Junk 18, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' RevieWi 



Peony M. Jules Elie^ Pink, a Fit G>fflpanion for Festiva Mazimat W^hite 



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and the Dakotas, the plants covered with 

 flowers of exquisite beauty. They need 

 but a strong and long stem to stamp 

 them as perfect. Charles Verdier was a 



flory of bloom. Faust, M. Jules Elie, 

 arah Bernhardt and Louis Van Houttei 

 answered the roll call promptly. 



I was surprised at the vigor of the 

 M. Dupont. They were by far the best 

 and grandest of the whites — splendid, 

 solid hemispheres, seven inches across, 

 centers flecked with carmine, so distinctly 

 marked you could not mistake them. La 

 Sublime literally deluged the plants with 

 crimson beauty. Couronne d'Or never 

 did better, ^aroness Schroeder sent out 

 a flower for every stem, but 1,000 Queen 

 Victoria, usually so hardy, gave up in 

 disgust; not a decent flower on the whole 

 mass. 



Kosenfield's Triumph, bred for hardi- 

 ness, were on hand promptly. Karl Eo- 

 senfield, the fine crimson, was all right. 

 Ak-sar-ben, crimson maroon ; Grace D. 

 Bryan, large pink ; Crimson Victory, Prai- 

 ,rie Splendor and Pr^jrie King, all sus- 

 tained the test. These are robust; the 

 stems are from forty to forty-five inches 

 tall. Just what we have been looking 

 for to endure the trying climate of the 

 west. 



Jeanne d'Arc and Golden Harvest. As 

 these bloomed this year, it was hard to 

 tell the difference in the flowers. The , 

 former is probably the mother of the 

 latter. 



There is this difference. A row of 

 Jeanne d'Arc planted last fall did not 

 produce a flower. A row of Golden 

 Harvest planted the same time was 

 covered with bloom. C. S. Harrison. 



York, Neb. 



PEONY M. JULES ELIE. 



Mons. Jules Elie is one of the introduc- 

 tions of Crousse, the famous French 

 peony specialist, sent out twenty years 

 ago. It is a clear flesh pink, extra large 

 in size of flower, free blooming and in 

 all particulars one of the flnest of mod- 

 ern peonies. It is one of the sorts which 

 every florist should plant on his home 

 grounds. A well established clump o£ 

 this variety, when in bloom in the spring, 

 will be the means of bringing any florist 

 a goodly number of orders for fall plant- 

 ing. 



OBITUARY. 



Theodore Faller. 



Theodore Faller, one of the well-known 

 florists of St. Louis, died at his home, 

 4901 Natural Bridge road, in that city, 

 June 10, after a long illness with dropsy. 

 Mr. Falle* was at one time a prominent 

 member of the Florists' Club. He leaves 

 a wife and four children, also a host 

 of friends, to mourn his loss. 



Mrs. B. Schramm. 



Mrs. Catherine Schramm, wife of Ber- 

 nard Schramm, the veteran florist of 

 Toledo, O., died suddenly of heart fail- 

 ure at rftidnight, June 12, at the family 

 residence, 712 Baker street. Several 

 months ago her health began to fail, but 

 she had been feeling better for several 

 weeks, and was about the house as usual 

 the day before her death. 



Mrs. Schramm was born in Bavaria, 

 Germany, and was 68 years of age. She 

 had been a resident of Toledo ever since 

 her marriage to Mr. Schramm, forty-sev- 

 en years ago. Of the nine children born 



to them six survive — Miss Minnie 

 Schramm, Mrs. C. Eansch, Mrs. Jos. Keat- 

 ing, Mrs. Frank Weiss, Charles and 

 Bernard Schramm, Jr. A son, Anthony 

 Schramm, died three years ago. 



She leaves also thirty-five grandchil- 

 dren and one great-grandchild. Mrs. 

 Schramm was a devoted member of St. 

 Mary's parish for nearly fifty years, and 

 of the Married Women's sodality. 



The funeral was held Tuesday, June 

 15, at 8 o'clock, with solemn requiem 

 mass, from St. Mary's church. 



PROPAGATING BOXWOOD. 



Kindly let me know if boxwood is 

 taken from cuttings and at what time 

 of the year they are planted. A. H. , 



The tree box, Buxus sempervirens, is 

 best propagated from cuttings of mature 

 wood, six inches in length, in September 

 or October. In the northern states these 

 require the protection of a coldframe 

 over winter. Make the soil san^y and 

 insert firmly, keeping them shaded and 

 well supplied with water. 



The dwarf box used so much for edg- 

 ings for formal gardens is better propa- 

 gated by division of the plants. Just, as 

 they start to grow, tear them in pieces 

 with the hand and prune off long, thick 

 roots with a pair of shears. Plant deeply 

 and tramp firmly. Given a good soak- 

 ing of water at the start, these cuttings 

 will need no further attention unless a 

 dry season ensues, when an occasional 

 soaking will help them. Pieces pulled 

 off without roots will grow if kept moist- 

 ened for a time, but it is usually possible 

 to secure a little root on each cutting. 



C. W. 



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