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January 12. 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



409 



M etrosideroB — ( mg-trS-si-de' ros) 

 Mexicana — (meH-si-ka'n&) . 

 Michelia— (inl-kg'li-&) . 

 Micrantha — (ml-kran'th&) . 

 Microphylla — (ml-kr5-fir&) . 

 Mignonette — (iiiin-yo-net') . 

 Mimosa — (mi-mo'sfi,) . 

 Mimulus — (mim'u-lus) . 

 Minima — (min'i-mS,) . 

 Minor — (mi'nor) . 

 Mirabilis — (mi-rab'i-lis) . 

 Mistletoe — (mis'l-to) . 

 Monarda — (mo-nar'dS,) . 

 Monocotyledon — (nion-o-kot-i-le'don). 

 Monoecious — (mo-iie'shus) . 

 Monstera — (mon'ste-ri) . 

 Monstrosa— (nion-8tr6's&) . 

 Montana — (mou-ta'na) . 

 Morello — (mo-rel'o) . 

 Moschata — (nios-ka'tS,) . 

 Multiflorus — (mul-ti-flo'rus) . 

 Musa — (inu'za). 

 Muscari — (mus-ka'ri) . 

 Myceliimi — (ml-se'li-um) . 

 Myosotis — (inI-6-s6'tis) . 

 Mjnrica — (mi-ri'ka) . 

 Myriophyllum — (inir-i-o-firum). 

 Myrsiphyllimi— (mir-si-firuin) . 

 Myrtus — (iner'tus) . 



(To be continued.) 



AN AMERICAN ROSARIAN. 



The widely varying uses whit-h men 

 make of equal opportunities is a con- 

 stant subject for interested study for all 

 those who have the slightest strain of 

 philosoj)hy in their make-up. And oppor- 

 tunity is not always that object well 

 clothed with hirsute before but very 

 bald behind, as some would have us be- 

 lieve, to be grasped in the fleeting or 

 forever lost. Rather is opportunity the 

 chance given all men to work out eacii 

 for himself the <lestiny toward which 

 his nature leads. Starting at a common 

 point, to wliat oj)posite goals do we make 

 our way, and to what various uses do we 

 put the objects and occurences encount- 

 ered on our journey! Each will use the 

 material in his own way, and after his 

 own fashion achieve a varying degree of 

 success. It will be remembered that so 

 simple a thing as an apple played a large 

 part in the lives and fortunes of at least 

 three men who will live in history for 

 the various uses to which tliey put the 

 fruit, Old Adam, William Tell and Sir 

 Isaac Newton. 



And so it is in the history of our trade, 

 (liven a tiny greenhouse, one man expands 

 it into a great range of glass, while 

 another lets it go into decay. One grows 

 vegetables, because of less necessity for 

 skill and application, while another grows 

 Beauties because the <liflficulties in the 

 path to success bring richer rewards when 

 won. Still another plants, and water?, 

 and reaps, purely for the harvest of dol- 

 lars, while his neighbor, content with 

 a reasonable number of the comforts 

 which money brings, turns with interest 

 to those branches of our profession which 

 add to the sum of human happiness. 

 Among these latter E. Gnrney Hill has 

 won his place by the success which has 

 attended his many years of careful hy- 

 bridization. 



If he is to be applauded wlio makes 

 two blades of grass grow wiiere hut one 

 grew before, how much greater place in 

 our honor is due the man who makes two 

 rose blooms grow where but one grew 

 before. The greenhouses of the Hill 

 Company are largely given over to the 

 raising and trial of improved varieties 

 and their distribution to the Amercan 

 trade. Mr. Hill says the tendency is to- 



E. Gurney Hill. 



ward a still further reduction of the 

 space given to staples and a specializa- 

 tion on novelties. 



In the autumn, interest centers on the 

 chrysanthemums, wl|ich constitute one 

 of the largest collections in the United 

 States. Not only are all the European 

 and American novelties tried, but many 

 seedlings are raised. The list of varieties 

 recently published by the (!hrysanthemum 

 Society of America names the Hill Com- 

 pany as raiser of dozens and introducer 

 of scores of one-time favorites, many 

 of which are still in the race with the 

 newer sorts. This year tlie leader of 

 their set is a French variety. Mile. Jean- 

 nie Nonin, a large white, which bids fair 

 to prolong the season for good flowers 

 well into December. 



The Richmond Rose. 



While the name of Hill is intimately 

 associated with the development of the 

 carnation, at the present moment interest 

 in the establishment centers in the new 

 roses. There are several benches of seed- 

 lings and new European sorts, which are 

 an interesting stu<ly, but these must ref^t 

 until the visitor has seen the new red 

 rose, which so good a grower and judge 

 of things floricultural as Wm. Duckham, 

 of Madison, N. J., .says will surely dis- 

 place Liberty as well as all others of its 

 color. This is Richmond, a seedlinfit 

 raised by Mr. Hill by crossing Ladv 

 Battersea with Liberty. It has little 

 advantage in color over Liberty, but is 

 so far superior in growth as to have 

 gained the warm endorsement of everyone 

 who has seen it growing. First, and 

 most important, it shows no tendency to 

 go dormant in the autumn, as does Lib- 

 erty, but blooms freely all winter, sur- 

 prising with its floriferousness those who 



have watchetl it most solicitously. Com- 

 paring the season's cut with that of Lib- 

 erty, it is much larger; that can be seen 

 at a glance. Mr. Hill puts it in figures 

 which his associates declare are very con- 

 serAative but which look too big to be 

 credible and are hence told only to the 

 man wiio is on the spot and has the evi- 

 dence of the plants before his eyes. 



A comparison of own-root grafted 

 plants is at present in favor of the own- , 

 root stock. The grafts show few of tho^fc' 

 ground shoots which are springing up '* 

 so numerously on the own-root plants. 

 Indeed, these growths from the ground 

 are the wonder of all who see the plants. 

 The top growths, too, throw good stems 

 and after a flower has been cut the eye 

 is quick to break. The bud is long, 

 pointed, can be, and in fact, should be 

 cut tight, opens gracefully to a good 

 size, and the flower is delightfully fra- 

 grant. The petalage is the same as Lib- 

 erty. 



Mr. Hill has Richmond in a house with 

 Bridesmaid, same soil, same temperature, 

 which spells good-bye to Meteor wherever 

 that variety is still grown. The soil is a 

 clay loam, with an admixture of leaf- 

 mold, and it is to be expected that in 

 other localities Richmond will be done 

 fully as well if not better. Incidentally 

 the visiting rose grower will note that on 

 an adjoining bench of Bridesmaid half 

 the plants are on their own roots, and 

 half grafted on Manetti. The line of 

 division is plainly apparent; growth is, 

 to try to reduce it to figures, at least 

 twenty per cent stronger on the grafted 

 plants. They are all on benches with 

 four inches of soil. 



A year ago when Mr. Hill first owned 

 himself thoroughly convinced that he 

 had a good thing i(i Richmond (he called 



