefeld* was complimented, but no prize was awarded. ROSES. In the rose competition on Friday Rein- berg Bros, took firsts for 15 Brides, 15 La France, 15 Bridesmaid; 15 Meteor. Nanz & Neuner first for 15 Perles, 15 White La France, 15 American Beauties, 15 Kaiserin. J. Schultz hrst for 15 Mer- mets and 15 Papa Gontier. The competi- tion was between ReinbergBros., Nanz& Neuner, E. G. Reimers and J. Schultz, and each of the competitors took many seconds. Carnations. In the carnation classes many blooms were shown, Wm. Mann taking firsts for 25 white, 25 red and 25 pink. Certificate of merit was awarded to J. Breitmeyer & Son for best yellow seed- ling carnation. Mayor Pingree Design day was an attractive feature. Prizes were, ofi'ered for the best table decorations. The funeral design of Mr Wm Mann received first prize. Miss Alice Miller second. C. W. Reimers was awarded the blue ribbon for table decor- ation, J. Schultz second. Many hand- some designs were shown and they w ere greatly admired. Every one feels that the judge was quite impartial and filled his place admirably. Worcester, Mass. The Worcester County Horticultural society held its thirteenth annual chrys- anthemum exhibition November 10, 11 and 12 and it was the most successful as a whole in the history of the society. In the arrangement of the hall the flower committee showed excellent taste and their design was both practical and pleasing to the public. An impiovement was noticed all along the line and although the plants shown were a disappointment to many we are working in the right direction. The average florist in this v.cinity cannot afford the time or the space to grow such plants as we see in Boston, six feet in diameter, and after seeing such superb plants, anything smaller seems poor and mean, no matter how well grown. A limit of 10-inch pots was fixed this year with the idea of showing the people a plant that is decorative to the ordinary dwelling and one that can be purchased for a reasonable amount; the result is plainly discernable in the improved ap- pearance of the plan s oflered for sale; and by a little more effective grouping in the exhibition hall next year we can im- prove the show immensely. The cut blooms showed that great strides have been taken by the growers in the right direction and the vases of twenty-five flowers of one color were the most attractive feature of the show. Although we fixed the date of the show about right, as we thought, a week earlier would have been better, as the season is nearly two weeks in advance of last year and some of the best blooms were passe. The following novelties were shown and all seemed decided acquisitions: Mo- desto, Lenawee, Miss H. Wright, Indiana (bare neck), Mrs. J. Peabody (rather weak stem), Rinaldo and Infatuation. A new feature this year were the table decorations and they proved to be very effective in drawing a large attendance of ladies and did much to swell our gate receipts. H. F. A. Lange showed a very eftective arrangement of Bridesmaid roses and white Romans that was awarded first premium. A pleasing design of Abundance carnations and adiantum bj' F. A. Blake carried off second and F. B. Madaus took third with an effect in white and yellow 'mums. Ernst Asnius, West Hoboken, N. J., showed two roses of Souvenir du Presi- dent Carnot rose. They arrived in splen- did condition and kept finely; it is a splen- did rose with hard luxuriant foliage, and the color a delicate she 1 pink, is superb; recommended for a certificate of merit. Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., sent a vase of their new white seedling 'mum. Western King; it proved an excel- lent shipper and kept finely throughout the three days; it should prove to be a valuable commercial variety; recom- mended for a certificate of merit. John Breitmej-er & Son, Detroit, Mich., exhibited their new yellow carnation Mayor Pingree, which was in fine form and much admired; recommended for certificate of merit. A splendid exhibition of carnations was made by the Cottage Gardens, Queens, L. I., among which the new scar- let. Sunbeams, was very prominent. The hall was very prettily trimmed with palms, evergreens and southern sm!- lax kindly furnished by Caldwell, the Woodsman, and the attendance was be- yond our expectations, Geo. McWilliam, of Whitinsville.Mass., was our judge. Following are the awards: For 12 plants, large fiowered, in not over 8-inch pots, distinct named varieties — F. \ Blake, Roch- dale, first; Fred Madaus, second: C, I), Thayer, thirii; Mrs. W. E. Sar^'i'iit. fourth. For si.\ plants, hirt^e llowered. in not over 8-inch jjots, distinct named varieties — P^red Madaus first, F. A. Blake, second; C. D. Thayer, third. For three plants, large flowered, in not over S-inch pots, distinct named varieties — Fred Ma- duus. first; F, A. Blake, second; C. D. Thayer, third. For si)ecimen plant, large flowered, white, in not over 10-inch pot— Blake, first; Mrs, W, E. Sargent, fourth. For yellow — Madaus, first; Lange, second; Blake third. For red — Madaus, first; Lange, second: Blake, third. For jiink—Madaus, first; Langesecond: Blake, third; .\bbott fourth. For 12 cut blooms, distinct named, with long stems and foliage, in vases — Lange. first; Blake, second; Madaus, third; William Darling, Mill- bury, fourth. For six cut blooms — Blake, first; Madaus, sec- ond; Thayer, third. For 12 sprays, distinct named, large flowering, in vases— Liiiige, first; Blake, second: Sargent, third; Thayer, fourth. For display carnations in vases— Lange, first; Blake, second. For display roses, in vases — Lange. first. For collection decorative plants— Lange. first; Thayer, second; Madaus, third. SPECIAL PRIZES. For vase of 25 cut blooms, large flowered, h>ng Stems, white— Lange, first; Blake, second; Ma- (lous, third; E, li, Beals, Greenfield, fourth. For vase of 25 cut blooms, large flowered, long stems, pink— Lange, first; Blake, second; Ma- daus, third; Bejils, fourth, l''or vase of 2,^ cut blooms, large fiowered, long sterns, yellow — Blake, first; Madaus, second; Hi-als, third. l'"or vase of not to exceed 12 white blooms — ItlaUe, first: Lange, second: Madaus, third; Beals, fourth. l''or vase of not to exceed 12 red blooms — Blake, first; Madtius, second: Beals, third. For vast! of not to exceed 12 yellow blooms — Lange. first; Blake, second; Beals, third, Darliujr. fourth. F()r vase of not to exceed 12 pink blooms — Lange, first: iladaus, second; Blake, third; Sar- gent, fourth. For vase of not to exceed 12 blooms, mixed vari- eties — Lange first; M. J, \\'liittall, second; Mrs. Stirgent, third; Madaus, fourth. For. display of distinct named varieties of pom- pon chrysanthemums, one spray in a vase — Blake, first. A. H. L. Cleveland. The chrysanthemum show and floral festival given by the Cleveland Florists' Club has j ust closed , so naturally it should be the burden of your correspondent's song at this time, as it was impossible to cover it in time for the previous issue. The weather was raw and chilly, but nothing to complain of and the attendance was very good, but not sufficiently so to prevent some financial loss to the club, owing to the low admission rate and the high expense of some of the attractions. The dinner decorations were a notable feature, nine being set in all. The chrys- santhemum tables were good, James Eadie's which took first, being entirely in yellow with Adiantum Farleyense; |. M. Gasser's in light pink, took second; A. Graham & Son's, in jellow and red get- ting third. All other floral arrangements, excepting ( he chrysanthemum tables, were shown Thursday. Four table decor- ations were shown on this day, J. M. Gasser's receiving first. It was done entirely in Testout roses, with lily of the valley and white violets tied with nar- row white ribbon at each plate. A gor- geous display of cut glass enhanced the appearance of the table. A. Graham & Son showed an excellent arrangement with a star center piece in white roses. Cypripedium insigne and adiantum. with a tall vase of American Beauties rising out of it; this decoration took sec .nd. Ella Grant Wilson was awarded third for an effective arrangement of Meteor roses and lily of the valley. James Eadie's table which was of Bridesmaids and adiantum with violets at each place, was awarded honorable mention. First for buffet tables went to James Eadie for a simple airangemcnt of American Beauties; second to J. M. Gasser for a decoration of Kaiserin .\ugusta, and mignonette. There was a long list of baskets entered in chrysanthemum arrangements; first went to J. M, Gasser for a basket of .\da Spaulding the handle being tied with pale green ribbon which made a beautiful combination; second to .\. Graham & Son for an all white arrangement; third to James Eadie, white with pink ribbons. In addition there were a number of special prizes ofi'ered for various floral decorations, which brought out a good deal of competition. The exhibits in this line were of good quality but nothing of special note was shown. In all floral arrangements including tables, the jtidg- ing was done by a committee of ladies, who did very well, although some dis- satisfaction was expressed. Hardly any other result could be expected, however, where competition was close, and as the disappointments were distributed with an impartial hand in most instances, there is not much to be said. Each one has taken his medicine with reasonable good nature, which is always best. In carnations J. M. Gasser was first for a large red of good color; and H. \. Hart second for Portia. Caspar .\ul showed a seedling somewhat like Tiilal Wave in color. It had size, color and fr.igrancc and as shown kept unusually well under the severe conditions of a public hall Its originator claims it to be an excellent grower and bloomer. H. A. Hart secured first for Daybreak and J. M. Gasser to i8g6. The American Florist. 385 first for .yellow with good Buttercup. One of the most notable exhibits was a vase of fifty Modesto, shown by Nathan Smith & Son. As sown it was easily a winner over Mollenkopfs second and Paddock's third with Major Bonnaifon, although these were excellent in all points. Finally it may be said that the show was in every way a very distinct advance over that held last fall. We made no money, but nevertheless we are not discouraged. Williams & Wilson met with a misfor- tune lately that might easily have had a serious outcome had the weather been cold. First one boiler gave out, throw- ing the work all upon one other boiler, their third one not being at that time connected in working shape; then one flue in boiler number two gave out, leav- ing them utterly without heat for their plant. It took nearly a week to get mat- ters in shape, but fortunately "Old Probs" was kind and no serious mishap resulted. A. Grand Rapids, M ch. The second annual chrysanthemum show of the Florists' Club was held in Lockerby Hall Nov. 9 to 15. The ladies who assisted were given 15 per cent for selling cut flowers and plants, and were allowed to serve meals, sell fancy articles, etc. An admission fee of 25 cents was charged and this was used to pay the ex- penses incurred. In every way the show^ was a success and decidedly better than last year. The flowers were better grown, largir and more plentiful and there were enough to fill a hall twice thesizeof Lockerby, which is the largest in the city. The general ar- tistic effect of the gorgeous blooms nod- James Schols, F. A. Chapman, James Creelman, F. W. North. Paul Goebel & Son and Geo. Hancock & Son. The large mound of palms 25x4-0 feet made by H. Smith and Crabb & Hun- ter was very beautiful, giving a fine effect to the entire hall. The gipsy cave was also an attraction and was well pat- ronized. There were six other banks of palms besides the foregoing. The one at the front entrance was made by F. A. Chapman; F. W. North and the Grand Rapids Floral Co. had a lovely bank of & Hunter's arrangement of specimen chrysanthemums with ferns and palms was the most admired. In chrysanthemum plants first pre- miums went to Henry Smith for display of pink sorts, specimm white, specimen yellow, specimen red, standard yellow, 6 bush plants white, 6 ditto red, 25 plants any color, and 10 yellow. To Crabb & Hunterlbr specimen bronze, standard red, standard white, 6 bush plants yellow, 6 ditto bronze, 6 any color, 10 white and 10 red. To Stover Floral Co. for 6 bush MRS. JEROME JONES AT THE CHICAGO SHOWi MRS. S. T. MURDOCK AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. ding a welcome to the visitors will long be remembered. Fortimately the weather was fine and consequently people felt like attending. Good orchestra music proved a paying investment. The sacred con- cert given on Sunday evening was not ap- preciated, $40 being paid for the music and the receipts were only $75. Adieu sacred concerts! It is generallj' conceded, however, that the show lasted too long, for the public tire of it after two or three days and next year it will not be so drawn out. Competition was offered to the club members only, and the following members exhibited: Henrv Smith. Crabb& Hunter, Grand Rapids Floral Co., N. B. Stover, ferns at the fo it of the stage. The finest palms and plants from the city green- houses were banked on the staee as were also Paul Goeble's. Crabb & Hunter. H. Smith and the Grand Rapids Floral Co., had their fine standard chrysanthemums well arranged about the hall and the large and well-grown bush plants were in front of each florist's booth. The hall is 100x200 feet, with a circular gallery where the crowd could be seated; under this gallery were booths on each side of the hall where tift ladies sold their fancy articles. The latter made about $600 for the Home, and the generous flor- ists will receiveonly 50% of their premium money. Of the mantel decorations Crabb plants pink. To Grand Rapids Floral Co. for 10 pink single stem and 10 any color. For group of tropical plants Henry Smith was first; Crabb & Hunter, Grand Rapids Floral Co., F A. North and James Schols also receiving awards. In chrysanthemum blooms Henry Smith was first for 12 yellow, 12 bronze and display of cut blooms Grand Rapids Floral Co', for 12 white and 12 pink. Stover Floral Co. lor 12 red. In carnations Grand Rapids Floral Co. were first for 25 light pink, 25 white and best display. J. A. Creelman for 25 dark pink and 12 vellow. Geo Hancock & Son for 12 red. Crabb & Hunter for 12 any color. In roses Grand Rapids Floral Co. were first for 12 white. Henry Smith for 12 pink, 12 yellow and 12 American Beauty. Crabb & Hunter were first on 100 vio- lets and mantel decoration. Henry Smith on table decoration. Of the special premiums Crabb & Hunter won for specimen pink chrysan- themum, specimen white ditto, 15 single stem ditto, pair of cyclamens, standard chrysanthemum, standard white ditto, pair \iaior Bonnaffbn ditto, specimen geranium, specimen Mutual Friend chrys- anthemum and several other prizes for standard chrysanthemums. Henry Smith won the specials for specimen araucaria and standard chrysanthemum. E. A. St. Louis. The sixth annual chrysanthemum show of the St. Louis Florist Club was a record breaker for attendance; the weather and the people were with us this time; we opened Wednesday evening at 7 p. m. to the largest first night crowd we ever had. 386 The American Florist. Nov. 21, The general arrangement of the hall was changed from that of former years In entering the hall the large stairway was covered with wild smilax and a large group of chrj'santhemums. The hall in- side was floored over the seats on a level with the stage; the balcony was also covered wito wild smilax and foliage; a stairway was built leading to it, f o when the hall was crowded visitors would go up stairs, which was also decorated with pot plants and palms. The orchestra was to the left of the hall and the saks- booth to the right. Everybody on enter- ing the hall remarked that the arrange- ment of the show was perfect in every detail and everybody had a good word for the committee for its work. The first night all the plants were judged except the Shaw prizes on plants, the judges having too much work for one evening, so they finished up the next day. The judges for the first day were Julius Konig, Sr., J F. Emmonds and F. W. Ude, Jr., on plants; Andrew Meyer, W. Trilow and A. Ellison on carnations; J. \V. Kunz, C. C. Sanders and Max Ilerzog on roses. E. G. Hill & Co., Richmond, Ind., showed a large vase of the new rose Pres- ident Carnot which was much admired by all who saw it. J. Br. itraeyer & Sons displayed a vase ot their new carnation, Maj'or Pingree, one of the verv best of yellows. W. J. and M. S. Vesey and E. G. Hill & Co. showed some new seedling carnations; all the above were not for competition, but all received honorable mention. J. C. Vaughan, of Chicago, displaced some very large chrysanthemum plants which came in for a great share of atten- tion. On Thursday there was a fine display of carnations, cut roses and chrj'santhe- mums. These blooms were arranged on long tables in the main hall and attracted all the attention while being arranged. Cut mignonette and violets were also shown on Thursday; the violets were especially attractive, there being eight entries, each showing a bunch of 200. Friday being society day all the special prizes that were ofiered by society ladies were shown, and the club prize for the best handle basket. This was our banner day for atti ndance, the largest ever known in this hall. The vases of 50 chrysanthemums made as fine a display- as was ever seen at any chr\ santhemum show. There were also special prizes for roses and Emma Wocher carnation. The handle baskets, eight in number, made a fine showing. The best attraction of this day and for the balance of the week was the orchid flowers displayed by Eugene Waerst, head gardener to Mr. Brown of Brownhurst, the special prize for which was ofiered bv \\ m. Schray. Saturday was W. T. C. l'. day, and all Ihe delegates attending the convention of the W. C.T. U. were given complimentary tickets to the show. This being the day for all the Shaw prizes on cut blooms to be displayed, the great number of entries brought a large attendance of florists. The Dailledouzc of Mr. Vesey were the fin- est ever seen in this city. The first prize Bonnafi'on shown by the Michel Plant and Bulb Co., were also very fine. Roses and carnations were displayed in the evening and all attracted a very large crowd. On Sunday all the exhibits stayed over. The attendance was not so large on Sun- day, but was much larger than last year. Take it as a whole this was the most suc- cessful show ever given by the Florist's Club. The visitors at the show were George Kuhl and wife, of Pekin; Paul Taner, of E. G. Hill & Co., Richmond, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. Vesey, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Mr. Gullett and mother; S. Skidelsky, Phila- delphia; Mr. Brown, of Brown &Canfield, Springfield, 111.; and W. A. Chalfant, of Springfield, Mo. THE AWARDS. The Shaw premiums were awarded on Wednesday as lollows: Largest and best collection of named palms, not less ihan 12 kinds, first, Wm. Schray; second, C. Beyer; third, Jordan Floral Co. Largest and best collection named begonias, Michel Plant and Bulb Co., Wm. Schray, F, J. Fillmore. Largest and best collec- tion of named ferns, Michel Plant and Bulb Co., Wm. Schray, Jordan Floral Co. Largest and best collection of named loliage plants other than above, with variegated leaves, Wm Schrav, Michel Plant and Bulb Co., F. J. Fillmore. Col- lection of 25 blooming plants for house decoration, exclusive of chrysanthemums, Wm. Schray, C. C. Sanders, C. Young & Sons Co. Best 12 varieties of geraniums in bloom, not over 6-inch pots, F. J. Fill- more, A. Meyer, Wm. Schray. Best G named roses in bloom, not over 8-inch pots, Wm. Schrav, F. |. Fillmore, Michel Pla t and Bulb Co. Best 12named Mow- ering begonias, Wm. Schrav, Michel Plant and Bulb Co., C. Young & Sons Co, Best six named orchids in bloom, Wm. Schray, C. Young & Sons Co. Best six named bouvardia in bloom, Wm. Schray, F. J. Fillmore. Best six nained cyclamens in bloom, C. C. Sanders, Wm. Schray. Specimen Oreca lutescens, C. C. Sanders, Jordan Floral Co. Specimen Howea Belmoreana, Wm. Schray, Jordan Floral Co. Specimen Howea Forsteriana, Wm. Schray, Chas. Beyer. Specimen Livistona chinensis, Wm. Schray, C. C. Sanders. Specimen Pandanusutilis, Wm. Schray, C. Beyer. Specimen decorative plant other than the above, Wm. Schray, F". J. Fillmore. The Club's premiums on chrysanthe- mum plants went asf^llows. For3planls white in 3 varieties, Miclel Plant and Bulb Co., Wm. Schray. F. J. Fillmore; ,3 plants vellow in three sorts, Wm. Schrav, MichefPlant and Bulb Co., A. Meyer; "s pink in 3 sorts, Michel Plant and Bulb Co.; 3 anv other color in 3 sorts, C. Young & Sons Co., Michel Plant & Bulb Co., F. J. Fillmore; specimen white, A. Meyer, Michel Plant and Bulb Co., C. C. Sanders; specimen yellow, Schray, Michel, Meyer; specimen pink, Michel, J. C. Vaughan, Fillmore; specimen any color, Vaughan, Schray, Michel; three white, yellow and pink, Schray, Michel; second competition in preceding. Michel, Schray; third competition in same, Schray; plants any color, Michel; best arranged group, C. Beyer, Schray; white standard, Vaughan, Fillmore, Schray; j-ellow stand- ard, Meyer, Schray, Vaughan; pink stand- ard, Vaughan, Meyer, Schrav; standard any other color, Meyer, Fillmore, Vaughan; 25 plants in 7-inch pots, Beyer, Meyer, Young; 50 single stems. Young, Meyer, Fillmore; 25 white single stem, Meyer, Fillmore; 25 pink single stem, St. Clair f-loral Co. Meyer, Fillmore. Carnation plants — 20 plants in bloom. Schray, Meyer, Fillmore; 3 yellow and 3 white, Schray. Chrysanthemum cut blooms — 24- white in 3 sorts. Young, Michel; 2-1- yellow in 3 sorts, E. Ct. Hill & Co., Michel. Young; 24- pink in 3 sorts. Hill, Michel, Young. Cut carnations — +0 white, fohnStcidle, H. G. Ude, St. Clair Floral Co., 50 pink. Chestnut Slope Greenhouses, St. Clair Floral Co., E. W. Guy; 4-0 red, John Steidle. F. W. Ude, Jr., St. Clair Floral Co.; 50 assorted, John Steidle, F. W.Ude, Jr., E. W. Guy. Of the other Shaw premiums those for any white chrysanthemum went to Young, St. Clair Floral Co. and Hill in order named; any variety introduced in '94 to '9G, Hill, Schray, Michel. In cut roses Ellison & Tesson were first on 20 Wootton; Wm. Trillow on 20 Bridesmaid and 20 Mermet; J. E. Amman on 20 Perles; C. Young & Sons Co. on 6 American Beauty and 20 Kaiserin. Ellison & Tesson took first for best arranged box of cut flowers, and for vase of 24 chrysanthemums W'm. Schray was first, St. Clair Floral Co., second. On Thursday there were new competi- tions in cut flowers, and the awards were as follows on chrysanthemums: 12 Golden W^edding, Michel, W.J. and M. S. Vesev, C. C. Sanders; 12 Niveus, E. W. Guy, Sanders, Michel; 12 any variety, Michel; 25 any one variety, Schray, Michel, Young; 24 assorted. Hill, Schray. In cut rosss W. H. Gullett & Sons were first for 20 Meteor, Ida M Fravell for 25 La France; Wm. Trillow for 20 Bride, Ellison & Tesson for 20 Testout. In carnations [ohn Steidle was first for 50 vScott. F. W. Ude, Jr., for 50 McGowan and 50 Daybreak. A. Meyer was first for 12 blooms mignonette; E. Wurst forcolhction orchid flowers; Ellison & Tesson for 200 single violets; Jordan Floral Co. for 2 plants Asparagus sprengeri. On Friday there was another competi- tion in cut blooms. In chrysanthemums W. J. and M. S. Vesey were first for vase of 25 assorted, and Wm. Schray for vase of 50. In cut roses C. Young & Sons Co. were first for 20 blooms one variety; Ellisnn & Tesson for 50 in 5 varieties; Gullett & Sons for 20 Meteor; W. J and M. S. Vessey for 25 American Beautj-. In carnations Vesey was first for 50 Day- break, Stuart & Haugh for 50 any new variety; St. Clair Floral Co. for 25 each of 10 varieties. For handle basket Elli- son & Tesson were first, Ayers Floral Co. second. On Saturday there was still another cut flower competition. In chrysanthe- mums Wm. Schray was first for 48 in 8 sorts, 12 anv other pink variety and 12 Ivory; W. j. and M. S Vesey for 12 Dailledouze and 12 Queen. Michel Plant and Bulb Co. for 12 Bonnaffbn, 12 any other yellow and 12 Viviand-Morel. In cut roses Vesey was first for 30 Kaiserin; Ellison & Tesson for 25 Beauty and 20 Bridesmaid; C. Yoimg i Sons Co. for 50 Morgan; J. F. ."^niman for 20 Perles. In cut carnations II. W. Auer was first for 50 Emma Wocher, St. Clair Floral Co. for 10 varieties, 50 flowers of each; \V. J. and M. S. Vesev for 55 white. New Orleans. The chrvsanthemum show was opened by Mayor Flower and a committee com- posed of the councilmen. The first day's attendance was very small owing, no doubt, to the unfavorable wntlier pre- vailing at the time. Financially the show will not be recorded as a success for the public failed to take the interest which was manifested last year. The quantity of the exhibit was less than last year, hut the quality was much improved. Mr. H. Papworth exhibited a new va- riety of 'mum, a sport from Kiota of bronzy color; he has named it Mrs. H. Papworth. In group of clirysantlieninm and foliage plants, first premium went to Dan News- ham, also fjr one specimen plant. For 12 i8g6. The American Florist. 387 PRIZE-WINNING VASE OP VIVIAND-MOREL AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. specimen plants in 12 varieties single stem, in pots not exceeding 6 inches; for 12 plants of one variety single stem in pots not exceeding 6 inches, and for 12 specimen plants in 12 varieties in pots not exceeding 12 inches, J. St. Mard was first; for 6 specimen plants in 6 varieties not exceeding 12 inches; for 6 specimen plants anj' one color in pots not exceed- ing 12 inches and for 12 specimen plants in 12 varieties in pots not exceeding 6 inches, H. Papworth was first. In collection of palms open to nursery- man, Chas. Eble got first; for 12 palms open to private gardeners Harry Pap- worth was first. In collection of ferns open to nursery- men J. H. Menard got first; for 12 ferns open to private gardeners Geo. Thomas got first. In chrysanthemum blooms H. Pap- worth was first for 20 varieties, two blooms of each, 12 varieties 2 blooms of each, one vase of specimen blooms white, one vase of 12 specimen blooms pink, one vase of 50 specimen blooms, a genera! col- lection of 3 blooms each and for best grown seedling in Louisiana not in com- merce. J. St. Mard was first for 6 vari- eties 3 blooms of each and for 12 sprays in 12 varieties. In roses Abele Bros. lA-ere first for col- lection of roses not more than 3 blooms each, open to nurseryman only; for best vase of roses, any color, not less than 50 blooms, Chas. Eble first. The special prize offered by Mrs. M. L. Navra for the best vase of Duchess de Brabant roses, was won by J. H. Menard. In floral work in chrysanthemums J. H. Menard got first prize for floral design, and Chas. Abele first for basket, mantel decoration, basket of roses, funeral de- sign and hand bouquet. The latter also secured second prize for corsage bouquet and table decoration as no firsts were ofiFered. In the list of awards special mention was made of J. H. Menard, Abele Bros , R. V. Little and H. Papworth, who made some entries for exhibit rather than for competition. Syracuse, N. Y. The chrysanthemum show held here under the" auspices of the Central New York Horticultural Society has been a success financially as well as in every other particular. ' It was on a very much larger scale than any ever held in this city before. The Alhambra Hall, in which it was held, is a very spacious one and was filled to its utmost with specimen plants and flowers that it would be safe to say could not be outclassed anywhere. The hall was arranged very tastefully in circles of different dimensions which con- tained the various groups of potted plants, while the side aisles were utilized for the cut flowers. The Steams electric tower was placed in the center and with its 150 or more lights had a most charm- ing effect; around its base were grouped yellow specimen plants. The two flower booths were artistically arranged at either side of the stage and the Japanese Queens, as we might term them, who con- ducted the same, dressed in diffei ent colors, were a very striking feature. In the ever- ing choice selections were rendered by the orchestra in good style while hundreds of people passed to and fro among the different exhibits, gentlemen in evening dress and the best of our society people all glistening under the lights of the lower made more than one lemark; it was a floral paradise. In the chrj'santhemum plant classes for florists P. R. Quinlan & Co. were first for 12 plants 12 varieties, pots not to exceed 10 inch. These were a grand dozen, the varieties being Ivorj', CuUingfordii, A. H. Fewkes, Hicks Arnold, Golden Wedding, L. Boehmer, Geo. W. Childs, Mrs. H. Robinson, J. H. Troy, Mme. Ferrin, Lin- coln and Nemesis. Quinlan & Co. were also first for 6 plants, yellow; 6 plants, white and single specimen plant; C. A. Phillips taking second in the last class. For group of stove and greenhouse plants. P. R Quinlan & Co. were first, L. E. Mar- quisee second. In the classes for gardeners first for 15 plants 15 varieties, pots not to exceed 10 inches, a sterling silver cup, went to C. Barson, gardener to Hon. J. J. Belden, these were remarkably well done; second, Geo. Ham. 8 plants 8 varieties, first W. Parsons, gardenertoE.N. Trump; second, C. Barson, third, D. Campbell, gardener to Major A. Davis; 6 plants white, first, W. Parsons; second, C. Barson; third, Geo Ham, gardener to State Asylum for Feeble Minded Children; 6 plants yellow, first, Geo. Ham; second, C. Barson, third, W. Parsons. A splendid plant of Golden Lace in Ham's 6 was very noteworthy. Single specimen, first, W. Parsons, second, Geo. Ham; third, C. Barson. Group of stove and greenhouse plants, first, D. Campbell, second, C. Barson. A magnificent plant of Maranta zebrina in D. Campbell's collection attracted much attention. In the classes for amateurs, for 8 plants 8 varieties, first, Stephen Morey, second, C. H. Vrooman; 6 plants 6 varieties, first, S. Morey; second, T. Hobson; third, C. H. Vrooman; 2 specimens, first, S. Morey. These were well grown plants and would have made a close call for professionals. In the open to all classes for chrysan- themum blooms, L E. Marquissee was first for varieties, 12 blooms of each; second, P. R. Quinlan & Co. The Mar- quisee exhibit was grand, the varieties being Maud Dean, Peter Kay (an enor- mous yellow and finely built ), Mayflower, Frank Thompson, Philadelphia and Prin- cess of Chrysanthemums. The judge remarked that he had never seen such fine blooms. L. E. Marquisee was also first for 3 varieties, 12 blooms of each, 12 blooms white, 12 pink 12 yellow and 24 blooms in 24 varieties, Quinlan & Co. taking the seconds in ihe first three classes and C. A. Phillips in the last. Quinlan & Co. were first for largest and best display of blooms, also for table decoration, composed of Cattleya labiata and Cypripedium insigne in adiantum; second for table decoration went to C. Barson for an arrangement of pink chrys- anthemums and Daybreak carnations which made a charming color effect. In cut roses Quinlan & Co. were first for best collection, and 3 varieties, 12 blooms of each; L. E. Marquisee second in both classes. In cut carnations Mar- quisee was first for collection and 50 blooms each of three varieties, Quinlan for 50 blooms any varieties. Specimen plant , Mrs. Adelaide white chrysanthemum, first, P. R. Quinlan & Co. For the plant bearing the greatest number of perfect blooms, first, Geo. Ham. This was probably the best plant in the exhibition, a fine specimen of Lin- coln, abotit 7 feet in diameter with up- wards of 200 fine flowers; second, P R. Quinlan & Co. with Ivory, Bestseedliug not yet disseminated, first, Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., variety Western King, an exquisite white. There was a lively competition in this section, L. E. Marquisee being close with a good pink. Best bloom on exhibition, first, L. E. Marquisee, variety Mrs. Geo. West. Col- lection of plants grown for market pur- poses, first, P. R. Quinlan & Co., exceed- ingly well grown stocky plants requiring no staking. Three varieties of seedling carnation were exhibited byC.F. Baker of Utica and received a certificate of merit. The judge re- marked "a grand red, very worthy white, the pink an enlarged Rose Queen." A certificate of merit was also given to the Syracuse Pottery Co. for their new patent compressed pots and pans. Mr. Smiley gardener for Hendricks Holden had a novel exhibit in the way of aricinusplant 12 feet high. Mr. Grove P. Rawson's exhibit was most interesting and beautiful. Among 388 The American Florist. Nov. 21, his "novelties" were Olive Green (colored olive green), Blue Jay (colored blue). His collection of Chinese, pompon and Anemone varieties was quite a contrast to the larger kinds and excited lots of curiosity. A vase of Bonnaffon showed good culture. In his nesv varieties Thanksgiving was a taker, a great im- provement on Eda Prass, very full center and promises to be at its best on Thanks- giving. Syracuse is also a beautiful white, a very early variety. Wm. H. Chadwi k looks like an improvement on Golden Wedding, while Madeline Pratt will give Western King a hard rub. The society awarded a special gnld medal to Mr. Rawson in appreciation of his services and his choice exhibit. Everyone is congratulating each other on their success, not a single fault to find with the judging. The public is so stirred up and enthusiastic it will not wither in a year. Already two sterling silver cups and a gold medal have been promised as special prizes next year. The press took great care of us. It was a good scheme to sell tickets a week before the show Over one thousand paid admissions at the door. The girls did a good business in the flower booths. A great many plants were sold by private sale while on exhibition, to be delivered after the show closed. A good many visitors from out of town amongst them being Messrs. Crowe, Spencer, McLean and Baker of Utica, and J. B. Bellamy, Holyoke, Mass. Alpha. Orange, N J The second annual exhibition of the New Jersey Horticultural Society was held in the Tennis building of the Athletic Club at East Orange, on November 10-12. The interior of the hall was prettily dec- orated vi'ith evergreen boughs and fes- toons, and the entrance was made at- tractive by groups of small fancy conifers in pots, contributed by W. A. Manda. (jcorge Smith, gardener to S. Colgate, won highest honors with his chrysanthe- mum plants, his group of . hese being ex- cellent in all points and hispairof trained specimens (W. H. Lincoln) showed a de- gree of perfection rartly attained. Peter Uuff, gardener to J. Brosby Brown, also excelled in the quality of his trained plants, standards and small plants grown to single stem and bloom. Other prize winners in this department were M.Mac- Rorie, gardener to Dr. H. A. Mandeville, and D. Kindsgarb, gardener to Wm. Runk'e. The silver cup offered by S. M. & A. Colegate for the most meritorious exhibit was awarded to George Smith. Circular groups of palms and decora- tive foliaged plants tastefully arranged by D. Kindsgarb and M. MacRorie added greatly to .he appearance of the hall. Equally effective was a mantel decoration by Robert McArthur done with decora- tive foliaged plants and white chrysan- themums, and an artistically arranged group of stove and greenhouse plants with cypripediums and Uncidium varico- sum hom W. A. Manda. The most beau- tiful plant in the hall was a golatn foli- aged variety ot Maranta pulchella shown by M. MacRorie. Peter Duff contributed many handsome specimens, inclur'ing la- tanias, cycads and large ferns. D. Kinds- grab and (tCO. Smith also made fine dis- plays of ferns, one jjiant of .^diantum cuneatum, four feet through, with the fronds entirelj' hiding in the pot, being pronounced the most perfect ever shown. Conittrs from Montrose Nurseries, and potted violets from Fritz Ducker were also good. In the cut flower department there was a fine assortment of specimen chrysanthemum blooms in all the leading sorts. The best bloom in the hall was one of Eugene Dailledouze shown bv Gar- rett & Rose. T. H. Spaulding exhibited some good seedlings for which he received a certificate of merit, and J. N. May's Evangeline won a similar honor. Mr. May filled a table with an interesting dis- play of roses, carnations, mignonette, etc., and was awarded certificates of merit for carnations Lily Dean and Maud Dean. Certificates were also given to Ernst Asmus for rose Souvenir du Presi- dent Camot and to D. Kindsgrab for a seedling white carnation. F. W. Mass- mann" made interesting exhibits in the cut-flower department, among them a wreath of galax leaves with Bride roses, violets and violet ribbon, and Robert McArthur contributed center pieces and baskets of chrysanthemums and roses. The catalogue contained besides the list of prizes, interesting contributions on the culture of various plants from expeit members of the snciety and was well-filled out with advertisements. On Wednedav afternoon the school children were ad- mitted free. The judges were Eugene Dailledouze, Wm. Turner, W. Anderson, H. McCrowe and C. Knight. Northampton, Mass. What is believed to have been the finest exhibition of chrysanthemums ever seen in western Massachusetts was held at the City Hall on Nov. 11-13. under the man- agement of the Northampton Horticul- tural Society. In every respect the show surpassed that o( last year which was re garded at the time as a great success. Donald McGregor gardener for E. H. R.' Lyman, was the winner of most of the first prizes in the plant and cut flower classes His collections were very exten- sive and of the highest quality. Splendid displays, not for competition, were also made by E. J. Canning gardener at Smith college; E. A. White of Amherst Agricul- tural college, G. W.Thorniley of the State Asylum, and E. H. Howland. Alex Parks and H. W. Field were represented by ex- tensive exhibits which were winners in several classes. Carnations were shown by D. 0. McGregor and E. B. Beals. Mis- cellaneous contributions came from Mrs. M. S. Mann, L. W. Goodell, A. B. Kingman and others. The judges were A. Miellez of Springfield and G. H.Sinclair of Holyoke. Hagerstown, Md. The first chrysanthemum show given under the auspices of the Washington County Floricultural Society was held Nov. 12. 13 and 14, and was a very cred- itable aftair. Among the florists who ex- hibited were Wm. and Henry Bester, J. W. Dayhoff, Henry Holzap'cl, Jr., and Henry Eicholtz. The amateur premiums were well contested and everything points toward a better show next year. Mr. E. A. Seidewitz of Baltimore was judg'. The displaj- contained about 1,000 single stem plants, some fine bush plants and a liberal displaj' of cut blooms. The $200 ofiered in premiums has for the most part, been donated back to the so- ciety to aid next j'ear's exhibition H. H,JR. Mount Kisco, N. Y. The Bedford Flower Club held its sec- ond annual flower show in the Mount Kisco opera house Nov. 11 to 13 inclu- sive. The show was an artisti'; success. In the classes forgardeners and growers Mr. A. J. Tharp, Bedford, N. Y., was the largest exhibitor of chrysanthemum plants, he taking first prizes for collection of cut blooms, collection in pots, specimen plant and best single variety-. In roses jas. F. Sutton was first for best collec- tion; J. B. Dutcher for 6 blooms of one varietv. In carnations J. D. Lavng won on collection; Mr. R. E, Shuphe'lt Chat- ham, N. Y., on 12 blooms one variety. J. D. Layng was first on bunch of 50 vio- lets. In pansies H. Spavins was first for 12 pots, while Jas. Wood won for best show of cut blooms. Jas. Wood also won in collection of cyclamens and specimen plant of same. Michael Green was first on collection of other cut flowers. For collection of palms, first went to Doyle Bros , Katonah, X. Y ; second to A. J. Tharp, third to H. Spavins, and fourth to O. V. Roden. For single palm O.V.Rodin was first. In ferns H. Spavins was first on collection and A. J. Tharp on single plant. Jas. Wood was first for specimen araucaria. In begonias J. D. Layng was first on collection of flowering sorts, C. L. Birdsall on collection ot Rex varieties, and H. Spavins on specimen flowering variety. There was an interesting competition in the classes for amateurs who do not employ gardeners, the prizes being well distributed. In the special classes certificates of merit were awarded to C. W. Ward, Queens, N. Y., for vase of seedling carna- tions; to J. F. Sutton for display of vio- lets in bloom; to M. Green for collection of garden-grown pompon chrysanthe- mums; to A. J. Tharp for group of Ficus elastica; to Jas. V\ ood for group of deco- rative plants; to H. Spavins for group of coniferjE in pots; to Mrs. Chas. Ware for specimen epiphyllums in bloom; to J D. Layng for group of abutilons; to C. L. Birdsall for carnations in pots; to Doyle Bros , for vase of carnations; to H. Spav- ins for group of Lilium rubrum in bloom; to Mrs. W. T. Halstead for specimen Ficus elastica; to Mrs. A. Merritt for specimen cactus; to 0. V. Roden for Ger- man floral design. J. I. D. Carnation Notes. At this time of the year the cultural work in the carnation houses should be well advanced or nearly done; we arrive at that state where the farmer in his sum- mer work says, he has laid his corn by, he is done with the cultural work on that crop and awaits his harvest. Carnations should be so advanced in growth that they cover the benches. The plants should be thoroughly cleaned from all yellow and decayed leaves, the soil mulched if this were intended, and the supports in place; we arrive at that stage of carnation cult- ure where we can say we lay our carna- tiin benches by. The successful grower has his plants now under control, regulates temperature and moisture; that he has at his will. He is not so independent as regards light and the ever invigorating rays of the sun, but his houses are so built that he receives all their possible benefit during theshortand often cloudy winter days. A bountiful h irvest will be the reward lor the care and watchfulness bestowed. In short, plants should be advancediatheir growth i8g6. The American Florist. 389 and culture to such a stage that only rouiine work is required, as watering, ventilating, keeping up temperature, here and there helping the young sboots to their supports, giving nourisbmeut; that at this time may be commenced with welladvaoced healthy plants, and cutting and marketing the flowers. I willshorily recapitulate the routine work for the winter as done at our place. Conditionof plan' s. -If properly cleaned from yellow and decayed leaves, caused by the transplanting or fungous diseases, especially spot and fairy ting, that have been more or less prevalent this fall, and find nothing to do but to help the young shoots to their support and see to it that they grow up straight through the net- ting of wire and twine above the plant. Our work with the soil is entirely done, and we never allow any hoeing cr scratch- ing. If an occasional weed finds its way up between the plants these will be pulled. Any stirring of the soil to any depth I con>ider injurious, for if we only stir to the depth of one-half inch we destroy val- uab e roots. Our plants are covering the benchis, shading the soil, and the young roots seem to revel rear the surface, tak- ing up the nourishment given. We invariably water underneath the plants, and never allow any syiinging of the foliage during the winter months without cause; it may be said that a care- ful grower will find no cause. Thespoies of fungus growth will only grow well when tley find moisture. The germ of the bacteria is assisted by moisture in entering the host. Red spider will seldom attack plants when in a healthy condi- tion. The splash of the water over the leaves will wash away that bluish bloom, that sign of health and hardiness, and I may say that safeguard, against fungous and bacterial diseases. When deprived of water the leaves grow more tender, moisture will lodge easier, and the growth of the disease germs promoted. When we water, we water freely. The carna- tions require quite a good deal of water, but then give the soil a chance again to dry out; with scant watering at the time we are never sure to reach the bottom of the bench. We take advantage of every favorable moment to ventilate, but here of course temperature has to be taken into consid- eration. Our night temperature is 55°or near it, day temperature 60°, and when it reaches 65° we ventilate in all kinds of weather. When mild, but cloudy and damp, we put on some fire heat and open the ventilators. No damp houses are allowet, tor this condition may form a dew or sweat on the plants, and this breeds disease. A light fresh sweet air is what the carnation wants. Our houses are all high and roomy. Ventilating sash continues so even in quite cold weather when the ventilators are open, the cold air entering becomes quite moderated before it reaches the plants. In regard to nourishment, from cow on we shall feed regularly once a week with liquid manure, prepared as described some time ago in my notes. For preventive measures, we syringe with the copper solution in ammonia occe in three or four weeks on a bright day in the morning, when we may be reasona- bly sure fjr the plants to dry off again before night. We fumigate with the tobacco extract once in two w(eks, and keep sulphur applied to one of the heat- ing pipes. These with the cutting of the flowers comprise our routine work. Fred Dornek. Violets. The following comes from J. G. H.: "Can you tell me what is the cause of my violets (Marie Louise) losing their leaves? The edge of the leaves seem to die in one night and look as if scalded or burnt; they were fine plants when hous:d, but as I have picked ofT the diseased leaves they are nearly bare of foliage. They were planted in heavy rich soil such as I have for roses, and which do well. Does it hurt them to water overhead on bright days? I keep them at 45° at n'ght with air on and plenty of air indaj- time, while the runners are kept well picked off. If there is any remedy please state in your columns." It is difficult to say without seeing the leaves what disease is troubling your violets. What is generally known as the violet disease appears in spots on the If aves, first a small speck and then spread- ing out and the leaf bleaching white. The temperature quoted for night is all right, but it should not be higher. On warm days give plenty of air, but when there is a cold wind it is better to let the temper- ature go up to 60° or 65° than expose them to a cutting draft. The violet, both in this countrv and Europe, flowers when we have cold nights and warm bright days, and that is somewhat of a guide for us. A heavy loam is not considered the best for violets, but instead a rather light loam with a good mixture of leaf mould is best, but I would advise our correspondent to stir up the surface of the bed and then mulch with spent hops or well rotted stablemanure. The water- ing or syringing when the sun is shining would do no harm, but why do it then? It is far better to do yt ur waterirg and syringing in the early morning, and syr- inge on every bright day. I have seen violets denuded of leaves in midwinter and then come out all right, and bear a good crop. I may add for the sake of safety, don't attempt to apply Bordeaux mixture or any solution or mixture that contains copper, for I have tried it and know that it is death to the foliage. Wm. Scott. Philadelphia. The weather at this writing is very warm for the season. Everything seems to be unfavorably affected bj- it, the peo- ple complain, flowers of all kinds show the tffects of it, and as a result business is very s!ow. Even the hustlers have a great time getting rid of their stock, for owing to the warm weather, eech day seems to increase their load, while the demand remains the same. During the show it was very dull, this week shows a little improvement, but prices are down. Chrysanthemums have not paid at all this season, so the growers say;they have not at anytime received a high figure and most have been sold btlow the cost of production. Many varieties are now cut out and the glut can be sa'd to he over. Robert Craig has two large houses, one of Liberty, his new late yellow, and another of Bonnaffon; both of these are very late and he will have the market almost to himself. The top price now, except for a few extra choice is $1.50 per dozen. Carnations are now good in all colors, but are far too plentiful, and not half of them are sold, the best price is $1 per hundred. In roses the same story may be told, good Brides and Mermets go for one to two cents, the best b. inging but four cents. Beauties sell from 60 cents to $2.50 per dozen; the first selec- tion only commands the latter figure. Smilax sells from 12 to 15 cents; aspara- gus 50 per string, adiantum 75 cents per hundred. Romans have made their ap- pearance and bring $■!•, paper white the same. The violets are also almost a glut A number of good flowers are received from the south; all the commission men g(t them, but although only shipped over night they are rarely sweet, while those picked at the same time about here are very fragrant; there must be some reason for this. Will some one please explain. The meeting of the Pennsylvania Hor- ticultural Society was htld in the hcture room of the hall last Tuesday evening. Routine business was transacted and a report of the late show was given by Secretary Rust. The showing was some what disappointing, as while the attend- ance was good, the two sides of the ledger only just about balanced, and it would seem as if the society can scarcely ever expect to make a profit out of its shows. However, seme thirty new members were proposed for membership, and if these additions can be kept up the duesof the members will soon make a balance in the treasury. The exhibition of chrysanthemums, palms, ferns, vegetables, etc., at the Haverford Cricket Club, held last Tues- day, Wednesday and Thursday was a very successful affair. There was a good display in all the departments and the individual character of most of them was fine. Mr. John Gardner was superin- tendent and Mr. George C. Wilson acted as secretary. H. H. Battles decorated the large mantel in the main exhibition room, with A. Farleyense. The shelf was banked, while the same decoration was continued up one side and over the top of the mirror. A few large bows of green ribbon to match the ferns seemed to tie them in place, while here and there were interspersed a few cyprioediums. In front on the fljor was a small kneeling stool trimmed with roses, valley and car nations. There was a nice collection of cut roses, chrysanthemums, carnations, etc. The different groups of plants arranged for effect were very well done and several of them contained rare and valuable plants. Haverford is in a dis- trict containing many fine private places and we expect in a few years to see this exhibition a competitor to that of the old society. F. Supiot staged a finecollection of violets, some twelve kinds or more; prominent among them was Princess de Galle, a light purple with a flower almost as large as a pansy. The attendance was good, and taken in svery department the managers have every reason to be proud of their first exhibition. GeoTge Anderson, A. B. Cartledge and John Burton are spending a week down in Delawareshooting for grouse and other game. K. Chicago. The past week has been very quiet, aad there is no perceptible change in business. Some of the dealers appear to be quite discouraged, while others try to look on the bright side and feel hopelul. The past few days have been cooler, and s'.ock is not looking quiteso well, especially roses. American Beauties are the only thing that are really selling well and at stiff prices, they being in great demand. Car- nations could not be finer, but they are not going off very rapidly. Roman hyacinths andsteviaarecoming in quite rapidly and selling fairly well, I the former at $4, the latter at '$1.50. 390 The American Florist. Nov. 21, Lily of the valley and violets are becom- ing more popular and selling well; this is quite encouraging to all concerned, for there was a time when customers would not look at either at any price. Chrysanthemums are looking rather flimsy since the show, and people seem to be tired of tbem. Owing to the fact that the date for the next regular meeting of the F orist Club falls on Thanksgiving day, no attempt will be made to hold a meeting. The fjl- lowing regular meeting will be held December 10. Recent visitors: E. G. Hill, Richmond, Ind.; E. H. Giesy of Lockland Lumber Co., Lockland, O.; Aug. S. Swanson, St. Paul; A. Dimmock, St. Albans. Ene.; F. Dorner, Jr., Lafayette, Ind.; H. Weber, Oakland, Md.; S. S. Skidelsky, Philadel- phia; Elmer D. Smith, Adrian, Mich. Buffalo. The writer was absent from town all last week, but he believes business was fairly good. The extraordinary fine weather is making all kinds cf flowers very plentiful. People erjay such balmy days as these, but forget tuat had wesuch weather for winter there would be no flo- rists worthy of the name and we would be all picking "posies" in our own "kail yard." As we have not been bothered with swell weddings, etc., the supply of 'mums is a trifle better than the demand, but the writer feels sure that when the grass is an invisible green they will be more prized. We had in town recently Mr. Peter Crowe of Utica, who was unable to inspect most of the greenhouses bccausethe paths are too narrow. Mr. Gould, the violet grower of Middleport, N. Y., also gave us a call, an unassuming gentleman who scatters violets o'er this smiling land. I took a run out to see the professor at his botanic gardtn very recently. He has some standard and bush plants that would have taken the choicest product of the bakery at a recent show that I had the honor to attend. But he is not blow- ing about his chrysanthemums; it's the cyclamen that has increased his cranial deve'opmenl. They are truly a wonder- ful lot. They are not the giganteumtype, but much more useful, known now pretty generally as the Persicum grandiflorum; the foliage is not nearly as luxuriant as Robert Craig can show on his wonderful plants, but the flowers are magnificent and the leaves short, stiff and solid, and stand out symmetrically like an echeveria. To those who are interested in these beau- tiful plants I can add that the seed was sown in October, grown (not neglected) during the winter and during thesummer were plunged in frames in ashes. They were only shaded during a few of the brightest hours. Another plant I saw there which can be classed as cheap, gaudy and ephemeral, but withal a blaze of yellow glory, and that was Linura trigj num. For those that likccolor with- out foliage, you have it to your heart's content. If he can help it, the writer ncvermisses the Philadelphia chrysanthemum show. It is not only the 'mums that attract— It's the side shows and good fellowship that are so enticing. It wc uld take a small pamphlet to record all we saw and heard, and tesidesthat your correspondents in their respective places keep you posted on all that is worthy of mention, so I shall merely intrude enough to fay that the trip was most enjoyable and instructive. To those who say "I can't afford the time to make a visit to distant towns the cen- ters of horticulture," I have only to sav that they make a big business mistake. If you don't observe and learn more during your journey, to the benefit of your bu i- nfss many times over the cost of the tiip you must be either a petrified man or an effotist,the former preferred forcompany. After impressions were that the show was in some respects verv fine, in others weak. The display of cut flowers was large and good. I do not want to be thought pre- sumptuous, but the display of green stakes were more conspicuous than the flowers and absurd at this end of the century. What a magnificent hall they havt! It is a beauty, and every horticulturist in the state should feel proud of it. W.K.Harris has not only recovered his health, but has transported the Azores to Philadelphia, and now produces the finest oranges by the bushel. One of the party visited John Burton and Edwin Lonsdale, and when he returned, with a serious countenance, exclaimed "thev throw away more roses thanwegrow!" The banquet wassofine and so overloaded with good things that you could not find a place to put down your empty glass. Robert Kift made a big mistake in his calling. It ought to be Kift, Keller, Hermann & Co.; as long as he can take silver dollars from Mr. Durfee's whiskers there will be no hard times in Pennville. Chas.Ball can'tshoot any better than Anderson or Bart Cart- ledge, but his dignified bearing hynotizes them; finally, there is one man whose hon- est good nature and never tiring energy for the happiness of others cannot be too highly appreciated, and I hope he is loved by all who know him; we wear him just above our waist and round our heart. The dumping off of 10 cars of coal on the Pennsylvania Railroad delayed us 5 hours in our trip to New York, and if it had not been for my companion and guide George Fancourt discovering a bot- tle of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup in his valise the delay would have been most irksome. We found that Diilledouze Bros, know something about carnations. Their place is worth the journey alone to visit. And they can also bowl a little. This colony of carnationists does not consist of the Dailledouze Bros, alone by any means, but when you have seen their place you are satisfied, as they seem to know all there is about carnation culture except one important feature, viz., tying or supporting, which is rather antiquated. After looking at some of tie leading stores on Broadway we determined to go home and hire a good looking colored gentle- man with slick uniform and our name on his hat to stand on thesidewalk and open the carriage doors. We saw in Utica a wonderful house of cat- tleyas with growths like giant rhubarb, which Wm. Mathews treats with the indifference that becomes a master at his business. We also saw a carnation at Mr. Baker's that is absolutely a depart- ure in color from anything we have ever seen, the purest pink without a tint of blue. If tbere is not a great future for this beautiful variety we shall be greatly disappointed. There were some 700 plants; and they were a sight. Poor Mr. Crowe, who has now fallen away to less than 300 pounds, is cutting a fine lot of roses, and handles tbem in his own unique style. After partaking of his hospitality for a day he bundled us on to a good train, and we arrived home on Sunday a. m. in plenty of time for church. W. S. Boston. This market has seen the worst over- stock in its history. This applies to chrys- anthemums, roses, carnations, violets and everything else in the cut flower line, and all varieties have been equal sufferers. The chrysanthemum grower perhaps feels it worst, for his crop is done forthis year, whereas the rose and carnation man can at least hope for improvement. The street dealers have had a picnic withthesurplus product, and they have overrun the town with their travs of carnations snd shop- worn roses. Chrysanthemums are at an end as a factor in the cut flower market. There are a good many still being brought in, but they are flimsy as a rule, and the warm week ju^t ending hasmade it doubly certain that Thanksgiving buy- ers must depend upon somt thing other than chrysanthemums. Violets are very abundant and of better quality than has b(en the rule in this section heretofore. The reason for the improvement is not plain. A few belated notes of the chrysanthe- mum show are worthy of record. Ernst Asmus secured the silver medal of the Mass. Horticultural Society for his new rose Souv. du President Carnot. J. Breit- meyer & Son were given complimentary notice for seedling carnation Mayor Pm- gree, and Dr. C. G. Weld honorable men- ntion for Browallia spcciosa major. First prize for seedling chrysanthemums not yet disseminated was won by J. Eaton, Jr., for Quisset, pink, and Nonquilh, white, and by J. H. White for Li Hung Chang. David Welch of Welch Bros, had a sym- posium at his barn in Dorchester one evening last week. There were a score or more of the boys in attendance, and when they separated one of them was the for- tunate owner of a fine horse, said to be a trained jumper. But it took till daylight to win him. The Boston committee of the chrysan- themum Society went to Springfield on Tuesday as judges in the exhibition there. George Sutherland is building a fine refrigerator. Pittsburg. Business during the past week has fallen cfi" somewhat, compared with the week before, in the general demand or store trade; but a number of social functions with a fair quantity of funeral work brought the amount up to the ordinary volume. Next week being Thanksgiving week, the increase in business is expected to be enough so that the month willclose with it^ usual good average. Mr. Gustav Ludwig on Tuesday was busy with decorations, etc., for the reunion of the descendants of Nicholas Veogtty, Sr., one of the pioneer settlers of Western Pennsylvania; over 300 peo- ple were in attendance, the reception last- ing from 3 to 11 p. m. Prominent among the number was Mr. E. C. Reineman (President of Florist Club) whose mother is the oldest living relative of Mr. Veogtty. On Thursdav evening, the 12th inst., the Florists' Club held its regular meet- ing at the room in Allegheny, and while the number in attendance was not as many as had been expected, those who were there were well rewarded for attend- ing. The committee appointed to take charge of the question box, and also arrange for addresses at meetings are Messrs. James Semple, P. S. Randolph, and Fred Burki; the box will be ready fjr use at the next meeting. Mr. H. Little was elected a member of the club. After the routine business had been concluded, Mr. John A. Shafer of Carnot, Pa., enter- tained the club with an informal but very interesting "talk" on the wild aster; he regretted it was so late in the season, for he could showonly three specimen plants, iSgd. The American- Florist. 391 and was compelled to rely altogether on specimens from the herbarium for illus- tration. The three fresh ones, complete with roots, were gathered from a well sheltered hillside, in a very moist situa- tion, which accounted for his leing ab'e to procure them so late in the tall, they were Cardifolius, Prenanthoides and Paniculatus. Mr. Shaferexhibited nearly 100 herbal ium specimens, which included twenty-five varieties from Allegheny County, Pa., and practically all those that grow in the eastern s'ates. There were some from Colorado. Arkansas at.d Georgia, also from Mexico, Germany, Switzerland and Ergland; the latter country only producing two native ones, and although these are classified, about 275 varieties altogether, North America produces over three-fourths of this num- ber, the large majority natives of the United States. Many of them looked as if they might prove worthy of cultivation and cireful experiments will tend toward improve- ment; Mr. Shafer has with a view to this planted on his grounds, over 150 plants of several difierent varieties of the wild as'er and intends giving them especial attention during the coming year; he be- lieves some of them will warrant cultivat- ing further, and that thev will prove val- uable acquisitions to the listof our hardy flowering decorative shrubs, and also become very useful to florists. Afterwards a discussion ensued, partic- ipated in by nearly all, but particularly so by Mr. James S.mple, the well known tame or cultivated aster specialist, and Mr. John Badtr. The latter described the findmg a few weeks since, when in com- pany with Messrs. Shafer and Semple, an aster bush, about 7 feet high and nearly 6 feet in diameter, completely cov- ered with a mass of white flowers not less than three quarters of an inch in diameter; their estimate of the number of flowers was considerably over one thou- sand. All are enthusiastic over tb.> mag- nificent appearance it presented. Messrs. Bader and Shafer secured some of the roots and will grow the ni next year, giving a tuU report when the proper time arrives. The members tendered Mr. Schafer their thanks and secured a quasi promise from Hm, that he would "talk" (he will not permit calling it a lecture) to the club on some other subject before a great while. All are solicitous, now that the ice has been broken, that others will come for- ward when called upon by the committee to say something, thus assisting in keep- ing the meetings interesting and profita- ble. Regia. New York. Another week has passed and the end of the most pronounced period of depres- sion ever experienced at this season of the year has not yet arrived, although its coming cannot be far off and it needs only a change to dark wintry weatherto bring it about. Thanksgiving week may see prices soar suddenly if conditions favor and then there will be a new alignment of friendships. Retailers will shake hands with growers and with wholesalers in whose welfare they have had no interest for lo, these many months, and the Greeks will find that the man who yesterday took off' his hat to him has suddenly for- gotten how to do it. The retailers have been very exacting during the dull period and the dealers could well afford to humor them, for the demand has been so light that an accum- ulation of stock to be disposed of through the Greeks was inevitable and any one willing to pay outside price has had ac- cess to a superfine selection. Chrysan- themums are rapidly drawing to a close. Those coming in now have a fatigued ap- pearance, muc'a in contrast with their crisp freshness a week ago. The season for this flower has been materially short- ened by the prevalent warm sunshiny weather, a fact that few will regret, as there has been no profit in chrysanthe- mums this season for any one and they have made profits impossible on any- thing else. Violets are good, even for this market, which is noted as the center for the best violets in the country. Their perfection has failed to arouse any enthusiasm and the best of this year have been selling at prices readily obtained for the worst in some former seasons. There is an enor- mous crop of them coming in from all di- rections, including the big single Califor- nia, which if it accomplishes nothing more will, at least, doubtless drive the old-fashioned puny single variety out of the market. These sell at very low prices as a rule and there cannot be much profit in them for the growers unless they yield a much heavier crop than they are re- puted to. The florists' windows are decorated with great taste in the fashionable sec- tions of the city. In no feature of the city florists' business has a greater advance been made within a few years than in this. A fjw good flowers with a background of the choicest plants obtainable is the rule and the overcrowding with promis- cuous masses of flowers as seen so gener- ally in the past no longer prevails. In chrysanthemums no variety has been used more for window adornment than Maud Dean. Its form and color, when well grown, make it deservedly popular. Adiantum Farleyense, which a few years ago it was almost impossible to get ex- cept in the most limited quantities, is now seen everywhere and fills an Important place in window decoration, Livistona rotundifolia is another plant, once rare, that is much used. The first bulb blos- soms to appear are Roman hyacinths and Paper White narcissus. A few of these help to make a variety but there is no special demand for them yet. In every store of prominence may be seen, at present, a vase of the new rose Souv. du President Carnot. This acqui- sition, whose long name will quickly be abbreviated to plain "Carnot," has met with an unusual amount of favor for a new rose, and in the opinion of good judges is already an assured success as far as the favor of the retail store men and their customers can make it so. The horse show is said by the retailers to have been a "frost" so far as the flower business is c jncerned. It has been a great disappointment, unquestionably, to those who looked forward to it in hopes that it might bring them a little run of prosperity. Some of the finest Daybreak, Scott and Portia carnations in the city are cjming to W. F. Sheridan from Frank Niquet of Patchogue. Emil Zeller has been making a big sen- sation in Brooklyn with a public exhibi- tion at his new establishment on Putnam and Classon avenues. There was a superb display of plants and flowers, and big crowds to admire them. F. D. Hunter, formerly in the wholesale cut flower business, has taken a position in the establishment of J. H. Small & Sons, on Broadway. Washington. Trade has begun to pick up again after a long summer. Business never was as quiet as it has been for the past six months. Funeral orders have monopo- lized the time for the past two weeks. Roses are improving steadily, they are not over plentiful but equal to the demand. Violets are coming in but are poor they are bringing $1 per hundred. Carnations are fjirly good for the sea- son. Chrysanthemums are in abundance everywhere and as a rule are unusually fine. In view of the fact thatthe FloristClub failed to havean exhibition, several of the florists are holdirg exhibitions in their stores and they are very creditable. Small & Sons had their exhibition last wetk, and as t:sual they took the lead; they not only had an exhibition of chrys- anthemums, but an orchid exhibition as well. They exhibited an abundance of all the leading varieties of 'mums, both cut and pot grown which were excellfnt. Their windows on G. street were filled with ferns and chrysanthemums. The staging down the center of the store con- taii e 1 'mums in all colors. Among them a vase of cut blooms of Mrs. Wm. Mc- Kinley a large incurved vellow, a seed- ling raised by Mr. Wm. K. Harris; these of course attracted much attention and drew forth many comments. The most attractive part of the stcre was the large window on Fourteenth street, which con- tained a magnificece display of orchids. The ceiling, and back of the windows were covered with folds of cheese cloth on which was festened sprays of asparagus. The large floor space of the window formed a garden in the center of which was a fountain bordered with selagi- nellas; radiating from the fountain were gravel walks with hereand thereamound of adiantum, in the center of which wasa bunch of choice 'mums. Back of this was a large mound of adiantum among which were artistically arranged groups of Den- drobium formosum giganteum and Cat- tleya labiata. On one sideof the window was placed a large mirror framed with pieces of rough cork arranged so as to form pockets, which were filled with growing ferns and plants of Dendrobium pha'aaopsis and yellow oncidiums; a wealth of their beautiful sprays of bloom falling gracefully over the mirror produc- ing an artistic effect. The walls and ceil- ings of the store were draped with south- ern smilax among which were tiny multi- colored eltctric lights. Several large baskets of roses and 'mums helped to complete the decoration, Gude Bros, have an exhibition which would be creditable to any florist club. They have a large hall adjoining their store on F street, which they have con- verted into an exhibition room. The large front window, which is one of the largest in the city, is arranged to represent a garden, with gravel walks and mounds of Adiantum cuneatum (the front edge be- ing bordered withplantsof A. Farleyense. In the enter of the groups are large vases filled with choice varieties of chrysanthe- mums. The ceiling and sides of the win- dow are draped with folds of cheese cloth sprayed with asparagus. Down the center of the room are three large pyramidal groups of palms, ferns and foliage plants around the base of each are arranged fine specimen plants of the lead- ing varieties of chrysanthemums. Down either side o f the room are artistic groups of chrysanthemums of various colors, with just enough foliage plants to bring out the beauty of the 'mums. Many of the fine pot specimens were grown in the open ground and lifted in September, then put into 10 and 12-inch pots. Some of them measure 4 feet in diameter and have one hundred blooms, 392 The American Florist. Nov, 2/^ many being as good as those grown on single stems. This firm grew a number of 'mums in the open ground this season, and claim that i3 the most profitable way to treat plants for general sale; these lifted plants sell from $1 to $3 50 each, according to size. The end of the hall is arranged to represent a dining room. Two beautifully decorated man- tels add qreatly to tbi? part of the exhi- bition. Oaemantel is banked with Farley- ense and Pandanus sp ked with sprays of orchids, the other festooned with aspar- agus and American Beauty roses. The table is laid for fourteea. The center pi^ce is a large oval mirror, representing a lake in which are live goldfish and water lilies. In the center of this is a miniature rockery, the pockets filled with ferns and small pandanus. At either end of the table are candelabras with shades that harmonize with the flowers* which are changed each day duriog the ten days of the exhibition; between these and the center piece are cut glass vases filled with roses and A. Farleyense, and the cloth is sprayed with asparagus. The entire exhibition is very creditable, and judging from the crowds of visitors, it was appre- ciated by the public. Reynolds. Greencastle, Ind —Herman Winters will shortly open a cut flower store here. Rome, N. Y,— E. J Byam has opened a florist business at 617 North Washington street. SITUATIONS. WANTS, FOR SALE. Advertl semen Is under this head will be tneerted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Flant advs. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTED— By tlorlst's assistant; prac- tical experience ofl* years; reliable; ai2e;«; single. References slven. II, HT Bromfleld St . Boston. SITUATION WANTED— By a flrst-class florist: Ger- man, In private or commercial place Best of ref- erences. GEUKCE Kranz MT Orchard St., Chlcuno. SITUATION WANTBD-By florist, age 28; 10 years' experience; native of Germany; private or com- mercial place near Chlciitio. Address FHANK WoEL/,, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By competent florist and decorator; 15 years' experience. Capable of tak- ing full charge of store. Married. Best of reference. Address 874, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED— By a competent young man as assistant florist or flreman on a private or com- mercial place; " years' experience; steady and sober. Best of references. M J, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— As foreman by flrst-elnss grower of roses, carnations, mums and general stock; 'I'l years' experience; age :ij; married. Best of references. KLuHiyx. M'A Falrmount Ave.. Phlln.. Pa. SITUATION WANTED— By thorough. practical gar- dener with 20 years' experlencij; married; age :i.'». First-class references. Fruit, plwnt and vegetable growing; also care of lawns and slirubbery. I"'or par- ticulars address Box '.t;j, Marlon. Mass. SITUATION WANTED— By florist who has worked under some of the best rosegrowers and propagat- ors In America; weil up in all greenhouse work, pri- vate or commercial: good references, give full par- ticulars. Address F S. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— As working foreman, by a flrst-class florist, as grower of roses, cnrnntlotis. violets, mums, palms and general stock; 31 years" ex- Serlcence In England, United States and Canada; ingllsb; age 45; single. Geo H. M.. care N. S. Small. Foxboro, Mass. SITUATION WANTKD- By a practical working fore- man, on commercial place; has a thorough knowl- edge of the trade. Ko^es. 'mums, palms and bulbs a specialty. Chicago or west of it preferred. References mu(*t be exchanged. Give lull particulars with wages paid, when writing. Chicago, care Am, Florist. ANTED— Catalogues for general florists' supplies and wire work. U. K. Winteu. Greencastle, Ind. W WANTKU— A practical Horlat with little muiioy can hearof aflrst-clasBCtiance to estiibllBli liliiiself. AddreHD DUB. care American Klurlst. WANTED— Catalogues and price lists uf seeds, plants, buibs, rooted cuttlnss, and KreenbousB material. D. M. ALE.\ANi>Elt, u, B. 15, WeservlUe, <). WANTKD— An all-round llorlat one who can wrow roses, carnations and violets for cut tI,jwor trade; state wages and give reference; 1 have about 6,000 square teet of glass. K. PuwEH, t'ranKfort, Ky. What John G. Gardner Says: JOBSTOWN, N. J., Nov. 6, '96. "GEORGE C. WATSON, Esq., Phila. "Dear S r: — Please ship me another 1000 pounds of spawn from your next consignment. What you sent me in September is fully up to the usual high standard of your ^^--^^^ '^ ^ood enough for me. Yours very truly, JOHN G. GARDNER." The above letter is a sample of many which I am daily receiving from the principal mushroom growers all over the country, and is convincing proof of the superiority of my brand. Why should you pay fancy prices for interior stock when you can buy this at the right figures. Write to me; no trouble to answer inquiries. My 24-page booklet on Mushroom Culture free to buyers or intending buyers — to others, 10c. Clays Fektilizbii. Biro Seeds. H.OP ' BviBS ron Tloi FiELoi GAftoatSccasiffSi fiOfitSTs FwwERSseosM THAoe er. 411 minutes ride frnm city; tireenhouses stnckiMl with nlnn tlHMisatul Cfirnallonsof th- very best nmrket vnrl- etles and I'l finest possible health (cutihiK lluwer« from most viii'leiles now); i'W smllax Terms reasornibte to responsible parties. Address K. care Am. Florist. ipOU SALE-tJreenhouses In a thriving town of dOUO, ' a great health resort; only Breeniiouseln 30 miles, new bulldlnjis well stocked with plants, etc. l>olng business of $','IX1 a month. Ciood reason for selling. $101X1 cash will buy place. Address II. K. Winn, Martinsville. Ind. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. stock plants from bjnch: Mnytlnwer. Mrs. Hobln- flon. Nemesis arid Yellow (.tneon. at I'll ct3. each. Address JOHN WELSH, -'S;!:! N Iloyne Ave . StHtioii X. Ku\-f iisvvou'S' wr.A.Tta'. 1st. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa. 2-INCH FERNS. READY TO SHIFT. P. serrulftta, Onychlum japonlcum, P. serrulata crestata, Blechnum occldentale, P. serrulata " densll, Lastrea varieKata, P. adlantoldes, Adiantum cunealum. Above at $4 00 per 100; $35.00 per 1000. Adiantum. from flats $1.50 per 100 Blechnum occldentale. 3- Inch $ti.00 per 100 General aseortmenl. o-ln. vara., $7 per 100: $00 per 1000 PterisGhlesbrlKhtll and Keylnif . '3-lnch, $t; 00 per U)0; ;j-lncti. $10 IK) per KH). Complete Hat on applleiitUpn, Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Clenside, Pa. Always mention American Florist. 20,000 GERANIUMS C8?TrN°as All the best varieties, as Double Gen. Grant, Bruant, Silver I,eaf, Mme. Salleroi, gl.50 per 100; SH.fiO per 1000. AGERATUM. blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooted, $1.00 per 100; »il 00 per 100(1. All strong and well rooted. The same out ol 2J^-inch pots, 82.00 per 100; 820.00 per 1000. Cash with order. MAX KRUSCHKA. LAWRENC STATION, N. Y. S1EBRE6HT & SON, PALMS, FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle. N. Y. "THE DAHLIA" IJY L.\WRENCE K. I'EACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST oflering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. AtCO. N J. Burki'sNGW yellow MarQuerlle ETOILE DE LYON. 35 Rooted Cuttings for ffl.OO, by mail. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. WUOLESALE FLOKIST. wTitinK mention the American Florist. 894 The American Florist. Nov. 2T, Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe. $2.00, Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Column, $14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times. 5 per cent; 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The AdverttslnR Department of the American Florist Is for FlorisiB, Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember it. Orders for less than one-half inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure insertion in the Issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Toronto. The chrysanthemum show, in spite of its lateness, promises well. According to all accounts there will be no lack of ma- terial to make as fine a sbow as ever. The only thing doubtful is the weather on the Monday and Tuesday when the plants have to be brought in. However, we can only hope for the best in this respect. Tidy reports everything in the cut flower line plen'iful except yellow chrysanthe- mums. Last year whites were chiefly in demand, this year it is principally yellow. Dunlop reports that weddings have been numerous and that some elaborate dec- orations have been done, these have not been exactly fashionable weddings, but he remembers that the fashionable are not always the best patrons, and that the mainstay of the trade is what would be called in England the upper middle class. He also says thatchrysanthemums are falling oflT both in quality and quan- tity (I can't say that I have noticed this myself), and seems to be pleased that such is the case, as they materially injure the sales of roses, etc. Roman hyacinths and paper white narcissus are in, but not in large quantities yet. Bride roses are coming in exceptionally fine. There is a fair amount of design work doing. E. Orange, N. J. George Purdue gave his usual free exhi- bition of chrysanthemums, etc., last week. The potting shed was transformed into a perfect bower of loveliness by a generous use of white muslin to hide bins, walls and ceiling, and southern smilax, autumn foliage and plenty of electric lights did the rest. There was a grotto in one corner with a cascade of water, mossy banks and drooping ferns, a mantel decoration and plenty of vases of choice fl jwers as well as potted plants were on all sides. In the houses which were also illuminated by incandescent lights, were chrysanthe- mums, carnations, ferns and growing olants of all descriptions, and it was esti- mated that nearly ten thousand people visited the show. Mr. Purdue does this three times a year, and he says that it pays. W. A. Manda has built a new cold stor- age house 30x60. Hudson, Mich.— C. H. Peck gave a chrysanthemum show here November 20 and 21. Mayfaik, III.— Waldorf & Hartman are building two new greenhouses 20x60 each, for cut flowers and general stock. Los Angeles, Cal — Mr. F. Edward Gray of Alhambra has opened a retail flower store at 140 South Spring stieet. G0TO;EpW6IJPPlJ[j WE. — IIMP0RTER5 OF /^"- W'i'^ The New York Cut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD CONSIGN TO ISU¥ FROM M. A. HART. Commission "U" Cut Flowers, 113 WEST 30th STREET. NEW YORK CITY. THE HEST MARKET IN NEW YORK. TRAENDLY & SCHENCK, Wholesale Florists, Control the stock of many celebrated growers and are prepared to quote prices on First Grade Cut Flowers. All varieties. 38 West 28th St.. and Cut Flower Exchange. Tel. IKil ISth Street. NEW YORK CITY. FRED. EHRET. wtioi6saie Fiona No. 1403 Fairmount Avenue, Telephone, Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. J. J. STYER. Wholesale Florist 1305 FILBERT STREET, " ==1 PHILADELPHIA. HEADQUARTERS. ROSES, CARNATIONS, AND VIOLETS. TRY US. WM. F. HASTING, Wholesale Commission Florist. 495 Washington St., BUFFALO, N. Y. Mention American Florist. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, THE TMERSON Price postpaid 75 CENTS. I Address 1 American Florist Co. cnir.40o. «'GHri EOJ GIVE ME YOCK ORDEHS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best uf iittentldii KlvL-n to the aliipplrit; triiile. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE. ED F. WINTERSON. Mgr. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER CO. .1. !!. OE.VMl'U, i\lgr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CMIC.A.GO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING3 WHOLESALE COMMISSION * FLORIST. 88 WABASH AVENUE, Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, .a^- ST. LOUIS, MO. jyA complete line of Wire Uesigiitt. H. L. SUNDERBRUCH, Wholesale Florist 4th and WALNUT STREETS, CinoiixiTL^ti, O. E. F. LEMKE3 • Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, Ai^. ST. PAUL, MINN. Cut Striiiii;s, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. SAMUEL S. PENXOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET, Bet, Market A ("heBtnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. You Need Our TRADE DIRECTORY REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896. PRICE S2.00. i8g6. The American Florist. 395 E. H. HUNT. WHOLESaLfiPLORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BUI.BS Ain> Alili FI.ORISTS' SUPFtlES. KENNICOTT BROS. GO. Wliol6sal6 Gut Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIRE WOKK A SPKCIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO. It you want Fl^B^CIaBB Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you wlU Ket what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE U S FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. ^B^ CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, ^ CHICA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBEBG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF GUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can till all orders on Blu)n notice with all leading varieties of HoaeH anri ("arnntlons. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Ulve u» a trliil and convince yuiirselt Salesroom. 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, Consignments Solicited. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET. Fine Stock a Specialty. CHICA.GO. ROGERS FflRK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. » CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, wiioiesaie Fiona 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. GUT FLOWERS. ©yftofcAafa Marftaf*. Cut Flowers. NEW TORK. Nov. 17. Roses. Beauty, e.ttra 10 00s;)5.00 " " common 2.00( the GREA TANTIPEST. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, FLORISTS' VASES. John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, -NEW YORK. METS, BRIDES, GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON, MASS. HORTICULTURAL AUCTIONEERS, Agent for flnest grades Waxed and Tlasue Papers WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEAGON STREET. Near Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Carnations % Chrysanthemums CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. THOS. "VOUIVG, Jr., 43 W. 28th St., NEW YORK. WflUTER F. SHERIDAN, WHOLESALE 39 West 28th Street. NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street. NEW YORK, WHOLESALE » FLORIST. Carefnl Shlpplnfi: to all parts of the coantry* Price list on application. Purdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30th St., NEW YORK. THANKSGIVING WEEK. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, Address JOHN YOUNG, 51 W. 28th Street, NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34lh Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK. JULIUS LANG, Dealer in WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St.. NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WH0LE8JILE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, CORHER 30th St.. NEW YORK. Cousig^nmeiits Solicited. 396 The American Florist. Nov. 21. Hfta ^aail ^rac^s. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. Wood. Pres.; Alex. Rodgkrs and J. B. Rice, Vlce-Preuldents; A. L. Don, 114 Cbambera Street. New York, Sec'y and Treas. Visited Chicago: J. Charles McCul- lough, J. E. Northrup, J. M. Kimberlin. New York. — G. Rnscoe Fuller was mar- ried last week. S. F. Leonard has been making a brief visit. It is reported that the suit insti u'ed some time siuce to erjuin the Department of Agriculture from distributingfree seeds will not prevent the usual distribution the coming spring. It MAKES the very shdves of the seed warehouses gro( EJC^X.A.Xj-X'X EIS • Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stocks. Catalogues on application. IMeaee mention American Florist. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri< CAN Fl-OEIST. FfiUMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WITTBOLD 1708 N. Halsted St.. t CHICAGO ROBERT CRAIG, Roses, Palms, Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. I„ Itorltonici, S. Klei;;ins. <'. Ilmnulls, Are*-ii lutest-eiis, Haurri, Kubra, I'liu-nlx C, Hiitl C. Austrjills; IT l*almB3 to Mn. of above vara, and 2 Ferns for$;i.l)0. Ill l'alni8 4 io5-ln, of abuve vnrs. and-* Kerns lor$;i.i>0. ItoseH, <'arnatlon8, and wW kinds of plants. LabelH. Mush, eti* SKM> FOIl LISTS. WILLI.'MVIS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. j8g6. The American Florist. 397 I hereby extend a cordial invitation to all my friends and rose lovers in general to come and see my Souv.du PresidentCarnot THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON. Won the Highest Honors wherever Shown. AMERICAN INSTITUTE, DIPLOIVIA AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. CERTIFICATE OF MERIT, NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB. BOSTON, SILVER MEDAL. PHILADEL- PHIA, SILVER MEDAL. ORANGE, N. J., CERTIFICATE OF MERIT. POUGHKEEPSIE, CERTIFICATE OF MERIT. WORCESTER, MASS., CERTIFICATE OF MERIT. The strongest imaginable grower, blooms can be cut with three-foot stems if desired. Blooms mostly produced singly on stiff stems with large beautiful dark green foliage. An Ai forcer as well as bedder and good for all purposes, blooming abundantly, both in and out-doors. No florist can afford to be without it. ORDERS FOR PLANTS BOOKED NOW. Propagated from the finest and healthiest stock in the country — not weakened by over-propagation. Be sure to come and see it grow before ordering elsewhere. Strong, healthy plants, from 2-in. pots, $15 per 100; $125 per 1000. 500 at 1000 rates; 50 at 100 rates. Ready after Jan. 1, 1897. ERNST ASMUS, West Hoboken, N. J. New, Rare and Beautiful Plants LORD PKNZANCE'S New Bybrld Sweetbrlere. Old Garden Roses. New Roses. Standard Koses. PHIbADELFHU«i l.KM< >INE1; >EVV LI- LA)."; LUMCEKA HILDKKKANDTII; SHIR^X -ANTHOVY WATEKEK," A large collection of rare Hothouse and Greenhouse Plants. ANTHURIUMS. ALOCACIAS. ORCHID*. RARE <;ONlKEKS, and other Beautiful EVKRCREENS. MAGNOLIAS, .lAPANE.SE MAPLES, with other Choice TKEES and SHRUBS. PROXIES.— A large collection of the tinest In cul- tivation. Hardy Perennials, Phloxes, .lapanese Ins Koses, Clematis, etc. New and Standard lYults. etc jy Catalogues on application JOHN SAUL. Washington. D. C. 100,000 NOW READY. The Jennings strain of finest American urown Pan- slea iire up to date, and just as nood as they make them; but on account of ihe hard times the price \% down. The jn'Hndest combination of colors ever tent out. All larireHowerlnj/ in great variety. Flneatocky plants, field-grown, will bloom In October. 100 by mallTijc: 1000 by express S4 00; 5000 $1S.00. Extra plants added with ev«-ry order. 500 000 ready In October for cold frames. PANSV SKKD of above strain, $1.0U per pkt. of -'.500 seeds. Cash with order. E. B. JENNINGS, l b. 254. Southport, Conn. Grower of the finest I'ansles. Fansles Worm Raising. PLANTS READY NOW. at g2..50 per 500; 84.00 per 1000, Free on board of express, SEED in pacliages of 3-16 oz, at }1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH ORDER. C. SOLTAn & CO,, 199 Biani Ak., leisey Clly, N. ] . SANSEVIERA ZEYI..\N1CA, 2J4-in. pots, height 8 to 10 inches , , fe 1 per 100 3>^ in, pots, height 12 to 15 inches 84 00 per 100 BEGONIAS-Rex and Flowering, 3inch stock, 85.00 per 100. Choice line of 4-inch Pot Roses. 85.00 per 100. TERMS CASH WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. Directory THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY'S o^ FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN -SEEDSMEN OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AND REFERENCE BOOK, Contains the names and addresses of all the Florists, Nurserymen and Seedsmen in the United btates and Canada, arranged alphabetically in States and Provinces, the exact branch of the business each is engaged in being indicated by a Key. .A.XjS<=> A list of Trade Organizations, both National and Local, with names and addresses of prin- cipal officers, t'me and place of meetings and date of organization. Statistics regarding Floriculture, the Nursery Industry and Seed Growing from the last U S. Census report, A list of firms in the trade that issue catalogues, with a key indicating the prominence of each branch of the trade in same. A list of leading Cemeteries in which attention is paid to Ornamental Horticulture. A list of leading Park Superintendents and of the Botanical Gardens of the United States, Seasonable Hints for the year about the practical work of the Florist, written by Wm! Scott, giving instructions not only when to do certain work, but how to do it most efTectively and economically, A complete alphabetical list of looses in commerce in America, brought up to date and of incalculable value for reference. Similar lists of Chrysanthemums, Carnations and Cannas. Historical sketches to date of the Society of American Florists, American Carnation Soci- ety, National Chrysanthemum Society of America, Florists' Hail Association, American Seed Trade Association and American Association of Nurserymen. A list of Leading Horticultural Societies. Full and accurate information about Express and Postage rates, I»MC!EI 92.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 DEARBORN ST., -CHICAGO. 398 The American Florist. Nov. 21 ^ Newport, R, I. At the O^den-Goelet place John H. Johnson is found ready to extend a hearty welcome to his brother gardeners and can still put up as interesting an argument as when he superintended the parks at Paterson. Truly, Johnson is a hard man to get away from and tbe establishment under his charge is similar to him in this respect. In the big central house are a number of the towering tree ferns that made such a grand display in the show house at Short Hills a few years ago. There is a magnificent collection of pa'ms and stove plants, crotons being especially fine. A rare sight is a bed of swainsona filling the center of a whole house, with no end of bloom on it, but which is now to be thrown out to make storage room for the big bays, some fully twenty feet tall, which have stood sentinel over the driveways and courtyards during the summer. A most beautiful piece of scroll woik done in alternantheras on the lawn has been a prominent attraction during the past summer. Mr. Johnson grows a great many gardenias for cut flower purposes, and is remarkably successful with them. California violet is also a favorite with him for fall b'oom as he claims that he can get an abundance of flowers from this variety for a period of six weeks before other kinds are obtain- able. Robert Christie, who grows fine grapes and seedling Cannes, J. S. Cowks. who raised the famous Mrs. Fairman Rogers canna, and many others of high attain- ments there are in this beautiful city by the sea, the prodicts of whcse skill will delight the S. A. F. visitors in the great convention ol 1897. Equally interested in the appo aching visit of their fellow florists are the com- mercial florists of Newport. John Gibson has an itinerary already mapped out which completely fills up every minute of twenty-four consecutive hours. G bson Bros, report the best business record for the past season, a gratifying acknowl- edgment in thse days of complaining and dull times. John Allen, who states a similar experience, grows mainly grapes and carnatiors, btint; equally successful with both. Scott, McGowan, Daybreak and Keller, together with a yellow and red variegated seedling are the varieties grown with best results. Dtlla Fox is not satisfactory. Carl Jurgens has added flve rose houses to his already large establishment the past season, and has had the boldness to build thtm with the short span to the south. Next year he can perhaps give some interesting figures, but a c intem- plated trip to Europe may take him away during convention time, and this will be a disappointment to many who have heard so much of, and would like to meet, in person, Newport's pioneer lily-of- the-valley grower, who is as courteous and kindly in disposition as he is skillful in his profession. Lapeer, Mich.— W. H. Watson has added two houses, each 23x100, for car- nations. Also a cold storage house 9x50, and has painted inside and out 12 of the other 14 houses. He believes thoroughly in the free use of paint and whitewash. WiNFiELi), Kans.— E. H. Gilbert reports trade this fall as the best ever known here. Last May a severe hail storm did a great deal of damage to the florists here. Mr. Gilbert's loss footed up to $500. Please mention the American Florist CTcry time you write to an advertiser. Herr's ♦ ♦ I J , J LANCASTER. PA. I Carnations: I \ Fellow Flor'sts:— ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ With the facilities to grow and the stock to produce over a million Rooted Cuttings of Carnations, 1 am in a position to till your orders and give a written guarantee wi'h every order that the cuttings will be satisfactory or the money refunded. GERANIUMS, PETUNIAS, PANSIES and GOLEUS. In Geraniums the collection is made up of the most popular colors and the finest collection of the new and older varieties, at Sl.50 per 100; gl2.5o per 1000; all labelled, but strictly my selection. In Petunias the finest striped and mottled are otTered at $2 per 100; gl5 per 1000. Also Veteran, a double fringed variety never introduced, flowers im- mense, white striped rose, plant dwarf and covered with bloom. Price 5o cts. per dozen; $3.50 per 100. Pansies, any quantity; none better, 75 cts. per 100; ^5 per 1000. ALBERT M. HERR. Lancaster, Pa. 200.000 Rooiefl Guumos 200,000 GERANIUMS!! SELECTED STOCK, TRUE TO NAME. Double Gen. Grant, Wm. Kellway, S. A. Nuit, Leon Kellway, Marvel, Ernst Kellway, Madonna, Beaute Poitevine, Mrs. A. Blanc, Mrs. E. G. Hill, Mme. Oh. Molin, Gloire de France, La Favorite, Barbizet, And twenty-five other varieties. La Fontaine, Mme. Buchner, H. de Bernier, Rev. Atkinson, W. A. Chalfant, Jas. Kellway, Mrs. J. M. Gaar. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, Queens, L. I. PUTIN CARNATIONS after CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott, Ivory. Silver Spray, Rose Queen, and Garfield, fiom cold frames, at $8.00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. CARNATIONS. 20(H) SCOTTS, immense 8l/e. at a bargain. A few TIDALS left. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Stocil plants of MME. BElKiMANN, VKtjLOW (,)UKKN. MUTUAL FRIEND, t'KES. W. R. SMITU, J. H. TROY. THE QUEEN, and 100 otiier leading varieties, i,". els, eactl. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWIGK, Lock Box II. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mention American Kiorlst. iAdiantuitiFarleyense EXTRA FINE PLANTS. In the various sizes. Prices upon application. Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, (Station II.) PHILADELPHIA, PA. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, Kor DecoratInK and all KlorlBta' DeslKHH. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitchell Co.. N. C. ALM <0^ee4/< FRESH ON HAND Per 100 1000 3000 I ('OC...S Weililelliana Sl.i'i J 10. 00 {-Jr.. iO I randaniis utilis \.l« 12.50 MOO ICotlVa araiiica l.'JO 13. M 'AIiisu l-iisete IK 10 1)0 27.50 J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. CARNATIOMS After tlie early clirysantlieiiiums are thrown out, many florists plant carnations. We liave a few tliousand sood plants tieeled in, in the cold house, suitable for this purpose. IVIcGOWAN, PURITAN, PORTIA, GARFIELD. MME. ALBERTINI, ADA BYRON. SILVER SPRAY, NICHOLSON. GRACE WILDER, B. OF ERLESCOURT, HINZE'S WHITE, Buttercup, 2nd quality STUART, Helen Keller, " ROSELIND, Uncle John, $4.00 per 100. J. L. DILLON. BloomsburK, Pa. CARNATIONS. F. Dorner & Sons Co. LA FAYETTE, IND. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. i8g6. The American Florist. 399 $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made au offer of 81000 cash j for ONE PIANT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price beitig j asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . Tbe best novelty for Florists' decorative | purposes. SI 50 per 12: 810 per 100, from 2J4-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANC & CO., Phila., Pa. From 2-iiich pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of varieties and prices famished on application. NATHAN SMITH & SON. OiirysanthemumSifCarnations STOCK PLANTS. Maroula de Monlmort. pink; Merry Monarch, white, ana Yellow <^)ueen. the cream of earlles %\ per doz. Also about 1000 McGowans and Hlnzes White, from 3 to i; flow r shoots, at %\. GO per 100. Cash with order or C. 0. 1>. Box 339. NORRISTOWN, PA. GHRYSftlHTH&MUMS. Strong stock plants. Ready now, MRS. H. ROBINSON, MEKRY MONAUrn, M. DE MONTMOKT. MAKIOX HENDERSON. WM SIMPSON. 2:)Cts-each. Older standard varieties. l.'>cts. each. Special prices for large quaniltles. ti. WEBER & SONS. Oakland. M. WHATHAVEYOUTO EXCHANGE For Stock 'Mums? M. DB MONTMORT, MERRY MONARCH. MARION HEN DERSON. ROBINSON, and m other varieties. T. J. QUAYLE, Berea, 0. STOCK CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Best Standard sorts, f i.So per doz ; SiO.OO per 100 jj@-iOo our choice tor t& on. NOVELTIES of 1896 and SCARCE SORTS. 25 c s each; $2000 per 100. MARKET'S FLORAL NURSERY, 50.000 FERNS. Choice varieties from 2 inch pots, at $3 00 per 100; 82-5 00 per 1000. Samples sent by mail on receipt of lU cents in stamps, Koran's Perfect Carnation Support. The only perfect one on the market. Write for circular and prices. JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. Mention this paper. Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 25 cents; per hundred, S20.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, ffli.OO; per ten thousand, $18. CH. KOEHLER, Oxford Churcii P. 0.. Phila., Pa. E. G. HILL & CO., K^iolaixaor:Lcl9 Iixd. We invite our florist friends to come and see the magnificent new rose PRES. CARNOT in full growth and bloom at our place. READY FOR DELIVERY FEB. 1st, at $15 per 100; $125 per 1000. Also come and see our two new Carnations: FLORA HILL, finest white extant. MBS. McBURNEY , extra large light pink. $12 per 100; $100 per 1000. READY MARCH 1. MRS. PERRIN, LADY FITZWIGRAM. MRS. ROBINSON. MISS JOHNSON, ETC. Our List of New Chrysanthemums, both American and foreign, will be issued early in the year. We have been obliged to change the name of our new early yellow 'mum from Golden Dawn (as certificated) to GOLDEN TROPHY. E. Q. HILL & CO., Richmond, Ind. Spiraea astilboides floribunda, tine clumps per 100 - $10.00 Spiraea palmata, red flowering, for forcing tine clumps, per 100 - 7.00 Kalmia latifolia, fine budded, each - - - - -75 Metrosideros semp., nice bushy plants, each - - - -45 H. P. Roses, Tree Roses, Clematis, Rhododendron, pot-grown Lilacs, Deuizla, Hydrangea, Magnolia, Indian Azalea, Etc. L. C. BOBBINK, rutherford, n. j. Branch of the Horticultural Company, Boskoop, Holland. FORCING LILAC CHARLES X. We have a fine lot of this variety, in extra strong plants averaging 20 to 25 flower buds each, at $30.00 per hundred. A Discount of 12 1-2 per cent, allowed from above price if cash accompanies order. JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. SHORT HILLS. NEW JERSEY. SPECIAL OFFER. 1200 ROSK QUEEN Carnation plants, at oc. A private collection of ORCHIDS. 100(1 lbs CYCAS bTEM->. various sizes. AURArUM and SPECIOSUM LIUE3. Will sell aU or part at a bargain. Particulars'on application. WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. FOR SALE. Field Grown. 2,000 var. vincas, 4 inches, e.xtra strong $3 per 100; |25 per M; 2,000 var. vincas strong, 3 inches, |2 per 100; |15 per M; XX Mammoth Verbena seed, '^ oz., 50c.; ;{ oz. ,7.5c. CASH WITH ORDER. MRS. J. C. GIBSON. WOODBURY. N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. GhrysanthemumsiPansies Per lai 500 CHRYSANTHEMUMS, 25 var.5-in. pots 10.00 40,000 PANSY PLANTS . . . .per 1000 J3.50; .60 Cash with ohdek Please. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VAKIKTIKS. ROSES, from 3-inch pots. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for list, WOOD BROTHERS. FiSHKILL. N. Y. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 400 The American Florist. Nov. 21. Cincinnati. The special chrysanthemum meeting of November 14 was the most attractive of this year. The exhibition of 'mums, roses and carnations brought out the best growers of this and surrounding states. The 'mum display was the center of attraction, and as these shows are open to the general public many favorable comments were passed upon them by the fair sex. A small collection of orchids from the city's and H. L. Sunderbruch's greenhouses was much admired. The hall was much too small for the crowd, as at least 2,000 people took ad vantage of this opportunity to see an exhibition free of charge. The stand holders were very much pleased with their Saturday sales, which was caused by the large crowd that attended this show. In the evening the regular monthly meeting was held and called to order by Pres. Gillett. A pleasant hour was spenc in debate on general topics, which abounded in suggestions and advice. Messrs. Walz, Sunderbruch and Witter- staetter came back from their fields of labor, and all of them spoke in highest praise of the various shows. We were honored with the presence of Mr. Joy of Nashville and Mr. Hume of Memphis. These two gentlemen gave us a very inter- esting talk on the culture of the 'mum in their section of the country, which differs very much from ours. There were 101 entries made, and the following are those to whom certificates were awarded: H. L. Sunderbruch, for Farquhar and Marie Louise violets, Mor- gan and Meteor roses,cattleya andcvcla- men; R. Witterstaetter, for Adelaide Kres- ken and Emma Wocher carnations; N. Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., white seed- ling 'mum Western King; to F. Walz, for Marechal Niel rose; to Rudenschroeder Bros., for Marie Louise violet; R J. Mur- phy, for Queen; Wm. Murphy, fjr Mc- Gowan, Bridesmaid. Portia, Jubilee and Wilder carnations; H'>fmcister Floral Co., yueen, Pres. Smith, Niveus, Theo. Bock and H. Rieman, 'mums; J. Conger, for collection of cacti; J. G'orge, for lily of the valley; H. Weber & Son, for Mrs. Murdock, W. H. Lincoln, Nemesis and Louis Boehmer, 'mums, and for car- nations. Hector, Daybreak, Triumph, Scott, Alaska, Storm King, Abundance and Ptachblow; Huntsman FI jral Co., Bridesmaid, Sunset, Brides, American Beauty and Perle roses, Mayflower, Golden Wedding and Princess 'mums; city greenhouses, G. Scheibely, gardener, Nephrolepis davallioides.Cypripedium in- signe, Adiantum Rogersii; Theo. Bock of Hamilton, for his new seedling Thanks- giving; the same gentleman carried off seven good premiums at Indianapolis, and two of his seedlings received certifi- cates from the A. C. S. two weeks ago here. H. Schvvarz. FLORISTS' RIBBON. All widths and popular shades of color PRICES REDUCED. SEND FOR SAMPLE TO H. M. WEISEL, 17 Ea st 83rcl Street. NEW YORK. BOUQUET GREEN, '"'"'tlT^it^Z'^^f'' WREATHING, A No. 1 Medium Grade, 53.50 per 100 y.ls.; 831i CO per 1000 yd.s. SELECT XMAS TREES. Write for prices. cash with okih:k. JOSEPH BANCROFT, Lc.ik ISox ^4. CEDAK |-.VI>I-S, lOW.V. Special Notice. NONE BETTER! NONE CHEAPER! For the Christmas Trade. Colored Immortelles, $2.50 per dozen Yellow " ... 1.75 Moss Wreaths $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00 Imported prepared Cycas Leaves, from 20 cts. 75 cts. each. Cape Flowers, 50 cts., 75 cts., $i.co per pound PRICES FOR QUANTITIES ON APPLICATION. AGENTS FOR CALDWELL'S XMAS AND SOUTHERN GREENS. SEND FOR OUR NEW FALL PRICE LIST. JS^. I^ICE> & CO. IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS, 25 N. 4tli Street, PHILADELPHIA. Mention ^m'irloan J*"lorlBt. OWN THE EARTH ? NIT ! BUT The Finest and Largest Stock of BOUQUET GREEN, HOLLY, Evergreen Wreathing, Holly Wreaths, Palmettoes, Mistletoe, Etc., Etc. Conservative florists look to us for these profitable Christmas sellers They can not aff rd to take chances of getting left We buy and sell close, and have the right stock. LET US MAKE YOU PRICES. Quality and service we guarantee. W. W. BARNARD & GO., 186 E. Kinzie Street, CHICAGO. Mention American Florist. NEW HARDY FERNS. Warranted First Quality, PRICE REDUCED TO 75o PER 1000 KKOM NOW UNTIL I)ECKI>I15Eli 1st. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. GROUND FINE JLNB HOLLY, We stand ready to supply THE RIGHT QUALITY AT THE RIGHT TIME AT RIGHT PRICES. SKM) KOK FKICK M!ST. DAN'L B. LONG, ifB^l^l CYCLAMEN SEED. CICANTEUM MACNIFICUM. A iiini.:iiltlci. Ill ciillecllun of llie lino I j;lnnt lluwerlnw varlptles; liiiuowt tlowiTs iiiid best rulurs. Per triide pkl.j.'icln.; :ii)kt9.l»lclt) ; i; pklB. *1.1KI, JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. Christmas Greens. HARDY CUT FERNS, CHRISTMAS TREES, BOUQUET GREEN, LAUREL ROPING. HOLLY. EVERYTHING GREEN. AT THE OLI> ST.VNIJ 18 Chapman Place, BOSTON, MASS. H. E. HARTFORD, Mgr. MUMS. A Leading Dozen for Market: KobliiMdii, Ivory. i.iiuH'ii, Wuimiimker, l.nj:er. t'llal- liint. l.lTu-ulii, I'lilluJelpliln. .Mrs. Hill. Nemesis Morel. Chllcls. Sliiek plums. $1,0(1 per dozen; JiVlKI per lIKl. JOSEPH E. BONSALL, Salem, O. iSgS. The American Florist. 401 REMINDERS. MOSS WREATHS— Scarce; if you want them, order at once. NEW IMMORTELLES are in, and they are tine. CAPE FLOWERS are extra large, and pure color. CYCAS LEAVES and WHEAT SHEAVES are our leaders always. Price, quality and quantity handled far beyond all other dealers. All seasonab'e stock in Baskets, Jardin- ieres, Pofs, Letters, Artificial Flowers and Foliage, AT BARGAIN PRICES. A GOOD TIME TO REPLENISH YOUR STOCK. H. BAMSDOBFEE & CO., mporters and Manufacturers, 06 r»if . .^tli street, P3ILADELPEIA, PA. Mention Amorfoftn Fl^rlut :\T. I«IOE^ «Jte CO. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept, 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manufacturer ol METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry). NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacture rB of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, Tew "Vorli:. BOUQUET GREEN $3'75 per 100 pounds. $35.00 per 1000 pounds. Quality First-Class. ORDER TO-DAY. L. L. MAY & CO., ST. PAUL, MINN. ^"^ BUCKir^K; STANDARD Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A sample nmlled tor ;!*.l cents. FRANK L. MOORE. CHATHAM. N. J. You will benefit the American Florist by mentioning it every time you write an ad- vertiser in these col- umns. Dmeisiois oI tliis Boi : 2U Incbes long br 18 Inches wide and 12 Inches high. Two seotlona. This wooden box nicely stained and varnished, 18x30x12. luauo lu two sections, one for each size letter, given away with first order of 500 letters. .A.CSrEirffl'S . A. Rolker & Sons, New York. M. Rice & Co., 35 N. 4th St., PhUa., Pa. F. E. McAllister, 38 Dey St., New York. A. D. Perry & Co., 33 Warren St., Syracuse New York. A. Herrman, 415 E. 34th St., New York. H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A. C. Kendal, 115 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. J. A. .Simmers, Toronto, Ont., Agent for Canada. E. H. Hunt, 79 Lake St., Chicago, lU. Wisconsin Flower Exchange, 131 Mason St-, Milwaukee, Wis. H. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts., Cin- cinnati, O. T. W. Wood & Sons, 6th and MarshaU Sts., Richmond, Va. Jas. Tick's Sous, Rochester, N. Y. C. A. Kuehu, 1132 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. D. B. Lone, Bufl^lo, Ne^v York. Huntington Seed Co., Indiauapolis, Ind. Geo. A. Sutherland, 67 BromfleldSt., Boston. Welch Bros., No. lA Beacon St., Boston. N. F McCarthy & Co., 84 Hawiey Street, Boston. The Henry PhlUpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O. *^ W^alter A. Potter & Co., Providence, R. I. J. C. Vaughan, 36 Barclay St., New York. W. Ellison, 1403 Pine St., St. Louis, Mo. the American Floiist. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. Sizes 1M-in. and 2-in. 2.00 per 100. Patent laitener with each letter. ODR NKW SCRIPT LETTER, $4.00 per 100. N. F. UcCARTHY, I 13 Green St.. Treas. & Mangr. | Boston, Uass. Office, 84 Hawiey Street. We have a new FASTENER which we consider a decided sncoess. Any oastomers baring old style fasteners which they wish to exchange, can do so wlttiont additional cost by writing as. These Letters are bandied by all the Wholesalers Boston. When writing mention ESTABU5HED ii MAM ti B -Ac I M H t f my . STEFFENS 335 EAST 215.' ST NEW VOIIL It costs 4 cents for each 600 feet of floor space. Does not injure the most sensitive plants. Endorsed Nikoteen by prominent florists. Used for fumigation or spraying indoors or ont. 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen. Bold by seedsmen Circular free. 8EABCTTRA DIP CO., CHICAGO. ^Quickly M Does »i It. ^ TOBACCO STEMS FOR FLORISTS. For Sale, packed in bales 200 to 2.50 lbs. No charge for deliv- ering to depots. PRICE: 810.00 per ton. $1.50 per single bale. Address P. C. FULWEILER & BRC, 248 No. Ninth St., PHII.ADi:iiPHIA, PA. Mention American Florlct. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that you saw the advertisement in the American Flons^ Society of American Florists. This is to Certify that IRVING PREDMORE, BARNEGAT, N. J., is entitled to Honorable Mention for clean and well-packed Sphagnum and Peat. Exhibited at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 18-21, '96. WM. SCOTT, President. WM. J. STEWART, Secretary. THE FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. I'or Free I'amphlet, write to LorisviLiF ISfIKIT t'CKKD ToB.ta o Cu. LouisviHe.Ky YOU NEED OUR Trade Directory .A-lflJD Reference Book FJRTCJS: S2 OO. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. 402 The American Florist. No V. 21^ Des Moines, la. Trade is not as good as usual for this season of the year. 'Mums are selling tolerably well at 50 cents to $2 a dozen, roses 75 cents, carnations 25 to 35 cents. The supply of roses and carnations is above demand, hence the low prices. At the last meeting of the club it was decided to have a seasonable paper read at each monthly meeting the members to take turns at writing and give one month's notice of the subject he will write on. It was thought some good could be accomplished in this way. On the night of the 10th of this month, the boiler room and potting shed of J. Ledig caught fire and before the fire de- partment could reach his place the entire structure was consumed. As the night was cold and windy the damage was augmented, the rose house especially suf- fering; his loss is $800 to $1,000, with no insurance. This coming after the severe illness in his family, he has the profound sympathy of his brother florists, a num- ber of whom with other friends assisted in clearing away the debris, enclosed the houses and had fire started in one of the boilers before the next night, thus pre- venting further damage by frost. T. T. D. F. Terre Haute, Ind. The first fruit of "restored confidence and general business revival," figuratively speaking, has been recently gathered by the florists in a way that recalls to them the good old times, when decorations on a large and sumptuous scale were the rule rather than the exception. Mr. John G. Heinl had a decoration of this sort recently. Aside from tonsof wild smilax, and hundreds of palms and decorative plants used for Root & Co.'s mammoth dry goods store, Mr. Heinl also furnished about 8,500 roses and 3,500 carnations for the occasion. Another elaborate dec- oration on a scale almost equally as lib eral, was that executed by Mr. H. Gra- ham at Haven & Gette's department store, while Mr. Lawrence Heinl had two carte-blanche wedding dtcoration orders. Messrs. Walker Bros, have built five houses, three of which are intended for roses; they each cover 18x100, and two for miscellaneousstock,eachlOxlOO. Their plant is located on east Main street. There is a noticeable improvement all along the line and the stock on the whole, is all that could be desired. Homo. Warren, O. — Geo. W. Gaskill gave a most successful rose and chrysanthemum show at his greenhouses last week. Busi- ness is not as good as could be wished but an early improvement is looked for. Roses and carnations are looking well and demand is fairly good. Keene, N. H. — Ellis Bros, gave an "illumination" at their greenhouses the evening of November 13. The houses were open to the public free of charge and brilliantly lighted with Chinese lanterns and candles. Over 2,000 people visited the place, and many comments were passed on the beautiful display. Floral souvenirs were given to each guest. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower Pots. etc. Maklnfj a Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price list ami HaniplcB (which will be sent free) and we know you will Klve us your order: Ji G> SWAHN S SONSf Minneapolh^'lMlnn. Mention American FiorlBt. H. M.HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO. FOR GREENHOUSES. '\?VTit^ *<>«• l^t^St prions* Mention American Florist. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. RRAMPu wADEuniiQPC' J Kearney and Westside Aves., Jersey City, N, J. BKAnun WAntnuuacd. j jackson Ave. and Fearson St., Long Island City, N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. When wrltinK mention the American KioriBt. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. * /~^UR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- ^-^ taction. We call your attention to our new pots 6. 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a tnal and ^ou will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO., SYRACUSE, N. Y. Rates via the Nickel Plate Road between same points for like classes of tickets are lower than via other lines. Plant Pots Pedestals, New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots; values frojn 25 cts. up to $t50 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants, (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St.. BOSTON, MASS. jEUoMK .luNES, Pres. S. A. STU,\TTON-, Trens. When writing mention American Florist Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. Neponset Flower Pots of Waterproof Paper are sold as follows: Terms— Net cash with order. If ordered shipped by freight, add oil cents cartage. Packed In Gross Wel^tlit Size Crates of per V w pots Per 100 Per lOOO 2M-lnch IIKIO abotaailbs $0.25 $2 00 2)i •■ UKX) , . " 2.1 •• :*1 2. SO :i " i(«» •• :« ■■ -ib 2.SU ■,V4 " lOUO •• 4,i •■ so 1.00 i " .'iOO •• 7(1 " m 6.U0 6 •• .. 6(1(1 ■• 100 •• !10 8,a0 (i •• 500 •' 150 " 1.80 i:t.S5 Standard Pot Measnre. Less ituantltles than full crates at 100 rates. F. W. 151 Kl) .& SONS, MHiiufiiotiirers. Address orders to our General Ag^ents, August Rolker&Sons New Yorll, p. O. Station E, or R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., Boston, Eastern Agents. i8gb. The American Florist. 403 Er oeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse 'Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Boilers made of the best of material, shell, firebox eheets ^nd heade of eteel. water space all around (front, sides and bacfc .) Write for Information. JOHNC ■ CO. CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL 412 T« 422 . SAWTHORNEAV. \CHICAGO.ILL, OF ANY DESCRIPTION. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. . „ -'••NEW DEPRRTURE," ^^ K'VE(iT)L*\TING (\PP].lflNCE> J. D. Carmody, E^'ansville, Ind. ^Dear Sir: — Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON, Gainesville, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS, Richmondt Ind. ^ " NO PUTT^' REQUIRED Butted Glass. This is no longer an experiment, it has come to stay. There are various ways of making Butted Koofs. but the best way is with I he Clipper Bar. With this bar you can make a roof that is absolutely free from drip, and glass cannot be turn (JUt by the wind. Butted glass makes a light roof, a warm liouse and saves fuel. Jt lasts l-'Uger, looks better and costs less than the old-fashioned roof. But do not think that this is the only bar we sell, for it is not ; we furnish what people want and there is nothing in green- house material that you cannot get from us, and all of open- u'r-dried Cypress clear of bright sap, stained sap, knots and all other defects. LOCKLAND LUMBER CO. LOCKLAND, O. Write for Circulars or Estimates. IMTim HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAM ♦ BOILERS. