. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Mmerica is "the Prow of the UessbI; Uiete may be mors comfort Rmidsbips, but wo are the Srst to touch Unknown Seas," Vol. XVIII. CHICAQO AND NEW YORK, MARCH i, 1902. No. 717. f LHliE SkmSm^BM lFlL@M@T Sevbntbbmth Year. Copyright 1903, by American Florist Company, Entered as Seoond-Clasa UaU Matter. Published bvbbt Sattjbdat bt AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, 334 Dtarbom 5t., Chlcaeo. Butero Ofllc*: 79 Milk St., Bixton. Subscription, a year. To Europe, Subscriptions accepted only from the trade. SO


. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Mmerica is "the Prow of the UessbI; Uiete may be mors comfort Rmidsbips, but wo are the Srst to touch Unknown Seas," Vol. XVIII. CHICAQO AND NEW YORK, MARCH i, 1902. No. 717. f LHliE SkmSm^BM lFlL@M@T Sevbntbbmth Year. Copyright 1903, by American Florist Company, Entered as Seoond-Clasa UaU Matter. Published bvbbt Sattjbdat bt AMERICAN FLORIST COMPANY, 334 Dtarbom 5t., Chlcaeo. Butero Ofllc*: 79 Milk St., Bixton. Subscription, a year. To Europe, Subscriptions accepted only from the trade. SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS AND ORNAMENTAL HORTICULTURISTS. OmcBRB — John Burton. Philadelphia, Pa., presideni J. W. C. Deake, Asheville, N. C, vice- presideni, Wm. J. Stewart, 79 Milk Street, Boston, Mass., secretary; H. B. Beattt, Oil City, Pa., treasurer. The eighteenth annual meeting will be held at Asheville, N. C, August, 1903. THE AMERICAN CARNATION SOCIETY. Annual convention at Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb- ruary, 1903. Albert M. Hebb, Lancaster, Pa., secretary. AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. Annual meeting at New York, March 11-lS, 1902, Leomarii Babbom, 136 Liberty St., New York, secretary. CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Annual meeting at Asheville, N. 0., August, 1902. Edwin Lonsdale, Chestnut Hill, Pa., Sec'y. THIS ISSUE 44 PAGES WITH COVER. CONTENTS. Seasonable plant notes 153 The sweet pea and its failings (illus ) 154 Carnations (illus.) 155 —Now varieties at Indianapolis 155 —Tlie ideal carnation 156 —Rootinp carnation cuttings 156 Roses—About bedding roses 157 —Grafting on Manetti 157 'I he Balduin controversy 157 The "brass band ; 158 Trees and shrubs for the lawn 158 With the growers—Christ. Hansen, St. 160 The production of cut flowers 160 Aids to the plant salesman (illus.) 161 German irises for forcing 161 Outdoor chrysanthemums 161 Boston 162 Chicago 163 Philadelphia 163 Baltimore 163 Chrysanthemum Society of America 164 No


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