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The Florists^ Review 



NOTBHBIB 21, 1918. 



connected with his father in business. 

 He also is an enthusiast over the Boy 

 Scout movement, being scout master at 

 Cortland, and is a member of several 

 lodges. 



Paul Smith's Narrow Escape. 



Paul C. Smith, son of M. S. Smith, of 

 the W. W, Barnard Co., Chicago, had 

 two narrow escapes from death recently 

 during the heavy fighting just before 

 the close of the war. A letter just re- 

 ceived by the young man's father re- 

 ports that the former was hit in the 

 back by a piece of shell during the 

 fighting, but he escaped with a big 

 bruise on his back. Two days previously 

 he had crawled back of an ammunition 

 wagon during a heavy bombardment 

 and a shell struck the other side of the 

 conveyance, wrecked it and killed the 

 mules, but Mr. Smith was unhurt. Some 

 idea of how the allied airplanes con- 

 trolled the air during the last days of 

 the war is shown by this portion of the 

 letter: "The enemy planes started in 

 on us. One plane opened machine gun 

 fire on us, but an American plane just 

 behind brought him down. I saw five 

 or six Hun planes brought down that 

 day." Mr. Smith is a member of the 

 122nd Field Artillery, formerly the Ist 

 Cavalry, Illinois National Guard. As 

 his last letter said he was back in a 

 rest camp after several weeks at the 

 front, his parents believe that he was 

 not in the actual fighting when the end 

 came. 



Lieutenant Boyd Killed. 



First Lieutenant Gordon Boyd, step- 

 son of Charles Dickinson, of the Albert 

 Dickinson Co., Chicago, was killed 

 in action in France November 5, only 

 six days before the armistice brought 

 the war to a close, his relatives in Chi- 

 cago were informed November 16. Lieu- 

 tenant Boyd formerly was a Chicago 

 newspaper man and when he joined the 

 army in 1917 was connected with the 

 Popular Mechanics magazine. He joined 

 the officers* training school at Platts- 

 burg, N. Y., and received his commis- 

 sion in November, 1917, sailing for 

 France in January of this year. 



Lieutenant H. A. Hyde, Jr. 



H. A. Hyde, grower and nurseryman 

 of Watsonville, Cal., has just received 

 notification from the government that 

 his son, Harold Hyde, has received a 

 commission as first lieutenant in the 

 ambulance service. H. A. Hyde, Jr., 

 has seen fourteen months of active serv- 

 ice in France, his unit having been 

 through two of the principal drives. 

 It wintered last year near Verdun. It 

 has been attached for nearly a year 

 to one of the crack French regiments 

 which has assisted in repelling the drives 

 of the crown prince. One member of 

 the unit has been killed, one blinded and 

 a number gassed. Eight of the boys 

 have received the Croix de Guerre and 

 the unit, together with the regiment, 

 has won a citation, entitling them to 

 wear the red and green braid. 



Operates Wireless in France. 



Receiving wireless messages from the 

 XT. S. army aeroplanes as they flew over 

 the German positions was the duty of 

 James W. McPheron, son of B. A. Mc- 

 Pheron, of the Cottage Greenhouses, 

 Litchfield, 111., and well known to the 

 trade in Chicago and St. Louis, where he 

 had been employed in retail stores. 

 "Jimmie," as he was known, joined the 



signal corps and has been in France for 

 some time. In his last letter to his 

 father he said they were "betting that 

 the war would be over in six weeks," 

 and it had come to an end when his let- 

 ter reached Litchfield. Mr. McPheron 

 was employed by John T. Muir, Chicago, 

 and Fred C. Weber, St. Louis, before he 

 joined the army. 



"WHAT'S IN A NAME?" 



Shakespeare a considerable number of 

 years ago asked the question, "What's 

 in a name?" and then proceeded to 

 save a whole lot of brain work by an- 

 swering it himself. "Nothing," was 

 his solution of the problem and he 

 proved the truth of his answer by citing 

 the fact that ' ' a rose by any other name 

 would smell as sweet." 



Names on The Review subscription 

 list go to prove that Shakespeare was 

 right; there is nothing in a name. At 

 first one might be led to believe there 

 is when it is discovered that in Pine 



Bluff, Ark., Mae Flowers sells 'em. But, 

 on the other hand, when we consider 

 that Perry Onion, East Las Vegas, N. 

 M., also has a flower store and not a 

 vegetable establishment, it would seem 

 that the bard knew whereof he spoke. 

