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The Weekly Florists' Revkm 



June 8, 1911. 



gether, fill these loop^ with thistle down 

 or milkweed down, and let them hang 

 as they will among the ends. Talk 

 about -your atmosphere effects! 



Now that balls are in favor — and 

 may they long stay there — make some 

 of this kind for table decorations to use 

 with cornflower centerpieces, or tie a 

 basket handle with chiflfon loops filled 

 with the down. 



For Weddings. 



Speaking of near relatives which may 

 be drawn into the scheme, there are 

 other interesting centaureas, among 

 them the large double white and the 

 garden dusty miller or Centaurea gym- 

 uocarpa. These two — the flower of the 

 white and the foliage of the gray — 

 make a quaint coloring with the purple- 

 blue. Blue and white is a color scheme 

 frequently decided upon by the bride 

 for her wedding colors, but as often 

 called off for lack of flowers. I^om 

 the time when the greenhouse-grown 



the blue of "Old Glory" and for a 

 G. A. R. shield, or for an O. E. star. 

 The same color in a wreath, with a 

 spray of wheat, makes a rich piece for 

 an elderly person. For sprays and cas- 

 ket covers they should be prepared and 

 arranged in the same manner as sweet 

 peas. 



With sucli dainty white flowers as 

 achilleas and gypsophilas, blue corn- 

 flowers make a pleasing arrangement. 

 On a solid pillow, panel a section with 

 cornflowers, bordered on each side with 

 fern leaves. Across the entire length 

 throw a loose spray of light pink roses, 

 asters, lilies, dahlias, or other large 

 flowers of wiry stem, which have the 

 proper color with the blue and white. 



Gertrude Blair. 



HABDT FEBENNIALS. 



Pyrethrums and Bell Flowers. 



Few hardy perennials are of greater 

 value for cutting than Pyrethrum 



Weddins Bouquet of Valley and Cattleyas. 



cornflowers come, in. April or May, till 

 frost, they can be counted by the thou- 

 sand from a moderate sized stand. 



For hand bouquets, arm baskets or 

 trimmed hats, for bridesmaids or maids 

 of honor, these flowers in blue are 

 striking and beautiful and as capable 

 of fine arrangement as any flower. The 

 best ferns to use with them are the 

 several smaller varieties of pteris 

 fronds. With other, smaller, old-fash- 

 ioned garden flowers, like candytuft, 

 alyssum and mignonette, they make a 

 cool, quaint centerpiece for a summer 

 luncheon. 



A Useful Shade of Blue. 



The blue ones are just the color for 



roseum. The single varieties are easily 

 raised from seed and the doubles by di- 

 vision in late summer. I have often 

 thought there was a future for these 

 flowers if forced. I saw flowers in 

 early April which were wonderfully 

 fine, grown in this way. In many states 

 pyrethrums flower for Memorial day 

 and certainly few flowers are better 

 adapted for bouquet work than they, as 

 the flowers have a wide range of col- 

 ors. Now is a good time to sow seeds 

 to get strong plants in 1912. 



Campanula Medium is by far the 

 finest of the bell flower family. For 

 pot culture it is superb, reaching a per- 

 fection when thus grown that would be 



impossible outdoors during a dry sea- 

 son. The double flowered varieties are 

 too heavy. The singles and calycanthe- 

 mas, hose-in-hose as they are popularly 

 termed, are charming and anyone with 

 a batch of these around Memorial day 

 can get good money for the flowers, 

 even if the plants do not captivate 

 someone's eyes. It is not yet too late 

 to sow Canterbury bell seed. Do not, 

 however, put oft* the sowing much 

 longer. The little Carpathian bell 

 flower, in blue and white shades of 

 color, is now flowering and will con- 

 tinue to do so until fall. It is one of 

 the most satisfactory edging plants we 

 have and also makes an ideal subject 

 for the rock garden. The persicifolia 

 section will be in flower in a few days. 

 The single forms come in several 

 shades of blue and pure white. Of the 

 doubles Moerheimi and humosa are 

 splendid, especially the latter, which is 

 blue, while Moerheimi is pure white. 



Violas and Lupines. 



Viola cornuta, blue, and its white 

 form, V. cornuta alba, have no equals 

 as edging or groundwork plants. 

 Blooming, as they do, the whole summer 

 and being perfectly winter hardy, no 

 one need feel diffident about growing 

 them. They propagate easily from root 

 division or cuttings. This is better 

 than from seed. A large proportion 

 will not come true as seedlings, too 

 many resembling the larger bedding 

 violas in size and color, and while such 

 tufted violas as Admiration, Blue Per- 

 fection, Papilio and others are fine for 

 bedding, they lack the beauty of the 

 true cornuta type, being too much like 

 pansies, while the cornutas are like 

 large violets. 



How stately and beautiful are the 

 perennial lupines in early June! There 

 are blue, several shades; white, pink 

 and rosy red shades; the newer fonnB> 

 roseus, Pink Beauty and Moerheimi, are 

 all pink or rose in color. For massing 

 effects few perennials can equal these 

 in beauty and they are so good for cut- 

 ting that it is surprising they are 

 hardly ever seen in a florist's establish- 

 meni, much less in any retailer's win- 

 dows. Seed sown now will give big 

 plants for flowering next season. Some 

 of the stronger seedlings may even 

 flower the same fall. Lupines are one 

 of the really ironclad herbaceous per- 

 ennials. 



Some others of the early June peren- 

 nials are: Papaver orientale, of which 

 the dark variety Parkmanni is perhaps 

 the best; Hemerocallis flava, H. Mid- 

 dendorfii, H. aurantiaca major; Hes- 

 peris matronalis, sweet williams, Ther- 

 mopsis Caroliniana; Lynchnis Haage- 

 ana and its hybrids and L. Viscaria 

 flore pleno; Trollius Asiaticus excelsior, 

 deep orange, charming; Spiraea astil- 

 boides, S. Japonica, S. Aruncus; Pole- 

 monium cseruleum, P. Bichardsoni; do- 

 ronicum in variety, Harpur Crewe 

 being the best; Incarvillea Delavayi, 

 Clematis recta, Aster alpinus, Antheri- 

 cum Liliastrum major, Dianthus plu- 

 marius, some of the earlier delphiniums 

 and, of course, peonies in abundance. 



W. N. Craig. 



Johnson City, Tenn. — Gunnar Teil- 

 mann, once a w^ell known florist at Ma- 

 rion, Ind., and for the last three years 

 head gardener at the Tennessee Na- 

 tional Soldiers' Home, has bought the 

 stock and leased the plant of the 

 Johnson City Floral Co., in this city. 



