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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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SUMMER FLOWERS 



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GOOD STOCK FOR CUTTING. 



While the demand for cut flowerB 

 slackens off heavily during the hot 

 months, there is always some call for 

 suitable white flowers for funeral and 

 other work. While gladioli, asters, 

 stocks and sweet peas are, in addition to 

 the omnipresent roses and carnations, 

 those mostly met with on the market, 

 there are many other flowers worthy of 

 cultivation, especially by those who do 

 a funeral retail trade. Now is the time 

 to plan and prepare for the summer of 

 1908. As practically all are hardy which 

 I will name, and of easy culture, any 

 florist can, with little expense, plant a 

 Initch of each. 



Phlox Miss Liogard. 



Phlox Miss Lingard is a splendid va- 

 riety, in my estimation the finest of all 

 the perennial phloxes. It belongs to the 

 suff'ruticosa section. The leaves are of 

 ii shining green color and the flowers al- 

 most pure white, with a delicate pink eye. 

 The spikes grow from twenty- four to 

 thirty inches in height and in some sea- 

 sons we have cut them as early as the 

 first week in June. If restricted to one 

 [)lilox, my choice would be Miss Lingard. 

 I n the whole decussata or paniculata sec- 

 tion there is not a variety to equal it 

 for cutting or mass bedding. A good 

 feature about it is that while the main 

 crop may come in during July, the 

 plants keep throwing up more flowering 

 slioots and give a persistent crop of 

 flowers until fall. No other phlox lasts 



give splendid spikes the following June 

 and July. 



Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum Hybridum. 



The common name of Chrysanthemum 

 leucanthemum hybridum is the Shasta 

 daisy and it is one of the few valuable 



are four inches in diameter in the best 

 types and well adapted for cutting. In 

 addition to its value for cutting, the 

 Shasta daisy is an effective plant for 

 massing in borders. Plants are readily 

 propagated by division of the root as 

 well as from seed. 



Lilium Candidum. 



Lilium candidum is easily the best of 

 all hardy garden lilies. Unfortunately, 

 the disease which has been so rife on 

 outdoor stock has greatly restricted its 

 culture. In many old gardens, how- 

 ever, glorious masses of it, undisturbed 

 for years, are to be met with. 



The Madonna or Annunciation lily, as 

 it is commonly called, is in season dur- 



Phlox Miu Lingard. 



plants sent out by Luther Burbank. 

 There are now a number of named varie- 

 tise of it, but a good selection may be 

 secured by saving seeds in early summer 



Chrytanthemum Leucanthemum Hybridum, the Shasta Daisy. 



so well in water, while it is unequaled 

 for funeral work. 



Propagation by cuttings taken off ei- 

 ther in fall or spring, which can be kept 

 over winter in a coldframe, is easy. 

 Those propagated in early October will 



and saving the finest plants which bloom 

 the following summer. The flowering 

 time is usually from the beginning to 

 the end of July, but after cutting down 

 the first crop a good many will be pro- 

 duced later in the season. The flowers 



ing the last days of June and the first 

 half of July, Unlike the majority of 

 lilies, it needs an open, sunny location 

 and requires planting only four to five 

 inches deep. The new bulbs usually ar- 

 rive in America in late summer or early 

 in the autumn and should be planted as 

 soon as they arrive, as they start to 

 root and form a rosette of leaves at 

 once. Some growers advocate planting 

 the bulbs on their sides. This is en- 

 tirely unnecessary. I have never known 

 them to decay when planted in the regu- 

 lation manner. 



There are two types of the pure-white, 

 fragrant, garden lily. One is represent- 

 ed by large bulb*, with narrow scales. I 

 have seen bulbs almost cover the top of 

 a 6-inch pot. These produce narrow 

 leaves and short, thin spikes, with three 

 to five flowers each, which have small 

 flowers with narrow petals. This is the 

 variety usually seen in America at Eastor 

 and it is almost worthless. 



The tall, broad-petaled type has 

 smaller but heavier bulbs, with broader 

 scales. The leaves are wider and the 

 flower-stalks stout and producing eight 

 to ten flowers, not infrequently two or 

 three spikes coming from a single large 

 bulb. 



A thin coating of leaves or straw, 

 which should be removed early in April, 

 is all the protection this lily requires. 



Achillea Ptarmica The PearL 



That popular florists' flower, Achillea 

 ptarmica The Pearl, is almost too well 

 known to require any mention. It is 

 one of the most popular herbaceous 



