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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



JUNE 30. ISHS. 



'J and Ill-inch pots. Do not fill the 

 pots too full of soil, as the plants will 

 need enormous quantities of water 

 in August and a good mulch of cow 

 manure can be given then. 



After potting stand the plants in 

 a bench where the soil has been taken 

 out and bank up all around the pots 

 with coal ashes. This will help to 

 keep them from drying out too much, 

 and this is the point to watch above 

 all others, because if they get dry on 

 one or two occasions the points get 

 hard and "stuck" and the plants never 

 properly recover, always having a 

 stunted appearance. 



Single Stem Plants. 



Plants in 2i{,-inch pots that it is pro- 

 posed to grow in 6-inch should also 



be potted up now and placed in the 

 same house with similar treatment as 

 regards plunging. If they are stood 

 outside in the hot drying winds it is 

 almost impossible to keep them prop- 

 erly supplied with water, and water 

 they must have above all things to 

 retain the foliage. A plant with the 

 foliage hanging over the pot is a pret- 

 ty sight to the mum lover, but plants 

 denuded of their leaves with the ex- 

 ception of a dozen or so around the 

 flower are anything but beautiful. A 

 good mulching of stems all round th>= 

 plants will keep down the black fly. 



Stock that has been planted outside 

 to be lifted and potted in the fall 

 should not be neglected. Stopping 

 should be done when necessary and 

 the soil frequently hoed to prevent 

 evaporation. When the weather is 

 dry the hose should be kept busy and 

 the plants should be where they can 

 receive a good syringing once a day. 

 C. TOTTY. 



ROSE NOTES. 



Bassett & Washburn, at Hinsdale. 

 111., will this season cut bloom from 

 ;">(», 0(10 American Beauties, 20,000 

 Bridesmaids, 1.5,0(X) Brides, 15,000 Me- 

 teors, 7,.5<M) Kaiserins and 2,<itK» Perles. 

 They are trying 2."ii> plants of the new 

 pink rose. Mrs. Robt. Garrett, and this 

 season's experience will determine its 

 value to them. They are this year car- 

 rying over seven houses of Brides and 

 Maids, but would not attempt this 

 with Beauties. Meteors or Perles. One 

 year they carried over some BeautieB, 

 replanting in fresh soil in another 

 house, and while they produced plenty 

 of good flowers they were sadly lack- 

 ing in stem, which is such a consider- 

 ation now-a-days. Meteors and Perles, 

 when carried over, have with them 

 produced flowers of inferior quality, 

 including numerous bullheads, while 

 young plants under similar cultural 

 conditions gave very satisfactory flow- 

 ers. They find, too, that it is not wise 

 to give the Meteor and the Perle a 

 very rich soil, as this develops a ten- 

 dency to produce bullheads, and while 

 the Beauty is a strong feeder, it also 

 is inclined to produce bullheads if 

 overfed, and they are careful to keep 

 within the line of safety. They think 

 it is the strong growth induced by the 



rich soil that results in buUheaded 

 buds. Brides and Maids do not seem 

 to be so subject to this tendency to 

 produce malformed flowers. 



They are trying .500 plants each of 

 Maids, Brides and Kaiserins that have 

 been grafted on the Manetti and the 

 grafted plants have certainly made a 

 better gi'owth than those on their own 

 roots. They are very favorably im- 

 pressed with the conduct of the gi-afted 

 plants thus far and if they do corre- 

 spondingly well during the remainder 

 of the season they will be exceedingly 

 well satisfied with them. They are 

 planted alongside of own root plants, 

 so comparisons can be easily made 

 during the season. Apparently the 

 grafted Maids will begin to produce 

 some little earlier than those on own 

 roots. They not only grow faster, but 

 throw bigger and stronger canes th'at 

 promise fine blooms. 



All their tea roses are now planted 

 out on the benches with the exception 

 of some Meteors. For planting out Mr. 

 Bassett much prefers a 2-inch pot 

 plant In good condition to one in a 

 larger pot. If he could propagate all 

 his roses late enough he would plant 

 altogether out of 2-inch pots, but of 

 course the earlier propagated plants 

 have to be shifted on to keep them in 

 condition. He would, however, a good 

 deal rather the gi-owth be made as 

 nearly as possible all in the bench 

 where the plant is to remain. He would 

 propagate all his Beauties in April if 

 he dared to put it off till that late. 



In a house of Beauties planted the 

 latter part of April the plants are now 

 two to two and one-half feet tall, 

 bushy and vigorous. From this house 

 they will be cutting fine flowers by the 

 middle of next month. So far they 

 have grown all their Beauties on 

 raised beds, but will this season try 

 a house of them in solid beds. These 

 beds will be four feet wide and will 

 have five lines of 3-inch tiles running 

 lengthwise through them. 



Two houses of Meteors that were 

 planted about last Easter are now iu 

 superb condition and are yielding ex- 

 cellent flowers. Mr. Bassett says the 

 Meteor is decidedly the most profita- 

 ble rose in the list, and as a money 

 getter is way ahead of the Beauty. He 

 adds: "If they would let me grow all 

 the Meteors I would be satisfied to let 

 them grow all the rest." In the Me- 

 teor houses the night temperature is 

 never allowed to drop below 70 de- 

 grees. Other roses are kept at 56 to 

 .58 degrees, except Perle, which is giv- 

 en 6<> degrees. He does not now grow 

 La France and Testout, but if he did 

 would give them not less than 60 de- 

 grees. He has repeatedly noticed that 

 the warm end of a house of La Franca 

 or Testout was always the best end, 

 and this applies also to the Perle. A 

 house of Perles planted a year ago 

 last April and never allowed to drop 

 below C>o degrees has produced freely 

 and continuously up to date and is still 

 in fine condition. 



The Kaiserin is here, as elsewhere, 

 the white summer rose above all oth- 

 ers. From some houses of superb 

 plants they have been cutting flowers 

 for a week or so and the great canes 

 coming indicate a continuous and lib- 

 eral supply of fine blooms. Last win- 

 ter, after cutting all the flowers they 

 could for Christmas from a house of 

 Kaiserins. they dried off the plants 

 and started them up again in Febru- 

 ary, allowing ten weeks to bring in a 

 crop for Easter. The result was far 

 beyond anticipations. They had an 

 enormous Easter crop and had rather 

 more white roses than they could use 

 even at Easter. 



They have dropped Pres. Carnot, ex- 

 cept 25 grafted plants. They will try 

 these few grafted plants and see if 

 they produce more satisfactorily than 

 the own root ones. If not, the Car- 

 not will receive no more of their at- 

 tention. They had a house last sea- 

 son and they got a few flowers in fall 

 and spring, but practically none at all 

 in winter. After cutting a few at 

 Christmas they failed to find any more 

 till March, when a very good crop was 

 produced, but March roses are not so 

 essential as winter ones. 



The Testout has also been discard- 

 ed, as it proved unprofitable. It pro- 

 duced flowers in fall and spring, but 

 few could be discovered in winter, 

 when they were wanted most. Sie- 

 brecht proved the freest and most con- 

 tinuous bloomer of any rose they have 

 ever had, but alas, they couldn't get 

 any stem on it, and a rose must have 



