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The Florists' Review 



June 21, 19J.7. 



stalled. It is shown in tlie accompany- 

 ing illustration. Cards with the photo- 

 graphs designated Wasliington as the 

 ' ' founder, ' ' Lincoln tlio ' ' defender, ' ' 

 and "Wilson the "i)rotector" of the 

 country. The smaller flags in the dis- 



play were kept waving by electric fans. 

 It proved to be a great advertisement, 

 as it "made tlie people come by," to use 

 Mr. Stokes' own expression, in such 

 numbers as to many times block the side- 

 walk. 



Co., of Orleans, France, and was named 

 George Elger, not Elgar. The preseiue 

 of the two "e's" should add to the ease 

 in remembering the spelling. Can y,,u 

 pardon so atrocious a pun? 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



The executive committee of the Ami , - 

 ican Rose Society will hold a meeting ; ,, 

 Philadelphia during the nurserymeu'i 

 convention. The meeting will be hul.; 

 June 27 at the City Club, 313 Soutl. 

 Broad street, at 1 o'clock. Anyone in- 

 terested in the rose society as a roh 

 grower will be welcomed at the meetiuLr, 

 as the American Eose Society is an e:; 

 cellent advertising agency for growe>',i 

 of roses and rose bushes. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



BED RADIANCE IN MISSISSIPPI. 



In the month of July, 1916, I bought 

 500 2^/2-inch Red Radiance rese plants 

 and planted them in a bench at once. 

 They made wonderfully strong growth 

 and by September were producing sal- 

 able blooms. In October I propagated 

 1,000 cuttings from them, and by De- 

 cember tlie original plants were pro- 

 ducing first-class, long-stemmed blooms, 

 for which I realized twirs^ as much as 

 for Richmond. In the last part of De- 

 cember I propagated 2,000 more cut- 

 tings. The stock plants continued to 

 make fine growth and produce excel- 

 lent blooms. March 1 I used all of the 

 wood, putting into the sand 12,000 cut- 

 tings, of whicli nearly every one rooted. 

 Then I lifted the plants and put them 

 out in the open field, under a Skinner 

 irrigating system. They are now com- 

 mencing to bloom, and I do not hesi- 

 tate to say that Red Radiance is the 

 best red rose, botli for forcing and out- 

 door blooming, that 1 have ever seen. 



Among its good qualities, in my opin- 

 ion, are these: It produces salable 

 blooms tliirtv days earlier than Rich- 

 mond in the fall, and continues in flower 

 thirty to sixty days longer in the 

 spring. It is fifty per cent more valu- 

 able than most other varieties. It is 

 a free, strong grower and bloomer. It 

 is not subject to mildew; sulphur on 

 the pipes or dixsted on the foliage early 

 in the fall will prevent mildew entirely. 



I am planting under glass this sum- 

 mer, for next winter's blooming, 8,000 

 Red Radiance and 30,000 Radiance. 

 They are without question the best roses 

 for this climate, in the vicinity of 

 Columbus, Miss. Often in midwinter 

 the outdoor atmosphere here is such 

 that "it is too warm to fire and too 

 damp not to fire." Radiance stands 

 these conditions better than any other 

 variety and is in every way better than 

 Richmond and Killarney. The thing I 

 need worst now is a white Radiance. 



T. G. Owen. 



grown men's attention. Many people 

 believe they have no time to waste, as 

 they would say, in simply juggling with 

 the letters of the alphabet and trying to 

 drop each individual letter Into Its 

 proper place. If so employed, many 

 strenuous business men would feel too 

 much like children playing with lettered 

 blocks. Most of the successful estab- 

 lishments, however, are so well organ- 

 ized that every little detail of the busi- 

 ness, including the spelling of names, is 

 attended to carefully by some member 

 of the force. Hence, when the proprie- 

 tors of such an establishment issue a 

 catalogue, the names of the listed va- 

 rieties of stock are usually spelled cor- 

 rectly. And the accuracy of the cata- 

 logue is a reason for just pride. 



That brings us to the point at issue. 

 In some of the recent catalogues the 

 jiopular little yellow polyantha or baby 

 rambler rose, George Elger, is referred 

 to as Elgar, with an "a" in the second 

 syllable instead of an "e. " The rose 

 was originated in 1913, by E. Turbat & 



A RED CROSS BED. 



I want to make a flower bed wit' 

 a red cross in the center. What woul 

 be the best plants to use for the cross . 

 Something bright red is wanted. What 

 would be the best plants to use for white 

 and blue? C. E. H.— 111. 



Use Alternanthera brilliantissima for 

 the red cross. For blue, one of the 

 dwarf ageratums, such as Stella Gurney, 

 would prove more reliable than blue 

 lobelia, although the latter is decidedly 

 the better blue. For white, Alyssum 

 Little Gem would be suitable. C. W. 



POINSETTIAS FOR CHRISTMAS. 



When is the proper time to take poin- 

 settia cuttings so as to have plants in 

 3-inch and 4-inch pots in bloom at 

 Christmas? S. L. L. — la. 



Cuttings of poinsettias for 3-inch and 

 4-inch pots need not go in until early 

 August. You cannot, of course, have 

 as fine plants from late cuttings as when 

 they are put in during May and June. 



C. W. 



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SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS 

 FOR SOUTHERN FLORISTS 



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MUMS IN THE SOUTH. 



ITS NAME IS GEORGE ELGER. 



This little item has reference to the 

 spelling of a name and so will not inter- 

 est readers who regard questions of or- 

 thography as mere trifles, unworthy of 



Cultural Notes for Siunmer. 



The end of June should find all the 

 chrysanthemums planted out. Much 

 has been written on the subject of 

 raised beds versus solid beds. In the 

 south the solid bed, especially for 

 chrysanthemums, has all the best of 

 the argument. Along the gulf coast, 

 where the atmosphere is so humid and 

 hot, the plants require to be sprayed 

 several times a day, and the walks also 

 should be dampened well. When spray- 

 ing the plants bear in mind not to 

 spray always from the same side of the 

 bed, but to do it from both sides; 

 otherwise the back row will have small 

 and thin foliage and the flowers will be 

 much undersized. 



The spraying must be kept up until 

 the buds are ready to show color, as the 

 red spider is apt to appear, and when- 



ever spider comes it is good-bye salable 

 flowers. Black and green flies are best 

 kept down by using one of the tobacco 

 sprays regularly — say every ten days. 

 It is most important to have the 

 plants thoroughly clean of this pest by 

 the time the buds show color; other- 

 wise much loss will result. Perhaps the 

 worst pest of the mum is thrips. The 

 minute that the nights begin to get 

 a little cool thrips seem to hunt winter 

 quarters in the greenhouse, and in 

 spite of the greatest care they gen- 

 erally do a lot of damage. 



Disinfectants and Pertilizers. 



Regular biweekly sprayings with 

 tobacco extracts should be given from 

 the time the bud is taken until it shows 

 color. Tobacco stems should also be 

 used freely in the walks and on the 

 wire supports. The idea is to keep a 

 strong tobacco smell in the houses at 

 all times, so that thrips will keep out. 



