June 19, 1902 



The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



J03 



View in Jackson Park, Chicago. 



expansive and wholesale methods, that if 

 only one or two houses can be built, 

 say for carnations, it is almost an im- 

 possibility to improve on the equal span, 

 detached houses, some 27 or 28 feet wide, 

 with four or five 5-ft. benches, with 

 north and south side glass, such as you 

 see at the establishments of Messrs. 

 Dailledouze Bros, or C. W. Ward, and 

 doubtless many others. Still I have seen 

 enough of this connecting, equal span, 

 no partition, high gutter style of houses 

 to convince me that for roses or any 

 other plant where quantity enough is 

 grown to require all the same conditions, 

 to feel sure they are the coming, up-to- 

 date thing. 



William Scott. 



SUMMER BLOOMING ROSES. 



Commenting on tlie interesting article 

 in the Beview on "The Future," C. T. 

 Says : ' ' Eeally good American Beauty 

 roses would be worth more in July and 

 August than they are at present in Janu- 

 ary, but how to get them, 'ah, there's 

 the rub' ". Is that a fact? If so, it 

 is news to me. I had no idea that any 

 such price could be obtained in midsum- 

 mer for roses, whatever their quality. 

 We, who live in small provincial towns, 

 are told that in the large Eastern cities 

 there is little demand during July, 

 August and September for any kind of 

 flowers. The flower-buying people are on 

 the ocean, or at tho coronation, or pad- 

 dling in the surf, or inhaling the hem- 

 lock and spruce's spicy breezes that 

 blow over the mountain tops of the Adi- 

 rondaeks or Catskills or Appalachians, 

 and in cities like Baltimore and Cincin- 

 nati, where only a few can afford to 

 summer away from home the would-be 

 fashionable, who would like to get away 

 but can't, pulls down the blinds, locks 

 the front door and retires to the rear of 

 the house for two months, and if a 

 friend makes a call he is told by the 

 hired girl that the family will return 

 end of September. 



This may be slightly overdrawn and 



not faithfully carried out in detail, but 

 it is nevertheless founded on facts. In 

 rural cool retreats like Buffalo, where 

 people live in their homes all the year 

 around, we expect and do get a steady 

 demand for flowers every month in the 

 year, but not in such quantities or at the 

 price.? we get in winter. Yet there is 

 always a scarcity of good, clean roses 

 from middle of June until the cut begins 

 from indoors again in October, except 

 perhaps for white, and the beautiful 

 Kaiserin fills the bill for that. 



Kow, I am not going to spring any- 

 thing new on "C. T., " for I have writ- 

 ten about and even illustrated my at- 

 tempt at producing American Beauty in 

 July. It may be next to impossible and 

 most likely very unprofitable to produce 

 high class flowers on 6-foot stems in 

 July, but to have an abundance of clean, 

 fine flowers on stems 18 inches to 3 feet 

 from middle of June to end of Septem- 

 ber is not at all difficult. There is no 

 question about its being a profitable 

 summer crop, that I know all about, four 

 times as profitable as chrysanthemums, 

 and you have something left after the 

 summer crop is gone. 



It was about seven or eight years ago 

 that a small dose of inspiration struck 

 us. I am not much of a believer in the 

 orthodox brand of inspiration, but oe- 

 easionally a small group of the ' ' wig- 

 glers ' ' that compose the grey matter of 

 our brain will get an extra kick on them 

 and the result is a new idea, sometimes 

 it's called a bright idea, but that de- 

 pends on results. This particular kick 

 resulted as follows : 



A bench, 100x7 had grown a crop of 

 mums the previous summer. When cut 

 the soil was left in and lilies stood on 

 it, but each pot had a piece of tar paper 

 under it to keep out worms and the soil 

 of the bed did not get very wet and 

 sticky. Easter that spring was on 

 March 25th, and a few days before 

 Easter tliis idea occurred to me: If the 

 soil was well manured and it was in good 

 condition, why not plant it with Ameri- 

 can Beauty roses just for summer cul- 



ture? They were planted April 1st from 

 4-inch pots, very strong, healthy young 

 plants that had been once stopped, propa- 

 gated the previous January. We began 

 to cut on June 1st and by July 1st 

 were cutting large quantities. I re- 

 member one Sunday morning in the mid- 

 dle of July the cut at 5 A. M. was 150, 

 and 50 more during the day. Of course 

 they came in crops, but we got roses in 

 abundance from June 1st until they 

 were dried off in October. During June, 

 July and August we retailed them at 

 $3.00 per dozen and at that price they 

 were the best crop we ever grew. 



The plants were lifted and potted 

 end of October, put into a cold frame 

 until middle of January and then forced 

 for Easter and made the best pot roses 

 we ever had. You will say "Why don't 

 you do it every year?" Because I have 

 not given it personal attention. 



WiLLiAii Scott. 



THE NURSERYMEN. 



Over two hundred members of the 

 American Association of Xurserymen 

 were present when the convention was 

 called to order in the Plankinton House, 

 Milwaukee, on Wednesday last week, by 

 President E. C. Berckmans. Mayor Rose 

 delivered a characteristic address of wel- 

 come, which was responded to by N. H. 

 Albaugh of Phoneton, O. President 

 Berckmans then delivered his annual ad- 

 dress. He advocated the establishment 

 of a large number of schools for nur- 

 serymen in the country. ' ' We need such 

 schools for those who help in the nur- 

 sery business, ' ' said he. ' ' There is no 

 doubt that a graduate of such a school 

 will go into the business and grasp the 

 new details with the utmost ease, where 

 an uneducated employe would have great 

 difficulty. One large nursery house in 

 Philadelphia now has such a school for 

 its employes, and I should like to see 

 others adopt the plan generally. ' ' 



Prof. L. H. Bailey delivered an ad- 

 dress to the association. He is a strong- 

 advocate of the establishment of a 



