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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNB 13, 1012. 



result would have been a sight picture, 

 a heart of massed flowers beautified by 

 a cluster that held an interest or story. 

 The naked easel is again in evidence. 

 Cover it. Fred C. W. Brown. 



Lacking in Form. 



In criticising this heart one has to 

 go back to the wire man who made the 

 frame. Compared with the conventional 

 heart-shaped design, this is surely a 

 poorly shaped one. It is altogether too 

 long and is cut in too far at the top 

 Of course, the designer could have im- 

 proved on the shape without much 

 trouble when arranging the flowers. 



Such a variety of flowers seems to 

 have been used in the make-up that if 

 they had been nicely arranged a hand- 

 some design would have been the result. 



As near as the eye can discern from 

 the photograph, there have been used 

 valley, carnations, roses. Paper White 

 narcissi and Eoman hyacinths. Just 

 what the dark spots in the picture mean 

 it is hard to say, unless they were some 

 flowers of another color, presumably red. 



The designer seems to have had no 

 scheme at all in making up this heart, 

 the flowers appearing to have been stuck 

 into the frame in "any old way," so 

 long as they were all used up. 



The Bomans and Paper Whites would 

 have been much better as a border for 

 the piece. Then, by using a few more 

 of the white carnations, the heart could 

 have been made to appear solid white, 

 with a nicely arranged spray of roses 

 and valley across the center. 



If red flowers were used a smaller 

 heart could have been worked out in the 

 center in red and surrounded by white 

 flowers. 



There are numerous ways of arranging 

 flowers in the form of a heart, but we 

 should never fail to get a nice outline. 

 The flowers in this design may have 

 been artistically arranged; if so, the 

 photograph fails to give the artist cred- 

 it, as is often the case. From the ap- 

 pearance, it looks as though the de- 

 signer had a number of flowers already 

 fctemmed and was under obligations to 

 stick them all into this design. They 



are altogether too crowded and enough 

 could have been left over to make an- 

 other small piece by judiciously using 

 some fine green with the flowers. 



Hugo Schroeter. 



SAMUELSON'S NEW CAB. 



Among the attractive machines used 

 for delivery purposes in Chicago is the 

 new White car belonging to C. A. Sam- 

 uelson. It is as up-to-date as any in 

 service. The chassis is a regulation 

 White model, with a specially con- 

 structed body and blended so as to 

 make it notable for its unusual beauty 

 and graceful lines. The machine is 



painted a soft green and appeals to 

 one at a glance as being the result of 

 careful study on the part of its de- 

 signer. It therefore is a means of dig- 

 nified publicity, inasmuch as it causes 

 comment for beauty rather than for the 

 sensational. This is the second car put 

 in use by Samuelson, the first having 

 been a Packard machine. He found 

 that the one drawback to the automo- 

 bile as a commercial vehicle in a trade 

 where dependability is a prime neces- 

 sity was the frequency of tire troubles. 

 These he has eliminated by filling his 

 tires with one of the substitutes for air 

 which recently have come on the market. 



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Foinsettiaa 



The poinsettia stock plants will now 

 be producing an abundance of fine cut- 

 tings. These should be taken off twice 

 a week before they get too long. Those 

 rubbed off with a heel attached are to 

 be preferred and will root most easily. 

 Give them, if possible, a cutting bench 

 where they will get some bottom heat. 

 This is not absolutely necessary, as 

 after the early part of June they will 

 root freely in a coldframe, if kept mod- 

 erately close and carefully shaded from 

 direct sunshine. In putting in cuttings 

 of poinsettias, or in fact of almost any 

 other plants of a soft-wooded nature, 

 trim the leaves back quite severely. 



Primulas. 

 There is no other place equal to a 

 coldframe for primulas from this time 

 on. Have a hard bottom for them. 

 Over this lay a good coating of clean 

 coal ashes, and worms will not then 

 bother your plants. If you lay the 

 ashes over an old hotbed, for instance, 



New Whtte Delivery Car of C. A. Samuelson, Chicago. 



swarms of worms will soon find their 

 way into the pots and almost ruin the 

 plants. Occasionally writers taboo coal 

 ashes as injuring pot plants, even going 

 so far as to suggest that sulphurous 

 fumes from them arise to destroy the 

 plants. We can safely set aside all this 

 as rank nonsense. The best growers of 

 high-grade pot plants use them and I 

 have yet to find any case of injury 

 which can be in any way attributed to 

 them. 



The primulas, if in flats, should be 

 potted singly. At the earliest potting, 

 use plenty of rather flaky leaf-mold. 

 This is better than that which is thor- 

 oughly decayed. The plants must be 

 protected from bright sunshine. The 

 easiest, but worst, way to do this is to 

 whitewash the glass. This results in 

 drawn-up plants. The proper way is to 

 use some movable shading. Cheesecloth 

 answers well, but blows about too much. 

 The coolest and most satisfactory shad- 

 ing is made of wooden laths, which are 

 only to be used when the plants really 

 need protection from the sun. They let 

 in sufficient light to prevent the plants 

 from becoming drawn, and in extremely 

 hot weather it is best to use them over 

 the plants and remove the sashes, using 

 the latter, however, when heavy rains 

 threaten. Spray the primulas over on 

 warm afternoons. When once we get 

 settled, warm weather, this damping 

 over each evening will be found re- 

 freshing. 



Chrysanthemums. 



Many of the single-stem mums will 

 now be potted off and some are no 

 doubt either planted out or ready to 

 go on the benches. It is usually diffi- 

 cult to find time for the proper empty- 

 ing and refilling of benches until Me- 

 morial day has passed and given us a 

 little breathing spell, but it is a poor 

 policy to leave the little mums in pots 

 until they are matted and starved at 

 the roots. Eather than allow this to 

 occur, give the plants a shift, or, bet- 

 ter still, place them ifl flats until you 

 can find time to plant them out. Some 

 growers adopt the plan of taking 

 rooted cuttings direct from the sand 

 and benching them. There is always 

 more or less risk attached to this plan. 

 If we should get a few cloudy days, so 

 that the plants can become established, 

 the majority will grow. If, on the 



