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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_23_2 (find matches)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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■ :: K.: April 29, 1909. The Weekly Florists^ Review* usual, using a load of manure to six of sods and soil. The weather following, and continuing well into the winter, was unusually dry. The result was that the compost did not get soaked, and when taken under cover, late in October, was quite dry, but well rotted. But, as re- sults showed, it had not properly com- posted, owing to this dryness. The effect of this soil on different plants was as varied as the plants them- selves. Stock plants of salvias and geraniums failed to take hold, many dying outright. Sword ferns lifted from the bench did absolutely nothing, though they remained in an apparently healthy condition, and they were given new soil later. Cinerarias and double petunias did remarkably well. Cuttings of salvia did poorly, showing a weak, yellow growth. These, without any change, started an unusually vigor- ous growth in March, showing that the watering brought about the proper soil conditions. Cuttings of cuphea were a failure, and cuttings of vinca nearly so, but later they took hold, as did the sal- via. Some of the soil, left out to the action of the weather, has proven all that could be desired. I have no doubt that many florists have suffered from a like cause. Moral: See that your soil has one thorough soaking, artificially if not by the grace of God. E. Z. NuPF. HOW OLD IS ANN? S. F. Leonard, president of the Leon- ard Seed Co., is 56. He is the pioneer grower of onion sets at Chicago, and is autochthonous.* Father Dorner will be 72 November 29. He was born at Baden, Germany, and now the florists there are beginning to grow the carnations he has raised at La Fayette. A. F. J. Baur, secretary of the Amer- ican Carnation Society, is 33. A Pennsyl- vania minister's son, born at Bloomfield, it was iqevitable he should go into the flower business. L. L. May, florist, seedsman, nursery- man and police commissioner at St. Paul, is 52. He was born at Oshawa, On- tario, and became a member of the Seed Traflie Association in 1895. Carl N. Thomas, who spends the sum- mers on the old home farm and the win- ters doing the worrying for the A. L. Randall Co., Chicago, is 44. He was born, brought up and still lives at West Springfield, Pa. Benj. Dorrance, who got his sheep- skin at Princeton, will be 63 in August. He was the first president of the Ameri- can Rose Society, and but for him we might never have known the forcing quality of Killamey. His town is named for him. ^Robert Simpson, of Clifton, N. J., is 4^. He is a conservative, perhaps be- cause he was born in Yorkshire, England, and his early residence at Chicago was too brief for his complete recovery. He was the first rose forcer to graft Maid and Bride on Manetti. Edgar F. Winterson, chief of the Chi- cago Indians when the tribe was young. IS 42; born at Devizes, England. His scalp lock has long since disappeared— Tu Ju *^^' ^"^* S*'"® t^« ^ay of plants that have too much bottom heat. He is treasurer of the Chicago Florists' Club. We™er. *^ "* "° Infection; look It up In
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The Climbioc: Hydraasfea. S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia, will not be 40 until the last day of August. Born in Upper Darby, Delaware county, he was the first to install artificial refrig- eration for the wholesale flower busi- ness. THE CLIMBING HYDRANGEA. The climbing hydrangea is not a hy- drangea ;it all, but a schizophragma; it might as properly be said the schizo- phragma,. for it is a monotypic genus. Schizophragma hydrangeoides is closely allied to the hydrangea. The species is often confounded with Hydrangea petio- laris and, like it, young plants produce small leaves and make little growth if unsupported and suffered to trail on the ground. There is no more beautiful plant for covering walls or for climbing on the trunks of large living trees. There is a mistaken idea as to the hardiness of Schizophragma hydran- geoides. Bailey, in his Cyclopedia, says it is hardy north as far as New York city, but plants have withstood the test of winter unprotected in the vicinity of Boston. At Brookline, Mass., there is a splendid specimen on the A. W. Blake estate and on the Ames estate at North Easton there is a large plant growing on a nut tree, where it has a cold northern exposure and where temperatures 30 de- grees below zero have done no harm. W. N. Craig says that any plant which will withstand such temperatures may be described as reliably hardy anywhere. Schizophragma hydrangeoides succeeds best in rich, moderately moist soil and in partial shade. Propagation may be by seeds or by greenwood cuttings rooted under glass. At first growth is slow, but as soon as the plants become estab- lished they go ahead with remarkable rapidity, climbing to thirty feet and more, clinging firmly by aerial rootlets. The leaves are bright green above and pale below, almost glabrous and two to four inches long. The loose cymes of small white flowers with enlarged sterile ones at the margin make it an especially attractive feature of large grounds. The blooming season is in late June or early July. Thompsonville, Conn.—The Brain- ard Floral & Nursery Co. has secured the contract for beautifying the grounds around Memorial hall, in Windsor Locks. Bangor, Me.—Frank P. Lane, known as a high class musician as well as a florist, has been visiting neighboring towns for the purpose of making ar- rangements for a chorus conceit, to be held in Aroostook in June.

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