OCTOBEB 81, 1912. 



The Florists^ Review 



15 



An Example of the Unusual Orders that Come to a Florist. 



fit 6-inch and 7-inch pots. Use a sharp 

 spade for this work. After potting, 

 keep cold until wanted for forcing. A 

 little frost will be of benefit to them. 

 You should start forcing these by the 

 middle of January, if for Easter, in a 

 temperature of 60 to 65 degrees at 

 night. Spiraeas want an abundant 

 water supply. Be careful of them when 

 fumigating, as the foliage is easily 

 scorched. Stand on the ground or cover 

 with newspapers, if you must fumigate. 

 C. W. 



NOT A BULL MOOSE. 



No, the animal shown in the illustra- 

 tion is not a bull moose; it is not a 

 moose of any sort and has never mingled 

 in politics, though its maker, Herbert 

 Jarrett, of Kansas City, Mo., remarks 

 that it might please the public better if 

 it really were a representation of the 

 quadruped chosen as the symbol of the 

 Progressive party. It is a horse with a 

 rather flimsy skeleton of wire and an 

 outer covering of growing cypress vine. 

 This imitation horse, the horse of wire 

 and clinging vegetation, has stood all 

 summer by the grave of a real horse, 

 the owner of which is a great admirer 

 of horses, especially of the one faithful 

 horse that now lies under the sod. Or 

 perhaps it lies under the star-shaped 

 flower bed that is seen in the fore- 

 ground of the picture. 



"I have been complimented on the 

 animal .many times during the sum- 

 fner," says Mr. Jarrett, and then he 

 adds the comment already referred to, 

 as if his pleasure were tinged with just 

 a shade of regret — ' ' but it might please 

 the public better if it were a bull 

 moose." 



A NEW FEBN DISH. 



Victor Schousboe, of Westerly, E. I., 

 has invented and patented a fern dish 

 which, he believes, has special merits 

 that should attract favorable notice 

 from his fellow florists, though he also 

 says that he "invites any criticism 

 that may be forthcoming." 



"The ordinary fernery," he states, 

 ►"is too -erowded to properly display 

 the fern foliage. Take an individual 

 plant of any one of the different varie- 

 ties of table ferns and see if its foliage 

 is not of such beauty as to, deserve a 

 better getting than the common fern 

 'Jish affords it." 



With reference to his own fern dish, 

 he claims that "it is a design of merit; 

 't displays all kinds of table ferns to 



the best advantage; it lends itself 

 readily to a variation in the display 

 of ferns, and it is bound to attract 

 attention and promote the sale of table 

 ferns." 



The fernery illustrated here meas- 

 ures 12x18x3% inches. It accommo- 

 dates two 3-inch ferns, four 2%-ineh 

 ferns and one 4-inch pot for the center, 

 or a duck pond, as shown in the pic- 

 ture. The ferns, he says, are taken out 

 of the pots, the ball wrapped in damp 

 moss and then put in its proper place. 

 The gravel walks are sunk one-fourth 

 inch, so as to hold the sand and keep 

 it from spreading over the surface. 



THE BEST EVEBGBEEN VINE. 



The trade will do well to work up 

 stock of Euonymus radicans and espe- 

 cially of the variety vegetus. Such 

 press work as the vine every now and 

 then receives is sure to increase the 

 call for it. For instance, in the No- 

 vember Garden Magazine Wilhelm Mil- 

 ler gives the "evergreen bittersweet," 

 or climbing euonymus, a big boost, 

 calling it the best evergreen vine for 

 America. "In the first place," he 

 said, "it is evergreen, and therefore 

 has an obvious advantage over decidu- 

 ous vines in being beautiful 365 days 



of the year, instead of two weeks or 

 seven months. 



"Secondly, it is accommodating as 

 to soils, climate, exposures; is easy to 

 grow; ^nd will trail over the ground 

 or climb to the noble height of thirty 

 feet. 



"Thirdly, it has an immense advan- 

 tage over ivy in being much hardier, 

 growing twenty feet high in New Eng- 

 land, where ivy can be grown only as 

 a ground-cover. 



"Fourthly, its superb red fruits, 

 which closely resemble those of oui 

 common wild bittersweet, seem divinely 

 appointed to redeem our American win- 

 ters from their bleak, ugly and cheer- 

 less moods. 



* ' And fifthly, it promises to develop 

 a strong American character, becoming 

 as universal and as dear to the Amer- 

 ican heart as ivy is in Europe. For, 

 although it is a foreign plant, it comes 

 from the closely allied climate of Ja- 

 pan, and it likes our conditions so well 

 that it has already started to run wild 

 in America, sowing its own seeds and 

 making great pictures of immortal 

 beauty, as at Swan Point cemetery. 

 Providence, E. I. 



"As in England every home and 

 every church is enriched, dignified and 

 ennobled by ivy, so every American 

 home will come to be connected so 

 closely with the evergreen bittersweet 

 that it will be impossible to think of 

 one without the other. 



"The plain Euonymus radicans is 

 better than any variegated variety, 

 because it bears fruit and is hardier. 

 The finest variety of the climbing bit- 

 tersweet that I have seen is the round- 

 leaved form known as Euonymus radi- 

 cans, var. vegetus. Some claim that it 

 is only a fruiting form, and that if you 

 plant the common E. radicans, it will 

 eventually produce branches like 

 vegetus. But it is certainly distinct 

 from Carrier!, for the latter has ellip- 

 tical leaves, and vegetus is said to 

 produce heavy crops of showy berries 

 even on small plants — a most desirable 

 trait. ' ' 



North Beverly, Mass. — Aubrey A 

 Pembroke's new greenhouses have been 

 completed. His range is about half 

 a mile from the North Beverly station. 



Fern Dish Patented hj Victor Schousboe, Westerly, R. L 



