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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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May 28, 1908. 



SALVIA PRIDE OF ZURICH. 



We have now several forms of the 

 Brazilian Salvia splendens, and the typ- 

 ical kind as well as the varieties have 

 long been justly valued as flowering 

 plants for the greenhouse. Late sum- 

 mer and autumn, however, are usually 

 regarded as the flowering period of this 

 member of the sage family, but in the 

 variety at the head of this note we have 

 one that can be had in flower during 

 the spring months. This is fully borne 

 out, says the Gardeners' Magazine, by 

 the fact that at the spring meetings of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society H. B. 

 May & Sons, of Edmonton, have shown 

 numerous examples of this salvia thickly 

 studded with their bright scarlet blos- 

 soms. For summer bedding Salvia 

 splendens has much in its favor, but up 

 to now its comparatively late season of 

 blooming was a decided drawback. With 

 this compact-growing and early variety, 

 the just-named difficulty will disappear. 

 As Salvia splendens is of easy propaga- 

 tion and culture, this newer variety (for 

 it is not absolutely new) should soon 

 be generally met with in gardens. 



PTYCHORAPmS SIEBERTIANA. 



The genus ptychoraphis is exceptional 

 among eastern palms in its elegance, the 

 three or four species known, all of them 

 Malayan, being as graceful as Cocos 

 Weddelliana and Geonoma gracilis. P. 

 Singaporensis and P. augusta, which 

 are already in cultivation, although com- 

 paratively recent introductions, possess 

 good decorative qualities, and in the new 

 species, Ptychoraphis Siebertiana, which 

 Sander & Sons have named in compli- 

 ment to Herr Siebert, the director of 

 the palm garden at Frankfort, the Eng- 

 lish gardening press thinks they have a 

 most promising palm. In the pose and 

 form of the young plant there is a re- 

 semblance to Dsemonorops fissus, but 

 there are no spines on the ptychoraphis. 

 The stems are slender, in the case of 

 mature plants probably tufted, with ele- 

 gant arching leaves, the petioles clothed 

 with small brownish scales, the leaflets 

 regular, ten inches long, three-fourths 

 inches wide, tapering gradually to a 

 long thread-like point. When young 

 they are copper-colored, changing with 

 age to a rich green. 



THE DOGWOODS. 



The dogwoods are among the most 

 valuable of shrubs, being especially 

 adapted for moist and shady places. 

 Some of them have richly colored twigs, 

 which produce a fine color effect in win- 

 ter. All are- hardy and adapt them- 

 selves readily to a variety of soils and 

 climates. 



Flowering dogwood, Cornus florida, is 

 showy in flower and also beautiful in 

 autumn, when the leaves change color 

 before falling. The plant is of tree 

 form, rather slow in growth, and ordi- 

 narily from ten to fifteen feet high. It 

 has branches spreading almost hori- 

 zontally. The flowers appear early in 

 spring and in full bloom the shrubs 

 have a striking appearance, owing to 

 the whorls of leaves that surround the 

 blossoms. It bears a bright scarlet fruit. 



Red osier, Cornus stolonifera, grows 

 freely in marshy ground in Canada and 

 the northern states. Its main stem is 

 prostrate and from it many shoots grow 

 six to ten feet high. These shoots are 

 green in summer but scarlet in winter. 

 The flowers are white or cream and 



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are followed by white fruit. A varie- 

 gated-leaved variety can be obtained and 

 in some respects is best, hawing leaves 

 that in summer are broadly and irregu- 

 larly margined with yellow and white. 



A NEW NEPHRODIUM. 



Among the new plants exhibited at the 

 centenary exhibition at Ghent was 

 Nephrodium gracillimum. This is de- 

 scribed as an elegant variety of the Aus- 

 tralian Nephrodium (Lastrea) decom- 

 positum, which is variable in the size, 

 texture, and cutting of its fronds, and 

 in the habit of its usually wide-creeping 

 rhizomes. Sander & Sons obtained this 

 plant from Brisbane, and it has proved 

 so free a grower and the fronds are so 

 finely divided that the Gardeners' Chron- 



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