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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



AUGUST 24, IS99. 



From the question box came an in- 

 quiry about butted glass and Mr. Wm. 

 Scott responded with a description of 

 his method of butting glass, which 

 was described in our last issue. Quite 

 a difference of opinion regarding the 

 utility of this system of glazing de- 



ROSE NOTES. 



Roses that were planted early will 

 now be in need of a mulch; if not 

 till later, two or three weeks hence, 

 according to time of planting, will do. 

 For mulch I like good fresh soddy 

 loam with well decayed manure, thor- 

 oughly mixed, with the addition of 

 one shovel of bone flour for each 

 wheelbarrow of soil and manure. 



If the boiler and pipes are not al- 

 ready in perfect order they should be 

 made so at once, as cool nights will 

 be upon us before we realize it, and 

 fungus diseases will surely develop if 

 the atmosphere in the houses is not 

 dried out by the running of a little 

 steam through the pipes in the early 

 hours of the morning. The pipes 

 should have a mixture of lime and 

 sulphur smeared on them, thus ef- 

 fectually heading off mildew. 



From now on Beauties will need 

 constant watching and care in all 

 particulars, as they are exceedingly 

 liable to black spot at this season. I 

 believe that moisture arising from the 

 soil at night and settling on the lower 

 leaves of the plants and remaining 

 there all night is largely accountable 

 for this trouble. When the spot does 

 make its appearance the affected 

 leaves should be immediately picked 

 off. 



Ventilation will now require care- 

 ful and intelligent attention as there 

 is frequently a very great drop in 

 temperature ofter dark and then is 

 when the careful grower gets in his 

 good work to have on all the air pos- 

 sible and still keep the temperature 

 of the houses just right for the best 

 development of the plants. I want 

 to call the special attention of rose 

 growers to the paper of Mr. E. M. 

 Wood, read before the S. A. F. and 



veloped. Some holding that it was the 

 only way to glaze and others saying 

 they would not own a house glazed 

 that way. 



The society, by a unanimous vote, 

 endorsed Mr. Wm. Scott, of Buffalo, 

 for the position of Chief of the De- 

 partment of Horticulture of the Pan- 

 American Exposition to be held at 

 Buffalo in 1901. 



The Ananias Society held a meeting, 

 but owing to the absence of the Board 

 of Lady Managers it was a trifle lack- 

 ing in color. 



printed in last issue of Review. It is 

 an excellent recital of the pests de- 

 structive to roses and valuable in 

 naming agents for their annihilation. 

 In my experience I have no recollec- 

 tion of a season when the insect ene- 

 mies were in such great variety and 

 large numbers. Get the rose houses 

 glazed in time, before the fall rains 

 come, and fall work is pushing so that 

 it be not left till frost come. 



A. 0. T. 



SYRINGING ROSES. 



In view of the great importance at- 

 tached to syringing by most growers 

 we were somewhat surprised to hear 

 one of the most successful growers in 

 the country make the statement that 

 if some one would discover a way to 

 prevent the appearance of red spider 

 and thus do away with the necessity 

 for syringing it would be of the great- 

 est possible value to rose growers. 



He held that both flowers and fo- 

 liage were apt to be injured by syring- 

 ing and emphasized his belief by call- 

 ing attention to the fact that in na- 

 ture water was never forced against 

 the under side of the leaves. From 

 his remarks we gathered that he 

 syringed much less than other grow- 

 ers. 



Another well known grower of roses 

 of the highest grade was later asked 

 about the same subject and he in- 

 dorsed what the other had said. He 

 added that syringing seemed to injure 

 the American Beauty more than other 

 roses, and especially those flower buds 

 that are not sufficiently pointed in 

 form to shed the water readily. Water 

 settles on the edges of the loosening 

 petals and then when a hot, sunny 

 time follows the petals are parboiled 

 and lose the color, most markedly so 

 on the edges of the petals where the 

 water was held. 



A third eminent rose grower was 

 consulted, and he proved to be a warm 

 believer in syringing. He held that 

 the trouble mentioned above was due 

 to a surplus of .""»isture in the air 



combined with sunless weather. 



Of course we all know that syring- 

 ing can be overdone and that one eye 

 must be kept on weather conditions, 

 but after interviewing the three gen- 

 tlemen noted we concluded that it 

 would be wise to watch the syringing 

 very carefully and see that no more 

 was done than absolutely necessary to 

 keep down red spider, and that we 

 would be inclined to take a few 

 chances of spider rather than have the 

 syringing overdone. 



The two gentlemen who spoke 

 against syringing are rarely heard in 

 print, but they both grow roses that 

 bring top prices in their respective 

 markets, and as they did not talk for 

 publication we have withheld their 

 names. 



ELEVATED ROSE HOUSES. 



Being located on the next block to 

 the principal hotel in the city, and the 

 offices of two express companies, with 

 another express office but little more 

 than a hundred feet further away, 

 land is valuable; and we are compelled 

 to resort to expedients to economize 

 space in building. 



Two of our houses built last season 

 are, we think, unique, and your read- 

 ers may be interested in a description 

 of them. We have six houses run- 

 ning north and south, and needing 

 more space for roses, and the only 

 available room being at the north end 

 of the houses already built, and that 

 mostly covered by a brick soil shed, 

 with a slate roof, we were somewhat 

 puzzled how to proceed. If the new 

 houses were built on the ground in the 

 usual manner, the older houses would 

 shade them, and they would be of little 

 use for forcing roses in; and in addi- 

 tion, we would lose the room we had 

 already had for storing soil. 



We settled the matter by building a 

 brick wall, eight feet high, inclosing 

 the necessary area, putting 12-inch 

 joists 16 inches apart, well supported 

 and braced, on this wall, and covering 

 the whole with matched flooring, 

 which when laid, was given a good 

 coat of linseed oil. 



On this foundation we then .built 

 our houses; and so grow our roses on 

 the second floor. 



The space gave room for two houses, 

 each about 17 feet wide and 120 feet, 

 long, running east and west; and as 

 they adjoin, they were made with the 

 short slope to the south, to prevent 

 shading. The glass is laid flat, with- 

 out lap or putty; and the drip is car- 

 ried in a moulded wooden gutter, to 

 the lowest end of the houses, and con- 

 ducted into the sewer. 



The plants did well last season, al- 

 i hough we were compelled to buy most 

 of the stock to plant them with; and 

 they are looking very much better 

 this, being planted with roses of our 

 own growing. We water and syringe 

 as in the other rose houses; but try to 

 avoid wetting the floor unnecessarily. 

 The light is fine, the floors can be kept 

 clean easily and the experiment is a 

 success. 



