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The Florists' Review 



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DXCIHBEB 24, 1014. 



MRS. BUSSEUi'S RECOBD. 



It is a regular thing to hear it stated 

 that the cut blooms of the Mrs. Russell 

 rose must be sold at a good price or it 

 will not pay. In this connection it 

 will be of interest to note the record 

 of two houses of Russell at Plant A of 

 Poehlmann Bros. Co., Morton Grove, 

 111. One of these houses was planted 

 in March, with early grafts, getting a 

 good start, and up to December 15 had 

 given a cut that averaged fifteen 

 blooms per plant. The adjoining house 

 was not planted until about a month 

 later and December 15 had given an 

 average of eleven blooms per plidiit. 

 Considering the prices at which Russell 

 has sold in the Chicago market this 

 season, it is little wonder growers are 

 going in heavily for it next year. 

 August Poehlmann is quoted as saying, 

 December 15, that the company had 

 orders for 165,000 grafted plants of 

 Russell for spring delivery. 



OWN-BOOT OB OBAFTED. 



I am a beginner at rose growing, 

 having heretofore devoted my space to 

 lettuce and carnations, so I shall ap- 

 preciate information as to which is the 

 best, own-root or grafted plants of Kil- 

 larneyf S. H. 



By far the greater part of the roses 

 grown under glass in the United States 

 are on their own roots; indeed, the 

 records of the Federal Horticultural 

 Board show that the total importations 

 of rose stocks last year were only 

 3,556,380, although, of course, a 

 large number of grafted plants are 

 run two or more years before being 

 replaced with young stock. "While the 

 majority of ^roVfers, especially the 

 smaller ones who practice the false 

 economy pf propagating their own 

 stock, still use own-root plants, the 

 biggest and most successful rose special- 

 ists as a rule use a large percentage of 

 grafted stock. Alex. Montgomery, Jr., 

 made out a strong case for grafts in 

 his monograph, "The History and Cul- 

 ture of Grafted Roses for Forcing," 

 published a few years ago by The Re- 

 view. In the course of his series of 

 artieiea Mr. Montgomery said: 



"It seems to be the general opin- 

 ion, among those who have never grown 

 grafted stock, that the superiority over 

 own-root is chiefly during the early 

 autumn months. In order to dispel any 

 such notion, I shall give the figures of 

 the cut by months from a house of 



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own-root roses, and also from the same 

 house when planted with grafts. This 

 is not a special case biit only one of 

 many which could be quoted to support 

 our contention in favor of the Manetti. 

 While these figures do not, of course, 

 take into consideration the quality of 

 the flowers, still, assuming that the 

 grades are at least equal, and I be- 

 lieve it is generally admitted that they 

 are, they present evidence which ought 

 to satisfy the most skeptical. 



Month Own-root Grafted 



August 6,899 8.653 



September 11,317 20,950 



October 11,614 9,325 



November 10,373 16,658 



Pecember 5,829 8,503 



.January 7.277 10,653 



February 4,958 6,775 



Marcli 7,634 9,997 



April 10.009 13,602 



May 13.834 20,813 



June 12,991 16.624 



Total 102,735 142.453 



"This is an interesting record for 

 several reasons. It shows the same 

 bench space to have produced practi- 

 cally forty per cent more flowers on 

 grafted than on own-root plants, an 

 increase calculated to command the con- 

 sideration of even the most successful 

 growers of own-root stock; and it shows 

 the increase to be well distributed 

 through the season, the month of De- 

 cember, for instance, showing an in- 

 creased cut of nearly fifty per cent as 

 compared with the house of own-root 

 p^a^ts. ' ' 



GBAFTS OF MBS BUSSELL. 



