The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



751 



PROMT. 



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Spirsa Van Houttei 

 Aqullegla Canadensis 

 PhUadelphua Aurea 

 Aster NoTae-Angliip 

 Lonicera Tartarica sr 

 Thalictrum dioicuui 

 Osmunda Claytoniana 

 Hibiscus milUaris 



Platycodon grandlflora 



Punkia undulata 



Funkia undulata varlegata 



oif^'anizcd body, so as. to interest the 

 school children of their town in a similar 

 movement. The National League is pre- 

 pared to suggest the few necessary details 

 and to co-operate toward bringing ine 

 matter to a head. If the local promoters 

 will secure the aid of the local newspa- 

 pers, attractive "copy" will be supplied 

 from headquarters. 



A little time given to a "careful cam- 

 paign along these lines ought to result 

 in a local boom in the trade, and the en- 

 ergetic mail wlm lakes up the idea is sure 



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gcMii: .ii.j - 1 III .1 1 1 1 , 1, '..\\cr shows in 

 dilVcjiiiii ^. hnnl^ iiihl rhiiirlios theintcp- 

 est will lie maintained throughout the 

 season. If a leading local photographer 

 can be interested in the scheme, his 

 promi.se to reproduce some of the most 

 attractive displays will be an added ele- 

 ment of interest. Altogether the scheme 

 presents much of value to the man who 

 desires publicity of a favorable charac- 

 ter. 



Another idea being pushed from the 

 Springfield headquarters is the general 

 awarding of prizes for the various vine 

 and flower displays in front and back 

 yards. Andrew Carnegie, John H. Pat- 

 terson and other well known people have 

 approved of the scheme by the provision 

 of prizes in several localities. Florists 

 can arrange the plan so that some local 

 organization or a group of business men 

 may provide a reasonable number of 

 prizes to be awarded by a committee of 

 local judges. 



in the grand aggregate of beauty than 

 the parks and pleasure grounds. There 

 is a very extensive class of householders 

 who, while their frontage is only the 

 width of a city lot or two — not enough 

 to warrant the intervention of a land- 

 scape architect — may have yearnings for 

 the beautiful quite as pronounced as 

 their more expairsive brethren of the 

 boulevards. 



Here is a hint of what may be done in 

 making dooryard areas presentable, us- 

 ing chiefly hardy perennials, because they 

 can endure the conditions to be met in 

 such places in a more satisfactory man- 

 ner than tender plants. 



The plants enumerated will need little 

 or no protection in winter. Species like- 

 ly to be troubled by insect pests or dis- 

 ease or having objectionable habits of 

 spreading by seed or runners have been 

 excluded. In the plans it will be seen 

 that the arrangement preserves as much 

 as possible of the space for grass. Util- 

 ity as well as artistic considerations fa- 

 vors this arrangement. 



A few points in regard to the feat- 

 nient of plants in transplanting may not 

 be amiss. First — Never allow the roots 

 of plants to become dry by exposure. 

 Plants in leaf should be shielded from 

 the light after transplanting for a couple 

 of days or until the rootlets resume their 

 action. By observing these precautions 

 plants can be safely transplanted any 

 time. John Higgins. 



SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. 



The trade will find much of interest in 

 the growing movement of which the Na- 

 tional Ijcague of Improvement Associa- 

 tions with headquarters in this city is 

 the organized exponent. An important 

 phase of the league's work is the linking 

 of special opportunities with those who 



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10 Sedum specl.ablle 



11 Delphinium sinens 



12 Cassia Martlandlca 



U Lllium tigrinum 



16 Tradescantla virglulca 



Hi Uvularla grandiflora 



have business or other reasons for meet- 

 ing them. 



This month the league is pushing the 

 school garden idea as carried out by the 

 Home Gardening Association of Cleve- 

 land. One hundred thousand penny 

 packages of seeds have recently been sold 

 in the public schools of that city. The 

 first season's efTorts resulted in the dis- 

 posal of fifty thousand packages of nine 

 varieties of the more easily grown an- 

 nuals. The suggestion is offered florists 

 that they secure the co-operation of some 

 local improvement association or other 



This plan may be elaborated according 

 to the interest and resources of the one 

 who is pushing the promotion. At Day- 

 ton, Ohio, the prize list has included the 

 best appearing front and back yards, win- 

 dow and porch boxes, vine planting, va- 

 cant lots, and the best care of premises 

 adjoining any of the steam railroads 

 leading into the city. The plan directly 

 interests a considerable portion of the 

 community, and indirectly leads to news- 

 paper agitation, so that the florists may 

 reap a rich harvest of public apprecia- 

 tion. 



