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The Florists^ Review 



July 19, 1917. 



the garden, the purpose of which is 

 twofold, educational and experimenlul. 

 Students and interested visitors Avilj 

 have an opportunity to become uc- 

 quainted with our fine, hardy gardou 

 flowers, and the garden will also serve 

 as a means of determining the relative 

 hardiness of the various species here ia 

 Iowa. 



Some eight acres of ground have bt on 

 devoted to vegetables, and a portion of 

 the field has been equipped with i g 

 Skinner system of irrigation. 



GOOD-BYE! 



Thou Good and Faithful Servant. 



For a decade Killarney has had a 

 place on the benches of Wendland & 

 Keimel Co., rose growers at Elmhurst, 

 111., but the records show that it now is 

 less profitable than other, newer varie- 

 ties and it has been discarded. 



After clearing the last bench of Kil- 

 larney the company's statistician com- 

 piled the following little summary of 

 the ten years' records: 



Total numbor of Killarney plants 



grown, 1908 to 1917 154,100 



Flowers cut 4,283,509 



Flowers per plant 27.8 



Gross receipts $187,507.04 



Gross per tlower $0,044 



Net per flower 0.0372 



Gross per plant 1.217 



Net per plant 1.0343 



Gross per plant in the highest year, 



1910-11 1.5181 



Gross per plant in the lowest year, 



1914-15 0.925 



At the foot of these figures W. J. 



Keimel inscribed, with sentiment akin 



to regret, the heading of this note, 



"Good-bye, thou good and faithful 



servant.' ' 



RESTING THE ROSES. 



Referring to the reply by H. O. to the 

 inquiry of E. C, Ind., relative to the 

 best metliod to pursue in drying off 

 roses, in the issue of July 12, I take the 

 liberty of assuming the role of a dissen- 

 tient in regard to the theory H. O. ex- 

 pounds. My conception of the philoso- 

 phy of drying off greenhouse roses after 

 a season of activity argues that a com- 

 plete and not a partial rest is essential. 

 A deep and vigor-renewing sleep, not a 

 light nap. 



Botanical theory regarding the bio- 

 logical transition that takes place in 

 trees and shrubs existing in a state of 

 nature in the temperate zone at the 

 time activity of growth is supplanted by 

 dormancy, as I have interpreted it, con- 

 clusively demonstrates that defoliation 

 of deciduous plants is a vital part of 

 vegetable economy and must occur an- 

 nually in order that their destiny's great- 

 est prophecy may be fulfilled. 



The leaves, it has been pointed out, as 

 the organs of respiration, digestion and 

 assimilation, in the performance of their 

 functions give rise to the accumulation 

 of waste matter. Their facilities to care 

 for the waste are sufficient for a period 

 of six or seven months, but after that 

 time a purging of the system is neces- 

 sary. Nature most efficiently adminis- 

 ters the purgative by cooling the soil 

 iu the autumn, which tends to retard 



imbibition of moisture by the roots and 

 results in the recession of stored up and 

 unutilized manufactured compounds in 

 the leaf cells, to the branches and stock. 

 When this conservation process is con- 

 summated, the leaves, with their residue 

 of waste, commence to fall. 



Rose plants existing under artificial 

 conditions in the greenhouse must con- 

 form to the fundamental laws of vege- 

 table economy, and as the state of na- 

 ture demonstrates the great essentiabili- 

 ty of dormancy following activity, a rest 

 that terminates in complete defoliation 

 should be afforded them if maximum 

 productivity is desired. 



Chas. N. Cotter. 



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DOINGS AT AMES. 



It has been a busy season at the Iowa 

 State College. A herbaceous perennial 

 garden was started this spring and is 

 now coming along nicely. It is laid out 

 in beds twelve feet in width and fifty 

 feet in length, separated by wide grass 

 paths. There are more than 300 dif- 

 ferent species and varieties includ'ed in 



OTAKSA LEAVES TURN WHI1 



I am enclosing a Hydrangea otal 

 leaf that has turned white. A numl 

 of my plants are affected this way a 

 some of them have died. These ;■ 

 planted outside and stay out all wint 

 Some are planted in soil that is natural- 

 ly hard, while some are in looser groui d. 

 In both locations a number of the plai ta 

 remain green. Please tell me what ;o 

 do for these plants? C. E. B.— Del. 



The most probable cause of the leaA .^s 

 dying is lack of moisture at the roois. 

 Perhaps the soil is more shallow where 

 the affected plants are growing. I 

 could not see any disease marks on tiie 

 leaf sent. Occasionally mildew will 

 whiten the foliage of hydrangeas. In 

 that case sulphur should be dusted over 

 the plants attacked or they should bo 

 sprayed with a fungicide containing sul- 

 phur. C. W. 



Mansfield, O. — Stuhldreher Bros, are 

 adding a greenhouse, 40x112, to their 

 range at Lexington and Cline avenues. 

 Increased business has made the addi- 

 tion necessary. It will be planted to 

 chrysanthemums. The new house in- 

 creases the firm's range to 35,000 feet 

 of glass. 



Perhaps the most interesting news in 

 this issue of The Review is contained 

 in the letter of A. F. J. Baur, stating the 

 steps taken by Indiana florists to or- 

 ganize the Florists' Mutual Casualty 

 Association, to write both hail and wind 

 storm insurance. 



A suit for $25,000 damages has been 

 started against Timothy Smith, the 

 Clevelander, the complainant alleging 

 that his skull was fractured when the 

 automobile in which he was riding was 

 struck by a car said to have been in 

 charge of Mr. Smith's son. It pays to 

 carry liability insurance on the car. 



Bom with a horseshoe in his hand, 

 was J. M. Johnston, of McKeesport, 

 Pa., for Mr. Johnston is one of the 

 lucky few who have a strangle hold on 

 the high cost of coal. Mr. Johx.ston 

 possesses such a precious thing as a 

 coal mine on his place, and since open- 

 ing it this summer the mine has pro- 

 duced enough coal for his needs and a 

 surplus,* which the florist-miner is sell- 

 ing. The high prices of coal look dif- 

 ferent to Mr. Johnston than they do 

 to most of us. 



Friday, the thirteenth, the day of tlic 

 double hoodoo, made good its threat (if 

 bad luck by bringing a hail storm to 

 Greencastle, Ind. The hail stones were 

 as large as hens' eggs, say John Eitel S' 

 Son, who lost 1,650 feet of glass ani 

 about $2,000 worth of stock. 



prevailing amonij 



the contributioiH 



cash and quanti- 



D. King, of Ma'- 



imself. The Kin ; 



home were con- 



the tornado c ' 



The good-fellowship 

 florists is manifest in 

 by florists of $209 in 

 ties of stock to help A 

 toon. 111., reestablish h 

 greenhouse range and 

 pletely destroyed by 

 May 26. 



Speaking of tire bills, road maps an ' 

 long-distance records, there is the ca.' ' 

 of Walter R. Siebrecht, of New Yorl , 

 who has departed on his second tran 

 continental auto tour to California. Thi s 

 ocean-to-ocean marathon was starte 

 from Coney Island, and the New Yorl 

 er's dust now should be discernible o 

 the western edge of the central state ■ 

 Mr. Siebrecht is accompanied by Cla' • 

 ence Slinn, another intrepid Twent} 

 eiglith strceter. 



