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NoyiMBBB 8, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1165 



blooms, $3 and $1.50. In each class 

 the color divisions are white, daybreak 

 pink, Lawson pink, Scott pink; scarlet, 

 crimson, yellow variegated, white vari- 

 egated; "any other color." 



Special prizes are offered for fifty 

 blooms Wm. Scott, for best fifty blooms 

 in the hall, for best 100 Adonis, for 

 Gov. Lowndes, Genevieve Ix)rd and Nor- 

 way, and for fifty blooms Crusader. 

 There is a sweepstakes for the best 

 vase in the class for 100 and also for 

 the best vase of fifty. 



The Lawson medals will be given, as 

 usual, the gold medal for the best 100 

 any color, the silver medal for the sec- 

 ond best, and the bronze medal for the 

 third best. The S. A. F. silver medal 

 will be awarded to the best vase of fifty 

 blooms of an undisseminated variety, 

 the bronze medal for the second best. 



ORIENTAL POPPY. 



How and when should plants be taken 

 from the oriental poppy t I. B. B. 



The oriental poppy may be divided in 

 fall or spring, but as it is late now I 

 would advise waiting until early spring. 

 This poppy is also easily raised from seed 

 sown in small pots in spring, so that 

 when planted the roots will not be dis- 

 turbed more than is absolutely necessary, 

 as all poppies are difficult to transplant. 



W. S. 



CUT WORMS. 



Can any reader of the Revxew give a 

 good method of catching cut worms in 

 greenhouse benches besides hand picking? 

 I have tried several ways to poison them, 

 to no avail, and have to hunt for them 

 after dark at night, sitting up after usual 

 hours for bed, waiting for them to come 

 out of their hiding places. Of course 

 I understand that they bury themselves 

 just under the soil in the daytime, and 

 have gone over the benches very care- 

 fully and concluded that we had caught 

 them all, but when evening came there 

 seemed to be as many as ever. We get 

 rid of them after a while, but you can't 

 get them aU in one night and they soon 



Pleasing Effects with Every-day MateriaL 



do lots of damage to carnation and chrys- 

 anthemum buds. S. F. P. 



The only effective way of disposing of 

 cut worms of which we know is hand 

 picking. It has always been effective in 

 our experience, although, like every other 

 detail of successful cut flower growing, 

 it takes time, which some growers would 

 rather give to billiards. B. B. 



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CHRYSANTHEMUM STUDIES. 



Tasteful Effect With Ordinary Material. 



To use oroinary, every-day material 

 with the aid of a good setting is the 

 thought of to-day's study. No attempt 

 is made here to exhibit fine, large flow- 

 ers, but we have tried to show how 

 commonplace material may be care- 

 fully and effectively put together. This 

 is -even more important than if the flow- 

 ers were magnificent from the stand- 

 point of quality and quantity — and, by 

 the way, the smsJIer arrangements are 

 much more easily adapted to some defi- 

 nite form than is a great bunch or 

 vase of American Beauties or huge 



chrysanthemums. To be able to dis- 

 play extra fine stock when occasion re- 

 quires is one and the same thing as to 

 be able to arrange a handful of flow- 

 ers attractively in a tiny vase. 



The feature, then, of these arrange- 

 ments is the employment of native flow- 

 ers and foliage with the chrysanthe- 

 mums. It is nonsense that it injures 

 the sale of greenhouse stock to advocate 

 the use of outdoor summer stock or 

 autumn foliage. Of course, any one 

 who cannot look six months ahead is 

 apt to settle on this conclusion. But 

 when one stops to think that the use 

 of such material creates a need that 

 must be supplied later on from green- 

 house stock, when the time comes that 



the woods and fields cannot furnish the 

 flowers, it is a long-sighted policy to 

 advise the use of such material and 

 spend some time in planning and dec- 

 orating with it. Besides, it fills a want 

 that cannot be supplied, either in va- 

 riety or quantity, from a greenhouse. 



A common fault with florists, espe- 

 cially those who are also growers, is to 

 exhibit fine stock indifferently as to ar- 

 rangement, thereby doing no credit to 

 it as such. The only way to have the 

 knack of arrangement at your fingers' 

 ends, when auspicious occasions demand 

 it, is to cultivate the habit of consider- 

 ing the best setting and arrangement 

 for every half-dozen flowers that are 

 ever put together. In short, think. 



One of the greatest differences be- 

 tween these two vases is in the color- 

 ing, which of course is not apparent in 

 the illustrations. The brown stone jar 

 is the receptacle used in both. In the 

 first illnstration yellow and white chry- 

 santhemums, the white being much in 

 excess, are used. A spray of bitter- 

 sweet, three or four stalks of milkweed 

 pods, with their shell-like hulls of gray 

 and yellowish cream bursting into silk- 

 en clouds of brown and white para- 

 chutes, against a spray of yellowed 

 chestnut leaves, complete the study. 



The next is a picture in white and 

 gray and crimson. The same creamy 

 white chrysanthemums, without the yel- 

 low, are used, with spikes of wild sage, 

 a few bunches of a berry resembling 

 blackhaw, with crimson oak leaves. The 

 last element of coloring is what saves 

 this color scheme from a cold effect, 

 the gray and white with the black not 



