The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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DES MOINES, IOWA. 



The drouth has at last been broken 

 and lawns and parks alike show the re- 

 sult. The housing of carnations will be 

 the easier for the rain. Some of the 

 growers are through housing, while oth- 

 ers have only fairly commenced. Mr. 

 Marshall has had a mild form of small- 

 po.\ in his family, all four of his chil- 

 dren ha\'ing it, and his house is quaran- 

 tined, which made it very annoying. The 

 little fellows did not suffer much, how- 

 ever, and all hope for a speedy recovery. 



Our state fair was held in our city 

 and the floral display was about as 

 usual. The amateur display was fairly 

 good and as for the professional we clip 

 the following from a daily paper. It 

 speaks for itself: 



LOZIER'S SWEEPSTAKES. 

 The enterprising floral firm known as "Lo- 

 ziers" Is always astounding the public with 

 their untiring, ceaseless push. Their exhibit 

 at the state fair this year excels anything of 

 the kind ever shown In the west. The judges 

 declare that it Is ahead of the famous exhibi- 



creditable to the daily paper in question 

 that it would print such a ipaid notice 

 without at least placing "adv." at the 

 end to show what it was. — Ed.] 



WASHINGTON PARK, CHICAGO. 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph, taken in two sections, of 

 the sunken parterre in front of the con- 

 servatory in Washington Park, Chicago. 

 The space devoted to the bedding is 

 nearly twice as large as it was last 

 year, the old roadway immediately west 

 of the conservatory having been set back 

 quite a distance and elevated twenty 

 feet, thereby giving the public an oppor- 

 tunity to look down upon the display. 



The four large geranium beds in the 

 foreground are planted with the varie- 

 ties Benjamin Schroeder, Meteor, S. A. 

 Nutt and Mme. A. Chevralierre, only one 

 sort used in a bed and each containing 

 500 plants. 



One of the most pleasing features is 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Plant Registration. 



Tlie Good & Reese Co., Springfield, O., 

 rcgi.-ler rose Queen Victoria, a sport from 

 Belle Siebrecht; flower cup shaped; color, 

 a blending of coppery yellow suffused 

 with pink; foliage similar to the parent 

 but growth more vigorous. 



Lager & Hurrell, Summit, N. J., regis- 

 ter: 



(attleya Gaskelliana Mrs. Hugh S. 

 Grant; sepals and petals white; lip 

 much fringed, white, with a triangular 

 blotch of purple and lilac; throat orange 

 yellow; flowers nearly eight inches 

 across. 



C. specioeissima striata marginata; 

 sepals and petals lilac with purple 

 streaks toward the tips; lip purple, 

 splashed with lilac, radiating whitish 

 and purple veins ; upper part yellow 

 with purple margin. 



C. specioeissima lilaciana; flower 



Bedding in Front of Conservatory in Washington Park, Chicago. 



tion of Chicago and equals anything shown at 

 the Pan-American exhibition. There is every 

 flower conceivable from the violet to the Amer- 

 ican Beauty rose. The floral designs were 

 elaborate and as dainty in finish as to please 

 beyond description. 



