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The Florists^ Review 



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Hill's Seedling Rose No. 1440. 



vents the growing of plants in infected 

 soil." 



Examine all stunted looking plants 

 in the bench and remove the gall. 

 Then if air-slaked lime is applied to the 

 affected parts and mixed liberally with 

 the surrounding soil, the disease may- 

 be kept in check. The trouble is that 

 the disease has, as a rule, obtained 

 considerable headway before it is dis- 

 covered and then it takes some time to 

 eradicate it. Bulgarie, or Antoine 

 Rivoire, is subject to the same disease, 

 while the Killarneys and other roses 

 seem to be immune. \V. J. K. 



ROSE FOLIAGE BURNED. 



Please tell us what the trouble is with 

 our roses. They are losing a lot of foli- 

 age. Enclosed you will find a few samples 

 of the leaves. We fed the plants with 

 tankage twice a month, at the rate of 

 a 100-pound sack to 300 feet of bench. 



J. B.— ni. 



Your rose foliage had every appearance 

 of having been burned. Too heavy an 

 application of the tankage probably was 

 responsible for the trouble. The best 

 and safest food for roses is cow manure. 

 This is used by practically all the leading 

 rose growers the country over and I 

 would suggest that you use it in feeding 

 your plants hereafter. If you cannot 

 secure it, try sheep manure, but give 

 tankage and other such fertilizers a wide 

 berth. They are good for some crops, 

 but not for roses. C. W. 



ROSE PLANTTS IN COLDFRAMES. 



Can tea roses be successfully lifted 

 from the field in the fall, potted into 

 4-inch or 5-inch pots and be kept in a 

 coldframe over winter, to be brought 

 into bloom in April? Also, what would 

 be the best size to build frames? 



J. P.— O. 



, Tea, hybrid tea and hybrid perpetual 

 roses can all be lifted and potted as 

 suggested. The latter part of October 

 is a good time to do this, 



A convenient size of sash is 3x6 feet. 

 These can be bought ready made from 

 greenhouse builders, dealers in garden 



sundries, etc. You can use planks for 

 framework. Bo sure to allow a pitch 

 of four to five inches from the back to 

 the front of the frame. 



Plunging the pots in leaves -Will 

 lessen the probabilities of their being 

 broken. You could use mats and board 

 shutters above the sashes. C. W. 



CATERPILLARS ON ROSES. 



Enclosed you will find some rose 

 leaves, together with bugs or flies that 

 have been feeding on the leaves. I 

 have tried to get something to kill 

 them, but have failed. Will you kindly 

 tell me what to use? W. H. G.— Ind. 



I failed to find any of the in- 

 sects on the foliage forwarded. The 

 pest probably is a caterpillar, and if it 

 is in virulent form the best plan will 

 be to spray the foliage with arsenate of 

 lead at the rate of three pounds to 

 fifty gallons of water, using a fine 

 spray nozzle. This is sure to clean out 

 any leaf-eating pests. It will whiten 

 and slightly disfigure the foliage for a 

 short time, but other poisonous sprays 

 would be liable to scorch the foliage. 



HiU's Seedling Rose No. J 32. 



For winged insects I would suggest 

 using a nicotine spray. Arsenate of 

 lead has been tried and proved ef- 

 ficacious in cases similar to your own. 



C. W. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



Committee Holds Two Meetings. 



The executive committee of the 

 Ame»can Eose Society held two ses- 

 sions in Horticultural hall, Philadelphia, 

 during the chrysanthemum show. 



President Pennock called the meet- 

 ing to order at 2:30 p. m., November 8, 

 and there was a full attendance. Pro- 

 vision was made to hold the next an- 

 nual exhibition and rose show in Phila- 

 delphia next March, in Horticultural 

 hall. The prizes allotted for the show 

 were $750 for plants and flowers, $1,000 

 for rose gardens and $2,000 for cut 

 flowers. The schedule committee con- 

 sists of E. Allan Peirce, Waltham, 

 Mass.; Thomas Roland, Mahant, Mass., 

 and J. K. M. L. Farquhar, Boston, Mass. 



A letter was read from .Tohn Young, 

 secretary of the National Flower Show 

 com-mittec, inviting the American Rose. 

 Society to join in an exhibition in St. 

 Louis in 1918. 



Kallen & Lunnemunn, Boskoop, Hol- 

 land, have sent six separate specimens 

 of roses for test in the rose test garden, 

 and it was directed to have these roses 

 go to Hartford, Conn. 



The Evening Session. 



At the evening meeting, which was 

 called at 8:00 p. m., there was an at- 

 tendance of over fifty. E. Allan Peirce 

 stated the work of the show, and a 

 letter was read from the I'hiladelphia 

 Chamber of Commerce, inviting the 

 American Rose Society to come to 

 Philadelphia, "the world's greatest 

 workshop and convention city," and 

 promising to give every cooperation for 

 its success. The following gentlemen 

 spoke in favor of the exhibition going 

 to Philadelphia: Messrs. Farenwald, 

 Eisele, Simpson, Kleinheinz, Bro^n 

 Mills, Dodge, Cartledge, W. R. PiersonJ 

 Skidelsky, W. A. Manda and others. 



The guarantee fund, as pledged so 

 far, is $4,565, fifty-one firms and indi- 

 viduals making up the amount. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



WHO SELLS THE LOTUS? 



Can you identify the plant from which 

 the enclosed sample was taken? I 

 think it is a lotus, but I have not seen 

 its flowers and therefore am not sure. 

 Is this plant, which is a splendid sub- 

 ject for hanging baskets, offered for 

 sale by anyone? I have been unable to 

 find anything like it in the catalogues. 



W. R. Y.— Kan. 



The plant in question is a lotus, prob- 

 ably L. Bertholetii, though the absence 

 of a flowed makes it difficult to identify. 

 The various species of lotus have pea- 

 shaped flowers, and those of L. Ber- 

 tholetii are produced in a loose cluster 

 of several flowers, their color being 

 crimson, fading to orange. While this 

 plant is not a new one, I am unable to 

 say where it can be procured. 



W. H. T. 



HiU's Seedling Rose No. 112. 



