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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



203 



Bay Trees at the Pan-American Exposition. Horticultural Building in the Background. 



The ivy-leaved type and its oUspring still 

 enjoy a good deal of popularity, because 

 of their usefulness as decorative plants. 

 The scented-leaved specimens and their 

 varieties are still cared for in places, but 

 it cannot be said they are at present 

 popular plants. 



THE PAEONY. 



The tree paeonies (P, Moutan), wiiieh 

 came from China in 1789, are also a prod- 

 uct lit tlir |iii-ciit (•(■iitiny, and the va- 



|.a~l i.'w M-ar-. licit'li at limn.- and abroad. 

 ]Jkc the (. liiy-ainluMiniiii, il i- a favorite 

 tlower with the Chiiicsc and Japanese 

 gardcner^^. The remote progenitors of 

 the herbaceous type, 1>. albiflora and P. 

 officinalis, have been in English gardens 

 for over three hundred years, but it is 

 only during the last half of the nine- 

 teenth century that there has been activ- 

 ity in the production of new varieties, 

 and these appear every year in appar- 

 ently increasing quantities. Whether 

 grown under glass or in the open, the 

 dowers, which in the ease of many varie- 

 ties are fully doubled, are also surpris- 

 ingly fine. 



THE PENTSTEMON. 



from Jlexicu, u 



cMtianoides, was p 



tift,y years ago, 



vc<l to be another 



iorted to except in Scntlainl. 

 THE PETUNIA. , 



The finely-formed, striped petunias, 

 vhich ranked as florists flowers thirty 

 xnd forty years ago, have largely disap- 



peani 

 large 

 ing a 

 There 



this c, 

 of th. 

 viola.- 

 duced 



• first twenty years 

 tury, but when P. 

 iniflora were intro- 



al was supplied from which 

 dowers of high quality and beautifully 

 sti'iped characters were derived. We 

 look back with something like regret 

 upon the named varieties of petunias 

 of thirty and forty years ago. There 

 are a great many double varities also, 

 and some of them make very useful dec- 

 orative and market plants. The petunia 

 serves so many useful purposes that it is 

 likely to retain its place in gardens for 

 many years to come. 



THE ROSE. 

 It would r< quire a large volume to do 

 justice to till- ]• -' . Tliiir was in culti- 

 vation at the f I III" n . iiH III ,if the cen- 

 tury a very laue lm m|i -t what might 

 be termed f;a?iliii im-i-; but we can 

 scarcely be said to liave any hybrid per- 

 petual varieties until after 1830, and 

 from 18.-.0 ihcy were improved with re- 



BOSTON. 



Trade Conditions. 



Another week has fluttered gayly by! 

 N'lit heavily laden with floral business, 

 but giving much time for reflection, 

 pliilosophic research and moral disci- 

 pline. 



Does our summer trade increase as 

 fast year by year as the winter trade in- 

 creases? I think not, and am at a bit 

 of loss to wholly account for it. Tlie 

 great increase of the vacation custom 

 may explain a large part of it, since a 

 much heavier percentage of the pur- 

 chasing class goes away for the sum- 

 mer than formerly. But we never looked 

 for much hut fiiiicrnl work dtiring two 

 or three of llic linllr-.l iimnlhs and the 



oh 



eMoui;li. .Mil 

 has been icn 

 sweet jjeas. 

 sophila, fcvc 



lar, on account of the variet,y of form 

 and color, and wealth of bloom found in 

 the section. The banksian and moss roses 

 ha\c lost iiiiich of their old popularitv, 

 liiit till- ( liiiia roses still rank high as 

 aiiti lili'Miiicrs. As an exhibition sub- 

 ject, the lose is as popular as ever: but 

 the giant specimen plants which were 

 grown and exhibited a quarter of a cen- 

 tury ago appear to have entirely disap- 

 peared. In a modern rose garden can 

 now be found a considerable proportion 

 of those denominated garden roses. 



ver takes 

 tlic sum- 

 iilly? 

 lid cheap 

 1 nature 

 . >uch as 

 ],-.i. gyp- 

 ilies, etc. 

 Uso have 

 lire how 

 ispers of 

 f asters. 



The general cut of glass-grown crojis 

 is now fairly good, thanks to cooler 

 weather for the past ten days. But 

 pinks have hard work beating $1 per 

 100 very much and ordinary roses have 

 to look pretty sharp to catch 4 cents, 

 some large Kaiserins perhaps reaching 

 a bill per dozen. Not many red ones 

 floating around, and not so very much 

 call for them. 



Various Items. 



rialvin's old store on Trcmont stvei t 

 is. being treated to a tine, hard pine floor 

 of best quality, to be covered with an 

 equal grade of linoleum, and this will 

 be followed by elegant new fixtures 

 throughout, taking a month or more for 

 completion of the entire work. 



