Mai 17, 1917. 



The Florists^ Review 



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wood was used for the cuttings, not 

 hard stumps, they should come out iu 

 a satisfactory condition. I have never 

 rooted Beauties outside and so will not 

 attempt to give directions for that. It 

 is now too late to root Beauties for 

 this year's planting, as it would be im- 

 possible to produce good plants by fall 

 or to get good returns in any way for 

 the labor. Richard Salm. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



June 1 has been set aside for the an- 

 nual outdoor meeting of the American 

 Eose Society at the National Eose Test 

 Garden, Arlington Farms, Washington, 

 D. C. Appropriate exercises have been 

 arranged, including addresses by J. 

 Horace McFarland, by a member of the 

 Department of Agriculture, by an ap- 

 pointee of the Citizens' Association, 

 which is federated, and others. All in 

 the trade are cordially invited to be 

 present, as the rose garden, containing 

 now between 400 and 500 varieties, 

 promises to be at its best. 



Eobert Pyle, Chairman, 



Washington Eose Garden Committee. 



MB. BUETTNEB'S SEEDLINGS. 



Nearly everyone who keeps in touch 

 with trade affairs knows Eniil Buettner, 

 of Park Eidge, 111., as one of the most 

 astute men in the business. He is rec- 

 ognized as careful, keen, conservative, 

 a good grower, one of the best of flower 

 show judges, a forceful man who, while 

 he came originally from Hanover, has 

 many of the traits of the Missourian. 

 Probably there is no grower who de- 

 pends less on guesswork. It is well 

 known, also, that Mr. Buettner was 

 one of the first of the large growers for 

 the Chicago market to prove that car- 

 nations do not repay careful culture as 

 well as roses do. Of course he dropped 

 carnations and his range of 200,000 feet 

 has been all in roses for several years. 

 Mr. Buettner was the first large Chi- 

 cago grower to drop Beauty, years ago; 

 to drop Bride and Maid, to cut out Eich- 

 mond, to jettison White Killarney, and 

 now the whole Killarney tribe soon 

 will know his place no more. 



These facts are a matter of common 

 knowledge among the men who see, or 

 listen, and remember. But it is not a 

 matter of everyday information that 

 Emil Buettner has become infected with 

 the contagion that has spread among our 

 best men so rapidly of late — he has 

 taken to wielding the camel 's-hair. 



It really is not so new, as heretofore 

 the results have not been such as. to 

 attract attention, but now there are 

 about 200 seedlings at Park Eidge that 

 no keen-eyed visitor will overlook. The 

 mothers of the broods, for there are 

 two of them, are Sunburst and Ophelia, 

 the latter being the variety on which 

 nine-tenths of the rose seeds have been 

 grown in America the last three years. 



Mr. Buettner may never send out a 

 novelty. He is not one of those who 



think, because a thing is his, it is 

 than anything else on earth; he 

 it for what it really is. But if it 

 happen that of the 200 seedling 

 something should develop that he 

 be willing to send out with his 

 the Buettner rose will get as wide 

 as any first-year rose ever sent 

 America. 



better 

 knows 

 should 

 plants 

 would 

 name, 

 a trial 

 out iu 



BEAUTY CUTTINGS TURN BLACK. 



Can you tell us what makes our 

 Beauty cuttings in the sand turn black? 

 Is it possible that improper watering, 

 either too much moisture or not enough, 

 is the cause of this trouble? We in- 

 tend to put a batch of Beauty cuttings 

 in a hotbed outdoors. Would you ad- 

 vise us to use pure sand for these, or 

 a mixture of sand and soil? If we can 

 use soil mixed with sand, how often 

 should the cuttings be watered? Should 

 they be sprayed every day until they 

 liave calloused? Should they be kept 

 air-tight? How about shading? 



J. S.— 111. 



SPORT OF TAUSENDSCHON. 



The question of whether or not Tau- 

 sendschon sport blooms as freely as the 

 parent plant is answered in the accom- 

 ])anying illustration, made from a pho- 

 tograph of a 100-foot bench in a green- 

 house of R. Witterstaotter, Cincinnati, 

 O. Tliey were planted June 25, 1916, 

 from 2 1/4 -inch pots, for the purpose of 

 propagating. The j)lants were propa- 

 gated the first week iu January and 

 rooted in a cool house at a temperature 

 of about 45 degrees. The old plants 

 were started up witli the Easter pot 

 plants of mixed roses and came, a mass 

 of blooms, a week later. This variety 

 seems to have a little more vigor than 

 the original Tausendschon, Mr. Witter- 

 staotter says. This new Rose Tausend- 

 schon sport was exhibited by Mr. Wit- 

 terstaotter at the 1916 show of the 

 American Eose Society and he was 

 awarded a silver medal on it. Since that 

 time there has been a great demand for 

 it as nurservmen 's stock. 



The inquiry says nothing about the 

 temperature in which the cuttings were 

 rooted. If the Beauty cuttings were 

 run at 64 to 66 degrees of bottom heat, 

 with plenty of drainage, they should 

 have had water every other day. Under 

 such treatment they would begin to 

 callous in ten days. Providing good 



Indianapolis, Ind. — All three of the 

 children of A. F. J. Baur and Mrs. Baur 

 have been ill with chicken pox and the 

 Baur home has been under quarantine. 

 It has been something of a strain on 

 the usually angelic tempers of the small 

 patients, but they are rapidly convalesc- 

 ing and counting the days to freedom. 



Cleveland, O.— The potato "bug" 

 has struck fashionable Euclid avenue. 

 The lawn fronting one of the finest resi- 

 dences has been plowed up and presum- 

 ably has been jdanted with Solanum 

 tuberosum, as a signboard, fully twelve 

 feet high, with letters eighteen inches 

 in lieiglit, bears the legend "Potatoes." 



Tausendschon Sport in House of R. 'Witterstaetter, Cincinnati, O. 



