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House at the Establishment of F. Dorner & Sons Co., La Fayette^ Ind.> Planted with Rose Rose Marie. 



io fall? Would the fumes of sulphur 

 which was burned on the steam pipes 

 be the cause? G. T.— Wis. 



Either escaping gas or strong sulphur 

 fumes from steam pipes would injure 

 foliage in this way. A leak of gas 

 would be the more probable cause and 

 you should make an effort to locate it. 

 I'ither sewer or illuminating gas is 

 deadly to plant life and the damage is, 

 of course, most serious while the ground 

 is frozen and while the greenhouses are 

 tightly closed at night. C. W. 



WORMS IN ROSE BEDS. 



1 am sending you under separate 

 cover a sample of some worms that are 

 miinprous in my rose beds. I would like 

 to know the name of them and how they 

 "■•in lio exterminated. Any information 

 'f'gr.irding them will be greatlv appre- 

 ^'•itod. - T. G. O.— Miss. 



I ho pnrticular worms sent were badly 

 -lirivolod up in the bottle when received 

 and were not recognizable. If these are 



I'lrming your roses you should use some 

 ' 'iibon bisulphide in the soil to suffocate 

 ."i<^'>i. Bore holes twelve to fifteen 

 niciios apart each way across your beds. 

 .' ''fy need not be over two or three 

 ^nclios deep. Pour a scant teaspoonful 

 '" the liquid in each hole and immedi- 

 •itHv pover with soil. Go over vour 

 ''^'is in this war. The fumes of' the 



■tibon will not harm the plants, but 

 ;|in suffocate the worms. Carbon bisul- 



'liide comes in pound cans and is inex- 

 Pt^nsive. Do not use any naked lights 

 \vlnle applying it, as it is of an ex- 

 ^insive nature. Sterilization of your 

 '^'^'' ^f^fore planting another season 



would kill out all these and other soil 

 pests. C. W. 



ALL ABOUT OPHELIA. 



The splendid results everywhere ob- 

 tained with the Ophelia rose have set 

 on foot a wide discussion of how it 

 first came to notice. The British trade 

 papers recently have printed many let- 

 ters on the subject. Say the originators, 

 Wm. Paul & Son, Ltd.: "Some may 

 suppose that the origin of the rose is 

 obscure or unknown. This is not the 

 case. Ophelia was raised by us and 

 was distributed by us with other nov- 

 elties in the spring of 1912. At the 

 time of distribution it was publicly ex- 

 hibited by us and many rosarians visit- 

 ing our nurseries saw it growing and 

 flowering here, so that they had ample 

 opportunities of gauging its merits." 



One widely quoted writer made the 

 statement that E. G. Hill was impressed 

 with the rose at the Beckwith Nurs- 

 eries, at Hoddesdon. Beckwith & Son 

 say: "We had not even heard of the 

 rose until towards the close of the vear 

 1912, when our friend, E. G. Hill, 

 of Richmond, Ind., wrote to the late 

 George Beckwith and urged him 

 strongly to give it a thorough trial as a 

 forcing variety, as he had proved it to 

 be a good thing in America and in- 

 tended to boom it. Acting on this ad- 

 vice, we purchased plants from the 

 raisers, Wm. Paul & Son, of Waltham 

 Cross, January 9, 1913, and immedi- 

 ately worked up a few hundred plants 

 for trial in the following year. Mr. 

 Hill has not yet seen the rose growing 

 in our nurseries, as his last visit was 

 prior to our purchasing it. As a gar- 

 den rose Ophelia was not 'discovered' 



by America, but as a market forcing 

 variety the credit for its * discovery ' 

 is solely due to Mr. Hill. It is true 

 that the majority of really good forc- 

 ing roses, suitable for market growers, 

 during the last few years have been 

 'discovered' by Americans, but there 

 is an element of luck in it, as our own 

 trials every year of new roses are ex- 

 tensive and expensive, and it is a long 

 time since we found a good one. Had 

 Ophelia been exhibited at the National 

 Rose Society shows before 1913, we 

 should have tried it without any ad- 

 vice. " ' 



WE SHOULD WORRY. 



It is suggested that the number of 

 novelties coming from Europe will be 

 greatly reduced by the war, if, indeed, 

 importations are not cut off by the 

 enactment of the prohibitory law pro- 

 posed by the gentlemen who fear the 

 United States may be eaten up by some 

 unheard-of foreign insect. But we 

 should worry. We have enough novel- 

 ties in sight in this country to keep us 

 busy until we can raise some more. 



The list of new roses of American 

 origin is particularly attractive. Several 

 Ophelia seedlings are in sight and at 

 La Fayette, Ind., F. Dorner & Sons Co., 

 raiser of Hoosier Beauty, lias been 

 working with that variety and with 

 Sunburst. One of the seedlings from 

 that cross has been named Rose Marie. 

 It is rose-pink and, if importations of 

 Manetti are to be shut off, it is impor- 

 tant to note that, like Sunburst, it does 

 well on its own roots. The accompany- 

 ing illustration shows the Dorner house 

 of Rose Rose Marie as it looked about 

 the middle of March. 



