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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



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 V(ili.-i;:r. A. I'". .1. I'.An:. 



EVERBLOOMING LORRAINE. 



1 1 (liMs not a|i|ii'ai' Id In' very inin 

 iiiiiiily known, ^■ilys a writrr in tin' (iai 

 ilnici's' .Majiazint'. Iliat by iiittiiij; a\\a.\ 

 lli(' I'xliaiistc'd flfiwri' tnissi's and vi'iy 

 liylitly ciiltinj;- liai-k llic j;r(i\vtlis nt' \\f 

 ^ciiiia (;liiin' (\v Luiiainc, tliat |)lallt^ 

 iiiav li|. raiiscil to I'li'dv ln'i'ak into fl'Osli 



yrowili, aiii-l again hlossoiii as Irrcly as 

 ill tlic lii'st jilacc. Hy in-atino liatchcs 

 of |plaiils in this niannrr in siicci'ssion, 

 a iniytiiy ami s]ilciiili(| show can ho 

 easily inaintainod, cmii ii]i to inidsiiiin 

 iiMr. (ai't't'ul watorinjx, a cool sto\(' 

 l('ni|Mi atiii'c, and siiadc I'roni bright, sun 

 shine, aio .all tht^ cultural rc(|uironi('iits. 

 Wo liiid plants cither frrown in jiots, or 

 Kaskcis. when sus])cnde(l in .n warm 

 lion>e a tt'oj'd a yorecdiis ilisjilay well into 

 till' ^iiininer. 



MISCELLANEOUS 

 SEASONABLE HINTS. 



Bulbous Stock for Easter. 



Si'\eial corres'iioiMleiits nieiilion in llieir 

 iiniis of last \\(ek that Inillioiis stulV is 

 likely to lie ■-c;iri-e al l''.astei' on account 

 of I'laster arii\iny so lat<'. 1 should 

 think Villi v\oiild ha\c to rrois tlio K'ock 

 ie- III' ;^o far ^mitli lor this to occur. 

 If you ha\e ke|i| ymir tiili|is. hy;n-iiiths. 

 and narcissi out ol' doors, co\ered \\ it h 

 a fi w iiiche> iif soil and the s.aine ot' 

 straw nianiiie. there h;is liceu sihdi a 

 coveriiiL; ot snow that lilth if any frosi 

 has loiiched the miil in the (lats and 

 e\ery da\ now they will lie reaching up 

 to daylieht. The ^reate^i trcnihle now 



i- III keep the >|e|||S I'lolll liecolllilio- long 



and crooked. When liilips liegin to haiie 

 o\er the llals and ^leins are weak and 

 twislecl, thev are no longer \r'iy salaVile. 

 Another thine tn coiisidi'r is that if 

 they ale left mil much lonoer they will 

 lie throueh the co\erine nt' litter .•iiid 

 their leaxi's will i|iiickly e\;p;ind and 

 iheii it is a lerrilde joli to ^ct the flats 

 clojinod of the covering. 



These liullioiis llowers are md such a 

 Very imporl.int llovver .at l-^aster, Init 

 you may ,is well have them rij^lit, after 

 all the labor and c.Npciist.'. We feel sure 

 that tv\o weeks on the grccnhous'o bench 

 will be all the time iiocessary to give 

 the single tulips, Dutch hyacinthsi. Von 

 Sion narcissi or ;iny of the Trumpet nar- 

 cissi. If making tofi inindi growth out- 

 side, then put lip a cold frame not less 

 than two feet ileep. r:iise the s.ash b,'ir 

 back .'iiid flout, ^o tli.'it ,1 draught of air 

 will pa~-s over them, and heavily shade 

 the •-.•ivh. 1 1 the ilals are cleaned and 

 jdaced in ^iidi ,i fi'Mine it v\ill ret.ard 

 them nioie than if left in tln^ beds and 

 if the Weather should lie bi-i;;ht and 

 mild lhe\ will '.v.-int no i;ree|ihouse ;i1 

 all. 



Making Up Pans. 



If _Miu iicMlerti'd (I was <4()ing to s!iy 

 for;.;oi , to |iut the bulbs in pans last 

 fall V ou can still h.ave liy;iciiith>- :ind 

 tulips ill most acceptable shape in any 

 sized jKiii you choose and it is no im- 

 position on your customers. 1 iiave seen 

 tulips jnilled out of flats this winter, 

 verv ruthlessly iii:i"U' U)i into jirtts and 

 paii~ and deliverofi rieht away. They 

 last ill lilooin .just .about its lonjj as 

 those grown in the p;ins. 'S'et don't do 

 it carelessly. Get nil the roots you can. 

 \ever miml if all the soil sliakes off and 

 always do this transplant in<r when the 

 soil in the flats is wet. Hyacinths we 

 transplant Jiis't as they are -.howiug eol 



or. iiilijis and narcissi a little later. 

 about when they are full grown, but 

 the jietiils not e.Npamled. This plan 

 is veiv workable with Dutch hyacinths 

 .'iiid with narcissi and tiilijis if they have 

 straight, stout stems, Init if your Yel- 

 low Prince or Cotlnoe .Maid have as- 

 sumed the graceful form of a swan's 

 neck, don't attempt it. for il cannot be 



done. 



This is also the very best ])laii to make 

 up a pan or jiot iif lily of the vallev. 

 I. el the bells be nearly all open. As 

 they iii;ike no root in the sand that you 

 forced them in, they do not suffer in 

 the least from a change to the p.iii and 

 you can select stems of etiual growth. 

 I'ill the pan as thickly as you like. 



