>30VBMBER IT, 1S9S. 



The Weekly Rorists^ Review. 



637 



prizes for the best 6 vases ot 10 cut [ 

 blooms each. This is the fourth time ] 

 friend Macrae has talien the silver of- 

 fered as first premium. [ 



An excellent display was also made 

 by W. Goddard, Alfred M. Powell, 

 gardener, who won several premiums, 



C. W. Regester exhibited plants and 

 took first premium on several classes. 

 Hazard Meeden Co. also showed some 

 fine blooms. 



There were fine exhibits of carna- 

 tions by Homogansett Greenhouses, 

 John A. Macrae, Farquhar Macrae, N. 

 D. Pierce, Jr.. and S. J. Reuter. 



John A. Shellem, Philadelphia, sent 

 at too late an hour for official exami- 

 nation a vase of a new white carna- 

 tion, Agnes Shellem. -E. Leuly, West 

 Hobokeu, sent a vase ot his new seed- 

 ling mum. 



Roses were exhibited by S. J. Reu- 

 ter, of Westerly, and F. Macrae. 



A display of fruit of great excel- 

 lence was also on the tables, showing 

 what Rhode Island can do in this line 

 of horticulture. One of the finest ex- 

 hibitions in the fruit line was a large 

 platter ot Box pears, by J. H. Palmer, 

 for which a premium was awarded for 

 excellency of cultivation. 



The managers have felt obliged to 

 provide some entertainment for the 

 visitors as an extra attraction, and a 

 concert each afternoon and evening 

 by the Providence Lady Orchestra, 

 was given. S. 



OTHER EXHIBITIONS. 



A number of exhibition reports are 

 unavoidably laid over till next week. 



Violets. 



Recently a subscriber asked the 

 question, "Should runners be cut off 

 violets?" I cannot remember his exact 

 words, but they were near enough this, 

 "Should runners be cut off?" There 

 are two classes of runners, there is the 

 runner whicli may be called almost a 

 subdivision of the crown. This you 

 must leave on. There is another class, 

 which is a spindling growth which is 

 of no benefit to the plant during the 

 winter months. They should not be 

 pulled off; they should be cut off. Pull- 

 ing them off is liable to injure the 

 crown. Cut them off as close as you 

 c?.n. After Feb. 1st many growers al- 

 low all runners to remain on, and as 

 their destiny is to make individual 

 plants of themselves, they frequently 

 produce the finest flowers for late 

 spring. 



A little word of advice at this sea- 

 son of the year is very seasonable to 

 violet growers, or those who attempt 

 it. The spot is generally considered the 

 violet growers' greatest enemy, but not 

 by any means is it. The spot is kept 

 down easily by a dry atmosphere and 

 low temperature, not syringing unless 

 it be on fine mornings to keep down 

 red spider. The spot has been conclu- 

 sively proved to be spread by moisture 

 and while mild nights you do not want 

 temperature of over 45 degrees it is far 

 better to have a little heat and plenty 

 of air than a damp, stagnant atmos- 



phere. The spot is a fungus and eas- 

 ily avoided, for when it appears in its 

 earliest forms, which can be easily de- 

 tected, pick off the leaf affected. Plenty 

 more healthy leaves will spring from 

 the crown. The minute fly which punc- 

 tures the leaf, deposits its egg in the 

 tissue, is the dreaded enemy of all vio- 

 let growers and has upset the hopes 

 of thousands. How to kill it is not 

 generally known. Its cure is rather a 

 dangerous operation and my experi- 

 ence with its use is not yet extensive 

 enough to warrant my imparting it to 

 others. If you can avoid the curl leaf 

 you have about reached the goal of vi- 

 olet growing. 



Chrysar themunis. 



There is quite a difference of opin- 

 ion on the best method of carrying 

 over your stock of chrysanthemums. 

 To produce healthy cuttings in the 

 spring, one of the best authorities 

 says, that he takes healthy cuttings 

 before the plants are lifted from the 

 bench, puts them in the sand, roots 

 them and afterwards plants them on a 

 bench, and from these plants, which 

 malve a good vigorous growth, he ob- 

 tains his stock. That is very good for 

 a specialist, but a moderate grower 

 hardly needs that method. If he has 

 a few of each of his varieties in pots, 

 I do not believe there is a better plan 

 than saving a few ot these pot plants. 

 When out of flower or cut down, put 

 a few of the most healthy specimens 



away. They may do under a bench 

 for a week or two, but this is no place 

 for them for any length of time. 



The chrysanthemum is a shrub in 

 China and Japan, not a deciduous shrub 

 exactly. We may call it more like our 

 raspberry.whose canes grow one year, 

 fruit and then die. If you will put 

 away a few pot plants of each v'ariety 

 in a cool house with fair light, never 

 mind how near freezing it is, and even 

 a few degrees of frost will not hurt, 

 you will be more likely to start well 

 on your next season's crop. 



Lilies. 



You will yet be very crowded on 

 your benches and perhaps your later 

 lot of lilies will be yet out of doors. 

 I would once more advise you not to 

 leave them uncovered in inclement 

 weather. A sharp freeze may appear 

 any night and would be very injurious 

 to them. Have the means at all times 

 of covering them with glass. Once 

 more let me say, when a Bermuda lily 

 shows any decided streaks of yellow 

 or spots of yellow, that plant is dis- 

 eased and it is the utmost folly for 

 you to incumber your benches with it. 

 Get rid of them. Make room for bet- 

 ter stuff. 



Roses. 



There is no time of the year when 

 the skill and attention of the rose 

 grower is taxed more than now. W^hen 

 we get steady freezing weather, per- 

 haps hard frosts, there is less likeli- 

 hood of extremes of temperature. 

 Many times has it been said in these 

 columns that one of the worst mis- 

 haps to roses is a damp, chilly night 

 without fire. After firing begins in 

 the earl.v weeks of October or Septem- 

 ber, it is impossible with any chance 

 of success, that you can dispense with 

 it, even if the temperature went up to 

 60 degrees at night. 



Mildew should have disappeared and 

 if it has not, there is nothing better 

 than painting your pipes with some 

 mixture of sulphur. Sulphide of po- 

 tassium is rather strong and it would 

 be entirely unnecessary to cover the 

 pipes with it, which you can do with 

 the ordinary mixture of flour ot sul- 

 phur and linseed oil, but the sulphide 

 can be put on here and there in daubs, 

 mixed either with linseed oil or any 

 medium with which it will mix. Rose 

 growers differ largely on what is the 

 proper temperature, but the best arti- 

 cle always pays the best prices, and a 

 rose bud that fetches 10 cents whole- 

 sale or even 5 cents, is very much bet- 

 ter than producing three which only 

 return two cents apiece. If your 

 house is never let drop below 55 de- 

 grees at night, you will be doing first 

 rate, and never let it go above 58, un- 

 less the outside conditions compel it. 

 Mildew is not produced by a low tem- 

 perature, in fact otherwise, and pos- 

 sibly if the roses were kept at 70 de- 

 grees at night uniformly they would 



