JuLT 5, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



407 



Delphiniums and Digitalis in the Italian Garden of Larz Anderson, Brooklinet Mass. 



and took the best care of them, but 

 every one of them died. 



It does not pay to try the deutzia 

 family. They seem doomed to failure, 

 dying from the winter drought. One 

 of the most conspicuous and attractive 

 trees in the east is Rivers' birch. It 

 is a glory, but you cannot raise it in 

 Kansas and Nebraska. Five hundred 

 died under a screen in York, of the lat- 

 ter state. There are many other things 

 as sensitive to climatic conditions. Years 

 ago the writer sent many thousands of 

 choice mountain trees into the vicinity 

 of Boston and now he rejoices that they 

 are among the finest on earth. They 

 w^elcome him on every hand, clothed in 

 their royal robes of silver and sapphire. 

 They are standing as sentinels on dress 

 parade in some of the finest grounds of 

 all the land. These do well also in the 

 west, while some kinds do better in the 

 drier nir of the prairies than near the 

 sea coast. 



The limitations mentioned, however, 

 need not discourage western people. A 

 wave of progress is sweeping that way. 

 Forty kinds of trees are natives of Ne- 

 braska. Some are fine ones. Three 

 varieties of the Norway purple maple 

 seem to do well. The great family Cf 

 1.'50 kinds of lilacs we can depend upon. 

 Most of the viburnums are a success. 

 We oan count on twenty kinds 6f 

 spirrens and as many of the syringas, or 

 phihidelphuses, so in the west there is 

 plenty to do with. Only spend your 

 money for things that will live and be 

 sure to plant successes and not failures. 



C. S. Harrison. 



BEST SWEET PEAS. 



1 would like to know what are the 

 best four sweet peas, pink, white, laven- 

 der nnd purple, to grow for the mar- 

 ket, in tlic vieinitv of Chicago. 



T. :\r. A. 



T wnuM advise T. M. A. to try several 

 of each nnd find out which varieties will 

 do best with him. Lot iiim try the fol- 

 lowing: 



White: Emily Henderson, Dorothy 

 Eckford. 



Pink: Katherine Tracy, Prima Donna. 



Lavender: Lady Grisel Hamilton, Mrs. 

 Walter Wright. 



Purple: Navy Blue, Captain of the 

 Blues. Hugo Luedtke. 



LILIES FOR NOVEMBER. 



We would like to have a few lilies 

 in bloom about the middle of November, 

 say lily of the vallej', auratum and longi- 

 florum. Can they be had from cold 

 storage to bloom at that time and when 

 should they be planted? B. F. 



It is possible to have lilies every day 

 in the year, but November is the most 

 unfavorable time of the whole year for 

 the true lilies, because it is too early for 

 the current year's Bermuda crop and the 

 cold-storage bulbs as late as that are in 

 poor condition. Yet Harrisii and the 

 lancifolium section, including auratum, 

 album and rubrum, are successfully 

 flowered in November and on to Christ- 

 mas. We have never handled these lilies 

 to flower as late as November, but be- 

 lieve they should be potted and started 

 growing ten to twelve weeks before they 

 are expected to. flower. ^lind, there is 

 no forcing about the process, rather the 

 reverse. Start in as cool a place as 

 yciu b^ye and let tberii come along natur- 

 ally, ';-^il'^ iocrea.sed sunlight as they ap- 

 proaijb. the flow^riiig ..time, but never ex- 

 posed ^p very bright sun. You want 

 good rdciffc growth before the top growth 

 starts. Several eastern firms make a 

 specialty of handling cold-storage lilies. 



As for lily of the valley (which is not 

 a lily at all) it is grown in abundance 

 every day in the year. We have found 

 it better to buy weekly of a firm which 

 makes a specialty of this business than 

 storing in our local cold-storage houses, 

 which handle fish, game or embalmed 

 beef, which may not be injured by a 

 variation from zero to the freezing point, 

 but surli changes will not do for bulbs 

 or roots. Th.ey arc not dea<l. only sleep- 

 ing. Development is arrested and Ihoy 



are anxious to grow, so start the valley 

 in sand and in a cool, shaded house and 

 let no sun or draught reach them, but 

 water daily until the bells are turning 

 white and then continue watering the 

 sand without wetting the flower spikes. 



If the editor will allow its printing, I 

 can tell a little story about the use of 

 ice and what a luxury it is in some 

 circumstances. The story is not new and 

 that's no matter, for the longer you 

 live the more truth you see in the say- 

 ing that "there is nothing new under 

 the sun." 



Three Chicago gentlemen were travel- 

 ing through the hot desert of Arizona. 

 They had Bass's pale ale, but nothing 

 to cool it. and at last one of the three 

 burst out with the exclamation, "I 

 would give a dollar for a little piece of 

 ice. ' ' A Hebrew gentleman who was in 

 the same compartment of the Pullman 

 said, "I think I can accommodate you" 

 and quickly retired to the baggage car. 

 returning with a piece of ice enveloped 

 by his handkerchief. A second gentle- 

 man oflfered the same reward and again 

 Mr. Cohen was a dollar in pocket. After 

 a reasonable lapse of time Chicago No. 

 3, having hauled in a jack pot, opened 

 his heart and Mr, Cohen tried to respond 

 but returned empty-handed with the in- 

 formation that tho baggageman says, 

 'Of [ take any more ice my brother 

 won 't keep. " W. S. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



[.\1I catalogues arff filed by The Review and 

 are accessible to the trade for ref«reuce at any 

 time. FoUowlng are the latest arrivals.) 



.T. F. Rosenfield, West Point, I^eb,, 



pripe, list of peonies for fall 'delivery • 



E: ^ Schmiji, Washington, . C. C, ; b(rd«, 



gold 'fish, ' "pet animals, ^'ajid <su|»plie3 ;' 



Alex. Dickson & Sons, /iNl^vyioiynar^s, 



Ireland, new roses; C. C., ,P'olWorth' Co,, 



Milwaukee, Wis., tulip, hyaciS^'and iily 



bulbs and azaleas; C. C, PojUwoith Co., 



Milwaukee, Wis., paint fpj; ^(?ahi pipes, 



etc.; Schlegol & t^)t,tlc>"!^;^ '.Boston, 



Mass.. wholesale pric^ "^ Ij.st , p'f bulbs, 



flown seeds, fertilizers and insecticides. 



