The Floral World 



A journal of Home Floriculture 



VoI.II, No^2^ Springfield, Ohio, October, J902 25 Cents a Year 



COMPLIMENTARY. 



The September Floral World was 

 decidedly the best number we have 

 had. 



Kentucky. Miss Laura Jones. 



We have been taking The Floral 

 World for some time and have gained 

 many valuable hints from it. 



Ohio. G. W. Porter. 



We are much pleased with The Flor- 

 al World. We take two copies, so we 

 can hand one to the neighbors. 



Illinois. Annie J. Paddick. 



We are well pleased with your lit- 

 tle monthly, because it is simple, prac- 

 tical and helpful, which is more than 

 can be said of some floral journals. 

 May it continue so. 



Indiana. Emma Meyer. 



I am glad to add my opinion to that 

 •of so many flower lovers, in expressing 

 my approval of the conduct of The 

 Floral World. I hope you will always 

 keep it strictly floral, and that it may 

 last as long as I do. 



Kentucky. Mrs. A. F. Hurst. 



CLEMATIS PANICULATA. 



The clematis is the prettiest and 

 sweetest vine I have. It is nearly fif- 

 teen feet high, tacked to the house. It 

 iDlooms the first of September, and 

 looks' like a cream-tinted snowbank, 

 and is sweet. I have counted hundreds 

 of bees resting on its white, sweet fiow- 

 ers. It is nice for bouquets, funerals, 



weddings, churches, home and ceme- 

 tery planting, easy to grow and very 

 hardy. 



I think it best planted in the fall; it 

 then s'ets a few new roots and thereby 

 starts earlier. 



It is so pretty for fence drapery, and 

 no insect bothers it. I give mine a 

 bucket of water daily at its roots. 



This fall fiowering vine belongs to 

 the Crawford family. 



Illinois. Annie J. Paddick, 



CLEMATIS ALL THE YEAR. 



Handsome clusters of bloom, of the 

 large fiowered variety, so seldom seen 

 in our hot city yards, can be had by 

 taking small roots and planting them 

 in bottomles's corn cans, filled with 

 rich soil, and then pressing the bot- 

 toms back again, to prevent the soil 

 from falling out, and hanging them 

 two or three feet from the ground to 

 insure air to the plants. This s'pring 

 I bought two roots of jackmani and 

 planted them as described and hung 

 them in wire baskets, on a brick wall, 

 on stout spikes driven into the brick 

 firmly, in an eastern exposure. The 

 brick was covered with a fres'h wood- 

 bine for a background. The plants 

 grew rapidly up there and soon put out 

 a budded vine two yards long. Al- 

 though at first the small amount of 

 soil was all the roots required for 

 healthy growth, now to continue the 

 vines on to perfection of bloom and 

 later growth they must be refreshed 

 with more, without being disturbed. 

 So I took gallon cans and painted then* 



