Decembeb 23, 1920 



The Rorists^ Review 



139 



FLOWERS AS SOUVENIRS. 



On several occasions I have had ap- 

 plications for prices of flowers for use 

 as souvenirs, to be given away at the 

 opening of stores, such as jewelry, and 

 being a little in doubt, should be glad to 

 have your opinion or some of your 

 readers' if in that case they would be 

 entitled to a wholesale price by taking 

 several hundred to be given away to 

 visitors. W. M. — Mich. 



Flowers seldom are used as souvenirs 

 at store openings except at times of 

 abundant supply. At other times the 

 demands of the trade are such that it is 

 impossible to furnish flowers in quan- 

 tity at a price which will justify their 

 use for souvenir gift purposes. When 

 a florist has more stock than he needs 

 for his regular trade, if somebody wants 

 to take the surplus off his hands and give 

 it away to the public, the florist usually 

 is willing to make a price that will 

 make the transaction possible. It isn't 

 the cost of production which regulates 

 the price of flowers, though it should; 

 the price of flowers is determined by the 

 relationship of supply and demand. 



HARDY FRAGRANT LILIES. 



Will you furnish the names of hardy, 

 white, fragrant lilies and the season of 

 blooming for each! When planting lilies 

 I desire to have the season of bloom 

 extended over the longest time possible 

 by obtaining the necessary variety. 



M. P. C— Ky. 



The following are the more desirable 

 varieties of lilium adapted for open-air 

 culture. The time for flowering given is 

 for the neighborhood of New York city. 

 The period would, of course, be earlier 

 in Kentucky, 



L. candidum, commonly known as the 

 Madonna, St. Joseph's, Ascension and 

 the Annunciation lily, must be planted 

 not later than October 1 and the bulbs 

 covered about four inches. North of 

 France bulbs are the best and these 

 usually arrive early in September. The 

 flowers open June 25 to 30. Associated 

 with larkspurs, these immaculately white 

 blooms are especially beautiful. 



L. speciosum album flowers in August 

 and September. Bulbs arrive from 

 Japan about the end of November and 

 should be planted at once, eight to nine 

 inches deep. 



L. longiflorum giganteum, the variety 

 mostly grown for Easter flowering under 

 glass, succeeds well outdoors. Japanese 

 bulbs are excellent, but some home- 

 grown bulbs are now offered and should 

 be even better. Tliis lily, with a little 

 mulch, winters well, even in New Eng- 

 lang, and flowers in late May and June. 



L. regale, or L. myriophyllum, the re- 

 gal lily of China, is a hardy, magnificent 

 garden lily. The flowers are white, 

 slightly suffused with pink. The throat 

 is pale yellow. Plant in late October or 

 November, seven to eight inches deep. 

 This variety of lily flowers early in July. 



L. auratum, the handsome golden- 

 'ayed lily of Japan, carries flowers six 

 fo eight inches across, pure white in 

 color, with a wide band of gold in the 

 center of each petal and numerous crim- 

 son spots. This is a beautiful and higlily 

 fragrant garden lily and should be 

 planted in November or December, eight 

 to nine inches deep. The blooms remain 

 from July until September. 



L. Brownii has large, fragrant, trum- 

 pet-shaped flowers, pure white inside 



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and purple outside. It is a handsome 

 garden lily, flowering in July. 



This completes the list of hardy, fra- 

 grant, white-flowered liliums adaptable 

 for garden culture. Fall is the proper 

 planting season. Deep planting is neces- 

 sary for all but L. candidum. Put some 

 sharp sand below and over the bulbs. 

 Let no fresh manure come in contact 

 with them and give a winter mulch of 

 straw or leaves. C W. 



THREE CROPS OF SNAPDRAGONS. 



We should be pleased to know if you 

 have any data at hand relative to leav- 

 ing snapdragons in a bench after the 

 first cut was taken; that is to say, after 

 the blooms were out in September and 

 October. The plants appear to be free 

 from rust, but we were wondering if 

 second growth would be a thin growth. 

 The spikes do not seem strong, but will 

 the stock be strong? K. & S.— Wis. 



By all means keep your snapdragons 

 from which you have just cut a fall 

 crop. The shoots may look somewhat 

 thin now, but these plants will give you 

 a splendid crop towards spring and the 

 spikes will be immeasurably superior to 

 those cut in the fall. The idea that 

 snapdragons should be discarded after 

 one crop is utterly erroneous. For some 

 years the writer has benched plants 

 early in August. These produced a nice 

 fall crop. In midwinter they hang fire 



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somewhat, but in March and April they 

 always produced a great crop; and usu- 

 ally, by leaving the plants in, I have 

 secured a third crop from Memorial day 

 until July 1, when the plants are dis- 

 carded. To secure spikes of the best 

 quality, it would pay you to remove a 

 number of the weakest shoots from each 

 plant. But if you want spikes of mod- 

 erate size, adaptable for a home retail 

 trade, disbudding need not be prac- 

 ticed. One point to remember, and it 

 is an important one, is that you should 

 not pinch any shoots until the spikes 

 show color. If pinched while the shoots 

 are soft, the plants will break all right, 

 but the shoots will be, for the most part, 

 blind. Before your second crop comes 

 in, a mulch of old manure will benefit 

 the plants. If you decide to leave them 

 in for a third crop, an additional and 

 somewhat heavier mulch should be ap- 

 plied. To avoid rust, keep moisture oflf 

 the foliage. Air freely, let the mini- 

 mum temperature be 45 degrees to 50 

 degrees, and do not use gas as a fumi- 

 gant; tobacco papers are safer. C. W. 



