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Itilies for Summer and Fall. 



Every florist who has a retail trade 

 grows, or should grow, several varieties 

 of lilies. Of these longiflorum gigan- 

 teum can be had the entire year if 

 cold storage bulbs are used, and, by 

 the way, some of these should be 

 potted now and stood below a green- 

 house bench or on a cellar floor. Then, 

 L. candidum, the purest and most 

 beautiful of all white lilies, can be 

 had in flower under glass from the end 

 of March until the middle of June. L. 

 auratum, where potted in November 

 and kept below " a greenhouse bench, 

 should commence flowering in June, 

 while L. f'})ociosum album and Mel- 

 pomene will flower from early July un- 

 til October, by holding back a per- 

 centage of the plants in a cold house 

 or pit. These speciosums can also be 

 potted in July for flowering in late fall 

 and winter, but this cold storage stock 

 will not give spikes of anything like 

 the quality of those produced on fresh 

 bulbs potted as soon as they arrive in 

 November or December. L. speciosum 

 also does well outdoors, but it is not 

 possible to get as clean flowers from 

 open-air stock as when it is pot-grown, 

 as rains and dews badly spot the 

 flowers. 



Euonymus Badicans. 



A frequent query is as to what is 

 the best hardy evergreen climber. Eng- 

 lish ivy is all right in some sections, 

 but it is not hardy in the colder states, 

 but Euonymus radicans is sufficiently 

 hardy to withstand 25 degrees below 

 zero without injury. It is sometimes 

 considered a slow grower, but if given 

 good soil will grow fast; in fact, I 

 have plants in mind which covered a 

 wall sixteen feet high in four years. 

 These were not only in good soil, but 

 were occasionally watered in dry 

 weather and had a mulch of cow "ttia- 

 nure each spring. This evergreen 

 climber will cling to stone, concrete or 

 wood. It is also valuable for cover- 

 ing rocks, boulders and dry stone walls. 

 It is of easy propagation, summer be- 

 ing the best time to put in cuttings. 



Marguerites for Next Winter. 



Well flowered, bushy marguerites in 

 midwinter are rarely seen in the mar- 

 kets. That they would sell well goes 

 ' without saying. For winter blooming, 

 the old white Paris daisy. Chrysanthe- 

 mum frutescens, has all others beaten 

 to a frazzle, to use a somewhat slangy 

 phrase. Mrs. Sander is good in spring 

 and summer, but will not make the 

 same shapely plant as the older variety. 

 The yellow varieties are harder to grow 

 and are rarely seen in shapely plants, 

 excellent though they may be for cut- 

 ting. Boot cuttings now from some 

 cut-back plants. Never mind if they 

 are full of flower buds. These can be 

 kept picked off. Cuttings rooted now 

 will make rapid growth and must be 

 kept potted along. Keep them in the 

 greenhouse until the middle of June. 

 They should then be quite bushy stock 



in 6-inch pots. At this time plunge 

 outdoors in a bed of coal ashes in the 

 full sun. Keep flowers, which will con- 

 stantly appear, picked off, and give the 

 plants lots of water. In August move 

 into 8-inch pots. In this size they will 

 flower any time after December 1 if 

 placed in a cool, airy greenhouse. 

 Pinching should be discontinued in Sep- 

 tember for Christmas plants, but can 

 be continued some time later if the 

 blooming season is to be retarded. 

 Splendid plants can be grown in 8-inch 

 pots if the plants get plenty of water 

 and feeding, and there are few flower- 

 ing plants which have a longer season 

 of bloom. 



Hardy Trees and Slurube. 



The spring planting season is brief 

 and strenuous, having to be crowded 

 into practically one month. It is often 

 impossible to get deciduous trees and 

 shrubs planted until almost in leaf. 

 Provided planting is carefully done, 

 after moistening the roots well, and 

 such plants are well headed back, they 



will rarely fail to grow satisfactorily. 

 If they are not pruned back a good 

 many deaths are a certainty. Protect 

 the roots of all evergreens well, to pre- 

 vent drying out. Soak well after the 

 hole is partly filled in and, after the 

 hole has been filled and well firmed, 

 give a mulch of partly decayed leaves 

 or old manure; rakings from lawns also 

 are useful. 



