The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



365 



Now let us criticise the crown bud. If 

 you want early flowers on early varieties 

 you must use the crown bud. By early 

 varieties I mean such as Fitzwygram, 

 Yellow Queen, Sunderbrueh, etc. While 

 the difference in the opening of the flow- 

 ers from the difTerent buds is often only 

 a matter of two or three days, that dif- 

 ference often makes a vast change in the 

 price obtained. 



The great bulk of the midseason kinds 

 come all right on the crown bud, with 

 the exception of the pink varieties, pro- 

 viding the bud is taken at the right 

 time : viz. the last days of August or first 

 week in September. I would except from 

 this rule also Mrs. T. L. Park, and her 

 brother, Colonel Appleton, which do bet- 

 ter on a later bud. 



If the stock is planted closely in the 

 bench it is not wise to use tlie crown 

 bud, because it often in such case makes 

 a long neck owing to the growth of the 

 plant being drawn up instead of being 

 close-jointed and sturdy. When the neck 

 is long and weak it is unable to support 

 the flower properly, and the sparsity of 

 foliage is painfully apparent. Dwarf 

 varieties like Bonnaffon will not of 

 course show this long neck on the crown, 

 but the taller growers will. The crown 

 should have a temperature never lower 

 than 45 degrees to develop in, or it will 

 not develop properly, while the terminal 

 will develop all right in any tempera- 

 ture above actual frost. 



There is a bud often called the late 

 cro«Ti which is a sort of intermediary 

 between the crown proper and the termin- 

 al, and this bud is pretty nearly always 

 a safe one to use. I don't know of any 

 variety that will not develop a perfect 

 flower from it. 



Plants that produce a crown bud early 

 in August will often produce a late 



The only way to get an accurate idea 

 of how certain buds will mature in your 

 own individual locality, is to make a 

 note of the dates the buds are taken and 

 see which ones produce the best flowers. 

 Then you have a working data and will 

 know for another year. 



Bri.\.n; Boru. 



surrounded by 5 or 6 rows of McKinley. 

 The combination is grand. It is impos- 

 sible to see the flowers of McKinley in 

 the picture, but for many weeks tlie 

 plants have been covered with bloom as 

 a geranium bed. Eighteen inches, even 

 2 ft., is considered the right distance to 

 plant cannas, particularly of the stron- 



Exhibit of Evergreens at the Pan-American Exposition. 



EXHIBITS AT THE PAN-AMERICAN. 



The bed of geranium "Le Soliel" is 

 the exhibit of C. W. Ward of Queens, K. 

 Y. These plants were unfortunately re- 

 ceived during our wet spell here and had 

 to remain in the packing box almost a 

 week before we cou'd get them in the 

 ground, and nothing suffers worse under 

 these conditions than a geranium. But 

 they quickly got over it and for many 

 weeks have been a most brilliant bed. 



Bed of Geranium America at the Pan-American Expositic 



crown the second or third week in Sep- 

 tember. The only difference in the ap- 

 pearance of a late crown from a ter- 

 minal is in the fact that in the terminal 

 the smaller buds are clustered closely 

 around the central bud; while in the late 

 crown the smaller buds appear in small 

 clusters of two or three each on a small 

 separate footstalk which would if al- 

 lowed to remain, attain a length of two 

 or three inches only. 



In color, Le Soliel is very slightly 

 lighter than S. A. Nutt. It is absolutely 

 healthy and a vigorous giower; but not 

 too rank, and I have never seen its equal 

 for quantity of flowers. I consider it our 

 best bedding scarlet geranium. 



Perhaps the handsomest, or rather the 

 most finished bed on the whole grounds, 

 is the canna bed, the exhibit of C. W. 

 Ward. It is a circle 23 ft. in diameter. 

 In the center is Black Beauty, which is 



gcr growing varieties, but Mr. Ward 

 sent us such an abundance of plants 

 tliat we were able to plant these only one 

 foot apart, so they have quickly filled up 

 and have made a magnificent show. If 

 you want a quick return, plant thickly. 

 Xo llori.st can afford to be without the 

 JIcKinley canna. 



Tlie bed of evergreens is the exhibit of 

 the William H. Moon Co., of Morrisville, 

 Pa. They were planted about May 10, 

 and occu|i\ .i -.(pMic lied just north of 

 the Wiiiii.iii - I'.iiiMiii'j, III tVie center 

 are three I'liui- .\..'~a. Next to them 

 are nine K. tiiiii.spuia plumosa. Next to 

 that come a row of Retinospora squar- 

 rosa and next Retinospora aurea. The 

 whoU' were surrounded with an edging of 

 llif Col. 1(11 .luniper. quite small plants. 

 (^iiiii' .1 niiiiilni (if the juniper died, but 

 iH I 1 -iiejle niic of any of the larger 

 |il.iiil-. We liave liad occasion this sum- 

 iiiei to move several small evergreens, 

 wliiih wc have done during the month of 

 July with perfect success. We all know 

 tli.it just as cMiijieeii- ^lait to uiow. 

 *av aimut the sei-oml u rrk in \l,iv uith 

 U-. is tlie best tine to moi,. (Ihui, jikI 

 next best is possib'y the nel o| \iiL:ust 

 or early September. But 1 ii:ill\ n.lirve 

 that if a suflicient ball ot r:n ili r.n, lie 

 taki 11 that you can move tlirin w n !i -;ife- 

 l\ ui\ liiMc dining summer; that is, the 

 I! I 111 -1/1. 1 plants, without their los- 



I iji 1.1(1 111 ■■(Jarret A. Hobart" canna 

 i- the Ijed of W. G. Eisele of W^est End, 

 X. ,T. When received about the first of 

 .Tune, these were by no means good 

 ]ilants; in fact, they had suffered a good 

 deal in transit, but they quickly started 

 to grow and have been for a long time a 

 mo.st brilliant bed. It is of medium 

 height, very stout grower, and most pro- 

 fuse bloomer. It is a lieavy spike with 

 a dark, rich scarlet, and I think will take 

 rank as one of the most free bloomers. 



There are two beds of geraniums on 

 the margin of Mirror Lake, the exhibit 

 of Mcnry Eichholz, Waynesboro, Pa. 



