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The Florists' Review 



Mabch 31. 1921. 



holding a series of organizing meetings, 

 the first to be at Youngstown, Thursday 

 afternoon, March 31. Meetings will be 

 held at Toledo the evening of April 7, 

 at Springfield the afternoon of April 12, 

 at Dayton the evening of the same day 

 and at Cincinnati the evening of April 

 13. The meetings already held at Cleve- 

 land and Columbus provea highly suc- 

 cessful and much is hoped from the 

 coming two weeks' work. 



President Carl Hagenburger, Vice- 

 Presidents F. C. W. Brown and H. P. 

 Knoble and Secretary George Bate ex- 

 pect to attend every meeting, as do the 

 temporary directors: William H. Tem- 



blett, William J. Kramer, Lars Ander- 

 son, Louis Koehl and Albert Barnow. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM MIDOE. 



We are sending you under separate 

 cover some leaves from our chrysan- 

 themum plants. We have just noticed 

 the appearance of them. Kindly tell 

 us what to do to get rid of the disease 

 and also what disease it is. 



S. & S.— N. J. 



These leaves were badly infested 

 with chrysanthemum midge or gallfly 

 The treatment for this trouble has b6en 

 published many times in the columns of 

 The Review. M. P. 



GREENHOUSE ROSES. 



This Year and Last. 



The (luestion is asked, "Arc the 

 newer roses holding their own in the 

 market as a cut flower proposition?" 

 The answer is, "Most assuredly, yes. 

 They are not only holding their own, 

 but they are crowding out the last of 

 the old varieties." 



Columbia may well be called a stand- 

 ard, since it is now in the third year of 

 its introduction and has made good in 

 every market of importance in the 

 country. Premier is considered partly 

 responsible for the almost total disap 

 pearance of American Beauty from the 

 market. Its wonderful color, delight- 

 ful fragrance, luxuriant foliage and a]>- 

 parently every other desirable at- 

 tribute, combined with its floriferous- 

 ness and growth, h.ns just about sounded 

 the death-knell of American Beauty. 

 It is an undisputed fact that this last 

 winter thousands of Premier were sold 

 as American Beauty, and the deluded 

 but delighted buyers were glad of it. 

 American Beauty' held on longer than 

 any other of the older roses, but one 

 cannot gainsay that its approach to de- 

 crepitude was marked by a tendency to 

 run to blind wood, and the greatly re- 

 duced quantity of blooms per plant is 

 responsible for American Beauty's de- 

 mise. 



Although Premier shows a tendency 

 to black-spot in some sections, this is 

 apparently its only weakness. As 

 grown and marketed in the large flower 

 centers, it is a superb rose. 



New Arrivals. 



Last year saw five well-heralded roses 



Article on "Greenhouse Roses this Tear and 

 Last," contributed by Charles H. Tottj-, of Madi- 

 son N. J., to the American Rose Annu.il for 

 1921. 



ntroduced to the trade, in the advent 

 of Crusader, Frank W. Dunlop, Mme. 

 Butterfly, Pilgrim and Mrs. John Cook. 

 The expert growers are carefully keep- 

 ing tab on their bench surface to sec 

 which variety is the winner in this 

 (juintette. Advices from the different 

 growers indicate ninety per cent in 

 favor of Mme. Butterfly as the find for 

 1920. Certainly, the demand for stock 

 of this variety would more than indi- 

 cate that it has made good. Growers 

 at first were skeptical as to whether 

 Mme. Butterfly was a better grower 

 than Ophelia, but there is no question 

 aljout it now. 



Pilgrim seems to be getting popular 

 in some sections. There is no doubt 

 about its freedom, but there is also no 

 doubt about its being badly afflicted 

 by that scourge of the rose grower — 

 hlackspot. Expert cultivation will 

 doubtless assist in overcoming this 

 liaiidicap another season. 



