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J0S» 15. 1906. 



ThcWcckly Florists' Review* 



189 



advantage to produce a large quantity 

 of small flowers, but even he, I often 

 think, might improve his grade with ad- 

 vantage to himsfc2f, financially and oth- 

 erwise. . 



When plants are too crowded m a 

 bench leaf 6pot and other diseases are a 

 natural consequence, and perfect stem, 

 foliage and flowers are, under such con- 

 ditions, impossible. 



After planting, open all doors and ven- 

 tilators and leave them so night and 

 day. If one goes into a house in the 

 early morning and sees how the plants 

 are reveling in the cool, moist night air 

 it will be a good object lesson on the 

 needs of the plant. 



On hot days the paths and roofs and 

 plants should be topiously sprayed sev- 

 eral times during the day. This can 

 easily be done without wetting the soil 

 in the benches if the right man has hold 

 of the hose, and it will keep down the 

 temperature very considerably. We 

 should always remember that growing 

 chrysanthemums indoors is an unnatural 

 condition, since they are naturally a cool 

 growing plant, and the blazing sun is 

 not to their liking, and anything we can 

 do to keep down the temperature is good 

 for the plants. Side or bottom ventila- 

 tion is a great help in this respect, since 

 it keeps a current of air moving undei 

 the benches. 



Shade has been tried on the glass, but 

 it does more harm than good, since we 

 must have a certain amount of sunlight 

 to keep Ihe growth hardy and firm. 

 During a dull spell the growth gets too 

 soft and tender for best results. From 

 my own experience I would say never 

 shade a chrysanthemum house during the 

 summer months. Charles H. Totty. 



THE SEAL OF ILLINOIS. 



The accompanying illustration is 

 from a photograph of a design made 

 by A. Gud3 & Bro., Washington, D. C, 

 to be placed on the tomb of John A. 

 Logan on .\femorial day. It is the seal 

 of the state of Illinois executed in 

 cape flowers, immortelles and leucothoe 

 leaves. As is eafily seen, the piece is 

 on an easel. It was a large size and 

 probably attracted more public atten- 

 tion than any other display piece of the 

 many supplied by Washington florists 

 lor the tombs of celebrities which are 

 annually decorated at Memorial day. 



Plymouth, O.— Fannie E. Case re- 

 ports the largest spring trade in the 

 eight years she has been in business. The 

 call for bedding stock was phenomenal. 



Fergus Falls, Minn.— S. N. Mehlin's 

 greenhouse was hit by hail just ten days 

 after he joined the Hail Association. He 

 lost 886 square feet of glass and prompt- 

 ly received $92.23, which, as he says, 

 "is a fine thing for a beginner." 



Greenport, N. Y.— I. Merwin Rayner 

 IS adding i5,000 feet of glass to his plant 

 made necessary by the increasing demand'. 

 B. M. Randel, formerly of Cheboygan, 

 Mieh., IS Eow with Mr. Rayner. Stock 

 13 fine, particularly carnations and sweet 

 peas. 



Newburyport, Mass.— J. A. Keniston 

 says that the spring business has been 

 Detter than ever, especially at Memorial 

 1,^'v everyone sold all the flowers 

 Which were to be had. Perennial plants 

 aave sold splendidly and roses better than 

 ever before. Shrubbery was slow sale. 



The Seal of Illinois. 



WINDOW BOXES. 



[A report by a committee appointed to In- 

 vestigate this phase of gardening for the Hart- 

 ford Florists' Club.] 



Window box, vase and veranda garden- 

 ing it would seem at present is within 

 the threshold of a successful era in this 

 country, and it seems strange that this 

 effective and oomparatively inexpensive 

 metliod of beautifying houses, especially 

 in cities, has not been long ago more uni- 

 versally adopted and advanced, consid- 

 ering the long standing of this art of 

 gardening in European cities, which are 

 annually visited by thousands of Ameri- 

 can tourists. True, our climate here 

 is not as favorable to such gardening 

 as it is in London, for instance, where 

 window boxes are in evidence the year 

 around, receiving from threa to four dif- 

 ferent fillings as the seasons call for the 

 different varieties of plants. But cut- 

 ting out the winter season, which with 

 us is too severe to admit the use of such 

 plants as aucubas, euonymus and choice 

 conifers as they are so effectively used 

 in England, there is no reason why our 

 windows should not be adorned with 

 beautiful foliage and flowers in almost 

 inexhaustible variety from the time 



when the crocuses and tulips break the 

 ground, when pansies, forget-me-nots and 

 daisies respond to the warmth of the 

 welcome spring sun, to the time when 

 Jack Frost, the unmerciful, bereaves our 

 fields, parks and gardens of the endless 

 combinations of bright colors produced 

 by plant life. 



Influence of Parks. 



It may truly be said of most of our 

 attractive cities that the creation and 

 development of park systems all over 

 the country has had a very far-reaching 

 beneficial influence upon the beautifying 

 of home grounds through the residenti^d 

 districts of these cities, and it is quite 

 natural that it should be so. Indeed, 

 it would be a strange, unresponsive, cold 

 people that would not take its lesson 

 so easily learned and within the reach 

 of all; and the very fact that those les- 

 sons given have been so fruitful, bring- 

 ing additional happiness and attractive- 

 ness to so many homes, should lead us 

 on te further efforts to extend the culti- 

 vation of flowers at all seasons of the 

 year at the homes of all. 



Th3 fact that the wind will blow the 

 seeds of grass, of a shrub or even of a 



