MAY 31, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



Pansy Table and Vase. 

 Old-Time Floral Designs. 



readily propagated and is inexpensive 

 to use. while adding a very desirable 

 touch of color to the green foliage of 

 the ferns. 



OLD-TIME DESIGNS. 



Some good work was done in the old 

 days in spite of the fact that good ma- 

 terial was much less plentiful than 

 now. 



The pansy table shown in the ac- 

 companying engraving was a work of 

 art. It was designed by A. Le Moult, 

 and won the Langtry cup at the first 

 flower show given in the Eden Musee. 



The table was six feet square, all 

 made of wire. It was mossed solid 

 with green sheet moss, and completely 

 made up of pansies. You will notice 

 the folds at the corner to represent 

 the cloth; yes, even embroidery was 

 carried out on the margins, and the 

 colors were arranged to represent 

 figure work. It required fifteen thou- 

 sand pansies on separate wires to do 

 this work. The center was a vase, 

 also made of pansies. and filled with 

 hybrid perpetual roses. IVERA. 



PALMS. 



The Geo. Wittbold Co., Chicago, sow 

 their palm seeds in 2 or 3-year-old tan 

 bark and find it much more satisfac- 



tory than soil or other material. It 

 is so porous that drainage is excellent, 

 the seeds start better and the seed- 

 lings are more easily lifted from the 

 bed when started. The seeds are 

 scattered very thickly on a bed of tan 

 bark and a thin layer of the tan bark 

 put over them. As the seedlings start 

 they are lifted out and potted. A bed 

 from which three batches of seedlings 

 had been lifted was still thick with 

 seeds germinating or still thinking 

 about it. 



They have several houses of latani- 

 as planted out. The 4-inch size plant- 

 ed out in soil on the bench will make 

 plants suitable to put into 5 to 8-inch 

 in the fall. Growth is much more rap- 

 id than when the plants are kept in 

 pots. 



PAEONIES. 



Talking with Flint Kennicott, Chi- 

 cago, brought out the fact that many 

 paeony growers have yet much to 

 learn about growing, cutting and ship- 

 ping paeony flowers to the market. 



It appears that the finest long 

 stem flowers that come to market 

 have been disbudded and watched as 

 carefully as fine carnations. While 

 varieties vary somewhat in respect to 

 time for cutting, the proper time for 

 most of them is when the bud has not 



only shown color, but when one petal 

 has begun to loosen. 



The paeony is a very gross feeder 

 and the plants must be heavily fer- 

 tilized to insure vigorous growth and 

 tine flowers. 



He says that outdoor valley must 

 also be heavily manured to insure 

 first class flowers, and even such 

 strong stuff as chicken and pigeon 

 manure is used, it being of course 

 first mixed with soil or other ma- 

 terial. 



AQUATIC GARDENING. 



BV W.^LTER RetZER. 



[E.vtracts from paper read before tlie Cfiicago 

 Florists' Club, May IS.] 



[Continued from last week, j 



Heating. 



From the deepest part of the sec- 

 ond pond, midway between the place 

 where the pipes of the fli-st pond en- 

 ter it and the shallow arm or branch, 

 but about two inches below the sur- 

 face, is where we have to locate the 

 pipes that supply the water to the 

 main pond. The reason for placing the 

 last pipes where I have outlined are 

 that if they are placed either near the 

 opening where the pipes of the large 

 pond enter or near the arm. the warm- 

 est part of the water would enter the 

 main pond. This would take away the 

 heated water nearly as fast as it runs 

 in. The water cooling off during the 

 night would bring about too great ex- 

 tremes of temperature — a thing that 

 must be avoided. By placing the 

 pipes several inches below the sur- 

 face, we shall receive, not the warm- 

 est water, but some that will remain 

 at a certain temperature longer than 

 the other. 



The heating of a pond by artificial 

 means is but recent, and I may safely 

 say since the queen of water lilies — 

 the Victoria Regia — has come to our 

 notice, have the ways and means been 

 found to heat a pond to grow this na- 

 tive of the Amazon. As this is about 

 the only plant that is worth the trou- 

 ble and the expense of heating a pond, 

 I shall make but a few notes of the 

 best way this can be accomplished. 



Where either steam or hot water is 

 used for greenhouses or a residence, 

 sufficient quantity of pipes must be 

 laid to heat six hundred feet of sur- 

 face, as this is the amount of space 

 a full grown victoria requires. Of 

 course, where it is wished to grow 

 more of these queenly flowers more 

 piping will be necessary and the 

 amount will vary with the locality. 

 Four flows, using two-inch hot water 

 pipes, which will act as returns, are 

 sufl[icient for this latitude. It is es- 

 sential to have some sort of enclosure 

 in which the victoria is grown to keep 

 the water from intermingling with the 

 rest during the early part of the sea- 

 son. 



In course of time, the heating of 

 ponds will be totally abandoned, as 



