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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



ROSES AT THE PAN-AMERICAN. 



of two beds, 'jiu' mir unh i lie .^Midcii- 



i(! of the towers of 

 ,vay in the back- 

 rich J3iunner, and 

 of plants as the 

 lea. Excuses arc 

 ?, but I can assure 

 mil tin- I'aul ^ev- 



other hi'.l. -h-i» 



the Tniiiii|.lK.I 



ground. i> :i I. 



has tlir -iiiir 



other mill i he 



poor tllillj- .it ; 



my rpadii - lliii 



ron bed was a lew (l:i\- ],:i~[ it- l.i'>(, (he 



picture of thf I'll icli Kininni ui\.'^l>uta 



poor idea of the i;i>iL;ri.u, -li.m (,| j n.ses 



it was a week picMuus tu ilu: time the 



view was taken. About a week before the 



picture was taken we could have cut 



5,000 perfect Ulrich Brunner off this 



one bed. 



Now, it occurs to me that if roses could 

 be grown as successfully by the average 

 cultivator there would be far more plant- 



well-known firm accompanied their ship- 

 ment with a note which read: "We have 

 pruned tlicni to >avi' vcni trouble." That 

 I M|i|iir,.iah.l, bill if I liad left them I's 

 Ih.n li;nl |.ruiir,l iImmii I don't believe 1 

 would iKur -.i\r,l 111 per cent of the 

 plants, with all tlu> care, so I immediate- 

 ly cut them down to within three inches 

 of the ground; in fact, you could scarcely 

 see the roses when we had finished 

 planting. 



Last June was the very reverse of this. 

 Hot, dry winds, but not a drop of rain. 

 I do attach a great deal of importance to 

 the simple, yet the only way to plant — 

 viz., there was ample room made for the 

 roots, onlv sulTleient soil put in to keej) 

 the roots "in |dar,.. (liiii the ludc snaked 



tion filled up uiih .Im -il. 'Iluii^ ihr 

 beginnlML; ami I lie l.iuii.hit i..n of ^u^^,.^- 

 and llic iiL'lii \\;i> to plaul. As this four 

 feel ill ,',.i\ li.iieiitli Ilii' lieds was in all 

 kiu.U ..1 hiiiip-. uiiiii p.itired through it 

 as th.i.ituh .1 H,-w; eiilirelv ditlcrent 



would have had a chance to ripen them 

 off, but the growth was all made long 

 after the usu.'il >eaMUi. 



About I he iiii.lilh- ,)f November the 

 canes \mii' -h'iii.iiiil to about two feet 

 from till' •ji.iiiiil iiiiil a string put tiround 



them t.i ki.|i ili.i hiiMkiiiu' ihivvn. 



After ■ ■_- ."I li.i-i I hiiil -i\ Hi. hi- of 



Nothing uiuie ua.s dune until the .-^piing^ 

 when the beds were uncovered, the bushes 

 loosened up, and I then found that the 

 canes were all killed back to the line 

 where the litti r luul protected them, so 

 hard piiiiiini; w,.^ iici cssary. But even 

 if they liiiil uiil hii ii killed back I should 

 have cut lliiiii l,;i. k alruost as hard. On 

 iiii avciii;;!' Hi I Hi. ill' than three to four 

 111. Ii.- ..r hi~t >.';ii-s -r..uth was left on. 

 I'h.' l-i-.|- «.•!.■ i.iik.'.l ..\ei- as soon as the 

 i;i.iunil was diy, and during a week's dry 

 weather we gave them one good soaking 

 of water. No more cultivation was done 

 to them. 



We are asked repeatedly, mostly by 



Bed of Paul Neyron Roses at Pan-American Exposition. 



ed and more eneourtigemcnt to plant, and 

 it might Ii.' iutere-.t iiii.' to a few to know 

 just how th. \ vM r.' . iillivated. To begin 

 with, the -p.il i.u «hi.li these beds exist 

 was one iiia-s ,)t ilay, excavated from 

 the mirror lakes, and raised above the 

 normal elevation more than four feet. 

 The beds were excavated out of this clay 

 to a depth of fifteen inches and filled up 

 with a strong, heavy loam, which had 

 been the surface soil of this territory' 

 and used as a pasture for many years. 

 To it was added about one-fourth of cow 

 manure. No other fertilizer of any 

 kind was or has been used. 



The roses for these two beds were re- 

 ceived from Ellwanger & Barry, of 

 Rochester, about the first day of June, a 

 good many weeks later than any cus- 

 tomer won VI receive tlieni. They were 

 budded low aiiil .■vi.l.Mit ly their own 

 -rowiu..', not iiiipiiil.il -loik, and I do 

 not believe that am Mii I, siieeess could 

 have been had with imii.irted stock. This 



from the natural hardpan. iSo every four 

 or five days the beds were soaked and 

 then, as j-oon as possible, hoed. 



This treatment was continued until the 

 roses showed decided siitns of breaking, 

 which was aliuoM the thst of July ; then 

 they were iiiiihlieil with two inches of 

 rotten maniiii'. but tlu' weekly watering 

 was continued. From tliis on they grew 

 rapidly, and by the end of the growing 

 season, say the middle of October, we 

 had canes as thick as your little finger 

 and IIm' f.'i t liigli. As we had abimdance 

 of liiin- iii Sipteuiber the watering was 



If Ilii II w.i- iiii\- mistake made in the 

 culti\:ilii.ii i.f th.'-c r..-,.^ up til this date 

 it wa- - inpl\- thi^: 'I'liat t li.'y hail made 

 such a pii„li-i..ii< .growth ill this soil 

 and with the watiaiiiu' that the wood was 

 rather i,'ieeii ami vof| when winter came 

 on. but that ciiiihl not be helped. If 

 planted at I lie ]uiiper time and the 

 growth luoduced earlier in the season we 



ladies : "How did you keep the bugs off 

 them?" That did" trouble me slightly, 

 and I thought perhaps I would have to 

 resort to tobacco water, but I made men 

 get down on their knees and throw water 

 at them hard enough to put them out if 

 they had been on fire, and that put out 

 all bugs and aphis. 



It is only fair to say that there were 

 two other beds of the same size as those 

 pictured. One was Jacques and one 

 was of mixed varieties. Nelson Bogue of 

 Batavia also had eight other beds, hold- 

 ing each about 200 plants, equally good 

 in quality and giving a magnificent dis- 

 play, but consisting of many more varie- 

 ties and consequently not quite such a 

 show. 



If these roses had been planted the 

 middle of April, the usual time, I would 

 consider that an.y good gardener could 

 have produced these results, but being 

 planted seven weeks later and being very 



