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The Florists^ Review 



Afbil 14, 1921 



ROSES HEBE AND IN EXTBOFE. 



How They Look to an American. 



Travelers returning from Europe al- 

 most always bring back glowing stories 

 of the wonderful roses they grow over 

 there and, unless they are expert horti- 

 culturists or have been caught before, 

 they are more than likely to have a 

 collection of roses stored away in their 

 baggage. That is to say, they did ha 

 them stored away in their baggag&^e- 

 fore the days when the federal horticul- 

 tural board issued its quarantine rela- 

 tive to the importing of roses and other 

 plants. 



Roses do, ns a matter' of fact, look 

 better in northern Europe than they do 

 with us here, but the real reason lies 

 not in the improved varieties or bet- 

 ter method of culture, but in the cli- 

 matic conditions in those countries. The 

 sun is not so scorching and the lovely, 

 white, fleecy clouds temper its heat. 

 The dry, hot winds that sweep over our 

 western plains have no counterpart in 

 Great Britain or northern France, 

 where the summer winds are moisture- 

 laden and the excessively high tempera- 

 ture is neutralized by the action of the 

 ocean breezes. For instance, the roses 

 from Dickson in Ireland, when brought 

 over to England, almost invariably 

 come out first in competition. The cli- 

 mate in northern Ireland is so cool that 

 the buds are weeks instead of hours in 

 developing and, consequently, make 

 much larger, better finished and heavier 

 flowers. 



Favorable Conditions Abroad. 



At the time of my visit last August, 

 the weather was such that an overcoat 

 was acceptable and an umbrella was a 

 positive necessity. With rain every 

 day, one would have thought that the 

 plants woul(i..have been destroyed with 

 mildew, yet there they were positively 

 luxuriating under such conditions. Cer- 

 tain varieties, that I am well acquaint- 

 ed with, were twice as large in bud and 

 flower as I had ever seen them. In Ire- 

 land I was suri)rised to find American 

 Pillar in full bloom the middle of Au- 

 gust and ^Ir. Dickson informed me the 

 plants had been that way for three 

 months, wliilo individual flowers in the 

 trusses would easily last from four to 

 six weeks lon^'er. Ye gods! What ef- 

 fects this would jiroduce in America, if 

 our hardy cliinlicrs would only last that 

 long! While on the subject of climbers, 



Tlir ;hMicss of CliMrlcs II, Totly, Miulison, 

 N. .1.' cm •'Unsi''; in Kiiri'!ii> iiimI Amorii';)." iire- 

 scntod at the lioston rose exhibition, April 8. 



I niiglit say the Europeans have a great 

 advantage over us. All climbing teas, 

 for instance, are perfectly hardy with 

 them and are all available for outside 

 use. Climbing Lady Ashtown and 

 Climbing Testout were wonderful sub- 

 jects in the town of Anglers in France, 

 while Gloire de Dijon was a wonderful 

 memory in many a French village we 

 passed through in our travels. A Mare- 

 chal Niel, years and years old, almost 

 covered a chateau in the vicinity of 

 Bordeaux, where we spent a wonderful 

 week. Our northern tier of states can- 

 not drea^n of attempting to grow these 



^rietiCs outdoors, but must fain be sat- 

 isfied with Dorothy Perkins, Silver 

 Moon, Dr. Van Fleet and others for a 

 week or two in June. 



I may add that the English variety, 

 Paul's Scarlet Climber, seems destined 



to more than make itself popular with 

 us. 



Bagatelle Bloomd. 



We did not get to France before July 

 1, and the first flush of the international 

 rose competition at Bagatelle had^ 

 passed, although I saw enough to af-"^ 

 ford me several interesting and delight- 

 ful afternoons. Souvenir de Claudius 

 Pernet deserved its award. It is a deep 

 chrome yellow and showed little of the 

 tendency, at least in France, to have 

 the white edge which is the bane of all 

 yellow roses when grown outdoors. This 

 white edge, of course, is due to the ac- 

 tion of the sun in bleaching the color. 