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 Sl 84 Center Street. CHICAGO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL & CO., 77 Lake Street. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for Catalogues. _^^aaa^ GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., Cor Congress, BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. HIPPARD, YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., CHICAGO. MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. SAVE YOUR $ $ $ by using our HANDY SASH LIFTER. For prices, apply to GEO. W HAMILTON. 176 Sidney St.. Dorchetl'r Mats. Al fl^^ ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Send for VJLnOO . Estimate. Satisfaction guaranteed. 108 Soath 6th Avenue, NEW YOBK CITY. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. To Pump Water ir \ou want water foranv purposp and have not tiie facilities", or want to change, write fur catalogue of tlie Celebrated DeLamater-Rlder and Delamater-crlcsson Hot- Air Pumping Engines. They v\ 111 pump water from any source ana foice It anywhere. Any kind of fuel <.an t>e used. Address, DeLAMATER IRON WORKS, 467 Wist m-uadway.New York City. For Insurance agralnst damage by hail, Address lOHN G. ESLER, Secy. F. H. A., Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL OUR T RADE D IRECTORY A-lsTD REFERENCE BOOK F'or XSOG Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. FR,ICE S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 404 The American Florist, Nov. 21^ Index to Advertiseis. AdT Rates :iM American BoUer Co... 401 AmIInf! B C liSM AsmuH E ;i;t7 Bailer F A raa Bancroft.I 4U(I Barnard W W & CO396 400 BasBett & WaBti.iurn..:in5 Bayersdorfer II & Co. .401 Blanc A &Co 3B9 Bobblnk L C OT.l Bonsall .loa B 400 Boston Letter Co 4U1 BrsKue I> B 400 Brower W 1 302 Burkl Kred 3'.>3 Carmodv J D 403 Chadwlck Chas 3!'8 Chalk .1 3'.«l Conley John & Son 101 Cottafie Gardens 3;w Cowen'8 Son N. 404 Crabb & Hunter 3'.w Craig Robt 3'.»; Cunningham J H ^'.nt DeLamater Iron Wks.103 Oletsch A SCO 403 Dillon J L 308 DomerFred &Sons Co 3H8 DreerH A 3'.»i Ehret F 394 Blchholz n 31)3 BlUoit W H 3!>4 KlllottWm & Sons....:!;* Bills* PoUwonu :i04 Faxon M B 3ir. FulwellerP C & Brclol GlbsonJC 390 Qurney Heater Co 403 Hall Ass'n 103 Hamilton G W 403 Hancock 4 Son . ...308 Harkett Horal Co.... 309 Hart M A 301 Hartford HB 4IKI HerrAlbertM :kw Herrmann A I'll HewsAH* Co 4(li UI11BG4C0 399 HlppardB .. .103 Httcblngs&Co 104 Hooker H M Co 102 HoranEdw c 305 Horan J & Son 399 HulseboBch Bros 3'.«j HuQtBH 305 Illinois Cut Flower Co.SJl Jennings E B 397 Jones McDuRy & Strat- ton 102 JoostenCH 3'.»> Kastlng W F 301 Kennlcott Bros Co 3ai KoehlerCh 399 Koeppen Chas 3.93 Kroeschell Bros Co. ... 103 EruBChka Max 303 Eaenn O A 391 Lang Julius 395 Lemke E F .... Lockland LumCo... Long D B Ivonsdale Edw Lord Sl Burnham Cu LoalsTllle Tobacco Co Lynch WE May L L & Co viccanhy N »- auo, McKellar C W Mlllang Frank : Mlllang& Co Moore F L . . Monlnger J C Co... National Plant On , N Y Cut Flower Co. . Nickel Plate Road..., Peacock W P Pennock Sam'lS Pitcher A Manda... Predmore 1 Prince A G &Co Purdy & Blauvelt..., OuakerClty Mc'h Wks. OuayleT J Randall A L Raynor J 1. Redtleld Bradley .. ReedGlansco Reed \ Keller Co.. KelnbergBros RIceM 4 Co 100 RIckBecker C H Rogers P'k Floral Co Rjlker A i Sons. ..102 RuppJ Saul John SchlllerJL 398 Sheridan W F Slebrecht & Son Situations. Wants, etc Skabcura Ulp Co smith Natn &son SoltauCA Co Steflena N ... Styer J J SjnderbruchH L Sutherland Geo A Swahns Sons J G Syracuse Pottery Co... Trnendly & Schenck. Vaughan J C Watson G C Weathereds Sons T W. Weber H& Sons Weeber& Don Welsel U M Welch Bros Welsh J Whllldln Pot Co Whitton S&SonB , . WllUamsASonsOo.... Winter & Glover. 303 Wl8 Flower Ex Wlttbold Geo Wood Bros Youngjno Young Thos Jr It was "Constructed." Speaking of floral designs a Congress street florist says they can ordinarily handle the usual run of orders for wed- wings and funerals, peculiar as some of the designs are, but two or three years ago they had a puzzler. 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Rmerica is 'the Prcu/ of the I/esse!; thsrs ir.a-j be mere nomfort Iirnidsh:ps, but we are the frst to touch Unknown Seas." ¥ol. Xll. CHICAGO AMD NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 28, 1896. No. 443 iliniE ffkm^mmm f^^nm^ Copyright 1896, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by THE American florist Company. 383 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription, 81.00 a year. To Europe, $2.00, Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, :{■^3 nearhorn Street, <:HICAr display of cut blooms, A. N. Pier- son for vase of 10 blooms of one variety. In pansies E. H. Howland was first for 50 blooms and 12 distinct blooms. In violets M. J. Moore was first for 100 double, A. N. Pierson for 100 single. Mr. Pierson was also first for 50 sprays lily of the valley. W. F. Gale took first for collection of palms to occupy 100 square feet of space. this background the tables with snowy linen and flashingglassand china showed among the flowers used to trim them, and the mantels of which there were two in competition one at each end of the stage, made a very striking efii?ct as a whole. The mantel that took first, decorated by Mr. E. A. Seidiwitz, was placed on the extreme left of the stage and was very pret tily arranged with a vase ot large white chrysanthemums on the left side of the upper shelf drooping to a loosely arranged cluster of the same just below on the lower shelf. A tall terra-cotta vase of long stemmed Golden Weddings on the floor at the right hand just reaching up to the lower shelf, with bankof adiantum in the fireplace and large banks of Areca lutesc ns on each sidecorapleted the most artistic bit of floral work in the hall. Just in front of the mantel was a t hie decorated by the same gentleman with Mrs. Jerome Jones chrysanthemums and adiantum, not tor competition. Next came the table that took second, by Mr. Philip B. Welsh, decorated with a roll of very choice Dailledouze 'mums running across the table diagonally and falling to the floor at each side. The flowers were arranged simply with their own toliage and the roll or mound tapered from about twelve inches in the center to single flowers at the end. Favors were single long-stemmed Dailledouze. The only fault that could be found with this arrangement was that the flowers were arranged a little too evenly and the foli- age was not plentiful enough to dispense with adiantum or asparagus. Next, and just in the center of the stage was the table that took first prize, a cir- cular table with a large mound of Meteor buds on adiantum fronds centered with valley, and with a Meteor and spray of valley at each plate. Although simple, this was a striking and expensive ar- rangement, and the onlj' criticism would be the same as the last, a little too much evenness and compactness. Mr. Robt. L. Graham was the decorator. The next table, by Mr. Thos. Patterson, was decorated with immense blooms of Niveus arranged in an oblong mound very lightly and tastefully with Adiantum Farleyense fronds. This display would have well deserved first place but for the fact that the oblong mound that entirely filled the center of the table had been made up for a four foot table while the tables provided oy the club were much narrower. Favors of long- stemmed Niveus completed an arrangement for which Mr. Patterson deserves great credit. The next and last table, which was decorated b3' Miss Perot, was not for competition. Oueen and Sunderbruch chrysanthemums were used \erx taste- fully in a tall epergne in the center and a log cabin glass basket at either end. The whole effect was light and charming. The mantel just back of the last mem- tioned table was decorated by Miss Peiot, too, and took second premium. Among the many other things that need mention w as a vase of very choice carnations from Mr. Hugh Graham, Phila. They were of almost the same tint of pink as Scott, a little darker and fuller than that varietj', and very fra- grant; Victor is their proud title. A vase of Souv. du President Carnot roses rom Mr. E Asmus, W. Hoboken, N. J., attracted mui h attention, chieflj' by reason of their inexpressibly delicate tint of shell pink, deepening to the center — much the size and shapeof a well-grown La France. The judges for Monday were Messrs. C. Hale, \Vin. Gude and Otto Bauer for cut flowers, and Wm. Clark, Wm. King and Jas. Oliver for plants, all being from Washington. The judges for Tuesday were all Baltimoreans: Messrs. Wm. Feast, Fred Bauer and J. D. Rodgers. The design work exhibited on Tuesday was uniforinlj'good and it is a great pity that there was not more competition, as anything to bt at Mr. Burger's exhibits must have been beautiful and instructive. Mr. B took first in all but th funeral design; a lyreof white 'mums with strings of violets and cluster of pink cattleyas at base, was particularly fine, and the wedding design, a large horseshoe of white crossed by a bow of pink buds with an arrow formed by trimming a sago leaf and wrapping the shaft with violets, resting on it, was very good, too. In the chrysanthemum plant classes first prizes went to Fisher & Ekas for 10 specimens in 10 varieties, single specimen not less than 5 feet in diameter, 12 plants in 6 varieties in S-inch pots, specimen plant in Sinch pot, 12 bush plants, 50 plants with not more than (> of a kind, 25 plants with not more than 6 of a kind and 12 single stem plants in 12 varieties. To Wm. Paul Binder for 5 specimens in 5 varieties and specimen bush plant. To P. B. Welsh for 3 standards. To C. M. Wagner for specimen st.'indard and 6 plants in (> varieties. In miscellaneous plants Isaac H. Moss was first for 6 carnations and group of decorative plants. Cook Bros, for one i8g6. The American Florist. 407 VIEW OF THE EXHIBITION AT ORANGE. N. J. carnation plant in bloom. C.M.Wag:ner for 6 foliage begonias in 6 varieties and specimen begonia. Edwin A. Seidewitz for specimen decorative plant. Fisher & Ekas lor 50 ferns in 2 to 3-inch pots. There were interesting competitions for amateurs and children under 15 years of age. In chrysanthemum cut blooms firsts were taken by Fisher & Ekas for 25 blooms in 25 varieties and collection of odd forms. By Lehr Bros, for 12 blooms in 12 varieties. By H. Weber & Sons for largest and best gro ;i n bloom and 12 blooms red or crimson. Bv M. J. Hanigan for 12 blooms .white and 12 yel- low. By Montgomery Bros, for 12 pink. In cut roses Isaac H. Moss was first for 25 pink and 25 yellow; M. J Hanigan for 25 white. P. C. Erdman was first on 200 violets. In carnation cut blooms H. Weber & Sons were first for 100 blooms, 50 blooms, 6 vases with 25 blooms in each, 50 blooms red and 50 crimson; Isaac H. Moss for 50 pink and 50 striped; Lelr Bros, for 50 white and 50 yellow. 0( the special premiums Montgomerv Bros, won for 12 bushplantschrysanthe- mums in 12-inch pots and for 12 pink cut blooms: \Vm. Paul Binder for 12 bush plants, group of 10 in 9-inch pots, 10 specimens in 12-inch pots and standard of odd form; P. B. Welsh for 7 bush plants in 12-inch pots, 6 standards in 6 varieties and 2 specimen bush plants; Fisher & Ekas for 6 plants in 12-inch pots; Lehr Bros, for 12 blooms Golden Wedding; Isaac H. Moss for 3 specimens in 3 varieties; H. Weber & Sons for 100 blooms carnation. That the show was a financial failure was not owing to the character of the material exhibited, for both cut flowers and plants were uniformly first-class. It was not owing to lack of advertisements in the premium list, for eighteen full pages were surely as much as could have been expected by the most sanguine. The attendance seemed to be as heavy as usual in spite of the rival attractions of Joe Jefferson and Ian MacLaren. The musical program was excellent and the hall the best in the city. In fact it may be questioned if it was not too good, and it is matter for serious consideration whether any flower show can stand an outlay of one thousand dollars a week for hall rent (the price charged) in addition to the premiums. We will probably have to find lower priced quarters for the next show, even if it should be necessary to hide the walls with evergreen or drape the root with wreathing. The competition in plants was close, and in cut blooms too; the design work was not as well contested as in previous shows, but the pieces entered were very good, and while the prizes were won gen- erally in every class by new competitors, that is rather cause for congratulation than foreboding. As usual the single item entries were superb. Stocky plants, with rank foliage to the pots, topped with immense and perfectly shaped flow- ers, were the rule almost without excep- tion. The first premium for fifty plants, single stem, was captured by Fisher & Ekas with Jeannie Falconer, an immense globular light yellow, incurved; Gretchen Buettner, a very broad petallcd incurved white; Arcadia, bronze Japanese; Helen Wright, incurved light pink; Dinsmore. a bright yellow as full as Niveus; Peabody, a flat white; and forty-four of the older varieties. All were as near perfection in plant and flower as could be expected. The same firm in competing for twelve single stem took first with a beautiful lot of plants, among which were Latest Fad, a huge bunch of yellow bronze petals five inches long, so closely set as to have no center; Invincible, a white much like Phil adelphia in shape and petals; H. W. Kie- nian, as compact at the center as L. C. Madeira, but looser at the tips; Indiana, incurved silvery pink, a globe of seven inches diameter; Mrs.Murdock,a delicate tint of pale pink forming a perfect ball of broad petals standing straight out from the center in every direction; Mrs. H. Robinson, very pure white and full to the center, shaped like the last. These gentle- men exhibited a seedling named Defender — awarded 93 points in Philadelphia and 91 in Chicago, the Chicago flowers having been cut two weeks before it reached the judges. It is a deep shining crimson light- ing up beautifully in strong light; from seed obtained by fertilizing A. J. Drexel with pollen from G. W. Childs, and ap- parently destined to supersede the other crimsons entirely. They also exhibited a seedling, Geo. S. Kalb, a cross between Bergman and Kate Brown, pure white, verv full, stifl' stem, fit to cut October 2. Mr. W. Paul Binder, gardener for H. A. Parr, took first for five bush plants with Georgiana Pitcher, a grand plant five feet in diameter; Wni. Falconer, Eda Prass, Pres. W. R. Smith, Georgienne Bramhall. The same gentleman took the Otto Ducker special with W. H. Lincoln, Viviand-Morel, Nemesis, G. W, Childs, Pride of Roses, Georgiana Pitcher, Hicks- Arnold, Mrs. A J. Drexel, Ada Spaulding and Wm. F'alconer. Also the Hogendorp special by a fan trimmed tree plant of Harry A. Parr, Jr., six feet high. The two finest plants on the floor were huge hemispheres of Georgiana Pitcher fully five feet through, from the same. A remarkable group of plants that attracted much attention was composid of forty cyclamens in full flower bearing from eight to ten fine flowers each. These were also shown by Mr. Binder. Mr. C. Hess exhibited plant and vase of bloom of his new carnation Baltimore, an extra vigorous plant and large, circu- lar, very full flower of a charming pink with good calyx. The only defect to be f een was a slight weakness in the stem which Mr H. explained as caused by hav- ing been grown too warm. Montgomery Bros, had a display of ferns. In the center a tall group of nephrolepis and pteris with other groups of adiantums, small crotons, Cocos Wcd- deliana, da vallia, etc., arranged in a broad bed of moss like a miniature tropical for- est. The general effect was quite at- tractive. These gentlemen took the special "American' premium with a group of Sunrise, Bride of Roses, Mrs. Higin- botham, Wm Falconer, A J. Drexel and Louis Boehmer. They also had the larg- est plant in the hall, an enormous Marie Louise, but the show being a week too late for it. it went unrecognized. It woidd not do to close without men- tioning the "Sun" special, which wascap- 408 The American Florist. Nov. 28. tured by Mr. W. P. Binder with Major Bonnaffon.Pres. W. R. Smith, Georgiana Pitcher, Bride of Roses, H. L, Sunder- bruch, Hicks-Arnold, Niveus, Katherine Leech, G. W. Childs and Ivory. Neither would it do to omit mentioning the per- fect plant of Ermenilda, with which Mr. C. M.Wagner captured the first on stand- ards; it was fully six feet high and an example of skill in growing and training hard to equal. The same gentleman took first on single plant of begonia and on begonia collection. Also on six bush chrysanthemums in 6-inch pots with E- M. Bigelow, Peabody Christa Bell, Sun- light, W. H. Lincoln, Viviand-Morel. Though the club is no richer, yet the premiums and all other bills are paid, thanks to the reserve exhibition fund, and the committee in charge of show, Messrs. Moss, Binder, Flitton, Welch and Hess deserve great praise for the work they have done and thethorough way in which they have done it. Mack. Providence, R. \. The annual chrysanthemum exhibition of the R. L Horticultural Society was held in Infantry Hall, November 10, 11, and 12. The display of cut blooms, filling a table nearly the length of the hall, was magnificent. Farquhar Macrae of course took first prize, a silver water set, for 6 vases of 10 blooms each, but he was closely pressed by Bernard Connelly of the Briggs Greenhouses, who took second prize. Farquhar Macrae took first prize on 50 bottles cut blooms, and Alfred Powell, gardener for Mrs. T. P. I.Goddard took second. The society offered prizes for commercial florists alone for a dis- play of plants not less than forty, of which F. A. Fairbrothtr took second prize and J. J. Jansen third; the first prize was not awarded. The plants on exhibition were very much below last year's exhibit except the ones shown by Alfred Powell. Mr. Powell's collection contained two fine trained standards, one of them being the Georgiana Pitcher which took first prize, the other Viviand-Morel, took second. Wm. Hill, gardener for Mrs. T. P. Shep- pard, took first on single bloom plant, C. W. Regester second. J. J. Jensen, first on single bloom pink, C.W. Regester, second. On the yellow Allred Powell took first, J. J. Jensen, second. On fifteennamed plants Allred Powell was first, J. J. Jensen, second, C. W. Regester, third. There were fine displays of palms, ferns and foliage plants from Wm. Hill, Allied Powell, E.J.Johnston, Wra.Appleton. Jr. Farquhar iMacraealsoexhibited twenty five blooms of chrysanthemum Francis B. Hayes for which the society gave a certificate of merit for finely grown blooms. Nathan Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., exhibited a new seedling chrysanthemum Western King for which was awarded the society's certificate of merit. There was a large display of carnations from Nathan D. Pierce, Jr , of Norwood, Martin Edwards, of Newport; and the Homogansett Greenhouses, of Wicklord, for which prizes were awarded as follows: Nathan D. Pierce, Jr. first on cut blooms with foliage, Homogansett Gretnhouscs, second; 12 crimson, N. D. Pierce, Jr.; 12 dark pink, Martin Eldwards, first, Homo- gansett Greenhouses, second; light pink, Martin Edwards, first; Homogansett Greenhouses, second; scarlet, N. D. Pierce, Jr., first; white, Martin Edwards, first; Homogansett Greenhouses, second; yel- low, N. D. Fierce, Jr., first; Homogansett Greenhouses, second. N. D. Pierce, Jr., was awarded the society's certificate of merit for new seed- lings as follows: "Carnation No. 10," "May Pierce, ' ' Doctor H annaford , " "Beau Ideal." Each evening an organ recital was given by the leading organist of i he city. Stormy weather and other attractions prevented a very large attendance but several thousands visited the exhibition during the three days although two of the days were stormy. C W. S. Madison, N. J. The third annual flower show of the Rose Growers' Club heldonNovemberlT, 18, 19 was the finest yet given by that thriving organization. The decorations of the hall were profuse and artistic, the exhibits of both plants and flowers were of the highest excellence, the music by the Madison Cornet Band and Brown's Orchestra was good and the public gave substantial recognition by attending in large numbers, the school children being admitted free on Wednesday evening. The competition in roses was naturally very close and Madison's far-famed rose growers were well represented in the various classes. American Beauty was shown in great perfection bv L A. Noe, L. M. Noe, C. A. Work, M." Tilden and Mrs. R. B. Holmes; the Bride bv C. H. Hagert, T. W. Stemmler, C. H.'Hagert and J Jones; Bridesmaid by John Jones, Mrs. R.B.Holmes, M. Tilden, T. W. Stemm- ler, J. Querney and others, there being fourteen contestants in one of the classes for this rose. Meteor, Niphetos and all the other favorites were shown in quan- tity, W. McCormack and L. A. Noe being best on Meteor and Miss Alice Green's vase of Niphetos being pronounced the best ever seen by the experts present. Ernst Asmus received a certificate of merit for rose Souv. du Pres. Carnot, Nathan Smith for chrysanthemum West- ern King and C. A Work for a collection of begonias and palms. M.B.McGuire, P. Cosgrove & Son, T. W. Stemmler and J. Mitchell all showed extensive groups ol foliage and flowering plants, the best single specimen being C. A. Work's bou- gainvillea. Violets from F. F. Ryan and carnations from H. Quimby were also among the winners. The committee having the exhibition in charge was composed of: P. J. Rj'an, M. B. McGuire, L M Noe, E. P. Cosgrove, Thomas Keefe, James Doughertj', John R. Mitchell, J. L. Qu rney, James J. Ryan, James Murphy, James Littlejohn, William McCormick, Edward Kerwin, Thomas Ktlley, Michael Brady and Dennis Mc- Carthy. The officers of the club are: President, John N. May; vice-president, John R. Mitchell; secretary, James J. Ryan; treasurer, M. B. Maguire. Davenport, Iowa. The best chrj'santhemum show in the west this year (Chicago not excepted) was that given at the Turner Grand Opera House in this city by the Tri City Florists' Club, three large halls being filled with the display. For harmony's sake no prizes were oft'tred, but each one did his best, and the result is that the third annual show is an improvement over the preceding ones. The largest exhibitors in plants were Ch.Trlcs Danna- cher and F. L. Bills, each furnishing over 1,000 plants each, standards, single steins and bush forms of the best varieties. W. Knees, of Moline, had a fine display of single stems. H. Gaethje, of Rock Island, also had a fine group. J. T. Temple had a group of bush grown plants. The dis- play of plants by Messrs. Bills and Dan- nacher filled two large halls, also the stage, and the other exhibitors were in the dress circle. In another large downstairs hall was the display of cut flowers. The center of the hall was filled with 20 large, 16 feet long by 4- feet wide tables, arranged in V shape, while along the sides all around the hall were also tables, all well and tastefully filled with chrysanthemums, carnations, roses, tuberoses, etc. Here also F. L Bills and Charles Dannacher were the principal exhibitors, both the plants and cut chrysanthemums of these two exhibitors were magnificent; foliage, stems and colors perfect. I doubt if even "Little Woodie" could decide which was best. It would have been a "toss-up." The other exhibitors in cutflowe s were Wesley Green, J. T. Temple and F. G. Bahr. All of the others showed without labels, but Mr. W. Green had the most interesting and educational exhibit in the show; well grown flowers and all named, and many visitors took notes from them. J. T. Temple showed about 60 large spikes of tuberoses which scented the whole building. F. G. Bahr had a displav of eucharis which was greatly admired. Owing to the dark weather roses were not quite as fine as last year. The dis- play of carnations was very good. J. T. T. St. Johns, N. B. The annual chrysanthemum show held under the auspices of the St. Johns Horti- cultural Societv was held November 11 and 12. The disagreeable weather of the first night somewhat interfered with the at- tendance, but this was made up to a great extent on the closing afternoon and evening. The show as a whole showed a marked improvement over previous years, both in general efl'ect and quality of the diffier- ent exhibits. Messrs. C. P. Clark, Wm. Mcintosh and Wm. McLean acted as judges and gave general satisfaction, the judging being according to the scale used by the Chrysanthemum' Society of Amer- ica. D. Mcintosh showed some fine speci- men plants, as also two groups of chrys- anthemums and foliage plants, both of which captured first place in their respect- ive c asses. H. E. Gould, of Sussex, had some good plants grown to single stems, but rather tall, for which he came in for " a fair share of honors, as also did his cut blooms, which were very fine, Philadel- phia, of which he staged twenty-five blooms in one vase being especially g od. H. S. Cruikshank showed a group which came in a close second to D. Mc- intosh, and took first place for the twelve distinct varieties of cut blooms, also for vase of twenty-five blooms with Viviand- Morel. John W. Allen was strong in plants, but did not come to the front so well in lion- ors as last year; you will have to do bet- ter next year, John, or the boys will think there is something wrong. Wm. McLean had a small exhibit of plants and cut flowers, as also John Cruikshank, from Lancaster Heights, who had a small but tastefully arranged exhibit of plai.ts and cut blooms. A. J. Stephens' exhibit perhaps showed more improvement over previous years than any of the others and was arranged to good advantage, but unfortunately neither of the above named three would enter for competition. Probably the finest display in the whole show was made by C.J. Knott, gardener i8g6. The a mer ica.v Florist. 409 VIEW OF THE EXHIBITION AT ORANGE. N. J. to the Horticultural Society, eight stand- ards of Pink Ivory deserving special men- tion and showed Charley knows how to grow a good plant as well as do a hard day's work. His specimen cut blooms were also good, twenty four large vases of specimen flowers which would be hard to beat. Unfortunately for him the society never enters for com- petition or the florists would have to hustle to stand in the place of honor, as they would find him to be indeed a hard Knot to get over. St. Tohn. Chrysanthemum Society of America. The gold medal offered by the Chrysan- themum Society of America at the Jubilee Show of the National Chrysanthemum Society of England was awarded to Mr. P. Waterer Fawkham, Kent, for the new variety Mile. Marie Hoste. The medal was offered under the follow- ing conditions: "The best 12 blooms of a chrysanthemum of commercial value, one variety only, introduced from any countr}', home, colonial or foreign. The exhibit to be staged in a vase, with not less than 18 inches of stem, the vase to be provided by the exhibitor. The variety to be of a pleasing color, likely to be sale- able; size and substance of the blooms also to be considered. The foregoing to be judged by American scale of points. ' ' There were eight competitors. The win- ning blooms were sent by Mr. Waterer to the American Consul at London, who acknowledged their receipt in an enthusi- astic and congratulatorj' note. Grand Rapids, Mich. Following is a complete list of the awards at the recent exhibition: Chrysanthemum plants — display of pink sorts, Henry Smith 1st, Crabb & Hunter 2d, Grand Rap- ids Floral Co. 3d; specimen white. Henry Smith 1st, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d, Crabb & Hunter 3d; specimen yellow, Henry Smith 1st, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d, Crabb & Hunter 3d; speci- men bronze, Crabb & Hunter 1st, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d, Henry Smith 3d; specimen red, Henry Smith Is t, Crabb & Hunter 2d, Grand Rap- ids Floral Co. 3d; standard red, Crabb & Hunter 1st, Henry Smith 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d; standard yellow, Henry Smith 1st, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d, Stover Floral Co. 3d; standard white, Crabb & Hunter 1st, Henry Smith 2d; six pink bush plants. Stover Floral Co. 1st, Crabb & Hun- ter 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d; six white bush plants, Henry Smith 1st, Crabb & Hunter 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d; six yellow bush plants, Crabb & Hunter 1st. Henry Smith 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d; six bronze bush plants, Crabb & Hunter 1st. Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d, Hen y Smith 3d; six red bush plants, Henry Smith 1st, Stover Floral Co. 2d, Grand Rap- ids F oral Co. 3d; six of any color, Crabb & Hun- ter 1st. Henry Smith 2d; twenty-five plants of any color. Henry Smith 1st. Crabb & Hunter 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d; ten pink single stem, Grand Rap ds Floral Co. 1st. Stover Floral Co. 2d, Henry Smith 3d; ten white, Crabb & Hunter 1st, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d, Stover Floral Co. 3d; ten yellow, Henry Smith 1st. Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d, Crabb & Hunter 3d ; ten red, Crabb & Hun- ter 1st, Stover Floral Co 2d. Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d; ten of any color. Grand Rapids Floral Co. 1st, Crabb & Hunter 2d, Stover Floral Co. 3d. In the above named the first premiums were 85 each. Group of tropical plants— 1st. $25. Henry Smith: prizes were awarded to Crabb & Hunter, Grand Rapids Floral Co , F. A. North, James Schols. Chrysanthemum cut blooms— twelve yellow, F. A. Chapman 1st. Stover Floral Co. 2d, James Schols 3d; twelve white, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 1st, James Schols 2d, Paul Goebel & Son 3d; twelve pink. Grand Rapids Florsl Co. 1st, Crabb & Hunter 2d, James Schols 3d; twelve red, Stover Floral Co. 1st. Henry Smith 2d. Crabb & Hunter 3d; twelve bronze, Henry Smith 1st Grand Rap- ids Floral Co 2d, Crabb & Hunter 3d; display cut chrysanthemums, Henry Smith 1st, Grand Rapids Floral Co., Crabb & Hunter. Cut carnations— twenty-five light pink. Grand Rapids Floral Co. 1st, J. A Creelman 2d, James Schols 3d; twenty- five dark pink, J. A. Creelman 1st, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d. Henry Smith 3d; twenty-five white. Grand Rapids Floral Co. 1st, Henry Smith 2d, F. A. Chapman 3d; twelve red, George Hancock & Sons. Grand Haven, 1st. Grand Rapids Floral Co. 2d, Henry Smith 3d; twelve yellow, J. A. Creelman 1st, Crabb & Hunter 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. .Sd; twelve any color, Crabb & Hunter 1st, Geo. Hancock & Sons 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d: display carnations, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 1st, Geo. Hancock ,Si Sons 2d. Crabb & Hunter 3d. Cut roses— twelve white. Grand Rapids Floral Co. 1st, Paul Goebel tt Son 2d, Henry Smith 3d; twelve pink, Henry Smith 1st, Grand Rapids Flo- ral Co. 2d. Crabb & Hunter :?d; twelve yellow, Henry Smith 1st, Crabb & Hunter 2d, Grand Rap- ids Floral Co. 3d; twelve American Beauty. Henry Smith 1st, Crabb & Hunter 2d, Grand Rapids Flo- ral Co. 3d. Best 100 violets, Crabb S: Hunter. Henry Smith, James A. Creelman. Mantel decorations, Crabb & Hunter 1st, Henry Smith 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d. Pable decorations, Henry Smith 1st. Crabb & Hunter 2d, Grand Rapids Floral Co. 3d. In the special premiums Crabb & Hunter won all the premiums except the two won by Henty Smith. The premiums awarded to Crabb & Hunter were the 85 prize for best specimen pink chrysanthemums, 85 tor best specimen white chrysanthemum, 85, best fifteen suiglestem chrys- anthemums; $3 for best pair of cyclamens; 8:J for best pair cyclamens; 85, best standard chrysanthe- mum; $5, best standard white chrysanthemum; 85, fifteen single stem chrysanthemums: $5, best standard chrysanthemums; 85. best pair .Major Bonnaftbn chrysanthemums; best geranium plant; 85, best Mutual Friend chrysanthemum; 85, best standard chrysanthemum ; 85, best standard chrys- anthemum. Henry Smith won the 85 premium for best araucaria, and 85 for best standard chrys- anthemum. Mdlbrook, N. Y. Unusually fine weather, a beautiful hall, numerous and enthusiastic soectators, and above all, superior excellence and beauty of plants and flowers, combined to make the chrysanthemum exhibition of the Millbrook Horticultural Society on November 17 and 18 a grand success. In the section of specimen plants in 14-inch pots, notable exhibits were 3 bush plants exhibited by W. C. Russell, gar- dener to C. F. Dietereich, of Millbrook, which received first prize, with the ex- hibit of I. L. Powell, gardener to Samuel Thorne, of Millbrook, a near second and especiallv a W. H. Lincoln shown by Robt. Hilloak, undergardener to Samuel Thorne, which took a silver cup as the best plant on exhibition. In the section of cut blooms of chrysan- themums, honors were fairly well divided between Mr. Powell and Mr. Russell, Mr. Powell taking first prize for 12 flowers in 12 varieties, and also 25 flowers 1 variety, and Mr. Russell capturing a $25 prize for collection of cut blooms, 6 varie- ties 6 in each, and also first prize for vase of chrysantheminns with other foliage. Thejudges, Messrs. Patrick O'Mara, J. Withers and Richard Gardner, had great difficulty in deciding upon the compara- tive merits of the flowers of these two exhibitions and theirexclamations of ad- miration of the superiority and beauty of the flowers were frequent and enthusi- astic. In the section of cut roses, successful exhibitor* were E. Bennett, gardener to John D. Wing, Millbrook, Robt. Hilloak, T. Harrison, gardener to Gov. Morton, W. C. Russell and Wood Bros., Mr. Rus- sell again carrying oft' a $2.5 prize for best collection, with T. Harrison second. Ernst AsmusofW. Hoboken exhibited a fine vase of Souvenir du President Camot roses, which attracted inuch attention 410 The American Florist. Nov. 2S, and admiration, and which received a certificate of merit. In carnations Wood Bros, were the most successful competitors, with W. C. Russell a close second. In violets the first prize was awarded to a grand bunch shown by. J. Blair, gardener for S. Ogden Mills, with E. Bennett a good second. A very attractive feature of the show was the three exhibits of flowering and foliage plants arranged for effect, two upon the stage and one in a corner of the hall. W. C. Kussell took first prize, I. L. Powell second and the group of Mr. E. Bennett was deemed worthy of a special prize. These were all remarkably beauti- ful and tastefull}' arranged g oups. The audience was entertained very acceptably on Tuesday evening by Mr. Martyne of New York, with a variet3- of clever impersonations, ventrilo(|uism, etc., and on Wednesday evening by Miss Stevens, soprano, and Miss Joyce, pian- ist, both of New York, whose beautiful music added much to the occasion one long to be remembered. The attendance throughout the show, and especially the evenings when these entertainments were given, was remarkably large, the hall being crowded to its utmost capacity. Nearly 500 were present at one time on Wednesday evening. Mornstown, N. J. The first exhibition of the newly organ- ized Morris County Florists' and Garden- ers' Club was held in L^'ceum Hall on November 10, 11, 12 and 13, and was altogether a most flattering success. Groups of handsome decorative plants from A. Herrington,gardcnerto H. McK. Twomblv, W. Duckham, gardener to D. W.James, H. Hanson, gardener to Mrs. Catlin, Wm. Griflen, gardener to Mrs Sherman, John Jones and others made a most effective setting for the roses, chrys- anthemums, carnations and violets which were contributed in themost lavish man- ner by the crack growers of Summit. Madison, Chatham, Convent and Short Hills. Much credit is due the officers and com- mittee of the Club, which comprise the following: A. Herrington, president; W. Duckham, vice-president; W. Charlton, treasurer, and W. H. Thomas, secretary. Committee; D Channon, T. Jones, J. Jones, Chas. H. .\tkins, H. C. Holmes, Wm. Hanson, R. H. Hermes and W. Grifiin. Chrysanthemum Colors Decoratively Con- sidered. Among the multitude of chrysanthe- mums it does not seem improbable that some confusion may arise in the florist's mind regarding the true merit of a single tj'pe. A certain flower may carry with it all the excellence which the horticultur- ist or the florist desires, yet the exact esthetic merit of this flower may be an open question in the minds of both. A comparative examination of a number of the newest types, leads me to believe that there are some whose excellent aesthetic qualities ought to be more fully recog- nized. The J. Shrimpton, for instance may be favorably compared with the good old standby CuUingfordii. and I think it shows in a measure a superior quality. Its color is clearer, and less heavy; its type is of a strongly rcflexcd kind, which — at least in the specimens I have seen — is better developed than thatof the Culling fordii. The whitened backs of a few petals which show themselves accentuate the strong aesthetic red witt a certain agreeable harmony of color. Beside this rather strong flower I like to see the deli- cate character called Theo, with its pure, cold white, its narrow, stra ght, thin petals, its gray, shadowy, colorless depths, and its solendid effect against the dark foliage. These two flowers are extremely valuable for an efl'ect in red and white. But columbine is a duo-colored flower, with strongly incurved petals, and an effect of light, creamy-golden yellow, and depths of subdued pinkish orange as luminous as it is oddly indescribable. The flower color is graded from a deep tone at the base 1 1 a light tone at the top. Such a pretty double-toned flower ought never to be in the company of another of the same nature. It always holds its own beside some chrysanthemum with a single tone of white or dull red. Geo. Daniels, a pure white flower with broad, short, sharp petals, and a hemis- pherical form with just the faintest sug- gestion hire and there of a pinkish flush, is certainly not a bad neighbor for Colum- bine, or even Maj. McKinley, with its soft coloring of orange-red and gold-red, its transparent tone, and its firm, good, sober green foliage. Louis Boehmer still con inues with its undiminished value of superb, a;sthetic crushed-raspberry pink. Its depths are lustrous, and its white-pink, hairy sur- face is the softest thing imaginable in color. This flower is superb in the com- pany of another white one; but in its proximity I have .seen a yellow^ Lincoln which has succeeded in killing it — as some one has expressively said — in a dozen places at once! No, keep the sober pink chrysanthemums away from their golden relatives, or else choose, if you will, tosee them color-killed. I am alwaysdelighted with the extreme type of the flower called Viviand-Morel. I use the term exti-eme with a good pur- pose, no other chrysanthemum seems quite so emphatic in charactci; its straight, or somewhat curved narrow petals, long and papery, are in strong contrast with those of such characters as Mrs. Robt. Craig (white), or Golden Hair (pale flesh-yellow); or Clinton Chal- fant (yellow). These are all compactlj- built flowers, without a suggestion of the freedom which characterizes Viviand- Morel. Here we have the truest liberty of form, combined with a corresponding freedom of color. The pink is delicate or strong, soft, toned, and graduated on the petal, so we cannot commit ourselves by at- tempting to specify one particular kind of pink. Without doubt this flower is an extreme tj'pe which is an alwavs welcome accompaniment to some pale tinted char- acter of conventional figure, like Presi- dent W.R. Smith, with flesh pink incurved petals, of a waxy surface, or the old standby Ivory (white). For excellent colors and decided forms, I like such flowers as Golden Hair and Mrs. Bishop; the former has, perhaps, a waveringcolor — something which I might describe as a liquid, ruddy gold in its depths — but a solid incurved petal. Its color is dual, but nevertheless well ]>ro- nounced, and the hairiness of the petal somewhat subdues it. It is a fine flower in the company of white, or strong dark red. Mrs. Bishop has a pui-e, all-over pale golden-yellow color, and finely radiating petals, which are well fitted to show nicely beside some compact flower like Mrs. Robert Craig; but I should keep Clinton Chalfant away from it, the latter has a deeper yellow color, light in i s depths, but of so pronounced a tone that it is not apt to look well in the company of any flower save one which has the freest possible form; for instance, one like the anemone-flowered Garza, whose pretty radiate blossoms are a relief to one's eyes amid a group of compactly formed giants. Speaking of giants reminds me of Mrs. Jerome Jones, whose portly figure and serpent-like curved petals are a great remove from all the types I have men- tioned above. This grand flower, a pink- stained waxy white, supported by the darkest possible, leathery, green foliage, is a character which ought to stand bv itself. I would let Mrs. Jerome Jones severely alone. I mean that she should reign alone. She is politically supreme, and with any other company than her own, she is destructive to the extent of anarchy! What for instance, would one think of a combination of Mrs. Jerome Jones with the old-fashioned, dainty flower called J^aciniatum! There is, at least, this to be considered in the use of chrysanthemums lor decora- tive pusposes; each flower has atypeofits own, and either the types war with each other, or else they dwell in the realms of everlasting peace. It is not at all difficult to find the harm nious members of the chrysanthemum brotherhood, and Z':ce versa, the theatrical Mrs. Jon s and the puritanical Laciniatum in combination n^^d. no comments of mine to foreshadow another state of things. But I will call attention now to an extremely odd-colored member of the brotherhood. Mrs. Geo. West, here we have a dull purplish, grayish flower, exceedingly variable in tone, but also quite refreshingly so. I would choose such a flower in the decoration of a white room. There is something strong of accent about it, and unless I preferred a white and yellow efl'ect, I can imagine nothing more pleasing than the dark, somber and tonic efl'ect of this flower amid weak-colored surroundings. Its color is jEsthetic, and its form is thor- oughly good; in combination with some large cream-white flower it finds its truest value. I hardly know what to say of its darker sister called Octoroon. This flower has a whitish-chocolate tone under electric light which is quite charming. Certainly this character is a strong one, and perhaps under the same conditions as those I have just described it must be beautitul. I wt^ifld avoid, however, anv accompaniment for it other than white. Other flowers whose ajsthetic coloring is greatly to be admired are, Eugene Dail- ledouze, with its extremely golden, liquid depths, its well-curved petals, and its fine blackish, leathery foliage; Mrs. Perrin, whose crimson pink is soft and luscious, and Minerva, who.se light, pure, pale- gold yellow is unequalled by anv other chrysanthemum. Its incurved, lightly twisted petal is well formed, and its foli- age is eftectivcly dark. This last flower is as pure in tone as the two former ones are solt; and in each case the juxtaposi- tion of anv flovvcr of strong and uncom- ])roniising color is absolutely destructive of all artistic eftect. Let each of these flowers speak for itself. Julinda is a pretty flower of tlat-topped figure, .and slightly incurved jjctals with ])ointed tips whose light pinkish tone is sharply relieved against the ball of deep aesthetic dull ])ink beneath. This is a good pink flower for the company of some other one whose pink is ijuite dark, or for such acharacter as Mutual Friend, a white flower of excellent substance, iSg6. The American Florist. 4n 1st Pyhe. Arranged by Miss E.J, ll^ilmarth. ind Prize. Arratiged by Miss Helen Martin. Arranged by Mrs. Emily Chase. .'Inanged by Miss Jessie I'reslun. Arranged bv Miss Edith J. Dudgeon. Atranged by Miss Ella C. Pomeroy^ ARRANGEMENTS OP CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN VASES BY STUDENTS OF THE ART INSTITUTE AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. often creamy orpink-flushed in its depths. Whatever choice the florist may make of these chrysanthemums for decoration, he cannot err if he chooses white for an accompaniment in every case where color is puzzling, or non-commital. A bother- some chrysanthemum color is at once righted in the company of white; the same applies to a room-co!or o( question- able nature Try white! and then add such other flower colors as may seem to fit in without causing a sensation! F. Schuyler Mathews. Boston, November 14, '96. Violets. Is there any difference between the sale of Lady Campbell and Marie Louise violet blooms in the New York wholesale market, and if so which is the most desir- able? Has anything yet been discovered to cure the violet disease? We rai'e the Lady Campbells in cold frames. On the 6ch they commenced to get spots and now we have a good deal. Is there any rule to go by in watering? We try to keep them wet on top. Is that right or is it too much water? What time of the day should they be watered? Go abright day or cloudy day? It has been very hot and clear here for the last two weeks or more and it took a lot of water to beep them wet, especially in the back of the frames. Please give us your ideas as to cause of disease and also future treat- ment. T. & T. In answer to T. & T's first question I would say that Marie Lnuise is the most desirable violet by all odds for the New Yoik market, and it will continue to hold its own against all comers as it has done in the past. Simply because this one and that one can not grow it to perfection is no reason why these people should decry it. While there are a few who like the pale color o( Lady Hume Campbell, the masses will choose the royal purple of that queen of violets, Marie Louise. Q lestion second: N >thing has yet been discovered to cure violet diseases (there are about twelve serious ones that we are acquainted with). Prevention is the grand panacea for all the troubles of the violet. Keep it growing from the time it is p'anted out until the balmy spring time shall come again, when it will take care of itself. S -riously check its growth and it receives its death warrant so far as oroducing fine flowers is concerned. If T. & T. will keep their foliage on the dry side and look out for the red spider and aphis, they will soon find an improve- ment in 1 heir p'ants. The cause of most of the violft diseases is atmospheric. In the long run eternal vigilance will be found lo be the price of success; it is the little details in which most of us err, we generally look after the "main chance." Rbinebick, N. Y. George Saltford. Araucaria — Amaryllis. Some time ago I sold an araucaria to a customer and when sold the plant was in good condition, but nowthe branches are drooping, though still a healthy green, and the top has a's > drooped over. The customer sa d it had been watered every day, and as the roots were coming out of the bottom of the pot, they shifted to a larger one, and used dirt from the wood pile. Is that kind of soil suitable for that plant, and also for palms, as the same party has pa'ms planted in thesame kind of soil, but they look stunted. Can the amaryllis be forced and in what wa^ ? I would like to know as I have the white, pink aad red. I. G. The condition of the araucaria may have been brought about by either of two causes, namely, rotting of the roots brought about by insufficient drainage 412 The American Florist. Nov. 28. or by the attacks of fungus that has been developed in the soil through the medium of decayed wood. The soil described as "dirt from the woodpile" is not likely to prove satisfactory for either araucariasor palms, good loam, such as would be used for rose growing, being much more suita- ble for this purpose. It would probably be safer to repot the plants into good soil than to leave them in their present condition, though it is somewhat doubtful if the araucaria will recover. Amaryllis can be forced quite readily, but require a thorough rest first to pre- pare them for this operation. They should be dried off for several weeks before being forced and at the same time should be kept moderately cool, about 45° being a satisfactory tempera- ture at this period. Then bring them into a higher temperature and start them on again, when the flower spikes will usually appear before the leaves. Do not repot them or disturb the bulbs until after they have flowered, but after the flowers are past, the plants may be repotted or top- dressed as may be necessary, and then grown on for a time in orderto renew the strength of the bulbs in readiness for a future forcing. W. H. Taplin. Herbaceous Plant Notes. In places of moderate size, our tall and strong growing hardy plants are often objected to. Perhaps the limited ground would not allow the beds or borders to be laid out wide enough, or it may have been desirable for some reason to design a very narrow border in a particular spot, here the more robust species would certainly ramble over the edges of the bed on the grass or the walk and be likely to spoil the outlines and perhaps also interfere seriously with the effect of the whole planting. In such cases we have to make our selection from such species and varieties which are of dwarf and more compact habits, and are easily kept in bounds, therefore a list compris- ing some of the desirable subjects with their respective heights may assist the novice planter in his endeavor to success- fully arrange his borders and save him some disappointments later on. Beginning with the very low or creep- ing things which only grow from two to three inches high, I will mention first the pretty Lotus corniculatus which com- pletely covers the ground in a very short time and its yellow and red pea-shaped flowers are attractive, to say the least. The yellow flowering Alyssum alpestre, described not long ago in these columns forms a nice dense carpet and hides the surface of the ground to perfection, so will Ajuga reptans and its variegated form A. reptans var.; both have blue flowers and are invaluable as a low quick spreading plani. For dry and ex- posed places, in poor soil and for running over rocks Lysimachia nummularia, Gle- choma hederacea, green or variegated , and Linaria cymbalaria are just the thing. Arenaria larjcifolia when planted rather thickly makes a fine show all through summer with its numerous white flowers and fine narrow foliage. Spergula or Saglna pilifera forms a dense cushion over the ground and remains green during the winter months; it is one of the prettiest and most elegant alpine plants in the nar- row border. Several of the violets and many primulas, and the auriculas will not attain a greater height than three inches and are also valuable. Draba aizoidesforms a roundish rosetteof leaves laying close to the ground, and Bellis perennis keeps its glossy foliage so well nearly all the yearthrough that it should not be omitted, Myosotis alpestris also does admirably well in any good ordinary garden soil. But little higher cr up to six inches we lave a great variety of plants to select from; there is Achillea aurea, the yellow flowers of which are so freely produced, the phloxes of the subulata section which are so attractive in early spring and which entirely cover the ground with their bright flowers, while later on their clean growth looks cheerful below and between their taller neighbors. Silene alpestris, which bears numerous little white flowers, and the beautiful pink S. Scbafta are seldom much over three inches high, though occasionally we may see them in some situations and soils to grow five or six inches in height. Sapon- aria ocymoidescannot be dispensed with, its great mass of rosy pink flowers are produced for such a long time in succes- sion. Viola cornuta, both white and blue, will surely be appnc'ated wherever introduced. Asperula odorata keeps up a bright gre;n mat over the surface throughout the season and is greatly ad- mired in the early part of the year while in full bloom. Arabis albida is one of our earliest spring flowers and the many good qualities of the plant entitle it to a place among the best. Iberis of various sorts are desirable not only on account of their flowers, but also for their ever- green foliage. Armeria maritima retains the foliage in perfection all through the winter months and blooms freely all sum- mer. Funkias of several kinds have very attractive foliage and should not be omitted in any border, large or small. Iris pumila may find a place in the bor- der, its growth is never very high, and early flowers are always welcome. Pena- thera taraxacifolia, in flower early and late will surelygive satisficlion.the flow- ers are as large as those of P. speciosa, pure white when first opening and turn- ing to a reddish pink as they fade. Aster alpinus with Its light blue flowers is one of the best things we have; the plant is always vigorous and healthy and not particular as to soil or situation. Phlox amcena, many of the primulas, some cam- panulas, Papaver nudicaule, the beautiful Daphne cneorum, globularias, helian- themums, Hieraceum aurantiacum, wald- stemia.Jasione perennis and others may also be mentioned as belonging to the low and compact growing section. Of those growing above that height and still not over a foot high, CEuothera glauca Fraseri the bright yellow and Q3. Youngii, the large flowering deep golden colored evening orimrose and also the white flowered CE. speciosa are almost indispensable. /Ethionema grandiflorum with its profusion of bright pink flowers should receive a place also, this plant would in time grow taller than 12 inches, but by trimming them once a year rather close to the ground after flowering, we are enabled not only to keep them low and dwarf, but we also get a much stronger growth, and the following sea- son's flowers will be larger and finer than they would be if left untrimmed. Cam- panula carpathica in different shades of blue and in white are excellent in narrow borders. Lychnis Viscaria plena is a most desirable plant and the bright color of its flowers will please every one; the ever- blooming Dicentra eximia we must not leave out, the Ranunculus amplexieaulis and R. asiaticus are charming and free blooming plants when once they are well established. Linumperenne, the draco- cephalums and veronicas have pretty blue flowers. The foliage of Heuchera sanguinea hides the ground eflectively and sends forth a continuous succession of flower spikes the entire season through. Stachys lanata has silvery foliage and may be used in many places, the beautiful Lychnis Flos-cuculi semperflorens plenis- sima should be represented in large patches, Steltaria Ilolostea, the many varieties of Dianthus plumarius, D. aren- arius and D. c^sius, (Jrobus vernus, Sta- tice latifolia and other varieties, some of the dwarf potentillas, Pulmonaria maeu- lata, triUiums and epimediums, Alyssum saxatile compactum,etc.,can all be safelv introduced in these narrow borders, and if a few plants of somewhat taller growth are wanted for variation in height, I will mention a fist which may either be dotted over the creeping species to break the mo- notony of an even surface, or planted in compact masses. Anemone sylvestre, Aquilegia ca;rulea and the dwarf section of the erect flower- ing A. vulgaris, all the different varieties of Phlox sulfruticTsa and some of the low P. decussata, Monarda didyma and M. d. alba, many campanulas and several irises, Pjeonia tenuifolia in variety, Cen- taurea dealbata, Gaillardia aristata and Coreopsis lanceolata, Adenaphora lili- flora, Aster Amellus Dessarabicus, A. corymbosus, Hesperis matronalis, Stoke- sia cyanae, Polemonium reptans, P. coeru- leum and P. c. album, Thermopsis mon- tana, Achillea ptarmica plena, Senecio pulcher, doronicums, several of the spi- rsas, Omphalades vema. Delphinium sinensis, D. cashmirianum,Dictamus frax- inella, epimedium, Trollius europjEUS and T. asiaticus, Saponaria caucasica fl. pi. Epilobium rosmarinifolium, Seabiosa ochroleuca and a host of others. None of the above would under ordinary cir- cumstances grow much over eighteen or twenty inches high and in most instances that height is not objectionable, unless the bed or border is very narrow, and even then a few of these last mentioned species, introduced judiciously here and there will heighten the general eflect. Nor would I hesitate at any time to introduce even a few taller plants than these; smooth and even looking beds are to be avoided, for they are out of place in the herbaceous garden. Rochester, N. Y. J. B. Keller. Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints. I have noticed the past month that the few thousand small ferns we have in 2V2 and 3-inch pots, which will be used dur- ing the winter months for ferneries, are growing almost too fast in a night tem- perature of 60°. When too tall or bushy they are useless for this purpose, as the great majority of people order their fern- eries filled low and with as much variety as possible, "and please don't put in any Maidenhair, it dies so quickly." So keep your ferns in a night temperature of 50°. They will remain healthy and become hard and give more satisfaction when submitted to the ordeal of a dry room. These ferneries are now quite an impor- tant feature in our winter business. Rea- sonable people do not expect them to look perfect for more than four or five weeks. We sometimes get them returned in a few days, as dry as dust and some- times the reverse, swimming in water. Give your customer a nice little interest- ing lecture on their treatment and both the customer and the fernery will return to you in due time. Those who raise prize cyclamen sow in September and October, but now is a good time; you can raise very fine plants by this twelvemonth If not allowed to i8g6. The American Florist. 413 DISPLAY OF DECORATIVE PLANTS BY J ALGOTS, GARDENER TO GEO M PULLMAN. AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. starve during April and May. Cyclamen seed usually takes three or four weeks to germinate, and the light covering of soil is apt to get covered with some low plant life, so bake the soil you cover with and that will kill all vegetable germs. This is always done by the raisers of seed- ling ferns and is a good plan with all seeds that germinate slowly. Thanksgiving will see many of us cleared out of chrysanthemums, and no further excuse for keeping your Kaster lilies in a cold frame. If you keep the soil in the bench, which it is sometimes convenient to do, don't set your lily pots on the soil; cut up small pieces of tarred paper and place under each pot; this will prevent worms and keep the soil of the bench in better order. If your lilies are only a few inches high you are in plenty of time, for Easter is very late next year, the 24th of .\pril,I believe, and it is not a bit too soon to know that and treat your lilies, azaleas and all other Easter stuff accordingly. If you followed my advice and left the top of the lily bulb two inches below top of pot and filled in the two inches with spent hops or old hotbed manure, to be shaken off when yon removed the pots to the houses, now is the time to do it; fill up the pot to the usual height with a good compost; the roots that the lilies usually make at the surface will then have something to feed on. A good light loam with a .'iinch pot of bone meal to the ordinary wheelbarrow load of soil will do well. Don't cover your tulips that have now a few inches of soil on them too soon. Let the covering of earth freeze an inch or so, then put on four or five inches of light straw manure from the stable. I have tried leaves as a covering, but unless we get an early fall of snow the leaves want another covering of boards to keep them from blowing away. If the weather is severe with little snow it is often a good deal of labor to get the flats of tulips in to force, but it will pay you to go to that trouble rather than have them in a cellar or roothouse. If well rooted as they are in January or later you need not get in only your weekly forcing lot but get in enough for three weeks, and those that are to come on later can be put under the coolest bench or shed you have. Never let paper white narcissus freeze at any time. Freezing does not hurt Roman hyacinths, but don't expose them suddenly to heat when frozen. If you have occasion to bring them in frozen bring them with their covering of soil and let them thaw out in thecoolest shed you have and they will come out all right. The demand for tulips at Christmas is not worth catering to, partly because they are too much out of season, as peo- ple associate the flowers with spring or its approach, and largely because they are of poor quality. The Due Van Thol in their several colors can be had easily at end of December, but they are poor little things. If you must have some for the holidays, force Vermillion Brilliant for scarlet, Chrysolora for yellow and for a white La Reinc. When the latter is allowed to remain a few days in a cool house after the forcing it assumes a most beautiful color and can then be called a pink tulip of most exquisite shade. A neighbor of mine forced one hundred thou- sand last year and had them in perfection for the holidays and early weeks of Janu- ary. To force tulips well and get a stem of nine or ten inches very early you must have a strong heat. Setting the flats or pans over the heating pipes will never do, that would be too much heat for the roots. Take a few feet of a bench under which there is three or four hot water pipes, or its equivalent in steam, and box up both back and front so that no heat can escape. The boards of the bench on which the flats are placed should be an Inch or so apart to allow the heat to pass through. Above the bench also back and front should be a board 18 or 20 inches high, and covering this you can place a shutter or heavy cloth; this will "draw up" the stems and give you the length, which is the difficult part of the operation. When the flower is about developed remove to a cool house for a few days, and then the flowers are in a fit state to cut and won't flop down directly they are sold. If in this box, as it may be called, you have a steady heat of 85° and plentyof moisture you will havegood long stemmed tulips, providing they were well rooted when put in. I may add for the benefit of the inexperienced that by the middle of January less heat and less shade are needed, and as the season ad- vances, the ordinary greenhouse bench and a temperature of 60° is all that is wanted. Don't bring in Von Sions until after New Years; they are disappointing before that and you can do without them. Be sure and grow your Paper White cool, they are so much finer and more satisfactory when well out and hardened. When hard freezing comes you should cover your pansies with glass if you expect or want to get prices better than the field grown ones bring. You are 414 The American Florist. Nov. 28, asked early for pansies for vase fil'ing and must have them in flower by end of April. To those who grow a large quantity and cannot cover them with sash, I would say that the best way I have found to keep off the wintry blasts is to lay over them hemlock boughs. They rest lightly on the plauts and are easily and quickly removed in the sprine. Wm. Scott. New Carnation Morello. This red seedling carnation is a cross be- tween President G irficld and a crimst n seedling, and originated with Messrs. Hopp & Letnke, East Grand Rjpids, Mich., five years ago. They have grown it durirg that time for cut flowers and the bloums sold so well in the Chicago market and so many inquiries were made about it that the originators have de- cided to disseminate it. The blooms sent to the Ciicago market have been uni- formly excellent, color very taking, blooms large, of good form, fragrant and borne on long, stout, wiry stems. The flowers have regularly commanded the highest price of any carnation in the Chi- cago market and the growers have found it healthy and vigorous. It is certainlva very promising variety. The sccompany- ing engraving is from a house of the va- riety at the originators. Use of Bone Meal. I saw an article in the American Flo- rist in reference to loam getting mouldy in the carnation bed. I had the same thing occur with mine, caused by using bone meal that was fresh ground. It was not thoroughly worked into thesoil. I would like to irquire if meal of that kind is fit to use in the prfenhouse. Walter Slade. In regard to use of fresh ground bone meal in greenhouse for carnati( ns, my experience is that it is not a fit thing to use in that way. My plan is to mix it with the loam and manure in the fall and let it lie piled all winter, and turn the whole about twice next summer before using it in the benches for carnations. I find that this treatment gives me the bist results, as the bone is then well incorporated in the loam and is ready for the plants to take it up. It will certainly causemould, and also an offensive atmosphere for car- nations if used in a fresh state. I find that we must keep the air in our carna- tion houses sweet and clean if we wish to grow good flowers in the winter months. Wm. Nicholson. New York. A more buoyant feeling seems to ani- mate the flower trade of this city than has been the case for some time, but it cannot be denied that the buovancy comes more from hopefulness than from present rea'ization. The knowledge that chrys- anthemums, with the exception of the class which Charie Carlin calls "Linger Longer Lucys," have taken their depart- ure, that colder weather and consequently a reduced product and advanced value are now due, and lastly that the holidays are rapidly approaching, are the factors back of the hopefulness, and all will be glad if the well worn song of "drug," "over- stock," "demoralization," etc., shall have a long rest until the spring days are with us once more. There is not a large sup- ply of roses at present. If the demaod were as it should be, roses would bring good figures. Carnations are the most noticeable drag. Prices are much lower than ever before for stock of same qual- ity, and the crop is coming in heavy. The Greeks may be seen carrying them away in great armfuls from the wholesale d s- tricts, Sjotts, McGowans and Day- breaks, fine blooms, great stems, and the rrice on "clearing out" lots is very low. Speaking of carnations, the specimens of Rose Queen which George Bennett is send- ing til John Ray nor are a revelation. Altx Burns is cuttiig mignonette which belongs in the s jme category. Tfie il ustrations of funeral designs for the first issue of Mr. Brower's new enter- prise, which have been seen, comprise a number of novelties which must prove of value to the general florist, and the title page is a most artistic piece of work. It is proposed to issue this collection quar- terly in groups of a doz.n illustrations, with de'criptive text. A. & F. Rolker will remove from the present location on Liberty street to 53 West 28 th street on Djcember 1, thus adding 01 e more to the group of whole- sale cut fljwer establishments in that block. Mr. R jlker has been receiving some very fine chrysanthemums from John Johnson of Newark. Wm Elliott, the veteran auctioneerand seedsman, has been very sick for over two weeks, and a dangerous complica- tion of diseases has set in. Mr. Elliott is now 72 years of age, and has until the past year erjoyed remarkablv good health. The Flatbush Bowling Club met the Arions on Monday night last an(J were beaten this time, gamis now standing even. The new North Hudson Bowling Club reports satisfactory progress. Holly is now comiag in in small lots, and sample cases in the hands of the vari- ous jobbers in this city show good stock, bright green and well berried. A. Rolker & S >ns report a gratifying call for holly for Thanksgiving Day uses. A beautiful new refrigerator with plate glass and rich carvings in dark wood adorns Mr. Dards' store on Madison avenue. H. C. Steinhoff has two houses of Har- risii lilies from which he is now cutting, and another will be in for Christmas. Anton Lindermann, a Brooklyn florist, was in court the other day charged with firing a pistol at his daughter-in-law, whom it appears he mistook for a burglar. Tfie sad news is received of the death of John Thorpe, Jr., who a few weeks ago had his arms cut off in an accident at the machine shop where he was employed in P. arlRiver. David Ingram died at his home in Astoria on Saturday, Nov. 21. Thecause of death was lockjaw, resulting from a severe burn sustained a few days before. C. W. Ward has gone to Michigan to erjjy a brief hunting trip. Louis Siebrecht has been seriously ill for the past week. Wm.Nilssonof Woodlawn has opened a store at 132 Park avenue. Some of the finest American Beauties in the market are coming to John Young from Carl Jurgen's Newport establish- ment. Visiting New York: N. F. McCarthy and W. H. Elliott of Boston. Philadelphia. Warm weather has set in again the past few days, being much to warm for the season. The demand for flowers has increased quite perceptibly and with the possible exception of carnations all stocks have been cleaned up very well. Beauties have been selling very well and as a consequence have advanced; last Monday the price was moved up to $4 per dozen for first selection and $2 to $2 50 for seconds. Third size, stems a foot long, go for $1 per dozen. The quality of the blooms is all right. The Beauty is the rose, for although from 25 to 33 per cent, more glass was planted with this variety the past season, when- ever there is a demand it is the Beauty that is sold out first. Four dollars per hundred is still high for the best teas except for a few extras for which 5 to 6 is asked. Carnations are very plentiful but are stiff ning a trifle in price, from 75 cents to $1.50 is the price per hundred. S.-ott, MtGjwan, Daybreak and Cartledge are the best sellers. G jod mignonette is now coming in from several growers, the price is $2 to $3 per hundred. Tee 'mums are going fast in fact we doubt if this day week there will be any except a few B jnnaffjn in the late houses of Robt. Craig. He made a good strike with his late yellow Liberty, sending something over one thousand blooms to New York for Thanksgiving. They were very fine blooms and brought $2.50 per dozen. Violets have been very plentiful and fifty cents was the best stock up until the 24th when they moved up to 75. The southern stock is fine and if they would only pay a little more attention to bunching and could manage to ship a trifle more fragrance, quite a void in our market would be filled. Orchids are scarce, especially cattley as, which are hard to get except in very small quantities. Cvpripediums are coming in and sell for $2 per dozen. House plants are moving a little livelier, but there is plenty of stock to supply a larger demand. Robert Craig has com- merced to send in his cyclamens, they are fine plants, the best he has ever had, they should be quick sellers. Mr. Craig has two white sports from his yellow Liberty which should prove a fine acquisition. By theway which isthe best late white? Let the man that has one speak out, there is a market for a good one. M. M. Bayersdorfer, formerly senior partner in the firm of M. M. Bayersdorfer & Co. died last Friday aged 71 years. Mr. Bayersdorfer established the business which is now so successluUv carried on by H. Bayersdorfer & Co. in 1S65 and was succeeded by the present firm in 1886. He was of a kind and genial disposition and a successful business man. Ernst Asmus, John N. May and Mr. Durfee were in town last week presuma- bly in the interest of the Carnot rose, the demand for which has exceeded their anticipations; orders for cut blooms have to be declined. The committee having in charge the fitting up of the club room are now hard at work and hope before long to have it ready for the purposes of the club. Edwin Lonsdale is having a remark- ab'e success in the cultivation of cypri- pediums. For healthy growth, robust foliage and abundance of bloom, his stock would be hard to beat. American Beauty are also looking well in both beds and 1896. The American Florist. 4iS HOUSE OF NEW RED CARNATION MORELLO. benches. Adiantum Farleyense is in lux- uriant growth and crotons as good as even K Dbert Craig himself can show. Mr. Lonsdale has built one even-span house the past season. K. Boston. Thanksgiving day trade in Bos' on was generally satisfictory, although rainy weather on Thursday interfered some- what with transient business. Carnation growers did not get the prices of former years, one reason being that large quan- tities of this flower were thrown on this market by growers hundreds of miles dis- tant allured by reports of high prices rep- resented to be prevalent here. Colors d bloom sold better than white, and in roses American Beauty and Meteor took the lead. The weather had been gener- ally warm and pleasant so that no scarcity was apparent in anv direction and all attempts to fore; prices on any article above a fair average rate met with failure. There was a moderate supply of good chrysanthemums and they sold well. Bulbous stock moved slowly. Violets were plenty and of better quality than ever before. Plants did not go as well as was expected, although the few azaleas that were in sold readily. Retail stores were all very busy and the entire absence of any complaining would indi- cate that the week's business has been fully up to expectations. George HoUis exhibited a handsome seedling chrysanthemum for examination by the chrysanthemum committee at Horticultural Hall last Saturday. It is a deep rose-pink colored Japanese of good form. Mi'dred is Its name. James Rough, Jr., is a pigeon fancier as well as florist and at the recant pigeon show in Boston won 22 prizes out of 25 entries. J. R. Shield, formerly with W. A. Bock and W. E. Doyle has gone to Dalton, Mass., to take charge of the estate of Mrs. J. B.Crane. Boston Common has been bright with dandelion blossoms during the past week. Thos F. Galvin has bought a large tract of land in Brighton on which it is said he will erect an extensive range of grfenhouses. Visiting Boston; Paul Berkowitz, of Bayersdorfer & Co., Winfried Rolker, Walter Mott and Chas. H. AlUn. San Francisco. The absence of heavy frosts in the growers vicinity has still left all outside chrysanthemums in bloom although there are but few Itf: with the exception of the late varieties. Mrs. Geo. lis is a standard late white here standing the rain and damp weather very well. There is, of course, agreat quantity of small chrysan- themums coming into the market which sell for less than the cost of production. The Chinese growers being the chief pro- ducers of this class of stuff. Some very excellent Dailledouze are still coming in and are bringing very good prices. As soon as the heavy trosts come then all the small outside stuff will be cut down and prices will advance accordingly. In violets the California is still taking the lead and has advanced in price during the past week to $1.50 to $2 per dozen and even at those prices the supply is not at all equal to the demand. There is practically no call at all for the Czar viokt and whatever consignments are received are generally thrown on the dump pile. Marie Louise and Lady Hume Campbell when tied loosely in bunches, as the Califorrias are, sell very nicely and from $1 to$1.50perdczen. Occasionally there is a demand for the Swanhy white, but very seldom. In roses as a general rule they have all improved wonderfully during the past few weeks. Beauties as yet are scarce and the prices vary very much accordirg to thp grade of stock received. Kaiserin is rapidly coming to the frontin our mar- ket as a leading white rose. The climate here se(ms to suit it exactly and it is accordingly very popular. Testout is selling well at 25 cents per dozen, Perles, Brides and Bridesmaids bring the same price. Carnations are scarce nearly every- where and the demand for them during the past few weeks has been very good. There are more white sorts in the market than any other. But most of the growers are getting their stock in shape so as to have a good supply by the holidays. Scott and Daybreak are also rather scarce and bring al out $2 per hundred. Several of the growers had planted quite a lot of Storm King for a white, but it has been discarded. Meteor also has been dis- carded. One of our rose growers has secured a beautiful red sport from the Jack rose which he considers a very va'uable aquisition. He has a new greenhouse erected over it; and already is having the stock increased. The November meeting of the Berkley Floral society was held last Tuesday in 416 The American Florist. Nov. 28. stiles Hall. Berkeley. Prof. C. W. Woods- worth delivered a very fine address on "Remedies for garden pests." The pro- fessor treated the subject very thoroughly and imparted to his hearers many valua- ble remedies and preventives for keeping the home garden free from all destructive pests. A vote of thanks was tendered him for his kindness. Mr. D. L. Sloane of Palo Alto has returned from a several weeks trip through the Eastern States. The chrysanthemum show at Auburn closed this week and was voted a grand success by all interested. The exhibitions of the various amateur competitors were very creditable. Few if any, professional growers showed anything. Mrs. Judge Prewett had the finest collection of the amateurs showing over 190 named varieties. Mr. Carrol Kruger of J. H. Seivers establishment visited the growers at Menlo Park last Thursday. Mr. Kruger says his firm has given up the growing of chrysanthemums and will hereafter devote their time and attention to the growing of carnations and also the raising of new seedlings. He says many of his new seed- lings are far superior to some of our standard varieties and also that a few of them are soon to be introduced to the trade. Mr. Emile and Chas. Servean paid a visit to San Jose in the interest of their plant business the past week. Mr. L. G. Ratto well known as a suc- cessful violet grower at Ocean View was attached during the week for $782 to secure two claims preferred by P. Ser- mattei and W. Ramsell. The attachment is the result of litigation over the property extending over two years. The friends of Mr. Ratto hope that his em- barassment is only temporary. The various committees in charge of the Carnival of the Golden Gate to be held next spring are hard at work and everything seems to point to a successful floral show. The citizens of Petoluma, one of our thriving coast cities held a very successful chry santhem nm ex hibi tion last week. It was the initial attempt at this move on part of thecitizens and they were well rewarded for their work. The displays were attractively arranged and many visitors from near-by cities were in attendance. It is the object of the newly formed society to hold a spring rose and sweet pea show. It is a very pleasing thing to see all our little towns and cities organizing floral societies and holding spring and fall shows. It goc3 to show that the love for flowers is on the increase in all sections of our golden state. The California State Floral Society decided not to bold a grand fall exhibition this year on account of the stringency of money and hard times. However, they decided to hold at the next meeting of the society a sort of an impromptu show and have invited the growers to make a small display. No admission fee will be charged to anyone wishing to attend. Of course owing to the late date of its show themajoriety of our growers will not have their stock at its best because in California at this late day all the best stock is generally over. Meteor. Chicago. Thanksgiving Day trade was not so sat- isfactory as last year. While stock was pretty well cleaned up prices were lower and the local demand was decidedly light, owing probably to the disagreeable weather of Wednesday and Thursday. There was something of a surplus in car- nations, particularly white. Stock gen- erally was not up to the mark and there was considerable complaint of pickled stuff. In roses American Beaulies headed the list in demand and all were sold at fair prices. Violets still drag. The great bulk of the chrysanthemums to be had were not extra and they sold slowly. But one house that had a supply of really first-class flowers sold out clean at good prices. The retailers who depend upon transient trade all complain, many hav- ing a considerable amountof stockleft on hand. Thursday was a very disagreeable day, rain falling in a dispiriting drizzle nearly all day and evening. At the meeting of the chrysanthemum committee last Saturday a fine large reflexed white named Virgin, from Nanz & Neuner, Louisville, Ky., was recom- mended for certificate. At the recent exhibition the premiums won by exhibitorsfootedupto$2,445.50. The total receipts were $4,966.10 and the total expenses $5,121.33 leaving a deficit of $155.23, but through the increase in membership during the year the society will still have a balance of $645 in the treasury after meeting the above men- tioned deficit. Of the receipts $1,235 were special premiums contributed by public spirited citizens, the paid admis- sions amounting to $3,526.25, and the remainder coming from the program and cut flower booth. Rent is a serious item in this city, the rental of the two armories this year amounting to $900 for the five days. The effort to further increase the membership of the society will be contin- ued, and 1,000 is the number set as the goal to be reached. The annual meeting of the society will be held the first Satur- day in January. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Buettner are rejoic- ing over the arrival of a new daughter. Mr. Washburn,ofBassett& Washburn, is confined to the house by illness. Kidney trouble is feared. Mr. Joseph Curran has lost his young- est child, a little girl of 2 years. Joe has the sincere sympathy of his many friends in the trade. Pittsburg. The florists' trade for this week has been in the main satisfactory and par- ticularly so with those who have decora- tive and design work, most of these re- porting a pretty busy week, but those who sell only loose flowers say business was not so flourishing, although every one is expecting an increased demand at Thanksgiving, in fact many of them have some nice orders booked for that day. Chrysanthemums are still plenty, but the large supply is nearly finished, several of the large growers being about through with them, although two or three will be able to supply some up to the first of next year. Stock of all other flowers is very good, prices remaining unchanj^ed except for American Beauties which have ad- vanced to $S and $9 per dozen retail, with extra fine considerably above this figure. N. Patterson of Market and Liberty streets, has fully recovered his health this fall; he says business has been very good with him lately and has no grounds for complaints. Elliott & McGuiness, Sixth street, who devote special attention to the bulb and seed branch, report a very fair trade this season in both. In their florist depart- ment business has been very fair, they had two very fine decorations for early this week. G. Ludwig, Allegheny Market, has this week the first display of holly and ground pine; the latter is eastern and very fine, much larger and better every way than the western growth. Elliott & Ulam, Fifth avenue, report business with them as good for the past two weeks and prices satisfactory. Regia. St. Louis. The week after our successful show business has been fair, but there has been no marked changes in the condition of the market since last reports. The great supply of 'mums has shortened up con- siderably, and better prices are obtained for other stock. Still there is a glut of almost everything in the market, espe- cially carnations; there seems to be more grown this year than ever before. All the wholesale men say they never saw a time when so many carnations were shipped in as now. The glut seems to be in pink and white, the red being a little scarce and in demand. And roses are not far behind them; box after box is unloaded every morning by the express companies, and the prices — well, the less you say about them the better. Chrysanthemums have slacked up somewhat, but it may be that the growers are saving them for Thanksgiv- ing Day in order to get better prices for them. Violets are also plentiful, but the demand for them is a little belter this week. Romans have made their appear- ance, but are not as yet plentiful; the price is $3 and $4 per 100. Harrisii lilies are also in the market, but not many; they bring $15 per 100. The valley that comes to this market is very fine and in demand at $4 per 100. The dark cloudy weather we have had the past week and Thanksgiving Day will shorten up the supply and prices will improve; at this writing the prices on roses and carnations have gone up as well as on other stock. The fourth annual flower show under the auspices of the Kirkwood Improve- ment Society was held at Kirk wood. Mo., last week. The affair was in the hands of tte ladies of Kirkwood, and they gave universal satisfaction. The hall was nicely decorated, and a fine lot of plants were exhibited. The principal exhibitor was D.S.Brown of Brownhurst. His orchids, araucarias and a table of cacti attracted much atten- tion. R.F.Tesson and W.Trillow divided the honors on roses and violets. Chas. Connon and Luther Armstrong made a good show of plants. H. Aue and T. W. Ude, Jr., had a fine lot of carnations on exhibition. As a whole the show was a great success, and will be continued from year to year. The Houseman Candy & Floral Co. closed its doors last week, having made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Wm. Ellison, wholesale florist, has moved his store from 1402 Pine street to 2744 Franklin avenue. Mr. Ellison will hereafter do a wholesale and retail business. Willie Jordan of the Jordan Floral Co. was married last week. Congratulations are now in order. The nextregular meeting of the club will be held Thursday afternoon, Dec. 10, at 3 p. m. Every member is expected to be present to hear the report of the chrysan- themum show committee and other very important matters. The bowling club on last Monday night ended its series of 12 games. Mr. Carl Beyer was high man for 12 games, bis i8g6. The American Florist. 417 total being 2278. Beneke was second with 2277. Mr. Beyer was also first in single score, the highest being 268, with Beneke second with 239. A new series was begun at once. Mr. C. C. Sanders has again become a member, after being absent for about a year. We hope to see some more of the older members with us again. J- J- B. Denver, Colo. After having been parahzed during the entire summer and fall, business again begins to show signs of life. Colorado florists have had a very slow dull sum- mer and fall trade, chiefly on account of the intensity of the presidential campaign and partly owing to the remarkably open fall we are having, there having been practically no wholesa'e or retail trade until within the last few days. However now that politics are laid aside for a time business is turning into its accustomed channels and life for the florists is begin- ning to take on a rosier hue. The past summer has been a busy one for the Denverflorists,nearlyallor whom, in spite of hard times and poor trade have managed to make some improve- ments. Mrs. R. Mauflf has completed at Harman two "up-to-date" houses for asparagus each 20 feet high, 25x60 feet each ground space, built as substantially and as perfect as money could make them. These houses have been planted some time and are doing well. Besides these houses a new 120 h. p. steel tubular boiler has been put in place, beside other minor improvements. In all about $4,000 has been devoted to enlarging and im- proving the plant. The Colfax Floral Co. built a new carnation house 125x30, besides overhauling and resetting two 40 h. p. boilers. "Gallup the florist" has built two new carnation houses each 18x100 and also added considerable piping, besides other repairs. The Park Floral Co. in addition to the repairs necessitated by the severe hail storm of August have made many minor improvements, among others a convenient system of cold frames. Grimes & Son, Highlands, have rebuilt one large house. A. Schenkel placed a new battery of tubular boilers in his Ashland avenue houses. The H. H. Given Co. have en- tirely torn down the old Russell place at Alameda and Lincoln avenues, and have moved the material to their Red Leaf greenhouses on Arizona and Washington. Thomas Chapman has built a new rose 18x100, besides other minor repairs. This is not a bad showing for times like these. The J. L. Miller Florist and Nursery Co., whose affairs have been in the hands of the sheriff for some time past, have effected a settlement with the main cred- itors. .\ new stock company has been formed who will take charge of the busi- ness including the properties at Peters- burg and Downing avenues, and who will arrange to meet the mortgage indebted- ness of the company. It is understood that Mr. Geo. Braun, who was one of the largest creditors of the old company, is largely interested in the re-organiza- tion. Mr. J. L. Miller is not identified with the new company having left Denver with the intention of settling permanently at Tucson, Arizona. The number of retail stores has been increased by three during the last month. The Oueen City Floral Co. in the Kit- teredge building, 16th street; Fuller, 924 16th street; and Ernest Flohr, 1649 Stout street. The latter gentleman hav- ing selected a location on a cross street between 16th and 17th streets, a some- what out of the way location, although within 500 feet of the two busiest thor- oughfares of the city, considerable inter- est is taken in his experiment by the trade as his experience will determine whether the transient trade of the stores located on the busier streets amounts to enough to make up the difference between the exorbitant rents of 16th street and the much smaller rents of the cross streets. The Denver Florists' Society will hold no show this fall, last fall's exhibition having been so poorly supported by the public. "Gallup, the Florist" and The Park Floral Co. gave chrysanthemum shows at their respective stores Novem- ber 12 to 14. 'Mums are selling poorly this season, the demand being mostly for the middle grades at a low price. Roses are plenty and fine at $4. Beauties sell at from S to 15. Carnations scarce and good at $1.50, with good roses selling all round them at from $1.50 to $2 per 100. Denver grow- ers have so far refused to sell for less than $4, preferring to disbud and wait for bet- ter prices than to sell for practically nothing. The Colorado Florists' Exchange re- port a fair and constantly increasing business. Manager Lewis reports an iccreased demand for high grade flowers at a price in keeping with their quality, out of town buyers evidently looking to Denver for quality. H. H. G. Rochester, N. Y. The conditions in the flower market have improved but very little since my last writing and sales are very irregular, no steady demand can be relied on, though the last few days showed a marked increase in the salts of roses and carna- tions, while the demand for chrysanthe- mums was not so brisk as in former weeks. The weather during this time was rather unfavorable for business, snow, rain and cold sharp winds pre- vented people from doing much trading. A company of florists paid a long prom- ised visit to the extensive greenhouses of Salter Bros, in Fairport a few days ago and found the whole plant in excellent shape; house after house full of strong thrifty carnations was entered and every one of them was pronounced a credit to the firm. Close onto 30,000 carnation plants are covered with glass, some of them have only been planted a few days ago, in benches where early chrysanthe- mums have been removed, but the plants do not look as if lately planted, having been potted some time ago and being kept ill frames up to this time. Many thousands of flowers are ready to open shortly and a great mass of strong healthy buds apparently will keep up a continuous succession all through the winter. Several of the houses are planted to tea roses and they look equally prom- ising, the first crop having been removed and the second just beginning to come in. Two houses are devoted to violets, one quarter of them being Californias, which sell well in our market. In another house a bench of mignonette is doing well. Smilax and Asparagus plumosus is also grown here. It is only a few years since Salter Bros., finding their place on Park avenue too small to build many more houses, concluded to buy the farm out in Fairport; they have been building green- houses every year since and now have 8 houses of 100 feet each and 3 more 200 feet long; the land is on a slight slope with southerly aspect and the soil is of excellent quality for carnations and roses. and they are not bothered with any of the carnation diseases on their ground. Dick Salter's leg is slowly improving, but he is still using crutches. John E. White, of the former florist firm White Bros., was struck by one of the fast trains of the N. Y. C. R. R., on Saturday evening, November 21, and instantly killed. He was driving in a light wagon toward the railroad crossing at afairrate of speed and from all accounts had ample opportunity to be on his guard against dancer. The flagman at the crossing saw Mr. White stop and turned his head awav, but an instant later the horse had started again and was almost to the track upon which the train was coming up; the shouts of the flagman were too late and the train was almost upon the unfortun- ate man. A slight blow with the whip, the horse made a quick forward move and at the same instant the engine struck the wagon squarely in the middle. Mr. White was thrown many feet in the air and landed 100 feet away; his skull was crushed in and almost all the bones in his body were fractured. Mr. White evi- dently at first .intended to wait for the approaching train to pass, but made a most fata! change of mind and drove squarely in front of the approaching train. The horse's body remained on the cow- catcher and was dragged some distance before it dropped off. Mr. White was highly esteemed by all our older florists who knew him, and they deeply regret the loss of an estimable friend. He was about 60 years of age and is survived by a wife and four children. K. Cincinnati. Trade was perhaps a little slower last week than the previous one, and stock too abundant; especially does this apply to carnations. Market last Saturday wasexceptionallv dull, owing to disagree- able weather. There was nothing new to be seen, except the collection of cacti on Mr. Conger's stand, which included several specimen plants of Echinocactns longihamatus and Pilocereus senilis. The true lover of nature cannot help but be attracted and charmed the more he comes into knowledge of this surprising family. Roman hyacinths and paper white narcissus have made their appear- ance; the demand for them is slow and will rot amount to much until the 'mums are over. On November 21 the judges were con- fronted with two vases of seedling chrys- anthemums. N. Smith & Son, Adrian, Mich., staged one variety, Western King, seedling of '95, color white, with good stem, choice foliage and good flower; it seems to be a good shipper; scored 89 points. Nanz & Neuner, Louisville, Ky., had Pres. Graham, color lemon yellow, good stem, heavy foliage, but the flowers arrived in bad condition, and therefore could not be judged. Mr. John Evans of Quaker City venti- lating fame was with us on Saturday eve. H. SCHWAKZ. Ckawfordsville, Ind.— McDonald & Steele, the florists, held a successful chrys- anthemum show in the Armory here last week. Prizes were awarded to amateur exhibitors. Ai.iiANY, N. v.— The display of chrysan- themums at Washington Park this year includes over 200 varieties and is ;i very instructive as well asbeautifulexhibition. A list of the varieties printed in the Albany Argus for November 9 shows that all the important novelties are rep- resented, as well as the standard sorts. 418 The American Florist. Nov. 28. Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. fl-dvertisements, 10 Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 81.40; Cohiinn, S14.00. Cash with Order. Xo Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent; 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The AdvertlBlnK Department of the American Florist Is for FloristB. Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember it. Orders for less than one-half inch space not accepted. A(?vertisement8 must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure Insertton in the Issue for the tollowing Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. A. & F. ROLKER, CHURCH ST., COR. LIBERTY, NEW YORK. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GUT FLOWERS. Will Remove Doc. I to S3 West 28th Street. Newport, R. I. Last Saturday evening the gardeaers and florists had a meeting and perfected an organization in accordance with the report and recommendation of a commit- tee appointed at a previous meeting held on the occasion of a visit to this city of Mr. Stewart, the effi::ient secretary of the S. A. F. The object of this new organiza- tion is to suitably entertain the society during its intended visit here on the occa- sion of its next convention in our twin capital. Providence. The main recom- mendations adopted wer. : That the name of the club shall be "The Florists' and Gardeners' Club and Associates"; that if an exhibition be held it will be under the auspices of the Newport Hort. Society, and that a committee of three be appointed to select a committee of fifceen, who shall have charge of the entertain- ment. The mayor of the city was present and expressed his wish for the club's suc- cess, and stated he would do what he could in the matter. A membership of fifty names was enrolled, and itisthought that many more will be added before the next meeting. The first severe frost occurred here on the 13th inst. The wealthy cottage owners have migrated to their winter habitations, and bleakness and dullness reigns supreme, while coal bills are a strong issue. The florists' windows throughout the city look very attractive. In view of the fact that there is but little business, those displays demonstrate pluck and "sand." J.J. Butler. "Christmas Greens" or Lycopodium. This has been another of those seasons during which much uncertainty prevails concerning the supply and consequently the price of this article. In a general way it may be safely said that there is likely to be enough to go around and that there will be considerable dried out and inferior stock thrown on the market next month by inexperienced and irre- sponsible dealers outside the regular trade who have no reputation or standing to maintain. There is however a good sup- ply of choice stock to be had at very fair prices. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, NO. 2 BEACON STREET. Near Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS. Mention American Florist. O0NPLETEUNE.W6UPPUE( The New York Gut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733. 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . CONSIGN TO I5UY FKOM M. A. HART. Commission "^r" Cut Flowers, 113 WEST 30th street, NEW YORK CITY. THE BEST MARKET IN NEW YORK. TRAENDLY & SCHENGK, Wholesale Florists, Coutrol the stock of many celebrated growers and are prepared to quote prices on First Grade Cut Flowers. All varieties. 38 West 28th St., and Cut Flower Exchange. Tel. itm ISth Street. NEW YORK CITY. FRED. EHRET, wnoiesaie fwu. No. 1403 Fairmount Avenue, Telephone. Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. HEADQUARTERS. ROSES, CARNATIONS, AND VIOLETS. TRY US. WM. F. KASTING, Wholesale Commission Florist. 495 Washington St., BUFFALO. N. Y. Mention American Florist. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. You Need Our TRADE DIRECTORY REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896. PRICE S2.00. CHAS. W. McKELLAR. 3 a (I aWE ME TOUK ORDERS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best ot attention Klveii to the shipping trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. WIRE WORK. Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED. F. WINTERSON. Mgr. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER GO. .1. It. DE.iMUI), I\lgr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Ag-ents. CHICA.G^O. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE COMMISSION t FLORIST, 88 WABASH AVENUE. Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN3 Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, ^ ST. LOUIS, MO. ^*A coiuptete liiie of Wire Deni^iif*. H. L. SUNOERBRUCH, Wholesale Florist 4th AND WALNUT STREETS, E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, .^ ST. PAUL. MINN. Cut Strings, S to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns i8g6. The Am eric ax Florist. 419 E. H. HUNT. WHOLESaLfiPLORIST 68 Lake Sfroef, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BULBS AND AI.Ii FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. Wliol6sal6 Gut) Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIRE WORK A SFKCIALTV. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St. CHICAGO. If yon want FlrBt-ClaBB Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you will Ket what you want. GUT FLOWERS GUT FLOWERS. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS in 88 Wabash Avenue, .^ C5HICA.OO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all orders on ehort notice with all leading varieties of Koses and Carnations. We ARE Headquarters tor fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give ub a trial and convince jxnirself Salesroom. 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, Consignments Solicited. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, Fine stock a Specialty. CHICA-OO. ROGERS FftRK FLORAL 60., Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE, ^^. CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS- SUPPLIES. 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAOO. Prompt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, wnoiesaie Fiorisi 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. A.Kent for finest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©V^RoPeAaPe Mapfter^. Cut Flowers. NEW York. Nov..i5 Roses. Beauty, extra 10 00'^ 35 " " common 2. GO'S 5. Meteor. Testont 1.00« 3 " all other varieties iJO® 3. CarnaJ^lons 2j Beauty 5.00&25. Carnations '•o'^ \ fancy 1 OOa 1 Violets 50@ Valley 2 00** 3 Chrysanthemums 2.00<'< *». fancy S.r(H-rl2 Roman hyacinths 2.00(y'. 3 Paper white narelssne 2 00<" 3. Adlantum "5(ni 1 8mllax lO.OOia-12, Asparagus oU Philadelphia. Nov. 25 Roses. Beauties ... . K.00«3."i Bride. Bridesmaid. La France, etc... 3.003 4. Kalserln 3.00@ 4, smallteas 2.00® 4 extra teas •'• Tarnations 1 Chrysanthemuraa 3, Vrtllev 3.00@ 4 Roman hvaclnlhs 4, Violets, double 75@1 Smllax l'>.00olf. Asparaeus 35.00(&'.t0 Adlantum CHICAGO, Nov. 2" Roses. Beauties 25.ak'35, seconds s.00fti2 Brides. Bridesmaid 2 ()0* 3. Meteors .' 2.00<.7j 3 Perle. Wootton 2.00MJ 3 Testout 3 m«i 4 Kalserln 3.00a 4. Carnations IbOi 1 extraselect l.0O(^' 1 V lo lets, dou ble K'.roan hyac'nths 4, Valley 3 00® 4. Smllax 10.00.9 12 Adlantum 1. St. Lotns. Nov. 26. Roses, Beauties, long 12 00^25, short H00(SI0 select stock 3.00(? 5 ■' general stock 1.50(« 2. Carnations, fancy 1.50<«*2, common 1 , Violets single double Valley 4. Roman hyacinths 3.00^''" 4. Htrrisll 15 Callas 12.00(«15. Chrysanthemums, select 25. southern grown 2.006' ti Paper white narcissus 3.00(?' 4. Buuvardla 1. Smllax 15 Adlantum I Asparagus 35.()0S50. GEORGE A. SUTHERLAND, Cut Flowersi Florists' Supplies WHOLESALE. 67 Bromfield St., BOSTON, IVIASS. Xczi' Englaiid Ageiil foi Ihe GREA T ANTIPEST. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, FLORISTS' VASES. METS, BRIDES, GONTIERS, CARNATIONS ALWAYS ON HAND. 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON. MASS. HORTICULTDEAL ADCTIOSEEES. John 1. Raynor, 49 WEST 28tli STREET, NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Carnations and IVIignonette. CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. THOS. ^VOUIVG, Jr., 43 W. 28th St.. NEW YORK. WALTER F. SHtRIDflN. WHOLESALE 59 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street, NEW YORK. WHOLESALE « FLORIST. Carefnl Shipping: to all parts of the coontry. Frfce list on application. Purdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS. 57 W. 30th St., NEW YORK. ROSES, VALLEY, CARNATIONS. VIOLETS. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, address JOHN YOUNG, 5/ W. SSth Street, NEW YO RK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK. JULIUS LANG, Dealer Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. WHOLESALE, 53 West SOth St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WH0LE8SLE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, COKHER 30th St., NEW YORK. CouBigniuents Solicited. 420 The American Florist. Nov. 28. 9fta ^a«a Sracja. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. Wood, Pres.; Alex. Rodgers and J.B. Rice, Vlce-Prealdents; A. Ij. Don, 114 Chambers Street, New Vork, Secy and Treaa. Visited Chicago: Thos. Griswold. Visiting New York:— Alfred J. Brown, Grand Rapids, Mich. Philadelphia.— John Gardiner & Co. are closing out their business and will discontinue after January 1. Pre-historic corn is the name of a "new novelty" in the farm seed line whose introducer says among other things ia speaking of its discovery, fifteen feet under ground in a sealed pottery vessel says, "HERE it had lain LN PERFECT STATE OF preservation while the thousands of years rolled by!" Boston— The past and present em- ployees of Joseph Brcck & Sons, to the number of over one hundred, held their second annual reunion on the evening of November 20 at Arcade Hall, The mem- bers of the corporation, with their wives, were present as guests. After the recep- tion, music and dancing followed and a highly erjoyable time was had until 1 a. m. Careful forcing tests in greenhouse of French grown and Bermuda grown white Roman hyacinths this season show the latter to be much inferior in every way. At the same time it should be borne in mind that the cultivation of this bulb in Bermuda has been done on a small scale only and present results are no proof that these bulbs of good flowering value can- not be produced in Bermuda. Wm. H. Carson, late with Henry A. Dreer, died suddenly at Lafayette, Ind., last week. Mr. Carson learned his busi- ness in England and came to New York in 1876 to work as an expert seedsman and plantsman for Henderson & Flemmingon Nassau street. When the firm of Peter Henderson & Co., was formed he left Henderson & Flemmingtobecomeamem- bem of that firm and superintended the fitting up of the Courtlatid street estab- lishment. Ten years later, desiring to go into business for himself, he sold out his interest to Peter Henderson and estab- lished himself at 125 Chambers street where Wm. Thorburn was afterwards a partner but the venture was unsuccessful and the firm failed. Mr. Carson then entered the employ of A. D. Cowan & Co., went afterwards to Young & Elliott and finally to H. A. Dreer at Philadelphia where he remained until last summer. Mr. Carson was highly respected and all in the trade speak well of him. He leaves a wife and one son. Providence, R. I. The florists have been quite busy for the past week. Thirty weddings are re- ported within the past few days. Let the good work go on. The executive committee of the Florists and Gardeners' Club met on Wednesday eve and final arrangements were made and talent secured for the grand concerts and festival on December I and 2. Upon invitation Messrs. Appleton, Chappell and Rennie visited the establish- ment of N. D. Prince, Jr., to inspect his seedling carnations. He has two houses 100x45 devoted to them with many thousand stock plants in perfect condi- tion. Too much cannot be said in their favor. J. F. Parks & Co. make a good show in their new store on Westminster street and Miss Carter "is all smiles." Tom Johnston is the happy father of a "bouncing baby boy." Geo. Johnston is about again after some weeks' confinement to the house. The disputed bill of Edward Gavin, against Timothy O'Connor for glazing, $142 09, has been settled in court for $52.68. The committee hope to see all present who receive complimentary tickets for the grand concert and festival Dec. 1 and 2. LiTTLE Rhody. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. Advertisements under this head will be Inserted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. I'lant advs. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTED-By florist's assistant; prac- tical experience of ',' vears; reliable; age^W; single. Keferences given. H. H7 Brorafleld St , Boston. SITUATION \VANTEI)-In or near Chicago, by a young florist wtio Is thoroughly capable of growing general greenhouse stock Can give good references. Address A M. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTBD-By competent florist and decorator; l.> years* experience. Capable of tak- ing full charge of store. Married. Best of reference. Address S74, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED-Byarellablegrower, where good stuff and plenty of It Is wanted Struggling I)artie8 need not apply. Good wages expected. South or west preferred. Ko.^ks. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-Wllllam Plumb can recom- mend a flrst-class man as lorenian. on either pri- vate or commercial place. Single. 27 years old. and thoroughly reliable in every particular. Oyster Bay, N. V. SITUATION WANTBI)--As working foreman, by a tirst-class florist, as grower of roses, carnations, violets, 'mums, palms and general stock; 31 years' ex- perlcence in England, United States and Canada; English; age l;j; single. Geo H. M., care N. S. Small. Foxboro, Mass. WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrst-class chance to establish hliuself . Address D U B, care American Florist. WANTED — Good propagator and rose grower. Wages $ffl per month. Send copies of reference, age, etc. to FI.iihist, Box S,'n, Cincinnati, O. WANTED— A florist as assistant In carnation houses. Also section foreman for violets and "mums. Single men. Address All, care Am. Florist. WANTJ5D— Catalogues and price lists of seeds, plants, bulbs, rooted cuttings, and greenhouse material. D. M. Ale.xandeh, L. B. 1.5. Westervllle, O. WANTED An all-round florist one who can grow roses, carnations ;ind violets for cut flower trade; state wages and give reference; I have about 5.(KHI square feet of glass. E. PowEK, Frankfort, Ky. WANTED AT ONCB-A working foreman, one who Is capable of taking charge of greenhouses run by steam, and understands the growing of lettuce, mushrooms and all kinds (.if pot plants; strictly sober, and not afraid of wijrk; single or married; German preferred. State wages. House for married man, and room and board for single man. Address M L. '.KIT Grand Klver Ave., Detroit. Mich. I TOR SALE -Greenhouse plant, aiOO feet glass heated with hot water, stocked with carnations, roses, etc., large barn, with or without dwelling. In Chicago. Terms easy. Address H S, care Am. Horist. yOR SALE- A retail store in cltv. stocked with fresh V and artlflclal flowers; good location established « years; we are going out of business and will make reasonable terms. Address L. care Am. Florist. FOR SALE Sherry'.^ flower store, opposite Hotel Imperial, best location In the city; pays good profits, ttwner Is unable to attend to It on account of otherstore. Apiilyttj Fleisciiman, under Hoffman House, New York. Jj'DU SALE AT A BAI'.GAIN In a growing city of r 40.(100. 4(100 feet of glass, well stocked with roses, carnations, palms, etc.; T room dwelling, barn and stable. Latest Improvementa; fine location; good trade. Address A B, care American Florist. ipOK SALE -Five greenhouses ri;'>xU';'i In first-class repair, hot water, new windmill. i!(t-barrel tank. .V ruoni c ttage. barn.'2',j acres land, sheltered l>v tlnihcr, III minutes ride from city: greenhofises stocked with nine thousand carnatlonsof the very best market varl- elles and in flnest possible health (cutting flowers frotn njost vjir Idles rmwi; MIOsudlax, Terms reasonable to responsible imrdcM Address K. care Am, Florist. 'MUMS. 4.000 STOCK PLANTS from 6 -inch pots. MvfiiM. \ ellow i,MiBeii. MitvtU)wtT. Mrw Kobliisun, Miiutl lieuti, Marie Louise. Mmr licru'inaiin. Iviirv, Wimamaker. Mnculn, KiMlier w Tnn-li, ( IiMiIb. Hoti- naffun, <.>ueon. Minerva, .leiomt' .Inm'.s, vU\ Park Ave. Greenhouses. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FELTHOUSEN, The SCHENECTADY FLORIST, has a large lot of GERANIUMS, all the lead- ing sorts, at $15.00 per tOCO, our selection; well rooted and in tine condition. J. E. FELTHOUSEN, Schenectady. N. Y. 1897 THE ONLY MARS"8»*?«™ Prices on application, Xt.EI.A.XS'X- jr,A.IV. x»t. HENRY EICHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Pa . 2-INCH FERNS. READY TO SHIFT. P. serrulata. Onychlum japonlcum, P. serrulata crestata, Blechnum occldentale, P. serrulata - densll. Lastrea varlegata, P. adiantoldes, Adlantum cuneatum. Above at $4.00 per 100; *:i5.00per 1000. Adlantum, from flats $1.50 per 1(10 Blechnum occldentale. ;Hnch $tl. 00 per lOO General assortment. :i-ln, vars., $7 per 100; JtiO per 1000 Pteris tihiesbrlghtll and Keglna;. ■-'■inch, Jil.OO perlOO; :i-lnch. JIO 0(1 per 1(«1. Complete list on application. Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Clenside, Pa. Always mention American Florist. 20,000 GERANIUMS SS?TfN°as All the best varieties, as Double Gen. Grant, Bruant, Silver Leaf, Mme. Salleroi, $1..50 per 1(X); 8H.0O per 1000. AGERATUIM, blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooted. S1.0(l per 100; 89,00 per 1000. All strong and well rooted. The same out of 2J4.inch pots, $2.00 per 100; 820.U0 per 1000. Cash with order. MAX KRUSCHKA. LAWRENC STATION. N. Y. 50.000 FERNS. Choice varieties from 2 inch pots, at $3.00 per 100; $25.00 per 1000. Samples sent by mail on receipt of 10 cents in stamps. Koran's Perfect Carnation Support. The onlj- perfect one on the market. Write for circular and prices. JAMES KORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. SPECIAL OFFER. I'JOO ROSE QUEEN Carnation plants, at 5c. A private collection of ORCHIDS. 1000 lbs. CYCAS STEMS, various sizes. AURATUM and SPECIOSUM LILIES. Will sell all or part at a bargain. Particulars on application. WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box S7. MILWAUKEE, WIS. Cape Jessamines. strong and .stocky, grown in ." inch pots. 8 io 12 inches high, ,50 cts. per dozen; J:!.00 per 100; $25.00 per 1000. Field-grown plants, 1;-; to 2 fe,t,$5,00per 100; 2 to 3 feet, $1000 per 100. A fine lot ol CALIFORNIA PRIVET, :5 to 1 ft , well branched, $2 00 per 100; 2 to X ft., $1.,50 per 100, JOHN MONKHOUSE, Caddo Nurseries, JEWELLA, LA. CLEMATIS, $'.00 per doz,; $22.,tO per lOO PAEONIES, $125 per dozen, $8.00 per 100. Plenty of whites. OBL. POET'S NARCISSUS, 50 cts. per 100; U'tO per lOflO. DOWNING GOOSEBERRY, $2.00 per 100 1 year. Sl.ini per 100 2 year. Very low rates in quantity; fine, well grow stock. F. A. BALLER, Bloomington. III. OUR PRIZE CINERARIAS. A lew more thousand left. We are selling fast. Our strain is always in demand. 2l4-inch $2.50 per 100 S-inch 4.00 per lOO CALCEOLARIAS. 2i;-inch 3 0(1 per 100 S. WHITTON & SONS. Wholesale Florists. <'ity Hiiil Gr««u St§.. IITICA. N. Y. Bismarck Apples. 1 ycai old 25 cents, i>er hundreil, 820.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per Ihonsand, $2.(X); per ten thousand, JI8. CH. KOEHLER. Oxlord Church P. 0.. Phila.. Pa. i8g6. The American Florist. 421 HAVE YOU SEEN THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON Souv.duPresidentCarnot The Rose of the Future? If not don't fail to do so. Won the highest honors wherever shown. Silver medal, Boston, Mass, Hort. Society, Nov. lO, i,S%; silver medal, Philadelphia, Penn., Hort. Society, Nov. 11, 1896; American Institute Diploma, at Madison Square Garden, New York, Oct. 24, 1S96; certitlcateof merit, New York Florists' Club. Oct. 24, 1896; certificate of merit. Orange. N. J., Orange Floricultural Society, Nov. 10, 1896; certificate of merit, Poughkeepsie. N. Y., Dutchess Co. Hort. Society, Nov. 11, 1896; certificate of merit, Worcester, Mass., Worcester Co. Hort. Society, Nov. 9, 1896; first class certificate, Millbrook, N. Y.; certificate of merit, Madison, N J. So far as I can judg:e President Cariiot will prove a very satisfactory rose both to thebuyeraud seller andit will fill a long felt want for alight piuk rose. I have noticed that blootus exposeii do not fall or lose their color, while those placed m our vault last for four days, and also retain their color, proving it to be a good rose for shi;;ping. Charles Thorlev, 1173 Broadway, N. Y.city. The rose Souvenir du President Carnot received from you is a picture. I have kept them on my counter until they were all taken by customers who insisted upon having one; they are never done speaking about the rose. Its keeping qual- ities are remarkable. William P. Sears, 729 Sixth Ave , New York city. The exquisite flowers of President Caruot you lately sent us have been much admired by our best cu'-tomers. They all say it is a color they have long been wanting. The flowers which are sim- ply perfect in shape, of delicious odor, with long strong stems cannot fail to make this rose a uni- versal favorite Its keej^ing qualities are excellent. SiEBRECHT &SoN, 409 Fifth Ave., N, Y.city. The strongest imaginable grower. Blooms mostly produced singly on stiff stems with large beautifiil dark green foliage, needing but little tying. An Al forcer as well as bedder and good for all purposes, blooming abundantly both in and out doors. No live florist can aflfbrd to be without it. Orders booked now for plants propagated from the healthiest stock in the country, not weakened by over propagation. Be sure to come and see it before ordering elsewhere. Strong healthy plants from V-^ inch pots, SS per do/.., SI 5 per hundred, 5125 per thousand. .50 plants at 100 rates, 600 at 1000 rates. Ready after January 1. 1H97. ERNST ASMUS, west noboken, N J. ^Outlook Encouraging and prices were never lower on the following: 100 1,000 SPIREA JAPONIGA - $3.50 $30.00 ULY OF VALLEY c^STsJk, 21.00 BOUQUET GREEN ^^^T''^'^ 2.00 TOBACCO STEMS,Tal^$l. 25 12?s5.00 White Roman Hyacinths'if 2. 25 20.00 W. ELLIOTT & SONS, NEW YORK. Mention American Florist. ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ \ "SURE CROP" ♦ ♦ DUTCH BULBS. *onaPP"ca"on ^ ♦ "FLOKISTS" FLOWER ^EEDS. ♦ ♦ WEEBER & DON, X^^^::'^^' \ Z 114 Chambers St., NEW YORK. ^ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. si.^ii,^;;'t^oS,"e new seaeoD'a mushroom spawn Is due at this port Dect'iiiber 25; will jiuarantee delivery on time if have your order at once. Redtcej) prices. Write me to-day for full particulars. G. Cl. WAT.SON. 43 North lOth street, Hhila- delphia. U. S- A.. 13^ Owner of the celebrated "W F.'* brand (Watson's Prolltlc) Mushroom Spawn. My 24-paKe booklet on Mushroom Culture free to buyers or tntendlnj^ buyers: to others, 10 cents. Robinson, '.dq.