Junk 28, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



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fact that peonies grow from seeds. She 

 kept on experimenting in her back yard 

 garden. 



"One day a visitor from a neighbor- 

 ing town noticed in Mrs. Pleas' garden 

 a peony of unusual size and whiteness. 

 He bought one of the plants from her 

 for $2. The peony was the Jubilee. 



"This same man, by the way, is now 

 selling plants of this variety at $25 

 each. His orders for next fall total 

 500 and the variety is virtually new on 

 the market. 



' ' Mrs. Pleas, now more than 80 years 

 old, is living in California. She has 

 stopped raising peonies. But horticul- 

 turists of the world are praising her 

 and paying tribute to the prize flower 

 of her Indiana garden, the Jubilee." 



BLICK'S STOBE AT NORFOLK. 



The accompanying illustration is 

 taken in front of the store of Blick, 

 Florist, Norfolk, Va. E. S. White, 

 the manager of the store, and two 

 young salesladies have come out to 

 see the service car of H. Bayersdorf er & 

 Co., Philadelphia, Pa., guided to tlieir 

 door by John Walsh, who is standing 

 nearby. The picture shows how the dis- 

 tance between Philadelphia and Norfolk 

 is bridged in these modern times. 



EVERYBODY BUSY AND HAPPY. 



"Everybody busy every day in tlie 

 year" is the way Max Schling replies 

 to an inquiry as to the state of the flo- 

 rists' business in the neighborhood of 

 Central park, New York city. To prove 

 that he is not exaggerating in the least 

 he submits the photograph from whicli 

 the accompanying illustration was 

 made, which sliould satisfy doubters. 

 It shows the interior of the workroom 

 at the Schling store at 22 West Fifty- 

 ninth street, which adjoins the Plaza 

 hotel. Father Kniekerl)ocker has been 

 keeping open house recently and has 

 welcomed the stranger within his 

 gates by providing many kinds of 

 amusement for his guests, providing 

 they had the price. Visitors to the 

 Plaza undoubtedly created several kinds 

 of sensations when they aj)peared wear- 

 ing the unique creations for which Mr. 

 Schling is famous, and which are the 

 reasons for the activity at the Schling 

 store. 



ROT OF IRIS ROOTS. 



We are sending with this mail an iris 

 clump which is diseased and seems to 

 be dying. You will note that some of 

 the roots arc dead and that the center 

 of the stalk is woody and dead. Only 

 a few clumps are affected; the rest seem 

 to be all right. Can you tell us the 

 trouble and name a reniedv for it 1 



D. & K.— Mich. 



This condition undoubtedly is due to 

 too deep planting. In the case of Iris 

 gernianica, if roots are not covered 

 lightly this rot is sure to affect them 

 sooner or later. It generally makes its 

 appearance about flowering time and is 

 especially bad later in the season, when 

 we have hot, muggy and showery 

 weather with little sunshine. The rem- 

 edy is to avoid too deep planting. 



C. W. 



Scene at Blick's Handsome Store at Norfolk, Va. 



in order to have an indoor crop in the 

 fall? Is it ever grown as an outthxir 

 crop? Any information as to gcriiiiua- 

 tion and care will l)e ai)preciat('(l. 



!•:. II. A.— Mi.h. 



Swaiiisoiia galegifolia alba is a use- 

 ful fall and winter-flowering jilaiit. It 

 is also good for summer bedding. For 

 fall and winter flowering cuttings, not 

 seeds, should he used. These would 



have heiii hitter it' put in a few weeks 

 ayo, i)ut can still be rooted. As the 

 jilant is of easy propagation, ])lants may 

 lie plunged outdoors through the sum- 

 mer ami housed ahout the end of 8ep- 

 ti'inher. A few degrees of frost will not 

 harm them. The jilant is ahnost a con- 

 tinuous bloomer and is hardy in the 

 latitude of San Francisco. Cut hack 

 any old overgrown i)lants and they will 

 gi\e you a fine crop of ihmv shoots for 

 proi)agati('U. C. \V. 



PROPAGATION OF SWAINSONA. 



When should swainsona seeds be sown 



Max Schling's Evidence That Everybody is Busy in His New York Store. 



