JULY 21, 1S9S. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review* 



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The Horticultural Building at the Omaha Exposition. 



and thus not getting the full value of 

 heat from the coal. They keep 30 to 

 40 cars of coal on hand all the time so 

 there may be no danger of shortage 

 through delays on the railway. 



Among their latest improvements is 

 a new cut flower packing room 24x30 

 and a flower cooling cellar 20x20 be- 

 neath it. 



Speaking of tall houses they ques- 

 tion whether it requires as much more 

 fuel to heat them as some seem to 

 imagine. The cold comes in from 

 above and the layer of heated air just 

 under the roof intercepts and prevents 

 it from reaching the lower part of the 

 house. On this they base their opin- 

 ion. 



Some notes on their carnations will 

 be found in another column. 



Herman Bauske's. 



Herman Bauske, of Bowmanville, 

 111., will this season cut from 9.000 

 Beauties, 6,000 Meteors, 3,800 Brides, 

 3,5TO Maids, 1,800 Kaiserin and 1,200 

 Perles. 



His fine range of new houses are all 

 planted with young stock, but many 

 of his others contain stock that has 

 been carried over. He has plants of 

 American Beauty that are now five 

 years old and from which he has every 

 winter cut flowers that have given him 

 an enviable reputation as a rose grow- 

 er. These Beauties are replanted in 

 fresh soil every year. 



At the end of the season he cuts the 

 tops of the plants off with the shears 

 leaving them about IS inches tall. This 

 cutting is merely for convenience in 

 handling the plants. The plants are 

 then lifted, taking as little of the old 



soil as passible, and lightly heeled in 

 elsewhere till the bench has been thor- 

 oughly cleaned and refilled with fresh 

 soil, when they are at once replanted. 

 Where, say, three houses are to be 

 changed, the first is cleared and re- 

 planted with the stock from the sec- 

 ond. The second is then replanted 

 with that from the third and the third 

 with that from the first. Soon after 

 replanting the real pruning is given, 

 in which the canes of last year's wood 

 are cut back to two or three eyes and 

 about a foot is taken off of last win- 

 ter's canes and weak ones cut entirely 

 out. 



The old plants do not take hold of 

 the soil any quicker than young slock, 

 but grow faster afterward. They pro- 

 duce one crop of short stemmed flow- 

 ers about seven weeks from time of 

 planting. The next crop comes about 

 six weeks after that and the flowers 

 then produced have as long stems as 

 those from young plants. During the 

 remainder of the season they do as 

 well as young plants. The October 

 crop is the best one and the next large 

 crop comes in February. Beauties car- 

 ried over without replanting will pro- 

 duce all short stemmed flowers. 



He generally carries all his tea roses 

 over to the second year, and will this 

 season try some Maids a third season. 

 These he leaves in the same beds, 

 drying them off gradually for a few 

 weeks till the wood gets ripe and 

 hard. Then he cleans the plants and 

 beds, prunes the plants, gives a good 

 top dressing of fresh soil and manure 

 and waters sparingly till good root ac- 

 tion is had. when usual methods are 

 followed. He mulches these carried 



over plants more frequently than 

 young stock, giving a little at a time, 

 but often. He gets just as long stems 

 and as good flowers from the carried 

 over plants as from young stock, 

 though possibly not so many. He 

 thinks though that the saving in ex- 

 pense and labor more than offsets any 

 slight deficiency in the cut. 



He carries over Meteors and Perles 

 in the same way, though they are not 

 so reliable to carry over as the Brides 

 and Maids. Still the former would be 

 just as reliable if replanted in fresh 

 soil the same as the Beauties. He has 

 but few bullheads on his Perles if kept 

 warm enough. He gives his Perles (30 

 to 02 degrees, other roses 56 to ')H de- 

 grees, except Meteor, which receives 

 (>"> to 68 degrees. He believes a steady 

 temperature of 70 degrees too hi.gh for 

 any rose. 



In soil he prefers sod or deposits 

 from the river bank, to which he adds 

 one-fifth of cow manure. He J ikes a 

 thin mulch to prevent the surface of 

 the soil from getting hard, but on 

 roses planted as late as August does 

 not consider this necessary till firing 

 begins. He does not use liquid man- 

 ures, preferring to do all his feeding 

 through mulches. 



Ockerlund & Allen's. 



This is a comparatively new place, 

 now in its third year. Only roses are 

 grown, and the place, though contain- 

 ing only 12.1XM) feet of glass, is well 

 worth a visit, everything being in su- 

 perb condition. The houses are short 

 span to south with two v;ide benches 

 and three walks in each, and lime 

 wash has been freely used on side 



