AUGUST 30. U1IK1. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



391 



View in the Dining Car on the Chicago Florists' Club's Special Train to the New .York Convention. 



ering; they begin to die in the cunter, 

 and when you are compelled to prune 

 them, a gap Is left which is irrepara- 

 ble. Remember when planting shrubs 

 that you are not planting tor this 

 year, or next, but for the effect in 

 years to come. 



Hardy climbers should be planted 

 extensively in every available nook or 

 corner; they will well repay you for 

 the little trouble they require. Ampe- 

 lopsis Veitchii is the best of all for 

 covering brick or stone walls: Aris- 

 tolochia Slpho and Climbing Honey- 

 suckle are most effective for covering 

 arbors or summer-houses, and what 

 is grander than a trellis work out in 

 the open covered with Clematis Jack- 

 mannii or its hybrids, or pauiculata, 

 or an old bank or rockwork covered 

 with Crimson Rambler or some other 

 climbing rose? By all means plant 

 climbers, and lots of them. 



The laying out and planting of 

 flower beds will differ materially ac- 

 cording to the different conditions of 

 the place to be planted. The style, 

 position and size all have to be taken 

 into consideration. A large establish- 

 ment, well furnished with trees, long 

 broad walks, and a large expanse of 

 grass, will give scope to a gardener 



to show his taste and ability. In- 

 stead of having a few flower beds ar- 

 ranged geometrically, close to the 

 house, always looking stiff and for- 

 mal, and becoming monotonous on ac- 

 count of their everlasting sameness, 

 he can so arrange his beds that at 

 every turn the eye dwells upon some- 

 thing fresh and pleasing. Here plant 

 a great mass of pansies. at another 

 place, primroses of all colors; here a 

 mass of auriculas, and in smaller 

 groups plant the larger growing sub- 

 jects, clumps of foxgloves, delphin- 

 iums. Phlox, rudbeckias, etc., each in 

 its own proper soil and situation. 

 Every part of a garden would in this 

 way iiave its own distinctive charac- 

 ter. 



Follow the dictates of nature 

 wherever and whenever possible. 

 Even in this a gardener can go to ex- 

 tremes, by planting a small garden in 

 such a manner that, instead of every 

 plant showing itself off to perfection, 

 they are so huddled together that, 

 beautiful as they may be in them- 

 selves, they become completely lost in 

 the vast ciuantity of them. In the 

 matter of planting the beds every gar- 

 dener will have to use his own dis- 

 cretion and plant those things that 



do best in his own particular loca- 

 tion, but in any case I would recom- 

 mend the informal style of planting, 

 rather than the formal carpet beds; 

 not that I would omit carpet-bedding 

 entirely, but a combination of what I 

 may term the three styles, carpet, 

 mass, and sub-tropical. It is the abuse 

 of carpet-bedding that has brought it 

 into such disrepute, but when asso- 

 ciated with other beds it has a charm- 

 ing effect. 



Mass bedding will, of course, pre- 

 dominate in tlie majority of private 

 places, and here again I would recom- 

 mend the combination style which has 

 come into such favor the last few 

 years, and deservedly so. A bed tilled 

 entirely with scarlet geraniums looks 

 glaring, but when associated with 

 sweet alyssum, or some other low- 

 growing plant, they give a fine effect 

 in any garden. A bed of coleus alone 

 looks stiff and formal, but plant Abu- 

 tilon Souv. de Bonn, or some other 

 tall, growing subject with them, and 

 the effect is very pleasing. Abutilon 

 Savitzii, with dwarf achyranthes for 

 a ground work, make a lovely combi- 

 nation, and hosts of other combina- 

 tions will suggest themselves to the 

 intelligent gardener. A 'ot has been 



