MARCH 17. 1S9S. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



641 



low and the crop will be off. but can 

 easily be brought in for Easter. 



To bring roses in at the right time 

 -will oftentimes need a change in the 

 temperature. I am much against 

 changes in temperature, but if your 

 roses are in good condition, two de- 

 .grees higher or lower for a week or 

 ten days at a time will not do any 

 great damage to the plants, and will 

 often swell the returns. The main 

 thing, in my opinion, is to keep the 

 temperature steady. 



We aim to keep a night tempera- 

 ture of 56 to 5S degrees, allowing it to 

 run up to 72 degrees on bright days. 

 Some growers who claim to keep that 

 temperature think it all right to leave 

 their fires until the last minute, and 

 ■don't mind if the houses drop to 52 or 

 54 degrees so long as they get them up 

 again. And in the daytime they 

 would not think of moving the venti- 

 lators till the temperature had reached 

 72 degrees, and if it runs up to SO de- 

 grees they put on more air and bring 

 it down again. Good roses can never 

 be grown in that way. Make the 

 range of temperature from 56 degrees 

 to 72 degrees, and on no ac- 

 count allow it to go above 

 or below the extremes named. Start 

 ventilating at 64 degrees and gradually 

 increase until the temperature reaches 



Cutting roses is an important piece 

 of work and should be done only by 

 experienced hands. As soon as pos- 

 sible after they are cut place them in 

 fresh water, and if the ends of the 

 stems have become dry a piece shou d 



dition. and promise an Easter crop of 

 magnificent proportions. House after 

 house of American Beauties are seen, 

 all in the pink of condition, with canes 

 that would do for fishing rods. This 

 firm grows 50.000 plants of American 



Interior Views, Horticultural Hall, Audubon Park, New Orleans. 



72 when give sufflcient air to prevent 

 it from going higher. In the af.er- 

 noon keep taking off the air as the 

 temperature goes down and close up 

 at 64 degrees. I think that any grower 

 "Who properly attends to the ventilat- 

 ing will be well repaid for his trouble. 

 He will get stiffer stems, better foli- 

 age, larger flowers and finer color. 



We water according to the condition 

 of the stock, keeping the plants on the 

 soft side, as they then break more 

 freely and give more flowers. 



be cut off so as to open the pores 

 again. If this operation is performed 

 every morning and the flowers placed 

 in fresh water they can be kept three 

 or four days and still improve, provid- 

 ing they are kept in a temperature of 

 not over 50 degrees. 



ROSES AT HINSDALE. 



The roses at the immense establish- 

 ment of Messrs. Bassett & Washburn. 

 at Hinsdale. 111., are in splendid con- 



Beauties alone and every one of the 

 leading forcing roses is also well re- 

 presented. 



Mr. Bassett prefers to propagate the 

 bulk of his Beauties in March. He 

 can then get better wood and they grow 

 on better. When propagated as early 

 as December the wood seems to lack 

 in life. Still, some plants are propa- 

 gated thus early to provide stock for 

 the earlier plantings which are made 

 in April. Two houses are planted in 

 April, and two in May. but the great 

 bulk of the planting is done in June. 

 For the main planting he would rather 

 have a healthy growing 2-inch plant 

 than one from a 3-inch. He finds 

 they start away better. 



Notwithstanding that so much space 

 is given to the Beauty he considers 

 Meteor decidedly the most profitable 

 .rose they grow. They have four large 

 houses in the finest possible condition. 

 With them this rose produces more 

 freely and continuously than any other 

 rose and they sell well in the market. 

 They keep the temperature of the 

 Meteor houses up to 70 degrees. 



Brides and Bridesmaids occupy 

 many houses, all in the best possible 

 condition, and a house of Perles was 

 the best the writer has seen in many 

 a day at this season of the year. A 

 house of Kaiserins will be in splendid 

 crop at Easter. 



A house of Pres. Carnot was tried 

 this season, but it has proven very un- 

 satisfactory. Mr. Bassett says they 

 haven't cut $50 worth of flowers from 

 the house all winter long. For Christ- 

 mas they cut about 50 blooms, and 

 practically none at all since. 



Propagation of all roses is going on 