-. KaJcoiier, *l.r>0. FAXON'S r^sl ' PANSIES. The best mixture in cultivation, flowers very large, thick and velvety; of superb colors and markings. Tlie perfi;cti time you write an advertiser in these columns. »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ \ Herr's | I Carnations: ^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦* LANCASTER, PA. Fellow Florists: — With the facilities to grow and the stock to produce over a million Rooted Cuttings of Carnations, I am in a position to fill your orders and give a written guarantee with every order that the cuttings will be satisfactory or the money refunded. GERANIUMS, PETUNIAS, PANSIES and COLEUS. In Geraniums the collection is made up of the most popular colors and the finest col- lection of the new and older varieties, at jSl.50 per ICO; f 12.50 per lOOO; all labelled, but strictly my selection. In Petunias the finest striped and mottled are offered at %1 per lOO; jl5 per lOCO Also Veteran, a double fringed variety never introduced, tlowers immense, white stripeJ rose, plant dwarf and covered with bloom. Price 50 cts. per dozen; f3.50 per iCO. Pansies, any quantity; none better, 75 cts. per lOO; $5.00 per 1000. L. B 496. ALBERT M. HERR. LANCASTER. PA. 200,000 ROOTED CUTTINGS 200,000 GERANIUMS! SELECTED STOCK. TRUE TO NAME. EVERY WIDE AWAKE FLORIST knows that if he desires to hold a line class of cus- tomers, he must carry a full line of tirst-class geraniums. WE HAVE BEEN TESTING the newer introductions for the past live years and offer a select list of forty-tlve varieties comprising the cream of the best Geraniums in existence Our list covers scarlets, dark crimsons, white, pink, salmon pink and various fancy varieties in singles, doubles and Bruants. SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, QUEENS, L. I. ALM ^Sf^eez/i RESH ON HAND Per 100 1000 3UI(ll 1 1 -ocos Weddelliaiia *1.25 $10.00 J37.. ill I l'aiiil»nus iitilig 1.50 12. .iU :« OO ICiillVa araliica 1.60 13. .iO •.«UKii hiisele 135 10 00 37.50 J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. Mention American FlorlBt- E.G. HILL & CO.. Wlioi6sai6 Florists RICHMOND. INDIANA. Mention American Florist. SPECIALTIES LN BEST VAR1BTLK8. ROSES, from 3-lnch pots. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. PlSHKH-L, N. Y. ransiGS Worm Raising. PLANTS READY NOW, at 82.50 per .500; S4.0O per 1000. Free on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at $1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH OKDEK. U. SO LTAU k CO., 199 Krani Ave., lersey Ciiy, N. ] . SANSKVIERA ZEYL.\N1CA, 2}4-in. pots, height 8 to 10 inches . . Si 00 per 100 3>4 in. pots, height 12 to 15 inches 8400 per 100 BKGONIAS-Rex and Floweriug, 3 inch stock, 8.5.00 per 100. Choice line of 4-inch Pot Roses. 8500 per 100 TERMS CAfill WITH ORDER. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. Wben wrltlriK mention the AMKRIOAN ri.ORITB McGOWAN. PORTIA, MME. ALBERTINI, SILVER SPRAY, GRACE WILDER, HINZES WHITE, STUART, ROSELIND, CARNATIOIVS After the early clrvsantlieiiiums are thrown out, many tlotists plant carnations. We have a few thousand good plants heeled in, in the cold house, suitable for this purpose. PURITAN, GARFIELD. ADA BYRON. NICHOLSON, B. OP ERLESCOURT, Buttercup, 2nd quality Helen Keller, Uncle John, $4.00 per 100. J. L. DILLON, Bloomsburg. Pa. DIIT IM CARNATIONS AFTER rUI Ml CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott. Ivory, Silver Spray, Rose Queen, and Garfield, from cold frames, at $8 00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. CARNATIONS. Immense sl/e. at n bargain. A few tMOU SCOTTS TIDALS left. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. stock plants of MMB. BEUciMA.NN, VKLLOW (.lUKKN. MUTUAI, FltlEND, FKES. W. K, SMITH, J. II. TROY. TUB yUEKN. and 100 other leading vai letles. 15 ctB. each. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mention Amertcan Klorist CARNATIONS. F. Dorner & Sous Co. LA FAYETTE. IND. i8g6. The Americax Florist. 423 BULBS, HOLLY ^ND GREEN. Our "GET THERE" Holly is still in it. Others say they have "as good as Vaughan's," which means ours is the STANDARD, for TIME, QUALITY and SOLID PACKING, per case, $4.00 to $5.00. If you want the smooth-leaved Southern Holly, we can supply it at S3.50 a case in Chicago. HOLLY WREATHS, extra heavy, ll-inch, $10 to $12 per lOO. BOUQUET GREEN, choicest stock in the market. Write for prices. Prompt shipment. MISTLETOE, very tine, well-berried. ISc to 20c per lb. CAPE FLOWERS, IMMORTELLES, Etc. RATTAN for wreaths, lb. 20c. 10 lbs. $1 S5. Special low prices quoted for quantities. Per 100 HV.VrlNTHS. Roman White. 11-12 ctms $1.75 n-15ctms 2.25 I2-15etms 2.35 Light Rose, OP Blue 1..tO Dutch, single, separate colors 2..^0 N.VRCISSUiS Trumpet Major (forcing) 1.00 Chinese (Chinese grown) 4..t0 Paper White GrandiBora 1. 00 .lONt^UILS. single, sueet scented oO ORNITHOG-VLCM AR.VBICUM 1.25 CALL A. Spotted Leaf 4.00 DIELYTRA SPECTAlilLIS .-. 6.,50 SPIR.EA .JAPONICA 4..50 GRAPK HYACINTHS. Blue 3.i LILY OF THE \'.\LLEY TUBEROSES (IF NKW CROP. Ver\ .-li,,!,-,- NEW YORK: 14 Barclay St. PerlUX) Write for prices lil.OO 22.00 r.iJO 35.00 7.00 4.00 10.00 2.50 H..i0 When you WANT HOLIDAY STOCK, write or wire us. You will get it. 84 & 86 Randolph St., CHICAGO. ^^^^^^^^^^^^VB $1000 REFUSED. \ A year ago we made an offer of 8UX)0 cash for ONE FIiANr each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. ^ The offer was refused, a greater price beiui asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best uovelty for Florists' decorative purposes, 81-50 per 12; 810 per 100, from l^-inch pots. ?; i>4-incn pois. Send for Catalogue of Novelties A.BLANC & GO. ., Pa. From 2 -inch pots. GOOD VARIETIES, OUR SELECTION, $2.00 per 100. FIELD-GROWN CARNATIONS AND VIOLETS. List of varieties and prices furnished on application. NATHAN SMITH <&, SON. GHRY&ftNTH&MUMS. Strong stock plants. Ready now. MRS. H. ROBINSON, MERRY MOXAKCU. M. ])ifi MU.NTMOKT. MARION' HENDERSON. WM, SlMl'SON. 2jct8. each. Older standard varieties. IJcts. each. Special prices for large quantities. ti. WEBER S SONS. Oatland, M. fl CHRYSANTHEMUM ^ STOCK PLANTS. Varieties and prices upon application. Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, (Station II.i PHILADELPHIA, PA. STOCK CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Best Standard sorts, |i.5o per doz ; Stooo per 100. B@"100 our choice for $S 00. NOVELTIES of 1896 and SCARCE SORTS. 25 CIS. each; J20 00 per 100. MARKET'S FLORAL NURSERY, i^cz)FRc::ii^<^. Spiraea astilboides floribunda, tine clumps per 100 - Sio.oo Spiraea palmata, red tlowering, for forcing fine clumps, per 100 - 7.00 Kalmia latifolia, line budded, each - - - - .75 Metrosideros semp., nice bushy plants, each - - - -45 H. P. Roses, Tree Roses, Clematis, Rhododendron, pot-grown Lilacs, Deuizia, Hydrangea, MagnoMa, Indian Azalea, Etc. L. C. BOBBINK^ rutherford, n. j. Branch of the Horticultural Compauy. Boskoop. Holland. FORCING LILAC CHARLES X. We have a fine lot of this variety, in extra strong plants averaging 20 to 25 flower buds each, at $30.00 per hundred. A Discount of 12 1-2 per cent, allowed from above price if cash accompanies order. JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. ATTENTION WESTERN FLORISTS. Save Freltjht or Express Char^rea. Chrysanthemum Stock Plants FROM BENCi[. Mrs. Perrin, Gretchen Buettner, Indiana, Glory Pacific, Modesto, 81.50 per set. Mayflower, Mrs. H. Robinson. White Swan. Miss L. D. Black, M. M Johnson, hady I-ltzwleram, (JIadya Spauldlng. Philadelpbla. Mrs Potter I'ahuer. Julian Helper. aeen. at 20 cts. each. Addreaa JOHN WELSH, ?*;> N. Uoyne Ave . ^tHtiun X, Kaveiiswood, IIL TRY DREER'S GflRDtN Seeds, Plants. Bulbs & Requisites. They are the best at the lowest prices. Trade List is- sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. HENRY A. DREER, Philadelphia, Fa. S1EBRE6HT & SON, PALMS. FERNS AND ORCHIDS. We give you good value for your money. Rose Hill Nurseries, New Rochelle, N. Y. "THE DAHLIA" ItV LAWRENCE K. PEACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST oSering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK. Dahlia Specialist. AtCO. N. J. Burkj's New Yellow Maraiierite ETOILE DE LYON. ■i5 Kooted Cuttings lor #1.00, by mail. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. WHOLESALE FLUHIST. W'lll-U wrItlnB mention the AMBRICAN KLOR18T. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. 424 The American Florist. Nov. 28, Providence, R. I. Almost every one, and more especially those who were fortunate enough to get first and other premiums, as well as gratu- itous prize winners are well pleased with the results of the exhibition given by the Rhode Island Hort. Society. Although perhaps not a great success financially, in some respects it was a little ahead of former years, and as a whole compared very favorably with past exhibitions. It showed what could be done by careful culture and hybridization. The threatening weather with occa- sional rain interfered with the wishes of many who would have visited the exhibi- tion. Wm. Appleton, Jr., made a very credit- able show of potted plants prettily arranged, this being in charge of E. J. Johnston. At one end of the hall E. J. Johnston displayed a nice lot of potted stock, together with cut chrysanthemums. At the other end of tte hall, towering above everything, was N. D. Pierce's flower booth of pyramidal style with an attractive young lady in charge, where cu t flowers could be purchased at reasonable rates. On the side facing the door W. A. Potter & Co., made a very pleasing exhi- bition of florists' supplies and bulbs, all arranged with great care and good taste. This was under the watchful eye of A. M. Kennie. There were many other exhibi- tions of merit, all worthy of note. A meeting of the executive committee on entertainment met at the store of E.J. Johnston last Friday evening to make reports and transact such business as might come up at that time relative to the concert in December. Timothy O'Connor, Wm. Appleton, Jr., and N. D. Pierce were appoipted a cocnmittee on advertising to act in conjunction with the press agent, Wm. H. Mason. Wm. E. E. Chappell, A. M. Rennie, C. C. Sullivan were chosen on entertainment committee to confer with Wm.H. Wing. The names of Timothy McCarthy and Chas. Forbes were added to the committee on decora- tion. Mr. Wing reported that Infantry Hall had been engaged, also the full American band, and tickets would be ready for distribution on Monday even- ing. Mr. Johnston served refieshments for the committee during the evening. Business about town has been a little quiet the past week. Plenty of flowers and quality very good. The warm weather has rushed them forward too soon. Little Rhody. Bloomington, 111. The season thus far is reported to be somewhat tardy. The florists, however, are by no means discouraged and look for better business at an early date. A. Washburn & Son gave a chrysanthe- mum show at their store, which drew a large attendance. The flowers and plants exhibited were fine specimens. One plant of W. H. Lincoln in a 12-inch pot meas- ured 4 feet high and 3 feet in diameter and had between 300 and 400 blooms. Homo. PANSIES. JENNINGS STRAIN of ttnest American K^own I'tniHiCH. bine pliinta Iroin cold frames. 75c per 100 by mall : 34 per UXHI by expreBy, SEED of above strain per pkt. of "^ TiOO Heeds. $1.(M); ouncer'.lia. E. B. JENNINGS, Lock Box ■2.>4. Southport, Conn. Grower of the tlrtewt I'liiit-les. EXTRA STRONG SMILAX PLANTS at %'l.\M per InuKlreU; .^lll im per UnMisand. WELLENREITER & SCHWIEMAN, DANVERS, ILL. THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY'S FLORISTS, NURSERYMEN SEEDSMEN Directory OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, A^t) REFERENCE BOOK, Contains the names and addresses of all the Florists, Nurserymen and Seedsmen in the United btates and Canada, arranged alphabetically in States ard Provinces, the exact branch of the business each is engaged in being indicated by a Key. A list of Trade Organizations, both National and Local, with names and addresses of prin- cipal officers, time and place of meetings and date of organization. Statistics regarding Floriculture, the Nursery Industry and Seed Growing from the last U. S. Census report. A list of firms in the trade that issue catalogues, with a key indicating the prominence of each branch of the trade in same. A list of leading Cemeteries in which attention is paid to Ornamental Horticulture. A list of leading Park Superintendents and of the Botanical Gardens of the United States. Seasonable Hints for the year about the practical work of the Florist, written by Wm. Scott, giving instructions not only when to do certain work, but how to do it most effectively and economically. A complete alphabetical list of looses in commerce in America, brought up to date and of incalculable value for reference. Similar lists of Chrysanthemums, Carnations and Cannas. Historical sketches to date of the Society of American Florists, American Carnation Soci- ety, National Chrysanthemum Society of America, Florists' Hail Association, American Seed Trade Association and American Association of Nurserymen. A list of Leading Horticultural Societies. Full and accurate information about Express and Postage rates. f>fI.IC7EI 92.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 DEARBORN ST., -CHICA.OO. NEW HARDY FERNS. Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER 1000 FROM NOW UNTIL DECEM15EK 1st. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. GROUND PINE ^ND HOLLY. We stand ready to supply THE RIGHT QUALITY AT THE RIGHT TIME AT RIGHT PRICES. SEND FOK PKICK LIST. DAN'L B. LONG, itlllt^. You will benefit the American Florist by mentioning it every time you write an ad- vertiser in these col- umns. Christmas Greens. HARDY CUT FERNS, CHRISTMAS TREES, BOUQUET GREEN, LAUREL ROPING. HOLLY. EVERYTHING GREEN. AT THE OLD STAND 18 Ciiapman Place, BOSTON, MASS. H. E. HARTFORD, Mgr. FLORISTS' RIBBON. All widths and popular shades of color PRICES REDUCED. SEND FOR SAMPLE TO H. M. WEISEL. 17 East 83rd Street, NEW VORK. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on tn's page. i8g6. The American Florist. 425 Prepare for the HOLIDfiyS. We offer now (he most extensive and varied Steele of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES IN AMERICA. All Up-to-Date, Fresh Goods, MOSS WREATHS, IMMORTELLES, PAMPAS, CAPE FLOWERS, CYCAS LEAVES and WHEAT SHEAVES are our leaders always. Quality and quantity handled far beyond all other dealers. All seasonah'e stock in Baskets, Jardin- ieres, Pots, Letters, Artificial Flowers and Foliage, AT BARGAIN PRICES. NOW IS THE TIME TO REPLENISH YOUR STOCK. H. & 'I Importers and Manufacturers, S6 3V. -itla Street, PEILADELPEIA, PA. WE LEAD IN Prices, Quality, Service. Green and Holly Wreathing, Mistletoe, Etc. It is to every florist's advantage to cor- respond with us on these items. We know how, have the stock and proper facilities for in- stantaneous service. Can save you money whether you buy by the crate, ton or carload. W. W. BARNARD & CO. 186 East Kinzie St., CHICAGO. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. A., ME:ieiea-iA.iviv, Manulacturer ol METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Jerry), NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. 1^ n r i-[- TlTorli:. THE BEST GOODS-LEflST MONEY We Can Go You. Immortelles (New crop-all colors) Cape Flowers (Can't be beat) Baskets (of every descrirtion) Doves, Chenille, Imported Prepared Cycas Leaves, Tin Foil, Wheat Sheaves (our speciaty), MOSS WREATHS, Metallic Designs, Etc., Etc. Piices for quantities on application. Just drop us a postal and our New Fall Price List is yours. AX. I^ICE> & CO. IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS, 25 N. 4th Street, PHILADELPHIA. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO., 13 Green St., BOSTON, MASS. Office, 84 Hawley St. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. Sizes IJ^-lnch and 2-lnch. f2.0U per lUO. Patent fastener with each letter. With orders for &U0 letters we plve away a nicely stained and varnished box. See cut In next week's American Flortat. Our letter Is handled by all the wholesalers In Boston. AOENT8: A. Holker & Sons, New York; M. Rice & Co.. 25 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia. Pa.; F. E. Mc- Allister. 22 Dey St., N. Y.; H. Bayersdorfer &, Co., Philadelphia. Pa.; A. D. Perry & Co.. Si Warren St., Syracuse. N. Y.; A. C. Kendal, 115 Ontario St.. Cleve- land, O.; E. n. Hunt, 79 Lake St.. ChlcaKo; Wisconsin Flower Exchange. I'M Mason St., Milwaukee, Wis.; H. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts.. Cincinnati, O.; T. W. Wood & Sons, tith and Marshall Sts. Richmond. Va,; J as. Vlck's Sons. Rochester, N. Y.; Dan'l B. Long, ButTalo. N. Y.; C. A. Kuehn, St. Loula. Mo.; Hunt- Inpton Seed Co.. Indianapolis, Ind ; W. Ellison, 1402 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo.; A. Herrman, 415 E. ;i4th St.. New York; Geo. A. Sutherland. t.!7 Brom- tleid St., Boston; Welch Bros., No. lA Beacon St., Bos- ton; N. F. McCarthy & Co.. ai Hawley Street, Boston; The Henry Phlllppa Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O., Walter A. Potter & Co.. Providence, R. I.; J. C Vaughan, 2t) Barclay St., New York. J. A. Simmers, Toronto, Ont.. Agent for Canada. Society of American Florists. This is to Certify that IRVING PREDMORE, BARNEGAT, N. J , is entitled to Honorable Mention for clean and well-packed Sphagnum and Peat. Exhibited at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 18-21, '96. GflLflX LEAVES OF THE INTRODUCER. Finest quality and packing to order. Green or Bronze, large or small, of assorted, $3 75 per case of 5000; 600 postpaid, f 1.00. Brilliant GREEN LEU- COTHCE SPRAYS, Ji oo per lOu; |8 00 per 1000. WHOLESALE FLORISTS very SPECIAL PRICES. Information and Samples for the asking. HIGHLANDS NURSERY, KAWANA, N. C. or telegraf KELSEY, Cranberry, N. C. Mention American Florist. It costs 4 cents for each 600 feet of floor space. WM. SCOTT. President. WM. J. STEWART. Secretary. THE FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlet, write to LOIISTILLC ISPIKIT CUIIKU TOB.ICIO Co. Louisville.Ky MenttoD AmerloaD Florist. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that — the advertisement in the you saw American Flor's^^ Does not Injure the most sensitive plants. Endorsed Nikoteen by prominent florlBta. Used for fumigation or epraying Indoors or out. 200 pounds of tobacco In one pint of Klkoteen. Bold by seedBmen. Circular free. SKABCURA DIP CO., CHICAGO. ^QuicRlyMDoes^lt.^ YOU NEED OUR Trade Directory Reference Book I>I1.1CE S2 OO. AMERICAN FLORIST CO.. 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. 426 The American Florist. Nov. 28. St. Paul. Sates during the 'mum season have been fairly good, though we hear a good deal of complaint about light sales, etc., espe- cially from the smaller stores. Good 'mums have sold better than ever before, and first-class b!ooms have been scarce. Roses are now abundant and of good quality. Carnations are becomirg more plentiful. Violets are seen in all of the stores now, while the quality i3 much improved. Retail pi ices are pretty well maintained, though we occasionally hear of "fifty-cent" roses. The first Romans were seen about elec- tion day and are as popular and pretty as ever. Bouquet Green has made its appearance, and wreathing is now ofifered for sale at several of the stores. E. F. Lemke, who has been on the sick list fjr several weeks, is slowly convales- cing. He is being attended by his sons. W. G. Bucde has gone to Chicago. Felix. Kalamazoo, Mich. Van Bochove Bros, had two prominent vtedding decorations during the past week, which required several wagon loads of decorative plants and palms and a great quantity of roses and carnations. Aside from this they were kept quite busy with funeral work. Three more weddings to come off this coming week promise to keep the "ball a rolling." Messrs. Van Bochove Bros, have recently built a cold storage house for cut flowers. They report a good business all along the line. Homo. Troy, N. Y. — E. Le Comte, who has been engaged in the floiijt business in this citv for the past fifteen years, died at his home on Oikwood avenue, on November 15. He was survived by his two sons and three daughters. 412x0 422 .fcHICAGO. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower Pots. et€. Making a Specially of Florist Standard Pots Send for prtee lUt ami Hamples (which will be Hent free I and we know you will nlvo ua your order: Ji 61 SWAHN'S SONSi MiuueapollH^'Aliun. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street. CHICAGO. N flTURflL GfiS Mffi fi LflSS, FOR GREENHOUSES. ■^^Tjrlt^ *o«? l^tr^st: i>r'lo©s._ Mention American Florist. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Kxcelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. RRAMPu u/ARPunii«CQ- ) Kearne.T and Westslde Aveg., Jersey Ctty, N. J. bKANLH WAKkHUUbk;>. j jackoon Ave. and Pearson St., Long Island City, N. T. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. When wrltlnc mention the American Florist. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. * OUR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- laction. We call your attention to our new pots 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO., SYRACUSE, N. Y. THE BEST AND SAFEST MANURE THAT CAN BE USED FOR ALL KINDS OF BLOOMING STUFF IS PURE SHEEP MANURE. It will give better results and no fear of burning your plants or souring the soil. For sale in any quantity. 100 lb. Bags $1.50. Ton Lots $20. EITHER LUMP OR PULVERIZED. GRITCHELL'S SONS, Cincinnati, 0. Rates via the Nickel Plate Road between same points for like classes of tickets are lower than via other lines. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of the advertisers on this page. 1896. The American Florist. 427 Exoeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse 'Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. 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Send for catalogue and price list. which l8 absolutely perfect for moderD g^reeuhuuse congtruction. ROOK BOTTOM PRICES, Bend for Estimates. Satisfaction Guaranteed. REED GLASS CO.. 102 South 6th Avenue. NEW YORK CITY. The Right Cypress for GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. Have'you heard of Cypress Greenhouse Material that has not been satisfac- tory ? If you have it does not follow that Cypress is not the best lumber to use. There is White Cypress. Yellow Cypress and Red Cypress; there is Cypress that grows on the high lands and Cypress that grows in the swamps. All of these different kinds are not suitable for greenhouse purposes. Do you know which kind is best and do you know that kind when you see it? If not you would better buy from those that do know and will deliver exactly what they sell. We introduced Cypress for greenhouse construction and pushed it to the front. We know all about it. For fifteen years we have made a specialty of furnishing it, and during this time we have built up a reputation that we can not afford to jeop- ardize. We send out the best only. Lockland Lumber Co. LOCKLAND, O. Write tor Circulars or Estimate. m^^^^^^^^^^^^^ HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAM ♦ BOILERS. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of constmction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CHICAGO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL 4 CO., 77 Lake Street. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send fox Catalogues _^^^n. GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., cor congress, BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. ■^k ^ I fl\ \ 1 NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD, YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. i CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., CHICAGO. MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. Selamater-Rider and DeLamater-Ericsson Hot-Air Pumping Engiues Will pump water trum :in\ huurce, and torc-e it to anv Peiflit and uis. taQce. Simple, safe and free tnim care. Will burn any kind of Tuel. hor supplvine vater on farms., country and citv residences, dairy and stock farms they are unsurpassed. Send for catalogue. thedelamater ironworks, 467 West Broad w.ay, N. Y. City. For Insurance against damage hy hail, ^^___^^^^_^ Address JOHN G. ESLER. Secy, F. H. A., Saddle River, N. ). Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL T RADE D lRECTOl^y -A. ITU REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. I=E.rCE S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 428 The American Florist. Nov. 28. Index to Advertisers. Adv Rates 418 AmeiicaD Boiler Co. ..428 AmllnK E C 418 AsiuubB 421 BallerK A 42U Baninrd W W&C0....42? Bassett & WasD.>urn..41'.l Bayeredurfer U & Co. .435 Blanc A &Co 423 Bobblnk L,C 4 3 Bonsall ,I08 B 423 Boston Letter Co .426 BraKUe L B 424 Bralnardl) W 423 Burkl h'red 423 Carmodv .1 n 42T Chadwlck Chaa 423 Uonley John ASon 425 Cottaf^e Gardens 423 Cowen'e Son N 428 Orabb A Hunter 423 CralK Uobt 421 Crltchclls Sons B P. .42ii CunulnKham J U 431 DeLanittter Iron Wk8.427 Uteucb A S Co 43T Dillon J L 422 DornerFred &S0118 Co 422 DreerH A 423 Bhret F 418 Blohbolz H 42U Blllotl W H 4.8 BUlottWm & Sons.... 421 Ellis* Pollwortn 418 Faxon M B 421 Felthousen J B 42u Surney Heater Co 427 Hall AsB'n 42T Hancoctt&Son 422 Harkett Horal Co 433 Hart M A 416 Hartford 11 B 424 UerrAlbertM 423 Herrmann A 42o Hewn A U & Co.. 42b BlKhlanda NurselT 425 Hill au «Co 422 HlppardB 437 Hltohlngs&Co 438 Hooker H M Co 42b Horan Edw 419 Horan J & Son 42U Uulsebosch Bros 421 HUQtKU 419 Illinois Cut Flower Co.418 Jenntntts KB 424 Joosten C H 421 Easting W F 418 Kennioott Bros CO 419 KoehlerCh 43U Kotppen Chas 422 Kroeschell Bros Co 427 KnuplT Oscar 421 Kruscbka Ma.Y. K lenn c A La QK Julius Lemke B F . ... Lockland Lum Co. . . 42U .418 419 418 .427 Lonp O B 424 l/unsdale Edw 423 Liird A uurntlam t;o..438 L<> jlsTllle Tobacco Co. 435 Lynch WE 419 -wcCartny N F4C0.. .419 McKellar C W 418 Meeban Thus & Sons. 431 Mlllang frank :. 419 MlllauKft Co 119 Moore FL 421 Monkhouse J 42U Monln^er J O Co 42() .\1 yerB A Co 437 National Plant Co 422 N Y Cut Flower Co. ...418 Nickel Plate Koad 42ii North F W 420 Peacock W P 43.) fennock saoi 18 4Is Pitcher A .Manda 42;i Prtdmore 1 425 Prince AU i Co 419 Purdy S Blauvelt 419 Quaker City Mc'h Wk3.437 Uandall A L 419 KaynorJ 1. 419 Kedtleld Bradley ... 43U KeeO UlasB Co 427 ueinberKBroB 4i9 RlceM&Co 425 KlckseckerCH 121 KoKers Pk Floral Co 419 K >iker A & Hons 438 Kolker A &F 41» Schiller J L 421 422 Sheridan W F 4111 Slebrecht & Son 423 Situations. Wants, etc 430 Skabcura l>lp Co 425 smitu ISatu &son 433 SoltauC & Co 433 Stearns Lumber Co 437 StnppyLl 433 suiiUurbrucbH L 418 Sutherland (Jeo A ll'.i Swahns Sons J Q 43i; Syracuse Pottery Co...42ii Traendly & gchenck. 418 VauKhan d C 423 Watson G C 421 Weathereds Sons T W.428 Weber U&Sons 423 Weeber&Don 421 Welsel 11 M 124 WelshJ 423 Welch Bros .418 Wellenrelter & Schwle- man 424 W miidln Pot CO 42B WhlttonS&Sons Williams & Sons Co. Winter & mover. .. Wis Flower iix Wittbolo ueo Wood Bros younaJno 419 VounitThosJr 419 .430 ,421 419 .439 431 , 422 Syracuse, N. Y. Trade is very brisk just now. We have had a few cold days lately which has shortened up the supply of flowers con- siderably, chrysanthemums are also get- ting scarce; Thanksgiving will about clean thsmoutand the clerks in the stores say they are very glad. They are wel- come on their first arrival but s...on get tiresome; however they have sold remark- ably well the past season, none of any ac- count finding their way to the waste barrel. The late white variety Mrs. Humphrey is now coming in and when grown in spravs not only helps out a bunch of loose flowers, but is very useful for funeral work. We gererally cut the last of these for Christmas. Violets are of fine quality with hardlv enough to go round, carnations are com- ing in in more goodly numbers, but still there are not enougn to supply the de- mand. Alpha. Always mention the American Flo- rist vrhen writing to advertisers. August Rblker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. Latest Supplenicnt to our Kail Cataio^tit^ just issued, containing our Novelties and many reductions in prii-cs of Tinfoil, Cycas Leaves, Baskets, Etc., mailed free to applicants in the trade. Wholesah^ only. Send business card. New York: 136 West 24t]i Street. 1'. (I. siiiiiciii 1:. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. H[itclxiia8:«» <& Co. ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS ANO BUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTURERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE, GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION ANO HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, fireenhouses. Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent Iron Frame Coristructlon. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street, NEW YORK. LORD & BURNHAM CO., Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. ^^Planft and estimates fnrnUhed on application. liargest btiilders of Greenhonse Structures. Six hlgrhest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO., ircMtecinral Office, 160 Fifth Ave., COR. TWENTY-FIRST ST., FACTORY: I RVINGTO!V-ON-iniI).'iON, N. T. New York Gity. WORTH BLARING IN MIND . You buy your heater once, but your fuel you buy every year. It might be well to bear this in mind if you are in need of a greenhouse heater. Among other features which have made the "SPENCE" HOT WATER HEATER famous is the fuel-saving feature. "Spence" users are not troubled with large bills from the coal dealer. "SPENCE" CATALOGUE FREE. S(merican ^3 oiler Company CHICAQO: 84 Lake Street. NEW YORK: 94 Center Street. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS3 HoniGultural flrcliliecis and Hoi Water Enolneers Send fur Catalug;tie. euclofllnj; ^ cents in stniups. 130, 1^1, 1*3 Center St., IVEJW ^"ORIiC:. f^\ n O O For Greenhouses, Conservatories, /^ I n O O 1^1 Tl W Gfapefies. Hotbeds, and all other I <| rl j\j\ vyLl iC/C/ purposes, at Lowest Rates. VyL/ IC/CI N. COWEN'S SON, 392 & 394 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. Get our Figures before buying Class- I»" Estimates freely given^ ITiiE l^wmmmn 0nL®LiiT Hmerica is "tbs Praw of the I/essel; therE may be more comfort Mmidships, but we ars tbe Rrst to touch Unknown Seas. Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, DECEMBER 5, 1896. No. 444 Copytight 1896. by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by The American florist company. 399 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription. 81.00 a year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST OOMPANT. 332 nearborii Street, t'HICAGO. Eastern Office : 67 Bromfield St., Boston. This paper la a member of the Aesoctated Trade PreoB and of the Chlcapo Trade Press Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. WM SCOTT. Buffalo, president; Adam Graham. Cleveland, o, vice-president; W. J. Stewart. Bos- ton, secretary; H. B. Bkattt. Oil City, Pa,, treasurer, OFFICERS FOR l.W,— Adam Graham, r:ieve'and,o,. president; Fakquhau Macrae. Providence. R, I., vice-president, riecieta-y and treasurer as before. The thirteenth annual meeting will be held at" Prov- idence, R, I„ August, 18117. CONTENTS. The exhibitions— Toronto (4 illus.) 429 —Kansas City. Mo 431 -Arrangferaents in Japanese style (illus.) . . .482 —Correction 432 Roses— La France —Propagation 43^ — Bride and Bridesmaid dropping their foliage 433 Carnations— Notes 434 — Anthracnose 434 Herbaceous plant notes 434 Table decorations at Chicago show (illus.). . , 4.3.5 Musa ensete 436 Violets. 436 Sweet pea changes 436 Ferns for retailing 436 Boston 436 New York 437 Philadelphia 437 Pittsburg 4.37 Chicago 438 St. Louis 438 Buffalo 428 Prize basket of orchids (illus.) 439 Providence, R. 1 439 St. Paul 439 Syracuse, N. Y 439 Hard coal screenings 440 American Dahlia Society 442 The seed trade 444 Worcester, Mass 444 News notes 444 Rochester 446 Grand Rapids. Mich 448 Fall River, Mass 4.50 Des Moines, la 450 Hamilton, Wash.— Mr. F. Pountaine, formerly a florist at Racine, Wis., was a heavy loser by the recent flood here. White Hall, III.— The Greene County Floral Nursery, P. W. von Bockelmann, proprietor, gave its second annual chrys- anthemum show, November 17 to i9, which was attended by a large number of visitors. Among the 60 varieties ex- hibited, Ivory, L. Canning, M. G. Thomas, The Queen and W. Simpson, being of fine quality, were most admired. THE EXHIBITIONS. Toronto. The weather, which was expected to have been the greatest drawback to hold- ing a chrysanthemum show during the fourth week in November, turned out in our case to be everything that could be desired with regard to temperature, ex- cept, perhaps, that on Thanksgiving Day it was a little too fine and mild, so fine that 40,000 people went out to see a fham fight between fouror five regiments of soldiers just outside the city. A little snow would have helped to swell the at- tendance at the show on that day. anything in tbe hall. It is probable all the same that the quality of the chrysan- themums would have been better if the show had been held two weeks earlier; roses and carnations, however, were per- haps all the better for the late date; they were really magnificent and probably the chief attraction. Messrs. Dale, Dun- lop, Wordea and the North Toronto Floral Co. were the principal exhibitors of roses, and though Mr. Dunlop took nine first prizes out of a possible thirteen, the others were all very close behind him. Mr. Dale had the misfortune to mistake the day for bringing in cut flowers and brought his a day too soon, and of course they did not improve by keeping under the hall all night. Mr. E. Worden, con- PI 1 1 ^ 1 1 f f "'^ "^ ^1 r " v^vj HP). jH- \ ^ « ■W. ffnu \,,: ,-;.■.' '-.A a HK'" \ sl }■■- "'v &%A''.i3 pr ' • : % \ \ ,,x'-^ M^ w ?■;* |Mf'tr y ^ja \ F'-. ,:S Bt- ' 'S^l'^t^ \ ^■s. ^^ II ,, ;^ ip '^'.'J^ SSiSfei ^u:1 . if h mm liH i C^^\a\)S 1 A BUNCH OP MAYFLOWER AND THREE SEEDLING CHRYSANTHEMUMS AT THE TORONTO SHOW. Wednesday was wet and muggy, also Friday evening and the attendance con- sequently comparatively slim. However, in spite of a slight falling ofi' in the total receipts compared with last year, the management hope to be able to pay a hundred cents on the dollar. By the time this reaches your readers, the chrysanthemum will be a thing of the past with most of them and their inter- ests will be centered in roses and carna- tions; however, to those who care to hear how a show held at so late a date turned out, a brief account of that held in this city from the 24th to the 27th of Novem- ber may be of interest. Taken altogether the show was not so large as last year either in plants or cut chrysanthemums, but there was posi- tively no deterioration in the quality of sidering the short time he has had bis houses up, did remarkably well and promises to make it interesting for the older growers another year. The photograph sent shows the four prize bunches of fifty, Mr. Dunlop's splen- did bunch in the top middle was first, American Beauties; the bunch to the right are Bridesmaids, put up by Mr. C. Tidy, that to the left. Beauties and Brides, are Mr. Dale's and the lower middle bunch are Mr. E. Worden's Bridesmaids. An improved Sunset exhibited by Mr. Dun- lop and which took first prize was noted by the judge as follows: "A distinct and beautiful flower resembling the shade of Gloire de Dijon." Mr. Dunlop also ex- hibited a bunch of his white "Bougere," but the judge omitted to mention it in his notes. It appears to be a fine thing. 430 The American Florist. Dec. S, very like Bride, but much more prolific. Ot all the roses shown Meteor stood the wear and tearof the f jur dajs the best. In 25 while carnations Dunlop was first with his No. 24 Seedling; North To- ronto Floral Co. stcond with Lizzie Mc- Gowan. In 25 reds Dunlop was first with Meteor, Miller & Son second with tie same. In 25 pinks Dunlop was first with some maenificent Bridesmaids, Mil- Only two mantels turned up. Manton Bros, decorated one and Grainger Bros, the other, the fjrmer taking first prize (or a really elegant arrangement. Ferns were not quite so numerous or so good as usual, but palms of all sorts and sizes were very good and healthy looking. A large old seatorthia from the Horticul- tural Gardens which has done duty at many a show for the last twenty years FOUR PRIZE BUNOHia OF 50 ROSES AT THE TORONTO SHOW. imens. Mr. R. Gore put up asplendid lot, taking first in most of the sections. Mrs. Palmer also staged a very good lot. Single stems were on an average much dwarfer than usual and were rrally won- derlully fine, considering the time most of thfm had been kept. Messrs. Dale, Gore, Exhibition Park and Horticultural Gar- dens were the principal exhibitors. Now for the chrysanthemum blooms They were just as good as ever, some sorts were even better. The 25 distinct varieties put up by Dunlop, which took first prize were splendid, the best flowers were Admiral Jervais, Philadelphia, E. D iilledouze. Mr. Howard Rnecke, Mr. J. H. Starin, Golden Wedding, Queen, Mane Louise, H. W. Rieman,Mrs. F. Lanier, E. 0. Farrell. Dale was stcond; amongst his best was Mrs. S. T. Murdock, Mme. C. Molin, \V. H. Lincoln, New York, Lenawee. Dale took first for 12 distinct varieties and Dunlop second. lathe vase of 25 Miller & Son were first with a mag- nificent lot of Mayflower (see photo- graph) and for vase of 20 any variety Duulop took first for 12 yellows. Dale was first with E. Diilledouz?, the best in the show. Miller & Sin second with fine Golden Weddings. M.ller & Sin tot k first for 12 pink. W. H. Smith; Dale sec- ond with a pretty lot of Mrs. S. T. Mur- dock. Miller & S)n were first also with 12 whites, Minnie Wanamaker; Dunlop second with Mr. J. H. Starin. Amongst the new of 1896Yiolescent and Irivincible shown by Mr. Dale appeared to be the bist. Mr. Gio. HiUis staged three seed- ier & Son a very close second with Tri- umph. In 25 vellows all showed Gold- finch, North Toronto Floral Co. being first, Dunlop second. For 25 fancy, Geo. Mills took first with a seedling (the lower bunch in the carnation photograph). North Toronto Floral Co. second with Helen Keller. For a vase of 50 Dunlop took firs-t with fome irreproachable Albertnis (shown in the lover left of pho- tograph). North Toronto Floral Co. and Dale second and third with some fine Scotts. For vases of 50 arranged for effect with green (all of which are seen in the photograph) C. Titly was first, Dun- lop was se-ond, Manton Bros, third and Grainger Bros fourth; all were beauti- fully arranged bunches and contained very fine blooms. Violets were not quite so plentiful but made up in quality. Manton Bros, took first with Marie Louise, and North Toronto Floral Co. second (some thought they should have been first) with Far- quhar, both were immense. California was shown by all for single, Dunlop first, North Toronto Floral Co. second. There was the largest show of orchids ever put up in Toronto and, needless to say, they proved a great attraction. Exhibition Park was the largest exhib- itor; amongst the best were fine large pieces of Cypripedium Spicerianum, C. Haynaldianum, Dendrobium phalaenop- sis, etc. Horticultural Gardens hadsome fine piices, Calanthe Vcitchii being most noticeable. Manton Bros, also had a large collection. The groups of chrysanthemums, palms and ferns were all very good and effective. Horticultural Gardens b ing first with a beauty, a large plant of Pbcenix rupicola in this group was much admired. Man- ton Bros, were very close behind for stc- ond prize. There were four circular groups of foliage plants round the pillars which were a great relief to the eye amorgst so much color; Horticultural Gardens was first for this also, and Grainger Bros, second. SOME PRIZE CARNATIONS AT THE TORONTO SHOW. was in better condition than I have seen it before. A large number of smaller palms were shown and their foliage did a great deal towards making the general effect of the show acceptable to the eye. Some fine htaltby primulas were shown the best being from Mr. R. Gore, gardener to Sir Casimlr Gzowski. Chrysanthemum plants were scarcer than usual also, and many of them showed the signs of old age considerably, however there were some very good spec- lings, one which was christened Geo. Holiis was awarded a silver cup; it is a laree yellow after the style of Lincoln with very pretty filiage close up to the flower. Toronto is a large bright old gold, Edward Buck'and is another yel- low. Nahan Smirh& Son sent 20 blooms of their Western K'ng a very large white of fine form. All were awarded certifi- cates of merit. The design work was fully up to the high standard of this city. The standing an- 1896. The American Florist. 431 A TABLE OF ROSES AT THE TORONTO SHOW. chor (30 inches) put up by Tidy was the admiration of every one, professional or otherwise; it was perfect in every detail and as every one predicted, it was awarded first prize. Grainger Bros, took second for another very pretty piece. Manton Bros, were third with a tasty piece, but rather too full, and the anchor not quite high enough from the rather heavy base. Dunlop had a beautiful anchor, too, but there was something wrong with the base, too small and too dull, I think. Nobody could quite under- stand the judging of the presentation baskets of chrysanthemums, but it is not worth going into particulars, they were all good but one. For basket anv flow- ers Tid V took first with Bride and Meteor roses, Dunlop secoLd with Meteor roses, cattleyas and cypripediums, but the two former were anything but a pleasing com- bination of color. Grainger Bros, were third with a beautiful basket of Bougere roses. The big, fat, flat crosses of white chrysanthemums were only noticeable for their ugliness. They should be struck out of the prize list. The pink chrysanthe- mum crescent wreaths were better, but not really pretty to my idea, the blooms seemed too large to make a tasty flat design. Flat baskets of chrysanthemums were all very good. Grainger Bros, were first with a well arranged basket of magnifi- cent G jlden Wedding, Dunlop second with the same. Miller & Sjn third with some very fine BonnafFjn. Whilst speaking of carnations I omitted to mention some recent introductions and seedlings. Messrs. Breitmeyer & Son of Detroit sent 50 blooms of their Mayor Pmgree, and they were beauties, too; the boys caught on to them as soon as they were staged. I can answer fortheir keep- ing qualities, too, for by mistake they were left in the box they came in all night in the hall and could not be found until 11 o'clock next morning, when they were taken out looking as fresh as if they had just been cut. The judge called it "a grand yellow flower" and awarded it a certificate of merit. Messrs. Hopp and L;mke of Grand Rapids also sent a fine lot of Morello of which the judge said "a fine dark red of large size and good stem." Miller & Son showed a collection of seed- lings among which were several of con- siderable merit, and if they keep up their present form will be valuable acquisi- tions. Mr. W. Scott of Bufi'alo was the judge on cut flowers, design work, and Mr. F. G. Foster of Hamilton judged the plants. Both gentlemen performed their arduous duties with great care and succeeded in giving general satisfaction. There were no protests and fewer adverse remarks than I ever heard at a flower show. The decorations were plain and simple, done with homegrown evergreen — cedar and hemlock — and a few flags and ban- ners of colored cambric which had better have been left out. One box of southern smilax was used, but it did not arrive until the third day. Many florists and gardeners from the surrounding cities and towns visited the show, amongst whom were Messrs F. Mitchell of Inerkip, Foord of Pettrboro', Veitch of Ayr, Townsend of Hamilton, the two judges, etc. Business during Thanksgiving showed an increase over last year. Cut flowers are all coming in very good cow. Dunlop is cutting some exceptionally fine Beau- ties. The first of his azaleas are in, and furnish the desired sh >wy blooming plants, replacing the void left by the chrysanthemums. E. Kansas City, Mo. The second annual chrysanthemum and flower show of the Kansas City Florists' Club was held at the armory of the Third Regiment November 10 to 14, and was a decided success, both in attendance, financially and every other way. Under the skillful direction of Mr. C. C. Ripley, auditor of the KansasCity Btlt Railway, an enthusiastic honorary member of the club, the armory fairly bloomed. Wagon- loads of spruce, cedar, etc., were used in wreathing, and crate after crate of pal- metto leaves and crowns, wild smilax, long leaf pine, etc., until not a bit of brick or wood work was visible, the whole ceiling, walls, balconies, everything, being covered with green like an immense green grotto. Yet a decided pattern could be seen all through the decorations, a keeping to a certain idea and every- thing was worked on that line, signs, stands and arrangements of plants and flowers being in keeping with that idea, and looking quite difltrent from the some- what higgle de-piggledy way that shows are sometimes given. And that such careful work and arranging pays was shown in the increased attendance each day, a total attendance of over 3,000 paid admissions being the grand result. O ae thing which no doubt helped to swell the attendance was the careful way in which under Mr. Ripley's personal supervi- sion the comfort of visitors was attended to; two fine balconies were built seating several hundreds, filled up with chairs, other seats being arranged on the main floor, a great contrast to last year when visitors had to lean up against the wall to rest. Refreshments, from ice cream to a square meal were served "at popular prices." There was good music, clean can- vas covered floors, a smoking room for gentlemen, etc., and these things took. The show was a decided society event, and the swell society turned out eti masse; the daily papers took pains to say that it was as much a show of stylish creations of the dressmakers and milliners as it was of chrysanthemums and as most of the ladies tried to see how many big 25 cent blooms they could wear orcarry, the bal- conies were a gorgeous sight, looking sometimes as if most of the exhibition had walked upstairs; and as the different members with their big pink ribbon badges were the centres of observation some of the boys did some tall stepping, and considerable fixing up was indulged in. Close competition was the marked feature of the prize displays, especially in market plants and cut blooms, awards being made on hair-line distinctions, and as the judges remarked after the three days' judging was over, "it was no dis- grace lor any man who was beat at this show, as any and all of the entries were deserving of a prize." In fact in some entries it seemed as though there could be no grading, all being equally good. Charley Heite led off on honors with 40 prizes, Probst Floral Co. next with 31, though making fewer displays, A. Barbe a good third with 20, Jim Payne and Jar- rett & Son with 14 and 13, the balance coming in with 4 or 5 to 10 to their credit. The special features were the enormous 14inch plants exhibited by Chas. Heite, Mr. E. F. Heite and The Probst Floral Co. One a 14-inch pot Mutual Friend, shown by the Probst Co., looked like an immense snowball rolled up by 50 boys. In single stem in 5inch pots some beautiful exhibits were made; the 25 Queenof A. Barbe, first in 25 white, were perfection, so also the 25 plants in variety by Chas. Heite, and the same shown by Probst Co. In market plants all were good and all were entitled to a prize, the best 6 Red 6-inch by Probst Co., the best 6 white and six varieties by Jas. Payne, the best 6 yellow and 6 pink by Chas. Heite, were each and all perfect specimens. The 2 each 4 colors S-inch by Chas. Heite and Probst Co. and 1 each 4 colors 8-inch by Probst Co. and 432 The American Florist. Dec. s, Chas Heite were beauties. There were many fine entries in each class beside these, but those mentioned were extra. In cut 'mums 25 varieties, 3 blooms of each by Chas. Heite, and 15 varieties 3 blooms of each by Probst Co. were fine. In the 20 blooms section the Probst Co. led off with 20 white, Chas. Heite taking first on 20 yellow, 20 red and 20 pink; 50 blooms any color was taken in by the Probst Co. with 50 Dailledouze; in the 12 blooms section W. J. Barnes led off with 12 very fine W.H.Lincoln for yellow, and 12 Florence Pullman that were a little the finest cut blooms shown in any color; there was some fine work for the judges in this section, as all the exhibits were good. In the introductions of 1896 Chas. Heite got first on a very fine lot of blooms, well displayed; some of the new varieties seemed to be very good and looked as though they had come to stay. There was a very fine display of cut roses and carnations, Barbeshowing Brides, Brides- maid and Meteor, and capturing first on all three, Payne was well represented and carried off a good share of the honors. Best group of decorative plants was a new entry of '96 and everybody entered. The Probst Co. got first on a great dis- play of palms, araucarias, orchids, Farley- ense, etc. The manner in which these exhibits were arranged, helped the ap- pearance of tbe armory very much. Jar- rett & Son took second on a very neat display with Paul Ducret a close third. The Probst Co. captured the largest cut bloom prize. First on basket 'mums went to A. Barbe, 2nd to Jas. Payne with a very artistic rendering of "Moses in the Chrysanthemums;" first on basket cut flowers Probst Co., on a basket of Me- teor roses with Farleyense; the same firm got first on floral design; this was an elegant piece, a large cross and wreath, the crosssolidof Eucharis amazonica, the wreath of orchids mingled with Farley- ense and other cho'ce ferns. Paul Ducret came second on a beautiful arrangement of a garland wreath of cvcas leaves and roses tied with ribbon. One of the great- est attractions was a table set by one of our largest department houses and dec- orated by the Probst Co., Friday in Far- leyense and Mrs. Perrin 'mums, and on Saturday, on a very large round table a decoration was made suitab'e fora bridal dinner, in Farleyense and Queen 'mums with eucharis blooms in dainty vases at each plate; at night this was lighted up by white candles and being illuminated by colored and white calcium lights, every- thing being green or white thetablemade an appearance that attracted the atten- tion of all, so dainty and neat, and yet such a rich appearance, which was brightened by the elegant furnishings, ever^ thing used being of the best, solid silver, etc. The amateur list was well filled, and some good displays made, Mr. F. F. Thompson, an honorary member of the club and Mr. C. Marshall leading. Sales were generally reported good, and a lot of plants were sold. Oae thing that could not fail to impress the grower was that the public wants good plants or none. Well-grown plants found ready sale at good prices, poor grown or leggy stuff had tetter have been left at the greenhouses, there was no demand for it. Neither was it any trouble to sell good cut blooms, while taggy stuff went beg- ging. Calculations are being made for next year's show, so I guess the Kansas City 'mum show has come to stay. Every visitor seemed to enjoy the display and pronounced it wondeiful and a good at- tendance is promised for '97. W.J. B. Cbiysanthemums Arranged in Japanese Style. The accompanying engraving should be accepted as a substitute for that which appeared in our issue of November 14. It seems that just prior to the taking of that photograph some one must have jogged the table upon which the arrange- ments stood and disarranged the flowers. The Professor was much disturbed when he saw the picture, particularly over the way the flowers had fallen apart in the central arrangement and the displacing of the half opened flower in the vase at the left. This half opened flower should have been at the top as in the present picture. It signifies hope and the rest should lead up to it. Unfortunately the present picture is not quite perfect, as the photographer failed to take in two flowers in the left hand vase. The stems only are to be seen in the picture. The color arrangement and symbolism are the same as described in our chrysan- themum number, November 14. Correction. The title to the engraving on page 406 of last issue should have read "N. Smith & Sons exhibit of pompon and pompon anemone varieties at Chicago" instead of anemone varieties only. The flowers illustrated were grown naturally in clus- ters while those which were awarded first prize in the anemone class were dis- budded to one flower and several in the collection were six inches and upwards in diameter. In the note referring to the awarding of the C. S. A. medal the word "new" should have been omitted as Mile. Marie Hoste was sent out in 1890. The variety has since been discarded by some American growers. La France — Propagation. May I not be presumptuous in ventur- ing to give some of our experience with La France, as Mr. Simpson's notes on "Stunted La France" incite me to do so. About 8 or 9 years ago we grew this variety as good as any other. Now we have discarded it altogether, because they gradually became so subject to leaf bronze and lost vitality and substance in bloom. I considered the leaf bronze, when bad, was the cause of weakness; some said not. I remember about 8 years ago I cut 800 flowers from 900 plants, on a Decoration Day. Now, such a thing would be un- heard of. I cannot consider La France is as well grown about Philadelphia as formerly; there may be exceptions, how- ever. It certainly is not as popular for cut flowers. Now there is some cause for this dettri- oration, what is it? May I be allowed to suggest. La France has H. P. or H. R. blood in it, I suppose from the pollen parent. H.Ps. require periods of rest to bloom satisfactorily. Therefore should not La France to produce best results be given times of rest in the same propor- tion in which it inherits the character of theH. P.? We have for this season made arrangement for such rests. There may also be another cause for this loss of vitality, but should not apply to La France more than to any other variety. The multiplication of plants by cuttings is not the normal one in nature. As I understand, it is physiologically a process of degeneration. A plant reared from a cutting is not a new individual. The plant grown from the seed resulting by the fertilization of the flowers is the new individual. We may by artificial selection of the good parts, gradually improve the series by growing from cut- tings, just as we may by judicious treat- ment grow a plant to maturity with increasing vigor. After a certain age is reached, however, our care may be of no avail. We may increase the age of the variety very greatly by growing the plants from cuttings, but eventually the climax may be reached. I do not think this can be disproved by anyone. Of course many varieties of roses have lasted for many years in apparent vigor, but that does not imply they will always be so. Aside from my own articles, I believe I have not seen these subjects discussed in the florist papers and should be glad to hear comments on the same. Lansdowne, Pa. A. J. Pennock. I wish to append a few remarks to Mr. Pennock's interesting letter, not because I claim to be an authority on such matters, but simply as a friendly criticism of his article. I have grown La France in the same house,both in pots and on benches, with hybrid perpetuals, giving it exactly the same treatment as to freezing, prun- ing, etc., but always found that the first crop, which usually was a very large one, came with rather short stems, flowers of inferior quality, and too late in the win- ter to make it profitable. Have also grown it as a summer rose and given it a good long rest in winter, without any actual freezing, but this did not add any strength or vitality to the plants, in fact before the end of the second summer they were in poorer condition than they were the year previous as young plants; so as far as my experience goes, I don't think we shall find a panacea for all the ills of La France in merely giving it an annual period of rest. Mr. Pennock's theory that our methods of propagating the rose are partly respon- sible for its deterioration is probably cor- rect; but how few comparatively of those engaged in the rose growing business can say conscientiously that they have given the rose a fair show. Is it not treated as an exotic for 12 months in the year? when it is in fact an almost hardy plant. I know of places where it is grown only for the plant trade, and where from a very small number of stock plants grown, hundreds of thousands of plants are raised and put upon the market. I have learned from the parties themselves that the stock houses were kept at a night temperature of 70° to 75°, and as soon as one batch of cuttings was ready, every- thing was cut off clean, and every induce- ment given the old plants to start out and produce as quickly as possible another crop; and so on through the sea- son. This kind of business sounds big and appears to a great many people as smart work, and an evidence of a pushing pro- gressive concern. But what about the plants raised after this fashion? Every reader of the Flokist has seen them, weak, sickly, stunted, measly things; cheap probably at first sight, but dear enough in the end. i8g6. The American Florist. 433 CHRYSANTHEMUMS ARRANGED IN JAPANESE STYLE BY PROF. CHOYO. The cut flower man who raises his own stock and a few to sell is very often found sailing in the same boat. He must needs cut his b'ooms with as long stems as possible, and whatever is left in the way of scmbby stuff at the base of the plants is cut out and the best of it put in as cut- tings. We are told and expected to be- lieve that this trimming is necessary, to throw all the stiength of the plant into the few leading shoots, whereas the fact is that every healthv leaf taken from the plant robs it to just that extent, for instead of more strength going into the stronger shoots as a consequence of trim- ming, we stunt the root action and weaken and impoverish the plant. Keep this up for a few years and deteriora- tion follows. I don't think, however, that we should cry down this whole sys- tem of propagating from cuttings because it has been abused by reckless and ignor- ant men. I have always held that only the very best wood should be used for cuttings, and when this is taken from healthy plants and treated in a common sense fashion, increased vitality is just as liable to ensue as deterioration. I have known stock that through mismanage- ment and poor soil was in a very bad state, complel^ely restored in two seasons by careful selection and the right treat- ment afterwards. I could cite numerous instances where varieties at onetime very sick and weak, have been brought up to a high standard of health and vigor through this mode of precedure. Does Mr. Pennock think seriously that we shall start to grow roses from seed? I have had no experience along that line, but I hardly think it would be a success. I shall let him try first. Certain plants we always raise from seed because nature evidently intended them to be perpetuated in that manner, and made provision accordingly, so we sow assured that we shall reap just what we sow. But with plants that man has brought to a high degree of development, or in other words such varieties as are far removed from the original species, cannot be propagated in that way, and come true. However, nature has always made some pro vi' ion for increasing and perpetuating all other products, and if in the ca e of the rose the sowing of seed is impracticable, then that is not the natural method. To me it ap- pears almost impossible to obtain a new plant (through seed) and retain the true variety, if that be so and the contention holds good that any other method of propagation is physiologically a process of degeneration, then the only hope for the rose lies in the raisingof new varieties from seed, to take the places of those worn out. Now while I admit that some varieties have deteriorated, and that too largely as the result of a faulty system of gro wing, I do not believe that this loss of vitality was unavoidable, except in rare instances but has on the contrary been brought about by ignorance. The Bride with me to-day is stronger and studier than it was 10 years ago and the same may be said of several other varieties. The rose may be propagated in several ways but with the one exception of seed we fail to get an original plant, other methods give us simply a continuation of the original. I attach less importance to this, however, than to the health and condition of the plant at the time the cutting is taken, the shoot is layered, or the bud or graft is removed prior to being joined to another stock. For the commercial florist I can only see two methods of raising young stock which are practicable and satisfac- tory; one is by means of cuttings, the other by grafting. The latter method I prefer for most varieties, and next week I hope to give in the Florist some of the reasons why I prefer to use grafted plants. RoBT. Simpson. Bride and Bridesmaid Dropping Their Foliage. N., Indiana, writes that he has a house of the above named roses which until about two weeks ago appeared to be in good condition; for some reason or other however, they began shedding their foliage and inside of 24- hours the stf ins were almost bare. The letterstales theie was no spider, mildew or greenfly in the house and that the roots are still in a fresh and healthy state. It says the ven- tilation, temperature, etc., has received proper attention, and nothing has been done out of the ordinary, with the excep- tion of a ligbt mulch of cow manure and a small quantity of wood ashes, about a month ago. Without having seen the plants and learned all the circumstances attending the case, it would be very difiicult to say with any accuracy what caused the diop- ping of the foliage. It is possible that the ashes were too strong, but did not pro- duce the effect sooner because they had not been dissolved and taken up by the plants. The plants undoubtedly received some severe check, even if the roots do not show it, which might result from one of several causes, too much water at the root, too much potash in the ashes, or too close and moist an atmosphere at night. When the temperature outdoors is too high to do any firing, we have con- ditions just right for making trouble un- less we are on cur guard. At this season of the year the weather is apt to be treacherous, bright early in the morning and we are induced to syringe, but before noon the sun has disappeared, and our plants fail to dry off. Should the outside temperature remain above 60°, the house will be warm enough without firing. Most people would suppose that with the temperature alright everything would be satisfactory in the morning; but a careful observer would notice the edges of the foliage studded with drops of water the result of condensation, this may happen once or twice perhaps without any bad effects, but often before the thing has been noticed at all, the mischief has been done and the foliage is all gone. The best thing to do in such a case I think, is to lower the temperature a few degrees, run the benches pretty dry for 434 The American Florist. Dec. s, about two weeks, and where all the foliage is gone shorten the growths con- siderably. They will probably start into growth and in a few weeks be as vigor- ous as ever. It is not wise to attempt to assist them by more top dressings or manure water which would only aggra- vate rather than remove the ailment. RoBT. Simpson. Carnation Notes. I have received of late several inquiries asking my advise as how to treat stem- rot (Anthracnose). Thisdisease seemsto be more prevalent this year than ever be- fore, the past partially wet summer has undoubtedly been very favorable for it. But there are other agents that will help to develop this disease very materially. Professors Halsted and Atkinson, who defined this disease in their paper read before the Pittsburg convention so admirably, and others, class this disease with the cutting bench fungus as one and the same under the name "Anthrac- nose." I would recommend to those who are interested and troubled with this dis- ease to look up those treatises, found on pagf s 56 and 67 in the convention report of 1893. If one has a clear comprehen- sion of an evil it is so much easier to find ways to abate it. If stemrot and cutting bench fungus are not the same, there is at any rate a great similarity between the two. Whenever this disease attacks, it kills, be it on the cutting bench, in the field or house. Judging from some information received in my correspondence with questioners pertaining to carnation culture, and of my own experience, this disease is more prevalent in fields where carnations are grown year after year. A change of loca- tion is advisable for more than one rea- son, for we all know the deteriorating influence where the same crop is grown year after year on the same soil. Now if there is a possibility that this fungous parasite may become impregnated in the soil, and preserve its vitaHty ready to infest the next year's planting there is much cause for a change ot location for the summer culture. And to come from the field to the house where the loss of plants is more keenlyfelt, howmuchmore cause is there to change the soil on the benches each year. It is ignorance, neg- lect and "good enough," that have to be compelled by severe loss to comprehend a danger; a careful grower heeds a warn- ing in time. As for any error made in this instance, rectification at this time is too late, we will proceed to more timely remarks per- taining to this disease. And here wecome to another source, or rather the. promot- ing of a continuation of this disease, and that is the propagation from infested stock. We find this disease in matured plants in two difierent forms. First where the bark of the affected branch, mostly near its base or the main stem near the ground, decays. The disease has un- doubtedly been carried there by a spore of this deadly fungus and started into growth by some chance moisture. Hence we find it mostly near the soil on the stem or at the base of a branch where moisture remains longest after a wetting. We seldom notice the existence of this deadly fungus until it has girdled the stem or branch, and caused its death. This is evidently a pure form of the anthracnose, the same as found on the cutting bench. Whether the other form which I will now describe is the same, I am somewhat in doubt, but it is the most dangerous to a careless propagator in selecting his cut- tings. This form, if I may call it anthrac- nose, is where branch after branch turns yellow and eventually dry up. A plant showing these symptoms may as well be removed at once, for it is doomed, and a spread to other plants may be prevented. Now here the seat of this disease is inte- rior, in the woody fibers and the corky tissues of the branches, which turn brown. Apparently the disease starts from the stem, that part of the plant that origi- nally constituted the cutting, spreads up through the length of the fibers to the branches, killing one after the other at their base, causing them to turn yellow and dry up. Such a plant I believe has been grown from a cutting taken from diseased stock. As this disease generally commences on one side of the plant, leav- ing the other in seemingly good health a careless man is easily deceived into taking cuttings from that part; but beware, the germ of the disease may lurkin its tissues and may break out sooner or later. We find plants die from this disease in all stages of growth, from the rooted cut- ting to the large matured plant, often more of one variety than another, and singularly, I have heard lately of more than one complaint where the variety Scott is much affected with this disease. If any variety has been abused in propa- gating it is Scott, for with the phenome- nal run it had there has evidently at many places been little care used in selec- tion of stock. There is to my mind yet another source of this disease and that is the propagat- ing bed. The assertion made by our learned men who investigated this dis- ease that all the different forms as men- tioned before are one and the same "Anthracnose" tends to verify my opinion. Professor Geo. F. Atkinson in his treatise before mentioned, under the heading "running out" vaguely hints at a possi- bility that a sound cutting may become infested with the germ of a fungous dis- ease in the propagating bed. If an apparently healthy cutting taken from infested stock, with the germ of the dis- ease imprisoned, will under certain cir- cumstances grow and mature to a bloom- ing plant, the possibility is just as much grounded that the germ of a fungous dis- ease may enter an entirely healthy cut- ting, while developing into a plant, and have the same chances of growth. Con- clusions may not be far from the right, when we consider that anthracnose is, when not the only one, the most preva- lent disease on the cutting bench. What shall we infer from this? In the first place, for our propagating bed we want clean material; if of wood, white- wash with fresh slacked lime; if of tile or brick when cleanly swept, dust with sul- phur. For sand we use invariably clean pit sand. The next thing is to make cut- tingsonly from selected healthy stock. If the bed is in the best of order, and we are careless and let cuttings from infested stock slip in, aie we not liable to plant this disease in a hotbed? How that fungus revels among the cuttings we know too well. For remedies, commence with the prop- agating bed; as soon as this disease is noticed, the sand and cuttings as far as affected should be dumped out. At our place we keep the temperature of the house at from 50° to 55° and if we can help it never let it come above 60°. We shade and ventilate, apply sulphur on the heating pipes and renew the sand for every batch of cuttings. Plants in pots, in the field, on the bench or in the house, are best removed and burned as soon as it is seen they are affected. The disease may be checked on a matured plant, but can never be cured, and it is best to re- move the plant at once with some of the ground next to it. If on a bench some plant? have been discovered and removed, it is well to dust the stem and branches of the remaining ores with sulphur, especially those around the spot where the infected plants have stood. This to prevent a further spread of the disease. Fred Dorner. Anthracnose. I send a plant of carnation Aurora which has some disease that seems pecu- liar to that variety, and which I do not recognize from anything I have read on the subject. I have some fifteen other kinds of carna- tions, none of which have shown a touch of the malady although grown alongside of Aurora both inside and out of doors. I had the same trouble with this variety last year. Thinking the trouble might be oedema. I planted two plants, which were the least affected, in the greenhouse but they steadily declined and the speci- men sent you is one of them. The trouble seems to attack the plants in the field mainly before taking up in the fall. What is it and what the remedy? W. N. W. I received the plant in a rather dried up condition, but judging from its appear- ance and explanations given, your stock of Auroras is diseased with Anthracnose (stemrot). If the sample plant sent had been in a fresher condition I could be more positive, but my opinion is this plant has been propagated from diseased stock, and your statement of the behaviour of this variety at your place coincides with my opinion. With the utmost carefulness in selecting your stock for propagation you may be able to eradicate this disease in time. For the present condition there is no remedy but to destroy the affected plants as soon as the first symptoms of this disease are noticed. The safer way is not to propagate from this stock at all. Fred. Dorner. Herbaceous Plant Notes. November is not a month, noted for a profusion of flowers in the borders, and still by judicious selection we can prepare for a fairly good show of them in late fall; by introducing here and there a few clumps of the most hardy species the borders keep up a cheery appearance long after the frost has spoiled the beauty of nearly everything else and most of the trees and shrubs have lost their foliage. An ordinary frost will not seriously hurt the plants I am going to speak about, though the flowers may not be so large and perfect in this cool month with light frosts at night, than they were a month earlier, still they are good flowers and by them we are enabled to maintain an inter- esting appearance in the borders until the snow covers them for the winter. Pro- longing the flowering season in the her- baceous garden for a few weeks only will often be found highly satisfactory for we have usually a number of very pleasant 1896. The American Florist. 485 ,1 * j^^fc . - . 1 '■' :.":— '^ j»|gmK| ■Mw*!L ^^^"^TCRN lal^^^H JP^./^ISSR 1 ^^^^^BH^^H *ftfipj^ |y^ b*^ i^^Ju. ■'■' ■'^"'^B^B ^^^^B^E^- ;^^ - nil l?f^^ ^9 ^r' >''"-■ .-* -^ 11* N ■ \\'^V\ ^i ^'^ '- ' 'I "V ■.. TABLE DECORATIONS AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. days, or even weeks, in this month, invit- ing to an occasional stroll through the garden and if we can then find the addi- tional attraction of blooming plants, how much more interesting will this walk over the grounds turn out, and how pleased will we beif wecangetherabunch of late autumn flowers for a vase in the sitting room. Early in November on one of those bright days my wife in company with a few visiting ladies went out for such a stroll over thegroundsand picking a flower here and there managed to gather a generous bunch, bringing them in the house, everybody was surprised at the large variety of hardy flowers repre- sented in the bouquet; she had gathered ten or twelve sorts of hardy chrysanthe- mums, gaillardias and coreopsis, antir- rhinums in many colors, delphiniums, a;onitums, antherius, stenactis, Papaver nudicaule and P. bracteatum. Lychnis semperflorens plenissima, Scabiosaochro- leuca. Phlox decussata and Ph. suffruti- cosa, Physostegia virginica, Viola cornuta, Daphnecneorum and some other things which are not herbaceous. The Stenactis speciosus and Papaver bractea- tum were entirely out of season, it was a case of second flowering and they will act in that way some times but can not be relied on with any degree of certainty. The chrysanthemums, as outdoor plants, have in late years been entirely neglected, everybody grows them under glass and yet they are such fine showy plants for the border, flowering so freely at a season when most wanted and last- ing so well even under unfavorable cir- cumstances. Not all the varieties of chrysanthemums will respond readily to outdoor culture, some of them are more tender than others, but I have found that nearly all of the so-called early flowering section will do well outdoors, also many of the pompons and quilled varieties if not naturally coming too late. The early flowering kinds develop their flower buds while the weather is yet favorable, the stems have time to get hard and woody before any severe night frosts are ex- pected and are therefore not liable to be injured by the cold, whilethelater flower- ing section with immature buds and softer stems are sure to droop over after a heavy night frost. Compact stout growers are preferable in place of the taller ones with sic nder stems for growing in the borders, they need nj support and a selection of colors can easily be made from the great number of varieties in cultivation. The hardy gaillardias are sure to give satis- faction wherever they are planted, bright yellow combined with more or less red is a desirable color and they flower so pro- fusely all throught the summer and fall; after a severe frosty night the flowers may droop over and look as if they had succumbed to the cold, but after a few hours they stand erect again and the whole plant looks as fresh and healthy as ever. In some sections it is claimed that this charming plant gets winter killed and has to berenewed frequently, we have never experienced any trouble with it, but as it is easily raised from seed and blooms the same year, though not so early as the older plants, this should be no serious objection to such a valuable plant, replanting it does not involve a great deal of extra work. If there is a special good variety to be perpetuated, the small side runners may be removed in August or September and planted in a sheltered place where they can be covered lightly with leaves or straw in winter or they may be kept over in a cold frame until spring, when they may be removed to the border again, these runners will flower as early as the old plants which remained in the border over winter. Coreopsis lanceolata and C. grandiflora produce their flowers continuously, though late in the fall the buds do not open out as fast as in the warmer months, the only precaution we are to take is to remove all decaying flowers with stems regularly every week or two. If the plants are allowed to go to seed at any time, their energy will be spent in ripen- ing these and a longer or shorter period of rest will be required before they can gather strength enough to produce a new crop of bloom, the sooner the old stems are removed the better. Dividing may be performed either in spring or fall, the plants may be increased by seeds sownin August and transplanted before the cold weather sets in, they will then flower quite as early as the older plants. Antirrhinums are not grown nearly as much as they deserve, their colors vary greatly but all are desirable, old plants give best satisfaction, though young seedlings bloom well the first sea- son but their spikes are less robust and erect than in the older plants. They may be increased either by division, seeds or cuttings and no border should be without them, the plant looks clean and healthy at all times and the flower spikes spring up successively until severe and continu- ous hard freezing weather sets in. The delphiniums, when promptly cut down after their first flowering, will nearly all be in bloom again in fall for a second time, the flower stems will not attain the same height as those of the first crop and the individual flowers are perhaps some- what smaller but their color will be just as bright and the inclination to bloom late in the season a second time is surely an advantage not to be overlooked in the arrangements of a border. Division of the old clumps is safely performed in spring and this is the only sure way to increase special varieties. Seedlings will generally flower the first season if not sown too late in spring. An article on phloxes, dwelling on their late blooming propensities appeared lately in these columns and I can only add here that the suffruticosa section is in my opinion superior to the paniculatas as a border plant, they are less liable to have their foliage disfigured by mildew or decay and look cleaner. Aconitum au- tumnale, japonicum and paniculatum most always retain some of their tall flower spikes until very late in fall, there- fore a good supply of them should be planted for a late show. The plants must not be disturbed very often; well established old clumps give best satisfac- tion, new plantings will seldom produce late flower-spikes until after the second year. They are propagated by division in spring or fall, though seeds germinate readily if sown as soon as ripe, but this is a rather slow process under ordinary circumstances and is seldom practiced. Anthemis tinctoria and A. t. Kelwayii are a mass of golden yellow daisy-like flowers all summer and keep up their good appearance very late in November, though in cool weather the flowers are less freely produced and take longer to open out, but as a fall bloomer it has few equals. Division is the only mode of propagation resorted to as it can be split up with ease into many well-rooted plants. Papaver nudicaule will bloom early and late in the season, for a late show the younger plants are best, pos- sessed of more vigor they are making growth freely, and as the plants increase in size more flower-buds are produced; older plantings must be encouraged by top dressing or other stimulants if we want them to give us late flowers. They 436 The American Florist. z>, ec. S, are usually grown from seed but may also be divided, spring or early in the fall is preferab'e to perform this operation. Lychnis Flos-cuculi semperflorens plenis- sima is truly a marvellous bloomtr, has been in full jlovrer in early summer and never stopped. Several patches of this pretty perennial were covered with blos- soms even after we had had some rather severe frosts, which had no other effect on the plants than to give the leaves and flower stems a dark reddish orbronzy tint, otherwise the plants are as thrilty and free growing as they were in August. When better known this plant will un- dubtedlv be one of the best selling articles for the florist. Divisions or cuttings are the only way to perpetuate the double form, early in fall if possible, otherwise it is better to delay the operation until spring. Scabiosa ochroleuca with its creamy white flower-heads can withstand severe frosts without showing any ill effects; it is one of the constant bloomers and only requires an occasional removing of the old flower stems. A very valuable plant in the fall, though we may not think it very showy in midsummer when many other and more lively colored flow- ers are abundant. Dividing the plants in spring or fall is equally successful. Physostegia virginica under ordioary treatment will usually continue to bloom until very late in fall, the flowers are not so remarkably showy but freely produced and the foliage keeps clean and healthy until the snow covers the whole plant, and is easily increased by division. Viola cornuta, blooming now as freely as pan- sies, are exceedingly pretty in the mixed border, and judging by their flower buds are likely to keep it up until the snow flies, propagated either by cuttings or division in early fall or in spring. Seedling plants, treated the same as pansies will also flower the first year. Daphne cneo- rum is such a clean and well-shaped plant and has such charming pink fragrant flowers, that no place should be without it; the main crop ol flowers is produced in the spring or early summer, but every fall there appear a number of flower heads on the plants and continue to come out until very severe or hard frost stops allgrowth. An evergreen shrubby plant of dwarf growth and great merit in the border. Propagated either by layers or cuttings, a rather slow process but the only way to increase the stock. There are other hardy plants which will keep on floweiiog late in the season if planted in sheltered positions such as is afforded by buildings, dense evergreens or other hedges where they would find protection from cold west and north wind and in such sheltertd situations we may have a great many more species in good form late in autumn, but those I have spoken of were not sheltered or protected in any way and yet they are in good shape, showing that we can have flowers in our gardens as late in thejear as Nov., if we only select the right things and plant them in the right place. J. B. K. Musa Ensete. Please advise me how to treat the seed of Musa ensete and about the time it takes to germinate under proper condi- tions. I have a lot of 200 seeds which I managed the same as palm seeds, but it seems there is no headwav about them. Wm. Stephan. Seeds of Musa ensete are best sown in light sandy soil in pans or pots, and placed in a house having rather strong bottom heat. Do not sow very deeply, and give a good watering after sowing. They should germinate within three weeks if seed is fresh and kept in a light and warm house. Probably the seed in question is not fresh, and in that case may fail altogether, for these seeds do not retain their vitality a great length of time. W. H. Taplin. Violets. I have some Marie Louise violets which were planted in carnation house the first of October. They are doing nicely and blooming in great shape. When I put them in bench I picked off" all runners and buds, was this right? What I wish to find out is, shall I pick off runners that have started since I planted them in benches or let them grow on? J. J. P. J. J. P. who writes that his violets are "blooming in great shape," surprises as well as cheers our heart. Such a letter is in great contrast to the pitiful and dole- ful letters it is our misfortune to receive. If we did not occasionally receive such a letter we could imagine that nearly all the violet growers had afitof the "blues" and were going outof the business, if they could. IfJ.J. P.'s object is to get guan/i/y of b'oom regardless of quality, let the run- ners remain. Sbould be desire quality remove the runners carefully as they appear. George Saltford. Rhinebeck, N. Y. Sweet Pea Changes. I planted Blanche Ferry sweet peas, part under glass about middle of Febru- ary, and part outside early in April. Both lots bloomed and produced the Blanche Ferry type of flower up to the last of July when the flowers changed so as to closely resemble American Belle. Can this change be accounted for? Evanston, 111. N. G. Axtell. The matter of sweet peas taking on peculiar markings after the season is well advanced is very common. Some varie- ties are more given to it than others. And judging from different soils 1 have had I think it is due to some condition of soil. In my present soil I have hardly noticed it. It seems to be more prevalent in heavy soils. It is verj' interesting and seems peculiar to the sweet pea. It spoils some varieties for the time being, but all such varieties come back to their true color the next year. American Belle was simply an example of being misled by this phenomenon. The year that American Belle was to have been brought out I saw the fields of the grower, and when they first came into bloom not six plants could be found with blotched blossoms. It had all come a fine Blanche Ferry, although later it took on the blotchings. When Apple Blossom takes these markings it is a very pretty thing, but it does not hold. The purples and mauves show it with striking effect. On the whole I do not regard it a healthy sign. Mv opinion is only speculative as to the cause of it. W. T. Hutchins. Ferns for Retailing. Will you kindly give me names of the best twelve varieties of ferns suitable for a florist to retail. I want kinds that will grow in a dwelling house. So far I have found the following to be the best: Pteris tremula, Asplenium bulbiferum, Nephro- lepis exaltata, Scolopendrum crispum, and Alsophila australis. These are all good but would like a larger variety. Young Florist. The following list includes the most satisfactory ferns for the retail trade, and in sorts that are usually to be had in quantity from the large dealers. Pteris cretica albo-lineata, P. cretica magnifica, P. serrulata, P. serrulata cris- taea, P. adiantoides, Nephrolepis exal- tata, Davallia tenuifolia stricta, Poly- stichiumcapense, P.angulare,Cyrtomium falcatum, Lastrea aristata variegata, and Onychium japocicum. S ime maidenhairs may be required in addition to the above list, and of these the best are Adiantum cuneatum, A.tene- rum and A. Ghiesbrechtii, and also A. Farleyense for extra fine work. W. H. Taplin. Boston. The attendance at the December meet- ing of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club was much larger than customary, the announcement that Fred Mathieson was to be the speaker being sufficient to draw out the members in large numbers. And they must all have felt well repaid for their trouble, for they heard a practical talk delivered in an entertaining manner by a thoroughly practical man on sub- jects in which the majority were deeply interested. Mr. Mathieson's theme was his recent trip in company with Mr. Welch through Canada and New Y'ork state and what he saw on his visit to some of the large commercial rose grow- ing establishments. He spoke of the Mon- treal florists as progressive and well equipped for doing all the business that might come their way. Perle and Meteor as grown by Wilshire Bros, impressed hm particularly, as well as the scheme of growing a large plant of swainsona tied up to each support in the rose house. He also spoke in high praise of thecarnations and violets seen at Mr. Scrim's in Ottawa and said that Mr. Tidy of Toronto was rightly named, the tidiness of his estab- lishments being worthy of the title. At J. H. Dunlop's he saw the first range of houses built with the short-span-to- the-south, and said that as soon as he saw the sunlight streaming brightly on to the north benches in these houses he was convinced that these men had hit upon the correct idea for commercial rose houses in winter. Mr. Dale's extensive range at Brampton was inspected with great interest, and after a close investi- gation he was further confirmed in his opinion of the merits of short-span-to- the-south construction, there being to his mind a great saving in coal, a large gain in light, especially in winter season, and corresponding good results in quantity and character of product, there being here the grandest lot of teas and hybrid teas he had ever looked upon. Mr. Mathieson's account of his visit to Buffalo was quite humorous. He failed to understand why the locality where Wm. Scott's greenhouses were located should be named Cold Springs. He found the place very comfortable, he said, but thought that perhaps the name Cold Springs had something to do with a new fangled device that was sprung on him at the bowling alley, much to his discom- fiture. After taking in Pierson's 225,000- foot range at Cromwell, Conn., he came to the conclusion that there were a few establishments outside of Massachusetts and New York, where they grow roses. Mr. Pierson's grafted roses were spoken of in high praise. i8g6. The American Florist. 437 It was announced that Mr. John Far- quhar would entertain the club at the January meeting with a description of some of his experiences in a recent trip to Europe, illustrated by stereopticon views. In the absence of President Cotter, the chair was occupied by Vice-President Fin- lajson, who exhibited on the table a vase of splendid blooms of Erica Willmoreana. The sixth annual exhibition of herbari- ums prepared by the school children was he'd at Horticultural Hall on November 27 and 28. The display was extraordi- nary in quality and reflected great credit on the young lads and misses who had spent so much time and exhibited so much industry and skill in collecting, mounting and naming the extensive collections of native flowers, ferns and sedges shown. The ages of the children represented were from nine to seventeen years. All of the specimens were mounted in a manner that would put many a professional col- lection to shame, and many of them were of rare things seldom seen. The exhibi- tion attracted many visitors. A group of rare cypripediums from Mr. Thatcher of the John L. Gardner establishment was greatly admired. Business is only fair for the season as to demand, and is behind the record asto prices. There are more good flowers in market of all varieties than ever before, indicating that growers are becoming more expert or that the season is unusu- ally favorable. Violets especially are far ahead of the average in quality for this section. Holly is arriving in good shape, and stocks now exposed run extra to spe- cial in quality. W. A. Bock has put electric lights into all bis greenhouses, and they are quite an attraction for visitors in the evening. Norton Bros, have opened an additional store on Commonwealth avenue, in the heart of the most fashionable residential district. Thornton Bros, celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of their place in Lawrence with a fine public exhi- bition. The greenhouses of Geo. Giles at Win- throp were destroved by fire on the morn- ing of November 20. Mrs. C. J. Power died at her home in South Framingham on Saturday, Nov. 28. A large number of florists attended the funeral. A bunch of fine Jacqs picked outdoors in Newport on November 30 was shown at Welch Bros', oflice. Visiting Boston: S. Skidelsky of M. Rice & Co., Philadelphia; C. Warburton and J. S. H. Lannagan, Fall River. New York. Cut flower business is very quiet and there is a large supply of good stock in all lines on the market. As reported hereto- fore, American Beauty is decidedly the leader in roses, and its popularity as com- pared with other varieties is more pro- nounced than ever. White carnations have been going very slowly and on all colors and grades prices are very low with stock plentiful; violets ditto. Har- risii lilies are getting abundant and cypri- pediums are being received in large quan- tities with prices tending downward. Zygopelatum was quite common in the market for Thanksgiving bringing about 8 cents per flower or 50 to 75 cents per spike. Bulbous stock, ferns and as- pira- gus are plentiful. There is a good demand for gardenias but the supply is very limited. Two more society ladies have gone into business on Fifth avenue near 29th street. It is a "flower shop" this time and is next door to the "tea room" venture. Since Siegel-Cooper and Bloomingdale have opened flower departments with greenhouses on the roof there are rumors that several other Sixth avenue dry goods houses contemplate doing the same thing. George Giatris has opened a new store on Columbus avenue near 72d street; this makes three attractive establishments which he has in that neighborhood. There is a fairly steady demand for white violets in limited quantity at good prices and it would pay some one of our good violet growers to arrange to supply them throughout the season. Lily Dean and Maud Dean carnations from J.N. May, and novelties and seed- lings from C. W. Ward are among the most attractive stock coming in at present. Mr. Joon S:allen is having an unenviable experience at jury duty. He has already been kept away over two weeks from his business and it looks as though he was booked for two more. A very pretty and successful flower show was held last week at the Y. M. C. A. Building, Jersey City. A number of the local florists lent their aid and some fine groups of plants and flowers were staged. Plans for the new botanical building which is to be erected in Bronx River Park have been filed. The structure will have a frontage of 308 feet and will cost about $250,000. At the Flatbush Bowling Club meeting on Thursday evening last, "Papa" Zeller carried oS'all the honors. Testout and Meteor roses from W. H. Young's Jersey City place are verv fine. W. H. Siebrecht is very ill with pneu- monia. Annual election of officers at N. Y. Flo- rists' Club meeting, Monday December 7. Philadelphia. There has been a decided change in the weather, the thermometer registering as low as 16° on Tuesday, and at this writ- ing it looks much like snow. This has shortened up crops very materially and made stock, particularly roses, very scarce. Prices have not advanced very much as yet; $5 is asked for the best teas, though good ones may be had for 4, and seconds go f jr 3. Of Beauties the best are $4 per dozen, and from that down to $1, accord- ing to quality. Bridesmaid is the favor- ite among the teas; the average customer in the stores either selects this kind at first, or if in doubt generally decides with saying "well, send the Bridesmaids." Carnations are still low; $1 per hun- dred, except for something fancy, is the price, but it looks the last day or two as if there was a rise coming. The average quality is good. Mignonette isnowcom- it g in fine and sells well at from $1.50 to $3 per hundred. Violets are up a little, 75 cents being asked for the best doubles; Californias sell for 35 to 50 cents per hundred. Chrysanthemums are about done, Messrs. R. Craig and W. K. Harris being about the only source of supply, and they will be cut out in a few days. Romans are getting plentiful, as are also narcissus; the price is from 3 to 4 per hundred. The debutante is now the star attrac- tion, and the boys are kept busy tying up bunches of roses, violets, etc. As many as a dozen or more bouquets are sent at times from each of several firms for some popular belle, and many pretty combinations and color effects are to be found among them. The December meeting of the Florists' Club was held in their new quarters in Horticultural Hall. There was a good attendance, and all present seemed to be much pleased with the idea of having a home once more. The room is furnished with one hundred chairs, an oak table for the use of the president and secretary, and a roomy and comfortable chair for the president. There is much to be done in the way of furnishing and ornamenting the room, and the committee are hard at work. In a month or so everything will be in first-class shape. Already one bill- iard and two pool tablesarein place, also a shuffle board. A large book case con- taining the club's library will soon be placed in position, and contributions of books on horticultural subjects will be thankfully received to add to those in stock. The bonds for subscriptions to the loan that is being made for the fitting up of the club's quarters were offered to the members, and more than half were sub- scribed for at once. Several members stand ready to take the balance, but it is thought desirable to have each of the members take at least one bond. Keys to the room can behadof Thos.Cartledge at 25 cents each. Quite a number of questions were received from inquiring amateurs, most of which had appeared in the Public Ledger, a morning newspaper, and were referred by the president to various mem- bers to answer. The answers will also appear in the columns of the same paper. This work is in charge of the press bureau committee, who will endeavor to furnish useful and entertaining matter that will interest the general public and fartherthe cause of floriculture. The paper fir the next meeting is to be prepared by J. W. Colflesh, on "Carna- tions up to date." Emil E. Leiker, Mathew A'exander, B. Redfield, George Moss and J. L Pennock were elected to membership. Robert Kift read a paper on chrysanthemums, reviewing their his- tory for the past 25 years. After ad- journment the members gathered around the billiard and pool tables and easily showed their lack of practice. The Chr stmas holidays are now almost in sight, and the dealers in decoration material are about seeking orders. The growers deny most indignantly the report that some of them had been heard inquir- ing the price of salt. K. Pittsburg. The anticipated slump in trade on ac- count of the warm weather last week did not affect the floris's' Thanksgivirg busi- ness to any appreciable extent, ii fact in one particular, it wasa benefit, f)ragrcat many purchased flowers that otherwise they would not have done, to place them on graves in thecemetereis, a very unusual circumstance at this season of the year, and only became general here on account of the summer-like state of the weather, the thermometer being up in the seventies with the day clear and sunshiny. Those florists in the Allegheny market, nine in number, having Urge stands regularly fitted up and doing business there daily throughout the year, report trade brisk and when thev closed the night before Thanksgiving Day, they had completely sold out their stock. The Pittsburg florists enjoyed equally as good trade, the dem.9nd being much greater and the amout of business done considerably more than the corresponding time last year. 438 The American Florist. Dec. 5, The general demand since Thanksgiving has been rather quiet, although a good deal of funeral work has been called for. Harrisii lilies are coming in quite freely now and are excellent in quality, as also are narcissus and Roman hyacinths, other stock is plenty with prices un- changed. W. Loew, who made Christmas greens, trees, wreathing, etc., a specialty, is branching out into the florist business for himself in the way of designs, decora- tions and palms, at stand 48 Diamond Market. Hartman Bros, of Allegheny, expect to finish cutting chrysanthemums this week and have commenced on bulbous stock, Harrisiis, hyacinths, etc., of which tbey are very large and successful growers. Their Thanksgiving trade was very con- siderably larger than in previous years. The visitors of the week were Mr. Craig. Jr., of Philadelphia; Mr. Hill, rep- resenting D. Landreth & Son, Philadel- phia; Mr. Connor, representing Rice & Co., seedsmen, Cambridge, N. Y.,and Mr. W. H. Elverson, of New Brighton, Pa. Regia. Chicago. The South Park Commissioners have approved plans for the new conservatory for Washington Park and bids for the construction will be acted upon at the meeting December 9. The cost is esti- mated at $45,000 and must not exceed $50,000. It is expected that construc- tion will be begun in January and that the building will be completed by July next. The South Park Commissioners have accepted Lake Front Park, except that portion north of Jackson street. The remainder will be accepted when certain legal technicalities have been complied with. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway has built greenhouses at Waukegan and West Chicago in which will be grown plants for decoration of station grounds along its lines. At the mteting of the chrysanthemum committee last Saturday Henry Nanz, a yellow and brorze sport from Mrs. Jerome Jones, was shown by Nanz & Neuner, Louisville, Ky. The committee made no recommendation, the variety being apparently a duplicate of President Gra- ham, recently shown by E. J. Paddock of Cleveland. The next regular meeting of the Florist Club takes place December 10. At this meeting a rcw president will be elected as President elect Rudd declines to serve. Mr. C. W. Ward, of Queens, N. Y., paid the city a flying visit last Wednesday, after having spent a week in northern Michigan. The market this week has been ex- tremely quiet for this season of the year, and prices have consequently weakened, more particularly in carnations. Good stock is none too plenty, and if any de- mand that might reasonably be expected in December existed, the supply would have been short. Roses of the best selected grades bring $3 to $4, a few extras going at $5, ant from that down to $1 per 100, and in job lots for consid- erable less. As to general quality, the average is hardly up to the standard, except in Beauties, which are exception- ally good both in color and substance. Supply of these is short of demand, prices ranging from $3 to $4 per dozen for extra long, $1.50 to $L' 50 for good medium, and down to 2 cents for short. Carnations as a whole are fine in qual- ity. We note some extra fine Daybreak and Helen Keller and a few very good Buttercup; extra select of the above go as high as $2. The top notch, however, for fancy stock is $1 50, good quality selling at $1, and in 1,000 lots of lower grade have sold for $4 per 1,000. The demand for violets is good and prices fluctuating but little, $1 to $1.25 for the best grade down to 50 cents for the poorest. The single California is tak- ing well in our market, and has so far always brought the top price. So far this season it has proved fairly prolific, perfectly healthy and on the whole ver}' satisfactory to the grower; Marie Louise on the other hand is grown with varying success, a number of growers reporting badly diseased stock. The average qual- ity of blooms offered in the market is fairly good, but there are few really high class flowers. Lady Campbell takes but poorly in our market. Romans are coming in freely but meet with indifferent demand at $1 to $3. Valley moves fairly well at $4 to $5. Fairly good mignonette is offered at $3 to $4, demand limited. Retail men report trade as very dull. As yet but a few large weddings or recep- tions have taken place where the demand for decorations was on an extended scale. Shipping trade also remains very quiet. A cold snap generally stirs up things in this line, but apparently it has had but little effect on the business so far. St. Louis. Cloudy weather for two weeks and rain all day on Thanksgiving day made things bad for the florist, but take it as a whole Thanksgiving trade was good; this is the universal verdict by wholesale and retail dealers. It helped to stiffen up prices a little, but there is no such boom as we used to have. The supply of stock, and particularly of roses and carnations, was good, and in quality up to the average. Some of the growers indulged somewhat in the prac- tice of pickling; they will do this year after year, though experience should have taught them better by this time. American Beauties averaged fairly good in quality; they were as usual in great demand at top prices. First quality brought $4 per dozen at wholesale, and shorter stemmed stock sold at $2 and $3. The average price for other roses, such as Perle, Meteor, Bride, Bridesmaid, Mermet and Kaiserin, was firm at $4 to $5, some extra fine blooms selling as high as $6. Carnations were abundant enough to prevent a rise in prices, with the excep- tion of the very fancy varieties. Scott and Daybreak seem the most grown, and lots of these two varieties can be had at any time. Reds are very scarce, and good ones demand a fair price. Romans are more plentiful now, and bring $3 per 100, but in large lots they can be bought at $2. Narcissus (paper white) are sell- ing at $4, and those that come in are very fine. Violets, both single and double, seem plentiful at 25 cents for single and 75 for double. Some very good chrysanthemums were seen at the commission houses. First- class stock sold at from $15 to $20 per 100. Stevia, of which there is an unusu- ally good supply, sold at 25 and 50 cents per bunch. Some very fine bouvardia is being sent to this market by E. W. Guy of Belleville, 111. It makes a great show in the windows, and sells at $1 per 100. Smilax sold well at $15, and plenty of it to be had just now. AH the wholesale firms report a good shipping trade, quite an increase over former years, with prices fully up to last season. At the next meeting of the club, which will be held in the afternoon of December 10 at 3 p. m., every member attending will have a chance to win a silk umbrella, which was donated by a friend to the club. But the member must attend this meeting in order to get bis ticket, which will be given him free of charge. At this meeting President Kunz will appoint the exhibition committee for next year's show, who will begin work at once. There is a big howl among the down- town florists about the street fakir, who sells his stock much cheaper than the store man can, but some of these same howlers have signs in their windows offering roses at 25 cents a dozen, or any rose in the window for 5 cents. I con- sider these as bad as the fakir, as such signs class the store man with the fakirs. Some of our florists claim that at some of the wholesale houses the fakir has the first choice. If correct this is certainly poor policy. Let the fakir be kept out of the wholesale store until the legitimate florist is supplied, and then let him come in and take what is left. Some of the wholesalers are also being sharply criticized for selling at retail, and thus coming into direct competition with their trade customers. Such a policy will surely react on those indulging in it. At the annual ball of the Daughters of the Confederacy held last week at the Merchants' Exchange, the hall was beau- tifully decorated with plants, wild smilax and cut flowers; this was the work of the Ayres Floral Co. The St. Louis Gun Club is still having its morning shoot atTesson's place. West Forest Park. The scores are held back for some reason by the club's secretary, but from what I can hear some good scores are made. Martin Reukauf, representing H. Bay- ersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, was a vis- itor last week. Monday night at the Bowling Club ten members were in attendance; three club games were rolled, and one extra. C. Beyer was high in three games, 638; F. Weber second, 571; and Kuehn third, 568. C. Beyer was also high on single score, 264; Weber 237 and Kuehn 219. Next Monday night the regular meeting of the club will be held, and all the old members are requested to attend, as mat- ters of great importance will come up. J-J.B. UufTalo. Thanksgiving trade is always improv- ing a little every year and that just past was no exception, although last year there was a "bud" or two emerging into society which made it appear very lively for some people. A nice plant or box of flowers was passed round freely among friends and a bunch of flowers to cheer their own homes was quite generally indulged in. Thanksgiving Day was warm, balmy and bright, an oasis in a week's dark and dreary weather. The cut of roses in the neighborhood is now small and outside stuff is depended on. Of carnations and violets there are plenty to go round. Last week finished up with most everybody the 'mum crop of '96, yet there are some fine Lincoln, Erminilda, Niveus and B. G. Hill yet to be seen in the Cold Spring district. Mr. Dimmock, of St. Albans, was in town last week but the writer missed him being at that time in Her Majesty's Dominion. He left a few pointers and i8g6. The American Florist. 439 FIRST PRIZE BASKET OF ORCHIDS AT THE CHICAGO SHOW. passed along promising to see us in the spring. Another Etiglishman of a very genteel and cultivated type gave us a visit on Saturday last; it was young Mr. James Kelway, of Langport, England, who was on his first visit to the "States" with his first wife. Actually it was a honeymoon trip, but with all the happi- ness of this never to be forgotten period of our existence, Mr. K. had presence of mind left to talk herbaceous plant by the 50 acre lot. We took a run out to see the veteran W. J. Palmer Sr., but missed W. J. P. We found the faithful Barney at borne and the place looking well. There has been an immense cut of roses there but the crop is just off. Six or seven houses of Daybreak look about as good as they did last year and that is all it is possible to say in their praise. A carnation we don't hear as much about as its merits warrant is Triumph, a grand pink that with Mr. Palmer is doing finely. It may not pro- duce as many flowers as the Scott but it would certainly outsell it in any market. There was also a large house of Marie Louise violets grown in the most ap- proved fashion and yielding daily a fine lot of flowers. Your correspondent was invited at short notice to pass his opinion on the floral exhibits at Toronto on the 26th and with Brother Foster of Hamilton, endeavored to render impartial judgment. It was too late for many fine varieties of chrysanthemums, yet there were many magnificent vases of blooms. The able Toronto correspondent will tell you all about the show and I can only mention a few things that impressed me. One was a yellow chrysanthemum yet unnamed. A finer flower, more perfect habit and elegant but not coarse foliage, I have never seen. It was awarded the silvercup for best seedling. I would call it a much improved yellow Jerome Jones. It was raised and exhibited by Messrs. Miller & Son. John Dunlop secured the first prize for 50 white carnations with a seedling of his own known as "No. 24," but which he has tested for the past i or 5 years, and has now two large houses filled with it. It is of fine form, large size and needs little disbudding but an immense cropper. John says its not a crop for its always as I saw it. It will be ciiristened and sent out this coming spring. To give those of your readers an idea of what Ontario roses are like I took a Bridesmaid out of the vase of 25 which took second prize, and had it accurately weighed; the stem and flower wasjustSO inches long; it weighed just one and a halfoz. weigh one of your buds if you don't think this is anything out of the ordinary. W. S. Providence, R. I. The Florists' and Gardeners' Club held their regular meeting on November 27. Business in connection with the coming convention of the S. A. F. was the princi- pal feature. The subject of the street fakir was also discussed. Timothy O'Connor declined a re election as president for the ensuing year. Martin J. Edmonds exhib- ited a jar of Daybreak, McGowan and Alaska carnations; they were the finest that have been seen about here. Infantry Hall, on the occasion of the three grand floral concerts given under the management of the Florists' and Gar- deners' Club, was transformed into a tropical garden, and the superb decora- tions were highly creditable to those members who contributed their plants and time and worked so industriously for its success. The stage with the stairways leading therefrom to the galleries was banked with immense groups of lofty palms and dracaenas, and a broad belt of plants interspersed with vases of chrysan- themums and roses extended completely around the hall. The gallery front was heavily festooned with smilax, both wild and cultivated, and rhododendron and laurel, and the entrance was canopied with the same material. An immense sago palm tipped forward with a star of colored electric lights placed in the crown formed a beautiful centerpiece for the stage decoration. The concerts were of the highest order, the renowned Reeves American band and the best available talent being drawn upon for vocal and instrumental music. The club is to be congratulated on having brought itself into public prominence in an enterprise of such conspicuous merit. Wm. Appleton, Jr., will decorate In- fantry Hail for the Police Association Ball on December 3. Mr. O'Connor has done the work for many years previous. J. Hogan & Son, Pawtucket, report business a little quiet. Their stock is remarkably good this year. John Shedden & Son, Pawtucket, have had good sales this fall for about every- thing. They contemplate enlarging their houses in the spring. James Canning has been very busy the past week with funeral work. The eleventh month went out with a mantle of snow five inches deep upon the ground. Thanksgiving day trade was ahead of last vear. Little Rhody. St. Paul. Thanksgiving week was one of the worst on record. It rained, snowed, sleeted and froze, keeping would-be shop- pers inside and breaking up many a dinner party. In spite of the elements, trade was fairly good. The country demand was as good or better than in previous years, while telephone orders in the city from parties who could not get out to select turkey and flowers were numerous. Under all the circumstances we should be thankful that we had any trade at all. Dark cloudy weather has shortened the cut somewhat. The weather has been unusually severe for this season and con- stant and heavy firing has been necessary. The best 'mums are all gone. Some second and third class blooms are still being offered. Retail prices of roses have advanced. Violets and carnations are more plentiful. E. F. Lemke has so far recovered from his recent illness as to go from his house to his store. Charley Vogt is busy making green wreathing. Charity Ball this week will help disoose of any surplus left on hand. Recent callers: j. M. Kimberlin and nephew of Santa Clara, Cal. Felix. Syracuse, N. Y. Among the roses of recent introduction at Quintan's Mrs. Pierpont Morgan shows up well; its habit is stouter than Cusin, not making so much brush while the flower is about double the size; it is very evident Cusin will have to take a back seat. They find Mrs. Whitney of no value for commercial purposes as with them it is a very slow grower and not floriferous enough. Belle Slebrecht has a beautiful color and finely shaped bud but its stem is very short and weak. L. E. Marquisee has built four more houses this season; he has now eleven 440 The American Florist. Dec. 5, houses. His is a compact place with no waste room. All his houses are on alevel; one can go from the oiEce into every house and the two boiler cellars without going outdoors; he has just put in a 40 horse-power horizontal tubular boiler which with two other boilers gives him ample heating capacity. Carnations are a leading feature at this place and a fine lot they are, everyone in the pink of con- dition; a house of Daybreak gives promise of a grand crop for the holidays. Among the re wer varieties I noticed were Gold- finch and Alaska; as grown here they will be hard to beat. Meteor is also a prime favorite. Alpha. Hard Coal Screenmgs for Fuel. What apparatus is necessary to burn hard coal screenings in a tubular boiler where a night fireman is employed? G. B. For the burning of hard coal screenings or "culm" as it is more commonly called, it is first necessary that the boiler has a sectional shaking grate with a very fine mesh, one having alternating sections being the best and easiest to work, as the sections can be shaken separately, or the entire grate at one time. The mesh must be very fine to keep the coal from contin- ually running through. The draft that ordinarily a boiler would have for other coal will have but Utile effect on culm, so it is necessary to intro- duce an artificial draft; this is done by using a blower, which consists of a fun- nel-mouthed pipe about 8 irches in diam- eter running into the ash pit of the boiler; in the mouth of this pipe, which is either in the front or fide wall of the boiler, is a round brass collar, which in i'self is an egg shape; the small end facing the mouth of the pipe is pierced with very small holes, the collar is connected to the steam dome by a 'li-inch pipe and can be set at any desired pressure, the same as the ordinary diaphragm, steam falling to a set point opening the valve allowing steam to escape through the small holes in the collar causing a vacuum and a con- sequent rush of air underneath the grate, making an exceedingly hot fire. Culm burnt alone makes a very poor body and it is best mixed with cheap soft coal or "slack" as it is called, the propor- tion being % ton culm to Vi ton slack. As it is necessary to have steam to work the blower a new fire must be started with wood and large coal to get a head of steam before the culm can be put out. A shaking grate as described is made in Scranton, Pa., and is quite an expensive affair; the blower is very reasonable in price, but it is a question whether it is desirable for a boiler with low pressure, as they are now used but little outside of works where a high pressure is needed. We find from experience that for large horizontal flue boilers coke, and for the smaller style boilers peacoal are themost economical and satisfactory fuel. William J. Crowe. Bay City, Mich.— The Irvine Green- house Co. gave a very successful chrysan- themum show last week. Table and man- tel decorations were on view in addition to the plants and flowers. Chattanooga, Tenn. — A chrvsanthe- mum show was held here November 10 to 13 under the auspices of the city board of park commissioners. Crystal Springs, Miss — The second annual exhibition of the Crystal Springs Chrvsanthemum Club was held Novem- ber 12 and 13. \Vinsted, Conn. A number of the residents here have been swindled by a man who took orders for nursery stock and collected money thereon, claiming to represent the W. S. Little Nursery Co. of Rochester, N. Y. The goods failing to arrive, an investiga- tion was made and it appears that the firm have no knowledge of any such party. He gave the name of Geo. S. Reed. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. Advertisements unaer tbls head will be Inserted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion, ('ash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this head. SITUATION WANTED-Byiady with retail florist. Experienced bookkeeper. Address M. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By experienced florist; first class growftr and maker-up. West preferred. V S, care American Florist. Chlcatro. SITUATION WANTE»-In store or greenhouse by an Al decorator and deslirner; loniK experience, German, single, ase ;U. Address W W. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By Kood propafjator and rose grower, single; good waees expecred; fare prepaid outside Chicago to be deducted from wages. F G. care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION W ANTRD-By a German florist ; Jt; yrs. old; 10 years' experience: single, as ass'stant to grow any kind of cut flowers and pot plants. Address Jacoh, care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED-In or near Chicago, by a young florist who Is thoroughly capable of growing general greenhouse stock Can give good references. Address A M. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED -By a reliable grower, where good stuff and plenty of It is wanted Strugellng parties need not apply. Good wages expected. South or west preferred. Roses, care American Floilst. SITUATION WANTED-By a married Gernian.no children. 