Apbil 2, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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A Well Arranged Floral Decoration for a Funeral. 



not bloom as zonal pelargoniums do, still 

 we always have a fair call for them. 

 There are some fine varieties now in com- 

 merce and it will pay anyone growing 

 these plants to secure a small set of the 

 newer ones. Any plants becoming pot- 

 bound, if in less than .5-inch pots, had 

 better be potted on. It will well repay 

 you for the extra labor. Feed plants 

 twice a week which are in their flowering 

 pots and well rooted. Use weak nitrate 

 of soda water if the foliage is at all 

 pale. Remember the partiality of aphis 

 for these plants and do not neglect the 

 regular fumigation. 



wood in decorated tubs, the plants fast- 

 ened together by strings of smilax. 



THE READERS' CORNER. 



FUNERAL FLOWERS. 



The accompanying illustration is from 

 a photograph showing the floral arrange- 

 ment for the funeral of a prominent 

 citizen of Indianapolis. Tlie flowers 

 were furnished by various Indiaimpoiis 

 florists and rejiieseuted a value of from 

 $1,000 to $1,.300. The arrangement for 

 the funeral was placed in the hands of 

 Bertermann Bros. Co. The i)icture 

 shows nicely how well they executed the 

 work. The funeral was heM in a pub- 

 lic hall, the stage, as shown, being 

 banked with plants. A large rug wa-* 

 spread for the casket and the flowers 

 were dispersed about the end of the 

 hall, the effort being to give each piece 

 an opportunity to show for itself, which 

 it does not have where the flowers are ^ 

 massed, as is neces.sary in a small room, 

 and as is sometimes seen where space is 

 available for more artistic arrange- 

 ment. One of the prettiest ideas ^as 

 that of roping off the space around the 

 casket by the use of pyramidal box- 



Yucca Gloriosa From Texas. 



We have sent to the Hevikw a hea<l of 

 bloom from one of the Yucca gloriosa 

 growing in our yard. Tiie s[)ike sub- 

 mitted is about tiie usual size — -from 

 two to three feet in height and a foot 

 or more in diameter. Oi'r plants in 

 previous years have always been in bloom 

 at Easter. This season, however, as Kast- 

 er is late and our spring so early, 

 the blooming j)eriod will be too early 



for that festival. We have used many of 

 the blooms in funeral designs during 

 the last two weeks. They keep fresh 

 longer than umny flowers on the graves 

 in the hot sun. 



There has been no winter lieic this 

 year — only two nights with 10 or 12 de- 

 grees of frost early in the season. Now 

 — March Tt) — roses are coming into full 

 bloom. Tulips, Phlox Drumniondii and 

 other spring flowers are in bloom. Nar- 

 cissi and hyacinths have been fine, but 

 are almost over now. Spring trade is 

 good, with everybody planting out roses 

 and general bedding plants. 



.Mk. A: Mrs. T'lowe. 



Corsicana, Tex. 



RUST ON CARNATIONS. 



. Please advise me what to do to save a 

 lot of Victory carnation cuttings. I 

 enclose leaves taken from the plants. 

 All are affected. The plants are in slat 

 houses, open at the sides and top. The 

 foliage is never wet and the soil is only 

 sprinkled. A. L. H. 



The leaves you sent are affected with 

 the common carnation rust, which we 



feared and dreaded years ago. almost 

 as mueh as we do smallpox. While we 

 have learneil to handle it now so that 

 it seldom causes any loss among the 

 blooming plants, yet occasionally it will 

 get a hold on a batch of cuttings and 

 ruin them before it can be thecked. Cer- 

 tain varieties are, of course, more sub- 

 ject to it than others, and Victory is one 

 of these. 



Last year we heard considerable com- 

 plaint of cuttings being full of ru-st 

 when taken from the sand, the disease 



