The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



July 28 1910. 



best of the genus. T. Express is the 

 earliest variety of flower. T. uvaria 

 grandiflora is a well known, strong 

 growing, reliable sort. A few other 

 (extra good sorts are: T. uvaria nobilis, 

 K. Wilson Kerr and Saundersii. With 

 many the tritomas are not hardy. To 

 winter outside, they must be on well 

 drained land and covered with a thick 

 bed of leaves. It will pay, however, 

 to store a number thickly in a cold- 

 frame. 



Lobelia cardinalis is generally looked 

 npon as a plant only for the water 

 garden or extra moist places. It does 

 well, however, in any well enriched her- 

 baceous border and its brilliant scarlet 

 flowers are now opening. To propagate 

 this lobelia, it pays to save one's own 

 seed. Sow these in February and strong 

 plants, many of which will flower the 

 same season, will be had. L. syphilitica, 

 with its blue flowers, is a useful border 

 plant, succeeding well under quite dry 

 conditions. 



Campanulas and Coreopsis. 



Of the campanulas, the charming lit- 

 tle Carpatica or Carpathian bell flower 

 is one of the finest of edging plants, 

 blooming practically all summer. The 

 Canterbury bells, C. Medium, are all 

 gone. Seedlings are now transplanted 



ful perennial. The variety raeemosa is 

 a handsome one, growing five to six 

 feet high and carrying spikes of pure 

 white flowers at present. This is good 

 for the edge of woodlands, as well as 

 for the back of the flower border. 



Coreopsis grandiflora has been bloom- 

 ing for some weeks. It needs to have 

 the seed pods removed every week to 

 prolong its season. C.'verticillata, with 

 its finely divided foliage and masses 

 of small golden yellow flowers, is a 

 neat plant for the front portion of the 

 border. Anchusa Italica Dropmore, 

 with its beautiful, intensely blue flow- 

 ers, is the finest perennial of its color 

 now in season. It is easily raised from 

 seed. No florist can afford to be with- 

 out a row or a few clumps of Achillea 

 Ptarmica The Pearl. It flowers over a 

 long season and few hardy flowers are 

 so valuable for cutting. 



Incarvillea Delavayi is not reliably 

 hardy. It is, however, a noble peren- 

 nial, producing strong spikes of rose- 

 colored, gloxinia-like flowers. An oc- 

 casional pure white plant is found. An 

 excellent one is to be seen in the gar- 

 dens of N. T. Kidder, Milton, Mass. 



Asters, Llllums and Others. 



The real aster season does not come 

 until August or September, but some 



Gladioli in a Stone Jar. 



in nursery rows for next year's display. 

 C. persicifolia Moerheimi is still flower- 

 ing. It is a beautiful double white va- 

 riety. C. pyramidalis will soon be in 

 full flower. The severe drought affected 

 it more than some other sorts. To see 

 this at its best, it should be grown in 

 large pots outdoors. 



Cimicifuga, or snake root, is a use- 



early members of the family, including 

 A. subcceruleus, violet blue; Amellus 

 Beaute Parfait, royal purple, and one or 

 two others, are already passing. The 

 noble Astilbe Davidii succeeds best in 

 damp ground, where it grows five to six 

 feet high. Its handsome plumes of 

 deep rose-purple flowers are now open. 

 Yellow flowered perennials are less 



abundant than they will be a morith 

 later. Helenium Hoopesii, orange vel- 

 low, is one; and Helenium grandee- 

 phalum striatum, orange blotched ciim. 

 son, is also now in season. Heuchera 

 sanguinea, with its loose, graceful 

 spikes of red flowers, is opening. I; jg 

 one of the most charming of pcien- 

 nials. Heuchera alba is a good grover, 

 but is of a dirty white color and 'lot 

 worth growing. OEnothera Youngii Mid 

 O. Missouriensis are two golden yeL'ow 

 varieties of the evening primrose, winch 

 have been flowering for the last fort 

 night. There are always some of the 

 lychnis in bloom in summer. L. Chal 

 cedonica is still brilliant; vespertinji fl. 

 pi. is a persistent bloomer. Pentstemon 

 barbatus Torreyi has been in bloom for 

 a few days and the charming Stokesia 

 cyanea is just opening. 



No hardy flower garden is complete 

 without liliums. The varieties candi- 

 dum, Hansoni and the several forms of 

 elegans are gone, but auratum is now 

 quite good. Brownii and excelsum will 

 soon open^ their flowers. The robust 

 Henryi, with stems six to eight feet 

 high, and masses of tigrinum will soon 

 make a goodly showing. The specio- 

 sums are also showing their buds, as 

 are Wallacei, pardalinum superbum and 

 Batemanniffi. All the lilies are much 

 better well mulched in summer, and if 

 they can be watered, so much the better. 

 0. 



BOCHESTEB A FLOWER CENTEE. 



George B. Hart, who was Rochester's 

 first wholesale commission florist, and 

 still its only one, has written an article 

 for the Souvenir, by means of which 

 the local club is meeting a part of the 

 convention expenses, in which he sets 

 forth some interesting facts, as follows: 



"The growing of flowers as a com- 

 mercial venture dates back almost to 

 the incorporation of the village of 

 Rochester, but not until about 1840 did 

 the business assume any degree of im- 

 portance. The first noted florists and 

 horticulturists were William Ellwanger 

 and Patrick Barry, who began business 

 in. 1840. 



' ' In 1870 James Vick opened the first 

 flower store in connection with his seed 

 business, at that time located on State 

 street, in the building now occupied 

 by H. B. Graves. This department was 

 continued until the seed business wa» 

 removed to a new warehouse on East 

 avenue, in 1880; then it was assuni '1 

 by R. G. Salter. Several years lat ^r 

 the firm of Salter Bros, was formed, 



"Among the pioneers of the busin s 

 none stood higher than J. B. Keller a d 

 Fred Schlegel, both of whom were as > 

 ciated with Ellwanger & Barry. T o 

 early training of these men and th r 

 continued study made their stateme- s 

 regarding perennials, as well as gre( ":• 

 house plants, accepted as author ■^' 

 among florists and nurserymen gee ' 

 ally. 



"About twenty years ago Jar *'9 

 Bishop, at his houses on St. Paul strct, 

 showed the first benched chrysantbi^- 

 mums. So far as can be learned, tiiis 

 was the first exhibit of chrysanthemums 

 grown in this manner. 



"While Rochester is a large consutc';'' 

 of flowers and plants, the business '^ 

 not by any means in the hands of two 

 or three large dealers — it is rather a 

 city in which many small florists fi"'^^ 

 business profitable. From 1880 to 18S5 

 about 3,500 square feet of glass was 

 devoted to growing flowers. Today » 