 Certainly, Pernet is a much better color 

 than Constance, which has been quoted 

 extensively as the best yellow to be 

 grown outdoors. Constance is rather a 

 poor growing rose with us, although I 

 could almost have worshiped it when I 

 saw it growing in Belfast, in a most 

 luxuriant manner. Souvenir de Clau- 

 dius Pernet, like Constance and many 

 of the gold medal prize-winners of past 

 years in the Bagatelle award, was one 

 of the seedlings of the famous grower, 

 Mr. Pernet. His fine garden roses are 

 legion: Willowmere, Sunburst, Mrs. 

 Aaron Ward, Juliet and the ever-pop- 

 ular Daily Mail rose, Mme. Edouard 

 Herriot. 



Irish and English growers were also 



well represent^ at Bagatelle. Both 



firms of Dickson and also three firms 



from Holland had fine exhibits there. 



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"Hello, Brooklyn!" It was John 

 Saunders, Ogdensburg, N. Y., speak- 

 ing. He promised personal attention to 

 the funeral order being placed over the 

 long distance phone. Some one blun- 

 dered when giving the address, so the 

 order was ultimately found twelve 

 miles from a railroad station, in the 

 foothills of the Adirondacks, and at a 

 time when the roads were in the worst 

 possible condition. "When we made 

 our report, we were informed of the 

 disappointment, for the designs were 

 delivered only just in time. Can you 

 beat it?" Yet, withal, it is service that 

 counts and that has enabled them to 

 purchase the store in which they have 

 done business for twenty years. It will 

 be remodeled up to date, including a 

 single deep window. Additional land 

 has been secured to meet the increas- 

 ing demand. The son, Fred, following 

 a thorough course at Cornell, has taken 

 charge of the growing end. Fine stocks 

 of lilies and Darwin tulips. Princess 

 Elizabeth, were the crowning features 

 of what is accepted as the best Easter 



on record. 



• • • • 



;Mr. Lawrence, of Lawrence's Green- 

 houses, Ogdensburg, X. Y., is much 

 pleased with the work of the Mechanics- 

 villc fuel burner for coal dust. This 

 has proved to give as much heat from 

 a ton of dust at $3 as from coal that 

 cost $9 per ton. And there is no smoke. 



• • • • 



"Even a tack is no good unless a lit- 

 tle driving power is a])plied to it," ob- 

 served A. J. Binlcy, Glens Falls, N. Y., 



adding that, as he had done consider- 

 able hammering before Easter, the re- 

 turns surpassed the most sanguine ex- 

 pectations. The new store, leased at a 

 rental thought impossible a short time 

 ago, is proving a capital business puller. 



• • • • 



"Had all we could take care of," ob- 

 served Henry Crandall, of Crandall's 

 Flower Shop, Glens Falls, N. Y. " Now 

 with Mothers' day looming up and Me- 

 morial day soon following, it will keep 

 all hands hustling." The new oflSce in 

 this store is worthy of note; every im- 

 provement has added to the value and, 

 to quote Mr. Crandall, "shows new life 

 in old established plants such as ours." 



• • • • 



Henry Schrade, Saratoga Springs, 

 N. Y., returned with Mrs. Schrade from 

 Florida in time to assist during the Eas- 

 ter rush and, curious to relate, felt no 

 difference in the temperature. His three 

 sons had put in a fine stock, that sold 

 at sight. "Best business ever," is the 

 report, "and prospects highly encour- 

 aging." 



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Henry Bcnsel, Ballston Spa, N. Y., 

 was a gratified individual after recov- 

 ering from the Easter rush. Such un- 

 expected business he had that he 

 cleaned up everything salable. A nice 

 stock is in sight for Memorial day. 

 Mothers' day is usually not a big suc- 

 cess, though special effort is being put 

 forth to make it such. 



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"A steady increase all along the 

 line," reports W. E. Peters, Burling- 



