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The Florists' Review 



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Planting Peonies. 



It is pretty well understood that early 

 planting of peonies pays well. Septem- 

 ber is the best month of the year for 

 this work. Of course, they can be 

 planted as late as November or even 

 next spring, but there will be no com- 

 parison in the growths of the several 

 plantings. Now, while the ground is 

 warm, the peonies have a good chance 

 to establish themselves before the cold 

 weather comes along. Take note of how 

 they start away in the spring, compared 

 with the late planted stock. Be sure 

 to manure liberally and plow deeply if 

 you want your peonies to make a strong 

 growth. Do not cover them more than 

 three inches over the eyes. 



German Irises. 



The German iris is another hardy 

 perennial that succeeds best when 

 planted in the late summer. Be aure 

 to give the plants well drained ground 

 and be careful not to cover the roots 

 too much at planting time, or you will 

 find the shoots rotting off by the whole- 

 sale during spells of warm, moist 

 weather. Not only the German, but 

 also the Japanese, Siberian and other 

 non-bulbous varieties, can be profitably 

 planted at this season. 



Transplanting Perennial Seedlings. 



Take advantage of damp, cloudy 

 weather to prick out seedlings of hardy 

 perennials.. The more robust varieties, 

 such as larkspurs, Shasta daisies, 

 lupines, etc., can go outdoors, while 

 those of more moderate growth, such as 

 aquilegias, heucheras, polemoniums, etc., 

 do better if left in coldframes over win- 

 ter and planted out in early spring. 

 Keep the cultivator plied between rows 

 of such crops as Canterbury bells, sweet 

 Williams, digitalis and rockets, in order 

 to get all possible growth on them. 

 These plants make their maximum 

 growth at this season. It is too late 

 now to sow or even to prick out seed- 

 lings of these latter plants and expect 

 them to flower satisfactorily next year. 



Canterbury Bells. 



This is a suitable time to pot up 

 plants of Canterbury bells to be used 

 for spring flowering. Do not use over- 

 grown plants, as such are liable to 

 damp. If you take up a nice ball with 

 each one and use 7-inch to 9-inch pots, 

 according to the strength of the plants, 

 they will be of sufficient size to flower 

 nicely. Place the pots in an open, 

 sunny position outdoors and leave them 

 there until frost becomes fairly sharp. 

 Then give them the protection of a 

 coldframe. 



Gardenias. 



While we continue to get warm days, 

 the nights are becoming increasingly 

 cool, and this is a dangerous period 

 where fire heat is not yet used. The 

 gardenia plants will retain their rich, 

 dark green color and even the buds 

 will appear satisfactorily, but a little 

 later bud-dropping will start and 

 Christmas flowers will be nil. Much 



more careful watering is now needed 

 and the foliage should not remain 

 damp over night. Keep sufficient fire 

 heat so that the minimum temperature 

 will be 62 to 65 degrees. If the night 

 is warm, leave on a little ventilation, 

 but do not shut off the heat for eco- 

 nomical reasons. 



. Transplanting Seedlings. 



Seedlings of pansies, violas, myosotis, 

 daisies and other spring-flowering 

 plants should be pricked off before 

 they become crowded. In the colder 

 latitudes these will need coldframe pro- 

 tection. Leave the sashes off until the 

 gtound freezes hard. Then cover the 

 plants with dry pine needles or leaves 

 and place the sashes over them. To 

 prevent danger of glass breakage from 

 snow, it is well to use board shutters 

 over them. Seedlings of the plants 

 named do well outdoors in most lati- 

 tudes, always provided they are given 

 a winter mulch and it can be held in 

 position. Such plants will bloom later 

 than those carried over in frames, but 

 will be much more stocky. Pansies do 

 not mind a temperature of 30 degrees 

 below zero if they are mulched. It 



will be noted that in winters with a 

 heavy and continuous snow covering, 

 such plants winter perfectly. 



