The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . alua-ble object lesson was seen at the Philadelphia showwhere in the special classes every prize winner wasa new variety or not over two > ears old. and therewere lots of the older varieties competing. The obviouslesson is, that nhile progress may be slow, neverthe-less it is progressing all the time, and the end is by any means. C. W. Ward says it takes nearly a thousand yearsto add much to the size of a carnation. Progress inthe chrysanthemum is very much faster th
The Florists' exchange : a weekly medium of interchange for florists, nurserymen, seedsmen and the trade in general . alua-ble object lesson was seen at the Philadelphia showwhere in the special classes every prize winner wasa new variety or not over two > ears old. and therewere lots of the older varieties competing. The obviouslesson is, that nhile progress may be slow, neverthe-less it is progressing all the time, and the end is by any means. C. W. Ward says it takes nearly a thousand yearsto add much to the size of a carnation. Progress inthe chrysanthemum is very much faster than that. Ifyou will look back and see what has been done in thepast 20 years it is really startling, and while Im-proved methods of culture have brought out a gooddeal, careful and systematic hybridizing are bring-ing out very much more. Our exhibition last year was the best we ever the flowers were certainly the largest we hadstaged- This coming Fall, I know we shall makemore progress in this direction, and the varieties wehave been discussing this evening will ha\e no smallpart in the grand The Pine Croft Rose Houses, East Brookfield, Mass. Sciadopitys Verticillata. Editor Florists Kxchange; I note the interesting article of Mr. Meehanon Sciadopitys verticillata in your issue of Feb-ruary 10, in which he speaks of its hardiness inPennsylvania as shown by a twenty-flve year test,and that he has never known of its being injuredby cold, from which one might infer that therewere strong doubts as to its hardiness in other andcolder sections. Let me add my experience and ob-servation here in New Hampshire, whose climateoccasionally shows a fall of the mercury to 25 de-grees below zero Fahr. I planted one in my groundsin 1896 in a position exposed fully to the sun inSummer and with no protection from shrubbery,other trees or buildings in the Winter, from thefull sweep of the wind and storm. This plant,brought from Japan by the late James Comley, haswithstood suc
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