The Daily Missoulian., 1914-04-20

A. c. Anderson, a prominent Mis-
scula florist, addressed the Country
Life club Of Orchard Homes recently
on matters pertaining to gardening.
The address was unusually good and
should be of interest to local people
who are making gardens this summer.
The address follows;
The profits derived from growing
and cultivating flower garden at a
home are several; the refining influ-
ence that the simple little flower has
on the human mind would alone
greatly repay one for the trouble and
expense. The early snoWdrop has its
simple charms that we learn to un-
derstand after struggling through q
long and cold winter. The Crocus
comes as saucy as you like, opening
up its silken petals to the spring sun.
Did you ever notice what a long neck
the Crocus has, and how it pops its
head sideways, peeping at you with
yellow eye? Some are as white as the
snow on the hilltop, others have a
streak of the blue sky in them, while
some are all blue and there are few
as yellow as Orchard Homes butter.
Well those early flowers are all eager
to show their Maker that they lived
through the winter.
Many inexpensive bulbous flowers
can be planted in the fall of the year.
The tulips are very proud. elegantly
warmer weather to bloom in than the
Crocus. The Crocus you plant shall
low, while tulips need covering of
gentlemen, and all in high style,
greatly to be respected and of most
important appearance. Jonquils, daft
fodils and all narcissi are beautiful.
The N. Peeticus Ornatus is loving
flower. timid and gentle. and the odor
restful and soothing All the narcissi
the newer trumpet flowered kinds, and
the double yellows. white, N. Flora
Plenana Odovata Alba, are splendid
The Holland bulb growers and hy-
bridingers have devoted many long
years to their Improvement and for a
few cents you may buy the gray
haired Hollanders' pets. Then there
are the Anemones, single and double
like poppies, waving on long stems,
with ruffled, cosy foliage. Our noun :
tain slopes are dotted with several
varieties of anemones that bloom as
soon as the snow melts. Ranunculus
double, pretty things, in brilliant col
orings. / have grown few this win
ter along the border of carnaton
bed and I give away all of them; they
are too nice to sell. The little tubers
can be planted in the fall or early
spring.
Flags, iris, flor de lis; many types
of this orchid-like flower are now in
lcultivation. The colorings are most
varied. from soft creamy white to
brown and black, streaked and wavy
Masterful harmonies on large spread
! ing petals. the Japanese kinds arc
elaborate.
Now let us look to the lilies, that
toll not, neither do they spin, vet
Solomon in all his glory was not
clothed like one of these. Most all the
lilies are hardy. Plant them eight
inches deep in light soil. Best are the
Grand Noble Lilium Auratum, the gol-
den banded lily of Japan.
The greatest trouble I have with the
lilies is to sell them as cutflowers.
dislike to cut their big. glorious flower
heading some royal damsel, but I Dc
it-quickly There are SO many va.
rieties of lilies that it is hard tt
choose. Lillium Candidun, the snow
white Madonna lily. What a beautiful
flower it is. 1t carries with it tha
religious purity that only imagination
creates, and to look upon it and in
hale its generous mystic odor calms
the worried human soul
The lilies of the valley, Convullaria