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The Florists^ Review 



Sepikmber 18, 1913. 



body of the car was arranged with 

 1,000 Hydrangea paniculata, 1,500 pink 

 asters, 500 Gladiolus America and 500 

 Gladiolus Klondyke. 



For the wheels, pieces of cardboard 

 were cut to fit the inside of the rima 

 and covered with white cloth; fastened 

 to this were hydrangeas, with pink 

 asters for the center; the whole was 

 then fastened to the spokes of the 

 wheels. Wide bows of pink ribbon 



were fastened to the back, top and 

 sides of the arches. The center of the 

 car was built up with a high seat, on 

 which Mr. Powers' little 3-year-old 

 daughter, Phyllis, rode and held the 

 pink ribbons, each of which was fas- 

 tened to a white dove. The whole 

 effect was pleasiug in the extreme, and 

 the crowds along the line of march 

 gave the winning car enthusiastic 

 rounds of applause. W. jST. Craig. 



WINTEBING EILLABNEY ROSES. 



I have a surplus of Killarney roses 

 and should like to winter them in an 

 unheated shed which has a glass roof. 

 Will it be safe to put them there, in this 

 Pennsylvania climate? C. M. S. 



The Killarneys would winter satis- 

 factorily in an unheated house, but 

 they would be better if protected by a 

 good mulch of hay or straw during 

 severe weather. C. W. 



MILDEW ON BOSES. 



Will you please tell me what to do 

 for mildew on roses? C. M. S. 



You do not state whether the roses 

 are outdoors or under glass. It is diflS- 

 cult to keep outdoor ones perfectly 

 clean after this season of the year, 

 when we get heavy night dews and 

 clear, hot days. You can use flowers 

 ot sulphur, applied through a powder 

 bellows, or you can try Fungine, at the 

 rate of one gallon to fifty gallons of 

 water. Both of these are good reme- 

 dies, either outdoors or under glass. 

 C. W. 



MILDEW ON HARDY ROSES. 



Please let me know what I should 

 do to get rid of mildew on outdoor 

 roses. The roses in question are be- 

 tween 20 and 22 years old. They were 

 heavily manured with humus last win- 

 ter. They gave us a good quantity of 

 blooms in the beginning of July; since 

 that date they have made branches 

 about five feet high, with no indication 

 of buds. I have tried everything to 

 keep this trouble in check, but, owing to 

 frequent storms and sudden changes of 

 temperature, it seems of little use. The 

 varieties most troublesome are Fran 

 Karl Druschki, Baroness Rothschild and 

 Mme. A. Chatenay. Would you advise 

 me to do away with these old roses and 

 get a new stock? Is the humus partly 

 the cause, or is the trouble due to the 

 age of the plants, together with the 

 amount of new, sturdy growth? Would 



it harm the roses to cut the 5-foot 

 branches back to a length of two and 

 one-half feet? Would it be better to 

 prepare the ground in future with bone 

 meal and cow manure instead of 

 humus? C. I. 



Neither the age of the roses nor the 

 humus would make them more prone 

 to attacks of mildew. This affection 

 of hardy roses is with us more or less 

 each summer and fall, usually making 

 its appearance in August, when hot 

 days are often followed by cold nights 

 and heavy dews. Sulphur in dry pow- 

 der form, blown through a powder bel- 

 lows, is a good remedy, using it on the 

 first appearance of the trouble. Sul- 

 phocide is a soluble sulphur spray of 

 value. Another good sulphur composi- 

 tion is Fungine, applied at the rate .of 

 one part Fungine to fifty gallons of 

 water. 



It is not at all unusual for such va- 

 rieties as Fran Karl Druschki to grow 

 five feet or more in height. This and 

 the majority of hybrid perpetuals bloom 

 but sparingly after early July, the most 

 notable exception being Mrs. John 

 Laing, which is a fairly constant 



bloomer. No cutting back such as yoi, 

 suggest will make them bloom any bet. 

 ter. On the other hand, Mme. Abel 

 Chatenay is a hybrid tea and all the 

 members of this type" of rose are real 

 perpetual " bloomers. ' 



Your plants are extremely old unrl 

 must have had good care to live g,, 

 long. You would do well,- hqwjever, to 

 plant a new bed and use a much greater 

 proportion of hybrid teas. You could 

 use nothing better than cow mauuif 

 and bone meal to mix in the soil. Be 

 sure to trench deeply for best result* 

 C. W. ' 



TRANSPLANTED BOSES DYING. 



Will you please tell me what is 

 wrong with the rose plants that I am 

 sending you under separate cover? Se 

 fore transplanting them, I rested them 

 fof almost three weeks and cared foi 

 them just as I have done for a gooil 

 many years. This is the first time iii 

 my experience that anything like this 

 has happened. A few weeks after thev 

 were planted they made a good to] 

 growth and seemed to be doing niceh. 

 when all at once they commenced ti 

 die off. When starting them up, I wa- 

 exceedingly careful to see that thev 

 did not get too wet or too dry at tiie 

 roots, also spraying them freely and 

 keeping the house as cool and moist a? 

 I '•ould. I have searched the soil care 

 fully for grubs, but none were to he 

 found. I have some Richmond rose- 

 planted in the same benches and they 

 are growing nicely. The varieties I am 

 sending are the Killarneys, both pink 

 and white. They are planted in a 

 heavy black compost, which contains 

 only one good wheelbarrow load of ma 

 nure to one wagon load of soil. 



L. S. H. 



In transplanting old rose plants it i- 

 especially necessary that the soil be 

 well packed around the roots, thoi 

 oughly saturated with water and kept 

 in that condition until the plants have 

 made new roots. When old plants are 

 started up, they make new growth on 

 top before they start to make root- 

 At that time, if they are allowed to ge' 

 at all dry at the roots, the plants ai' 

 sure to suffer and in a good many cafe- 

 the stems will turn black and th 

 young foliage will become yellow an' 



Decorated Car that Won a Silver Cup for a New Hamp«hire Florist 



