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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



May 28, 1908. 



SALVIA PRIDE OF ZURICH. 



We li:i\c iH'W several I'mins <il'.tlie 

 ]'.iay,ili;m Salvia siilcmleiis. and the tyii 

 ica! kind as wtdl as tiie varieties have 

 lolly lieeii Justly valued as Uoweriu',' 

 jilants I'm- the yreeidiouse. Late suin- 

 iiiei ami autuinii, however, are usually 

 reyardecl as the lloweriiii; jieriod of this 

 uieiiilier lit' the saye family, liut in tlie 

 varietv at the head of this note we have 

 one that can he had in llower during 

 tlie spring niontlis. Tliis is fully borne 

 out, savs the Cardeni'rs' Magazine, by 

 tlie fae't that at the spring' nieetiny;s of 

 the Koval Horticultural Society H. B. 

 Mav \'Sons, of Edmonton. Inive shown 

 minierous exiimides of this salvia thickly 

 studded with their bright scarlet blos- 

 t^oins. 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 comi'act-growing and early variety, 

 the just named dilliculty will disapjiear. 

 As Salvia si)lendens is of easy proi>aga- 

 tion and culture, this newer variety (for 

 it is not absolutely new) should soon 

 be generally met w'ith in gardens. 



PTYCHORAPHIS SIEBERTIANA. 



The genus j.tychoraphis is exceptional 

 among eastern palms in its elegance, the 

 three or four species known, all of them 

 Malavan. being as graceful as Cocos 

 Wedclelliana and (ieononia gracilis. P. 

 Singaporensis and 1'. augusta, which 

 are already in cultivation, although com 

 parativtdy" recent introductions, possess 

 good <lecorative qualities, and in the new 

 j^jtecies, Ptychoraphis Sicbertiana, which 

 Sander A: Sons have named in compli- 

 ment to llerr Siebert. th<! director of 

 the palm garden at Frankfort, the Eng- 

 lish gardening press thinks they have a 

 most I'roinising palm. Jn the pose and 

 form of the young plant there is a re- 

 semblance to Da'nionorops fissus, but 

 lliere are no spiiu's on the ptychorajdiis. 

 The stems are slender, in the case of 

 mature plants probably tufted, with ele- 

 g.ant ar(diing leaves, the petioles clothed 

 with small brownish scales, the leatlets 

 regular, ten inches long, three- fourths 

 inclns wide, tapering graiiually to a 

 long thread-like ixdnt. When young 

 th<'y are cojiperctdored, changing with 

 age to a riidi green. 



THE DOGWOODS. 



Thi' dogwoods are among the most 

 valuable of shrubs, being especially 

 adajite'l for moist and shady places. 

 Some of them have richly ((dored twigs, 

 which produce a fine color elTect in win- 

 ter. All are hardy an<l adapt them- 

 selves readily to a variety of soils and 

 (dimates. 



Flowering dogwoo.l, Cornus Horida, is 

 showy in tlower and also beautiful in 

 autumn, wln'ii the leaves change color 

 before tailing. The ]dant is of tree 

 form, rather slow in growth, and ordi- 

 narily fr<im ten to fifteen feet high. It 

 has tiraiiclKs sjneading almost hori- 

 zontally. The Howers appear early in 

 spring and in full bloom the shrubs 

 have a striking ajipearimce, owing to 

 the whorls of lea\es that surround the 

 blo-soms. It bears a bright scarlet fruit. 



Red osier, Cornus stolonifera, grows 

 freelv in marshy ground in Canada and 

 the northern states. Its main stem is 

 prostrate and from it many shoots grow 

 six to ten feet iiigh. These shoots are 

 green in summer but scarlet in winter. 

 The tlowers are white or cream ami 



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arc tiillowiMl liy Axliiti' fruit. A varie- 

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 in soinc respects is liest, liavin^ leaves 

 that in sujiimer me liroaiiiy anil irregu- 

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A NEW NEPHRODIUM. 



Among the new idants exliiliited at tlie 

 centeiiMry exhiliition at (iheiit was 

 Xcplirodiuni gracilliinuin. This is de- 

 scribed as an elegant \;iriety of the .\ns- 

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icie says it is likely to liecoine a favorite 

 fern with market growers. It has a 

 (dose-growing rhizome, from wlii(di spring 

 nniiM'rmis fnmds from two to three feet 

 long, the stifles wiry, scaly at the base, 

 the lowest pinna* twelve inches long, 

 those above being gradually shorter, the 

 whole forming a deltoid elegant frond 

 of pleasing ajtiiearance. The pinnules 

 are as finely diviiled as in Ony(diiiiin 

 .l.'iponiciini. The cnltivated forms of X. 

 decoinpositum are so different from X. 

 gracdllini'im that it might reasonaldy l(0 

 doubted that they are forms of the same 

 siK'cies. There are. however, specimens 

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