JANUARY 5, 1S99. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



135 



No. 



Cart for Carrying Soil in and out of Gceenliouses. 



paniculata which, even as a pot plant, 

 sold at $10 each. 



For the garden we have been favored 

 with more good new plants tlian at 

 any time before. Most of them are of 

 recent introduction and have come to 

 stay. Probably the best of all new 

 garden plants is the 



DOUBLE RUDBECKIA GOLDEN 

 GLOW. I have not heard a word 

 against it — and that is indeed wonder- 

 ful. Its long-stemmed double golden 

 flowers are of great use to the florist. 



CARYOPTERIS MASTACANTHUS 

 is perhaps nearly as good and is to be 

 found in almost every garden. I have 

 seen it loaded with lavender-blue 

 flowers until the end of November — 

 hundreds of bees, frozen stiff, nestling 

 on the sprays. Just imagine a large 

 bunch of it displayed on a table, bees 

 and all! This year a white-flowering 

 variety is offered — a much earlier and 

 even more profuse bloomer. Whether 

 it will prove as hardy remains to be 

 seen. 



SPIRAEA ANTHONY WATERER 

 has become a favorite; likewise several 

 new deutzias, among which the best 

 seen to this date is the variety Le- 

 moinei, which is still more useful for 

 forcing. This, however, though with 

 us only a year or so, will soon have to 

 give place to Deutzia Lemoinei Com- 

 pacta, claimed to be dwarfer and more 

 floriferous. DEUTZIA CORYMBIFLO- 

 RA, lately illustrated, is said to be so 

 completely laden with white flowers as 

 to appear like a huge snow-ball. We 

 might have called it "Snow in Sum- 

 mer," had this name not been already 

 taken. 



SAMBUCUS RACEMOSA PLUM- 

 OSA AUREIS is a long name for a new 

 golden-leaved elder which far exceeds 

 in beauty any golden-leaved shrub 

 known at present. 



ASTILBE CHINBNSIS, a rather tall- 

 growing spiraea, is simultaneously of- 



fered here and abroad. It has been 

 sent to England for reshipment to 

 Holland in 1.000 lots at low prices; and 

 yet I hear that some firms are bringing 

 it over and paying $2 per plant for it. 

 Watching the advertising columns 

 would have saved them considerable 

 money. 



What promises to be a fine addition 

 to the garden is Buddleia Variabilis, a 

 fine, tall-growing shrub with hand- 

 some foliage, dark green above and 

 silvery white below, bearing in a 

 graceful manner very long recurving 

 spikes of rosy-lilac flowers. The bud- 

 dleias have not been favorites, but this 

 one is so very highly recommended by 

 Messrs. Vilmorin, that we may give it 

 a prominent place without fear of be- 

 ing disappointed. Besides the above, 

 there are many others, such as, IN- 

 CARVILLEA DELAVAVI and VARI- 

 ABILIS, NEW ARUNCUS, NEW ANE- 

 MONES, NEW CLEMATISES such as 

 Marcel Moser and Nellie Moser, and 

 NEW HARDY ASTERS. 



GRASSES have never been very 

 popular, but there is one which, never 

 seen in gardens until the last two 

 years, invariably elicits words of ad- 

 miration. Its name, however, PENNI- 

 SBTUM RUPPBLLIANUM, will prove 

 as killing to it as a severe frost. 

 "Purple Feather Grass" seems more 

 euphonious. Raised from seed it 

 quickly attains large proportions, 

 sending forth hundreds of silky, bend- 

 ing blades terminated by purple feath- 

 er-like heads 6 to 10 inches long. They 

 are quite new in color and fine for 

 floral work. It makes an elegant pot 

 plant in a very short time from seed 

 and is fine for table decoration even 

 when in a small state. 



SWEET PEAS are still the rage. 

 New and important varieties are offer- 

 ed every year, nearly all the best ones 

 being sent out from this city. We will 

 soon have sweet Cupids in all colors, 



red, white and blue. Mr. Burpee intro- 

 duced among others three remarkably 

 fine Sweet Peas which every florist in 

 the land should grow in quantities. 

 BURPEE'S EARLIEST OF ALL is the 

 early bird that catches the dollars. It 

 is identical with Extra Early Blanche 

 Ferry, except that it is more dwarf in 

 growth and comes into full bloom at 

 least 10 days earlier. ECKFORD'S 

 SADIE BURPEE is extremely dainty 

 in shape and of a pearly whiteness be- 

 yond description. BURPEE'S NAVY 

 BLUE is a distinct color innovation 

 that will create surprise. 



Now if you really want good things 

 and new, don't confine yourself to this 

 list by any means, as no doubt hun- 

 dreds of good ones have been overlook- 

 ed. Scan the advertising columns of 

 the trade journals carefully. Some- 

 thing new is always to be found there- 

 in that will save you money. 



OUR PRIZE COMPETITION. 



Following are additional entries in 

 our prize competition in labor-saving 

 devices or methods useful to florists: 



No. 30. This is a cart I had made to 

 save labor in emptying and filling car- 

 nation houses with soil. The wheels I 

 bought at a junk shop. They are belt 

 wheels and are 12 inches in diameter, 

 with 2-inch rims. The platform is a 

 piece of 2-inch plank, IS inches wide 

 and 36 inches long. The handle is 1%- 

 inch pipe, with a tee on the end. 

 Through the tee I fastened a stick 

 eight inches long. Six inches of the 

 other end is bent under the plank, flat- 

 tened and fastened to the plank with 

 three bolts. 



This cart will turn a very short cor- 

 ner and will travel through a walk 

 only 20 inches wide. It will carry four 

 good-sized boxes of soil, which is one 

 more than a big wheelbarrow will 

 carry, and with much less labor. A 

 boy 15 years of age emptied and fllled 

 our six carnation houses in two weeks, 

 in addition to mixing the soil. Last 

 year, without the cart, it took a man 

 and a boy three weeks to do the same 

 work. The weight is all on the wheels 

 and there is none on the arms. 



The cart cost me only about $3.50 to 

 build, and I would not sell it for $25 if 

 I could not secure another. It paid for 

 itself several times over this fall. 



Q. 



CARNATION GOV. GRIGGS. 



This new light pink carnation is a 

 seedling that originated with Mr. Jo- 

 seph Towell. Paterson, N. J., and gives 

 promise of being very useful. It is a 

 seedling from Daybreak cross-fertil- 

 ized with pollen from Van Leeuwen. 

 The color is similar to that of Day- 

 break, but much brighter, and the 

 blooms have commanded fancy prices 

 in the New York market. It has been 

 grown by Mr. Tewell for four years 

 and has proven a vigorous, healthy 



