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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



477 



The Home Grounds of a Landscape Gardentr. 



finer flowers, particularly in asters and 

 Beauties, were obtainable in Chicago. 

 Flowers such as gardenias, cattleyas, 

 valley, and a few things like tritomas, 

 Bouvardia Humboldtii, and. very stranp;e 

 to say, Hydrangea paniculata, were of 

 special interest in the way of quality 

 to them. According to them there is 

 room for a good nurseryman out near 

 Chicago. Tritomas, heleniums, hydran- 

 geas and such stock are easily well 

 grown. 



The icebox in the new store Small & 

 Sons are opening in the Waldorf-Astoria 

 will be operated bj' cold air; no ice will 

 be used. This promises to be the sys- 

 tem of the future, as it is cleaner, more 

 economical and produces better results. 

 Our Chicago visitors were greatly im- 

 pressed by the ]iractieal test shown them 

 iH the cooling rooms of the great hotel. 



At this writing the whole nation is 

 plunged into deep grief at the death of 

 the President. It is a great blow to the 

 florists' trade. There will be dull times 

 for the next month, but there is no 

 cause to imagine any great permanent 

 panic. The man who takes advantage 

 of the jircsent s<H-rowful situation to 

 run down {]<>■ -LkU iii;iikct is a fit com- 

 panion to ( /oIljm/. Ti ^ like the pres- 

 ent need Inn |i;il 1 1..1 i^in and common 

 sense. Don't tiilk of had times; show 

 some manliness and keep at lea?t the 

 plant and cut flower markets steady. 



IVERA. 



Don't forget that you will find all 

 the best offers all the time in our classi- 

 fied advs., and that you can there quickly 

 find what you want if it is in the 

 market. 



Dcatli has claimed the chief executive 

 of this "Land of the Free" and by the 

 hand of an assassin a blow has been 

 struck at the foundations of the best 

 system of government civilization has 

 yet produced. It will be useless repeti- 

 tion for us to attempt to eulogize the 

 man in whom a majority of the Ameri- 

 can people have twice expressed their 

 supreme confidence. All are familiar 

 with his abilities as a statesman and the 

 purity of his private life. 



By the time this has appeared in print 

 the morlMJ r.inain-, .if William \l, Kin- 



of Mother I'aiih uill, all ll.r honors 

 that a soiiuwing pe.,plc can bestow. 



We must then turn to the future, and 

 though we may feel that the ship of 

 state has lost one of the ablest pilots it 

 has ever had. wc can liiil ha\c the great- 

 est confidence in tin- man whose hand is 

 now upon the lii'lin. In 'I'licoilore Roose- 

 velt our late hnnml.,! |,i.-ident will 

 have an able, wi-i> ami ( (mi<i r\ al i\ !• ^nr 

 cessor. The Aiiicii.-an |ic..|ilr aic r\ 

 ceedingly fortvinali' thai in onr \ nr- 

 president we had a man oi ^t\,\i ^^irat 

 abilities, and we feel safe in |ii cilii ting 

 that the period of pros|i(iii\ ihr . omi- 

 try is enjoying will sufiVi 1 h.ck dur- 

 ing his administration providing it can 

 be avoided by any human agency. 



Peace to the ashes of the great and 

 good man who has gone, and may God 

 guide aright the hand of him upon whom 

 the responsibilities of government have 

 devolved. 



FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. 



Any reader having photograjdis of flor- 

 al tributes arranged for the funeral of 

 our lamented president will confer a fa- 

 vor by sending copies of same to the Re- 

 view at the earliest possible date. 



THE HOME GROUNDS OF A LAND- 

 SCAPE GARDENER. 



The accoin|'an\inL' illii-<f ral ions made 

 from photo,t;ia|ili> lak.ai at ihr lanne of 

 a landscape gaidi.nir in (hi., mo indicate 

 how one's grounds may be made attract- 

 ive by the use of hardy trees and shrubs, 

 mostly native, and with comparatively 

 little expense. Many of the trees are 

 oaks which have continued to flourish 

 in spite of the frequent assurance that 

 oaks will not stand civilization. Dog- 

 woods, choke cherries, prickly ash and 

 other native shrubs have also been freely 

 used. The illustrations show some ever- 

 greens which have added greatly to the 

 al 1 1 aili\ cness of the place in winter. 

 I!m a. all' also a few elms, lindens and 

 LI . M|,- Ml willows which have been plant- 

 I il and nsli trees which were growing 

 w Inn the house was built, twenty years 

 ago. As far as possible the ridges and 

 de]>ressions in the surface of the ground 

 ha\o been retained so that the lawns 

 lia\o iin ir variety of contour than one 



ll may be of interest lo know that the 

 grounds are cared for by one man. who 

 devotes from one-third to one-half his 

 time to them, and that they seem to 

 meet the approval of many birds. Among 

 those that adopt it as their summer home 



