The Weekly Florists' Review* 



JuxE G, 1907. 



aiiioiifT hard-uooilcd stock in tlio opeu, 

 oiu-1) as azaleas, acacias, ericas, etc. 



]\eej) yoiiiif; niar<iiH'rit('s jtotted on and 

 ]iiiirli out all lldwers ftoni tiicm. 



]Ia\e you made a list of hyacinths, 

 tulips and (dhcr bulbous stock you will 

 jKvd anotlicr season.' Do not leave the 

 liuvin<j until vou need them. Early 



orders will secure you better class bulbs. 

 JNlany handsome deciduous shrubs are 

 now in flowei'. A few planted on your 

 front lawn makes your homo attractive 

 and may liriny you orders for similar 

 stdik. l-lspecially desirable are the many 

 line Jil.-Ks, \iliuinums. loniceras and 

 spiraas. 



ably sold in rpiantity. and, as I said 

 l)cfore, there is a time and a place for 

 everything-. Chakles II. TOTTV. 



MUM SPORTS. 



PLANTING. 



I'lantiiij^ sliduld In' )ir(n-<'e(h'd with this 

 niiiiiili, I'lJi- ;ili the main cmp or llowers. 

 .Many growers liaxe to wjiit until the 

 lieddiny stock is out of the \\iiy, anil it 

 is during,' this interval of waiting that 

 pl:uiis so often are nei,dected. The plant- 

 injr rush is on and the mums must wait, 

 and in the lueantinie often sutler for 

 want of water, becoming potlioun<l, hard 

 and stunted. .\void this as nmch as 

 possible it you would j^iow line stock. 

 It' the pl.Miits are yettiny potbouiid and 

 \iiu are not yet reudy to jilaiit. either 

 ino\e tjiem on into 4-inch jiots or knock 

 tliein (Uit of the pots nnd set thiidy into 

 Hats, puttinj; soil between the balls. If 

 llie benches are full of other jdants. one 

 can ;it least h;i\i> the soil chopiu'd down 

 and ready, so that the work of ])l;intiiig 

 e;in be ruslied wln'ii it can be yot at. 



Stock for Late Flowers. 



Several inipiiiies haxiny reached mr 

 l.-ist week on the time to |il;int for 

 Thanksoivinjr lh)U('rs, 1 W(udd say that 

 there is yet plenty of time to |iro|);ii;at<' 

 for late jilantiriy. (^uite nice ihiwcrs 

 can be obtained from plants rooteil even 

 .as late as the nnddie of ,)uly, if the 

 riylit kin<ls are grown. In fact. I know 

 some commerci.al giowcis who lia\e iiet- 

 ler success with stock piiipa<.f;ited from 

 How on thttn they do with the earliei- 

 stock, bec.'uise they li;i\c more time to 

 look after it. With the season so cool 

 .iv it iias bei'n ^(1 far this year. |iro|ia<ia- 



ticill ji;is been e.asy, but look out for the 



dryine w i^uls in .lune and by frei|uent 



sprayino kee|i tlie cuttings from wiltino. 



A j;Ood S<'lection of \aiietie~. to use 



for late jdantin:^ is as follows; Wjiite - 



< liadwi<-k. Ml--. Swinburne, .1. ,\ornn 

 and 'rimotiiv llatoii. ^■ello\v — ^'(>llow 

 • hadwick, Mr--, (leo. iJeech, Yellow 

 llatoii and .\a;:oya. I'iidv -AVinter 



< heer, 1 ))■. i;n;:ueliard and Maud Dean. 



The hast iiameil 1 coiild ne\er do much 

 with niyselt', liut 1 ha\e <een it doino- 

 nicely in some pl:\i e-. Willi nie it al- 

 ways iti.'ide an enoiiiioii-. e\e an<l would 

 not cover in the centei-. Ml-. Swinburne 



and Mrs. (mo. | ; -h are two \;irieties 



that li;i\e done well in most sections of 

 I he conntiv and can be reconimcinleil .as 

 lieiiio easily ^rdwu, nof too lar<;e in fo- 

 liage and doin^ well on f'ne ternnnal 

 bud. l-".n;^iieiiard i- anoiiier varietv that 

 i- be-t on ti.e tiTudnai and conseijueid ly 

 coined in well tor this late work. lOu- 

 i^ueliard ooi a black eye when it first 

 came out. because so many orowers 

 i-anojit it on t<io early a bud and the 

 resultant tio\ver wa- a wrelciied affair 

 that looked more like .a piece of spoiij.;e 

 than anything else, witli sjioit petals 

 stii'kiiig ^traiejit out. Now it has 



reached its level and occujiies a fair 

 pl.aci' as a coiiimei( iai junk for late flow- 

 ers. 



