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F)OBBUA|tT 4, 1915. 



The Florists^ Review 



17 



Retail Store of H. N. Bruns, 3040 West Madison Street, Chicago. 



age. For it is always kept^n the beat 

 of order, as if the openingyiad only oc- 

 curred last week. 



Mr. Bruns was a well known^figure in 

 the Chicago trade long before that 

 time, not only as a retailer^^ut also 

 as a distributor of cold storage valley 

 pips and as the grower of Chicago Mar- 

 ket Brand cut valley. The pips are 

 distributed from this store and the cut 

 valley is grown in the greenhouses to 

 the east and ^ear of the store. 



There are other things besides the 

 comparative newness and perennial or- 

 derliness of the establishment that 

 raise it above the rank and file of 

 flower stores, things that were planned 

 by the owner from a long experience in 

 the business. The large windows are 

 the first feature to catch the eye i)i 

 the illustration, and they, or rather the 

 displays in them, catch the eye of the 

 passing pedestrian just as readily. In- 

 side, too, everything is arranged to 

 make the selling of flowers easy for 

 the salesman, and the buying, as nearly 

 as possible, a necessity to the visitor. 



TROUBLE WITH EASTES ULIES. 



We are sending you, under separate 

 cover, an Easter lily and should be 

 glad to have you tell us what is the 

 matter with the plant, as about fifty 

 per cent of two cases are in the same 

 condition or worse. The bulbs seem 

 to make good root action, but many 

 of them are like the sample and some 

 have made no top growth whatever. 

 K. & G. 



This is not an uncommon trouble 

 with Easter lilies. It may be due in 

 part to improper treatment, but is 

 more probably owing to the bulbs be- 

 ing prematurely dug and shipped to 

 America before being properly ripened. 

 Longiflorum lilies need no water after 

 potting, if the soil is fairly moist. 

 When they dry out, give them a soak- 

 ing, but run them on the dry side until 

 the pots are well filled with roots 

 and top growths are nicely started. 

 They must have a good heat from the 

 start, especially the giganteums; 60 

 •degrees at night is all right. If started 

 cool and kept moist, more or less dis- 



ease is sure to develop. The bulb sent 

 had made a cluster of leaves and the 

 spike was just coming up. Except 

 for the narrow foliage it would have 

 passed for L. candidum, the ascension 

 lily. C. W. 



AN OLD-FASHIONED POT PLANT. 



I am sending you, under separate 

 cover, a specimen plant of which we 

 should like to know the name. We 

 purchased the plants a few years ago, 

 but never did anything with them un- 

 til this year, when we sold more of 

 them than of any other plants in the 

 house. V. E. E. 



The plant is Eeinwardtia trigyna, 

 also and more popularly called Linum 

 trigynum. It is a native of India. It 

 is an old favorite in greenhouses and 

 makes a charming pot plant. It is lit- 

 tle seen now in America, but still is 

 grown considerably for winter flower- 

 ing in Europe. C. W. 



MAY BE LIUUM MYRIOPHYLLUM. 



I would like to know the name of a 

 lily, which I will try to describe, that 

 I saw grown by a friend near the coast 

 in Oregon. It is similar in habit of 

 growth to auratum, but grows some- 

 what taller, attaining a height of seven 

 to eight feet. It produces from fifteen 

 to twenty flowers to the stem. The 

 flowers are of immense size, being eight 

 to twelve inches in diameter, and are 

 a pure waxy white, with a light gold 

 band, but absolutely without specks. 

 It blooms late in August. This lily 

 seems to multiply slowly. I would like 

 to know if there is any treatment that 

 might be given it to make it increase 

 more rapidly. T. H. W. 



The only lilium I am acqu'ainted with 

 which seems to tally with your descrip- 

 tion is the somewhat new L. myriophyl- 

 lum, a native of China. In the east, it 

 grows four to six feet high, carrying on 

 stout stalks occasionally eighteen to 

 twenty-five flowers. The flowers are 

 white, slightly suffused with pink, with 

 canary yellow at the center and ex- 

 tending partway up the trumpet. It 

 has a delicate perfume. In the east. 



it blooms outdoors about the middle of 

 July. Such varieties as Japonieum, 

 Alexandras, Brownii and giganteum do 

 not answer your description. The last- 

 named grows eight to twelve feet high, 

 but the flowers lack the size of the 

 variety you speak of. I am speaking 

 of the true Lilium giganteum and not 

 of the little L. longiflorum giganteum 

 grown so much for Easter. 



L. myriophyllum can be propagated 

 readily from seed. They start to flower 

 in two years and in five years produce 

 stout stalks. C. W. 



PLANTS WILTING AND DYING. 



I am enclosing some leaves of cycla- 

 mens and of primulas. What is the 

 trouble with them? Can you tell me 

 how to prevent it? The primulas start 

 to grow nicely; then they begin to 

 turn brown and the plants are ruined. 

 The cyclamens turn a reddish brown on 

 the under side of the leaves; then the 

 leaves wilt. Would strong feeding 

 cause this? Please tell us how to grow 

 strong, healthy plants. W. F. 



The leaves had been frozen some- 

 what before arriving, but I should say 

 that improper soil and dryness at the 

 root were the probable main contribut- 

 ing causes to the poor condition of the 

 plants. Injudicious feeding would cer- 

 tainly be harmful, especially if applied 

 in midwinter. Plants of this character 

 need some feeding when well rooted, 

 but only in moderate doses, and once 

 a week is often enough during Decem- 

 ber and January. The surface soil 

 should be stirred occasionally to keep 

 the soil sweet and wholesome. 



Neither of these plants needs a warm 

 house; a temperature of 45 to 50 de- 

 grees at night is ample. Both succeed 

 well in a somewhat light compost, con- 

 taining plenty of partly decayed leaf- 

 mold and loam, besides some old, well 

 rotted dry manure and sand. In sum- 

 mer they are as well or better off in 

 coldframes, with lath shades over them 

 during the heat of the day. It would 

 take considerable space to cover the 

 culture of these plants, but you will 

 find frequent notes on them in the cul- 

 tural calendar of The Review, C. W. 



