The Weekly Florists' Review. 



November 28, 1901. 



and a gross feeder, requiring frequent 

 and rich mulching and can use with ad- 

 vantage more liquid food and of greater 

 strength than any other rose. During 

 the winter months the strong canes 

 which it makes from the bottom fre- 

 quently fail to properly develop the bud. 

 This is caused by strong feeding and an 

 absence of sunlight; by pinching off the 

 crown bud and allowing the lateral bud 

 to develop it will, with a small loss of 

 time, produce a good bloom. By the be- 

 ginning of March this defect "will en- 

 tirely disappear. 



In cutting the bloom it is best to cut 

 low enough to leave at most two well 

 developed leaves on the stem as this al- 

 lows the eyes to break much stronger 

 than if more are left, thus keeping clear 

 of much of that small blind wood, or 

 wood which will produce only short 

 stejns. To keep clear of black spot (to 

 which this rose is rather susceptible) 

 they should have plenty of ventilation 

 and if possible a little left on all night, 

 this seems a waste of fuel but it is the 

 only w\iy to keep the plants in good con- 

 dition and produce good blooms. The 

 house should be kept scrupulously clean; 

 all ripe and decaying leaves gathered and 

 burned; stems and branches tied neatly 

 up so that the air can circulate freely 

 among the leaves, making it easier to 

 reach them with the syringe. A slight 

 fumigating, and painting sulphur on the 

 pipes once a week will hold greenfly and 

 mildew in check. Ribes. 



IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 



[Dedicated to Edwin Lonsdale. E. G. Hill and 

 other might.v Nlinrods.] 



It is reported in today's papers that 



not less than G,000 deer have fallen prey 



to fthe hunter's gun in the "North 



lakes and swamps cover an area of 1,500 

 square miles, pierced here and there by 

 the iron road. There are many little 

 touns and villages, many more mountain 

 hotels for the accommodation of hun- 

 ters, and near the picturesque lakes there 

 are palatial hotels where the New York 

 millionaire goes to fish or shoot or 

 breathe pure air at prices ranging from 

 $5 to .$20 a day. 



Rich men are buying up immense 

 tracts of land. We camped on the bor- 

 ders of William Rockefeller's estate of 

 00.000 acres. The more such purchases 

 the better for the state and the Adiron- 

 dacks, for these men will preserve the 

 timber and game. Alreadj', too much 

 destruction has gone on with the timber. 

 First the noble hemlock was felled for 

 its bark alone; the spruce, to make pulp 

 for paper; the birch, to be converted 

 into any kind of hardwood you choose, 

 for it is susceptible of being stained 

 into mahogany or anything else, and so 

 what were once majestic forests are in 

 too many places dismal wastes. There 

 appears to be several species of spruce, 

 very little pine, and of hardwoods, beech, 

 maple and birch are the principal ones. 



One hundred and eighty miles north 

 of Utica you have to get out of a com- 

 fortable sleeper and go another thirty- 

 two miles on a road called the New York 

 & Ottawa. You might as well call it 

 the Ottawa & Omaha, for all it has to 

 do with the great city, but it does reach 

 Ottawa, Ont., occasionally. At Spring 

 Cove is a sh.inty which answers for sta- 

 tion, village store, post office and loung- 

 ing place for charcoal burners. On buck- 

 lx)ards and wagons of various designs 

 you l)egin a mountain climb of five miles, 

 but don't think for a moment that the 

 horses are not all right. With the ex- 



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"sa^.l 





A comer at the Baltimore Show. 



Woods" of New Y'ork state during the 

 past two months, and all this without 

 the aid of hounds or "jack shooting," but 

 even at this seemingly heavy rate of 

 slaughter the deer are on the increase 

 and this is not surprising to one who 

 has been in the heart of the wilderness, 

 for the Adirondack mountains, valleys. 



ception of the hind wheel of the heaviest 

 wagon dropping into a hole eighteen 

 inches deep and throwing the youngest 

 member onto his head in the ditch the 

 journey was uneventful. 



The log house hotel and its frame an- 

 nex across the road are on a plateau 

 several hundred feet above the railroad, 



and within half a mile to the west rises 

 abruptly Blue Mountain. I suspect 

 there are a good many blue mountains 

 in this region but this one rises 1,100 

 feet above our hotel. The proprietor 

 gives you a hearty welcome in his own 

 peculiar style. To the stranger it is 

 only a vigorous shake of the hand and a 

 slap on the shoulder; to old acquain- 

 tances it is a one minut* "catch as 

 catch can" bout. But it's all meant as 

 a hearty welcome and you can see 

 through it all that good business is 

 raising his animal spirits and when you 

 pay your bill the hilarity has somewhat 

 subsided. A tall and rather delicate 

 looking woman is his wife, a good wife 

 and mother without doubt, and at break- 

 fast you are asked by a pretty brunette 

 of fifteen, tall and graceful, a woman in 

 stature, what you will have, "pork 

 chops, mutton chops, venison steak," 

 with slight variations at other meals. 



As we saw some fine sheep nibbling 

 among the boulders in a clearing just 

 before we reached the hotel we knew 

 that the mutton would be a safe propo- 

 sition. Just let me say, and I have had 

 considerable experience in rural villages, 

 that you are generally safe with mutton 

 and more particularly pork. Farmer's 

 ]X)rk is a treat because pigs are mostly 

 raised to be eaten, but save us from the 

 village beef. :Man by nature is not a 

 vegetarian or he would not be given 

 canine teeth; but the native beef of many 

 of our villages would drive us to live 

 on bread alone. Tlie board was good, so 

 were the rooms. You breathe fresh air 

 all day, you walk sufficiently to be dead 

 tired, you sleep like a baby and eat like 

 a parish minister when invited to your 

 house. 



The guides who drive the deer "your 

 way" or accompany' j-ou in a still hunt 

 have nothing of the picturesque wild 

 west about them. They are tame, civil 

 fellows who wear clothes that can't be 

 ^)">iled. Tobacco is their constant solace, 

 and the deer they shot and the deer they 

 didn't shoot, is the everlasting topic. 



A small (about 20x14) log school 

 house was planted a little off the road 

 alx)Ut a quarter of a mile from the ho- 

 tel. The school master had one eye and 

 one scholar, and she was the pretty girl 

 who waited on table, the landlord's 

 daughter. School didn't keep that week 

 because the professor acted as one of the 

 guides. Now, you will say I have in- 

 troduced some fiction — not a line. Tlie 

 state of New York pays that young man 

 to teach that one scholar; why there 

 are no more is simply because there are 

 no more children within five miles. This 

 young principal I found a most intelli- 

 gent young man, pleasant and cultivated 

 in conversation. I have frequently no- 

 ticed that people living in the rural dis- 

 tricts of our state, and doubtless other 

 states, though lacking the flippant man- 

 ners of our city boys and girls and per- 

 haps considered hay.seeds by them, are 

 invariably better read arid informed. 

 They have the long winter evenings to 

 read and they get the weekly papers 

 and "read, mark, and inwardly digest," 

 while the average city bojs or girls read 

 the red letter headlines of the yellow 

 journals and think they have absorbed 

 it all. Don't make fun of the log school 

 houses, they have produced presidents 

 of the United States and the leading 

 men of our great cities have nearly all 

 been country born boys. 



Blue Mountain, Spring Cove, Franklin 

 Co., N. Y'., is a good place, boys, if you 