Soil for Dutcli Bul|i. 



Dutch bulbs are beginning to arrive. 

 Do not leave them tied up tightly in 

 paper bags, but lay them out in flats. 

 Open the cases, so that they can get 

 all possible air. Prepare soil, if it is 

 not yet ready. A compost of two-thirds 

 well rotted loam and one-third old and 

 well decayed cow or horse manure, 

 with some sharp sand added, makes an 

 ideal rooting medium. Old mushroom 

 manure and that from spent hotbeds 

 can also be used if available. Mix 

 the soil two or three times. Do not 

 use any bone or chemical fertilizers; 

 they are more likely to be harmful than 

 beneficial. For hyacinths a little leaf- 

 mold, not too much rotted, can ad- 

 vantageously be added. In a future 

 issue will appear some notes on the 

 more desirable bulbs for florists' use. 



Terre Haute, Ind. — John G. Heinl, of 

 J. G. Heinl & Son, has %een elected 

 president of the Morris jdan bank, to 

 be established here. 



Montclair, N. J. — ^The epidemic of in- 

 fantile paralysis which prevails here is 

 having its effect on the flower business 

 in that it is keeping the families with 

 children at the resorts until cold 

 weather sets in. This has postponed 

 the opening of the new season. Robert 

 G. Freytag has redecorated and rear- 

 ranged both of his stores and is pre- 

 pared for a larger business than last 

 year's, although that was most satis- 

 factory. 



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Wiesbaden, GermaJiy. — Ferd. Fischer, 

 who has a large American trade on his 

 specialty, cyclamen seeds, states that he 

 has not been receiving his overseas mail 

 since early in the spring. 



Cheshunt, England. — A fine addition 

 to the list of hardy flowering shrubs 

 is Deutzia crenata magnifica, a new 

 form of an old favorite, the branches 

 being a mass of pure white double flow- 

 ers. It originated here in the nursery 

 of Paul & Son. 



Trier, Germany. — The original tree of 

 Frau Karl Druschki rose stands in the 

 nursery of Peter Lambert. The owner 

 has stated that the plant stood so long 

 without flowering that he was consider- 

 ing its destruction, when a wealth of 

 its snowy blooms burst forth. 



London, England. — The British gov- 

 ernment will again this season permit 

 the autumn shipment of plants, espe- 

 cially azaleas, from Belgium via Rot- 

 terdam to the United States under a 

 special arrangement with the Syndicat 

 des Horticultures Beiges, which involves 

 the payment of the purchase money 

 to the Banque Beige in London. The 

 Holland-America line will not load 

 shipments not accompanied by a British 

 permit. 



Haarlem, Holland.— The Dutch Bulb 

 Exporters' Association makes the fol- 

 lowing statement: "Owing to the un- 

 favorable weather during,the month of 

 June, the bulb crop has not reached the 

 average and consequently the stock of 

 salable bulbs is not so large as during 

 normal years. Also their size is now 

 smaller and, 'jumbos' are hardly to be 

 had. It is true that the above is not 

 only to be attributed to the bad 

 weather, but also to other causes, espe- 

 cially to the not paying prices of cul- 

 ture for the recent years. Moreover, life 

 has become much dearer and consequent- 

 ly wages have risen, so that the growers 

 were obliged to diminish bulb culture 

 and to take up culture of vegetables in 

 its place. In consequence thereof and ^ 

 owing to important purchases of bulbs 

 everywhere, there is not such a surplus 

 here as otherwise would be the case, 

 now that importation has been pro- 

 hibited in England, so. that to the con- 

 trary this surplus is much smaller than 

 during other years. It may even be 

 that there will be a shortage in the 

 good market varieties, so that it may 

 be possible that not all orders are ex- 

 ecutable in full. It is therefore most 

 improbable that there will be surplus 

 shipments on a large scale at low prices 

 during this season and fair trade can 

 not but rejoice at such a fact." 



