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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 23, 1904. 



keepers* 'smoker,' is said to be a very 

 good remedy for green-fly, and does not 

 injure the most delicate flowers. 



"In all cases the aphides must be at- 



tacked as soon as an invasion shows itself, 

 especially when the species of aphis has 

 the habit, like the plum aphis, of curling 

 up the leaves and so protecting itself. ' ' 



SULPHUR FOR MILDEW. 



During the summer season, when firing 

 has to be abandoned and climatic condi- 

 tions are liable to sudden fluctuations, 

 it is almost a certainty that mildew will 

 put in an appearance and as a severe do^se 

 of this parasite has a most debilitating 

 effect on young stock it ought to be care- 

 fully guarded against and checked in its 

 incipient stages. 



While leaves and wood are young and 

 tender it spreads with alarming rapidity, 

 sapping the juices and closing the 

 breathing pores, retarding and weakening 

 the growth and if not checked causing 

 entire ruin. So long as firing can be re- 

 sorted to painting the pipes with thc 

 sulphur mixture will suffice, but when the 

 weather becomes too hot for this, dusting 

 the foliage with flowers of sulphur is the 

 easiest applied and most effective remedy. 



In order to get the full benefit of this 

 treatment the operation should be per- 

 formed during bright sunshine and the 

 ventilators should be closed for a short 

 time even though the temperature should 

 approach the 100° mark, as this helps 

 to release the fumes. The best distribr.- 

 tor that I know of for this purpose is the 

 Peerless blower, made by McMorran & 

 Co., Chicago, being speedy and while us- 

 ing less sulphur than the older class of 

 distributors, gives 6ach leaf its full quo- 

 ta of the powder. As a safeguard this 

 should be applied at least once a wef.'k 

 until firing has to be resumed. 



Feeding Old Plants. 



Houses which are being carried o\er 

 for another year's work should now re- 

 ceive liberal feeding, both in the form of 

 mulch and liquid, so that during the hot 

 weather they may not suffer. The mulcii 

 will also help to keep the roots cool and 

 active and prevent in a measure the dete- 

 rioration of bloom consequent to the hot 

 season. 



By keeping these old plants well fed 

 during the summer the quality of wood 

 and eyes for the winter crop will h« 

 greatly improved and the increased vigor 

 and general healthfulness of the plants 

 will manifest itself during the whole sea- 

 son. 



To help keep up the size of bloom on 

 these plants the lateral shoots should b;> 

 removed before they are allowed to bf- 

 come strong, so that all the strength of 



the stem may be directed to the bud, thus 

 preventing any energy from going to 

 waste. EiBES. 



ULRICH BRUNNER. 



It is generally thought, and the quota- 

 tion of only half a dozen different roses 

 in the market reports in the trade papers 

 seems to affirm it, that no other roses but 

 those are largely grown. But take the 

 hybrid perpetual rose, Ulrich Brunner, 

 of which hardly ever is mention mad'i 

 in the market reports, and still there is 

 a large establishment in Orange county. 

 New York, which from Christmas on to 

 Fourth of July sends every morning 

 many hundred blooms of this grand rose 

 to the New York markets, where they 

 are sold along with the popular rose, 

 American Beauty, on equal terms. 



The Ulrich Brunner rose is a seed- 

 ling of Paul Neyron. The color is a 

 deep cherry red and the habit of growth 

 is robust, throwing out long canes. 

 It is very little subject to mildew, 

 not at all to black spot. Th^ 

 foliage is dark, glossy green and if well 

 grown and properly treated the same 

 plants can be grown for many years, oulv 

 taking care to replace with fresh stock 

 every season such plants as have become 

 weak. 



The Ulrich Brunner gives two crops 



and is, perhaps, among the hybrid per- 

 petuals, the best of the remontants. If 

 budded on Manetti they can be dried in 

 August, pruned in October and brought 

 to market in January, but not Bo^it 

 grafted on Eosa canina. It is then Nec- 

 essary, in order to get best results, to 

 freeze them, which can hardly be prop- 

 erly done before Christmas, and this will 

 retard the bloom until Easter, when 

 prices for all roses have dropped fifty per 

 cent compared with January. 



It is, therefore, very important that 

 the grower of Ulrich Brunner should see, 

 as a first condition of success, that every 

 plant should be budded or grafted on 

 Manetti. The next is to give them 

 plenty of room on the benches; eighteen 

 inches apart one way and fifteen inches 

 the other way is probably the best. Then 

 the plants can develop good, healthy 

 wood and are apt to throw out from 

 three to five stout canes, which will give 

 as many "extras" and "specials" in che 

 cutting season. The second crop can be 

 expected from April on and is often in 

 quantity of bloom larger than the first. 



It is the practice of some to put the 

 Brunners on the benches where chrys- 

 anthemums have been taken off, and no 

 doubt the result can be made profitable 

 in this way, but the taking in of two 

 large crops of Brunners must be more 

 profitable than one of chrysanthemums 

 and only one late crop of Brunners. With 

 regard to procuring first-class stock, Eng- 

 land and Ireland have until lately given 

 the best budded Manetti stocks, but there 

 are some domestic growers who now equal 

 them and among them the Storrs & Har- 

 rison Co., in Painesville, Ohio, are at the 

 head. Otto Andbeae. 



PEONIES IN MISSOURI 



A large part of the early peonies in 

 the Chicago and St. Louis markets come 

 from the vicinity of Sarcoxie, Mo. Gil- 

 bert H. Wild is one of the leading grow- 

 ers in that vicinity and the accompany- 

 ing illustration gives some idea of the ex- 

 tent and character of his fields. These 

 are white varieties and 30,000 flowers 

 had been cut and shipped before the 

 photograph was taken. This was the 

 third spring from planting for this 

 field. 



NEW VARIETIES. 



[A paper by Charles H. Totty, of Madison. 

 N. J., read before a recent meeting of the 

 Morris County, N. J., Gardeners' and Florists' 

 Society.] 



In these few remarks I do not pro- 

 pose to touch on culture to any extent, 

 but to enumerate some of the newest 

 varieties, their place in the exhibition 

 scale, and their peculiarities. 



The seedlings raised in Australia and 

 imported here by our enterprising grow-* 

 ers have transformed the face of our 

 exhibitions in the past year or two, and 

 from present indications this is likely to 

 continue. Two years ago, when Mrs. 

 E. Thirkell, Lord Salisbury, W. E. 

 Church and others flashed across our 

 view, it needed no second glanrfe to 

 assure us that here we had new material 



and new blood with great possibilities 

 and the trail was followed up eagerly. 

 Last fall brought out quite a procession 

 of new ones that created a wild sensa- 

 tion among chrysanthemum growers at 

 the C. S. A. show in New York, and it 

 is these varieties that we will deal with 

 more particularly to-night. 



The variety of the year was William 

 Duckham and as a Japanese incurved 

 it will hold its own for years in its 

 color. It is the largest pink I know of 

 and is ideal in every way, growth, foliage 

 and habit being as near perfect as it is 

 possible to be. In naming such a vari- 

 ety after our worthy fellow member. 

 Mr. Ihickham, the introducer indirectly 

 paid this society and its membership 

 a great compliment. It showed that he 



