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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 10, 1011. 



its sprays fall far down. Fill the place 

 between the screens and the front of 

 the window with purple-blue pansies, 

 as near the color of the Jackmani as 

 can be obtained. It will be a dull eye 

 that this will not attract. G. B. 



BASEBALL FOB PXTBLICITY. 



One of the unusual ways of advertis- 

 ing a flower store is that adopted by 

 Kingsley & Seeger, at St. Louis, who 

 are proprietors of the business known 

 as the Mullanphy Florist. They uni- 

 form a baseball team to carry the store 

 name. It is quite a common practice 

 in the larger cities for business con- 

 cerns that cater to the trade of young 

 men to back teams to carry the firm's 

 name on the baseball diamonds of the 



city and surrounding towns. Frequent- 

 ly a big bank or other business house 

 will supply uniforms to a baseball nine 

 composed ostensibly of employees, but 

 really including outsiders, but so far 

 as known this is the first time a florist 

 has sought this kind of publicity. 

 Kingsley & Seeger invested $150 in the 

 attractive suits for their team, dec- 

 orating the shirt fronts with the trade- 

 mark style of name used on all their 

 business stationery. The manager, of 

 course, is close to the firm and the 

 players are required to store its uni- 

 form with the team's backers, who 

 keep them clean and neat, so that they 

 can be protected from loss and also can 

 see to it that the team is a creditable 

 representative. 



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French Bulbs. 



Boman hyacinths and Paper "White 

 narcissi are among the bulbs due short- 

 ly to arrive. These are useful, espe- 

 cially when the chrysanthemum season 

 is on the wane. It is easy to flower 

 Paper Whites for Thanksgiving if they 

 are placed in flats as soon as received, 

 and Boman hyacinths, while they do 

 not flower quite so early, can be 

 bloomed without trouble for Christmas. 

 Flats containing four to five inches of 

 soil should be used for these French 

 bulbs. It is commonly said that any 

 old soil is good enough for bulbs. Do 

 not believe any such nonsense. If you 

 want good bulbs of any kind, you 

 must have new compost, with sufficient 

 food in it to supply the roots with 

 what they need. Two parts of loam, 

 one part of old, well-decayed cow or 

 horse manure and some sharp sand 

 make a good compost. Where mush- 

 rooms are grown, the old material can 

 take the place of the other manures 

 named. 



Mignonette. 



Early in August the early sowing of 

 mignonette can be made; either solid 

 beds or raised benches will answer. If 

 the latter are used, be sure there are 

 no heating pipes below, for mignonette 

 loves a cool, moist bottom. A com- 

 post such as is used for carnations or 

 mums will grow excellent mignonette. 

 If the soil has been in the benches for 

 some time and has been scratched over 

 two or three times to kill out weak 

 seedlings, so much the better. It is 

 important to have a first-class strain 

 of seed, such as is offered by a num- 

 ber of the leading seedsmen. Do not 

 sow ordinary seed, or the spikes will 

 not be what you would like to see. 

 Sow the seed several together in little 

 batches, fourteen or fifteen inches apart 

 each way. It is easy to thin them 

 out later, leaving the strongest. 



The first spikes thrown up by mi- 

 gnonette do not amount to much and 

 they come too early to be of any com- 

 mercial value. Pinch them back when 

 the flowers start to open. This causes 

 the plants to branch out from near the 



ground, and these shoots will give 

 strong spikes through the early part 

 of the winter. The finest mignonette 

 spikes are always produced in the cold- 

 est months, and February sees this 

 plant at its best. Mignonette must 

 have a cool house; 40 degrees at night 

 should be the winter minimum, and it 

 wants all possible light and plenty of 

 water at the roots. 



Bambler Boses. 



Pot-grown ramblers will now have 

 long, strong canes. These are the plants 

 par excellence for early forcing. The 

 pots should be pluqfged, the shoots 

 staked up and the plants located where 

 the hose can be freely used among 

 them. Where stock is being grown 

 planted out, it will also pay to give 

 it a little care. The pink ramblers 

 have a prostrate habit under natural 



conditions. In order to ripen up the 

 wood well, therefore, a stout stake 

 should be driven into the ground for 

 each plant and the best shoots loosely 

 tied up to it. Many plants make far 

 too many shoots, and as four to five 

 are all that is necessary, it is better 

 to cut out all the weaker ones. The 

 ideal way to grow these ramblers is 

 ^ongside a lightly constructed fence, 

 so that the shoots can be tied up and 

 get the full benefit of sunshine, air 

 and light, to insure hard, well-ripened 

 wood. 



Transplanting Seedlings. 



August is an excellent month for the 

 transplanting of many seedlings. We 

 usually are favored with showers at 

 intervals and every advantage should 

 be taken of such occasions to prick 

 out seedlings of such plants as digitalis, 

 hollyhocks, Canterbury bells, larkspur, 

 aquilegias, lupines, rockets, coreopsis, 

 gaillardias, sweet williams and any 

 other hardy perennials or biennials, 

 which should go out in beds or 

 nursery rows, and which, when kept 

 constantly cultivated, will make a 

 really surprising growth before the 

 end of October. Place the strong 

 growing varieties, which include holly- 

 hocks, rockets, coreopsis and gaillar- 

 dias, a foot part; six to eight inches 

 will suffice for the majority of the 

 other varieties. No florist will go far 

 wrong in stocking up heavily on this 

 class of plants, as the demand for them 

 is ever on the increase. 



COLD STOBAOE LILIES. 



What treatment shall I give cold 

 storage bulbs of giganteum and other 

 lilies I N. N. 



After potting, place the pots in a 

 dark position, such as a cellar floor, 

 where no sun wiU reach them. If no 

 cellar is at disposal, a shed or cold' 

 frame will answer well. If a frame is 

 used, cover the pots with board shut- 

 ters. Water well after potting, then 

 more sparingly until the pots are nicely 

 filled with roots. When the growths 

 are three to four inches long, the plants 

 may be put on a bench in a house with, 



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