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The Florist' Review 



Junk 25, 1914. 



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The following were in full bloom in 

 the garden and were quite satisfactory: 

 H. R, H. T. 



Jules Margotin Mary, Countess of 



Anna de Dlesbacb Ilchester 



Mrs. John Lainff Mrs. Leonard Petrie 



Captain Hayw«rd Mme. Jules Grolez 



Prince Camille de Rohan KiUarney 

 Mrs. Geo. Dickson White KlUamey 



Hugh Dickson Lady Aslitown 



Frau Karl Druschki Oruss an Teplits 



Mme. Gabrlelle Luliet Laurent Carle 

 Baroness Rothschild Gen. MacArthnr 



Oscar Cordell Farben Koenlgin 



Mabel Morrison 

 Ulrlch Brunner 



■ Theodore Wirth. 



THE HABTFOBD BOSE OABDEN. 



June 19 the representatives of the 

 American Rose Society visited officially 

 the rose test garden at Elizabeth park, 

 Hartford, Conn., to take up and exam- 

 ine the forty-four specimen plants that 

 were put out at the formation of the 

 garden. The fudges for the occasion 

 ^ere: John F. Huss, Hartford, (Jonn.; 

 S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia, Pa., and 

 W. P. Gude, Washington, D. C. 



The recommendation made by the 

 judges in regard to the rose which 

 seemed to attract the most attention is 

 as follows: "That the award of the 

 silver medal be made to John Cook, of 

 Baltimore, Md., for the rose Radiance, 

 in recognition of its superior merits as 

 a bedding rose." 



Among those present at the dinner 

 were: Superintendent of Parks George 

 W. Parker, Hartford, Conn.; Wallace 

 B. Pierson, president of the American 

 Rose Society; Robert Pyle, S. S. Pen- 

 nock; Prof. A. C. Beal, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity; Leonard Barron, J. Harrison 

 Dick, Alex. Montgomery, Alex, Mont- 

 gomery, Jr., J. IT. MacFarlane, Edw. 

 Norburg, A. N. Pierson, A. Gude, W. F. 

 Gude, George Johannes, R. T. Beers, 

 John F. Huss, Alex. Cummings, Jr., 

 Louis J. Renter, Benjamin Hammond 

 and Messrs. Green, Anderson, Clark, 

 Bigby and Morgan. 



At the dinner an account of the 

 Washington rose garden, at Arlington, 

 was given by W. F. Gude, who compli- 

 mented Messrs. Cummings, Pyle and 

 Mulford for the work they had done in 

 bringing about this matter. He stated 

 that two acres had been laid out for 

 the work along the national highway 

 that is to run from Quebec to Florida 

 and that there were 350 varieties of 

 roses already there. 



Professor Beal, speaking for Ithaca, 

 said that much interest had been shown, 

 not only by growers of plants who had 

 furnished them, so that the varieties 

 exceed 300, but also by a large number 

 of local amateur societies; that at Cor- 

 nell there were some hundreds of stu- 

 dents, all of whom became more or less 

 interested in these test gardens.. 



The executive committee of the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society also met aad for- 

 mally awarded the Hubbard gold mtml 

 to M. H. Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass., for 

 the rose Excelsa. The medals both for 

 Mr. Walsh and Mr. Cook will be pre- 

 sested at the S. A. P. convention in Bos- 

 ton, is A^gtwt. 



The day that was spent at Hartford 

 was damp and clouily, preventing the 



taking of any pictures. The general 

 lay-out of the rose garden, aside from 

 the test garden in Elizabeth park, is 

 certainly beautiful, and something that 

 the city of Hartford can well feel 

 proud of. 



Benjamin Hammond, Sec'y. 



BENCH-OBOWN BOSE PLANTS. 



'Tlim Hiwid bench-grown rose plants 

 be treated"^iSP«Br "^lliijg lifted from the 

 benches, to make "iftBe,''"IWi^^f>ot plants 

 for next spring's sales, InP'Wis-lwUuiy 1 - 

 vania climate? The varieties are: "S&s. 

