The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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Chrysanthemum Mrs. Coombes. Chrysanthemum Lady Harriet. 



Two of the very good sorts of last season's introduction, photographed by A. Herrington. 



but an hour or so only need elapse from 

 the lifting till you have them potted and 

 watered. Now supposing you have them 

 in your own field, or you have to pur- 

 chase them, do not be in a hurry to lift 

 them. Ten degrees of frost will do them 

 good; it will ripen the wood and denude 

 them of leaves, which would have to be 

 pulled off in any event, the same way 

 that nurserymen scrape off the leaves of 

 all deciduous shrubs and trees when lift- 

 ing them in the fall. Save all the roots 

 you can when digging; with the Ram- 

 blers you do no pruning at lifting; with 

 H. P. 's you can eut off one-third of the 

 growth, which simply makes them more 

 convenient to handle. 



Pot firmly just as soon as you possi- 

 bly can. and immediately give them a 

 thorough watering. In a few hours the 

 soil in the pots will have become dry 

 enough to be firm and not fall out when 

 the pots are laid on the side. The next 

 thing to do is to choose a level, dry spot 

 convenient to the houses and lay the 

 plants down, putting the pots as close 

 together as you can, with the tops of the 

 plants of one row lying over the pots 

 of the others; sort of shingle them. Make 

 the beds of convenient size, say five feet ; 

 that would hold nine or ten 6-inch pots 

 lying side by side. Then throw on four 

 or five inches of soil, either dug from 

 the side of the bed or any old, light soil 

 you have on hand. The next thing to do 

 is to get the hose and very judiciously 

 give the soil that covers the roses enough 

 water to about soak through and reach 

 the stems, but no more. If any shrivel- 

 ing of the canes has taken place this 

 will restore them and they keep in this 

 way far better than in any frame or cool 

 house or cellar that was ever used for 

 the purpose. 



They will come out in January or what- 

 ever time you want to start them, with 

 plump eyes and stems. You might, if 

 the weather in December gets very severe, 

 cover the ^oil with a few inches of leaves 



or hay, or any such material that is most 

 readily at hand. Frost that would pene- 

 trate through the soil would not hurt 

 them at all, but they might be frozen in 

 a tight mass just when you wanted to 

 bring them in, and then it would cause 

 you trouble, as well as the roses. 



I meant to say a little curlier in these 

 notes that lifting them when the wood is 

 green is a great mistake, for then it must 

 ripen prematurely. If the wood is green 

 and any way soft leave them out till end 

 of November. When the wood shows 

 ripeness and the leaves are falling is the 

 time to dig. William Scott. 



ASPARAGUS MYRIOCLADUS. 



Our attention has been called to the 

 fact that the note ' ' from a British 

 writer" quoted under the above head in 

 our issue for October 8, page 79_, and 

 which we found published as original 

 matter in a midsummer number of the 

 Austral-Culturist. of Melbourne, Austra- 

 lia, first appeared, with an illustration, 

 in the American Florist of April 4. 1903, 

 page 383. We take this first opportunity 

 since the facts have come to our atten- 

 tion to give proper credit to the original 

 source of this note. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market. 



These are strenuous days in Gotham, 

 with a hot municipal campaign, and 

 Dowie seeking to reform the town, but 

 this has no energizing effect upon the 

 flower business, which, after all, is the 

 one thing needful, nor will there »«« any 

 appreciable revival until the killing 

 frosts have stopped the flood of outdoor 

 bloom. The theater openings occur 

 weekly and absorb a goodly quantity of 

 flowers, and the football enthusiasts make 

 their existence evident by the creation 

 of a demand for violets and chrysanthe- 

 mums far beyond the ordinary. Never 



were 'mums at so low an ebb in price 

 so early in the season, and never was the 

 supply so much in advance of the de- 

 mand. Society celebrates again next 

 week at the dog show, and the v-eek fol- 

 lowing the equine exhibition, then comes 

 the greatest 'mum show of the season, 

 and by that time we hope Wall street 

 will wake up, and rise, and everybody 

 will be prosperous again and the florist 

 will have his share of the general good 

 times, which are so close at hand. 



Various Notes. 



In addition to the horticultural exhi- 

 bitions mentioned in my last, the Suffolk 

 County Association holds its annual show 

 this week, at Bay Shore, L. I. The floor 

 space for the New York show is 70,000 

 square feet and an attendance of 100,000 

 visitors is expected. 



The new Breitmeyer rose displayed its 

 beauty and asserted its right to recogni- 

 tion in the window of Charles Thorley 

 for several days last week, and on Satur- 

 day after a week's cutting, and exposure 

 to heal and air, they still retained their 

 beauty and fragrance and attracted much 

 admiration from the passing throng. It 

 is certainly a rose that has come to stay. 

 It will be shown at all the fall exhibi- 

 tions. Fred Breitmeyer accompanied 

 his rose to New York, and upheld his 

 trenuosity while in the 

 e great rose establish- 



reputatton tor 

 city, visiting t 

 ments of Ernsf 



Umus and Paul M. Pier- 

 son and fraternizing with the wholesalers 

 and with the Peter Henderson people, 

 with the latter having absorbed some of 

 his practical ideas of the florists' busi- 

 ness. 



The visit to Mr. Asmus found that 

 gentleman slowly recovering from his 

 serious illness of the summer, and pre- 

 paring for his trip to the south, where 

 he will spend the winter. It will inter- 

 est you to know the names of the roses 

 grown by Mr. Asmus. While nearly all 

 rise growers in this vicinity confine them- 



