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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 





June 9. 1904'. 



flowering freely enough. All of the 

 above are semi-double. Our experience 

 is that if we have 30,000 geranium^ in 

 4-inch pots in the spring, about half of 

 them ought to be S. A, Nutt of Le 

 Soleil. Nine people out of ten, if they 

 want a red or scarlet, will say "that's 

 my color." If your patronage consists 

 of a good many old ladies who love 



posies and like to select a dozen gerani- 

 ums you may need to grow twenty or 

 thirty varieties, but if you cart them 

 to the market by the wagon load or fill 

 flower beds that may take 150 plants of 

 one variety, then about half a dozen 

 of the very best varieties will suflice 

 and you have less to think about and 

 will grow them better. W. S. 



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COLOR HINTS —m. 



Harmony and Window Work. 



Two or more colors to be harmonious 

 must warm up to each other, seem to 

 run into each other, not bluntly but 

 easily and softly, without any very dis- 

 tinct line of connection. Here is an- 

 other way to tell whether there is a con- 

 nection between two colors: If unable 

 to trace the coloring with a true eye, 

 observe the colored shadow which the 

 darker or more brilliant color throws 

 upon the lighter. If the shadow seems 

 to develop the same color in the lighter, 

 you have found the harmony. If on 

 the other hand, there is no tuning up as 

 it were, in the lighter or if the shade 

 or brilliant color becomes dulled, there 

 is no harmony. 



All this may not sound very much 

 like shop talk but, viewed in the best 

 sense, is valuable. Color harmony is at- 

 tractive, whether people are conscious of 

 it or not. The rudest, as well as the 

 cultured, are influenced by it. A knowl- 

 edge of color is certainly very practical 

 for the florist. A finely colored win- 

 dow, other things being equal, cannot 

 help but attract. I have seen windows 

 piled up in tiers with quantities of 

 valuable stock, massed in with a total 

 disregard of the fighting qualities of 

 salmon pink crowded against scarlet, 

 backed up with purple and orange and 

 flanked with an array of jardinieres ter- 

 rible to contemplate. One quarter of 

 this material wisely used would serve 

 a better purpose and spare the eyesight 

 of the onlookers. 



In Decorating. 



Don't be afraid of brilliant coloring 

 and striking contrasts. The lack of 

 such taste is no sign of an artist, but 

 be careful how you combine. In view- 

 ing a room to plan for a decoration, al- 

 ways consider first the colors of the fin- 

 ishings and furnishings. If you find a 

 room in oriental reds and blues, use 

 delicate pink; if terra cotta, use yellow 

 and cream ; if mahogany color, use green 

 lilaerally; if cherry or black walnut or 

 ebony, use pink, or pink and rich cream ; 

 if light green, use rose pink as seen in 

 Lawson carnations, scarlet or crimson. 

 There should be some sort of connection 

 between the background color, as in a 

 wall, and the material with which we 

 decorate the room. 



But do not let the colors be very near 

 alike. For instance, I once went to put 

 up a wedding decoration of wild smifax, 

 and to my dismay found that the walls 



were green, almost the color of the 

 smilax. The smilax never would show 

 on a background so very much like its 

 own color. The only thing to do was 

 to manufacture a lighter background. So 

 I called for a plain lace net curtain and 

 stretched it on the wall first. This 

 lightened the sober green of the wall, 

 and at the same time made enough of 

 a contrast to bring out the coloring and 

 graceful design of the smilax sprays, 

 while there was yet enough of the green 

 of the background still apparent to es- 

 tablish the connection and the harmony. 



G>Iots for Funeral Work. 



For elderly people, there are no more 

 appropriate colors than purple, crimson, 

 dark blues and rich deep greens. For 

 younger people, light violet and pink 

 should predominate, with light yellow. 

 For children, use white with a sugges- 

 tion of pink, in small delicate flowers, 

 not forgetting the softening efl'ect of 

 fine cut light green foliage. 



In selecting the color for a funeral 

 design, follow the natural coloring as 

 far as possible. Why shouldn't a heart 

 be crimson rather than white, or a cross 

 of some warm color? A pillow may be 

 well worked out in white and green, 

 while a shield should be red, white and 

 blue, of course. An anchor always 

 works out well in pink as suggestive of 

 its sentiment. A wreath or a basket 

 perhaps admits of as wide a range of 

 coloring as any design commonly made. 



Gertrudk Blair. 



London, Ont. — J. Gammage & Sons 

 have a new chrysanthemum, Melrose, 

 which they are distributing locally. 



A COLORADO ESTABLISHMENT. 



The accompanying illustrations will 

 give an idea of the character of the 

 establishment of William Henry Evans> 

 of Colorado Springs, Colo. One of the 

 photographs shows the office and sales 

 room with a glimpse of the greenhouse 

 range showing in the rear. The other 

 illustration is from a photograph taken 

 in a house of miscellaneous stock, the 

 dimensions of the structure being 30x90. 

 The photograph was taken just before 

 Easter. There are about 25,000 square 

 feet of glass in the establishment and, 

 as they are having a considerable de- 

 mand from wholesale customers, they 

 are now adding two more houses and 

 hope before long to double their ca- 

 pacity. Edward Johnson is the green- 

 house manager. The houses supply the 

 retail store of the Colorado Springs 

 Floral Co., of which Mr. Evans is presi- 

 dent and Wm. S. McCartney treasurer. 



STEM ROT OF ASTERS. 



Asters are grown from seed sown un- 

 der glass in early spring or in the open 

 ground later in the season. The young 

 plants are pricked out into pots, flats or 

 cold frames when large enough and 

 later set out in the open bed. They 

 flourish well in almost any soil, but re- 

 spond in a marked degree to an in- 

 creased amount of fertility. Their best 

 development is obtained in a moderate- 

 ly moist, well-drained soil, rich in or- 

 ganic matter and plant food. 



This plant has suffered in recent years 

 to a marked extent from a variety of 

 troubles, which have in some cases 

 caused its abandonment by professional 

 growers, says Ralph E. Smith in a bul- 

 letin of the Hatch Experiment Station. 

 One of the worst diseases and one which 

 makes its appearance sometimes within 

 a few days after planting may be called 

 "wilt" or "stem rot," and is now per- 

 haps the most common and destructive 

 disease of the aster. It has been known 

 for some time but has greatly increased 

 in abundance during the past few years, 

 being more generally prevalent during 

 the summer of 1901 than ever before. 

 Professor Galloway states that it is 

 caused by a fungus which enters the 

 plant near the surface of the ground 

 and fills up the water vessels of the 

 stem, thus causing the plant to wilt and 

 finally die. 



This disease is readily recognized by 

 one familiar with it. It first appears 

 soon after the plants are set out in the 

 bed and is generally pre^•alent from that 



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