The Weekly Florists' Review* 



97 



Lilium Rubellum. 



largest specimens give them a mild hot- 

 bed during the summer. If you will be 

 sure and never neglect them in this po- 

 sition there is no doubt but what you can 

 get a larger plant, but you can grow as 

 good cyclamen in light houses where 

 there is abundance of ventilation. I 

 would advise always to have the pots 

 plunged during summer if kept, on a 

 bench. 



Tlie greatest enemy is green fly. There 

 never should be any let-up in fumigating 

 and to help this some tobacco stems 

 strewed among the leaves will be a great 

 preventive of gieen fly. A light syring- 

 ing should be given every morning and 

 by no means ever let them suffer severe- 

 ly for want of water. Once thoroughly 

 dried out to extreme and it is all oS. 

 Constant waterings is the secret of grow- 

 ing good cyclamen as it is with many 

 other plants. 



Pelargoniums. 



It is a long time since I have said any- 

 thing about the show pelargoniums, but 

 a splendid exhibit by C. W. Ward at the 

 Pan-American, which has attracted a 

 great deal of attention, makes me be- 

 lieve that these plants will come again 

 into fashion. We grew them by the 

 thousand twenty-five years ago and made 

 money by it; then for years we could 

 scarcely sell one and the last two or 

 three years I have even been discouraged 

 because people will not give any more for 

 them than they will for a zonal geran- 

 ium. In a few weeks their bloom will be 

 gone, but they have been gorgeous for the 

 past month. 



If you grow any, as soon as they are 

 out of bloom they should be kept rather 

 on the dry side after the first of July till 



the end of August or beginning of Sep- 

 tember, when the old plants should be 

 cut severely down ; that is, cut down to 

 within a few eyes of last year's growth. 

 They will break ovit and make a gro\vth 

 where no buds are seen. I will have 

 something to say about their propagation 

 later. In the meantime after the flower 

 is entirely gone keep them rather on the 

 dry side. 



Fuchsias. 

 Don't forget to select a couple of 

 plants of the best varieties of your best 

 fuchsias and shift them if they need it 

 and plunge them out of doors. You will 

 need them for stock plants next winter. 



Mignonette. 



If you grow mignonette it will soon be 

 time to think about sowing the seed. 1 

 believe in sowing it early in July. Un- 

 doubtedly a solid bed in a cool, light 

 house is the ideal way to grow it, but if 

 this is not convenient it will grow in five 

 or six inches of soil well enough for all 

 purposes. The mignonette does not trans- 

 plant very well, but if carefully done it 

 is all right. You can, however, either 

 sow a few seeds in the bed and when they 

 are up select the strongest or you can 

 sow a few seeds in a 2-inch pot and thin 

 them out and transplant the best later. 

 One foot apart is plenty close enough for 

 each plant. Why you should sow early 

 is because it pays better at Christmas 

 than any time and if you don't get the 

 seed in July you will not have good 

 spikes by Christmas. 



The Boston Fern. 



There is no doubt the Boston fern is 

 among the most beautiful plants of re- 



cent introduction. We never seem to 

 have enough. There seems to be a 

 change in the method of growing. The 

 best growers now do not plant it out; 

 they have a few of the plants on a bench 

 and from these take the runners. But 

 the plants intended for sale next winter 

 are better grown in pots. Give them a 

 rich soil and plenty of pot room and 

 do not give them a shaded house. A very 

 slight shade will not hurt them but they 

 will stand the broad sun if well sup- 

 plied with water. You cannot fill your 

 spare benches with anything more prof- 

 itable than the Boston fern. 

 Palms. 



Florists who raise a few palms should 

 have time very soon to give them the 

 very best of attention. They may have 

 been crowded while your houses were 

 full of bedding plants but now they 

 should be given a good place and plenty 

 of room. Shift if needed and keep well 

 .syringed. 



While the kentia, the most beautiful 

 palm, will easily burn under poor glass 

 they should only have shade sufficient 

 to prevent burning. The kentias we too 

 often see drawn up by being grown in 

 a great heat and crowded. Give your 

 plants plenty of room while you are at 

 it and they will broaden out and make 

 better plants than you can buy. 



It pays well to put all your young 



ilms in a house by themselves. 



On 



dull, cold days or cold nights you can 

 have a little 'fire, which will help them 

 very much. I do not mean by this a 

 heat that is going to force them sp, 

 but just enough to keep a nice warm 

 circulation about them. 



William Scott. 



THE SMALLER YELLOW LADY'S 



SLIPPER. 



(Cypripedium parviflorum Salisb.) 



The early settlers of this country gave 

 a much more expressive and appropriate 

 name to this pretty orchid. They called 

 it the Moccasin Flower, from an Algon- 

 quin word for the usual footwear of the 

 red man, which the strange flower great- 

 ly resembles in shape and color. Per- 

 haps the Indians themselves gave the 

 flower this name, and that it was adopt- 

 ed by the whites. However the name 

 originated, its fitness is at once appar- 

 ent to any one who ever saw a moccasin. 



That this interesting plant and its 

 larger fellow Cypripedium pubescens, 

 can be successfully grown in the garden 

 is proved by the group in the illustra- 

 tion. Last year it had four or five fine 

 blooms; this spring it produced a dozen! 

 Unless they receive protection in suit- 

 able locations these rare and beautiful 

 plants will speedily become extinct in 

 this region. Like the Indian and the 

 bison, they will become only a tradition. 



Chicago. John Higqins. 



LILIUM RUBELLUM. 



I send herewith a photograph showing 

 five spikes of Lilium rubellum, which 

 were cut on May 15, from plants grow- 

 ing here on my lily farm. The bulbs 

 of these lilies were only the remainder 

 or refuse of our last year's exports, and 

 I was surprised to get such lovely flow- 

 ers from these shrivelled up bulbs. 



Lilium rubelliun grows here in the 

 northern part of the Island of Nippon, 