Where hot, dry weather succeeds 

 planting, it will be found of great bene- 

 fit to all evergreens to give them a 

 hosing over in the evening. In plant- 

 ing rhododendrons a peaty soil is not 

 necessary, but a soil free from lime is 

 required. They like, if possible, to 

 have a location where trees or build- 

 ings protect them from the morning 

 sun, but I have in mind many good beds 

 which have none of these advantages. 

 A generous summer mulch of leaves to 

 keep the roots cool and moist is neces- 

 sary. Neither rhododendrons nor any 

 other evergreens can long withstand 

 dry conditions at the roots, although 

 deciduous plants do not mind it. 



After deciduous trees and shrubs are 

 planted, see that the surface soil is kept 

 stirred. If allowed to bake hard they 

 will speedily suffer when hot, dry 

 weather arrives. Cultivation means 

 more to the majority of crops than wa- 

 tering, although artificial, watering is 

 sometimes necessary to save newly 

 planted stock, especially where the 

 ground had not been well prepared in 

 advance. 



Pn3drie Pick-ups^ 



Blue Mound, Kan. — After a light 

 winter for business, spring, accom- 

 panied by a large number of orders for 

 bedding plants and shrubs already 

 booked, is more than welcome. Mrs. 

 Arthur Foster reports the demand for 

 roses in the lead this year, with the 

 same old cry, "Something new in the 

 climbers." 



Anamosa, la. — Mrs. M. D. Bagley 

 started a business as Bagley 's Floral 

 Place and has been so successful that 

 she was unable to cope with the situa- 

 tion alone. Therefore Mr. Bagley has 

 come to her assistance and they plan 

 to enlarge their facilities and push the 

 trade. Prospects are excellent, the dis- 

 trict being prosperous. 



Topeka, Kan. — With the customary 

 perspicacity of public officials, the ex- 

 ecutive council has appointed James 

 Hayes, the local florist, gardener of the 

 state house grounds, but made no pro- 

 vision for watering or removing weeds. 

 Mr. Hayes' duty is to plant some flow- 

 ers; that is all. Through legislative 

 economy the state house grounds annu- 

 ally assume the aspect of a cow pasture 

 by midsummer. 



Galena, HI. — The greenhouse of B. F. 

 Vandervate was almost destroyed by 

 fire on the evening of April 26. In 

 lighting tobacco stems for fumigation, 

 some paper under a bench was ignited. 

 The fire gained a large headway be- 

 fore it was discovered, and on account 

 of the lack of water on the grounds it 

 could not easily be checked. The loss 

 is estimated at about $800. Mr. Van- 

 dervate will rebuild the greenhouse at 

 once. 



Winona, Miim. — Chas. Siebrecht was 

 detained for several days on his recent 

 trip to Chicago by an attack of acute 

 indigestion, necessitating the, care of a 

 physician. 



Forest City, la.— The Hill City Green- 

 houses have joined the Boosters' Club 

 in its effort to encourage the keeping 

 of better lawns and home gardens, by 

 offering several prizes for the best beds 

 of various colors of cannas. 



Dixon, 111. — Charles O. Engel has 

 sold the Eosery Floral Co. to J. A. 

 Swartley & Sons, who are conducting 

 it as an outlet for their greenhouses 

 at Sterling. The plans of Mr. Engel 

 for the future are not known. 



Tulsa, Okla. — It required some per- 

 suasion to get the city commissioners 

 to allow the erection of a rustic arch 

 along the curb in front of the store of 

 Mrs. Perry De Haven, at Third and 

 Boulder streets, but it was finally done. 



Evansville, Ind. — The hypochlorate of 

 lime used at the city filter plant in the 

 filtration and sterilization of the river 

 water when the river is low is said by 

 the florists of the city to be detri- 

 mental to plant life, on lawns and in 

 the greenhouses. The Wm. Blackman 

 Floral Co. and J. S. Snyder have pri- 

 vate pumping plants and avoid using 

 city water. Julius Niednagel says that 

 the death of ill cared for plants is 

 blamed on the city water, but it un- 

 doubtedly has a bad effect on plant 

 life. The waterworks authorities do 

 not admit any dangerous qualities re- 

 sulting from the use of the chemical. 



