The American florist - a weekly journal for the trade (1888) (18119682552)

A Paris flower basket
Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw02amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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iSSg. The American Florist. 229
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k ?^R\S V\.O^tR SKS¥>tT Grandiflora (Bemaix).—The large- flowereil single multiflora makes a gigan- tic climber, and when covered with its great white flowers is most beautiful. First class certificate Royal Horticul- tural Society. Josephine Borland (Bernaix').—A hybrid polyantha very distinct from the miniature Mignonette type, having per- fectly fonned almost white flowers of considerable size, but solitary; dwarf habit and most free. Lady Helen Stewart (Dickson).— This beautiful crimson rose appears to have been well suited by the cool season and has been constantly very finely ex- hibited. In the garden it has been in- cessantly in flower both during summer and autumn, and from its erect habit and immense freedom has been most effect- ive. The blooms are of good size, with large smooth petals, always expanding well, and the variety is altogether most reliable. Mme. Bols (C. I.evet).—A most attract- ive addition of the \'ictor \erdier race, but quite distinct in color; the flowers are very large, well formed, and of great depth, and of a most telling shade of fresh rose color. The plant is vigorous and free and the flowers most constant. Mme. Desir (Periiet perei.—A large, very full, distinct salmon-rose flower, which in a hot season will probably prove valuable. Mme. de WierrE (Leveque).—It is igipracticable to continue trailing about this rose's interminable original appella- tion, and it will therefore be best at once to employ the above shortened form. The variety is a promising dark rose of good size and form, very fragrant, free blooming, perpetual and a vigorous grower. Mme. Henri Pereire (Vilin).—One of the very dark roses and an exceedingly fine flower; the plant free and very vig- orous. It has frequently been very finely exhibited during the past season, and is certainly not a variety to be lost sight of, Mme. Joskth Dkshoi.s (Guillot).—A very beautiful rose of first-rate quality. The habit is sturdy and erect, as in Cap- tain Christy, from which, however, it is totally distinct; the flowers are large, perfectly formed, almost pure white, with a rich flush of salmon rose in the center, and are most freely produced, the variety constituting an invaluable addition to the light hybrid perpetuals. Mme. Trkyve-Marik (Liabaud) may be described as a cherry-colored Marie Baumann, not (juite so good in quality, but of similar form and more erect, and of so taking a shade as to be well worth growing. Mat. Baron iVeuve Schwartz) has been a good deal exhibited this year, but is of a deplorably gloomy color. Mrs. John Laino (Bennetti has proved the most constant rose of its color. Every bloom comes perfect and the plant is most vigorous and free. The only possible objection that can be urged against it is that its color is rather an ordinary shade of rose, but in the autumn wlu-n abundant flowers are produced, even this objection does not hold good, for late in the year the color becomes more clear and pure. Silvi:r Oueen (Wm. Paul),—A good light rose very much in the way of Oueen of Queens, but more pleasing in color. The Puritan (Bennett) has caused little surprise by being out of doors this year a complete failure. The flowers are of such immense substance that it seemed impossible that they could ever expand without very great heat, and the absence of sunshine this year settled the ques- tion. As a rose for forcing at a high tem- perature it will probably be valuable. Of the i8S6 roses the most prominent by far has been the exquisitely beautiful Viscountess Kolkstone (Bennett), which seemed to defy the unpropitious Etason, and developed bloom after bloom in the greatest perfection. Charles Dickens, Clara Cochet, Florence Paul and Her Majesty were well exhibited from time to time, and in the autumn Miss House, which may be described as a greatly im- proved Bessie Johnson, has been very pretty in its delicate blush color. Mme. Musset and Raoul Guillard are two sim- ilar and fairly good reds of Marie Baumann race; Rosieriste Chauvry and Souvenir de Victor Hugo, two very free deep reds of Victor Verdier family; Max Singer, the hybrid multiflora, has proved a most useful red climber; and Princesse Amedee de Broglie makes a striking pillar rose, its immense growth being clothed with large flowers of a distinct shade of telling rosy carmine. Mention should also be made of Mme. Villy, that all growers may avoid it, for it is without doubt one of the most worthless roses that has been sent out for years; worse, if possible, than the similar Joseph Metral distributed by the same raiser two years earlier. Among the teas The Bride has been far in advance of all con- temporaries and is already a very general favorite; Ye Primrose Dame, Reine Nathalie de Serbie, Comtesse de Frig- neuse and Claudius Levet have been fairly good, while the pretty colored bud varieties Marquise de Vivens and Souve- nir de Victor Hugo have been very charming in their way. Edmoiid de Biauzat makes a handsome plant with glossy and abundant foliage, and the flowers are of a very fresh rose color, but they are not large and are too irregular. Thus it will be seen that among the novelties of each year there are some that can already be confidently recom- mended, and it is only to be hoped that there will be found as many varieties above the average of interest among the Continental hybrids distributed here last spring as among those sent out the year before.— T. W. C, /;/ Loiido?! Garden. A Paris Flower Basket. Nothing is more striking to the com- mercial observer in foreign countries than the wide difference in the classes of plants and flowers sold, from the cheap- est to the dearest, while at the same time equally large business is done in the finest stores in one country with plants never so used in another. The handsome flower basket here shown which was photographed for us in Paris, is an instance of this kind. Four polyantha roses in bloom in 4-inch pots covered with moss filled the basket, ^hic)j wgs fifteep inches across at thj