March 29, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1325 



RETAIL FLORISTS. 



(CONTINUED ) 



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Gimpantfla Penidfolia. 



There are several campanulas which 

 would pay for more attention than they 

 usually get. During the past season 

 plants of several sorts were seen in Co- 

 vent Garden market, London, also cut 

 bloom; for the latter purpose it is the 

 varieties of Campanula persicifolia that 

 are most useful, the best being grandi- 

 flora alba; the clear blue mauve variety 

 also sell fairly well. For those who 

 have a local trade they should prove 

 very useful. I should add that the 

 double variety is even more useful. A 

 good deal depends on culture; they may 

 be grown under almost any conditions, 

 but will well repay a little extra atten- 

 tion. Fairly good results may be had 

 from seedlings, but it is better to rely 

 on dividing clumps of selected stock. 

 Good loam that has been well manured 

 will suit them best. Old clumps that 

 have been standing in the same ground 

 do not give good spikes of bloom. Di- 

 vided and re-planted in autumn or very 

 early spring they should do well the 

 same season, yet with plenty of room 

 and good ground they may do even bet- 

 ter the second year. By sowing seed 

 early, and planting out after the plants 

 are well established, they may flower 

 the same season, and a selection of the 

 best types may be made; although they 

 may come fairly true, there will be sure 

 to be some variations, and by raising 

 some seedlings annually, a healthy stock 

 can be kept up, and the strain improved. 



Campanula Pyramidalis. 



Most of the plants seen in Covent 

 Garden market last season were grown 

 in small pots. Although a perennial, it 

 is most satisfactory when treated as a 

 biennial. Seed sown early in the spring 

 will make good plants for the following 

 year. One autumn I received some 

 plants which were considered to be too 

 small to be of service for the fol- 

 lowing year, but I potted them in good 

 soil, and kept them in a cold pit during 

 the winter, and potted them on in 7-inch 

 pots early in the year. After they were 

 well-rooted, as an experiment, I started 

 them, giving them manure water and 

 gradually increased the strength, and 

 I found they appreciated liberal treat- 

 ment for they made very fine spikes of 

 bloom and kept their foliage; but in 

 small pots they lose their foliage at the 

 base. Unfortunately they do not flower 

 early enough for the best London trade, 

 and later there is only a limited demand, 

 yet they come in at a time when there 

 are many decorations to be done in the 

 provinces, and are also serviceable for 



the flower shows. In large groups there 

 is nothing more effective for a back- 

 ground, or for standing up above other 

 shorter-growing plants. 



Campanula Isophylla Alba. 



This has now become au established 

 market plant, though when first intro- 

 duced it did not find much favor. There 

 are few plants which require less cultu- 

 ral skill to grow well. To get good 

 plants, it must be propagated from the 

 short cuttings which come from the base 

 soon after the plants have done flower- 

 ing. Grown from a single cutting, I 

 have seen a good plant established in 

 one season, yet for market work it is 

 better to grow from three to five young 

 plants in each pot. This will ensure a 

 well-furnished pot, and a limited number 

 of well-furnished pots will pay better 

 than a larger number grown singly. 



In addition to the white variety, the 

 blue has now been revived, and of this 

 we have several slight variations. Mayii 

 is recognized as one of the best, 

 but there are now others of similar- 

 habit. I have found, says "Metro- 

 politan" in the Horticultural Ad- 

 vertiser that when Balchiniana, the 

 pretty variegated variety, reverts to the 

 green form, it makes a good plant, with 

 blue flowers of better quality than are 

 seen on the variety with variegated 

 leaves. 



A BEAUTIFUL PILLAR PLANT. 



There is an abundance of plants suit- 

 able for clothing the pillars of conserva- 

 tories and other cool structures, but it is 

 doubtful whether there is among the 

 many good kinds one to surpass the 

 graceful Cestrum Newalli, says a writer 

 in the Gardener's Magazine. All the 

 cestrums in general cultivation are 

 more or less attractive, but the flowers 

 are dull in comparison with this form, 

 and the plants are consquently less ef- 

 fective when in bloom. It is now in full 

 bloom, and those who have not as yet 

 had an opportunity of seeing the plant 

 in perfection should, if they are within 

 a convenient distance of Kew, visit the 

 Eoyal Gardens. There are several speci- 

 mens in the temperate house, but the 

 finest is at the east end of the structure, 

 where it presents a delightful contrast 

 to the acacias that it has for its near 

 neighbors. The specimen is trained to 

 one of the pillars, which are between 

 twelve and fifteen feet high, and from 

 near the ground line to the top it is 

 densely clothed with long, slightly- 

 drooping branches, from two to three 

 feet in length, and furnished with the 

 bright orange-red flowers throughout 

 their whole length. To obtain such sat- 

 isfactory results as in this case, the 

 branches are cut back to within a few 

 buds of their base as soon as the beauty 

 of the flowers is past, and the resulting 

 growths are allowed to extend their full 

 length unchecked. The practice which 

 in some instances is adopted of stopping 

 the shoots of the cestrums during the 

 growing season, destroys the graceful 

 character of the plants and renders the 

 abundant production of flowers impos- 

 sible. 



Providence, E, I. — The regular month- 

 ly meeting of the Florists' and Garden- 

 ers' Club of Rhode Island was held 

 March 19. President J. F. Schelling 

 presided. S. D. Millin gave readings in 

 Scotch and French dialects. 