2.'i years old, as assistant or working fore- man In growing cut flowers and pot plants; s years' experience; reliable, sober, and not afraid to work. Address Bulbs, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— As foreman by a flrat-class grower of roses, carnations. luurns and general stock; '^l years' experience married age %; best ref- erences; only flrst-class parties need apply. Address Florist, 143 Falrmount Ave.. Philadelphia. SITUATION WANTED— By an experienced grower of roses, ciirnations. etc.. etc.. In greenhouses for the wholenalp or retail trade, (^apable of taking c'tiarge of JO.tHHJ feet of glass. Age 30. single; thor- oughly reliable and stea'ly; 10 years" experience. Ad- dress G B, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED — Ab manager, grower, or working foreman, by an all round, practical florist and landscape gardener: married, and wife an expert up-to-date design maker. Or. will rert for term of vears. with privilege of buying, a well located green- house plant. Address f.i2 Prairie Ave.. Creaton. Iowa. ANTED— A flrst class florist. References required, and also be sober. Address T. D. MoscuNE.^OTEs. .V.I State &t .Chicago. W WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a flrst-claas chance to establish himself. Address DUB, care American Florist. WA\TE1)-A1 working foreman ; •ii.uOd feet glass: must be able to grow flrst-class roses, carnations, etc. location, Philadelphia. References rfqulred. State wages. B B, care American Florist. FOR SALE- A retail store !■ city, stocked with fresh and arttticlal flowers; good location established li years; we are going out of business and will make reasonable terms. Address L. care Am. Florist. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN-In a growing city of 40,000. 4000 feet of glass, well stocked with roses, carnations, palms, etc: 7 room dwelling, barn and stable. Latest Improvements; fine location; good trade. Address A B. care American Florist. FOK SALE— Five greenhouses ^'^ixVll) In lirat-ciass repair, h<^t wat«r. new windmill, f^barrel tank. ;> room c ttage. barn.2^j acres land, sheltered bv timber. 40 minutes ride from city: greenhouses stocked with nine thousand carnations of th» very best market vari- eties and In flnest possible health (cutting flowers from moat varieties now); f.00 smllax. Terms reasonable to responsible oarties. Address K. care Am. Florist. Account of land having to be cleared, I offer tow prices on American Elm. from 4 to n feet up to 5 Inch caliper Sugar Maple, all siz^s from "-'-year seedlings up t*) Yl to l.'> feet. Tulip Poplar, ;i to o feel. All nice, thrifty stock. Will exchange In part for Norway Ma- ple, Evergreens, etc. Write for prices. T. S T£AS. Salem, Ohio. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. A florist establishment, with nearly one acre of ground, three tn-eenhouses containing TIRD ft. of glass with the latest Improvements, also b<3ller bouse, potting sbed and oflice, steam Ixjller :>.'» horse power, houses stocked with best varieties of roses, carnations and chrvsanlhemiims and a good general stock of plants. In flne growing condition. City Is a great R- R. center In the northern part of Indiana, population IS.OOO. greenhouses about flve minutes' walk from opera house, and three minutes from depot. Cunipetltlon just as uood as not any A fine local trade; also well suited for wholesale business. This place is all new. having been built within the last six months. Fur- ther particulars on application. Address H H, care American Florist. Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 25 cents; per hundred, 820.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, $2.00; per ten thousand, $18. CH. KOEHLER. Oxford Church P. 0.. Phila.. Pa. ROOTED CUTTINGS NOW READY. ^N A ^3|V| A T" I /^|V lO R"se Queen, Albertini, Scott Nicholson, Bride of Erlescouit, Vi^/AniM/A I IVyINO Bridesmaid, Meteor, $3 CO per 100: $25.00 pep 1000. PI CiU UCAi TUV CTnOI/ Daybreak, McGowan, Portia, Lizzie Gilbert, J. J. Harrison, IiLlAN, nLALIni olUUKi Silver Spray, Tidal Wave, $2 50 per 100; $20.00 per 1000. Alaska, Annie Lonsdale, Delia Fox. Dean Hole, Ivory, Storm King, Jubilee (few), $4.00 per 100. _^ ^,_^ _ _... .____. 10,000 Sam Sloan: 5,000 Bruant and Le Cid, at $2.00 per (^PSANIUMS 100; $15.00 per 1000. V^^l 1/~4I >l I V^IWI^^ 15.000 La Favorite, Beaute Poitevine, Mrs. E. G. Hill, Niagara, Wonderful, and 'ly\ other best varieties for western trade, $2.00 per 100; $15.00 per 1000; or, our choice good assortment, $1.50 per 100; $12.00 per 1000. ^•^ ^^f\. r^ f^ Brides, Bridesmaids, Perle, Kaiserin, Woottou, from 2-iiich mO^ t O P"'*' *2 50 per 100. Jack, Bmnner, Seven Sisters, and 20 other varieties hardy Roses and Climbers, from 2-in. pots, $2 per 100 (our choice). COLEUS-7 varieties, 81.50 per 100. ALTERNANTHERA-P. Major, Aurea Nana, LOBELIA, AG ERATUM-2 varieties. ACHYRANTHES-3 vars , jfoo per 100. VERBENAS Jlo'cVTm^^' "■"" "" '""'' DDL. PETUNIAS ^.t'-fjf >■• --ties, »2.co I c;:h~;;:;rae7fr;m ) The HARRISON H. GIVEN FLORIST GO. 1 unknown correspondents, f __ I > station A, DENVER, COLO. When writing mention the American Florist. ADIANTUM FARLEYENSE. or this popiiliir I'''-rn \\r ti'iv*- tin- hir^^rsl ;iii.i liiirst sIi).-U in ih.- rdiiiilrv. :iik] dr\ntr fivi' houses cn- tirclv to its cuHurr. We oiler, in spleiuiitl eunditluu. the fullou iu^ sizes: luaeli. I'er ilnz. 3-inch pots, eNtni strong % :S\ .13.0(1 4-inch pots, extra strong .W (i.i*) 5-iuch pots, extra strong ~-^ COO 6-ineh pots, extra strong l.iiO lii.OO 7-inch pots, extra, strong ■ . 2.50 2.^.00 JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. i8g6. The American Florist. 441 1897 Geranium "MARS" Special CERTIFICATE OF MERIT at Baltimore Show & Reading, Pa., Show. Rooted Cuttings, $1 per (loz.,|.T per 100; 2-iii. pots, Ois|] uitlj order :ilun\s. fl.ftO jieriioz., $8 per ino. HENBT ECCHHOLZ, Waynesljoxo Fa. Mention American Flonpt FELTHOUSEN. The 'SCHENECTADY FLORIST, has a large lot of GERANIUIVIS, all the lead- ing sorts, at $15.00 per loio, our selection; well rooted and in tine condition. J. E. FELTHOUSEN, Schenectady, N. Y. 2-INCH FERNS. P. serrulata, P. serrulata crestata, P. serrulata " densll, P. adlantoldes. READY TO SHIFT. Onychlum japonlcum. Blechnum occldentale. Lastrea varlecata. Adlantum cuneatum. Above at S4,iM) per 100; $:i5.l)0per 1000. Adlantum, from tlats %\.US per ](MI Blechnum occldentale. iMnch $t; 00 per 100 General assortment, s-ln. vare., $T per 100: *tlO per luOO PterisGhle8brl;,'htll and Restnie. Much, f*i.00 per 1(X): o-lnch. JIO 00 per IIHI. Complete list on application. Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Clenside, Pa. Always mention American Florist. 50.000 FERNS. choice varieties from 2-iuch pots, at 83.00 per 100; $25 00 per ICOO. Samples sent by mail on receipt of 10 cents in stamps. Koran's Perfect Carnation Support. The only perfect one on the market, for circular and prices. Write JAMES HORAN & SON, Bridgeport, Conn. SPECIAL OFFER. 1200 ROSE QUEEN Carnation plants, at 5c. A private collection of ORCHIDS. 1000 lbs. CYCAS STEMS, various sizes. AURATUM and SPECIOSUM LILIES. Will sell all or part at a bargain. Particulars on application. WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. "THE DAHLIA" BY LAWRENCE K. I'EACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST ofiering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. Atco. N. J. Burki's New yellow Marouerlle ETOILE DE LYON. 25 Rooted Cuttings for «>1.00, by mall. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. WHOLESALE FL(.)R1ST. When wrltlna mention the Ambkican Ft.orist. Roses. Roses. Roses. I have a large quantity of good ROSES in 2}^-inch poks which I will sell at 82.00 per 100. The following varieties: BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS AND MERMETS. Address CHAS. KOEPPEN, Sixth and Ohio Sts., SEDALIA, MO. EXTRA STRONG SMILAX PLANTS at .¥3,(10 per hundred; ^Iti.lN) per thousand. WELLENREITER & SCHWIEMAN, DANVERS, ILL. THE AMERICAN FLORIST'S Color Chart is now accepted as the standard in preparing color descriptions, by many foreig^n houses as well as in America. PRICE 15 CENTS POSTPAID. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. \ Herr's 1 I Carnations I LANCASTER, PA. Fellow Florists;— With the facilities to grow and the stock to produce over a million Rooted Cuttings of Carnations, 1 am in a position to till your orders and give a written guarantee with every order that the cuttings will be satisfactory or the money refunded. GERANIUMS, PETUNIAS, PANSIES and COLEUS. In Geraniums the collection is made up of the most popular colors and the finest col- lection of the new and older varieties, at Si. 50 per 100; |12.50 per 1000; all labelled, but strictly my selection. In Petunias the finest striped and mottled are ottered at $2 per 100; jl5 per lOOO Also Veteran, a double fringed variety never introduced, flowers immense, white striped rose, plant dwarf and covered with bloom. Price 50 cts. per dozen; |3.50 per 100. Pansles, any quantity; none better, 75 cts. per 100; {5.00 per lOOO. L. B 496. ALBERT M. HERR, LANCASTER, PA. New Yellow Carnation MAYOR PINGREE. Without doubt the best Yellow Carnation in comnierce to-day. Orders hooked and filled in rotation. Delivery iMarch 1st, 1897. $1.50 per dozen; $10. OO per hundred; $75.00 per thousand. STRONG STOCK PLANTS OF IVOIRE ROSE CHRYSANTHEMUM, $3.00 PER DOZEN. JOHN BREITMEYER & m Miami and Gratiot Aves., ' DETROIT3 MICH. THE NEW SCARLET CARNATION MORELLO. Will be disseminated March 1, '97. Get your orders in now. $1.50 per 12, $10 per 100, $75 per 1000. HOPP & LEMKE, E. Grand Rapids, Mich. ALM ^Su^^ ""„„ „.„„ Per 100 1000 3000 Cocog Weddelliana J1.26 tl0.00$27.50 ran.lanus utilis 1.50 12.50 35 00 t'ollea arahica 1.60 12. .iO Musa Knsete 1 35 10 00 37.50 J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. Mention American Blorlst. E. G.HILL & CO.. wiioi6sai6Fiorisi§ RICHMOND. INDIANA. Mention American Florist. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VARIETIES. ROSES, from 3-lnch pota. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRVSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. ^ VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. FiSHKILL. N. Y. Fansles Worm Raisino. PLANTS READY NOW, at 82.50 per .500; 84.00 per 1000. Free on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at |1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH ORDER. C. SOLTAU & CO,, 199 Crant Ave,, Jersey Clty.iN, J, PUTIN CARNATIOl^S After the early chrysanthemums are thrown out, many florists plant carnations. We have a few thousand good plants heeled in, in the cold house, suitable for this purpose. McGOWAN, PURITAN, PORTIA, GARFIELD. MME. ALBERTINI, ADA BYRON, SILVER SPRAY, NICHOLSON, GRACE WILDER, B. OF ERLESCOURT, HINZE'S WHITE, Buttercup, 2nd quality STUART, Helen Keller, " ROSELIND, Uncle John, $4.00 per 100. J. L. DILLON, Bloomsburg, Pa. CARNATIONS after CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott. Ivorj. Silver Spray, Rose Queen, and Garfield, from cold frames, at $8.00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. CARNATIONS. 2000 SCOTTS, Immense size, at a bargain. A few TIDALS left. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. stock plants of MME. BElUiMANN, YKLLOW yUEBN. MUTUAL FUIENI), PKBS. W. K. SMITH. J. H. TROY. THE yUEEN. and llKl other leadlnK vailetles, 15 cts. each. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS. F. Dorner & Sons Co. LAI FAYETTE. IND. 442 The American Florist. Dec. 5, Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, Si. 40; Column, S14.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts. 6 times, 5 percent; 13 times, 10 percent; s6 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising Depanment of the American Flouist l8 for Florists, Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines ONLY. Please to remember It. Orders for less than one-hall inch space not accepted. A S vertlsements m ust reach ns by Wednesday to se- cure Insertion In the Issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. Ameiican Dahlia Society. The special meeting of the Atneriean Dahlia Society was held at Hotel Hano ver, Philadelphia, on Thursday evening, November 19. Matters connected with the first annual exhibition of the soce'y held last September in St. George's H ill, Philadelphia, came up for first action. This exhibition was a very successful one in every way and clearly showed what can be done another year. The numerous letters received Irom all over the country showed that the interest taken in dahlias is general and not confined to any one section, though the greatest interest seems lo be taken in Massachusetts. The correspondence was mainly for informa- tion and the general opinion was that the trade papers did not give sufficient atten- tion to dahlias. The society was reported to be in good condition financially and to be steadily growing. Messrs. W. C. Egan, Chicago; Jos. A.J. Compton, Chester, Pa., and A. Chas. Cook, Edward C. Dunganand Mrs. T. D. Sweeny of Philadelphia were duly elected to membership. The latter part of the meeting was de- voted entirely to next year's business. The annual spring meeting of the society will be held Wednesday, March 17, 1897, and the executive committee will meet at the offices of the chairman, A. Blanc, 316 N. 11th street, Philadelphia, on February 17 next. The executive committee will arrange the schedule of prizes and make all other necessary arrangements so that schedules can be printed and ready for distribution by April 1. This will allow both amateurs and professional growers to grow expressly for competition. Law- rence K. Peacock of Atco, N. J., was ap- pointed a special committee on culture and was authorized to secure every vari- ety possible and to report to the society oti their relative merits. Committees on nomenclature and exhibitions were ap- pointed, also a press committee. Lawrence K. Peacock, Sec'y. Cut Smilax 15 CENTS PER STRING. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO., i>.fluT'roi»r, OHIO. WELCH BROS. Wholesale Florists, wo. 2 BEACON STREET, Near Tremont St., BOSTON, MASS. Mention American Florist. A. & F. ROLKER, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 58 West 28th St., NEW YORK. we. — ^^■' ;^ The New York Gut Flower Go, 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS IN THE WORLD CONSIGN TO 15UY FKOM M. A. HART, Commission "^^fc" Cut Flowers, 113 WEST 30TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. THE BEST MARKET IN NEW YORK. TRAENDLY & SGHENCK, Wholesale Florists, Control the stock of many celebrated growers and are prepared to quote prices on First Grade Cut Flowers. All varieties. 38 West 28th St.. and Cut Flower Exchange. Tel. 981 18th Street. NEW YORK CITY. FRED. EHRET, wtioi6sai6 Fiorisi No. 1403 Fair mount Avenue, Telephone, Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. HEADQUARTERS. ROSES, CARNATIONS, AND VIOLETS. TRY US. WM. P. HASTING, Wholesale Commission Florist. 495 Washington St., BUFFALO. N. Y. Mention American Florist. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 ft 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. You Need Our TRADE DIRECTORY REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896. PRICE £2.00. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, GIVE ME YOUR ORDERS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of attention ^Iven to the whipping trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, WIRE WORK. Etc 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED. F. WINTERSON. Mgr. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER GO. .1. K. DEAMUD, Mgr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agfents. CHICA.CiO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE COMMISSION * FLORIST, 88 WABASH AVENUE, Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, mS PINE STREET, Jmm- ST. LOUIS, MO. |yA complete line of Wire DeeigiiH. H, L. SUNDERBRUGH, Wholesale Florist 4th and walnut streets. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, ^ ST. PAUL, MINN. Cut Strin!,'s, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns^ i8g6. The American Florist. 443 E. H. HUNT, WHOLESaLBPLORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BUIiBS ADD Alili FI.OBISTS' SUPPLIES. KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. Wliol6sal6 6ui F owers and FLORISTS' SUPPL ES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIRE WORK A SPKC1A1.TY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St., CHICAGO. If yon want FlfBtrCIasB Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send ua your orders and you will Ket what you want. GUT FLOWERS GUT FLOWERS. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to i. B. DEAMUD & CO GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS In 88 Wabash Avenue, » C5HICA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF GUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can flu all orders on short notice with all leading vRrletles of Roses and Carnations. We ARE Headquarters lor fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give us a trial and convince Yourself. Salesroom. 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, Consignments Solicited. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 &, 21 RANDOLPH STREET. Fine Stock a Specialty. C HIC A.OO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL CO., Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. » CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS- SUPPLIES. 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, wtioiesaie Fiorisi 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Agent for finest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©^ftofaAafa Marfe»r*. Cut Flowers. NEW York. Dec. 1. Roses. Beauty, extra 10 00 6.50 00 common 3.00® .5.00 Meteor, Testout. Bridesmaid 2.00*8.00 another varieties 2.00® 6.00 Carnations 60a 1.00 extra 1 50® 2.00 Valley 2.00(S 3.00 Violets 50® l.OU Chrysanthemums 2 OOt-^ 5.00 extra t;.00iS12 00 Roman hyacinths l.OOf; 2.00 Cyprlpedlums 8 00(S 10.00 Mignonette 2 00v VASES. GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON. MASS. HORTICULTDEAL ADCTIOSEEKS. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Garnations and Mignonette. CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. THOS. 'VOUPifO, Jr., 43 W. 28th St. NEW YORK. WflUTER F. SttERIDflN, WHOLESALE 59 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application, Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street. NEW YORK, WHOLESALE « FLORIST. Carefol Shlpplner to all parts of the coontryf Frfce list on application. Purdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS. 57 W. SOth St., NEW YORK. ROSES, VALLEY, CARNATIONS. VIOLETS. For prices and intormatiou regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, address JOHN YOUNG, 5/ W. 28th Street, NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK. JULIUS LANG, Coiiisslof^i?^CotHof(irs, WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, coRHBR 30TH St., new YORK. ConslgnmeutB Solicited. 444 The American Florist. Dec. 5, @ft« ^saA @ra(^a. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. WOOD, Pres.; Alex. Kodgers and J. B. Rice, Vlce-PreBldenla; A. L. Don, 114 ChamberB Street, New York, Sec'y and Treas. The Wernich Seed Comtany is re- ported in legal trouble at Milwaukee. The Southern Seed Co. has been or- ganized for growing and dealing in seeds at Glencoe, Ala. Worcester, Mass. Tbankf giving cleaned up the remainder of the chrysanthemums in good shape and though the trade fell behind that of last year we are duly thankful for what we did get. The supply of flowers was about right with the exception of roses and violets. Trade in general is very fair though it could be much better and it might be very much worse. Dull weathercontinues to be the rule and it keeps both the grow- ers and store men in a state of continual kick, so much so that the price of copper toed boots has gone up. In spite of this we are getting good roses, carnations and violets, though not quite as many as we would like. Paper whites and Ro- mans are a drug on the market; they go slower every year. Chrysanthemums sold very readily this season but the call for the big ones has fallen off and the demand is for blooms that retail f )r $1, $1 50 and $2 per dozen. Yellow was the color this year, what will it be in 1897? W. H. Johnson who for vears has con- ducted a greenhouse on London street has sold his stock in trade and gone out of the business. A. H. L. Boulder, Colo. — Florist Hubbard gave this city its first chrysanthemum show November 17 to 20 and it was very successful. Sedalia, Mo. — Cbas. H. Koeppen, the florist, has sued the city for $5,000 for damages sustained through an overflow of city water. Champaign, III. — Thos. Franks, the florist gave a chrysanthemum show at one of the local churches that was warmly praised by the local press. Dayton, 0.— Herman Hendricks died at a health resort in Mt. Clemens, Mich., September 1, of heart disease, aged 57 years. Mrs. Hendricks is carrying on the business. Reading, Pa. — The chrysanthemum show given for the benefit of various charities was the finest ever seen here. Hoskin & Giles, local florists, received the largest number of premiums. Among other prize winners were R. G Carey and Charles R. Knapp, Chestnut Hill; Robert Craig, and Charles F. Evans, Philadel- phia, and others. STOCK MUMS FOR EXCHANGE. Twenty best varieties Kruwn. $.S (H) per lOU, In trade. IncludeH Monarch. Itohlnson. fhll:idelphla. Ivory, etc., etc Write. KlvlnK Btoeb you have to trade. BIk cash discount The Clinton Floral Co., Wilmington, O. SANTA GLAUS has induced the NICKEL PLATE ROAD to sell excursion tickets at very low rates. Special excursion dates Dec. 24th, 25th, 3lst and Jan. 1st, good returninj; until Jan. 4th, 1897. Tickets at one and a third fare for the round trip. For further informa- tion address J. Y. Calahan, Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams St., Chicago. 169 ^= Read and Convince Yourself. HOLLY, very line this season; per case $A 50 BOUQUET GREEN, best eastern, per 100 lbs. $6 IMMORTELLES, Vellow 20c per bunch; $2 per dozen; White and colors 25c per bunch; $2.40 per dozen. CAPE FLOWERS, per lb, 6oc. SPHAGNUM MOSS, Fresh, per bbl. $1.25. SPIRAEA JAPONICA, fine clumps, $3.50 per 100; $6.50 per case of 200. WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, CLOSI NG OUT SALE. 150 CHINESE NARCISSUS for TWO DOLLARS, cash with order Send for Special Prices on Bulbs for Easter Forcing. C. H. JOOSTEN, 193 Greenwich St., NEW YORK. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ I "SURE CROP" : X MUSHRJK>M^SPAWN | ♦ DUTCH BULBS. ( 0° "PPl'^atlon ^ ♦ '-flokints" flower seeds. ♦ WEEBER & DON, f^^-aro^^r^ ,, X 114 Chambers St., NEW VORK. ^ »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ FAXON'S 'WHITE HOUSE' PANSIES. The best mixture in cultivation, flowers very large, thick and velvety; of superb colors and markings. The perfection of form and texture. In Trade Packets at $1.00 each. M. B. FAXON, Lock Box 1528. BOSTON, MASS. (..'nrrcspondencc anlicili'd. Lily of the_Valley Pips. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. SOLE AGENT FOR F. C. POMRENCKE, Hamburg. Mention Amerlcfin KIorlBt 20,000 GERANIUMS CS??.'N°as All the best varieties, as Double C'.eii. tirant, Bruant, Silver Leaf, Mme. Salleroi, $1.50 per 100; 8H.0O per 1000. ftGERATUM, blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooted, 81.00 per 100; 89.00 per lOOO. All strong and well rooted. The same out of 2M-inch pots, 82.00 per 100; 820.00 per 1000. Cash with order. MAX KRUSCHKA. LAWRENCE STATION. N. Y. ONE CENT EACH. .'lOO Feverfew Little Gem. .'iCIl White MarKuerlte. 600 Elegant Blue Heliotrope. fitlO M. Nlel Roses. 3.0U0 Standard Geraniums, assorted. 50O Ferns. ;i kinds. I.IIIO t'hulce PanslGs, transplanted In August, (from cold frame). 7(10 White ('alia Lilies. IIKI Black Calla Lclles. All from '.iij-lnch pots. Assorted. .■«10 for $:i. 00. No less. Address JOE N. LAWRENCE, Ottumwa, Iowa. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. si^JL^i't^ofTe new tteHSnii h inuwhrooiu spawn Ib flue at this port ])ecL*nil)er ja; wilt K"»ranlee delivery on time If have your order at once. Keiu'CED prices. Write me to-day for full particulare, G. C. WATSON. 43 North lOth Street, Fhilrt- delpliia* U. S A.. 8^* Owner of the celebrated "VV P." brand (Watson's Protltic) Mustiroom Spawn My 24-paKe booklet on Mushroom Culture free to buvers or Intendlntr buver«; lo others, 10 centH. Rol.lnMon. AW.\ Kak-oiier. i^l.T^O. BULBS for FORCING and Gardening, NOW QUOTED, AT HARD T I IM P ^ p p I f* C" c HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood. N. J. C. H. JOOSTEN, Importer, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. Bulbs, Azalea Indica, Palms, Roses, and all kinds of Nursery and Fruit Tree Stocks. Catalogues on application. Please mention American Florist. OUR PRIZE CINERARIAS. A few more thousand left. We are selling fast. Our strain is always in demand. 2;4'-inch 82 50 per 100 Sinch 4.00 per 100 CALCEOLARIAS. 2;{ inch 3 OO per 100 S. WHITTON & SONS. Wholesale Florists. Cil.V Hll.l EJI> S^OI^E>, NEW YORK: 14 Barclay St. Mentiou American Florist. 84 & 86 Randolph St., CHICAGO. HAVE YOU SEEN THE SENSATION OF THE SEASON_ Souv. du President Carnot The Rose of the Future? if not don't fail to do so. Won the highest honors wherever shown. Silver medal, Boston, Mass. Hort. Society, Nov. 10, 1S96; silver medal, Philadelphia, Penn , Hort Society, Nov. 11, 1896; American Institute Diploma, at Madison Square Garden, New York, Oct. 24, 1895; certificateof merit. New York Florists' Club, Oct. 24, 1896; certificate of merit. Orange, N. J , Orange Floricultural Society, N )v. 10, 1896; certificate of merit, Poughkeepsie. N. Y., Dutchess Co. Hort. Society, Nov. U, 1895; certificate of merit, Worcester, Mass., Worcester Co. Hort Society,, Nov. 9, 1896; first class certificate, Millbrook, N. Y.; certificate of merit, Madison, N J. The strongest imaginable grower. Blooms mostly produced singly on stiff stems with large beautiful dark green foliage, needing but little tying. An Al forcer as well as bedder and good for all purposes, blooming abundantly both in and out doors. No live florist can afford to be without it. Orders booked now for plants propagated from the healthiest stock in the country, not weakened by over propagation. Be sure to come and see it before ordering elsewhere. Strong healthy plants from 2Vi inch pots, $3 per (Joz., $15 per hundre(i, S125 per thousan(i. 50 plants at 100 rates, 500 at 1000 rates. Ready after January 1. 1897. ERNST ASMUS, West Hoboken, N. J. PALMS AND FtRNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York, GEO. WITTBOLD 1708 N. Halsted St.. ) CHICAGO ROBERT CRAIG, Roses, Palms, Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. Ja. Burbuuica, iS. Elej;:aiis. C. Iluniulls, Arec» Iiitescens, Baueri, Kubra, I'liiienLx C, and K). AuKtralis: 17 Palms 3 to 4-ln. of above vara, and 2 Ferns for$;i.OO. 10 Palms 4 lo 3-ln. of above vara, and 2 Ferns tor jy.50. Koses* Carnatious, and all kinds uf plants, Labels, Muss, etc SEND Full IJSTS. WILLI.AMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. SPECIAL OFFER. .5000 PANSY PLANTS 8,3.50 per 1000 PANSY SEED to close out, '96 seed, 83 00 per oz. GERANIUMS, standard bedders. . . .83 .50 per 100 Look for adv. of bedding plants, spring of '97. Cash with Oki>er. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. Mention Amerto&n Florist. 100,000 VERBENAS. THE CHOICEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. Fine pot plants. $2.50 per 100: $20.00 per tOOO. Rooted Cuttings. $1.00 per 100: $8.00 per 1000. PACKED LIGHT, AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. We are the Largest Growers of Verbenas in the country. Our plants cannot be surpassed. THE LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK IN AMERICA. Palms, Ferns, Orchids, Stove and Greenhouse Plants. i^*Write, telegraph or telephone and our carriage will meet you. Rose Hill Nurseries, NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of 81000 cash | for ONE FI.AITT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price beiug , asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPREN6ERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative j purposes. $1.50 per 12; SIO per 100. from 2!^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A, BLANC & CO., Phila.,Pa. ^^^^^^^^ STANcfARD 13 l_Jdi^IvJE^ Makes MAN'S WORK Child's pfay. A sample mailed for ;iO cents. FRANK L. MOORE, CHATHAM. N. J. SHEEP MANURE Cheaper than Guano, and as good. Cheaper than any Bone Dust or Bone Flour, and quicker acting. SAFE, CLEAN AND RELIABLE. SINGLE BAG, 100 LBS.. $1.50. TON $20.00. CBITCHELL'S SONS, CINCINNATI, O. 446 The American Florist. Dec. 5, Rochester, N. Y. Trade on Thanksgiving Day and also during the week was very fair and the available stock of cut flowers, though plentiful, in some instances was not equal to the demand, there was a big run on violets in particular and many more could have been disposed of if they were to be had. Chrysanthemums in pink and yellow sold well but the whites were rejected. The call for roses is on the increase and carnations sell better than formerly. Mignonette also gains in favor. The retailers complain that wholesale prices are rather high on all good stock and that although the bulk of sales on Thanksfiriving were considerably ahead of former years, their cash profits for that day remained the same or was even be- low the average. Retail prices have not advanced materially within the last six weeks or so, while the wholesalers have slowly but steadily improved their figures. The chrysanthemums are about finished and only a limited quantity of late flow- ers can still be had; they sold well early in the season but during November people got tired of them and many would prefer a bunch of roses or carnations, though at present, with but fern good flowers in the market, the public seems to want them again and are willing to pay a good price for them. Plant trade was not very brisk, but a number of decorations for dinners and receptions kept the florists going. The weather was mild and pleasant so that no extra wrapping was necessary in delivering goods. Ferns and other plants in small jardinieres were sold more fre- (luently, than in former years, but very lew sales of larger plants could be recorded. K. We have received from Messrs. E. Hall & Son, Clyde, 0., a bunch of blooms of their new pink carnation Winnifred. The flowers received were certainly excel- lent. We are advised that the variety is a stedling from Lizzie McGowan X Tidal Wave, and that its habit is like Mc- Gowan, but very early and more prolific than either parent. We have received from the Park Floral Co., Denver, a box of specimen chrysanthemum blooms equal in stem, foliage and size of bloom and coloring to the best varieties seen here. This is not new however, as Denver enjoys a reputa- tion for growing chrysanthemums, but these do put that city and the Park Floral Co. on record again for 1896 as quite up to date. DO NOT NEGLECT the opportunity to visit dear friends during the Holidays. The NICKEL PLATE ROAD, always catering to the wants of the travel- ing public, the popular low rate line along the South Shore of Lake Erie, will sell tickets at one fare and a third for the round trip, on Dec. 24th, 25th, 3lst and Jan. 1st, good returning until Jan. 4th, 1897. Fur- ther particulars cheerfully given on appli- cation to J. Y. Calahan, Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams St., Chicago, 111. 170 MUMS. A Leading Dozen for Market: RoblnHon. Ivory, i^iieen, Wnnamaker. Lager, ('hal- fant, Lincoln. Phlladelplila. Mrs. Iltll. NeniesiB. Morel, Chllds. Stock plants. $1.UU per dozen; $.'i.l«lper 1(«1. JO SEPH E. BONSALL, Salem, O. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Stock plaiitB Iroiii bench; Mayflower. Mrs. Uoblii- son, Nemeals and Yellow Uueen. at 21) eta. eacti. • • • • New Chrysanthemum IVOIRE ROSE . Fine strong stock plants, $25 per 100. JOHN BREITMEY&R & SONS, Miama and Gratiot Aves., DETROIT, MICH. 200,000 Rooted Guuinos 200,000 GERANIUMS!! SELECTED STOCK, TRUE TO NAME. Double Gen. Grant, Wm. Kellway, S. A. Nutt, Leon Kellway, Marvel, Ernst Kellway, Madonna, Beaute Poitevine, Mrs. A. Blanc, Mrs. E. G. Hill, Mme. Ch. Molin, Gloire de France, La Favorite, Barbizet, And twenty-five other varieties. La Fontaine, Mme. Buchner, H. de Bernier, Rev. Atkinson, W. A. Chalfant, Jas. Kellway, Mrs. J. M. Gaar. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, Queens, L. I. Spiraea astilboides floribunda, tine dumps per 100 - $10.00 Spiraea palmata, red flowering, for forcing fine dumps, per 100 - 7.00 Kalmia latifolia, fine budded, each - - - - .75 Metrosideros semp., nice bushy plants, each - - - -45 H. P. Roses, Tree Roses, Clematis, Rhododendron, pot-grown Lilacs, Deutzia, Hydrangea, Magnolia, Indian Azalea, Etc. L. C. BOBBINKs rutherford, n. j. Branch of the Horticultural Company, Boskoop, Holland. JOHN WELSH. Station X, aas N. Hoyne Ave RaveDSWood, 111. sooo GERANIUMS in 2%-\nc\i pots, of the following named varieties, at $2.00 per 100. WHITE SWAN, MRS. E. G. HILL, P. CROZY, LA ROSIERE, EDEN MARCHII, ERNEST CZERNIAK, DR. S. GRAY, SNOW- DROP, ENID, CAMILLE DAUCET, AND HERMINE. ALSO 500 IVY GERANIUMS, mixed. PANSY, Giant Flowering, mixed, for spring delivery, booked now for $3.00 per 1000. MORRIS FLORAL CO. MORRIS. ILL. Society of American Fiorists. This Is to Certify that IRVING PREDMORE, BARNEGAT. N. J.. is entitled to Honorable Mention for clean and well-packed Sphagnum and Peat. Exhibited at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 18-21, '96. WM. SCOTT, Preetdent. WM. J. STEWART, Secretary. ATTENTION WESTERN FLORISTS. Save Freight or Express CbarpeH. Clirysantliemum Steele Plants FROM BENCH. Mrs. Perrin, Gretchen Buettner, Indiana, Glory Pacific, Modesto, 81.50 per set. Mayflower, Mrs. H. Robinson, White Swan, Miss L. I). Black, M. M. Johnson, Lady Fltzwlnrftm, Gladys SpauldUiK. Philadelphia. Mrs. I'otter Palmer. Julian Helper, ti, Braiiihall. Kose Sliolta. Sliver Cloud, Dean Hole. Mrs Murdock. '" l.">c., $1 .'ill per dozen. (,meen, Bunniiffon. Balsley. Ivory. Waban. Golden WeddlnK. J- K Laeer, Nemesis. Mr. J. M. Parker.Maud [>ean, Dallledouze, Enf. Mondes, Wni, Bert.'nmn. M. Ivoulae. V. Morel. Amas Eve. G. W. Cbllds. Jerome Jones, J. Schrlmpton, W. H. IJncoln. I,. Playfalr. Golden Gate. Andes. Jessica. t'h»s navls. Klnher's Torch, Domination, Minerva, M. Henderson. 11. L. Hunderbruch and .'tO others, lllc. each. *l per dozen. L. J. STUPPY, St. Joseph, Mo. Mention AmftrtOftn Florliit GHRYSftNTH&MUMS. Strong stock plants. Ready now. MRS. H. ROBINSON, MBRRV .MO.SAKCll. M. 1)K .MONT.VIOKT. MARIO.N UK.NDEKSO.N. WM. S1.\11'S0.N. 2.1 cts. euoli. Older standard varieties. Ijcts. each. Special prices fur large quantities. H. WEBER S SONS. Oakland. M. fl CHRYSANTHEMUM ^M. STOCK PLANTS. y y Varieties and prices upon application. ^Si Wyndmoor. near Chestnut Hill, W) (Station 11.) PHILADELPHIA, PA. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. i8g6. The American Florist. 447 Prepare for the HOLjDflyS. We offer now the most extensive and varied stock of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES IN AMERICA. All Up-to-Date, Fresh Goods. MOSS WREATHS, IMMORTELLES, PAMPAS, CAPE FLOWERS, CYCAS LEAVES and WHEAT SHEAVES are our leaders always. Quality and quantity handled far beyond all other dealers. All seasonable stock in Baskets, Jardin- ieres, Pots, Letters, Artificial Flowers and Foliage, AT BARGAIN PRICES. NOW IS THE TIME TO REPLENISH YOUR STOCK. H. BAMDOEFEB & CO., Importers and Manufacturers, Se 3V. -itl^ street, PEILADELPSIA, PA. Mention this paper. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manufacturer ol METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry), NEW YORK CITY. Mention American FlorlBt. John Conley & Son, Manofacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, 1^ rir i-r~ "Vorli:. FLORISTS' RIBBON. All widths and popular shades of color PRICES REDUCED. SEND FOR SAMPLE TO H. M. WEISEL. 17 East S3rd Street, NEW YORK. THE NEW DIRECTORY IS NOW READY. New 6liry§antli6iiiuiii§ Our collection will comprise MinRF * ^^""y dwarf white, an improved Mme. F. Bergmann. Certificate October '"'""^' tOth, C. S. A. MRS. JOHN J. GLESSNER. MRS. MARTIN A. RYERSON. MFRIII A ^ beautiful light pink; dwarf habit; very double high built flower. Certi- munwUH. f,cate October 3lst, C. S. A. A very striging yellow of the largest size. Cer- tificate November 7th, C. S. A. CHITO *" exhibition variety from same seedhead as Modesto; color yellow, striped wni I w. red, giving it a bronzy appearance. Certificate November 7th, C. S. A. A retlexed white of the largest size, florets very artistically arranged. Certificate Nov. I4th, C. .S. A., and winner of the cash prize of jS50 for seedling scoring highest number of points at Springfield, Mass., show. WFCTCpN K|Nfi We believe this is the best white yet produced for either com- wwfcwifciiii wiiiM. niercial and exhibition blooms or for bush and on single stem pot plants. It is incurved in form with outer florets slightly reflexing. Has a fine stifl; stem, with ample foliage. Three to four feet in height when planted under glass in June and July. It has been highly commended by the expert judges of this country as well as abroad. In 1S95 it was recommended for Certificate by all five committees of the C S. A., and also winner of the Silver Vase at Butte, Mont., as best seedling. The season of 1896 was opened at London, England, where it was awarded a First-Class Certificate by the floral committee of the N. C. S. In this country it has again been recommended for Certificate by all five com- mittees of the C. S. A. and has also been Certificated at the following places: Springfield, Mass., Worcester, Masj., Providence, R. I., Madison, N. J., Philadelphia, Pa., Reading, Pa., Cleveland, O., - Cincinnati, O., Louisville, Ky., - Indianapolis, Ind., Chicago, 111., Milwaukee, Wis., Toronto, Oct., Hampden County Hort. Society. Worcester County Hort. Society. Rhode Island Hort. Society. - Rose City Rosegrowers Club. Penna. Horticultural Society. Chrysanthemum Exhibition. Cleveland Florist Club. - Cincinnati Florists Society. Society of Kentucky Florists. Society of Indiana Florists. - The Horticultural Society of Chicago. Milwaukee Florists' Club. - Gardeners' and Florists' Association. Also cash prize at Syracuse, N. Y. as the best seedling, and same at Philadelphia, Pa. as best white seedling. PRICES FOR ABOVE VARIETIES ARE 50c. each; $5 per doz ; $35 per 100 . DISTRIBUTION BEGINNING MARCH 1st. Descriptions of novelties from other raisers will appear in our catalogue later. We carry a complete line of Standard varieties, and can furnish young stock on or before February 1st. We have Arranged with the Introducers to Otter the Following Choice Novelties: SOUV. DU PRESIDENT CARNOT. From 2'4-inch pots, $3.00 per dozen; |15.00 per 100; |125.00 per lOOO. From 3-inch pots, |4.00 per dozen; ^20.00 per 100, |1 75.00 per lOOO. MAYOR PINGREE. Rooted Cuttings ready. NATHAN SMITH & SON, 448 The American Florist. Dec. s, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Florists' Club met at the Eagle Hotel November 30. After a somewhat spirited discussion it was decided that instead of holding the regular chrysanthe- mum show a floral festival or flower car- nival would be a pleasing variety to the public, giving other flowers a more prom- inent place than they have held in the chrysanthemum shows. Trade is reported as fairly good, with no failures up to date, but then the winter is young yet. One prominent florist advertised a free chrysanthemum show the two Sundays previous to the show, at which some exception was taken by the other florists, claiming that some would not care to attend the regular show, at which an admittance fee was charged, after attend- ing a good free show. The twenty-sixth annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society was held here December 1, 2 and 3. The West Michi- gan Fruit Growers' Society, The Grand River Horticultural Society, The Good Roads League, and last, but not least. The Grand Rapids Florists' Club, held sessions in connection with the statesoci- ety. There were three sessions each day. The Hon. Chas. W. Garfield made the address of welcome. Henry Smith read an able paper on rose culture under glass and outdoors; N. B. Stover a paper on carnations, stating that Daybreak and Morello were among the two best selling carnations. Prof. Thomas Gonsonof the Agricultural College read a very instruct- ive paper on "Some florists' problems." Prominent horticulturists from all over the state were present, and some from outside. E. A. GROUND PINE ^ND HOLUy. We stand ready to supply THE RIGHT QUALITY AT THE RIGHT TIME AT RIGHT PRICES. SEND FOK PRICE LIST. DAN'L B. LONG, itB^l^l HOLLY. THE RIGHT KIND. Green, well-berried and handsome. FULL CASES. Can be supplied in any quantity. ORDER NOW. PER CASE, $5.0O. Two or more Cases at $4.50. GEORGE A. SUTHERLAND 67 Bromfield St., BOSTON, MASS. DiiteiisiOAS or m Box : % Inches lonK by ISlncbee wide and 12 Inches hiKta. Two seotloiu. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER GO. Manufacture the Best Letters in the Market. A. M. F. A. Sizes \}i-\n. and 2-Jn. 2.00 per 100. faitenerlwith each letter. Patent This wooden box nicely etalned and Tarnished, 18x30x12, muae In two secttonti, one for each size letter, given away with first order of 500 letters. .A.O-EIZVI'S • Rolker & Sons, New York. Klce & Co., 85 N. 4th St., Phlla., Pa. E. McAllister, 32 Dey St.. New York. D. Perry & Co., 33 Warren St., Syracuse New York. A. Herrman, 415 E. 34th St., New York. H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A. C. Kendal, 115 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. J. A. Sliumers. Toronto, Out., Agent for Canada. E. H. Hunt, 79 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Wisconsin Flower Exchange, 131 UaBon St , IVIUwaukee, Wis. H. Sanderbrnch, 4th and Walnnt Sts., Cin- cinnati, O. T. W. Wood & Sons, 6th and MarshaU Sts., Klchiuond, Va. Jas. Vick's Sons, Rochester, N. Y. C. A. Kuehn, 1132 Pine St., St. Lonls, Mo. D. K. Lone, Ituftalo, New York. Hautlngtou Seed Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Geo. A.Sutherland, 67 Hromfleld St., Boston. Welch Itros., No. lA Beacon St., Boston. N. F McCarthy & Co., 84 Hawley Street, Boston. The Henry PhUlpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, O. Walter A. Potter & Co., Providence, K. I. J. C. Vanghan, 36 Barclay St., New York. W. EUlson, 1402 Pine St., St. Loals, Mo. the American Florist. ODR HKW SCRIPT LETTER, $4.00 per 100. N. F. MoCABTKr, I 13 Green St.. Treas. & Mangr. | Boston, Mass. Office, 84 Hawley Street. . Wo have a new FASTENER whicli we oonsluer a decided anooess. Any onstomers bavlng old style fasteners wblati ttaey wish to exobange, can do so wlthont additional cost by writing as. Tbese Letters are bandied by all tbe Wbolesalers Boston. When writing mention ijfe^l^ ^ P NEW HARDY FERNS. Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER IDOO FROM NOW UNTIL DECEMBER 1st. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BEiAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. ESTABU5HED 8 66. m EAST tl^if ST FFENS k^^^^^^^%t GREEN WREATHING! MADE BY HAND OF THE FINEST STOCK. $3,00 Qer 100 yards. $4.50 per 100 yards. MEDIUM, HEAVY, GROUND PINE, Al Stock, S3. so per 100 lbs. I Uni I Y BEST SELECTED Delaware , nULLI, Stock, $5.00 per Case. IMMUn I CLLto. Lowest Price's. L. L. MA7& CO., St. Paul, Minn. ' FANSIES. THE JENNINGS STRAIN of finest Aoierlcaii Krown raiiBies. Fine planta from cold frames. T-Oc per lUU by mull ; $1 per UKM) by oxprees. SEED of above strain iter pkt, ni '. :amj seeds. fl.lHI; ounce $t'>.lK). E. B. JENNINGS, Lock Box 23^. Southport, Conn. Grower of the tluest FauBles. Ciiristmas Greens, HARDY CUT FERNS, CHRISTMAS TREES, BOUQUET GREEN, LAUREL ROPING. HOLLY. EVERYTHING GREEN. AT THE OLD STAND 18 Ciiapman Place, BOSTON, MASS. H, E. HARTFORD, Mgr. Mention American KU>rlst. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that you saw the advertisement in the American Floris* i8g6. The American Florist. 449 JUST RECEIVED 'SZl DELAWARE HOLLY Another lot due December I5tli, per Case $4.50. Southern Holly, per Case $3.50. Special prices on quantity. A CAR FROM THE SOUTH, DUE HERE DECEMBER 15, coNTAimm LONG FANCY NEEDLE PINES, WILD SMILAX, HOLLY, YUCCA, HEART LEAVES, PALMETTO, TREE BOX CLUMPS, MISTLETOE, MAGNOLIA GRANDI., coNTAimm PINEAPPLE SHAPED BURRS FROM PINE, QUINCE DONiA, Large odoriferous yellow fiuit, Bouquet Green Wreathing ready now. BOUQUET GREEN ready now. All up to date florists will need some of the above stock for Christmas and New Year's trade. Give us an estimate of your wants and we will quote you prices. ELLIS & POLLWORTH, Box 75, Milwaukee, Wis. GflLflX LEAVES OF THE INTRODUCER. Finest quality and packing to order. Green or Bronze, large or small, of assorted, |3.75 per case of 5000; 600 postpaid, j;i.OO. Brilliant GREEN LEU- COTH(E SPRAYS, $i 00 per lOu; J8 00 per lOOO. ' WHOLESALE FLORISTS very SPECIAL PRICES. Information and Samples for the asking. HIGHLANDS NURSERY, KAWANA, N. C. or telegraf KELSEY, Cranberry, N. C. It costs 4 cents for each 600 feet of floor space. Does not Injure the most sensitive plants. Endorsed Nikoteen by prominent florists, tfaed for fumigation or spraying indoors or out. 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen. Bold by seedsmen. Circular free. 6KABCURA DIP CO., CHICAGO. ^Quick!yMD«sM^lt.'#( LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. IVPlans and egtlmates famlRhed on application. Largest bnllders of Greenhonse Strnctures. Six highest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAOE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO., ™fSr:;i^*"'New York City. FACTORY: IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON, N. Y. |FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlet, write to LnnsviLLE [SPIKIT t'CKEB Tobacco Co. ]LouisvilIe,Ky r\ nCC ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Send for OLllOO . Estimate. Satisfaction guaranteed. lOS Sonth 6th Avenne, MEW YORK CITT. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri< CAN Florist. TOBACCO STEMS FOR FLORISTS. For Sale, packed in bales 200 to 250 lbs. No charge for deliv- ering to depots. PRICE: $10.00 per ton. $1.50 per single bale. Address p. C. FULWEILER & BRO., 248 No. Ninth St., FHII.ADEI.PHIA, FA. Mention American Florl§t. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 450 The American Florist. R ec. 5, Fall River, Mass. The newly organized Florists' Associa- tion is in a prosperous condition, and the membership is already large. The meet- ings are held fortnightly at the residences of the members, fjr the prtscnt. The first meeting was held at the home of Presi- dent George Smith, and the second, which was last week came off at Mr. Warbur- ton's. In both cases the visitors were hospitably entertained, and they did not break up until a late hour. The next meeting will be at the house of Secretary Slinn. It is proposed to hold a chrysan- themum exhibition next fall, and a com- mittee has been appointed to prepare plans. The oiEcers of the association aie George Smith, president, C. Warburton, vice-president, James Slinn, secretary, and O. H. Shaw, treasurer. The firm of Woodcock & Lannagan has dissolved, and the establishment will be hereafter conducted by Mr. John S. H. Lannagan. Des Moines, la. There has not been any improvement in trade since my last report. Thanksgiv- ing was a disappointment to many, as prices were not as good by 35% as last year. Roses and carnations are plentiful; paper whites and Romans are coming in about equal to demand; 'mumsare about gone, and other slock will now advance. The annual meeting of the Florists' Club was held November 30 and the fol- lowing officers elected: President, Peter Lambert; vice-president, John Lorenz; secretary, J. T. D. Fulmer; treasurer, Julius Ledig. The club starts out on its third year with good prospects of useful- ness, yet some of our local florists areact- ing the part of a good draft horse going down hill. J. T. D. F. Buffalo, N. Y.— Mrs. Mary Long, mother of Elias A. and Daniel B. Long, died November 21 at Williamsville, aged 77 years. GRAND HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS. Cheap rates via the NICKEL PLATE ROAD account Christmas and New Year's Holidays. Tickets on sale Dec. 24th, 25th, 3lst, Jan. 1st, good returning until Jan. 4th, 1S97. Unexcelled service including dining cars and colored poriers in charge of day coaches For particulars address J Y. Calahan, Genl Agent, Itl Adams St , Chicago, 111. 171 Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots; values from 25 cts. UD to |150 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants, (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St., BOSTON. MASS. jKiui.ME Jones, Pres. 8. A. Stkatton, Treiw. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture nil klnda of Flower Puts, etc. Making a Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price Il»t and sampleH (which will be sent free) and we know you will Klve ua your order: J, 6. SWAHN'S SONS, MluneapolK'Mlun. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolpii Street, CHICAGO. FOR GREENHOUSES. "^^r^rite for latest r>«rloos. Mention American Florist. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BRANCH WAREHOUSES: Kearney and Westslde Aves., Jersey City, N. J. Jackson Ave. and Fearson St., Long Island City, N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pofs should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. o * UR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- faction. We call your attention to our new pots 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and 5;ou will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. SYRACUSE, N. Y. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS3 Horiiculioral flrcliitects and Hoi Water Engineers Send for Catalogue, enclosing 4 cents In gtampg. 130, 1-il, 1-43 Ce»iter St., IVEJ'W 'VOIilC. For Greenhouses, Conservatories, Graperies, Hotbeds, and all other purposes, at Lowest Rates. N. COWEN'S SON, 392 & 394 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. GLASS Get our Fietires before buying Class. By Estimates freely givenj Rates via the Nickel Plate Road between same points for like classes of tickets are lower than via other lines. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of tbtf advertisers on this page. i8g6. The American Florist. 451 Kx oeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse 'Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Bollere made of the best of material, shell, firebox sheets and heailu ut eieel. water space all around ffront. Bides and bad .)SVrlte lor Information. CYPRESS IS MUCH M 9RE PU tUWU THAN PINE. piiEsi--i SASH BARS/ UP TO \t. FEET «NLEN6TH oR LONGER. IREENHOUSE AND oVt^e B B0ILPIN6 W ATfeMAt. Sond\foi'ourIlluitf-aU^ 6ooR "CYP|RES)5 LUMBER AHD frs USES." Send fol-^urSpeci&l areenhous»^rcul&r. THE/^uT SreaJrc^ |umbe«- (b., JOHNC ' CO. CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL OF ANY DESCRIPTION. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. 4l2Tfl422 V HAWTHORNE AV. \CHICftGO,ILL. J. D. Carmodt. E\'ansville, Ind. Dear Sir: — Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled — no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON, Gainesville, Ga, EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS. Richmonfl. Ind. Please mention the American Florisi every time you write to an advertiser. Clear Cypress Greenhouse flaterial. This with us means the best growth of Cypress Lumber and the best grade of that growth ; and from this grade all the sap- bright sap, which only experts can detect — as well as stained sap, knots and' other defects cut out. Olhers do not equal our quality if they do beat our prices. It is not hard to see the reason: You can not buy gold dollars at fifty cents each. E.xperienced growers know that the best is not too good and cheapest in the long run. Lockland Lumber Co., LOCKLAND, O. Write for Circulars or Estimates. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CHICAGO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL & CO., 77 Lake Street. HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAM ♦ BOILERS. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for Catalo^nes ^^^». GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., cor congress. BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NOTHING Flimsy NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. ^m ^ I 8 '&• 1 11 OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD. YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. i CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. CHICAGO. To Pump Water If vou want water forany purpose anii have not the racilities, oi- want to cliaiif^'t', wrilf fiHL'atalot.'ue of the Celebrated DeLamater-Rlder and Delamater-trlcsson Hot- Alr Pumping Engines. TIh'V "111 pump water Tl-om any sonn-e arul furce it anywhere. Any kiiiit of fiu'l ran be used. Atklrebs, UeLA MATER IRON WORKS, 467 W'-^t Uroaiiway, New York City. For Insurance against damage by hail, ^^^^^^^^^^^ Address JOHN G. ESLER, Secy. F. H. A., Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL TRADE n mECTORY REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. I=ItIC3E »2.00- AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 452 The American Florist. Dec. 5, Index to Advertisers. Adv Bates 442 American Boiler Co... 452 Amllng E C 442 ABtnuHR 445 Basaett & Wasbourn. .443 Bayeredorfer H & Co. .447 Blanc A &Co 445 Bobblnk LC 44i', Bonaall Jos B 41il Boston Letter Co 44h Braeue L B 448 Breltmeyer J & Sons .441 441; Burkl Fred 441 Cannodv J D 451 Chadwlck Chas 441 Clifton Floral Co 444 uonley John & Bon 447 Cottage Gardens 44ti Cowen'a Son N 450 Crabb & Hunter 441 CralB Ilobt 445 CrltcheH's Sons B P.. 445 Cunnlnizham J H 445 DeLamater Iron Wfe8.451 Dletsob A&Co 451 Dillon JIi 441 445 DomerFred ASons Co. 441 Dreer H A 444 Bhret F 442 Blchholz H 441 Blllott W H 442 BUlottWm jc Sons.... 444 Bllla* Pollwortn..442 44il Faxon M B 444 Feltbousen J B 441 Fulweller P C & Bro. .4411 Given II H 44U Guraey Heater Co 451 Hall Ass'n 451 Hancock A Son 441 Hart M A 442 Hartford H B 44.S Herr Albert M 441 Herrmann A 447 Hews AH& Co 450 Ulehlands Nursery — 449 Hill B0 4C0 441 HIppardB 451 Hlujhlnga & Co 4.)2 Hopp & Lerake 441 Hooker H M Co 450 Horan Bdw C 443 Horan J & Son 441 Hulaeboscb Bros 444 HuQtBH 443 Illinois Cut Flower Co. 442 Jennlnea B B 448 Jones McDuffy & Strat ton 450 Jooaten CH 444 Kastlng W F 442 Kennlcott Bros Co 443 KoehlerCh 440 Koeppen Chas 441 Kroescbell Bros Co — 451 Kruschka Max 444 K i«nn u A 442 Lanff Julius 443 Lawrence J N 444 Lemke B F 442 Lockland Lum Co 451 Long D B 44.S Lonsdale Edw 44ti Lord & Bumbam Co. .44'.) LoalBTllie Tobacco Co 44'.i Lyncb w E 443 May L L & Co 448 McCartby N l< ACo.. .443 McKellar C W 442 Mlllang Frank :..443 MlUang* Co ..443 Moore FL 445 Montnger J C Co 451 Monls Floral Co 44t; National Plant Co 442 N V Cut Flower Co.... 442 Nickel Plate Road 450 Peacock W P 441 Pennook Bim'IS 442 Pitcher k Manda 440 Prerimore 1 4if» Prince AG&Co 443 Purdy & Blauvelt 443 QuakerClty Mc'b Wk3.451 Randall A L 443 KaynorJl. 443 Redfleld Bradley 441 ReedGlaaaCo 44i) Reed s Keller 448 KelnbergBroa 443 RIceM&Co 447 Klckaecker C H 443 Rogera P'k Floral Co 44.1 K jlker A 4 Sons i.ii Rolker A k F 442 Schiller J L 441 444 Sheridan WF 443 Slebrecht A Son 445 Situations. Wants, etc 440 Skalx-ura Dip Co 44'J Hmltn Nath & son 447 SoltauCJt Co 441 Stearns Lumber Co — 451 Stellena N ... 448 Stuppy L I 44ti Sunderbruch H L. . 442 Sutherland Geo A.. 443 448 Swabna Sons J G 450 Syracuse Pottery Co... 4.50 TeaaTS Traendiy & Scbenck Vaughan J C wa Watson GC 4i4 Weathereds Sons T W. 4.'>0 WeberH ASona 441-, Weeber & Don 444 Welael II M 147 Welch Bros 442 Wellenrelter A Schwle- man 441 Welsh J Whllldln Pot Co.... WhIttonS ASona Williams A Sons Co Winter A (ilover. . Wis Flower Kx.... Wlttbold Geo 445 Wood Bros 441 youngjno 443 TotmgThosJr 443 440 44r, ..450 ..414 ..445 . 443 441 Petoskey, Mich. — S.J. Long has added another bouse 20x60 for carnations, making three in all. Mr. Long gave a 'mum exhibit November 13 and 14 (new for this section), and school children com- peted for small premiums; the plants were given to them in June by Mr. Long. An admission of 10 ceats was charged. Potted plants and cut flowers were sold. It was a su.'cess financially, as well as an educator to the children. The young ladies want to try it next year. Galesburg, III — Gesler & Robbins gave a chrysanthemum show at their greenhouses November 11 to 14 which was a credit to their grower, Mr. W. G. Newell. Several who had attended both, said their plants were fully as fine as those at the Chicago show. They had 1,600 pot plants on exhibition in their five greenhouses, which are lighted with electricity. All were up to date plants, 80 being standards in 12-inch pots and 800 sprays in 5inch pots. As an addi- tional attraction they showed several grafted plants. They also gave chrysan- themum shows in Monmouth, Abingdon, Knoxville and Galva. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. The latest Supplement to our Fall Catalogue contains OUR NOVELTIES and many reductions in Tinfoil, Cycas Leaves, Baskets, Etc., mailed free to applicants in the trade. Wholesale only. Send business card. New York: 136 West 24th Street. 1>. O. SlaUon !•;. H ^ 5 o O 00 2 m i I =" -n 3) > 3 m is — 3J —. ni CO CO &o O 3J o o o o WORTH BEARING IN MIND . You buy your heater once, but your fuel you buy every year. It might be well to bear this in mind if you are in need of a greenhouse heater. Among other features which have made the "SPENCE" HOT WATER HEATER famous is the fuel-saving feature. "Spence" users are not troubled with large bills from the coal dealer. "SPENCE" CATALOGUE FREE. American SSoi/er Company CHICAGO: 84 Lake Street. NEW YORK: 04 Center Street. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns fiiE l^wmmm 0riL@iisoiT [O^ I.Tgy ssej^r Rmsrica is "the Prow of ihs I/essbI; there may be mare cam fart Mwiidships, but we are the hrst ta touch Unknowa Seas, Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, DECEUBER 12, 1896. No. 445 fOilE /Al!!i!iEie0@M{ lFlL@i!90@T Copyilg: ht 1896, by American Florist Company, ntered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 3as Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription, $1.00 a year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 323 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Bagtem Office : 67 Bromfleld St., Boston. This paper Is a member of the ABsoclated Trade Presa and of the Chlcatfo Trade Freas Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. Wm. 8COTT, Buffalo, president; Adam Graham. Cleveland, o., vlce-prealdent; W. J. Stewart. Bos- ton, secretary: H. B. Beatty, oil City, Pa., treaaurer. Officers for 18y;.— Adam graham, Cleveland,©., president; Farquhar Macrae, Providence. K. I., vlce-prealdent. Secretary and treasurer aa before. The thirteenth annual meeting will be held at Prov- idence, R. I., Auirust. lair. CONTENTS. Experience in growing: asters 453 Carnations — Feeding. 454 — New carnation Flora Hill (illus.) 454 Chrysanthemums— twenty-five years' progress 454 Miscellaneous seasonable hints 455 Sea sand for propagating 456 Gardenias again 456 Ferns dying 456 A funeral design (iUus.) 456 Boston 457 Pro\ndence, R. I 457 New York 458 Philadelphia 468 Buffalo 458 St. Louis 459 Chicago 459 Cincinnati 459 Pittsburg 459 San Francisco 460 Cleveland 460 Rochester . 460 Omaha 460 St. John, N. B 462 The seed trade 46) Toronto 464 Indianapolis 466 Freeport, Me 466 Syracuse, N. Y 468 Utica, N. Y 470 Greenhouse Building. Clinton, Mass. — F. P. Sawyer, one commercial bouse. Sudbury, Mass. — Albert Stone, range of forcing houses. CoUamer, N. Y. — Conrad Loose, one greenhouse. Wakefield, Mass. — Chas. A. Gardner, one commercial house. Johnstown, Pa. — A. Akers & Co., four commercial houses. Parkville, Conn.— J. G. Newton, one commercial house. Kingston, N. Y.— J. Burgevin, one violet house. Brooklyn, N. Y.— J. W. Richmond, three forcing houses, 15x150. Experience m Growing Asters. [Paper read by IFm. E. Chappell before the R. I. Flortits^ and Gardeners' Club of Providence, R. /., at their September meeting.] In this paper I shall simply record afew observations that 1 have made during my experience in growing asters, which covers a period of twenty years or more. In that time I have grown many varie- ties, and until within the past three years I had been very successful. Three years ago I first discovered that many of my plants, when about ready to develop flower buds, began to wilt as if thirsting for water. Upon examination I found that thetrouble could not bedue to lack of water, as I had them under perfect control so far as results from extreme drouth were concerned. I then examined the root, which I found to all appear- ances to be in a good healthy condition. I decided to change their position the next year and grow them in another part of the field, to see if I would get any dif- ferent effect. But alas! the same result crowned my efforts, this being the second year of failure, and the disease, or what- ever you may choose to call it, seemed to be more apparent. Upon examining the plant I found at the base of the stalk near the soil, ex- tending about two inches in length, a brown appearance. This I cut in two and found it to be dead wood. I called this to the attention of several florists and gardeners that had been in the busi- ness many years more than I, and was surprised at the diversity of opinion. One said it was caused by over- watering, another, by drouth; another said the soil was not right for them; another said that the seed was not properly matured when gathered. A number said they did not know what the matter was. I heart- ily agreed with the latter, and do honestly think they told the truth. This year I planted as before seed enough for several thousand plants; seed from all parts of thecountry, imported and domes- tic,and a few self-saved seed, which, by the way, yielded the most healthy plants. The plants I found the least susceptible to the disease were Semple's branching variety; that being of a strong, robust habit might have something to do with it. I find more diseased plants in midsum- mer than in spring and fall, when the weather is not so extremely hot and dry. I sow in succession, and have flowers from first week in July till the middle of November. Last year they served me well till 'mums got plentiful. The late comers were protected by glass. A think a good, light, rich soil is the best adapted for them, although they will do well in most any soil with a littlecare, barring the disease. Keep them well hoed and watered. I have also found mulch- ing to be a great benefit to them during the extreme hot weather, as they prefer it rather cool to develop a nice, perfect flower. The aster has a great many enemies. as well as other plants. The best known to me are the cut worm, common grub, lead louse, aster bug, grasshopper and black aphis. I will not dwell upon the modus operandi of these pests, as they are too well known among those who have had any experience in growing plants. There is one, however, that has interested me very much, and that will be the only one I shall say anything about. That one is the pest commonly called the lead louse, deriving its name I presume from its color, it being the color of oxidized lead; that is not the color of the pest, however, when seen under a powerful microscope, as I will show you later on. This little pest swarms, breeds and feeds upon the small working roots, thus taking from the plants the power of secur- ing the proper nutriment required to develop the flower and a healthy foliage. The result is to be seen on the crown, ter- minal and lateral buds, together with the foliage, which turns a sickly yellow; and if the buds mature they are worthless. This little pest seems more abundant in poor or worn out soil than in good, rich loam, though I have seen them in both. I will now endeavor to give you an idea how this pest looks under a very powerful microscope, enlarging it many hundred times. It has six legs, all of which are located well to the front of the body. It has also two stumps, which are very short and located at the rear of the body. They act as props or braces to keep the body from tottling over while feeding or otherwise engaged. Each leg has four joints with a hook-like appear- ance at the end to aid it in holding on to the root while feeding, as well as to assist in locomotion. The body and head seem to be all in one, as there is no joint between the two. It has two jet black eyes just back of the fore legs, or arms, as it uses them as such. A proboscis is attached to the head end, very much like an elephant's trunk. With this it feeds itself. It has a sharp, black point which it runs into the root and saps the life of the plant. It has no mouth. You can plainly see the channel through which the fluid passes down the proboscis to the body. When it walks or crawls this little instrument shuts up under the body, as a knife blade would shut into the handle, and extends about half the length of the body. When it is wanted for use the body is raised by the legs to a sufficient height to enable the instrument to swing into place for action. It is perfectly rigid, having one joint, and that in the head. Along the root of the plant, which looks smooth to the naked eye, are uneven places like little hollows. In these places were eggs in different stages, from the transparent spawn to the little ones just out. It was very amusing to see the mother, as I supposed it to be, trying to 454 The American Florist. Dec. 12, extricate the body from the sack in which it was enclosed. It stood on its rear pegs, as I call them, and using its arms, was vigorously combing the sack from the body. I also saw it in the act of feeding; it would apply the proboscis to the root and tug away as if it was a very arduous task. It does not eat the root — it simply taps it. The egg is perfectly round and trans- parent. At another stage it Is pure white, then a mouse color, and at last a light yellow. The color that looks like oxidized lead is a fine powder-like substance upon the body. They are a curiously made up insect, and for their size are capable of doing great irjury to a plant. DISEASE. I also made cross and elongated sections of diseased and healthy plants. There was no material difference in the looks of the two sections. The disease seemed to be between the outer skin or bark and the cane or stalk. In the healthy section the pulp seemed to be bright and crystal- lized like gum camphor, while those of the diseased seemed to be of entirely dif- ferent nature. The granulations were ■very imperfect, considerably enlarged, looked very much like fermenting scum on a stagnant pool, and were of a putrid nature. After much study and examination of the diseased parts as compared with the healthy, I arrived at a conclusion. It is this: I believe the aster disease is a fun- gus growing between the outer skin or bark and stalk. And as congestion takes place the pores orchannelsthrough which the sap flows are clogged and the plant dies for want of food just the same as we would If ourthroats were stopped and we could not feed the stomach. I have diagnosed the aster disease and am perfectly satisfied withtheresult. The cause and remedy I shall leave to wiser heads than mine. Feeding Carnations. I find that the soil in my carnation benches is not rich enough. What fertiliz- ers can I use to get quickest and best results? My soil is a heavy black loam and is not as rich as I thought. My plants are very large and in good condi- tion, with no disease, but the buds put- ting out are very slow on account of the lack of food elements in the soil. I put on a mulch consisting of well rotted sod and short stable manure,' also sand and wood ashes, all well mixed; this made a light sandy loam, which I put on the benches about one inch deep. Is that a benefit? Florist. The mulch put on is made of good mate- rial and will undoubtedly be very benefi- cial, but the plants as described can stand a little more, and that should come in the form of liquid manure applied about once a week in a mild form and well decom- posed. Sheep manure, cow manure, hen manure, bone meal, wood ashes, horn shavings, proportionately mixed, are the best material for that purpose. Of these the last four named have to be used very judiciously, as a too free use may result in an overfeeding, often worse than no nour- ishment at all. Fred Dorner. New Carnation Flora Hill. The accompanying engraving is from a photograph of a bunch of the new white carnation Flora Hill, from E. G. Hill & Co., R'chmond, Ind. It is a seedling from Puritan and Lizzie MtGowan,and is now in its fourth year. It is a little heavier in grass than McGowan, and is reported to be a free, easy grower and remarkably productive. The flowers from which the photograph was taken were certainly extra good. Twenty-five Years' Progress in Chrysan- tbemum Growing. BY ROBEKT KIFT. \^Read before the Philadelphia Florists' Club at its Decevibtr meeting. \ In contemplating the events of the past twenty-five years in the horticultural world, one is struck with the rapid and almost wonderful advances that have taken place. This is perhaps more true of the chrysanthemum than of any other flower. Away back in the sixties such varieties as Brown Bob, Fimbriata, and a small yellow or two seemed to be all that were required, and these were grown out of doors until frost, and then heeled in in a cold hou-e until the demand for the flowers was over. A few were potted for market. Brown Bob being considered the best variety for this purpose. Gradually, to supp'y a growing de- mand, better culture developed a higher grade of flowers, and the list of varieties for pot plants increased very materially, such kinds as Elaine, Mrs. Geo. Glenny, C. H. Glover, Mrs. G;o. Rundle, Hero of Stoke-Ntwington, Jardin des Plantes, Golden Dragon, Ethel, Golden John Salter, Gold Finder, F. Nightingale, Per- fection and Princess Louise. It was not, however, until the early eighties that the great impetus which has brought the chrjsanthcmum so rapidly to the front as a decorative flower was given. Mr. H. Waterer was importing Japanese maples from Japan, and his cor- respondent there wrote him that the chrys- anthemums of that country were very fine and that a consignment of these plants might be useful to him, enclosing at the same time some water-color drawings of the flowers. These seemed so wonderful that they were considered almost in the same category as the illus- trations of some of the seed and plant catalogues of to-day. But the stcck was at once ordered, arriving in the fall of 1882, and under the watchful eye and skillful hand of Wm. K. Harris, to whose care they were given on arrival, they produced flowers that even exceeded in beauty the doubted illustrations, and created a great sensation. The first im- portation contained among others Glori- osum. Gorgeous, Mrs. Chas. Wheeler, H. Waterer, Mrs. Geo. Bullock (or Domina- tion rather), Jessica, Syringa, Hon. John Welsh, Duchess, Mrs. Frank Thomson and Yellow Prince. The cultivation of these varieties for sale and for exhibition brought out their good qualities, and created a demand for fine stock that encouraged the growers to greater efl'orts. New varieties begaa to appear. Mr. Harris early saw the possibilities of cross-fertilization, and for years he was noted for the excellence of his seedlings, and his establishment be- came the Mecca of the lovers of these flowers. Among the most notable of the varieties originating with him are, Ivory, Violet Rose, Mrs. Wm. K. Harris, Mrs. M. J. Thomas, Mrs. Irving Clark, Mrs. Joel J. Bailey, Gold, Eva Hoyt, Robert Crawford, Puritan, and hosts of others. In a short time other trained hands took up the growing of seedlings, and from the centers of horticulture all over the land new varieties of merit have been intro- duced with each recurring year. The success of the Ptiladelphia, New York and Boston shows devoted prima- rily to the exhibition of the chrysanthe- mum, encouraged the florists of other cities to do likewise, and it is indeed a small place that does not now boast of its autumnal display. These exhibitions are great public educators, essentially increasing the love for flowers, and their continued maintenance should be thecon- cern of the florists of every community. When we look back over the exhibitions of the past ten or twelve years and think of the many varieties that have been brought forth, coming as it were like meteors in the sky, brilliant for awhile, but gradually fading away leaving only a pleasant memory, we are led to wonder at their short lives. In 1883 the first chrysanthemum show of the present era in America was held in Philadelphia In Horticultural Hall, which occupied this site at that time. There were no cut flowers staged, as only plants weie thought worthy of show, and even these were staged in blocks of dozens or more of the same color to get the eSect desired, as most plants were small, none except a few private collections being in over 8-inch pots. The varieties as far as our memory serves us were Elaine, Golden John Salter, Temple of Solomon, Fim- briata, Pink Perfection, Diana, Princess Louise, Brown Bob, Relulgens, Dr. Sharp, Golden Pheasant, Mrs. Geo. Rundle, C. H. Glover and Geo. Glenny. In 1887 the list of the winners included such varieties as Troubadour, Hon. John Welsh, Leopold, Volunteer, Dragon's Head. G. F. Moseman, Mrs. Frank Thomson, J. Deleaux, Robert Bottomley, the largest flower in the hall being eight and a half inches in diameter, Mrs. Lang- try, Mrs. Chas. Wheeler, Fair Maid of Guernsey, Lord Byron, Mis. Geo. Bullock or Domination and others. Antmoneand pompon classes were poorly represented and contained little of merit. Among the seedlings of this year at the New York show were C. L. Allen, J. G. Blaine and Miss Ellen K. Pitcher, the latter particu- larly noted. The shows of 1888 contained some sen- sational varieties, notable among them being the Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, of which flower Edwin Lonsdale saic: "Words of mine are inadequate to convey an Idea as to its beauty." The stock of this variety cost the introducer$l,200. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, an immense terra cotti, was exhibited by John Thorpe, and Wm. K. Harris staged the new yellow variety, Mrs. Wm. K. Harris, which was easily given the honor of being the finest of Its color up to that date. W.H. Lincolnand Kioto were first seen at this show. E. H. Filler was a winning seedling and de- scribed as one of the most distinct and i8g6. The American Florist. 455 NEW WHITE CARNATION FLORA HILL. valuable in the show, and one of the most lovely sorts yet introduced. The Sfedling winners were Mrs. L.P. Morton, The Medusa, Sunnyside, L. Canning, Mrs. E. W. Clark, Mrs. Irving Clark, Mrs. M.J. Thomas. Among Mr. Harris' seedlings were Mrs. I. C. Price, Puritan, John Collins, Gold, Mrs. J. C. Henszev, Mrs. Wm. Bowen and Snowball. He also exhibited a grafted plant containing nineteen varieties in full b'oom. 1889 saw the introduction of such fine kinds as Ada Spaulding, Coronet, Eldo- rado, Violet Rose, Louis Boehmer, E. G. Hill, H. E. Widener, L. C. Madeira, Mrs. Isaac C. Sailer and Col. W. B. Smith. In 1891 Ernst Asmus exhibited twelve blooms of the variety H. E. Widecer, which measured when placed side by side ten feet, eleven and one-half inches, the largest being eleven and five-eighths inches in diarneter. Jonn Lane. Minnie Wanamaker, H. M. Stanlev, Yiviand- Morel, Ed. Hatch and Mrs. E. D. Adams were first shown this year. In the cata- logue of this show Mr. Craig contributed an article on the chrysanthemum, and gave the following as the finest varieties up to that time: White varieties— Jessica, Mrs. Geo. Bullock or Domination, Ivory, L. Canning, Minnie Wanamaker, Frank Thomson and Flora Hill. Yellow varie- ties— Rohallion, Mrs. J. G. Whilldin,H.E. Widener, W. H. Lincoln and Grandiflo- rum. Pink— Ada Spaulding, Mrs. D. D. L. Parson, Lilly Bates, Mrs. Pettier, Mrs. Irving Clark and Lilian B. Bird. Other shades — Louis Boehmer, Cullingfordii, Violet Rose, Mrs. Chas. Wheeler, Mrs. Bowen and Viviand-Morel. It will be noticed that the beautiful Mrs. Alpheus Hardy lor some reason was not included in the above list. In 1893 we notice the following varie- ties not noted before: Go'den Weeding, Mrs. Bayard Cutting. Ada McVicker, President Smith, The Queen, H. Balsley, Mrs. Craige-Lippircott and Eugene Dail- ledouz;. The bright particular star of the 1894 show was Hugh Graham's Philadelphia; it created a greater sensation even than Mrs. Hardv. That sterling yellow. Ma- jor Bonnaffon, also made its appearance this season, and we must not forget that pink variety par excellerce, Maud Dean. The past two years have not been so productive of novelties as one might have expected, still thrte varieties of preat merit should be mentioned, namely, Mrs. H. Robinson, Pink Ivory and the new late yellow. Liberty. Quite a number of good kinds, particularly among the early ones, are not seen at the shows, being past their best form before the (xhibitions op;n— among them beirgMarquisdeMontmort, Madame Berp^mann, Merry Monarch and Marion Henderson, these, however, being mostly commercial varieties. Of the many beautiful varieties that have been introduced probably not over ten per cent have a commercial value. While the others aie equally good, and in many cases even more beautiful, they are discarded on account of their habit of growth, or of being subject to disease, or because the flowers do not carry well, or perhaps the color is undesirable commer- cially, or for various other causes. It is not denied that if well grown they make magnificent exhibition plants, and it seems to us a pity that some plan could not be devised to perpetuate really desir- able kinds for this purpose. It is our firm belief that if the proper authorities were appealed to in our large cities, a movement could be started that would culminate in the erection of suita- ble buildings in which would be held exhi- bitions of chrysanthemums, such as have not up to this time been dreamed of. The show held the past two seasons in the east end of horticultural hall in the Fair- mount Park attracted thousands of admiring visitors, and while it was a pretty display, it was a mere nothing as compared with the possibilities of the flower. In reading ovjr the accounts of the various shows of 1896 we were much pleased with the glowing reports of this or that new variety, or the magnificent blooms of some local favorite not familiar to us, or again the most superlatively beautiful vase of some standard variety that the writer was sure was never seen so fine before, etc., etc. It seems to us that an interchange of flowers between the shows of the larger cities would be most desirable and prove attractive features to any exhibition. There are obstacles in the way we know, such as expense, etc., but if once properly inaugurated we believe the plan would be generally adopted. The Chrysanthemum S^cietv of Amer- ica, it seems to us, should hold an annual show in connection with the local exhibi- tion of one of the various societies, chang- ing about from city to city each season. Their presence would greatly help the local society, whose increased box receipts could be drawn on to help pay the ex- penses. Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints. A very useful begonia for summer deco- ration is B. Vernon. It is useful for flower beds, vases or veranda boxes, as it flowers from early spring till frost cuts off its useful career. It is best and easily raised from seed. If sownnowandgrown on in a temperature of 55° at night they will be the right sort of plants for use next May and June. Begonia seed is very small and needs 1 ttle if any covering. In sowing these very fine seeds you are always liable to err by sowing too thick, aad it the seed germinates well your little plants will smother eachotherbeforethey are large enough to be handled. This often occurs with begonia, lobelia and petunia. So scatter these almost individ- ually invisible seed over a wide area, and then you will find they have come up thicker than you had any idea of. While yoa are excited about your Christmas crops don't forget that now we have the most favorable time for rooting almost everything in the cutting bed. The conditions that best suit the increase of most of our plants, for it is an increase of the same individual, and not a new individual as it is with seed, is done from now till the first of April. The theory or belief that a higher tempera- ture of the sand than the atmosphere was necessary to root the majority of plants is largely exploded and a fallacy. To expect plants or rather cuttings to send out roots in a temperature lower than the temperature in wh'ch their actual growth is made is against reason and the usages of nature; but as the cut- ting depends almost entirely on that part above the sand an even temperature of sand and atmosphere will be found most successful. A few degrees higher of sand will do no harm. .-V few instances of where sand or soil can be of the same tempera- ture as the house is in our modern way of propagating the carnation and the tea rose and a hundred examples could be cited. Why the dark and sunless days are best adapted to propagation is because there is less exhalation of moist- ure from the leaves and stems of the cut- 456 The American Florist. D ec. 12, ting. If you are short of coletis, abutilon, acalypha or any other plant, put them in the sand now. Once more I will repeat that the ammoniacal mixture will keep your cutting bed entirely healthy and pre- vent that "damping ofi"" which has troubled many a well meaning florist. I had occasion some years ago to dis- cover a way to keep over winter those beautiful lilies, lancifolium rubrum, album and others. You receive them in the late fall months. To put them outside in pots won't do. Pot them, leaving the top of bulb about even with surface of soil. Don't water them at all, but place them under a bench in your coolest house, where little water is likely to fall on them. I like to put an inch or so of sphagnum over the bulbs; this may seem a sort of dudish finish to the operation, but I am sure it pays. Any water dropping on them will be absorbed by the sphagnum, and it will prevent any drying out of the bulb. No encouragement is given them to grow, but as they send up their stalks an inch or two they are promoted to the top of the bench, which won't occur till April unless you water them. The philosophy of this is that you want them to be dorm- ant, at the same time be in their natural element, mother earth. Many of you have imported lilacs, and I hope forced them entirely successfully. My experience for the past four years is that those forced for Christmas are but an indifferent success, but later there is no difliculty. Those brought in about the 20th of this month are very satisfactory, and from that on it is still easier. A tem- perature of 65° at night will develop their fragrant flowers to perfection. I have found that where bench room in this sort of a house was limited standing them on the path where the heat of the pipes would be felt was quite satisfactory, removing them when showing color to a bench with full light. At this time of the year there is nothing more seasonable to the florist than that of "hardening off." I don't assume to know it all, but inside of a few years it will be found by the enlightened florist of the country that the ice-box is a fraud and a snare, unless ice-boxes are made on a different plan. They are simply gorgeous to look upon and show off your goods grandly, but, Oh! what is the result? When you get these flowers home, an utter collapse. Every florist should be provided with a cellar, where natural conditions exist, viz., dampness with a low temperature, which never can exist in an ice-box. The man who sells his showy roses to the transient customer may care little whether he sees that man or woman again, but the great multitude of florists want to see their customers return and say "Mr. McKinley, those roses and carnations I bought of you last week lasted right up to to-day and I only threw them out to-day, and now I want anothtr lot. I am really encour- aged to buy flowers." If you have not on your place a cool, damp cellar to keep your flowers in you have missed it. The real hardening off I meant to speak about was more in plants than flowers. Such plants as azaleas, poinsettias, tulips, nar- cissus and hyacinths should have a few days in a cool house before they are deliv- ered. W. S. while I was at the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens. One of the fellows who had faith in its value sent some for experi- ments. My first experiment convinced me that it was quite equal to, if not better than the ordinary sand. I put in cuttings of twelve different stove and greenhouse plants. A pot of each in sea sand and the same in ordinary sand. There was hardly a single failure in the 24 pots of cuttings. The only difference perceptible was that those in the sea sand did not wither so soon when exposed to the air. I do not now remember from what part of the coast the sand came but it was of a brownish color, and rather fine. We now use nothing but sea sand for all purposes and do not find it necessary to wash it. We have it direct from the east coast, It is rather coarse and nearly white, one great advantage in its use is that it is not so much inclined to cake down when used for the surface of cutting pots. Another is that we get it at less than half the cost of inland sand. A. Hemsley. Gardenias Again. Sea Sand for Propagating. When sea sand was first recommended to me for propagating I felt afraid to use it, and many others were of the opinion that the salt would prove fatal to cut- tings. My first experience of its use was The whirligig of fashion like that of time brings its many changes. The world and especially the ultra fashionable part of it seems to be continually seeking for something novel and rare. If it does not succeed in finding something new in the ordinary sense of the word, it is content to depart from the customs and tastes of the present, and revive for a time some- thing old. We oft hear it said that there is nothing new under the sun, and while we may not be free to admit the exact truth of that statement, yet new things are rare, and materialize slowly, conse- quently the mind contents itself for a change to resuscitate some of the treas- ures of long ago. This is true in the world of floriculture as in most other businesses that cater to gratify the senses. As an instance we see the gardenia again to the front. Once popular but for a num- ber of years regulated to the background, fashion has again and beyond doubt stamped it with approval, and from present indications a good demand will be guaranteed for some considerable time. The prices which can be got for them make them worthy of the florists' atten- tion. Easy of propagation, quick grow- ing, and under faverable conditions flow- ering very freely, if a few salient points are observed their introduction into the florists' establishment will now and for some time to come prove a profitable venture. The soft cuttings root as readily as geraniums if placed in sand in a little bot- tom heat, keeping the sand moist and syringing the plants two or three times daily. After rooting they may be potted off into 2inch pots and grown on rapidly in a temperature of 75° to S0°. When well rooted they may be potted off into 3-inch pots and the tops pinched when they are four or five inches high; by the time they become pot-bound they will have make three or four good shoots and when these growths have been per- fected the plants may be placed in a cool greenhouse to ripen off'. The plants should be placed in the full sun, syringed freely, but only watered as required. After the wood has become tolerably firm and well-ripened, they may be potted on into 5 inch pots. Placed in a good lively stove temperature and exposed to the full sun, in a short time they will be- gin to flower freely and at the same time will be making new growth. After the plants have done blooming and the growths again matured, they may be ripened off in a cool house as before. A compost of half leaf soil, and one half good fibrous loam, with a liberal sprink- ling of sharp sand seems to be all they require. Probably pot culture is best where a continuous supply of flowers is required, because it is much easier to get the wood ripened when the roots are un- der control. They should never be over potted. Planted out in shallow beds the same as for roses, in the above mentioned com- post, plenty of heat and sunlight, syringed freely and watered when dry, they will also give excellent results. A side bench 3% feet wide 33 feet long, containing one hundred plants yielded on an average for the last seven months from April, one hundred and twenty flowers per month. The plants should be syringed once a week with a weak emulsion of kerosene and water, to keep them free from bug. If green fly appears a syringing with a mixture of rose leaf tobacco will fix them. Theie are several variaties, but I think the best of all for commercial purposes is G. florida; it makes a nice shaped salable flower, and it is a very profuse bloomer. Gardenia Fortunei produces fine large flowers three times the size of the type, but it blooms so sparsely that it is very questionable if it would pay to grow. Great care should be taken in handling the flowers when packing for shipment; like camellias the petals are easily dam- aged. The flowers should be perfectly dry when packed and wrapped in a little cot- ton wadding. There may not be a for- tune for the florist growing them, but they will pay and as there is bound to be considerable demand for them for some time to come, the florist growing them will not only make a dollar from them, but will also be able to please his cus- tomers by supplying them with what they want. J. R. Johnson. Ferns Dymg. Will you kindly inform me what is the cause of enclosed ferns dying. I use them as a border around a fountain and water them when necessary. I received them about four weeks ago in good condition. F. W. In such a case as this a whole plant, including the roots, would be a much more satisfactory specimen from which to find the trouble than the few small fronds that accompany the query. But it appears probable that the plants have been over-watered before the roots had taken hold of the soil in their new quarters, and from their proximity to the fountain the fronds may have also received too much moisture. Snail tracks are also numerous on the specimens sent, and some pieces of cab- bage or lettuce leaves could be used as traps for these pests. W. II. Taplin. A Funeral Design. The accompanying engraving is from a photograph of a lyre recently arranged by Mr. P. J. Hauswirth, Chicago. The treatment of the base of the design seems particularly good and the whole arrangement is as loose as possible while still retaining the outlines of the design. The roses are Kaiserins and the chrysan- themums Mrs. H. Robinson. The cost of material was as follows: Wire work and ferns $1.25, 75 roses $2.25, 50 valley $2, 200 violets $2. 3 small cycas leaves $1.50, chrysantbe- i8g6. The American Florist. 457 A FUNERAL DESIGN. mums $1, ribbon and lettering same $1, total $11. Retail price should be $20 to $25. Boston. The cold spell in the early part of last week was of short duration and those whj expected to see steady winter weather set in were disappointed, for bright warm days followed and the effect on the flower market was the usual result in such cases. Roses are not in great de- mand yet, with theexception of American Beauty which sell well, and the average qualityin market is but medium. Carna- tions have had to take it worse than the roses have. There is a most unwieldy sur- plus of all colors coming in and they are sold with difficulty at prices far below those prevailing last year at the same sea- son. This is particularly true of whites and Scotts. Violets are abundant and are cheap enough to be available for the street fakirs who have them to sell in abundance. Valley, hyacioths and paper white narcissus are abundant, the paper whites being in the least demand and bringing the lowest price for bulb stock. In plants there are sjme fine poinsettias and Chinese primroses with a few bloom- ing azaleas to brighten up the green of the palms and araucarias that fill most of the florists' windows. Wm. Edgar is growing Crystal for a white carnation this season and likes it. Last year he was cutting fine mignonette at this date but it is very much later this year. Chrysanthemums have given place to lilies of which he will have a big Easter stock. Fern pans and azaleas are in fine shape fur the holidays. Mr. Edgar's new house has been equipped with the Evans ventilating apparatus which he regards as the best machine on the market to-day. His neighbor, Fred Mathieson has a number of rose houses that are worth going to see. Brides and Bridesmaids are the varieties mostly grown. There is a large stock of bouvardia some on benches, others in boxes which set on the floor, extend alonsr the entire front of the rose benches. It is mainly the double white variety and the best of it now in bloom can be cut with stems over two feet in length. When asked the secret of the production of such perfect blooms he said, "I never syringe it; it won't stand it." Mr. H. A. Gane, the chrysanthemum enthusiast, is now eighty-five years old but is still working devotedly at his favorite pastime as he has for years not for profit but because he loves it. His greatest triumph, Mrs. Jerome Jones, stands without a peer to-day having more all-round good points than any other variety yet introduced and his Galden Ball, West Newton, and the ane- mone flowered Mrs. Gane and Marcia Jones are all deservedly popular. The Mrs. Jerome Jones is named for his daughter. A new cool orchid house has recently been completed for Mr. Oakes Ames and a recent purchase of one thousand masde- vallias will help to stock it. Mr. Ames has purchased the well known collection of Mr. Gilmore of North Easton. This young gentleman takes the deepest inter- est in horticulture and botany and be- tween him and his gardener, Carl Blom- berg, who is equally enthusiastic, there exists the closest confidence and friend- ship. This place is sure to take high rank in the near future. At the December meeting of the Massa- chusetts Horticultural Society, President Appleton was authorized to address a letter to President-elect McKinley asking that the special interests of horticulture be given equal consideration with those of other departments of agriculture in selecting a secretary of agriculture. Reports of the committees on arrange- ments and on establishing prizes were presented by J. H. Woodford and W. J. Stewart and accepted, as was also J. G. Barker's report for the garden committee. The schedule of prizes for next year provides for a special pEeony exhibition in June and an aquatic exhibition in August. The exhibition rules are changed so that hereafter all names of exhibitors shall be concealed in envelopes until after the judges have made their awards. For the next chrysanthemum exhibition the trained plants in the group classes must be in not exceeding 10 inch pots, and the date of the show will be one week earlier than that of 1896. Mr. and Mrs. James Sutherland, parents of George A. Sutherland, cele- brated their golden wedding on Novem- ber 21, at Athol. They were married in Banffshire, Scotland, and the story of the happy occasion is very interesting as showing the customs in Scotland fifty years ago. The bride and groom, living far apart, each went twenty miles on foot to a mutually-selected meeting place, he accompanied by twenty young men and she by twenty maidens, and after the ceremony the whole party went to the new home of the couple and had a great jollification. Providence, R. I. The Florists' and Gardeners' Club's concert, last week was one of the events of the season. Many who attended would like to have it repeated. Those that were not there have much to regret. The spacious hall was converted into a conservatory of tropical splendor. Too much praise cannot be awarded to the working part of the decorative committee and their corps of willing helpers who were unable to contribute their plants from the fact that they were out of town members. The work of decorating went on smoothly and harmoniously and in a few hours everything was pronounced satisfactory. The working part of the decorative committee consisted of Wm. Appleton, Jr., Wm. H. Wing, Wm. E. Chapp:ll, Jas. B. Canning. Contribu- tors of palms, etc., were Wm. Appleton, Jr., James B. Canning, Wm. E. Chappell, E.J. Johnston, Geo. Johnson & Son, Wal- ter S. Hogg. F. Macrae, John Macrae, N. D. Pierce, Jr., R. I. Greenhouses, Thos. Curley, J. G. Jensen, Wm. B. Hazzard, D. W. McCoid, Geo. C. Kelly, Edgar Neck. Cycas, pampas, ornamental grasses and other useful requisites were furnished by A. M. Rennie, representing W. A. Potter & Co. Cut flowers, roses, chrysanthe- mums, carnations, etc., as well as their 458 The American Florist. Dec. t2. labor in arrangiag were from the follow- ing members of the cluV: F. Macrae, [. Macrae, M. J. Edmonds, W. S. Nichol, J. F. Schellinger. N. D. Pierce, Jr., C. C. Sullivan, F. H. G.isler, P. S. Byrres, M. J. Leach, John Sbedden & Son, S.J. Reu- ter. Wire work was furnishel by Mr. Bishop of What Cheer Wire Works. Their interest for the su.-cess of the undertaking was practically demon- strated by their liberal contribution and skill in the arrangement. The specimen cjcas that formed the center piece for the stage was one of Mr. McCoid's; this being illuminated by an electric star made a striking effect, and was a happy thought of W. H. Wing. The entertainment committee were well chosen. And a choicer reiecled program would be a different task. Amidst music and flowers many a soul was wafted to fairy land, only to return to the stern realities of life at the close of the enter- tainment. A number of large bunches of the Francis B. Hayes chrysanthemum here and there about the hall won for F. Macrae many favorable comments. The bank of pink and white roses in front of the stage recti ved special admiration. A rosette of cycas leaves and pink carna- tions over a canopy of festooned smilax at the entrance door made a pleasing effect. The Police Association ball on the following evening reaped the benefit of the entrance and balcony decoration of smilax, rhododendron, etc. Wm. Flanagan reports a good demand for small ferns for table decoration, also for carnations. Walter S. Hogg is ore of the oldest established florists in the city and has his regular family trade; by his genial man- ner be seems to get his share in spite of the inroad of opposition. The number of social events for the past week has made business for all the boys. Little Rhody. New York. Market conditions are fluctuating and uncertain. On Monday of this week there was an unexpected and unexplained stringency. Demand increased and sup- ply decreased in an unaccountable man- ner and an atmosphere of bustle prevailed all the way from 34th street to 23d street. The Greek was nonplussed; he put up a stubborn attack all along the line, but all his smiles, coaxing and threatening were repulsed with cold indifference, and the jabbering was as fruitless as it was ani- mated for they couldn't cross the" trocha" of stiff prices. Johnnie Weir's hands went down farther than ever into his pockets, presumably to hold the cash down while he prospected and his serious countenance revealed the mental disquietude under which he labored. Twenty-four hours only did this last, however, and Tuesday morning came in with old conditions renewed, more car- nations and roses than the market could use, and prices back where they were last week, and so it has continued ever since. Carnations are really too plentiful to admit of much hope for any continued reign of prices other than the most mod- erate figures and violets are in the same condition with like prospects. December meeting of New York Florists' Club takes place Mondav, Dicember 14, p. m. when election of officers will be in order. The Reed Glass Co. made an assign- ment on Tuesday, the 8th inst. Frank Traendly of Traendly & Schenck suffered a sad bereavement in the loss of bis wife, who died of diptheria on Sun- day, December 6, leaving three little chil- dren motherless. The rivalry and com- petition of trade were forgotten in the feeling of sympathy that found eloquent expression throughout the neighborhood of 28th street among Mr. Traendly's business associates and competitors alike. Importers of florists' supplies report much embarrassment resulting from the strikes now in progress at Hamburgh. Shipments of lily of the valley and immor- telles are detained indefinitely and those who happen to have stock on hand are holding it closely for the present. The open weather has brought in an unusual supply of bouquet green and the market is somewhat demoralized on this article. A. and F. Rolker have got well under- way at their new headquarters in 28th street and are receiving a fine line of flowers daily. They have discontinued the auc- tion business down town and will confine themselves to the cut flower business hereafter. Two new auction establishments are to be opened down town in the spring, John Cleary having bought out the good will of the Messrs. Rolker, and R. M. Gardner, lately with R. B. Young and Rolker, having arranged to open on his own account in Barclay street. A. Dimmock sails for England per steamer Umbria on Saturday, 12th inst., and will not return till February or March. Mr. Dimmock's New York ad- dress will hereafter be in care ofWeeber & Don, 114 Chambers street, instead of 106 Liberty street as heretofore. A very ingenious and serviceable Christ- mas tree support made by Paul M. Pier- son may be seen at Millang & Co.'s store on corner of Sixth avenue and 30th street. George Siltford is sending to Thos. Young, Jr., sample bunches of his new violet, Mrs. Astor, which attracts much attention on account of its unique red purple color. Frank Millang has been confined to his home for the past week with erysipelas in his foot. W. H. Siebrecht, who has been danger- ously ill with pnemonia is reported as convaleseent. Visiting New York: Sam'l Gjldring, Albany, N. Y. Philadelphia. As the month advances the stores are beginning to take on a Christmas look; stocks of jardinieres, fern baskets, etc., are increased, little novelties appearand those who make a specialty of plants are stocking up and making room for more. A good business is anticipated and it looKS as if there will be an abundance of fine stock both in plants and cut flowers, enough in fact to make the present season a record breaker; provided a generous public will only do their part. There is considerable activity in the stores at present and a fairly good demand for stock at the advanced prices, another upward move taking place last Monday. Beauties, first selection, 36 to 40 inch stems, are now $6 per dozen, 24 to 30 inch, $4 to $4.50, and two sizes shorter bring $1.50 to $3. The stock, particularly the large size, is very fine. Brides, Maids and Meteors, are selling first size for $S. second $6, and smaller stock down to $3 per hundred. Carnations are not quite so strong; good stock can still be had for $1 per hundred although $1.25 to $1.50 is asked for fancy, and extra choice command $2. There are no longiflorumin the market as yet. Callas are coming.in, $10 per hun- dred being the price. Violets arc 75 cents per hundred for the doubles, Cahfornias being 35 to 50. Cypripediums are plenti- ful at $16 per hundred. R )bert C-awford is improving his store by removing the partition from the inside of his show windows and making the fpace larger. Mr. Crawford is justly proud of his store and is constantly add- ing to its attractiveness in every possible way. Hugh Graham is cutting some Brunners; very good buds they are too for the sea- son. His houses of the new Victor carna- tion are worth going a long journey to see, it certainly is a good thing. W. K. Harris and Jacob Becker are in the market with fine azaleas, very well flowered plants; they both have fine stocks for Christmas. The Gun Club have their regular semi- monthly shoots, increased interest being taken in the sport. A. B. Cartledge won the medal last Tuesday for the second time with a score of twenty-two. Mr. J. J. Styers' son, who was injured so badly by falling from a tree on to a hedge two weeks ago, died from the result of his injuries and was buried Wednesday the 10th inst. K. Buffalo. As the joyous holiday time approaches the prices of flowers go up. Really good roses are getting scarce. There are no violets going to waste; carnations are in plentiful supply, but the qualtity of too many is only second class. 'Mums are almost out of sight. There will be for the Christmas trade an abundance of nice plants offered: Cyclamens, primulas, cinerarias, azaleas, poinsettias, linums, begonias and several other flowering plants from which the public can have their choice to suit their pocket. Palmer's windows are now gay with very high class Daybreak carnations and Meteor roses. Wm. Milley says his firm will have over a thousand Bermuda lilies to cut for Christmas and New Year's. They were headquarters last year for the sameuseful product and disposed of them very satisfactorily. Billy is at present on the grand jury and a great improvement he is ovtr the average juror. Business is about fair, never very start- ling, just now weldings and receptions are, however, promised us in the near future. William Kasting's wholesale emporium is now a busy place, most all of us finding ourselves or our representatives there once a da}' and usually many times oftener. From the spirits displayed by a small gathering there a few days ago in which the writer took a minor part every- thing was lovely and a good winter's tiade was prognosticated by all. A recent visit to the houses of Joseph H. Rebstock on Ellwood avenue was enjoyed for the large houses are kept in fine order and filled with a most useful lot of stuff. A house of palms in every size and grand condition is the feature of this place. On our way home we called to see neighbor Christenson, whose place is blooming with azaleas, poinsettias, ciner- arias and other flowering plants for the holiday trade. Mr. C. has gone quite extensively into evergreens in large pots and tubs, junipers, cupressus, etc. Whether these will ever be as popular as palms for decorative purposes I doubt. They are, I think, too funereal and stiff. Mr. Christenson is suffering with acute insomnia, not caused by any physical dis- order but purely mental. His sleepless moments are more the result of a soliloquy like Hamlet's "to beornot to be." "Shall i8g6. The American Florist. 459 I retire on my competence and live like a country squire or a half pay officer in the island of Jersey, where chickens, wine and cigars are cheap, or shall I go once more deep and wide into this business which I do not like and yet 'tis the one I know." We believe when the sun is higher and the robin again extracts the worm from his pansy beds and soft spring lubricates his more or less stiffened joints that he will not leave his first and only love. I regret to have to tell you that Mr. W. J. Palmer, Sr., has been very seriously ill, but is now improving and out of danger. We had in town last week the ever recurring Mr. Mott of Riverton, whose visits are not infrequent enough lor us to notice any marked change in his rotundi- folia appearance. Mr. Vick, of Albion, N. Y., gave us a call. He is one of the many offshoots of the Vick tree whose branches have taken root in many parts of western New York. On November 21, at Williamsville, N. Y., occurred the death of Mrs. Mary Long, aged 77 years. She was the mother of our Dan'l B., Mr. Elias A. Long, so well known in horticultural literature. Dr. Berjamin and Dr. Eli Long, and sev- eral other sons and daughters, all a credit to their honored mother. W. S. St. Louis. There is little to say about business here; since Thanksgiving it has been very quiet. Flowers are still plentiful, at least those grown in this vicinity. The pros- pects so far are that most growers will have a good supply of all kinds of cut flowers during the holidays, especially if the blight weather continues. Last week we had some real cold weather, cold enough to keep the fakir off the streets, and this made the down town florists happy, but it lasted only a few days, and the fakirs are out again. Roses have gone up a little in price, extra long buds selling at from $4 to $S, and the second grade at $1 to $3. Car- nations are still coming to this market in large quantities, with red very scarce; some extra fine stock is selling as high as $2.50, with the others going at from $1 to $2. Great quantities of Romans and paper whiles are coming in and sell all the way from $1 to $3. Harri'iis are in good demand at $15,callasat $8. Choice valley is held at $4. Violets are not so plentiful as they have been but the demand is good; price the same as last week. Christmas prices are as yet somewhat unsettled but the generalsentiment of the wholesale men is against any sudden advance. Holly and ground pine wreathing have made their appearance and the store fronts are putting on a holiday attire; a heavy demand for ground pine and holly is reported. The Chas. G. Fleckenstein company, wholesale florists, has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000, all paid up. The stock holders are Chas. G. Fleckenstein 100 shares, Al. Bauer, 100 shares; and Lee Fleckenstein 50 share?; they will do business at the old stand 1322 Pine street. Lloyd Vaughan, representing J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, was a visitor last week. Lloyd reports business good all along the line. Monday night last the bowlers had rain again but ten men were on hand and rolled three games. Chas. Kuehn was high in three games, with 5S2; C. Beyer second, 577; Bentke third, 545. Kuehn was also high on single high score with 210, Beneke second with 209, Sanders third with 204. After rolling the three games tie meeting was held with Presi- dent Wtber in the chair. The treasurer's report was read showing that the club is in a flourishing condition financiallv. It was decided to purchase a new 9-inch ball. The meeting then adjourned. J-J-B. Chicago. At the last meeting of the Florist Club President Grant was finally prevailed upon to serve another term and was re- elected. As the date for the next regular meeting falls on Chi istmas Eve no attempt will be made to hold a meeting that even- ing. Therefore the next meeting will take place the second Thursday in January; the program for that meeting includes a paper by W. N. Rudd, and a discussion of the question: "Ought retail florists to buy flowers of wholesalers who sell at retail?" Every retailer and wholcsalerin the city will be invited to be present at this meeting, whether members of the c!ub or not. The president wasinstructed to write Governor-elect Tanner urging the retention of Mr. E. G. Uihlein as West Park Commissioner, that gentleman hav- ing been in the opinion of the club the best commissioner the West Parks have ever had. The club will undoubtedly hold another "carnation meeting" early in February. Business is about the same as reported last week. Roses are very scarce, which has stiffened prices accordingly. Most of the growers are off' crop. Carnationsare very plentiful, but the demand is rather slow for them, although it is generally anticipated that the oversupply in the latter will in a measure compensate for the scarcity in roses. Violets sell well and bring top prices, some of the best going as high as $1 50. Bulbous stuff as usual is a drug, especially Romans and paper white. Chrysanthemums seem about done, though a few Queen are seen, which sell well. Some fine Douvardia was seen, for which there is considerable demand. The florists all expect a good holiday trade, with but little advance in prices. Mr. Flint Kennicott of Kennicott Bros. Co. has been on the sick list the past week. Among visitors this week was E. E. Shedd of Valparaiso, Ind. Cincinnati. The general run of business has been slow the past week, and prices remain low. Choice tea roses are selling at from 3 to 4, carnations 1 to 1.50, violets 75 cents, valley 4, Roman hyacinths and narcissus 2 to 3, smilax 12 to 15. Amer- ican Beauties are very scarce. Chrysan- themums are about done, with the excep- tion of a few good yellows, and they have seen better days. Christmas holly is arriving at the wholesale houses, and everything except the flower trade shows evidence of the approach of the holiday season. Mr. James Allan, foreman to H. L.Sun- derbruch, sHpped over to Newport some time ago and took unto himself a wile, (juite a surprise to his many friends. Congratulations are in order. We visited Mr. R. Witterstaetter a few days ago, and found Dick as usual among his pet seedlicg carnations. Four houses are filled with seedlings, and some choice flowers as well as striking colors can be seen among them. One bench of a bright scarlet, strong grower, and with healthy 1 foliage, makes a good showing; this vari- ety he has named after our popular Pres- ident Sunderbruch. Another scarlet, equally as good, is named Jewel. In white he has something superior to any up to date; flower exceedingly large and well built, name Evelina. All of them were grown two years. His house of Emma Wocher is a grand sight; this variety cer- tainly feels perfectly at home there. From here we made a side trip to see Fred Walz, another carnation enthusiast. Several benches of choice seedlings can be found here. He has some of great prom- ise, among them five of special merit. One is a large pink measuring fully 3 inches, fragrant and with long, stiff stems, an improvement on Wm. Scott. No. 2 is a pink, in style of Tidal Wave, and judg- ing from the growth, a free bloomer. N i. 3 is white, penciled with pink, growth of Scott, but stem more stiff, flower fragrant and large. No. 4 is a deep, but bright scarlet, free bloomer, and an all-round improvement on any existing variety. All these have been grown two years and Mr. Walz intends to baptize them in the near future. No douDt we will have some grand blooms to show in February before the American Carnation Society. H. SCHWARZ. Pittsburg. Business since last report has been rather quiet in a general way, notwith- standing that a few of the florists have had a fairly good week. Violets have been scarce, requiring some hustling to get enough to supply the demand, prices however, remained unchanged; other kinds of stock, roses, carnations and bulbous, were plentiful and of uniformly excellent quality. All are looking forward now to the Christmas trade, several hav- ing good orders booked already, and are anticipating a brisk holiday trade. Mr. Walter Scott,brother-ia-Iawof Mr. Frosch, landscape architect connected with Highland Park, has put up on Bryant street between N. Highland ani Negley avenues two houses to be called the "Baywood" greenhouses, each 100x10 feet. Mr. Scott purposes the cultivation of mushrooms and early cucumbers as specialties at present; in addition to the houses he will utilize hot beds with over three hundred sash 6s4 feet; he also has cold frames extra for the growing of mushrooms during the sum- mer season. He has about 7 acres of ground, intending to use it for growing hardy herbaceous plants and nursery stock. Mr. Scott is an expert in the lines he has determined to follow and his place is particularly well situated for the trade he will supply. Messrs. Gus and Julius Ludwig, who were both on the sick list, are about again although not fully recovered. A visit to Highland Park convinces every person that this will be one of the handsomest parks in the country when the contemplated improyements are com- pleted; all the past season Superintendent Geo. W. Burke has been very busy work- ing to accomp'ish that end. He has fin- ished the Riverside Drive, which gives such magnificent views on the Allegheny River, and affords an easy ascent to the reservoir from what may be termed the side entrance to the park; on this drive- way near Carnegie Lake he has erected over a ravine a beautiful stone bridge with 60 feet arch. Oj the Reservoir Drive, which leads from the main entrance ( Highland avenuel to the Z )0. is another massive stone bridge, with 12foot arch; this is the shortest route to the Z )o, which is in course of construction now, but will not be completed before spring; 460 The American Florist. Dec 12. this will cost over $120,000 and is a gift from the Traction Co. running to the park. The magnificent main entrance is also in course of construction, it is to be of granite and bronze; there are four granite columns on each side, surmounted by a cap stone which alone weighs twenty tons. This entrance will not be finished before January 1, but when done will have cost all of $80,000, and belongs to park improvements, it not being a gift. There has also been the ground pre- pared for and over 800 shade trees planted this season, and everything got ready to plant shrubbery, etc., in the spring; but even with the large amount of such im- provements underway, the ornamental part was not overlooked, although not conducted on such an elaborate scale as last year and year before, the exhibit of chrysanthemums now finished, was very fine, and when it is taken into considera- tion that there is only one greenhouse cornected with this park, and is not a large one either, where a variety of plants are also grown, all the praise bestowed on it by judges is none too much. Con- sidering its size this exhibit was not sur- passed anywhere, and great credit is due Mr. W. B. Ague and his assistant Mr. A. W. Sheafer for the result. By next spring the improvements will have been nearly completed and the park will present a much more attractive appearance, ena- bling Superintendent Burke to display the splendid ornamental flower planting which he has in contemplation and for which this park is admirably adapted, and which will make it one of the many great attractions of Pittsburg. Regia. San Francisco. Business has taken a very noticeable change for the better during the past few weeks. Stcckof all kinds is shortening up in all quarters and consequently prices have advanced accordingly. Chrys- anthemums, which have held the market now for many weeks almost to the exclu- sion of all other stock, have stepped down and out. The frosts which have stepped down and out. Thefrosts which have come at last put a stop to all out- side chrysanthemums, thereby killing off much poor stock with which the florists were daily loaded, and as a consequence they are happy. For ThanksgivitJg Day football game nearly all the yellow chrys- anthemums whch could be had werecon- sumed. There was also a heavy demand for red chrysanthemums, but the supply was not equal to the demand. Mrs. Us is about ihe only late white that we have at the present time. The demand for roses is increasing daily, and as a general rule good stock is bringing very good prices. There may be a scarcity of good stock for the holidays as only two or thiee growers have any. We note some excellent Brides and Brides- maids coming ia which sell for 50 cents perduzen. Testout is a little scarce as also.is American Beauty. Theroses com- ing from M. Lynch and E. W. McClellan are excellent. Violets are also in much demand, but, as usual at this period, the supply is always short. Carnations are coming in very pood and about equal to the demand. Portias, especially are in good form, and are bringiag from $2 to $2 50 per hundred. The California State Floral Society held their impromptu meeting and exhibition as scheduled. There was no admission fee charged and about 3,000 people took advantage of the beautiful weather and visited the exhibition. Themost noticea- ble display of all as one entered the hall was that of John H. Sievers. His im- mense vase of American Beauty roses was by far tlie finest that we have seen here. They were simply grand. Mr. Sievers' display of other sons of roses was also highly spoken of. Golden Gate Park also had a very fine display of palms and ornamental greenhouse plants. Mr. E. Gill, of Oakland, was there as usual with his large collection of roses. Mr. Gill had the best and largest collection of cut roses in the hall. The society was greatly pleased by the large attendance at their meeting. Their next public exhibition will be the spring rose show. A. Rosalie & Co. have opened up a store at 224 Sutter street, between Kear- ney and Grant avenue. The store is in a very favorable location and the new fiim ought to make it a success, Mr. John O'Hearn is bringing in some excellent Portias and Scott daily. He says that trade is improving slowly. Meteor. Cleveland. Business of late has not been particu- larly remarkable in any way. At times it has shown a little life, only to drop away again into a condition of things exasperatingly dull. Prices under this state of affairs have not shown any mate- rial change, even though the gradual diminution of the chrysanthemum supply might have been expected to stiffen prices considerably. These latter are now about through, only a few late sorts, such as Jerome Jones, Challenge and so forth, still being oflfered by some florists. With others, chrysanthemums are entirely done. With those with whom they are norm ally very late, being in abundant supply at Christmas, there promises to be consider- able difficulty in holding even the very latest till that time without the most favorable weather. The average of the midseason and late chrysanthemums seems to be from two to three weeks ahead of the same sorts last year. At the last meeting of the club a report on the chrysanthemum show brought out a deficiency of receipts as compared with expenditures of upwards of $500, which has been paid out of the club's funds. The attendance cannot fairly be complained of, so the source of the difficulty must be sought elsewhere. It does not seem as though the premium list had been unwisely liberal, nor any of the other incidental expenses excessive, unless possi- bly in the matter of music. There is, however, no way of saddling the entire loss upon this one item. Avery general impression prevails that a part of the financial lack ol success can be laid to the low price of admission to an exhibi- tion on such a scale. Many believe that a 50-cent rate of admission, while it would undeniably diminish the attendance, would not by any means cut it in half, more especially if held in a hall which by reason of location must necessarily be most convenient of access from the most wealthy section of the city. In a hall of more central location the argument for a 25-cent rate, making more general attend- ance possible, would seem to have a much better standing. In the meantime there is nearly a year to argue it out. A. Rochester, N. Y. The faces of our retail florists grovi- brighter since cold winter weather has set in, and since chrysanthemums are out of the way. The demand fori! jwers was very satisfactory during last week and the supply ample. Since the end of last week carnations are very abundant in the market and have gone down in price; the retailers are offering them at cut rates in order to dispose of the accumulated over- stock. All the other stock holds its own and is sold at regular paying prices, none of it going to waste. Funeral work, which for several weeks was rather scarce, has again been a prominent feature lately, also a number of house and church decorations for various occasions. Mr. Geo. EUwanger, the senior member of the firm of EUwanger & Barry, cele- brated his eightieth birthday this week in his magnificent residence, situated on the elevated ground opposite the old and original nursery grounds on Mt. Hope avenue. Only a few select friends and his three sons were pre sent at the celebration and as a fitting conclusion of the unusu- ally pleasant everiag entertainment, an elegant large solid silver loving cup was presented to the old gentleman. Not many of cs who call themselves old in the business are able to attend to the details of their establishments day after day as Mr. EUwanger has been in the habit of doing since 1840, when he first embarked in the venture, which grew to such un- rivalled proportions in these long years, and although the venerable gentleman has never been a very strong man, atten- tion to business was never very seriously interrupted by ill health for any consid- erable time. In all these 56 years he could, with few exceptions, be seen daily in his office and in different parts of the extensive and scattered grounds, often driving many miles in severe and unpleas- ant weather to give directions to a gang of men or inspecting their work and thus he acquired the habit of seeing his men in the nurseries daily and dees not think it tiresome to-day to walk up and down the long nursery rows for an hour or two. What would some of us old fellows who are only in the fifties or sixties say to a stroll over the roughly plowed ground between young trees and shrubs, lor a little exercise? I am inclined to think that a majority would look for a resting place at the end of the first row. We offer our heartiest congratulations and best wishes for continued good health. Among visitors in town we should mention Mr. A. Dimmcck, who reports important sales in palms, araucarias, orchids, etc., for spring delivery, up to the average; and Mr. W. Mott, reoresent- ing H. A. Dreer, Philadelphia. J. B. K. Omaha. Thanksgiving business was far from being satisfactory, which is attributed almost entirely to the bad weather. A drizzling rain set in Tuesday night, con- tinuiag until Thursday morning, when it began to turn into sleet, grew cold sud- denly and by ten o'clock the city was a glare of ice, with sleet still falling. Ship- ping orders were quite numerous, as they were placed some time ahead, but the transient trade fjr Thursday was the poorest our florists have experienced for a great many years. The best chrysanthemums were all gone and only a few of the single stem blooms were obtainable; the smaller varieties went begging at fifty cents per dozen. Roses at most places brought 75 cents, while one or two dealers report having got $1 for all varieties. The prevailing price for carnations was 35 cents, Romans and paper whites selling for 75. Chrysanthemum business has also been very poor, the demand being for the middle sized plants, at from 35 to 50 i8g6. The American F^lorist. 