NOVEMBER 1, I'JUO. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



647 



will need no staking. We grow them 

 out of doors in pots plunged in frames 

 about three feet deep, and we put on 

 sash in case of heavy rains. In place of 

 liquid feeding very good results are ob- 

 tained by an occasional niu'.ch of fine 

 bone and wood ashes when the buds are 

 set. They are brouglit in about Sept. 

 Ist-and never allowed to become crowd- 

 ed at anv time. Joseph Eeeve. 



low; Orange King, orange red; Grand 

 Duke Alexis, a grand white; John 

 Elitch, niardon. 



We visited tlie romantic and moun- 

 tainous retreat of Judge Sands and 

 found the judge out but his houses look- 

 ing well, the contents being mostly the 

 standard varieties of roses and carna- 

 tions. I call this neighborhood ro- 



Chrysanthemum Midge as a Pot Plant, (No Artificial Support). 



i(;n.\vii hy H. B.Mr. with J. C. Murray, I'.-nrlM, III > 



AWAY FROM HOME. 



Baltimore. 



Baltimore is a southern city in more 

 ways than one. Robert Halliday has 

 enough liospitality to spread over a 

 large town and lie is iiol (he only one. 

 I happened to reach llic city when an 

 exhibition of dahlias was being held. 

 There were several exhibitors, but R. 

 Vincent. Jr. & Son had much the larg- 

 est display and their exhiliit would 

 alone have filled a lai"ger hall. 



Here is a brief list of some varieties 

 that I thought excellent for the commer- 

 cial men. The p»inpon section undoubt- 

 edly contains tliose most useful as cut 

 blooms, and at the head nf the list in 

 this class is the charming pink A. D. 

 Livoni ; no florist should be without it. 

 Others of this class are M. E. Hallock. 

 yellow; Little Helen, white; Maid of 

 Kent, variegated; Eleganta, pink; El- 

 fin, sulphur yellow. Among fine show 

 varieties are Ruin' Queen, Electric, deep 

 pink; Le Phar, red; Alice, lilac; Ara- 

 bella, yellow tipped with pink. Some 

 very fine cactus varieties I noticed were 

 Wm. Agnew, red; C. W. Bruton. yel- 



mantic because it is so different from 

 anything we have. Settled in a way for 

 perhaps 200 years I could make noth- 

 ing of property lines; roads wind in 

 and out and so do fences; there are 

 lofty trees, abrupt hills and deep ra- 

 vines. It is extremely picturesque, and 

 may be all right for business. 



Here I saw a great bed of Anemone 

 Japonica var. Whirlwind, a double 

 form, that was bearing an immense crop 

 of flowers. 



It was a great surprise to me to see 

 a fifteen-foot perfect tree of Picea pin- 

 sapo, as I had not before seen this tree 

 anywhere on this side of the Atlantic. 

 I supposed it was not hardy, even in 

 Maryland. It is about the most sym- 

 metrical and perfect of all conifers. 



With a good horse and the best of 

 drivers, Mr. Halliday landed me at the 

 very interesting home of Mr. John Cook. 

 Here we could have lingered longer than 

 our time allowed. Splendid trees are 

 here that we cannot grow 400 miles 

 farther north. The Deodar flourishes 

 here, but seems to grow less compact 

 than in Great Britain. There was a 

 splendid specimen of Picpa Xordmann- 



iana. Here is the latitude where the 

 retinosporas grow and flourish to ]ier- 

 fection. The Japanese orange, loaded 

 with fruit, was a gay bush on the lawn. 



As is well known, Mr. Cook is an en- 

 thusiastic and successful hybridizer of 

 roses. The Wootton is one of his best 

 known hybrid teas. Mrs. Garrett, a beau- 

 tiful pink, has not met with great fav- 

 or, growers say on account of the stem. 

 There are now several most promising 

 and beautiful seedlings that will soon 

 be iieard from, but the gem of the whole 

 lot is the wonderful "Baltimore." Most 

 of our large rosarians have seen this 

 rose, but thousands of florists have only 

 heard of it. I should say that it is 

 without doubt the greatest of all truly 

 American roses (please remember that 

 Beauty is not an American). I saw a 

 bench planted end of June in which the 

 plants were on Oct. 1st four feet high. 

 Stems two feet and as good' a^ Amer- 

 ican Beauty, foliage the finest, and at 

 least four times the number of buds 

 that Beauty would bear at any time of 

 the year. 



The bud is immense and the open 

 llower you can hardly knock to pieces. 

 The color is white with a pink or blush 

 center. It is a rose that can be used 

 for any purpose. It is in a class by 

 itself. The open flower reminds you of 

 Souv. de la Malniaison but it is far 

 larger and handsomer. Jlr. Cook as- 

 sured me that the plants flower freely 

 and continuousl}' throughout the win- 

 ter and the appearance and habit con- 

 firm this. I am not "A great rosarian" 

 but must predict for the "Baltimore" 

 a universal popularity and that it will 

 be a monument to the years of experi- 

 menting that Mr. Cook has devoted to 

 the rose. 



Halliday Bros.' houses are well 

 filled with all the leading carnations. 

 These are fine houses and most ably 

 managed by Mr. Max Richmond, who 

 is in earnest over his work. Was very 

 sorry to hear them complain of stem 

 rot, of which I will have more to say 

 later. 



Wc had a very pleasant visit with 

 Mr. I. Moss. In addition to his Govans- 

 town place he is building some fine 

 houses a few miles farther out in a 

 fine neighborhood. Here he has broad 

 acres and a nursery started and wc dis- 

 cussed trees and shrubs. I was much 

 struck with the groat usefulness of those 

 grand summer roses, Mme. Cochet, both 

 pink and white. Thousands of buds must 

 have been picked weekly fiom a large 

 bed on this place. I never saw so much 

 of the suburbs of Baltimore before, and 

 beautiful they are. 



Philadelphia. 



I don't remember of ever before seeing 

 the great establishment of Henry A. 

 Drecr. at Riverton, looking more uni- 

 formly well, and the hard working Mr. 

 Eisele. just arrived from Paris, as lively 

 as a school boy. I tell you, these vaca- 

 tions are an essential and they pay many 

 fold. 



It would take pages to describe all 



