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THE FLORAL IV0RLT> 



The Floral World 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE 



FLORAL WORLD COMPANY, 



12 to 14 South Limestone Street, 

 Springfield, Ohio. 



Subscription Price, 25 Cents a Year. 



Correspondence invited from all persons interested in 

 flowers. Write us your experience with plants. 



We will give $26.00 in prizes for the 

 five best articles for publication in the 

 June number of The Floral World 

 which may be submitted by subscribers. 



The first prize will be |10.00; the 

 second, $7.50; the third, $5.00; the fourth, 

 $2.50; and the fifth, $1.00. The awards 

 will be announced in our July issue. 



No article which contains more than 

 two hundred words will be considered. 

 All contributions entered in this prize 

 contest must reach us not later than 

 May 1. 



The purpose of these prizes is to se- 

 cure for publication in The Floral 

 World matter which gives the actual 

 experiences in flower growing of those 

 who have subscribed for the journal . 

 Prizes offered for articles published in 

 the March number have been awarded 

 as follows : 



First prize — Annie E. Crafts, Mis- 

 souri. 



Second prize — Elizabeth Badger, 

 Missouri. 



Third prize — Mrs. O. H. Hereford, 

 Nebraska. 



Fourth prize— Mrs. R. A. Houk, In- 

 diana. 



Fifth prize — Mrs. J. A. Adams, New 

 York. 



SUCCESS WITH THE UMBRELLA PLANT. 



I would like to tell the readers of 

 The Floral World my experience with 

 the umbrella plant. To my mind there 

 is no more satisfactory decorative plant 

 for the window or veranda than this. 

 After trying various methods of cul- 

 ture with very unsatisfactory results, 

 I filled a large size flower pot first with 

 broken pottery and charcoal, then leaf 



mold mixed with sand. Into this 1 

 put my plant and then placed the pot 

 in a large jardiniere, which I keep 

 filled with water. It is simply wonder- 

 ful the a,mount of water this plant will 

 "drink." The result is as handsome a 

 plant as one would wish to see, with 

 stalks standing three feet high and 

 measuring from 12 to 15 inches across 

 the top of the leaves, each top sur- 

 rounded with a beautiful crown of 

 fiowers. Whenever I see a slender 

 shoot starting, I cut it out, and thus 

 give the large stalks more room and 

 also secure a more symmetrical plant- 

 Ohio. Mrs. L. D. Bowers. 



CENTRANTHUS FOR BORDERS. 



The Centranthus is a very pretty 

 flower for rock work, or borders. The 

 flowers are small, but borne in clus- 

 ters on light green, almost transparent 

 stems, very showy and attractive. 

 They grow freely in any good garden 

 soil. I had a border of them last sum- 

 mer; they flowered all summer and 

 until late in the fall. 



The seed can be sown as soon as 

 the frost is out of the ground. Keep 

 the ground moist. 



Canada. Mrs. C. Hodgeds, 



WHAT SHOULD BE DONE WITH POT PLANTS 

 IN SUMMER? 



Thi.3 is a subject on which I would 

 like to hear some or several give their 

 experience. My trouble in summer is 

 the medium-sized black ants. They 

 work into my pots until they almost 

 destroy some of my plants before I am 

 aware of what the trouble is. Last 

 summer I tried an experiment. I stuck: 

 matches in the earth. I put from four 

 to six matches in each pot, and it 

 stopped the ants from working, but I 

 could notice the plants did not thrive 

 so well from the effect of that kind of 

 medicine. 



Ohio. Mrs. Clark Smith. 



