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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



glers will be found through the greater 

 part of the season. Brian Borf. 



MEMORIAL TREES. 



Ill I ho Washington ttlar of ilny '2.) 

 appiars an interesting illustrateii arti- 

 cle on (he trees planted at the national 

 capital by or in memory of famou? men. 



Jlr. W. E. Smith, superintendent of 



trell said, 'If your friend, Mr. Bingham, 

 will withdraw the force bill and pass the 

 Crittenden resolutions, I will guarantee 

 that Georgia will not go out of the 

 Union.' 



"Mr. Bingham said: 'I will do what I 

 can about the business.' Subsequently 

 he said: 'Things have gone too far to 

 be controlled by any one man.' It was 

 because of this little epi«idc that 1 asked 



Floral Flag Arranged by Shaoahan Florist Co., San Francisco, for the Funeral of 

 Lieut. Laosdale. 



the Botanic Garden, related to the re- 

 porter the following story regarding the 

 Crittenden oak: 



"This oak was planted by that great 

 statesman, John J. Crittenden of Ken- 

 tucky, to commemorate his grand but un- 

 successful efforts for peace between the 

 north and south. My close personal rela- 

 tions with Mr. Crittenden and his favor- 

 ite colleague, Mr. Robert Mallory, 

 prompted me to ask them to bring from 

 Kentucky the largest acorns they could 

 find to plant in the garden. Mr. Crit- 

 tenden planted one of the acorns here, 

 the place in the garden being selected 

 on account of an incident which I will 

 tell you. Representative Gartrell, a 

 friendly colleague of Alexander Stephens 

 of Georgia, and Representative John A. 

 Bingham of Ohio, one of the leaders in 

 the republican party, met bv accident 

 in the garden. The three of 'us walked 

 eastward toward the Capitol, and as we 

 came near this gate, and I being in the 

 middle, I facetiously offered myself as a 

 mediator between the sections. " Mr. Gar- 



Mr. Crittenden to plant one of the Ken- 

 tucky acorns here. That was forty years 

 ago." 



THE RUSSELIA. 



In reply to Subscriber's request for 

 information regarding the growing of 

 russelia, we find this plant so easy to 

 grow that we take no especial pains with 

 it. The young wood roots as easy as a 

 coleus in almost any temperature" above 

 55 degrees. The plants grow luxuriant- 

 ly in any of our houses wherever the 

 temperature runs above 55 at night. We 

 have carried quite a lot of the stock in 

 our carnation houses and it continues 

 to grow thriftily, but not quite so fast 

 as in the warmer houses. 



Young plants set out in the fields with 

 geraniums and cultivated in the same 

 manner, grow sploiulidly the entire sum- 

 mer, making huj. -imirj , liiui]!- wliirh 

 bloom freel_y, tliii..\iiij -|,i!.:.- !»,, to 

 three feet in Icn'jih. Tlinr i- a|ijp:ii'.'iitly 

 no skill required in ;4iuuiuy ii, it aiow's 



hi.xuriantly in vases and hanging bas- 

 kets when supplied with proper mois- 

 ture, and it will also grow very nicely 

 indeed ofli rock work. We planted it last 

 season in the full sun. I have come to 

 the conclusion that if you start with 

 strong, healthy stock of russelias you 

 can grow it and keep it as easily as you 

 can a geranium or coleus or jiny other 

 plant of that character. 



C. W. Ward. 

 (.lueens, N. Y. 



A FLORAL FLAG. 



We present herewith an engraving 

 fidiii a photograph of a lloial flag ar- 

 ranged by the ShiiiLiluu lln,ist Com- 

 pany, San Franci-'(i. :inil ii-.<l at the 

 funeral of Lieut. I'luliii l.juxlalc, hero 

 (if Samoa. It octiipiLtl a pu^ition of 

 lioiiur at the church amid a wealth of 

 oilier /lowers. 



IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS. 



riir National League of Improvement 

 A-^n, latiiiiis will hold its annual con- 

 \' r:ii-r, in I',. ill;, In Aug. 12 to 15 next. 

 1 li' ' --inn- ,,1 I lie (ii-st three days will 

 Ir 1,. M in ill. Iianquet hall of the City 

 CiiwiiliMii Hume, Buffalo, N. Y. The 

 last day's session will be at Lake Chau- 

 tauqua, N. Y. 



There will be no day sessions of the 

 convention on Monday. The time will 

 be devoted to mutual acquaintance and 

 to visits to the Pan-American Exposi- 

 tion and other points of interest in Buf- 

 falo. The chief event of the evening ses- 

 sion will be an illustrated lecture by 

 Prof. Charles Zueblin, of the University 

 of Chicago, a leading authority on the 

 pnlili. beauty movement, and one of the 

 1m-i speakers in the country. 



I 'n Tuesday the morning session will 

 1" <li \u|c(l to organization, to reports of 

 :ii!ih,iii(l associations, and to brief ad- 

 lii' --•> (in the general topic, "What We 

 ll:n. Done and How We Did It." The 

 afternoon session will be devoted to thir- 

 ty-minute papers on the various phases of 

 improvement work. Each of these papers 

 will be prepared by an expert, and all 

 topics discussed will be of vital interest. 

 Among the subjects already arranged for 

 may be mentioned "The Work of the 

 Cleveland Home Gardening Association," 

 by \\". H. Moulton, secretary industrial 

 committee Cleveland Chamber of Com- 

 merce, and "The Influence of Neighbor- 

 hood Improvement Associations in the 

 Embellishment of Cities," by Charles M. 

 Loring, ex-president American Park and 

 Outdoor Art Association. In the even- 

 ing there will be an illustrated address 

 by Miss Mira Loyd Dock, of Harrisburg, 



The morning session of Wednesday 

 will be devoted to the report of the ex- 

 ecutive board of the league, the election 

 of officers for the ensuing year, the 

 formulation of plans for further work, 

 and to general business. In the after- 

 noon the delegates will visit the Pan- 

 American Exposition and some of the 

 parks of Buffalo, under the escort of 

 committees appointed by the florists of 

 the city, the board of park commission- 

 ers and local improvement associations. 

 At the evening session there will be an- 

 other illustrated lecture. 



The delegates will go to Lake Chau- 

 iaiiqua on the morning of Thursday. It 

 is planned to have a "School of Meth- 

 ods" on topics essentially allied to edu- 

 cational work. At 4 o'clock in the after- 



