

AcotrsT 17, 1916. 



The Florists^ Review 



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General View of the Houston Convention Garden with Cannas of Henry A. Dreer in Left Center. 



are eleven varieties of nympheeas, most- 

 ly of Mr. Trieker's own raising, in a 

 pool 10x20 feet, with umbrella plant on 

 three sides and a rockery on the other, 

 with a luxuriant growth of pampas 

 grass, Caladium esculentum and fire of 

 the mount, or summer poinsettia, as it 

 is locally known. 



In a third pool, star-shaped, the park 

 department has ten varieties of nym- 

 phseas. 



The Bose Beds. 



The California Rose Co., Pomona, Cal., 

 has a bed of roses that must have been 

 a glory in its season. There are several 

 hundred plants in some fifteen varieties 

 and the growth has been splendid, canes 

 three feet long and more. 



The Texas Eose Co., Rockdale, Tex., 

 shqw9 a dozen standard varieties of 

 gard^ roses acclimated to Texas con- 

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MiflcellaoAous ^chibits. 



Carlisle & Soil, Alvin, Tex., have a 

 bed of tuberose^^, 



L. H. Read & Co., Deer Park, Ala., 

 has a bed of Xanthosoma Bataviensis, 

 a plant little known in the trade but 

 highly recommended by the exhibitor 

 as an easily grown, strikingly decora- 

 tive plant. It is allied to the caladium. 



The MacRorie-McLaren Co., San 

 Francisco, has a display of Leptosper- 

 mum IsBvigatum, a shrub grown in the 

 open in California, where it stands dry 

 seasons well, and sometimes forced in 

 greenhouses in the north and east by 

 those who are expert in flowering 

 heaths and other hard-wooded Cape 

 and Australian plants. 



Grohman the Florist, Saginaw, Mich., 

 shows a bed of Begonia Grohmanii, 



which is the result of selecting and re- 

 selecting a strain of" Yernon until a real 

 red type with bronze foliage when 

 grown outdoors has been fixed to come 

 true from seed. ^ 



W. J. & M. S. Vesey, Fort Wayne, 

 Ind., have a bed of Geranium Mrs. 

 Vesey, a- i^w variety to be dissemi- 

 nated next season., The color is a strik- 

 ing magent^'and tKfe plant seems to be 

 of excellent habit. 



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Among the many good beds planted 

 by Mr. Brock with stock supplied by 

 the park department is one of about 

 twenty-five varieties of crotona bor- 

 dered by about twenty-five varieties of 

 fancy-leaved caladiums that deserves 

 special mention. Tiere are other park 

 beds of celosia, zinnias, Christmas pep- 

 pers, Jerusalem cherries, vincas, ver- 

 benas, coleus, salvia, etc., that add 

 greatly to the finish of the garden. 



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s^ AT THE CAPITAL ^ 



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HE last yea?' has been a busy one 

 for th^ Washington repredtnta- 

 tive. While there are ^0 specific duties 

 to be performed by that officer, there 

 are daily callft. ott ^ijli to answer ques- 

 tions, both lo^aX, ancl out of town, on all 

 manner of propositions, and he con- 

 tributes such information as he ^an to 

 all members of the S. A. F. seeking the 

 same. He is particularly exiled upon 

 to assist the various committises. There 

 has been much legislation under discus- 

 sion in Congrfess during the last year 

 that affects our industjy, suoh as the 

 unfair compe^ion, or anti-dumping, 

 law, the mail censorship, freight em- 

 bargo; a bill to enlarge the Botanic 



This Is the report of William P. Onde, Wagh- 

 ington representatlTe of the S. A. P., presented 

 at the Houston convention, August 15, 1916. 



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Garden at Washington, D. C.,; a bill 

 making the mountaiq, laurel the na- 

 tional flower of th^ United States. 

 Other matters also have been brought 

 to the representative's attention, all 

 of which have been dealt with through 

 the proper committeesr and which T^ill 

 be reported on in another paper. j 



The ro&e garden at the Arlington px- 

 perimental farm is progressing nicely. 

 While it has not advanced so rapidly 

 as we had hoped, it oromises to be in 

 fine shape in anothei^ear or two. We 

 have to date 687 -vroeties of rosea in 

 this rose test garden, including many 

 from ; foreign coufftries — Germany, 

 France, Ireland — an4 a consignment 

 during the latter part of July from 

 Australia. This is ..as it should be 

 and we hope that our friends and 

 fellow florists in all parts of the world 



