JUNE 14, 1900. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



69 



The new City Greenhouses of Paris. 



see that there is no shade either from 

 trees or on the glass; they want no 

 shade of any kind. Four inches of 

 rather heavy loam with a fifth of ma- 

 nure will do, and they will stand a 

 6-inch pot of bone flour to every 

 wheelbarrow of soil. Make the soil 

 firm. 



The distance to plant is well under- 

 stood, but you often see them unprufit- 

 ably wide apart. The giant flowers 

 that are shown at exhibitions are not 

 wanted by the ordinary public and the 

 extraordinary public are only found in 

 one or two of the eastern cities. You 

 cannot blame the people. Unusual 

 size is merely coarseness. A moderate 

 but pretty flower, both in form and 

 color, is what is now wanted, and 

 therefore more can be grown to the 

 square foot. I would say that eight 

 inches between rows and five inches 

 between stems is enough for any of 

 them if grown to a single stem, and if 

 grown with three flowers to a plant 

 then nine inches and six inches will 

 do. 



Bedding Plants. 



Those that grow a general assort- 

 ment of bedding plants should run 

 through a catalogue just now and it 

 will help them to think whether they 

 have made provision to perpetuate 

 their stock of all the plants that enter 

 into their business. You will not for- 

 get to plant out your important crops 

 such as geraniums and cannas. liut 

 also plant out a few plants of every- 

 thing worth growing. It is much 

 cheaper than running around in the 

 fall for some cuttings of this and th.it, 

 " 'cause I forgot to plant out a few, 



ye know; I was so darned all-flred 

 busy last spring, I swan I forgot it." 



Heliotrope, lantana and lemon ver- 

 bena should be potted up into 4 or ,5- 

 inch pots and plunged in a frame be- 

 cause they lift badly. 



Don't forget to plant out sweet alys- 

 sum. vincas, trailing abutilon and a 

 few of all your so-called vines. 



As I expect to live and tell you some 

 more next week I will reserve the 

 rest for our next. 



WILLIAM SCOTT. 



THE GREAT FLORICULTURAL ES- 

 TABLISHMENT OF PARIS. 



Paris is nothing if not artistic, and 

 Parisian art is on a large scale. Near- 

 ly half a century ago her plans of de- 

 velopment were made to include the 

 transformation of old promenades and 

 the creation of a large number of new 

 gardens for the delectation and in- 

 struction of the public. The material 

 needed for these purposes, and for the 

 occasional decoration of public build- 

 ings and the like, could be grown so 

 much more satisfactorily than it could 

 be bought that the city provided for 

 itself the necessary nurseries, frames 

 and plant houses, and early entrusted 

 their care to Edouard Andre, then a 

 young man of twenty, now the leading 

 landscape architect of the world. 



In the Revue Horticole of December 

 16 last. M. Andre, who, though many 

 years ago relieved from the care of the 

 "Fleuriste de la Ville." as the estab- 

 lishment is called, has always been 

 identified with all that gardening 

 could do to beautify the most beauti- 

 ful capital of the world, gives an in- 



teresting account of the recently com- 

 pleted gardens and houses at Auteuil, 

 which have replaced the old ones at 

 Passy. Taste, architectural effect and 

 economy in administration character- 

 ize the entire garden, which covers an 

 area of seven hectares and comprises 

 ninety-two plant houses, which occupy 

 13,210 square meters of ground and 

 range from a palm tower 15.7.5 meters 

 high to the best model of compact 

 growing houses with the glass brought 

 down to the plants. 



Heating is effected by a low pressure 

 steam plant for the larger houses. In 

 addition to the other demands put on 

 it the establishment annually loans 

 70,000 or SO, 000 plants for interior dec- 

 orations, from which an idea of its 

 importance to the city may be gained. 

 Some day it may be further utilized by 

 the establishment in connection with 

 it of a school of horticulture and bot- 

 any, such as the world has not yet 

 seen. 



The accompanying engraving is a 

 half-tone reproduction of the colored 

 plate that appeared in the Revue Hor- 

 ticole in connection with the article 

 mentioned. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Plant Registration. 



Richard Gardner registers seedling 

 cauna "Bobs;" a dwarf variety of the 

 French type, growing about 18 inches 

 tall; foliage thick, leathery and dark 

 green; flowers, orange scarlet, some- 

 times slightly margined with yellow; 

 petals one and one-half inches wide; 

 spike compact. 



WM. J. STEWART, Secretary. 



