. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1887. The American P\\-tO\N NN\1V\ CRO^n ^BO\lt. We use the flowers for large vases and bold effects in house decorations. Cut the " spikes " with stems 3 to 4 feet long and with leaves attached. It is the finest thing we have iu the way of caunas. Perenniai, Double Sunflower (H. multiflorous )—Is coming into bloom, July 25. What a capital garden plant this is. Its flowers are bright, showy, neat, and the stems leafy, so that iu cut- ting them for decorative purposes, the leaves add to th
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1887. The American P\\-tO\N NN\1V\ CRO^n ^BO\lt. We use the flowers for large vases and bold effects in house decorations. Cut the " spikes " with stems 3 to 4 feet long and with leaves attached. It is the finest thing we have iu the way of caunas. Perenniai, Double Sunflower (H. multiflorous )—Is coming into bloom, July 25. What a capital garden plant this is. Its flowers are bright, showy, neat, and the stems leafy, so that iu cut- ting them for decorative purposes, the leaves add to the charm of the flowers. A good but neat grower. May be multi- plied by division exceedingly. I5ut it isn't reliably hardy. A warm, sheltered place, a mulching or a cold frame usually preserves it all right. I like the single flowered variety just as well as the dou- ble one. "New Miniature" Sunflower.— This appeared a year or two ago as a nov- elty in seedlists, and a capital thing it is too. But that is no reason why they should take an old plant and give it a new name and big boom. This is Heli- anthus cucumerifolius, a native of Texas, and a plant that I have grown and which has been in constant cultivation for a dozen years. It has a great and contin- uous profusion of small, bright yellow flowers with dark centre, and is of long- lived, branching habit, 4 to 6 feet high. In bunches, its flowers are much esteem- ed for large vases. Pillow with Crown Above. In response to a call from numerous readers for illustrations of well-made floral work of more .conventional design than we have heretofore published, that they "may see how the florists in the large cities make up their usual run of work," we present the accompanying engraving of a pillow with crowu above, arranged by one of Chicago's leading florists. While the engraving does not do the piece justice, it may suggest ideas to some of the readers above mentioned. Wood for Benches.—In answer to Mr
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