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The Florists' Review 



July 16, 1914. 



semi-double appearance and lacked the 

 size and fullness which should be theirg 

 Feed the plants well and they are sure 

 to produce flowers of their true type 

 Occasionally, when certain stocks are 

 allowed to grow at the expense of the 

 roses, the latter are in time killed out. 

 This holds true where any of the free 

 blooming monthly roses may have been 

 used for stocks. Usually the Manetti 

 and seedling briar are used, and these 

 are easily detected by their vigorous 

 and thorny wood. C. W. 





PINK SPOET OF HILLINGDON. 



We are sending you under separate 

 cover a rose from a Hillingdon plant. 

 Last year we found a plant of Hilling- 

 don had a new branch, which came 

 like this. We have one plant of this 

 new variety and want to know if its 

 color and form are such as to make it 

 worth while caring for it. It seems 

 quite double and grows freely, and 

 every shoot blooms. C. B. 



I received the rosebud, and the color 

 is quite good. I have not heard of any 

 other place where Hillingdon has 

 sported pink, although a customer ad- 

 vises me that he has a white sport of 

 it. Just how well pink Hillingdon will 

 sell is somewhat problematic. We have 

 a number of excellent pink varieties, 

 such as the Killarney family, Shawyer, 

 Hadiance and Mock, but I would by all 

 means propagate a batch of stock from 

 this sport and give it a try-out under 

 your own conditions and culture. It 

 will be interesting in any case, and if 

 the variety is worth anything you will 

 be in a position to work up stock to 

 supply the anticipated demand. 



C. H. Totty. 



BABY RAMBLERS FOB EASTEB. 



Would it be possible to flower Baby 

 Rambler roses lifted from the field 

 this fall, for next Easter? If so, how? 



W. M. R. & S. 



Yes, they can be potted up at about 

 the end of October, kept outdoors until 

 freezing weather, then stored in a cold 

 pit or cellar and started in a tempera- 

 ture of 50 degrees about January 20. 



C. W. 



PEBPETUAL FLOWEEING EOSES. 



Please give me the name of a hardy 

 or half hardy rose that blooms every 

 four or five weeks. I recently had a 

 rose bush which bloomed about every 

 month and which we called the monthly 

 rose. Is that the correct name of it? 

 If you can let me know what variety 

 of rose this is I shall appreciate it 

 greatly, as it bloomed continuously 

 without much care. L. S. 



Such roses as Clothilde Soupert and 

 Hermosa are constantly in flower from 

 June until October. The so-called baby 

 ramblers, such as Mme. Norbert Leva- 

 vasseur, Catherine Zeimet, Mrs. Cut- 

 bush, Orleans and Baby Dorothy, can 

 also be depended upon to flower all 



through the summer. The charming lit- 

 tle polyantha, Cecile Brunner, is still 

 another steady bloomer. Practically 

 all of the hybrid teas, such as Caroline 

 Testout, Mrs. Aaron Ward, Antoine Ri- 

 voire, the Killarneys, Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria and others, are also constant 

 bloomers. C. W. 



EOSES BECOMING SINGLE. 



A customer of mine had some nice, 

 large roses last year. This year they all 

 have blossomed with single flowers. 

 Please state what is the cause of such 

 a change. E. S. 



If the roses last year had double 

 flowers, they should have had the same 

 this year. No treatment will make 

 double roses turn into single. It is pos- 

 sible your customer's plants have not 

 been sufficiently nourished and that 

 the flowers when opened wide had a 



AMEEICAN EOSE SOCIETY. 



The terms of the officers in the Amer- 

 ican Rose Society date from July I. 

 At the last annual meeting Wallace R. 

 Pierson was reelected president, Rob 

 ert Pyle vice-president, Harry O. May 

 treasurer, Benj. Hammond secretary 

 and August F. Poehlmann, J. H. Dun- 

 lop, Frank R. Pierson, S. S. Pennock 

 and Robert Simpson were reelected 

 members of the executive committee, 

 the only change being that Louis J. 

 Renter, of Westerly, R. I., took the 

 place of Eber Holmes, of Montrose, 

 Mass. 



The society will have a meeting at 

 the convention in Boston in August. 

 The Hubbard medal will be presented 

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

 for the rose Excelsa and ,lohn Cook 

 will receive the silver medal for the 

 rose Radiance at the Hartford gardens. 

 The Hubbard medal is awarded every 

 five years, Mrs. Gertrude M. Hubbard 

 setting aside the sum of $250 as a per- 

 manent fund, the interest to provide a 

 medal for the raiser of the best rose 

 originated within the preceding five 

 years. Benj. Hammond, Sec'y. 



ODEN LETTER$»^" READEnd 



VISITING THE FATHEELAND. 



We have safely reached Berlin, the 

 "Reichshauptstadt, ". after our long 

 journey from Maywood, 111. Our voy- 

 age on the Vaterland was a pleasant 

 one. Promptly on time the great boat 

 arrived at Cherbourg, at Southampton, 

 and finally at Cuxhaven, from which 

 port the passengers are forwarded by 

 rail to Hamburg. In this city we re- 

 mained two days, partly for the pur- 

 pose of seeing Hagenbeck's zoo, but 

 especial]}' to visit the Gartenbau-Aus- 

 stellung, or flower show, which is open 

 from May to October. If there were 

 nothing else to be seen on this side 

 of the big pond, this alone would be 

 well worth a trip across, particularly 

 on account of its beautiful outdoor 

 rose gardens and other outdoor plant- 

 ings. The cut flower show consists 

 mostly of made-up work, including de- 

 signs of every description, and decora- 

 tions for such occasions as weddings, 

 funerals, etc. Some of these were cer- 

 tainly most artistically gotten up. The 

 carnations had what we would call up- 

 to-date winter quality, which I believe 

 is accounted for by the much cooler 

 climatic conditions prevailing here. In 

 fact, we have thus far felt quite com- 

 fortable with the aid of an overcoat. 



except for a few hours at noon and in 

 the full sunshine. 



The rose garden here, in Berlin, lo- 

 cated in the Thiergarten, almost 

 equals the one at the show in Hamburg, 

 and any of our florist friends who vis- 

 it Europe should not fail to see these, 

 as well as the beautiful parks, forests 

 and flower beds surrounding the im- 

 perial palace. 



We have engaged a large, seven- 

 passenger automobile for the next six 

 weeks or more, to take my brother and 

 family and ourselves on a tour through 

 Germany, Switzerland and Italy, cover- 

 ing in all about 3,000 to 3,500 miles. 

 After that we intend to take a boat 

 to "the land of the midnight sun,' 

 making tours into Sweden and Nor- 

 way. 



I especially wish to thank you for 

 the prompt delivery of The Review to 

 our address here, in Berlin. In ta^^ 

 it was the only item from home that 

 awaited us on our arrival. 



Albert F. Amling. 



New Hartford, N. Y.— It is announced 

 that Maurice Fuld, of the Knight » 

 Struck Co., New York, will lecture i^ 

 Butler hall, July 26, before the Centra. 

 New York Horticultural Society. 



