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The Flotfets* Review 



OCTOBBB 28, 1915. 



as a fence around the cemetery. The 

 inner walls are about ten feet across 

 and sixteen feet high. These contain 

 many vaults, each measuring about 

 two feet square in front, and extend- 

 ing back into the wall. The compart- 

 ments are close together, each just 

 large enough to contain a casket. 

 After the casket is in place the vault 

 is sealed with a slab bearing name and 

 epitaph. Around each slab the fam- 

 ilies of the departed place their floral 

 decorations and electric lights. 



"In the center of Paco cemetery is 

 a small chapel, in which, as with all 



HEAD AT MELODY FARM. 



Thomas W. Head, until recently pro- 

 prietor df the Bergenfleld Nurseries, 

 Bergenfield, N. J., has been appointed 

 superintendent and business manager of 

 Melody Farm, the country home of J. 

 Ogden Armour at Lake Forest, 111. 



Mr. Head is well equipped for the 

 position, made vacant by the return to 

 England of James Burgess. Mr. Head 

 was for some years in charge of the 

 estate of Morton F. Plant, at New 

 London, Conn. Later he had experience 

 in the commercial side of the business 



Del Norte Cemetery, Manila, ai it Appears All Saints' Day. 



Catholic churches in the Philippines, 

 excepting the ' American church,' 

 there are no seats. On the floor of 

 this chapel are tablets, or slabs, of 

 the well-to-do families of those who 

 have departed. The tablets are ce- 

 mented flat on the floor. These, too, 

 are decorated with flowers and lights. 

 Candles are burned on the last night 

 in addition to the electric lights. 



"The scenes are alike in all the 

 cemeteries on All Saints' day. One of 

 the prettier cemeteries is Del Norte, 

 which is new. Most of the grounds 

 is in park and one of its distinctive 

 features is the nursery. In front of 

 a vault in this cemetery, which is 

 shown in the illustration, the mourners 

 burn incense for two days and nights. 



If One Swallow Made a Summer. 



"If one big holiday a year could 

 make a florist prosperous, Manila would 

 be the place to go. Everybody, al- 

 most without exception, takes part in 

 the festival and buys flowers — too 

 often artificial flowers. The natives 

 and Spaniards turn out by thousands 

 on the two principal days, and the 

 routes of travel toward the cemeteries 

 are thickly congested. The Filipinos 

 seem to keep more of the Old World 

 spirit and traditions in their celebra- 

 tion of All Saints' and All Souls' days 

 than do the people in the United 

 States, and the wise florist knows it is 

 a good thing when this spirit is kept 

 alive. Besides, a little religion does 

 no harm." 



with the Bergenfield establishment re- 

 cently sold back to the Stumpp & Wal- 

 ter Co., New York. While a vast amount 

 of work already has beeij done at Mel- 

 ody Farm, the 2,000 acres and the ambi- 

 tious plans for its development will give 

 scope for the display of Mr. Head's un- 

 doubted genius for gardening and for 

 administration. Work now in progress 

 includes a garden theater and the addi- 

 tion of numerous houses for fruits and 

 plants. 



CABE OF DAHLIA BOOT& 



Dahlias should be harvested shortly 

 after their foliage has 'been killed by 

 frost. I find from experience that as 

 soon as the frost kills the foliage the 

 strength of the stalk recedes back into 

 the bulbs, and that if they are not har- 

 vested shortly, each bulb sends forth a 

 sprout which becomes a shoot, and, if 

 left long enough, a stalk, and as there 

 is danger of frost any time after the 

 first severe frost, no matter how long 

 left, they can never grow long enough 

 to reach maturity and bloom before 

 being killed. 



This sprout or shoot is new, brittle 

 growth, not hard and woody like the 

 stalk; and when the clumps are dry, if 

 the sprout is two or three inches long, 

 it is generally allowed to remain, if a 

 foot or so long is cut off, the same as the 

 stalk. In either case this new and brit- 

 tle growth lacks substance, and as it 

 has not sufficient substance to carry it 

 through the winter, the sprout com- 

 mences to. decay during the winter 

 months, oftentimes causing the whole 

 clump to decay; and however the case, 

 the plant life and vitality required to 

 grow this is wasted, because it is taken 

 from the clump. This same life and 

 vitality should have been used in the 

 spring, when it would be ten times as 

 valuable. 



By digging two or three days after 

 your plant has been killed by frost, your 

 clumps are in a perfectly dormant con- 

 dition, having no sprouts, and will keep 

 perfectly all winter, sending forth 

 sprouts in the spring, which is the 

 proper time. 



Dahlias may be dug with fork, spade 

 or plow. In digging or harvesting the 

 clump, great care should be taken; dig 

 them, and dig very carefully — do not 

 pull them up. You have a large cluster 

 of bulbs or clump; each bulb has a neck^ 

 which is the small portion between the 

 bulb and where it joins the stalk. 

 The clump should be dug or lifted 

 carefully, so as not to break the necks 

 of the bulbs. If you crack, girdle or 

 break a neck, sometimes they will dry 

 up, or at other times decay. However^ 

 when the clump is divided, the bulb 



NorwaUc, O. — Arthur Doebel, proprie- 

 tor of the Willow Brook Greenhouses, 

 has been commissioned to plant cannas, 

 geraniums and other flowers in the 

 courthouse plaza. 



Single Graves in Paco Cemetery, Manila, Decorated for All Saints' Day. 