1 11 the New York market late mums 

 ha\e not amounteil to so much of late 

 years as tli(\v once ditl, but there are 

 man,\- towns vvhere they are welcome till 

 December. It is by no means imjtos- 

 sible to iia\e them for Christmas, but in 

 my humble o|dnion they are not much 

 sought after so late as that. There is a 

 time ami a place for evcrythinjr and 

 the mum is never more welcome than in 

 early Oi tidier, when the frosts have 

 slrip|ie(| the outside flowers down and 

 the peojde are hastening back to the 

 (dty, and the crisp, riipi>y air reminds 

 the florist that his summer loaflng is 

 ended. It is an easy matter to tlower 

 mums ill M;iy by jiropagating early in 

 the yiar and keeping them in small pots 

 for ;i time to harden up the wood. Sev- 

 eral singles are a mass of buds and flow- 

 ers with mi', that liave been so treated, 

 but I (|uestion if they could be profit- 



No definite conclusion has been ar- 

 ri\ed at as to the cause of sporting in 

 chrysanthemums, but every addition to 

 our knowledge brings us nearer to the 

 goal. On this account attention is called 

 to a statement by M. Clement in Le 

 Chrysanthenie, to the efl'ect that, in nine 

 cases out of ten, the change is from 

 light coloring to a darker shade. That 

 yellow should be prominent in these 

 sjiorts is only what might have been ex- 

 jtected from the ancestry of these plants. 

 .\ yellow chrysanthemum is said rarely 

 to produce a white flower, but a white 

 variety may show yellow flowers; a red 

 variety will throw maroon blooms, a 

 rose-colored form will sport into a 

 salmon-colored one. 



SOIL FOR PLUMOSUS. 



What is the best soil for growing As- 

 paragus plumosus? S. C. C. 



Asparagus plumosus likes a compost 

 of three-fourths pasture loam and one- 

 fourth dry cow manure, with some sand 

 added. If in a bed, use six inches of soil 

 and remember that solid beds are better 

 ' than benches to plant in. C. \V. 



Ow'KNSBORO. Ky. — A. H. Snapp, from 

 New Y'ork, is now in charge of the green- 

 houses of the Nanz Floral Co. 



Oregon, III. — Harry Davis, the Polo 

 greenhouse man, has had his wagons in 

 Oregon during the last week, engaged in 

 the sale of plants and bulbs, and has 

 met with good success. 



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SECURING THE CARD. 



One of tiie difliculties that practi- 

 cally every retail florist encounters, and 

 whi(di is es|iecially exasjierating, is the 

 loss or misplacing of cards which are to 

 ac<-ompaii,\' onlers for delivery. The 

 I'ctailer \\ho has a large l)nsiness has 

 things sysfeniali/ed so these accidents 

 ai'e reduced to a iiiiiiiumm, but the flo- 

 rist who does not ha\(j a large number 

 ot' these ;^ift orders t<i deliver does not 

 always have the right system and is 

 constantly getting into trouble. ( )iii' of 

 the best ways ot' kce|iiiit;' track of such 

 orders is that ailopted liy W. .1. Smyth, 

 in (jiicago. He use- a heavy printed 

 I'livelope. with ;i lla|i tor sealing at one 

 end and |piiiiidied at the oilier end, like 

 a shipping tag. for tvini;. When Mrs. 

 \'an b'eiisselaer comes ill with an oriler 

 to deliver a plant or box of flowers to 

 Mrs. Drown, Mrs. P.rovvn 's address at 

 once is written in the spaces on the en- 

 velope .and the donor's card, placed in 

 a small envelope, is sealed within the 

 largi'r one. which then is tied upon the 

 |p|ant. Siibsc.juent decorations may cu' 



may not be added, but there is no 

 chance for the card to get away. 



BIRTHDAY BOUQUETS. 



11. \. Diuns. ( hicago, tells nn int<'r- 

 esting story of his exjierien'^e with a 

 gentlem.an \viH< c.ame into his store in 

 search of something to send a lady as 

 ii birthday remembrance. He said the 

 lady was seventy-four years of age and 

 he wanted something nii-e, *'! to|.| 

 him." says Mr. lirnns. "that in the 

 flower business there is nothing which 

 is thought more highly of than Ameri- 

 can Deauties, and suggested that iie 

 send a bou<|uet of seventy-four Beau- 

 ties. At first he dcmurre<l because the 

 cost w;is too miicli, but 1 showed him 

 the flov\ers anil Jin.allv lie gave the order. 

 I made up a bunch that was good value 

 at the price charged, using seventy-three 

 tight buds with one large open flower 

 in the center. The next day the gentle- 

 man returned ami said he came for tiie 

 express jiiirpose of tiianking tne for 

 sending so nice a bouipiet. 'The old 

 received all kinds of ])resents, ' said 

 and some ot' them expensive, but 



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