December 12, 1914 



HORTICULTURE 



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obtained. I have noticed the Russell fully 6 ft. long shown 

 by private gardeners. Kindly tell me when to plant and 

 any advice you can give me in order to produce tliese long 

 roses by exhibition time, Oct. 25 to Nov. 10. Any informa- 

 tion gratefully accepted. Yours trulv, 



N. J. W. L. 



.Sliawyer will do ils \rvy \»j>i wliuu grown in a house 

 all by itself, or if the house is run to suit it, and let the 

 other roses come along as best as they can. It will do 

 better if grown a shade cooler than the customary rose 

 temperature, as this will make it produce softer growth, 

 which is very apt to get mildew-. It will stand a good 

 deal of feeding, but keep stimulants away, using only 

 cow manure if possible. If good conditions are given 

 this rose it will certainly produce some elegant cut 

 blooms, and is very floriferous. Russell is a very nice 

 rose, and we think it will do much better in your house 

 with the other roses, than what Shawyer did. It is a 

 good gTower, sturdy, and not an easy subject to disease, 

 producing flowers on nice stiff stems. If conditions are 

 suitable, we are sure you will have no trouble to have a 

 continuous cut of blooms from this variety, and we are 

 sure your employer will like it very much. 



Regarding the extra long stems that the stock ex- 

 hibited possesses, we can safely say that most of it has 

 been pinched once or twice. Some flower shows liar 

 these double or Iriple-Jointed roses, and we would advise 

 you to make sure of your ground before taking these 

 pinched stems to the show. .\ fancy can be pinched as 

 early as August or even July. Another break will con- 

 tinue up, and as soon as this buds, it is pinched again 

 and so on until the stems get to the length desired. Care 

 should be taken, however, to pinch these buds when they 

 are very small, say the size of a grain of wheat. If they 

 are allowed to get any larger than this the wood will get 

 hard, and it will be a little while before the new Ijreak 

 starts up. If they are pinched on time, and the plants 

 kept in a healthy growing condition, they will not stop 

 very long, but continue to grow almost at once. Take 

 at least one leaf with the bud when pinching, for if this 

 is not done, the growth starting up will have a bud be- 

 fore it is more than eight inches long. Two leaves will 

 be better, only be sure it is done on time. The Joints 

 will not show much when the tiuds are taken out very 

 small, and the stems will not get crooked, as they would 

 if the buds are allowed to attain any size. Plant your 

 house early, in May, and you will be sure to have the 

 plants plenty strong enough to give you these long stems, 

 and you will also be safe in feeding a little liquid manure 

 if it should be necessary to give the flowers the proper 

 color and finish. Follow our notes on Rose Growing. 

 and you will hear of the work to be done all along, and 

 you will not be far out of the way if you follow this. 

 Should you wish any further information about your 

 particular case, we shall be glad to hear from you. 



Ferns and Roses in Same House 



Mr. Ruzicka: 



Dear Sir: — Could you kindly answer the following for 

 me: I have just planted one bench and a halt of roses in 

 a house where there are some ferns planted, and where 

 there are some palms, crotons. etc., growing. One bench 

 of roses is half Killarney, and the remainder Richmonds, 

 the other half is planted to Hillingdon. The plants are 

 just out of 4 in. pots and some are small. What success 

 would I have with these under the conditions mentioned. 



and what would be the best treatment? My idea is that 

 the ferns and palms would require more syringing than 

 the roses, and at times when it would be unsuitable to the 

 ■uor)uoui uoA s3i:(0iJBA oi|; \[\3 q^i.vv ssooons pooio /^\mv} 

 latter, especially to the Killarneys. The other matter is 

 that 1 planted tliem into soil that is too light for them, as 

 it was prepared before 1 took them over. It gets very- 

 spongy, when 1 water them. Would it be best to tread 

 the soil in the benches? There is too much stable manure 

 in the soil also. Yours verv truly. 



Maryland. H. W. O. 



If all is as you say we certainly feel sorry for you, 

 being com])elled to grow the roses under the conditions 

 you mention. They will amount to very little, and if 

 you will have to run the house to suit the palms and the 

 crotons, wo would advise you to give up the idea at once^ 

 and ])lant your roses some other place, or else give up- 

 growing them. There is only one way to get roses under 

 the circumstances, and that is to liave a large number of 

 old plants on hand of all the varieties wanted, and then 

 take a dozen or so of dormant plants into the house every 

 few days. If these are strong, they will send out some 

 nice shoots, and will bear a crop of fairly nice roses. 

 As soon as these are cut off, however, the plants must 

 be thrown out, and new ones brought in. We have had 

 but they were all plants that were taken out of a rose 

 house and grown outdoors one season, allowed to freeze 

 quite a little, and then when they were lifted to be 

 planted inside again they have nice bunches of roots, so 

 they responded to lieat and water almost at once. It is- 

 very hard to tell you how to treat your roses under these- 

 extraordinary conditions, and in fact we would not un- 

 dertake it, for we would liave to advise things suitable to 

 the roses, and this would lose your crotons more than 

 likely, and would burn up your palms and your ferns 

 would be out of color wo very much fear, for there would 

 be no protecting whitewash on the glass. From what 

 you say, the soil is not very suitable, and we think it 

 would be best to replant in better soil, or else put them. 

 out. There may be a way of screening your house with 

 cheese cloth, using the front benches for roses, and then 

 running the cheese clolh between these and the palms. 

 etc., which would be on the back benches or on the north 

 .-ide' if the house runs east and west. By doing this, and 

 nianagina' to run your rose benches the temixu-ature you 

 require for these, your chances for success would be 

 better although they would be none too good at best, 

 if you must srow these in the same house we would do 

 it this way." If vou cannot change the soil in the- 

 benches, firm the soil that lies directly armmd the plants, 

 and increase the circle as the ])lanls grow. If you should, 

 firm all of it at once, we are afraid it would turn sour,, 

 and vou could do little with it then. Do not choose a 

 too hVavy soil, and do not use up more than four inches 

 of it in the benches, for they will not dry out the way 

 they would in a regular rose house. We would not syr- 

 inue the roses any inoie than you have to to keep them 

 cle"an. as thev would get plenty of nuiisture through the 

 cheese cloth 'from the palms. The manure will not do 

 so much harm if it is not fresh. Water only right 

 around the plants, and do not water the whole bench 

 until after the plants grow up, and the soil is full of 

 roots. However, if possible at all, move either the roses,. 

 or the rest of the stock out of the house for we very much 

 fear that one of the two will come to grief. 



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