Febbdaby 27, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



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make up the ninety-nine and ninety-nine- 

 one-hundredths per cent standard. Look- 

 ing over several beds of Carnation Buth 

 Baur and hearing A. E. Steinkamp re- 

 cite its pedigree, one could not help 

 acknowledging the propriety of the sim- 

 ile. As the flower already has been de- 

 scribed in The Review of November 

 21, with illustrations, it may be suffi- 

 cient here to observe that this carna- 

 tion undoubtedly will be popular with 

 every grower. Indianapolis assuredly, 

 will be proud to be its sponsor aijid Baur 

 & Steinkamp gi&ti&ed with results, when 

 dissemination is made. Among a batch 

 of seedlings here are noted a few prom- 

 ising items, especially a white seedling 

 of White Wonder x Matchless. Both 

 parents also are in splendid condition. 

 Bosalia is in heavy crop and, by a co- 

 incidence, is being fed vdth a special 

 carnation fertilizer. It shows decided 

 benefits from this special feeding. Baur 

 & Steinkamp also have Pocahontas and 

 Enchantress Supreme in heavy crop. 

 Merry Christmas has not given over 

 blooming and the propagating house is 

 filled with rooted cuttings to fill orders — 

 is booked to capacity, in fact. Some 

 concerns are placing orders for 1920, 

 80 scarce is stock and so obscure the 

 outlook. A batch of seedling chrysan- 

 themums seen here is interesting. Good 

 results may reasonably be expected from 

 them. A large block of geraniimis 

 elicited the remark that undoubtedly 

 the selling price of these plants will 

 be 15 cents wholesale and 25 cents re- 

 tail for plants in 4-inch pots. Agathsea 

 coelestis in 7-inch pots, a promising 

 blooming plant for Easter, was growing 

 on brackets formerly occupied by hy- 

 drangeas. Begonia Chatelaine was a 

 great seller at Christmas and will be 

 grown in larger numbers from now on. 

 A number of large plants of Buddleia 

 asiatica in pots for spring sales, growing 

 outdoors, is evidence of the hardihood 

 of this shrub. In the spring the stools 

 are broken up and sold at good prices 

 for city gardens. W. M. 



THE EVEBBLOOMINa HYDBANOEA 



H. Arborescens Grandiflora. 



In this town, Eaton, 0., a place of 

 between 5,000 and 6,000 persons, tbere 

 are hundreds of specimens of the fine 

 flowering shrub, Hydrangea arborescens 

 grandiflora, which I prefer to designate 

 as the American Everblooming hydran- 

 gea. Most of them have been in bloom 

 since the middle of June. The bushes 

 are four to five feet tall and three to 

 four feet across, with masses of snow- 

 white trusses of flowers eight to ten 

 inches across. It is one of the most 

 beautiful hardy flowering shrubs in cul- 

 tivation. 



The plant was discovered by an enter- 

 prising florist of Richmond, Ind., in an 

 Ohio city fourteen years ago. Its prop- 

 agation has been pushed rapidly since 

 then, so that now it can be obtained 

 from prominent growers about as read- 

 ily as rose plants. Some great men's 

 lack of observation is strikingly exhib- 

 ited occasionally in everyday affairs. 

 One of the leading florist-seedsmen of 

 Ohio and his partner, while looking for 

 new and good things on the grounds of 

 the Richmond introducer of H. arbores- 

 cens grandiflora, walked past a block 



Tnlg, probably, Is the last contribution to hor- 

 ticultural literature by the late B. Y. Teas, who 

 aled at his home In Eaton, 0., December 15, 1918. 

 — Bd. 



Hydrangea Arborescens Grandiflora Alba as a Pot Plant. 



of it, then in bloom, thinking it was H. 

 paniculata grandirivra. They looked be- 

 yond it, hoping to see something worth 

 while. 



Did Not Know Their Value. 



The leading florist in the city where 

 this hydrangea was discovered grew a 

 good stock of it in 2'14-inch pots and 

 sold the plants, along with geraniums 

 and other bedding plants, at $1.50 per 

 dozen. If he had understood the situa- 

 tion, he could have sold his entire stock 

 at that time to resourceful growers at 

 $1 each. A plant of this hydrangea 

 grew in a public street in Dayton, C, 

 for five or six years without being no- 

 ticed by the nurserymen and florists who 

 passed it every day. 



In the Ohio city where Hydrangea 

 arborescens grandiflora was discovered, 

 and where more than 100 flourishing 

 plants of it were scattered about, it was 

 invariably known as the Everblooming 

 hydrangea, to distinguish it from H. 

 paniculata grandiflora. I suggested the 

 name American Everblooming, because 

 it is an American plant, without any 

 pro-German taint, and is more nearly a 

 continuous bloomer than any other so- 

 called everblooming shrub within my 

 knowledge. A 3-year-old plant usually 

 yields some bloom every week from 

 June until the end of October. I know 

 of no old-time hybrid perpetual rose or 

 other hardy shrub that will do that. All 



hydrangeas delight in a cool, moist at- 

 mosphere. 



The double-dyed scientific botanists 

 t-annot tolerate a plain, everyday name, 

 but had to stick onto this new candidate 

 the prodigious name of Hydrangea ar- 

 borescens grandiflora alba. To escape 

 this jawbreaker, common people call it 

 Snowball or Hills of Snow. American 

 Everblooming is more comprehensive, as 

 well as patriotic. 



Cutting Back the Plants. 



As to the treatment of this variety, 

 most persons cut back the plants in Feb- 

 ruary or March to within about six 

 inches of the ground. Some carefully 

 leave a half-dozen strong shoots three 

 to four feet long, to give early bloom. 

 The young shoots from the ground begin 

 to bloom about the end of June. I think 

 this cutting back increases the tendency 

 to continuous blooming. 



This hydrangea will not make so much 

 of a tree as H. paniculata grandiflora, 

 but makes a clump a foot or more 

 across. I think it is well to dig out 

 some of the stubs in early spring, to 

 strengthen those remaining. Cuttings 

 taken off in February, about eight 

 inches in length, root and grow in the 

 nursery about as readily as currant cut- 

 tings. 



As to the hardiness of the plant, I 

 have sold it repeatedly to customers in 



