JtLV 31, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



13 



Interior of Doyle & Damaud's New Rose House at San Diego, CaL 



hybrid teas, on the other hand, are 

 never out of flower from June until 

 October, and in favorable seasons will 

 flower even later than that. This qual- 

 ity makes them valuable to the country 

 florist, who often needs some nice, fresh 

 flowers on short notice. 



In order to keep the outdoor roses 

 flowering well right along, they should 

 have a little attention from time to 

 time. In dry weather a soaking of 

 water will wonderfully improve them. 

 Then, again, the value of a mulch of 

 well decayed manure is not half appre- 

 ciated. Even a good hosing over on 

 warm nights proves remarkably refresh- 

 ing. Pick off all decayed flowers, re- 

 move seed pods and keep a sharp look- 

 out for sprouts of Manetti or seedling 

 briars, which will soon sap the plants' 

 vitality. In removing these, do not 

 simply cut them off level with the 

 ground. Pull or cut them out clean, 

 so as to avoid future trouble. 



The advance in popularity of hybrid 

 teas in the last few years has been 

 astonishing. At the great English 

 shows a decade ago comparatively few 

 were seen. Now they vastly outnum- 

 ber the hybrid perpetuals, and are grow- 

 ing in favor each year. During the 

 present season the following among 

 other well known sorts have proved 

 fine: Antoine Rivoire, or Mrs. Taft; 

 Mme. A. Chatenay, The Lyon, Prince 

 de Bulgarie, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Dark 

 Pink Killarney, Caroline Testout, prob- 

 ably the finest of all outdoors; Gruss 

 an Teplitz, a splendid bedding sort; 

 Sunburst, Dorothy Page Roberts, Ko- 

 nigin .Carola, Kaiserin Augusta Vic- 

 toria and tRadiance 



SHOBT GROWTH OF SMILAX. 



Some months ago we bought a quan- 

 tity of smilax plants which were said 

 in the advertisement to be from 3-inch 

 pots and cut back three times. They 

 were slow in taking hold and really did 

 nothing until I put lime between the 

 rows and worked it in. They have made 

 unusually full growth; I mean they 

 have thrown any amount of new shoots, 

 but have made no growth in length. 

 They are up scarcely more than one-half 

 the strings and the ground is just 

 matted with shoots a few inches long. 



Now we are growing some smilax 

 from seed, in pots, and we have been 

 told by a grower at the state hospital 

 here that it is not necessary to cut 

 smilax back — that the growth is full 



enough for commercial purposes without 

 such cutting. Is he right? He says not 

 to have the soil more than five inches 

 deep and to lay boards in the solid beds 

 at thut depth, to prevent the roots from 

 going too far down. What do you ad- 

 vise? P. G. 



It is not essential to cut back the 

 young plants of smilax. The short 

 growth that the purchasad plants have 

 made is probably due to two causes, 

 namely, that they were much starved 

 when you received them, and that the 

 soil in which they were planted did not 

 contain su£5cient nourishment. 



Five inches of good soil is enough for 

 smilax, but I would not advise laying a 

 floor of boards in a solid bed, on account 

 of the probability of fungus. 



W. H. T. 



NEW SAN DIEGO GREENHOUSES. 



Boyle & Darnaud, of San Diego, Cal.. 

 have finished the erection and planting 

 of their two new Garland construction 

 greenhouses. One of the houses will 

 be planted to carnations and the other, 

 which is shown in the accompanying 

 illustrations, will be used for roses. The 

 older houses will be devoted to ferns 

 and pot plants, and, as the occasion 

 demands, a small collection of orchids 

 will be added. 



In the outdoor view of the rose 



house is to be seen Mrs. Boyle in her 

 working outfit, standing in the chrysan- 

 themum bed. The increase in the busi- 

 ness of the firm has made the addition 

 to their present plant necessary, and at 

 the store they have been kept busy with 

 work for graduations, funerals and wed- 

 dings. 



EXCESSIVE BOOT GROWTH. 



Everything we grow seems to go to 

 roots more than other people's plants 

 do. Can you tell us why? Is the 

 trouble due to lack of water or to wrong 

 temperatures? P. G. 



Excessive root growth is more likely 

 to be due to poverty of the soil than to 

 the conditions you mention, and the 

 best way to overcome the difficulty 

 would be to give the ground you expect 

 to use for compost next season a good 

 dressing of lime, work it in well with a 

 harrow, then seed down with clover or 

 alfalfa, and plow the crop under, thus 

 adding nitrogen at small cost. 



W. H. T. 



STEM ROT ON ASTERS. 



Two Queries About the Disease. 



I enclose some aster leaves which I 

 think have the rust or blight and I 

 (■hould like to get your opinion on the 

 trouble and the best remedy for it. The 

 asters are planted in the full sunlight, 

 2x3 feet apart, and have had thorough 

 cultivation. I have about 200 plants 

 of Henderson's Invincible asters and 

 there are three or four of them affected 

 now. H. F. C. 



I am after some information, which 

 I hope you will be able to furnish me. 

 Blight has gotten into my aster beds 

 and is taking one plant after another. 

 It does not affect them until they begin 

 to throw out flowering shoots, when 

 the plant dies. A plant will look per- 

 fectly healthy today, and tomorrow 

 will begin to wilt and gradually die 

 off. In pulling up the plants I notice 

 that the stems at the roots seem to be 

 entirely rotten. Kindly advise me as 

 soon as possible as to what I ought to 

 do. F. J. A. 



The disease referred to in both the 

 foregoing inquiries is probably what is 

 commonly known as wilt or stem-rot, 

 one of the most destructive diseases of 





New Rose House of Doyle & Darnaud, San EMego, Cal. 



