Image from page 611 of "The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade" (1885)
Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw02amer
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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570 The American Florist. July IS, plants, and besides this the golden bell- shaped flowers are very fragrant and admired by everybody. These plants also should ba about one year old before we use them. Of Oihonni crassifolia we grow two sizes in 3 and 3 '_.-itich pots, the smaller ones for hanging baskets, the others for vases in rather exposed positions; the larger plants have also the habit of run- ning into each other and we generally set them alternately with other plants like ampelopsis or grasses etc along the edge of benches. Maurandia we use freely wherever we can. Make cuttings or sow seed in No- vember and after potting off keep pinched in until about April i and the result is many streamers from a compact bushy base. Ivy Geraniums of every description I should mention here; they are used largely by every one, and we do it too, but in reality they are not the right thing for the purpose and as long as we have enough of other vines we seldom plant any in vases, they are too liable to lose their foliage if left dry in hot weather, though their blooming quality should be considered in favor of them. Besides these plants we grow a number of others, such as double and single tropieolums, alyssum, Isolepis gracilis, Festuca glauca, Fragaria indica and others, mostly in 3 inch pots to fill out a small gap in a vase and to make it look full when filled—for my customers at least want their vases to look well filled and do not want to wait for them to grow full. We can not do this with small plants as cheaply as when we have a few good large vines for every one, but after all some florists may think growing such stufi" for almost a year would not pay, perhaps a trial with a limited quantity would convince them to the contrary. Rochester, N. Y. John B. Keller. Notes From Washington. BY WM. FALCONEK. I GOT INTO Washington Saturday, June 29, and found the trees and shrubs and lawns and flowers as bright and gay as could be. The whole city is a vast gar- den, or rather a series of gardens. This season, so far, has been the wettest the gardeners remember, and on this account together with the very stiff clayey soil that prevails there, spring planting was much delayed. The people of Washington are strict Sabbatarians; one needn't go there on Sunday except to church. But I HAD the good fortune to first call upon my old time friend Mr W. R. Smith, the curator of the Government Botanical Gardens aud one of the Park- ing Commissioners of the city of Wash- ington. His kindness, hospitality and attention to me were extreme, and to him I am indebted for my most enjoyable visit to the capital. Mr. Smith has been in charge of the Botanical Gardens for the last thirty-six years. He is known to most every florist in the land, and his genial face must be familiar to every one who has visited the florists' conventions. He is regarded as having the best all-round knowledge of horticulture and plants of any man in the country. And he is an earnest student. The Botanical Gardens are along- side of the Capitol grounds and occupy the lowest ground in the city. The land is level and a square block. The soil is a stifi" clay. There are extensive ranges of greenhouses, some very large and
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PP\HDKUV\S MlMCHW roomy, and others of lesser altitude for small plants and propagating. AT THE same time that the recent flood devastated the Conemaugh valley all this part of Washington was sub- merged, not so much by rain water as by dammed back sewerage. The green- houses stood three to four feet deep in this poisonous sea. and the pot plants upon the benches floated about in the flood. Aud on the ground floor of Mr. Smith's residence the water stood 29 inches deep. The results of this disas- trous overtaking is now evident in death or serious injury among many of the plants and a sorrowful superintendent. Of agaves alone he has lost iS species. The Rockeries—Beside the office and greenhouses extensive rockeries have recently been built. These are not meant as an artistic feature but as a home for plants. A vast number of species of little plants find a place in a botanic garden that are not generally cultivated, and to afford to these the best cultural conditions, a position where they can be kept together dry at the top and thor- oughly drained underneath, and where they are always under the eye of the gar- dener, is the purpose of the rockery. The stones are set deep in the ground with a liberal supply of rotted leaf soil under and about them so as to encourage the roots of the plants to creep around and under the rocks and in this way find food and moisture and keep cool in warm summer weather. Being elevated above the ground and so well drained there is far less danger in winter to plants that are grown in rockeries than to those in the level open borders. Stepping-stonp; pathways wind through the rockeries to admit of easily reaching any part of them, aud they nestle among evergreen mats of alpine pinks, dwarf phloxes, ajuga, crimson- leaved oxalis, sibthorpia, marsh penny- wort, golden moneywort (Ljsimachia), colisseum ivy (I^inaria), creeping veron- icas, different kinds of sedums as S. acre, album, Hispanicum, Sieboldii, and the like; variegated ground ivy (Nepeta gle- choma), Lespedezi striata aud similar little spreading plants. Fragaria indica, used in this way, was also very pretty, deceptive rather, for it is studded all over with tempting luscious like reil straw- berries, but, alas, they are not edible. Little ponds of water in the rockeries serve as homes for the smaller aquatics. And there are certain rockeries devoted to certain botanical races of plants Two very interesting patches are filled with sensitive and insectiverousplants. Among the sensitive plants were Oxalis sensitiva, Mimosa sensitiva, INI. pudica, and the telegraph plant, Desmodium gyrans. The insect eating plants incluJed our many species of northern and southern sarracenias, also diona;as and pingui- culas. And in a greenhouse alongside of these is a large collection of sundews (Drosera) which are also reckoned among insectiverous plants. Aristolochia klEGAns is a beautiful tropical species brought into notice a few years ago by having grown and bloomed and seeded so freely in Dr. Richardson's
