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The Florists^ Review 



July 3, 1013. 



BED SFIDEB ON BOSES. 



I have found some red spider on my 

 rose bushes f What shall I 'do to get 

 rid of the pestl J. L. V. 



For red spider on your roses, syringe 

 them with all the force at your com- 

 mand. Then, when you have syringed 

 them, syringe them some more. Be just 

 a little more persistent than the insects 

 are and you will soon get the upper 

 hand. A. F. J. B. 



TEMPEBATUBE FOB BOSES. 



What is the best night temperature 

 for a house of Eichmond, White Killar- 

 ney, Maid and Sunburst, all grown in 

 one house! What is the best night tem- 

 perature for American Beauty, grown 

 alone? F. F. 



Some growers find 56 degrees suffi- 

 cient for Richmond and Killarney, but 

 58 degrees is better. For American 

 Beauty the temperature in winter 

 should be as near 60 degrees as pos- 

 sible; never over 62 degrees. C. W. 



COLOR OF BOSE MBS. BUSSELL. 



"Some questions having arisen with 

 regard to the color of the new forcing 

 rose, Mrs. Charles Russell," says the 

 Horticultural Advertiser (Britisli), 

 "Thos. Smith & Sons, of Stranraer, 

 who are advertising this variety, 

 kindly send us blooms for inspection. 

 We have compared the flowers with the 

 'Repertoire de Couleurs' sent out by 

 the R. H. S. and find that the near- 

 est match is what is known as 'aniline 

 red.' We might add that the flower 

 evidently is a good laster and keeps 

 its form and color after being cut as 

 long as any rose with which we are 

 acquainted. ' ' 



THE DEPTH OF SOIL. 



I should like to get some information 

 on rose growing. Our benches are five 

 feet wide, with 6-inch boards for sides. 

 The bottom is made of 1-inch lumber 

 and thus takes up one inch of the 

 6-inch side board, leaving only five 

 inches for soil, and this space lacks 

 one inch of being full. So the depth 

 of the soil is about four inches. Is 

 that enough soil to grow good roses inf 

 J. E. C. 



Though good roses can be and are 

 grown in four inches of soil, it takes 

 ft good deal closer attention and a lot 

 of feeding to keep the plants going, 

 and, unless a good, heavy mulch is ap- 

 plied in the spring, the plants will dry 



out every day in sunny weather. I. 

 should prefer six inches of soil. A 

 good way would be to have some 6-inch 

 boards ripped into five strips, nail these 

 strips on top of the side boards of the 

 benches after the plants show that they 

 need more soil and feeding, and fill the 

 benches to the top of these strips with 

 half soil and half manure. This would 

 keep the plants in good growing condi- 

 tion without further feeding for some 

 time. W. J. Keimel. 



SUMMEB FBOFAOATION. 



We are interested somewhat in the 

 propagation of roses during the sum- 

 mer, as we wish to have some plants 

 ready early in the fall. We believe that 

 some of the growers around West Grove, 

 Pa., and Springfield, O., have been doing 

 summer propagation, and they are prot^- 

 ably familiar with the best processes. 

 Can you tell us when they do this, so 

 that I could visit their greenhouses and 

 see how it is done? H. & H. 



By the summer propagation of roses, 

 we suppose the inquirer means the sum- 

 mer propagation of these roses outdoors 

 in hotbeds. The method we use here is 

 to make a hotbed about two and one- 

 half feet high at the back and sloping 

 toward the front to a height of about 

 two feet. In other words, there is a 

 difference in height of about six inches 

 from the back to the front, in a bed six 

 feet wide. It is necessary to have the 

 sashes fit the top of the frame closely, 

 so as to exclude the outside air. It is 

 necessary to keep the frames as nearly 

 air-tight as possible. 



We then secure some fresh horse- 

 stable manure, put about two feet of 

 this in the bed and tramp it "down, 



watering it only a little as we put ;it 

 in. The propagating sand is put on top 

 of this manure, to a depth of about 

 three or four inches. After the sand | is 

 packed down, the rose cuttings are put 

 in, either by dibbling them in or simply 

 laying them in trenches, according jto 

 the method chosen. We here dibble 

 them, but we understand that most of 

 the concerns at Springfield simply majce 

 a trench with a putty knife or other 

 tool, lay the plants in the sand and th^n 

 pack the sand well around them. After 

 they have all been planted, they are 

 well watered. 1 



The temperature should range from "75 

 to 80 degrees. It depends entirely upbn 

 the character of the sand, whether thepe 

 cuttings will need any more water br 

 not. Here, with us, it is necessary |to 

 water them once or twice in the fojar 

 weeks they are in the frame, as our sand 

 is coarse and will not retain the mois- 

 ture sufficiently. It is also necessary to 

 have a curtain, of coarse muslin or sim- 

 ilar material, over the frame, tp kepp 

 the hot sun therefrom. This curtain . is 

 taken off at night and in cloudy 

 weather. Th6 Dingee & Conard Co. 



ANTISDEL'S HYDBANOEAS. 



The group of Hydrangea Otaksa 

 shown in the illustration on this page 

 was the product of the Milford Green- 

 house, which is allied with the Milford 

 Nursery Co. and the Fostoria Nursery 

 and Fruit Farm, under the proprietor- 

 ship of H. N. Antisdel, of Milford, la. 

 The hydrangeas were grown from cut- 

 tings in eighteen months. The small 

 boy in the picture is Donald Antisdel, 

 the 2i^ryear-old son of the proprietor. 



In common with all in that part of 

 the country, the growers of these hy- 

 drangeas are suffering from an ex- 

 tremely dry season. The effect of the 

 drought upon the outdoor flowers is es- 

 pecially severe, and unless there is a 

 letrupy may prove disastrous. The flo- 

 rists ' business in Milford is thriving, in 

 spite of the weather, and to such an 

 extent that Mr. Antisdel is now making 

 plans to build an additional greenhouse 

 to take care of all his business ade- 

 quately. 



Princeton, Ill.^-C. Erickson sailed 

 July 2 from New York on the Maure- 

 tania, for a visit to his old home in 

 Sweden.- ; 



Hydrangea Otaksa at Milford Greenhouses. 



