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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



lie made by putting' throe or four 



,, i jiliuits ill cacli and giving them a 



i„ i| in a warm, siiunv house. At this 



date tluM'e is not mucli sale for 



,; lin;^ phiiits, so it is as widl to keep 



.nliest flowers picked oil'. A few 



lidwever, sell at 'J'hanksij;i\ in^. As 



, as possible sliould be got in good 



• for Christinas, at whiih time Lor- 

 s are always a leader. 



iiil the flowers are well expanded, 



;k(' to give the {)lants a temperature 



I degrees. ^Vhen the plants are flow- 



- freely a house 10 degrees lower 



liai'di-n them and give the blooms 



• r substance. Be sure that where 

 necessary sup])orts have not been 

 I tliese are placed in the pots at 



The stakes should be thin and un- 



H-:ive always. Cow manure Avater 



lieiiefit the jilauts ■which arc well 



; iiund. Be on the safe side and let it 



!. .M'iik, rather than strong. 



Hardy Herbaceous Plants. 



' tober is the month j)ar excellence 



I the rejilanting of hartly herbaceous 

 |, iinials. I'eoiaes and the various irises 

 .., .lit to have been moved earlier, but it 

 I- iiiit too late to move them iluring tin- 

 |.:.-.(iit month. About all herbaceous 

 |.|,iils (Udiglit in a soil which is well 

 ii lined, de(>ply ])lowed and liberally 



II inured, ami it always pays to replant 

 III. Ill at intervals of three years, peonies 

 ii. iiig an excejition. It is a great mis- 

 ■■.ikr to leave planting until spring, when 

 -I. many other duties crowd us. Some of 

 Hi. useful genera which should be 

 ! I.iiited now are: Ilemerocallis, asters, 

 '1. liantlnis (except multiflorus plenus, 

 Ahirh is a doubtfully hardy plant in 

 iir.piy places), spira'as, aquilegias, cam- 

 |.:imdas (except Medium, which should be 

 Miitered in coldframes in the northern 

 -Miles). 



delphiniums planted in October will 

 il "wer finely next summer, as will veron- 

 I .IS, rudbeckias, jjhloxes of all kinds, 

 j.iysostegia, lupinus, lychnis, heuchera, 

 ji (isophila, heleniums, hibiscus, lily of 

 ;'.• valley, centaureas, hardy border ear- 

 iiiiims, boltonias, liatris, erigeron ami 

 ' "llius. 



\nemone Japonica is lietter trans- 



I 'iided in spring. Pyrethrum roseum 



'I be moved in either fall or spring; if 



'cfiilly mulched, fall is better than 



■iiig. Pyrethrum uliginosiim and the 



lieties of Chrysanthemum maxinuim, 



hiding the Hhasta ilaisy forms, do 



II moved in fall. Of course, all newly- 



iilcd herbaceous stock should have a 



I'liing of straw, lea\es, sts'iweed or 



' after the grounil is frozen solid, ••ind 



>''S will be few. 



MECONOPSIS INTEGRIFOLTA. 



I'll that intrepid explorer, E. H. 'Wil- 

 1. wild has just arri\cd in this country 



a stay at Harvard Botanic Garden 

 i Arnold ArlKiretum. to classify the 

 'Its sent there as a result of his last 

 I' to China, we are indebted for the 

 iiscovery of Meconopsis integrifolia. 

 \ Kussian originally discovered this 

 'it. and along with seeds of several 

 "T plants, and descrilxMl as from Yun- 

 I'. seed of M. integrifolia came into 



possession of Maurice de Yilmorin. 



"Ill these plant.s were raised, the first 



which flowered in April, 1S9G, and 



remainder the following year. TJn- 

 i'unately, the plants failed to produce 

 ' d, so that the final honors associated 

 'h Meconopsis integrifolia must un- 

 nbtedly be credited to the firm of J. 

 ■itch \- Sons, of ('iielst>a, to them ^\o 



Meconopsi& Integrifolia. 



are indebted for the photograph from 

 whicii the accompanying illustration was 

 ))repared. They say, with reference to 

 it: "In the neighborhooil of Tatieulu 

 the magniliceiit yellow pop]>y was discov- 

 ered by Wilson, who secured .-^eed fnnii 

 whicii plants were raised that llowered 

 at Langley in September, 1!H)4, atiil it 

 was distributed the following year.'' 

 Tile (iiirdeneis ' Magazine, Loiidun, re- 

 cently saiil of it: ''Not only have they 

 given to gardens a jdaiit of great beauty, 

 i)ut tiiey have ]ilaced it within easy 

 rea(di of all, and it is a matter of history 

 that Mecono[isis integrifolia ajipears 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 

 jdant specialists." says Thomas Smith, 

 a well known English specialist. "In 

 every respect it is typical of that in- 

 ordinate beauty characteristii* of the en- 

 tire genera; sharing features common to 



otiier species, it has a^o characters pe- 

 culiar to itself which render it most 

 distinct. The foliage is gray-green, 

 densely cIoIIkmI with innumerable fine, 

 ntM'dle like hairs of a golden amber color; 

 the leaves are \ariable — :U times long 

 :ind narrow; they occasionally measure 

 three inches across, and are always .ar- 

 ranged in the form of a rosette. The 

 golden, bail like flowers are carried upon 

 slender stalks \\hi(di spring at close in- 

 ter\als from the upper part of a simple 

 stem. These do not partake of the 

 ephemeral nature of the poppy race, as 

 1 luive noticed llowers remain effective 

 for a fortnight. The jdant is a hardy 

 biennial, and attains a height of two 

 feet under favorable conditions. It is 

 deidduous. though not to the same extent 

 as with M. acnieata and M. raceniosa. 



"The crucial stages in growing M. 

 integrifolia are those of seed raising, 

 ;ind in providing suitable fiowering quar- 

 ters. Practice will rea<lily overcome the 

 first, but intuition is necessary in inter- 

 preting flieir wants when jihmting per- 

 manently in the open. 



" Si>ed is short lived ;md riiust be sown 



