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April 29, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



usual, using a load of manure to six of 

 sods and soil. The weather following, 

 and continuing well into the winter, was 

 unusually dry. The result was that the 

 compost did not get soaked, and when 

 taken under cover, late in October, was 

 quite dry, but well rotted. But, as re- 

 sults showed, it had not properly com- 

 posted, owing to this dryness. 



The effect of this soil on different 

 plants was as varied as the plants them- 

 selves. Stock plants of salvias and 

 geraniums failed to take hold, many 

 dying outright. Sword ferns lifted 

 from the bench did absolutely nothing, 

 though they remained in an apparently 

 healthy condition, and they were given 

 new soil later. Cinerarias and double 

 petunias did remarkably well. 



Cuttings of salvia did poorly, showing 

 a weak, yellow growth. These, without 

 any change, started an unusually vigor- 

 ous growth in March, showing that the 

 watering brought about the proper soil 

 conditions. Cuttings of cuphea were a 

 failure, and cuttings of vinca nearly so, 

 but later they took hold, as did the sal- 

 via. 



Some of the soil, left out to the action 

 of the weather, has proven all that could 

 be desired. 



I have no doubt that many florists have 

 suffered from a like cause. Moral : See 

 that your soil has one thorough soaking, 

 artificially if not by the grace of God. 



E. Z. NuPF. 



HOW OLD IS ANN? 



S. F. Leonard, president of the Leon- 

 ard Seed Co., is 56. He is the 

 pioneer grower of onion sets at Chicago, 

 and is autochthonous.* 



Father Dorner will be 72 November 

 29. He was born at Baden, Germany, 

 and now the florists there are beginning 

 to grow the carnations he has raised at 

 La Fayette. 



A. F. J. Baur, secretary of the Amer- 

 ican Carnation Society, is 33. A Pennsyl- 

 vania minister's son, born at Bloomfield, 

 it was iqevitable he should go into the 

 flower business. 



L. L. May, florist, seedsman, nursery- 

 man and police commissioner at St. Paul, 

 is 52. He was born at Oshawa, On- 

 tario, and became a member of the Seed 

 Traflie Association in 1895. 



Carl N. Thomas, who spends the sum- 

 mers on the old home farm and the win- 

 ters doing the worrying for the A. L. 

 Randall Co., Chicago, is 44. He was 

 born, brought up and still lives at West 

 Springfield, Pa. 



Benj. Dorrance, who got his sheep- 

 skin at Princeton, will be 63 in August. 

 He was the first president of the Ameri- 

 can Rose Society, and but for him we 

 might never have known the forcing 

 quality of Killamey. His town is named 

 for him. 



^Robert Simpson, of Clifton, N. J., is 

 4^. He is a conservative, perhaps be- 

 cause he was born in Yorkshire, England, 

 and his early residence at Chicago was 

 too brief for his complete recovery. He 

 was the first rose forcer to graft Maid 

 and Bride on Manetti. 



Edgar F. Winterson, chief of the Chi- 

 cago Indians when the tribe was young. 

 IS 42; born at Devizes, England. His 

 scalp lock has long since disappeared — 



Tu Ju *^^' ^"^* S*'"® t^« ^ay of plants 

 that have too much bottom heat. He is 

 treasurer of the Chicago Florists' Club. 

 We™er. *^ "''* "° Infection; look It up In 



The Climbioc: Hydraasfea. 



S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia, will not 

 be 40 until the last day of August. Born 

 in Upper Darby, Delaware county, he 

 was the first to install artificial refrig- 

 eration for the wholesale flower busi- 

 ness. 



THE CLIMBING HYDRANGEA. 



The climbing hydrangea is not a hy- 

 drangea ;it all, but a schizophragma ; it 

 might as properly be said the schizo- 

 phragma,. for it is a monotypic genus. 

 Schizophragma hydrangeoides is closely 

 allied to the hydrangea. The species is 

 often confounded with Hydrangea petio- 

 laris and, like it, young plants produce 

 small leaves and make little growth if 

 unsupported and suffered to trail on the 

 ground. There is no more beautiful 

 plant for covering walls or for climbing 

 on the trunks of large living trees. 



There is a mistaken idea as to the 

 hardiness of Schizophragma hydran- 

 geoides. Bailey, in his Cyclopedia, says 

 it is hardy north as far as New York 

 city, but plants have withstood the test 

 of winter unprotected in the vicinity of 

 Boston. At Brookline, Mass., there is a 

 splendid specimen on the A. W. Blake 

 estate and on the Ames estate at North 

 Easton there is a large plant growing on 

 a nut tree, where it has a cold northern 



exposure and where temperatures 30 de- 

 grees below zero have done no harm. 

 W. N. Craig says that any plant which 

 will withstand such temperatures may be 

 described as reliably hardy anywhere. 



Schizophragma hydrangeoides succeeds 

 best in rich, moderately moist soil and in 

 partial shade. Propagation may be by 

 seeds or by greenwood cuttings rooted 

 under glass. At first growth is slow, 

 but as soon as the plants become estab- 

 lished they go ahead with remarkable 

 rapidity, climbing to thirty feet and 

 more, clinging firmly by aerial rootlets. 

 The leaves are bright green above and 

 pale below, almost glabrous and two to 

 four inches long. The loose cymes of 

 small white flowers with enlarged sterile 

 ones at the margin make it an especially 

 attractive feature of large grounds. The 

 blooming season is in late June or early 

 July. 



Thompsonville, Conn. — The Brain- 

 ard Floral & Nursery Co. has secured the 

 contract for beautifying the grounds 

 around Memorial hall, in Windsor Locks. 



Bangor, Me. — Frank P. Lane, known 

 as a high class musician as well as a 

 florist, has been visiting neighboring 

 towns for the purpose of making ar- 

 rangements for a chorus conceit, to be 

 held in Aroostook in June. 



