JUNE 1, 1899. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



New Geranium America. 



you make an informal arbor or canopy 

 of mock orange (philadelphus) and 

 place a tall vase of Jacques at uneven 

 heights at each Side, you will have 

 something pretty. You will notice 

 that the cupid bow is embroidered and 

 ■worn on the most fashionable dresses 

 of the day; it makes a pretty design 

 if carefully done in flowers. Bells and 

 wreaths and horseshoes and stiff 

 canopies are not up to date; they be- 

 long to the museum of floral curiosi- 

 ties; so are the heavy Dutch cabbage- 

 head-like bouquets. Small, graceful 

 sprays of your finest flowers for the 

 bride, and loose cluster bunches for 

 the bridesmaids. When collecting your 

 stock for decorations, cut it or get it 

 in the morning, and put the flowers 

 in water; tie the greens up in neat 

 bundles, and when you go to the 

 house, keep your materials out of 

 sight as much as possible until you 

 have them put up. Neatness and 

 quickness are two great necessary 

 qualifications for successful decorat- 

 ors. Many times we must work un- 

 der the watchful eye of some crank 

 who grumbles at everything we do, 

 and scarcely gives us time to do any- 

 thing, that is when we must either 

 be dumb or coaxingly assuring. If we 

 are quick at putting up a garland, it 

 often not only gives confidence, but 

 elicits praise from the critic. 



IVERA. 



new geranium America, a seedling of 

 Mars X Mrs. E. G. Hill. This will be 

 the first of Henry Eichholz's Mars 

 seedlings to be introduced to the trade. 



Having the dwarfness and flori- 

 ferousness of Mars and the vigor of 

 Mrs. E. G. Hill, it promises to be the 

 ideal pot geranium. The coloring of 

 the flowers is beautiful and striking. 

 On opening they are white and sal- 

 mon, with age changing through all 

 the salmon and rose shades and final- 

 ly becoming a deep rose. The shad- 

 ings and markings are such that there 

 are hardly two flowers of same color 

 on one plant at the same time. 



America will be distributed during 

 the spring of 1900. 



NEW GERANIUM AMERICA. 



We present herewith an engraving 

 from a photograph of a plant of the 



CARNATIONS FOR SUMMER 

 BLOOMING. 



A correspondent writes: "We wish 

 to get our fall struck carnations into 

 flower by the middle of May and have 

 the plants as large as possible before 

 planting outside for iummor blooming. 

 After they leave the 2 -inch is it best 

 to give them a 3-inch, or could they go 

 into a 4-inch? Now they are in a 

 3%-inch and root-bound. Next sea- 

 son I want to give them better trcm- 

 ment." 



In the first place, I reply that ii 

 would be quite unprofitable to grow 

 plants intended for summer blooming 

 in larger than a 4-inch, and 3-inch al- 

 ways does us well. For what season 

 do you want to pick flowers from fall 

 struck plants by the middle of May'.' 



You have, or should have, the carna- 

 tions on the benches in the very besr 

 of order during May and June. I no- 

 tice that just now Scott, Daybreak, 

 Flora Hill, Helen Keller, Mrs. Bradt 

 and Jubilee are in the finest order. If 

 you have to throw away carnations 

 before the middle of May, you have 

 received only a part of the profit from 

 them. You cannot possibly grow fall 

 struck plants that will give you long- 

 stemmed flowers in May and June; 

 they would not be as good as even 

 third class flowers from plants on the 

 benches. 



We grow early carnations for sum- 

 mer flowering to give us flowers dur- 

 ing the months of July, August, Sep- 

 tember and October, when the old 

 plants have been thrown out and the 

 new ones are not yet producing. Your 

 correspondent seems to be exactly on 

 the right track in raising these young 

 plants. October is a good time to strike 

 them, and they should be shifted on as 

 needed. It makes no difference wheth- 

 er you shift from a 2-inch to a 4-inch 

 or first to a 3-inch. The larger shift 

 is the "way to get a large plant with 

 almost all plants, but economy of 

 space forbids it. 



Forty-five, or even forty, degrees at 

 night is high enough for these plants, 

 and they should have a place in a 

 light house. By the 1st of April, or 

 even before, they could go into a cold- 

 frame for a week or two, and in the 

 ground as soon as plowing can be 

 done. If you will tie up and disbud 

 as carefully as you do with plants in- 

 side, you will have splendid flowers in 

 the fall. 



Portia is about obsolete as a red 

 carnation for winter use, but for sum- 

 mer and fall flowering in the open field 

 it has no rival. It is the best and 

 earliest of all for that purpose. 



WM. SCOTT. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



The Detroit Meeting. 



It is in the air that the attendance 

 at Detroit will be very large. A good 

 indication of the prevalent confidence 

 is seen in the preparations being made 

 by the large manufacturers and deal- 

 ers who have already engaged exhibi- 

 tion space far exceeding the amount 

 taken in any other year so long in ad- 

 vance. The hall set apart by the 

 executive committee for the exhibi- 

 tion will be much too small and it has 

 been decided to substitute the large 

 Harmonie Hall, which was originally 

 selected as an audience room. The lo- 

 cal enthusiasm is extending, the Flor- 

 ists' Club and others are pulling to- 

 gether harmoniously, and a big suc- 

 cess is assured. 



As to railroad rates, there has been 

 the usual delay on the part of the 

 western roads and an unwillingness 

 to make a favorable rate of fare suffi- 

 ciently early to be much of a factor in 

 increasing the attendance from that 

 section. All the roads in Michigan 