Frank W. Dunlop did quite well in 

 some sections where it has been grown 

 in a cool and rational manner. Some 

 growers who have been growing this 

 rose from 62 to 65 degrees at night are 

 sorry that they had anj'thing to do 

 with it, on account of its tendency to 

 mildew when grown too warm — and a 

 rose today that does not carry perfect 

 foliage as well as perfect flowers labors 

 under a severe handicap. 



Red Rose Needed. 



Crusader sells in the market, but it 

 would not sell were a better colored rose 

 available. Iladley is the best colored 

 of the crimson roses, but does not pro- 

 duce the returns per square foot that 

 Crusader does. Therefore the latter is 

 a great improvement in that respect. 

 The color, however, is a little too dark, 

 and the market man complains that it 

 turns blue when kept one or two days. 

 It is necessary, therefore, to continue 

 to look for the ideal red rose. Experts 

 are working with this in mind, and no 

 doubt the next year or two will produce 



something worth while in this color that 

 will be a decided improvement on exist- 

 ing kinds. 



Mrs. John Cook is not much of a 

 factor in the market, and it is a ques- 

 tion if it would not have been better to 

 have introduced this as an outdoor rose, 

 where it belongs. John Cook, the in- 

 troducer of this variety, has given us 

 some wonderful outdoor roses, including 

 Radiance, My Maryland and others. 

 Mrs. John Cook will in all probability 

 make a fine outdoor white. 



Roses continue to be the leading 

 commodity in the cut flower market. As 

 a large wholesaler remarked a few days 

 ago, "if you take the roses out of the 

 market, there would be practically 

 nothing left to sell." The carnation 

 is still laboring under the handicap of 

 poor culture and a lack of specially 

 good varieties, while the rose has been 

 making all the running. The growers 

 today are hunting for new roses with 

 the same gusto with which they 

 searched for new carnations a few 

 years ago. 



Cause of Shortage. 



Some of the larger markets suffered 

 a little during the holidays on account 

 of the fact that growers had pinched 

 their stock, and more high-grade stock 

 was being produced than the market 

 could assimilate for the moment. Any- 

 one who saw the hundreds of thousands 

 of wonderful roses piled up in the New 

 York wholesale markets the week be- 

 fore Christmas must have been 

 astounded at the magnitude of the busi- 

 ness, and at the amount of capital in- 

 volved in such a perishable product. It 

 is, indeed, hardly possible that anyone 

 outside of the trade has any conception 

 of the volume of business done. 



The year 1920 was, perhaps, the most 

 prosperous that the cut flower grower 

 has ever enjoyed. The early part of 

 the season was marked by a tremendous 

 demand, while the intensely cold weath- 

 er decreased the supply, with the result 

 that high prices generally prevailed. 

 The much-increased production was 

 marketed readily at all times, and 

 throughout the season the business was 

 in an entirely healthy condition. 



The year 1921 finds the rose growers 

 looking forward with confidence and 

 seeing not a cloud on the sky of busi- 

 ness. 



What's Coming Now? 



Now regarding the usual query, 

 "What is new for the coming year?" 

 we hear all sorts of rumors, some of 

 which will materialize, and some will 

 not. 



White Ophelia is the novelty of the 

 year, and all who grow and appreciate 

 Ophelia will doubtless take to this 

 sterling new variety. As a matter of 

 fact, wo understand the introducer is 

 practically sold out. Just where White 

 Ophelia will stand when Fred H. 

 Lemon's new white, Angelus, comes 

 out, in 1922, is an open question which 

 time alone can decide. 



Columbia is sporting profuselj-, and 

 there will perhaps be two or three sports 

 distributed during the coming season, 

 with also a climbing form. We may 

 expect Columbia to stay with us for 

 some years yet. 



A new seedling which I understand 

 has been registered as Hill's America 

 is making a marvelous record in its 

 second year, which, as a rule, is the 

 year that a rose seedling either goes 



