September 29, 1921 



The Florists' Rc^acw 



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bark? We have not lost many so far, 

 but the trouble seems to be continuing. 



W. N.— Minn. 



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It is reasonably sure that sow bugs 

 are not the cause of the trouble. No 

 doubt, the cutworm may cause this trou- 

 ble, although, usually, the cutworm will 

 crawl up the stems of the roses at night 

 and eat off the buds. It will then drop 

 off at daylight and will hide under the 

 loose soil near the plants on which it 

 has been eating. On that account, the 

 cutworm is usually easily found. The 

 writer does not know of any other in- 

 sect that itiay cause this trouble. 



W. J. K. 



HICKS' RECORD OF SUCCESSES. 



The record of successes in rose grow- 

 ing held by Elisha J. Hicks, of Hurst, 

 Berkshire, England, is a most remark- 

 able one, and the Berkshire Chronicle 

 celebrated it by publishing photographs 

 of Mr. Hicks and his numerous trophies 

 in its September 2 issue. Of all his suc- 

 cesses Mr. Hicks is most proud of his 

 record of being the first Englishman to 

 win the gold medal and certificate of the 

 international rose test garden of the 

 city of Portland, Ore., which he secured 

 with Climbing Lady Hillingdon. 



Another notable success by Mr. Hicks 

 is the winning, for the fifth time in suc- 

 cession, of the Wigan challenge cup, pre- 

 sented at the Royal Horticultural Soci- 

 ety's summer show, for the most meri- 

 torious exhibit of roses in the show. 

 The week previous to that success Mr. 

 Hicks exhibited at the National Rose 

 Society's show and won the gold medal 

 for the best exhibit of roses in the 

 nurserymen's section. This year Mr. 

 Hicks has won no fewer than nine med- 

 als from the Royal Horticultural S _ 

 He has had three awards of merit for 

 new pedigree seedling roses from the 

 R. H. S. These were for Margaret Hor- 

 ton and Mrs. Hornby-Lewis, hybrid tea 

 roses of yellow and copper shades, and 

 Lady Verey, which is a pure white 

 climbing rose. The winning of the 

 National Rose Society's trophy and the 

 Wigan cup establishes him as the cham- 

 pion decorative rose grower for the year. 

 In addition to his trophies, he has re- 

 ceived gold medals from all the principal 

 rose and horticultural societies in Great 

 Britain, and he has fifty-four gold med- 

 als, forty-two silver-gilt medals, fifty- 

 three silver medals. He has won over 

 800 first and other prizes for roses. 



Mr. Hicks has been at Hurst fifteen 

 years, and some idea of his success in 

 rose growing and the development of his 

 beautiful gardens can be gathered from 

 the figures of his roses then and now. 

 Fifteen years ago he laid out 2,000 

 standard roses and 10,000 dwarfs; this 

 years he is budding 17,000 standard 

 roses and a quarter of a million dwarf 

 roses. 



PROBABLY CUTWORMS. 



Early this spring we replanted all our 

 roses in new soil. The old stock re- 

 planted is in good condition and so is 

 most of the young stock, but here and 

 there among the young stock a plant 

 starts to turn pale and soon dies. On 

 examining the plant we find that the 

 bark from the graft to the surface of 



the soil has been removed slick and 

 clean. The Manetti root system is still 

 alive and has white roots, but the root 

 system of the own-root plants is dead, 

 with the bark removed on the stem to 

 the soil surface. We find around some 

 of the plants a half-dozen or more sow 

 bugs. Do you believe it possible that 

 these bugs could do the damage? 



When we put in the soil we noticed a 

 few cutworms, but we removed all we 

 could see before planting. The soil was 

 from a clover field. No manure, except 

 a little well-rooted manure, was mixed 

 with the soil after the benches were full. 

 We can find no cutworms now. 



The old replanted stock shows no signs 

 of the trouble. It is worse among 

 grafted White Killarney and own-root 

 Premier. Grafted Ophelia seems to have 

 little of it. 



Can you tell of anything else that 

 could affect our plants in this way? Is 

 there any disease that would affect the 



TO PUTTY GLASS. 



What is considered the best way to 

 putty the glass on a greenhouse? 



G. E. S.— N. J. 



In glazing a greenhouse, the putty is 

 placed under the glass. When painting 

 the roof, always take pains to ' ' draw ' ' 

 the sashes, so as to cover the edges of 

 the putty exposed both above and below 

 the glass, in order to keep the water 

 from getting under the glass and soften- 

 ing the putty. If the putty is placed 

 above the glass only, it will soon become 

 loosened by the action of water and 

 frost and a leaky roof will result. The 

 same will be true, although to a lesser 

 extent, if the putty is placed both above 

 and belaw the glass. The durability of 

 ordinary putty may be increased by 

 working in about five per cent of white 

 lead. 



HVLggvc, Ind. — W. H. Crawford is 

 erecting a greenhouse, which was pur- 

 chased from the American Greenhouse 

 Mfg. Co., of Chicago. 



Long Island City, N. Y, — Hass the 

 Florist is installing a new 60-horsepower 

 boiler in his greenhouse, on Eighth 

 avenue and Fifteenth street. Other ex- 

 tensive improvements are being made 

 about the establishment. 



Youngstown, O. — The Raven Avenue 

 Flower Shop Co. has been incorporated. 

 The capitalization is $5,000 and the 

 incorporators are Patrick J. Joyce, 

 John P. Navin, James K. Crishal, Frank 

 M. Higgins and Clyde L. Morgan. 



El Reno, Okla. — Having rented new 

 quarters in the building adjoining the 

 Burger Bakery, the Preston Floral Shop 

 is moving from the Elliott undertaking 

 parlors. Tlie company's greenhouse 

 space is being enlarged by the addition 

 of a new greenhouse, 30x50. 



Columbus, O. — Ohio State Tniversity 

 will liold a horticultural festival Novem- 

 ber 3 to ."). This will include displjiys of 

 apples, vegetables, forestry, landscape 

 architecture and chrysanthemunis. The 

 event is controlled and operated exclu- 

 sively by students of the department of 

 horticulture, with the object of creating 

 interest among students and growers in 

 the production of first-class fruits, vege- 

 tables and flowers. 



Petersham, Mass. — Clarence D. Ham- 

 ilton recently purchased the greenhouse 

 that had been used in connection with 

 the high school's agricultural depart- 

 ment. 



Massillon, C— Mrs. Alice D. Root, 

 formerly well known in the florists ' 

 business at Wooster, 0., is starting the 

 Ideal Flower Store in connection with 

 the Ideal Dry Goods Co., in the new 

 Ideal building here. 



Huron, S. D.— The Huron Green- 

 houses have again become the prop- 

 erty of R. D. Whorton. Two years ago 

 this property was sold to Charles 

 Knadle on contract. Mr. Knadle died 

 some time ago and the property was 

 returned by Mrs. Knadle to Mr. Whor- 

 ton, who is now repairing and restocking 

 the entire place. 



Cumberland, Md. — John Paul, proprie- 

 tor of The Flower Shop, on North 

 Center street, recently celebrated the 

 twenty-ninth year of his career in the 

 florists' business. Both he and his wife, 

 who is his greatest aid in the business, 

 received many tokens of congratulation 

 from the host of friends that has grown 

 up about the business. Mr. Paul started 

 to work when he was a boy and his 

 "salary" at that time was $1.25 per 

 week. One of the biggest events in his 

 life, he says, was when his employer 

 raised his pay 10 cents a week. 



