EPTKMBKU 2G, 1901. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



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true we have Kaiseriu Augusta for a 

 fine white rose in the summer months, 

 but it has to be grown under glass. 

 Black spot in most localities hurts it 

 badly out of doors. 



There is a great demand fur summer 

 blooming roses eveiy spring among omt 

 patrons, and my experience is that it 

 is a most difficult article to procure. 

 Plants that were planted out in the 

 spring and lifted this fall and wintered 

 in a cold-frame or cold-house, would be 

 ideal for the purpose, but tliey would 

 be costly from the labor that lias been 

 expended on them, so cuttings put in 

 now will make very acceptable plants 

 by next May and can be wintered in a 

 low temperature; in fact, if absolutely 

 resting during December, January and 

 February, so much the better. 



Without going into the quality or con- 

 dition of the cutting, which has beeu 

 pretty well thrashed out, I would merely 

 say that any piece of wood, whether so- 

 called blind or that bearing a Howcr. 

 will do if it is of that age or ripeness 

 that is found when the flower is about 

 open. As you have plenty of material 

 to cut from make the cutting with three 

 eyes and put them in the ordinary cut- 

 ting bench. I would just as soon put 

 them on a side bench in a carnation 

 house, or any house, in a few inches of 

 sand without the slightest bottom heat. 

 They will take a few days longer to root 

 but are none the worse for that. 



When first potted off a genial, warm 

 temperature is needed, till they make 

 roots in the pots; after that tlicy will do 

 in a night temperature of 40 degrees. In 

 March shift into 3* or 4-incli, and by 

 planting out time you \yill have a young 

 plant that will be most satisfactory for 

 your customer or yourself. 



If you wish to replant your bed of 

 Kaiserins next March for summer bloom- 

 ing these plants propagated now and 

 wintered cool are the very stuff you 

 want. William Scott. 



HYDRANGEA OTAKSA, 



A subscriber asks: "Whal is the best 

 thing to dO' with Hydrangea Otaksa to 

 have them flower for Easter ? They have 

 been planted out In the field and are 

 there now.'' 



They must be good, large plants, be- 

 cause he says they did not flower last 

 year. The subscriber lives in German- 

 town, Philadelphia, where it is likely 

 they do not get a frost that would in 

 the slightest hurt the hydrangeas be- 

 fore November 1st. I would say. leave 

 them out in the ground until we have 

 had one or two degrees of frost, which 

 will ripen the wood. Then lift them, 

 put them in a strong, well enriclied 

 soil, and still leave them out of doors 

 in the pots as long as the weather is 

 not too severe. They are better out of 

 doors than under the greenhouse bench, 

 and if frost comes gradually two or 

 three degrees will not hurt thoni. 



By the 1st of December they can be 

 got on to the benches. For the first 

 mouth give them about .30 degrees, 

 gradually increasing the temperature 

 until Easter day. The latter month 

 they may need a temperature of 65 at 

 night. They want a perfectly light 

 house. Unnecessary to say tliat no prun- 

 ing must be done or y<iu will get no 

 flowers. Pot firmly. Hydrangeas are 

 such gross feeders and fill the pot with 

 roots so densely that the last montli 



Urn by J. C. Schubert & Co., Chicago, for the President's FunSral. 



some weak liijuid i 

 will be found to b( 



VERBENAS. 



Growing in Winter. 



Although the verhLni i n. . t the 



easiest of plants to i t ml i w ni 



spring and summer, mi ili i m tit 



quently failures in hinllni il tin lu^h 



the wint.T ninntlw, ^•.U , ,1 , I n, 1 tu 



have a -.1 -I ihr Mill I \ 1 i.nii I X lut 



ties tn 111. ■•■I ;l -|ir i.il I 1 Mill Hid 



what is Wiintcd caiin 1 I li i I in -< ed 

 lings. 



Fall cuttings will not get lustj and 

 black spotted if a few simple rules are 

 adhered to during winter. They should 

 not be starved, and do finely planted out 

 about six inches apart in good rich soil, 

 or t rayed up and placed on shelves 

 where they can droop uvc-r. Tlic first 

 early cuttings should br tnali il llir -anie 

 way, unless you have a Imhix' wlii.h docs 

 not go above 40 degrees at night, and 

 they may then go into two-inch pots. 

 Feed with manure water, if any signs 



noted sulphi 

 t ill times g: 



iiidi plant 

 ilong the 

 some SIX 11 

 I hey \\ CI I 



lUh 



plenty 



make fine three- 

 1 boxes if placed 

 btnch. I tried 

 1 uis for Easter. 

 nil brought $1 

 .T. O. E. 



THE ASTER BUG, 



It the Lebanon Gieenhouse people 

 ha^e lefeience to the black bug which 

 attacks 0111 asteis I can tell them how 

 to get lid ot them Foui years ago I 

 was Msited by thousands of these bugs 

 and tried all sorts of methods and ways 

 to get rid of them. I used Paris green 

 as i would use it on potatoes and found 

 that it only killed a few. Finally I tried 

 i'aris green in a Seggate gun (this is 

 a dry powder gun), and dusted the 

 plants very lightly in the evening when 

 the dew was collecting; the next morn- 

 ing the bugs were all on the ground 

 and apparently dead, but as the sun 

 ii<<\, warmer thev were all back on the 