461 cents, while the sales for anything above 60 cents were very exceptional. During the first week of November the demand for single stem white and yellow 'mums was far ahead of the supply. November business of this year was far ahead of that of last year, while Decem- ber, so far, is very light and about the same as last year. Hess & Swoboda report satisfactory returns from their 16th street store. Mrs. E. E. Arnold is in Kansas City, Mo., at the bedside of her son, J. Warren, who has been down with a severe attack of typhoid fever for the past two months. rI H. Davey, the aloe and cacti special- ist, has disposed of his stock of plants and departed for Mexico. L. A. Moore of Plattsmouth gave a chrysanthemum show in connection with one of the local chuiches the latter part of November, which was a decided success. G. R. H. SITUATIONS, WANTS. FOR SALE. AdvertlBemenU unaer this head will be Inaerted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under this head. QITDATION WANTED O work by single man. - For general greenhouse P A. American Florist. SITUATION WANTED — As foreman or manaEer, private or small commercial place, by flrst-class German florist. References O. K. Address (' H. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By German, single, age 28; flrst-class grower of cut flowers, general pot plants, forcing of bulbs, etc.. Sober and reliable. Address Place, care American Flodat. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED- By a thorough, practical gardener; English; with over ItJ years' experience. Best of reference from past situation; single, age 38. F. MUNMNGS. IIH Spring Garden St . Phlla., Pa. SITUATION WANTED— Practical grower wants to O gain experience In making up designs in a large Chicago establishment. Willing to work for board. Address X Y Z. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— As all round florist, good propagator, grower of roses, carnations, mums and general stock; also palms, ferns, etc; 22 years' experience: single. K S, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— As working foreman, by a competent grower and manager of commercial place, where plenty of goofl stuff Is wanted. No strug- glers need apply. References exchanged. Far West preferred. Address Western, care Am. Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By an experienced grower of roses, carnations, etc.. etc.. In greenhouses for the wholesale or retail trade. Capable of taking charge of 20.i:iOU feet of glass. Age 3(), single; thor- oughly reliable and stealy; 10 years' experience. Ad- dress G B. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED- As manager, grower, or working foreman, by an all round, practical florist and landscape gardener; married, and wife an expert up-to-date design maker. Or. will rert for term of years, with privilege of buying, a well located green- house plant. Address 012 Prairie Ave., Creston. Iowa. WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of a first-class chance to establish himself. Address I) U B. care American Florist. WANTED— Married man who understands general florist business, to take cliarge of greenhouse In good condition and well stocked; especially want a man who Is a cood manaeer and salesman. Wages Sli^' I per month with house rent, heat for same, and garden free Ke<4iilre reference as to ability, honesty, sobriety and Industry, ,1. B Harsh. Pres. Creston National Bank. Creston. Iowa. FOR SALE OR RENT-Three greenhouses well stocked and In ;:uod repair. Good chance for an enterprising man. Will take a good man In as partner. MRS. HoLZMAKER. '>m Tuohy Ave , Chicago. FOR SALE—A retail store in city, stocked with fresh and artlflclal flowers; good location established t; years: we are going out of business and will make reasonable terms. Address L, care Am. Florist. FOR RENT AT A BARGAIN-My greenhouse. ;>0OU square feet of glass, with dwe lln^ to responsible parties who will purchase stock, with privilege of buy- ing, liood trade established. County seat; town of 80(10. In 111. Address .\, care American Florist. FOti SALE— Five greenhouses toxl2o In flrst-class repair, hot water, new windmill, r>0-barrel tank, .i- room cottage. barn.2\. acres land, sheltered bv limber 40mlnutes ride from city; greenhouses stockc'l with nine thousand carnations of the very best market vari- eties and In finest possible health (cutting flowers from most varieties now); r.00 snillax. Terms reasonable to responsible parties. Address K. care Am. Florist. Always mention the American Flo* BJST when writing to advertisers. AAA AAA A A AAA ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Herr's 1 LANCASTER, PA. Fellow Florists: — With the facilities to grow and the stock to produce over a iiiilHon Rooted Cuttings of Carnations, I am in a position to fill your orders and give a written guarantee with every order that the cuttings will be satisfactory or the money refunded. : Carnations: :*♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ GERANIUMS, PETUNIAS, PANSIES and COLEUS. In Geraniums the collection is made up of the most popular colors and the finest col- lection of the new and older varieties, at Jl.50 per 100; ;f 12.50 per 1000; all labelled, but strictly my selection. In Petunias the finest striped and mottled are offered at $2 per 100;|15 perlOCO. Also Veteran, a double fringed variety never introduced, flowers immense, white striped rose, plant dwarf and covered with bloom. Price 50 cts. per dozen; f3.50 per 100. Pansies, any quantity; none better, 75 cts. per 100; |5.00 per lOOO. LB. 496. ALBERT M. HERR, LANCASTER, PA. New Yellow Carnation MAYOR PINGREE. Without doubt the best Yellow Carnation in commerce to-day. Orders booked and filled in rotation. Delivery March 1st, 1897. S1-50 per dozen; $10.00 per hundred; $75.00 per thousand. STRONG STOCK PLANTS OF IVOIRE ROSE CHRYSANTHEMUM, $3.00 PER DOZEN. JOHN BREITMEYER & SONS, Miami and Gratiot Aves., DETROIT, MICH. ALM ^-^yf^^^^t^' ON HAND Per 100 1000 SOX) Cocos Weddelliaua $1.25 $10. 00*27.60 raiulanus utllis 1.50 12.50 35 00 L'lillea aral>ica 1.50 13. .iO .Musa Eiisete 125 10 00 27.50 J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. Mention American Florist. Korty tine Xlarechal N lei Koses. and a quantity of Forget-ran-nots, to reach us December 24th. WM. H. BROWER & SON, 955 Broadway, NEW YORK. TO LEASE. On account of owner going abroad for a number of years, the JOHN HENDERSON CO. will lease to a responsible party their property at Flushing, L. I-, consisting of ti2.600 square feetof glass, seven acres of land, three dwelling houses, stables, horse, wagon, etc, for a term of years. For all particulars apply to JOHN HENDERSON CO., Flushing, N. Y. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. Six greenhouses. 14,000 feetof t:lass. tirst-rlase repair, well stocked with everything found In a flrst-class house, all In good healthy conaitlon. Twin boilers, only one In use at a time, steam heat, city water throughout, three acres uf ground, telephone in office, packing room, sheds, eight room residence and stables, nil Inside city limits of a city <»f 3(1.000. ten railroads. 1,') minutes' ride from city 140,000: good trade In both cities, and surrounding towns. Good reasons for sell- ing. Anyone contemplating buying cannot afford to overlook this otfer. Address IOWA, care American Florist. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. A florist establishment, with nearly one acre of ground, three greenhouses containing 71X10 ft. of glass with the latest improvements, also boiler house, poitlng sued and office, steam boiler :i') horse power, houses stocked with best varieties of roses, carnations and chrysanthemums and a good general stock uf plants. In tine growing condition. City 1b a great R. K. center In the northern part of Indiana, population IS.OOO. frreenhouses about Ave minutes' walk from opera louae, and three minutes from depot. Competltlun just as good as not any. A fine local trade; also well suited for wholesale business. This place is all new, having been built within the last sl.\ months. Fur- ther particulars on application. Address H H, care American Florist. PUTIN CARNATIONS PORTIA, GARFIELD. HIN2ES WHITE, ADA BYRON, ROSALIND, NICHOLSON, S4,00 per 100. J. L. DILLON, Bloomsburg, Pa. Mention American Florist- THE NEW SCARLET CARNATION MORELLO. Will be disseminated March l, '97. Get your orders in now. $L50 per 12, $10 per 100, $75 per 1000. HOPP & LEMKE, E. Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS after CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott, Ivory. Silver Spray. Rose Queen, and Garfietd, from cold frames, at $8,00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. E.G. HILL & CO., wiioi6§ai6Fiorisis RICHMOND, INDIANA. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box n, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mention American Florlat. CARNATIONS. F. Dorner & Sons Co. LAI FAYETTE, IND, 462 The American Florist. Dec. 12, Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, lo Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, 91.40; Column, 914.00. Cash with Order. No Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 percent; 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times. 20 percent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising Depft»*tment of the American Florist is for Florists, Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines ONLY. Please to remember it. Orders for less tlian one-half inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach us by Wednesday to se- cure insertion in the issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. St. John, N. B. The florists of St. John and vicinity held a very enthusiastic mett'ng on the evening of Decembf r 2, at which the long talked of Florists' Club was at last organ- ized, officers being elected as follows: D. Mcintosh, Pres.; H. S. Cruikshank, Vice- Pres.; Wm. Mclatosh, Sec'y — Treas. Ex- ecutive committee: the president, vice- Dresident, secretary, with H. E. Gould, Wm. McLean, A. Mcintosh, and A. Cruik- shank. It was decided the club should be ktown astheSt.JohnFlorists'Club. The list of charter members contains the names of a majority of the florists of the Province, but still there are some to be gathered in. It is to be hoped now that it is started it will prove a success. After a rainy season of almost three months we are now having clear cold weather, the mercury dropping down to four below the cipher and in some exposed localities some degrees lower. Reports of business are bright, sales are good, and most sorts of flowers are plen- tiful; the only shortage seems to be in roses, which are scarce and not particu- larly good in quality. St. John. We have received from Mr. John H. Dunlop, Toronto, Ont., blooms of his two new roses, improved Sunset and white Bougere. Thecolorof thefirstisapecu'iar combination of pink and yellow, unlike anything we have seen before and v^S TheNewYgrk Cut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . CONSIGN TO ISliy FROM M. A. HART, Commission "r" Cut Flowers, 113 WEST 30th STREET, NEW YORK CITY. THK BEST MARKET IN NEW YORK. TRAENDLY & SCHENGK, Wholesale Florists, Control the stock of many celebrated growers and are prepared to quote prices on First Grade Cut Flowers. All varieties. 38 West 28th St., and Cut Flower Exchange. Tel. imi 18th Street. NEW YORK CITY. FRED. EHRET, wnoiesaie Fiona No. 1403 fairmount Avenue, Telephone, Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. HEADQUARTERS. ROSES, CARNATIONS. AND VIOLETS. TRr US. WM. F. KASTING, Wholesale Commission Florist. 495 Washington St., BUFFALO. N. Y. Mention American KIorlBt. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET. Bet. Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, l^'iir Drcnrnthitf and iill Flurlsla' DeMlRiis. CHAS. H RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitchell Co.. N. C. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisera. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, 59 WABASH AVENUE, FOR Xmas Trade: Ohioa.GO. FINE DISBUDDED CARNATIONS, FANCY ROSES, all varieties, SELECT VIOLETS, Double & California, SMILAX, ADIANTUIM, VALLEY,ORCHIDS and all seasonable flowers. "Writ*' for Xniiis qaotationg. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER GO. J. IS. DEAMIID. Mkf. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CHICA.GO. Manufacturers of Wir e Work. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE COMMISSION t FLORIST, 88 WABASH AVENUE, Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, ■ - ST. LOUIS, MO. lyA complete line of Wire DeHl|;ii8. H. L. SUNDERBRUCH, Wholesale Florist 4th and WALNUT STREETS, E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, J^ ST. PAUL. MINN. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet lont;, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The American Florist. 463 E. H. HUNT. WHOLESaLElPLORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BULBS AND AI^Ii FI.OBISTS' SUFPI^IES. KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. Wliol6sa 6 Gut Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. W J B E WORK A SPKCIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St, CHICAGO. If you want FlratrClasB Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your ordera and you will Ket what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. iEE-L-" CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue. .m^ CHICiVGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all orders on short notice with all leading varieties of Hoses and Carnations. We ARE Headquarters for fine AIHERICAN BEAUTIES Give us atrial and convince yourself Salesroom. 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, Ssr"*^ CUT FLOWERS. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, Fine Stock a Specialty. CHICA.OO. ROGERS PftRK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE, ■ CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SURRUES, 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. I'roinpt Attfiition to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, wnoiesaie Florist. 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Agent for flnest Krades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©V^RofeAaPe Marftaf*. Cut Flowers. NEW York. Dec ;i RoseB, Beauty, extra ;iO 00*51) 00 medium lO.OOl.lM.OO culls i.Wf S.OO Cusln, Morgan 2 Otlw .S.OO Bride, Kalserln. Bridesmaid, Meteor 2.00<4 .sOO Testoiit 3.001." 8 00 NlphetOB I.OOIS J. 00 Hoste 2.001.. 1.110 Carnations Ma 1 00 extra 100® 1.50 Valley 3.00<« 4.00 Violeta 60(.?: 1.01 Roman hyacinths ". l.COfe 2.00 Cyprlpedluras 8 00 MlBDOnette 3 0O<"' 8.00 f'attievas 25.UlM:fi.0O Ilarrlsll S.OOmlO.OO (alias o.OOi.i S.OO I'll per white narclBBUB 1.00® 2.10 Adiantum SOi' 1.00 Smllai 10 00 Asparagus &0.U0 Boston. Dec. k Roses, Gontler. Nlphetos 1 009 2.00 Perle, Mermet 2.00® 4 00 Bride. Bridesmaid, Meteor 2.00® li 00 Beauty 8.0083.1.00 Carnations 7.SS 1 00 fancy 1,009 2 00 Violets 50® .75 Valley 2 00<.:« 3 00 Roman hyacinths 2.00(" 3.00 Paper white narcissus l.OOf" 2.00 Adiantum ISXa) 1.00 Smllax 10.00(«ll2.00 Asparagus 50 00 Philadelphia. Dec. 10 Roses. Beauties 12. .SO* .50 00 Bride. Bridesmaid. La fiance, etc... 4.00® .'*.00 Kalserln.. 3.00w 4.00 " small teas 3 00 •■ extrateas 8.00<.. 10,00 Carnations 1.00m 150 Valley 3.00(9 4 00 Roman hyacinths 4.00 Violets, double T5@l .00 Smllax I!.00al5 00 Asparagus 35.00<3'50.00 Adiantum .75 CHICAGO. Dec, 11. Roses. Beauties 25.00(S;)5.00 seconds 8.00(.'12.UO Brides. Bridesmaid 3.00;« ,'),00 Meteors 3.00W 5 OO Slebrecht Wootton .S.OOdO 6 00 Testout 3 OOliil 5 00 Kalserin 3.00a 5,00 Nlphetos. Perle. Gontler 2.ai(.' 4 00 Carnations 7.S('( 1,00 " extrase^ect 1.50('.' 2.00 Violets, double 1.0(11" 1 50 Roman hvadnths l.OOi" 3.00 I'aper white narcissus 3 00(" 4 00 llarrtsll 20 00 (■alias 12.001" 15 00 Mignonette 3.0()(.. 4,00 Valley .*. 4 00(si i.iK) Smllax 10.00»13 00 Adiantum 1.00 St. loots Dec 10. Roses, Beauties, long 12 00(..i35 00 short S.lXli.' 111,00 " select stock 4.00i" SOO general stock 2,00i" 3,00 Carnations, fancy 2.0*9 3,00 common 1.00(9 1 50 Violeta single .25 double 75 Valley 4.00 Roman hyacinths 1.00(si 3,00 llirrtsll 15 00 (alias 8,00 Paper white narcissus 100(9 3.00 Bouvardla 1.00 Smllax 13.00® 15.00 Adiantum 1 .00 Asparagus 35.00^50. 00 GEORGE A. SUTHERLAND, Cut Flowersi Florists' Supplies WHOLESALE. 67 Bromfleld St., BOSTON, MASS. Neu' England Agenl for the GREA T ANT/PEST. WHOLESALE FLORISTS JOBBERS IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, METS, '^^^^^ -^ FLORISTS' BRIDES, ^^ ^0^^~N VASES. GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND. 84- Hawley Street, BOSTON. MASS. HORTICDLTDEAL ADCTIONEERS, John 1. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Carnations and Mignonette. CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. TMOS. 'VOUJVO, Jr., 43 W. 28th St., NEW YORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN. WHOLESALE 39 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street, NEW YORK, WHOLESilLE » FLORIST. Careful Shipping: to all parts of the conBtryi Price list on application. Furdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30th St., NEW YORK. ROSES, VALLEY, CARNATIONS. VIOLETS. For prices aud information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, address JOHN YOUNG, 57 W. 28th Street. NEW YORK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK. JULIUS LANG, Dealer in WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St.. NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WHOLESALE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, Corner 30TH St.. NEW YORK. Conslguiueuts Solicited. 464 The American Florist. Dec. 12^ @fta ^aaal ^racjs. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T W WOOD, PreB.; Alex. BoDGBRS and J. B. Rice, Vice-Presidents; A. L. Don, 114 Chambers Street, New York, Seo'y and Treas. Visited Chicago: R. H. Shumway, P. F. Brown, H. M. Clair, S. Y. Haines. Pea and Bean prices are phenomenally low this season, surplus stocks being often quoted below contract rates. Waldo Rohnert, flower seed grower, lately with C. C. Morse & Co., will engage in business on his own account. Secretary Morton's Report is said by the Chicago Tribune to contain refer- ence to seed distribution by congressmen which is quite displeasing to them. Geo. M. Osgoodby, who conducted the Monon Seed Company schemein Chicago, has been convicted of fraudulently using the mails. He was fined $500 and sentenced to one year in the Milwaukee house of correction. San Francisco.— The seed growers are now busily engaged in preparing the ground for next season's work. Many large plantings of onions have already been completed. Miss Eva Morse, daugh- ter of the well known seed grower, C. C. Morse, was married on December 7 to Fred A. Birge of San Jose. Indianapolis.— The Vail Seed Co. was organized some time ago for doing a geii- eral seed and staple florists' supply busi- ness. Their store is located at 96 North Delaware street. They were all connected with the lormer Huntington Seed Co. Huntington & Page are in possession of all the stock, furniture, etc., left over from the Huntington Seed Co., and have removed same from the store at 66 East Washington street to t he present location on East Market street. Toronto. Next Tuesdav evening (15th) the Gar- deners' and Florists' Association will elect its officers for the ensuing year. It has been whispered that a surprise is to be sprung onthe members, but asto what it is or who is going to spring it I have uot been able to gain even an inkling of information. There is sure to be a good attendance to assist in the interesting cer- emonies. Dunlop reports business inclined to be a little quiet. Prices of roses are advancing slightly, carnations are vtry good and selling well, violets scarce. The ball at the Pavilion on St, Andrew's Day made the demand for loses a little lively for that day. Stores are putting on their Christmas attire already. As far as one can see at this time the holiday business seemslikcly to be better than it has been for some years, and in all probability some lines in cut flowers will be short. E. SANTA GLAUS has induced the NICKEL PLATE ROAD to sell excursion ticlcets at very low rates. Special excursion dates Dec. 24th, 25th, 31st and Jan. 1st, good returnins; until Jan. 4th, 1897. Tickets at one and a third fare for the round trip. For further informa- tion address J. Y. Calahan, Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams St., Chicago. 169 Always mention the American Flo tist when writing to advertisers. Read and Convince Yourself. HOLLY, very tine this season; per case $4.50 BOUQUET GREEN, best eastern, per 100 lbs. $6 IMMORTELLES, Yellow 20c per bunch; $2 per dozen; White and colors 25c per bunch; $2.40 per dozen. CAPE FLOWERS, per lb. 6oc. SPHAGNUM MOSS, Fresh, per bbl. $1.25. SPIRAEA JAPONICA, fine clumps, $3.5o per 100; $6.50 per case of 200. WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, \ Special prices \ on application ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I "SURE CROP" ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ MUSHROOM SPAWN, LILIUM HARRISII, DUTCH BULBS. •FLOKI.STS" FLOWEK SEEDS. Ilerchants irowers. ^ 14 Chambers St., NEW YORK. 4 WEEBER & DON. llf,"^^. FAXON'S ' h''o"Js1.< PANSIES. The best mixture in cultivation, flowers very large, thick and velvety; of sujierb colors and markings. The perfection of form and texture. In Trade Packets at $1.00 each. M. B. FAXON, Lock Box 1528. BOSTON, MASS. Currespondenoc B<"ilii.'iteii. Lily of the Valley Pips. J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J, SOLE AGENT FOK F. C. POMRENCKE, Hamburg. 20,000 GERANIUMS ^S?TrN°Gs All the best varieties, as Double Gen. Grant, Bruant, Silver Leaf, Mme. Salleroi, 81.50 per 100; $14.C0 per 1000. AGERATUM. blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooted, 81.00 per 100; 89.00 per 1000. All strong and well rooted. The same out ol 2J^-inch pots, »2.00 per ICO; 820.00 per 1000. Cash with order. MAX KRUSCHKA. LAWRENCE STATION. N. Y. OSCAR KNOPFF&CO. SEED GROWERS. B;i«F!*uieT, GEieiviAJV-s-. Sole Agent for the United States and Canada: M. RUTTENAU, 15 to 25 Whitehall St.. New York. Trade Catalogues and estimates cheerfully furnished, orders promptlj- tilled direct from nurseries at Erfurt. 2-INCH FERNS. READY TO SHIFT. P. serrulatu. Onycldum japonlcum, P. serrulatacrestata, Blechnum occldentale, P. serrulata " densU, Lastrea varlegata, P. adlantoldes, Adlantum cuneatum. Above at W.OO per ItlO; *«.00 per 1001). Adlantum. from flats $l.:' IHI per tli.iiisaml. WELUENREITER & SCHWIEMAN, DANVERS, ILL. TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. si^i.^ifof?h°e new seaeoD's mushroom spawn la due at this port Decenilier 2o; will guarantee delivery on time If have yuur order at once. Redtced I'liiCES. Write me to-day for full particulars, G. C. WATSON. 43 North 10th Street, Phila- delphia, U. S. A.. t^'Owner of the celebrated *'\V. F." brand (Watsons Protlflc) Mushroom Spawn. My 21-page Iwoklet on Mushroom Culture free to buyers or Intending buyers: to others, 10 cents. Robinson. oOc; Falconer, $1.50- 1,000 rHIMULft GHINENSI8 in 4-incli pots, in full bloom, and the best varieties, $10 per 100. W. L. PALINSKY, 66 Palmer Sqr., Chicago. Mention American Florist. OUR PRIZE CINERARIAS. A few more thousand left. We are selling fast. Our strain is always in demand. 2ii-inch 82.50 per 100 3-inch 4.00 per 100 CALCEOLARIAS. 2;^-inch 3.00 per 100 S. WHITTON & SONS, Wholesale Florists, City aud Green Sts.. UTICA. N. T. Adiantum cuneatum. FIRST QUALITY. 3-inch pots $12 00 per 100 2;^-inch pots 6 00 per 100 WM. PLUMB, Oyster Bay, N. Y. "THE DAHLIA" HV I,.\WUENCE K. PEACOCK. A PRACTICAL TREATISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST oSering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade I.ist of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. AtCO, N. J. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VARIKTIBS. ROSES, from 3-lnch pot«. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. FiSHKILL, N. Y. ransies Wonii Raising. PLANTS READY NOW. at 82.f)0 per oOO; 84.00 per 1000. Free on board of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at |1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH OKUEK. C. SOLTAU & CO., 199 Rraiit Ave., lersey Clly.^N, 1. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 1896. The American Florist. 465 OPENINGST Rolker's Opening! A new Commission house in the most central locality in New York City, with every possible convenience for handling and marketing Cut Flowers. Ihg Growers' Opening! If you are a Grower, call or write. If your stock is high grade we have the requisite familiarity with the best buying trade and are in a position to realize returns that will gratify you. No. i stock can always be sold in New York Ihs Retailers' Opening! This is your opportunity. We are already entrusted with the products of a number of growers who are noted for the perfection of their Roses, Carnations and Violets. You will need our goods for the Holiday season. We are ready to correspond with you. A. h F. ROLKER, Commission Dealers in Cut Flowers, VATest astii St., NEW YORK CITY. 466 The American Florist. Dec. 12. Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Florists' Club held its regular monthly meeting on December 2 at their hall. This being also the annudl meeting, new officers were elected. Robert McKeand, president; H. W. Rieman, secretary and treasurer. A committee was appointed to confer and see what the feeling is about a spring show on a large scale. The chrysanthemum show was reported to have been a big success. Some disappointment was felt that with the beautiful perfect weather and other help- ful causes, a surplus could not be real zed instead of having to deduct a small per cent, from all premiums. A state meeting of the Sjciety of Indiana Florists is announced by Sec'y McKeand December 16, in this city, pro- bably at the Commercial Club rooms. Thanksgiving business was under the circumstances satisfactory, but flowers in general were poor, especially shipped stock, which was miserable. Some very good chrysanthemums were sold, princi- pally yellow ones; white was scarce. Trade in general at the present time is dull, very little funeral work of impor- tance, weddings and other doings of small consequence. The few bright days and cool weather has made stock much better in quality, but at present we have again some miserable rainy and warm weather, a puzzler for forcing supply. Harrisii lilies are very backward this season, none so far have been seen in the market. The market florists are now comforta- bly located on the inside of the market space under Tomlinson Hall. The sales have grown to importance, many people availing themselves of the cheap prices charged there. There is talk of the merchants along the two best squares on Washington street putting up poles and decorating with laurel and othtr greeas and electric lights on either side of the street, a good novel idea for a Christmas decoration; snow belongs with it however. Miss E. Dorner, of Lafayette, is in the city for several week's recreation. W. B. Fieeport, Me. Mr. John Burr reports an increased demand fjr cut flowers and it is his opin- ion that the volume of business during the coming winter will surpass that of a year ago by a good margin. A stroll through Mr. Burr's greenhouses is a treat to be remembered, for not only does one find the stock in the best of conaition but the arrangements and general system maintained about the place commend themselves strongly to the attention of the visitor. No dilapidated benches, muddy walks, etc. I noticed among other things a rose bush stretching along the roof a distance of 60 feet. It stands five feet from the ground, measuring at the base 10 inches in circumference. It is 22 years old and has yielded and is still yield- ing bushels of flowers. Mrs. Burr has been confined to her bed for the past two weeks with an attack of influenza. Homo. FELTHOUSEN, Of Schenectady, ^tu^an over utock c each: trln. pots pxtra strong. 2 to 2W ft $l,.'))leach; T-ln. pots, extra strong, 2 to 2',^ ft , extra selected. $2.00 each; 7-ln twits perfect specimens, , SO to ;it; in.. $"2.;")0 each; 7 and S-ln. pots, decorative, grand shaped plants, :ilj to 40 In, $;1.,tO to$fi.50each. KENTIA FORSTERIANA-Wn. pots, strong, 4 to 5 leaves 2Vi. ft., $l.2.">each; 7 In pots. 2j^ to 3 ft., $2 00 each. LATANIA BORBONICA— '> In. pots, perfect specimens, 7 to k leaves. $12 OO per doz ; 7-In. pot«, perfect speci- mens, 7 to H leaves, $I.;'>(I each; 7 to M, extra tine and heavy. 2 to 2!^ ft , $2.00 each. LIVISTON A ROTUNDIFOLI A-.5-ln. pots, 12 to 1.5. $18 00 per doz.; Mn. pots. 18 to 20, $22 00 per doz. PHCENIX RECLINATA-f.-ln. pots, $1.00 each, S'.l.OO per doz. DRAC^NAS— The grandest stock In the country; coloring beautiful, 4-ln. pots, $4 per doz : 5-ln. pots, $*» per doz, CROTONS-Hlghly colored. 4-ln. pots, $25.00 per 100; ,5-ln. pots, $:i5.00 per 100. FERNS-2Vln pots. $4.00 per 110. Nephrolepis cordata compacta, 5 In. pots. 50c. eich. $5 OO perdoz, ; 4-ln polM. :l5c each $4.00 per doz Pteris. -l-ln pots, tine plants. 3.5c each. $4.00 per doz.; 5-Id. pots, fine plants. .'i<»c. each, $5.0J per doz, ; i;-ln. pots extra tine, bushy, selected, Ojc. each. ARAUCARI A EXCELSA-Grand stock, .VIn. pots, i tiers, 75c ; iMn, pots. 4 tiers. $1.25 FICUS ELASTIC A-.VIn. pots, 12 to 15 In. $;t,i per 100; ll-in. pots, 15 to 2(1. $.50 per 100; 7-ln. pots. 20 to3B. 7.tc each. Grand lot of ORANGE TREES for the Holidays, from 5 to 8 fruits, $1 .50 to $2.50 each All measurements taken from top of pots. E^^^releffrapJi, telepluine or write us and otir ciirrijiy^e will meet vou. ROSE HILL NURSERIES, N. Y. OFFICE: 409 5TH AVE. ]Ve^v%r KJoolaelle, ^N^, 1^. 200,000 ROOTED CUTTINGS 200,000 GERANIUMS! SELECTED STOCK. TRUE TO NAME. EVERY WIDE AWAKE FLORIST knows that if he desires to hold a line class of cus- tomers, he must carry a full line of first-class geraniums. WE HAVE BEEN TESTING the newer introductions for the past five years and offer a select list of forty-five varieties comprising the cream of the best Geraniums in existence. Our list covers scarlets, dark crimsons, white, pink, salmon pink and various fancy varieties in singles, doubles and Bruants. SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, QUEENS, L. I. Mention American Florist. FORCE POT-GROWN: Per too LILACS, different var $40.00 STAPHYLEA COLCHIOA 50.00 DEUTZIA GRACILIS 12.00 SNOWBALL, Japanese 35.00 " opulus fl. pi 30.00 AMYGDALUS 30.00 WEIGELIA, diff. var 35.00 WISTARIA 75.00 ROSES, H. P. and others 8.00 Tree form 30.00 MOUNTAIN LAURELS 75.00 CLEMATIS in var 20.00 extra heavy 30.00 ENGLISH IVIES / 15.00 BLEEDING HEARTS 5.00 TREE P/EONIES 60.00 Hardy Azaleas, Rhododendrons. Hydrangea panlculata, bushy and standards, etc. L. C. BOBBINK, RUTHERFORD. N. J. Branch of the HORTICULTURAL COMPANY. Boskoop. Holland. FANSIES. THE JENNINGS STRAIN of lllienL AiiieiKan ^riiwn I'allHluH. hlti» p'anls lE'otli cold fniniOM. T.'ic per UiU by mall: 34 per lilOO by expi'esH. SKKI) of above strain per pkt. of 2 roil seecia, fllKl; ouiicciFIkIXI. E. B. JENNINGS, Lock Box 2il Southport, Conn. Grower of the lliieaL i'unblus. $1000 REFUSED. I A year ago we made an offer of 81000 cash I for ONE FI.ANT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a greater price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative i purposes, Sl-50 per 12; $10 per 100, from 2^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANG & CO., Phila., Pa. Spiraea Japonica, IVr KNI. j^J III: per lOKI, 4-'.'.IC. Gladiolus Colvilli, ■rill-; BKlliK, I'er Il«l, f .iKI; per lOIIO. HA*\ Singula Begonias, In Separate Colors, per lul, lf:.M; per lOnn, .'II. I II. HULSEBOSCH BROS.. Englewood. N. J. Burki's New Yellow MarQuerite ETOILE DE LYON. 25 Kuoted Cutlin^H fur «il.OO, by mall. A valuable plaut for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. Bismarck Apples. 1 year oUl li.'i cents; per huudrfd. 820.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per tlionsaud. S2.00; per ten thousand, $IS. CH. KOEHLER. Oxford Church P. 0.. F hila . Pa. i8g6. The American Florist. 467 New Rose Soovenlp fly Preslfleni Carnoi Won highest honors wherever shown. Strong, healthy plants, from 2;~-in. pots, S3 per doz. ; 815 per 100; $125 per 1000. 50 plants at 100 rates, 500 at 1000 rates. READY AFTER JANUARY 1. ERNST ASMUS, West Hoboken, N. J. We are now Booking^ Orders for the following^ NOVELTIES. Chrysanthemums: Midge, Merula, Mrs. John J. Glessner, Chito, Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Western King. READY MARCH 1st. 50c each; $5.00 per 12: $35.00 per 100. GRAND NEW ROSE SoYU. du Pres. Oarnot. READY JAN. Isl. $3 per 12; $15 per 100: $125 per 1000. New Yellow Carnation MAYOR PINGREE. READY MARCH 1st. $1.50 per 12: $10 per 100: $75 per 1000. Our Catalogue. containiDg a complete line of Novelties and Standard varieties, will be issued early in January. Let us know your wants now. NATHAN SMITH & SON, ADRIAN, MICH. GHRYSftNTH&MUMS. strong stock plants. Ready now. MRS. H. ROBINSON, VEKRY MONARCH. M. DE MONT.VIOKT, MARION HENDERSON, WM. SIMPSON. 2a Ct8. each, Older standard varieties. 10 cts. each. Special prices for large quaDtlllea. H. WEBER S SONS, OaHand, M. fl CHRYSANTHEMUM STOCK PLANTS. ' Varieties and prices upon application. Wyndmoor. near Chestnut Hill, (Station H,) PHILADELPHIA, PA. GHRYSflNTH&MUMS BONNAKFON. MAUD DEAN. VIVIAND-MORBL, lORA. MUTUAL FRIEND. MRS JEROME JONES, YELLOW OUEKN. THE VUBBN, and 75 other leading varieties. 10c each: $1.00 per dozen. From 2^-ln. pots, Jan. delivery. ^ ITO per lINt. CRABB & HUNTER, Grand Rapids, Mich. SPECIAL OFFER. 5000 PANSY PLANTS 83.50 per 1000 PANSY SEED to close out, '96 seed, 8.3 00 per oz. GERANIUMS, standard bedders. . . .83 50 per 100 Look for adv. of hedding plants, spring of '97. Cash with order, JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM, Delaware, 0. Souvenir du President Garnet. This grand new rose has taken more Medals and Certificates cif Merit than any other Rose. It Is an Ideal rose for the tiorlst. comblnInK sirony vigorous growth with long stemmed large llowera of great substance, it 1b etjuHlly good as a garden rose. Color light pink, edge of petals flesh color. f^ I I D G TT /^ f^ VC '^^^ specialty 1« to produce for florists strong roses from 2^-lnch pots. We grow \J w r* w I XX x^ r\ ■ and sell ovtr tM.lU000 annually. We du ncjt gruw tor cut ttuwers. and our plants are propagated from well ripened flowering wood. We have tliorouglily tested President Carnot. both Insloe and out. and have 75,0UU strong plants from '2)^ln. pots to oiler. We are now booking orders for Januarv let delivery. PRICES UPON APPLICATION. NEW BEDDING ROSE MOSELLA. A flttlDg companion to ( 'lothllde Soupert. and much superior to that variety In shape of buds and the pro- fusion ot bloom The habit ot growth Is the same, but the flowers of Moselia are white at the edge and chrime yellow In the center. It has stood 10 degrtes below zero In Germany. Every flurlst phoald have this new rose, and It ordered in Jan.. the plants we sell will make good sized 4 In. pot plitnts for retailing In full bloom in May. Strong Plants Ready January 1st. $8.00 per 100; $70.00 per 1000. SURPLUS STOCK, two year old Field Roses: Madame Plantler, strong, for 7-inch pots, %6.00 per 100. CLIMBERS, Prairie Queen, Tennessee Belle and China, $6.00 per 100. Order Now. 19lh and Catherine Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. SOLE AGENT FOR DICKSON'S FAMOUS IRISH ROSES. flDlflNTUM FflRLtYtNSE. Of this popular Fern we have the largest and finest stock in the country, and devote five houses entirely to its culture. We offer, in splendid condition, the following sizes: Each. Per doz. 3-inch pots, extra strong $ .25 $3.00 4-inch pots, extra strong 50 6.00 5-inch pots, extra strong 75 9.00 6-inch pots, extra strong 1.50 15.00 i-inch pots, extra strong ij.50 25.00 JOHN N. MAY. Receiver. SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. 100,000 VERBENAS. THE CHOICEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. Fine pot Diants. $2.50 per 100: $20.00 per 1000. Rooted Cuttings. $1.00 per 100: $8.C0 per 1000. PACKED LIGHT, AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. We are the Largest Growers of Verbenas in the country. Our plants cannot be surpassed. J. Hv. r>iivi-,o:iv, :BiooMr».si3v»re:, i»^. PflUMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York GEO. WITTBOLD 1708 N. Halsted St.. ) CHICAGO ROBERT CRAIG. Roses, Palms, -A. IT 13 Novelties In Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. I... HorWoniia, !S. Kle«:aii8. C. Huinulis, Areca liiteHcens, liaueri, Kubra, I'ho'ni.x C, and C Aui^tralls: 17 Palms 3 to4-ln. of above vars. and 2 Ferns for $3.00. lU Palms 4 to 3-ln. of above vara, and 2 Ferns for $:i/M, Roses, Cariiatioug, and all kinds of plants. Isabels, AIosH. et<-. SEND FUR LISTS. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, IIL PKTCXIA (iKAND. Fl M. FL. PL. The lart;est and flneat strain of double fringed and muttled Petunias to be had. All who see these Petu- nias say they are finest thev ever saw. Extra. VEKKtN^ liHANUJFLOKA. An exceedlntily fine eolieetlon of Giant flowertOK varieties: tlorets one Inch In diameter, of the most showy colors. My customers write that this Is the fin- est strain of VerbenHS thev can yet: requires no t>etter evidence of supeilority. Every tiurlst should sow of It. Each, per trade pbt.. 2oc.: ;i pkts. t"<)c ; t; pkte.. $1.00. Seeds of tested novelties added to every order. I will here thank my tiurlst friends for the many let- ters of commendatlun received during the past vear. JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. ForSPRING DELIVERY HARDY LOW-BUDDED ROSES. Tree Roses. Azaleas. Rhododendons, Snowballs, Hydrangeas, Etc. Grown by the Boskoop. Holland. Nursery Association. C. H. JOOSTEN, Agent, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. TRY DREER'S ,GflRDE.N Seeds, iPlants. Bulbs & RequJiites. I They are the best at the /lowest prices. Trade List is* sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. HENRY A. DREER, Philadelplila, F»« When writing mention the American Florist. 468 The American Florist. Dec. 12. Syracuse, N. Y. The Central New York Horticultural Society held its annual meeting and din- ner at the St. Cloud Hotel this city, December 2. The following officers were elected: President, A. D. Perry; vice- presidents, S. T. Betts, L. E. Marquisee, J. W. Smith, W. Judson Smith, E. A. Powell, F. C. Brower; executive com- mittee, C. Barson, G. Ham, W. Parsons, J. Haller, W. Clark, J . L. Porter; treasurer, F. H. Ebeling; secretary, Robt. H. C. Bard. President Perry read his annual address, which was listened to with intense inter- est. He spoke in the highest terms of the late Wm. Brown Smith and said he was a man whose life we should all strive to imitate. The report of the treasurer showed a balance of $186 85 in the treasury. Mr. Grove P. Rawson was unavoida- bly absent but sent as a reminder of his interest in the society a bunch of 50 Bonnaffons; they were fine blooms and showed what a good variety this is for late. The gold medal awarded Mr. Raw- son was shown to the members, who were delighted by the beautiful way in which it was gotten up. Mr. F. C. Stewart, of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Jamaica, N. Y.,gave a very interesting and instructive lecture on fungous diseases of carnations, cucum- bers, etc. It was listened to with the closest attention and showed him to be a close student. A cordial vote of thanks was tendered him. The dinner tables were decorated with choice plants and flowers from the local members and with a sumptuous menu showed the committee in charge per- formed their duties admirably. After dinner and a pleasant talk together, the gun club department, as we might term them, went to the bowling alley where a most ecjovable time was had. Peter Crowe, of Utica, ran away with the belt for the first time. Out of town visitors: F. C. Stewart, Jamaica, N. Y.; J. B. Dockarty, s jMT 100; 2-in. pots, JL.W |iiT iloz.,$8 piT 100. HENRY i:iCHHOI.Z, Waynesboro Fa. STATjcfARD I3XTdi^I-/E^ Makes MAN'S WORK Child's play. A suniple inalluii fi,r .;:> •• m -i.-M :i •• itioo •■ M ■• :a I'.so Xh " 1000 •• 4,"> " 50 4.00 4 " 600 •• 711 " tiO 6,00 5 •• 600 ■• ItIO •' 'JO ,S SO i; ■■ .wo " 1.50 ■• 1.60 13.;i6 standard Pot Measure. Less quantities than full crates at lOO rates, F. W. 15IKU & SONS, Mauufai-turerg. Address orders to our GeiierHl Agents, August RoIker&Sons New York, p. O, station E, or R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., Boston, Eastern Agents, THE AMERICAN FLORIST'S COLOR CHART Ib lunv iictiepted as the Htiiiulnrd In preparing color descriptions by miiny foroljin houses iib well as In Amcrlcft, PRICE 15 CENTS POSTPAID. AMERICAN FLORIST CO.. 322 Dearborn St.. Chicago. i8g6. The American Florist. 409 Prepare for the We offer now the most extensive and varied stocic of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES IN AMERICA. All Up-to-Date, Fresh Goods, MOSS WREATHS, IMMORTELLES, PAMPAS, CAPE FLOWERS, CYCAS LEAVES and WHEAT SHEAVES are our leaders always. Quality and quantity handled far beyond all other dealers. All seasonable stock in Baskets, Jardin- ieres, Pofs, Letters, Artificial Flowers and Foliage, AT BARGAIN PRICES. NOW IS THE TIME TO REPLENISH YOUR STOCK. H. & J Importers and Manufacturers, Se ]V. -itli {Street, PEILADELPHIA, PA. :\L, FeiOE> «& CO. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, Issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manufacturer ol METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Kerry), NEW VORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. FLORISTS' RIBBON. All widths and popular shades of color PRICES REDUCED. SEND FOR SAMPLE TO H. M. WEISEL, 17 East 83rd Street, NEW YORK. XMAS TREES EVERGREEN, HOLLY, LOOSE AND IN WREATHS. WREATHING, S35.00 per thousand yards. ORDEK NOW. Send for pili'es. H. BORNHOFT, 616 Fullerton Ave., Chicago. BEST DELAWARE HOLLY IN LARGE AND SMALL CASES. All kinds of CHRISTMAS GREENS, LAUREL AND PINE FESTOONING, WILD SMILAX. NEEDLE PINES. MISTLETOE, HARDY FERNS, GALAX AND IVY LEAVES. WELCH BROS., No. 9 Chapman Place, (NEAR Cirr HALL). BOSTON, MISS. NEW HARDY FERNS. Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER lODO FROM NOW UNTIL DECEMBER iBt. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUIVI MOSS, CHRISTIHAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO.. 13 Green St., BOSTON, MASS. Office, 84 Hawley St. Manufacture the Best Letters In the Market. sizes IH-lnch and 2-lnch, K.OO per 1(X). Patent fastener with each letter. With orders for 500 letters we Klve away a nicely stained and varnished box. See cut In next week's American Florist. Onr letter Is handled by all the wholesalers In Boston. AGENTS: A. HDlker & Sons. New York; M. Rice & Co.. 35 N. 4th Street, Philadelphia. Pa.: F. K. Mc- Allister, 22 Dey St., N. T.: U. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; A. D. Perry & Co., Si Warren St., Syracuse, N. T.: A. C. Kendal. 115 Ontario St., Cleve- land. O.; B. n. Hunt, ni Lake St., Chlcano: Wisconsin Flower BxchanKe, liil Mason St., Milwaukee, Wis.; H. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts.. Cincinnati, O.: T. W. Wood A Sons, mb and Marshall Sts. Richmond, Va.; Jas. Vlck's Sons, Rochester, N. Y.; Dan'l B. Long, Buffalo, N. Y.; C. A. Kuehn, St. Louis, Mo.; Huntr ington Seed Co.. Indianapolis. Ind.: W. Ellison, 1402 Pine Street. St. Louis, Mo.: A. Herrman, 415 B. 34th St., New York: Geo. A. Sutherland. 67 Brom- fleld St., Boston; Welch Bros.. No. lA Beacon St., Bos- ton; N. F. McCarthy 4 Co., »4 Hawley Street, Boston; The Henry Phlllpps Seed and Implement Co.. Toledo, O.. Walter A. Potter & Co.. Providence, R. I.; J. C. VauKban, 2(1 Barclay St., New York. J. A. Simmers. Toronto, Ont.. Agent for Canada. GflLflX LEAVES OF THE INTRODUCER. Finest qual ty and packing to order. Green or Bronze, large or small, of assorted, SJ3.75 per case of 5000; 600 postpaid, Jl.OO. Brilliant GREEN LEU- COTHC SPRAYS, |i 00 per too; |S00 per tOOO. WHOLESALE FLORISTS very] m SPECIAL PRICES. Information and Samples for the asking. HIGHLANDS NURSERY, KAWANA, N. C. or telegraf KELSEY, Cranberry, N. C. MISTLETOE. BEST QUALITY. Every piece well berried, jfaoo per bbl.; 10 bbls. $15. Cash with order. References; Commercial Agencies. BAKER BROS., Ft. Worth, Texas. It costs 4 cents for each 600 feet of floor apace. Does not injure the most sensitive plants. Endoreeci Nikoteen by prominent florists. Used for fumigation or spraying indoors or out. 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen. Bold by seedsmen. Circular free. SKABCURA DIP CO., CHICAGO. ^QuicklyMDoes^lt.* THE FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlt-t. write to LonHviM.K 'Si'iKiT t'tiii':' TuB.*iTot:o. Louibville.Ky 470 The American Florist. Dec. 12, Utica, N. Y. The condition of trade at present is very encouraging. Almost ev«rythiag in flowers is in good demand, with the sup- ply getting shorter each day. Chrysan- themums are done and gone, and more could have been used if they could have been secured. This applied only to the cut blooms, as the demand for potted plants was very light. By far the largest part of the stock planted was of the early or midseason varieties, and owing to the warm weather they all came in a heap and were gone in the same way. As is usual here, it was the smaller, cheaper blooms that went begging. As soon as the chrysanthemums get fully in croc you hear complaints of "no demand" and other discouraging remarks, but along comes Thanksgiving or some other occa- sion and nothing else will fill the bill; it's so every year, but one forgets. The first Harrisiis made their appear- ance Nov. 15, and they find a ready sale. White Romans came aboutthesametime, and contrary to expectations, are being used up clean. Owing to conticusd mod- erate weather the Christmas rose crop is being harvested too early. Carnal i ins will be scarce and violets plentiful. Quite a trad" is done in specimen plauLs at Christmas, and it is hoped that this year will be no exception. Some fine lots of azileas are already in bloom, and lots to follow. Simon Mardner, a crimson, and the Deutsche Perle, white, seem to be the advacce guard. Florist Green of Watertown, N. Y., was in town on a sight-seeing tour. At John Morris' place the steam ap- paratus gave out, but was repaired in time to prevent damage by frost. F.J. B. Springfield, Mass.— The vegetable forcing houses of A. A. Smith, of Boston Road, were burned on the morting of December 2, together with a wind mill, a pumping apparatus and lirg; quantity of tools. GRAND HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS. Cheap rates via the NICKEL PL4TE ROAD account Christmas and New Yeai 's Holidays. Tickets on sale Dec. 24th, 25th, 3lst, Jin. 1st, good returning until Jan. 4th, 1897. Unexcelled service including dining cars and colored poriers in charge of day coaches. For particulars address J Y. Calahan, Gen' Agent, 111 Adams St , Chicago, 111. 171 Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots; values from 25 cts. ut) to |150 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants, (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St., BOSTON. MASS. .IBUOME Jones, I'res. 8. A. Stkatton. Treas. FLOWER POTS. We Manufactiiro all kliids <»f Flower Pots, etc. Making a Specialty uf Florist Standard Pots Send for price Uct and Hamplee (which will be sent free ^and wo know you will tilve us your order: J. G. SWAHN S SONS, MiuueapollH^'Mliui. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolpli Street. CHICAGO. FOR GREENHOUSES. "Wrlt^ for latest ]px*lo^j9« Mention American Florist. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-incli and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BRANCH WAREHOUSES: Kearney and Westside Aves., Jersey City, N. J. Jacksou Ave. and Fearsou St., L.uiigr Island City, N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. * #^UR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- ^^ taction. We call your attention to our new pots 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and j^ou will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO., SYRACUSE, N. Y. THOS. W. WEATHERED^S SONS. flortlcuiiurai flrcliitecis and Hoi Water Enolneers Send for Catalogrue, enclosing: 4 cents in stamps. 130, 1^1, 1-^3 CetxteM- St., T^E^^VVT ^^0I«K:. GLASS For Greenhouses, Conservatories, Graperies, Hotbeds, and all other purposes, at Lowest Rates. GLASS N. GOWEN'S SON. 392 & 394 W. Broadway, NEW YORK. Get our Figures before buying Class. By Estimates freely givonj Rates via the Nickel Plate Road between same points for lit^e classes of ticl^ets are lower than via other lines. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the A.merican Florist. Please mention the American Flo- rist every time you write any of iVi idvertisers on this page. i8g6. The American Florist. 471 Eroeschell Bros. Co. Greenhouse • Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St, CHICAOO. Boilers made of the best of material, sbell. firebox BbeetA ^nd heads of steel, water space all around (front, sides and back jWrltefor information. Mention American Florist. IS MUCH m|»RE DURABLE tHAN PINE. SASH BARS/ UP TO it FEET ixlfNGTH or UM^GER. iREENHOUS£ AND OT^E W BUH.DIN6 W ATfeMAL. SonAfor our Illustrated BooK "CYPRESS LUMBER Ai» \t% US ES." Send fofVor Special Sreenhoust^rjcoiar. THE/^T 5Te&ri^ (umber (b., THE -"-NEWDEPRRTURE," 'VENT)L(\TIN& f\PPl.lflNCE? J. D. Carmody, Evansville, Ind. Dear ^zV.-— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON. Gainesville, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS. Richmond, Ind. Mention American Florist. THB EMERSON Price postpaid 75 CENTS. I Address American Florist Co. >'«'GH T'eoj Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. GREENHOUSE WOODWORK. Open-air-dried Cypress Lumber is more durable, and better suited to Green- liouse conditions, tlian kiln-dried stock. But you cannot get it from those that are engaged in the business in a small way — even though their entire busi- ness is confined to greenhouse material — for it takes a long time for the lumber to thoroughly dry and this means an investment in lumber that only those of large capital can make. The only way to have air-dried lumber is to buy green lumber and hold it until it dries. Those that order dry lumber from the pro- ducers of Cypress get kiln-dried stock. It is cheaper for them to kiln-dry than to hold the stock long enough to season it in the open air. We carry a large stack and till all orders with open-air-dried Cypress clear of knots, sap and all other defects. ■Write for Circulars or Estimates. Lockland Lumber Co. LOCKLAND, O. HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS STEAM ♦ BOILERS. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of constmction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CHICAGO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL & CO., 77 Lake Street. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for rntnlnirnrn ^m GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., cor. congress. BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogfue. NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD, YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. i CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS nHiriAGn GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. ^niV^MVaW. DeLamater-Eider and DeLamater-Ericsson Hot-Air Fumping Engines Will pump w.iter from anj ^uurc, and force it lo any beigUl ana Uis. tance. Simple, safe and free from care. Will burn any kind of fuel. For supplying water on farms, country and city i-esidences, dairy and stock farms they are unsurpassed. Send for catalogue. The dklam.\ter ironworks. 467 West Broadway. N. Y. CItV For Insurance against damage by hail, Address JOHN G. ESLER, Secy, F. H. A., Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL TRADE D iREGTORy -A. IT 13 REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. I>H.ICE SS.OO. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 472 The American Florist. Dec. 12, Index to Advertisers. Adv Rates «2 American Boiler Co. . .472 AmllnK B C 4(i2 AamusE 4B7 Bilker Bros. lea Barnard W W & Co. .4I» Baesett & WaBhourn..4Q Bayersdorfer H & Co. .4i;'.i Blanc A &Co 4W) BobblnkLC 4t)U BornhoftH 469 Boston Letter Co 409 BraKue L B 4ta Breltmeyer .J & Sons .4r.l Brower W H & Sons. «il Burkl Fred 4ia; Carmody J I) 471 Chadwlck Chas 4t;l Conley John & Son 4119 CottaKe Gardens 4ti« Cowen'B Son N 470 Crabb A Uunter 4ti7 CralK Kobt 4i;7 Cunningham J H 4tj7 DeLaoiater Iron Wlts.4(l Dletsch A S Co 471 Dillon JL 4(;i 4li7 DomerFred &Son8 C0.4G1 Dreer H A 4U7 Klyet F 4li2 Elchholz H 4118 KlUott W H 4112 BUlottWm & Sons.... 4(14 Bills & Pollwortn 4ii2 Faxun M B 414 Felthouaen J E i^Tt Gumey Heater Co 471 Hall Assn 471 "Hancock & Son 4tjl Hart M A 4112 Hartford H E 4B8 Henderson Co J 401 Herr AlbertM 401 Herrmann A 409 Hews A H& Co 470 Hiehlands Nursery 409 Hill BG4C0 401 HlppardK 471 HlwhlnKS&Co 472 Hopp & Lemke 401 Hooker H M Co 470 HoranKdwC 40,3 Hulaebosch Bros 400 HuatBH 403 UllnolB Cut Flower Co. 402 Jennlntfs E B . .400 Jones McDufly & Strat- ton 470 JoOstenCH 407 Kastlng W F 402 Kennlcott Bros Co 403 KoehlerCh 400 Koeppen Chas 404 Kroeschell Bros Co 471 Knoptf Oscar 401 KruBchka Max 404 Kuelln C A 402 LanK Julius 403 Lemke E F 402 Lockland Lum Co J^ontr I) B liOnsdale Edw Lord & Bumham Co. Ln ilsTllle Tobacco Co Lynch WE May L L & Co McCarthy N l< a Co . . McKellar C W MlUang Frank : . MUlanK* Co Moore F L MonlHKer J C Co Mvers i Co National Plant Co.... N Y Cut Flower Co... Nickel Plate Road Pallnsky W L Peacock W P Pennock Sam' IS I*ltcher A Manda Plumb W Predmore I Prince AG & Co Purdy&Blauvelt yuakerClty Mc'h Wks RandallAL Raynor J 1. — Redfleld Bradley .. KelnbergBros Rice Mi Co Klcksecker C H RoKers P"k Floral Co K >lker A & Sons. . .4I1.H Rolker A &F 4112 Rupp J F Scott R & Son SchlllerJL 401 Sheridan W F Slebrecht & Son Situations. Wants, etc. Skabcura Dip Co Smith Nattt&Son Soltau C& Co Stearns Lumber Co — Sunderbruch U L Sutherland Geo A. .41*1 Swahns Sons J G Syracuse Pottery Co... Traendly A Schenck. VauKhan J C Watson Q C Weathereds Sons T W Weber H& Sons Wee her & Don Welael II M Welch Bros 4tl2 Wellenrelter & Schwle- man Whllldln Pot Co.... Whltton S & Sons Williams & Sons Co, Winter* Glover... Wis Flower Bx — WlttboldG«o Wood Bros YounKJno YouuKThos Jr Dallas, Texas. The chrysanthemum show November 20 and 21 was a decided success, and a show will be held each year hereafter. The Texas Seed and Floral Co., Dallas Floral Co. and E. Nitsche were the principal exhibitors from among the florists, and in view of the fact that there was only a week's notice of tbe exhibition, their dis- plays were very creditable. The Texas Seed and Floral Co. are completing their new houses, which in- clude a short-span-to-the-south rose house 20x125, another 10V2xl25, a carnation house 12x125 and a 20-foot show house. These are all of the best cypress, glazed with double strength glass 16x16 and 16x24 and uprights of iron, the posts set in gravel and cement 3V2 feet deep in the ground. Heating is hy hot water in 2-inch pipes. Their roses and carnations are doing well, particularly their Beauties. This is the first year they have tried growing roses for cut flowers to any extent, and results are very satisfactory so far. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. The latest Supplement to our Fall Catalogue contains OUR NOVELTIES and many reductions in Tinfoil, Cycas Leaves, Baskets, Etc., mailed free to applicants in the trade. Wholesale only. Send business card. 136 West 24th Street. P. O. Stiition !■:. New York: ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTURERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE. GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent Irw Frame Construction. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street, NEW YORK. LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. ^^Plans and estimates furnished on application. Largest bollderg of Greenhouse Stractnres. Six highest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CEHTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. ircMtectnral Olce, I) COR. TWENTY! FACTORY: IRVINGTON-ON-HCDSON, N. T. LORD & BURNHAM CO., f;rri*"'New York City. WORTH BEARING IN MIND. You buy your heater once, but your fuel you buy every year. It might be well to bear this in mind if you are in need of a greenhouse heater. Among other features which have made the "SPENCE" HOT WATER HEATER famous is the fuel-saving feature. "Spence" users are not troubled with large bills from the coal dealer. "SPENCE" CATALOGUE FREE. S(meri'can toiler Company CHICAQO: 84 Lake Street. NEW YORK; 94 Center Street. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. Society of American Florists. This is to Certify that IRVING PREDMORE, BARNEGAT. N. J., is entitled to Honorable Mention for clean and well-packed Sphagnum and Peat. Exhibited at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 18-21, '96. WM. SCOTT, WM. J. STEWART, President. Secretary. GREEN-HOUSE HEATING. MYERS & CO. 1518 & 1520 S. 9lh St. PHILADELPHIA. Send for catalogue and price llBt. THE AMERICAN FLORIST'S Color Chart is now accepted as thestandanl in preparing color descriptions, by many foreign houses as well as in America. PRICE 15 CENTS POSTPAID. AMERICAN FLORIST CO., 322 Dearborn Street, CHICACO. Rmerica is "the Praw of tha I/esse1; there may be more comfort Umidships, l; n Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, DECEMBER 19, 1896. Trst ta touch Unknou/a Seas. No. 446 fLmiE l^m^mi^^m WiL^smv Copyright 1896, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by The American Florist Company. 33iJ I>earborn Street, Chicago. Subscription. 81.00 a year. To Europe. 82.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. •.iii Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Eastern Office : G7 Bromfleld St., Rogton. This paper Is a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. Wm Scott, Buffalo, president; Adam Gkaham. Cleveland, o, vice-president: w. J. Stewart. Bos- ton, secretary; II. B. BKATTY. Oil City, Pa., treasurer. OFFiCERfi FOR 1897.— ADAM GRAHAM. Cleveland. O.. president: FAUQimAR Macrae, Providence. R. I., vice-president. Secretaiy and treasurer as before. The thirteenth annual meeting will be held at Prov- idence. R. I., August. 181^. CONTENTS. Carnations — Notes (illus.) 473 American Carnation Society 474 —Diseased carnations 474 Sweet pea puzzles . . . 474 Giant bamboo, Ceylon (illus.) 475 Eelaginellas 475 Herbaceous plant notes 476 Boston 477 Philadelphia 477 Toronto 478 Pittsburg 478 New York 478 Officers New York Florists' Club (4 portraits) . 479 Cincinnati 47a St. Louis 480 Rochester, N. Y 480 Providence. R. I 480 Grand Rapids, Mich 480 Chicago 481 Obituary— David Clarke 481 — Edward Winslow Lincoln 481 Newport. R. I. 481 The seed trade 481 Lettuce turning black 484 DesMoines, la 481 Worcester, Mass 486 Detroit, Mich 488 Louisville. Ky. 488 Greenhouse building 488 Salem, Mass 490 Nashua, N. H. . . 490 Next week we shall put the Florist to press on Thursday night instead of Friday, on account of Christmas, and advertisers are requested to have any changes or new advs. reach us one day earlier than usual. Correspondents will also please send matter a day ahead of the usual time. Floral Designs is the title of a new quarterly publication issued by Wm. I. Brower, New York. The first issue con- tains a dozen fine half-tones of funeral designs printed on heavy coated paper, each sheet loose in the cover, portfolio style, the cover blue and gilt. It is very handsomely gotten up. Carnation Notes. I have had in my time several severe struggles with the disease called spot (SeptoriaDianthi). This disease, though not so virulent as anthracnose, may be- come very troublesomeat times, and when ignorantly and unwittingly abetted in its growth will cause much loss and may eventually kill the plants. My experience has taught me to keep the plants dry during the winter months, or in fact at any time when this disease makes its ap- pearance. Two years ago I neglected these teach- ings, on a bench of Albertini early in No- vember, getting caught twice in succes- sion by the bright outlook in the morning for a sunny day and the afternoon turn- ing into rain, keeping the plants partially wet for several days. The plants stand- ing upright with plenty of free space around them took me ofi' my guard. The consequence of this neglect was a crop of spot. But we may be troubled with this disease without our unwitting assistance, and we caught the worst dose I experi- enced, this past August in the field on a piece of ground protected from the drying west winds. It was at a time when we had very heavy rains followed by very warm and humid but otherwise bright weather, the dew being so heavy on the plants that we couldseethedrops sparkle in the sun up to noon, and as soon as the shades of evening were cast over the plants, the moisture of the humid atmos- phere settled over the plants again. The heavy rains softened the plants, washing off that bluish bloom and giving the dew a better and more lasting adhesion to the leaves. This is about the condition of the plants in a house where they are watered over- head at all times, making them more sus- ceptible to any fungous or bacterial dis- eases. To continue. This fated patch con- tained my seedlings and one hundred varieties of the yearbefore in their second year's trial, and a sorry lot they were by the last da3'8 of August when the house was ready fjr the transfer. The plants were large and finely grown, but dotted over with the brown spots, and on the lower end of the patch so badly that one half of the leaves were dried up. We lifted and cleaned them but not liking to take off so many of the leaves we thought we could manage it in the house by spray- ing with the copper solution. The plants started out nicely with a good growth, but so did the spot also; the spraying gave no relief, on the con- trary it seemed to further the disease. Being in September, the weather bright, watering was done overhead as usual at this time after transplanting. By the approach of October the plants were as badly infested as they were in the field. Now we did what we should have done in the beginning when lifted. We resorted to a thorough handpickiog, a very tedi- ous job; we removed allleaves or parts of leaves that were affected, some plants being reduced to sticks, and we kept the plants perfectly dry above ground. On a few cold nights when stronger fireheat was necessary we applied a good dose of sulphur and a little slacked lime made into a paste, on the pipes, heavy enough so it produced a vapor, being careful not to make it too strong, and today while yet showing the effects of the disease by the nude appearance of the branches in their lower parts, every trace of the dis- ease has vanished, the plants appearing as healthy as any, and making a strong growth. I narrated these incidents as explana- tory of my recommendation not to water overhead, and to keep the plants dry above ground. This applies not only to this one disease but to all fungous and bacterial diseases that infest the carna- tion. True the removal of all affected parts stopped the discharge of spores, but there were so many left scattered over the plants that with the slightest assistance of moisture these would have produced another crop of this fungous parasite. On a close examination one will observe on an old well developed spot a number of black pimples; these pimples are hollow and from them the spores are discharged; they ooze out mingled with a semi-solid sticky substance, and when they come in contact with water will dissolve and be washed over the leaf. Or, being set free they dry up and are wafted by the air to other parts. Thus we see water is not only indis- pensab'e to the germination of these spores, but it is also an agent to setthem free for a rampant march through the house. Again when we take the location of these spots into consideration, we mostly find them where a drop of water had a chance to hang on after a wetting; thus we find it so often on the point of the leaf where a drop will hang if at any part. I know I have often been ridiculed for my assertion that plants should be kept dry above ground. Apparently a syring- ing seems so refreshing, but on the other hand consider the construction of the leaves and stems, covered with that bluish bloom, shedding the water as fast as received only adhering to points like drops of dew. Does not that indicate that the water is not wanted on the leaves? And then again when we con 474 The American Florist. Dec. i9> sider the agency of the water, that pro- tecting indispensable element, necessary to the development of these parasitic fun- gous growths, are we not justified in keeping the plants dry above ground. I will give a description of a mzz'e that we use at our place for watering carna- tion benches. Take that part of a hose coupling with the thread on the inside, detach the part fastened to the hose, let your tinsmith make a tube a little larger than the coupling so it will fit over it, about four inches long, and so'der on to the coupling. For the difcharge of the water have four holes near the end of the tube about-!.s of an inch in diameter. Now NOZZLE FOR WATIBING CARNATIONS. to close up the end make a rounded cap and insert the convex part in the tube so as to throw the water at a right angle from the tube; thenplaceanotherrounded cap over the end so the lube when attached to the hose pushes easily over the ground. When watering only use force enough to throw the water from two holes between the rows of plants on each side without rising so high as to make the leaves wet; the other two holes will discharge the water in the track of the hose as pushed across the bench and waters the space between the rows. In this way an even distribution of the water is effected. It will scon be learned how to manipulate the hose. I give a sketch of this handy nozz'e for better ex- planation. The dotted line indicates the convex closing up of the tube. Fred. Dorner. American Carnation Society. New names registered are Mrs. Chas. M. Fick and Kathryne.by Chas. M. Fick, Philadelphia, Pa.; Freedom, Morning Star and Jahn's Scarlet, by P. Fisher, Ellis, Mass.; Frederick Cody, by John McGowan, Orange, N. J.; Elizabeth Skinner, by George Smith, Manchester, Vt.; Nivea,byH. A. Cook, Shrewsbury, Mass.; Villisca, Lucy Brenner, and Paul- iene Bussmann, by August Rahner, Vil- lisca, Iowa. The complete premium list for the Cin- cinnati meeting in February will be issued about January 10. Diseased Carnations. The specimens sent by J. G. S. a'c infested with the rust. If this disease is as much spread over the plants as the few sample leaves sent would indicate, there is no remedy for it. If there are only some scattered leaves affected, hand picking is the best remedy. Pick off all the affected leaves close at their base and burn them, and go over the plants once or twice a week for the same pu-pase. Rust will appear for some time, but only a persist- ent cleaning of the plants from all rust affected leaves that may appear before there is much chance to scatter the spores will eventually effect a cure. Keep the foliage of the plant dry, apply water to the soil only. Fred. Dor.ner. Sweet Pea Puzzles. In the American Florist f jr October 17, is an article entitled "Puzzles in Sweet Peas." While not claiming to know all about them I give my opinion and experi- ence for what it is worth. Mr. Arnold does not give the facts as fully as one would wish, and leaves much for one to merely guess at. From my own experience I would say that he is planting on the same ground year after year, and the sporting is the result of self sown seeds remaining in the ground and coming up with the planted ones. I too have grown Emily Henderson from its introduction until the pr. sent time, and while I have never been able to see where some of the claims for it came in, I must say, while others report a tendency to go off into blues and a green tinge, etc., I have never seen any such thing. It has always kept the pure white, although the seed has shown a large per- centage of cracked skins and poor germi- nating quality. When planted with seed from thoroughly rogued plants on ground that has never been in sweet peas it has come perfectly true. In fact I have never known a large percentage of rogues in any variety that I knew had been per- fectly rogued. The first seeds I received of Dorothy Tennant give about 50 per cent each of various stripes and solid mauves. After careful roguing this seed has shown scarcely a rogue, and some of the stripes have been perfectly true to the type chofcn. My first planting of Mrs. Eckford showed a large percentage of Primrose, but under good cultivation it has held its type true, except in extreme dry weather it has run smaller and approached the Primrose shape. My first planting of Ovid gave a large percentage of Royal Robe and a plant or two of Mrs. Chamberlain but after the first year from Mr. Eckford's sealed packets all have held true to their types. Duke of Clarence has shown a tendency to revert to something so nearly like it that it has proved very hard to rogue. Gaiety gave two distinct types, but both have held perfectly true or as nearly so as one could expect. Novelty the first year showed quite apercentageof Meteor but after careful roguing came true. Aurora appeared last year ia Mrs. Cham- berlain and in over 150 feet of row showed but two Mrs. Chamberlain rogues. Another point, Mr. Arnold ought to be able to tell the speckled seeds of Countess of Radnor from the self colored ones of Venus. I am quite sure I should have done so. My first thought on reading his article was tha': either he was not a close observer or else his Ei3;ht is defective. Besides, Radnor has a much smaller and as a rule a shrunken seed. 1 am sure that the sweet pea will remain in the ground for a year or two under certain conditions without sprouting, and the condition seems to be too deep plant- ing, the fad for some years. A plot on which sweet peas grew last year was plowed very deep la«t fall, and worked with a disk cultivator several times this spring, and planted to sweet peas about the first of June. No volunteer plants showed themselves until after a deep cultivation, which was given aft era heavy rain the last of August, when they came up as thick as weeds. I do not know Mr. Arnold's method of roguing, but unless be goes to the root and pulls them up he might find trouble with them. I do not think that the trouble could come from cross fertilization, whether by accident or not. In all such cases that have come under my observation the result has been a large number of varieties both in color and form. I am aware many claim that the accidental crossing of the sweet pea is impossible. I think otherwise. This summer I have frequently seen the bumble bees gather pollen from sweet peas. In no ca=e have I known them to visit the flower and remain on it unless the end of the pistil was exposed. As a rule this does not occur until the flower begins to fade and this is too lite forcross fertiliza- tion to take place. Yet in case of injured or abortive flowers I feel quite confident it might cceur, and in one case I am sure it has done so. Two vears ago I noticed that one plant of Firefly showed a slight striping. The seed of this plant was saved by itself and showed selfs from Royal Robe to Firefly, and stripes from lighter than Mrs. Cham- berlain to darker than .\merica and of varied shapes and forms. This I feel sure was an accidental cross of Royal Robe, or Ovid and Firefly. Etnily Eck- ford crossed on Mrs. Chamberlain gave two seeds which produced plants of almost the same color. One was not good in form and was destroyed. The other has given a large range of color from Ramona to Mikado in red; and from striped Rador to a striped Stanley in mauves and maroons. A careful student of botany called my attention to the fact that the sweet pea is constructed so that a heavy insect would liberate the pollen by what he called "pumping." That is, the weight of the insect on the keel would expose the pistil, and on its removal the pistil would be withdrawn and a quantity of the pollen scraped off. What effect the use of commercial fertil- izers would have I am not prepared to say as my vise of them has been limited, but that soil and climate have a decided influence on varieties I think is generally conceded. Extra Early Blanche Ferry, Blanche Ferry and Emily Henderson will no doubt lose some of their early bloom- ing qualities if gro wu for a few years under certain climatic conditions. My experience is that too much water, manure and frequent cultivation will pro- duce vines at the expense of flowers. Also that a working of the soil will cause flowers to drop and a new growth of vine to start, and that much care must be used in the matterof cultivation. I think the failure of Cupid at the east has been due to the large amount of wet weather and too deep planting. I do not hesitate to say that with me it gave the greatest amount of bloom of over 100 vari- eties. However it set but a small amount of seed, and it may be owing to this fact that it bloomed so freely. It has the poor germinating quality of Emily Henderson, from whch it is a spoit; but many arc unjustly blaming Mr. Burpee and too strongly condemning it. Mr. Burpee's description was certainly true. He may have erred in his estimation of its popu- larity, almost every one to whom I have i8g6. The American Florist. 475 GIANT BAMBOO. CEYLON. \To gam an idea oj the great size note the ttattre standing near the base of the etttvip shown it has said '"How cute," "Isn't it lovely," "What a nice bed or border it would make," etc. Personally I am not an admirer of odd forms, dwarfs and doubles in sweet peas, and think Mr. Eck- ford has shown great judgment in that his whole work has been for color and a larger improved form. S. T. Walker. Forest Grove, Oregon. Selaginellas. Formerly there were only two of these grown to any extent for market work, they were the dwarf spreading S. Kraussi- ana, usually known as Lvcopodium den- ticulalum, by many abbreviated to "Lyco," and S. Martensii, still one of the most useful of the erect growing sorts. Several other sorts have since come into favor, and quite a list of useful varieties might now be given. Since it has beenrfcogn'zed thatitisnot essential to grow them under heavy shad- ing and excessive moisture many varieties which were useless for decorations have been found to be worthy of attention. As with ferns, nearly all the varieties will be found to thrive equally well when exposed to the light and only shaded slightly when the sun is most powerful. All of those which make aerial roots may be propagated readily without the aid of a close frame, though perhaps, some time may be saved by keeping them close for a few days; especially in hot dry weather. Such sorts as do not make the aerial roots, may be propagated from cut- tings or divisions as the cuttings are slow in making a start, but after they once get established they make rapid progress. Of the dwarf spreading sorts, S. Kraussi- ana is still grown more extensively than any other, the golden variety, S. Kraussi- ana aurea is another favorite; when grown exposed to the light this has an intensely bright golden hue, and is very effective as an edging to groups of foliage plants. The silver S. Kraussiana varii- gata is also very pretty when well done, but it is a little difficult to get the silvery white tips to always keep in good color. Of the dark green sorts S. Foulteri is one 476 The American Florist. D ec. rg. of the best, S. serpens, is also one of the best for covering rough walls or rocks. The close compact growing S. apoda is most useful for surfacing the pots of other foliage plants, and some of our florists use it extensively for various purposes. The blue S. ctesia, is another that should be included among the dwarf sorts. It does not always retain the beautiful metallic blue hue, but when in good form it is very attractive. S. Brownii and S. Stansfieldii, are compact growing and very pretty but not of much use for general work. Of the more erect growing sorts, S. Emiliana is one of the best, this makes a sy mmetrical plant, and has fine feather like fronds. It does not make aerial roots. Very small cuttings should be made, and these will soon root, but it takes a little lime to form a plant, though after they do make a good start nice plants are soon established. Either as a small plant for a 3-inch or for a 5-inch pot this is one of the most beautiful of all selaginellas. S. amoena is another popular species, it is very distinct in habit, the finely cut fronds are thrown up from spreading rhizomes, they are of a peculiar wiry substance. It is one of the best for florists work as it stands well. It may be propagated from divisions or from cuttings, these are rather slow to make a start, but they are worth waiting for as good plants will alwavs make more money than most of the selaginellas. S. caulescens, a rather taller growing species, is useful for some purposes, it is free growing and easily propagated. S. perelegans, is another Iree growing distinct species somewhat afier the same habit of growth as the well known S. Martensii, the variegated variety of Martensii is well worth looking after. S. molliceps is a very pretty slender growing speciisandrubricaulisis a dwarf variety, these are very pretty where a collection is grown but are too tender for ordinary work. S. atroviridis has broad fronds of a dark bronzy shade. S. Lyalli, may be regarded as one of the most beau- tiful, the stiff erect growing fronds are of a deep green, it is very slow to make but should be included in all collections. S. htematodcs and S. erythropus are also veiy handsome, especially for growing on for large specimens. Several more might be added to this list but I think I have included all the best and most useful sorts for general cultivation. A. Hemslev. Herbaceous Plant Notes. The species of hardy perennials which are grown here and there for cut flower purposes are not very numerous and con- sist of but alimitednumberof well known varieties. More of these useful flowers in greater variety should be planted, and during the winter months we may pre- pare to lay in a stock and propagate by division or cuttings any of the desirable species so that we may not be short of stock when planting time arrives in the spring. Achillea, aconitum, anemone, anthemis, coreopsis, delphiniums, gaillardia, helian- thus, paeonia, some perennial phlox, pyrethrum, pinks and spireas of various sorts, perhaps exhausts the list of hardy plants grown at present in quantity for the purpose. The flowers of these plants are a great help during their season and those parties who cultivate any or all of those named above are not willing to give them up, showing plainly that there must be some advantage and profit in the cultivation of this class of plants. In very few places even this incomplete col- lection, as given above, can be found growing, perhaps merely because the value and desirability of other species are not known to the majority of our florists but I should say that we may select hun- dreds of varieties which would prove equally profitable when grown exclusively for their flowers, without counting on the revenue derived from occasional sales of plants, which latter item probably would in most cases also be an impor- tant factor worthy of the attention of the grower. In a commercial place where we culti- vate the plants for exclusive purposes of supplying cut flowers for the store or the market, plenty of room should be allowed the plants for spreading out, especially such strong growing species as anemones, anthemis, delphiniums, helianthus, etc. They will not require replanting every few years if we are liberal from the very beginning and prepare a deeply enriched ground for them. Where space is limited, better not attempt planting a larger col- lection, though there are many things which may be planted closer together in beds and insure us a plentiful supply of cut bloom in their season. The Chinese delphiniums, coreopsis, aconitums, gaillardias, pyrethrums, pinks and many others do not absolutely require so much space and may safely be planted 12 or 15 inches apart each way in well prepared beds, where they can remain undisturbed for several years, but field culture in long rows is preferable for most all the taller growing species and even for a great many of the medium or lower plants. In the field, the rows being at least 2V2 or 3 feet apart, we are enabled to keep the ground loose by culti- vator or hoe much better than in closely planted beds and our object being to raise the largest and most perfect flowers we surely may expect better results here than in the beds. It is true we may have to provide supports for some of the weak stemmed or the tall things to protect them against wind or to prevent the rainstorms from bending down or soiling the flowers of which there is but little danger in closely planted beds, one plant supporting the next one and the surface of the ground being covered with foliage, but alter all it pays to go to this little extra trouble and a quick and cheap way to effectually support the plants will be found by driving stout stakes about 8 to 10 feet apart through the center of the row and running a string along eacb side of the plants at the proper height, wind- ing it around the stakes as you go along and securely tying at the ends. The remarkable difference between field culture and bed planting has been demon- strated in several instances on our grounds, a bed of Anemone japonica and a row of them in the field, both planted 4 years ago, show distinctly in favor of field culture. The latter gave us three times the number of flowers to the plant compared to the first and the growth also is much more luxuriant and taller. Also Achillea ptarmica fl. pi. in a long row blooms in greater profusion and continues to form large trusses of flowers until frost, while in a bed near by the trusses are small and their blooming time is much shorter. In pyrethrum. Delphinium hybridum, Helenium Hoopesi and H. autumnale the same diff'erence in growth and flowers are noticeable, though I do not want to be understood that it is advisable to plant everything in field rows, for there are many things, which do equally well in beds where the same number of plants occupy less space and where the flowers are less liable to be soiled by heavy rains. Take for instance the hardy candytufts and the feathery pinks, if planted in field rows it wou'd be difficult to keep the flowers clean in case of stormy weather and they are some of the plants which should by all means be planted in beds. Along with these I should strongly recommend the free blooming Lychnis viscaria plena, a most brilliant rosy car- mine, well lasting flower, produced on branchy panicles 15 to 18 inches long: also the spring flowering Anemone svl- vestris with a mass of pure waxy white flowers, much resembling those of the fall blooming varieties. Heuchera sanguinea does well in closely planted beds and Hesperis matronalis fl. pi. brings long pyramidal spikes of white flowers tinged with lilac, somewhat resembling a large well grown ten week stock in shape, Statlce latifolia does equally well in beds or in the field. Ranunculus acrls fl. pi., R. aconitifolius and R. amplexicaule are excellent for cut flower use and should be planted largely. They do best in a somewhat moist but not wet situation, still they give good returns on ordinary soil. The deep purple Stokesiacyanea with its large China aster like flowers will be found profitable and does cot require very much space, and then there is the most beautiful clear soft pink flowered ^^thiona'ma grandiflorum, which must under no circumstances be omitted; it is such a fine and elegant plant and produces its flowers in such great profusion, keeping for a long time in a cut state, it is really a mystery tome why it remained comparativelyunknown until recently. It is not a true herbaceous plant, but of a shrubby character and does not bear dividing; 15 to 18 inches is its height when fully grown and propa- gation is effected by cuttings. Some- times it is found rather difficult to root the cuttings and this may be one of the reasons why the plant is not grown to the extent it really deserves. We haveno fine pink cut flower of any kind, summer or winter, which could possibh- compare favorably with this splendid speci.'S»nd although some of your readers may think that I am inclined to favor the hardy plants and have a preference for them under all circumstances, I may state here that I never yet have found an\ body who would not admire the flowers of AiMionxma grandiflorum, either on the plants or in a cut state. Not being a very rampant grower, nor a great feeder, the plants may be planted rather close in the bed and remain there permanently, producing multitudes of flower spikes year after year. To the list of plants which should be grown in field rows I will suggest a few additional species and am sure that any- one who undertakes to grow them in suf- ficient quantities will find them remuner- ative. Several of the aquilegias, especially the A. ccErulea and the long spurred A. chrysantha are unmistakably wanted in the cut flower trade. Euphorbia corol- lata can not fail to give satisfaction in every instance wheie an elegant fine white flower is wanted. Campanula persiei- folia and the ccwer C. p. Backhouscaaa in white and light and dark blue shades are very useful, and being very free flow- ering there is no doubt of their being profitable. Dictaranus FraxinelU, the white and the red variety, are grown in very few places and have not found their way into the flower market yet, still the lasting quality of the prettily shaped flowers must finally bring them to the front, though it may take a few years yet before they will be offered in quantity be- cause they are rather slow of growth and i8g6. The American Florist. 477 require age before they bloom profusely and bring long well furnished panicles. I know of a few old clumps standing un- disturbed for 6 or 8 years which produce annually from 30 to 50 manj-flowered erect panicles 2 to 2\i feet high. Ot tbc spiiKa (atnily I would strongly recommend S. ulmaria plena for a pure white and the beautiful pink flowered S. venusta, or lobata as itis called by some. Tbe f jrmer is a very free bloomer and the tall stems are well furnished with pretty round double flowers; the last nam;d though old is still the most beau- tiful of all pink spirjeas. The only objec- tion that may be raised against it is its tall growth. The largest heads are pro- duced in rather moist ground and here the plants will attain an abnormal height, 6 feet and over being nothing un- common, though when grown for their fJowers only the height of the plant is no objection and when grown in the border among other plants, no such dimensions are attained. Heliopsis laevis and H. Pitcheriana are such everlasting bloomers that they should be grown extensively all over the country and the same may he said of the different ruibeckias, also the Heleniums Hoopesii and autumnale are both very good and make a most magnificent show in a store window in theirseason. Veron- icas of the larger types are most desira- ble, especially V. amethystina and V. longifol. subsessilis, with its deep blue large flowers. Thalictrumaquilegifohum in its lighter and darker shades are sure of giving satisfaction and an immense lot of flower stems can be gathered from old well established clumps where plenty of space was allowed the plants. In cc ncluding let me say a word for the irises, which aie well known to all; the flowers sell well enough and are profita- ble only when received in perfect state; they t equire careful packing if they have to travel considerable distance especially if sent by rail. It is not generally known that the iris will open out perfect full- sized flowers after being cut, if placed in water the same as hemerocallis and the gladiolus do. Therefore whenever theiris flowers have to travel any distance to reach the market it is always best and safest to cut the stems as soon as 4 or 5 of the buds show color and not wait until they are expanded; on reaching their destination they should be placed in water, when in a short time the flowers will open out, unmarred and perfect in every respect. When the market is near by, or where the grower can use them in bis own retail store, this premature cut- ting of the stems is not so much needed, still even then I would advise doing it to save time and labor in packing. Good flowers always bringa good price and there is but very little labor required to grow them successfully; once planted they can take care of themselves and alter a few years the stout rhizomes will have covered the entire surface to such an extent that even the weeds can not find space to grow in between. The older the clumps the larger and stronger the flower stems seem to be, provided there is suffi- cient room for the plants to spread and a slight dressing is annually administered to the roots. Don't be alarmed if the rhizomes lay on top of the ground; don't cover them with soil or manure, they like to be on the surface and the covering will do more harm than good. I have seen whole beds destroyed by tbc mistaken kindness of protecting these bare rhizomes in winter with a few inches of manure; the f jUowing spring not a sound plant was to be fouad in the lot and it was years before the replanted beds were again in ordinary good condition. It takes time to grow strong stems of iris flowers and although we may get flowers on new plantings they never attain the size or beauty of those pro- duced on well grown old clumps. We have many beautiful irises and compara- tively few are offered in the stores; if more attention was paid to this class of plants many thousands more could be disposed of, but by all means be sure to cut before they open out if you have to ship to market. J. B. Keller. Rochester, N. Y. Boston. There is an abundance of flowers of all kinds in market and unless very severe weather interferes there will be no scarcity of anything for Christmas. Even if this should happen there is little probability of an extreme advance in prices and all the wholesalers are quoting prices for the holidays on this supposition that low rates will rule. The sale of holly is and has been for the past week enormous, far exceeding anything experienced in past seasons. The quality of most of the holly received appears to be first-rate. All other greens are selling well the weather beirg favorable to its collection and prices being quite moderate in cons;- quence. Early in the week the news came from Brooklyn, N. Y., that Mr. J. A. Pettigrew had resigned his position as superinten- dent of the parks in that city and had accepted a similar position in the Boston park system. Much comment wascaused by the action of the park commissioners in thus going out of the city and state for a park superintendent, but among those who know Mr. Pettigrew's abilities there was a feeling of congratulation that so wise a selection had been made. It appears now, however, that the Brooklyn authori- ties are loath to lose Mr. Pettigrew and so strongly have they presented their case that it is possible Boston may not get him after all. At the office of the park commissioners extreme reticence prevails and it is impossible to get any information there. It is understood that Mr. William Fischer, who has filled acceptably the position of assistant land- scape gardener under Mr. F. L. Olmsted for many years, will sever his connection with the department at the end of the year, the office having been abolished. Welch Bros., who have been engaged in the cut flower commission business in Boston for the past twenty years, sprung a genuine surprise on the community last week by the announcement that they should open a cut flower exchange under the title of the City Hall Flower Market, at 9 Chapman Place and 15 Province street, on December 23rd. On and after that date all their flower trade will be transferred to this address, and stalls will be assigned to growers at a moderate rental, every facility for quick handling and disposal of stock being furnished. The market will be open from 6:30 a. m. to (> p. m. The place at 2 Beacon street will be given up to the general supply department of the Welch Bros.' business. The extent of the flower interests of Bos- ton, the large number of growers and trade buyers coming from suburban places daily, the continued prosperity of the market already in existence, together with the well-kno wn ability, industry and push of the three gentlemen comprising the firm of Welch Bros, are all facts upon which may be based a reasonable predic- tion of a presperous career for the new enterprize. The following are among the prizes awarded by the garden committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the yearlS96. Houseof chrysanthemums in pots, John Barr, gardener to Mrs. B. P. Cheney, first; T. D. Hatfield, gardener to Mr. Walter Hunnewell, second. House of chrysanthemums grown on benches, John Barr, first; Wm. Nicholson, second. House of violets, Alex. McKay, gardener to Mr. David Nevins, first; James Com- ley, second. Carnation house, Wm. Nicholsonfirst. On Saturday, November 28th, a silver medal was awarded to James E. Roth- well for a plant in flower of Cyoripedium insigne Ernestii exhibited at Horticult- ural Hall. Jas. Kelway & Son, of Langport, Eng- land, have oSered a silver gilt and a bronze medal for pjEonies, to be competed for at the pffiony show of the Massachu- setts Horticultural Society on June 12, 1897. Wm. Ingram, recently of Boston, has formed a partnership with C. Meader, under the title of Ingram & Meader, and the new firm has opened a florists' estab- lishment at 93 Hanover street, Manches- ter, N. H. The residence of Prof. Chas. S. Sargent, at Brookline, was damaged by fire and water on the night of December 14, to the extent of about $30,000. The mansion is one of the most beautiful in this exclu- sive section, and is surrounded by one hundred acres of garden and lawn. The damage is attributed mainly to the ineffi- ciency of the Brookline fire department and the inadequacy of the water supply, and if it had not been for the help given by the Boston department the loss would have been much greater. The summer residence of President F. H. Appleton, of the Massachusetts Hor- ticultural Society, at Santaug Lake, Pea- body, was ransacked by thieves on tbe night of December 13. A. P. Calder, the well known Boston florist, was arrested on Monday, the 14th inst., on a charge of perjury, it be- ing alleged that he gave as security on a bail bond, last month, property which was not in his own name. The Horticultural Hall has never been more beautifully decorated withevergreen than on the occasion of the Carney Hos- pital Fair now in progress. The work was done by L. F. Severy. Philadelphia. Saow is now six inches deep and sleigh bells are tinkling merrily over the frozen boulevards of the city. Twas a green Christmas last year, more like spring than winter, but this year it mi'l be a white one and more in keeping with the season. Business has kept up very well and some flowers are scarce; prices are higher, last week's scale having moved up a notch on Monday. The royal Beauty now commands $7 to $7.50 per dozen lor first size with stems 36 to40inches, and down easy stages the price goes according to quality until it reaches $1.50, anything salable bringing that price per dozen. The teas are also stiff.r, some extras going for $12 per hundred; $8 to $10 is the majority price for tbe best stock, however, and seconds $4 to $6. Carna- tions seem to be in better supply than roses, and very good Scotts and Mc- Gowans can still be had for $1 per hun- dred. Extra stock sells for from $1.25 to $2 per hundred. Meyers & Samtmann are cutting some fine Delia Fox, their stock this season is very healtty and the growth vigorous. Violets are in good 478 The American Florist. Dec. ^P. demand, and while the quality improves 75 cents per hundred is the best price; so far the southern folks keep tte market fairly well supplied, and while the stock is not so sweet as the home grown, the large size makes the sale. F. Suport is doing well with his Prircess of Wales, the large single. He bunches them properly and is generous with leaves around the edge. If violet growers would only pay more attention to this detail of their business they would find it most profit- able. Good mignonette is in demand and there is scarcely enough to supply the market. This is a flower that needscare- ful bunching and packing. It should look when tied up much like asparagus, as large around at the stems as at the flow- ers and not fastened tight, only enough to hold the bunch together and it must not lay on its side any length of time as the ends turn up. Every precaution should be taken to keep it straight, as crooked spikes are an abomination and not easily sold. Valley is a little scarce at present, $4 to $6 is the price. Cypripediums are in good supply at $15 per hundred. Cat- tleyas are still scarce at $5 per dozen. Christmas gieens are greatly in evidence all over town the large stores being liberally decorated. We hear of a corner in Christmas trees a syndicate buying them all up as fast as the car lots arrive. They come mostly from Maine and it is quite easy to control the supply as it is now too late to cut any more. The following gentlemen were elected at the meeting of the Horticultural Society to serve for the ensuing year: President, Clarence H. Clark; vice-presidents, Robert Craig, Chas. H. Miller, Dr. Geo. Goebel; treasurer, Wm. F. Dreer; secretary, David Rust; botanist. Tbos. Meehan; horticult- ural chemist, Dr.PersiferFrazer;entomo!- ogist, Rev. H. C. McCook; member of state board of agriculture, Edwin Lons- dale; executive council, John Burton, Thos. Cartledge, Sidney W. Keith, C. H. Kuhn, Butnet Landreth, Edwin Lonsdale and Henry W. Michell. Tbe chrysanthemum show of 1897 has been fixed tocommence onNovember 9th, to last four days and the premiums are to amount to $2,000. Robert Craig received first premium torcyclamensonexhibition, they were fine plants. There were two collections of vegetables both fine, R. C. Kaighn and J. N. Kaighn received first and second prizes respectively. Twenty new members were elected. Frederick Ilahman, a much respected member of the craft, died and was buried last week. Mr. Hahman has carried on the business for a long time. Some years ago his son was admitted to the firm and he now will continue the business. Mr. Bradley Redfield is an artist with his brush as well as a successful grower ot plants and flowers. In a competition of paintings with the artists of this city he received the first prize, a gold medal. It is a great honor and he has our con- gratulations as well as others of the craft who are glad to hear of his success. K. Toronto. The annual election of officers of the Toronto Gardeners' and Florists' Associa- tion resulted as follows; J. H. Dunlop, president; A. Watkins, 1st vice-president; E. Anrandale. 2nd vice-president; V, H. Carter, secretary; E. Collin?, assistant secretary; A. H. Ewing, treasurer; execu- tive committee, Messis. Chambers, Mills, Manton, Briggs, Tidy, Vair, Simmers. A most harmonius and melodious crowd was assembled at Mr. J. H. Dun- lop's on the occasion of the annual supper — banquet one might almost call it — which he gives to his employes. About twenty sat down to the "groaning board" and as appetites were good the board soon ceased togroan. Oystersoup, juicy' turkeys and all the etceteras disap- peared in the most marvellous fashion. Three or four of Mr. Dunlop's numer- ous pretty daughters waited on the guests most efficiently and delightfully, the latest addition, a son of threemonths, bossing the proceedings as if he had been used to it all his life. Perhaps he did not know it but his kindest of mothers had something to do with the bossing too. After supper music comic, sentimental and patriotic, vocal and instrumental, was the order of the day. Cigars were handed round and everybody had a most enjoyable time of it until the wee sma' hours. Mr. Dunlop's employes are to be envied. With two additions the same men were present at this year's supper as at the last. There is nothing to complain of about business lately it has certainly been a good "fair" and it seemslikely to get bet- ter all the time now. Tidy had a splendid show of flowers in his window thismorn- ing, some magnificent California violets from Dale. Dunlap reports out of town orders lively, several weddings and con- siderable design work, he says violets are inclined to be scarce and rcsesof all kinds plentiful. The weather keeps mild with occasional sunny days. Pittsburg. There has not been any decided change for the better in the trade situation here during the past week, the general public not buying except in a small way, evi- dently holding off until Christmas time; of course there are social functions going on all the time that enable some florists to report business fair. One of these on Monday night was a very swell affair, a ball given by one of our leading fashion- ables at the Pittsburg Club. This club admits ladies and has connected with it a very handsome theater and ball room combined. A visit to several of the Pitts- burg florists found them busy until away into the evening making bouquets, etc., for this occasion. These were composed of the choicest flowers in the market, with everyone large enough to suggest the thought that the introduction of a caddy, as in golf, would be a good thing for the young lady recipients. Several of our home growers are pre- dicting that there will be a scarcity of carnations next week from this vicinity; there are none too many now, for the hot weather in November started the plants into fresh growth, and violets as well, to the serious detriment of blooms; prices have already advanced, especially in Alle- gheny, and during the holidays at least they will be about on a par with prices in Pittsburg. Other stock, with the excep- tion of lilies, is abundant, and quality very good. The florists have just commenced to decorate their storerooms with holly, evergreens, palms, etc., giving them a very holiday appearance. Mr. James Dell has his room decorated in a very handsome, artistic manner, as also have Messrs. Elliott & McGimiss; the arrange- ments are entirely dissimilar, but equally striking in effect. Messrs. Ludwig and John Bader have gone largely into the Christmas tree busi- ness this season; they have received this week between 18,000 and 20,000 trees which are exceptionally fine, having been very carefully selected to meet the wants of this section, and arrived in first-class condition by rail from Massachusetts. This branch of their trade is carried on independently from their flower business, and both wholesale and retail at the Allegheny market. Regia. New York. A languid condition seems to prevail throughout the flower business at pres- ent which the most sanguine hope is but the calm preceding a rushing holiday trade. The various establishments that make a specialty of decorative foliaged and flowering plants in this vicinity have made preparations for a brisk Christmas demand, and cyclamens, azaleas, heaths, primroses, etc., are to be had in good variety and excellent quality. In cut flowers it is worthy of note that the aver- age quality of roses, violets and carna- tions coming in has never been excelled, and seldom equalled in this market. Bride and Bridesmaid roses are superb from many growers, and the proportion of poorstock is gratifyingly small. Holly, mistletoe and Christmas trees are very abundant, prices low on the trees and all kinds of green selling rapidly. The absence of snow has made the gathering easy, and an enormous supply is coming in from all directions. At the December meeting of the New York Florists' Club which took place on Mondav evening last the election of officers for 1897 was the principal business on hand. The result of the balloting was as follows: President, Samuel Henshaw, West New Brighton, N.Y.; Vice-President, William Plumb, Oyster Bay, N. Y.; Secre- tary, John Young, New York City; Treas- urer, Charles B. Weathered, New York Citv; Trustees, A. L. Don and Lawrence Hafner, New York, and William J. Stew- art, Boston, Mass. The president will appoint a committee on floral art and at the next meeting there will be a competition for a new and appropriate design to be used by the club on the occasion of the death of any of its members. K fine silver cup offered by Wm. Plumb will be awarded to the suc- cessful competitor. It was decided to hold the annual din- ner as heretofore and the old committee, Messrs. E. Asmus, J. H. Taylor and C. B. Weathered were selected to arrange for same. Mr. A. Warendorff will have charge of the floral decorations. Hugh Graham exhibited bis carnation Victor, a sport from Daj break, and honorable mention was awarded him. C. H. Allen received similar award foradozen fine mignonette of the variety called Allen's Defiance. It was decided to give a "smoker" to the gardeners on the occasion of their convention the second Monday in Janu- ary. Wm. Plumb, C. Hafner and J. Young were appointed to take charge. Horticultural circles were startled by the announcement on Wednesday last that the Thos. W. Weaihered's Sons Co. had gone into a receiver's hands. All who have known this concern through its honorable career of over a third of a century or who have been brought into personal contact with the popular big hearted treasurer of the New York Flo- rists' Club, Mr. C. B. Weathered, will feel only the deepest sympathy and sincere regret that circumstances have brought them into this unfortunate position, although it is understood that the receiv- ership is not so much for bankruptcy as for a winding up of affairs for reorgani- zation. This business was established in 1859 by Thos. W. Weathered, who h.-id previ- i8g6. The American Florist. 479 SAMUEL HENSHAW. PRESIDENT WM PLUMB. VICE-PEESIDENT. JOHN YOUNG. SECRETARY. OBAS B WEATHERED. TREASURER. OFFICERS OF THE NEW YORK FLORISTS' CLUB FOR 1897. ously been connected with Hitchings & Co., Edmond Cberevoy being taken in as partner. Mr. Cherevoy died in 1872 and Mr. Weathered continued the business alone until 1887. when he retired in favor of his two sons. Up to this time the busi- ness had been confined to hot water heat- ing, but now that of horticultural build- ing was added, property being purchased and a large plant erected at Jersey City. On January 1, 1S93, the company was incorporated under the title of Thos. W. Weathered's Sons Inc., the officers being C. B. Weathered, president; Edmund Weathered, vice-president and treasurer; Samuel Burns, s.cretary and manager. The liabilities are about $37,000, with assets estimated at $65,000, in which are 32 lots covered with buildings which cost not less than $38,000, the balance being stock and bills receivable. The company has done a very extensive business in the erection of conservatories for large ori- vate estates, including the Vanderbilts, Sloans and other widely known places. It is hoped that creditors will get 100 cents on the dollar, and no one will ques- tion that Chas. B. Weathered will make every possible sacrifice to accomplish this. The receiver is C. J. Crown of Jersey City. The white sport from carnation \Vm. Scott at John Harrison's place in Jersey City, which was favorably noticed in these columns last season, is giving great satisfaction. One house is filled with it, and Mr. Harrison has had many visitors to inspect it. With the one exception of color, which is white, the plant and flower are Scott in every feature, and those who have grown Scott will know just what to expect from the sport. Mr. Wm. Plumb, who was elected vice- president of the New York Florists' Club, will leave his present place at Oyster Bay to assume charge on Januarv 1 of the beautiful estate of Mr, C. P. Huntington at Throgg's Neck. This arrangement will prevent Mr. Plumb from taking a contemplated trip to England for the pur- pose of visiting his father, who will be 97 years old on January 1. The old gentle- man still retains all his powers in a remarkable degree, being able to read and write without spectacles and erjoying perfect health. The greenhouses on theestateof August Burkhard at Hempstead were entirely destroved by fire on Monday morning, Dec. 7. Many valuable plants were ruined. The fireis supposed to have been caused by a defective flue. Mr. Harry A. Bunyard and Miss Lena H. Bach were married in this city Decem- ber 1, and the happv couple were "at home" in Summit, N. J., December 16. Nothing but orchids are good enou »h for Harry now. Cincinnati. Retail trade is fairly good, although many complaints are being made that it is not what it should be. Several social events have followed in quick succession the past week and every day has been marked by one or more delightful afFdirs given in honor of some fair debutante, and as only a few of the number have been introduced the anticipations for a gay season will be realized, at least the florists hope so. Mr. Peterson reports a good trade along this line. His $300 delivery wagon made it's first appearance on 4th street this week and it is safe to say it is a beauty. Mr. Ed Herras, representing W. A. Manda, South Orange, N. J., was with us a few days since. The special carnation meeting of D'cember 12. was the banner meeting so far. The display of carnations was grand and judging from what we have seen in the line of new varieties, the outlook for the national carnation meeting will sur- pass any of the past. In the afcernoon the hall was crowded as usual with visitors and Mr. Theo. Bock, the judge, had his hands full. Hemakes an admira- ble judge. At 8 p. m. the regular monthly meeting was held, with a good attend- ance, and was called to order by Pres. Gillett. The sole topic of the evening was the carnation. We had the pleasure of having with us, Mr. Weber of Oakland, Md., and Mr. E. G. Hill, of Richmond. Mr. Weber was called upon to speak of the carnation and their past. He went back and related in brief incidents of 25 years ago, the varieties grown then and the way of culture. It is amazing the vast improvements this popular flower has made since. His remarks were well received. Mr. Hill spoke of the carna- tion's future and predicted that we will soon see the day when Mr. John Thorpe's prediction will be realized, namely that carnations will be grown to measure four inches across. At the time it was made the prediction was ridiculed and to-day we have right here a vase of seed- lings grown by Mr. Walz that measure fully three inches, and the stem, flower and calj'X is all that can be desired to make it a first-class carnation. Mr. R. Witterstaetter was next called upon to say something in regard to his favorite, "the divine flower." He dwelt upon the subject of the carnation of the present but owing to the hard times, 480 The American Florist. Dec. ig^i finds that his bank account does not rise as fast as the ash barrel fills. In Mr. Weber's collection a vase of Triumph was exceedinglv fine. A vase of Mayor Pingree, shown by J. Breitmeyer &SoES, Detroit, Mich., was also excellent. Fifty blooms of Emma Wocher made a raa^fniScent display, they were exhibited by R. Witterstaetter. A vase of choice Marechal Niel shown by Fred Walz caught the eyes of every visitor. Messrs. Hopp & Lemke, Grand Rapids, Mich., sent a box of their seedling carnation Morello, but it came too late to be judged. The flower is a large scarlet with bold stiff stem; it will be disseminated in March next. The folio wing certificates were awarded: H. L. Sunderbruch, cyclamen, Adian- tum Farleyense, A. cuneatum, mar- guerites, Morgan, Bridesmaid and Meteor roses; H. Weber & Son, Oakland, Md., Daybrefck, Scott, Triumph, Storm Kirg, Albertini, Abundance, Tidal Wave, Hecior, Alaska, Delia Fox, Meteor, Peach Bl)w, Helen Kellar carnations and Kaiserin Victoria roses; F. Dorner & Son, Lafayette, Ind., Dazzle and Mrs. C. H. Duhme; Hcffmeister Floral Co., American Beauty and Mfrmet roses; Fred Walz, new carnation Denver and Marechal Niel roses; Huntsman & Co., Mme. Cusin, Pearl, Sunset and Bride roses; Hill & Co., Flora Hill and Armazinda carnations and for rose Pres. Carnot, a certificate under rule 8; E. Rutenschroer, Marie Louise violets; R. Witterstaetter, Butter- cup, Emma Wocher and Ladv Campbell violets; Wm. Murphy, Bridesmaid, Jubi'ee. Kresken, Lizzie McGowan and Grace Wilder. Seedling carnations, rule 8: Mrs. G. M. Bradt scored S6 points, from Fred Dorner & Son; Floral Hill, 86 points, from E. G. Hill & Co.; White Cloud, 85 points, from Fred Dorrer & Son. H. ScHWARZ. St. Louis. The regular business meeting of the Florists' Club was held Thursday after- noon, Deeember 10, at 3 p. m., and it was the largest gathering of the club for a long time. President Kunz was in the chair. The exhibition committee made its report showing a net profit of $400. There is still special prize money out and the committee was continued until same has been collected. Mr. F. W. Ude, Jr., read a short essay on how to grow single violets, which was well received. Dr. Halstead, of Belleville, Ills., staged a few yellow seedling chrys- anthemums of a very late variety. It has not yet been named; those present say it is a very good thing for this time of the year. Mr. H. G. Ude made appli- cation for membership. The question box was next in order. Following are some of the questions; "When violet leaves are spotted at first and the affected leaves gradually die off, what is the trouble?" "What can be done to keep the fakir off the streets?" "Would it not be proper to make a sep- arate class for two year old stock and one year old stock of cut roses for next year's show?" "Why does the water run over expansion tank alter freezing up? The committee for next year's show was not appointed but will be at the next meeting, when the old committee will bring in its final report. Alter the regular work at the next meeting, which will be held January 14, at 3 p. m., there will be a smoker and a short entertainment for the members of the club. The committee to look after the entertainment is J. J. Beneke, Julius Konig, Sr., ajjd J. W, Kunz. A committee was also appointed to look up the lost member of the club and the same commit- tee will also look after thefakirsand who supplies them. The meeting then ad- journed. The outlook for a good Christmas trade is very promising this year, though busi- ness the past week was dull, but this is always the same a week or so before Christmas. Sales of holiday greens are more than satisfactory, the demand for holly keeping up with previous years. Among the plants offered for Christmas the most salable seem to be the cycla- mens. These are in the market in fine condition and appear to be very popular and very fine, especially those prize win- ners grown by C. C. Sanders. In the cut flower line roses have not advanced in value since my last report. There seems to be a good demand for white. First-class Bride and Meteor roses are in good demand and top prices are being asked for them. Good long Beauties are also in demand; the prices on them range from $10 to $S5. Other roses such as Perles, Woottons, Maids and La France go at from $1 to $3 per 100. Carnations are still plentiful in this market and anything like good flowers bring $2, while some fancies go for 3. Whites, Scotts and Daybreaks are the best sellers. Harrisii are not over plentiful, price $15, callas, $8. Valley is good and in brisk demand at $4. Romans and Paper Whites are a glut just now and $1 per 100 is all they bring. Violets still sell at 25 cents for single and 75 cents for double. The chrysanthemum Western King exhibited by Nathan Smith & Son at our late show was admired by all who saw it. The Western King was entered for the Shaw prize, a gold medal. The prize called for a plant and as they were cut blooms they were ruled out, but received honorable mention Irom the club. A. Y. Ellison, son of Wm. Ellison, was married last week to Miss Minnie Lovett of this city, and the pair are off on a month's trip. Mr. G. Kellogg, of Pleasant Hill, Mo., was a visitor last week. The bowlers had a good time Monday and rolled three games. C. Beyer was high in three games with 635, J. W. Kunz second with 610, C. C. Sanders third. On single high score Beyer 261, Kunz 228, Sanders 206. J-J-B. Rochester, N. Y. Nearly all our florist stores are now lavishly trimmed up and decorated in various pretty styles with wreathingand greenery, holly and palm leaves and various decorative plants, and it is a gratification to see the employes hustle around getting everything in shape for the holiday trade. The outlook for an increased demand is very favorable; ad- vance orders for plants and flowers are now booked daily. Plants of all descriptions seem to be decided favorites in preference to the cut flowers, but this may not be any sure Indication that the latter have lost in favor, as usually orders for these are not very plentiful until the last three or four days. A variety of flowering plants are offered and are really in fine shape, sturdy begonias, well grown cyclamens, azaleas full of bloom, gorgeous poinsettias, linums, marguerites and primroses, together with well fruited Otaheite dwarf oranges and the usual palms, ferns and other foliage plants are represented plenti- fully in all the stores. Well arranged small fern disbtS of various shapes continue in demand and medium sized araucarias seem to have gained over former years. In the flower trade during the past week there was not much of a change. The demand is good and very little goes to waste. The cut in prices for carnations as reported last week, did not hold out very long; an agreement was effected be- tween the store men at a meeting held a few days ago and the good sense and amiable and friendly connections prevail- ing among them greatly facilitated the adoption of a uniform and fair retail price. We have splendid and very pleasant weather here, inviting masses of people for a walk or inspection tour through the principal streets of our town and the daily transient trade is materially increased by these favorable conditions of the weather. J. B. K. Providence, R. I. The mild weather this season has "scorched" every seasonable flower into bloom, and consequently the stores and dealers have a superabundance of every- thing but customers. The bottom has dropped out of business, and everyone seems to be hard up for the one essential thing, the ready cash; if they have any to spend it goes for Christmas presents. Palms, ferns and Ficus elastica seem to be the plants most desired. The demand for jars, fancy pot covers, etc., is very fair. There are carnations galore. I counted nine street fakirs within a half mile on Westminster street the other evening. The sidewalks and streets were strewn with stems and discarded flowers that indicated quite a brisk business had been done in their line. Some of the flowers offered for sale were very sad looking and had evidently seen better days; being sold under the cover of night, they did not show their good old age. The price was from fifteen to thirty cents per dozen. The modest violet is the favorite flower and is seldom offered for sale on the street. Bulb flowers are quite plenti- ful. Callas are a little shy at present. Until a year or so ago onr dealers dcDCnded upon other markets for their stock of holly and other choice Christmas greens. This year we find competition here at home, and holly can be bought from $1 to $1.50 less a case than in pre- vious years, and save expressage, which is quite an item, thanks to our leading store in florists' supplies. Farquhar Macrae says business has been a little better with him the past week. He is offering a good lot of stick 'mums. All kinds of bulbs sold out very close this fall, as the ground remained open unusually late. Little Rhody. Grand Rapids, Mich. The Florists' Club held its last meeting for this year December 15, with Pres. Smith in the chair. There was a good attendance, and much routine work was done for the coming new year. The pros- pect for the holiday trade in flowers was reported as being good, with some fears of a shortage. The annual meeting occurs January 5. A banquet will be given ac the Eagle Hotel January 19. Geo. F. Crabb, Wm. Cunningham and N. B. Stover were appointed a committceon arrangements. Tne members are privi- leged to invite those whom they wish to so entertain. The club is in good finan- cial condition, with no rent to pay, and ia otherwise prosperous. On February 2 the club will have a car- i8g6. The American Florist. 