Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw20amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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igoo. The American Florist. 1431 subject, but is brought up by the thought that so many ol us seem to allow our summer expense account to run so high that it takes all of our next winter's pro- duct to pay the bills contracted, so that a very little accident to stock leaves a few of us behind and in a position from which it is difficult to escape. Albert M. Here. Sweet Pea Not«s. A good grass year ought to be a good sweet pea year. The season has been cool and the rain well distributed. Sweet peas are looking well at this writing. With me cut worms have done as much damage as in any three years put together previously. I should judge that the sale of sweet pea seed this year had held well up to the mark of recent years. I do not know of any flower on which people rally from their disappointments so much as on this flower. In forecasting the season of garden annuals the prevail- ing voice is, "Sweet peas we must have." The list of novelties for 1900 is as follows: Eckford puts out six, Duchess of Westminster, a delicate apricot with flushed pink standard, wings rose pink; Countess Lathom, pink self; Mrs. Fitz- gerald, soft cream, flushed and edged delicate rose; Fascination, delicate magenta mauve flushed mauve, wings deep mauve; Lord Kenyon, rose magenta flushed crimson, deeper towards edge; Calypso, bright magenta flushed mauve, wings delicate mauve. Ernst Benary, of Erfurt, writes me that he introduces this year "a remarkably early flowering white, to be called Mont Blanc." He says it has in his grounds proved to be five days earlier than Pearliest Blanche Ferry, but in other respects it corresponds to Blanche Burpee. It will be most interesting to test its forcing qualities. The list of colors in dwarf form has been increased this year by the addition of lavender, scarlet and dark maroon. Admiration is a good straight American introduction. As I had it last year, it at times seemed almost like a self pink, but it has a delicate lavender cast. Salopian is the grandest red to date, and now in the improved strain called Sunproof it must be a very high grade sort. There will be a variety ot opinions about the Snapdragon pea, but it is just what the name calls for. The bush pea. Monarch, is the second pioneer of the new race. I went over 100 trials of sweet peas at Fordhook last autumn, and when we struck the spade under one of the bush variety my heart leaped, for it turned up the most com- plete fibrous root I had seen for years. It was a perfect sweet pea root, a thing I had not seen for certainly five years. I find one important gain from the difficulty ot late in growing sweet peas, that it has broken up the blind way oi foUowingstereotyped rules, and is giving us a wider range of practical experiment. This is good, and augurs a less hysterical way of looking for the cause of failure in any one direction. There will be a good percentage of success every year where conditions are favorable, and there will be a considerable body of steadfast amateurs who will work on through thick and thin, reaping the reward of patient and intelligent methods. Florists have no trouble with them under glass, and will select a tew standard sorts for outdoor planting, with reasonable suc- cess. And tor the general public the flower will have its periodic revivals. No flower can long sustain an abnormal
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EXTERIOR OF J. 8. SIMMONS STORE, TORONTO, ONT. craze, but must, if overdone, follow the law of reaction, and will ot course in time renew itself for another run; and in the meantime will give reasonable results all the way along to intelligent and brave culture. The popular qualities of this flower will always hold it well to the front. But little attention has yet been drawn in this country to the bi-centennial cele- bration ot the introduction ot sweet peas into Great Britian, which takes place at Crystal Palace, in London, July 20 and l-'l. The prospectus sent out some time ago shows a very promising patronage of prorninent horticulturists in England. The writer hopes now to be present and read the paper on "Sweet Peas in America" which he was invited to pre- pare. But while he appreciates the honor of a place on the programme he will certainly feel lonesome unless buttressed by some representative Americans. W. T. HUTCHINS. Pueblo, Col.—G. Fleischer has sold out his business to Charles E. Paris and leaves shortly for Germany, accompanied by his family. London. EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL HORTICULT- URAL SOCIETY.—MANY NOVELTIES ARE NOTICED.—NEW VARIETIES WORTHY OF WIDE DISTRIBUTION. — PELARGONIUMS WHICH ATTRACT FROM A DISTANCE.— NEW MALMAISON CARNATIONS.—AMERI- CAN SORTS TO BE TRIED IN ENGLAND.— FERNS RECEIVE LITTLE ATTENTION.— MARKET GROWERS WELL PLEASED.— BURPEE'S TEOP.KOLUM. — SESSION OF KEWITES—PLANTS WORTH WATCHING. The Royal Horticultural Society's tort- nightly meeting on June 5, although com- ing a day after a general holiday, brought out a most interesting display, several large groups being shown and a number ot novelties submitted for certificate. The president showed Rhododendron Pink Pearl in grand condition and gained a first class certificate, which is quite an unusual honor for a garden variety and which had previously been denied this sort, an award ot merit being the highest distinction now given to varieties unless they are new hybrids or possess some remarkable distinction. Some grand things in new roses were shown by Wm. Paul & Sons, the most notable

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