■October 13, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Flower Pots. Before buying write q> for 

 prices. Geo. Keller & Sons, 361-363 Hemdon 

 St. (near Wrlghtwood Ave.), Chicago^ 



Standard Pots. Catalogues and price lists 

 furnished on application. 

 A. H. Hews & Co., No. Cambridge, Mass. 



R«d pots. Write for prices and sample pot. 

 Colesburg Pottery Co.. Colesburg, Iowa. 



SHIPPING TRUNKS. 



Crane Bros., Westfleld, Mass. 

 Manufacturers Linenold Seamless 

 Trunks and Boxes for shipping 

 Cut flowers. Send for price list. 



SPHAGNUM MOSS. 



Buy your moss now while we are curing it. 

 1 bale or 100 at 60c each. 

 Z. K. Jewett & Co., Sparta, Wis. 



Sphagnum moss, large bale, |1.75 each: by 

 freight, 12.00. 

 U J. Kreshover, 110-112 W. 27th St.. N. Y. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices on large 

 quantities. Crowl Fern Co., MllllDgton, Mass. 



Sphagnum moss. Write for prices. 

 R. M. Robinson & Co., 11 Province St., Boston. 



TOBACCO STEMS. 



Fresh tobacco stems, bale of 300 lbs., $1.60. 

 W. C. Beckert, Allegheny, Pa. 



TOOTHPICKS. 



Wired toothpicks, 10,000, |1.Q0; 50,000, $6.25. 

 Sample free. For sale by dealers. 



W. J. COWBB, Berlin, N. Y. 



WIRE SUPPORTS. 



Bxcelslor carnation supports, made of gal- 

 vanised wire, 10 in. long, |7.00 1000, 160.00 

 10,000; 13 in, long, $7.60 1000. $70.00 10,000; 

 20 in. long, $8.00 1,000. $75.00 10,000. Also 

 stemming wire, rose stakes, etc. 

 H. F. Littl efleld. Worcester, Mas s. 



Thaden's wire tendrils and twin stakes for 

 carnations, roses, etc. 



H. Thaden & Co., 472 W. Hunter St., At- 

 lanta, Ga. 



Model Extension carnation supports; also gal- 

 vaniced rose stakes and tying wires. 

 Igoe Bros., 226 North 9th St., Brooklyn. N. Y. 



Model Extension carnation supports. 



Parker-Brnen Mfg. Co., Harrison, N. J. 



WIRE WORK. 



We are the largest manufactnrers of wire 

 work In the west. E. F. Winterson Co., 



45. 47, 49 Wabash Ave.. Chicago. 



We are manufacturers — no middleman's 

 profits. 



C. C. POLLWO RTH CO.. Milwaukee. Wis. 



Bmil Steffens, Manufacturer of Florists' Wire 

 Designs. 335 East 2l8t St., New York. 



Beed & Keller, 122 W. 25th St., New York. 

 Manufacturers of Wire Designs. 



Wire work of all kinds. Write me. 

 Wm. Murphy, Wholesale Florist, Cincinnati. O- 



E. H. Hunt. 76-78 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 



PRUNING CLIMBING ROSES. 



What are known as climbing roses, of 

 T(^hich Crimson Kambler is perhaps the 

 beat known variety, should now receive 

 attention in pruning (August 6). I know 

 it is the accepted plan to defer the prun- 

 ing of roses generally until March and 

 April. Those who are thoroughly con- 

 versant with the needs and ways of 

 climbing roses, know well that they are 

 not like hybrid peipetuals or teas; they 

 do not produce the bulk of their flowers 

 upon growth of the current season, but 

 from that which is made the previous 

 one. This type of rose, then, comes 

 under the head of plants requiring ma- 

 turity of growth if a full crop is to be 

 expected. How, then, is maturity of 

 giowth obtained? Not by the over- 

 crowding of shoots, but by due exposure 

 of growth to air and sunlight. 



To obtain these results it does seem to 

 be the most common-sense principle to 

 remove the cause of want of maturity at 

 the proper time, and that is directly the 

 plants have given their crop of blos- 

 som. "Why wait until March when the 

 same thing can be done at once? Know- 

 ing so well that so many persons do not 

 realize the requirements of this section 

 — and a powerful one it is in the rose 

 garden — I lay special emphasis upon this 



detail — its necessity, and the results ac-' 

 cruing from it. 



Taking the climbing or rambling va- 

 rieties of roses generally, of which 

 Kuphrosyne, Electra and Leuchtstern are 



food examples, in addition to the old 

 avoiite named above, the finest trusses 

 of flower are produced from the strong 

 sucker-like growths made during the sea- 

 son of flowering. In many instances 

 where the culture is o£ the best, these 

 shoots reach a length of ten feet in one 

 season. These are the growths to retain 

 for next season's flower crop. In prun- 

 ing, therefore, due attention should be 

 given to removing weakly growths that 

 have flowered this year, cutting them 

 clean away from the base. Where a 

 strong shoot of last year's growth has 

 given a full crop of flower this, and there 

 is space for it to lemain, do not cut 

 such away, but prune away all flower 

 trusses back to a growth eye. Lay in 

 all the sucker-like shoots, not overcrowd- 

 ing them, and do not top them, no mat- 

 ter how long they may be at present, as 

 with a damp autumn some of the eyes 

 near the apex might push into growth, 

 and that is not desirable.. 



After pruning, prick up the soil about 

 the plants, adding a little half-decayed 

 farmyard manure if the growth is not 

 satisfactory, and water copiously in dry 

 weather. If the garden hose is used vig- 

 orously to moisten the foliage in the 

 evening after a hot day, so much the bet- 

 ter for the growth, as it washes off dust 

 and insects, and in every way encourages 

 freedom of growth. — E. Molyneux, in 

 Gardeners' Magazine. 



PENTSTEMONS. 



I must differ from anyone who depre- 

 cates raising pentstemons from seeds aa 

 compared with propagating by cuttings, 

 says a writer in the Gardeners' Maga- 



zine. If you have named varieties, of 

 course propagation by cuttings is ab- 

 solutely indispensable to maintain the 

 variety. That is, of course, one thing. 

 But the raising of pentstemons from 

 seed is so very much another thing, not 

 only because all trouble of propagating 

 by cuttings and wintering them securely 

 is saved, but there is from seedlings the 

 certainty of securing great variety in 

 colors of flowers, and that is a great 

 gain. So far as the securing of size and 

 quality of flower is concerned, I have al- 

 ways found, and my experience extended 

 over many years and to thousands of 

 plants, that seed saved from a good stock 

 will reproduce all the best qualities of 

 that stock, with the advantage that 



i greater variety of color results also. I 

 lave found few hardy plants, such as 

 the peutstemon may be regarded, that 

 reproduces high-class quality so well. 



It is so easy to sow seed in a cold 

 house or frame in February or March, 

 doing so in a shallow pan, to obtain 

 plenty of strong plants to dibble into 

 the open ground at the end of May, and 

 then have them to bloom profusely 

 through the autumn. Shortened back in 

 the winter, and induced to break low 

 down, they will the following summer 

 make large and most attractive plants, 

 carrying bloom until the early spring 

 sowing comes in. To myriads of flower 

 lovers such a method of dealing with the 

 pentstemon is a great gain. 



While one of the worst of flowers to 

 travel well in a cut state, generally be- 

 ing so shown at a disadvantage, it is in 

 the garden one of the most charming, 

 and will give, apart from external color 

 and size of flower, very beautiful inner 

 markings. After all, to myriads who de- 

 vote attention to gardening, plants that 

 can be easily raised have much more 

 value than have choice-named or florists' 

 varieties. 



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