In the plant department of the exhibit there 

 were shown over 500 varieties of rare and valu- 

 able plants, one specimen being an imported 

 Japanese Cycas Revoluta palm. 125 years old 

 and standing eight feet tall. Mr. Lozier re- 

 fused an offer of $100 for this one plant. The 

 Loziers certainly deserve their bountiful and 

 honorable success. Lozier's city store is at 408 

 East Sixth street, and is the finest equipped 

 floral store in Iowa. The Loziers do an im- 

 mense wholesale and retail, local and shipping 



a day. Their flowers are home grown, "a prod- 

 uct of Des Moines." Lozier's mr>aern L;r.-en- 

 hou.ses are at 1310-1312 East 13th street and at 

 2Sth and Easton boulevard will be found their 

 floral gardens of several acres. The Loziers run 

 a high class establishment all the way through, 

 and their motto is the •'Best," and they have 

 solved the problem of furnishing their product 

 to the buyer at low cost, their prices always 

 being about 25 per cent less than all competi- 

 tors. Lozier delivers to all parts of the city in 

 "correct style." If you have not seen their 

 elegant new rubber tired g:lass cut flower van 

 with driver in livery just keep on the watch 

 for it. The finest rig of delivery of any I\ind 

 in the state. All hail this progressive firm, 

 give them a trial order and get 20th century 

 service and the very best flowers and plants 



Mail orders are promptly filled by Loziers. 



All we have to say for the above is 

 that now is the time to laugh. 



J. T. D. F. 



[Our correspondent has evidently 

 failed to note that what he has clipped 

 is undoubtedly a paid reading notice 

 and therefore only an advertisement. 

 Any florist could probably have a sim- 

 ilar notice printed in that paper by 

 putting up the cash. It is not very 



the triangular bed at the right hand 

 corner. This is planted solidly with 

 Tom Thumb sweet alyssum and bordered 

 with Alternanthera rosea; a- correspond- 

 ing bed at the opposite side is planted 

 with Begonia Vernon and bordered with 

 yellow alternanthera. 



In the background, just at the center 

 of the conservatory, is a bed containing 

 oleanders, hibiscus, biugniansias, acha- 

 nias and fleus. Immediately in front of 

 this is a large bed of coleus, of the fol- 

 lowing varieties: Golden Bedder, Ver- 

 sehaffeltii. Her Majesty and Fire Brand. 

 On either side are crescent shaped beds, 

 planted solidly with ageratum Stella 

 Gurney. All summer these two beds 

 have been a mass of blue flowers. A more 

 satisfactory plant than this one would 

 be hard to find. 



About a dozen varieties of the stand- 

 ard cannas are used in the display, each 

 variety in a bed by itself, thereby offer- 

 ing an excellent opportunity to make 

 comparisons. The cannas are bordered 

 with Erianthus Eavennfe. 



It is gratifying to be able to say that 

 the number of persons who wandered 

 among the flower beds in Washington 

 Park this year was larger than any 

 summer for the past five years. Many 

 questions are asked by visitors pertain- 

 ing to the kinds of plants used, methods 

 of propagation, etc., all of which leads 

 one to believe that the interest in bed- 

 ding plants is stronger than ever. 



Mr. Edwin A. Kanst is in charge of 

 this department at the park. 



large, entire flower including lip dark li- 

 lac color. 



C. Harrisonise superbissima; flowers 

 nearly four inches across; sepals and 

 petal's broad; dark rose; lip creamy 

 white. 



Wm. J. Stewart, See'y. 



ToPEKA, Kan. — Miss Lotta L. Barnes, 

 daughter of William H. Barnes, secre- 

 tary of the Kansas State Horticultural 

 Society, was married September 5 to C. 

 Emerson Johnson of Pueblo, Colo. 



Skaneateles, N. Y. — J. G. White has 

 sold his place on Onondaga street and 

 has bought a place on West Genesee 

 street, where he is erecting two houses, 

 each 20-x;80, using the Garland iron gut- 

 ter and putting in modern ventilating 

 apparatus, intending to increase as occa- 

 sion may require. 



EvANSViLLE, Ind. — Trade in this local- 

 ity is very dull and nothing in sight to 

 cause a change. Business is practically 

 at a standstill with nothing doing ex- 

 cept an occasional small funeral order. 

 Flowers are scarce, both outside and in 

 the houses. Outside stock is better, es- 

 pecially roses, both in size and condi- 

 tion. No- rain for a month; dust two to 

 three inches deep; everything dried up. 

 Fall crop of mosquitoes tremendous. 

 Still hoping for something to turn up. 



Send your "Help Wanted" advs. to the 

 Florists' Review. One insertion of a 

 I 3o-word adv. free to subscribers. 



