The Weekly Florists' Review* 



173 



First Congregational Church, Omaha, Neb., in which the coining Convention of the 

 Society of American Florists will be held. 



ers, good color and with stiff stem. 

 They are trying only a few Mrs. Mc- 

 Burney as they fear the color is not 

 positive enough to make it a good 

 seller. Evanston is a new variety pro- 

 duced by Mr. M. Wieland, of Evanston, 

 111., and they are very much pleased 

 with it. It is very similar to Tidal 

 Wave, but of a brighter color aud with 

 a fine stem. They tried Gold Finch, 

 but it came too small and the riower.? 

 wouldn't sell alongside of Pingree, Ni- 

 vea. Ivory and Portia were all dropped 

 for lack of size. Meteor didn't bloom 

 freely enough and came off color. 

 Many of the flowers were almost black 

 the fore part of the winter. Emma 

 ■Wocher was too single and a poor 

 keeper. Harrison's white was too 

 small. 



They give McGowan a temperature 

 of .TO to 55 degrees, and all others 50 

 to 52 degrees, and keep Daybreak at 

 the lower limit. Last year they noted 

 that carnations benched Sept. 1 did 

 better than those benched two weeks 

 later and they will aim to have theirs 

 benched by the earlier date this year. 

 They will this year adopt a s;ystem 

 of staking they noted at Wietor Bros. 

 This consists of light wires running 

 between each row lengthwise of the 

 bench and lengths of No. 8 telegraph 

 wire tied across. Their carnations nov/ 

 in the field occupy S or 9 acres of 

 ground. The plants were somewhat 

 damaged in spots by a recent heavy 

 rain. 



For summer blooming they have 

 18,000 plants of the "White Kohinoor 

 planted out. They find this a splendid 

 pure white for summer flowers, though 

 when grown inside for winter the 

 flowers are variegated. One advantage 

 of this sort is that it needs no staking. 



each plant sending up seven or eight 

 stems two feet tall and strong enough 

 to need no support. They use this sort 

 for summer blooming only, housing 

 only enough stock to propagate from. 

 The cuttings are rooted from the mid- 

 dle of November to middle of Decem- 

 ber, and carried through the winter in 

 pots in the greenhouse. They are in 

 3-inch pots by last of April or early in 

 May, when they are planted out in the 

 field. They are also growing 10,(X)0 

 Portia for summer flowers, but they 

 will not grow it again after this sea- 

 son. 



latifolia aurea, Mrs. E. G. Hill gera- 

 niums with a line of La Favorite be- 

 tween them and the border of Rose 

 geraniums. La Favorite geraniums 

 bordered with Alternanthera latifolia, 

 Mrs. E. G. Hill geraniums bordered 

 with Blue Bedder lobelia. La Contable 

 geraniums (bright double pink, very 

 striking) with border of Alternanthe- 

 ra aurea, Bruantii geraniums bordered 

 with Thymus argentea. 



Alphonse Bouvier cannas with bor- 

 der of Acalypha Macafeeana, Stella 

 Kanst cannas with line of Flamingo 

 cannas between them and the border 

 of Abutilon Souv. de Bonn, Souv. de 

 Antonin Crozy cannas bordered with 

 Acalypha Macafeeana, Chicago can- 

 nas with row of Chas. Henderson can- 

 nas between them and the border of 

 Souv. de Bonn abutilons, Canna Bril- 

 liant (yellow with red in center) with 

 border of acalypha, Mme. Crozy can- 

 nas with row of Queen Charlotte 

 around and border of acalypha, Mme. 

 Crozy cannas with ricinus in center 

 and border of Pennisetum longisty- 

 lum, Egandale cannas with border of 

 Coleus Parquette. 



Portia carnation bordered with 

 Cineraria maritima candidissima, 

 Torenia Montenegro bordered with 

 Mme. Salleroi geraniums. Phlox 

 Drummondii bordered with Alternan- 

 thera latifolia, Begonia Schmidtii bor- 

 dered by Begonia seniperflorens florl- 

 dus, single petunias bordered with Co- 

 leus Parquette. Cope's Pet Ageratum 

 bordered with Pyrethrum aureum, 

 Gomphrena globosa bordered with 

 Alternanthera latifolia, Penstemon 

 paniculatus bordered with Coleus 

 Pine-Apple Beauty, Dianthus '^hinen- 

 sis Heddewigii (the single flowered 

 sorts making a fine show) bordered 

 with Thymus argentea, Vincas alba 

 and rosea bordered with Cineraria 

 maritima candidissima, heliotrope. 



The Press Building at the Omaha Exposition. 



BEDDING. 



In the main parterre at Lincoln 

 Park, Chicago, this summer, in addi- 

 tion to the carpet beds, are the fol- 

 lowing: Bruantii geraniums bordered 

 with Begonia Schmidtii, the same ge- 

 ranium bordered with Alternanthera 



bordered with Mme. Salleroi tjerani- 

 ums, purple stocks bordered with 

 small plants of variegated vinca (used 

 here while being grown on for vase 

 plants). 



In cannas Mr. Stromback says Souv. 

 de Ant. Crozy will take the place of 

 Queen Charlotte as a bedder with him 



