September 13, 1919 



HORTICU LTURE 



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GREEN FOR USE WITH CUT 

 FLOWERS. 



Mr. H. E. Meader of Dover, N. H., 

 the new president of the American 

 Gladiolus Society, has an interesting 

 article on "Green for Use with Cut 

 Flowers" in "The Flower Grower" for 

 August. In part the article reads as 

 follows: 



Perhaps the most durable yet pleas- 

 ing green of easy access to most every 

 one is the foliage of the edible aspara- 

 gus 



After the tender shoots are cut this 

 plant sends up a wealth of feathery 

 plumes, which, if sufficiently matured, 

 will endure and look well for a long 

 period with cut flowers. 



A very pretty green is the foliage of 

 the cosmos, early or late varieties, the 

 late flowering variety usually making 

 a stronger growth, producing more 

 leafage. However, in the earlier va- 

 rieties, the flowers are an additional 

 attraction as they will open from buds 

 that are cut quite immature. Cosmos 

 foliage is of a lace-like character, col- 

 ored a beautiful grass-green and small 

 sprigs may be cut from the stalks with- 

 out taking the entire branch. 



A dish of pansies or other short- 

 stemmed flowers, or tips of Gladiolus 

 spikes bloomed out to the end, ar- 

 ranged with short sprigs of cosmos is 

 most attractive. 



There are many grasses of easy cul- 

 tivation, including several native sorts, 

 which will go far to enhance the 

 beauty of flowers in a vase or basket. 



The quaking grass (Briza Maxima) 

 throws up many wiry stems, with tiny 

 seed heads like miniature flattened 

 pine cones, which are delicately poised 

 on slender filaments and quiver at the 

 slightest motion. When dry these turn 

 to a silvery straw color. 



Cloud grass (Agrostis Nebulosa) has 

 a very fine dainty appearance; a bed 

 giving a soft misty effect that is ex- 

 tremely airy and graceful. These are 



both annuals producing freely the first 

 year. 



Many of the perennial grasses are 

 magnificent, though requiring the 

 second year to mature, they well re- 

 ward the extra patience needed to 

 grow them. 



Among these, Pampas grass (Penni- 

 setum Longistylum) and its showy 

 relative (P. Rueppelianum) the purple 

 fountain grass will form clumps from 

 two to three feet in height and pro- 

 duce long graceful plumes of greenish- 

 white and purplish color. 



There are many other sorts which 

 are mostly very easy of culture. I 

 have planted some dozen varieties and 

 find all interesting. 



Thalictrum Adiantifolium, herbace- 

 ous perennial, has finely cut leaves, 

 very similar to maidenhair fern and is 

 of a pleasing deep green color. 



The panicles of small whitish flow- 

 ers appear in June and July and are 

 quite attractive. 



Useful Flowering Plants 



A most useful plant is the annual 

 Gypsophila or Baby's Breath. The 

 flowers are produced in great profu- 

 sion and are so quickly grown into ma- 

 turity that several sowings should be 

 made during the season, to assure a 

 continued supply. There is a pink 

 form of the above that is highly rec- 

 ommended. 



Artemesia Lactiflora, perennial, is of 

 unquestioned value. The creamy-white 

 spirea-like flowers are loosely arranged 

 on long stems three to four feet high, 

 and are light, graceful and delightfully 

 scented. 



They are admirable with Gladioli or 

 Dahlias and are in season with these 

 flowers. 



The summer Lilac (Buddleia Mag- 

 nifica) sometimes called Butterfly 

 Bush is a persistent bloomer, continu- 

 ing from July until frost. Its long 



spikes of rosy mauve flowers go par- 

 ticularly well with light shades of 

 Gladioli. 



Golden-rod and the native wild aster 

 or frost-flower are used in great quan- 

 tities by city florists, and they are 

 beautiful with other larger flowers. 



Some very effective arrangements 

 can be made with the deep green of 

 hemlock, which is especially good ».a 

 a background for bright colored 

 Gladioli 



SKETCH OF ADOLPHUS GUDE. 



The Washington Herald under the 

 title of "Who's Who in our City," has 

 a very appreciative sketch of Adolphus 

 Gude. It reads in part as follows: 



"Mr. Gude is one of Washington's 

 foremost florists and also one of the 

 most successful growers of high-class 

 flowers in this country, along with his 

 brother and partner, William F. Gude. 



"Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, some 

 fifty-six years ago, he started to culti- 

 vate flowers in his own garden and 

 when he later went to Prince Georges 

 County, Md., he began commercializ- 

 ing his "hobby," and worked for a 

 local florist while attending the Spen- 

 cerian Business College in Washington 

 from which he graduated in the late 

 '80's.* 



"Mr. Gude then started into business 

 with his brother on Thirteenth street 

 where they have been located for the 

 past thirty years. Mr. Gude married 

 a Washington girl, Miss Mary E. 

 Knoll, and has five children, three of 

 whom served with the colors during 

 the war. 



"Mr. Gude is a director of the Ana- 

 costia bank, a member of the Board of 

 Trade, Chamber of Commerce and of 

 many fraternal organizations, includ- 

 ing the Masonic Lodge." 



Here is an instance where a prophet 

 is not without honor, even in his own 

 country. 