481 nation meeting. Geo. F. Crabb will read an essay on "The newer carnations," whicli will be followed by a discussion. Growers of novelties are invited to send in new carnations for the club to pass judg- ment upon. A committee composed of Henry Smith, Wm. Cunningham, N. B. Stover, Geo. F. Crabb and James Schols were appointed to revise the premium list for the floral fes- tival to be given November next. E. A. Chicago. Unless all present indications are mis- leading the supply of flowers for Christ- mas will be decidedly short. Though the weather has not been ideal, still we have had a number of bright sunny days of late, more than the same time last year, yet roses seem likely to be scarcer this year than last. Almost every grower seems to be ofi'crop, a peculiarly unfortu- nate condition at this time. The quality of what we shall have promises to be fair, certainly better than last year. The supply of violets will probably not exceed the usual daily receipts as the de- mand has been steady and there has been no chance for a quantity to accumulate. Carnations promise to be plenty and gen- erally of fine quality, but there will be no glut unless growers persist in holding back till the last moment, mating a scarcity just before the holiday and then swamping the market on the last day, as has happened several times in the past, in which case the good suffers with the bad and prices are demoralized. Of course colored sorts will be more in demand than white. Romans and paper white narcissus are in good supply. In tulips we may look for some fairly good Proserpine and Due Van Thol, mostly of the red variety. Poinsettias, which the past two or three seasons have come into public favor again, are seen at a few establishments in small quantity. Stevia seems to have hit the holidays at just right time and will be fairly abundant and of good qualitj'. In mignonette our market has always been rather weak, no such bloom as the eastern grower may boast of ever having been produced here yet, still some very fine stock is now ready to be cut. Prices as quoted by the various whole- sale houses are practically the same as last year. The past week there has been a fairly active market, with a slight advance in prices on roses, 5 to 6 for good teas and as high as 8 for extra select. Supply short of demand, especially in pink and white. Meteors at present being less in demand than Brides and Maids, which is something unusual in our market at this season of the jear. The market on car- nations is rather weak, and prices barely hold their own, with 1.50 for fancy, 1 being the ruling price for good stock. Violets are in steady demand and ad- vanced from 1 50 to 2 for choice. Bulb- ous stock, particularly Romans and paper white, are moving slowly at 2 to 3. In retail circles an Improving business is reported, and all are hopeful of a satis- factory holiday trade. One feature of the business, however, looks far from promising, and that is Christmas greens. Last year lycopodium was very scarce, while this year it seems abundant enough to satisfy all demands three times over. Green being plenty, it is of course cheap, and eveey Greek in town is laying in a good supply, and in due season will pre-emt every available street corner to the detriment of the legit- mate store trade. Holly is of good qual- ity, particularly that from the east, and is in brisk demand. Mr. P. S. Peterson, with Mrs. Peter- son, will take a six months' trip to the Mediterranean, starting January 26. Mr. J. A. Pettigrew has resigned his position as superintendent of the parks of Brooklyn, N. Y., and has accepted the superintendency of the parks of Boston, Mass. The executive committee of the Horti- cultural Society of Chicago will meet at the residence of President Chad wick next Wednesday. The wife of Mr. D. B. Fuller died at LaGrange December 16, aged 67 years. The funeral was private on account of s'ckness. Oce of the children of J. S. Wilson has been seriously ill with a combination of scarlet fever and diphtheria, but is now recovering. In the meantime Mr. Wilson has been himself confined to the house through fear of carrying the germs of the contagious diseases toothers. Prospects are now favorable for his soon being released from "quarantine." Recent visitors: James Kelway, L^ng- port, Eng.; Judson Kramer, Cedar Rap- ids, la.; J. D. Carmody, Evansville, Ind. DAVID CLARKE. On Sunday, Dec. 13, occurred the death of David Clarke, one of the oldest and most respected of New York's florists, in his 72d year. Mr. Clarke was born in Coleraine, Ire- land, on May 5, 1825, where he attended school and afterwards served an appren- ticeship of five years at Roe Park as flo- rist and gardener. He camed to the United States in June, 1846, establishing himself in business on the Bloomingdale Road, 76tli and 78th street, three years later. He married in 1857 Cordelia A. Marshall, who survives him. He removed to the present location on the boulevard, between 78th and 79th streets, in 1870, and about the same time associated with him his two sons, Gil- more and Marshall. Possessed of a vigorous constitution, he always enjoyed good health until taken with his last sickness a few months since. He held in the highest degree the respect and esteem of all those with whom he has been associated in business or socially. He was a member of the New York Florists' Club, New York Retail Florists' League, Manitou Lodge, F. and A. M., and Bloomingdale Lodge, K. of H. The funeral took place on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Edward Winslow Lincoln, secretary of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, Worcester, Mass.. died the morn- ing of December 15, aged 76 years. Newport, R. I. A lively interest is manifested here by a number of florists and gardeners in mak- ing the visit of the S. A. F. to this city one to be long remembered. The city itse'f in summer affords one an abundant chance to view a fine horticultural dis- play, and in connection with varied scdiery makes it extra pleasant to the eye; but there are "other things" under contemplation for the entertainment of the S. A. F., and should those things materialize to the extent that they are now talked of a very enjoyable time to all concerned should be the outcome. A visit to Caswell's greenhouses, Mr. J. Allan, manager, who seems to have the tact of viewing the worries of this world from a pleasant point of view, and "gets there just the same" discloses that this establishment has benched some 9,000 carnations, principally McGowan, which are in vcr/ healthy condition. He is contemplating the cultivation of carna- tions exciusiyelv. Some years ago the roses from this place were highly thought of in the New York market. J.J B. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. Advertisements unaer this head will be Inserted at the rate of 10 cents a line (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. I'lant advs not admitted under this head. s ITUATION WANTED-Ofany kind with florHt. by a lady. Address M care Am. Florist SITUATION WANTED-For general ereenhruse work by slnple man. P A. American Florist. SITUATION WANTED -As gardener, private place O preferred, married : references: 10 vears with last employer. Albert A. DiLGER.4'2i;w.4:id St., Chicago. SITUATION WANTED -As foreman or manager, private or small commercial place, by flrst-c ass German tiorlst. References O. K. Address C II, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-ByJan.lst, by German. ~Vi years' e.xperlence. Private or commercial. Biat of references. Address T A. care Vaiighan's Seed Store, Chicago. SITUATION WANTED-By competent young man as assistant florist or gardener, grapery, carna- tions, designs; I years' experience: steady and sober. Best of references. E B. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-By Jan. 1. as foreman .ir grower, in a reliable commercial establishment. Has a thorough Itnowledge of all branches. Roses, 'mums, palms and Imlbs a specialty. Address IlENity, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-As foreman; long experi- ence. Successful grower of roses, carnations, violets, 'mums, palms, and other choice stuck On salary or shares. Middle aged; widower. Address Florist, care C. H. Hupgood, IIOS State St.. Erie, Pa. SITUATION WANTED-As foreman in large com- mercial or private esta bl Ishment. thorough ly posted in all brandies, flowers, fruits and vegetables; life experience In Al establishments. Europe and America; eastern states preferred; age ;i2. single, ab- stalMer; flrst-class references Address Grower, care American Florist, W ANTED— Catalogues of hardy rosps and general nursery stock Fhaxk Hayuex. llJi^ N. Tejon St . Colorado Spriogs. Colo. WANTED— A single man. reliable and thorough to grow roses and cariations. Take charge uf Ave houses. Stl'art & 11a ugh. Anderson. Ind. WANTED— A practical florist with little money can hear of atlrst-class chance to establish himself. Address D U B. care American Fiorlst, WANTED— A competent florist: must be a good propagatnr In roses and carnations. Single pre- ferred. MusL 5how reference. Address Otto Baumann. Manistee. Mich. WANTED-KellHbio party, with small capital, to purchase stuck. Will rent or sell houses and ground on h)ng lime. Old established. Splendid open- ing to right party. A R. care American Florist. FOR SALE— One upright tubular Imller with base complete, six horsepower, wiiicarrytJO lbs steam. Also three sets of Hitchlngs dumping grates for No. Hi boiler. All new. Apply Box 201, Welleeley. Mass. FOR SALE— A retail store in city. stocked with frt^h and artificial tlowers; good lucatlon cstjibllsheri ti years; we are going out of business and will make reasonable terms. Address L, care Am. Florist. IpOR SALE CUEAP— ;i greenhouses, ground UXtxl'llO ' It., sieam heat, boiler ro jm 1(1x24; also ottice, Ave room dwelling. Greenhouses new and In good repair. Cause of selling, financial troubles. A rare chance. Terras casli. Address Wm. G. White. Ovid, Mich. FOK SALE— Five greenhouses (J5xl25 In flrst-class repair, hot water, new windmill. t;i>-barrel tank, ,'i room cottage. barn.S'i; acres laud, sheltered by timber 40 minutes ride from city; greenhouses stocked with nine thousand carnations of the very best market vari- eties and In finest possible health (cutting Oowers from most varieties now): 'KXI smllax. Terms reasonable to responsible parties. Address K. care Am. Florist. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN. Six greenliouses. 14.0(IU feet of glass, tlrst-cluss repair, well stocked with everything found in a flrst-class house, all In good healthy conoillon Twin boilers, only one In use at a time, steam heat, city water throughout, three acres of ground, teleplione In ottice. packing room, siieds. eight room residence and stables, all Inside city limits of a city <"f 3(UI0(). ten railroads, l.i minutes' ride from city UO.(KXI: good trade In both cltle.'^, and surrounding towns. Good reasons for sell- ing. Anyone contemplating buying cannot afford to overlook this offer. Adlsr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS- SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Ag-ents. CMICA.GtO. Manufacture rs of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING, WHOLESALE COMMISSION c FLORIST, 88 WABASH AVENUE, Consignments Solicited. CHICAGO. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, — ST. LOUIS, MO. tWA coiuplete line of Wire I>esif;iiH. H. L. SUNOERBRUCH, Wholesale Florist 4th and walnut streets, E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, ■1^ ST. PAUL. MINN. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g6. The a mer i ca .v Florist. 483 E. H. HUNT, Wholesale Plorist 68 Lake Sfreei, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BUI.BS AITD ALI. FI.OBISTS' SnFFi;lES. KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. Wll0l68al6 Gut FIOW6r§ and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIKK WOHK A SPECIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. C0R8REY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO. If yon want FiratrClasB Fiowera, properly packed and dellTered on time, send ub your orders and you will get what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS in GUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, » CMICiVOO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can flii nil orders uri pliurt lu.tice wlUi all leacllng vrirletlt-y i")t Koee.« anfi CarnHlliuis. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give Us a trial and c-unvlnce voiirself Salesroom, 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, Consignments Solicited. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET. Fine Stock a Specialty. OHICiVGO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL GO.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS. 41 WABASH AVENUE. .CHICAGO. CUT FLOWERS, HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, wiioiesai6 Fiorisi 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Agent for flneat in-ades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©VVfioPeiiafa Marftar*. Cut Flowers. New York. Dec. it;. _ 30 nnffl.so.no medium ' 10.00(<>/25.00 culla a.Olr.' 8.00 CuBln. Morgan 2.(\Ooi o.OO Bride, KalBcrln. Bridesmaid, Meteor 2.00® ^.00 TeStOllt - S fWk.i .S lYl Mphetx)9 Uosle 1.00(5< 2.00 2.00(- 4.01) .soa I -00 1 'yO Valley ■\ 00 50(m 1 no Roman hyacinths. P. W. ("vprlpedlums narcissus. . 1.00(1' 2.00 s no Mlt^nunette 3 00«'". s on i."> 00 Harrlsli 8.00(2110.00 ('alias a.00(i 8.00 50(S 1 on ^mllax 10 no AeparagUB VI on Rosea. Gontler. Nlphetos Boston. Dec. Ki 1 003 2.00 Bride. Bridesmaid Beauty.,. , Meteor 2.00® t; 00 8 00®35 00 Carnations fancy 75® 1-00 i.ooa 2 00 Violets 50(gi -T.S Valley. Roman hyacinth Paper white narcissus. . . 2.000 3 00 1.00'<> 2.00 lb@ 1.00 Smliax 10.00iS(12.00 Asparagus 'SO 00 Rosea, Beauties Philadelphia. Dec. . . 12 -TOfe It: t;n no Bride. Bridesmaid La Fiance, etc... ti.00@12.00 1.^ on Carnations 1.00(3) 2 00 Valley r. on Iloman hyacinths 2.00® 3.00 <'vprlpedium8 15 00 rattleyas per dozen Mifmunette ... ...5.00 3 00< 00 Violets, double l.DlK'' 3 00(.' IS.OOf" 2 00 K'mian hyac'nths P. W. Harrlsit narcissus... ■I 00 ('alias 15 00(.' IS 00 Tulips Polneettlas... Stevla 16.00<.' 1 00(" ] 50 Mlfjnonette 4 00(" 8 00 Valley ti on Smliax 12 003il-T nil ..ouis. Dec. 35 OOrti 12 00'."' 10 00'^' St. 1 CHRISTAIAS PRICES Roses. Beauties, long short 17. 75 00 is 00 1". 00 general stock 8 00(" in iKi Carnations, fancy. 3.00(«, 4.1X1 Violets single 2b<'~' 50 double .1 oO'" 2 on Valley 4 00(" 5 00 Uarrisil 15 OOf.' IS 00 ('alias . . Ill 00(' 12 00 Roman hyacinths. F. W. Bi'uvardla narclsau 2.a)'.' 1 00''( 4.00 1 -tO Smliax 15 (jO(s.l-i iiO 50 00 GEORGE A. SUTHERLAND, Gut Flowersi Florists' Supplies WHOLESALE. 67 Bromtield St., BOSTON, MASS. Ne-u- England Agent for Ihe GREA T ANTIPEST. WHOLESALE FLORISTS METS, BRIDES, GONTIERS, CARNATIONS, ALWAYS ON HAND 84 Hawley Street, BOSTON, MASS. HORTICDLTDRAL AUCTIONEERS, JOBBERS IN FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. FLORISTS VASES John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28tli STREET, NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Carnations and Mignonette. CUT FLOWERS. SELECTED STOCK AND NOVELTIES. THOS. ^-OITIVG, Jr., 43 W. 28th St.. NEW Y ORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN. WHOLESALE 55 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street, NEW YORK, WHOLESSLE • FLORIST. Shlppingr to aU parts of the conntry. Price list on application. Carefnl Purdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30th St., MEW Y ORK. ROSES. VALLEY, CARNATIONS. VIOLETS. For prices and information regarding CUT FLOWERS in New York market, address JOHN YOUNG, 5/ W. 23th Street. n ew YORK. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK, JULIUS LANG, WHOLESALE, 53 West 30th St., NEW YORK CITY. MILLANG & CO., WH0LE8EE FLORISTS 501 Sixth Avenue, Corner 30th St., NEW YORK. Consignmeuts Solicited. 484 The American Florist, Dec. ig^ ¥fta ^aaal @rac)a. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. Wood, Prea.; Alex. Uodqers and J. B. Klce, vlce-PresldenU: A. L. Don, 114 CtaBmbers Street, New Yorli, Sec" 7 and Treas. Mr. Lester Morse is making an east- ern trip. Chas. Woodill is makin? a western trip fjr Jas. M. Toorburn & Co. Visited Chicago: J. O'Neil, E. S. Weatherly, S. F. Willard, Cbas. N. Page, B. F. Brown, of Brown Bag-Filling Machine Co. Lettuce Turning Black. I have a bench of "Denver Market" lettuce in my carnation house. The soil is one-half loam and one-half old well- rotted cow manure. The night tempera- ture is 48° to 50°. I keep them well watered. The edges of the leaves turn black. Would like to know the cause and remedy. What is the best temperature for lettuce? I use garden soil taken from a garden that has produced good crops and has only been worked four years. Is such soil much inferior to rotted sod? I use manure that was made about seven years ago, fiom an old cow stable. Which is preferable — such manure or manure one year old? U. P. Des Moines, la. Trade is looking up some, weddings, re- ceptions, parties and funerals are furnish- ing a large part of it. Stock will not be over abundant for the holidays, as roses are mostly oif crop. Carnations will be plentiful, also small bulbous stuff, but Harrisii are late. The State Horticultural Society met in our city last week and the display of fruit was good. W. L. Morris and R. A Rollinson displayed plans, and Morris and Green of Davenport displayed cut flowers. Morris took first premium on plants and Green first premium on cut flowers. J We took a few hours off' last week and called at Morris' greenhouses. His roses are remarkably clean but the Beauties run to blind wood more than to bloom, la carnations we saw Goldfinch and H. Keller for fancies. McGowan, Daybreak, Portia. Scott and Glbert are all looking well. His violets aie good and look healthy and clean. J. T. D. F. SANTA CLAUS has induced the NICKEL PLATE ROAD to sell excursion tickets at very low rates. Special excursion dates Dec. 24th, 25th, 3lst and Jan. 1st, good returning until Jan. •4th, 1897. Tickets at one and a third fare for the round trip. For further informa- tion address J Y. Calahan, Gen'l Agent, 111 Adams St , Chicago. 169 Palm Seeds from the ceU hiattd nurseries of D. HAY & SON Auckland New Zealand. KENTIA BELMOREANA, K&NTIA huRSTERlANA. Heady for Iniine- illMti' 'lellvery. FANSIES. E. H.PATTERSON. Sole Agt. for U.S. A. 204 Pearl St., NEW YORK CITY. THE JENNINGS STRAIN Ml tlncMl AiiitTl lui (iruwn I'nnwluH. Mne p'lirls iroiii culd fnilueB, T.')C pur KlU Ijy niall; 3^1 per ItHHl by o.vpreHH SHED of ilbovo strain per pkt. of ■i:m needn. SI.IKI; uunce$t'>.IIU E. B. JENNINGS, Look Box 2.j4. Southport, Conn. yrower of thQ flnest I'aiiBles. SIEBRECHT & SON, THE LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK IN AMERICA TO SELECT FROM, AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL. ARECA LUTESCENS-;>Vln. pots, bushv. i:i to lo in.. $y.00 per doz.. $2--'.0U per llKi: 4-ln. pots buehv. iMoaUn. ^ (HI per doz . *;«l.01) per 1(H): ,>ln. pots. iB to 2(; In.. $*).(Xl per doz ; s and viln. pots. $4 00. J-xiX) and ?t;..^0 each COCOS WEDDELIANA-21^-ln. pota, extra flne. . 5 and H leaves, $2 00 per doz . SI. 5 00 perKX): ;Mn. pota. ctroDK. $2 :-A) per doz . :t:3iJ.(io per 100; o-ln. pots, bushy, heavy. ^\ 00 per do/. , $2.'). 00 per 100; ;Hn. poU. extra selected, li to s le»ve». H no per doz. KENTIA BELMOREANA—n In. pots, extra strong. IS to 20 In. hlKh. :;"»c each; tWn. pots F.xira strong. 2 to 2>* ft .¥l.r»o each; 7-ln. pots, extra stronpr. 2 to 'Zy> ft , extra selected. $2.(^10 each; T-ln pots perfect spetlniens. oO to ;iH In., $2..iO each; 7 and 8-ln. pots, decorative, Brand shaped plants, '.^'> to +0 in. *.i..'>0 to $>;..')0 each. KENTIA FORSTERIANA-tMn. pots, strong. 4 to5 leaves 2I« ft.. .*I.'2.i each; T In pots. 2^ to :i ft.. J2 00 each. LATANIA BORBONICA— I' in. pots, perfect specimens, 7 toH leaves. $12 0(1 per doz ; 7-ln. pota, perfect specl- niens. 7 to 8 leaves, $1.50 each; 7 to s. extra tine and heavy, 2 to 2!^ ft , $2.00 each. LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA-5-ln. pots, 12 ti» l.i, $ly 00 per doz.; trln. pots, IS to 20. $23 00 per doz. PHCENIX RECLINATA-f-ln. pots. $1.00 each. $'.).00 per do/.. DRAOCNAS— The grandest stock In the country; coloring beautiful. 4-ln. pots. ^ per doz.; oin. pots. $*; per do/.. CROTONS-Hlghly colored. 4-ln, pota, $2;'.. 00 per IIH); r>-ln. pots, .^t'j.lKi per 100. FERNS-2Vln. pots. $4.00 per ito. Nephrolepis cordata compacta, o in. pots. .jlic. eich. $o 00 per doz ; 4-in. poiB. :^c each $4.00 per doz. Pteris, 4-ln. pots, tine plants. ;i.')C. each. $4.00 per doz.; 5-iQ. pots, fine plants. 'MG. each. $o.00 per doz.; (i-In. pots, extra tine, bushy, selected. i;5c each. ARAUCARIA EXCELSA— Grand stock, .VIn. pots. :-; tiers, 7.'>c ; (Mn. pots, 4 tiers. $1,25 FICUS ELASTICA-5-ln. pots. 12 to 1.5 1n.$;i') per 100; iMn. pots, lo to 20, $50 perlOO; 7-in. pots. 20 to ;tti, 7.Jceacli. Grand lot of ORANGE TREES for the Holidays, f rom .j to s fruits. $1 50 to $2 50 each All measurements taken from top of pots. lJ^"T<'les'raph, telephniie or writ** us uiid our <-arrias'e will iin'«*t vou. ROSE HILL NURSERIES, N. Y. OFFICE: 409 5TH AVE -s Read and Convince Yourself. HOLLY, very tine this season; per case $4.50 BOUQUET GREEN, best eastern, per 100 lbs. $6 IMMORTELLES, Yellow 20C per bunch; $2 per dozen; White and colors 25c per bunch; $2.40 per dozen. CAPE FLOWERS, per lb. 6oc. SPHAGNUM MOSS, Fresh, per bbl. $i.25. SPIRAEA JAPONICA, tine clumps, $3.50 per 100; $6.50 per case of 200. WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, Qvtiols: ! ! ! HOLLY, GREEN. Green "Wreathing. HOLLY WREATHS, CAPE FLOWERS, WILD SMILAX, RATTAN for wreaths. MISTLETOE, very fine, FLORIDA MOSS, well-l>eriled, SOUTHERN PINES, IMMORTELLES, PALMETTO LEAVES All at closest trade prices. VflUGHftN'S SEED STORE, New Yohk: 14 Barclay St. CHICAGO: 84-86 Randolph St. TO MUSHROOM GROWERS. »„^,',;;'',','.';„'^i;'e new seaHuu M inuwhrooiii wpawn Ih liiu' at IIiIm ptirt l>ecfuiber 25; will KUiiiantee delivery on tluie if have your order at once. Kp;ih'cp:i) rmt'KS, Write roe to-dny for full partlculnrs, f the retei)rated "W P.'* brand (Watson's I'rnlltlc) Mufthioorii Spawn. My 24-pnKe booklet on MuhIuooiii Culture free to buyers or IntendluK buvern; to tithers. 10 cents. UoblnHon. :*k\: Falconer, $I..".U. Adiantum cuneatum. FIRST QUALITY. 3-inch pots $1200 per 100 2yi-\\\c\\ pots 6 00 per 100 WM. PLUMB, Oyster Bay, N, Y, ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ SURE CROP" ~'^;:/U]^"fi>a^^^;gp--p;;;- DUTCH BULBS. ( onapplluUion ■FI.OKIsTS" KI.OWER SKKDS. Seed Merct4-inch pots. , Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANC & CO., Phila., Pa. Spiraea Japoiiica, Plt llKl, *:i.lKl; per lOIIO, SK.OO. Gladiolus Colvilli, •\\\V. BHIDK. I'er Kill. .* ,iiU; per lUIKI, W.W. Single Begonias, In >>t.parjite <'ul()rs. per HHi, .<■,'.,'.(!; per ICKI. 2(1. im. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood, N. J. Burki's New Yellow MarQuerile ETOILE DE LYON. '.25 Routed Cuttings lor #1.00, by inatl. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. FanslGS Worm Ralslno. PLANTS READY NOW, at S^.-W per .")00; 94.00 per 1000. Free on hoard of express. SEED in packages of 3-16 oz. at $1.00 per pkt. CASH WITH ORDER. C, SOLTAn I CO., 199 Gram Ave., Jersey Clty,iN. I, ALM ^^..e^ei^^^ UN H.4ND Per 100 1000 liOOO Cooos Wedclelliana Jl.MSIO.OOJJ? ill I'aiidanus iitlliB l..in 13.60 :ii 110 ColIVa aralilea 1..MI 12.;VI .Mns:i ■• iis.'le I i". 10 OU V M\ J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. Mt'ntlon American Fltirlsl. SPECIALTIES IN BEST VAKIETIKS. ROSES, from .'t-tnch pots CARNATIONS, for fall dellverj'. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. l*rtceB low. Send for list. WOOD BROTHERS. FiSHKiLL. N. Y. "THE DAHLIA" HY I,A\VUEN(.'E K. I'EAC()CK. A PRACTICAL TRE4TISE that should be cata- logued by every SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST offering DAHLIAS for sale. Correspondence solicited. Descriptive Trade List of leading new and old Dahlias mailed on application. W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist. AtCO. N. J. Bismarck Apples. I year old 2.5 cents; per hundred, S20.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, fi.Ott; per ten thousand, $1K. CH. KOEHLER. Oxlord Church P. 0., Phila . Pa. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 486 The American Florist. Dec. ^9, Worcester, Mass. Edward Winslow Lincoln, chairman of the parks commission and secretary of the Worcester County Horticultural So- ciety died December 15, after a very short illness. He deserves the name of Father of the Park System, for he had given it his time and energy for many years in bringing the parks to their present pro- portions and artistic landscapes. Elm Park veas his own creation and by his skill and increasing efforts we have one of the most beautiful parks in the country, where before was nothing but a bog-hole. Mr. Lincoln's official connection with the Horticultural Society dates back to 1860, when he was elected secretary, holding the office continuously until his death, and doing everything in his power to further the society's interests. His death will be deeply felt by the members of the society; so closely was he identified with the society that it seems hard to realize that our exhibitions can go on without him. Edward Winslow Lincoln was born in this city December 2, 1820. He was the son of Gov. Levi Lincoln and the grand- son of Gov. Levi Lincoln. He was fitted for college in the Worcester schools and graduated from Harvard in 1839. After leaving college he went to Alton, 111., where he studied law, being prosecuting attorney for the city for a time. He returned to this city in 1845 and gave much of his time to horticulture. He was chosen chairman of the park commission in 1S70 and gave much of his time to Worcester's parks and shade trees. Mr. Lincoln was kindly to those whom he liked and respected, but had no tolerance for those whom he deemed unworthy. No one ever made the mistake of believing him his friend when he was not, for Mr. Lincoln was frank and outspoken. He had many friends in all walks of life who are mourn- ing their loss. A. H. L. The new geranium Mars seems a very promising novelty and bids fair to prove very useful. THE NEW SCARLET CARNATION MORELLO. Will be disseminated March l, '97. Get your orders in now. $1.50 per 12, $10 per 100, $75 per 1000. HOPP &, LEMKE. E. Grand Rapids, Mich. CARNATIONS after CHRYSANTHEMUMS. We have still a good stock of Wm. Scott, Ivory, Silver Spray, Rose Queen, and Garfield, from cold frames, at $8.00 per 100. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. CARNATIONS Rooted cuttings all sold. FIELD-GROWN PLANTS IN SEASON. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box If, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CARNATIONS. Rooted Cuttings. Sample lOc. Ready Jan. 15. Bridesmaid. Meteor. Scott, Alaska. Goldllnch. $;i per 100; $23 per KHH). Uiivbreiik. Emllv Plerson. I'ortia, Puritan. ThOB, <'artledKe, *2 per UK): $1S per 1(«KJ DBL. I'KTUNIAS, splendid strain and var., $3 pier IIKI. I'lnk Beauty,. W per 100. CYCLAMEN, l-lnch. In bud $111 ner 100 'MUMS, stock plants Nlvens and IJncoIn, .'tc. CASH WITU UUDEll. FORT ROUGE GREENHOUSES. Winnipeg, Man. PUTIN Dorner's New Carnations F^oi- ISO^. MRS. CHAS. H. DUHME (Seedling 1892). Color lively delicate piuk, large flower fragrant, with good calyx on strong stiff stem Plant vigorous erect grower. A very early, free and constant bloomer: much more so than any of the light pink varieties, rivaling in productiveness with Scott. This promises to be the best of the light pink commercial varieties. Certificated at Indianapolis and Philadelphia. We have grown this variety now for five years, and it is indispensable at our place. MRS. GEO. M. BRADT (Seedling 1893). Color clear white, heavily edged and striped with bright scarlet, giving it a very bright and cheerful appearance. Floweis large and full, with center petals standing erect, giving the bloona a well rounded form. Calyx resembling Mrae. Albertini. Habit strong and vigorous, Thi"; vaiiety is now in its fourth year, and has proven the most even and constant bloomer from eaily to late. We received for these flowers the hghest prices paid in the market. Received Cold Medal at Atlanta, Certificate at same place and at Chicago. CA 11 AISTA • ** ■ J^**Ai» **• Delicate shell pink; vigorous, wiry grower. Medium to large flowers on strong, stiflf, wiry stems. Color soft and exceptionally pleasing. Flower a splendid keeper. One of the most attractive colors in pink carnations. Stock limited. Rooted Cuttings ready Marcli 1st, 1897, $10 per 100; $75 per 1000. Plants from soil at same price four weeks later, F. DORNER & SONS CO., LA FAYETTE, IND. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Herr's : : Carnations: ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ELDORADO GUARANTEED TO REACH YOU SAFELY AND BE SATISFACTORY. Express paid on all orders for one thousand or more. Uuliniiled quantities and reasonable prices. McGOWAN. ALASKA. STORM KING. DAYBREAK. SCOTT, WAVE. PORTIA. DURNER, BUTTERCUP. HELEN KELLER, and lAGO TRIUMPH. ABUNDANCE. DELLA FOX JUBILEE, ARVIA- ZINDA. IVOHY. ANNIE l.n\SOALE. CRI'SON SPORT and Other varieties from other growers. Send for prices, and place your order early. GERANIUMS, PETUNIAS, PANSIES and COLEUS. In GERANIUMS the collection is as fine as any offeied. and all carefully labelled, at 81. oO per lOd or 812 50 pergiOUO. Strictly my selection. PETUNIA V TERAN. never introduced, the flowers immens?, white, striped rose, plant dwaif and covered with bloom. 50 cts. per dozen; 83 50 per lOl). COLEUS, a complete assortment and clean cuttings, at 75 cts per 100 or 66.00 per 1000. PANSIES all the year rouud; no better strain anywhere. 75 cts. per 100; $5 00 per 10(0, L. B 496. ALBERT Wl. HERR, LANCASTER, PA. New Yellow Carnation MAYOR PINGR Without doubt the best Yellow Carnation in commerce to-day. Orders booked and filled in rotation. Delivery iV\arch 1st, 1897. S1-50 per dozen; $10.00 per hundred; $75.00 per thousand. STRONG STOCK PLANTS OF IVOIRE ROSE CHRYSANTHEMUM, $3.00 PER DOZEN, JOHN BREITMEYER & SONS, Miami and Gratiot Aves., DETROIT, MICH. HARRISON'S WHITE. NEW CARNATION, SPORT FROM WM. SCOTT. Strong, vigorous grower, requiring no support. Ready middle of January. PRICE, $10.00 per 100; $40.00 per 500; $70.00 per 1000. Cash or satisfactory reference. All orders tilled in rotation. Described and illustrated in Florists' Exchange, Nov. 21, page 10-14. COME AND SEE IT. JOHN HARRISON, 739 Bergen Ave., Near Bidwell Av., Greenville. Jersey City, N. J. OUT Jsmviii^Ax.. 12 CENTS PER STRING. SMILAX I'LANT.-. triiiii :; liu-li p"t». $1.11(1 pfr lllll GEO. STAFFLINGER, Springville, Erie County, N. Y. When writing to any of the adver- tisers on this page please mention the American Florist. i8g6. The American Florist. 487 Owing to the unprecedented sale of the NEW ROSE PRESIDENT CARNOT which has exhausted all our early propagation, we, the undersigned, are com- pelled to refuse all orders to be delivered prior to E. ASMUS, West Hoboken, N. J. E. G. HILL & CO., Richmond, Ind. ROBERT CRAIG, Philadelphia, Pa. STRAUSS & CO., Washington, D. G. ROBT. SCOTT & SON, Philadelphia, Pa. Novelties for 1897, Our Collection of Certificated MIDGE, MERULA, MRS. JOHN J. GLESSNER, CHITO. MRS. MARTIN A. RYERSON, SUNSTONE, WESTERN KING, READY MARCH 1st. 50c each: $5 per doz.: $35 per 100. NATHAN SMITH & SON ADRIAN, MICH. STOCK MUMS. Nice, strong, liealthy plants out of bench. All the leading varieties. FRANCIS B. HAYES $2.00 per doz. Marquise de Montmort, ~j Merry Monarch, . j, ^^ ^^^ Mrs. Henry Robinson, ' Pink Ivory, etc., FARQUHAR MACRAE, 1138 Smith St.. PROVIDENCE, /?. /. Agent for Rose Leaf Extract of Tobacco. CHRYSANTHEMUM STOCK PLANTS. ' Varieties and prices upon application. g\ Wyndmoor, near Chestnut Hill, W) (Station III PHILADELPHIA, PA. 2-INCH FERNS. P. serrulatn, P. semi lata crestata, P. aerrulata " densll. P. adiantoldes. READY TO SHIFT. Onyehlum japonlcum. Blechoum occldentale. Lastrea varlCEata. . , Adlantum euneatum. Above at $4.00 per 100; $;i5.00per 1000. Adlantum, from Hate $1,.V) per 10(1 Blechnum occldentale. .'t-irch JiJ.OU per 100 General assortment. :;-ln. vara.. $ii per lOU; *.')(i per lUOO EHeriBGIileabrlghtU and UeKlQa;. 'Mnch. $;i 00 per UKJ: r2.'> per KKKl. iMnch. $i; per 10(1; *.')0 per ICHKi. Coiupleie liBi on application. Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Clenside, Pa. flDlflNTUM FflRlty&NSE. Of tliis popular Fern we have the largest and finest stock in the country, and devote five houses entirely to its culture. We offer, in splendid condition, the following sizes: Each. Per doz. 3-iuch pots, extra stront; $ .3fS $3.tK) 4-inch pots, extra strong 50 6.00 5-iuch pots, extra strong 75 9.00 6-inch pots, extra strong 1.50 15.00 7-inch pots, extra strong 2.50 25.00 JOHN N. MAY. Receiver. SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. 100.000 VERBENAS. THE CHOICEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. Fine pot plants. $2.50 per 100: $20.00 per 1000. Rooted Cuttings. $1.00 per 100: $8.00 per 1000. PACKED LIGHT, AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. We are tlie ljarg;est Growers of Verbenas in the country. Our plants cannot be gurpassed. BELGIUM BEGONIA BULBS. I'crlilO Per lUOO Double, superb flowers, l-inch and more $4.00 |30.00 Double, superb flowers, small bulbs 2.20 20.00 Single, superb flowers, l-inch and larger 2.00 16.00 In separate colors, and the i5nest in the trade. The only prize has been awarded to Mr. E. P's double Begonias at the grand flower show, Van Houtte's Society, Ghent, 1896. Pn DA DDE Araucarla, Bay Tree, Palm kill rHUIlkl and Begonia Grower, GHENT, BELGIUM. flfg^Strictly cash with order, and price list free on application. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. |j. Horhonica, S. Kleu^aiis. C. llumulist Areca liiteAoeus, Baueri, Kubra, Vlitpntx Cm and i;. AuNtralJs: 17 Palme S to 4-ln. of above vara, and 2 Ferns for$;i.OO. 10 Palms 4 to o-ln. of above vara, and 2 Ferns for $;i.50. Hoses, rarnations, and all kinds of plants, Labels, Moss, etc. SEND FOH Ll.STS. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavra, 111. 20,000 GERANIUMS SS?TrN°Gs All the best varieties, as Double Gen. Grant, Bruant, Silver Leaf, Mme. Salleroi, $1.50 per 100: 814.(0 per 1000. AGERATUM. blue, and HELIOTROPE, rooted, 81.00 per 100; 8H.O0 per 1000. All .strong and well rooted. The same out of 2f4.inch pots, 8-.00 per 100; 820.00 per 1000. Cash with Older. MAX KRUSCHKA. LAWRENCE STATION. N. Y. Always mention the American Flo rist when writing to advertisers. PALMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York GEO, WITTBOLO, ''"' ^c"A'i^^ll'c ROBERT CRAIG, Roses, Palms, A.iNri3 Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. ForSPRING DELIVERY HARDY LOW-BUDDED RDSES. Tree Roses, Azaleas, Rhododendons, Snowballs, Hydrangeas, Etc. Grown by the Boskoop. Holland. Nursery Association. C. H. JOOSTEN, Agent, 193 Creenwicti Street, NEW YORK. BRIDESMAID has a w<3rlinch pots, READY FEB. 15th. 75c each; $7.50 per dozen: $50.00 per 00: $400 00 per 1000. Cash or satisfactory reference from unknown corrt spondeuts. jS^^A full Descriptive Circu'ar and colored pUle w II be issued about January 1st. JOHN WHITE. WAVERIY PLACE, ELIZABETH, N. J. NEW HARDY FERNS. Warranted First Quality. PRICE REDUCED TO 75c PER 1000 FROM NOW UNTIL DKCKHII5KK Ist. Also Dealer in BOUQUET GREEN, SPHAGNUM MOSS, CHRISTMAS TREES, Etc., Etc. L. B. BR AGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. Geranium nrpT.LATPn "MARS" sh H ilh [.|-,ii-r. CERTIFICATED. Rooted Cuttiiiiis, %\ i'l-r ilo/.. Jn |i.T im); ?.'-ill. pill;,, %\.M |.rr (1,1/., 4i.H |i,T lOII, HENRY EICHHOLZ. Waynesboro Fa. 500000 flSUSing pansy plants, (rom earl\- September sowing. Sample 5c. «;i.UO per l(X)L>. MORRIS FLORAL OO.. A. MITTINC, MORRIS, ILL. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. I»KTIINIA <;HANI». riM. I'L. I'L. The Inr^ent iind Hnest strain t»f linublt' fringed and mottled I'etuiihttf to be had. All who see these Pelii- niiis siiy thev are tlnet-t tliev ever yaw. Extra. VKKHKNA UKANUiFLOKA. An exceeiliiKly tine collection of (Jlunt tlowerlnir varieties; tlorets one Inch In diamett-r. of the most showy i-oiors. My customers write that this 1» the fin- est strain of Vorheiias thev can uet ; reu Hires no better evldenrt' ol su|ii'i loi itv Kverv Ilinist siiould sow of It. Kiu-ti. PL'i- tradf I'Ht,, ■.*.)C. : ;i pkts , t^k- ; '". pkts., Jl.OO. Seeds ot tested iiuvellles added to every virder. I will here thank my tlorist f- lends for the many let- ters uf foinineridatlon received during' the past year. JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. TRY DREER'S Garden Seeds, Plants, Bulbs & Requitilet. They are the best at the lowest prices. Trade Lislis- sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. HKNKY A. DREER, FbUadelphU, Fa. i8g6. The American Florist. 489 Prepare for the HOLIDflYS. We offer now the most extensive and varied stock of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES IN AMERICA. All Up-to-Dat8, Fresh Goods. MOSS WREATHS, IMMORTELLES, PAMPAS, CAPE FLOWERS, CYCAS LEAVES and WHEAT SHEAVES are our leaders always. Quality and quantity handled far beyond all other dealers. All seasonable stock in Baskets, Jardin- ieres, Pots, Letters, Artificial Flowers and Foliage, AT BARGAIN PRICES. NOW IS THE TIME TO REPLENISH YOUR STOCK. H. BAEBSDORFER & CO., Importers and Manufacturers, Se IV. -itli street, PSILADELPEIA, PA. JML, RICE^ iS8 CO. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. ARTISTIC, UNIQUE, HELPFUL, My New Illustrated Catalogue, issued Sept. 20, 1896 mailed to all applicants. Manuiacturer ol METAL FLORAL DESIGNS. Importer and Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 404-412 East 34th Street, (Near the Ferry), NEW YORK CITY. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. ^fc TIT r -f-f- "Vorli:. FLORISTS' RIBBON. All widths and popular shades of color PRICES REDUCED. SEND FOR SAMPLE TO H. M. WEISEL. 17 East 83rd Street, NEW YORK. Slneisiois of tMs Boi : 26 Inohes long by 18 InobeB wide and 12 Inohes hlKb. Two aeotlona. This wooden box nicely Btalned and vamlshed, 18x30x1%. maae In two sections, one for each size letter, given away with first order of 500 letters. .A.OrEinr'X's • A. Kollcer & Sons, Netv Yorlc. M. Kice & Co., 26 N. 4th St., PhUa., Pa. F. K. McAillster, 38 Dey St., New York. A. D. Perry & Co., 33 Warren St., Syracnse New York. A. Herrman, 415 E. 34th St., New York. H. Bayersdorfer & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. A. C. Kendal. 115 Ontario St., Cleveland, O. J. A. Simmers, Toronto, Ont., Agent for Canada. B. H. Hunt, 79 Lake St., Chicago, 111. Wisconsin Flower Exchange, 131 IVlason St., Milwaukee, Wis. H. Sunderbruch, 4th and Walnut Sts., Cin- cinnati, O. T. W. Wood St Sons, 6th and Marshall Stg., Richmond, Va. Jas. Vlck's Sons. Rochester, N. Y. C. A. Kuehn, 1122 Pine St., St. Lonls, Mo. D. B. Long, BuBklo, New York. Hnntingtou Seed Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Geo. A. Sutherland, 67 Krouifleld.st., Boston. Welch Bros., No. lA lieacon St., Boston. N. F McCarthy St Co., 84 Hawley Street, Boston. The Henry Phillpps Seed and Implement Co., Toledo, <). Walter A. Potter St Co., Providence, R. 1. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO. Manufacture the Best Letters In the Market. Sizes IM-in. and 2-in. 2.00 per 100. Patent lattensrjwith each laller. OCR NEW SCRIPT LETTER, SA.OO per 100. N. F. McCABTHY, I 13 Green St.. Treas. & Mangr. j Boston, Mass. Office, 84 Hawley Street. We have a new FASTENER whlon we oonilder a decided suoceas. Any oQBtomers having old style fasteners whloh they wish to exohange. can do so withont additional oost by writing ns. These Letters are handled by all the Wholesalers Boston. J. C. Vaughan. 26 Barclay St., New York. W. Ellison. 1402 Pine St., St. Lonls, Mo. When writing mention the Amerlciin Florist. ES1ABU5HED 18 66. MAHUITACTURBD N. STEFFENS 33S EAST 21V ST. NEW VDIIK. GflLflX LEAVES OF THE INTRODUCER. Finejt qual ty and packing to order Green or Bronze, large or small, of assorted, |3-75 per case of 5000; 600 postpaid, jtl.OO. Brilliant GREEN LEU- COTHtE SPRAYS. Ji oo per lOU; |.S 00 per 1000. WHOLESALE FLORISTS very SPECIAL PRICES. Information and Samples for the asking. HIGHLANDS NURSERY, KAWANA, N. C. or telegraf KELSEY, Cranberry, N. C. Mention American Florist. THE FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlet, write to LotllSTlLLE ■Spirit Cukkii j tohaccoco. |LouisvilIe,Ky Always mention American Florist. GROUND PINE ^D HOLUY. We stand ready to supply THE RIGHT QUALITY AT THE RIGHT TIME AT RIGHT PRICES. SEND FOR PKICK LIST. OAN'L B. LONG, i°.^^\^l Christmas Greens. HARDY CUT FERNS, CHRISTMAS TREES. BOUQUET GREEN. LAUREL ROPING. HOLLY. EVERYTHING GREEN. AT THE OLl> STAND 18 Ciiapman Place, BOSTON, MASS. H. E. HARTFORD, Mgr. When writing mention tbe Ambrican Fi.oribt 490 The American Florist. Dec, ^9, Salem, Mass. The Harmony Grove Conservatories, of which Mr. Geo. W. Crecsy is superinten- dent, have recently added one more car- nation house to their plant, same cover- ing 21x115. The house is built in a modern way, the material used, the heat- ing and ventilating apparatus being of the best obtainable. Among other note- worthy features of the recent addition is that of the benches, which rest on pipes, same being arranged in a way to serve also as supports for the roof. Their other houses were substantially overhauled and remodeled the whole plant having been put in the best of condition. Mr. Creesy makes a specialty of carnations and these as well as his bulbous stock are doing finely. Messrs. McGee, Gsary & Co were un- usuallv busy during the past week with funeral work, having turned out some large and elaborate designs. The question "is it hot enough for you" may sound unseasonableduringthelatter part of November, but a 72° temperature on November 27tb is, to use the worjs of a local paper, "a decided cafe of keeping the teapot in the woodbox" and makes such question justifiable. Perfect dande- lion blossoms on the outskirts of a New England town in the month of November may be regarded as the rarest of occur- ences though such was reported from Wor- cester. Homo. Nashua, N. H. Business of late has been rather spas- modic, but on the whole there is no cause for complaint. The most notable event of the season was the Richardson-Neville wedding, which took place recently. Messrs. Gaedeke & Co. took charge of thedecora- tion, which they executed in the most artistic way. A few lines of description may not be amiss here. The sitting room and parlor were beautifully decorated with palms and festooning. The west side of the parlor was arranged as a bower in which palms and chrysanthe- mum plants fjrmedtbe backgrounH. The ceiling was draped with laurel and aspar- agus, studded with white chrysanthe- mums and tied with white ribbon. The stairway and hall were decorated with yellow chrysanthemum plants, arranged in groups. Above each door were long bunches of yellow and white chrysanthe- mums with long ribbon streamers sus- pended, the whole making a most charm- ing effect. Mr. Gaedeke had the decorations of three other weddings during the past week. Homo. DO NOT NEGLECT the opportunity to visit dear friends during the Holidays. The NICKEL PLATE ROAD, always catering to the wants of the travel- ing public, the popular low rate line aluns; the south Shore ot Lake Erie, will sell tickets at one fare and a third for the round trip, on Dec. 24th, 25th, Jlst and Jan 1st, good returning until Jan. 4th, 1897. Fur- ther particulars cheerfully given on appli- cation to J. Y. Calahan, Gen'l Agent, ill Adams St., Chicago, III 170 FLOWER POTS. We Mniuitiictiirc all kinds ol Kluwer Puts, etc. Making' u Specialty nl Florist Standard Pots Send for price list and samplei* (which will be sent free and we know you wtil Klve us your order: J. G* SWAHN S SONS, Minneapolis^ Minn. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolpli Street. CHICAGO. H flTURflL 6M Mffi fi LflSS, FOR GREENHOUSES. "Write* *o«? l^tost i>«rioos,_ Mention American Florist. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. RRANTH WARFHnlJSFS' > Kearney and WeBtaide Aves., Jersey CUy. N. .1 bKANtH WAKtMUUbfcb. j jaek-ou Ave. and I'earson St., Long Island < i ity, N. V. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. Manufacturers of Flower Pots, Bulb Pans, Hanging Baskets and Saucers. * /^UR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- ^-^ (action. We call your attention to our new pots 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Poious than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list, SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. SYRACUSE, N. Y. Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, trom the low Cost up to the large and very large pjlm pots; values from 25 cts. UD to |l50 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants^ (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St.. BOSTON. MASS. .lEiuii'ME JiiNKs, Prea. S. A, Sthatton. Treiin. It costs i cents for each 600 feet of floor space. VilllAND^I*^ THE Does not injure the most seDSitive plants. Endorsed Nikoteen by prominent florists. Used for fumigation or spraying indoors or out, 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen. Bold by seedsmen. Circular free. BEABCURA DIP CO.. CHICAGO. ^ «Quick!yMDoes^lt.4» Rates via the Nickel Plate Road between same points for lilH $8st9n, (^ s' CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL OF ANY DESCRIPTION. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. THE ''■MEWDEPRRTURE," "VEMTlLftTING ^PPLI8NCE? J. D. Carmody, Evaasville. Ind. Dear .SrV.— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions v^hatever. Yours truly. J. E. JACKSON. Gaines^nlle, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS, RIclizuondt Ind. Please mention the American Florist CTCry time you write to an advertiser. Beware of Him. A customer wrote us on Dec. loth, 1896, as follows: "What is the trouble with you and of He claims credit of having turned about a dozen contracts from you. Your lum- ber is too good to be worked against that way." The person referred to grows (lowers. He also manufactures and sells a specialty that other florists use. You are likely to hear from him at any time. When we sold him our Building Material on credit he recommended it, but when we found it necessary to ask him for cash or security, his attitude toward us and our material changed. Our Clear Cypress Greenhouse Material is superior to any greenhouse woodwork furnished by others, and we will be glad to back up this claim by the testimony of many growers in all parts of the country. Write for our booklet, "Quality." Lockland Lumber Co. Lockland, Ohio. HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAIVl ♦ BOILERS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CHICAGO SELLING AGENTS: RUBEL & CO., 77 Lake Street. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for rntn1i[rnr~ ^m GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., Cor. Congress. BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. ^ ^K. \ NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD, YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. i CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., CHICAGO. MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL To Pump Water If you want \\:itt'r roi;in,v purpose ami navf nor the f;ifilitu'N or w;iiit to (.-liaiit'''. writ'" forcatalt)gue of t lie Celebrated DeLamater-Rlder and Oelamater-Ericsson Hot- Air Pumping Engines. Tlif\' u 111 pump water from any sourcf ami foii'<_' it an.vwliei"e. Any kitui of ruel ran be used. Atkirebs, DeLAMATEH IRON WORKS, 467 Wi'st Broadway, New York City. For Insurance against damage by hail, ^______^_^^^ Address JOHN G. ESLER, Secy. F. H. A.. Saddle River. N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL oui« TRADE D IRECTORY REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. -FSt-XCS^ S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 492 The American Florist. Dec. '?» Index to Advertisers. Adv Bates 4.S.' American Boiler Co...4'.r.' Amllng B C JS3 AsmusE JHT Barnard W W & Co..4!« Baesett & WaBbjurn. A^\ Bayeredorfer H 4 Co. . JH'.i BlancA&Co J'^o BobblnkLC 4Ki Boston Letter Co 4s'.i BraKue 1. B 4ss Breltmeyer J Si. Sons .Jst; Burkl Fred 4s,'i Carmody J D 4'.il Chadwick Chas 4m'. Conley John & Son 4M< Cottage Gardens 4SS CralK Kobt 4ST DeLamater Iron Wks.JUl Oletscb A 4 Co 4'Jl Dillon J L 4.S7 DomerFred &Son8 Co.48t> Dreer H A 4SS Bhret F 4S2 Blohholz H 4.s.'i Elliott W H 4H-' BlllottWm A &on8....4S4 ElUa & Pollwortn 4S'> Faxon M B 4!« Felthousen J E 4S4 Foit Rouge G'rhou8e8.4>^ii Fulweller p C & Bro. Awl Guraey Heater Co 4'.M Hall Ass'n 4',il Hancock & Son 4sii Harrison J 4si; Hart M A 4s2 Hartford H B 4s;i HerrAlbertM 4sr, Herrmann A 4«'.l Hews AH& Co 4'JO Highlands Nursery 4^'.l HIL BQSCo 4S5 HlppardB 41il HIlchlngB & Co 41(2 Hopp & Leinke 4H(1 Hooker U M Co 4;)D Horan Edw C 4s:i Uulsebosch Bros 4S;"i HuntKH 4s:) Illinois Cut Flower C0.4S2 Jennings B B 4S4 Jones McDuffy & Strat- ton 4'.«l Joosten C U 4S7 Kastlng W V 4s,' Kennlcott Bros Co 4^:> Koehler Ch 4s.") Kroeschell Bros Co 4itl Kruscbka Max 487 Kuelin C A 482 Lang Julius 4S:i Lemke E F .... 4.S2 lx>ckland LumCo 4'.il Long D B 18U Lonsdale Edw 4ST Lo-UA Bamliaiu Co..4!t2 Louisville Tobacco Co. 4s'." Lynch WE is.\ Macrae F. 4,s7 Mct;arthy N I<'«Co.. .4.s:i McKoUar C W 4,%' Mlllang F>ank ;..4S3 MlUangA Co 4s:j Moore F L 487 MonlngerJ C Co 491 MorilB Floral Co 488 National Plant<"n 482 N Y Cut Flower Co.... 482 Nickel I'lateKoad 4'JO I'arre Edw 487 Patterson B H 484 Peacock W V 485 Pennock Sam'lS 483 Pitcher & Manda 487 Plumb W 484 Predmore 1 492 Prince AG &Co 483 Purdy & Blauvelt VSi (Quaker City Mc'h Wks.4Hl Kandnll A L 483 Kaynor J \. 4.S3 Redlield Bradley .... 487 Keed A Keller 489 KelnbergBros 483 RIceM&Co 4S». Ricksecker C H 482 Rogers P'k Floral Co 48.i K jlKer A S Sons 4'.f2 Uolker A & F 4S2 Kupp J F 4.S,* Schiller J L 4S4 4So Sheridan W F 4S:l Slebrecht & Son 4.s4 Situations. Wants, etc. 481 Skabcura Dip Co 490 p*mltu Nath & Son 487 SoltnuCA Co 485 Stattllnger (ieo +8ii Stearns IjUmberCo 491 SteiTens N 489 sunderbruch H L 482 Sutherland Geo A 483 SwahnsSons J G 491) Syracuse Pottery Co...49t) Traendjv & Schenck..4.s2 Vaughan J C 484 Watson GC 484 Weeber&Don 4.S4 Welsel H M 489 Welch Bros 482 485 WhlUdln Pot Co 490 White J 488 Williams & Sons Co. . ..487 Winter & Glover 488 Wis Flower Bx 482 WIttbold Geo 487 Wood Bros 485 Toungjno 4Si Young ThoB Jr 483 Greenwich, Conn. — The greenhouses of Geo. Rennie were damaged by fire on the morning of December 4. Riverside, Pa. — R. C. Shannon, who has been growing lettuce and carnations, intends to erect two houses 108 feet long in the spring; he will increase his carna- tion stock. New Haven, Conn — The greenhouses of W. D!ckerman & Son, at Morris Cove, were damaged by fire Saturday night, December 5th, causing an estimated loss of about $2,000. Among the plants destroyed were a large number belonging to private parties in New Haven, which were being stored for the winter. SnMMiT,N. J. — On the night of Wednes- day, December 2ud, the greenhouses of G. Amsinck were destroyed by fire. Many of the orchids and other valuable plants were saved by the active work of the employes on the estate. The loss was never-the-less quite large, amounting to about $3,500 on plants and $1,500 on the greenhouses, on which there was a partial insurance. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. The latest Supplement to our Fall Catalogue contains OUR NOVELTIES and many reductions in Tinfoil, Gycas Leaves, Baskets, Etc., mailed free to applicants in the trade. Wholesale only. Send business card. New York: 136 West 24th Street. r. I). St:llii.ri 10. When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri- can Florist. Hitclxingi^ <& Oo. ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTURERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE. GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent Iroa Frame uonstruction. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street, MEW YORK. LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. I^FIans and estimates famished on application. Largest bnllders of Greentionse Strnctnres. Six liigliest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOOUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO., ircMtectiiral Office, I60 Fifth Ave., COR. TWENTY-FIRST ST., FACTORY: IRVINGTON-ON-BCDSON, N. T. New York City. Our First Thought is to make good Hot Water Heaters and Steam Boilers -^ ■*- The cost of malting them is a secondary consideration. -^ ■*- Economy which slights quality is extravagance. -*- -*- May we send you our art catalogue ? -^^ ^^^ "We heal the world." ^mer/ccF/i ^oi7er Company 84 Lake Street, CHICAGO. 94 Centre Street, NEW YORK. Society of American Florists. This is to Certify that IRVING PREDMORE, BARNEGAT. N. J.. is entitled to Honorable Mention for clean and well-packed Sphagnum and Peat. Exhibited at Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 18-21, '96. WM. SCOTT, Preuldent. WM. J. STEWART, Secretary. TOBACCO STEMS FOR FLORISTS. For Sale, packed in bales 200 to 250 lbs. N"o charge for deliv- ering to depots. PRICE: 810.00 per ton. 51.50 per single bale. Addrkss P. C. FULWEILER & BRO., 248 No. Ninth St., FHIIiADEIiFHIA, FA. MeiitUin American KInrlitt. Mention the American Florist whers writing to advertisers on this page. T Rmerica is "the Prow of ihs I/essel; thEre may be more cam fart JJmidskips, but u/e are the Urst to touch Unknown Sees," Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, DECEMBER 26. 1896. No. 447 f IHIIE ^DlEieilP/iyH IFlL@iSI!@7 Copyright 1896, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by The American Florist Company. Z%% Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription, $1.00 a year. To Europe. $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 333 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Eastern Office: 67 Bromfleld St., Boston. This paper Is a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. Wm Scott, Buffalo, president: Adam Graham. Cleveland. O , vice-president; W. J. Stewart, Bos- ton, secretary; H. B. Beatty, Oil City, Pa., treasurer. Officers for ISltT.— Adam Graham. Oleve'and.O.. .president; Farqi'har Macrae, Providence. R. I., vice-president. Secretary and treasurer as before. The thirteenth annual meeting will be held at Prov- idence, R. I., AUKUst. ISflr. CONTENTS. Holiday greens (7 illus.) 493 Violet troubles 491 Roses— notes -195 Chrysanthemums— C. S. of A. review . . .496,497 —Vase of Mile. Marie Hoste (illus.) 496 Swamp muck 496 New sweet peas 496 Geraniums and books 496 Heating .... 496 Disconnectine rust joints. ... 497 Woodside and Newtown, N. Y., (2 illus.). . . . 498 Boston 498 New York 499 Toronto 499 Buffalo 500 Philadelphia SOO Chicago 500 St. Ic.; H gallon. J1.2.'); jtallon. -$2 Oti; .">Kftl. kee- f-'.t.OO; Id j^al ken. $17.50. Sold by dealers or sent on receipt of price. CHAS. C. GARRETT & CO., Manufrs, 113 S. Cay street, BALTIMORE, MD. You Need Our TRADE DIRECTORY REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896. PRICE S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST OO. 3a3 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. LEMON OIL SIEBRECHT & SON, THE LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK IN AMERICA TO SELECT FROM, AT PRICES TO SUIT ALL. ARECA LUTESCENS-3^-ln. pots, bushv. 13 to 15 In. Jli.OO per duz.. f3-2.D0 per 100: 4-in. pots, bushy. 18 to 20 In. U 00 per do/. . ^Mi.OO per 100; 5-lii. pots. 33 to 3*; tn.. SC.OO per doz ; s and '.*-ln. pou, $4 00, $5.00 and »;.50 each. COCOS WEDDELIANA-2Vln- pots, extra fine, o and tl leaves. $3 00 per doz .$15 00 per 100: :Mn. pot«. stronp. $2 M per doz . $30,00 per 100; Mn. pots, bushy, heavy. $3 00 per doz . $25.00 per 100; 3-ln. pots, extra selected, *> to 8 leaves. a4 00 per doz. KENTI A BELMOREANA— 5 in. pots, extra strong 1.^ to 20 In. high. 75c each; Mn. pots extra strong. 2 to 2^ fi $I..tO oHch: 7-in. pots, extra strong. 2 to 2^ ft . extra selected. $3.00 each; 7-ln pots perfect speclmena. 30 to ;>"". In.. $2,.">0 each; 7 and S-ln. pots, decorative, grand shaped plants. 3ti to 40 In. $;i..y) to $^;.50 each. KENTI A FORSTERIANA-ti-ln. pots, strong. 4 to 5 leaves 2!^ ft.. $1.25 each; 7 In pots. 2H to 3 ft., $2 00 each. LATANIA BORBONICA— t; In. pots, perfect specimens. 7 to 8 leaves. $12 Oo per doz ; 7-ln. pot«. perfect speci- mens, T to ^ leaves, $1.. XI each; 7 to S. extra fine and heavy, 2 to 2J^ ft . $2.00 each. LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA-5-ln. pots. 12 to 15. $18 DO per doz.; trin. pots. 18 to 20. $22.00 per doz. PHOENIX RECLINATA-t;-ln. pots. $1.00 each. Kt.OO per doz. DRAOEN AS— The grandest stoct In the country; c lorlng beautiful. 4-ln. pota. W per doz. ;5-ln. pots. $*i perdoz. CROTONS-Hlghly colored. 4-ln. pots, $25.1)0 per UKi; 5-In. pots. $:^,00 per 100. FERNS-3'<>-ln. pots. $4.00 per 1(0. Nephrolepis cordata compacta, t: in. pots. :i5c. each. $4.00 per doz. Pteris umhrosa giganteum, 4-ln. pots, tine plants. ;i5c encb. $4.00 per duz.; 5-ln. pots, tine plants. 50c, each, $0.00 per duz.; il-ln. pots extra line, bushy, selected, tljc each. ARAUCARIA EXCELSA-Grand stock. 5-ln. pots. lUlers, 75c : trln. pots, 4 tiers, $1.25. FICUS ELASTICA— iWn. pots, 15 to 20, $50 per UK): 7-ln. pots. 20 to :ii;. :5c each. PYRAMIDAL BOX. grand specimens, beautiful pyramids, perfect shape. Hardy. Handsome, dark green, :i to i>?^ feet high. $3.00 each; $5.00 per pair. All measurements taken from top of pots. IT^^Telegraph, telephone or write us and our carriage will meet you. ROSE HILL NURSERIES, N. Y. OFFICE: 409 5TH AVE ]IVe^v%r I^ootielle, ^N. ^V. When writing mention the American Florist. IN STRONG, HEALTHY ROSES FROM 2'-INCH POTS. Fer 100 Per lOOO $40.00 40.00 AM. BEAUTY $5.00 TESTOUT 5.00 GOLDEN GATE 3.00 PERLE 3 00 BELLE SIEBRECHT 3.00 25.00 Per lOO Per 1000 METEOR $3 00 $25.00 BRIDE 3.00 25.00 BRIDESMAID 3.00 25.00 KAISERIN 3.00 25 00 LA FRANCE 3.00 25.00 No orders for less than KXI of one variety accepted. We are the largest rose growers in the United States, and can fill all orders with the very best of stock. Kuse Cuttings iijion application. CARNATIONS-Rooted Cuttings. I'er 100 Per 1000 IVORV $3.00 S25.00 DELLA FOX 3.00 25.00 ROSE QUEEN 2.50 20.OO WM. SCOTT r.OO 8.00 DAYBREAK I.OO 8.00 NANCY HANKS 1.00 8.00 TIDAL WAVE 1.00 8.O0 ALBERTINI 1.00 8.00 Per 100 Per 1000 PORTIA SI. 00 LIZZIE GILBERT 1.00 CORSAIR 1.00 McCOWAN 1.00 STORM KINC I.OO SILVER SPRAY 1,00 KOHINOOR 1.00 8.00 8.0O 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 No orders for less than 100 of one variety accepted. The above .»jtock is well rooted and free from rust. SKNI) ORDERS TO 51 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. When writing mention the American Florist. of the celebrated Semple Aster, separate colors, pink, white and lavender, also mixed. Seed well cleaned, plump and good. Crop of 1896. For sale in any desired quantity by JAMES SEMPLE, Box 2, BELLEVUE, PA. Mention American Floriai. I OING'S FLORISTS' PHOTOGRAPHS. l__^ In enlarged and improved aeries of 272 distinct subjects wiU be ready, with New Catalogue about January 15. Apply for it. DAN'L B. LONG, Publisher, BUFFALO, N. Y. TRY DREER'S GflRDtN Seeds, ■ Plants. Bulbs & Requisites. J They are the best at the /lowest prices. Trade List is- ' sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. HENRY A. DREEB, Philadelphia, Fa. When wrltinK mention the American Florits. PELARGONIUMS— IS of the best varieties out of2- inch pots for 84.00 per ICO; fine plants. ROOTED CUTTINGS of Single and Double Daisies, 81.2.5 per 100. CHRYSSNTHEMUMS-Rooted cuttings, 81.Z5 per 100. PETUNIAS-Rooted cuttings, 81.00 per 100. Write for particulars. Cash with all orders. The Clay Center Florist. CLAY CENTER, KAN. Mention American Florist. 570 The American Florist. Jan. i6^ Omaha. Our florists have cleared up one of the best holiday trades we have had for several years past. Considering the hard times the demand was far ahead of expec- tations; very little stock was shipped in. Most reports are to the effect that the volume of business done was greater than last year while the prices were a little lower. The quality was some betterthan last year, although a little soft. The weather could not have been better for the delivery of stock and very little extra wrapping was required. Buyers could hardly realize why prices should advance so in such a short time. Up to December 19 the best quality of roses, except Beauties, were plentiful at 75 cents per dozen, and the quality was a hundred per cent better than the stock we got two dollars for a week later. Carnations were good and sold readily at from 60 to 75 cents. Very little bulb- ous stock marketed; Romans 50 to 75 cents and paper white 75 cents. Violets sold well the demand being principally for large bunches. Quality of roses except Perle, which were very small, was better than last year. Meteors were very dull, while Brides, Bridesmaid and La France in particular, were very good. Woottons were very good, only a few to be seen anywhere, likewise Bennetts. Holly sold fairly well but garlands received a "black eye" the churches cut- ting their orders at least half compared with former years, while the quality was the best we have ever had. Mistletoe that came direct from the south was fine and well berried, the demand being un- usually heavy. S. B. Stewart has moved to more cen- trally located quarters at 119 No. 16:h street. A. L. Vaughan representing J. C. Vaughan of Chicago, and James O'Neil, with David Landreth & Sons of Philadel- phia, made us a pleasant call during the latter part of December. G. R. H. Grand Rapids, Mich. The Florist Club has arranged the fol- lowing list of subjects for the meetings during the spring months: February 2. Carnations. February 16, Violets. March 2, R >ses. March 16, Spting-flowering bulbs. April 6, Eister flowers and plants. April 20, Bedding plants. The club will be pleased to receive from growers of new varieties specimens for consideration on the dates noted, and all interested in the several subjects are cor- dially invited to attend and participate in the discussions that will follow the reading of essays, on the subjects indi- cated. Specimens for exhibition may be a^ldressed to the undersigned, who will see that they are properly displayed. N. B. Stover, Secretary. 158 Bates street. Grand Rap ds, Mich. BEST FOR SALE BY Seed Stores. I'.ir I'rec Pamphlet, write to I.OITIHVILLK 'Sriiin' ('null YOIIAI'I '<><'(). Louisville, Ky You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BRANCH WAREHOUSES: \ ^.rt;:i^SKr.tlr.:i*t^^rtl,t'\ii:'X^^^^^^ N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower rots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaied. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO. Manufacturers of FLOWER POTS, BULB PANS, HANGING BASKETS # SAUCERS o * OR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- faction. We call your attention to our new pots. 6, 7. 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Porous than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO. SYRACUSE, N. Y. DOYGUUSEFI OWFR POTS? If so, before buying, write for our prices on STANDARD POTS, BULB PANS, PALM POTS, VASES, ETC. PITTSBURGH CLAY MFG. CO., New Brighton, Pa. Standard Flower Pots. OUK POTS ARE OF THE BEST QUALITY. We ship all goods from Cincinnati, guaranteeing lowest freight rates and prompt delivery. Write us before placing: your orders elsewliere CAMBRIDGE TILE MFG. CO., Covington, Ky. ESTABUSHEDy^-^2^,^^ 1866. DESIGNS J^p^'^^ STEFFEtiS pf[ps. 3^%Cry] Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots; values from 25 cts. up to |150 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants, (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St.. BOSTON, MASS. .lEiui.ME Junes. Prea. S. A. 8tu.\tton, Treiis. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower Pots. etc. MaklnK a Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price Il»t uml siiiiipleB (wliU;h will he sent free and we know you will jjlvo ua your order: Ji G* SWAHN S SONS, MinneapolW, 'mIuu. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. It uosts 4 cents for each 600 feet of floor space. Does not injure the most sensitive plants. Endorsed Nikoteen by prominent florists. Used for fumigation or sprayinr; indoors or out. 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen, Bold by seedsmen. Circular free. SKABCURA DIP CO., CHICAGO. ,; ^Quickly MDoes^ it. ♦ KELLY'S FLORISTS' SHEAR will hold tlriiilyiinylhlnn cut. rii Greenhouse - Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Boilers matlu- "f tliettest .»! maieilal. Bhell. firebox sheets and lieH'U ut steel, water space al! around Cfront, Bides and back.) Write for Inlormatlon. Mflntlon AmoiiOfiTi Flnrlut DURABLE' THAN PINE. CYPRE5S IS MUCH __ SASH BARS UP TO \Z FEET I" LEH6TH or LOrfGER. iREENHOUS) AND 01^ERJSUaDIN6JMATkRIAL. Sonffifor-curlllustraUi Book "CYP|RES)5 LUMBERAwfi-sUSES." Send foriur Special fireenhousXirjculttr. Mention American FlorlBt. J. D. Carmody, Evansville, Ind. Dear Sir: — Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON, Gainesville, Ga. EVANS' IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS, Klchmond, Ind. Mfintlnn American tlorlBt. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns Butted Glass. This is no longer an expr-rinient. it has come to stay. There are various ways of makiut: liutt<'d Roofs. Init tlif ln'st way is with thi' Clipper Bar. ■\Vith this bar you cmi iii;ilvi- a ruof tliat is absolutely free from drip, and glass cannot be torn out by the wind. Butted glass makes a tight roof, a warm house and saves fuel. It lasts longer, looks better and costs less than the old-fashioned roof. But do not think that this is the only laar we sell, for it is not; we furnish what people want and there is nothing in greenhouse material that you cannot get from us, and all of open-air-dried Cypress clear of bright sap, stained sap, knots and all other'defects. Write for Circulars or Estimates. Lockland Lumber Co. HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS AND STEAM ♦ BOILERS. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 82 & 84 Center Street. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for Catalog'nes .^^^^ GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., Cor Congress, BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. i NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD. YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., MFRS OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS CHICAGO GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. vyni^«\avy. To Pump Water ir you w;tiit water foi-any purpose and iia.ve not tli^ f:icilun's, tir ivatit to cliaiif^^"', wnlij; forcutalugue uf the Celebrated DeLamater-Rlder and Deiamater-irlcsson Hot- Alr Pumping Enaines. Tlit'V u ill imnip waicr rrom any sourci- anit force it any wljeie. Any kiii'l "f fui'l can be used. Address, delamatehiron works, 467 Wi-bt Broadway, New York City, For Insurance against damage "by hail, ^^^^_^^^_^ Address JOHN G. ESLER. Sec'y. F. H. A., Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL TRADE D IREGTORY REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. I=U,ICE! S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 572 The American Florist. Jan. i6^ Index to Advertisers. AdT Rates 5(;2 American Boiler Co... 572 Asmus E 5*j5 Basaett & WaBbburn..5ti>J 5IS Bayersdorfer H & Co. .6(111 Blanc A & Co h(n Bobblnk L C 5ii7 Boston Letter Co .Oli'.l Brague L B 5ti.O Brant S D 5ti'J Breltmeyer J & Sons .5tit! Burkl tTed 51:7 Burpee W Atlee Jt Co 6I« CambrldiieTlle MlgCo570 Carmodv.I D 57( Chadwick Chas 6117 Colcloueli H 5tx) CuQiey jubn & Son Wi Cottage Gardens .5f!S Craig Robt 5(13 DeLamater Iron Wk8.67l Dletsch A 4 Co 571 Dillon JL 6(a DomerFred ASona Co 6(17 DreerH A 5(11) Kbret F 5(12 BIcbbolz n 5(18 Billott W H 5(12 Elliott Wm & bons.. .6(14 Kills* Po)lwortb..5(ll .502 Faxon M B 6(11 Feltbousen J B 6(1(1 Fulweller P C& Bro. 5(l(i Garrett C C & Co 6(1'J Gurney UeMier Co — 671 Haenselmann F A .5i;4 Uall Ass'n 571 Hancock* Son 5(17 Harrison .J 6(17 Hart M A 5112 HerrAlbertM 6117 Hews A 11 & Co 57U Highlands Nursery 5il'.t Hill BU 4 Co 5(17 HIppardB 571 Hltchlngs&Co 67i! Hopp & Lemke 5(17 Hooker U ja Co 672 Horan Bdw C 5(i;i HulsebOBCh Bros 5(15 Humfeld C 5(15 Huit B a 5(>i Illinois Cut Flower Co.5(;2 Jennings IS B 6(14 Jones McDuffy & Strat- ton 170 Joosten C H 5(18 Kastlng W F 6(12 Kelly Sbear Co 570 Kennlcott Bros Co 5(*i Koehler Ch 505 Kroescbell Bros Co 571 Kruschka Max 608 Kuehn ». A 502 Lampert J J 507 Lang J uUus 503 Lemke E F 502 IjOckland LumCo 571 Long D B 5(l'.l Lo d & Bumbam Co. .672 Lou .Bville Tobacco Co 67(1 Lyucb W E 5i;;i MCCartby N F&Co.. .503 McKellar C VV .602 Magnuaon A: Pearson. 6(17 Mlllang Frank :..60;i Mlllang* Co 603 MooreFL .. 607 MonlngerJ C Co 572 Morris Floral Co 5(15 National P(ant Co 602 N Y Cut Flower Co 502 Parre Bdw 505 Peacock W P 508 Pennock nam 18 502 Pennock C .1 500 PItcber & .Vlanda. .566 .500 Pittsburg Clay Mfg Co67U Prince A G a Co 603 Purdy & Blauvelt 603 Quaker City Mc'b Wks.571 Randall A L 503 KaynorJl. 663 Redlleld Bradley 505 Reed A Keller, 671 cteinoerg tiruB 563 5011 RIceM&Co 509 Rlcksecker C H 662 Roemer F 504 Rogers P'k Floral Co 603 Ro.Ker A A Sons 572 Rolker A kV 562 Rupp J F 564 665 Scnliler J L 565 Semple Jas 6(jy Sberidan W F 5(H Slebrecbt & Son 669 Situations. Wants, etc. 601 Skabcura Dip Co 570 smltn Natn sl son 50.^ Stearns Lumber Co 571 SteHens Bros 570 aumerland Geo A 5(i3 Swahna Sons J G 570 Swayne Wm 507 Syracuse Pottery Co... 670 Traendly & Schenck..662 Vaugban J C 600 Watson QC 504 Weeber & Don 504 Welsel H M 501) Welcb Bros 5(3 Wbllldln Pot Co 670 White J 508 Williams* Sons Co 500 Wlhnore W W 665 Winter & Glover... Wis Flower Kx.. Wlttbold Geo ... Wood Bros YoungJno. .563 .602 , 668 . 565 ..503 Young Thos Jr 503 Newark, N.J. — Wm. R.Ward of Lyors Farms, died on January 4th, aged 54 years. Auburn, N. Y.— B. L. Thornton's green- house was almost totally destroyed by fire on the morning of December 28. LuDiNGTON, Mich.— On January 2 Wm. Gregory lost half of his extensive green- houses and two-thirds of his stock by fire. Insurance small. Norfolk, Va. — Harris & Petrie, com- prising The Tide Water Floral Company have made an assignment to I. W. Eason. Liabili'ies are upwards of $3 000. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. NEW 1897 SEED TRADE LIST JUST ISSUED. mailed free to applicants in the trade. Wholesale only. Send business card. Uoui Ynrki ^36 west 24th Street. 11611 lUIRi P. U. Station E. CYPRESS UoHN CI GREENHOUSE ^"rf MATERIAL 412 TO 422 ,«AWTHORNE AV. ^CHICAGO.ILL, OF ANY DESCRIPTION. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. BLitclxingsi & Oo. ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTUFIERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE, GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent Iroi Frame Construction. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street. NEW YORK. LORD & BURNHAM CO., Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. VFlans and estimates fnrnlghed on application. New York City. liargest bnllders of Greenhonge Strnctnres. Six highest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO./^''"rS:t™.,'"'i FACTORY: IBVINGTOX-ON-TICDSON, N. T. Our First Thought is to make good Hot Water Heaters and Steam Boilers. -*- ^^^ The cost of maicing them is a secondary consideration. -^- "*- Economy which slights quality is extravagance. ■*- -^^ May we send you our art catalogue ? -^^ -*- ' We heal the world.' American ^oi7er Company 84 Lake Street, CHICAGO. 94 Centre Street, NEW YORK. H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolpli Street, CHICAGO, Naioral 6a§ Made Gla§§ FOR GREENHOUSES. ■Write* ifoi? l^t^st x>*'*<^^s« Wben wrltlDK mention the Amerloan Klorlst. RmBTicd is "the Prnu/ of the I/bsse1; there iiiaij be mere comfort Umidships, but we are the Srst ta touch Unknown Seas," Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, JANUARY 23, 1897. No. 451 f LHliE /ALilii5J@/4I» iFlL@@l!@7 Copyright 1897, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 333 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription. SI. 00 a year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, 323 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Eastern Office : 67 ISromfield St., Boston. This paper Is a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORIiTS. Adam Graham, rievp'and. o., president: Farqu- HAK Mackae. Providence K. 1., vlce-presiaeni: W.J dTEWART. Bo^to 1. secretary: Tl B. Heatty, Oil City, Pa , treasurer. The thirteenth annual meet- ing will be held at Providence, R. 1.. August. 1897. CONTENTS. Roses— Notes 573 New Year's arrangements (illus.) 674, 575, 676, 577, 578, 679. Herbaceous plants 574 Several questions 575 Sweet pea review 576 American Carnation Society 575 Piping for steam heat , 576 Piping 676 Di-connecting rust joints 577 A steam heating problem 577 Packing bell joints 578 The pn-fessional gardener's mission 678 Society of American Florists 679 New York 680 Chicago 580 Boston 680 Philadelphia 580 Obituary— Wm. El'.iott (portrait.) 581 St. Louis 581 Cincinnati 582 Washington 58'.i Cleveland 582 Rochester, N. Y bii Newport 68:i Toronto. 583 A query for bulb growers and others 584 The seed trade 586 CataloETues received 586 Mass. Hort. Society 588 Northampton, Mass 690 Worcester, Mass 590 Logan. Pa 59'2 Plants for fountain basin 592 News notes 691 Glens Falls. N. Y.— E. C. Brummer will iooa open a greenhouse on Kingston Street. Pine Plains, N. Y. — Wtn. Klein, a for- mer florist on Madison avenue, Baltiitiore, cotnmitted suicide by banging hitnseU' on January 3rd. Nyack, N. Y. — The greenhouse of Wm. Smth, on Washington s'reet, took fire the evening of January 12th. Nearly the entire front of the greenhouse was de- stroyed, and the plants therein were badlv damaged by smoke and exposure. The fire is supposed to have resulted from an overheated furnace. Rose Notes. The time has now arrived when we must begin to prepare fjr another season and it is by no means easy to decide just what and how many of ef ch variety we should p'ant; we may assist ourselvfs in arriving at a decision I think by corsult- ing the sales book and the recoid of the cut up to date, and also that of last sea- son, and we may be able in a degree to estimate the demands of next season as regards the popular color or shade of color, and the most popular variety by following the trend of fishion and fancy during this and previous seasjns. It is true that our calculations may be all up- set by fickle fashion, but even then we shall fare no worse probably than if we hau made no ca'culation whatever, and this is one of the uncertainties of our business that we all have to face. One thing, however can be set down as rea- sonably certain, that is,tbatit will surely be folly to grow next season such kinds as failed to prove profitable this and Ifist season, through lack of demand for those varieties; we may grow a bench or two perhaps, but no matter how much we are attached to them because of days gone by or because of real beauty not appre- ciated by the general public, we cannot aifoid to continue to grow them in quan- tity. In these days of close competition and low prices we are compelled to sacri- fice our personal fancies and proclivities, and be guided by the figures contained in the ledger. The price of young roses has been cut so dreadfully during the last few years, and they have been so hard to dispose of even at a low price, that the cut flower man will in my opinion do w«ll if he leaves the plant busintss entirely alone, so far as raising stock for sale is con- cerned, and content himself with simply growing for his own requirements. While he may seem to have all the material at hand ard on that account be in a posi- tion to furnish plants as cheaply as any- one in the trade, nevertheless, lacking the facilities for handling large quantities, not having bench room at his di'pjsal with- out sacrificing some of the blooming p'ants, and as a rule not having sufficient help to care for them properly without neglecting something of equal or greater importance, and when grown and in a salable condition having no adequate market for them, he is really not in a position to compete with the regular catalogue men. When roses from 2t^-inch pots sell for from $25 to $30 per ihcu- sand, I for one am willing to let someone else do the raising; the cuttings if they are w^rth the name should be worth from $12 to $15, and the labor of prepar- ing, puttingin the sand, caringfor, taking out and potting, then caring for again until they are ready to ship, with the laborand expense of packine, will amount to $10, which leaves nothing for house room or the risk taken. There is also another side to the question which deserves our consideration. Plants for sale are usually wanted early in the sea- son, and a large batch of cuttings are put in and rooted before anv are taken for home planting, the result of which is the latter are too late oft-times, but worse still the bes*: cuttings are all gone and you have to be satisfied with whatever is left. A considerable number of those whose main business is cut flowers, but who grow large quantities of rose plants besides, justify themselves f^r continuing to do so, notwithstanding the totally inadi quate returns from the sale of them, and the added disappointment at the tnd of the season because so many are left unsold, by maintaining that there is no expense attached to them aside from that oflaborasthe blind wood used for cut- tings is useless to the plant, is in fact a detriment and would have to be trimmed out in any event, so it is better to root it and take their chances on selling the plants, than to simply cut it out and burn up. This view is not so general now as it was a few years ago, but it is hard to convince most peop'e that they are mi j- taken,orthat their ideas are not based on fact; we like to think that our way of reasoning and the conclusions that we have arrived at mu^t be right. We are well aware that the concentraiinfj of all the energy of the plant in one or more shoots, with one bloom only to each shoot, in the chrysarthemum and some other plants has given us r< suits that could not have betn attained in any other way; but the chrysanthemum and the rose do not furnish cases that are parallel; when the bloom of the ch'-ysan- themum is cut off, tfe plant has run its cjurse, and we care li tie for the root, but when a crop of roses is cut we continueto give food and stimulant to the plant just the same regardless of the foliage and stem that it has lost. If the blind and useless (^o-called) wood has been trimmed out and there is little left but the main shoots, what is to become of all the energy stored up in the root when the top of the plant with the bloom is completely cutoff? How is the proptr equilibrium between root, sap and foliageto be main- tained? Tome It set m^ utterly impossi- ble to avoid a severe check, with not only a loss of time but impairment of constitu- tion, and loss of vigor as an inevitable result. I have by close observation and 574 The American Florist. y««- 23, Erioa and Adianthm Pahlbtbnsb (plants) and Ambrioan Beauty Posbs (out) in green WILLOW Basket, trimmed with Tullb, bbautt color NEW YEAR'S ARRANGEMBMTS. numerous experiments demonstrated to my entire satisfaction, that the blind wood ordinarily found on Tea roses is there in obedience to nature's infallible laws, and is positively essential to the complete development of the plant. For this reason I am averse to cutting out any blind wood that is clothed with healthy foliaeie. I firmly believe that much of so-called "bad luik" in rose growing is directly traceable to indiscriminate trimming of the old plants by ignorant and incapable men, and the rooting and planting of weak and enfeebled stock, which, receiv- ing not the best of care perhaps, soon be- comes the subject of disease, and disaster speedily fillows. If we would use thecare and discretion in choosing cuttings that the raisers of fancy stock give to cattle and horses, we should see fewer houses of sickly forsaken looking roses. I would never put any man in charge of this work in whose judgment and good sense I had not the utmost confidence. Believing that the very best wood that the plant pro- duces is none too good for cuttings, I pre- fer to use flowering wood whenever it can be had; there are, however, some blind shoots vkith vigor, strength and foliage hardly inferior to flowering wood. Tne foliage is generally a very good criterion of the health and vigor of the plant and the larger and thicker and darker color, the more desirable it is for propagating purposes. Not much need be said perhaps regard- ing putting in and caring for rose cuttings as this sulject has been gone over thor- oughly many times in these columns. I would however, emphasize the import- ance of leaving the cutting a good size and making clean cuts, of using nothing but clean sharp bank sand that has proved to be good, and leaving ample drainage, of putting the cuttings in firmly and giving them one thorough soaking afterwards, and not crowding them in the bench. As to location of cutting bench it does not matter much at this early sea- son, provided it be near the glass, and can have sufficient ventilation, but I always prefer a narrow north house con- structed for the purpose, where a lew degrees extra bottom heat can be given, and where the cuttings can have the bene- fit of all the light without getting much sun; they then require less sprinkling, and the danger of rotting or getting "black spot" is reduced to a minimum. Sjme growers recommend no sprinklirg what- ever, but simply give one good watering and nothing more until the sand is dry, but I have always found it necessary to sprinkle whenever the foliage is dry dur- ing the first two weeks and after that only occasionally. What we should strive for is sand moist, but not sodden with water, and an atmosphere surrounding the cut- tings that is calculated to keep the foliage fresh and crisp all the time. Mrs. Pierpont Morgan does better if propagated later, as late as March or early in April, and there is no special hurry for Cusin, Hoste. Perle, or Watte- ville, but all of the Mermet type I find need all the time that can be given them in order to have good large plants by fall. As a rule American Beauty roots easier early, and gives brtter returns when planted in May or June. Meteor roots easily at any season, but I advise early planting which necessitates an early start. If any are still unrooted whichare intended for summer bloom.no timemust be lost in pushing them forward, or half the summer will be lost; they must be planttd if possible in April. Hybrids intended for Easter should be already pruned; as that holiday comeson April 18th we have just 12 weeks left. This is time enough for Jacks and Brun- ners, but for Baroness andall of that type 14 weeks is not too much time,if ihey are to come in slowly, and in fact to have them fine they cannot be grown rapidly. At this adven'er. 'IX-'t Herald Oltlce. Harlem Brancli, New Vurk City. SITUATIO.N WANTED-By florist who has worked under some of the best rose growers and propaga- tors In America Well up In all greenhouse work; 17 years' experience. Give full particulars. Address C. H. APPLEGATE, llt»i Blainsburg Road, Wash . D C. SITUATION WANTED- As working foreman or growing manager on commercial place. Hoses, chrj-santliemums. palms, ferns and bulbs a specialty. Has a thorough knowledge of all branches. Refer- ences exchanged. Illinois or west of it preferred. 117. care American Florist. Chicago. SITUATION WANTBD-As foreman or managerin private or commercial establishment, by a German florist, age 4(1. married, family, strictly temperaie and Industrious; '27 years' e.xperle''ce in growing of roses, carnations and violets for the market. First-class references as to ability and character from former employers. Will engage at once. Please state partic- ulars and salary paid. Address. O O. care American Florist, Chicago. w ANTED— ('atalogues nnd price lists. Address Loris KiKCH, lUJ Milton Ave. Louisville. Ky. TA/'ANTED— Young man of experience to run green- T> houses on shares or for waj^-ee. Address Box +4. Greenwich. N J. WANTED-A tlrst-class rose grower. Applicants furnish references and slate wages required. Address Iuwa. care American Florist. WANTED-Three or four good plantsmen. for pot- ting In palms. Germtins preferred. Best of ref- erence. Addret-8 J T. care American Florist. WANTED— A thoroughly experienced rose propa- gator and grower, tor cut Howers, tor a large commercial estabMelinient. Address L. G. Pkl'ndkk. IJ; Washington St., Portland, Oregon. WANTED TO KENT-'3 or "i old greenhouses out- , side some large city about 75 feet long and not less thun It; feet wide; rent must be low. Address at once to George Beal, Spencer Post Office. Spencer, Mass. FOR RENT--* 800 feet of glass, well stocked, with \i acre of ground; town of 5000. Reasonable terms. Address L M, care American Florist. I FOR SALE— In Immediate neighborhood of New Vork. 2 greenhouses 130.v20each: y smaller green- houses, all well stocked: dwelling (7 rooms), stable, all In best repair; grounds over 1 acre. Price $5000, half cash. Inquire of G. Riedel, O-n Hanover St., New York. FOR SALE— A retail store In Chicago, stocked with fresh tlowers. wire designs and baskets on one side; artificial wax flowers, metal designs on other side. Good location for this line of business. Estab- lished H years. Rent $35.00; four living rooms In rear of store: electric light. Price JiiiXt cash. We are going out of retail business. L. care Am. Florist. FOR SALE— Five greenhouses, two 18. two 10. one S feet wide all 125 feet long, built east and west: heated by hot water, mostly 4-Inch pipe. Kroeschell Bros, boiler capacity 5(i0(l feet 4-Inch pipe; new Aer- motor windmill and tank house. House-* all repaired this fall and In good condition; planted with carna- tions. 14 varieties: fOlsmllax. Also5-roomcottBge and barn with 2V, acres of land 12 miles from Chicago. Price, ^i.otKJ; part cash and balance to suit buyer. Don't answer unless you mean business. K. care American Florist, Chicago. WANTED TO LEASE. GREENHOUSES, 5,000 to 7.000 feet of glass, partly stocked; within 20 miles of Boston. Address PLC. care Am. Florist, 67 Bromfield St., Boston. Three greenhouses 20xt)t;, good condition ; stock, vio- lets, carnations and ferns: ^ team and hot water, city water; wholesale and retail trade increasing, but wish to give up business. For particulars address A. care Am. Florist, i:7 Bromfleld Si-, Boston, H greenhouses covering lO.tKXl square feet of land: heated by hut water, r, frames covering 3.00(.) square feet: excellent shed with cellar, windmill, tank and tower. Fully stocked and in running order. Within 2 miles of New Vurk City. Price, including the land. $12,000; $7 000 cash, balance on bond and niortt'aee. Address ESTATE, care American Florist. Rooted ROSE Cuttings. Free of all disease, and selected from choice flowering wood. PER 100 BRIDESMAIDS $1.50 BRIDES 1.50 METEORS 1.50 PERLES 1.50 K. A. VICTORIA 2.00 MRS. J. P. MORGAN 2.00 Xo order for less thau 100 will be accepted. BASSETT & WASHBURN, HINSDALE, ILL, Sals Try my new red JOHN ELITCH, Cata- logue free. W. W. WILMORE. Bq< 382, Deiver. Cola, VERBENA KING. Rfin nnn rooted verbena cuttings. 55 of UUUfUUU the finest and largest varieties iu cultivation; true to uanie. 60c. per 100: $5.50 per 1000: 5000 for $25.00; 10.000 for $45.00, Express prepaid. No rust or mildew. Satisfaction guaranteed in every way. WE ARE THE LARGEST VERBENA GROWERS IN THE WORLD. Send fok list. C. HUMFELD, Clay Center, Kan. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that you saw the advertisement in the American Flor-:'' 1 1 HH r BI^V .(/'' Si .:■'■■•:,'•'. - ?8 ,.- " 'I'v- • i^ L^t ^,k'Aji>- < ' >« TR/iDE .'.^'.i>, ,, ni^ MARK 584 The American Florist. Jan. 23, Subscription $1.00 a Year. To Europe, $2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Advertisements, 10 Cents a Line, Agate; Inch, Si. 40; Column, $14.00. Cash with Order. Xo Special Position Guaranteed. Discounts, 6 times, 5 per cent j 13 times, 10 percent; 26 times. 20 per cent; 52 times, 30 per cent. No reduction made for large space. The Advertising Pepartment of the American Florist Is for Florists, Seedsmen, and dealers In wares pertaining to those lines Only. Please to remember It. Orders for less than one-hall Inch space not accepted. Advertisements must reach ns by Wednesday to se- cure Insertion In the Issue for the following Saturday. Address THE AMERICAN FLORIST CO., Chicago. A Query for Bulb Growers and Others. On comparing reports from various points one cannot but note the uniform- ity of holiday experiences in most lines of florists' flowers, and more especially those commonly known as "bulbous." It is pertinent to remember always that bulbs represent an actual cash outlay, with only one crop in view, after which the stock is valueless. How very necessary then that this crop should be managed with discretion. The bulb dealer came round to you last spring. You ordered a lot of Roman hya- cinths. These you planted as soon as received and forced long with but one end in view — "to get them in for Christmas," In which you succeeded. The blooms were then cut and packed, and sent to the city for a market. Did It ever occur to you that you were but one of a great many who were doing the same identical thing? Now lay the net cash results of the venture alongside the bulb bill and see where you come out. Would it not be discreet to make a Year's resolution that should you grow Roman hyacinths next year you will bring them in in successive crops spreading over as extended a time as possible, with the Christmas crop no bigger than any other? An inspection of theholidav stock in the wholesale market of New York or else- where where large quantities of flowers are bandied brings to light heaps and heaps of lily of the valley, so called, puny little pale undeveloped stems threetofour inches long, which even the street boys don't want at any price. Yet each one of these little useless spikes represents the entire return from one pip, which cost you just as much as did the pips that pro- duced those splendid spikes ten inches long, for which $6 a hundred is willingly paid. Why the diff'erfnce? Assuming that the pips were all right when bought, there remains but one explanation — mis- management in forcing. Can you afi'ord to repeat the experience next year? We have received from "Gallup the Florist," Denver, a copy of a very hand- somely printed catalogue of floral arrangements, mainly for funeral pur- poses. There are fifteen fine half-tone engravings from photographs, with prices for designs of various sizes, all well printed, and there is a very attractive heavy paper cover. When sending us specimens for exami- nation be sure to note on the outside of the package who it is from. We receive many packages and unless marked on the outside identification is often difficult. Always menfion the American Flo- rist when writing to advertise i-.s. A. & F. ROLKER, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 53 West 28th St., NEW YORK. O0MP^EW0f5UPP!J[! wworT i^^i^^^'Z^l^ The New York Cut Flower Co. 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733. 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . . CONSIGN TO ISIIV FKOm M. A. HART, Commission '^'^' Cut Flowers, 113 WEST 30th STREET. NEW YORK CITY. THE BEST MARKET IN NEW YORK. TRAENDLY & SGHENCK, Wholesale Florists, Control the stock of many celebrated growers and are prepared to quote prices on First Grade Cut Flowers. All varieties. 38 West 28th St., and Cut Flower Exchange, Tel. 961 ISth Street. NEW YORK CITY. FRED. EHRET, wnoiesaie Fioria No. 1403 fairmount Avenue, Telephone, Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. HEADQUARTERS. ROSES, CARNATIONS. AND VIOLETS. TRr US. WM. P. KASTING, Wholesale Commission Florist. 495 Washington St.. BUFFALO. N. Y. Mention American Florist. SAMUEL S. PENNOCK, Wholesale Florist 1612 & 1614 BARKER STREET, Bet. Market & Chestnut. PHILADELPHIA, PA. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, Fur Decorating and nil FIorlHta' DcbIkhb. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitchell Co.. N. C. Always mention the American Flo- "?IST v^heQ writing to advertisers. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, a ■d tr P GIVE ME YOUR ORDERS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of attention Riven to the shipping trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED. F. WINTERSON, Mgr. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER GO. ,J. IS. IJEAMITD, Mgr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CMICA.OO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. ORDER FLOWERS AS YOU WANT THEM, OF WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, » ST. LOUIS, MO. ^^A complete Hue of Wire Designs. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, .ST. PAUL, MINN. Cut Strings, 8 to 10 feet long, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. Cut Smilax 10 GENTS PER STRING. THE NATIONAL PLANT CO.. i>>vyrc5iv, OHIO. When writing to anyof the advertisers on this page please mention tbe A&iebi- CAN Florist. iSgj. The American Florist. 585 E. H. HUNT, WHOLBsaLE Florist 68 Lake Siraef, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. SEEDS, BUI^BS AND Alili PIOBISTS' SUPPIIES. KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. WtiolGsale Gut FlowGrs and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WIRE WOKK A SPECIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St. CHICAGO. Lf yon want FlrstrClasa Flowers, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your orders and you will (ret what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO., EH^-" CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, ^ CHICA.OO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEftUTIES. BEINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can fill all orders on short notice with all leading varieties of Koses and Carnations. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Give UB a trial and convince yourself Salesroom. 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, CUT FLOWERS. Consignments Solicited. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, Fine Stock a Specialty. CHICA-OO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE. -CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS ANO FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. Prompt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, wnoiesaie Fiorisi. 128 Dearborn St., CHICAGO- Agent lor finest gradea Waxea and Tlssae Papers ©y/ftofeAafa Marftefi*. Cut Flowers. New York. Jan 20. Roses. Beauty, extra 35 OOSTo 00 medium 20.00®3o.OO culls 5 00(310.00 Matina Charta. Brunner 25 00(^-50 IX) Bride. Morgan. Testout 6 OOifi III.UI Brldesmaia, Meteor iJ.OOsU 00 Carnations 1 00« 1 50 extra 1.50® 2 00 Valley l.OOfSi .(.00 Violets 50'Sj l.lXI Roman hyacinths, P. W. narcissus l.OOf" 2.0(J I'yprlpedlums 8 00(5 10 00 MlKnonette 2 OO'i' C.OO Catt'evas 35.00(!< 40.00 Ilarrlsll 4.00(5. 5.00 Adtaotum 50(5 1 00 Smllax 10-00(0 12.00 AflparagUB 5*' 00 Boston. Jan. 20 Roses. Gentler, Nlphetos 2 OOa 3 00 Perle. Mermet 3 00® 5 00 Bride, Bridesmaid, Meteor 4 00® 8 00 extra. ...10 00(5 16.00 Beauty 10 00 30 00 extra 25 OU(S.'iO 00 Carnations l.ooa.s.'fl fancy 2 OOa 3 OO Violets .50® 1.00 Valley, daffodils 3.00® 4 00 R. hyacinths, paper white narcissus 1 00'-' 2.00 Kreesia . 1 OOo \.W Harrlsll. CaUas 8.00(o 10.00 Adlantum l.'X) Smilax 10.00®12.00 Asparagus 50 00 Philadelphia. Jan. 20 Hoses, Beauties, stems 3 to 4 teet 50.00 medium 2O.0O(" :« 00 lUtol2 Inches 8.00((' 12.50 " Large teas, first size S.OO second ■■ 4.00(" <;.00 Brunners 25.00w40.00 Carnations 1 5Uw. 200 Violets, double 1-00 Valley 3.00® ii 00 Roman hyacinths, narcissus 2.00((ii 3.0O Kreesia 1 OO". 4. HI Mignonette 3.00i'! S.OO Callas 10.00(5 12.00 Smilax 15.00 Asparagus 50.00 Adlantum 1 • OO CHICAGO Jan. 22. Roses. Beauties 3O.0O'S4O.00 medium 15.00(5,25 00 short 4.00(910 00 Brides. Bridesmaid 4.008 11.00 Meteors. Testout 4.00(0. « 00 " Kalserin, Ija France 4.00® (>.00 Nlphetos, Perle, Gentler 3.00(« 5 OO Carnations 1 00(o, 1 oO extraselect 1.50(a 2.00 Violets, double ^3(" 1 -.> Roman hyacinths, P. W. narcissus 2 OOw. 3 00 Harrlsll 10.00(" 12 1X1 Tulips , 3.00'.. 4 00 Daflodlls 4 00 Valley 3 00® 4.110 Smilax 10.00»13 00 Adlantum l-jjO Asparagus 50.00 St. Louis. Jan. 21. Roses, Beauties, long 10 OO'toLi 00 short f.00(5 S.OO select stock 4.00<" 5.00 ■' general stock 1.00(" 2.00 Carnations, fancy 2.O0<» 300 common 1 00((' l.oO Violets single .-W •■ double oOa .7.) Valley 3.00(" 4.00 H.rrlsll S.OO" 10 00 Callas 4 00(8 5.00 Roman hyacinths. Paper white narcissus — 1.00(-' 1 50 Freesla... 100(5. 1 50 Smilax 15 1.0 Adlantum X.OO Asparagus ;15. 00(^50.00 GEORGE A. SUTHERLAND, Cut Flowersi Florists' SuppHes WHOLESALE. 67 Bromfield St., BOSTON, MASS. WHOLESALE FLORISTS// .Iolil><*rs ill i^ FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, FLORISTS* VASES. Brides. Bridesmaids. Ciirniitions, always on hand. Hort. Auciioutt'is, 84 Hawley St.. BOSTON. MASS. CITY HALL FLOWER MARKET. WELCH BROS., Props., 15 PROVINCE ST.. BOSTON, MASS. ?;paL'L' as^lf:r:c'd to Ki'^vtrs wl^hln^: to cunslun poods regularly. Space to rent to growers wishing to sell tbelr own goods. John I. Raynor, 49 WEST 28th STREET, NEW YORK. SPECIAL EXTRA STOCK OF AM. BEAUTY, METEOR, BRIDESMAID, BRIDE. Carnations and Mignonette. F.A.rS'C^'S' <3'f<..A.I>EIS. American Beauty and all other rhoire RoaeK in unexcelled quiility. Violets, Carnations, Mignonette, Orchids and Valley. TMOS. T^OUIVO, Ji-., 43 W. 28th St., NEW YORK. WALTER F. SHERIDAN. WHOLESALE 39 West 28th Street, NEW YORK. Roses shipped to all points. Price list on application. Edward C. Horan, 34 W. 29th Street. NEW YORK. WHOLESaiE » FLORIST. Careful Shipping to all parts of the conntxyt Price list on application. Furdy & Blauvelt, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN CUT FLOWERS, 57 W. 30th St., NEW YORK. JOHN YOUNG, ROSES, CARNATIONS, VIOLETS and all other choice cut flower stock. 51 W. 28th Street, NEW YORK. Price list on application. FRANK MILLANG, CUT FLOWERS, WHOLESALE, COMMISSION, 408 E. 34th Street, Cut Flower Exchange. NEW YORK. MAKE A GOOD JOB OF IT GOOD FLOWERS. CAN SUPPLY -fOU, 53 West 30th Street, NEW YORK CITY. Up -To -Date Florists. tiood \alue lor ,^oiir money iu all lines of CHOICE Cut Flowers and Decorative Plants. JVIIIvIvA-lVO «£ CO., 501 $ixth Ave., cor 30th St.. NEW YORK CITY. 586 The American Florist. Jan. 2J, UKa ^aatl Srac^a. AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOCIATION. T. W. Wood, Pres. ; Alex. Rodobrs and J. B. Rice, Vice-Presidents; A. L. Don, 114 Cliambers Street, New York, Sec'y and Treas. Earliest reports from the catalogue mail trade while meagre yet are rather favorable. The annual meeting of the Executive Committee of the American Seed Trade Association will be held at the Cosmopol- itan Hotel, New York, Tuesday, Jan. 26. New York. — The business of Wm. Elliott & Sons in both departments, seed store and plant auction, will be continued under the same title by Mr. Wm. Elliott's two sons, at the same location, 54 Day street. San Francisco. In the seed growing districts, on account of the favorable weather, all crops are up and looking exceedingly promising. Onions are in fine condition. One thing very noticeable about the acre- age of onions is the big decrease this sea- son. Nearly all the lettuce crops are up and doing well. The same may be said of leeks, cabbage, carrots, radish, etc. Many of the growers have their planting of sweet peas completed. The acreage of these will also be diminished this season. Not many nasturtiums will be planted on account of the great cost of harvesting. Mr. Waldo Rohnert, formerly in the flower seed department of C. C. Morse & Co., has branched out for himself in Gilroy. Mr. Rohnert is a thorough prac- tical grower and he has the best wishes of the trade. He intends to make a specialty of flower seeds and to also grow a few vegetable seeds. Mr. Lester L. Morse, of C. C. Morse & Co., is in the east in the interests of his seed business. Mr. J. M. Kimberlin and nephew have lately returned to Santa Clara from an eastern trip. Meteor. Catalogues Received. Theo. Koss, Milwaukee, Wis., seeds; J. Roscoe Fuller & Co., Floral Park, N. Y., seeds, bulbs and plants; W. Atlee Burpee Co., Philadelphia, seeds; same, catalogue for market gardeners and florists; T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond, Va., seeds; The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, O., seeds, plants and nursery stock; W. T. Hutchins, Indian Orchard, Mass., sweet peas; A. Blanc & Co., Philadelphia, elec- trotypes of flowers, plants and fruits; Geo. H. Mellen Co., Springfield, O., plants, seeds and fruits; John White, Elizabeth, N. J., cannas; Morris Floral Co., Morris, III., chrysanthemums, carnations, etc.; T. H. Spaulding, Orange, N. J., chrysanthe- mums, carnations, cannas, etc.; High- lands Nursery Co., Kawana, N. C, galax leaves; Geo. A. Weaver Co., Newport, R. I., seeds, lawn supplies, etc.; W. W. Wil- more, Denver, Colo., dahlias, cannas, roses, etc.; Oscar H. Will & Co., Fayette- ville, N. Y., seeds; C. E. Whitten, Bridg- man, Mich., small fruit plants; Pitcher & Manda, Short Hills, N. J., seeds, plants and bulbs; Henry Cannell & Sons, Swan- ley, Kent, England, seeds; same chrysan- themums; W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, Mass., seeds, bulbs and plants; Pape & Bergmann, Quedlinburg, Germany, seeds and nursery stock; Aug. Burmeister Seed Co., Milwaukee, Wis., seeds; Norman Cole, Glens Falls, N. Y., gladiolus; J. L. Schiller, Rutherford, N. J., palm and con- ifer seeds. WITHIN YOUR REACH. LILY OF VALLEY, Hamburg Pips, 1000 $ 8.50 BEGONIAS, Tuberous, single, 100 - - 5.00 " " double, 100 - 10.00 GLOXINIAS, 100 4.00 " 1000 3000 — - TUBEROSES, XLCR Pearl, extra, 1000 7.25 CALADIUM ESCULENTUM, 6x9, loo - 2.95 " " 9x12,100- 5.95 ^ WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, lV.r».i I ir^. Madagascar, fresh consignment just arrived by the S. S. "Maine;" quality must not be con- founded with the "short" stock offered in some quarters. oiiered in some quarters. Per pound, 15 cents; per 100 pounds, |10.00. Q. Q. WATSON, 43 N. lOtll St WHITE ORCHID FLOWERS. For the next four to six weeks we will have a fine supply of CCELOQYNE CRISTATA, which we offer in sprays containing fiom 7 to 10 flowers, at 10 cts. per flower. JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. SHORT HILLS. NEW JERSEY. Hardy Cut Ferns, FIRST QUALITY, $1.00 per 1000. Dlscoont on large orders. L. B. BRA6UE, Hinsdale, Mass. Send your address for my illustrated catalogue of these superb flowers. M. B. FAXON, Boston, Mass. FAXON'S r^i^E'.. PANSIES. ultivation. flowers very of superb colors and The best mixture in lari^e, thick aud velvetv markings. The perfection of form and texture In Trade Packets at $1.00 each. M. B. FAXON, Lock Box 1528, BOSTON, MASS. Corri'spnndptirc solicilfil. SPECIALTIES IN BKST VARIETIES. ROSES, from IHnch pota. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for Hat. WOOD BROTHERS, FiSHKILL. N. Y. Single Begonia Bulbs in separate colors, per 100 82 .50; per 1000 820 OO Tuberoses. THK PEARL, Al, per 100 81.00; per 1000 87.00 All other seasonable Bulbs on hand. ASK FOR Price List. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood, N. J. Bismarck Apples. I year old '25 cents; per hundred, 820.00. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, 82.00; per ten thousand, 818. CH. KOEHLER. Oxford Church P. 0.. Phila.. Pa. • SEEDS FOR PROFIT. • FLORISTS' FLOWER SEEDS. • SWEET PEAS. • _ WHOLESALE CATALOGUE ON APPLICATION. . WEEBER & DON, Seed Merchants and Growers. ^ 14 Chambers St., NEW YORK. BURPEE^S i SEEDS i Philadelphia. Wholesale Price List for Florists ;ind Market Gnrdeners. OSCAR KNOPFF&CO. SEED GROWERS. Sole Agent for the United States and Canada: M. RUTTENAU. IS to 25 Whitehall St.. New York. Trade Catalo^mes and estimates cheerfully fiirnlshed. Orders promptly tilled direct from iiurBerlesat Erfurt. MnntUm American Klortat. PANSIES. THE JENNINGS STRAIN of flnest American grown I'ansteB. Fine plnnU from cold frames. 75c per lUU by mall: W per 1000 by express SEED of above strain per pkt. of '_' .'lOO seeds. $1.00; ouiiceJti.OO. E. B. JENNINGS, Lock Bo.x iJ. Southport, Conn. Grower of the fluent I'linsk'!*. EXTRA CHOICE Li.st FRED HoVcE 'flower 's'e'e'dV. } t free on applitation. 2 ROEMER. Seed Grower, • Oiu'tiliiihuri;. tJeriiiHny. f CYCLAMEN SEED. CICANTEUM MACNIFICUM. A inajllilltrelit I'olleftlnn ut the UncstKlarit tlnwerlnK varieties: larj;est tlowerw and liewt colors. Trade pkt. Kcts ; ;!pkl».l»)cl8 : r, pkts Jl.UI. JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. iSgj. The American Florist. 58^ NEW ROSE Souv. du President Garnet. Admired by Evsryhody. It (rrows in Favor Daily. President Carnol is without a doubt a grand acquisition to the list of forcing Roses. It has all the good qualities, being a remarkably strong, quick grower, extremely healthy, and a constant bloomer. It produces long, stilT stems, with handsome foliage; the color is an exquisite sea-shell pink, with the edge of the petals ivory-white. The blooms are larger than either Bride or Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, and of perfect shape; even upon small plants the blooms are large and and show the same character as one year old plants. EVERY WIDE-AWAKE FLORIST SHOULD PLANT IT. How many florists have purchased new Roses during the past few years, and after growing them for a year or two have been disappointed and dropped the new Roses as unprofitable ? We recommend with full confidence President Carnot, both for forc- ing and open air culture. We know it will be both profitable and pop- ular as a cut flower. It has been tested in the West, in Boston, in New York, and Washington, and from all these dilTerent localities with their varied soils comes but one report— it is THE ROSE of the year. It has taken more Medals and Certificates of Merit than any other variety ever int-'oduced in this country. All these reasons, we think, should in- duce florists to plant it largely this year, as the price is exceptionally low for such a sterling novelty. A PERFECTLY HARDY GARDEN RGSE. We have tested President Carnot in the open ground and it produces as many flowers as Maman Cochet. At this date it has stood 3 degrees above zero without protection, and every plant is perfect to the top of the stems. We are convinced that it is perfectly hardy. All Orders Booked for March 15th. strong plants from 2VL-inoh pots. $3.00 per dozen; $15.00 per 100: $125 00 per 1000. 50 sold at 100 rates: 500 at 1000 rates. ORDERS MAY BE SENT TO ROBT. SCOTT & SON, Philadelphia. E. ASMUS, West Hoboken, N. J. E. G. HILL & CO., Richmond, Ind. ROBT. CRAIG, Philadelphia. STRAUSS & CO., Washington, D. C. 588 The American Florist. Jan. 2j, Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The program of lectures and discussions at Horticultural Hall, Boston, tor the season of 1897 is as follows: January 23. — The chrysanthemum; its past, present and future; by Mr. E, M. Wood, Wellesley. January 30. — Plant beauty, with black- board sketches; by Mr. Henry T. Bailey, Massachusetts state supervisor of draw- ing, North Scituate. February 13. — Sweet peas; by the Rev. W. T. Hutchins, Indian Orchard. February 20. — Market gardening; by Mr. T. Greiner, editor New York Edition "Farm and Fireside," La Salle, N. Y. February 27. — Good food from the gar- den; by Miss Anna Barrows, associate editor "American Kitchen Magazine," Boston. March 13. — Horticulture in Canada, with stereopticon illustrations; by Pro- fessor William Saunders, director Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. March 20. — S mIs and potting; by Mr. T. D. Hatfield, Wellesley. March 27. — The spread of olant dis- eases, a coDsiderationof someof the ways in which parasitic organisms are dissem- inated; by Dr. Erwin F. Smith, assistant pathologist, division of vegetable physi- ology and pathology. United States De- partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. All are freely and cordially invited to attend. The Pittsburgh Clay Mfg. Co., New Brighton, Pa., have issued a handsomely illustrated catalogue containing many fine half-tone engravings of the standard pots, pans, jardinieres, hanging baskets, vases, etc., manufactured by them. We present our compliments on the excellent quality of the engraving, printing and general arrangement. It presents their goods in a most attractive way. Kalamazoo, Mich. — Christmas trade was much larger than last year, with retail prices ruling about the same. There was no surplus; everything sold. Quality superior to last year. Increased sales of plants and American Beauties. Toledo, O.— Christmas trade and retail prices were about the same as last year. Supply equal to demand; quality better. At least 20% increase in sales of plants. Mt. Kisco, N Y — A horticultural soci- ety on the same lines as the Dutchess County Hort. Society was organized here on Tuesday, January 5. ALM ^^^-^^^•^^^^^^ ON HAND Per 100 1000 :iO0O I (^iic.19 Weildelliana $1.26 $10.00 BV.flO I'aiiilaiiim utiliD 1.50 12.50 35 00 ICiilVfa iiraliica 1.60 12. .50 I.VIiiKii KiiHHie 125 10 00 27. Till Asiiiirn«:iis pliiinosus iiiiims. true \/M Vi.A\ ;i.,,(K) J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. 2-lNCH FERNS. READY TO SHIFT. P. Berruliita. Onyclilum jiipunlcum. P. sernilata crlstnta, Blechnum occldentule, P. serrulutu " Denail. LaBtren, varleyata, P. adlantolrtee. Adiantum cuneatum. Above Ht 9;:!,onperllMJ;$25.00perlOOO, Adlantuiii. Irmn iI;iih $1.50 per 100 General aHhortnuMit. :i-ln. vars., *; per 100: $5U ptr UHH) Pterls GhelBbret;lilll and UeglniB or Scutum. Mnch, Jt;,00 per 100. Adiantum Farleyense. 4-liicli 40c; 5-lnch 70c. TermH cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Clenside, Pa. New Cannas. Burbank. The California Hybrid, witli Giant Orchid-iilte Flowers. E:irly last suinmiT wo sent trial plants to members of tho Special Canna Committee of the National So('iety of American Florists, who test all the new Cannas and report officially on the same. Their words carry the highest disinterested indorsement. Mb. James Dean. Chairman of that committee, and chief of New York's horticultural tlisplay at the World's Fair, says: "Burbank is a new giant llowered forerunner of a new class of these beautiful Ilowers." Mr. D. ZiRNGiEEEL, of Keedham, Mass., of the same Committee, who tested it with all the best new ones, says: '■'Yellow Burbank is the best yellow in cultivation now, very large Ilowers of a handsome, bright shade of nearly pure yellow." Mr. J. T. Temple, of Davenport, la., of this Committee, says: •'! consider Burbank one of the best of this year's novelties." J. W. C. Deake, of Asheville. N. C, another member of this Committee, says, Aue. 37: "Our Canna Burbank is in full bloom, and such a beauty! As handsome as an orchid, with petals 1% inches in diameter." Mr. Fred KANST.head gardener of South Park. Chicago, and an expert judgeof Cannas at the World's Fair, says: "The (lowers were much admired in the park this summer. The foliage is like rubber: it is always good; you cant ti-ar it." PRICE, EACH 75 cts.; SIX FOR $4.00. J "YELLOW CROZY." v.— » This novelty, proven by us for two vears, is a clear, pure canary yellow with no red markings, ex - cept a few faint red spots on the smallest lower petal. The effect produced by a bed of it is a solid mass of pure yellow. In size, the flower petals are I|4 inches broad, the compact spike shows off well above the foliage, height 3 feet, foliage green. It has a remarkable habit of throwing out additional lateral flower heads frorathe main spike— often as many as six or seven. In the full sun it bleaches less than any yellow canna we have seen, owing to its good substance. It is. in short, just the color and habit of plant which has been sought for the past five years, a pure "Yellow Cro/.y." Price prepaid, March 15th delivery, from 3-inch pots, $1.50. Stock limited. We carry a carefully selected list of THE BEST CANNAS in the market, approved by the Canna Committee of the S. A. F. Compare our lists with the Society Reports. VflUGMflN'S SEED STORE. «**««c''H*rA^^"o!^''"^ 14 BARCLAY STREET, NEW YORK. THE Unquestioned Novelties of 1897. m 6anna§ Austria *' Italia AS recently appointed agent for the U. S. and Canada by (Messrs. Dammann &Co., Italy.) the origin- ators of these grand New Cannas, I am in position to c|uote special prices to the trade when quan- tity is wanted, and book orders for February delivery for GOOD. SOUND, FIELD-GROWN BULBS. AT THE FOLLOWING LOW PRICES: AUSTRIA, 35c. each; $3.50 per dozen: $25.00 per 100. ITAIiIA, 60c. each; $6.00 per dozen; $50.00 per 100. Descriptive Circular of these and other grand new Cannas. by the same originators, free upon application. Asparagus Plumosus Nanus SEED, $1.50 |;er 100; $12.00 per 1000, SOI and 503 West 13th Street, NEW YORK. TELEPHONE CALL 403 18th STREET. Adiantum Cuneatum. We have a specially fine lot of this popular variety ready for immediate shipment, from 3-inch pots, at $7.00 per 100; $65.00 per 1000. JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. SHORT HILLS. NEW JERSEY. FELTHOUSEN, Of Schenectady, has an over stock of Kooted Cuttlnjzs of the follnwlnji In tine eliape and true tu name, jind Is In shape to raise any (.t all the trutle can or will demand: Helloinipe. In variety. $10 per UiOO CoIeuB, no end to ttieni. li^'i per IlKK). Atreriiium blue and white. $<; per lUX) KnchBlns In var. Jl.'i per KXK). Fuchntas. 