April 21. 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



1 155 



View on the Grounds of Arthur Orr, Chicago. Reproduced from " Beautiful Grounds." 



mine ; Queen Victoria, wliite, blush 

 guard; Golden Harvest, blush guard, bal- 

 ance yellow; Marie LeMoine, creamy 

 tvliite ; Triomphe de 1 'Exposition de Lille, 

 light .pink; Delicatissima, delicate, Ught 

 pink; Li\'ingstoiie, pale pink bordered 

 carmine; Alexander Dumas, mixed pink; 

 Modele de Perfection, delicate pink, full; 

 M. Barral, rose pink; Eosea grandiflora, 

 rich rose red ; M. Boucharlataine, rosy 

 lilac; Souv. de Gaspard Calot, large rose 

 pink; Atrosanguinea superba, blood red; 

 Purpurea Delachei, purpUsh red; Rich- 

 ardson 's rubra superba, crimson, late ; 

 FeJiz Crousse, bright red. 



The cream of the phloxes are said to 

 be: Independence, tall wMte; La Cygie. 

 white; Eichard Wallace, white, violet eye; 

 Beranger, blush pink; Le Soleil, soft 

 pink; Cross of Honor, lavender, white 

 border; Pantheon, flight rose; Amabilis, 

 rose red; CoqueUcot, brick red; Boule 

 de Feu, red; Eclareur, purplish crimson; 

 King of Purples, dark maroon. 



One concise statement in the Manual, 

 while it is nothing new to most, is worth 

 jotting down in the memory for those 

 who are only about to enter the tree 

 planting! business : ' ' Trees bear the 

 same relation to one another as the 

 squares of their diameters; bence a four- 

 inch tree is four times as large as a two- 

 inch tree and a seven-inch tree is twice 

 as large as a five-inch tree." 



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CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



M. H. Walsh, Wood's Hole, Mass., 

 roses, etc.; Peterson Nursery, Chicago, 

 nursery stock; Ludwig Mosbaek, 

 South Chicago, 111., vegetable and 

 bedding plants ; Webster Bros., Hamilton, 

 Ont., florists' plants. 



Mexico, Mo. — Diessel Bros., who have 

 been in the poultry business, are about 

 to build greenhouses. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



Transplanting Trees and Shrubs. 



Mr. Scott offers some excellent sug- 

 gestions in the Review for April 14, 

 about pruning shrubs when transplant- 

 ing, and I would even cut back more 

 severely than he recommends in some 

 cases, but his remark that early spring 

 transplanting of evergreens is wrong, is 

 not applicable to our more southern lati- 

 tude and under our hotter sunshine. If 

 we could be sure of plenty of moisture, 

 both in the soil and in the atmosphere, 

 for a month after setting them, it 

 might be all right ana, as a matter of 

 fact, if we could move them in a damp, 

 cloudy day in August and have a week 

 or more of wet weather follow, it would 

 be the ideal lime, but we are very liable 

 to have several weeks of drought in late 

 spring and early summer and when this 

 occurs, late planted evergreens are pret- 

 ty sure to suffer, if they do not collapse 

 entirely. 



There is another point which I be- 

 lieve is not generally understood. It is 

 now generally recommended to remove all 

 the leaves from Ilex opaca when trans- 

 planted from its wild state and my ex- 

 perience leads me to the conclusion that 

 the same treatment is equally beneficial 

 to all broad-leaved evergreens, at least 

 unless they have balls of earth and, al- 

 though as good an authority as Joseph 

 Meehan claims that coniferous ever- 

 greens do better if a portion of the foli- 

 age is allowed to remain when trans- 

 planted, I would much sooner take the 

 chances with all of it removed than with 

 all left on and I would, at least, cut them 

 back very severely. 



There is one important difference, 

 also, in the care of newly transplanted 

 stuff between evergreens and deciduous 

 shrubs or trees. When drought gets very 



severe, we are admonished by the droop- 

 ing foliage of deciduous plants that they 

 are suffering and must have water, but 

 after the new growth of an evergreen 

 gets hardened the first notice we get that 

 they are suffering is by the falling off 

 of leaves, and it is then too late to 

 save them. They must be carefully 

 watched in dry weather to see if the 

 soil around them is getting dry. We 

 once planted several large hemlocks for 

 a customer and cautioned him very thor- 

 oughly about watering, etc., and he got 

 them started and growing fineh', but a 

 late summer drought came and he was 

 not on guard and lost them all. 



Wm. F, Bassett. 

 Hammondton, N. J. 



CACTUS DAHLL\S. 



The improvement in varieties of this 

 charming class of dahlias has made a 

 great difference in the popularity of the 

 flower. Those who are giving attention 

 to the raising of seedlings believe that 

 perfection is not by any means yet 

 reached; and that the possibilities in 

 store are such that the cactus forms are 

 likely to secure even greater esteem among 

 the flower-loving public. It is pleasing 

 to note that those who award certificates 

 to new varieties are not led away by 

 mere size. Perfection in form is "quite 

 the leading point. Only a few years 

 back the better sorts had flat central 

 florets. In the newer kinds, George Gor- 

 don and H. W. SiUem, for example, those 

 in the center of the bloom are narrow 

 and reflexed at the edges in the same 

 manner as the rest. Stiffness of flower 

 stem, too, is one of the principal qualities 

 raisers think of. 



The past two seasons in England have 

 not been favorable to the proper develop- 

 ment of dahlias, and cactus varieties 

 have not been so double in form gener- 

 allv as they will be when we have a 



