Jaxuaey 14, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



357 



■violets to Chicago, roses to New York 

 and azaleas to Boston. 



"Altogether I woiiUl say that it par-^ 

 to advertise, but do it so people will be 

 impressed. ' ' S. A. Anderson. ' ' 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Couard & Jones Co., West Grove, Pa., 

 submit for registration the new hybinl 

 orchid tloweriug cauna, Louisiana, a seed-, 

 ling of Pennsylvania ; flower vivid sear- 

 let, very large, measuring seven inches or 

 more across; foliage large, glossy green, 

 distinctly mai'gined with a purple band ; 

 early and free-flowering. 



John 8cott, Brooklyn, N. Y., submit? 

 Nephrolepis exaltata Scotti, a sport from 

 N. exaltata Bostonieusis, dwarf, dense 

 and compact in habit ; fronds arching, 

 rarely fertile; midrib reddish brown; 

 foliage leathery. 



Wm. .T. Stewart, Sec'y. 



ROSES. 



Care of Young Stock. 



As soon as the cuttings have acquired 

 roots of half an inch in length they 

 should be potted without delay. Any 

 dallying with this work means a weaken- 

 ing of the young stock, there being no 

 nutritive properties in the sand to sus- 

 tain a growth which, if allowed to start, 

 must of necessity be of a very poor qual- 

 ity. The roots also soon lose that fresli 

 and plump appearance and become brit- 

 tle and lifeless. Every day they are al- 

 lowed to remain in the sand after the 

 roots arc formed has a very deteriorat- 

 ing etfect which is certain to affect the 

 plant more or less in after life. 



The soil for the first potting shouM 

 ■contain little or no manure nor any 

 •chemical fertilizer, the young plant re- 

 quiring no other sustenance than that 

 supplied by good natural loamy soil, 

 which must be finely pulverized, so that 

 the young roots may the more easily as- 

 similate the life-giving elements. 



Two-inch standard pots are large 

 enough, as these, if the soil is firmly 

 packed, can absorb .iu't about the proper 

 ' amount of moisture to sustain the youns 

 plant, leaving no surplus to cause sour- 

 ness. 



The roots should be placed so that they 

 •will be about two-thirds from the bot- 

 tom of the pot and leaving ample room 

 to accommodate water at the top. The 

 ■first watering sho\ild be done carefullv, 

 so that all the soil in the pot may be 

 equally moistened. This can be accom- 

 plished by sprinkling them gently several 

 times, taking care not to get them into 

 a muddy condition. 



These young plants shoidd now receive 

 the best of care and attention as it is 

 at this stage that the least neglect will 

 <!anse a check from which they rarely 

 recover. Tliey should be placed in a tem- 

 perature of ,')6 degrees anel given the 

 lightest and most airy position in the 

 louse. 



Those who have no regular stock house 

 and are forced to throw out some part 

 of a crop to make room, are frequently 

 tempted to discard those benches which 

 are at the time the least productive and 

 these usually occuny the darkest and 

 least airv part of the house. Tt is follv 

 to expect young stock to thrive and do 

 well where the older plants have failed. 



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 ers are appreciated bv rvervdne, aixl no 

 where in this fireal cilv of ou'^s can such 

 a profusion ol llorjl loveliness be found 



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fiive them the best to get a fair start in 

 life. 



An inch of screened ashes on the bench 

 makes an ideal bed on which to place 

 the pots as the drainage is perfect anil 

 earth worms avoid this material so long 

 as it is fresh. 



They will require shading during 

 bright sunshine for the first week but 

 this should be removed iust as soon as 

 the sun ceases to shine on the bench, as 

 the more light they get so much sooner 

 will root action commence. On bright 

 days they should be syringed morning 

 ancl afternoon — this prevents the ravages 

 of red spider and encourages the eyes to 

 break freely. 



Due care in ventilating and discrimi- 

 nation in the use of water at this period 

 are absolutely necessary in order to pro- 

 duce hardy, healthy and stocky plants, 

 the only kind that will ever reoay the 

 care bestowed on them. RiBES. 



TROUBLE WITH ROSES. 



l[y roses for some reason do not do at 

 all as thej- ought. They were pilanted in 

 June, the soil very heavy. They started 

 out very well but when cool nights in 

 August came they got a check in some 

 wav. which gave them a bad dose of 

 mildew. Since I got them out of this 

 thev have never worked as thev should. 



Tiiinking the soil was too poi>r I gave 

 them a light mulching the tirst of Sep- 

 tember, but it was of little benefit. In 

 October they started with a good crop 

 and I gave them wood ashes, also lime 

 about every fifteen days. I slake the 

 lime to a powder in a box, scatter it 

 lightly on the bench and water it in, 

 right away. Is that right? The water 

 is pretty hard. I gave them another 

 mulching last month. Now the plants are 

 large anel I have cut a fair crop, but in 

 general the stems are short and weak, 

 also a lot of blind wood. The plants 

 seem very hard anel the wood is turning 

 brown. The new breaks are a pale green 

 and in some places the buds don 't open 

 properly. The foliage is a dark green, 

 healthy color. The soil seems to be all 

 right. The houses are run at from .55 to 

 (iO degrees at night. 70 to 74 by day and 

 freelv ventilated. I send a samnle plint. 

 What is the trouble? E. F. H. 



The wood and buds reached me in such 

 a withered condition that it was prac- 

 tically impossible to detect any disease, 

 even if it had been present, so that I 

 must rely entirely on the data as given in 

 the letter. The conditions described can 

 resvdt from various causes. "While the 

 general treatment seems to be along the 

 right lines, there is without doubt some 



