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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



46) 



H. A. Terry, the Venerable Peony Raiser, and His Field of Blooms at Crescent, la. 



mixed and hybridized plant we grow, 

 next to the pelargonium, and if the Maker 

 of all things was to make a flying visit 

 to tills little sphere, He would hardly 

 recognize Gloire de Ijorraine as a product 

 of Hia creation. 



You will notice that Lorraine makes 

 its most rapid and healthy growth after 

 the end of September, which is proof 

 that it wants, or likes, a temperate de- 

 gree of heat. Give all the ventilation 

 you possibly can and if you can shade 

 with a lath shading or, better still, with 

 a cheese-cloth shading that can be ap- 

 plied when the sun shines and rolled up 

 when Old Sol 's under the weather, you 

 will have a great help toward growing 

 this choice plant. 



Label the Cannas. 



This is an excellent time to label any 

 cannas in your field that are not what you 

 intended to be there. When in flower 

 you know them. When October's chilly 

 blast has shriveled up the tropical foliage 

 they are like the coons, they all look 

 alike, and only an expert can distin- 

 guish the dry roots. It's annoying to 

 l^lant a bed of 100 cannas for a cus- 

 tomer, supposing all David Harums, and 

 find in July that Mme. Crozy has 

 sneaked into the same bed to flirt with 

 him. It was written in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle some thirty years ago that a 

 I'iimous camellia grower of Belgium could 

 name a thousard varieties of camellias 

 by their leaves. That's prodigious, as 

 Bominie Sampson would say. We once 

 knew thirty or forty zonale geraniums 

 by their foliage, but that day is past 

 and now we know better the colors of 

 the riders. To encumber your brain with 

 any Buch detail is cruelty to animals, 



William Scott. 



"Don't think for a minute that I 

 would do without the Eeview." — T. E. 

 Guy, Arlington, O. 



Hancock, Mich. — Much curiosity has 

 been aroused by the advertisement of a 

 local florist in which he offers 10 cents 

 each for 200 toads. Investigation de- 

 velops that he wants them for his green- 

 house to use as insect destroyers. 



VISIT WITH A PEONY KING. 



July 12 I had the pleasure of visiting 

 II. A. Terry, of Crescent, Iowa. It was 

 his seventy-eighth birthday. The years 

 sit lightly on his shoulders, for he is 

 an active man, at work early and late, 

 besides keeping up a wide correspond- 

 ence. 



Mr. Terry has given the world some 

 fifty kinds of improved plums, but his 

 greatest achievement has been in pro- 

 ducing about 100 new and choice pe- 

 onies. I have about the same number 

 of his and of Kelway's, and after grow- 

 ing them side by aide for years, have 

 come to the conclusion that the main 

 difference is that Kelway has used the 

 most printers' ink. 



For nearly thirty-five years this man 

 has been quietly at work, and never till 

 this summei" has he had a photograph 

 taken of his new creations. The ac- 

 companying picture gives the grand old 

 man in the realm of beauty which he 

 has called forth. 



Mr. Terry has not reaped much of a 

 harv'est from all these j'ears of hard 

 toil, for he is one in whom the com- 

 mercial spirit is entirely dormant, despite 

 the best efforts of his friends to awaken 

 an appreciation of the business possi- 

 bilities which lie at his hand. 



C. S. Harrison. 



SUMMER-FLOWERING ROSES. 



Summer flowering roses, such as 

 Kaiserin, Ivory, Meteor and any other 

 varieties which may be found suitable 

 for this purpose and which have been 

 planted and received the proper treat- 

 ment with this purpose in view, will 

 during the hot weather require especial 

 care and attention in the matter of feed- 

 ing and watering. By carefully observ- 

 ing and attending to their wants in these 

 essentials, the size and quality of bloom 

 can in a great measure be retained till 

 cool weather again approaches, whereas 

 the least neglect may allow deteriora- 

 tion to set in, which is hard to check. 



We have found it of great advantage 

 to sprinkle bone flour on the surface of 

 the soil before applying the mulch, which 



(nifTlit to be of a rather rich nature at 

 this season. Two parts of well decom- 

 posed cow manure to one part of fibrous 

 sod, thoroughly incorporated and made 

 rather fine, is a safe and effective mulch. 

 This should be spread rather thicker than 

 the earlier summer mulch, so that the 

 roots may derive son'.e benefit from the 

 cooling effect. We have frequently put 

 it on one and one-half inches thick with 

 good results. 



As the mulch becomes exhausted fre- 

 quent applications of liquid food should 

 be made. The safest and best form of 

 liquid food is that which is procured 

 from the cow barn. This should be put 

 into a tank and allowed to stand until 

 fermentation has begun, when it should 

 be drained off and reduced to the re- 

 quired strength before using. 



This form of food is readily assimil- 

 able and contains nearly all the elements 

 of plant life in their proper proportiona 

 and contains very little of the caustic 

 properties so observable in chemical 

 preparations. This can with all safety 

 be applied to such crops once a week 

 during the hot weather. EiBES. 



LIBERTY. 



We would like to know the treatment 

 for Liberty rose as regards night and 

 day temperature: Will it do with 56 

 to 58 degrees at night and 60 to 62 de- 

 grees in the daytime? This will be our 

 first season with it and we shall appre- 

 ciate any advice which will assist in our 

 success. B. & W. 



The temperature at which Liberty has 

 done best with us has been 58 to 60 

 degrees at night, with a day tempera- 

 ture varying from 65 to 80 degrees, ac- 

 cording to intensity of sunshine. 



This rose, being of rather an erratic 

 character, has in many cases failed to 

 respond to the treatment under which 

 it has formerly done well, and in con- 

 sequence many good growers fight rather 

 shy of it. 



As it requires very little excuse tor 

 taking a rest during winter, the aim of 