The Review recently suggested to a 

 concern that is growing Mrs. Russell 

 rose in quantity that it would pay to 

 advertise young stock, which is in good 

 demand. The reply mav be of value 

 to the trade, although probably not writ- 

 ten for publication: 



' ' Your favor of December 18 at hand, 

 suggesting advertising grafted plants 

 of Mrs. Chas. Russell rose. We will 

 have but few of these to offer this year, 

 as we expect to plant a considerably 

 larger quantity ourselves and do not 

 find it profitable to graft this rose at 

 the prevailing market rates. We have 

 found that it is a diflScult rose to graft 

 and that it ought to bring $30 per thou- 

 sand more than the price that it i^ nQ.y 

 offered at. Under these circtrflstdnce^ 

 we do not think it advisable to adver- 

 tise this rose." 



man who wants to be sure he is right 

 will not decide Killarney Brilliant is 

 not a money-maker until he has tried it 

 quite a little longer. If one may haz- 

 ard a guess as to what is the matter,, 

 the propagator overworked it. The dis- 

 seminator is quoted as saying his orig- 

 inal stock consisted of twelve plants 

 brought from Ireland. The next year 

 he had 800, the third year 32,000, and 

 from these he is said to have supplied 

 the trade with over 300,000 plants or 

 eyes. Surely, if these figures are even 

 approximately correct, the disseminator 

 is right in believing it did' quite well 

 by him. 



Killarney Brilliant is more than 

 likely to recover its strength and be- 

 have itself as soon as it has had a 

 season or two in the hands of propa- 

 gators who are not pressed for tim& 

 the way the ^ntroducer of a popular 

 novelty always is. Give it time. 



AMEBICAN BOSE SOCIETY. 



MUI.TIPLIOATION. 



Quite a few growers have found 

 Killarney Brilliant a problem; it has 

 seemed much more inclined to drop its 

 foliage than to bear bloom. The flower 

 is all right; the trouble is in the plant. 

 Some growers are quick to pronounce 

 a verdict against a variety, but the 



Meeting of Executive Committee. 



The executive committee of the 

 American Rose Society had a full meet- 

 ing at the office of Traendly & Schenck» 

 in New York, city, December 14. 



Thomas Roland, on behalf of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society,, 

 extended an invitation to the American 

 Rose Society to hold its annual exhibi- 

 tion and meeting in Boston, March 25 

 to 28, and the invitation was accepted. 



The exhibit in pots and tubs is to be 

 made March 25 and cut roses are to be 

 staged on Friday, March 26. The com- 

 mittee to act with the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society in preparing a 

 premium list consists of Louis J. Ren- 

 ter, Westerly, R. I.; Thomas Roland, 

 Nahant, Mass., and Alex. Montgomery,. 

 Natick, Mass. 



A special committee was appointed 

 to solicit premiums and is composed of 

 the following: Louis J. Reuter, West- 

 erly, R. I.; E. Allan Peirce, Waltham,. 

 Mass.; Eber Holmes, Montrose, Mass.; 

 S. S. Pennock, Philadelphia, Pa.; Wal- 

 lace R. Pierson, Cromwell, Conn.; 

 Frank Traendly, New York city; Pat- 

 rick Welch, Boston, Mass.; E. G. Hill,, 

 Richmond, Ind.; August F. Poehlmann,, 

 Morton Grove, 111., and William F. 

 Kasting, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Committees on Test Gardens. 



Vice-president Pyle moved the con- 

 sideration of the appointment of com- 

 mittees for governing the rose test 

 gardens, and the following committees 

 were appointed: 



Central Rose Garden Committee — 

 Alex. Cummings, Jr., Cromwell, Conn.,, 

 chairman; Thomas N. Cook, Water- 

 town, Mass., and Wallace R. Pierson,. 

 Cromwell, Conn. 



Washington Test Garden Committee 

 — Robert Pyle, West Grove, Pa., chair- 

 man; Admiral Aaron Ward, Roslyn, N. 

 Y., and Charles F. Tansill, Washington,. 

 D. C. 



Cornell Test Garden Committee — A. 

 C. Beal, Ithaca, N. Y., chairman; John 

 Watson, Newark, N. Y., and Rev. Dr. 

 Mills, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Hartford" Test Gardem Colhmltiee — 

 John Huss, chairman, B.Arif&tA, (him. 



Minneapolis Test Garden Committee 

 — Theo. Wirth, superintendent of parks, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



Upon motion it was resolved that, in 

 recognition of the action of the Syra- 

 cuse Rose Society in becoming affiliated 



