

December 25, 1919. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



Looking West across Part of tbe Twenty Acres of Canna Fields at Riverton> N. J. 



trussed carmine red, on clean bronze 

 foliage. 



Orange Bedder — Remarkably bright 

 •orange, of vigorous habit. 



Poppy — Green bronze foliage, sur- 

 mounted by great trusses of bright red 

 flowers, showing an orange cast. 



Remarkable — A tall grower, throwing 

 stalks of deep red flowers six to eight 

 feet high, over excellent bronze foliage. 



The Gem — Wonderfully free cream- 

 •colored flowers, dotted carmine, are pro- 

 duced in great branching clusters over 

 the bright green foliage. 



Yellow King Humbert — A true sport 

 of the popular bronze-leaved variety. 

 Produces great trusses of yellow flow- 

 ers dotted with orange over bright 

 green foliage. Its only fault is its 

 tendency to revert to the type. 



In writing this article I have as- 

 sumed that the information most de- 

 aired was regarding the selection of va- 

 rieties. Practically every reader should 

 be familiar with the care and culture 

 of cannas. I might add that we find 

 many customers who still call for such 

 old varieties as Florence Vaughan, Paul 

 Marquant, Venus and Philadelphia, all 

 of which and dozens more have been 

 superseded, as before indicated, by su- 

 perior varieties of American origin. 



PLANTS FOIL OABPET BED. 



We wish to plant the word "Spar- 

 tana" in a carpet bed 6x25 feet. We 

 have been advised that the altcrnan- 

 thera is the best plant for this purpose. 

 Kindly tell us how many plants will 

 actually be required, how many should 

 be prepared as a margin of safety and 

 whether there is any better plant to use 

 than the alternanthera. 



M. P. & C. C— O. 



If the eight letters of "Spartana" 

 are made six feet long and are prop- 

 erly spaced, they will require 1,250 

 plants, provided they are set out three 

 inches apart each way, in order to give 

 a good immediate effect. The interme- 

 diate spaces will call fqr 1,150 additional 

 plants. If you prefer to make letters 

 only four feet long and of proportion- 

 ate width, it would call for 900 plants 

 for the letters and 1,500 as fillers. If 

 you want to get along with fewer 

 plants and space four inches apart each 

 way, the total number of plants can be 

 reduced to 1,350. I should, however, 



prefer the closer planting, as it would 

 give a good immediate effect. It would 

 be better to plant on the level or raise 

 the letters only a few inches. If you 

 decide to raise them, allow a few more 

 plants for the purpose. 



Alternantheras would be decidedly 

 the most satisfactory plants to use for 

 the bed. Brilliantissima or parony- 

 chioides major, red, could be used for 

 the letters, and aurea nana, yellow, for 

 the intermediate spaces or the colors can 

 he reversed if desired. C. W. 



FRENCH HYDRANGEAS. 



I have received a shipment of 5-inch 

 French hydrangeas in bud and bloom. 

 From some of them the old blooms were 

 cut off. I supposed these were ripened 

 plants ready for blooming next spring. 

 Will these plants bloom again on the 

 same stems or branches next spring? I 

 wanted them for Easter and Mothers' 

 day. I have always thought hydran- 

 geas had to be cut back after blooming 

 and the new growth grown and ripened 

 all summer before blooming again. 



A. D. S.— N. D. 



not break and flower next season, but 

 the unflowered shoots, if there are 

 enough of them, should make you sal- 

 able plants. These hydrangeas have a 

 knack of flowering heavily in late sum- 

 mer and all flowers should be cut out 

 as fast as they show. It would be un- 

 fair for any firm to ship you plants at 

 this season containing little but flower- 

 ing shoots, as they would produce little 

 next spring. Pot your plants, remove 

 all flowers, protect them from frost, give 

 them plenty of sun and run the plants 

 more on the dry side as the weather 

 becomes colder. Keep the plants in a 

 cold greenhouse or light cellar, from 

 which frost is excluded, until time to 

 start for Easter. C. W. 



It is too early to expect the wood to 

 be ripened on the French hydrangeas. 

 The shoots with buds and blooms will 



MICHIOAN FLORISTS ORGANIZE. 



The Michigan State Florists' Associa- 

 tion was organized with twenty-two 

 charter members at a meeting held in 

 the Association of Commerce building. 

 Grand Rapids, December 9. The follow- 

 ing officers were elected: President, 

 Herbert Goetz, Saginaw; vice-president, 

 Henry Smith, Grand Rapids; secretary, 

 L. Plum, Detroit, and treasurer, W. C. 

 Wells, Ann Arbor. The next meeting 

 will be held in March at the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, Lansing. 



Mrs. Alfred Conard, a Vigorous Grower of Unusual Color. 



