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The Florists^ Review 



June 3, 1920 



SHBINEBS WILL NAME ROSE. 



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At Portland Meeting. 



Duxing the forty-sixth annual session 

 of the Imperial Council, Nobles of the 

 Mystic Shrine, to be held at Portland, 

 Ore., this month, a new and unique 

 ceremony will be staged. 



Among all the new roses which have 

 been tested upon competitive conditions 

 in Portland's international rose test 

 garden, the one which showed unusual 

 merit was a white rose produced by 

 Captain George C. Thomas, Jr., of 

 Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. 



For a number of years Captain 

 Thomas has been endeavoring to breed 

 a new line of climbing and semi-climb- 

 ing roses which would withstand the 

 severe eastern winters. 



His new white rose, under the rigid 

 tests given in Portland, has proved its 

 worth, as it scored 94 points out of a 

 possible 100, the bush producing in one 

 summer and fall 189 blooms. This rose 

 was declared the best rose produced by 

 an amateur and therefore entitled to the 

 special trophy of the Portland Rose 

 Society and also a silver medal from 

 the park bureau of the city of Port- 

 land. 



The rose, when it was judged, had not 

 been named and, at the request of Port- 

 land friends. Captain Thomas turned it 

 over to the Imperial Shrine committee 

 to be named in connection with the cer- 

 emonies of the annual session in June. 



The committee has selected as the 

 name for this rose that of W. Freeland 

 Kendriek, of Philadelphia, who is the 

 Imperial Potentate of all Shrinedom. 



Christening Ceremony. 



This rose will be formally christened 

 with elaborate ceremony by Mrs. George 

 L. Baker, wife of the mayor of Port- 

 land. At the same time, another rose, 

 almost as fine as that produced by Cap- 

 tain Thomas, will be named Imperial 

 Potentate. This rose is the production 

 of Albert Clarke, widely known rose 

 breeder of Portland. 



W. Freeland Kendriek, as Imperial 

 Potentate, will act as sponsor for this 

 rose and the ceremony has been so 

 planned that Mrs. W. Freeland Ken- 

 driek, the wife of the Imperial Poten- 

 tate, will also figure in the event. 



The christening ceremony and the 

 awarding of the prizes to Captain 

 Thomas will be staged Wednesday, June 

 23, in the large rose garden at Penin- 

 sula park, where there are 15,000 rose 

 plants in bloom. It will be conducted 



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by the Royal Rosarians, an organization 

 of the leading business and professional 

 men of Portland, who act as the official 

 hosts for the city during the annual rose 

 festival. There will be more than 200 

 dancing girls present during the cere- 

 mony and' there will be showers of roses 

 from aeroplanes. 



Accommodations have been arranged 

 for 20,000 people to see the event, wluch 

 will take place around the huge fo]jH|- 

 tain in the center of the sunken rose 

 gardens, which cover more than four 

 acres. 



NEW GROWTH IN OKLAHOMA. 



Much is said nowadays about the 

 need of making the florists' trade or 

 profession more attractive to the com- 

 ing generation. That it has been dis- 



tinctly attractive in the past is indi- 

 cated particularly by the large number 

 of its members who entered it in their 

 early teens and then stayed with it. 

 Greenhouse work especially, the direct 

 and continuous contact with growing 

 plants, the care of them from seed or 

 cutting to final bloom, is bound to give 

 pleasure to people who are themselves 

 young and growing. 



One example of this happy character- 

 istic of the trade is afforded by W. E. 

 Pitt, the proprietor of the Ada Green- 

 house, Ada, Okla. Mr. Pitt has been 

 connected with the trade for the last 

 seventeen years, or ever since he was 11 

 years old. He was reared in Texas, but 

 left home at the age of 17 in order to 

 learn more about growing flowers. He 

 went first to Canada and later worked 

 in Illinois and other states. Then he 

 was made manager of a large business 

 in Texas and left there Qnly in order 

 to go into business for himself. 



Mr. Pitt has been in Ada for six 

 years. He started the Ada Greenhouse 

 with five acres of land and did all the 

 work himself. He now has ten acres 

 of the best land in the vicinity of Ada; 

 he has three large greenhouses and is 

 building another; he furnishes, he says, 

 flowers to twenty-six cities and towns, 

 and he employs seven persons. Much 

 of his success he attributes to his wife, 

 who is bookkeeper and office manager. 

 His specialty is carnations, to which he 

 devotes five acres of his land and much 

 of his glass. 



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SCALE ON FERNS. 



I am sending you a frond of Roose- 

 velt fern infested with a tiny insect 

 which, in spite of solutions, sulpho-to- 

 bacco soap, insect powder and smoking 

 with Nico-fume, continues to thrive and 

 spread all over my large-fronded ferns, 

 ruining the appearance of them and 

 finally killing the plants. Please tell me 

 how to get rid of them. I have cut en- 

 tire plants down, trying to check them, 

 but they appear again just as before, as 

 soon as the new fronds are out. I have 

 also scraped off the top soil and soaked 

 it with sulpho-tobacco soap solution, 

 but in vain. E. R. B.— Tex. 



one pint of the extract to one gallon of 

 water and doing the spraying about 

 sundown. W. H. T. 



BROWN SCALE ON FERNS. 



I am sending you a specimen of a fern 

 leaf, which you will notice has a pest 

 on it. I should like to know how to get 

 rid of this pest. I have tried a number 

 of remedies, but without any success. It 

 seems to be gaining progress and de- 

 stroying the plants. J. G. K. — Md. 



This scale insect is a quite trouble- 

 some one to get rid of, especially when 

 the plants are planted out on a bench, 

 as apparently was done in this case. 



The reason for the insects' prompt 

 reappearance after the plants were cut 

 down was i)robably the fact that some 

 of the mature scales, which are light 

 brown in color and flat in shape, were 

 left on the old stems of the plants, and 

 from them earner a new generation of 

 iufCects. 



Try weekly sprayings with a solution 

 of Rose Leaf extract of tobacco, using 



The nephrolepis leaf in question is 

 badly infested with the common brown 

 scale insect, also known as turtle scale. 



This insect spreads rapidly and fre- 

 quently appears on ferns, but may be 

 kept in check by the regular use of 

 tobacco extract diluted with water in 

 the proportions suggested on the pack- 

 ages of these preparations. Rose Leaf 

 Extract of Tobacco is good for this pur- 

 pose and Black Leaf 40 may also be 

 used, but the weaker solution of the 

 latter will answer. 



Dipping the plants in the solution at 

 intervals of ten days to two weeks will 

 reach more of the insects, but careful 

 spraying will also have effect in time. 



W. H. T. 



