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The Florists' Review 



Fbbbuaby 16, 1917. 



Portland through its park department, 

 and now is an established organization, 

 ready for work. This movement for a 

 rose test garden at Portland has been 

 encouraged from the start by the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society, 



The executive committee at this meet- 

 ing, upon resolution, decided unanimous- 

 ly to designate Portland, Ore., as the 

 place for the oflBlcial rose test garden of 

 the Pacific northwest, and to cooperate 

 with the local organization. It appoint- 

 ed Messrs. Currey, Clark and Tucker, 

 who, as a committee, together with the 

 Portland association and the city gov- 

 ernment of Portland, will formulate 

 plans for the location and government 

 of the garden, and provide rules and 

 regulations for all tests and contests. 



Adolph Farenwald, manager of the 



show is actively looking after all the 

 details and reported matters moving 

 along nicely. Representatives from the 

 leading firms in Philadelphia were pres- 

 ent at the meeting. 



The membership dues for 1917 were 

 reported by the secretary to be coming 

 in finely. There are about 400 associate 

 members now on record, and a ticket 

 of admission to the coming show is for- 

 warded to each member as his dues are 

 paid. 



Robert Pyle presented an invitation 

 from Newport, R. I., in which the so- 

 ciety was invited to hold an exhibition 

 of outdoor roses at that resort July 4, 

 It was considered best to defer action 

 on this matter until certain details per- 

 taining to such an exhibition could be 

 obtained. Benj. Hammond, Sec'y. 



SWEET PEAS OUTDOORS. 



To follow the late indoor sowings of 

 sweet peas, it is time now to start some 

 seeds to plant outdoors as soon as we 

 get something approaching settled 

 weather. The land on which sweet peas 

 are to be planted ought to be prepared 

 in the fall. If this has not been done, 

 take advantage of the first possible open 

 spell of weather, when the frost has left 

 the ground, to prepare suitable trenches. 

 If you want only one or two varieties 

 for your home trade, plant, for white, 

 Nora Unwin or Constance Hinton; for 

 clear pink, Hercules or Countess Spen- 

 cer; for lavender, Florence Nightingale 

 or Asta Ohn; for orange pink, Improved 

 Helen Lewis. If you want greater va- 

 riety, the following are thoroughly de- 

 pendable: Primrose, Debbie's Cream; 

 orange scarlet, Thomas Stevenson; bi- 

 color, Blanche Ferry Spencer; blush, El- 

 frida Pearson; scarlet, Fiery Cross; 

 cream pink, Margaret Atlee; blue. Cap- 

 tain of the Blues; rose, Edith Taylor; 

 crimson, Maud Holmes; maroon. King 

 Manoel; picotee-edged, Martha "Wash- 

 ington; cerise, Illuminator. 



Sow the seeds in pans or shallow flats 

 of pure sand. It will pay to soak or chip 

 the seeds of the white varieties before 

 sowing. Pot them off into 3-inch pots 

 before the roots of the seedlings become 

 too lengthy. Shade the plants from the 

 bright sun for a day or two, gradually 

 harden them off and then plant them 

 outdoors, from the middle to the end of 

 April, according to latitude. Allow 

 twelve inches between the plants. The 

 rows may seem scanty at the outset, but 

 if you have prepared the ground well 

 the supports will soon become densely 

 covered with haulm. Flowers by this 

 method will be produced at least a fort- 

 night ahead of those from the earliest 

 sowing made outdoors, and there simply 

 will be no comparison in the quality of 

 the flowers. 



WEILAND'S SWEET PEAS. 



I am sending under separate cover a 

 sweet pea with seven flowers on one 

 stem, which you know is something 

 out of the ordinary. This is a sport 

 of Rose Queen and is the third flower 

 it has thrown with more than four 

 flowers to one stem. We found one 

 with five flowers, one with six and then 

 this one, with seven. At the rate this 

 flower is increasing in the number to 

 one stem, we shall some day be picking 

 peas with a whole bunch to one stem. 



I am also sending you a sample of 

 six other sports of Rose Queen. I 

 have five houses of sweet peas, 28x300 

 feet. I have at least twenty leading 

 varieties and consider Rose Queen the 

 queen of them all. I think a great deal 

 of the sports of this variety, of which 

 I am sending samples. The white one 



throws a longer stem than any other 

 white I have ever grown, while the flow- 

 er is the same as Rose Queen, only pure 

 white. The blue is a solid blue, not 

 two shades of blue, nor too dark, a blue 

 that I believe will take. Then there 

 are two shades of lavender, one with a 

 shorter stem than Rose Queen, but with 

 a flower of the same size and form. 'I 

 consider it the best lavender I have 

 ever had. It is a real lavender, not 

 like some of the varieties of today, 

 neither lavender nor pink. In this class 

 Rose Queen has a sport which you will 

 see has a large flower and long stem, 

 with the color the same as Heather 

 Bell. There is one sport with the color 

 of lilac. This one has a long stem, 

 but the flower is much smaller than 

 Rose Queen itself. The color is fine 

 and no doubt this will be a winner. 

 Then there are at least three shades of 

 pink, running from Rose Queen on to 

 almost light red. These I consider of 

 great value to the trade, as they are 

 much brighter in color than any other 

 varieties of today. I was of the opin- 

 ion that these sports had originated 

 since I had bought the seed, but while 

 showing them last week at the carna- 

 tion meeting at Indianapolis, Mr. Pettit 

 told me they were in the seed when 

 he sold it to me. I bought one pound 

 of this seed, which I consider the best 

 investment I ever made. 



I am now trying to work up a stock 

 of each sport separately, which will 

 take several years. Peter Weiland. 



BOWE'S RISE. 



While W. A. Rowe, of Kirkwood, Mo., 

 is rated as one of the younger florists of 

 the central states, he should be marked 

 as a possible "comer" in the "big fel- 

 lows* " class of the future. Starting 

 the growing business in 1907, Mr. Rowe 

 in the course of prosperous times erected 

 eight houses, each 25x100; but the boom 

 of the last year has called for still 

 further expansion, so the Rowe Floral 

 Co. purchased ground outside the city 

 and had erected thereon four houses, 

 each 36x300 feet, from materials fur- 

 nished by the American Qreenhouse 

 Mfg. Co. and the Moninger Co., of Chi- 

 cago. Although a general line of stock 

 is produced by the company, carnations 

 and chrysanthemums are the main crops, 

 the illustrations on page 19 showing 

 the interior of one of the houses planted 

 to white carnations. 



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AT CHICAGO. 



PubUcity Night. 



The meeting of the Chicago Florists' 

 Club February 8 had been announced as 

 Publicity Night, vdth Ella Grant Wil- 

 son, of Cleveland, and J. H. Burdett, of 

 Chicago, to address the members on the 

 subjects of publicity and advertising. 

 That the trade in Chicago is interested 

 in these topics was manifest by the 

 large number who were present. It was, 

 looked at from almost any angle, a 

 thoroughly successful meeting, a spirit 

 of zest being in evidence which made 



one feel that the organization is on the 

 threshold of a busy year. 



Miscellaneous Business. 



In the absence of President W. H. 

 Amling, who had not recovered suffi- 

 ciently from his illness to attend. Vice- 

 president Paul Klingsporn acted as 

 chairman. Duncan Robertson was 

 elected to membership and applications 

 were received from the following: 

 N. Wright, John Sinner, Chas. Niemann, 

 Q. F. Eastelnik, Arthur M. Luedtke and 

 T. E. Waters. 



Fred Lautenschlager, chairman of 

 the posterette committee for St. Valen- 

 tine 's day, announced that 362,000 



