The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



NOVEMBER 30, 1899. 



old age." Pansies and spring flowers 

 were followed by roses and violets and 

 so on until a sheaf of wheat and oak 

 leaves finished the circle; it was a 

 good piece of work, full of beautiful 

 sentiment in which art and love were 

 blended together. 



Another flat wreath was composed of 

 white camellias and Dendrobium for- 

 mosum. There were not very many 

 cattleyas used, but there was a vast 

 quantity of cypripediums and Dendro- 

 tjium phalaenopsis. A large bunch of 

 Papa Gontiers was an unusual sight, 

 and then there were Beauties by the 

 hundreds. You've seen the pancake 

 wreaths of twenty years ago? Well, 

 they were to be seen here, and what a 

 contrast they were to the well made 

 wreaths of today. 



The designs completely filled the 

 large receiving vault in which the body 

 rests for the present. The exterior of 

 the vault was prettily covered with 

 evergreens. Thousands lined the roads, 

 but never a word was heard, the rustle 



of falling leaves and the sighing of an 

 avenue of tall weeping willows, the 

 wreath-covered casket, and behind the 

 president his cabinet and the leaders 

 of the country. It was a picture not 

 soon to be forgotten. A poor boy, a 

 great man, the end of all. 



The decorations of the church where 

 the services were held were very beau- 

 tiful. Wm. Trumpore, of Small's, had 

 charge of all the work at Paterson. 

 The walls of the church were delicate- 

 ly draped with southern smllax, the 

 window sills were filled with white 

 chrysanthemums and ferns, tall kent- 

 ias were banked along in front of the 

 altar, the pots of which were hidden 

 with great clusters of white mums. 

 The tone colors of the entire decora- 

 tion were white and green, except in 

 one feature, the baptismal font, which 

 stood at the head of the casket; this 

 font was filled with 150 large Ameri- 

 can Beauties. The whole of the deco- 

 rations showed excellent taste and 

 were greatly admired. IVERA. 



Stock for Christmas. 



There is always an inclination comes 

 over you to bring in a lot of tulips and 

 perhaps Dutch hyacinths with the view 

 of having them for the holidays. Don't 

 do it. They want a great heat, are 

 consequently terribly forced and un- 

 satisfactory. And if you do succeed in 

 getting a 6-inch stem to them they 

 will only sell after carnations, roses 

 and other better flowers cannot be had. 

 Don't bring in any tulips till New 

 Year's. By that time they will be well 

 rooted and in three weeks you will 

 have good flowers. 



The paper white narcissus Is a most 

 useful flower for Christmas. If you 

 brought them in in good time to bring 

 them along cool they will be all the 

 better. In a cool house and fully de- 

 veloped is the way to have the paper 

 white. 



Romans force so easily that good 

 spikes have been picked several weeks 

 ago, but I never knew them to be with 

 us too plentiful; and what the small 

 grower is apt to forget is that you 

 want a good supply for days after 

 Christmas. If this bulbous .stuff pays 

 any lime at all it is when there is a 

 great demand for all flowers. 



There is no need up to date of any 

 covering of the soil under which are 

 the flats of tulips and Von Sion bulbs. 

 Supposing the surface of the flats have 

 three inches of soil or asheg on them, 



which is plenty, then leave it uncov- 

 ered to get the full benefits of the rains 

 till severe frost comes. It is all the 

 better to have a little frost enter the 

 soil, and then it is a clean job to put 

 on three or four inches of stable litter 

 or leaves if you can keep the leaves 

 from blowing away. 



I like to have the Dutch hyacinths in 

 pots in a frame and in addition to the 

 covering of soil, ashes or tan bark and 

 the manure, covered with sash. Hard 

 freezing may not injure the bulbs, but 

 they are just as well jiot frozen, and 

 much more convenient to get at. And 

 you won't have a lot of broken pots 

 and pans, which, however much they 

 may gladden the eye of the thrifty pot 

 maker, make serious inroads into your 

 exchequer. Somebody, perhaps every- 

 body, wonders where the pins all go. 

 Florists can wonder where all the 

 pots go. 



We expect the same good plant trade 

 at Christmas that has marked this joy- 

 ous season for several years past, and 

 perhaps a still greater one. You 

 should supply yourself with salable 

 sizes of palms, dracaenas, araucarias, 

 Boston fern, pandanus and rubbers. 

 You are sure to want them and tele- 

 graphing for them at Christmas time 

 is not satisfactory; you get what is 

 left. 



We make the poinsettia a leading 

 Christmas plant and people buy them 



then as they do a lily at Easter, but 

 not quite in the same quantity. We 

 have them now in a temperature of 

 65 at night and their bracts are spread- 

 ing out to a foot across. Keep their 

 heads syringed or they will get infest- 

 ed with mealy bug; and greenfly Is 

 very troublesome to them in the dark, 

 close days, but that is easily prevented 

 either by fumigating or vaporizing 

 tobacco. The latter plan I like much 

 better than the fumigating because it 

 does not hurt nor even slightly check 

 the tenderest growth. We often plain- 

 ly see the injurious effects of tobacco 

 smoke, then how much oftener occurs 

 that which is not so plainly visible. 

 The poinsettia is no longer handsome 

 when its fine leaves are drooping and 

 yellow. This arises from two causes, 

 low temperature and impoverishment 

 of the soil. Sixty to 65 degrees will do 

 for the lowest temperature and liquid 

 manure will do the rest. You cannot 

 shift them after the middle of Octo- 

 ber and an unwieldy sized pot is out 

 of the question for a commercial man. 

 And as they are strong rooters they get 

 exhausted and must have some liquid. 



Azaleas have become one of our 

 leading flowering plants. The plants 

 that you have grown over summer 

 force the best, but the newly imported 

 plants can be had in for Christmas if 

 proper treatment and proper selection 

 of varieties is made. Deutsche Perle is 

 of course the white; Vervaeneana is 

 the beautiful variegated pink; and Si- 

 mon Mardner the fine double red. They 

 want aliundance of water at the roots, 

 syringing twice a day till the flower is 

 expanded, and a good strong heat. If 

 they must have it to open their flowers 

 they will endure 70 degrees at night. 



While speaking of azaleas, how very 

 different is the treatment of those you 

 want in flower at Easter. If we get a 

 mild winter and Easter is late (this 

 year it is the middle of April) it is dif- 

 ficult to keep some of the best varie- 

 ties from being too early. So anything 

 above freezing will do. But with all 

 this low temperature you must keep 

 them moist at the root and give an oc- 

 casional syringing. 



It is not so easy to get the imported 

 lilacs in flower by the holidays, but if 

 you can give them a steady heat of 90 

 and plenty of syringing you can do it 

 in about three weeks. After New 

 Year's they force easily and a few 

 should be brought in every week. 



WM. SCOTT. 



NEW CRIMSON MUM, 



We present herewith a life size en- 

 graving of the new crimson chrysan- 

 themum, Malcolm Lamond, which we 

 mentioned in our issue of Nov. 9, and 

 which Mr. .lohn Thorpe pronounced 

 the best crimson since tJ. W. Childs. 



The variety originated with Mr. 

 .lames Niven. of the Thermal Vale 

 Nursery, Oakland. Cal.. and is the re- 

 sult of a cross between G. W. Childs 

 and an unnamed seedling. The fact 

 that blooms traveled across the con- 

 tinent and arrived in good condition 



