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July 27, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



II 



New Range of the Stuppy Floral G>^ St Joseph, Mo. 



ding plants in Europe, and at Bar 

 Harbor, Me., can be seen magnificently 

 grown, also along the Massachusetts 

 north shore. It should be propagated 

 frona cuttings taken in September or 

 October and carried over in coldframes. 



Phlox Faniculata. 



The various forms of Phlox pani- 

 culata are now, in late July, the most 

 conspicuous feature in the perennial 

 borders. The heat and drought have 

 been hard on these, and where watering 

 can be conveniently done by means of 

 sprinklers the plants will be immensely 

 benefited. When badly dried up at the 

 roots, phloxes soon go to pieces, but 

 with an adequate water supply no per- 

 ennials will flower longer or give 

 greater satisfaction, either on the plants 

 or when cut. Young plants raised from 

 spring cuttings give the finest spikes, 

 but these will not be at their best for 

 some time yet. The finest spikes are 

 always to be had on young plants, 

 rather than on divided clumps. If the 

 flower heads on the early flowering sorts 

 are cut off, the plants will break away 

 and give quite a good second crop of 

 flowers later in the season. 



Flatycodons and Physostegias. 



The platycodons are now in season. 

 Their large, campanula-like flowers 

 make a good showing for several weeks. 

 P. grandiflonam, violet blue, P. Mariesi^ 

 varying shades of blue, and Mariesi 

 alba, pure white, are all well worth 

 growing. They can be planted success- 

 fully either in spring or autumn. They 

 do not appear above ground as early as 

 many perennials, and new growers are 

 liable to get nervous and imagine they 

 are not coming up at all. 



Physostegia Virginica and Virginica 

 alba, the false dragon head or Texas 

 heath, is just opening its flowers. This 

 is one of the finest perennials for cut- 

 ting and is regulai-ly seen at the Boston 

 wholesale markets. It spreads rapidly 

 and should be divided and replanted 

 every second year. 



Lilies. 



Lilies cannot be left out of any col- 

 lection of hardy flowering plants. It is 

 true they are less reliable than the ma- 

 jority of plants, but their beauty is 

 irresistible and they are worth con- 

 siderable fussing if only they can be 

 given locations where they will succeed. 

 Ii. Hansoiu, one of the best of the 

 genus, succeeds well in clumps along 

 the shrubbery borders, or in beds by 

 itself. This ha^just passed out of 

 bloom; so, too, has L. Bro^nii, with its 

 big, white, trumpet-shaped flowers, pur- 

 plish violet outside, as well as the beau- 

 tiful L.testaceum,also called Isabellinum 



and excelsum, with its apricot 'yellow 

 flowers on spikes five to six feet high. 

 Fall planted Japanese longiflorums come 

 into flower now, but generally run out 

 in a couple of years, as do the bulbs 

 of L. auratum, unless they are planted 

 deeply and are kept well mulched. Deep 

 planting and mulching are needed by 

 nearly all lilies. L. candidum is an ex- 

 ception and the varieties with small 

 bulbs can be set nearer the surface, but 

 the big-bulbed sorts should go down a 

 foot. 



There is no grander lily nor any more 

 reliable one than L. Henryi. Its price 

 is still high, but this lily seems almost 

 immune from disease, and in August 

 is our finest variety. It is yet too early 

 for the speciosums, which are probably 

 the most generally useful of florists' 

 lilies for open air culture, the rich- 

 colored Melpomene magniflcum and the 

 pure white album being the best two 

 forms to grow. This has been a hard 

 year for lilies, and where it has been 

 possible to supply water the plants have 

 appreciated it. Some of the new Wil- 

 son lilies from China promise to be per- 

 fectly hardy and grand additions to our 

 gardens. L. myriophyllum, now in 

 bloom, with its large, wide trumpet 

 flowers, white shaded with pale lemon, 

 is one of the best. Then there is the 

 giant leucanthemum and others still to 

 be heard from. W. N. Craig. 



ACCIDENT TO MISSOUBI QB.OWER. 



Ernst Mueller, one of the best known 

 growers at St. Joseph, Mo., met with 

 a serious ao(;ident July 21, when his 

 automobile overturned at the new 



plant of the Stuppy Floral Co., where 

 he had gone to witness an evening's 

 fumigating. Accompanied by his three 

 sons in the automobile, Mr. Mueller 

 undertook to turn the car. around on a 

 road that runs along the top of an em- 

 bankment. It appears that when he in- 

 tended to throw the shifting lever into 

 the reverse he put it in one of the 

 high gears, for the car jumped for- 

 ward and went over the bank. It re- 

 quired a half hour's work on the part 

 of the Stuppy greenhouse force to get 

 the car off their four visitors. Two 

 of the sons had escaped injury, but Mr. 

 Mueller was badly battered up, and so 

 was the 12-year-old boy. 



Mr. Mueller is one of the most pro- 

 gressive vegetable gardeners in the vi- 

 cinity of St. Joseph, operating a range 

 of glass of 30,000 square feet, and seven 

 acres of land, a portion of which is 

 equipped with the Skinner irrigating 

 system. The houses are provided 

 with the Wittbold watering system, and 

 during the winter months the houses 

 are full of Qrand Bapids lettuce, 

 changing as the season advances to 

 cauliflower, tomatoes and cucumbers. 



WOBMS TS FIELD SOIL. 



What is the best way of exterminat- 

 ing cutworms and wireworms from land 

 I intend to use another season f 



C. A. P. 



Plow the land before freezing 

 weather, after giving it a coating of 

 air-slaked lime at the rate of 2,000 

 pounds per acre. If you lime your land 

 every third year at that rate, cutworms 

 will not do you much damage. 0. W. 



Gieenhouses oi Ernst Mueller, St. Joseph, Mo. 



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