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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_24_2 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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OCTOBEE 7, 1909. The Weekly Florists^ Review* Stl Slil btv ca tl.. tl. w. Ill sh )■; ^\; oi el ^^ \vi po ji be made by putting three or four ill plants in each and giving them a ,.;h in a warm, sunny house. At this iy date there is not much sale for ering plants, so it is as well to keep earliest flowers picked off. A few 1, however, sell at Thanksgiving. As ;iy as possible should be got in good ■te for Christmas, at which time Lor- ies are always a leader, ntil the flowers are well expanded, like to give the plants a temperature 60 degrees. When the plants are flow- g freely a house 10 degrees lower ; harden them and give the blooms iter substance. Be sure that where necessary supports have not been n these are placed in the pots at ;'. The stakes should be thin and un- rusive always. Cow manure water 1 benefit the plants which are well Ijound. Be on the safe side and let it weak, rather than strong. Hardy Herbaceous Plants. October is the month par excellence fill the replanting of hardy herbaceous jicionnials. Peonies and the various irises (iuj,'lit to have been moved earlier, but it is not too late to move them during the jiiesent month. About all herbaceous jiliints delight in a soil which is well drained, deeply plowed and liberally manured, and it always pays to replant llicm at intervals of three years, peonies being an exception. It is a great mis- take to leave planting until spring, when so many other duties crowd us. Some of the useful genera which should be planted now are: Hemerocallis, asters, helianthus (except multiflorus plenus, which is a doubtfully hardy plant in many places), spiraeas, aquilegias, cam- panulas (except Medium, which should be wintered in coldframes in the northern states). Delphiniums planted in October will flower finely next summer, as will veron- icas, rudbeckias, phloxes of all kinds, physostegia, lupinus, lychnis, heuchera, gypsophila, heleniums, hibiscus, lily of tiie valley, centaureas, hardy border car- nations, boltonias, liatris, erigeron and trollius. Anemone Japonica is better trans- planted in spring. Pyrethrum roseum can be moved in either fall or spring; if carefully mulched, fall is better than spring. Pyrethrum uliginosum and the varieties of Chrysanthemum maximum, including the Shasta daisy forms, do ^ •11 moved in fall. Of course, all newly- I 'unted herbaceous stock should have a I ulching of straw, leaves, seaweed or ! y after the ground is frozen solid, and i -ises will be few. MECONOPSIS INTEGRIFOLTA. To that intrepid explorer, E. H. Wil- li, who has just arrived in this country r a stay at Harvard Botanic Garden I'l Arnold Arboretum, to classify the ants sent there as a result of his last ip to China, we are indebted for the liscovery of Meconopsis integrifolia. A Russian originally discovered this ! :int, and along with seeds of several lier plants, and described as from Yun- •n, seed of M. integrifolia came into 'R possession of Maurice de Vilmorin. ' rom these plants were raised, the first ' ' which flowered in April, 1896, and '•le remainder the following year. Un- Ttunately, the plants failed to produce ••ed, so that the final honors associated ^ ith Meconopsis integrifolia must un- ■';mbtedly be credited to the firm of J. ^'oitch & Sons, of Chelsea, to them we
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Meconopsis Integrifolia. are indebted for the photograph from which the accompanying illustration was prepared. They say, with reference to it: "In the neighborhood of Tatieulu the magnificent yellow poppy was discov- ered by Wilson, who secured seed from which plants were raised that flowered at Langley in September, 1904, and it was distributed the following year." The Gardeners' Magazine, London, re- cently said of it: "Not only have they given to gardens a plant of great beauty, but they have placed it within easy reach of all, and it is a matter of history that Meconopsis integrifolia appears tri- umphantly in this firm's exhibit every year, at the Temple show. At the one recently held they contributed a group that testified alike to the vigor of the species and to the skill displayed in its •Cultivation.' * "Since its introduction, M. integri- folia has been the ambition of hardy plant specialists," says Thomas Smith, a well known English specialist. "In every respect it is typical of that in- ordinate beauty characteristic of the en- tire genera; sharing features common to other species, it has also characters pe- culiar to itself which render it most distinct. The foliage is gray-green, densely clothed with innumerable fine, needle-like hairs of a golden-amber color; the leaves are variable—at times long and narrow; they occasionally measure three inches across, and are always ar- ranged in the form of a rosette. The golden, ball-like flowers are carried upon slender stalks which spring at close in- tervals from the upper part of a simple stem. These do not partake of the ephemeral nature of the poppy race, as I have noticed flowers remain effective for a fortnight. The plant is a hardy biennial, and attains a height of two feet under favorable conditions. It is deciduous, though not to the same extent as with M. aculeata and M. racemosa. "The. crucial stages in growing M. integrifolia are those of seed raising, and in providing suitable flowering quar- ters. Practice will readily overcome the first, but intuition is necessary in inter- preting their wants when planting per- manently in the open. "Seed is short-lived and must be sown

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