APKIL 26, lilOO. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



661 



A Corner in Stumpp's Store. 

 New York Stores at Easter. 



that of other years. The qual.ty of 

 many varieties of plants was mucii 

 finer, and that of itself may have de- 

 creased over-elaborateness of dressing. 

 Each store endeavored to have some- 

 thing different from the other and 

 many of them succeeded admirably. 



Thorley had his lilies in ordinary 

 plant pots which were painted a bright 

 yellow; saucers were furnished and 

 painted similarly; bows of yellow rib- 

 bon were tied half way up the lily 

 stalks. His window in the early part 

 of the week was entirely composed of 

 lilies thus treated, and it was rather 

 striking and distinct. Painted pots 

 promise to be popular in future; per- 

 haps the pot-makers may wake up and 

 give us something good and cheap 

 which will dispense with store. bother- 

 ations. 



But let us discuss the pictures and 

 what they teach; if we criticise ad- 

 versely, remember it is only in the in- 

 terests of education; that is the only 

 reason we present them. 



No. 1 is a view of some of the bas- 

 kets arranged in Fleischmann's win- 

 dow. The center is the new birch-bark 

 basket which was quite popular this 

 Easter. Paper trimmed baskets are in 

 the rear. Both gauze and taffeta rib- 



bons are used on the plants bhown and 

 you will notice a round card price tag 

 instead of the ordinary wooden lab.?I. 

 Mr. Fleischmann's work was better be- 

 cause it was less artificial than we 

 have seen it for some time in his store, 

 and the comparisons even in this pic- 

 ture will be enough to convince. 



No. 2 shows Stumpp's style of Easter 

 work. The crepe paper fad, though 

 distinctly of French origin, can be said 

 to have been introduced to New York 

 first from this store. Now you will no- 

 tice that their best work is confined to 

 baskets, and very well and rich it 

 looks. Satin ribbons and silk tasseled 

 cords are used to good effect, and you 

 will also notice the card price tag. 

 which has also a dry goods tinge to it. 

 We don't believe in any sort of price 

 tags on plants because they are gener- 

 ally left on. 



No. 3 is a very good picture of Thor- 

 ley's window, showing hampers filled 

 with growing violets and baskets of 

 mixed plants. The handles are twisted 

 and tied with taffeta ribbons to match 

 the flowers. No papers were used here. 



IVERA. 



(Other views will appear next week. 

 —Ed.) 



WINTER FLOWERING PLANTS. 



"Voung Florist" writes: "Ple;i;se 

 give a list of plants' which flower con- 

 stantly during the winter, such as Pri- 

 mula Forbesii. mignonette and forget- 

 me-not. Also the main cultural points, 

 so as to have them ready for blooming 

 early in the winter." 



'I'o do justice to this question would 

 take a volume, and I can only men- 

 lion what occurs to me as the "cut and 

 coiiie again" flowers that are useful 

 to I he llorist. First, there arc the 

 three leading flowers of ovir business, 

 the rose, carnation and violet, the cul- 

 tivation of which has been written up 

 a thousand times and still going on. 

 That important class known as bulb- 

 ous is made continuous by successive 

 crops, beginning with paper white 

 narcissus and Roman hyacinths in No- 

 vember, and lasting till we get the gay 

 tulips outside in May. The longiflorum 

 lily and its varieties we constantly 

 have by bringing on consecutive 

 batches. 



Among the continuous blooming 

 plants that are available for cutting 

 we have Bouvardia. propagated in Fel)- 

 ruary, flowering from November to 

 May; mignonette, sown in .July, flow- 

 ering from November till late spring; 

 sweet alyssum. planted in the houses 

 in August, continuous throughout the 

 winter; Primula Forbesii and P. ob- 

 conica. Of the latter there are now 

 some splendid strains. Sown in May, 

 they flower from November through- 

 out" the winter. Zonal geraniums, 

 plants selected in April, shifted on and 

 not allowed to flower till October, 

 flower continuously for many months. 

 Stevia serratifolia is invaluable for 

 Christmas, but it is only one crop. 



Manv of the abutilons flower pro- 

 fusely " through the winter, but it is 

 only in designs that their flowers can 

 be used. Antirrhinums are most use- 

 ful decorative plants. Sow in April 

 and keep in flats or pots and plant out 

 in cool house in August. Begonias; Of 

 this large and beautiful genus there 

 are scarcely any that would pay to 

 grow for cut flowers. We find the 

 most useful to be what we know as 

 incarnata grandiflora. but there is but 

 one cutting, though most useful at 

 Christmas and later. Propagated in 

 March, the calla lily (Richardia) 

 blooms well in pots from October to 

 Mav, and since the Harrisii are so 

 much affected with disease there is an 

 inclination to grow more of them. 

 Chrysanthemums can now be had 

 from October 1st to New Year's. 



Cvclamen are not only the most 

 beautiful of pot plants, but their flow- 

 ers are equally useful and are not out 

 of place among the choicest flowers. 

 Sown in November, they flower from 

 November to April. The Marguerites, 

 or Paris daisies, flower from Novem- 

 ber on till spring, if kept cut. and are 

 graceful and pretty. Heliotrope is 

 liked by all. but the only way to grow 

 it profltably to cut is to have a large 

 plant at the end of a house and cut 

 or spur it back as you would a grape 



