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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



SKKI'EMBKK 



1909. 



Cannas. 



Cannas are now in full beauty, and 

 what a gap there would be were they 

 taken away from our list of flowering 

 bedding plants! Of course, it is yet 

 much too early to lift any of them, but 

 it is a good time to look over your stock, 

 mark any rogues and see that the really 

 first-class sorts, ^hich sell, are all cor- 

 rectly labeled. If your stock of these 

 is low and you have a good call for 

 them, it will pay you to visit some 

 reliable grower who specializes in them. 

 You can also get good points by looking 

 over the bedding in any of the neighbor- 

 ing parks or public gardens. Cannas as 

 bedding plants are here to stay, and no 

 retail grower can afford to be without 

 them. 



Lilium Candidum. 



French bulbs of Lilium candidum are 

 due to arrive in a few days. They should 

 be potted or planted immediately on 

 arrival. It will be noticed that leaf 

 growth has already started on many of 

 the bulbs, and if they are not unpacked 

 on arrival they speedily become com- 

 pletely tangled with roots. 



In potting, cover the bulbs about two 

 inches, using sand below and above 

 • them. Boxes six inches deep, or large 

 sized pots containing several bulbs each, 

 will be found more satisfactory than 

 single b«lbs in a pot. Stand outdoors 

 on a bed of ashes when potted and keep 

 them there until quite sharp frost ar- 

 rives. This beautiful lily will not suc- 

 ceed if treated like L. longiflornm. It 

 makes its circlet of leaves in lall and 

 must ■ therefore be potted early. Any 

 outdoor planting should not be delayed 

 later than the end of September and 

 bulbs should not be covered more than 

 four inches. / 

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 \ Peonies. 



Peonies, in common with iris and many 

 other early blooming, hardy perennials, 

 (Jo bettM- if planted early in the fall, 

 and th)«re is no better time for this work 

 than/the last week in August and first 

 half of September. Of course planting 

 can be done until the ground freezes, 

 but for the best results it should be 

 (lone not later than October 1. 



Peonies do not require moving as tre- 

 quently as iris or phlox and can be left 

 undisturbed for quite a number of years. 

 Where the clumps, however, become very 

 large, they are liable to flower sparsely, 

 division of the roots then becoming 

 necessary. Peonies are heavy feeders 

 and plenty of good barnyard manure 

 should be worked into the soil before 

 setting them out. Any well drained land 

 will grow them, sandy or gravelly soils 

 growing fully as good flowers as clay 

 loams, when the necessary feeding is 

 given. Place the plants three feet apart 

 in the rows, and allow four feet between 

 the rows for horse cultivation where the 

 plants are to remain permanently. 

 ' Peonies have not yet reached their 

 greatest popularity and the talk of a 

 possible glut of them is farfetched. 

 There probably are too many of some of 

 the old, undesirable colored sorts, but 

 of good, pure whites, clear pinks, bright 

 roses and other attractive shades there 

 is no overstock in sight. No florist can 

 afford to be without a bed of peonies 

 and those without them should prepare 

 to plant them now. 



A few inexpensive sorts of sterling 

 merit are: Festiva Maxima, pure white, 

 tipped crimson, still hard to beat; 



Couronne d'Or, fine late white; M. Du- 

 pont, ivory white; Mme. de Vemeville, 

 delicate rosy white; Mme. Jules Elie, 

 flesh pink, shading to rose; Duchesse de 

 Ner^urs (Guerin), bright pink; Duch- 

 esse de Nemours (Calot), sulphur white; 

 Felix Crousse, bright red; Mme. Emile 

 Galle, soft lilac, light center; Pottsi 

 Alba, soft pink; Octave Demay, soft 

 pink, with deeper center; Bosea Superba, 

 rose pink. 



The foregoing dozen varieties are all 

 first-class and of colors which are de- 

 sirable commercially. For any who may 

 wish to purchase a few that are some- 

 what higher priced, the following are 

 fine: Marguerite Gerard, flesh pink; 

 Mme. Emile Lemoine, pinkish , white; 

 Baroness Schroeder, white, cream center; 

 Marie Lemoine, sulphur white; La Ten- 

 dresse, pure white; Marie Crousse, soft 

 flesh. 



Little Silver, N, J. — Charles W. 

 Schneider is building an addition to his 

 greenhouses, on Markham road. 



Freepoet, III. — John Bauscher has 

 bought 500 boxes of glass of Sharp, 

 Partridge & Co., Chicago, for an imme- 

 diate addition to his place. 



Dover, N. H. — Charles L. Howe fur- 

 nished most of the flowers for the 

 Pierce-Dexter wedding at the Pierce 

 Memorial church, August 7. 



