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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



September 23, 1009. 



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effects of persistent deep cultivation. 

 You know the Dreers do things in a 

 thorough sort of way; the Jersey farm- 

 ers plow three inches, the Dreers ten, 

 and then they cultivate, and as soon 

 as they are through with cultivating they 

 cultivate some more. The result of all 

 this was that moisture had been con- 

 served, as the experts say — preserved 

 would perhaps be plain English — and un- 

 der that mixture of soil, subsoil, manures 

 and what not there was moisture; yes, 

 there really was, and those phloxes were 

 worth going miles and miles to see. "A 

 rag carpet," Mr. Strohlein said, and he 

 added with a touch of humor, * ' The new 

 fence around the field is intended to 

 keep out the newspaper men." It did 

 not. 



As I remarked before, all the phloxes 

 showed remarkable vigor, considering the 

 drought. The colors were beautiful, in 

 rows of scarlet, white and pink succeed- 

 ing each other; the color contrast was 

 bewildering. One block alone contained 

 four and a half acres. Just think of it! 

 Four and a half acres of nothing but 

 phloxes! The object lesson was the 

 beautiful effect made possible by these 

 evenly growing, free blooming perennials. 

 Fancy one of the grand places at New- 

 port with a long border of scarlet Co- 

 quelicots reaching as far as the eye 

 can see, with hedge behind and velvety 

 turf in front. Mr. Strohlein is a color 

 enthusiast. He selected fine blooms of 

 Von Hochberg, crimson; Siebold, scarlet; 

 Selma, pale rose mauve, and Mrs. Jen- 

 kins, white, calling attention to their 

 beauty in combination. Aglaj Adanson, 

 snow-white with red center, was espe- 

 cially admired. 



Among the varieties selected by Harry 

 C. Sim as of unusual merit are the fol- 

 lowing: White, F. G. Von Lassburg, Al- 

 bion, Hermine; scarlet, George A. Stroh- 

 lein, Coquelicot, General Von Heutz; 

 red, Vesuvius; rosy carmine, E. P. 

 Struthers; delicate lilac rose, Mme. Paul 

 Dutrie; deep reddish violet, Le Mahdi; 

 mottled, Antonin Mercie. 



Some of the best new varieties are 

 Klizabeth Campbell, Herman Fisher and 

 Frau Rosalie Wildt. 



The water-loving propensities of the 

 eannas made conditions more trying to 

 them than to the other plants. Despite 



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this, they look well, showing a robust, 

 vigorous growth, and are free flowering. 

 The varieties were planted in solid rows, 

 giving excellent opportunity for compari- 

 son. Among the bronze-leaved varieties 

 King Humbert and Egandale were con- 

 spicuous. Florence Vaughan, another old 

 favorite, was beautiful among the yellow 

 variegated. Buttercup was there, too, 

 representing the pure type, but the most 

 striking yellow or yellow variegated in 

 the field was the English variety, R. Wal 

 lace, which Mr. Strohlein said was uni- 

 formly good wherever seen. There wore 

 some white varieties, including Mont 

 Blanc. The impression created by the 

 eannas was that of the best standard 

 sorts, that would weather well. 



Dahlias had made good growtli, but 

 were not generally in flower when seen. 

 Jack, a single scarlet which Mr. Clark ap- 

 proves, was very showy. A number of 

 the standard sorts were in bloom, but a 

 little later will be better for the bulk 

 of the stock. Indications point to an 

 excellent crop of roots. 



A passing glance was given to a beau- 

 tiful field of roses on one side of the 



road, and on the other one of delphia- 

 iums. 



A new fertilizer was carefully in- 

 spected. 



I cannot recall having seen a weed. 



At Keith's. 



September is the month for closing the 

 parks and opening the theaters, so im 

 September interest naturally centers in 

 the new productions at the playhouses. 

 Keith's theater, the leading vaudeville 

 house of the city, has a new attraction 

 this week. It is a one-act playlet ar 

 ranged by George Beban & Co., entitled 

 "The Sign of the Rose." The display 

 card shows a little girl presenting the 

 hero with a long-stemmed American 

 Beauty rose. The scene is lairf in a 

 flower shop, though not an exact repro- 

 duction of our own Sign of the Rose. 

 An incideiit in the play is the application 

 of a young man for the position of man- 

 ager of the flower shop. When asked 

 what were his qualifications, he replied: 

 "I worked under Charles Henry Fox." 

 Mr. Beban called on Mr. Fox and ex- 

 plained that he had been attracted by the 