2»^-lnch poi8. 'iel\^ per UHNI GerHnUiiua, In flats, all the leadens. *!;') per UMJU 500 at K)00 rates; l.'jc extra by the lUU. ('orreHDondence solicited on lartie orders, (^asli with the order. Selection of sorts to remain with us. When writing to any of theadvrrtisers on thi8 page please mention the A.meri- CAN Florist. TRv DREER'S Garden Seeds, Plants. Bulbs & Requisites. They are the best at the lowest prices. Trade List is- sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. HKNKT A. UREEK, PbUa<1elphl». Pa. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. tSgy. The American Florist. 589 A perfect white GflRNflTION Long desired and now for the first time offered to carnation growers. NIVEA Tried for two years in BOSTON market, and during that time has commanded the highest price. PLANT oi open, erect growth (may be set 9x9) with short, wiry grass, free from spot and bacteria; more prolific than Scott; bearing one or two buds to a stem in winter it does not require disbudding. FLOWER large, clear white, extra strong calyx, long, stiff, wiry stems. Highly prized and eagerly sought after by the leading retail florists in Boston. A good keeper. ROOTED CUTTINGS READY FOR SALE AFTER MARCH 1st. PRICE. $10 PER 100; $35 PER 500; $60 PER 1000. Terms cash or satisfactory reference. All orders filled in rotation, direct from the grower, H. A. Cook, Shrewsbury, Mass' SEND ALL ORDERS TO WELCH BROS. CITY HALL MARKET, 15 Province Street, BOSTON, MASS. Carnations Rooted Cuttings. 100 lOOO Helen Keller. Hose (.meen. Kmily I'lerson. Uncle John. Mme Albertlnl. Lizzie Gilbert. Alaska, Louise Slngler JS.OU SIS IW Lizzie McGowan. Sliver Sprav.Wm. Scott, Daybreak. Tidal rt are. Portia 1.00 S.Wi Clirysantlieniiims, 25 leaamg var,. 1.50 woo GERANIUMS, a best market and bed- dlnu varieties 1.60 15.00 " « vara.. In 2-Inch pots... 2.00 20.00 Ivy Leaf Geraniuui, Fuchsia, Heliotrope, Ageratum, Dwarf Daisy, Yellow Daisy, wliite Sweet Alyt^suut, Salvia splendens. Salvia odorata, Feverfe^v, Lobelia com- pacta, Vinca nui.ior var. per 100 $1; perI0O0$8. VINCA fol. var. or major. In 4 ard 4tB-'n. pots, at $10. *12 and Slo per 100 or t7i and »S.j per ITXJO. C. LENGENFELDER, Oakley and Cosgrove Aves., CHICAGO, 400,000 PjinCU PliintC S'2.00per500;$3 00pei 1000; rflllOj rifllllO) 8H per 5,000; 825 per 10.000. 100,000 ROOTED CUTTINGS, no rust, . 82.00 per 100; from flats 81 23 ') per 100; from sand 810 per 1000. TRADE LIST OF NOVELTIES NOW READY. WANTED— 100 Petunias, 2-inch; 50 Azaleas. 12- inch heads; 500 Cannas, dry roots; 500 Flower- ing and Rex Begonias, 2-inch; 200 Fancy Coleus, in exchange. MORRIS FLORAL CO., Morris. III. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. L. Borbonira, S. EleKaiis. C. Huniulls, Areca luteHcens, liauerit Kubra, Phoenix C and C« AiiHtralis: 17 Palms 3 to 4-ln. of above vara, and 2 Ferns forSi.OO. 10 Palms 4 lo 6-ln. of above vara, and 2 FeniB for $:i.iO. Rosest CarnationSt and all kinds of plants* Labels, Mobs. etc. SEND FOR LIST8. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III, REINBERG BROS. STRONG, HEALTHY ROSES FROM 2Vi;-INCH POTS. Per 100 Per lllOK Per 100 Per 1000 PORTIA, TIDAL WAVE . LIZZIE GILBERT, CORSAIR McCOWAN, STORM KINC » er 100 Per 1000 SI. 00 S8.00 .00 1.00 SILVER SPRAY, KOHINOOR 1.00 8.00 8.00 8.00 AM BEAUTY. TESTOUT... $5,00 $40.00 | METEOR. BRIDE $3 00 $25,00 GOLDEN GATE, PERLE 3.00 I BRIDESMAID, KAISERIN... 3.00 25.00 BELLE SIEBRECHT 3.00 25.00 I LA FRANCE 3.00 25.00 No orders for less than UX) of one variety accepted. We are the largest rose growers in the linited States, and can till all orders with the very best of h|o< k. Kose Cuttings upon application. CARNATIONS— Rooted Cuttings. Per 100 Per 1000 IVORV, DELLA FOX $3.00 $23.00 ROSE QUEEN 2.50 20.00 WM. SCOTT, DAYBREAK.. 1.00 8.00 NANCY HANKS, ALBERTINI 1.00 8.00 No orders for less than 100 of one variety aorepteM, The above stock is well rootemer8 write that this 1m the Hn- eet strain of VerhenaB thev can yet; reavilrCB no better evidence of mipcrlcirltv. I'>erv llnrlut Hliould sow of It. PETUNIA DOUBLE FRINGED. The larjs'CHt and rtnett strain nf double fringed I'etu- nlaB t«j be had. Alt who see these Petunias siiy they are the tlnest they ever saw Each, per trade plit..2oc.; ;t pkts., fWc; f. pbts., *I.OU. Seeds of tested novelties added to every order. JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. New Carnation VICTOR. This is a sport from Daybreak, and has been grown by us for the past three years. In color it is a clear, brilliant pink. The color improves under artificial light. It has been thor- oughly tested in every respect. It is a strong grower, and as free a bloomer as any. Wherever sent the flowers have been pronounced good keepers, of beautiful color, with strong stems. There is no better pink carnation on the market to day. AWARDED CERTIFICATE OF MERIT BY PENNSYLVANIA HORT. SOCIETY. ROOTED CUTTINGS FROM SOIL, READY MARCH I5tli, 1897, $10 per 100; $80 per 1000. HUGH GRAHAM. 104 S. 13th Street, PHILADELPHIA. When writing mention the American Florist. New Yellow Carnation MAYOR PINGREE. Wltliont doubt the best YELLOW CAKNATION In coinineroe to-day. booked and tilled in rotation. Delivery Marcli 1st. 1897. SI.50 per doz.; SIO.OO per 100; S75.00 per 1000. Or^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. 'A.BLANC & CO., Phila., Pa. CARNATIONS ROOTED CUTTINGS. READY FEB. tOth AND LATER. Perfectly clean and healthy, and well-rooted when sent out. VARIETIES: Daybreak, Wm. Scott, McCowan, Puritan, Albertini, Tidal Wave, Portia, at Jl. 00 per 100; S8. 00 per 1000. Rose Queen, Emily Pierson, $2.00 per 100: S1.'>.00 per 1000. Terms Cash with Order. MAGNUSON & PEARSON, Bowmanvllle. Station X, CHICAGO, ILL. E. G.HILL & CO.. llviioi6sai6Fiori§is RICHMOND. INDIANA. Burki's N6W Yellow Marouerlte ETOILE DE LYON. 25 Rooted Cuttings for ]S>1.00, by mall. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bollevue, Pa. HARRISON'S ^WHITE. NEW CARNATION, SPORT FROM WM. SCOTT. Strong, vigorous grower, requir- ing no support. READY M'DDLE OF JANUARY. PRICE: $10 per 100; $40 per 500; $70 per 1000. Cash or satisfactory reference. All orders filled in rotation. Described and illustrated in Flo- > ists' Exchange, Nov. 21, page 1044. COME AND SEE ir. JOHN HARRISON, 103 DSrgIGn AVfii AvcGreenylMe JERSEY CITY, N. J. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I Herr's : Carnations I GUARANTEED TO REACH YOU SAFELY AND BE SATISFACTORY. ^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^ Express paid on all orders for one thousand or more. Unlimiled quantities and reasonable prices. McGOWAN. ALASKA. STORM KING. DAYBREAK SCOTT WAVE. PORTIA. DCRNER, BUTTERCUP. HELEN KELLER* and lAGO TRIUMPH, ABUNDANCE. DELL* FOX. JUBILEE ARMA- ,r. ,.„» o„ ^ IW^K IVORY. ANNIE LONSDALE. CHI "SON SPORT and ELDORADO. Other varieties from other growers. Send for prices— some as low as S7 50 per lOCO. GERANIUMS, PETUNIAS, COLEUS, PANSIES. GERANIUMS— 15 leading bedders, double semi-double and single, in white, scarlet pink salmon and dark crimson, also finest pot or mixed kinds Will do best I can to fill orders as re'auested Prire 81.50 per 100; $12.50 per 1000. Scarlets alone, $10.00 per 1000. quesicu. rrice PETUNIA VETERAN— New to the trade. Dwarf, covered with immense double frineed flowers white striped rose. Fine plants 50 cts. per dojen; $3.50 per 100. COLEUS— Red, yellow, and elegant fancy sorts. Clean cuttings, at 75 cts per 100- $6 00 per 1000 PANSIES all the year round; no better strain anywhere. 75 cts. per 100; $5 00 per ICOO. L. B. 496. ALBERT M. HERR, LANCASTER, PA. DORNER'S NEW CARNATIONS FOR 1897. MRS. CHAS. H. DUHME (SEEDLING 1892). Color lively delicate pink, large flower Iragrant. with good calyx on strong stiff stem. Plant vigorous erect grower A very early free and constant bloomer: much more so than any of the light pink varieties rivaling in product- iveness with Scott. This promises to be the best of the light pink commercial varieties _^ . , Certificated at Indianapolis and Philadelphia. We have grown this vanety now for five years, and it is indispensable at our place. MRS. GEO. M. BRADT (SEEDLING 1893). Color clear white, heavily edged and striped with bright scarlet, gnnng it a very bright and cheerful appearance. Flowers large and full with center petals standing erect, giving the bloom a well rounded form. Calyx resembling Mme Albertini. Habit strong and vigorous. This variety is now in its fourth year, and has proven the most even and constant bloomer from eaily to late. We received for these flowers the hishest prices paid in the market s"';^'- Received Cold Medal at Atlanta, Certificate at same place and at Chicago. C. A. DANA. Delicate shell pink; vigorous, wiry grower. Medium to large flowers on strong stiff, wiry stems. Color soft and exceptionally pleasing. Flower a splendid keeper One of the most attractive colors in pink carnations. Stock limited. Rooted Cuttings ready March 1, 1897. $10 per 100: $75 per 1000. Plants from soil at same price 4 weeks later F. DORNER & SONS CO., La Fayette, Ind. THE NEW SCARLET CARNATION MORELLO. Will be disseminated March 1, '97. Get your orders in now. $1.50 per 12, $10 per 100, $75 per 1000. HOPP & LEMKE, E. Grand Rapids, Mich. Mention American Fiorlsl. "IN TIME OF PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR." It is none too early to consider what you are to grow next year. We have all the NEW and LEADING varieties of Send for our price list of rooted cuttings. You cannot afford to be without it. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, Grand Haven, Mich. When writing mention Amerlcar FlorlBt BRIDESMAID has a worldwide reputation. FAKKNT STOCK »tlll exists In perfect condition at the Sunnywooda GreenhouBes. Orders for 2W-lnch plants now booked for I.svtT. Also Bride, Beauty. Tea- tout, Meteor and Perle rose plants. FRANK L. MOORE, Chatham, N. J. 100,000 CARNATIONS. 100,000 I«00'1"EI> CtlTTIIVGS. Ready Feb. 1st and later, of all the leading varie- ties at prices that are right. Nothing but first- class stock sent out. Do not fail to write me be- fore you buy. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, CRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS ROOTED CUTTINGS of the leading varieties; clean, healthy stock. Positively no "Rust." Send for price list. WM. SWAYNE, Box226,KennettSqr.,Pa. Mention American Florlot HYDRANGEA OTAKSA, For Easter Forcing. Strong, branching plants, 4-inch pots, dormant, $10.00 per 100. 2;^inch, $5.00 per 100. Cash with order. H. L. PHELPS, Springfield. III. 592 The AmericanFlorist. Jan. 23, Logan, Pa. The greenhouses of Hugh Graham at Logan, are especially interesting to visit at present on account of the new carna- tion, the pink sport from Daj break, which he has named Victor. A surprise awaits the visitor in the remarkable strength and vigor of growth of this carnation be side whose tall lusty stems Daybreak itself looks small and insignificant. The bloom is correspondingly large and the color very bright and pleasing, resem- bling Scott but having less of the bluish cast in its composition than Scott has. Mr. Graham has been very successful with his Brunners having had a hous; of fine blooms to cut for Christmas and another house is now beginning to show color. Other roses also look well, but .American Beauty has only just recovered from an attack of thrips in the fall. It is noticeable that La France is still grown here in quantity although very generally discarded elsewhere. Mr. Graham says that while it is true that its sale as a flower has fallen off yet he finds it unrivaled for largedecorative work which is a specialty of his Philadelphia store business. In carnations most of the popu'ar varieties are represented. Storm King be- ing the finest white. There is an exten- sive collection of decorative palms, ferns, orchids, etc., a house of remarkably large flowered cinerarias and a little forest of Acacia pubescens now in bud. A bench of poinsettias attracts attention on account of the efifective combination of a quantity of the white bracted variety which by itself is unattractive but when used together with the scarlet variety makes a pleasing and brilliant contrast. Plants for Fountain Basin. Your correspondent does not state what provision he has made for the growth of his aquatics, or whether the tank is exposed to the sun or not. Absence of soil in the bottom of his tank or lack of sunlight would account for his lack of success with the water hyacinth or with parrot's feather. If he has nothing but sand and gravel in the bottom of his tank he might try wild celery, vallisneria; water lettuce, Pistia stratioides; Azolla Caroliniana, or a little laterin the season Salvinia natans. John F. Cowell. Neponset Flowerpots of Waterproof Paper are sold as follows: Terms— Net cash with order. If ordered shipped frel»jht, add .')() cents cartage. Packed In Gross Welfjht Size Crates of per 11 u) pots Per 100 Per 1000 28 .. ■ 1000 ... " 23 " . . 30 2.:io 3 •■ 1000 ■■ :« •• .. 36 2.80 ■M " 1000 '• 45 " .. 50 4.00 1 " . 600 ■• 76 " .. tiO 6.00 6 ■■ . -. 500 " 100 " .. 00 s :« u •• 600 •' 150 " .. .. .. 1.60 ia.;t6 standard Pot Measure. Less quantities tlian full crates at 100 rates. F. W. BIKD & SONS, Manufacturers. Address orders to our General Agents, August Rolker&Sons New York, p. o. station E, or R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.. Boston. Eastern Agents. Mention American Florist FERNS. FERNS. All nice fancy ferns, warranted first quality. Just think ot it. 75 cts. a thousand— nice ones. All orders by mail or dis- patch promptly attended to. T. COLLINS. Hinsdale. Mass. 200,000 ROOTED CUTTINGS 200,000 GERANTUMS ! ?^bl°T§°N?JI°''- EVERY WIDE AWAKE FLORIST knows that if he desires to hold a fine class of cus- tomers, he must carry a full line of first-class geraniums. WE HAVE BEEN TESTING the newer introductions for the past five years and offer a select list of forty-five varieties comprising the cream of the best Geraniums in existence. Our list covers scarlets, dark crimsons, white, pink, salmon pink and various fancy varieties in singles, doubles and Bruants. SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, QUEENS, L. I. "NOT IN IT." YOUR CANNA COLLECTION WITHOUT The New Variegated Variety A new and beau- tiful novelty that is "up-to-date," andasure"want" by every live flo- rist. JOHN WHITE. strong plants ready Feb. 15, 75c each; $7.50 per doz.; $50 per 100. It's future is as bright as the morning. Do not fail to order this grand varie- ty SOON. Seitd for circular and colored ptatp, if not yet receive*!. Cash or satisfactory reference with order. Origrinated and introduced by JOHN WHITE, Elizabeth, N. J. THE CHOICEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. Fine pot plants, $2.50 per 100: $20.00 per 1000. Rooted Cuttings. $1.00 per 100: $8.00 per 1000. IVO I«IJST OI« :iVJII^I>EJW. PACKED LIGHT, AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. We are the Largest Growers of Verbenas in the country. Our plants cannot be su*'passed. J. Xv. r>IIvI-,0:iV, :Blooi:*asl3\a^r-g:, F»t*. 100.000 VERBENAS. PflUMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York, GEO. WITTBOLD, '™V,5?^1I'6 ROBERT CRAIG. Roses, Palms, Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. ForSPRING DELIVERY HARDY LOW-BUDDED RDSES, Tree Roses, Azaleas. Rhododendons, Snowballs, Hydrangeas, Etc. Grown by the Boskoop. Holland. Nursery Association. C. H. JOOSTEN, Agent, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. Prize Winning Dahlias AN UNPRECEDENTEU RECORD. '^'.i First I'ri/.eft; CerrKicate of Merit . 'i Diplo- niHs. and liigrliest nieniion every ulicr*'. Our l."*'.'? OeBcrlptlve Tratle IJst will be reiuiy ab*^ut Feb. l^'t. ttnd will be malieti tn all who received uur last yeiir'r llct without appllcatlun If you want the very bent lialillitB that blooui. atblreuH W. p. PEACOCK, Dahlia Specialist, Atco, N J. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. Novelties for 1897. Our Collection of Certificated MIDGE, MERULA, MRS. JOHN J. GLESSNER. CHITO, MRS. MARTIN A. RYERSON, SUNSTONE, WESTERN KING. READY MARCH 1st. 50c each: $5 per doz.; $35 per 100. NATHAN SMITH & SON ADRIAN, MICH. 1897 Geranium "MARS" Ready Now. CERTIFICATED. Rooted Cuttings. $1 piT do/.. $.T piT 100: :i-in. pots, Ciishwitlinrd.T. I *l..WpiTdoz.,,t8 pfTlOO. HENRY EICHROI.Z. Wajmesboro. Pa. 25,000 GERANIUMS SS?TrN°as 9 of the best market varieties; all strong and well rooted. 81 SO per 100; SH 00 per II 00. Out of •J>4-iiich pots $2.00 per 100; 81.'< 00 per KKW. Blue ^geratum. Heliotrope. Coleus Verschaftettil. Golden Deader and Golden Verschaflallii. Sl.OO per 100; SH.Oll per IIX'O. Out of 'Z'/. inch pots, $1.60 per 100; »i:i.OO per 1000. Cash with order. MAX KRUSCHKA. LAWRENCE STATION, N. Y. fSp7. The American Florist. 593 Hot=Bed SASH. Tenons white-leaded, corners secured with iron dowel pins. Every detail of construction per- fect. Made of Clear Cypress Lumber. Quick SHiDiii6nt§. We have in stock and can ship immediately 3 ft. X 6 ft., 3 rows 10-in. glass. 3ft.3in.x6ft.4rows8-in. " 4 ft. X 6 ft., 5 rows 8-in. " Not glazed, 1''4 inches thick. DGliverefl rrlces quoted on application. State size and quantity wanted. No order too small to receive careful at- tention, and none too large for our facilities. LOGKLflND LUMBER GO. LOCKLAND, O. Whnn wTltlntr Tn«»Tit1nn thp Amftrl^nn Klnrist. You Need Our TRADE DIRECTORY REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896. PRICE S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. Saa Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ROSE HILL NURSERIES. THE LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK IN AMERICA. ARECA LUTESCENS. IJOZ uus. 3H-m. pota. bush}-. 12 to 15 In. high SSJ 00 HiO 00 ■" ■ ■ "" ISO 111 fiU.OO 18 to ai In high 4.00 aitn'^iln. high tl 00 :> to .') It. 54 $0 .^ $•■> each COCOS WEDDELIANA. 1?^ 'n. pi its extra tine, o to li leaves 2-(tO 15 (X) •i -lu. pota. extra one, stront: 2 oU "20- ( U ;i In. pots, extra tine, very strong selected 3 50 25. UO :ij^-ln. potf, extra tln«. very ftron^ selected. 4.00 KENTIA BELMOREANA. EACH DOZ. .Vh] potB extra Blrorg. bushy. 5 to f. leaves. IS to 211 Inches lilah . . $ 75 $ 8.0O '■.-In pots, heavy. 2 to-»<. ft high 150 IS.OU T-ln. pots, heav . 2 lo 2,^^ ft high 2 00 2100 8-1(1. pots. 30 to 40 In., decorative size.?:! .'tO io$l> 00 each KENTIA FORSTERIANA. J)OZ HUN. 3 In. pots. 12 to 15 Inches high $2.00 fl5 00 4 ■■ 15tol8 ■■ •■ 4 50 35.00 « •• 2 to 2^ feet high ..$1.25 each. 7 ■■ 2 to 31-. ■■ ■■ .>2 00 to rt :,i\ ■■ LATANIA BORBONICA. 4 in pots lu to IM . liltfh 7-S eaves $15.00 per doz. fJ " pe feet specimens. 7 9 leaves 18 00 7 *' " ■■ 8-V> ■■ .. :e2 0O-ji2 50each LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 4-in. pot. 10 to 12 In. iilyh $1 25 pach. *15 0(t per doz. 5 " 12 to 15 ■■ *1 50 each : $IS 00 per doz. PHCENIX RECLINATA. l^ln. pots. 15 til !•- I I, liU'li si ui each; jlU CO per doz. DRAC/ENAS (in variety). WlihoTJt dou tor exception we liave the grandest lot in the country. 0"en for inspection. 4-ln. pots f4 0i) per doz. 5 •■ tiOO '• (colored and coloring). FERNS. FERNS. FERNS. If you ure t:oi~g to buy. It will pay you to get a sam- ple of our grand stock. 2L2-ln pots. In 5 varieties.... $3 50 perlOO: $ O.OU perlOOO Nephri -lepls cordata compacta. Ti-e largest istock of this grand vari ty 2-In. potB. fine stock $15.00 per liNi t; ■' tine specimens. 15 IS In high. ..$4 doz.; $45 liNi Pteris Umbrosa Gigantea. 4-ln.pot8 $35 00 per 100 5 " 5,00 per doz. t; '■ bushv .. .^jeach. FtCUS ELASTICA. 6-inch pots $50.00 per 100 7-lnch pots $76 00 per li» A 11 measurements ta'^en from top of pots. The nlxjve is a brief Hst of our specialties. Our New Wholesale List will be rt-adv s mn. giving description of all New Novelties Do not order till vou see IT. WHITK. TKl.ECiKAPM <>r i KLEMHONK US, and our carriage will MEET YUU. Address all cuiumuntcallons to the Nurseries. {N. Y. Office. 409 5th Ave. ) NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. THE BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO. Manufacturers of ^^'^'^^ FLORISTS' ^-^^^ LETTERS. Dimensions of this Box: 22 inches long by IS Inches wide and 12 Inches high. Two sections. Tliis Wooden Box nirely stained and varnished, 18x30x18, made in two srctiuus, one for each size letter, given away with first order of 600 letters. Block I^etters, I^^ or 2 inch size, per 100, 82 00. Script Letters, $4.00. Patent Fa-^tener with each letter or word. The Standard, used by the leading florists everywhere, and for sale by all "Wholesale Florists and Supply Dealers. N. F. McCarthy, Treasurer and Manager, Factory, 13 Green Street. BO.STON, MASS. OHice, S4 Hawley Street. BUY GOOD STOCK. Bayersdorfer & Co.'s Supplies in your window will put money in your pocket. OUR CATALOGUE IS A BEAUTY. SEND FOR IT. BAYERSDORFER & GO. 56 North Fourth Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. IMPORTERS *ND WANUFACTURERS. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. GALAX AND LEUGOTHOE. Write the INTRODUCER of these most beautiful new Decorative Greens for samples and infor- mation. HIGHLANDS NURSERY. FLORISTS' RIBBON. .AH widths and popular shades of color PRICES REDUCED. SEND FOR SAMPLE TO H. M. WEISEL. 17 East 83rd Street. NEW YORK. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. 594 The American Florist. Jan. 23^ ^ecD* (!lote*.]| HoLLiSTON, Mass— Jeremiah E. Long has gc ne into insolvency. Bennington, Vt.— On January 1 the firm of L. M. Holton & Son was suc- ceeded by L. C. Holton. Meriden, Conn —John Gallivan will close bis Kensington Avenue greenhouse on February 1st, but will continue the establishment on Union street. West Troy, N. Y — laaac Gilfett has comp eted his new greenhouse containing 2 400 feet of glass. It is stocked with Daybreak and Scott carnations. Brockton. Mass. — The firm of E. M. Fisher & Co. has dissolved and H. F. Crawford, who was the Comp iny, in the old firm, has bought out Mr. Fisher's interest. Taunton, Mass— The greenhouse of E. F. Rose and its contents were badly damaged by fire and exposure on the morning of January 12ch. The loss is estimated at $2,000. Stoughton, Mass — Moses F. Gay was stricken with heart disease while passing from his greenhouse to his residence about mid-nightof January 12th, and wasfound dead on his door step shortly after. Stodghton, Mass. — Samuel R'nn had the misfortune to bave his whole stock of carnations totally distroyed by the freeze two weeks ago, and has been obliged to close up his establishment for the winter. Albion, Mich. — Misses M. & S. Dysinger state that their greenhouses were not repaired, as reported in previous note, but were entirely rebuilt. Cvorcss material was used, the glass 16x16 and butted, walks cemented, and new office and boiler room. Trenton, N. J. — Geo. Wainwright had an unfortunate accident ncently. One cold night a heating pipe burst in one of h's palm houses and as a result about $500 worth of plants were destroved. The trade here is suffering from the work of the "crape chaser." WiLLiAMSPORT, Pa. — Evendcn Bros, are much pleased with the success of their new carnation house (50x170). The plants in it are vigorous and htalthy. The house is easily heated and ventilated and is uniform in temperature. There are no hot or cold corners, all heat alike. It is considered an ideal carnation house by those who see it. Trenton, N. J. — At its meeting on Jan- uary 7th, the New Jersey Horticultural Society elected the following officers: President, Dr. J. B. Ward; vice-president, J. W. Nicholson; seer, tary, Henry L. Budd; treasurer,Chas. L.Jones; executive committee, E. P. B.ebe, D. A. Vander- veer, I. J. Blackwell, J. B. Rogers and Horace Roberts. IFOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlet, write to LOEISTILLF [SPIKIT ('BHUD Tobacco Co. |LouisvUle,Ky You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Excelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect drainage. .A. f*xjXjXj XjxrB-:E] of* ^xjxjIs f*.A.:FS's. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. BRANCH WAREHOUSES: Kearney and Westside Avee., Jersey City, N. J. Jackouu Ave. and I'earson St., Lougr Island Tity, N. Y, STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO. Manufacturers of FLOWER POTS, BULB PANS, HANGING BASKETS # SAUCERS -x- /^UR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- ^^ iaction. We call your attention to our new pots. 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Porous than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a trial and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. SYRACUSE^ N. Y. DOYGUUSEFI OWFR POTS? If so, before buying, write for our prices on STANDARD POTS, BULB PANS, PALM POTS, VASES, ETC. PITTSBURGH CLAY MFG. CO., New Brighton, Pa. Standard Flower Pots. OUK POTS ARE OF THE BEST QDAXITY. We ship all goods from Cincinnati, guaranteeing lowest freight rates and prompt delivery. Write OB before placing yoar orders elsewhere CAMBRIDGE TILE MFG. CO., Covington, K,. Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots; values from 25 cts. UD to $150 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants* (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St.. BOSTON. MASS. Jerome Jones, Prea. S. A. Stratton, Treaa. Mention American Florlat. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower Pots, etc. Making a Specialty uf Florist Standard Pots Send for price list and samples (which will be sent free and we know you will Rive ub your order: Ji 6i SWAHN S SONS) MiuneapolU^'jVIlni]. John Conley & Son, IVIanafacturerg of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. Zt costs 4 cents for each 600 feet of floor spac«. Does not Injare the most sensitive plants. Endorsed Nikoteen by prominent florists. Used for famigatlonor spraying indoors or out. 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen. Bold by seedsmen. Circular free. BKABOITRA LEMON OIL DIP 00., OHIOAOO. , ^Quick!yMDoes^lt.4» INSECTICIDE. Soltttile In Water. Destroys Scale, Mealy I?iiB, Ked Spider, Thtlp, ItllUU'vr, Hl»ek Hiid Green Kly. \^ pint, 2.')C.; pint. 4tte ; quart. Tr>c.; ^ ifallon. $1.25: gallon, ti Wl; ;•) im]. keu. SLOO; 10 i:al, keg. *17.oU. Sold by dealers or sent on receipt of price. CHAS. C. GARRETT & CO., ManufVs, 113 S. Cay Street, BALTIMORE, MD. IMeaae mention American Florist. KELLY'S FLORISTS' SHEAR win hold tirmty anything cut. l»rice #1.00. If not satisfactory, return and money will be re- funded. Try a piilr. They will please you. FLORISTS PRUNINC SHEAR MFC. CO., Please mention the American Florisi CTcry time you write to an advertiser. tSgj. The American Florist. 595 KROESCHELL BROS. CO. Greenhouse -Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. BoUera made of tbebest of maieilal, ehell. firebox sheets and heads of steel, water space all around (front, ildes and back.) Write for Information. MftTitlnn Amertonn Finrlm CfPREl S IS MUCH M»RE OUftMLKTHANPINE. SASH BARS UP ^o\^ net »L3Sri3 REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. I=ItICE S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO, Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 596 The American Florist. Jan. 23, Index to Advertisers. AdT Rates 584 American Boiler C0...5W AsmuaE 587 Baaeett & WaBb'ourn..583 58i Bayeredorf er H & Co. .693 Blanc A & Co S'Jl Bobblnk LC 5al Boston Letter Co 5it;! Bratiue L B .>si; BrHltmeyer .1 & Sons ..".HI Bvickbee H W 5811 Burkl tTed .'.al Burpee W Atlee & Co 58(; Cambridge Tile Mtg Co.W4 Carmodv J D 5115 f'hadwick Cbas .581 riucus K VV 688 Collins 'Ih 'S -'HI Conley Jonn &Son 594 Cottave Gardens .5'J? CralK Robt 5112 DeLamatbr Iron WlS8.6y6 Oletsch A & Co 5'.i5 Dillon JL 592 DomerFred &SonB Co 59 Dreer H A.. Bhret F BIchholz H Blllotl W e Blllott Wm & Sons. Bills & Pollwonn.... Faxon M B Felthousen J B .688 . 684 ..692 ..584 . .&Hi; ..584 , .680 688 Garrett C C & Co .VJJ Graham H 690 Gurney Ueater Co 695 Hall Ass'n .595 HancocK&Son 591 Harrison J 691 Hart M A 5.84 Herr Albert M .591 Hews A H& Co -194 Highlands Nursery 59;i Hill KG cSCo 591 HlppardB .596 Hlicblnve&Co 6% Bopp & Lemke 591 Hjuaer n Ja Co 596 Horan Bdw C 686 HulHeboech Bros 686 Humfeld C .583 Hu .L ii H. 6Si Illinois Cut Flower Co.. 584 Jennlnfzs tH B . . 586 Jones MoUulIy & Strat- ton 194 ■loosten CH 592 Hai-tlne W F 684 Kelly Shear Co 694 Kennlcutl Bros Co 586 Koebler Ch 6Si; KroesPbeli Bros Co .595 Knopfl Otcar .586 KrUHcnka Max 592 Euelio V. A .684 LaaKJulIus 585 Lemke B F 684 Lengentelder C 589 uockland Lam Co. 593 596 Long D B 59(1 Lo a & Bumbam Co..69ti Lou svllie Tobacco Co 594 Ly.ich W B .... 686 MagnuHon vN: Pearson. 69i »lti »nuj N r OLKAi.. .585 McKellar V VV 684 Mfuhan Thus & Sons.69U Mlllang brantt ;. 585 MlllanKS Co, 686 Moore FL 591 Monlnger J C Co 593 Morris Floral Co 589 Myers A Co 596 Piatiunal PiantCo 584 N T Cut Flower Co. ... 581 Peacock W P 692 Kennock Ham 18 684 PennockCI 690 Phelps H L 691 Plllsbury I L 689 Pitcher A .Manda. .586 588 PltiBburg Clay Mfg Co 694 Prince A g & Co 585 Purdy & Blauvelt 585 QuakerClty Mc'h Wk3.596 Randall A L 586 Kaynor J I. 585 Bedfleld Bradley 688 tcelnuerguros 585 689 Rice M& Co 593 KlckseckerCH 584 Roemt r F 586 ttogers P'k Floral C*) 685 Ro;k»r A & Sous. . .692 596 Rolker A & F b^ Rupp J F 586 590 Sandliord Uobt 589 ScnlllerJ L 688 Semple .las 690 dhenuan W F.. 585 Slebrecht & Son .593 Situations. Wants, etc 6\; Skabcura IJlp Co 694 9uiitu WHiii « son 69i Stearns Lumber Co 695 ^utuurlanu ueo A 585 Swahns Sons J Q. , 594 swayne Wm 591 Syracuse Poti^rv (^o, .594 Traendly & gchenck. 584 Vuughan J C 588 Watson Q C 586 Weeber&Don 686 Welsei H « 593 Welch Bros 686 689 Whllldln Pot Co 594 White J 692 VV illlams * Sons Co. . ..589 Wllmore W W ,683 Wluter & Glover 685 Wis Flower Ci.x 684 Wittboia Geo 592 Wood Bros 686 roungjno 586 Young ThOB Jr 585 New Bedford, Mass —John F. Tynan dien on Sunday, January 17, at the age of 67 years. Memphis, Tenn. — Mr. Chas. Button, in the tmploy ot Mr. J T. Williamson, died recently of typhoid fever. ScR ANTON. Pa. — The sheriff has taken possessidn of the establishment of W. H. Davis & Co., on the strength of a numbtr of executions against that firm. Clifton Springs, N. Y. — The Sevens greenhouse has been purchased by Dr. Wm. Turck and moved to his lot on M tin street, where the business will be contin- ued by Mrs. Tuick. Trenton, N. J.— The Mercer Floral Co. report thtir Christmas trade far in excess of expectations. They sold 5,000 carna- tions at 50 cents a dozen and refused orders for at least 1 000 more, being un- able to fill them. Violets vpere in great demand at $3 per 100 and first -ca=s Ma'ds, Brideg, etc., sold readily at $2.50 to $3 50 a doz?n. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. NEW 1897 SEED TRADE LIST JUST ISSUED. mailed free to applicants in the trade. Wholesale only. Send business card. New York: 136 West 24th Street. 1'. (1. stiiticin ro. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. Hitclxing::^ ^ Co. ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTURERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTILATING APPARATUS. THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE. GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent IroD Frame Gohstruction. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street, NEW YORK. LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. I^Flans and estimates fornlghed on application. Largest builders of Greenhouse Structures. Six highest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTKATEO CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO., Aiclltectiiral Pfflce, I60 Fifth Ave., COR. TWENTY-FIRST ST., FACTORY: IRVTTJfiTOX^-ov-ntTnsoV. X. Y. New York City. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ FOR HOT WATER.t FOR STEAM. 'WE HEAT THE WORLD. t "Florida" J "Soleil" * "Modern" i "American" J "Florida" Jr. 5 "Florida" ^ 400 Series LARGt5T MANUFAG =TUDtROFSTEAMi- HOT WATER HEATING APPARATUS -<- - INTHf' RADIATORS ' VFITTIMGS 5» I C£MT£R 5T. I 6YRACUSt SA LAKE 6T. Idetrc AGENCIES EVERYWHERE. Write for Catalogue, List of I'sers, etc "Spence" "Perlect" "Advance" "Tropic" "Tropic Jr." 'Tropic" 400 'Little Giant" ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W, Randolph Street, CHICAGO, Natural Oa§ Made Gla§§ FOR GREENHOUSES. Wben wrltlDK uientloQ the American Flurtst. fimsrica is "the Frau/ of the 1/essel; thers may be more camfai^'^: Tioe,,. Hrll V '' i Hj-st to touch Unknown SBas,' Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK, JANUARY 30. 1897. Ho. 452 f LHIlE /Al!liiei!@/AIN IFik@isi!iir Copyright 1897, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 3^2 Dearborn Street, Cliicago. Subscription. SI. 00 a year. To Kurope. 82.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 328 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO. Eastern OfiBce ; 67 Bromfield St., Kogton. This paper l8 a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Association. SOCIETY OP AMERICAN FLORISTS. AiJAai GRAHAM. Cleveland. O.. president: Farqu- HAR Macrae. Providence. K. I., vice-president; W. J. Stewart. Boetoo- secretary: II. B. Beatty. on City. Pa-, treasurer. The thirteenth annual meet- ing will be held at Providence. K. I.. August. ISHT. CONTENTS. Roses— Notes SH7 —New rose Clara Watson (illus.) 598 —Cooking soil 598 Carnations- Notes 599 —Mayor Pingree (illus.) 599 —Lily Dean and Maud Dean (illus,) .^9 —New carnation Nivea (illus.) 600 — In Memoriam. ... 6(X) —American Carnation Society . . tiOO Chrysanthemums— Past, present and future . . 600 Fern notes "S The New York Gut Flower Go, 119 and 121 West 23d Street, 112 and 114 West 24th Street, Telephone 733, 18th St. NEW YORK. THE LARGEST DEALERS IN CUT . . . FLOWERS IN THE WORLD. . . , CONSIGN TO l!UY FKOM M. A. HART. Commission °^^r Gut Flowers, 113 WEST 30th street, NEW YORK CITY. THE BEST MARKET IN NEW YORK. TRAENDLY & SCHENGK, Wholesale Florists, Control the stock of many celebrated growers and are prepared to quote prices on First Grade Cut Flowers. All varieties. 38 West 28th St.. and Cut Flower Exchange. Tel. om 18th street. NEW YORK CITY. "HE'S MY STEADY." J. k:. ^vr^r^K^iv, THE OLD A-VD RELIABLE Gut Flower ConusliEeiiler 57 West 28th ft.. NEW YORK CITY. Ti'lc|)h(inc CiiU :is-; :!stli si. FRED. EHRET, wnoiesaie Fiona No. 1403 fairmount Avenue, Telephone. Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. HEADQUARTERS. ROSES, CARNATIONS. AND VIOLETS. TRf US. WM. F. KASTING, Wholesale Commission Florist. 495 Washington St.. BUFFALO. N. Y. Mention Amprlcan FInrlHt, BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, For DecorutlriK and nil Klorlsts' UeBlKnH. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitchell Co.. N. C. Always mention American ^'lu^lst. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, « •e r o B r.IVK ME VOUK OKOEKS. WHOLESALE COMMISSION FLORIST Best of attention given to the shipping trade. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, WIRE WORK, Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED. F. WINTERSON, Mgr. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER CO. .1. I!. DKAMUO, Ulsrr. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Ag-ents. CMICA-GrO. Manufacturers of Wire Work. E. C. AMLING. WHOLESALE COMMISSION » FLORIST, aa WABASH AVENUE, Consignments Solicited CHICAGO. Prompt attention to shipping orders. ORDER FLOWERS AS YOU WANT THEM, OF WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box 87. MILWAUKEE, WIS. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, ■ ST. LOUIS, MO. fS^A complete line of Wire l>e8ig;ufl. E. F. LEMKE, Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventh Street, .^ ST. PAUL. MINN. Cut Strings, S to 10 (eet lonjr, 50 CENTS. W. H. ELLIOTT, Brighton, Mass. I^LEASE mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. i8g7. The a mer ican Florist. 609 E. H. HUNT. WHOLESaLEPbORIST 68 Lake Street, CHICAGO. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS. SEEDS. BULBS Ain> AI.I. FI.OBISTS' SUPPLIES KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. Wliol6sal6 Gut Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. W IKK WOKK A SPECIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St., CHICAGO. If you want FlrstrCIasa FlowerB, properly packed and delivered on time, send us your ordere and you wlU get what you want. GUT FLOWERS We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists' Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. DEAMUD & CO.. GROWERS and WHOLESALE DEALERS in UUI ILUIlUllU| 88 Wabash Avenue, .^~. CHICA.GO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OF CLASS. We can flU all orders on short notice with all leading varieties of Koeea and Carn»tlone. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES Ulve u» atrial and convince yourself Salesroom. 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, issr"*^ CUT FLOWERS. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET. Fine Stock a Specialty. CHICA.OO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE, -CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, & 90 Wabash Avenue, Telephone Main 3208. CHICAGO. I*roliipt Attention to all Orders. A. L. RANDALL, wnoiesaie Fiona 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Ajzent for finest grades Waxed and Tissue Papers ©VVRoPe*af« Marftaf*. Cut Flowers. New York. Jan 27. Koses. Beauty, extra 40 OO J' 50.00 medium 20.00030.00 culls 5 00*10.00 Magna Oharta. Brunner 15 00(f' '.i.i 00 Bride. Morgan. Testout 4 OOS. H.OO Bridesmaid, Meteor 4.00» 8 00 Carnations 1 OOa 1 50 extra 1.60(3) 2 00 Valley 1-OOfcj 3.00 Violets 40to .75 Koman hyacinths, P. W. narcissus 7.S(i'' 1.50 I'yprlpedlums 8 OOwilO 00 Mignonette 2 OOw il.OO Catt evaa 25. 00(<' '15.00 Harrlsll 4.00i.<. 5.00 Adlantum dO(" 100 Smllax 10 OOw.12.00 Asparagus 50 00 Boston Jan. *27. Roses. GoDtler, Nlphetos 2 00 s 3.00 Perle, Mermet 3 00® 6 00 Bride, Bridesmaid, Meteor 4 00® 8 00 extra. ...10 0061(1.00 Beauty 10 002000 e.vtra 26 00(»50 00 Carnations .75ji 1.50 fancy 1 .50a 2 00 Violets 50® .75 Valley, daffodils 3 OOf* 4 00 R, hyaclnthj, paper white narcissus 1.00^"' 2.00 Mignonette 2.00 Kreeela 75(" 1. 00 Harrliill. Callas .^ 8.00(" 10.00 Adlantum 1.00 Smllax 10.00®12.0O Asparagus 50 OO PHILADELPHIA. Jan. '27 Roses, Beauties, stems 3 to 4 feet 50.00 medium 20.00i";i000 lOtoMlnches 8.00(..12.50 Large teas, first size tj.OO'" S.OO second " 3.00i" 4.00 Carnations 1 25<" 3 00 Violets, double »■■ 1.00 Valley S.OUfe r, 00 Koman hyacinths, narcissus 2.(Xt(referred. '.'T. care American Flurlst, Chicago. SJITUATION WANTED— By competent rose, carna- O tlon and chrysantbemum grower, also up to date Jeslgner and propagator, with V2 years' experience: can furnish good references or refer you to reliable parlies: tierman, married, no family: please state wages. E G, Sub-station 4. Grand Kaplds. Mich. w ANTEIJ— Catnlognes and price lists. AdrtresH ViCTOH MATHis. 242o Bank St.. Louisville, Ky. W ANTKO—YounK man of experience to run green- liouses on shares or for wanes. Address Box 44, (Jreenwlch, N .1. WANTED-Threeor four Kootl plantsnien. for pot- tlnji In palms. Germans preferred. Best of ref- erence. Address .1 T. care American Klorlst. WANTED— A thoroughly experienced rose propa- gator and (TTower. for cut tlowere, for a large commercial estabrishment. Address L. G. Pf^nder. 427 Washington at.. Portland, Oregon. WANTED— Gardener, private family; must be single, good sober habits; must understand flowers, gardening, care of lawn, cows and liorHes. Wages jti.^ per month and board. Aif dress with references, giving age and nationality, G. E. Dillet, i'alestlne. Texas. WANTED- German gardener, single, 45 to r>5 years of age. to take charire of small private garden and greenhouse; wages };i.5al,- colors . . . oz.. Trade packets at 25 cents. Farquhar's famous, selected MACHET MIGNONETTE, t.™«rf.-/,«/«,oz NEPONSET PAPER FLOWER POTS. FIBRE ROT-PROOF HOT-BED MATS. ALL FLORISTS' SUNDRIES. R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., 16 & 19 South Market St., BOSTON. ■k ■ BBHi ■ I Newconsltmmni ir, Maine. Hav- InK purchnsed on II very favorable market, nnd wishing to move tbe stock quick- ly, make the following special low quotations tor prompt orders: In bale lots (aboul22o lbs ' at9c, 100 lbs. or over at lOc, 50 lbs. or over at lie, 25 lbs. or over at 12c. 10 lbs. or over at I4c, less thanlOlbs. atl5c per lb.; f, o. b. Pliila ; net terms, and sub- ject unst'ld on receipt of order. Jpr^This exceptional op- J portunity for buyinga sup- f ply of fine quality at a low ff rate should not be neg- • lected. All commissions, lur^e i or small, will receive the same carelul attention. G- C. WATSON. 4:1 No. Kith St., Philadelphia. Trowbridge^s celebrated grafting wax, the trenulne ar- ticle. 1 lb, bars at I'.tc: % lb, bars at '-'Oc; '4 lb. bars at 21c. Rebates: Hi lb lots 5 per cent. iU lb. lots 10 per cent. lA) lb. lots 1;> per cent. liiO lb lots 2(i percent. Send your address for my illustrated catalogue of these superb flowers, M. B. FAXON, Boston, Mass. FAXON'S H*o"Jsl.. PANSIES. The best mixture in cultivatiun, flowers verv large, thick and velvety; nf superb colors and markings. The perfection of form and texture. In Trade Packets at $1,00 each. M. B. FAXON, Lock Box 1528, BOSTON. MASS. CornsppTidence eolicitcd. BURPEE^S j SEEDS Philadelphia. U hoN-sali' Pri.'P List for P'jurists and Market Gardt'ners. Canna "YELLOW CROZY." (VAUGHAN'S No. 1.) This nove'ty, proven by us for two years. Is a clear, pure canary vellow with no red markings, except a few faint red spots on the smallest lower petal. The effect produced by a bed of It Is a solid mass of "pure yellow. In size, the flower petals are l?rtj Inches broad; the compact spike shows off well above the foliage; height three feet, foliage yreen. It has a remarkable habit of throwing out additional lateral tlower heads from the main Bplke—often as many as six or seven. In the full sun It bleached less than any yellow canna we have seen, ow- ing to Its good substance. It Is. In short, just the color and habit of plant which has been sought for the past tlve years, a pure '"Yellow Cro/.y." Price prepaid, IMarch 15th delivery, from 3-inch pots, $1.50; Stock limited. Canna BURBANK. THE AMERICAN SEEDLING, WITH GIANT ORCHID-LIKE FLOWERS. SEEING IS BELIEVING. Mk. 1). ZiHxiiiEBEL of Needham. Mass . of the S. A.. F. Committee, wbo tested It with all the best new ones says: '-Yellow BUFiBANK Is the t>e8t >ellow in cultlTatlon now. very larjje flowers of a handsome, brisht shade of nearly pure yellow." Mk J. T. Temple, of Davenport, la., of this committee, says: "I consider buub.^nk one of the best of this year's novelties." Mb Fkej) Kanst. head gardener of South Park. Chicago, and an expert judge of Cannas at the World Fair says: "The flowers were much admired In the park this summer. The foliage Is like rubber; It Is always good- you can't tear It." PRICE, EACH 75 Cts.; SIX FOR S4.00. HAI.LOCK'S TBU£ EXCEI.SIOR PEABI., Strictly select bnlbs TUBEROSES— 1>''''1«'-«1'0": i-t lOOO, .ST.iKI; in Chi.-ai;.., $s,iW. Second size, i"'r 1000, HOO; ill l'lji.-:mo J.>0O. GLADIOLUS— XXX Florist Mixfjre, |»t 100, j;a 00; p.T 1000. $18.00. ^"'^ i»«o AUSTRIA, li.T iiHi, r-'-vm. FLOWER SEEDS-BEST str&iits fob FiiOBiSTs. •.^.■■-r^ v7i-i-k^..> jjjj^ CROP. TRADE PRICE LIST BEADY. DP(:^r)MI AS — Tuberous. sHpurato c^olors. single, first si-/.e, 100. .la.SO. ^^ '^ medium. 100, j;1.,tO, GLOXINIAS-spii'ii.ii.i i.uii.s, p,.r UK). $,s.5o. CALADIUM ESCULENTUM-rsimh peri(X).|.=.oo. ROSE— sow. PBES CARNOT, M.-ir.-h 1st, 214 ineh. per 100. ltl.5.00; .=i00 for $fi',>..=,l). CARNATIONS— MAYOR FINOREE, vellow, perdo-^en, ifL.W; per 100, SIOOO, lllY DEAN.v.ry liir-e, white, Willi lin- pink lines, per doz.jsi; per 100$10. VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, NEW YORK, 14 Barclay St, P. 0. Box 688, CHICAGO. WITHIN YOUR REACH. LILY OF VALLEY, Hamburg Pips, 1000 $ 8.50 BEGONIAS, Tuberous, single, 100 - - 5.00 " " double, 100 - 10.00 GLOXINIAS, 100 4.00 " 1000 30.00 TUBEROSES. XLCR Pearl, extra, 1000 7.25 CALADIUM ESCULENTUM, 6x9, loo - 2.95 " 9x12,100- 5.95 WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, Mention American Florist. WHITE ORCHID FLOWERS. For the next four to six 'weeks 'we 'will have a fine supply of CCELOGYNE CRISTATA, 'Which 'we offer in sprays containing fiom 7 to 10 flo'wers, at 10 cts. per flo'wer. JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. r»ITCMEJI« «e lMA.Pifr>A., SHORT HILLS. NEW JERSEY. Hardy Cut Ferns. FIRST QUALITY, $1.00 per 1000. Dlscoout Oil larg:e orders. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. I ONG'S FLORISTS' PHOTOGRAPHS. !_-/ In enlarg'ed and improved series of 272 distinct subjects 'will be ready, with Ne'w Catalog^ue about January 15. Apply for it. DAN'L B. LONG, Publisher, BUFFALO, N. Y. (extra choice flower SEEDS. 9 I^ist free <>ii appli<-ation. \ FRED. ROEMER. Seed Crower, # -^ ••_ li *ln. pots, extra fine, .'^trutii: 2 50 :; -In. puts, extra tine, very strone selected ;i.oO 25.00 ItVln. i)Ots, extra line, very strone Belected. 4.00 KENTIA BELMOREANA. EACH. DOZ, 5-ln pots, e.vtra strong, bushy, 5 tw t; leaves. IS to 211 Inches high $ 75 S 8.00 ll-ln. pots, heavy, 2 to 3W ft. high 1 50 18.00 T-ln. pots, heav>.3 to2!,2 ft. high 2 00 24 00 8-ln. pots, :« t4j 40 In., decorative size, j:f .'ill to SB. 00 each KENTIA FORSTERIANA. JJOZ HPX, ,vln. pots, 12 to 15 Inches high $3,00 SI5 00 , 4 60 35,00 LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 4-ln, pot. 10 to 12 In. high 5 " 12 to 15 •■ . .il.25 each; $15 00 per doz. ..,$1,50 each: JW 00 per doz, PHIENIX RECLINATA. l<-ln, pots, 15 to Is i'l. high .SI. ul each: jlOIJO per doz, DRAC/ENAS (in variety). Without doutt or exception we have the grandest lot Id the country, Onen for Inspection 4-ln, pots .M 00 per doz. 5 •' t;i«) •• (coloreil and coloring), FERNS. FERNS. FERNS. If you are koI'-e to buy. It will pay you to get a saui- ple of our grand stock. 2^-ln. pots. In 5 varieties. . . .$;t 50 per IOi»: ?;0.0(l per lUW Nephrolepls cordatacompacia. Tlc largest stock of this grand varl- tv. 2-tn. pots, fine stock JI5.00 per 10(1 ti ' UnespeclmenB. l.'vIS In. hlt;h...$4 doz.; $35 100 Pteris Umbrosa Gigantea. 4-ln. pots $;i5.l)0 per Kill 5 " o.mt per duz. fi " bushy ... tJjeach. FICUS ELASTICA. 15 to 18 « " 2 to 2!^ feet high ..$1.25 each. 7 •• 3to2ls ■' •■ .$2.00 to $2.50 " LATANIA BORBONICA. 4-ln pots, 10 to 12 la. high, 7-8 leaves $15,00 II " perfect specimens, 7 leaves 18 OO ' " (Mnch pots S50.00perl00 ^ " " ■■ S-O ■■ ,, $3 0O-J2 50each 7-lnch pots $75,00 per 100 All measurements taken from tc.p of pots. The above is a brief list of our specialties. Our New Wholesale List will he ready S'lon, KivlnL' (k'9irlptli>n ueen. Emllv i'lerson. irnclB-lohn. Mme Albertlnl, Lizzie (filbert. Alaska, Louise Slngler $2.00 $18 00 Ll/.zle McGownn. Silver Spray. Wm. Scott, Diiybrenk. TUial r> ave. Portia 1.00 Chrysantiiemiinis, ■& leadmg vars. i.so GERANIUMS* 45 best maTket and bed- ding varieties L.'iO ** 45 vars.. In 2-Inch pots 2.(10 Ivy Leaf Gerauiuui, Fuchsia, Heliotrope, Age rat um, U^varf Daisy, Vellow Daisy, white Sweet Alypsuui, Salvia splenclens, Salvia odorata, Feverfew^. Lobelia eoni- pacta, Vinca major var. perl(X)$l; perll.X)OS.S. VINCA fol. var. or major. In 4 and 41*-' n. pots, at $1U, 5^12 and $15 per IIM). or f75 and iJH'i per RNK). C. LENGENFELDER, Oakley and Cosgrove Aves., CHICAGO. 400,000 PHriQV PI<)ntQ 82 CO per 500; *3.00 pet 1000; rQIIOj riQIIIO) ?14 per .5.000; $2,5 per 10,000. 100,000 ROOTED CUTTINGS, no rust, ,, S2.00 per 100; from flats 81 25 ') per lOl); from sand 810 per lOOO. TRADE LIST OF NOVELTIES NOW READY. Carnations, WANTED— 100 Petutiias, 2-inch; 50 Azaleas. 12- iuch heads; 500 Cannas, dry roots; 500 Flower- ing and Rex Begonias, 2-inch; 200 Fancy Coleup, in exchange. MORRIS FLORAL CO.. Morris, III. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. L. Dorl>oni<-a, S. Kle^aiis< C. HuitiuliSi Areea liitesrens, ISaueri, Kiibra, Phoenix v., and C Australis: 17 Palms .'t to 4-ln. of above vars. and 2 Ferns forSIi.OO. 10 Palms i to 5-ln. of above vars. and 2 Ferns for $;i.60. RoseH, Carnations, and all kinds of plants* Labels, Mosh, etc. SEND FOR I.I.STS. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. New Pelargonium Dorothy. One of the finest of recent inlroductions for florists' use. Per Doz, Per 100 STRONG PLANTS, 2J4.incli pots, 82,50 815 00 ASSORTED PELARGOMUMS: Mme, Vibert, Mme, Gustave Henri. Mrs. R, Sandiford, Mrs, Bradsiiaw, Dr. Masters. Mme Carpentier, and otliers, strong plants (summer struck) 2>^-iu, pots, 88 per 100 _ Cash withorder, ROBT, SANDIFORD. Mansfield, 0. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. TRADE i E Try my new red JOHN ELITCH, logue free. Z ° ■ O J3 Cata- W. W, WILMORE, Box 382. Denver, Colo. ALM (5^^^ FRESH ON HAND Per 100 1000 3000 CoiDS Wrililrlliaiia *1,M J!0,00{2r,50 I'aTulaiiiis iitilis 1,.* 15,60 35 00 ICollVa aial)ica 1,50 12,50 'VlusuKiiHelf 125 10 00 27,50 Asparagus pliiiimsiis fianus, true l.TiO 12. 5<) 35.00 J. L. SCHILLER, Rutherford, N. J. 2-INCH FERNS. READY TO SHIFT. P. serrulata. Onyehlum japonlcum, P. serrulata crlstata, Bleohnum occldentale, P. serrulata " Densll. Lastrea varletata, P. adlantoldes, Adlantum euneatum. Above at $;i.00 per 100: $25.00 per 1000. Adlantum. from Hata $1.50 per 100 General assortment, o-ln. vars., $il per 100: $50 pnr 1000 Pterts (JlielebretrlUll and Uenlna' or Scutum. 2-Inch, $i; ou per 100. Adlantum Karteyense. 4-lrich 4(lc; .')-lncli Ttto. Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIELD, Cienside, Pa. You Need Our TRADE DIRECTORY REFERENCE BOOK FOR 1896. PRICE S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST OO. :!'J'3 Ilrarliorn St., CHICACO. Alway.s mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. i8g7. The American Florist. 613 IT GROWS. IT BLOOMS. IT SELLS. Souv. du Pres. Carnot. The Most Notable Introduction of the Year. SEE ADVERTISEMENT IN NEXT ISSUE. Rooted ROSE Cuttings. Free of all disease, and selected from choice flowering wood. PER 100 BRIDESMAIDS $1.50 BRIDES 1.50 METEORS 1.50 PERLES 1.50 K. A. VICTORIA 2.00 MRS. J. P. MORGAN 2.00 No order for less than 100 will be accepted. BASSETT & WASHBURN, HINSDALE. ILL. ROOTED CUTTINGS. Strong, healthy, well rooted cut- tings from choice tlowering wood. METEOR, SIEBRECHT - $1.50 per 100 WGOTTON, SUNSET - PERLE, BRIDE - - - BRIDESMAID - - - TESTOUT $2.00 per 100 AM. BEAUTY - - - $2.50 per 100 L. L MAY ac CO., St. Paul, Minn. Mention Am. Florist when wrltinti $1000 REFUSED. A year ago we made an offer of 81000 cash for ONE PLANT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. The offer was refused, a g^reater price being asked. Price now on application. NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative j purposes, 81.50 per 12; 810 per 100, from 2>^-inch pots. I Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANG & CO., Phila., Pa. ^"v DREER'S GftRDEN Seeds, Plants. Bulbs & Requisites. They are the best at the lowest prices. Trade List is- sued quarterly, mailed free to the trade only. HGXBT A. DREER, Philadelphia, Fa. REINBERG BROS. STRONG, HEALTHY FtT 100 Per 10(«> AM BEAUTY. TESTOUT.. ..$5. 00 $40.00 GOLDEN GATE, PERLE 3.00 BELLE SIEBRECHT 3.00 25.00 ROSES FROM 2U-INCH POTS. Per 1 00 Per 1 000 METEOR, BRIDE $3 00 $25.00 BRIDESMAID, KAISERIN... 3.00 25.00 LA FRANCE 3.00 25.00 No orders for less than 1(10 of one variety accepted. We are the largest rose growers in the United States, and can fill all orders ivitli tlie very best of sto.-k. Kose Cuttings upon application. CARNATIONS— Rooted Cuttings. I'er lOO Per 1000 IVORY, DELLA FOX S3. 00 S25.00 ROSE QUEEN 2. SO 20. OO WM. SCOTT, DAYBREAK. 1.00 8.00 NANCY HANKS, ALBERTINI 1.00 8.00 1 er lOO Per 1000 PORTIA, TIDAL WAVE $1.00 $8.00 LIZZIE GILBERT, CORSAIR 1.00 McCOWAN, STORM KING . 1.00 SILVER SPRAY, KOHINOOR 1.00 No orders for less than 100 of one variety accepted. The al)ove sto<-k is well rooted an OKOKKS TO 8.0O 8.00 8.00 51 Wabash Avenue. CHICAGO. of the celebrated Semple Aster, separate colors, pink and white, also mixed. Seed well cleaned, plump and good. Crop of 1896. For sale in any desired quantity by JAMES SEMPLE, Box 2, BELLEVUE, PA. LATANIA BORBONICA. Of this exceedingly popular Palm we have an exceptionally fine stock in 2-inch pots, which we offer for immediate delivery, at $25.00 per 1000. PITCHER & MANDA, JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. SHORT HILLS, NEW JERSEY. 100,000 VERBENAS. THE CHOICEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. Fine pot plants. $2.50 per 100: $20 per 1000. Rooted Cuttings. 75c per 100: $6.00 per 1000: $50 per 10000. PACKED LIGHT, AND SATISF'ACTION GUARANTEED. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. We are the Largest Growers of Verl^enas in the country. Our plants cannot be surpassed. FELTHOUSENjfSclienectady, has flii uvcT ytuck i.if Iti.Kjted Cuttlnt^H uf tlie IuIIowIiik In tine shape and true to name, and lain shape to raise anv or all the trade can or will demand: liellotnipe. in variety. $11) per UKK) ("oleus, no end to ihera. ft', per HUM), Auoratum blue and white. $*! per IIXHI F^uchMns hi var . j;!.'> per im\ e'uchslas. iVInch pots. $2,T per H)im (JfriiTiiunia, In Hats, all the leaders, Ub per HHJll :w at liKMi rates; \m extra by the 10(1. ("orrecpondence solicited un larife orders. Cash with the orcfer. Selection of sorts to remain with us. BRIDESMAID has a worldwide reputation. h-AKKNT S'lUi K btlll exists In perfect Condition at the Sunnvwoods Greenhouses. Orders for 'Jl-^-lncb plants now booked lor hsy?. Also Bride, Beauty, Tea- tout, Meteor and Perle rose plant*. FRANK L. MOORE, Chatham, N. J. VERBENA KING. Rfin nnn rooted verbena cuttings. 55 of JUUfUUU the finest and largest varieties iu cultivation; true to name. 60c. per 100: $5.50 per 1000: 5000 for $25.00: 10,000 for $45.00. Express prepaid. No rust or mildew. Satisfaction guaranteed in every way. WE ARE THE LARGEST VERBENA GROWERS IN THE WORLD. Send von list. C. HUMFELD, Clay Center, Kan. 614 The American Florist. Jan. 30^ Cincinnati. At last I am able to report (and am glad to do so) that there is a revival In the trade of this city. Last week started veith increased shipments and all our local stores did a satisfactory business. The demand for fancy stock vras particu- larly noticeable, especially in roses and carnations. Prices have advanced somewhat, but no highorex'..ravagant prices can be real- ized. Good Brides, Meteors, and Brides- maids bring from 5 to 8, and choice from 8 to 12. Hybrids and Beauties are still scarce and demand a good price. Carna- tions advanced to 1.50 for regular stock, fancy bringing from 2 to 3 per 100. Choice violets bring $1 per 100 and it seems as though Marie Louise if well grown is still holding its own. The Cali- fornia violet is meeting with more favor this season. Callas and Harrisii move quickly at from 8 to 10. The plant trade in our market has been unusually quiet the past few weeks; growers have much difficulty indisposing of large pot plants, such as palms and azaleas. The various committees are busily engaged shaping matters for the coming carnation meeting, and it is to be hoped that they will be favored with success for their untiring efforts. Gus. Adrian, of Clifton, hasjustfinished a rose house 18x75; span root. H. SCHWARZ. Worcester, Mass. The week started in with very poor business and a surplus accumulated, but by Thursday the condition of things changed and quite a brisk trade was ex- perienced. The season so far as society is concerned, has been very quiet, very few affairs of enough importance to interest the florist have been held. On the other hand we have not suffered proportionally with other trades, nearly all of which com- plain bitterly of very poor business. Roses, carnations and violets are mov- ing fairly well, but fancy prices are out of the question. Harrisii are selling very slowly as is also valley. Von Sions and trumpets are a little easier and tulips, freesias, mignonette, etc., are holding their own. We are still selling Nephrolepsis exaltat a Bostoniensis, though the fern and palm season is pretty well advanced; this fern has had an unprecedented sale this season and gives good satisfaction both to the dealer and purchaser. Just now we are experiencing very sharp weather accompanied by high winds which make the coal bin empty very rapidly. A. H. L. SPECIALTIES IN BB8T VAKIKTIBS. ROSES* from 3-lnch pota. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. Prices low. Send for UbI. M/OOD BROTHERS, FiSHKILL, N. Y. Single Begonia Bulbs in separate colors, per UK) SU .'M; per 1000 SIM 00 Tuberoses. THiC PKARL, AI, per lOOSl.OO; per 1000 87.00 All other seasonable Bulbs on hand. Ask for Price List. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood, N. J. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ I I Herr's | I Carnations: ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ELDORADO. GUARANTEED TO REACH YOU SAFELY AND BE SATISFACTORY. Express paid on all orders for one thousand or more. Unlimited quantities and reasonable prices. McGOWAN. ALASKA, STORM KING, DAYBREAK. SCOTT. WAVE, PORTIA, DORNER, BUTTERCUP, HELEN KELLER, and lAGO. TRIUMPH, ABUNDANCE. DELLA FOX. JUBILEE, ARMA- ZINDA, IVORY, ANNIE LONSDALE, CRIWSON SPORT, and Other varieties from other growers. Send for prices— some as low as 87 .W per 1000. GERANIUMS, PETUNIAS, COLEUS, PANSIES. GERftNIUMS— 15 leading bedders, double, semi-double, and single, in white, scarlet, pink, salmon and dark crimson, also finest pot or mixed kinds. Will do best I can to fill orders as requested. Price 81..50per 100; SI2.50 per 1000. Scarlets alone, 810.00 per 1000. PETUNIA VETERAN— New to the trade. Dwarf, covered with immense double fringed flowers, white, striped rose. Fine plants 50 cts. per dozen; $3.50 per 100. COLEUS— Red, yellow, and elegant fancy sorts. Clean cuttings, at 75 cts per 100; 86.00 per 1000. PANSIES all the year round; no better strain anywhere. 75 cts. per 100; $5.00 per 1000. L. B. 496. ALBERT M. HERR, LANCASTER, PA. DORMER'S NEW CARNATIONS FOR 1897. MRS. CHAS. H. DUHME (Seedling 1892). Color lively delicate pink, large flower, fragrant, with good calyx Qn strong stiff stem. Plant vigorous erect grower. A very early, free and constant bloomer: much more so than any of the light pink varieties, rivaling in product- iveness with Scott. This promises to be the best of the light pink commercial varieties. Certificated at Indianapolis and Philadelphia. We have grown this variety now for five years, and it is indispensable at our place. MRS. GEO. M. BRADT (Seedling 1893). Color clear white, heavily edged and striped with bright scarlet, giving it a very bright aud cheerful appearance. Flowers large and full, with center petals standing erect, giving the bloom a well rounded form. Calyx resembling Mme. Albertini. Habit strong and vigorous. This variety is now in its fourth year, and has proven the most even and constant bloomer from eaily to late. We received for these flowers the highest prices paid in the market. Received Cold Medal at Atlanta, Certificate at same place and at Chicago. Ci A. DANA. Delicate shell pink; vigorous, wiry grower. Medium to large flowers on strong. stiff, wiry stems. Color sofl and exceptionally pleasing. Flower a splendid keeper. One of the most attractive colors in pink carnations. Stock limited. Rooted Cuttings ready March 1, 1897. $10 per 100: $75 per 1000. Plants from soil at same price 4 weeks later. r. DORNEB & SONS CO.. La Fayette, Ind. New Yellow Carnation MAYOR PINGREE. without (loulit the best YELLOW CAKNATION in commerce to-day. Orders booked and tilled in rotation. March Delivery. $1.50 per doz.; SIO.OO per 100; £75.00 per 1000. DECEMBER 14. 18'.«>. Certlflcate at ClnelnnaU MeetlnK. FEBKUAUY 21, 1S%, Certlflcate at New York American Carnation Society Meeting. Only two varieties re- ceived ( 'ertlflcates at this meeting— Mayor Plnsree being one of them. NOVKMBKK EXHIBITIONS, 1896. CRAIG SILVER CUP. Philadelphia. Pa. CERTIFICATE, Louisville. Ky. COMPLIMENTARY NOTICK. Boston. Mass. CEKTIFICATB, Milwaukee, Wis. HONORABLE MENTION, St. Louis, Mo. CERTIFICATE. Poughkeepsle, N. T. CERTIFICATE Indianapolis, Ind. CERTIFICATE, Worcester, Mass. CERTIFICATE, Chicago, 111. CERTIFICATE, Toronto. Ont. YOUNC PLANTS OF IVOIRE ROSE and KATE WASHBURN CHRYSANTHEMUM, at S6.00 per 100; SI. 00 per dozen. MARCH DELIVERY. JOHN BREITMEYER & SONS, Miami and Gratiot Aves., DETROIT. MICH. THE COMING FAVORITE. (Trade Mahk.) A White CARNATION with all the good points. For sale by WELCH BROS., Boston, Mass. See large advertisement of last week. VERBENA SEED. MAMMOTH FLOWERING. An exceedingly tine colleotl choice named varieties mixed, all ccilors, :a\ cts. per HiU. V> .'>l) per MiO. Oxalis, for summer bedding. 4 distinct varieties, wlilto, purple, old rose- «carlet. equal quantities each, separate. *1 per llMUl, IIKNK) for r> :*y Cinnamon Vine, l and l years, Jld perlliOO. Hibiscus Criinaon Kye. hardy herbaceous, free fiowerlnK, *10 per lllOO. fl3r'CaBhwitli order. Ustsfree. E. Y. TEAS (near Indianjipoli.s). Irvington. Ind. Bismarck Apples. 1 year old 25 cents; per hundred, gliO.OO. NORWAY SPRUCE SEEDLINGS, per thousand, 8*2.00; per ten thousand, $18. CH. KOEHLER. Oxford Church P. 0.. Phila., Pa. PALMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York. GEO. WITTBOLD, "°^V^'.-^-ll'6 ROBERT CRAIG, Roses, Palms, Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. ForSPRING DELIVERY UMDV LOW-BUDOED ROSES. Tree Roses, Azaleas, Rhododendon8« Snowballs, Hydrangeas, Etc. Grown by the Boskoop, Holland. Nursery Association. C. H. JOOSTEN. Agent, 193 Creenwich Street, NEW YORK. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. 1^97- The a mer i ca .v Fl orist. 615 Two Grand New Garnaiions lor 1897. I II Y PiF 2\ N * ^^^^ 'si'SS. bold, handsome flower, pure white ground with very delicate margin and penciling of clear ^-■^ ' L^^A-MM. pink, matcing it exceedingly beautiful and attractive. One of the very freest blooming varieties known. Should be crown in a temperature of not over 50 degrees at night, otherwise the very large flower is too heavy for the stem. The plant is a strong, vigorous grower. It has been certificated wherever shown. PRICE, $2.50 PER DOZEN; SIO.OO PER 100; S7S.00 PER 1000. nyi A I irj DF- AM IJel'cate blush white gradually deepening to center, making it the most distinctly beautiful and at- l^\r^yJ *-' l^_CrAI>l. tractive flower ever sent out; it is also one of the moit delightfully fragrant Carnations known; its keeping qualities are remarkable; an extra well built flower with good, stiff stem which always carries it erect, making it an ideal flower. It has received certificates from the A. C. S., Philadelphia, New York, Orange, Springfield, and many other societies. PRICE, $2.50 PER DOZEN; $10.00 PER 100: $75.00 PER 1000. READY MARCH 1st. The flo\vers of these two varieties have sold in New Yorl< market at L'(H1 to 31H.I per rent, above any others for the past two years. Commissions for cataloguing Maud and Lily Dean Carnations. I.t per cent. NEW CHRYSANTHEMUMS FOR 1897. Vl| — . AM n A very beautiful silvery pink throughout, of a very ilX Vwiltlii pleasing shade; the most valuable early pink to date; broad incur\-ed petals, extra good stem and foliage. Season October 10th to 15th. Certificate C. S of A. Price 60 cts. each; 85 per doz ; $35 per 100. n £1 1 Tl /^T*SI Deep pink, reverse clear rose; large, bold, handsome ilXtllXXlwi Clli incurved flower with good stem and foliage; second early. Certificate C. S of A. Price a5 cts. each; 5f3.50 per doz; $25 per 100. X'xro *i 0*a1 1 ti a Pure white of Kioto form; the greatest novelty Xl Vcvllg0111I.0« of the year. Six certificates in 1896. Altogether one of the very best ever sent out. Price 60 cts. each; 86 per doz ; 840 per 100. Loantika. Season 10th to I5tl Leonidas. Bright clear red. very early and large; flat petalled reflexed, but very full. The best early of this color. Season 10th to 1.5th October. Price %i cts. each; $.'!..50 per doz. ; $2.5 per 100. Amaranth shaded maroon, very large with straight, flat petals forming a bold, imposing flower. A very fine exhibition flower. Certiflcate C. S. of A. Price 35 cts. each; 83 50 per doz.; Silo.OO per 100. C!wy|.| \\V\ f\w T 'I A very beautiful shade of carmine pink, reverse ^Jr ^*^ J/^^"*^^^" J oft silvery pink, incurved and very compact; Ivory form of medium size. A fine bench variety 18 to 24 inches high. Price .50 cts. each; 85.00 per doz.; 83.5.00 per 100. The sensational Rose of the season, and a grand forcing variety in every way. No live florist can afford to be without it for ne.xt season My advice is to order early if you want the best stock. Extra fine, tiealthy plants, from 2i2-inch pots, $15.00 per 100; $125.00 per 1000. Can be shipped as required. This is one of the most beautiful Hybrid Tea Roses, of the largest size, very fragrant and fine form. The predominating color is salmon pink blended with blush pink on outer edges of the petals, with just enough yellow at the base to bring out the whole, making it a very artistic and distinct flower. It is a very strong grower and very free flowering, and will become a general favorite when better known. It is also a grand summer bedding rose. Good strong plants, price, $3.00 per dozen; $15.00 per 100. And all the standard varieties of ROSES in TEAS, HYBRID TEAS and HYBRID PERPETUALS, for forc- ing, bedding, etc., at bottom prices. See my Trade List now ready. JOHN N. MAY, Summit, N. J. 100 00 75.00 75.00 IT DOES NOT PAY to grow poor varieties of CARNATIONS. We have the best that can be had. per 100 1000 MORELLO.thenew scarlet, extra fine, 810.00 8 75.00 FLORA HILL, white, large and free. . 12 00 100 00 MRS McBURNEY. light pink . . 12.00 100.00 HARRISON'S WHITE, sport from Scott, white. ... 12.00 MAYOR PINGREE. It yel. large blooms 10.00 MRS. CHAS. H. DUHME. delicate pink, very early . 10.00 MRS. GEO. M. BRADT, white, marked scarlet 10.00 75.00 We have also a large stock of all the leading commercial varieties. Send for price list. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, GRAND HAVEN. MICH. CARNATIONS ROOTED CUTTINGS. READY FEB. lOth AND LATER. Perlectly clean and healthy, and, well-rooted when sent out. VARIETIES: Daybreak, Wm. Scott, McCowan, Puritan, Albertini, Tidal Wave, Portia, atJI.OOper lUO; $-^.(10 per lOOO. Rose Queen, Emily Pierson, $3.U0 per UIO; .»l.'i.00 per lim). Tehms c.^sh with ohdek. MA6NUS0N & PEARSON, Bowmanville. Station X, CHICAGO, ILL. 100,000 CARNATIONS. 100,000 Ready Feb. 1st and later, of all the leading varie- ties at prices that are right. Nothing but first- class stock sent out. Do not fail to write me be- fore you buy. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box II, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mentton American Florist. Our Trade List for 1897 is Now Out Offering a complete line of New and Standard CARNATIONS All the CANNAS Novelties CHRYSANTHEMUMS and selected DAHLIAS Standard GERANIUMS Varieties. Send your name and address, and you will receive the same by return mail. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, Queens, L. I. SEEDLING CARNATIONS FOR 1897. P 4 PT 1^ I N R rariegated white and pink, an early and continuous bloomer, very fragrant and a UHl I I iVIIIU, ^ood shipper; steins extra long and stiff; an exceedingly attractive and profitable var, inQCplJ IPCPPDQniU deep pink, very large and showy flowers on long, stiff stems. Color JUOLin JCrrtnOUIl, resembling Cartledge; much larger flower. Send for wholesale list of new and standard Carnations. Stock strong and healthy. NO RUST. C. J. PENNOCK, The Pines, KENNETT SQUARE, PA. THE NEW SCARLET CARNATION MORELLO. Will be disseminated March 1, '97. Get your orders in now. $1.50 per 12, $10 per 100, $75 per 1000. HOPP & LEMKE, E. Grand Rapids, Mich. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS ROOTED CUTTINGS of the leading varieties; clean, healthy stock. Positively no "Rust." Send for price list. WM.SWAYNE, Box226,KennettSqr.,Pa. E.G. HILL & CO.. Wholesale Fiorisis RICHMOND, INDIANA. Burki's New Yellow MarQuerite ETOILE DE LYON. 35 Rooted Cuttings for iSil.OO, by mail. A valuable plant for Cut Flowers. Blooms the year round. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. Mention AmerlOftn Florlat. 616 The American Florist. Jan. JO, Toronto. We have got it at last — cold and snow — and DO lack of it. "Long looked for, long last." The regular monthly meeting of the Gardeners' and Florists' Association on Tuesday last was very well attended; Mr. J. H. Dunlop, the new president, was in the chair. The report of the executive committee concerning the annual dinner was adopted. February 9, 8 p. m., Harry Webb's banqueting rooms. Music, wit, wine, wittles, and all the delicacies of the season. Remember the date. The chair- man of the committee to report on Dun- lop's new white carnation "Ontario" was unfortunately absent, so no report could be given; it is well understood, however, that a certificate of merit will be strongly recommended and no doubt given. Sundry other not very important matters were discussed at length and the meeting adjourned. Tne Electoral District Society held its annual meeting on Wednesday evening last. A bluff was circulated that the Trades and Labor Council intended to capture a few seats on the Directorate and many of the boys turned out to pre- vent their doing so. There was no occa- sion, however. The old officers and direc- tors were re-elected without opposition. The meeting lasted about 20 minutes. Dunlop reports a marked scarcity of Beauties and yellow roses, but to make things equal other roses are magnificent; finer Brides and Bridesmaids have seldom been seen. City trade is still inclined to be quiet, very little outside the regular round of social dances, teas, dinners and luncheons. There was one large wedding which took off a considerable quantity of flowers. Valley is coming in very good and sells quickly. Violets always in de- mand. Quite a number of large designs were made up for city and country during the week. E. Stoughton, Mass. The Stoughton greenhouses will becon- tinued in charge of Mr. Baker, who has been in the employ of the late Mr. Gay for several years. H. W. Minn's greenhouses were dam- aged by fire to the extent of about five hundred dollars on the morning of Janu- ary 19. Hazleton, Pa.— The Diamond Seed Co. have torn down their greenhouse. The floral store of S. A. Smith was closed by the sheriff January 19. Whitehall, Mich —Fire did $2,000 damage to the greenhouses of Redfern & Co. January 16. No insurance. FLORISTS' RIBBON. All widths and popular shades of color PRICES REDUCED. SEND FOR SAMPLE TO H. M. WEISEL, 17 East sard Street. NEW YORK. TOBACCO STEMS FOR FLORISTS. For Sale, packed in bales 200 to 250 lbs. No charge for deliv- ering to depots. PRICE: 810.00 per ton. 81.50 per single bale. " P. C. FULWEILER & BRO., 248 ITo. Ninth St., FHIIiADEIiFHIA, FA. "NOT IN IT."c.NKAffLECT,0NWITHOUT The New Variegated Variety A new and beau- tiful novelty that is "up-to-date," and a sure "want" by every live flo- rist. JOHN WHITE. strong plants ready Feb. 15, 75c each; $7.50 per doz.; $50 per 100. It's future is as bright as the morning. Do not fail to order this grand varie- ty SOON. Send for oircular aiul roTore«l plate, if not yet rereivetl. Cash or satisfactory reference witli order. Originated an*/" Supplies j.j^'i^ Steffehs p\os. "ig^^^,,] isg7. The American Florist. 617 Hot=Bed Sash. Tenons white-leaded. Corners se- cured with iron dowel pins. Every detail of construction perfect. Made of Clear Cypress Lumber. Quick Shipments. We have in stock and can ship immediately: 3 ft. X 6 ft., 3 rows 10 in. glass. 3 ft. Sin. X 6ft., -i " Sin. " 4 ft. X 6 ft., 5 " Sin. " Not glazed, 1^+ in. thick. Delivered Prices Quoted on application. State size and quantity wanted. No order too small to receive careful atten- tion, and none too large for our facilities. LOCKLAND LUMBER CO., Lockland, Ohio. FOR EASTER Force Flowering Shrubs, Lilacs, Staphyleas, Oeutzias, Snowballs, Kalmias. Roses, H. P and others, Treeroses, Clematis, Paeonias, Hardy Aza- leas, Hydrangeas. L. C. BOBBINK, RUTHERFORD, N. J. Branch of the HORTICULTURAL COMPANY. Boskoop, Holland. BELGIUM BEGONIA BULBS. Per luo Per 1000 Double, superb flowers, l-inch and more $4.00 J30.C0 Double, superb flowers, small bulBS 2.20 20.00 Single, superb flowers, i-inch and larger 2.00 16.00 In separate colors, and the finest in the trade. The only prize has been awarded to Mr. E. P's double Begonias at the grand fiower show, Van Houtte's Society, Ghent, 1898. Cn DADDC Araucaria, Bay Tree, Palm bill rHnnCl and Begonia Grower. GHENT. BELGIUM. *S"Strictly cash with order, and price list free on application. Geranium "?»?![„."i« "MARS" CERTIFICATED. Rooted Cuttinss. $1 piT doz.. $5 ppr 100: -i-in. pi,t^. Cash with or.lir. ' *1^0 P'T S Kearney aocl TFestside Aves., Jersey City, N. J. BKANLM WAHtHUUibi. j Jackson Ave. and Pesirsoii St., Long Island City, N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pots should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaled. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO. Manufacturers of FLOWER POTS, BULB PANS, HANGING BASKETS # SAUCERS * i^DR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- ^-^ taction. We call your attention to our new pots. 6, 7. 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Porous than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a tna! and you will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as chear as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. SYRACUSE, N. Y. DO ajE FLOWER POTS? If so, before buying, write for our prices on STANDARD POTS, BULB PANS, PALM POTS, VASES, ETC. PITTSBURGH CLAY MFG. CO., New Brighton, Pa. Standard Flower Pots. OUR POTS ARE OF THE BEST QUALITY. We ship all goods from Cincinnati, guaranteeing lowest freight rates and prompt delivery. Write as before placing your orders elsewhere CAMBRIDGE TILE MF6, CO,, Covlngtiin, Ky, Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots; values from 25 cts. up to |150 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants, (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St., BOSTON, MASS. .lEUOME Jones. Prea. S. A. Stkatton. Treas. Mention American Florist. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower Pots, etc. Making a Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price list and samples (which will be sent free and we know you will n\ve us your order: P. O. Box7S. I Miiineapoli8» Minn. J. G. SWAHN'S SONS It costs 4 cents for each 600 feet of Uoor space. Does not injure tlie moat sensitive plants. Endorsed Nikoteen by prominent florists. Used for fumigation or sprayius Indoors or out. 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen. Bold by seedsmen. Circular free. 6KABCURA DIP CO., CHICAGO. «Quick!yMDoesg^lt.* LEMON OIL John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET, ^ N^e-w "Vorlx:. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. INSECTICIDE. solable 111 Water, l> KHl. kec. Jll.OO; 10 Bill ken. *17,.W. Siild by dealers or .sent on receipt ol price. CHAS. C. GARRETT & CO., Manufrs, fl3 S. Cay Street, BALTIMORE. MD. I'lease mention Aiuerlcaii Klorlst. KELLY'S FLORISTS' SHEAR will lioUl tlniilyanylhlnt.' cut. I'ri.e #1.00. If not eatlafiu'lory, returii and money will be re- funded. Try a p.ilr. They \vlll please you. FLORISTS PRUNING SHEAR MFC. CO., FUEavroisTT, onxo Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an advertiser. i8g; The American Florist. 619 KROESGHELL BROS. GO. Greenhouse - Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Boilers uijule i>i Lhet-est ul luiiU'rIal. utieil, firebox eheeta and heads uf Bteel. water space all around (front, sides and back.) Write for inlormatlon. Mention American Flniist. CYPRESS IS MUCH M^RE DURABLE THAN PINE. TRESJ SASH BARS UP To^t FEET iNtENGTII ORLOf^SER. iREENHOUSl AND OT^E R BUttpiNfi M ATERIAL. Sor>(J\fei- our Illustrated BooK "CYPjRESS UIMBERAHBh-sUSES; Send [o^Vur Special fireenhousC^rcular. f> Ne^K ^nsCTH $9ST8n, (^ bj^'. ..i Mention American Florist. J. D. Carmody, Evansville, Ind. Dgar 5rV.-— Enclosed find remittance for venti- lating appliance. I find it the best, cheapest and easiest to work I ever handled— no exceptions whatever. Yours truly, J. E. JACKSON, Gainesville, Ga. Ijohnc CO. CYPRESS GREENHOUSE MATERIAL 412 TO 422 HAWTHORNE AV. ^CHICAGO.ILL, OF ANY DESCRIPTION. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. EVANS" IMPROVED Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illuslra ted Catalogue QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS. Richmond, Ind. Mention American Florist. Clear Cypress Greenhouse flaterial. This with us means the best growth of Cypress Lumber and the best grade of that growth ; and from this grade all the sap — bright sap, which only experts can detect — as well as stained sap, knots and other defects cut out. Others do not equal our quality if they do beat our prices. It is not hard to see the reason : You can not buy gold dollars at fifty cents each. Experienced growers know that the best is not too good and cheapest in the long run. \Vrite for Circulars or Estimates. Lockland Lumber Co., LOCKLAND, O. HOT ♦ WATER ♦ HEATERS STEAM ♦ BOILERS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 48 Center Street. They possess to the highest degree the essential elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for Catalogues _^^^ak. GURNEY HEATER MFG. GO., 163 Franklin St., cor. congress. BOSTON, MASS. STANDARD VENTILATING MACHINE. NONE EQUAL IT IN Strength AND Durability Send for Catalogue. n_rin NOTHING Flimsy OR Complicated about it. E. HIPPARD. YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO. i CALIFORNIA RED CEDAR NEVER DECAYS. A. DIETSCH & CO., 619 Sheffield Ave., MFR'S OF RED CEDAR AND CYPRESS rjHinAnn GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. \jni\^f^\s\J. To Pump Water If you Wiint water foraiiy purpose ant-t have not tlie facilities, or want to change, write for eatalogue of the Celebrated DeLamater-Rlder and Delamatflf-Erlcsson Hot- Air Pumping Engines. Tliey will pump water from any soui'ce antl foiee it aitywiiere. Any kinii lit fuel ean he useil. .\tl(iress, DeLA MATER IRON WORKS, 467 West Broailuaj, New Yi.rii City. For Insurance against damage by hail, Address JOHN G. ESLER. Sec'y. F. H. A.. Saddle River, N. J. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. HAIL TMDE DIMGIORy -A-ISriD REFERENCE BOOK Contains a vast amount of valuable refer- ence matter in addition to the directory list. miCE S2.00. AMERICAN FLORIST CO. 322 Dearborn Street. CHICAGO. Mention the American Florist when writing to advertisers on this page. 620 The American Florist. Jan. jo^ Index to Advertisers. Adv Rates tt)3 Allen J K COS American Boiler Co... 020 Amllng E C «)8 Asmus E 013 Bailer F A i;iO BasBett & Washburn.. 00',) IJ13 Bayersdorfer H & CcOli; Blanc A &Co 013 Bobbins LC (117 Boston Letter Co 010 BraBue L B Oil Breltmeyer J & Sons .tiU Burkl Fred 015 Burpee W Atlee & Co Oil OambrldueTlle MfgCoOlS Carmody.] U Oil) f^hadwlck Cbas 015 Collins Thus 010 Oonley Jonn & Son 018 CottaKe Gardens 015 Craig Robt 014 Cuahman Gladiolus Co017 OeLamater Iron Wks.Ol'.l Dletscb A& Co 019 Dillon JL 013 DomerFred &Sons Co OU Dreer H A 013 Bhret F 008 Blohholz H OlT Elliott W H 008 BlllottWin & Sons. ...on Bills* Pollwortn 008 Faniuhnr K & .1 Co... Oil Faxon M U Oil Felthousen J B 0i3 Fulweller P C & Bro. 010 Garrett C C& Co 018 GasklllGeo W . 010 Gurney Heater Co oio Hall Ass'n OUi Hancock & Son 015 Hart M A OOS HerrAlbertM 014 Hews A H & Co 018 Highlands Nursery 010 Hill B G * Co 015 HIppardK Ola HItchlngs&Co OiU Bopp & Lenike 015 Hooker H M Co O'-ii Horan Bdw C rat Rulsebosch Bros OU llumleld C oi:i Hunt BU.... OKI Hunt Floral Co M A.. Oils minols Cut Flower Co.iW Jennings B B 0)0 Jones McDuffy & Strat- ton 018 loosten C H 014 Kastlne WP 0i.8 Kelly shear Co 018 Kennlcott Bros Co 000 Eoehler Ch 014 .01'.) .IU)8 .010 .000 008 Lengenfelder C 012 Lockland JjUm Co. 01" 010 Long I) B on lA)m& Bumham Co. .020 Louisville Tobacco Co tils Lynch WE.,.. IMO Magnuson & Pearson. 015 May J N 015 May L L i: Co 013 McCarthy N r'&Co.. .tHK) McKellar C W av, MlUang Frank :..00'.) MUlangA Co OuO MooreFL 013 Monlnger J C Co Ola Morris Floral Co 012 National Plant Co ... ifls N Y Cut Flower Co iw Parre Edw );17 Pennock >^nm IS tais PennockC.l );15 Pitcher it Manda..i;ll 013 PUisburg Clay Mfg CoOis Prince AGS Co ooo Purdy & Blauvelt iw.i yuakerCltv Mc'h Wks.oio 000 xm 012 .010 013 ,010 Kroeschell Bros Co.. Kuehn c A Kuhl Geo A Lang Julius Lemke E F Randall A L Ravnor J I. Kedfleld Bradley Reed & Keller..,, KelnbergBros.. . Rice M& Co Rlcksectter C H 008 Roemer F Oil Rogers P'k Floral Co ooo Rolker A &. Sons 020 Rolker A & F 008 Rupp J F 014 Sandltord Robt 012 Schiller J L 012 Semple Jas 013 Sheridan W F.. IWO Slebrecht & Son r,I3 Situations. Wants, etc 010 Skabcura Dip Co 018 SmltnNath &son 010 Stearns Lumber Co tilo Steffens Urns 010 Stoothoff 11 A 010 Struck J N & Bro Oils ttutherland Geo A .tiOO Swahns Sons J G t;i8 Swayne Wm 015 Syracufft Pottery Co...01s TeasBY . 014 Traendly & Schenck. WIS Vaughan J C Oil Watson G C Oil Weeber & Don 010 Welsel II M 010 Welch Bros 009 014 Whllldln Pot Co 018 White J I.IO Williams & Sons Co. . . .012 Wllmore W W 012 Winter & Glover 009 Wis Flower Kx 1.08 WIttboId Geo . , Wood Bros Young Jno Young Thos Jr, . 014 , OU , iW . 009 Gas Tar. A correspondent inquires: "Is gas tar paint inside a water tank injurious to plants? If so what is the best kind to use for the purpose?" The fumesof coal tar are most injurious to plant life, but it maybe harmless when used under water. Why not use white lead? Paint well, and then let it get thor- oughly dry and hard before filling with water. Wm. Scott. York, Pa.— Mr. C. E. Smith has re- newed and rebuilt his entire plant, adding 12 new houses. This gives him a total of 40,000 feet of glass. The houses run east and west, with the short span to the south; they are well and substantially built and are heated by steam. Mr. Smith grows principally roses and carna- tions for his own Baltimore store as well as for the wholesale market. Nanuet, N. Y. — The greenhouses of John Fehsal, together with about 4,500 violets were destroyed by fire on January 19. No insurance. August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. NEW 1897 SEED TRADE LIST JUST ISSUED. mailed free to applicants in the trade. Wholesale only. Send business card. NpW Ynrk' ^^^ 'W'est 24th street. ESTABLISHED 50 YEARS. HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTS ANO RUILDERS AND LARGEST MAMUFACTURERS OF GREENHOUSE HEATING AND VENTIUTIN6 APPARATUS. THE HIGHEST AWARDS RECEIVED AT THE WORLD'S FAIR FOR HORTICULTURAL ARCHITECTURE, GREENHOUSE CONSTRUCTION AND HEATING APPARATUS. Conservatories, Greenhouses, Palm Houses, etc., erected complete, with our patent Iron Frame Ooiistruction. Send four cents postage for illustrated catalogues. 233 Mercer Street, NEW YORK. LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. WPlans and estimates fnmlahed on application. Largest builders of Greenhouse Structures. Six highest Awards at "World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM CO./— SiSUti::!;..'^^^' FACTORY: IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON, N. T. New York City. FOR HOT WATER.^ "WE HEAT THE WORLD." « ♦ FOR STEAM. "Florida" "Soleil" "Modern" "American" ' Florida" Jr.- ^Flor da" «? 400 Series LARGEST MANUFAG =TUDER0PSTEAM6 HOTWATER HEATING APPARATUS -^ - INTHtJ- RADIATORS PIPfc-plTTIMGS VALVE5>-^ I. CENTER 6T. IKIAVWVrtsia I 6YRACUSE a^ LAKfc 6T. I DETROIT AGENCIES EVERYWHERE. Write for Catalogue, List of Users, etc. "Spence" "Perfect" "Advance" "Tropic" "Tropic Jr." 'Tropic" 400 ■Little Giant" ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ H. M. HOOKER COMPANY, 57 and 59 W. Randolph Street, CHICAGO, Natoral Gas Made Glass FOR CREE^HOUSES. Wben wrUlnx mentlun tbe Amerlcnn Klorlst. A Mmerica is "the Frou/ of the 1/essel; there may be more comfort Rmidships, but we are the hrst to touch Unknown Seas.' Vol. XII. CHICAGO AND NEW YORK. FEBRUARY 6, 1897. With Supplement. No. 453 Copyright 1897, by American Florist Company. Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter. Published every Saturday by THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 333 Dearborn Street, Chicago. Subscription. 81.00 a year. To Europe, S2.00. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all coniraunicatious to AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, 323 Dearhom Street, CHICAGO. Eagtern Offlce : 67 TSrouifield St., ISogton. ThlB paper la a member of the Associated Trade Press and of the Chicago Trade Press Association. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. ADA5I Graham, CleTe'and. O., president; Fauqu- HAR Macrae, Providence. R. I., vice-president; W. J. Stewart. Boetijn. secretary; H. B. BEATTY. Oil City, Pa., treasurer. The thirteenth annual meet- ing win be held at Providence, R. I., August. lyiC. CONTENTS. Roses— Up-to-dRte houses 621 Carnations— Bacteria and spot 622 — Watering cuttings 622 Miscellaneous seasonable hints 622 Nephrolepis exaltata (illus.) 623 Plant beauty 623 Palni notes 624 Piping 624 Newr York 624 Tree ferns in Ceylon (illus.) 625 Boston 625 Chicago ' . . . 626 Buflalo 626 Philadelphia 626 San Francisco . , 627 The lake, Kandy, Ceylon (illus,) 627 St. Louis .... 627 Sabal palmetto in fruit (illus.) 628 Cleveland 628 Baltimore 629 View in Peradeniya Gardens, Ceylon (illus.). . 629 Pittsburg 629 Cincinnati 629 Toronto. 630 New canna Burbank (colored plate) 630 Northampton, Mass 631 A golden passiflora 631 Catalogues received 634 Alkali in water 634 Utica, N. Y 636 Rochester. The Missouri Botanical Garden . Warren, O Louisville, Ky Wilkesbarre, Pa 638 640 .(MO .640 642 Greenhouse Building. Abington, Mass., J- D- McKenney, one conservatory. New Utrecht, N. Y., John Richmond, range of greenhouses. Wright's Corners, N. Y., Cbas. Gloger, one greenhouse. East Weymouth, Mass., A. A. Spear, one commercial house. Harlingen, N. J., Chas. Conard, one greenhouse. The Americajj Florist ($1.00) and Gardening ($2.00) together to one ad- dress for one yearfor $2.50. Send orders to American Florist Co. lY^K^ An Up to Date Rose House. "Subscriber," Kansas, writes as fol- lows: "I intend building a house next spring for American Beauties to hold 2,000 plants; I have plenty of room to build in any shape. I would like your idea of an up-to-date rose house. Would you advise one or two houses?" Much depends upon where one has lived and what we have been accustomed to in the way of rose houses as to what will be "our idea" of an up-to-date house. I have noticed that the Boston men have their own particular style, the Philadel- phians another, and the New Yorkers still another; but each I suppose is satis- fied that for his purpose and means his own style is the best. If I wished to build a modern house for roses and intended growing them on raised benches, I would adopt the regular three-quarter span, such as can be seen at many places In the vicinity of New York, as I am sat- isfied that for lightness, economy of space, and general satisfaction they are unsur- passed. In such a house the benches can be arranged one above the other so that one cannot possibly cast a shadow over the other, and after all the question of light and sunshine is paramount in rose growing. The style of house which seems to find favor with the greatest number of grow- ers all over the country, owing to its sim- plicity and lack of complication, and also because of its comparative cheapness, is constructed without any rafters, each sash bar running through from the plate at the eaves to the ridge pole on both sides of the roof; In place of a header under the ventilators into which the bars would be mortised, strips are let in between the bars to take the upper edge of the glass and to make a tight joint under the ven- tilating sash; the ridge pole is supported by iron posts and the long south slope has a 1-inch pipe running horizontally through the center; a small iron clasp binds each bar to this purlin and it is in turn held up by iron posts at intervals of seven or eight feet. Any ordinary me- chanic can construct such a house and on that account it is often preferred to a bet- ter but more elaborate style. Granted that this is the cheapest and simplest kind of house and that it will grow good roses I cannot consider it an ideal struct- ure; too much depends upon the small nails which hold together the bars and ridge pole and plates, and should the walls spread the nails are very liable to draw through the softwood and the roof collapse; another and serious objection is, the long stretch between the supports compels the use of sash bars entirely too deep and heavy to be satisfactory during the short days of winter; a deep bar casts as much if not more shadow at certain hours of the day than it would if laid flat. Another style of house and one which has much to recommend it is a trifle more expensive but much lighter than the house just described. It is constructed with sound locust or red cedar posts, cypress or white pine 2x5-inch rafters rabbetted to take the glass, three rows of light angle iron purlins on the south roof and one on the north to support the light lx2-inch sash bars; the angle iron is secured by cast iron lugs to the wooden rafters which are spaced so as to allow 6 rows of glass 16 inches wide between each pair. A light plate or gutter is used at the south spring line, and below is two feet of glass either stationary or to act as ventilator; the rafters are bound to- gether at the top and to the wooden posts at the bottom by a strong cast iron bracket. With good material and good workmanship this makes the strongest and at the same time the light- est and most durable house I have seen up to date, unless iron only is used for the framework. The slight diflference in cost between an iron frame house and a wooden one, and the many advantages the former has over the latter, such as strength, rigidity, durability, lightness, and the ease with which it is put together, makes the iron house in mv opinion by far the most desirable. Twenty feet seems to be the most convenient width, from ground to eaves on south side 5 feet, pitch of south roof 7M' inches to the foot, north side a little steeper and about 8 feet long, con- tinuous ventilation at top and south side both opening from the bottom, side vents 30 inches deep, roof 36, all g'ass to be 1st or 2nd quality double thick without blisters, size 16x24, and lapped and bedded in putty; rafters wrought iron '/2x3 inches, foot posts cast iron, purlins angle iron, all securely bolted together giving a maximum of strength and a min- imum of shade; the sash bars 1x2 inches are grooved on sides to carry off con- densation, and everything on the roof to be planned on the principle of lightness. The interior arrangement is usually as follow.^: 4 benches, south bench 3 feet wide, 3 rows plants, even with the bot- tom of sill; walk 2 feet; bench No. 2, 3 feet 9 inches wide, 3 rows plants, 6 inches higher than No. 1; raised walk 18 inches wide; bench No. 3, 4 feet 6 inches wide, holding 4 rows plants, and 2 feet higher than No. 2; walk 2 feet wide; bench No. 4, 2 feet 6 inches wide and 2 feet 9 inches below plate on north side; the benches all 622 The American Florist, Feb. <5. level. Heating pipes spread evenly all through the house and hose bibs in each path so that wide benches can be syr- inged from both sides. This is my idea of an up-to-date rose house with benches, but my ideal house for American Beauties would be adapted to solid beds with bottom heat, and though like the three-quarter span as regards lightness and material used would necessarily differ from it in shape. If the house be 22 feet wide and the spring line on the south side 4 feet 6 inches from the ground, and that of the north side 3 feet 6 inches higher, we can secure a 7% pitch (which I consider the best) on both sides of the roof; in order to have enough head room on the south side (because in this style of house I would have the main walks on the outside) and not too much on the north side the grade can be changed by lowering the south side 12 inches and raising the north side of the floor 18 inches, the posts of course being set down to suit, and earth can be banked up against the north wall to keep out the frost; 22 feet is recommended because it will allow 3 beds of fair size, viz ; 4 feet 7 inches each, one 2-foot path on each side, and 2 19-inch paths through the centre. By making the south bed 2 feet 6 inches above the walk the plants will have at the point nearest the glass not less than 4 feet 6 inches of head room; raise the center bfd IS inches above the south and the north 18 inches above the center, and the two outside beds will then be the same distance from the glass, and being well raised above each other cannot make any shadow. I recommend this house because it is better adapted to solid beds than the three-quarter span, and with it we have no trouble with one bench shading another as is the case with equal span houses. The beds all being in the center of the bouse get an equal amount of light and air and have an abundance of headroom which are impor- tant items in Beauty growing. My experience with solid beds during the last four years has convinced me that the rose is in its natural element there as it never can be on raised benches, and that far better results can be obtained with much less care. As to whether it is better to build one large house rather than two small ones depends somewhat upon the surround- ings; if a house 250 feet long will not seem out of place beside a number of small ones, it has several things in its favor; it always costs more in proportion to build, glaze and pipe a small house, and when planted it costs more to care for and keep running. Where steam is used for heating a long house can be kept at a uniform temperature if properly piped as well as a shorter one, but a short house in my opinion is better where hot water is used; very long lengths of pipe expand so much that with caulked joints there is sure to be trouble from pulling apart. Robt. Simpson. r^ Bacteria and Spot. We send you diseased leaves from our carnations. What is the trouble and the remedy for it? A. W. M. The leaves sent show signs of bacteria and spot. The remedy is to clean out the affected and decayed leaves and give nourishment in the form of liquid manure. I admit it is always a risky recommenda- tion to give nourishment when one does not know the general treatment the plants have received and the condition they are in. I have always found that bacteria attacks a plant lacking in nourishment quicker than when well kept, and when judiciously fed will outgrow the disease in a short time. In case of bacteria the picking of the diseased leaves will not be ofmuchconsequence; what isthere will not spread any further, and such leaves may as well be left on the plant unless they should lose all vitality and commence to dry up. The remedy is to excite theplants into a more vigorous growth and a quicker development and maturing of the leaves; this will give the bacteria less opportunity to develop, as the yellow spots, the sign of bacteria, will only enlarge as long as the leaf is soft. The most danger lies in the extreme of the germ. One yellow bacteria spot has no connection with any other; each is the result of a separate germ entering the leaf at a pore. When they become too numerous and have much chance to enlarge the spots will run together and such parts of the leaf, or the whole leaf, wiil dry up. To prevent, or rather to retard the entrance of the germs, for we are helpless against these floating germs in the atmosphere, keep the foliage dry as water is the greatest assistance to their entrance when lodged on a leaf. This will also help in maturing the leaf, and with proper nourishment and ventilation the plant is enabled naturally to resist the progress of this disease. It is quite different with spot; every affected leaf or part of a leaf should be removed to prevent the production and spreading of the spores. Otherwise the same treatment can not have but a bene- ficial effect on the plants. Moisture will assist the bacteria germ to enter, and the spores to germinate. Any fungous or bacterial disease will attack a starved plant much quicker, and at this timeof theseason, when theplants have otherwise been in a healthy condi- tion, feeding becomes necessary and is the most healthful remedy that can be applied. Fred. Dorner. Watering Carnation Cuttings. A subscriber from St. Louis, says that in the earlydaysof the American Florist there was a controversy relating to the watering of carnations in the sand, and that I quoted the late Mr. Peter Hender- son as saying that he watered carnations at least once a day and sometimes twice with benefit. I cannot recall what I did say on the subject, but Mr. Henderson in his most useful book. Practical Floricult- ure, advocates watering the cutting bed copiously every day. There is no chapter in the book more to the point than the one on propagation. Old gardeners will think back 40 years to the time when even such an easily rooting plant as the verbena was carefully covered with a bell glass, which had to be removed and wiped dry twice a day. Nowadays the cutting bed is no experiment or anxiety and there is probably a loss of less than 5 per cent, of all the cuttings that are put into the sand. Carnations are now mostly rooted without what is known as bottom heat and require less water than they would if the bottom of the bench was slate with hot water or steam pipes under it. For several years past I have rooted my car- nations in the carnation house on an ordinray bench where it was impossible for the sand to be warmer than the air, and the night temperature of the house was about 48°. They take a week or ten days longer to root than thev would if the sand was heated to 65^ or 70° but I believe they make better plants rooted cool. In the dark months of winter a good watering every third day is sufficient. In March and April, if you propagate your carnations so late.they should be watered every day. The only thine that troubles the propagating bench is the fungus and that can be easily prevented by a w ater- ing with the ammoniacal mixture. Wm. Scott. Don't iorget the annual meeting of the American Carnation Society at Cin- cinnati, February 18 and 19. See page 57G of issue of January 23 for instruc- tions about sending flowers for exhibi- tion. If you have anything meritorious in seedling carnations, this is the place to send it for the opinion of the best posted growers in the country. Copies of the premium list and program may be had by addressing Albert M. Herr, Secretary, Lancaster, Pa. Miscellaneous Seasonable Hints. There are a few seeds that should now be sown and when you are ordering those you want at once you may as well get your outfit for the spring. If you still grow Cen- taurea eymnocarpa it should be sown at once. Early in February sow petunia. Unless you want some particular strain of petunia buy only what the seedsman calls his best double petunia; you will get 60 per cent of single every time, and most likely more. If you did not lift any lobelias you will have to sow the seed now. It is slow to make a large plant and needs an early start. Such fine strains of verbenas are now offered by our seedsmen that I prefer to raise them every year from seed, ^ow at once and you will be able to get a good cutting off each plant. It is remarkable how public fancy changes. Twenty-five years ago the verbena was really an im- portant plant with every florist. Per- haps the wonderfal improvement in the zonale geranium and the tuberous rooted begonia, and the taste for subtropical plants such as the glorious canna, has driven the verbena almost out of exist- ence. Still you want some and when raised from seed they will possess that most essential of all quantities, good health. Don't sow cobea till early in March. If too large they get very unmanageable. That is also early enough to sow the well known annuals Phlox Drummondi, aster, zinnia, marigold, etc. Cannas can be sown at once and need lots ot heat to get them up. Sown in a flat of sand and placed on the hot water pipes will do very well, but keep the sand saturated; neither do they come up regularly, as most seeds are expected; they straggle along for months, so when the seedlings are a couple of inches high lift out and pot, leaving the flat on the pipes. The cannas raised from seed will make just as fine plants for bedding as those raised by division of roots, and as theycomelargely true to color they can be depended on. Don't forget next month to sow smilax if you intend to renew your bed this sum- mer. And I really believe a new lot ot plants pays every year, and costs little If any more than it does to clean up and mulch the old bed. I have within a few davs sown seeds of iSgj. The American Florist. 623 SPECIMEN NEPHROLEPIS EXALTATA, TWELVE FEET ACROSS, two very useful plants and they are easily raised from seed, Grevillea robusta and Dracaena indivisa. It takes nearly two years to get the dracceaa to a useful size, but they don't take up much room and will thrive in almost any place. With us they are indispensable for the centres of vases and for veranda boxes. Grevillea if sown now makes a useful plant the fol- lowing winter. We find this a useful plant. Where the price of a decoration does not warrant the use of costly ferns the grevillea comes in fine. It has all the grace and lightness of a decorative plant, particularly when small. We never try to have them in larger than a 4-inch pot. They also stand well in vases, etc. The sowing of many seeds, such as asters, verbenas or seeds of that size and larger, is an easy operation but with very small seeds like petunia, calceolaria and begonia it is a rather particular opera- tion. The soil of the flat or pan you sow in should be always thoroughly watered before the seed is sown, for you cannot water sufficiently afterwards without great danger of washing the minute seeds all up to one side or the other. Fill the pan with the prepared soil and press down moderately firm with a piece of board or the bottom of a clean pot, which will make the surface of the soil even and smooth. Then give a good watering and in a few minutes or as soon as the water is gone down sprinkle on the seeds. No covering of soil is needed but a piece of cotton can be laid on the surface and kept moist till the seeds have germinated, when it should be removed. A great mis- take is often made with these very small seeds that can hardly be seen on the soil, and that is sowing too thickly. It is poor economy. Before you can handle the seedlings they have strangled each other and considerably impaired their future health. This very cold spell we are having Is a blessing for it will help retard much Easter stuff that looks now as if it would be too early. April 18th is Easter Sun- day. It is late and vee had so much fine warm weather in December and into the new year that azaleas and lilies will be hard to keep back, and where it cannot be done it will be a serious loss to man}'. A low temperature is all you can do for them. You will be receiving Lilium auratum bulbs now. They should not be allowed to lay round the shed but should be potted at once. They take up considera- ble room, for they need a large pot, and bench room you cannot quite afford. I pot them at once, using soil that is mod- erately moist and place the pot under a bench in a cool house, but give them no water. They can remain there two months or till they have made a growth of two or three inches when they must have light and water. In the dry soil they will remain a long time before mak- ing a start but are not suffering from exposure to the air. Lilium lancifolium does well treated the same way. Wm. Scott. Nephrolepis Kxaltata. This fern is one of the most widely dis- tributed, being found abundantly in both hemispheres. Specimens from different localities vary greatly as to habit, length and breadth of frond, arrangement of soii, etc., the effect of exposure, elevation and temperature. They are deservedly popular as house plants there being no plant that will thrive better under adverse circumstances or respond more readily to kind treatment. In the greenhouse they are indispensable. Grown in large pots or tubs, as shown in our illustration, they are at once stately and graceful. The photograph shows one of several speci- mens in the conservatory of J. H. White, Brookline, Mass. This plant measures from tip to tip of the extended fronds, nearly twelve feet. Plant Beauty. \A paper read by Henry T. Bailey bejore the Mas- sachusetts HoriicuUitial Society January :;o.\ Plant beauty is of two sorts, beauty of color and beauty of form. In some plants, like the calla, beauty of form predomin- ates; in others, like the pniony beauty of color; in still others, like the gladiolus, the lines of stalk, flower and bud are as noticeably lovely as their colors. Plants conspicuously beautiful for their form should not be gathered together in tight bouquets; each should be enjoyed byitself or with two or three companions so grouped in a vase or other receptacle that the beautiful lines of each areenhanced by those of the others. Plants of lovely color, on the other hand, are more effect- ive when massed. One snowball is insig- nificant; a bushel basket full of branches crowded with the balls of creamy white glowing against the rich green of their foliage is highly effective. In the arrange- ment of flowers of beautiful form we have much to learn from the Japanese. The Studio for October and December, 1S96, has suggestive articles with more suggestive illustrations of the fine art of flower arrangement as practised by the floral artists of the Sunrise Kingdom. Mr. Conder's book on the subject, to be found in the library of the Horticultural Society, will repay thoughtful study. Even the Japanese prints, now so easily obtainable, are not to be despised by the wide-awake florist. Form beauty is dependent largely upon contrast, proportion and curvature. (This was illustrated by numerous charts and blackboard sketches), and the group- ing of plants or sprays is to be governed by the law of balance. ( Illustrated.) Beautiful color has such qualities as purity, gradation, depth and when col- ored flowers are massed, harmonious relations of the different hues should be secured. There are five typical color groups or harmonies. The first may be called a contrasted harmony. All green-leaved plants with white flowers are in this group. The second is dominant har- mony, produced by combining tints and 624 The American Florist, Feb. <5. shades of one color, as for example a bead of hyacinths or a bunch of double violet asters with no green foliage in sight. This combination of tints and shades, so common in the decorative arts and in dress goods, is rarely found in nature, and is least satisfactory as a har- mony. The third is analagous harmony, composed of related hues of color. All green-leaved plants with yellow flowers are in this group. A bunch of gladioli tinted with violet-red, crimson, rose, scarlet and salmon, forms an analagous harmony of exquisite beauty. The fourth is complementary harmony — a harmony brought about by the juxtaposition of complementary colors. A violet-red ca- mellia seen against its glossy green leaves is a complementary harmony; so also is a bunch of violets with their rich yellow- green leaves. The fifth is perfected har- mony, a color group composed of anala- gous hues combined with a color comple- mentary to the general effect of all the group. For example the gladioli forming an analagous harmony if placed against a background of old ampelopsis leaves, of rich bluish green color, would be greatly enhanced in color effect, and the whole would form a perfected harmony. A bowl full of pansies is in perfected har- mony. The analagous group runs through varying hues, from pure yellow in the flower centers to the yellowish green of the foliage. The complementary to the effect of this group is to be seen in the rich purple of the petals. (Charts, diagrams and bouquets of flowers were used to make this clear. The complementary and analagous colors were illustrated by means of the Bradley color wheel.) The American people are becoming more sensitive to beauty every year. The florists who furnish flowers to decorate their homes and halls can do much to elevate public taste. A really beautiful thing is always attractive. What was true for Emerson is true for us all. Speak- ing of beauty he said: When first my eyes saw thee I found me thy thrall. It costs no more to make a beautiful bouquet than to make an ugly one, and ultimately he who produces beauty gives the greater pleasure and receives the larger reward. Palm Notes. The experience of past seasons goes to prove that the plant buying public is gradually becoming a more fastidious body, this fact becoming more apparent each year in our largest cities, and even in the smaller towns quality counts for much more than in the early days of the trade. This is a good sign for the future of the business, for an increased demand for stock of first-class quality will naturally stimulate thegrowers toward the produc- tion of such stock, and the efforts that are made in this direction will in the near future go a long way toward solving the tariff perplexities that now confront the trade. But the limits of the present article do not permit an attempt at the discussion of tariff problems, and in returning to our text it may be said that one of the first duties of the grower of decorative plants (among which palms are most promi- nent I is to make an early start at the work, rather than to wait until the other spring work has been completed and then to try to make up for lost time by rush- ing the palms with strong heat. Rapid growth can be had by the latter method, but the foliage is likely to be thin in texture and does not wear well, proof of this being often found in imported stock, much of which is grown on the hot- bed plan. As the days lengthen the care- ful grower soon notes a difference In the general appearance of the palms; this denoting the renewed activity of the roots, and as thisconditionbecomesmore apparent repotting is in order. Among the few species in common use, the kentias are the first to start ahead, and this is a sufficient reason for attending to their wants first. The kentias do not require as much root space as some other palms in order to keep them in good color, and therefore single shifts, for exam- ple from a 4-inch to a 5-inch, or from a 6-inch to a 7-inch pot will answer for these plants Instead of using a larger size, except in the case of those that are intended as a reserve lot to furnish a later crop, for in this case a larger shift would not be objectionable. Latanias and arecas are usually a lit- tle later in starting into growth than the kentias, and consequently do not require repotting so early in the season, but even these are generally ready for handling from February onward. Seaforthia elegans and Ptychosperma Alexandrje, both of which are quite use- ful palms for certain purposes, are very strong rooting species, and will take hold of new soil at almost any season, except when grown in a very cool house, and in the latter case repotting had better be deferred until April 1. Cocos Weddeliana grows but slowly during the early winter, and is best let alone until the end of January, unless heat and moisture can be kept well under con- trol. The fact of their strong rooting pro- pensity is often held as an objection to the various phoenix, these plants forming such a mass of stout fleshy roots in the bottom of the pot that the plant is fre- quently raised out of place by its agency, and if all the roots areretained an incon- veniently large pot is required. This difficulty is sometimes overcome by root pruning, but if severe treatment of this character be given it is the safest plan to keep the plants somewhat warmer and water them carefully for a time, to encourage a fresh start. Most of the phoenix will bear a great deal of hard usage after they have attained a suitable size for decorating, but as young plants they are quite slow in growth, especially before they arrive at a fair 6-inch pot size. The most beautiful of the phoenix is P. rupicola, its fountain-like growth being highly decorative and both this and P. reclinata bear the dry atmosphere of a dwelling admirably. P. canariensis and P. tenuis are another good pair, being very tough and possibly just a little more rapid in growth than the preceding. The geonomas furnish some very beau- tiful species, but unfortunately they can- not be very highly recommended as palms for the trade, with the possible exception of G. gracilis, though even this one has never met with the same favor in the American trade that seems to be accorded it in Europe. Others of this genus that call for special mention are G. Seemannii, G. pumila, G. Schottiana andG.Verschaf- felti, all of which are very handsome in a young state, but the leaves being rather thin in texture makes them an easy prey to red spider. Areca rubra and A. Verschaffelti are but little grown now, for while both these species are very attractive when well grown, yet the first named is too soft to wear well, and the second is too slow in growth. Areca sapida is still used to some ex- tent for decorating, but even for this pur- pose is not very largely grown, in fact I cannot recall any grower who devotes a whole house to this palm, in the Ameri- can trade. Rhapis flabelliformis and R, humilis are always found to some extent in the stock of every large decorator, and deservedly so, for few plants will endure more abuse, but as a money maker for the grower these palms cannot be highly commended, their progress being too slow. W. H. Taplin. Piping. How many feet of 2-inch hot-water pipe will be required to heat a sash house 15x60, ridge 7 feet high, long span to the south? House to be used for forcing let- tuce. What amount of 1-inch steam pipe would be required to heat the same house? Ohio. L. H. C. L. H. C. will have, I should suppose, not less than 18 feet of glass surface on the roof of his greenhouse above described , and if the house is reasonably tight, that is, if there are no openings or cracks to allow much of the heat escaping, nine 2-inch hot-water pipes ought to give all the heat required for such crops as lettuce, always providing the boiler has sufficient power to heat them to any desired point. And to heat the same under all ordinary circumstances, seven pipes ought to do it, but it may be advisable to put in eight as a safeguard, as it is better to have a little surplus for use in case of extra cold spells. In case L. H. C. wishes to carry a temperature of 58° to 60° in all kinds of weather, one more pipe of both classes should be added to the amount given above. John N. May. New York. The dinner of the New York Florists' Club came off, as promised, at the Arena on Saturday evening, January 31. AH the promised attractions were there. The decorations of the room and tables were to be magnificent and they filled the bill. The expert growers had contributed gen- erously of their double-extra stock and under Mr. Donlan's direction the flowers and vines were arranged with consum- mate skill. The dinner was a good one and the speakers were at their best. President Henshaw made the introduc- tory remarks, and Toastmaster Weath- ered then took up his duties with his customary easy grace. The first toast "Our Night" was responded to by Chas. H. Allen, and he was followed by John N. May, who spoke for the S. A. F.,to which he gave the credit for the New York Club's existence. "Our Brother Societies" brought up Fred. R. Mathison, of Bos- ton, and the audience was favored with a speech that was easily the event of the evening and fixed securely Mr. Mathison's reputation in New York as an orator. Patrick O'Mara spoke feelingly in re- sponse to the toast "Our Departed Friends," mentioning particularly David Ingram, David Clark and Wm. Elliott, all of whom have died within the past year. Songs were contributed by Alex Wallace and Wm. Plumb and banjo solos by John Turner, and Messrs. Ballantlm-, Shannon and Gorman kept the crowd in good humor with their amusing recitations. The only lamentable feature was the iBgj. The American Florist. 