Sjieaking of )ians ami pots, the ordi- 

 nary |ian is rather slmliovv for some of 

 these things, v.alley for instance, and the 

 ordinary pot is dee|> ftir its width and 

 rather unsightly for the purpose for 

 which these arrtingements are often 

 used, t;ible decoratious perhaps, so we 

 use what may be called the half ]iot. 

 bill whi<-h we know as the .azalea pot. 

 Where you |uit four or live longitlorum 

 lilies into a 10 or IJ im h az.ah'.a pot it 

 is just the thin;;, while the ordinary pot 

 would look unwieldy. 



Lilies for Easter. 



\(iw that 1 have meiitioneil this iiii 

 poitaiit pl.iiil we may as well finish all 

 that can be said .about it for Kaster. 

 If when you read thc-e lines some of 

 the |ar;;est liuds are luiiiiiie white, you 

 are all right. When oiice the buds ;ire 

 white they will open in a cool, shaily 

 house and llowers that are open will last 



tell d.ays in a i I. .lark shed. The 



darkness is of impoilance. I'lanis tli:it 

 are later, say willi buds from two to 

 tlirei^' inches long, will come alono very 

 l;i-.l now and be there in time if you 

 ui\e them <)0 to tio di'i^iee^ at night. 



TIh^ first year we grew tin- black 

 steinnied giganteiim many cam.- \eiv 

 dwarf, as tliev aie ayaiii this year, but 

 lhe\ were not .a failure. ^'ou can take 

 .•I iii;^ sharp knife (your wife's carving 

 knife suits best) and slice down the ball 

 of a jdant grown in a li-inch i)ot iintii 

 il is only four inches sfpian' and then 

 you can squeeze three of these fdants 

 into iin 8-inch azalea i>ot, or live plants 

 into ;i 12-)neh. and so on. The plants 

 will open every bud and be in appear- 

 .ance equal to one undisturlied. They 



have lost roots, lots of flKlll, but the 

 fresh cut roofs fake up eiioiieli iiioi>- 



tiire to keep them going until the llow- 

 ers are f.-ided. This you can do with 

 any of these lilies, t.all or dwiirf, but 

 with the Very short ones it helps out 

 woiidcrfiillv and we realize almost as 

 much ;is if sold singly. ''What be.'uiti- 

 fiil lilies! .\ new variety, I sujipose, '' 

 exclaimeil many ladies. "Yes ma'am, 

 quite new.'' This I'l.aster we should not 

 hesitate to tell our jiatrons that these 

 beautiful liltle lilies are the ••Kuro- 

 kiensis'' v.-iriefyl 



Sweet Peas. 



Don't foieet thai the favorite sweet 

 peas shoiiM be sown Just as soon as 

 you can work the ground. Tw..> years 

 ai>() we sowed in the oiien ground on 

 .March i). That was very early for these 

 parts. If you (ircijiared the trenches last 

 fall :ind dug in a lilieral allowance of 

 manure, you litivi? a great advantage 

 now, for you h.ave only to draw a drill 

 three inches iha'ji with the hoe, and in 

 goes the seeil. If that were not done 

 then too, heavily m.aiiure .and ydow the 

 wholi! patch where the peas tire going. 

 This must be dime directly the lan.l can 

 be worked. Ix'l the rows be four feet 

 .apart and sow thinly, (io uj» iind down 



the row w itii the i making- a broad, 



ileep trench, \vu need not fill in all 

 tlii> soil at once. When you hoe after 

 the petis are up a f<'w inches you ciiii 

 pull in the leiiuiiuder of the soil. If 

 ]iossible let the lows run tiorth and south 

 .iiid when the pe;is are four or five inches 

 high put brush both sides of the rows. 

 Don't wait until <lie vine is sprawling; 

 on the grouiiil. I'.rush froni the woods 

 may be dillii-nlf to proi-ure on the fat 

 pi.airies of Illinois or the spruce cov- 

 ered rocks of C'ldorado. but I cannot 

 think of anythiug e(|u;il for supp'i-ting 

 pe.-is. 



Pansies. 



This h.as been .a mosr, favortible win- 

 tir for those universal fiivorites. the 

 pansies. .Many of the beds in the liuf- 

 falo parks were lilli'd with jiansies last 

 October and with a light covering of 

 straw the plants are now large and 

 thrifty and soon will be showing their 

 saiK.'V faces to the public. Usiuilly, if 

 not hurt by the winti-i- bhists, the pl.ants 

 are heaved up, .and sometimes there is 

 an inch or two ot' wii-y s-tem. As soon 

 as the ground is at all dry go over all 

 I he jdiints in your beds and with two 

 fingers ami one lliiimb jo-ess the little 

 idaiits firmly into the eroiind. Tt will 

 lie the making of them. 



Pruning Shrubs, 



.\bout now the florist who does a 

 oeiienil business .and wishes to accom- 

 modate his good customers in all their 

 leasoniible demands is called upon to 

 prune shrul'S. Tiny are often victims 

 of men who go around asking for the 

 job. ''professors'' with a pair of "loves. 

 ;i knife and sav\, who know as much 

 .-iboiit if as they .|o nf the tlora of Nep 

 tune. .\nybody can cut tw<i fi-et off 

 the shoot of last year'- growth, but 

 that is not Jiruning. .Xnywhere towjirds 

 spiiiig, or before tin- haf .ir flower buds 

 start, is the time ami in our latitinle 

 now or for the next f . w weeks is the 

 ideal time. 



While on this siibjei-l let me say that 

 deciduous trees ctiii seldom be inqiroved 

 with jtriining and ilo not m-erl it. Their 

 natural form is their be.-iuty and. unless 

 iinpei-iitive. leiive [iriiiiiii._. .if these until 

 thev hiive illtlde their :;r.n\tli. \ -' ^'lovv ■ 



