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The Florists^ Review 



June 12, 1913. 



der plants out will probably fare best, 

 as the extremely cold nights will not 

 help the early planters. 



Club Meeting. 



The Florists' Club met June 3, with 

 a large and enthusiastic crowd in at- 

 tendance. President Neil McCallum 

 had a little exhibit of his own, a plant 

 he calls Roman breeches, about which 

 he gave one of his original descriptions 

 and then he had a program long enough 

 to have made two ordinary meetings. 

 Paul Randolph read a paper on the 

 plants which are in demand and no 

 doubt called the attention of many to 

 some of the things they should grow. 



P. S. Randolph had a fine collection 

 of the new French hydrangeas, and 

 gave an iflteresting talk on the ad- 

 vantage of growing such plants, on 

 which immense heatls of bloom can be 

 produced in -i-inch pots, and which can 

 be sold at reasonable prices. He also 

 called attention to the fact that one 

 6f his best pink varieties last year 

 turned out this year a fine blue. He 

 attributed the change, however, to the 

 water, in which he thinks some chem- 

 icals are used. 



Mr. Weisenbach ffave a talk on the 

 annuals and other flowers which a man 

 can grow without a greenhouse and 

 when he finished it was hard to see why 

 a private place needed a greenhouse. 



James Wiseman told of the kinds of 

 plants the private gardeners are using, 

 and how they use them, not only the 

 ordinary bedding plants, but annuals 

 in shrubbery borders, producing results 

 which are much more effective than 

 any carpet bedding that ever was done. 



Mr. Sample, of the Elliott Nursery 

 Co., gave a talk on the foolishness of 



Slanting tender plants which have to 

 e replaced every year when one might, 

 at the same expense, plant that which 

 years ^ould only make more Valuable 

 and beautiful. He demonstrated his 

 talk with bunches of nearly 100 speci- 

 mens of flowers from the Elliott nurs- 

 ery and drew word pictures of a hardy 

 garden so beautiful that one was almost 

 ready to forget bedding plants for a 

 minute, but then you know some of us 

 make a living supplying people with 

 what they want. We appreciated Mr. 

 Sample 's talk. 



The man from Kew Gardens was 

 there with his lantern and slides to 

 show us some of the gardening in Ber- 

 lin, Germany, and also the government 

 gardens, and when he tells us that it is 

 the ideal garden city we look and be- 

 lieve and are interested in his garden 

 groups and envy the man who can 

 travel and see them. 



John Jones had the last say and had 

 to say it in a hurry. He talked about 

 what they plant in the parks, and he 

 had his samples with him. Mr. Jones 

 also had a flower of Chrysanthemum 

 Mrs. Gilbert Drabble that would have 

 done credit to his winter show. 



The meeting was a success and the 

 writer walke»i oflF with all the plants 

 that were there and planted them in 

 his own garden. 



Various Notes. 



Some one must have thought Ben 

 Elliott was piaking too much money, 

 for a burglar entered his house June 7 

 and gathered up a new suit of clothes, 

 a gold watch and about $50 without 

 disturbing anyone's slumbers. 



T. P. Langhans is moving to his 

 summer home at Allison Park. His 



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