 Aaron Ward, all the Killarneys, Mrs. 

 Morgan, Jonkheer J. L. Mock, My 

 Maryland and Radiance. H. C. K. 



BOSES AT MINKEAFOLIS. 



A short report on the conditipn of 

 our Lyndale park rose garden at Min- 

 neapolis June 15 may be of interest. 

 We have had splendid growing weather 

 all spring, but just now have had a lit- 

 tle too much rain and not enough sun- 

 shine. Nevertheless, our plants are still 

 free from mildew and in perfect health. 

 They will be at their best June 21. 



We have only two exhibits in our 

 A. R. S. test garden, namely, the two 

 climbers, Dazzling Red* and Bridal 

 Wreath, by W. A. Manda, and the new 

 H. R. rose, Defiance, by C. Kress. They 

 are all doing well. The climbers are in 

 bloom and Defiance shows promising 

 buds. 



Trim the plants to a height of about 

 twelve inches, pot them in 5-inch or 

 6-inch pots, according to size of plants, 

 and plunge in a frame in the ground to 

 the tops of the pots. After they have 

 started to make growth, give the pots 

 a covering of some well decayed, short 

 manure, preferably old hotbed manure, 

 to keep the soil moist and to prevent 

 the Bun from beating down on ihe soil. 

 In the "wtrrter the plants can be covered 

 where they «*e, cither with glass or 

 boards, to prevent llHiai ^from freezing 

 too hard. In spring they ^an fee taken 

 into the greenhouse, where they -should 

 make a nice growth and make good, 

 salable plants in about eight or ten 

 weeks, according to the temperature 

 kept in the houses. W. J. K. 



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ASTER GROWERS 

 TROUBLES 



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DISEASES INNUMERABLE. 



[Extracts from a paper by Cbas. B. Weaver, 

 of Konks, Pa., read before the Lancaster County 

 Florists' aub, June 18.] 



What the grower of asters in this sec- 

 tion generally strives for is early flow- 

 ers, early enough to reach the market 

 in advance of those grown in more 

 northern and cooler sections, where cli- 

 matic conditions are to some extent 

 more favorable. 



More of Queen of the Market are 

 grown here than of the later strains; 

 this variety produces long stems and 

 fair sized flowers early, if seed is sown 

 early under glass. I have tried sowing 

 seed of this variety quite late, but with 

 not so good results, as the stems do not 

 get length enough, owing to the shorter 

 period of growth. 



One serious drawback with this va- 

 riety is its tendency to stem-rot; in 

 fact, I venture to say that where stem- 

 "Wt iuis once shown itself among Queen 

 ^ ^he Market asters, you will never 

 be ftee from it thereafter. This state- 

 ment may be too sweeping, but let me 

 relate my own experimee. Eight years 

 ago we planted. this vaniefy tk ^ ^ell 

 prepared piece of ground, gS^ra ^fc» 



growing plants the best of attention 

 and obtained a fair crop. Possibly ten 

 per cent of the plants showed signs of 

 stem-rot, but this fact did not alarm 

 us to a great extent, as I had a fair 

 amount of land and could plant in new 

 ground for a number of years. How- 

 ever, last summer, seven years later, wo 

 prepared this ground again for growing 

 asters, plowed the preceding fall, fer- 

 tilized it abundantly and limed it early 

 in the spring, and immediately before 

 planting time harrowed in a quantity of 

 high-grade fertilizer. 



Appearance of Disease. 



The plants were set out early, started 

 growth at once and grew well for four 

 or five weeks. Then the disease began 

 to appear. Let me explain that the ex- 

 tent of my patch eight years/ago was 

 about one-third the size of Jlast sum- 

 mer's patch, but on that onekhird the 

 disease made its first appearanije and on 

 that particular part not five per cent of 

 the plants lived to maturity and the 

 flowers from these few plants were 

 scarcely of a marketable quality. ' 



It is my opinion after this experience 

 that in preparing this piece of ground 



