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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 24, 1006. 



Fortunately, most of the other families 

 of blooming shrubs are immune, other- 

 wise the outlook for tree and shrub life 

 in parks and gardens would be a dreary 

 one. 



The Later Blooms. 



As May declines and June arrives, new 

 liosts come trooping on the scene. Think 

 of the dogwood and try to express the 

 joy and admiration it excites in you. 

 Then there is lilac time, always a well- 

 remembered period of the year, even in 

 the old days when we had only the few 

 natural species. Now, thanks to the 

 hybridizers' skill, we have varieties 

 galore of a quality undreamed of not so 

 many years ago, in single and double 

 flowers, larger individually, gigantic in 

 the cluster, and the range of color a 

 phenomenal one from white through ten- 

 der pinks and exquisite blues to deep, 

 dark, purplish red. 



In graceful, delicate contrast to great 

 masses of lilac, we have the snowdrop 

 tree (Halesia tetraptera and H. diptera), 

 with myriads of white bells depending 

 from their far-flung branches. Phila- 

 delphus and deutzia are two more im- 

 portant families and if we want relief 

 from so much of snowy whiteness as 

 seen in these, we turn to the weigelas in 

 variety of hue from pink to crimson. 

 The viburnums, too, impress their im- 

 portance on us, and the wild roses we 

 mast have in their season, such species 

 as rugosa, lucida, setigera, multiflora 

 and Wichuriana. 



The mention of our rhododendrons. 



Gue and Attention* 



A few words in conclusion may be 

 said as to care and attention. In all 

 gardening practice there is nothing that 

 gives so large a return at a minimum of 

 cost at all comparable with flovvering 

 shrubs. They can all be easily and 

 cheaply procured and planted with as- 

 surance of future satisfaction. The 

 autumn manths are the best for planting 

 with few exceptions, one of the most 

 noteworthy being the magnolias, which, 

 owing to peculiar conditions of roots, 

 should always be planted in spring. 



The only actual important factor in 

 subsequent treatment is the judicious 

 use of the pruning-knife, and, judging 

 from what one daily sees in many places, 

 this matter is not properly understood. 

 Indiscriminate winter pruning often re- 

 sults in cutting away one-half or more 

 of the flowering wood. Some pruning is 

 necessary for many of the subjects 

 enumerated, but no hard and fast rule 

 can be laid dowta. Generally speaking, 

 however, there should be less winter and 

 more summer pruning. No shrubs that 

 flower in spring upon the wood of the 

 previous season's growth (and these are 

 the majority) should be winter-pruned. 

 The opposite is equally true. Any shrubs 

 that flower upon the current season 's 

 growth may be winter pruned. As for 

 example, the althaeas, or tree mallows, 

 and the hydrangeas. 



The bulk of the flowering shrubs, how- 

 ever, should be pruned immediately after 

 flowering, such pruning to be the proper 



Frank B. Smith. 



kalraias and azaleas conjures up visions 

 of greatest beauty, provided we have the 

 conditions that suit them. Failing such 

 it is far better to ignore them, for 

 adaptability of material to existing con- 

 ditions is always the best course to pur- 

 sue. Enough has been said to prove the 

 amazing variety of flowering trees and 

 Bhrubs. 



thinning and cutting away of the shoots 

 that have flowered. This practice en- 

 courages a strong new growth, insures 

 good flowering wood for another year, and 

 preserves that all-essential individuality 

 of form and varied habit of growth that 

 marks the different species and aids 

 effective disposition of them in any gen- 

 eral planting scheme. 



OBITUARY. 



Frank B. Smith. 



Frank B. Smith died at his home in 

 Koselawn, Danville, 111., on May 13, of 

 Bright 's disease. 



Several months ago he suffered a se- 

 vere illness, but became much improved 

 in health and able to attend to business. 

 On May 11 he became ill while directing 

 work in the field and was assisted to the 

 house. After that his condition grew 

 worse rapidly. He was unconscious 

 Saturday and Sunday and the death sum- 

 mons came Sunday evening at 7 1'M) 

 o 'clock. 



I Deceased was the son of the late 

 Joseph Smith, a veteran miller. He was 

 born in New York fifty-nine years ago 



I and came west with his parents when a 

 child. He was educateu at Stockwell, 

 Ind. He then came to Myersville, where 

 he and his father conducted a mill for 

 a number of years. In 1875 he removed 

 to Danville and for a number of years 

 owned a half-interest in me old mill on 

 Logan avenue. This he sold anu pur- 

 chased a farm. He engaged in farming 

 and gardening, then built greenhouses 

 and since 1885 had been a florist. He 

 was also well known as a chicken fancier. 

 Most of uis time the past two years was 

 devoted to the raising of fine chickens, 

 the flower ousiness being looked after by 

 his sons, Joseph J. and Herbert E., who 



, will continue the business under the name 

 of Frank B. Smith's Sons. 



Deceased had been a member of Kini- 

 ber Methodint church for years and was 

 a member of the K. of P. and the Court 

 of Honor. Mr. Smith is survived by his 

 wife and four children, Raymond D., 

 Joseph J., Herbert E., and Mrs. John 

 Lee. 



George H. Rowden. 



George H. Rowden, of Wallingford, 

 Conn., died May 18 at the age of 66. 

 He had been in poor health for some 

 time, but was consider'-d to be improv- 

 ing. Last Friday, however, he was heard 

 to fall to the floor, and was dead soon 

 after the arrival of the physician. 



Mr. Rowden was born in England. He 

 spent a large part of his life as a land- 

 scape gardener, and was employed by 

 Edward Miller, Sr., of .Meriden, in that 

 capacity for twelve years. He was in 

 the flojist business for twenty-five years, 

 and conducted a store in Wallingford 

 at the time of his death. 



Deceased was an Odd Fellow and a 

 member of the Royal Arcanum. He 

 leaves a widow, three daughters and a 

 son, "William, who was associated with 

 him in the business. 



William J. Schray. 



William Jacob Schray, who died in 

 St. Louis on Tuesday, May 15, as re- 

 ported in the Review of last week, was 

 born March 7, 1834, in Wiirtemberg, Ger- 

 many. He served as an apprentice in 

 the business of gardener in Stuttgart, 

 Germany, city of Munich and other parts 

 of Bavaria until 1852. When he came to 

 St. Louis, in 1855, he became landscape 

 gardener to the late Henry Shaw, who 

 founded the Missouri Botanic Garden, in 

 which capacity he served two years. In 

 1857 he established himself in the florist 

 business, which grew to one of the larg- 

 est in the city. He was numbered among 

 the pioneer German-American residents in 

 the city and widely known among his fel- 

 low countrymen and justly esteemed by all 



