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The Florists^ Review 



May 13. 1015. 



3 or 4 years old. Even then, however, 

 the young plants may be disappoint- 

 ingly slow in their development, unless 

 they have been pot-grown or have been 

 frequently transplanted in the nursery 

 row, for the wistaria roots are natural- 

 ly limited in number and are deep- 

 growing, making few fibers. To insure 

 quick, satisfactory results, the soil must 

 be a good, well manured loam. 



After the plants are thoroughly es- 

 tablished, they grow with remarkable 

 vigor if they have a fairly rich, loamy 

 soil and a sunny position. Even in a 

 somewhat dry and sandy soil they main- 

 tain an existence, but they respond 

 magnificently to generous treatment, 

 fully repaying it with splendid growth 

 and with glorious displays of flowers 

 in long, dense, drooping clusters or 

 racemes. 



Another limitation of the wistaria — 

 a real limitation in this instance, if not 

 an actual defect — is its comparative 

 tenderness. It is not absolutely, unfail- 

 ingly hardy in the most northerly states 

 of the Union. • Even in the north- 

 central states, say in the latitude of 



Chicago, it may 8omeM|ii|ei|^need 

 " iter. But, 



a lit- 

 tle protection in winter. ' But, as al- 

 ready said, it pays for all it gets. The 

 wistaria shown in the illustration was 

 growing at a home in Rochester, N. Y. 



On Porch and Pergola. 



The wistaria is limited, too, in the 

 amount of shade that it supplies. If 

 . dense, impenetrable shade is wanted, 

 some other vine will be preferable. But 

 that is only saying that the wistaria 

 has its own character and its own 

 proper place. L#ook at the wistaria- 

 covered porch shown in the illustration; 

 observe the way in which the vine and 

 the sun together have flecked the stair- 

 way and floor with flitting, change- 

 able light and shade; take note of the 

 whole effect and say whether the wis- 

 taria was not a fairly good vine for 

 the place. 



Besides, if the wistaria alone does 

 not provide sufficient shade, it may be 

 used in combination with some other 

 vine in order to produce the desired 

 result. The writer has seen a picture 

 of a pergola that was thickly covered 



with a species of ivy; above the ivy- 

 were some wistwaa vines, so trained 

 that their flower clusters drooped over 

 the upper part of thei ivy, like long, 

 silken tassels over rich drapery. Such 

 a combination does not seem to be 

 especially difficult, and the results are 

 such as might win praise even from the 

 most dyspeptic and jaundiced of fault- 

 finders. 



As to the best variety of wistaria 

 for American culture, there seems to 

 be general agreement. The Chinese 

 wistaria, or Wistaria Chinensis, which 

 is shown in the illustration, is probably 

 the most popular variety in this coun- 

 try, and apparently with good reason, 

 as it surpasses the others both in vigor 

 of growth and in floriferousness. W. 

 multijuga, or the loose-clustered wis- 

 taria, is the favorite sort in Japan and 

 flourishes magnificently there, but is 

 said to be less satisfactory in the 

 American climate. The American spe- 

 cies, W. frutescens or W. speciosa, is 

 also inferior to-W. Chinensis, both in 

 growth and in freedom of bloom. 



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RETAIL STORE MANAGEMENT 



WHAT THE LEADERS IN THE TRADE ARE DOING 



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BSIDE^S BOUQUET ON CASKET. 



Did you ever hear of a bride's 

 shower bouquet as the, only flowers on 

 the casket at a funeral! 



It happened in a fashionable Chicago 

 suburb. 



The circumstances, of course, were 

 exceptional. A young woman, engaged 

 to be married, the daughter, of a 

 wealthy family, met an accidental 

 death. The flowers sent by the pros- 

 pective husband consisted of a large 

 8h4TWer bouquet of lilies of the valley, 

 such as he would have supplied for the 

 wedding. The bouquet, which was 

 placed on the casket, was made by the 

 E. 'Wienhoeber Co. and is said to be 

 the only instance on record where a 

 Wd&ding bouquet was sent to a funeral. 

 The circumstances were so unusual as 

 to attract much attention. 



KERB'S CEMETERY BRANCH. 



R. C. Kerr's store at Main and Mc- 

 Kinney streets takes ample care of his 

 flower trade in the downtown district 

 of Houston, Tex. To provide for 

 equally expeditious handling of the 

 cemetery trade, he has built a branch 

 conservatory across from the Glenwood 

 cemetery. This is now in running or- 

 der, as may be seen from the photo- 

 graph of the establishment reproduced 

 on page 13. It is an attractive place 

 and, says Mr. Kerr, is quite an addition 

 to that end of town. 



WHAT EVERYBODY'S DOING. 



What everybody's doing, is, in 

 homely phrasg, what the orator means 

 by "the trend of the times." The 

 fact that everybody's doing it now, 

 sets the stamp of progress as well as 

 fashion upon the act, whether it is 



holding tango teas, buying a certain 

 make of automobile, or eliminating the 

 counters from the flower store and in- 

 stalling a piano. Most of us want to 

 know about the things upon which that 

 stam^ has been put, whether the mark 

 is that of fashion or of progress. That 

 is the reason that readers of The Re- 

 view are so interested in the things 

 that everybody's doing now, as set 

 forth in its illustrations and articles. 

 From these they are ready to adopt 



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the things that they believe will l^fllp 

 their own progress towards the g^al, 

 success. ' Miss Fannie D. White, * of 

 Ltedngton, Ky., who is now well along 

 in her progress thither, availed herself 

 of this source of 8\jgg«8tions in plan- 

 ning her new stoiye, the interior of 

 which is shown in the illustration on 

 this page. She writes, "I received 

 some fine ideas for my storfi from one 

 of the pictures, in The Review." And, 

 after looking at the accompanying pic- 



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New Store of Miss Fannie D. White, Lexington, Ky. 