 Having settled the question equally well 

 with the above two names, we now find 

 that at lola, Kan., George F. Odor deals 

 in blooms, one of the charms of which 

 his name describes. 



Making jokes out of names is the 

 chief forte of many so-called humorists. 

 But, as W. W. would say, may we not 

 be pardoned for suggesting that if by 

 any chance Mr. Onion and Mr. Odor 

 should form a partnership? — Well, you 

 say it. 



Wenham, Mass. — B. Hammond Tracy, 

 of Cedar Acres, has purchased the en- 

 tire stock of J. L. Moore, Northboro, 

 Mass., who traded as the Northboro 

 Dahlia and Gladioli Gardens, one of 

 the largest stocks in the United States. 



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SUGGESTIONS 



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HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS. 



It is time now to cut down all hardy 

 herbaceous perennials and after doing 

 so to clear away the weeds from about 

 them and apply a top-dressing of barn- 

 yard manure, if it can be spared for the 

 purpose. It is not too late to trans- 

 plant many hardy perennials and any 

 of this work is better done before the 

 tops are cut away. Some herbaceous 

 plants are not reliably hardy and in the 

 colder states it is safer to lift and store 

 such plants as Helianthus multiflorus 

 plenus, phloxes, kniphofias. Anemone 

 japonica, pompon chrysanthemums. In-- 

 carvillea Delavayi and rehmannias in 

 a cold cellar or frame for the winter. 

 If you want to increase your phloxes, 

 dig up a number of clumps now and 

 store in a coldframe. In February 

 start these up in a cool greenhouse and 

 you will get a big crop of cuttings, 

 which will root readily and make splen- 

 did field plants by the following fall. 



BROAD-LEAVED EVERGREENS. 



Before the ground freezes up it will 

 pay well to give rhododendrons a good 

 soaking of water with a hose. The rea- 

 son so many of these beautiful plants 

 die each spring is not so much on ac- 

 count of severe frost as of a lack of 

 moisture at the roots. Deciduous trees 

 and shrubs will survive if the ground 

 freezes up with their roots compara- 

 tively dry, but it is otherwise with 

 evergreens, especially rhododendrons 

 and other plants with broad leaves. If, 

 however, they are well soaked just be- 

 fore winter shuts down on us and a 

 generous mulch of leaves to exclude 

 frost from the roots is applied, they 

 are fairly certain to winter well. This 

 applies to practically all evergreens, 

 especially those planted within the last 

 few years. The covering up of hybrid 

 rhododendrons, which entails much la- 

 bor and experience, is not necessary, as 

 experience has proven. Windbreaks are 



helpful, but neither will avail if the 

 ground freezes up while the roots of 

 the plants are dry and no water can 

 percolate the leaves for months. Such 

 varieties as delicatissimum, Charles 

 Dickens, Caractacus, C. S. Sargent, al- 

 bum elegans, album grandiflorum and 

 roseum elegans have withstood mini- 

 mums of 20 degrees below zero and max- 

 imums of below zero with no injury to 

 the buds or foliage when treated as de- 

 scribed. 



PROTECTION FOR PANSIES. 



If we could be certain of a covering 

 of snow throughout the winter, there 

 would be little need for artificial 

 mulches for plants. Unfortunately, we 

 cannot depend on this and great harm 

 is done to unmulched plants as the sun 

 rises higher in the heavens toward 

 spring, when sudden thaws and bare 

 ground are succeeded by keen frosts. 

 The sun softens the ground daily and 

 the warmth helps to sossle the uncov- 

 ered plants. Mulch of some kind is 

 therefore a necessity. For pansies it 

 should not be applied until the ground 

 is hard. Meadow hay, straw or leaves 

 are any of them good, but whatever is 

 used must be held in position in some 

 way. I find that a light scattering of 

 loam or old manure prev'es effective and 

 is easier to apply than boards, brush or 

 cornstalks. Such plants as myosotis, 

 daisies, violas, digitalis, hollyhocks, 

 Coreopsis grandiflora, sweet williams 

 and sweet rockets can be similarly 

 treated. 



In severe climates where some of the 

 plants named do not winter well out- 

 doors, they should be lifted now and 

 planted closely in coldframes. A coat- 

 ing of perfectly dry leaves, with sashes 

 placed above to keep out moisture, will 

 keep them safe. Some ventilation 

 should be given during warm spells 

 through the winter, otherwise many of 

 the plants will sweat and damp off. 