Kansas City, Mo. — It is reported 

 Alpha Elberfield is planning a range of 

 glass, to be operated in connection with 

 the retail business of the Alpha Floral 

 Co. 



Des Moines, Ia. — C. W. Davison, man- 

 ager of the greenhouse department of the 

 Iowa Seed Co., recently returned from a 

 month's trip east, in search of informa- 

 tion for the plant department. 



Sedalia, Mo. — Charles A. Pfeiffer has 

 gone to Denver with his wife and child, 

 for a five weeks' trip, in which business 

 and pleasure will be combined. He re- 

 ports business conditions in his section 

 good. 



Springfield, Mo. — Mrs. Louise Frick, 

 the wife of a florist at 1205 Boonville 

 street, has been sued for $10,000 dam- 

 ages, on the charge that impure milk 

 sold by Mrs. Frick caused the death of 

 a neighbor's baby. 



Franklin, Mass. — William Stewart, 

 the purchaser of the Slade greenhouse, 

 has given up the business and removed 

 to Brockton, where he will engage in the 

 florists' trade. The property here re- 

 verts to the Slade estate. 



Des Moines, Ia. — The Guthrie-Lorenz 

 Co. has moved from 420 Sixth avenue to 

 West Seventh street and Grand avenue. 

 The firm now has the entire room on the 

 southeast corner of Seventh and Grand, 

 which has been remodeled for its use. 



Joliet, III. — Albert Rott was super- 

 intendent of the floricultural section of 

 the big fair, August 23 to 28. The 

 premium list provided classes for retail 

 work, plants and cut flowers and also for 

 amateur flower displays, all staged Au- 

 gust 25. 



Princeton, III. — Carl Erickson, the 

 south end florist, is building a fine resi- 

 dence and is planning to build a cement 

 sidewalk along the whole front of his 

 place, forty rods in length. The W. E. 

 Trimble Hothouse Co. is building an addi- 

 tional house, 30x200 feet, which will be 

 used for roses and palms. One of the 

 old houses, 30x200, will be used for car- 

 nations and sweet peas, and the other, 

 30x100, for mixed stock. 



Toledo, O. — Krueger Bros., of Clark 

 and Nevada streets, are building three, 

 additional greenhouses, 30x256, on their 

 property on Woodville - street. The 

 houses will be used for growing carna- 

 tions. 



Haverhill, Mass. — John E. Tabor 

 and Willis Eaton have purchased a tract 

 of land at North Parish and have built 

 thereon a greenhouse, 30x300, as the be- 

 ginning of a range in which roses will 

 be largely grown. 



Dayton, O. — Harry Papworth, of New 

 Orleans, spent several days here after 

 the Cincinnati convention and on the 

 evening of August 25 a number of his 

 local friends in the trade tendered him 

 an informal dinner at the Atlas hotel. 



ASHTABXILA, 0. — The plant and other 

 property of the Ashtabula Greenhouse 

 Co., on Bunker Hill, have passed to the 

 control of William Regner, of Chestnut 

 street. Mr. Regner recently completed 

 a deal by which he secured a controlling 

 interest in the concern. 



Concordville, Pa. — Henry Hannam, 

 who for the last fifteen years has been 

 employed at the establishment of J. J. 

 Styer, has ended his connection with that 

 place and is now in West Chester, Pa. 

 It is stated that Mr. Styer will not run 

 his greenhouses the coming winter. 



Omaha, Neb. — Lewis Henderson will 

 take a carload of plants and cut flowers 

 to Lincoln, Neb., to be exhibited at the 

 state fair, which will be held September 

 6 to 10. On Tuesday, the second day of 

 the fair, there will be a fine display of 

 flowers and many prizes will be offered. 



Bay City, Mich.— The Roethke Flo- 

 rist Co., which had been occupying tempo- 

 rary quarters at 514 Washington avenue, 

 has now moved to its own building at 

 818 Jefferson avenue. The new home of 

 this concern is complete and up-to-date 

 in evei*y respect, including fine glass 

 cooling rooms. 



New Martinsville, W. Va. — Charles 

 Rockwell, who has for several years con- 

 ducted a greenhouse and truck farm at 

 the northern end of the city, has decided 

 to discontinue business here and will 

 locate at Enterprise, W. Va., fourteen 

 miles from Clarksburg, where he has pur- 

 chased a farm. 



RocKFORD, III. — C. W. Johnson, super- 

 intendent of the H. W. Buckbee green- 

 houses, has tendered his resignation; it 

 took effect September 1. The local 

 trade will regret his departure, as he was 

 well liked and looked upon as an author- 

 ity on carnations and mums. He is 

 secretary of the Chrysanthemum Society 

 of America. 



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