MAncn 31, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review, 



1009 



RETAIL FLORISTS. 



(CONTINUED.) 



Mrs. Chas. Eickholt, 



rENCE M. Galveston, Tex. 



AVENUE 



S. B. Stewart, 



No. 16th street. OMAHA, NEB. 



New Bardy H,ii.n«.i 

 Sunflower.. *"""'" 



Will become popular when its 

 merits are generally known. 

 5 to 6 feet high ; lateral flower 

 stems 2 ' j feet in length. Indis- 

 pensable for cutting .... 



25c each. $2.50 per dozen 



viNcas 



I 



Two varieties, GREEN and 

 VARIEGATED. From 

 3 -inch pots. 



$5.00 per hundred 



Nathan Smith & Son 



ADRIAN, MICH. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



Santa Cruz. Cal.— W. E. King is 

 iiuikling a new h.ouse 18x30 with twelve- 

 foot walls for Asparagus plumosus. 



STANDARD ROSES. 



The growing of standard or tree roses 

 is a subject that most of the florists and 

 nurserymen have had little experience 

 in. The selection of the wild stock that 

 will be of long life is the most import- 

 ant item. Practical growers have long 

 since discarded most of the European 

 and eastern wild varieties and confined 

 themselves to sorts that have proven 

 hardy enough to withstand our dry sum- 

 mers without scalding and bark bind- 

 ing, rooting deeply enough to furnish a 

 plentiful flow of sap to delicate grow- 

 ing heads. Eosa canina, a great quan- 

 tity of which is used in Europe, is almost 

 worthless here, as at the best it does 

 not last over one season. The absence 

 of moisture in the summer seems to be 

 fatal to it and, together with several 

 other wild briars, we have ceased to 

 use it. 



Manetti stock is used for many vari- 

 eties of hybrid perpetual roses and for 

 some hvbrid teas. We ilsed Baltimore 



We Speak 



about Ribbons of merit. 



The RIGHT RIBBONS 

 specially woven to meet the demands of Florists. These 

 Ribbons are lustrous, firm, heavy to the touch, clean of 

 weave. The colors blend or match perfectly the Rose, 

 Violet, Carnation, Foliages. And the prices — less, very 

 much less than the usual sort, for the Ribbons are sold 

 to you direct from the mill (cutting out all dealers) and 

 therefore J' you save all between profits." 



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Belle for a few years, but on account of 

 its liability to suckering it is not of 

 much value. The native Castilian is 

 very long-lived and does not sucker 

 badly, but it is of slow growth and 

 makes a very small stem and does not 

 grow in proportion to the top. I have 

 seen stock of this variety thirty years 

 budded that was not over three-fourths 

 of an incli in diameter and the top three 

 or four feet across. Thje Banksias, espe- 

 cially the white variety, are splendid to 

 grow Noisette varieties on, but they are 

 not used much. 



La Grifferae seems to be about the 

 best all around stock we have used up 

 to date and I think it fills most of the 

 requirements. It is of strong growth, 

 makes a heavy stem, a good feeder and 

 does not root sucker. The varieties 

 budded in it do not grow out as soon as 

 they do on some other stocks, but it 

 forces them along well and they make 

 good, strong heads in a reasonable time. 

 When plenty of moisture is given it 

 during the growing season it attains a 

 very large size and makes tremendous 

 roots. 



But one thing in particular should be 

 remembered in grovring standard or tree 

 roses, and that is that they should not 

 be grown too fast by the application of 

 much water, as they are then very diffi- 

 cult to transplant without resorting to 

 heavy pruning. Tree roses that are 

 grown without much irrigation are much 

 easier to handle, even if they are not 

 so big either in stem or head, and the 

 public will have much more satisfac- 

 tion after they are planted. G. 



CAMELLIAS, 



A correspondent from California asks 

 why camellias have dropped so many 

 flower buds this season. I have noticed 

 the same trouble, both with large speci- 

 men plants that I have had planted many 

 years in the ground and also with smal- 

 ler stock kept in pots. The trouble I 

 find with camellias is that they must be 

 kept constanth' moist at the roots. 



Our camellias are commencing to make 



new growth now and in a few months 

 this new wood will have attained its 

 proper length and flower buds will form. 

 These grow slowly and this is when our 

 diy season commences. The camellia is 

 a shrub that requires plenty of mois- 

 ture to thrive well and when this is de- 

 nied it at the season when everything 

 here has to be watered artificially, the 

 buds will hang on to the stems, but are 

 blighted, and although the plant is ap- 

 parently full of plump flower buds, it 

 only wants our blustering wintry weath- 

 er to cause most of them to partially 

 open and then drop off and leave only a 

 few that succeeded in getting moisture 

 enough to develop. I have found that 

 even our severest frost does not spoil the 

 unopened buds; it blights and discolors 

 the blooms and retards their opening, 

 but does not injure the plant. 



Camellias like a moist atmosphere and 

 are not especially fond of shady situa- 

 tions, although in partial shade they do 

 well. But to get the full value of the 

 plant place it in the open ground, giv4 

 it good drainage and do not be afraid of 

 giving it too much water. Some varie- 

 ties are very heavy bearers and I have 

 found it a good plan to disbud about 

 half the quantity formed. In shady sit- 

 uations the camellia does not flower as 

 freely as in the open ground and as i 

 pot plant, especially when the roots are 

 cramped, it blossoms wonderfully, but 1 

 have seen plants that were gi'owing out- 

 side with fifty to seventy-five buds and 

 open flowers, drop them all when brought 

 into a warm room. This is from the 

 change of dry for moist atmosphere, 

 something the camellia will not tolerate. 

 For the same reason we do not grow it 

 as a greenhouse pot plant, but keep it in 

 general in a shade house where the tem- 

 perature is low. 6. 



NURSERY STOCK. 



The demand for home-grown nursery 

 stock in California and throughout the 

 Pacific coast is yet in its infancy. A 

 few years ago, when there were many 

 less large private places than there are 



