OCTOBEE 7, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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ji be made by putting three or four 

 ill plants in each and giving them a 

 ,.;h in a warm, sunny house. At this 

 iy date there is not much sale for 

 ering plants, so it is as well to keep 

 earliest flowers picked off. A few 

 1, however, sell at Thanksgiving. As 

 ;iy as possible should be got in good 

 ■te for Christmas, at which time Lor- 

 ies are always a leader, 

 ntil the flowers are well expanded, 

 like to give the plants a temperature 

 60 degrees. When the plants are flow- 

 g freely a house 10 degrees lower 

 ; harden them and give the blooms 

 iter substance. Be sure that where 

 necessary supports have not been 

 n these are placed in the pots at 

 ;'. The stakes should be thin and un- 

 rusive always. Cow manure water 

 1 benefit the plants which are well 

 Ijound. Be on the safe side and let it 

 weak, rather than strong. 



Hardy Herbaceous Plants. 



October is the month par excellence 

 fill the replanting of hardy herbaceous 

 jicionnials. Peonies and the various irises 

 (iuj,'lit to have been moved earlier, but it 

 is not too late to move them during the 

 jiiesent month. About all herbaceous 

 jiliints delight in a soil which is well 

 drained, deeply plowed and liberally 

 manured, and it always pays to replant 

 llicm at intervals of three years, peonies 

 being an exception. It is a great mis- 

 take to leave planting until spring, when 

 so many other duties crowd us. Some of 

 the useful genera which should be 

 planted now are: Hemerocallis, asters, 

 helianthus (except multiflorus plenus, 

 which is a doubtfully hardy plant in 

 many places), spiraeas, aquilegias, cam- 

 panulas (except Medium, which should be 

 wintered in coldframes in the northern 

 states). 



Delphiniums planted in October will 

 flower finely next summer, as will veron- 

 icas, rudbeckias, phloxes of all kinds, 

 physostegia, lupinus, lychnis, heuchera, 

 gypsophila, heleniums, hibiscus, lily of 

 tiie valley, centaureas, hardy border car- 

 nations, boltonias, liatris, erigeron and 

 trollius. 



Anemone Japonica is better trans- 

 planted in spring. Pyrethrum roseum 

 can be moved in either fall or spring; if 

 carefully mulched, fall is better than 

 spring. Pyrethrum uliginosum and the 

 varieties of Chrysanthemum maximum, 

 including the Shasta daisy forms, do 

 ^ •11 moved in fall. Of course, all newly- 

 I 'unted herbaceous stock should have a 

 I ulching of straw, leaves, seaweed or 

 ! y after the ground is frozen solid, and 

 i -ises will be few. 



MECONOPSIS INTEGRIFOLTA. 



To that intrepid explorer, E. H. Wil- 

 li, who has just arrived in this country 

 r a stay at Harvard Botanic Garden 

 I'l Arnold Arboretum, to classify the 

 ants sent there as a result of his last 

 ip to China, we are indebted for the 

 liscovery of Meconopsis integrifolia. 

 A Russian originally discovered this 

 ! :int, and along with seeds of several 

 lier plants, and described as from Yun- 

 •n, seed of M. integrifolia came into 

 'R possession of Maurice de Vilmorin. 

 ' rom these plants were raised, the first 

 ' ' which flowered in April, 1896, and 

 '•le remainder the following year. Un- 

 ''Ttunately, the plants failed to produce 

 ••ed, so that the final honors associated 

 ^ ith Meconopsis integrifolia must un- 

 ■';mbtedly be credited to the firm of J. 

 ^'oitch & Sons, of Chelsea, to them we 



Meconopsis Integrifolia. 



are indebted for the photograph from 

 which the accompanying illustration was 

 prepared. They say, with reference to 

 it: "In the neighborhood of Tatieulu 

 the magnificent yellow poppy was discov- 

 ered by Wilson, who secured seed from 

 which plants were raised that flowered 

 at Langley in September, 1904, and it 

 was distributed the following year." 

 The Gardeners' Magazine, London, re- 

 cently said of it: "Not only have they 

 given to gardens a plant of great beauty, 

 but they have placed it within easy 

 reach of all, and it is a matter of history 

 that Meconopsis integrifolia appears tri- 

 umphantly in this firm's exhibit every 

 year, at the Temple show. At the one 

 recently held they contributed a group 

 that testified alike to the vigor of the 

 species and to the skill displayed in its 

 •Cultivation. ' * 



"Since its introduction, M. integri- 

 folia has been the ambition of hardy 

 plant specialists," says Thomas Smith, 

 a well known English specialist. "In 

 every respect it is typical of that in- 

 ordinate beauty characteristic of the en- 

 tire genera; sharing features common to 



other species, it has also characters pe- 

 culiar to itself which render it most 

 distinct. The foliage is gray-green, 

 densely clothed with innumerable fine, 

 needle-like hairs of a golden-amber color ; 

 the leaves are variable — at times long 

 and narrow; they occasionally measure 

 three inches across, and are always ar- 

 ranged in the form of a rosette. The 

 golden, ball-like flowers are carried upon 

 slender stalks which spring at close in- 

 tervals from the upper part of a simple 

 stem. These do not partake of the 

 ephemeral nature of the poppy race, as 

 I have noticed flowers remain effective 

 for a fortnight. The plant is a hardy 

 biennial, and attains a height of two 

 feet under favorable conditions. It is 

 deciduous, though not to the same extent 

 as with M. aculeata and M. racemosa. 



"The. crucial stages in growing M. 

 integrifolia are those of seed raising, 

 and in providing suitable flowering quar- 

 ters. Practice will readily overcome the 

 first, but intuition is necessary in inter- 

 preting their wants when planting per- 

 manently in the open. 



"Seed is short-lived and must be sown 