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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw02amer
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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570 The American Florist. July IS, plants, and besides this the golden bell- shaped flowers are very fragrant and admired by everybody. These plants also should ba about one year old before we use them. Of Oihonni crassifolia we grow two sizes in 3 and 3 '_.-itich pots, the smaller ones for hanging baskets, the others for vases in rather exposed positions; the larger plants have also the habit of run- ning into each other and we generally set them alternately with other plants like ampelopsis or grasses etc along the edge of benches. Maurandia we use freely wherever we can. Make cuttings or sow seed in No- vember and after potting off keep pinched in until about April i and the result is many streamers from a compact bushy base. Ivy Geraniums of every description I should mention here; they are used largely by every one, and we do it too, but in reality they are not the right thing for the purpose and as long as we have enough of other vines we seldom plant any in vases, they are too liable to lose their foliage if left dry in hot weather, though their blooming quality should be considered in favor of them. Besides these plants we grow a number of others, such as double and single tropieolums, alyssum, Isolepis gracilis, Festuca glauca, Fragaria indica and others, mostly in 3 inch pots to fill out a small gap in a vase and to make it look full when filled—for my customers at least want their vases to look well filled and do not want to wait for them to grow full. We can not do this with small plants as cheaply as when we have a few good large vines for every one, but after all some florists may think growing such stufi" for almost a year would not pay, perhaps a trial with a limited quantity would convince them to the contrary. Rochester, N. Y. John B. Keller. Notes From Washington. BY WM. FALCONEK. I GOT INTO Washington Saturday, June 29, and found the trees and shrubs and lawns and flowers as bright and gay as could be. The whole city is a vast gar- den, or rather a series of gardens. This season, so far, has been the wettest the gardeners remember, and on this account together with the very stiff clayey soil that prevails there, spring planting was much delayed. The people of Washington are strict Sabbatarians; one needn't go there on Sunday except to church. But I HAD the good fortune to first call upon my old time friend Mr W. R. Smith, the curator of the Government Botanical Gardens aud one of the Park- ing Commissioners of the city of Wash- ington. His kindness, hospitality and attention to me were extreme, and to him I am indebted for my most enjoyable visit to the capital. Mr. Smith has been in charge of the Botanical Gardens for the last thirty-six years. He is known to most every florist in the land, and his genial face must be familiar to every one who has visited the florists' conventions. He is regarded as having the best all-round knowledge of horticulture and plants of any man in the country. And he is an earnest student. The Botanical Gardens are along- side of the Capitol grounds and occupy the lowest ground in the city. The land is level and a square block. The soil is a stifi" clay. There are extensive ranges of greenhouses, some very large and
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PP\HDKUV\S MlMCHW roomy, and others of lesser altitude for small plants and propagating. AT THE same time that the recent flood devastated the Conemaugh valley all this part of Washington was sub- merged, not so much by rain water as by dammed back sewerage. The green- houses stood three to four feet deep in this poisonous sea. and the pot plants upon the benches floated about in the flood. Aud on the ground floor of Mr. Smith's residence the water stood 29 inches deep. The results of this disas- trous overtaking is now evident in death or serious injury among many of the plants and a sorrowful superintendent. Of agaves alone he has lost iS species. The Rockeries—Beside the office and greenhouses extensive rockeries have recently been built. These are not meant as an artistic feature but as a home for plants. A vast number of species of little plants find a place in a botanic garden that are not generally cultivated, and to afford to these the best cultural conditions, a position where they can be kept together dry at the top and thor- oughly drained underneath, and where they are always under the eye of the gar- dener, is the purpose of the rockery. The stones are set deep in the ground with a liberal supply of rotted leaf soil under and about them so as to encourage the roots of the plants to creep around and under the rocks and in this way find food and moisture and keep cool in warm summer weather. Being elevated above the ground and so well drained there is far less danger in winter to plants that are grown in rockeries than to those in the level open borders. Stepping-stonp; pathways wind through the rockeries to admit of easily reaching any part of them, aud they nestle among evergreen mats of alpine pinks, dwarf phloxes, ajuga, crimson- leaved oxalis, sibthorpia, marsh penny- wort, golden moneywort (Ljsimachia), colisseum ivy (I^inaria), creeping veron- icas, different kinds of sedums as S. acre, album, Hispanicum, Sieboldii, and the like; variegated ground ivy (Nepeta gle- choma), Lespedezi striata aud similar little spreading plants. Fragaria indica, used in this way, was also very pretty, deceptive rather, for it is studded all over with tempting luscious like reil straw- berries, but, alas, they are not edible. Little ponds of water in the rockeries serve as homes for the smaller aquatics. And there are certain rockeries devoted to certain botanical races of plants Two very interesting patches are filled with sensitive and insectiverousplants. Among the sensitive plants were Oxalis sensitiva, Mimosa sensitiva, INI. pudica, and the telegraph plant, Desmodium gyrans. The insect eating plants incluJed our many species of northern and southern sarracenias, also diona;as and pingui- culas. And in a greenhouse alongside of these is a large collection of sundews (Drosera) which are also reckoned among insectiverous plants. Aristolochia klEGAns is a beautiful tropical species brought into notice a few years ago by having grown and bloomed and seeded so freely in Dr. Richardson's
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