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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



MAY 24, 1900. 



W'ican Keviow of Reviews, will pre- 

 sent a paper upon some phase of out- 

 door art relating to our national 

 growth. 



Mr. William R. Smith, director of 

 the Botanic Gardens at Washington, 

 D. C, and ex-president of the Society 

 of American Florists, will write upon 

 a subject relating to the arrangement 

 and grouping of plants about archi- 

 tectural structures. 



Mr. William M. R. French, director 

 of the Chicago Art Institute, will pre- 

 sent an illustrated paper upon "Com- 

 position," giving particular attention 

 to the proper distribution of buildings, 

 of artificial structures and of foliage 

 about such structures. 



Mr. .T. H. Patterson and Mr. Edwin 

 L. Shuey, of Dayton, Ohio, have con- 

 sented to lead in the presentation of 

 •work that has been done in this and 

 other countries toward making more 

 attractive the surroundings of factory 

 buildings and employees' homes. To 

 this meeting the general public will be 

 specially invited. 



Mr. William Ordway Partridge, of 

 New York City, will present a paper 

 upon the proper .setting of statuary in 

 public places. 



Mr. J. Frank Foster, superintendent 

 of the South Park system in Chicago, 

 will ])resent a paper upon park roads, 

 in which he will call particular atten- 

 tion to their maintenance and admin- 

 istration. 



The Rev. J. A. Rondthaler, of Chi- 

 cago, will present a paper upon the 

 influence of public parks upon the 

 morality of a community. 



Mr. S. M. Millard, of Highland Park, 

 111., will present a paper upon a sub- 

 ject connected with outdoor art. 



Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, ,Jr,, of 

 Brookline. Mass., will present a com- 

 mittee report on "Advertising Bill 

 Boards"; Prof. William J. Beal, of 

 Michigan, upon "Prizes for Designs"; 

 Dr. Wm. W. Folwell, of Minneapolis, 

 upon "Park Census," and Mr. C. C. 

 Laney will report for the committee 

 appointed in connection with the work 

 of the Pan-American Exposition. 



One of the most instructive and in- 

 teresting features of the meeting is to 

 be an exhibit of photographs showing 

 the good and bad treatment of various 

 subjects connected with outdoor art 

 anil the artist's conception of beauty 

 in various objects in landscape. 



Planting Out. 



By the time my readers see these 

 lines they will be in the busy season 

 of planting. Never put olT for a day 

 any beds that can possibly be planted; 

 if you do, the first two weeks of June 

 will find you with more promised than 

 any human effort can fulfill, and every 

 one wants to be first, and offended if 

 they see you attending to their neigh- 

 bors before them. So if ever the old 

 saying, "Never put oft till tomorrow 

 •What can be done today," is good ad- 

 vice, it is wonderfully so for the next 

 few weeks. 



As you wish your customer to return 

 to you next year, it behooves you to 

 see that the beds of geraniums and 

 cannas, or whatever they be, shall be 

 properly planted. Where they keep a 

 trained gardener you are relieved of 

 any anxiety, but that is the exception; 

 most of our plants go to pieces where 

 the coachman is the whole thing and 

 far more interested in "a 'oss." Where 

 the beds or borders are all dug up and 

 ready to plant, we prefer, it the order 

 Is of any size, to have our own men 

 plant them. If the beds have to be 



dug, we charge by the hour for the 

 labor. 



As I have often had occasion to 

 write, there is only one way to plant, 

 whether it is a tree, shrub or bedding 

 plant, and that is by setting the plant 

 firmly in the hole you have made for 

 it with the trowel, and sufficient soil 

 around it to hold it upright and in 

 I)lace; then a good soaking; then by 

 smoothing off the surface of the bed 

 you have put two inches of dry earth 

 as a mulch. This soaking, which does 

 not bake with the sun, is worth ton 

 waterings on the surface. 



Chrysanthemums. 

 You will not have an.v benches just 

 yet for those you grow for cut flowers, 

 but as soon as possible you should 

 choose a bench for the plants that arc 

 intended for lifting for pot plants, I 

 like about four to five inches of soil 

 for these plants in a very light ex- 

 posure. It you can get them on the 

 bench by the 10th of .lune you do not 

 need large plants. Thrifty young 

 plants that have been or are ready for 

 their first pinch are good enough, and 

 no plant that is leggy or drawn up will 



do for the purpose, for they never can 

 make a good appearing pot plant. 



If you plant early they should be 18 

 inches apart on the bench. It late, 15 

 inches w'ill do. There are not many 

 varieties suitable for this purpose. 

 Nothing tall growing will do. Mme. 

 Bergman is fairly good for early white, 

 but the two ideal varieties for this 

 purpose are Ivory and Lincoln. There 

 may be several others. A dwarf 

 branching habit is what you want to 

 select for this purpose. I am aware 

 that some florists have a deep black 

 loam in which they can plant out their 

 chrysanthemums out of doors and lift 

 them in early September with success, 

 but many of us have not, and the plan 

 of growing them on the bench assures 

 you goed plants, for they lift without 

 losing a fibre and keep their foliage. 



It is never too late to propagate 

 chrysanthemums, so keep on whenever 

 you have the right cuttings, only keep 

 them soaked and shaded till they are 

 i-doted. 



Carnations. 



As soon as the carnations get hold 

 of the ground outside, they shoot up 

 <iuickly. and plants that were not 

 l)inched before planting out soon need 

 attention. A careless or green man 

 should not be trusted to do this first 

 "stopping." I have seen them pinched 

 into the ground and also seen them 

 pinched t! inches above the ground. In 

 the first case it stunts them, and in 

 the latter they are always a floppy, 

 awkward plant. Choose the right place, 

 which is usually leaving three pairs of 

 leaves. 



We are having here very little rain. 

 liut don't wait for. rain to hoe. The 

 Planet, ,Tr.. hand cultivator is a splen- 

 did little implement, but you must use 

 the hand hoe as well several times 

 during the season, and bend your 

 back, too. The style of hoeing that a 

 farmer gives his corn won't work on 

 carnations. I hope that you have your 

 carnations stopped and hoed and that 

 they are sending up several shoots. 



Azaleas. 

 I would remind you not to put out 

 your azaleas and other hard-wooded 

 plants that you have trimmed back till 

 we get settled warm weather. They 

 are making their good growth now and 

 are better indoors for another two or 

 three weeks. WM. SCOTT. 



NEW YORK. 



There is very little of anything to 

 record, floriculturally speaking, in this 

 city. Business is suffering with the 

 usual summer complaint and prices 

 are away down on almost everything. 

 It requires more diplomacy and ma- 

 neuvering to sell a thousand roses for 

 a few dollars than to do a fnll day's 

 business at any other time of the year. 

 The very peddlers have become saucy 

 and will scarcely handle anything but 

 the best. Their special favorite Is 

 American Beauty, 

 .liast week general bedding stock. 



