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The Florists' Review 



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Fuchsias. 



Fuchsias are good plants for fiUiug 

 beds or borders that are in partial shade. 

 In such locations they will flower well 

 the entire summer. They also are useful 

 for planting in piazza boxes or vases, 

 when the receptacles are broken from 

 the direct rays of the sun. These are 

 also sjjlendid favorites in pots for sum- 

 mer blooming. When tlius grown they 

 need partial shading and an abundant 

 water supply, to say nothing of plenty 

 of liquid manure. 



Another use for fuchsias, and where 

 they are seen to special advantage, is 

 to grow them in well-made wooden or 

 wire baskets. The variety Trailing 

 Queen is superb when grown in this 

 way, but almost any other variety with 

 a little careful tying down makes a good 

 basket subject. Hung from a piazza 

 where they can get good light, not too 

 much sun and an abundance of water, 

 these fuchsias are among the most 

 charming and satisfactory summer- 

 blooming plants we have. I have seen 

 huge baskets of Trailing Queen carried 

 over for two or three years, and they 

 were a wonderful sight. Some Linaria 

 Cymbalaria is suspended far below the 

 fuchsias, and the effect is exquisite. 



It is now too late to make up baskets 

 of fuchsias, but plan to try some an- 

 other season. I have in mind one 

 grower who has no trouble in disposing 

 of a good number each spring at $5 each. 

 The same grower also finds that stand- 

 ard fuchsias pay well, to say nothing of 

 standard geraniums and heliotropes. 



Gardenias. 



In order to have gardenias of good 

 size and to have them well established, 

 planting should be done early in June. 

 Prepare the compost for them at once 

 if it is not yet ready. Gardenias dis- 

 like a fine compost, and it is well to 

 screen out all the fine soil. I find that 

 in a compost of fibrous loam, flaky 

 leaf-mold, not too much decayed, dried, 



lumpy cow manure and coarse sand, 

 ^;aidenias do remarkably well, and are 

 not attacked by the yellows as they are 

 in a less porous soil. Give them a 

 loarse, open compost, one through which 

 water w-ill quickly pass, and if other 

 I'ultural requirements are suitable you 

 arc pretty sure to have green, healthy 

 plants. Set the plantt; out fifteen 

 inches apart each way. Leave a little 

 basin around each plant and water in 

 it, rather than soak the entire bed. 

 As between raised benches and solid 

 beds I have most faith in the former 

 for the winter-blooming gardenias, as 

 the soil is dried out better and the roots 

 are warmer. Still, some successful spe- 

 cialists get good winter cuts in solid 

 beds. 



Gardenias like a warm, moist house, 

 not less than 60 degrees at night. They 

 need frequent syringing to keep the 

 insects in subjection and, of course, 

 need some pinching and tying up as 

 the growth advances. 



Planting Out Hard-Wooded Stock. 



It is at best somewhat doubtful 

 whether any azaleas will arrive in 

 America from Belgium next fall. If 

 the great war continues, as seems prob- 

 able, none will come. Therefore, un- 

 sold stock should be well cared for, as 

 it will sell well next winter. A good 

 place for azaleas in summer is a cold- 

 frame; or a frame-shaped enclosure 

 with sides of boards or planks will suit 

 them finely. Use a compost of loam, 

 leaf-mold and sand; also a little old, 

 well-decayed and pulverized manure. 

 Planted out in such a soil and kept well 

 watered and syringed, azaleas will grow 

 splendidly and set buds in profusion. 

 They can be lifted and potted about 

 the end of September. 



Ericas can be treated the same as 

 azaleas. Thev will do in ordinary gar- 

 den loam if it is free from lime. Calen- 

 dulas which show signs of starvation 

 will also be much improved by planting 



out. Boronias, acacias and genistas are 

 all better if kept in pots and plunged. 

 All these hard-wooded plants should be 

 planted out where a good water sup- 

 ply is conveniently near. The camel- 

 lias prefer a little shade, but all others 

 do better in full sunshine. 



Stock Plants for Bedding. 



Care should be taken to reserve an 

 adequate number of stock plants in the 

 bedding line, such as geraniums, cannas, 

 lobelias, ageratums, coleus, etc., for an- 

 other season. Too often, when calls are 

 many and" insistent, we are prone to let 

 our stocks be so depleted that prac- 

 tically nothing is left for planting out. 

 This is a great mistake. See to it that 

 you hold back and plant out an adequate 

 number, either in beds and borders near 

 your home, or in nursery rows. In 

 geraniums it is particularly necessary 

 to save strong, healthy stock. If this 

 Avere more generally done, there would 

 be far less disease than there now is. 

 In the case of fuchsias a good plan is 

 to shift along a few plants and plunge 

 them outdoors in partial shade. Helio- 

 tropes and coleus can be satisfactorily 

 treated in the same way, only give them 

 full sunshine. Pot-grown plants make 

 a stockier and shorter-jointed growth 

 and furnish the best type of cuttings for 

 successful propagation. 



QUICK ACTION AT LOMBABD. 



There are not many new greenhouse 

 establishments being built this year, 

 this season's building being principally 

 additions to already prosperous ranges. 

 But at Lombard, 111., one of the interest- 

 ing new establishments is in process of 

 rapid completion. The Lombard Floral 

 Co., recently incorporated with $30,000 

 capital stock, has as its principal owner 

 Danford Abrams, a man well known 

 locally as a large owner of land and a 

 large stockholder in the Lombard State 

 bank. The practical man associated 

 with him is J. G. Schumann, who is well 

 acquainted in the trade, having until 

 recently been foreman for Wendland 

 & Keimel Co., at Elmhurst, 111., and 

 before that a partner in the firm of 

 Schumann & Kohout, at Libertyville, 

 111. Prior to that Mr. Schumann wa« 

 rose grower for Bassett & Washburn, 

 and at Hinsdale, 111., was one of the 

 first of the western growers to make a 

 conspicuous growing of Killarney. When 

 Messrs. Schumann and Abrams make up 

 their minds, they act with dispatch. 

 April 16 they made a contract with the 

 John C. Moninger Co., Chicago, for the 

 erection of two all-steel greenhouses, 

 each 35x450 feet. May 12 the photo- 

 graph here reproduced was made, and 

 May 17 glazing on one of the houses was 

 in progress. In addition to the two 

 large greenhouses, a service building 

 with chimney and boiler space for four 

 more houses of similar size is being 

 built. The Lombard Floral Co. wiU 

 plant roses exclusively, and it is under- 

 stood the crop will be sold in the Chi- 

 cago market by Kyle & Foerster. 



New Range of the Lombard Floral Co., Lombard, III. 



Oshkosh, Wis. — Two pipe frame 

 houses, each 18x50 feet, are being 

 erected by Fugleberg & Flister, the 

 material being furnished by the Ajneri- 

 can Greenhouse Mfg. Co., Chicago. 

 Mr. Fugleberg was so enthusiastic 

 about them that his neighbor, Ward B. 

 Davis, has placed an order with the 

 same concern for two pipe frame con- 

 struction houses, each 21x108 feet. 



