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JUNE 22, 1916. 



The Florists' Review 



15 



the first year and $250 the second year -would 

 be for traveling and other special expenses. 



If the American Rose Society desires to avail 

 itself of this opportunity, I must know of it 

 before .Tune .SO, 1916, in order to properly ar- 

 range with Mr. Massey. 



It is the belief of the executive com- 

 mittee of the American Eose Society 

 that the opportunity thus presented is 

 one which rose growers generally will 

 be willing to support by the special 

 contribution necessary, information as 

 to which must reach the president, 

 as noted, before June 30. Let us act 

 together to help to put rose growing in 

 as safe a condition as is carnation grow- 

 ing or apple growing. 



S. S. Pennock, Pres. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Plaji to Study Rose Diseases. 



When the editor of the 1916 Eose 

 Annual of the American Eose Society 

 was assembling the material for that 

 notable volume, he discovered that in 

 America there had never been any or- 

 derly study of the diseases of roses. It 

 was found that even the new Bailey's 

 Standard Cyclopedia, in its second vol- 

 ume (1914), listed but one other rose 

 disease than mildew, and that the other 

 books and rose catalogues either skipped 

 the subject or glossed over it. 



Knowing how s*erious to rose growers 

 was at least one of these diseases, the 

 all-too-familiar black spot, the editor 

 canvassed the various colleges and ex- 

 periment stations and the Department 

 of Agriculture at Washington, only to 

 learn that the rose had never had the 

 attention that had been given to car- 

 nations or cabbage or cutworms, to 

 apples or potatoes. Prof. H. H. Whet- 

 zel, the noted plant pathologist of Cor- 

 nell University, wrote that none of his 

 brethren had ever studied the diseases 

 of what he termed "man's oldest and 

 most widely cherished ornamental," 

 and that, therefore, no means of con- 

 trol of some of these destructive rose 

 diseases had been worked out. 



Cornell Wants to Help. 



The American Eose Society believes 

 that this condition is a disgrace. It 

 has therefore undertaken to organize a 

 careful inquiry into rose diseases, 

 which, if supported by those interested, 

 ought to result in the proposal of meth- 

 ods for the prevention and control of 

 rose diseases as efficacious as those that, 

 through similar study, have given fruit 

 growers courage to proceed profitably in 

 defiance of brown rot and similar dis- 

 eases. 



Much correspondence, following au- 

 thorization at the recent Washington 

 meeting of the society, has developed 

 an exceptional opportunity to have the 

 proper study begun and carried through 

 at a small part of the expense, Cornell 

 University sustaining most of the cost. 



A 'Tlorlsts' Disease Investigator." 



Professor Whetzel states the situation 



thus: 



What is needed first Is a rather careful study 

 of the rose disease situation as represented in 

 the gardens and houses of the members of the 

 American Rose Society — a survey, In order that 

 we may determine just what the chief diseases 

 of the rose are. • • • We propose that Mr. 

 Massey, who has worked on florists' crops and 

 who is, in my opinion, the man for this job. 



should be- employed by the American Rose 

 Society under my direction, to spend three 

 months of each year for two years in rose 

 disease survey and investigation work, traveling 

 as may be required; and that during the re- 

 maining nine months of each year his special 

 line of investigation with us would be of the 

 diseases of roses. That Is, If the American Rose 

 Society can support him while in the field, one- 

 fourth of the tftne. The Cornell department of 

 plant pathology will have him make rose disease 

 Investigations the chief line of his work, as a 

 florists" disease investigator for the remainder 

 of two years. 



We would provide such ordinary laboratory 

 apparatus as he may need and also give him pro- 

 fessional aid and counsel, together with our 

 hearty interest in the Rose Society's activities. 



This would give the American Rose Society . 

 the services of a thoroughly trained investi- 

 gator of florists' crop diseases, at a cost small 

 in comparison with that required to finance the 

 work indei)endently. 



The cost would not exceed $1,000 each year 

 upon a 2-year arrangement, of which sum $S00 



Detroit, Mich. — John Breitmeyer's 

 Sons, one of Detroit's oldest and most 

 modern establishments, have incorpo- 

 rated at $50,000. Philip Breitmeyer, 

 H. G. Breitmeyer and Frank Danzer are 

 given as the officers. 



Batavla, N. Y. — Eecently Thomas H. 

 McGuire, the New York Central rail- 

 road florist, with a special train and a 

 large force of men, set out plants at 

 stations along the Canandaigua branch. 

 Later foliage and flowering plants were 

 set at East Buffalo, North Buffalo and 

 Tonawanda. The railroad greenhouses 

 at Batavia pi^odiuced almost 100,000 

 plants this year for planting along the 

 right of way. Tentative plans have 

 been made calling for large additions 

 to the Batavia range, the only one of 

 the Central system east of Bufffllo. 



.Mews' from 



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Liverpool, England. — As a result of 

 trade conditions in Great Britain, some 

 of the leading nurserymen are seeking 

 export trade. Merryweather, of South- 

 well, and Bees, of Liverpool, already 

 have established resident representa- 

 tives in Canada. 



Haarlem, Holland. — A first-class cer- 

 tificate recently was awarded C. G. 

 Van Tubergen, Jr., for, Freesia Tuber- 

 geni Apotheose, white and lilac, raised 

 from seed, said to be extremely florifer- 

 ous, exhibited before the committee of 

 the General Bulb Growers' Society. 



Woking, England. — While war pro- 

 duces conditions sometimes wholly un- 

 expected, American rose growers who 

 prefer English Manetti stocks need 

 have little fear of a shortage. While 

 it is true the scarcity of labor has in 

 a measure reduced the quantity grown, 

 the home demand also has fallen off in 

 at least an equal proportion, so that 

 there should be the usual quantities 

 for export. 



Wandsbek, Germany. — Many Amer- 

 ican forcers of lily of the valley will 

 loam with regret of the death of Emil 

 Neubert, whose name is connected with 

 the valley pip trade of Hamburg. De- 

 ceased, who was 85 years of age, had 

 been in his early years a member of the 

 staff of Dippe Bros., the Quedlinburg 

 seedsmen. About sixty years ago he 

 removed to the Hamburg district and 

 established the nursery at Wandsbek. 



Sassenheim, Holland. — Perh?'is it is 

 not the jarring of the heave i . that is 

 going on nearby, but this '. been a 

 season of continuous and f< avy rains 

 over the bulb district, as Hie quality 

 of the crop harvested u .d.vtbtedly will 

 show. First quality bulbs are not pos- 

 sible where the fields got an almost 

 daily drenching. 



London, England.— The largest meet- 

 ing of the horticultural trades ever re- 

 corded was held May 24 for the pur- 

 pose of considering the state and fu- 

 ture of the busines.". Three special 

 subjects were up: Tin; prohibition of 

 imports, restrictions on imports after 

 the war, and the fixing of minimum 

 prices both during and after the war. 

 Before adjournment a committee was 

 appointed to obtain authoritative infor- 

 mation as to the durability of the re- 

 cent prohibitions and to urge that they 

 be extended to include cut flowers; also 

 to urge the government to take steps 

 to prevent the dumping of foreign stock 

 on English markets after the war. In 

 the matter of fixing minimum prices no 

 action was taken beyond authorizing 

 the committee to proceed with the de- 

 velopment of its plan for county com- 

 mittees, to report at another meeting. 

 It was felt that some degree of unanim- 

 ity of action must be assured to make 

 the method successful, else those who 

 adhered to the minimum prices would 

 be holding the bag for those who re- 

 fused to be bound by them. 