625 TREE FERNS (ALSOPHILAS). CEYLON. small number of members present. As an attraction the formal dinner is evi- dently at a disadvantage as compared with the free and easv "smoker." Cut flower trade is reported as fairly good in retail localities but the excessive grading and selecting now indulged in necessitates the selling of a large propor- tion of the aggregate cut flower product at very low prices so that from the stand- point of the wholesaler or grower results are not so satisfactory. American Beau- ties are still hard to get in quantity and the demand exceeds the supply, but this condition does not extend to any other variety. Carnations and violets are in full supply and mignonette and all bulb- ous stock are over plenty and low prices prevail. Speaking of bowling, the sensation of Flatbush for two weeks in succession has been the rolling of the elder Z;IIer, famil- iarly known as "Papa" Zeller among the Flatbush fraternity. Mr. Zeller has been beating all records and is still at it. John H.Taylor is president of the board ot trustees of Flushing. At the recent auditing of town accounts it was found that the debt of nearly two thousand dollars which Mr. Taylor found when he assumed the office has now given place to a comfortable cash balance on the right side. Patrick Crane's floral establishment at Bayonne was destroyed by fire last Thursday afternoon. Mr. Crane, who had inadvertently allowed his insurance to lapse, estimates his loss at nearly five thousand dollars. Chas. Z'ller recommends Pteris seriu- lata nobilis as one of the most useful as well as beautiful ferns, especially in a young state, for use in small fern dishes. Visiting New York: F. R. Mathison, Waltham, Mass., and Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Clapp, Dorchester, Mass. Miss Magdalene Wiegand, of West Ho- boken, was married on Thursday, Janu- arv 28, to Mr. Ernst Leubrs. The item in last issue stating that H. A. Bunyard bad gone into business with R. W. Clucas was an error. Mr. Bunyard is still with Pitcher & Manda. Boston. The meeting of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club on Tuesday evening, Feb- ruary 2, was slimly attended. A large audience was due the speaker of the even- ing, Mr. Robt. Cameron, of the Harvard Botanic Garden, for his paper on annuals was very interestingand had been written with much care. Mr. Cameron advocated the method of starting seeds of annuals early in pots or boxes, then transplanting the young seedlings into thumb pots so that by planting out time. May 20, they may be already strong stocky plants. He claimed that annuals, as much as anj- other class of p'ants, will respond to good treatment and careful cultivation and give surprising results as compared with those sown and planted in a hap- hazard way and left totake care of them- selves. He gave a lengthy list of those species regarded by him as particularly desirable tor cut flower purposes, for use as bedders and for various situations in the garden, calling attention to their many good characteristics. Speaking of of strains of seed he said the best should always be sought as they take no more care and the satisfaction given more than compensates for the extra cost of seed. His talk throughout was that of a man deeply in love with bis subject and was listened to attentively. Quite a discussion followed, participated in by Jackson Dawson, F. L. Temple, K. Finlayson and others. Subjects for following meetings were announced as follows: Winter aspects of trees and shrubs, C. J. Dawson; Water lilies, Carl Blomberg; Modern bedding, T. H. West wood; The horticultural press, F. W. Fletcher. Two new members were initiated. Kenneth Finlayson exhibited a vase of blooms of the beautiful peacock iris. Business is generally quiet. There is an abundance of flowers of all kinds except Beauty and larger roses of that grade and all tastes can be suited. A very spring like aspect is noted in the florists' windows as daffodils, hyacinths, freesias, prim- roses and forget-me-nots get abundant In extra choice bloom orchids of various kinds and accacia fill the bill but there is not enough of either of these to meet any extraordinary demand. Lily of the val- ley is selling very low and it is next to Impossible to realize profitable figures on Harrisii lilies. Violets are good and plenty in both single and double varieties and fine pansies are beginning to come in. Harry L. Anderson, formerlv employed as a salesman for the Shady Hill Nurserv Co., was arrested and held in $2,000 bonds for the grand jury, on Monday, February 1, on a charge of uttering a forged order to his employers wherebv he gained a commission of $17 and in $300 additional bonds on thecharge of obtain- ing money under false pretenses. He is 29 years of age and a resident of Cam- bridge. The peach and nectarine houses at the Converse place in Maiden are a beautiful 626 The American Florist. Feb. 6, sight at present, the trees covered with pink blossoms, and Mr. Roy has good reason to be proud of them. A shelf of potted strawberries in bloom is also sug- gestive of an abundance of luscious fruit bye and bye. The cinerarias are early this year being now in the height of the blooming period, and the flowers are not only in size and color a decided advance on those of previous years but the plants are remarkably stocky and massive. Some one in the trade should make an effort to produce such fine specimens, there being no question as to finding a good market for them. The annual dinner of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club will take place at the American House on Thursday tvecing, February 11. A most enjoyable time is assured and a number of eminent guests will be present. Visiting Bostor: W. B. Hazard and Parquhar Macrae, Providence, R. I.; Carl Jurgens, Newport; H. A. Siebrecht, New York; C. Warburton, Fall River, Mass.; Michael Barker, N. Y. Chicago. Special arrangements have been made with the Monon Road for transportation to the Cincinnati meetingof the American Carnation Society. The party will travel by train leaving Dearbcrn Station at 8:58 p. m., Wednesday, February 17, reaching Cincinnati at 7:30 p. m. on the 18th, the day of the opening session. This will be an inexpensive trip and the meeting and the exhibition of new carna- tions will be specially interesting. It will also be exceedingly pleasant to meet the Cincinnati boys on thtirnative heath and it is hoped that the delegation from this city will be of good size, particularly in view of the invitation to be extended to the society on behalf of the Chicago Florist Club to hold the next convention in this city. Tickets with the advantages of the special arrangements can be ob- tained from G. L. Grant, 322 Dearborn street, on the 17th inst.. and berths in the sleeping car can be reserved at any time from now to the 17th. Last Tuesday Governor Tanner re- moved all but one of the West Park Com- missioners and appointed their succes- sors. The new board is as follows: Chas. B. Pavlicek, Dr. E. A. Grotefend, Wm. J. Wilson, Jas. W. Suddard, Fred. M. Blount, Wm. C. Eggert, Andrew J.Graham. Mr. Graham was the only one of the old board that was retained. As Mr. E. G. Uihlein, an excellent commissioner, was among those removed, and the new appointees are more prominent in politi- cal than horticultural circles this action of the governor is not very encouraging. The Art Floral Co. is sending out some calendars for 1897 with a very neat original design as a beading. The design includes different half-tone plates of children posed among flowers and plants, which are veiy taking. Mr. Wm. Kirkham is growing some fine mushrooms at the Rockafellow place in May wood. At the Florist Club meeting next Thurs- day evening (11th inst.) papers will be read by Messrs. W. N. Rudd and Jas. Reeve. The annual carnation meeting will be held February 25. To this meet- ing all in the trade are invited, whether members of the club or not, and all growers of novelties are invited to send blooms for exhibition. Extra accommo- dations will be provided for this meeting so there shall be abundant room for all who come. Mr. J. T. Anthony is being pushed for the position of superintendent of the West Park system. He was warmly endorsed by the members of the Executive Com- mittee of the Horticultural Society on Friday. While it is hoped that he may be appointed it is feared that political pressure will outweigh merit in the selec- tion. The Executive Committee of tte Hort. Society is now at work on the premium list for the chrysanthemum show of 1897. As the weather has improved stock is getting more plenty but the demand can hardly be said to have kept pace with supply, this more particularly as regards roses. Brides and Maids are extra good but Meteor still shows a large percentage of bullheads and off colored flowers. Real good well-formed Beauties are scarcer than ever and about the only article that is short on the market. Prices dropped off a point during the week; 4 to 5 is the ruling figure for good stcck and 6 for extra select. The poorer grades go at much less. In carnations white is most in demand, with Daybreak a close second. The best grades still com- mand $1.50. The poorer grades in all kinds are more than plenty and sell down to 40 cents. A few pleasant days have thawed out the fakir, and through his agency the sur- plus is fairly well cleaned up every day. Bulbous stock still drags slowly. In this line there is a noted improvement in the quality of tulips; La Reine grown pink is very fine and some extra good Yellow Prince may be noted. Frcesiaand Valley are also of fine quality. Daffs, both double and single, are in great quantity. In Dutch hyacinths, blue and purple are selling fairly well; of these the supply is limited. Harrisii is now coming in of extra good quality and in larger supply than the market demands. The choice still command 10 but good flowers are offered at 6 to 8. Shipping demand is fairly active. Buffalo. Florists cannot complain of the weather for the past week; cool, crisp nights, with sunshine enough to burn palms at noon. It has greatly improved the quality of roses, yet good stock is scarce and Brides, Bridesmaids and Meteors are steady at $8 per hundred. It is impossible to say that business is anything but quiet, sim- ply because there is a great dearth of receptions or parties where any consider- able amount of money is spent in decora- tions. I don't say this because we don't get the order, but because some society people tell us so as well as the caterer. Tulips and daffodils sell fairly well, and so they ought, for finer ones were never seen at this time of year. Daffies with stems a foot long and heads like sunflow- ers ought to sell freely at 50 cents a dozen. The demand for valley seems very light, and Romans seem to be the most unprofit- able stuff that was ever raised. There is always a steady demand for carnations at very popular prices. I cannot but mention the great show that Jubilee is making this year. We get now about 150 blooms off 200 plants, with the best stem of any carnation I have yet seen. You all know the flower. It is four times the size of Portia and of fine form and color. If this is the way it's going to behave we have got a red carnation worth growing. Jubilee is about the only carnation that yon can truthfully say needs no support. Speaking of carnations the keeping qualities of a new variety were demon- strated the other day, partly by accident. Mr. Dan'l B. Long was performing with a camera and a dozen "Mayor Pingree." After lugging them up and down the street and putting them through their facings in several attitudes he handed me V2 dozen, saying they had been picked ten days. I put them in ajar of water in my cellar, frequently bringing them up to show an interested brother florist and occasionally giving one away till at last one poor solitary flower was left alone. Monday last we espied the poor flower looking as fresh as ever; from time of cut- ting it must have been 27 days. I don't tell this story to advertise my cellar, because I don't want to sell it, but there is no harm in letting every one know of the wonderful keeping powers of the pres- ent governor of Michigan. Mr. James Baxton, of Niagara street, experienced one of those mishaps during the late zero weather which all florists are liable to who use cast iron boilers. A boiler gave out when the mercury was 3° above zero, but by a great hustle a new one was got to work in 24 hours and the contents of three houses were saved by stoves and lamps. Mr. Ringier, of Chicago, was with us a few days last week and although we don't often indulge he showed us the style of bowling that has made Chicago so famous on the alleys. Mr. A. J. Scott, of Fredo- nia, was also in town talking chrysan- themum lore. W. S. Philadelphia. The February meeting of the Florists' Club was rather slimly attended, proba- bly on account of the weather, which was very disagreeable. Even a Florists' Club meeting loses its attractiveness under such conditions as those of last Tuesday evening. The paper on "How to get a house of American Beauties in full crop at Christmas," by Isaac Ken- nedy was not as full of detail as expected, but as there were no novices present to listen to it, and the really essential points were given, it may on the whole be classed as an Al document. The club smoker, to be held on the even- ing of the ninth, will according to the report of Robert Craig be a most enjoya- ble affair; all who are connected any way with the business are invited to be pres- ent — tickets 50 cents to cover cost of entertainment. R. M. Eisenhart of Holmesburg is to be the essayist at the next meeting. "The best varieties of violets for the Phila. market and their culture" will be his sub- ject. If "Rod" can write about violets as well as he can grow them, the air of the club room will be fairly redolent with their fragrance on this occasion. A very pretty new single geranium was exhibited by Edwin Lonsdale. It is called Mars. It is a very floriferous vari- ety with a light pink flower resemblingin color the old Glory de Corbenay. The furnishing of the club house is being pushed rapidly forward, and before the smoker the committee hope to be able to have everything finished and in apple pie order. Business is moving along at a regular gait, not fast enough for some and not too rapid for anybody. The cold spell has let up a little, and there are more shoppers about. The growers say that their coal piles disappeared as if by magic the past week or ten days, and it was a hard matter to get fuel enough in some cases to keep the fires going. The condition of the market is about the same as last week, there being little change. Valley is becoming more plenti- ful and is in better shape. Eight dollars per hundred is high for the best grade of i§97- The American Florist. 627 i^- -^--''-^-'i; '-^i/^^fl^ '• -5««-t,^«, V; n^^-^>^ '^^W .^-i>€;-" J-* THE LAKE, KANDY. CEYLON. teas, except for a very few extras, and these latter are only heard about, not seen. A greater variety of blooming plants are to be seen about the stores, and they appear to be moving a little livelier. There are various ways of accumulat- ing wealth besides forcing roses under glass and disposing of them at a slight advance above cost over the counter. One of the easiest plans and one that requires no capital — the only stock in trade being a fair address, a tolerably decent suit of clothes and a check book — has been carried on by a young man among the cut flower merchants of this village the past week or two. His $10 checks were taken and treasured away like brand new silver certificates, and his two and three dollar boxes of flowers put up in good style, while he looked on approvingly and pocketed the change with an "Oh my, how dead easj!" smile and walked out to do the man in the next block. Some six or seven firms are known to be on his list, and it is presumed there are still some others. Of all the moss-covered, rust- bound, moth-eaten schemes that are sprung on the public, this is probably the oldest; we think it even likely that Noah may have had the game tried on him in exchange for a passage ticket on his famous craft. For the benefit of the others that have not yet been "touched," the young man has been put under bail by the authorities and will have to face his accusers in court. K. San Francisco. Trade in this city has taken quite a drop since the holidays. Prices on most things have dropped considerably. Vio- lets for instance have dropped to $1 to $1.50 for Californias and 75 cents to $1.50 for Marie Louise. The Russian violet has no sale whatever. The new Princess of Wales is becoming very popu- lar. The "Golden Gate" did not prove such a favorite as at first expected. The color is superb but the stems are a little too short. Roses also have come down, the very best now bringing about $1 per dozen, though we have seen some excel- lent roses going at 75 cents per dozen. Brides, Bridesmaids, and Testouts, also Beauties, are about the standard sorts at present. Some excellent Perles are com- ing in from George Karmen's place at Sausaleto. George is a very successful growerof this variety. Kaiserin does not prove a good winter variety in our state although for summer and spring work it is excellent. Carnations are coming in more freely now than a few weeks past. Scotts and Portias bring 25 cents per dozen. While citj trade is not very rushing yet there is quite a lot of shipping being done by the wholesale growers. We note quite a lot of the new giant mignonette coming in but on account of such a lot of flowers in the market the demand is rather slow. Lily of the valley is going freely. Plant trade is rather slow in all the stores. Bulbous stock in all varieties is moving rather slowly. Very few Harrisii are in but from the appearance of some of the growers, houses are going to be in bloom in a week or two. Mr. M. Lynch, of Menlo Park, has been Jaid up with an attack of the grippe but is now improving. The Berkeley Floral Society has devised a good plan for planting trees generally on the streets of the town and at the forthcoming municipal election provision will be made for voting upon a tree ordinance. It is designed to plant silver maples and white elms on streets leading towards the bay and evergreens and acacias on the other streets. The esti- mated cost of planting each tree with stake to support it will be very slight. The same plan Is being followed out by many other towns in the state. The date for the great Carnival of the Golden Gate to be held in Sin Francisco is set for the week beginning Monday, April 19. It is proposed to make this the greatest carnival ever given in this coun- try and the preparations have been going on now for many months. Prof. Emory Smith, of the California State Floral Society, has been appointed floral director and has charge of a very important branch of the carnival consisting of a parade of floral floats, the battle of flowers and a flower show in the pavilion to last three days. It is also intended to make this floral show complete in all its details. The annual mid-winter flower carnival was held in Pasadena January 1. Great quantities of flowers were used and the carnival lasted for three days. Pasadena is about the only place in the country where In the middle of winter all the floweis are blooming in such quantity as to have a carnival. Meteor. St. Louis. Business is picking up a trifle, but is not as good as it should be. The trade is fluctuating in character, one day nothing to do, the next everybody busy. A few large dinners and receptions were given the past week in the west end that used up quite a large lot of flowers on those davs. Flowers of all kinds are by no means scarce. The commission men are all stocked up with plenty of flowers, espe- cially roses and carnations. Roses, such as Meteors, Brides and Bridesmaids of fine quality are bringing as high as $8, with seconds at $2 to $4. First-class Beauties continue scarce, but lots of deformed and short-stemmed stock is in this market, and bring $3 to $5. Perles, Woottons and La France are down to $1 and $2 per 100. Good carnations seem inclined to bold 628 The American Florist. Feb. 6. /S ^^ Mi ^^ *^*Wl ffip'^^^IP*' «^N 1. ^ H^i, J^k^^v ^^ ! -■^ fflk (^Wgg HBHIw^^^^l iC ^ K llpBB S| m B J f ^'^|^^^^^^HHH|HM'9^5^^^HEfiH|^B0^Q H 1 ■ HHI ■ 1 P ' n ^" 1 iTOi pupil w m ■ SABAL PALMETTO IN FRUIT. CEYLON. up, prices ranging from $2 to $3 for fancy, and ordinary at $1 to $1.50. Reds keep scarce, and the demand for them is great. Violets are not very plentiful, and are sell ing at 25 cents per 100 for single and 75 cents for double. Fred Tide, John Steidle and Max Herzog are cutting the best vio- lets that come to this market. Bulb stock is very slow and will not sell when there is a good supply of roses and carnations in the market. Romans range from $1 to $2, paper whites the same. Even vallev stUs slowly, the best quality going at $4, and in lots is sold for much less. Dutch hyacinths are high in price, now bringing $6 to $8 for finequal- ity. Daffodils do not go as well as they did, but are not overplentiful at $3 and $4. Tulips are the same in price and go very slowly. Harrisii have stiffened a little, going at $5 to $12 50. Callas do not sell so well. Smilax is down to $10 for the best and is moving slowly. Plant stock about town among the growers is looking fairly well, and seems to be coming on well for an early Easter trade. The chrysanthemum show committee held a meeting last Friday night and decided to hold this year's chrysanthe- mum show in the Exposition Building, on November 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. The committee will meet every two weeks from now on until the show opens. Spe- cial prizes are coming in now every day or so, and we expect to have twice as many special prizes this year as last. The next Florists' Club meeting will be held the afternoon of Thursday, Feb. 11, at 3 p. m. This being the annual carna- tion meeting, we expect a large gathering of florists. All florists, whether members or not, are invited to attend. Do not wait for an invitation, but come and see the new carnations on exhibition and have a smoke with us. Fred Ostertag, of Ostertag Bros., was married last week. Good luck to you Fred. Chas. G. Fleckinstein has been ap- pointed receiver for tte Kirkwood Land Investment Co. The big music hall of the Exposition Building was tastefully decorated last Friday night by C. Young & Sons Co., the occasion being the graduating of the normal class and the high school. The Bowling Club hi Id a meeting last Monday night and decided to move from their present alleys to the ones on the cor- ner of Blair and Cass avenue. The club will on next Monday night roll on the new alleys. All those that were not pres- ent Monday night are requested to come. Our rolling has been very bad lately, the old alleys not being in good condition. A marked improvement will be noticed after next Monday night. The high men last Monday were as follows: R. Beyer 562, Kunz 487, Schray 441, in three games. High single score: R. Beyer 229, Kunz 175,Kuehn 160. This is the poorest roll- ing the club has ever done. J.J. B. Cleveland, The last club meeting, held January 26, was largely devoted lo consideration of the premium list for next fall's exhibition. The list, as submitted by the committee appointed for the purpose of preparing a suitable report, was gone over carefully item by item and considered in all its bearings. As has been previously inti- mated in earlier reports, the committee had been instructed to devise a list that would as far as fairness in every re- spect allow, tend to equalize differences in the conditions under which exhibits would be grown and shown, so that, as far as possible small growers could enter into competition on fairly equal terms with those having more extensive estab- lishments. The committee in carrying out this idea adopted the plan of cutting down some of the larger classes ( mostly in chrysan- themums) both in number of blooms required in classes for large vases and of reducing the number of varieties required for classes calling primarily for an exten- sive list of varieties. In this latter class the total number of blooms was kept up to the usual limit bv adding to the num- ber of each variety required. The highest number of varieties required in any one class is now fifteen, although exhibitors in two classes calling for a number of sorts (one of ten varieties and one of fif- teen) are required to show twenty-five different sorts. In each of these cases five blooms of each variety are required instead of three as has been the case in the past. By this arrangement if a grower cannot enter the class for fifteen varieties, the ten class is still open to him and he has protection from the larger grower who in order to enter into the classes for ten and fifteen varieties, must show twenty- five varieties. The same idea has been used in other cases, notably classescalling for exhibits of decorative plants. One of these classes limits the exhibitor to one hundred and fifty square feet, the other to seventy-five feet, a cut in space of fifty feet in one case and twenty-five feet in the other, from previous years. Note well that no exhibitor is allowed under any circumstances to show in both these classes. There were also some classes created which allow of competition only from private establishments. The total amount of money allowed on the premium list is somewhat less than last year, amounting this season to about $800. This has been accomplished by cutting the amounts in some cases where the requirements have been made less. Successful exhibitors will be proportion- ately as well rewarded as heretofore, while the easier quantatit I ve requirements should increase the number of exhibits. Instead of two classes of dinner decora- tions, as was the case last year, this sea- son there will be but one, without speci- fication as to the kinds of flowers to be used. A rule was also adopted requiring exhibitors who are non-members of the c'ub to pay an entry fee of five dollars, the same to be deducted from premiums that may be awarded them. If no pre- miums are taken there will be no entry fee. This seems to be ample justice for all parties. The date will probably be the week of November 15th. A committee was appointed to look into the merits of the hall in the Cyclo- rama building on the cornerof Erie street and Euclid avenue. This would be an ideal place as far as location is concerned, and will probably be selected if found otherwise adapted to the purpose. A committee was also appointed to make some arrangements for an enter- tainment to be held later. They will report at the next meeting which will be on February 9th— next Tuesday. The hall committee will also report and there will probably be a further talk on the premium list subject. ^ Supplement to American Florist, February 6, 1897. / > i M i; ^«„ &■ r .-vvv^^l: \ I ^-^^ >> '^r^^^r |i >Vj^^v i>^^. L New js;^ Yellow Caima Bnrbank. iOl, BUUJCCL, i8g7. The American Florist. 629 VIEW IN THE PERADENIYA GARDENS. OEYLON. We have had our share of the frigidity that has been cavorting around the conn- try so frolicsomely lately, the thermom- etor going one morning down to 15° below zero and keeping below the zero mark for a number of days in succession. The oldest inhabitant told all he knew on this occasion. Flowers of all sorts are in ample supply for the business, which last has been a little better of late, though by no means particularly brisk. A. Baltimore. Reviewing the past year, the worst thing we have to look back upon is the failure of the chrysanthemum show, financially at least, but if we do not lose our courage altogether we may yet rally and regain all lost ground in that direc- tion, and hold a larger, better and better paying show in 1897 than we have ever held. We have sustained one irreparable loss in the death of Mr. Wm. A. Bkas, whose face will not soon be forgotten, nor his kindly and unselfish activity in the club, but we can console ourselves with the reflection that our loss is his gain, and try so much the harder to make up for his absence. Considering the general dullness in all lines of business, we can hardly complain of the lack of demand; we are only feeling what every trade feels, and as flowers are a luxury pure and simple it is somewhat of a surprise that the demand for them does not cease altogether in these times of general hardship and grinding econ- omy, instead of being only curtailed, and, indeed, not curtailed very seriously either; for when carnations are scarce at two cents to two and a half, and callas bring one and a half to two dollars a dozen, and roses run all the way from six cents for Perles up to fifty for Beauties, and smilax is steady at twenty cents, and violets at a dollar a hundred— times are by no means desperate, nor demand in any immediate danger of vanishing. A recent important event in a floral way was the funeral of a leading and very wealthy brewer. A great number of pieces were sent by friends and relatives. The most pretentious was a monument in imitation of the $32,000 work of art in the family lot. It was nine feet high and was tolerably well proportioned, having instead of the statuary on the original doves at the corners and on the top. The ground work was white carna- tions, of which an immense number were used. Among things which were deserv- ing of mention was a pall by Burgercom- posed of Bride roses, with Romans be- tween them, and several clusters of Meteor buds arranged to break the dead white. A diagonal band of white carnations across the center with "At Rest" on it completed a very tasteful arrangement. An arm chair by Fraser was also very well done. After all the simpler designs are the most striking, and a large wreath of green galax leaves with choice Beauties in a spray up either side, and valley and Romans at the point where the stems of the roses met, was a charmingly artistic piece of work. Instead of the "stubble field" of recent years there was an ivy covered "field" supporting a sheaf of wheat. The usual number of broken columns, anchors, crosses, etc., were present, as a rule very nicely done, and, as they were from all quarters, our skill and taste is evidently not retrograding. The daily papers note the death by sui- cide of Geo. Wm. Klein, who kept a store on Madison avenue several years ago and made himself known chiefly through his exceeding liberality. On dit that a well known amateur com- mercial man in the county is thinking of taking out roses and putting chickens in his greenhouses. As we have houses de- voted to vegetables of all kinds, the advent of the chicken propagating house will no doubt excite a good deal of in- terest. Mack. Pittsburg. Trade has not yet recovered from the set-back the blizzard weather gave it last week; it has been very quiet in a general way, notwithstanding there has been a very considerable amountof funeral work called for. Flowers are very plentiful and with some varieties there is a decided tendency to wards lower prices, noticeably so with lilies which are coming in much more freely and some lots were sold at $5 per 100, quality fullv up to standard. The Pittsburg and Allegheny Florists' and Gardeners' Club, at the regular meet- ing on the night of the 28th ult., elected the following officers for this year: Presi- dent, John Bader; vice-president, Geo. Oesterle; treasurer, James Semple; secre- tary, T. P. Langhans; assistant secretary; E. C. Ludwig; executive committee: Geo. W. Burke (superintendent of Highland Park), P. S. Randolph (of Messrs. Ran- dolph & McClements), and Fred Burki (wholesale florist) Bellevue. All were elected by acclamation with the exception of the executive committee, for there were five nominated, three to be elected. The new administration commences under very favorable auspices. The treasury is in good condition, while the secretary's report shows the prospects for this year to be very good. They will make an efibrt to get up something new at the meetings, so that a large attend- ance will be assured and the club become a benefit to the wholetrade, as well as to those connected with it. The Club also elected two new members, Messrs. Wm. Faulk and Wm. Schmied, and Mr. Alfred Woodward was proposed for member- ship. Mr. Henry Negley gave a very interest- ing account of his recent visit east, espe- cially to the establishments of Messrs. Graham, Lonsdale, Burton and others at Philadelphia. His remarksio rtfcrenceto the new carnation of Mr. Graham's, the "Victor," and his encomiums on it gave great pleasure. Mr. W. B. Ague, of Highland Park Conservatory, in a club shoot won the silver cup trophy won by the club at the convention of the S. A. F. iu Cleveland. The Bowling Club's trophy won at the same time is yet to becontested for. Mr. Louis W. Kerr, representing The J. W. Sefton Mfg. Co., Chicago, was a visitor. Regia. Cincinnati. The general run of business has been somewhat slow the past week. Afterthe severe cold spell, cut flowers came ia more freely and the demand did not equal the supply. ►[^With regret we learn of the death of 630 The American Florist. Feb. 6, Mrs. Jeannette Pentland , wife of Mr. Pent- land, the well known nurseryman of Lockland. The funeral took place from the late residence on January 27, and interment was in Spring Grove cemetery. Deceased was 62 years old and was well known and highly esteemed among the members of the Lockland Presbyterian church, of which congregation she was an active worker. We extend to Mr. Pent- land our sympathy in his severe loss. Remember our monthly meeting night, February 13. We expect a full attend- ance as there is business of importance to be transacted. H. Schwarz. New Yellow Canna Burbank. With this issue we present a handsome colored plate of the new yellow canna Burbank. This splendid new canna was produced by Mr. Luther Burbank, the California hybridist, and was purchased by Mr. J. C. Vaughan, Chicago, who will disseminate it. The colored plate tells the story so well that any further descrip- tion of the flowers seems unnecessary. The plant grows to a height of five or six feet and is very robust. The rich green leaves are very large and of such texture that they are never torn by the wind. It will undoubtedly prove exceed- ingly valuable. Toronto. The directors of the Horticultural Soci- ety met last Tuesday evening and ar- ranged a partial program for the year. Many plans and suggestions for increas- ing membership, pushing the society into public notice and making the meetings lively, interesting and instructive, were considered. Altogether it was a most enthusiastic and useful meeting, and I have no doubt that many of the plans will be carried out and be of great benefit to horticulture generally in Toronto. Mr. C. Chambers promises to be a model secretary, and as everybody knows who has had much to do with these societies, their success depends largely on the work done by that officer. Directors and mem- bers may be ever so enthusiastic, but unless the secretary is enthusiastic too in carrying out their wishes and loses no opportunity of putting in a spoke for the society himself there will be disappoint- ment. The interiors cf florists' stores have been invisible from the exterior all last week, owing to the thick coating of hoar frost on the windows. The cold was continu- ous and pretty severe; there was very little wind though, and I have not heard of any damage having been done. Dunlop reports roses of all kinds ex- ceedingly scarce, far short of the demand. Dafifodils and valley are becoming plenti- ful and much sought after. Sjciety seems to have been especially active during the latter part of the week, consequently there was a large demand for cut flowers. He also reports the plant trade good, a pretty plant of any kind seldom going begging for a purchaser. The great diffi- culty at present is to get enough of just the right kind to supply this branch of the trade. Fine sunny weather is wanted now to increase supply of cut flowers. I have heard many commendatory re- marks on the article in your last issue entitled "Plants for florists' use." I don't suppose the public is actually tired of the eternal roses and carnations year in and year out, but I believe it does occasion- ally long for something else, something simple, innocent and child-like. Chinese primroses and cinerarias hardly fill the bill and cannot be sold at paying prices. Further illustrations and descriptions will be eagerly looked for. E. We have received a copy of the printed proceedings of the tenth annual conven- tion of the Associationof American Ceme- terv Superintendents, which was held at St.' Louis, September 15 to 17 last. The pamphlet contains the various essays read at the convention, together with the very full discussions, which are of much practical value. The officers for the cur- rent year are: President, Geo. W. Creesv, Salem, Mass.; vice-president, Arthur W. Hobart, Minneapolis, Minn.; secretary and treasurer, Frank Enrich, Auburn- dale, O. Owosso, Mich. — H. B.Deal has bought the Owosso Greenhouses of J. B. Woodin and will continue the business at the old stand. The greenhouses will be rebuilt in the spring and a good stock of spring bedding plants will be grown. Auburn, Me — Chas.Shackley has built a new house 20x75 for bedding plants and cut flowers. SITUATIONS. WANTS. FOR SALE. Advertisements under this bead will be Inserted at the rate of 10 cents a Una (seven words) each Inser- tion. Cash must accompany order. Plant advs. not admitted under tbls head. SITUATION WANTED— By all round florist, single, German. References O K. Address W K, Box '23. Eden, Kan. SITUATION WANTED— As manager or foreman by good, all-round grower: married. Address A Z, 108U Wlnnlmac St.. Chicago. SITUATION WANTED~By good all-round florist, _ steadv and sober, not afraid to work. Geo. Spencer. Station G, Nashville. Tenn. SITUATION WANTED-By an experienced florist; single. Good references as to ability .and char- acter. Address V. care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By a young man, age 21; li years' experience. Can furnish good references. Address John Clahk, 321) West Washington St , Soutli Uend, Ind. SITUATION WANTED— As head gardener and flo- rist on gentleman's private place; thoroughly competent In all branches. English, married. G P, Box ;C10. Elmhurst, 111. SITUATION WANTED-By florist, as working fore- man. Thorough knowledge ot all greenhouse work, especially palms and ferns. Address it S T, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED-By flrst-class rose grower and gardener; U) years' experience; German, mar- ried, 'X\ years of age. Only flrst-class places need apply. FOKE.MAN, care American Florist SITUATION WANTED-By gardener where the highest art Is called lor In jircblteclural landscape gardening; also In flora and arborlt-ullure. Address A Ij G. l'-'3 Second St., East Albany. N. Y. SITUATION WANTBD-As all round florist: good propagator, grower of roses, carnations, 'mums, general stock; also palms, ferns, etc : 33 years' expe- rience; single. A B, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTED— As foreman In commercial place; tlioroughly up In the business of growing roses, carnations, violets and the forcing of all kinds of bulbous stock. Address GuowElt, care American Florist. SITUATION WANTBD-As gardener and florist, thor- oughly competent In all Its branches, on private place with greenhouses. American and European ex- perience. Swiss, married, lirst of references. Ch. Guv. .WI3 Sophhi St , Austin, III. SITUATION WANTED-By expert florist. Dane, '26. single: n years' experience in l'. S . 4 In Europe; palms, cut flowers and general st^ick; landscaper, also maker-up. On shares or wages. East preferred. N L, care A merlcan i'lorlst. Chicago. SITUATION WANTKD-By practical all round flo- ko rlst. Geniian. age ;;»:. single. Is years' experience In propagating and growing roses, carnations, 'mams, violets and pot plants. Best of references. Fl.oKlST, l.')13 ,Iack80n Ave., Kansas City, Mo. SITUATION WANTBD-Seedsman wishes position on the road, with reliable florist house, Pennsyl- vania and New .lersey preferred Thoroughly ac- quainted with seeds, bulbs and trees. Best of refer- ences. Moderate terms. D D. care Am. Florist. SITUATION WANTED— By specialist In Ericas, cut flowers and palms. Dane, age 33: is years' experi- ence Id Denmark, Germany. Bohemia. Austria. Switz- erland and U.S.; private or commercial place. Call or address NEl.so.v, care Mr. Thoma, 212 Bast IWth St.. New York. SITUATION WANTBD-By foreman, landscape gar- dening, age ,'JI, single. Dutchman, well up In English, thorough practical experience In laying out of gar- dens: three years with present employer: flrst-class Dutch and English references. I'artlculars to J K. Bureau "Floralla,' Assen. Holland. SITUATION WANTED— By flrstclass flori.-t and de- signer: thoroughly acquainted with all branches of the business: good salesman: 17 years' European and American experience German, age Si, married but no children; wife an expert up-to-date design maker. Flrst-class references as to ability, sobriety and Industry. North or west preferred. Please state particulars and salary paid. Address Lily, care American Florist. ANTED— An expert rose grower. Best of refer- ences required as to ability, etc. SOUTH Pakk Floral Co., New Castle. Ind. w WANTKD— Man to work in a store: must be a Kood designer and understand decorating;; also must be well recommended. Address John Coombs. 2;iS Main St.. Hartford. Conn. WANTEi>— (Jardener. private family; must be single, good sober habits; must understand flowers, gardening, care of lawn, cows and horses. Wages $25 per month and board. Address with references, giving age and nationality. G. E. Dilley. Palestine, Texas. WANTED- German gardener, single. 4.j to 5.5 years of age, to take charee of small private garden and greenhiniHe; wages itlod ner annum with board and lodging: references required; If satlsfact^jry, railroad fare will be provided. T. G. Owen. Columbus. Miss. WANTKii— Working foreman for commercial place: 4.1HHI feet glass, orchard and garden: must be suc- cessful grower of cut flowers and good at designs; send copy of recomtneudatlona as to ability and sobriety; state full particulars of experience, age, married or single. Wages $50 per month. Address Inos CLIFFS Company. Negaunee. Mich. F lOR SALE CHEAP-Good second-hand a and 4-lnch pipe for hot water heating. W. II. Salter. Rochester. N. Y. FOR SALE ATA BAUGAIN-Greenhouse. owner In poor health; must be sold at once: well located, doing good trade, cost $7,500; will sell for $4,000. E. W. I'PHAM. Waukegan, III. FOR SALE -For $i'O0 cash, half interest in 4 green- houses; two 20x101). one ltixf4» and one 10x:»0; well stocked with roaes. carnations, lilies and general stock. Particulars. Address J K P. care American Florist, Chicago. FOR SALE— Greenhouses. .'HXXi feet under glass filled with plants, heated with hot water, natural gas and city water. •'•^ acre land. dwelllnK. workshop; one minute from It. K. depot: population liUUO; near Buf- falo: built 4 years ago. Price $1,750 Reason for sell- ing, other business. Address SPRiNGviLLE Gkeexhouse, Springvllle. N. Y. FOR SALE— Three greenhouses, ISOO feet of glass stocked with roses, carnations, palms and general market plants; hot water heating; "JOO feet plass for hotbeds; Vnmm dwelling house ctmnected with the Kreenhouwes. heated by liot water; 2 lots In the city in S. Minnesota, with 1^.000 Inhabitants. Good market for cut flowers and early vegetables; four railroads. U L. care American Florist, Chicago. 10.000 feet of glass; well stocked; must be sold t>e- cause of HI health. Only greenhouses in city of 40.000. Good state trade. Value $15,000. Price now $10,000. June 15th, $7,000. Address MRS. n. J. KNOX, Butte, Mont. WANTED. A good commercial florist, and who under- stands growing roses, carnations, etc. for cut flowers. Address CFG, care Am. Florist, 67 Bronifield St., Boston. 8 1 Gts. WORTH OF TOBAC-OIL FUMIGATES 2000 SQ. FT. 2 OF FLOOR SP^CE, EXTERMINATES AT ONE APPLICATION ALL GREENFLIES, IS NON-INJURIOUS TO MOST DELICATE BLOOMS, PERFECTLY PURE, WHITE IN COLOR. VAPORIZES COMPLETELY, LEAVING NO STICKY DIRiY MASS TO BURN AND SMOKE, IT IS oil. OF NICOTINE. IF NOT PERFECTLY SATISFACTORY, YOUR MONEY BACK, II. 4. 9TQOTHOFF, 31S Madisoa Ave., Vew York. 1897. The American Florist. 631 Northampton, Mass. We are having ideal winter weather at present, plenty of snow and bright sunny days which help to increase trade. Bn&iness has been very good since the holidays with supply fully equal to de- mand, in fact the supply is very seldom short in this market as most of our retail- ers have contracts with growers, and in case of any unusual demand the larger cities are within easy reach. The store windows are looking quite gay at pres- ent with azaleas, cyclamen and cinera- rias in addition to the usual display of cut flowers. The Northampton Horticultural Soci- ety has elected the following officers for the year: President, E. P. Copeland; vice- presidents, Mrs. Mary Mann, E.J. Can- ning, Merwin Allen; secretary, Edward J. Canning; treasurer, James King; direc- tors, E. P. Copeland, M. Allen, Mrs. Hardy, E.J. Canning, James King, Don- ald McGregor, Alex Parks, G. P. Camp- bell, G. W. Thorniley. The society closed the year with a small balance in the treasury and hopes to win even better results for '97. But two exhibitions will be held during the year, a spring exhibi- tion April 6, 7 and 8, and a chrysanthe- mum show in November, the date to be decided upon later. G. W. Thorniley. A Golden Passiflora. I have a beautiful golden sport from the white flowering Passiflora Constance Elliott. It was a root sucker. I lifted the sucker and potted it, and it still holds its color, though the foliage is smaller. Have any other readers of the Florist noticed a similar freak? K. The offer of assorted geraniums should have been omitted from Mr. Albert M. Herr's adv. in last issue. The offer should have been of Double Gen. Grant only. Carnations Rooted Cuttings, loo looo Helen Keller. Rose Queen. Emily Plerson, UncleJohn. Mme. Albertlnl.Ll/jileljillbert. Alaska, Louise Slngler J2.00 *18 00 Lizzie McQowan, Silver Spray, Wm Scotl, Daybreak, Tidal « aye, Portia l.OQ 8.00 Chrysanthemums, ^^ 15 leading vara. 1 .50 12.00 GERANIUMS, !■> best market and bed- ding varieties 1..50 15.00 " 45var8.,ln 2-lnch pots... 2.0O 20.00 Ivy Leaf Geranium, Fuchsia, Heliitrope, Ageratum, Dwarf Daisy, Yellow Daisy, white Sweet Alyssum, Salvia splendens. Salvia odorata. Feverfew, Lobelia coin- parta, Vinca ina.ior var. per 100$1; per iai0$8, V I N C A fol. var. or major. In 4 and i\i-n, pots, at $10, J12 and $15 per 100. or $75 and $.S5 per 1000. C. LENGENFELDER, Oakley and Cosgrove Aves., CHICAGO. TRADE ■ tr 3 2 S.9. , ^ 2' Try my new red JOHN ELITCH. Cata- logue free, W. W. WILMORE, Box 382, Denver. Colo . BR I DE3m Al D has a worldwide reputation. I'AKKNT ST OIK ctlll exists In perfect cnndiilon at the SunnywoudB GreenhouBes. Orders for 2W-lnch plants now booked lor is-.tT. Also Bride, Beauty, Tes- tout, Meteor and Perle rose plants FRANK t. MOORE, Chatham, N, g. ROSE HILL NURSERIES. THE LARGEST AND FINEST STOCK IN AMERICA. ARECA LUTESCENS. | LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA. DOZ. HUN. :i>^-ln. pots, bushy, 12 to 15 In. high $,■; 00 $20 OO 4 •■ '■ 18 to 20 In. high 4.00 30.00 5 " ■' 20 to 22 In. high li.OO 50.00 8-y ■■ '■ 3 to 5 ft. $4. $5 .t $tl each. COCOS WEDDELIANA. 2l2ln. pots, e.«ra ftne, 5toi;leave8 2.00 15.00 3 -In. pots, extra One, strong 2 50 20.00 ■'i -In. pots, extra One, very strong selected. 3.50 25.00 31^-ln. pots, extra Hne, very (Strong selected, 4.00 KENTIA BELMOREANA. EACH. DOZ. o-ln. pots, extra strong, bushy, 5 to ti leaves, 18 to 20 Inches high $ 75 $ 8.00 I'r-ln. pots, heavy, 2to2>^'ft, high 1.50 18.00 T-ln. pots, heavy, 2 to 21,6 ft, high 2 00 24.00 ,8-ln. pota, 30 to 40 In., decorative size, $3 .50 to $6. 00 each KENTIA FORSTERIANA. DOZ HUN. 3-ln. pots. 12 to 15 Inches high J-'.OO $15 00 4 •■ 15tol8 •• ■• 4 50 35.00 I. •■ 2 to 2M feet high . .$1.26 each. T •• 2 to 2!^ ■• •• .$2.00 to $2.50 " LATANIA BORBONICA. 4 in pots, 10 to 12 I3. high. 7-8 leaves $15.00 per doz. '1 " perfect specimens, 7-',t leaves 18 00 T '■ ■• ■■ 8-',i ■■ ,. $2.00-$2 SOeach 4-ln.pot, 10 to 12 In. high 5 " 12 to 15 ■• , , All measurements taken from top of pots. The above Is a brief list of our specialties '■'".■V.'.'L?,? ■'.Sl^.^' ''"°°- B'vlng description of all New Novelties Do not order till you see IT WRITK. TELEGRAPH or IKLEPtJONE US, and our carriage will MEKT YOC ..$125 each; $15 oil per doz. ..$1.50 each; $18 00 per doz, PHfENIX RECLINATA. tMn, pots. 16 to 18 la, high $1,00 each: $10 00 per doz, DRACAENAS (in variety). without doubt or exception we have the grandest lot In the country. Open for Inspection 4-ln.pots WOO per doz. 3 " — 0.00 " (colored and coloring). FERNS. FERNS. FERNS. If you are going to buy. It will pay you to get a sam pie of our grand stock. 't','"J'''"'' '" •' varieties. .. .$3 50 per 100; $30.00 per 101X1 Nephroleplscordatacompacta, Tlb largest stock of this grand variety. 2-ln. pots, flue stock $15,00 per 100 •' linespeclmens, 15-181n, high,,, »4doz.; $:« 100 Pteris Umbrosa Gigantea. Wn.pota $:mj) per kio jj ,. ,•■■■-,- 6.00 per diz. '> bushy H6each. FiCUS ELASTICA. tl-lnch pots jaj.oQ pgr iqq -Inch pots $75.00 per WO Our New Wholesale Address all communications to the Nurseries (N.Y. Office, 409 5th Ave.) NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. AZALEAS'^^obEASTER. FINE SHAPELY PLANTS WELL SET WITH BUDS. 10 to 13-incIi Crowns jbqk nii ««r i ni* }§ Z JiilUS SfSJJS^:::.:::::::::::::::- :: ::::::iii;:;;i;;;;;:1rli» p S CANNAS. New (iiaiit Flowered AUSTRIA, strong 4-in. pot plants, »3.50 per dozen; S25.00 per 100. X,-,., *.. '*=^^ k'°'^'' °^}}'l '''■^^'S °'- ""^ 'J.''^^'' varieties, such as Florence Vaughan. Queen Charlotte' tldorado Sunbeams, Alphonse Bouvier, Charles Henderson, Madame Crozy, President Carnot Ad^ miral Arellan, Edward Meig, etc, etc. Don't fail to get our prices before placing order elsewhere CALADIUM ESCULENTUM. SOUND BULBS WITH GOOD CENTERS, 7^,. to 10 inches, 186.00 per 100 6 to ~\ incites, 3 00 per 100. .l to « iiiolies, 3 00 per 100. BEGONIA PURITY. A new pure white of the semperflorens type, very fre.- Howeriiig, 83.00 per ilozen. GERANIUMS. strong a^s-iuch pot plants, large stocli of S. A. Nutt. Marvel, Heterantlie, La Fav..rite and other I>e8t bedding sorts 1S25.00 per 1000. ROSES. strong, field-grown, in large assortment, SO 00 per 100: 8K0.00 per 1000. Immense stock of Fruit Trees, Nut bearing Trees, Grape Vines, and Small Fruits, One of the largest, if not the largest, assortment of Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Climbine Vines Bulbs Hardv Perennials, etc., in America And 32 Greenhouses filled with what the average Florist is'most likely to want. Correspondence sohcited. Catalogues free, ^-j ••" THE STORRS & HARRISON CO., Painesville, 0. A NEW PALM COLLECTION. Li. Borbonica« S. Eles:ans. C. HuiuuUs, Areca lutescens, liaueri, Rubra, Phoenix C, and C Australia: 17 Palms 3 to i-ln. of above vars. and 3 Ferns for Ki.OO. 10 Palms 4 to 5-ln. of above vara, and 2 Kerns lor $lJ.oO. Rosest Carnations, and all kinds of plants. Labels, Moss, etc- SEND FOB LISTS. WILLIAMS & SONS CO., Batavia, III. Mention American Florist. 2-INCH FERNS. READY TO SHIFT. P. serrulata, Onychlum japonlcum, P. serrulata crlstata, Blechnum occldentale, P. serrulata " Densll, Lastrea varleyata. P. adlantoldes, Adlantum cuneatiim. Above at $.".00 per 100: J:^, 00 per 1000. Adlantum, from flats $1,50 per 100 General assortment. :i-ln. vars,. %iS per 100: $50 per 1000 PterlB (ihelsbreKhtll and Regime or Scutum. 2-lnch, $11 00 per 100. Adlantum Farleyense. 4-lnch 40c; r>-lnch 70c. Terms cash. BRADLEY REDFIEUD, Clenside, Pa. Mention American Florist. 25,000 GERANIUMS 25,000 out of Sinj-lnch pots, e.\tra stront;. lf.>..M per 100; JSll.lld per imi Also Heliotrope, Salvia, Ageratum, Mar- guerlteB, Coleus and basket plants. In anj quantity, oleus, rooted cuttlnga, Wiv, THE OLD A\D RELIABLE 57 Wfst 28th t., NEW YORK CIIY. ■I'l-icpliciTic (':iil ;)si :wtli St. FRED. EHRET, wnoiesaie Fiona No. 1403 Fairmount Avenue, Telephone. Long Distance. PHILADELPHIA. HEADQUARTERS. ROSES, CARNATIONS, AND VIOLETS. TRr US. WM. F. KASTING, Wholesale Commission Florist. 495 Washington St., BUFFALO. N. Y. Mention American Klorlst. BRILLIANT GREEN AND BRONZE GALAX LEAVES, Kor DecoratliiK and all Florists' UosIktib. CHAS. H. RICKSECKER. Linville. Mitchell Co., N, C Always mention American Klorlst. CHAS. W. McKELLAR, a a 9 O V cr o e A few of our Specialties are: Careful packlnK. fine distiudded Carnations, fancy Hoses, all varieties, select Violets. Valley. Romans, cbo'ce Adiantum. 8mlla.\. AspiraKus. Orchids. Hanlsli. Cullas, and all seasonable tiowers. Dealer in FLORISTS' SUPPLIES. W RE WORK. Etc. 59 WABASH AVENUE, ED. F. WINTERSON. Mgr. CHICAGO. ILLINOIS CUT FLOWER CO. .r. 15. DEAHirU. Mgr. WHOLESALE GUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 59 WABASH AVENUE, Growers' Agents. CHICA.(50. Manufacturers of Wire Work. A. L. RANDALL, wtioiesaie Florist. 126 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. Acent for finest trrades Waxpcl nnrt Tl«-ne F'aDpr* E. C. AMLING3 WHOLESALE COMMISSION * FLORIST, 88 WABASH AVENUE, Consignments Solicited CHICAGO. Prompt attention to shipping orders. ORDER FLOWERS AS YOU WANT THEM, OF WISCONSIN FLOWER EXCHANGE, Box S7. MILWAUKEE, WIS. C. A. KUEHN, Wholesale Florist, 1122 PINE STREET, ^ ST. LOUIS, MO. I^^A complete line of AVlre l>e8lg:nH. E. F. LEMKE. Wholesale Grower of CUT FLOWERS 91 West Seventti Street, .^ ST. PAUL, MINN. Please mention the American Florisi eyery time you write to an advertiser. iSgj. The American Florist. 633 But '-'^WSk,^:^ C.H.Hlnt. -— ^V' 58 WRt ST- CHlCftSO e.N Supply ALL WANTS '" AND ALL riORIiTS StPPllES KENNIGOTT BROS. GO. WtiolGsalG GUI Flowers and FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO. WI R E WORK A SPECIALTY. Winter & Glover, Successors to T. J. CORBREY & CO. Wholesale Commission Florists 21 Randolph St.. CHICAGO. If yoa want Flrst-ClaBS Flowera, properly packed ana delivered on time, send ub your orders and you wUl set what you want. We are now prepared to furnish Florists' Wire Designs and a full line of Florists* Supplies. WRITE US FOR OUR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. Bassett & Washburn, Successors to J. B. OEAMUD & CO., ^BBi-' CUT FLOWERS, 88 Wabash Avenue, ^ CMICA.OO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. REINBERG BROS. WHOLESALE GROWERS OF CUT FLOWERS. 500,000 FEET OP CLASS. We can flU all orders on short notice with all leading vnrletlea of Koses and Carnations. We ARE Headquarters for fine AMERICAN BEAUTIES (jlve Us a trial and convince voiiraelf Salesroom. 51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO. W. E. LYNCH, ^s=^"*^ CUT FLOWERS. STANDING ORDERS, we will give special prices. 19 & 21 RANDOLPH STREET, Fine Stock a Specialty. CHICA.GO. ROGERS PARK FLORAL 60.. Wholesale Growers of CUT FLOWERS, 41 WABASH AVENUE, .^m- CHICAGO. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN BEAUTIES. A. G. Prince & Co. WHOLESALE CUT FLOWERS AND FLORISTS' SUPPLIES, 88 Sc 90 Wabash >ivenue. Telephone Main 3208. CEICAOO. Prompt Attention to all Orders. When you write to any of the ad- vertisers in this paper please say that you saw the advertisement in the American Flor's* ®Y/ftofe*aftt Marft»r*. Cut Flowers. Nkw York. Feb 3. ROBOB. Beauty, extra 40 OOli jO.OO medium 2O.0O®:«.0O culla S.OOfcilO.OO Bride. Morgan. Testout l.OOfe li.OO Bridesmaid. Meteor 4.00a SOO CamatlODB 1 OOa 1 50 extra 1.50® 3 00 Valley 1.00® 3.00 Violets 40® .75 Roman hyaclntbs, P. W. narclsaUB t5(gi 1.50 cyprlpedlums 8 00® 10 00 Mignonette 2 00(* li.OO ("attievas 35.00®40.00 HarrlBll 4.00® 5.00 .MTOBotlB, freeala 1-00 Adlantum 50<.i' I OO Smllax 10 00<»12.00 Asparagus .. 60.00 Boston Feb. 3. ROBes. Gentler. NlphetOB 2 00 » 3.00 Perle. Mermet . . 3 008 5 00 Bride, Bridesmaid, Meteor 4 00® 8 00 extra.. .. 10 OOi./lB.OO Beauty lOOOoOTOO extra 25 00® 50 00 Carnations .75*1.^0 fancy 1. 50*2 00 Violets.... 50® .75 Valley, daffodils 1 00® 3 00 R. hyacinths, paper white narcissus 1 00'" 2.1X1 Mignonette 2,00 Freesla 50r manager. The expected visitors from Boston and elsewhere were preveoted by the storm from attending, A FRESH IMPORTATION ASTERS. The finest in the trade. German grown. Trade Pkt, TRUFFANT'S, separate colors, $ .25 $2 00 " mixed colors, .25 VICTORIA, separate colors, 50 " mixed colors, .50 QUEEN OF THE MARKET, white, .15 " " " mixed, .15 BRANCHING, white, .25 COMET, mixed, .25 CARNATION Marguerite, mixed, .25 CENTAUREA Gymnocarpa, i5 WM. ELLIOTT & SONS, New York. WHITE ORCHID FLOWERS. For the next four to six weeks we will have a fine supply of CCELOQYNE CRIST ATA, which we offer in sprays containing' fiom 7 to 10 flowers, at 10 cts. per flower. Oz. Trade Pkt. Oz. 2 00 COB/EA Scandens, S .15 t .35 1 50 DRAC/ENA Indivlsa, .i5 .30 3 00 LOBELIA Crystal Palace Cotn- 2 50 pacta(true), .50 3.00 .65 MIGNONETTE Machet, .10 .50 .50 PETUNIA, choice blotched and 2 00 striped, .25 1.00 2 25 SALVIA Splendens, .25 1.50 1.25 SMILAX, .15 .40 .50 STOCK, Boston Market, .50 4.00 JOHN N. MAY, Receiver. r»ITCHEJI« «l IVIAIVr>A., SHORT HILLS. NEW JERSEY. Hardy Cut Ferns. FIRST QUALITY, $1.00 per 1000. Dlflcoant on lar^i' orders. L. B. BRAGUE, Hinsdale, Mass. MAIL-TRADERS. WANTED: Addresses of Mall-Traders. We grow millions of the cheapest and best bulbs for the mail-trade and want new buy- ers. Catalogue for 1897 now ready and free on application. Van Zanten Brothers, HILLEGOM, HOLLAND. From March 10th to May 1st, all correspondence to be directed to MR. G. V. VAN ZANTEN. Jr , care Messrs. J. W. Hampton. Jr., &Co., 41 Broad- way. New York City, who also forward catalogues free on application. EEDS for From Sweet Pcasl C \ ^> FLORISTS' m^W FLOWER ^^ SEEDS % Win. It-sale Catalogue on application. ■' WEEBER & DON, ^'iL'^ZtT 1 14 Chambers St.. New York City. I FAXON'S "iiS^ll^ PANSIES. The best mixture in cuhivation, flowers very lart^t;, thick and velvety; of superb colors and markings. The perfettion of form and texture. In Trade Packets at SI. 00 each. M. B. FAXON, Lock Box 1528, BOSTON, MASS. C'Tri'Bpnndenoc solii'iti*d. SPECIALTIES IN BK8T VAKIBTIES. ROSES, from ;i-lnch potB. CARNATIONS, for fall delivery. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. SMILAX. VIOLETS. PrlceB low. Send for llBl. WOOD BROTHER S. FISHKIUL. N. Y. Please mention the American Florist every time you write to an adyertiser. Single Violets. Princess de Galles fi.oo Princess Beatrice (new) i.co Admiral Avellan (new) i 00 Luxonne 75 Petite Blue 75 Per Doz. Per 100 jfy.oo 7.00 7.00 5 00 5.00 IMPORTANT NOTICE: — k\\ plants are healthy, nut diseased nor degenerated; each kind tiue to name. All stock grown in cold frames without arliticial heat ot any kind. SINGLE VIOLETS MY SPECIALTY. All i; od kinds furnished on application. FRANCOIS SUPIOT, 57th St. & Lancaster Ave . PHILADELPHIA VERBENA KING. Rfin nnn rooted verbena cuttings. 55 ot JUUjUUU the finest aud largest varieties in cultivation; true to name. 60c. per 10O: S5.50 per 1000; 5000 tor $25.00: 10,000 for $45.00. Express prepaid. No rust or mildew. Satisfaction guaranteed in everj- way. WE ARE THE LARGEST VERBENA GROWERS IN THE WORLD. SKM> t'iHt I.IM', G. HUMFELD, Clay Center, Kan. Mention American Florist. FELTHOUSEN, Of Schenectady, has nn over stock of Knoted (.'iittlnKt* <>f the IuIIuwIiik In tine shape and tme to name, and lain shape to raise anv or all the trailG can or will dematid: Heliotrope. In variety. #1(1 per liRXi Colens. no end tti them. *i> per llHHI. Aceriituin tilue and white. JC- per HMNI Kiii'liNliis III var.. iV.y per ItKKl Kiu'IihIus. '->VI"Ch pi'lB, $-,V. per HHX). (leraiiliinis. In Hats, all the leaders, %V,i per ItMi MKI at IIHK) rates; l;>c e.xtni by the ItXI. ('urrespondence Hdllclted on lurue orders. Cash with the order. Selection of aorta to remain with us. iSg'/ The Am eric ax Florist. 635 FARQUHAR'S BOSTON NEW! TESTED!! RELIABLE!!! l^'Trade LisI of iSgj mailed to flo- rists free. A grand assortment. Quality unequalled. ASTER SPECIALTIES. BOSTON FLORISTS' DOUBLE WHITE .... oz., 51..50 " " other colors, jc/ara^f.oz., 1.50 COMET, white {and other colors) oz., NEW GIANT COMET, white oz., MIGNON. white (rWfu wlshlnK tu mttve the stock qutcfc- r^/fUfl) Iv. make the fulluwln^ special (M'tiW low quotations lor prompt «^l^^^^tlll orders: 4 Jwi'J'^Vvi* In bale lots (about -*2o lbs ) at '.ic. 4 Bl'ftwW. limibB. oroverat 10c. Z ftfli'.V ( MT -i*' lbs. or over at lie. I ffiV'!;)'™ 2.1 lbs. or over at 12c. I W> UW\v 111 lbs. or over at 14c. ! O'WllUllMV LessthanlOlbs. Btloc. perlb ♦ W/irJ/Ka f • o- !>• Phlla. ; net terms, and tub- f /(iraV'iiwi! ^^' unsold on receipt of order. \ WfMim J3"This exceptional op- T I'ffl' V ,v ViIAf portunityforbuyinga sup- ♦ 'lii'XtVlyff ply of fine quality at a low ♦ UT/.i/S/i'iiiVi) rate should not be neg- ♦ UiM''''/1'HW lected. AllcommlsalonB. larne I /i^);' i.'«OmI or small, will receive the same ! 'lFl!|l''Wi carelul attention. X 'iSV.IWb' CRAFTING wax. -Trow- I (IKili'iVil bridge's celebrated sraf- T 7illj!,''i '(in ting wax, the tienulne article. fnEfi'V r' 1 lb bars at I'.lc; V, lb bars at-*Oc; T WMh'u, I4 lb. bars at ,'lc. Kebates: 111 lb. f iJY*'w/l\ lutso per cent. 2b lb. lots Hi per f 'iWjP/l <=ent. .ill lb. lots l.i per cent. HO lb. i 'Vf/Vt,'i lots 211 per cent. I "'t' G. C. WATSON, j 4:; So. liith St., Philadelphia. \ BURPEE^S i , SEEDS 1 Philadelphia. j Whnlesalt? Price List for Florists I and Market Gardeners. I BULBS. BULBS. 50,000 Extra Dwarf Pear! 3 to 4-lnch 200 000 Dwarf Double Pearl 3 to 4-lneh 2o.0l¥l Tall Double 4 to B-lnch 10.000 Orantje or Single Flower 3 to K-lnch 5000 VarleKated 3tol>-lnch 5.000 -Albino' StoWnch 30,000 Caladlum esculentum 5 to 11-lnch Now ready. First come, flrat served, urtll gone. Write JNO. F. CROOM & BRO.. TCBERO.SE AM) I'ALAIUfM (JKUUEUS. BXA.<3rnroiL>x.A., rv. <=:■ Please mention American Florist. OSCAR KNOPFF&CO. SEED GROWERS. Sole Agent for the United States and Canada : M. RUTTENAU, 15 to 25 Whitehall St.. New York. Trade Catalogues and estimates cheerfully furnished. Orders promptly filled direct from nurseries at Brfurt. MaoiioD aaierloMi Florin, Canna BURBANK. THE AMERICAN SEEDLING, WITH GIANT ORCHID-LIKE FLOWERS. SEEING IS BELIEVING. Mr. It. ZiKNGiEKEi-. of Needham. Mass . of the S. A. F. Committee, who tested It with all the best new ones, says: •YELLOW Bi'RBANK Is the best jellow In cultivation now, very large flowers of a handsome, bright shade of nearlv pure yellow." Mr. j. T. TEMPLE, of Davenport. la., of this committee, says: ■■! consider Bltrbank one of the best of this year's novelties." Mr Fred Kanst. head gardener of South Park, Chicago, and an expert judge of Cannas at the World Fair, says: "The flowers were much admired In the parli this summer. The foliage Is like rubber; It Is always good; you can't tear It." PRICE, EACH 75 Cts.; SIX FOR $4.00, CANNAS, Best General List. BOOK FOR FLORISTS, READY. Canna "Yellow Crozy." This nove ty, proven by us for two years. Is a clear, pure canary yellow with no red markings, except a few faint red spots on the amallest lower petal. The effect produced by a bed of it la a solid mass of pure yellow. In size, the flower petals are 1^ Inches broad; the compact spike shows off well above the foUaee: height three feet, foliage tireen. It has a remarkable habit of throwing' out additional lateral flower heads from the main spike— often as many as six or seven. In the full sun it bleached less than any yellow canna we have seen, ow- Ini: to Its guod substance. It Is. In short, just the color and h.iblt of plant which has been sought for the past live years, a pure ■■Velltjw Cro/.y." Price prepaid, March 15th delivery, from 3-inch pots, $1,50: Stocic limited. TIJBERO<>E<>— BAI.IiOCK.'S TRUE EXC!E]:,SIOa PEARI., Strictly select bulbs. per 100. 81.00; per 1000. .tr.OO; in L'hicat'o. $8.00. Second size, I"t 1000, $4.00: in l/hii-aan $.=i.00. GLADIOLUS— XXX riorist Mixture, i"T 100. *2,00; p.T 1000. *1.h.00. riANNA3 NEW CROP. TRADE PRICE LIST READY, DP^OIMI AQ 'rul,pr'ii:ir;iti' '■itlors. Mii^le. lirsl sizi-. 100, ^:.'..'>0. °'^^'-"'"*^ meilium. 100, .$1.50. GLOXINIAS— Splendid bulbs, per 100, ,13.50. CALADIUM ESCULENTUM-T9iuch.perioo,!f.x0o ROSE— SOUV. PRES CARNOT, M.-irt-h 1st. 2% inch, ppr 100. Jl.xOO; .tOO for $62.50. OARNATIOIM^ — MAYOR PINGREE. vellow, per dozen, $1..50; per 100, $10 00. v./«nii« I i\^i'«>3 iiiiY DEAN.v rv large, white, with line pink lines, per tioz. $2; per 100*10. VAUGHAN'S SEED STORE, NEW YORK, 14 Barclay St P. 0. Box 688. CHICAGO. ASTER SEED of the celebrated Semple Aster, separate colors, pink and white, also mixed. Seed well cleaned, plump and good. Crop of 1896. For sale in any desired quantity by JAMES SEMPLE, Box 2, BELLEVUE, PA. CHAS. W. REIMERS, so AT 100 RATE, 500 AT 1000 RATE. Strong, healthy ROSES from 214 inch pots. Per 100 Per 1000 American Beauties $5 Kl $10 (10 La France 3.110 25.00 Brides 3 00 25 00 Mermets .. 3 0(1 25.00 Bridesmaids 3.00 25 00 Hermosa, Mme. Hoste. Cloth 5oupert. Agrlpplna, Duchess of Albany, Si. 00 per 100. No Rust CARNATIONS, 2l,.inch pots. Per IPO Per 1000 Wm. Scott Kill Slfi.OO Lizzie McGowan 2 00 1(1(0 Puritan 2.00 H.OO 329 4th AVE., LOUISVILLE. KY. PALMS. strong, 2-inch pots. Per ICO Latanla Borbonlca $ 5.00 Phoenl.x recUnata 15.00 Kentla Belmoreana U.OO Chamteropfl e.\celBa 6.00 S}i and 4-inch pots. Per 100 4 to ."» characterized leaves $28.00 18 Inches high, :i characterized leaves 25.00 Areca luteacens, one In a pot, 22 Inches high IH.OO llnapot 50(10 100,000 VERBENAS. THE CHOICEST VARIETIES IN CULTIVATION. Fine pot plants, $2.50 per tOO; $20 per 1000. Rooted Cuttings. 75c per 100: $6.00 per 1000: $50 per 1OO0O. PACKED LIGHT, AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. We are the Largest Growers of Verhenas in the coaotry. Oar plants caunot be surpassed. When writing mention American Florist. I ONG'S FLORISTS' PHOTOGRAPHS. I_/ In enlarged and improved series of 272 distinct subjects will be ready, with New Catalogue about January 15. Apply for it. DAN'L B. LONG, Publisher, BUFFALO, N. Y. FRED. ROEMER, Seed Grower, .. yueiUiuburg, Germany. Please mention the American Flo dst every time you write any of thi idvertisers on this page. 636 The American Florist. Feb. 6, Utica, N. Y. Trade is not as brisk as the time of year would seem to warrant, but as yet there is no surplus, many of the growers being off crop. This fact, together with the very stormy dull weather experienced for the last two weeks, limits the output and keeps prices fairly steady. Good roses are none too plenty, while Beauties are a positive novelty. Carna- tions, especially light colors, are in demand. Violets are easy. Romans, valley and bulbous stuff generally go slowly. There has been less doing in society here this winter than for several ) ears past and as a consequence the florists are doing the same. A rtcent call on Peter Crowe showed his place to be in grand shape. One house of Bridesmaids was worth taking a long trip to see. He has b.en cutting Kaiser- ins with stems five or six feet long, I for- get which; in either event they are un- common good. Several other houses are in the same good order and would serve as models of successful rose growing. He reports his annex at Little Falls as doing well. Donald McLean has his place looking first-class. He has been and is cutting some very fine roses. Carnations have done better than ordinary with him, a bench of McGowan being particularly good. Violets were off crop. J. C. Spencer has some of the finest vio- lets seen this year. The plants are not large, but are bearing heavily; quality A No. 1. Mr. S. is a believer in summer pot culture and the results would seem to warrant a number of converts. In car- nations McGowan has given an unusual heavy crop, while in roses a bench of Sun- sets has given more salable blooms than the same space formerly occupied by Perle. At C. F. Baker's place several houses are devoted to young ferns in all stages of growth. A seedling sport of Pteris tremula promises to excel its parent in usefulness. His seedling carnations are still keeping up to the mark, the new red one beine very much in evidence. F.J.B. HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y.— The green- houses of Herrons& Shaff weredestroved by fire on Sunday morning, January 24. They will probably be rebuilt. SiSoTrefused' I A year ago we made an offer of 81000 cash | for OKE PLANT each of the NEW CANNAS ITALIA AND AUSTRIA. , The offer was refused, a greater price being ' asked. Price now on application. I NEW ASPARAGUS SPRENGERII . The best novelty for Florists' decorative | purposes, 81.50 per 12; 810 per 100, from S^-inch pots. Send for Catalogue of Novelties. A. BLANC & CO., Phila., Pa. TRY DREER'S GflRDtN Seeds, I Plants. Bulbs & Requisites. J They are the best at the /lowest prices. Trade List is- ' sued quarterly, mailed fret to the trade only. HENKY A. DREEK, Fblladelphls, P». Mentlon'Am. Florist when writing. SOUVENIR DU PRESIDENT CARNOT . The Sensational New Rose . Our stock is Dropaf;ated from original imported stock and has been grown cool. Young plants bought from us will be found clean and healthy, ready lor immediate pot- ting on. Orders Booked now for March Delivery. IVr l).i/,. Per 100 Per 1000 STRONG 2Vi.-INCH STOCK $3.00 $15.00 $125.00 STRONG 3-INCH GRAFTED STOCK 3.50 20.00 Extra line, healthy stock in 2% and 2V2-inch pots at lowest prices. Also com- rlete list of novelties and standard varieties of Chrysanthemums, Carnations, Cannas, Geraniums, Begonias, and General Florists' stock. WHOLESALE LIST now ready. If you have not received it, send for it. Address H. ^VST. FOREST CITY GREENHOUSES, ROCKFORD, ILL. REINBERG BROS. STRONG, HEALTHY ROSES FROM 2V.-INCH POTS. Per 1()0 Per lOOO Per 1 OO Per 1 OOO AM BEAUTY, TESTOUT... $5.00 $40.00 | METEOR. BRIDE $3 00 $25.00 GOLDEN GATE, PERLE 3.00 I BRIDESMAID, KAISERIN... 3.00 25.00 BELLE SIEBRECHT 3.00 25.00 I LA FRANCE 3.00 25.00 No orders for less than UM) of one variety accepted. We are the largest rose groweris in the United States, autl can WW all orders with the very best of Rtork. Kose Ciittlnfis upon applUation. CARNATIONS-Rooted Cuttings. Per 100 Per 1000 IVORY, DELLA FOX S3. 00 $25.00 ROSE QUEEN 2.50 20.0O WM. SCOTT, DAYBREAK.. I.OO 8.00 NANCY HANKS, ALBERTINI 1.00 8.00 1 erlOO Per 1000 PORTIA, TIDAL WAVE SI. 00 SB. 00 LIZZIE GILBERT, CORSAIR 1.00 8.00 McCOWAN, STORM KINC 1.00 8.00 SILVER SPRAY, KOHINOOR 1.00 8.00 No orders tor less than lOtl of one variety accepted. The above stock is well rooted and free from rust. Sfc;NI) OKUfc;KS TO 51 Wabash Avenue. CHICAGO. Adiantum Cuneatum. We have a specially fine lot of this popular variety ready for immediate shipment, from 3-inch pots, at $7.00 per 100; $65.00 per 1000. JOHN N. MAY. Receiver. SHORT HILLS. NEW JERSEY. Rooted ROSE Cuttings. Free of all disease, and selected from cfioice flowering wood. PER 100 BRIDESMAIDS $1.50 BRIDES 1.50 INETEORS 1.50 PERLES 1-50 K. A. VICTORIA 2.00 MRS. J. P. MORGAN 2.00 No order for less than 100 will be accepted. BASSETT & WASHBURN, HINSDALE. ILL. 3000 stronj; plants frum the open ground, 80s per 100. 5000 grand stutT, 408 per 100. iTO CLEAR, i HUGH LOW & CO., Cables: CLAPTON. LONDON. "Orclxidaceous, Lonilou." ROOTED CUTTINGS. Strong, healthy, well-rooted cuttings from choice flowering wood. METEOR, SIEBRECHT • $1.50 per 100 WOOTTON, SUNSET - PERLE. BRIDE - - - BRIDESMAIO - - - TESTOUT $2.00 per 100 AM. BEAUTY - - - $2.50 per 100 CARNATIONS. strong, healthy, well-rooted cuttings. PORTIA, silver' spray, TIDAL WAVE, DAYBREAK, SCOTT, at SI. SO per 100. ROSE QUEEN, at S2.00 per 100. L. L. MAY & CO., St. Paul, Minn. ForSPRING DELIVERY HARDY LOW-BUDDED RDSES. Tree Roses. Azaleas. Rhododendons, Snowballs, Hydrangeas, Etc. Grown by the Boskoop, Holland, Nursery Association. C. H. JOOSTEIM. Agent, 193 Greenwich Street, NEW YORK. FINE NEW ROSE STOCK NOW READY. Well Rooted, in 2-inch pots. AMERICAN BEAUTIES, BRIDES, BRIDES- MAIDS, PERLES, AND KAISERIN AUGUSTA VICTORIA. Send Mc or ^\.W for tramples niul prices. GEO. A. KUHL, Pekin, III. t8g7. The American Florist. 687 NEW ROSE Souv. du President Garnet. Admired bjr Evdrybodjr. It Brows in Favor Daily. President Carnot is without a doubt a grand acquisition to the list of forcing Roses. It has all the good qualities, being a remarkably strong, quick grower, extremely healthy, and a constant bloomer. It produces long, stift stems, with handsome foliage; the color is an exquisite sea-shell pink, with the edge of the petals ivory-white. The blooms are larger than either Bride or Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, and of perfect shape; even upon small plants the blooms are large and and show the same character as one year old plants. EVERY WIDE-AWAKE FLORIST SHOULD PLANT IT. How many florists have purchased new Roses during the past few years, and after growing them for a year or two have been disappointed and dropped the new Roses as unprofitable ? We recommend with full confidence President Carnot, both for forc- ing and open air culture. We know it will be both profitable and pop- ular as a cut flower. It has been tested in the West, in Boston, in New York, and Washington, and from all these different localities with their varied soils comes but one report — it is THE ROSE of the year. It has taken more iVledals and Certificates of Merit than any other variety ever introduced in this country. All these reasons, we think, should in- duce florists to plant it largely this year, as the price is exceptionally low for such a sterling novelty. A PERFECTLY HARDY GARDEN RGSE. We have tested President Carnot in the open ground and it produces as many flowers as Maman Cochet. At this date it has stood 3 degrees above zero without protection, and every plant is perfect to the top of the stems. We are convinced that it is perfectly hardy. All Orders Booked for March 15th. strong plants from 2Vj-inch pots. $3-00 per dozen: $15.00 per 100: $125 00 per 1000. 50 sold at 100 rates: 500 at 1000 rates. ORDERS MAY BE SENT TO ROBT. SCOTT & SON, Philadelphia. E. ASMUS, West Hoboken, N. J. E. G. HILL & CO., Richmond, Ind. ROBT. CRAIG, Philadelphia. STRAUSS & CO., Washington, D. C. 638 The American Florist. Feb 6. Rochester, N/Y. The prevailing extremely cold weather during the past week undoubtedly had a detrimental influence on the sales of cut flowers in general and if it had not been for a number of receptions and dinners, a very limited quantity of stock would have been disposed of; as it was however, nearly all good stock found purchasers, very little going to waste. Violets, mignonette and selected roses continue to be scarce. Plenty of carna- tions of good quality arc in the market. Valley has not been overplenty lately but at present we are better supplied. Other bulbous stufi' is not selling so readily as in former seasons and prices took a tumble. With the thermometer near zero, plant sales are reduced to a minimum and a week's rest for azaleas, etc., has improved the appearance of the plants now ofi'ered in the stores. Since the holidays there was a decided scarcity of well flowered azaleas but now good specimens can be seen more frequently. Considerable diffi- culty was experienced in the safe trans- portation of large plants for decorations during the coldest weather and many good palms suffered seriously in transit. The gathering of eminent horticultur- ists at the annual meeting of the Western New York Horticultural Society last week was very large and the many papers read by leading members from all parts of the state were interesting and instructive to all. The society is in a flourishing condi- tion and never fails to draw a very large attendance, not only from our immediate vicinity, but also from the neighboring states. Ohio and Maryland, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, etc., were all represented and the discussions of the various papers were full of valuable hints and suggestions to growers and planters. The exhibition of fruit and implements was much more extensive than usual and was examined with great interest by all fruit growers. The annual report of the E. R. Fry Flo- rist Co. to theCounty Clerk'sofficeshows an invested capital of $2,000, debts to the amount of $2,118.14 and assetts $2 851.04. I. B. K. PALMS AND FERNS. The LARGEST STOCK west of New York GEO. WITTBOLD, '™V^'^ll'c Mention American Klurlst- ROBERT CRAIG, Roses, Palms, Novelties in Decorative Plants MARKET AND 49th STREETS. PHILADELPHIA, PA. Single Begonia Bulbs in separate colors, per 100 %'l 50; per 1000 ?L'0 00 Tuberoses. THK TKARI,, Al, per 100 $1.00; per 1000$7.00 All other seasonable Bulbs on hand. ASK FOR Prick List. HULSEBOSCH BROS., Englewood, N. J. Mention American t'lurlat. YOU RUN NO RISK. If the cuttings are not satisfactory you return them at my expense. Unlimited quantities and reasonable prices. Send me a list of what you want. Varieties: McGOWAN. ALASKA, DAYBREAK. SCOn. PORTIA. BUTTERCUP. KELLER, and lAGO. TRIUMPH. ABUNDANCE. DELLA FOX. JUBILEE. ARWA- ZINDA, IVORY, ANNIE LONSDALE, CRIMSON SPORT, and ELDORADO. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ I Herr's | : Carnations: ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ GERANIUMS— Up to-date bedders and foliage varieties, ready latter pait of Feb , at 81. .50 per 100, or S12 50 per 1000. Double Gen. Grant in separate orders, not less than 2J0, at 81 00 per 100. DOUBLE PETUNIA VETERAN— New to the trade; dwarf bushy growlh, immense fringed blooms white striped rose. Fine plants at 50 cts. per dozen; 83.50 per 100. COLEUS— Red, yellow, and all the leading fancy sorts, at 75 cts. per 100; 86.00 per 1000. PANSIES all the year round; no better strain anywhere. Small plants 75cts. per 100; 85 00 per ICOO. r^. :b. *»e. ALBERT M. HERR, Lancaster, Pa. DORNER'S NEW CARNATIONS FOR 1897. MRS. CHAS. H. DUHME (SEEDLING 1892). Color lively delicate pink, large flower, fragrant, with good calyx on strong stiff stem. Plant vigorous erect g:rower, A very early. Iree and constant bloomer: much more so than any of the light pink varieties, rivaling in product- iveness with Scott. This promises to be the best of the light pink commercial varieties. Certificated at Indianapolis and Philadelphia. We have grown this variety now for five year>. and it is indispensable at our place. MRS. GEO. M. BRADT (SEEDLING 1893). Color clear white, heavily edged and striped with bright scarlet, giving it a very bright and cheerful appearance. Floweis large and full, with center petals standing erect, giving the bloom a well rounded form. Calyx resembling Mme. Albertini. Habit strong and vigorous. Thi* vanety is now in its fourth year, and has proven the most even and constant bloomer from eaily to late. We received for these flowers the highest prices paid in the market. Received Cold Medal at Atlanta, Certificate at same place and at Chicago. C. A. DANA. Delicate shell pink; vigorous, wiry grower. Medium to large flowers on strong, stiff, wiry stems. Color soft and exceptionally pleasing. Flower a splendid keeper. One of the most attractive colors in pink carnations. Stock limited. Rooted Cuttings ready March 1. 1897, $10 per 100: $75 per 1000. Plants from soil at same price 4 weeks later. r. DORNER & SONS CO., La Fayette, Ind. New Yellow Carnation MAYOR PINGREE. Without doubt the best YELI.OW CARNATION In commerce to-day. Orders booked aud tUled iu rotation. Marcli l>elivery. SI. 50 per doz.; SIO.OO per 100; S7S.00 per 1000. .A.-V«r.A.E«.I3S. DECKMBER 14. ISSiu. Certlflcate at Cincinnati Meetlnt:. FRBRUARY 21. ISHtJ. Certificate at New York American Carnation Society Meeting. Only two varieties re- ceived Certificates at this meeting— Mayor Plngree belnu one of them. NOVKMBKK EXHIBITIONS, 1896. CKAKi SILVER CUP- Philadelphia. Pa. CERTIFICATE. Louisville Ky. Cd.MPLl.MKNTARY NOTICE. Boston. Mass. CEKTIKICATE, Milwaukee. Wis HIlNOKABLE MENTION. St, Louis, Mo. CBRTIEICATE. Poughkeepsle. N. Y. CERTIFICATE Indianapolis, Ind. OERTIFICATK, Worcester, Mass. CERTIFICATE, Chicago, 111. CERTIFICATE, Toronto, Ont. YOUNC PLANTS OF IVOIRE ROSE and KATE WASHBURN CHRYSANTHEMUM, at $6.00 per 100: SI.OO per dozen. MARCH DELIVERY. JOHN BREITMEYER & SONS, Miami and Gratiot Aves., DETROIT. MICH. NEW WHITE CARNATION 64i f f A money maker; prolific in bloom; good grower and free from disease $8.00 per 100; $50.00 per 1000. New Rose WHITE BOUGERE, a sport from the old variety "Bouj;ere," a prolific bloomer, good grower and clear white in color. Just the thine where a florist needs a food supply of white roses. Per dozen $3.00; per 100 $12.00; per 1000 $100. JOHN H. DUNLOF, Toronto, Canada. ELDORADO. The finest YELLOW CARNATION In ciiltlva tlon. Hooted CuttliiKa. $-' Kl per '.t«l; $1.'>.UU per RK)0. LADY CAMPBELL VIOLETS. R.ioted Runners, lltic per KKl; ji". HI per 11X1(1. CIANT DOUBLE ALYSSUM, fl UOperKKI; *s (10 per IIIIKI prsend lor i-lrcuhir. W. R. SHELMIRE, Avondaie, Pa. VIOLET PLANTS FOR SALE. A few thousand extra fine MARIE LOUISE rooted plants, stock perfectly healthy. New houie and new stock last year. Orders booked as received. Violet clumps lor delivery April 20. HIGHLAND, Ulster Co., N. Y. TBE COMING FAVORITE. (TU.\1)E M.\HK.l A White CARNATION with all the good points. For sale by WELCH BROS., Boston, Mass. See large advertisement of Jan. 23. New Geranium , Ready Now. MARS. CERTIFICATED. Try II (lo/i'u; \oiril — — *— want u 1000. Kecoin- Rootct] Cuttintis. $1 per iiu'iids itself. doz.. $iS per 100: 'J-in. pots, I'lish Willi order. ^^■'^'^ l"'!" ^''^^^■' *** l"'"" 1^- HENTBT EXOHHOLZ, Waynesboro, Fa. The American Florist. eS9 ALM ■ C/^ / FRESH ^-^-^^■^^ ON HAND Per 100 1000 :)000 Icooos WeildeUiana J1.25 $10.00*27.50 iDrarsi-ii* rulira ..n I' 00 I'andauus utilis 1.50 12.50 InusaKiisete 1 2d 10 00 27.50 •■ rosacea 1 '•*•' 12. ou Coffea arabica ....- JM 12.50 AsoaraKns pluiiiosus nanus, Irae 1.50 12.. tO .» Am DraiiciiV imlivina liiieat^* oz.aOc; pkt. 2oc '• latifolia superlja ','. J^' .'. §S Yuoca angustifoiia ' r-99 .[ ?Jr^ J. L. SCHILL ER, Rutherford, N. J. I offer 6 extra large specimens and 18 plants in 16 and l8-inch pots, at a very low rate as 1 must have the room All in good, healthy condition. i@" Write for special low piices. ERNST WIENHOEBER, 417 Elm Street, CHICAGO. IT DOES NOT PAY to grow poor varieties of CARNATIONS. We have the best that can be had. per 100 1000 MORELLO, the new scarlet, extra fine, $10.00 S 75 00 FLORA HILL, white, large and free. . 12 00 100 00 MRS. McBURNEY. light pink. . 12.00 100.00 HARRISONS WHITE, sport from Scott, white. ... 12.00 10000 MAYOR PINGREE. It yel.. large blooms 10.00 75.00 MRS. CHAS. H. DUHME, delicate pink, very early 10.00 75.00 MRS. GEO. M. BRADT. white, marked scarlet 10.00 75.00 We have also a large stock of all the leading commercial varieties. Send for price list. GEO. HANCOCK & SON, GRAND HAVEN. MICH. CARNATIONS ROOTED CUTTINGS. READY FEB. lOth AND LATER. Feriectly clean and healthy, and well-rooted when sent out. VARIETIES: Daybreak, Wm. Scott, McCowan, Puritan, Albertini, Tidal Wave, Portia, at $1.00 per 100; j.S.00 per 1000. Rose Queen, Emily Pierson, $2.00 per 100; $15.00 per 1I«I0. Tehms C.^SH with ORDER. MAGNUSON & PEARSON, Bowmanville, Station X, CHICAGO, ILL. 100,000 CARNATIONS. 100,000 Ready Feb. 1st and later, of all the leading varie- ties at prices that are right. Nothing but first- class stock sent out. Do not fail to write me be- fore you buy. Address CHAS. CHADWICK, Lock Box M, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. VERBENA SEED. MAMMOTH FLOWERING. An exceedinKly fine collection of Giant flowerlni: varieties; tlorets one Inch In diameter, of the most Bhowy colors. My cuBtxjmers write that thla la the lin- est strain of Verbenas tliey can yet; requires no better evidence of superiority. Every tltirist Buould suw of It. Each, per trade pfel.. ^c; :i pkts.. mc ; r. pkts.. $1.00. Seeds of tested novelties added to every order. JOHN F. RUPP, Shiremanstown, Pa. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^ ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^ I GERANIUMS. A grand stock! Plants in perfect condition, with solid balls, ready for sh It ing to i'/i and 4-inch pots. AT $3 50 PER 100; $30 00 FEB 1000. LA FAVORITE. The most popular double pure white sort. MRS. J. M. G«AR. The most profuse blooming single white. A grand bed- der. S. A. NUTT. Deep brilliant crimson; the best double red. BISHOP WOOD. Double scarlet shaded vio- let. A constant bloomer. DOUBLE GEN. GRANT. The well known double scarlet; unsurpassed for bedding. GEN. GRANT (true). The old and popular single scarlet bedder. ROSE BUD (Jenfl). Dwarf and compact, with very double rosebud-like florets. AT $400 FEB 100; $35.00 FEB 1000. MRS. E. G. HILL. A popular single salmon pink and as good as popular; superb bedder. RUY BLAS. Immense trusses of large, bright salmon and rosy peach double florets; grand for bedding or pots. WHITE SWAN. A superb double white; pure in color and stands the sun well. Dwarf com- pact grower. WILLIAM KELWAY. A superb briUiant deep orange-scarlet; large full trusses. PIERRE CROZY. A hybrid between the Zonale and Ivy-leaved species. Large trusses of bright scarlet, semi double florets freely produced. A splendid bedder. BEAUTE POITEVINE. The finest double sal- niou. either for bedding or pot culture. BLACK KNIGHT. Very dark, double crim- son, extra large in truss and flowers. EMELIE DE GIRARDIN. Extra fine double bright pink, large perfect trusses. JEROME. Very dark rich pink, double, very efi*ective; a profuse bloomer. MRS. A. BLANC. Single, rich salmon pink; a grand bedder. MME. CHAS. MOLIN. A grand new sort, with enormous trusses and semi-double flo- rets of bright salmon pink; an everlasting bloomer. MONTESQUIN. Large trusses of large Grace Wilder pink, double florets. ♦ All are strictly true to name and pure. Samples mailed upon receipt of 25c. THE LOVETT CO., Little Silver, New Jersey. ♦ ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Our Trade Lisi for 1897 is Now Out Offering a complete line of New and Standard CARNATIONS ah the CANNAS Novelties CHRYSANTHEMUMS and selected DAHLIAS standard GERANIUMS Varieties. Send your name and address, and you will receive the same by return mail. THE COTTAGE GARDENS, Queens, L. I. Two Grand New CARNATIONS, LILY DEAN and MAUD DEAN. For lull description see "ad." in last issue of this paper, or Trade List now readv. JOHN N. MAY, Summit. Mew Jersey. SEEDLING CARNATIONS FOR 1897. OAPT IflMR variegated white and pink, an early and continuous bloom erj very fragrant and a UMl I I IxlllUf good shipper; stems extra long and stiff; an exceedingly attractive and profitable var. in^FPH IFFFFR^flN *^^^P pinl^. ^yery large and showy flowers on long, stiff stems. Color I ) resembling Cartledge; much larger flower. Send for wholesale list of new and standard Carnations. Stock strong and healthy. NO RUST. C. J. PENNOCK, The Pines, KENNETT SQUARE, PA. THE NEW SCARLET CARNATION MORELLO. Will be disseminated March 1, '97. Get your orders in now. $1.50 per 12, $10 per 100, $75 per 1000. HOPP & LEMKE, E. Grand Rapids, Mich. Mention American Florist. CARNATIONS ROOTED CUTTINGS of the leading varieties; clean, healthy stock. Positively no "Rust." Send for price list. WM.SWAYNE, Box226,KennettSqr.,Pa. E. G.HILL & CO., vytioi6sai6 Florists RICHMOND. INDIANA. Burki's New Yellow Marauerite ETOILE DE LYON. 85 Kooted Cuttings for WLOO. by mall. A valuable plant for Cut Flowere. Blooms the year rouud. Cash with order. FRED. BURKI, Bellevue, Pa. Mentiun Amerloan Florist. 640 The American Florist. Feb. 6. The Missouri Botanical Garden. The annual report of the officers of the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botani- cal Garden, St. Louis, for 1896, shows the total receipts from various sources during the yeartohavebeen$112,+76.50; cash balance on hand, January 1, 1896, $11,485.51. The expenditures for the year were as follows: Forgarden account itemized, $21,148.98; library account, $4,461.17; office account, $4,798.48; research account, $1,011.37; scholarship account, for instruction, etc., $804.15; garden improvement account, repairing storm damage by the tornado of last May, $4,478.36, and extension of garden, etc., $506 75. Total for garden account, $37,260 26. Publication account, $2,- 848 46; property expense account, $49,- 284.16; office account, $4,999 25; sundrv accounts. If gal expenses, street openings, etc., $10,332.05; beauests, including premiums to Flower S'low, the flower sermon, the trustees' banquet, the gar- deners' b'inquet, and donations to Wash- ington Uaiversity, $2,694.15. Grand total of expendituresforl896. $107,418.- 33. Amount invested in 1896. $16,537 - 33; leaving cash on hand, D.cember 31, 1896, $6 35. The report is signed by R. J. Lackland, president, and attested by A. D. Cunningham, secretary. Prof. Wm. Trelease is Director of the garden. Warren, Ohio. The backbone of the dull spell, as well as of the cold spell, is apparently broken and while business is not booming, things have picked up somewhat and tbe out- look is brighter and more encouraging. What may be regarded as the finest decoration ever attempted in town was that furnished by Mr. Geo. W. Gaskill for the Elk's annual banquet, given recently. Palms, asparagus and cut flowers were used in profusion and to good advantage. It was an elaborate affair and Mr. Gas- kill was the recipient of many compli- mentary comments. A new departure in Mr. Gaskill's busi- ness is that of growing geraniums in large quantities for the wholesalemarket. Mr. Gaskill has met with exceptional success in growing the geranium and produces some splendid specimens. Funeral work has been on the increase of late, flat bunches being princioally in demand. Homo. Louisville, Ky. The Anchorage Rose Co. has a house 70x40 of California violets which are looking very fine; they cut from 800 to 1200 dailv. Mr. C. Rayner, of the An- chorage Rose Co., intends to add two new houses, 300 feet long, one for Beau- ties and one for Meteors. He finds his trade demands these roses. These houses will be run in connection with the Anchor- age Rose Co. Mr. Louis Kirch, a beginner in the business, has a house of fine carnations, such as the Daybreak, McGowan, Rose Queen and Tidal Wave. Mr. Frank Lichtefeld, father of Mr. Henry Lichtefeld, has recovered from a hard attack of the grippe, and is able to be out again. F. H. Stockton, Cal.— H. H. Oliver has bought the Clark & Nicwanger stock and has opened a store at 224 E. market street. Mrs. W. Waterman has started in the florist business at Angels Camp, Calaveras Co., a mining town east of here. "NOT IN IT/'ckkaKectiokWITHOUT The New Variegated Variety A new and beau- tiful novelty that is "up-to-date," and a sure "want" by every live flo- rist. JOHN WHITE. strong plants ready Feb. 15, 75c each; $7.50 per doz.; $50 per 100. It's future is as bright as the morning. Do not fail to order this t'rand varie- ty SOON. Send for oircalar and colored plate, if not yet reeeived. Cash or sitiHfactory reference witli order. Orig^inated and introduced by JOHN WHITE, Elizabeth, N. J. gantBasots for plant and flower decora- tions can be found at 56 North Fourth St., PHILADELPHIA, where H. BAYEBSDOEFEE & carry the largest stock in the country of domestic and im- ported Florists' Supplies, of superior quality , at Manufact'ers' Prices. Jardinieres, Stands, Plateaus, Handle Baskets, Fern Dishes, etc Funeral requisites, sheaves, doves, inscriptions, metal de- signs, dried and artificial flowers, to legitimate florists' trade only. Undertakers not supplied. Send for Catalogue. WHOLESALE ONLY. H. Bayersflorler & Go., 56 No. Fourth St , PHILADELPHIA. GALAX AND LEUGOTHOE. , ■ , i^ i^— , — Write the INTRODUCER of these most beautiful new Decorative Greens for samples and infor- mation. HIGHLANDS NURSERY. ItA.'WA.IVA., IV. O. FINE PLANTS, pe.ioo IIKJ Marf;uerUe» il'iirla Diilsyi. I Inch i"its *«.IK1 :iU\ (ierantiunt). stundanl vurs .•-•.^-liich pots t.U) limi UoranluiuB. " " :)-mch 4.(1(1 Cjddd I'linsleBlrom cold frames laU SKKl fan8(08 from need lieds. per KKKI, SI. 50 ul Kl.KlO Alternanthera, red and yellow J.u m*\ Smlla.v, readv April Ist. '-'-Inch potn l..i(l Cash \\ ith (Hidek. JOS. H. CUNNINGHAM. Delaware, 0. Novelties for 1897. Our Collection of Certificated MIDGE, MERULA, MRS. JOHN J. GLESSNER. CHITO, MRS. MARTIN A. RYERSON, SUNSTONE. WESTERN KING. READY MARCH 1st. 50c each: $5 per doz.; $35 per 100. NATHAN SMITH & SON ADRIAN. MICH. Mention Amnrlcan Klnrlst. Importers and Manufacturers of FLORISTS' SUPPLIES 25 N. FOURTH STREET. .. .. PHILADELPHIA, PA. FALL CATALOGUE NOW READY. BOSTON FLORIST LETTER CO., 13 Green St., BOSTON, MASS. OtHce, 84 Hawley St. Manufacture the Best Letters In the Market. Sizes 1'4-lncli and 2-10011. $2.1X1 per M); script $4.00 per UH). Patent fastener with each letter. With orders for :ii) letters we k'vo away a nicely stained and varnished hox. For Sale By All Supply Dealers. FLORISTS' RIBBON. AM widths and popular shades of color PRICES REDUCED H 17 East 83rd Street SEND FOR SAMPLE TO M. WEISEL, NEW YORK. CLEMATIS I'ariety. doriuaut and in pels, at 82.M) per dozen; S'JU 00 per Itt). Specia' offer to florists. 12 varieties, one each, several new new ones. $3 00 tor 12. SMI LAX— Strong plants, 2J2 in. pots,$;i per IIH). Seedlings, transplanted, 81.00 per 100; %1 50 per 1000. HERBACEOUS PAEONIES-Choice col- lection, named kinds, 81. 2o per dozen; ffS.OO per 100. Wliite alone. $10 00 per 100. F. A. BALLER. BLOOMINGTON. ILL. 25,000 ROOTED ROSE CUTTINGS. Strunt:. well rooted and healthy. IVTles HrUtesinalda. I'apn Uontler. Herniosii. Meteor, Lit Kmnee. at iX.M per UNI; *Ki.(ih per llNKi. Brides. Merinets, N'lphetos. *1 r. per liHl; Jll per UHHl. Cash with order. J. J. LAMPERT, King St., XENIA, O. 1^97- The American Florist. 641 Hot=Bed Sash. I Tenons wliite-leaded. Corners se- cured with iron dowel pins. Every detail of construction perfect. Made of Clear Cypress Lumber. Quick Shipments. We have in stock and can ship immediately; 3 ft.x6 ft., 3 rows 10 in. glass. 3ft.3in.x6ft.,4. " Sin. " 4 ft. X 6 ft., 5 " Sin. " Not glazed, 1^+ in. thick. Delivered Prices Quoted on application. State size and quantity w^anted. No order too small to receive careful atten- tion, and none too large for our facilities. LOCKLAND LUMBER CO.. Lockland, Ohio. FOR EASTER Force Flowering Shrubs, Lilacs, Staphyleas, Deutzias, Snowballs, Kalmias. Roses, H. P. and others, Treeroses, Clematis, Pseonias, Hardy Aza- leas, Hydrangeas. L. C. BOBBINK, RUTHERFORD, N. J. Branch of the HORTICULTURAL COMPANY. Boskoop, Holland. 400.000 Giant Flowering Pansy Plants (fall sowing). 50.000 ROOTED CUTTINGS CARNATIONS, of new and stan- dard sorts. Send for price libt. We pay Ex- press charges to every part of U. S. MORRIS FLORAL CO., Morris, III. PELARGONIUMS. IS of the best kinds, out of 2-lnch pots, at S4.iiii per hundred: tine plants. ROOTED CUTTINGS Double and Single Daisies. *1 -■'> ner hundred. CHRYSANTHEMUMS, n:i:> per hundred Write for particulars to S. D. BRANT, TheClay Center Florist. Clay Center, Kan, LORD & BURNHAM CO.. Horticultural Architects and Builders, STEAM AND HOT WATER ENGINEERS. ^^Plans and estimates farnUhed on application. Largest builders of Greenhonse Structures. Six hlgrhest Awards at World's Fair. SEND FOUR CENTS POSTAGE FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. LORD & BURNHAM GO. FACTORY: ArcMtectnral Office, I60 Fifth Ave., ) COR. TWENTY-FIRST ST., IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON, N. T. New York City. Hot Water Heaters#Steaiii Boilers They possess to the highest degreethe esseulial elements of construction which place them in the foremost rank for GREENHOUSE REQUIREMENTS. CAPACITIES FULLY GUARANTEED. Send for Catalognes. ^^^^^, GURNEY HEATER MFG. CO., 163 Franklin St., Cor Congress. BOSTON, l«ASS. NEW YORK BRANCH: 48 Center St. Neponset Flower Pots of Waterproof Paper are sold as follows: Terms— Net cash with order. If ordered shipped freight, add 5U cents cartage. Packed In Gross Wel^rht Size Crates of per IPOO pots Per 100 Per 1000 3J<-lneh 1000 abouta! lbs $0.25 $2 00 3 3« 4 6 t; ..1000 .,1000.. ..1000 . . 500., 500.. .. 500 . 23 U 45 7(; 100 150 .30 .35 .SO .60 .ao 1.60 2.:* 2.80 4.00 5.00 8.30 13.35 Standard Pot Measure. I^ess quantities than full crates at 100 rates. F. W. BIRD & SONS, Manufacturers. Address orders to our General Ag:euts, August Rolker&Sons New York, p. o. station E, or R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., Boston. Eastern Agents. Mention American Florist. ROOTED CUTTINGS. Good ones. Verbenas, 24 varieties, 80 eta. per 100; .i^r.OO per 1000 Fvw'hslas. 1:1 " 20ct8. per doz. Heliotrope, V " 20et«. New iiiaiit Alyssmii 20ct8. " (Uipliea Llavrt- or 4 igar Plant — 20ctB. SalviHS and Marguerites 20ct9. " Mexi<-Hii Primroses & Ageratum 20et8. ToleuB. 12ot8. Chr.vHantlienium.s. 2(1 cIh. Koses. 25 cts. per do/. Postage, Ic. per dnz. Cash. I. L. PILLSBURY, Galesburg, III. When writing mention Amerlcar Florlet 412 TO 422 HAWTHORN I CHICAGO. When writing mention the American Florist. International Horticultural Exposition, Entries for the Spring Exhibition must be received by March I, 1897. Mention Ann'rican Florist. 642 The American Florist. Feb. 6, Wilkesbarre, Pa. After a somewhat dull spell of two weeks duration, business has begun to revive once again, the outlook being decidedly brighter and more encouraging from day to day. The annual assembly ball, the most notable social event of the season, took place recently, Florist Marvin having the decorations in charge. As usual these were executed on a most elaborate scale and a few lines of description may be read with interest. Palms, ferns, bay trees and other decorative plants were used to good effect. The stage was completely hidden from view, while at the base, upon a sort of foundation of pyramidal ever- green trees, there was arranged a group or bank of plants, the center of which held a large mirror, that reflected the lofty palms surrounding it. Strings of evergreen were suspended from the top of the mirror, making it appear as if there were four glasses instead of one. The summit was capped by an arrangement of bay trees. The whole design reached from the floor to the ceiling. The effect of this arrangement was unique as well as attractive. Evergreen and laurel roping, twisted in every conceivable form suitable for the occasion adorned the walls, while from the dome in the centre of the ceiling were sus- pended streamers of laurel that extended to the walls, the effect formed being that of an evergreen covered canopy. Right underneath the apex of this canopy, at the dome, was suspended an evergreen bell, dotted with scarlet immortelles. The gallery was hidden by an arrange- ment of branches and underneath it were placed large plants of various kinds. A smaller mirror was placed here against the wall, the effect, as in the former case, being most attractive. The chandelier and every available space came in for their share of the decorator's touch. A most attractive feature worthy of especial notice, is the improvised com- partment, circular in form and about 10 feet in diameter, made of roped evergreen. This was a sort of grotto for the ladies to rest in and view the beautiful scene before them. The decoration was the finest ever seen in Wilkesbarre. Mr. Humphrey, of Wm.EIdridge & Co., had likewise several fine decorations recently. Mr. Humphrey intends adding a 100x20 rose house in the spring. Homo. On February 1, the Gurney Heater Mfg. Co. removed their New York ofSce from 82 and 84 Center street, to 48 Center street, occupying half of the store prem- ises of Wm. H. Sheridan. Here they have on exhibition an extensive line of boilers in charge of Mr. I. G. James, their New York selling agent. An error in the advertisement of Mr. P. A. Bailer in last issue made him offer clematis at 50 cents a dozen when the figure should have been $2.50. It ap- pears correctly this week. iFOR SALE BY Seed Stores. For Free Pamphlet, write to I.IK^IHTILLF ISriKIT CllltFn TullACCOCo. Louisville, Ky When writing to any of the advertisers on this page please mention the Ameri- can Florist. STANDARD FLOWER POTS. Send for our new price list, with extra discounts. All of our Pots from 7-inch and upwards have our Patent Bxcelsior Bottom, which is a great advantage as it insures perfect draina^. THE WHILLDIN POTTERY COMPANY, 713 to 719 Wharton Street, Philadelphia, Pa. RRAMPu u/APruniicrC' ^ Kearuev aud Westside Aves., Jersey Citv, N. tl. BttANun WAtttnuuata. ^ jackaou Ave. and FearKon St., Loug Island ( ity. N. Y. STANDARD FLOWER POTS Every user of Flower Pois should correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. Our facilities are unequaied. A. H. HEWS & CO., N. Cambridge, Mass. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO. Manufacturers of FLOWER POTS, BULB PANS, HANGING BASKETS #SAUCERS * /^UR Flower Pots are standard measure and all first-class and we assure you they will give good satis- ^^ taction. We call your attention to our new pots. 6, 7, 8 and 9-inch, called the "Poro Pot " They are more Porous than any pots, smoother inside and outside, perfect drainage, and are easily washed and cleaned. Give them a tnal and yon will not want any other. Remember, these Pots are as cheap as any other Pot on the market. Write for price list. SYRACUSE POTTERY CO.. SYRACUSE, N. Y. D0Y0uusEFIOWFF< POTS? If so, before buying, write for our prices on STANDARD POTS, BULB PANS, PALM POTS, VASES, ETC. ■PITTSBURGH CLAY MFG. CO., New Brighton, Pa. Standard Flower Pots. OCR POTS ARE OF THE BEST QUALITY. We ship all goods from Cincinnati, guaranteeing lowest freight rates and prompt delivery. Write us before placing your orders elsewhere CAMBRIDGE TILE MFG. CO., Covington, K,, Plant Pots Pedestals. New shapes and colors from the best Potteries of England, France, Germany, China, Japan and America; all sizes and values, from the low cost up to the large and very large palm pots; values from 25 cts. up to |150 each. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. JONES, McDUFFEE & STRATTON CO. China and Class Merchants, (Seven Floors) 120 Franklin St., BOSTON. MASS. Jerome Jones, Pres. S. A. Stuatton, Treas. Mention American Florlet. FLOWER POTS. We Manufacture all kinds of Flower Pots, etc. Making a Specialty of Florist Standard Pots Send for price Hat and samplee (whlcli will be sent free and we know you will Klve us your order: J« Gi SWAHN S SONS, MluueapoHs^'lVEtiui. John Conley & Son, Manufacturers of 2 AND 4 DOMINICK STREET. ^ "TT r -T-f- "Vorti:. Always mention the American Flo- rist when writing to advertisers. It costs 4 cents for each 600 feet of floor space. Does not injure the most sensitive plants. Endorsea Nikoteen by prominent florists. Used for fumigation or spraying indoors or out. 200 pounds of tobacco in one pint of Nikoteen. Bold by seedsmen. Circular free. BKABCURA LEMON OIL DIP CO., CHICAGO. f Quickly MDoes ^ It 4» INSECTICIDE. soliitile in Water. l>i-8trovs Scale, Mealy HuK, Heil .Spliler, Thrip, .Mildew, Ulaek anil Green Hy. 1^. pint. -Vk'.; pint. 40c : quart. 7.'>c.: H .rnllon, Jl.iT; gallon. Ifi (Kl; .i gal. keg. $ii.OO; 111 ilnl, kes. HT.W. Sold by dealers or sent on receipt of price. CHAS. C. GARRETT & CO., Manuf rs, 113 S. Cay Street, BAL TIMORE, MP. ^'' EVANS* IMPROVED ^^^ Challenge Ventilating Apparatus Write for Illustrated Catalogue. QUAKER CITY MACHINE WORKS. Richmond, lud. Please mention the American Florisi every time you write to an advertiser. i8g7. The American Florist. 643 KROESGHELL BROS. CO. Greenhouse - Boiler, 29 to 59 Erie St., CHICAGO. Boilers made of thebest tif material, sbell. firebox sheets and heads ul steel, water space all around (front, Bides and back.) Write for Inlormatlon. Mention American Florist. CYPRESS IS MUCH MORE DURABf-E' THAN PINE. TRESI SASH BARS UP To^z FEET "iJUtHCTH or LOrf'CER. IREENHOUSI AND Ott^E R BUH.DIN6 M ATERIAL. Senmfor cur Illustrated BooK "CYPRESS LUMBERAMjfrsUSES." Send fol^urSWciul 6reenhouse38 Bhret F (133 Blchholz n (i;« Elliott W H 11:12 BlllottWm & Sons. ...1134 Bills & Pollwortb (132 Farquhar R & .1 Co. ..(535 Faxon M B tI34 Felthousen J E (134 (iarrett C C & Co (112 (iasklilGeuW (131 Gumey Heater Co (141 ^all Ass'n M3 Hamburgh Exposition (141 Hancock & Ejon (jli'.l Hart M A (133 Herr Albert M (138 Uews A U& Co (112 Highlands Nursery (140 Hill EG&Co (ISa Hlppard B M3 HltchlrgB & Co M4 Hopp it Lemke ti3H Hooker H M Co (143 HoranBdwC (133 RulsebOBCh Bros (138 Humfeld C (134 Hunt B U (133 Hunt Floral(_\i M A.. (133 Illinois Cut Flower Co.(B2 Jennings B B (131 Jones McDiiIJy & Strat- ton (112 Joosten C H (13(1 Kastlng WF 633 Kennlcott Bros Co t>i3 KoehlerCh (131 Kroeschell Bros Co M3 Knopfl Oscar (135 Knehn c A (132 Kuhl Geo A (136 Lampert J J MO LaQg Julius 633 Lemke B F 632 Lengenfelder C 631 Lockland LumCo.MlMS Long D B (lltt Lorl & Bumham Co. .mi Loulsyllle Tobacco Co. tuy Lovett Co ii;>'.i Low II \- Co (ii^i Lynch W B ... . (133 Magnuson A Pearson . (13'.t May J N (1311 May L L & Co 63(1 Mc( 'artby N K & Co. ..6;i3 McKellar C W 632 Mlllang Frank ;..(13:) MUlang & Co ..(133 Moore FL (>^I Monlnger J C Co Ml Morris Floral Co Ml Mvers * C" 613 National Plant Co (132 N Y Cut Flower Co.... 633 Pennock wamiS 632 Pennoek (' ,1 6311 Plllsbnry 1 L (HI Pitcher & Manda. (134 63(1 Pittsburg Clay Mfg Co(113 Prince AG &Co (13.> Purdy & Blauvelt 633 Quaker City Mc'h Wks.M2 KandallAL (32 KaynorJI 633 KelnbergBroB 633 636 ItelniersC W 635 Rice M &Co 640 RIcksecker C H 6.32 Koemer F (135 Kogers P'k Floral Co 61-13 Kolker A * Sons. . .(141 644 Rolker A & F 632 Kupp J F 63H BcnlllerJL 63<) Semple .las 6.35 Sheliiilre W R (13,s 8her(dan W !< (13;> Slebrecht & Son (131 Situations. Wants. etcJllHI Skabcura Dip Co (142 Smith Natn&son (HO Stearns Lumber Co (14;i Stoothoff H A (13(1 Storra \ Harrison Co.dlil Struck J N & Bro (14:i Suplot F (i;>I Sutherland Geo A 633 Swahns Sons J G (112 Swavne Wm (13'.» Syracuse Pottery Co...(>42 The Slope 638 Traendly & Schenck. .632 Van Zanten Bros 634 Vaughan J C (135 Watson G C (135 Weeber&Don (134 Welsel H M 640 Welch liroB 633 638 Whllldln Pot Co M3 White J 640 Wlenhoeber B (13'.i Williams & Sons Co. . . . 631 Wllniore W W 631 Winter A Glover , (133 Wis Flower Kx 632 WIttbuld Geo 638 Wood Bros 634 TouneJno 633 Young ThoaJr .633 Heating by Electricity. Has the heatiner of greenhouses by elec- tricity been tried? I am so situated that I can get all the current required to run any number of heaters at a 500 voltage, and at a nominal cost, but before trying it would like the views of other florists on the subject. It would certainly be very pleasant to be able to regulate the heat in the houses by means of switches in your own room, and by placing thermostats in the houses warning would be given of any change above or below the degrees for which they were set. Geo. N. Tyler. Alameda, Cal. [We have not heard of the use of electric heaters in greenhouses. Have any of our readers any information to give on the subject? — Ed.] August Rolker & Sons, Florists' Seeds, Bulbs and Supplies. NEW 1897 SEED TRADE LIST JUST ISSUED. mailed free to applicauts iu the trade. Wholesale only. Seud business card. New York: 136 West 24th Street. 1'. 0. Stiition 1:. You will benefit the American Flo- rist by mentioning it every time you write an advertiser in these columns ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦^ ♦ FOR STEAM. 4 '*WE HEAT THE WORLD." 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PtTBLISHED EVERY SAfnUtjAV S¥ THE AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY. 833 Dearborn Street) Chicagoi Subscription, Ji.OO a year. To fitlfofje. ta.M. Subscriptions accepted only from those in the trade. Address all communications to Ambrigan florist company, 323 Dearborn sireett CliicAOOi Eaitiem Office: 67 Bromfleld St.; ISdatbH. i'hWfapertH a tfaembei^ bf the Associated Tradfe Press and Bf the ChTbaeb Tradfe I'l-eSs ASshfiiatlbM. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLOKliTb. Adam Graham, Cleve'and, O.. president: Fakqi'- HAR Macrae, Providence. R. I., vice-president; W. J. STEWART. Boston, secretary: H. B. Beattv, Oil City, Pa , treasurer. The thirteenth annual meet- ing will tje held al Providence. It. I., August. lsl*7. CONTENTS. Prospect park, Brooklyn, N. V. (10 Illus.) ... 645 Roses— dotes M6 —Steamihg i-ose hohges 6J7 Ckrnillions—Americjtn carnation Socitfty . . .648 Pladts for Chrlslmas salfs ...,.:... fll8 outside trtatment of HvacIatHs MS SlMilak— Sweet peas-Pansies. etc 648 ^apan lilies for Decoration Day 619 Pandanlls A'eitchii— Adiantum Farleyense. . . 649 bloxinias ;....;: 650 fliTidteiplk'. ■.!;:;;;! I !;!;;;.'; I50 Boston 651 Buflalo 652 Chicago ' 652 San Francisco 653 St. Louis 6d3 Pittsburg 654 Baltimore 655 Worcester, Mass 655 Providence. "56 The seed trade 658 Montreal 660 Toronto 662 Poughkeepsie, N. Y 662 Newport 664 Lowell, Mass 664 Minneapolis 666 Zanesville, O 666 Benmiller, Ont.— John Stewart, the florist and nurseryman, died January 12 of pneumonia, aged 61 years. He was a well known and highly regpected citizen. He was born in Gleninnis, Banffshire, Scotland, and came to Canada 40 years ago. He was for many years one of the directors of both the local agricultural and horticultural societies of Goderich, and of late has been a director of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario. He leaves a family of 13 children, five of whom are married. The funeral cortege was over a mile in length. Exeter, N. H. — Charles Burley, who for many years grew roses for the Boston market, died on February 4, in his 77th year, of paralysis. Always mention the American Flq- RiST when writing to advertisers. Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. This park is justly considered one of the finest examples of the landscape architect's art. Every advantage has betn taken of itsnatural beauty, blending in harmony therewith creations of the designer's skill until the whole standsout a perfect scheme, combining beauty and ntilitj-. Tile park is charmingly situated. It lies partiv on the picturesque ridge known as the back bone of Long Island; wtst of the ridge the ground is undulating, tt-hile la the spring months, when violets cover the ground, and magnolias, redbuds and dogwoods mingle their colors with the soft green of the budding leaves, and throughout the summer's season of dense leafage, with glimpses of lawns and meadows, until the foliage takes on its gorgeous autumnal tints, the view isever changing and beautiful. Beyond the rrark boundaries lie the ferti'e fields of Long Island, while in the distance can be seen the outer bay and the Atlantis ocean. The park has an area of 526 acres, of WATER SIDE PLANTIIJO. PROSPECT PARK. BROOKLYN. N. T. the slope to the east is quite abrupt and varied in contour. This ridge is historic ground: it was here on Aagust 27, 1776, that Gen'l Sul- livan, with his Maryland and Delaware patriots, defended the pass against the British troops one long morning, until his command was cut to pieces. On the lower ground at the foot of the ridge, a series of lakes and water courses meander, and finally debouch into a large lake. The shores of this lake are beauti- fully broken up into miniature bays and lagoons, among which walks are cun- ningly carried for the pedestrian who seeks nature in its home. A high point of the ridge is called Look Out Hill. The view from its top is very fine; below lies the lake shimmering in the sun light, its sinuous shore line seemingly hiding at each projecting point something of greater beauty still beyond. which about 115 acres is natural wood- land, comprising tulips, chestnuts, white and red oaks, hard and soft maples, sassafras, etc. Where thinning has been done in this timber, many of the trees, especially the oaks, have branched out from their naked boles. The undergrowth in this natural timber is of Florida dog- wood, black haw, etc. The natural character of the woodlands has been pre- served as much as possible, the drives through them being of a simple character, the undergrowth of shrubbery and herba- ceous plants being allowed to encroach on their lines. Seventy acres are open meadow. Long Meadow is a grand sweep of rolling sward throughout its length; the dogwoods are a delight, fringing its borders here and there. The Nether Mead lies under the shelter of Look Out Hill, and is the favor- ite spot of a flock of South Downs, which 646 The American Florist. Feb. /J, add a pastoral effect to the landscape. Ornamental plantations cover about 260 acres. Much of this has been sadly ruined by over-crowding, or rather say under-thinning. Tte old adage, "plant thick but thin quick," has not been ob- served, and consequently many specimens have been ruined; growth and develop- ment have been retarded, and the work of recovery is slow and unsatisfactory. winding walk, is the perennial garden, always a delightful spot to the lover of gardening, but here, unfortunately placed on the top of a hill encircled by a carriage drive and bisected by tile paths. The modest old fashioned plants seem garish in such company, and one can't help wish- ing the setting were more in the nature of a tree and shrubbery bordered grassy nook. ^ iJ^^9 1 S^^B^^I^^^^^^^^^^^^^^I^^^^^I^H^^H^Ei^ ^^^^ki Rose Notes. Atmosphere and moisture. The health and comfort of a family deoends not alone upon the amount and quality of food sup- plied them, but also to a considerable extent upon the atmosphere with which they are surrounded; if the various rooms are not constantly supplied with fresh and pure air the buoyant step, the rosy cheek and the bloom of health will surelv be missing from the face of each member, no matter what other privileges and advantages they may have. So with roses and other plants given artificial surroundings in the shape of glass struc- tures. In using the term "artificial" I do not wish to infer that in our attempts at growing under glass we can only hope at the very best to merely approximate nature, and that taking the very best growth attainable under natural condi- tions as our standard of perfection, we can never expect to reach it by artificial methods; on the contrary, I am of opin- ion that, learning from Nature's book, copying her at her best, and supplying as far as possible where she lacks, we can not only come up to, but far surpass nature in the products of our green- houses. We have seen tea and hybrid The blame for this should largely be laid on the public, who from a sentiment, the growth of ignorance of the necessities of the case, loudly cry out against the vandal who would cut out a tree. In the ornamental plantations, many fine specimens of the European linden and beech, Norway maples, oaks, etc., are to be found. Japan maples, maiden- hair or ginkgo, copper beeches and pavias, have good representatives, Japan maples of 12 to 15 feet . in height being among those prominent. Of shrubs, cornus, viburnums, and Crataegus are every where plentiful. The Florida d gwood leads all others; it is at home htre in every copse and woodland and whether clothed in its white bracts, its dense imbrications of dark green foliage, or in its autumnal tints of crim- son and scarlet it stands in this district preeminently at the head of North Ameri- can shrubs. Rhododendrons, kalmias, andromedas and many other m mhers of the order ericact ae are to be found doing finely in well sheltered vales and hollows; not in isolated specimens but in groups and masses, with undergrowths of yellow- root, honeysuckle, mahonia, or day lily; a sight to delight the eyes of such of your readers as vainly try to grow them under less hospitable conditions than found here. The flower garden is a very fine and distinct feature. Elaborately carved stone retaining walls enclose a raised terrace, which is reached by broad steps from which broad tile walks are laid in formal style throughout the garden. Trees planted on the terrace have grown too large and throw too much shade to per- mit of other than tropical gardening, of which palms, crotons, etc., form a large part. Near by and reached irom the flower garden by a flight of granite steps and a PROSPECT PARK. BROOKLYN. N. Y. A location was evidently not provided (or the palm house and propagating houses in the original plan of the park; they are placed adjoining the repair shops and barns. The palm house is not large but has many fine plants in it, and is worthy of a better, or at least a more approachable place. The remainder of the hou.ses are used principally for propa- gating the large numberof beddingplants required in the numerous parks and city squares in the charge of the department of parks. Brooklyn. roses growing under glass with both larger and more delicately colored blooms than any seen in the open garden; the same is true of other flowers, and also of grapes, peaches and many of the other finer fruits. This is made possible by the fact that seldom if ever have we an ideal climate at all times in any part of the world, whereas under glass we can with care maintain an even temperature and prevent those sudden changes which pro- duce blight aud disease. Nature guards »^^inst stagnat;ion and i8g7. The American Florist. 647 :• ■ ■■■: h-...^ viBw Throitgh a "ridge /vroh PROSPECT PARK BROOKLYN. N. consequent impurity of the atmosphere by the blowing of the wind, but we have so constructed our houses as to shut it out, and it is only as we open our venti- lators and admit the outside air that any adequate change of atmosphere can be secured. When a house full of plants has been closed tight for 36 hours, the plants inhaling and exhaling the same air all the time, giving oif the various gases which poison the atmosphere, we have an air unsuited to either plants or human beings. During periods of very cold weather some people imagine that it is not safe to open the ventilators even when the sun is bright and the house very warm; I have seen rose houses standing at 90° in mid- winter without any air, and have been told that the heat would do less barm than the cold air, and that the latter must be kept out by all means, or mildew and kindred ills will certainly follow. This has always seemed to me to be a very illogical way of reasoning, and cannot be backed up by common sense. A rose house at 80° to 90' without air is not a comfortable place to be in, and it is safe to say it is no more congenial to the rose than to the individual. I don't believe in opening the ventilators a foot or so and letting in a strong current of freezing air, but I do believe in opening them enough to change and freshen the atmosphere whenever possible without lowering the temperature of the house too much, and when sunny to open them wide enough to regulate the temperature, and even in the very coldest weather if the ventilators are not frozen down tight I always open them as soon as 70° is reached, and have never seen any harm resulting, provided of course proper discretion be used as to time of opening and closing and the amount of air given. I like to get the sashes open every day, if only for a few minutes, regardless of the conditions pre- vailing outdoors; when there is no sun and it is very cold, in order to keepupthe temperature, I frequently turn on an extra steam pipe while air is being given; the change in the atmosphere is very eas- ilv detected and is as beneficial to the plants as it is agreeable to the individual. I don't think we can attach too much importance to pure air and adequate moisture in the rose house during the winter months because there can be no fine hard sturdy growth or well colored blooms in a close, dry or foul smelling greenhouse. In very severe weather much of the moisture of the house is lost during the night by striking the glass and being changed into ice, and should the day fol- lowing prove unsuitable for syringing we must make up the deficiency by wetting the pipes and walks morning and night; a very dry air is caused less frequently where hot water is used, but even with water I have found that very hard firing and red spider are almost inseparable unless the questionof moisture is watched closely and the hose is manipulated by a thorough workman. I have found that it is very hard to make a lazy or careless man see the importance of thoroughness in this particular; one who sees nothing but his wages at the end of the week, who has little love for his plants and cares less still for his reputation, will go along syringing day after day, striking the front row of plants with the water, but because it would involve a little more exertion on his part to reach the center or back of the bench he does not trouble to do so until he finally awakes to the fact that his plants are literally alive with spider, and for the time at least are prac- tically ruined; such a man should never be put in charge of rose houses, where conscientiousness and brains are so neces- sary; but through mistaken judgment or force of circumstances be is sometimes found wielding a hose instead of a spade; under such circumstances we shall escape serious trouble only by keeping a close watch on his plants from day to day and insisting on having thorough work every time the plants are syringed. I contend that given a good stream of water and a good hose there is no reasonable excuse for red spider in a rose house; and it can- not be looked upon in any other light than a disgrace to the man in charge of the house. Heavy firing is certain to dry out the soil from the under side, while the hard syringing going on at the same time will keep the surface of the soil moist, and we are very liable to be deceived as to the exact condition of the roots, and serious injury may be done before we are aware that anything is wrong. Spider spreads more rapidly, and the color and texture of the blooms will suffer very quickly if the soil at the bottom of the benches becomes too dry through hard firing; this is especially true in the case of solid beds with bottom heat, and the only safe course for us to pursue is to examine the soil in various parts of the house every day and water wherever it is needed. RoBT. Simpson. Steaming Rose Houses. Replying to Mr. Murphy with regard to vaporizing rose houses by turning steam into them, and its probable effect 648 The American Florist. Feb. n, upon the plants, would say that it is of use only as a means of supplying atipos- pheric moisture. It has been practiced I believe with good results during very cold, stormy weather when syringing was impracticable. It involves a certain amount of risk, however, as the tendency is to cause a sudden rise in the tempera- ture, only to fall again as rapidly when the steam condenses, and instead of giv- ing strength and ruggedness to the plants it may in the hands of careless persons have the opposite effect. Address of President Richard Witter- staeter. Discussion of the President's address. Paper by W. R Sielmire, Avondale Pa. Discussion. Miscellaneous business. FRIDAY MORNING SESSION. Unfinished business. Paper by Heary Weber, of Oakland, Md. Discussion of paper. Miscellaneous business. RHODODENDRON IN BLOOM. PROSPBOT PARK. BROOKLYN, N. During bright weather when the hose can be used freely vaporizing with steam is entirely unnecessary, and even in the worst kind of weather we can furnish ail the moisture that is needed by simply spraying the paths and heating pipes and the ground under the benches. The best evidence and proof that you can have in this case will te the condition of the plants as compared with those treated differently. Robt. Simpson. American Carnation Society. Following is the program for the sixth annual meeting of the American Carna- tion Sjciety at Cincinnati, Thursday and Friday, February 18 and 19. opening session — THURSDAY, 8 P. M. Address of welcome by his honor. Mayor Caldwell. Response by Wm. Scott, of Buffalo, N. Y. Address of welcome on behalf of the Cincinnati Florists' Society, by President E. G. Gillett. Response, by E. H. Michel, St. Louis, Mo. Report of the National Secretary, Albert M. Herr. Report of the National Treasurer, C.H. Allen. Nomination of officers and selecting place of meeting for 1898. FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION. Unfinished business. Election of officers for the ensuing year. ENTERTAINMENT. On Thursday afternoon the Cincinnati Florists' Society will give visiting florist