AUGUST 23, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



361 





KIFT'S PATENT 



ADJISTABLE 

 VASE HOLDERS. 



No. I — Brass, nickled, 4 feet long, six clasps to each rod. 



Price complete (with green or white tumblers) $2.25 



Price complete (with green or white cornucopia vases) 2.50 



No. 2 — Heavy four-foot rod brassed and nickeled, with three 



clasps for 5 to 6-inch pots each $J.75 



KIFT'S PATENT 



Rubber Capped FlOWer TubcS 



4 inches long, ,"2 inch diameter, per 100 $3.50 



Both of the above are indispensable to the decorator. 



In use and highly recommended by the principal retail stores. 



Send for illustrated circular. 



Robert Kift, 



....PUORIST.... 



1725 Chestnut St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



SEE EXHIBIT AT THE CONVENTION. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



There are other flowers that have their 

 season, but of short duration. They have 

 their points of beauty, and admirers, but 

 what flower combines so many, in fact, 

 all good points of other flowers, color, 

 form. fra_?rance? None but the rose, and 

 though tTie people will enthuse over the 

 others in their season they will come 

 back to their first love, the rose. It has 

 been so from the earliest ages and will 

 be to the close of time. 



Up to date roses I can only speak of 

 from a florist's standpoint. They are 

 comparatively few and I will enumerate 

 them as they suggest themselves to me. 

 To my mind there is no rose that will 

 compare with the American Beauty, with 

 its magnificent foliage, grand stem, 

 flower and exquisite fragrance. We all 

 know it. Can any person pass a vase of 

 this rose without stopping to enjoy its 

 beauties and odor? It was one of the 

 sights, never to be forgotten, at the first 

 exhibition of the American Rose Society, 

 held in New York last March, when some 

 . two thousand magnificent blooms were 

 staged, tall, stately, perfect flowers. 



The Bride. The rose par excellence of 

 its color, as its name suggests — purity, 

 whiteness. The white rose of commerce 

 to-hay v'ithout a peer 



Bridesm.iid. The pink rose that has 

 superseded all others in popularity. We 

 h.ive had others but they have Quickly 

 given the place of honor to the Maid of 

 that deep, rich shade of pink, so much 

 sought after. 



Meteor. Up to the present has held the 

 place of honor of its color, its rich, vel- 

 vety crimson always appealing to the 

 customer, but lacking that very essen- 

 tial quality in a rose, fragrance. If we 

 could only produce a rose with the good 

 points of Meteor, with odor, we would be 



loath to give it up, but there is another 

 crimson of which I will speak of later 

 that will probably supersede It. 



Perle des Jardlns, the pure golden yel- 

 low rose of the day. This we find declin- 

 ing in popularity through some of the 

 caprices of fashion. It is a grand rose 

 of its color, and I think will be more 

 largely grown than previously. 



Sunset. A good rose but of a dull 

 shade, not having the brightness of Dor- 

 othea. A saffron yellow shaded with 

 rosy pink. 



Madame Hoste is a good light colored 

 yellow, having many good qualities. Its 

 fine, long pointed buds are always at- 

 tractive. 



Golden Gate. A fine rose of a peculiar 

 combination of soft pink and creamy 

 white. Long pointed buds and ex- 

 quisitely sweet. Strong grower. 



Mrs. Pierpont Morgan. Of the Cusin 

 type, but of a more pleasing color. Very 

 popular with the flower buyer and has 

 the quality of showing to good advant- 

 age in artificial light. 



Clara Watson. In color a combination 

 of pink and white. Good, strong grower. 

 Very sweet. 



I.Will now speak of the rose that we 

 have heard so much about and many of 

 us paid a good price for a few plants. 

 that we may test its good points and 

 pruve some of the assertions that have 

 been made in its favor. I speak of 

 Liberty, that grand crimson rose that 

 has been ushered into the floral world 

 this season. Who w^ill not remember the 

 magnificent vase of Liberty roses that 

 were exhibited in Toronto last March 

 at the first carnation exhibition of the 

 Gardners and Florists Culb? Its glow- 

 ing Jacqueminot crimson and sweet per- 



fume were the attraction of that show. 

 I cannot speak of it from a grower's 

 standpoint, but will givu some of tho 

 figures given by Mr. Asmus in com- 

 parison with other varieties in point of 

 productiveness. The test was made with 

 a house of Liberty against Bride, also 

 one of Liberty against Bridesmaid dur- 

 ing the past season. Each house was 

 given equal treatment in all respects. 

 In each of the houses of Liberty there 

 were eight hundred plants, but in each 

 house of Brides and Maids seven hun- 

 dred and eighty (780) plants, or twenty 

 less than Liberty. 



Maids House, No. 11. 



Nov 1288 



Dec 2058 



Ian 1329 



■peb 1425 



tJlOO 

 Brides House, No. 12. 



Nov 2307 



Dec 2052 



Ian 1731 



Feb 1445 



Liberty House, No. 15. 



Nov 3145 



Dec 3179 



Ian 190O 



Feb 1895 



10119 

 Liberty House, No. 16. 



Nov 5507 



Dec: 1707 



Ian 2042 



Feb 2260 



7535 11516 



These figures will tell the tale better 

 than any guess work could possibly con- 

 vince the skeptical of the flowering qual- 

 ities of this rose, as we have here the 

 four severest months on the blooming 

 qualities of any rose or plant, that is 

 treated contrary to the laws of nature. 

 As to the color, I am given to understand 

 that during the winter months It Is much 

 brighter than late in the season, and 

 not guilty of producing that beautiful 

 purple tint so often seen in crimson 

 roses. 



