>Uy 6, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists* Review. 



Window Display of Jacob Schalz, LouisviUet Ky. 



original size, of the advertisement B. 

 Rubel, president of the Fleischman Flo- 

 ral Co., Chicago, publishes every now 

 and then in leading Chicago papers, 

 where it costs from $25 to $50 per inser- 

 tion, to keep the public in mind of the 

 fact that he can send flowers farther 

 than his delivery wagons go. He also 

 uses attractive window signs for the 

 same purpose. 



BEFORE AND AFTER. 



One of the visitors at the national 

 flower show at Chicago last November 

 was Jacob Schulz, of Louisville, Ky. Mr. 

 Schulz is a gentleman who knows a good 

 thing when he sees it, and the way he is 

 using the "before and after" garden, 

 shown for the first time at the national 

 flower show by Vaughan's Seed Store, is 

 illustrated on this page. This illustration 

 is prepared from a photograph made 

 in the deep show window of Mr. Schulz 's 

 store in Louisville. It is a display par- 

 ticularly good for this season of spring 

 planting. Mr. Schulz had to work in 

 only a fraction of the space used for the 

 original display at the Coliseum, and has 

 therefore not been able to make his ar- 

 rangement so elaborate. Those with 

 larger space could doubtless improve 

 upon it. A much better effect would 

 have been produced with the use of sand 

 instead of large pebbles for the walk in 

 the "after taking" side of the picture. 



Mr. Schulz says: "The photograph 

 does not do the display full justice, as 

 there is a street in front of the yards 

 that is not shown on the picture, owing 

 to the window having a circle on one 

 side that made the photographer stand 

 too close to the window to catch the 

 street. It is our idea to run this window 

 until May 10 and change the plants every 

 two or three days. At present we have 

 Baby Rambler roses along the fences 

 and the two plants next to the door are 

 Beauty of Fairfield, the new monthly 

 rambler." 



PSONY JULES ELIE. 



I have quite a patch of Peony M. 

 Jules Elie that were on this place when 

 I took it. I am growing these for con- 

 signment to wholesale commission flo- 

 rists, but some of them say this is not a 



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good variety for the purpose; that it is 

 not a good keeper and shipper. I wish 

 you would tell me if the variety is good 

 for cut flowers, a good keeper and ship- 

 per, and any advice as to how it should 

 be grown, cut and handled will be espe- 

 cially welcome. H. O. 



Arthur Bryant & Son, Princeton, HI., 



say: "While we grow this peony, M. 

 Jules Elie, we have not had it in sufli- 

 cient quantities so that we have used it 

 for cut flowers, and do not know how 

 it would act when handled for that pur- 

 pose. We know it is an extra fine sort 

 for other than cut flower purposes." 



Wm. A. Peterson, of Peterson Nursery, 

 Chicago, says : ' ' My experience has been 

 that this is not a good keeper and there- 

 fore not well adapted for shipping." 



Good & Reese Co., Springfield, O., say: 

 "Mons. Jules Elie we do not consider 

 a good peony for cut flowers; that is, 

 for shipping and keeping. There is prob- 

 ably not a more showy peony than this 

 variety where it can be cut just before 

 it opens and used at once. That has 

 been our experience with this variety. 

 We find the best method to grow peonies 

 is to give them a good, strong sandy 

 soil and give them no manure except 

 what is used as a top mulching after 

 the first hard freeze in the fall. Then 

 to increase the size of the flower, you 

 should water it once a week with manure 

 water just before flowering. You will 

 find this increases the size as well as 

 deepens the color of the bloom. Besides 

 this, we do not think the peony should 

 have any manure." 



The Cottage Gardens, Queens, N. Y., 

 says: "We have been growing this ex- 

 cellent peony for a great many years, 

 but owing to the large demand for the 

 roots, we have never had it in large 

 enough quantities to justify us in ship- 

 ping the blooms. We have, however, used 

 them in large quantities for home dec- 

 oration and have also shipped them long 

 distances for exhibition purposes, and 

 have always found that it carried as 

 good as the majority of varieties." 



Beverly Fabms, Mass. — Alexander 

 Carr, for a number of years foreman for 

 Jas. B. Dow, at the Sunnyside Green- 

 houses, has now started business on his 

 own account, as a gardener and florist. 



