The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



69 



Bridal Bouquet of Orchids Arranged bv the Shanahan Florist Co., San Francisco. 



It sometimes requires close figuring for 

 the best growers to show a balance on 

 the right side of the ledger. Mum grow- 

 ing is not like Standard Oil stock as a 

 di\-idend payer, and about the only sat- 

 isfaction you have is when the (lowers 

 are open and Mrs. So and So comes 

 round to your free exhibition and ex- 

 claims: "Oh, how perfectly lovely! 

 How you must love to look after these 

 beautiful llowers!" It makes you feel 



good for a little while till 

 that winter is coniii 

 haven't yet got the 

 or the thought gri]i- 

 sudden fear, as the n 

 last installment on 

 due to be paid tom<i 

 serve slowly and 

 madam, there is nif 

 in mum growing." 



recollect 

 and you 

 ur coal, 

 uith a 

 Ihat the 



JAPAN I,.ILIES FOR EASTER. 



One of Vdiir .-nli^i rilici s -.ni.ls a ■|Ui's- 

 tion for W. S, » hirl, i- i In- : ''W ill ii lie 

 practicalili' lo ^r.iw I. ilium Imiil;iI|.iiiiiii, 

 Japanese bulbs, lor luxt l-^j-lii - .\-. it 

 comes March 30th I li;ur thuuolit it 

 Vfould be doubtful aboul licttiiiL: tlicm 

 early. Will Mr. Scott tell us hmv to 

 treat them if it can be done with any rea- 

 sonable prospect of success." 



We believe there will be as manv of 

 the Japan lilies urnwii for next Eiistpr as 

 there were \:\-i -|MiiiL', :iHlinirjli Ivi^lcr 

 came l«ii wcrk^ hiicr llii^ \<Mr ili.m 

 next. Tlinv u:i~ n.. .Iilli.ull v .il ,.11 lu 

 getting tliMM ill rnil\ hi>l April and we 

 believe uil li a lin ir c\l ra eti'ort they will 

 be easily llnu.r.-.l l,\ March 30th. 



About tlicir lultixalion. It is a great 

 object to get the bulbs delivered to you as 



They 



as possible. We have had the best 

 s by gelling them potted immedi- 

 lluy aniic and put out of doors 

 iMriiiu Willi an inch of spent hops 

 \ H.'ll .lira M.I manure, and leave 

 liU liiwanl- (he end of November. 

 are then tlioroughly well rooted 

 and will endure a good heat. After be- 

 ing in the houses two or three weeks, or 

 say until New Year's, a strong, steady 

 heat is then necessary with no let-up 

 and they will come along very fast. The 

 last two months 70 degrees at night will 

 not liiirl lliciii, (li'lting them well root- 

 ed iiui-nlr aial ilaii rushing them along 

 at a anil.iiinl\ -i.ady heat in the houses 

 is iiiiii h brtli'i iliau having them under 

 glass c-arly in the fall and keeping them 

 at a lower or fluctuating temperature. 

 William Scott. 



BRIDAL BOUQUET, 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph of a bridal bouquet of or- 

 chids arranged by the Shanahan Florist 

 Company, San Francisco. It is certain- 

 ly a very handsome bouquet and the de- 

 tail in the picture is so good that our 

 i.aders will have no difficulty in naming 

 the species used. 



HYBRID -WATER LILIES. 



"About the year 1879," says M. La- 

 tour-Marliac, in the London Garden, "I 

 commenced the work in earnest by cross- 

 ing the finest types of hardy and tropi- 

 cal nymphieas which I had in cultiva- 

 tion here. These early attempts were at 

 first negative in their results, but soon 

 afterwards I scored an unexpected suc- 

 cess in obtaining a hybrid nilli .hep red 

 flowers, the seed-pannl nf wlmli was 

 Nymphsea pygmaea alba, f.i ( ili/cl with 

 pollen from the flowcis uf X. rubra in- 

 diea. Unfortunately, and to my great 

 disappointment, this magnificent speci- 

 men proved hopelessly barren. In order 

 to obtain plants of a really ornamental 

 character, I considered that it was es- 

 pecially necessary that I should make it 

 a point not to employ as seed-parents 

 any subjects except such as were very 

 free-flowering, and by rigorously adher- 

 ing to this principle, I succeeded, little 

 by little, by means of numerous sowings 

 and strict selections, in raising types 

 tifcich were in every way improved in 

 the form and other characteristics of 

 their flowers. It was thus that one of 

 tli.-r new Mibjrrls ( N. allial. fnUlized 

 widi tlic ]iiilliai (mill di.' Aiiiniraii spe- 

 lii-c. N. Ila\a. |ii.ii!iiccil .\. .\larliacea 

 cliiMiiialilla, wlii.h lias achieved such a 

 hi;.'li ic'|iiitaiinii, fn the following .year 

 I oliiaiiMil llic liybrid N. odorata sul- 

 phurca fiuin a similar crossing of N. 

 odorata alba with N. flava, and the last 

 named species has also been the pollen- 

 parent of N. pygmsea Helvola. 



"About the same time two species bear- 

 ing a high character made their 

 first appearance in gardens, viz.: N. 

 sphiierocarpa, a native of Sweden, and the 



lilt N. odii 

 Cod, in NortI 

 flowering char 



found at Cape 

 The sparse- 

 sphseroearpa 

 for hvbrid- 



itly the parent of 



