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June 15, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



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View in the Rotunda of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, During National Peony Show, June 9 to I J. 



prize-winners were Arthur H, Scott, 

 Oak Lane, Pa.; Lee E. Bonnewitz, Van 

 Wert, O.; Mrs. Herbert K. Taylor, 

 Ogontz, Pa., and L. J. Germann, Van 

 Wert, O. 



Miscellaneous Exhibits. 



Bobbink & Atkins, Eutherford, N. J., 

 made an elaborate display not for com- 

 petition, including a large variety of 

 hardy perennials, irises, bulbous plants 

 and other subjects for the garden. 



Wm. Shillaber, of Essex Falls, N. J., 

 had an exhibit of excellent sweet peas. 



Prof. Saunders, Clinton, N. Y., 

 showed some handsome Japanese tree 

 peonies and a bench bright with hardy 

 perennials. 



Mrs, H. K. Taylor, of Ogontz, Pa., in 

 addition to competitive entries, had a 

 large and fine display of peony blooms. 



Tbe Annual Dinner. 



Prior to the business meeting of June 

 9, the members from out of town en- 

 joyed their annual reunion dinner, 

 served this time at the Hotel Astor. 

 The affair was entirely informal and 

 there were no speeches, although there 

 was a lively discussion of peony matters 

 during the meal. Those present were: 



Farr. B. H., WyomissinK, Pa. 

 Schultz, E. K., Jenklntown, Pa. 

 Thurlow. Geo. C, West Newbury, Mass. 

 Boyd, Jarbes, Phlladelpbia, Pa. 

 Dauphin, Joseph, Queens, N, Y. 

 Gifford, A. L., New York. 

 Peterson, George H., Falrlawn, N. J. 

 Barron, Leonard, Garden City. N. Y. 

 Scott, Arthur H., Oak Lane, Pa. 

 Walcott, F. 0., New York. 

 Brown. R. T., Queens, N. Y. 

 Dykhuis, J., Boskoop, Holland. 

 Harris. S. G.. Tarrytown. N. Y. 

 Ouwerkerk, P., Weehawken, N. J. 

 Humphries, C. 

 Saunders, Prof. A. P., Clinton, N. Y. 



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SEASONABLE m 

 M SUGGESTIONS 



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Ijeft-oyer Bedding Plants. 



The season has been a somewhat cool 

 and backward one and some sales of 

 bedding plants will probably be made 

 until the last of the month. It is a too 

 common practice to leave small lots of 

 miscellaneous bedding plants scattered 

 here and there on benches or in frames, 

 entailing a needless amount of labor in 

 watering. If these are placed in frames 



or close together on the benches, much 

 labor will be saved in watering and the 

 plants will be more likely to get the 

 water they need. Carry the empty pots 

 away each day and stack them up. Do 

 not leave them lying below or on the 

 benches. 



Have you planted out all the stock 

 plants you need! If not, attend to it 

 even at this late date. Particularly 



true is this of geraniums. You can buy 

 rooted cuttings and plants from small 

 pots at tempting prices, but home- 

 propagated stock is away ahead of 

 them. If you do not care to set the 

 plants out in nursery rows, why not do 

 a little ■ tasteful planting about your 

 home, or the approach to the green- 

 houses? Individual beds of a single 

 color are usually best, and geraniums, 

 cannas, heliotropes, verbenas, petunias, 

 salvias, ageratums, lantanas, fibrous be- 

 gonias and lobelias are all good for this 

 purpose. Also, do not omit the plant- 

 ing of some scented geraniums and 

 lemon verbenas, the two most popular 

 scented-leaved plants we have. 



Poinsettias. 



Poinsettia propagation should now go 

 on apace. Be sure to keep the stock 

 plants in a light and not too warm 

 house, where they get no shade. This 

 will insure strong, stocky, short-jointed 

 cuttings, which, when rubbed off with 

 a heel, will root without much trouble 

 if carefully watered and shaded. For 

 dwarf stock in small pans, cuttings can 

 be put in as late as the middle of 

 August. 



Stevlas. 



Stevias can be pot-grown through the 

 summer or planted out in the field. 

 They give no trouble when out in the 

 field, and are sure to make big, bushy 

 plants. At lifting time, however, they 

 need careful handling. They are easily 

 broken and unless they are sprayed 

 freely and shaded for some days they 

 are liable to "peter out." Pot-grown 

 plants plunged to their brims will take 

 considerable water in hot weather, but 

 there is no breaking or wilting, such as 

 we must anticipate in the field-grown 

 stock. 



