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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Mabcu 21, 1907. 



AND 



What Does a 

 Material Supply Concern Know 



about the faults in its materials if they supply materials only and never erect their own 

 houses? If you want the best there is in up-to-date materials, you'll buy them of 

 greenhouse builders and not lumber people or planing mills. We are greenhouse builders. 



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THALICTRUM PURPUREUM. 



A new addition to noteworthy hardy 

 flowers that one can recommend for gen- 

 eral cultivation will be found in the 

 American Thalictrum purpureum, says a 

 writer in an English gardening paper. 

 It is doubtless a variety of the Euro- 

 pean T. aquilegaefolium, with which it 

 agrees somewhat in habit, but from which 

 it is oistinct in its inflorescence. 



It is a sturdy border plant, a yard 

 high, having blue-purple stems furnished 

 with columbine-Uke leafage in elegant 

 fan-like sprays at intervals, and the fin- 

 est inflorescence of any thalictrum save 

 that of T. glaucum. The general color- 

 ing of young flower heads is a deep 

 mauve, but as they age a charming tint 

 of rosy heliotrope succeeds the deep 

 mauve, and persists till the flowers fall. 

 The inflorescences consiat of plumy 

 masses of mauve stamens, exceed a foot 

 in diameter, and are more freely 

 branched than in aquilegsef olium ; hence 

 the heads appear looser and altogether 

 more elegant. 



The flowers of T. purpureum are of 

 little or no use for cutting, the stems 

 being hollow and unable to take up 

 water freely; despite this drawback, the 

 plants are second to none for grouping 

 in the flower border, as their rich and 

 uncommon coloring attracts at once. One 

 should isolate this thalictrum from bril- 

 liant reds, yellows, and other combatant 

 colors, or its delicate beauty will be ut- 

 terly spoiled. 



COPPER SULPHATE SOLUTION. 



I have lost the formula for the copper 

 solution. Will you kindly furnish it? 



W. C. S. 



The Florists* Manual gives the for- 

 mula, as follows: 



Copper sulphate, one pound. 



Water, fifteen g^lons. 



Dissolve the copper in the water, when 

 it is ready for use. This should not be 

 used on any foliage, but can be used 

 on the wood of trees and shrubs before 

 the buds start. 



New London, Wis. — E. H. Olson is 

 about to double the capacity of his 

 greenhouses. The two present buildings 

 are each 22x75. The new plans will in- 

 clude a palm house, which will extend 

 across the west end of the property. 



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