68 



TheWeekly Florists' Review* 



June 13, 1901. 



to take the place of hats. Blue corn 

 flowers are being e.Ktensively used by 

 both se.ves at present for street wear. 

 If you intend to be an up-to-date florist 

 next season plant out a bench of some 

 rose not on the market and which you 

 can make a feature of. If you have 

 no glass make a contract with some good 

 grower. Now is the time to plan for 

 next winter's rose crop and lio some- 

 thing to get out of the rut of one or 

 two varieties. We will have an immense 

 variety of carnations to choose from, 

 but very few roses. IvERA. 



surrounding territory and converted it 

 into a poplar jungle. The moral is, 

 plant L'oiid troc-: while you are about it. 



I icr.ill |i':i?ii ill nils of Sugar maple and 

 bhiilv HiiliMii ili:ii have made almost as 

 mm-li L'iMwili :i, the soft ones named 

 ahuvr, ullllr IIh^ :nr i ll.-nln J,;! I'M 1,1 v su- 



pf'-'"' '" '"'^'"l> ^""1 ^''l' I '' '■'■■ 



Til.' ;nr,,„iiK,liMliL- |il: inlniuvs a 



plat 1114 iVrl ,^nli «:i.\. Thi^ i-, nbout 

 a quarter of an acre in the southeast 

 quarter of the farm. A like space di- 

 rectly north can be used for barn and 

 other outbuildings to be reached by road 



Key to Plan. 



Berberis vulgaris purpur 

 CratEegus Crus-galil 

 Xanthoxylum americanu 

 Madura aurantlaca 

 Gledltschla triaeanthos 

 SyrlDga vulgaris 

 ClematiB Jackmani 



P.vrus mahis floribuut; 

 Spiraea Van Houttel 

 Hibiscus militarls 

 Amelanchier Botraplu 



P.vrub\Cydouia; japouica 

 Double flowering crab-apple 



FARM HOMES. 



There should be beautiful home 

 grounds in the country as well as in the 

 city and suburbs, and the present period 

 of prosperity for the farmer will no 

 donbt make him more likely to wish for 

 something better around his home than 

 he has had in the past. All farmers are 

 not stingy and many now spend consid- 

 erable in decorating their home grounds, 

 though rarely with wisdom. Is not thii 

 a field to be developed by the florist? 



If we look over homes that were found- 

 ed, say, fifty years ago, or even half that 

 Iniio-, many instructive facts may be ob- 

 sri\r(l. I'riliMps the youug farmer in 

 lii- I ;ij. 1 IH-, lor speedy results planted 

 ^iiciiii,! hi- li.iuse with soft^maples and 

 still softer willows, cotton\>S6od, balm of 

 gilead and silver leaf poplars. They 

 grew sure enough beyond his wildest 

 expectations. Their gigantic limbs bur- 

 dened with leaves beyond their strength 

 became a menace in every storm to the 

 overshadowed house. In summer they 

 abound with every creeping, crawling, 

 boring and biting abomination known to 

 the department of entomology. The sil- 

 ver poplars and bahn of gilead with a 

 numberless host of suckers annexed the 



along west side of dooryard. The larger 

 trees should have the grass sod removed 

 from a circle of, say, five feet in diam- 

 eter till they get established. 



Chicago. John Higgins. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM NOTES. 



Planting. 



Planting the benches should be pro- 

 ceeded with now as soon as the plants 

 are in a fit condition and the house is 

 ready. 



The arrangement for supporting the 

 plants should be put up, where possible, 

 before the benches are filled, as it is then 

 a much quicker and simpler operation. 

 If yiMi |ii(.|ii.-c l(r mil yniu- plants up on 

 striiiL'-. |iiii ii|i Vim \vii-,.s over the top 

 to mil >niii -iiin'j ii|. lo when the time 

 conic-. It v.. II mil -,.\ir:il wires length- 

 wisr n\ri ilir liriirh iiiiil tie your pUxuts 

 to tliriii iliH.i. Mill cMii lix up the ends 

 of the lull, hi- ir.i.ly, ,-.i that by-and-by 

 all \uu will iRcil lu do will be' to just 

 run your wires along and fasten tbeni. 



Be sure that your bed will be well 

 drained before you get your soil in, no 

 mafter whether you use solid beds or 



benches. The mums need lots of water 

 while growing, but the bed should be so 

 arranged that the surplus water will pass 

 away readily, for good results cannot 

 possibly be attained if the soil gets sour 

 and stagnant. 



Some growers put a layer of rotten 

 manure in the bottom of the bench be- 

 fore putting in the soil, but it is a prac- 

 tice I do not agree with. The constant 

 watering will have leached away most of 

 the good properties of the manure before 

 the roots of the mums will be in a con- 

 dition to use it. Keep your manure un- 

 til August or September and then u.se 

 as a top dressing when the watering will 

 wash the goodness into the soil instead 

 of out of the bottom of the bench. The 

 best possible thing to put in the bottom 

 of the bench is a layer of fresh green sod. 

 The water drains readily through this 

 and as it rots it will be of great bene- 

 fit to the plants. This you can see for 

 yourself when you empty your benches in 

 the fall, and see the perfect net work of 

 roots where the sod was laid. If you 

 cannot by any means procure .sod the 

 excelsior used for packing will fill up 

 the cracks and drain nil right, but it is 

 of course 11(1 cithn bniclit In the plants. 



If your siiil is very liravy it will pioli- 

 ably pay you to use a liberal propor- 

 tion of coarse sand in it. While the 

 mum is not by any means fastidious as 

 to soil I have found a light sandy loam 

 well enriched to suit it bill it tlmii any- 

 thing else. If you use bniii- una I in your 

 soil (and it is the best ihin^ ymi can 

 use), make sure that it is evenly uis- 

 tributed through the heap by turning it 

 over twice before wheeling into the 

 house. 



The distance njiait ti. plant is a mat- 

 ter that every man mii-l -ciilc lor him- 

 self, since eveiyi liiiiL' ih|.iiiils on the 

 grade of flowers ii is prupused to grow. 

 For the veiy best llnwcrs ten inches by 

 ten is not too inui-li for tlie varieties 



uid 



as 



Robinson, Wedding, lliiriill, ilc, but 

 varieties with small tnliaur ami less 

 vigorous habit, such a- l'iiiii-\ 1\ aiiia, 

 Evangeline, Morel, etc., ur varict_ies 

 whose foliage hangs down close against 

 the stem, like Sunderbruch, can be 

 planted 9x8 and still give extra fine 

 flowers. 



Timothy Eaton is apparently a variety 

 that can, from its habit, be grown a lit- 

 tle closer than the average, and if this 

 variety produces a good, even crop of 

 flowers it will undoubtedly rank high as 

 a commercial variety. For smaller flow- 

 ers of course you can plant closer, say 

 8x6, or even 7x6, but remember that 

 close planting and an extra fine stem and 

 foliage cannot possibly go together. 



I like to get my flowers as good as 1 

 can and let the other fellow grow the 

 smaller ones. The case to my mind re- 

 solves itself into a question of arith- 

 metic. Which is the most profitable, an 



average or o 

 in from -fO 



qu: 



.50 cent 



half 



to a foot, bringing 

 four flowers 



inch to obviate the glut which always 

 occurs along in November. It is unnec- 

 essarv to sav that it is always the 

 smallest flowers that drag the most in a 



gl.lllr.l liiarKi-t. 



How nil 1 nth some men can afTord to 

 grow niiiiiis at the prices they get for 

 their flowers is more than I can fathom. 



