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June 8, 1922 



The Florists^ Review 



23 



Half a Dozen Pots of Kamp & Spinti's New Double Trailing Lobelia. 



They are market-gardening approxi- 

 mately sixteen acres of land. 



Hans Eosacker is busy remodeling 

 and building new houses. 



Gibbs & Nelson and Peter Hermes are 

 adding new houses to their ranges. 



Robert Stein is just recovering from 

 an operation made necessary by an ul- 

 cerated tooth. He reports a fine sjiring 

 trade. 



Visitors last week were John Briggs 

 and wife, of Moorhead, Minn.; I. Bay- 

 ersdorfer, of Philadelphia; Julius Dill- 

 off, of Wertheimer Bros., New York, 

 and E. Snyder, of Poehlmann Bros. Co., 

 Chicago. 



William A. Peterson, of the Peterson 

 Nursery, came from Chicago to visit 

 the iris show June 2. L. Roenfiold, of 

 the Eoenfield Nursery, Des Moines, was 

 also in town June 1 and 2 to see the iris 

 show. 



June 33 and 14 the peony and garden 

 flower show will be held in the Pence 

 automobile showrooms, Minneapolis. In- 

 dications are that this will be the big- 

 gest ever. L. C. 



LOBELIA EBINUS GRACILIS. 



An excellent plant for lawn vases, 

 baskets and similar uses is Lobelia 

 Erinus gracilis. This plant is known 

 as the half-trailing lobelia and is 

 usually single, though sometimes dou- 

 ble. It is among the commonest of edg- 

 ing plants and is particularly well 

 adapted for early season effects. When 

 planted outdoors in the northern states 

 it will bloom until frost comes if it 

 has good soil, plenty of water and an 

 occasional cutting back. In hot climates, 

 however, the plant ceases to bloom in 

 midsummer. The plant can be propa- 

 gated from seed. Seeds sown in Janu- 

 ary and February will give blooming 

 plants by April or May of the same 

 year. For flowers alone, rather than for 

 edging, seeds may be sown later, l)ut for 

 definite results in edgings, it is best 

 to start the plants from cuttings. For 

 cuttings, the best plants of a former 

 crop are selected, lifted and placed in 

 pots in the greenhouse in the fall and 

 allowed to grow in this manner through 

 the winter. Cuttings which are taken 

 from these stock plants in January or 

 February should give blooming i)lants 

 by May of the same year. 



An improved strain of Lobelia gra- 

 cilis, as it is commonly called, has been 

 developed by the Kamp & Spinti Co.. 

 North Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Spinti 



speaks of the plant as follows: "It is 

 a double trailing lobelia. We find it is 

 a profuse bloomer and an improvement 

 over any other trailing lobelia. It has 

 been our experience to witness some of 

 the plants bloom all summer and late 

 into the fall, and they are especially 

 suitable for warm weather. The plant 

 is found to propagate easily and root 

 action is obtainable almost any time 

 during the winter months. We have 

 been able to accumulate considerable 

 stock, and will start propagating in Au- 

 gust of this year. This will give us cut- 

 tings in September. It is also our de- 

 sire to have 2-inch and 2i/a-inch stock 

 for October delivery and throughout the 

 winter." 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



The Market. 



Memorial day business was not un- 

 usual. In nearly every shop it was 

 ahead of last year. In a few it greatly 

 exceeded all past years. Some of this 

 increase was due to other business that 

 would have come anyway. The favor- 

 able spring brought a great supply of 

 flowers. Home gardens supplied .a mass 

 of flowers for cemeteries. Peonies 

 seemed to be everywhere. The large 

 and small fields came in at the right 

 time and every grower had peonies to 

 spare. The early varieties were held in 

 iceboxes. Some of these held up well; 

 others did not. There were enough 

 freshly cut to supply what demand 

 there was. Some of the stock was 

 choice. Tills went well at the last. Car- 

 nations were extremely plentiful and 

 good. Tlie cool nisrhts have kept the 

 stock to a rare quality for .Tune. Most 

 of the roses are short, but they are not 

 soft. Gladioli are plentiful. All gar- 

 don flowers are good. There is the 

 usual variety. The demand was good 

 all last week. School cominenccnients 

 and weddings are using a great many 

 flowers. 



Various Notes. 



Tlorothy and Arthur Noll have r(^- 

 turned from a year's stay with an aunt 

 in Micliican. where they attended 

 school. Tliev will spend the summer 

 with their father, T. J. NoH. 



The June bride is featured by the 

 Alpha Floral Co. in a beautifully deco- 

 rated window. A wax figure, gowned in 

 the latest fashion in wedding finery, 

 with veil and wreath .■ind holding a bou- 



quet of vallej', stands in the window. 

 This serves to introduce the floral part 

 of a wedding. On a silken-covered chair 

 is a bridesmaid's bouquet of pink roses. 

 Silk, tulle and smilax are draped about 

 the window, and several large baskets 

 of flowers complete the picture. 



Fifty thousand artificial Flanders 

 ]ioppies were received by Frank P. 

 Adams post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 

 for sale in Kansas City, Kan., for Me- 

 morial day. These poppies were made 

 by French peasant women, who will re- 

 ceive half of the proceeds of the sale. 

 The other half will go to disabled vet- 

 erans in local hospitals. 



E. L. Clemens lias been busy all 

 spring. Mothers' day and Memorial day 

 cleaned up his plants. 



S. Bryson Ayres has bought sixty 

 acres adjoining his farm on Blue Ridge 

 road, near Independence. Mo. He will 

 grow nursery stock and hardy flowers 

 on the new ground. The spring business 

 was the best of any season since the 

 w.'ir. 



The week beginning ^fay 20 was one 

 of the best in the year for J. E. Murray 

 & Co. In addition to Memorial day 

 work. Miss !Murray had the main work 

 for the funeral of a prominent lumber- 

 man, Mondav, May 29. 



Rock's Flower 'Ganlens hav.' .30,000 

 2 year-old peony jdants. Ij.-iwrence L. 

 Rock, president of the gardens, is get- 

 ting up the fall catalogue. Spring busi- 

 ness in the seed department was far bet- 

 ter than was anticipated for the first 

 year. 



Mr. and 'SUa. Cliarles Edgar, of Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., and I. M. Bav(>rsdorfer, of 

 II. Bayersdorfer & Co., ' Philadelphia, 

 wer<' recent visitors. 



Aviators took a prominent ])art in 

 ^^elllori.'ll day services here. Not only 

 were there aerial exhibitions on the pro- 

 gr.'im for the day, but formations of 

 jtlanes drojiped flowers at the different 

 cemeteries. Since the war few exhibi- 

 tions of this kind h.ave been given, es- 

 jiecially fis ;i part of Memorial day serv- 

 ices. This was the first time in Kansas 

 <'ity that avi.atnrs liave flown on this 

 day. The first ii.'niil mcinorial service 

 ever witnessed here took ]il;tce in Penn 

 N'alley park. About (),00n jiersons gath- 

 ered there to witness the ceremony and 

 take part in the service. Two huge 

 wreaths of flowers were cast into the 

 l;ike, while a firing squad snapped a 

 salute. The symbolic meaning of the 

 ceremonv is that the flowers scattered 



