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March 16, 1911. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



11 



W^eddine Decoration in a Large Church, by Jacob Schulz, LouisviUe, Ky. 



As a rule, flowers keep J)est If the blooms or 

 petals are kept dry, but spraying of the foliage 

 Is beneficial. 



When not In use or display, a cool and dark 

 place guflJcIently moist is favorable for flowers. 

 To help produce such conditions, tissue paper or 

 a light fabric placed over them and well 

 sprinkled is effective. 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 

 Mrs. L.— Burns Ave. 



Your Boston Fern will need repotting, not a 

 larger pot, but new soil. This Is a good time to 

 have It done. To place the plant In the green- 

 house is not as a rule satisfactory. The at- 

 mospheric conditions are so different. 

 Mrs. D. L. K. — Cass Ave. 



A palm with ono or two leaves cut off looks 

 to us like a handsome cup with a couple of chips 

 broken out of it. Neither Is desirable around the 

 house; a cup cannot be mended, and a palm 

 win use up one to ono and one half years to 

 reproduce two new leaves. 



The "Questions and Answers" page can be 

 made ftf special Interest, if you will write us for 

 any special information you may desire regard- 

 ing flowers and their care. Will you give us 

 your help by asking questions? We will not use 

 your name unless we have your permission. 



DECORATION IN A CHURCH. 



Possibly no other class of work per- 

 formed by the retail florist receives so 

 much attention as his wedding deco- 

 rations. Not only do the wedding guests 

 pass judgment on each job, but the 

 other retail florists who have the op- 

 portunity study the decoration .and 

 profit by its perfection or imperfec- 

 tions. A wedding decoration is difficult 

 to photograph. This is especially the 

 case where the decoration is in a large 

 edifice, like a church. In the case of 

 the present illustration, a church deco- 

 ration is shown, the work of Jacob 

 Schulz, of Louisville. Only a portion 

 of the work appears, one of the princi- 

 pal features being the large wedding 

 bell, which hung so high that it was 

 beyond the range of the camera. For 

 this decoration, in addition to several 

 loads of palms and ferns, twenty cases 

 of wild smilax were required, and 400 

 Easter lilies. 



PLUMOSUS TURNING YELLOW. 



In The Keview of February 16, page 

 60, I noticed the inquiry of H. & H. in 

 regard to their Asparagus plumosus 

 nanus turning yellow. Now, I know 

 of two ways in which this trouble is 

 likely to be caused. If the temperature 

 is kept at 60 degrees at night, on dull 

 days at 65 degrees and on sunny days 

 at 72 to 75 degrees, the plants will gen- 

 erally have a good color. But this im- 

 portant exception must be noted: After 

 a succession of three or four dull days, 

 the temperature should not exceed 68 to 

 70 degrees, or the foliage will be liable 

 to turn yellow and sere at the ends. 



Again, if a good crop 'has been cut 

 and the plants have been left a little too 

 bare, and if water is used freely after- 

 ward, the same sort of trouble will 

 probably result; all shoots will come up 

 with yellowish white ends. After cut- 

 ting heavily, little watering must be 

 done for two or three weeks, until the 

 plants show signs of new growth. I 

 am speaking from experience, as I grow 

 thousands of these plants for cut sprays 

 for the New York market. 



E. Dickenson. 



THE BRITISH VISITORS. 



As previously stated in The Review, 

 a party of about twelve British horti- 

 cultural traders intend visiting the 

 United States on a holiday trip next 

 month. Sailing from Liverpool on the 

 Lusitania March 11, we hope to spend 

 Friday, March 17, in New York, trav- 

 eling the same night to Philadelphia for 

 Saturday and Sunday. Monday morn- 

 ing, on the way to Washington, we 

 intend to give R. Vincent, Jr., & Sons 

 a call, and after two days in Washing- 



ton, March 21 and 22, we will go on 

 to E. G. Hill's establishment at Rich- 

 mond; from there to Chicago to spend 

 March 25 and 26; thence on to Niagara 

 Falls, and from there to Boston for the 

 National Flower Show, arriving March 

 28, and about April 1 return to New 

 York for four days. 



Our party will embrace all sections 

 of the horticultural trade, including a 

 quartet of Covent Garden growers; 

 namely: G. Prickett, who excels in 

 chrysanthemums, one of the oldest mem- 

 bers of the National Chrysanthemum 

 Society; W. A. Cull and G. Pratley, who 

 grow ferns and pot plants by the mil- 

 lion, and L. M. Graves, in the front 

 rank with cyclamens and primulas. 

 Roses will be represented by J. Brown, 

 of W. & J. Brown, Stamford; hardy 

 flowers by J. S. Gunn, of Gunn & Sons, 

 Birmingham, who grow and show phlox 

 and hardy flowers second to none. The 

 carnation will be represented by C. En- 

 gelmann, the raiser of Carola, one of our 

 best growers and keenest hybridizers, 

 also by the writer, one of the originators 

 and chairman of the Perpetual Flower- 

 ing Carnation Society since its incep- 

 tion. The horticultural sundries trade 

 will be represented by S. South, of Lon- 

 don, and E. Barker, of Manchester. 



Should any American friends desire 

 to correspond with the writer or other 

 members of the party, will they please 

 address letters in care Messrs. Thomas 

 Cook & Sons, 1200 Broadway, New 

 York? J. S. Brunton. 



Southington, Conn. — William Fischer, 

 proprietor of the South End Green- 

 houses, recently fell through a broken 

 floor in his place of business and broke 

 one of his ribs. 



