June C, VMl. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



39 



A Table Dicoration. 



noon Prof. Charles Zueblin will deliver a 

 lecture, anil in the evening Mr. Edwin 

 L. Shuey will present an illustrated ad- 

 dress. 



Mr. D. J. Thomas, Springfield, Ohio, 

 is corresponding secretary of the Lengue. 



A TABLE DECORATION. 



The accompanying engraving is from a 

 photograph of a dinner table decoration 

 arranged by Walter Kreitling & Co., 

 Chicago, for a dinner tendered to the 

 French ambassador at the Chicago Club 

 during his recent visit to the city. We 

 mentioned it in our Chicago notes at the 

 time. 



There were thirty-six covers and as 

 will be seen the table was in tlie form 

 of a square. The electric lights that 

 studded the inner edge of the table were 

 alternately red and white and in the 

 central square was a frame work that 

 sloped gradually down to the fountain in 

 the center. This framework was covered 

 with liardy fein fronds and the edge of 

 the basin of the fountain was defined 

 by a huge circle of yellow variegated 

 parrot tulips. At each corner of the 

 inner square was laid a flag of red and 

 white carnations and blue corn flowers, 

 two American and two French. Between 

 these were placed loose bunches of red 

 peonies. On the tables was a tracery of 

 Sprengeri and apple blossoms. 



The huge canopy over the table was 

 filled solidly with lilac, white and pur- 

 ple mixed, and the air was heavy with 

 the fragrance. The price of the decora- 

 tion was $200. The photograph was 

 taken the morning after the banquet 

 which will explain any raggedness in the 

 appearance of any of the details. 



A GOOD DRUMMER. 



The Keview is a good drummer. It 

 sells plants quicker than any other 

 trade paper we have in the country. — 

 C. Lawritzen', Rhinebeck, N. Y. 



FROM OUR ENGLISH EXCHANGES. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle. 



Chrysanthemum Rust: In a paper 

 read before the French Society of Chrys- 

 anthemum Growers, and published in 

 their journal for February of the pres- 

 ent year, M. Thiriat observes that his 

 plants raised from cuttings in April 

 are only slightly attacked with rust, 

 while those plants raised from cuttings 

 struck in January and February are the 

 most severely attacked. He considers 

 that preventive measures are less effica- 

 cious than those which tend to increase 

 the health and vigor of the plants. 

 Plenty of air and abundance of sunlight 

 are essentials. M. Chantrier recommends 

 in the same publication the application 

 of a solution of potassium pentasulphide 

 (liver of sulphur), which checks but does 

 not cure the disease. The quantity used 

 is 300 grammes to 100 litres of water. 



Begonia Gloire de Lorraine: After 

 the plants have ceased to bloom and 

 have been rested for a short time by les- 

 sening the quantity of water afforded, 

 and keeping them slightly cooler, cut 

 them down and place in the stove, when 

 in a short space of time suckers will be 

 thrown up. Cuttings of the strongest of 

 these should be taken and struck in 

 small pots in a steady bottom heat of 

 80 degrees. When rooted keep in the 

 stove near the glass without shade, and 

 repot them when necessary. Potting ma- 

 terials may consist of peat and turfy 

 loam in equal proportions, with a good 

 deal of sand. Good drainage is requisite 

 for this and all other species. As the 

 weather gets warmer the plants may be 

 transferred to a heated pit, and in the 

 warmest summer months accorded inter- 

 mediate house treatment. The largest 

 sized pot admissible is an 8-inch, but 

 very nice plants may be grown in 4J 

 and 6-ineh pots. The plant will bear 

 liquid manure once a week while grow- 



CtTi.TURE OF Palms: Palms for the 



decoration of the dinner table and of 

 apartments should be of moderate or 

 small sizes, and necessarily the pots 

 sliruild be as small as is consistent with 

 the plants being in a presentable condi- 

 tion. When the plants are grown in 

 very small pots, manurial aids should 

 be frequently afforded, and one of these 

 good to use is clear soot water. Sul- 

 phate of iron in powder, at the rate of 

 a small teaspoonful to a lO-inch pot, and 

 washed in with water, gives a healthy 

 color to the leaves. When plants have 

 been forced upwards by strong roots, as 

 is often the case with Latania borbonica, 

 repotting becomes a necessity. The new 

 pots should be sufficiently deep to allow 

 the surface of the ball of the plant to 

 come an inch or more below the rims 

 of the pots. Mutilation of the roots is 

 not recommended as a means of attain- 

 ing this object. 



Helianthemum "Jubilee": Among 

 the many forms of Helianthemum varia- 

 bile, none of the varieties with double 

 flowers is equal to that known as H. 

 venustum, fl. pi., but for some years 

 back sent out as H. mutabile, fl. pi., with 

 the exception of that now referred to 

 under the name of H. Jubilee. The 

 double flowered crimson colored variety, 

 which should have some special name 

 given it to distinguish it from other dou- 

 ble flowered forms of the same color, has 

 the merit of long blooming, and of show- 

 ing its blooms well above the foliage. 

 Thc\- are quite upright in habit of 

 growth, and effective in the rock garden 

 for a long season. There are few persons 

 who see this variety without desiring to 

 possess it. It is so greatly superior to 

 the ordinary double flowered forms of 

 H. variabile that a few companions of 

 difl'orent colors are much to be wished 

 for. Until lately we have not had such, 

 but a sport from the double crimson has 

 now given us at least one other color — a 

 good yellow. This sport occurred in the 

 garden of Mr. P. H. Normand, who has 

 propagated the sport, and named it 

 "Jubilee." 



