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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



Apbil 6, 1905. 



use patience and a little good garden- 

 ing. 



Some Good Tender Roses. 



Some tea and hybrid tea roses make our 

 best summer bedding roses and flower 

 throughout the summer until late in the 

 fall. These will not endure our winters 

 and if they were lifted and wintered in 

 a cold frame or, perhaps, in a cool 

 house, they will be slightly started and 

 a sharp frost would set them back. De- 

 fer planting these until early May. Old 

 Bon SiJene, Safrano and Isabella Sprunt 

 flower with us outdoors from August to 

 hard frost. Maman Cochet is, of course, 

 hardly without an equal as a summer tea 

 rose and every commercial florist should 

 have a bed of a thousand plants of both 

 the pink and the white, and within reach 

 of the hose. The hybrid teas are fine for 

 this purpose. Kaiserin, Carnot and La 

 Prance especially, and several later intro- 

 ductions, if dormant, plant at once but 

 if started to grow wait until May. 



Pot Roses for Easter. 



With all our showy Easter plants there 

 is nothing that would sell quicker than 

 a well-grown and flowered hybrid 

 perpetual rose, yet how seldom are they 

 seen. Any novice can force into bloom an 

 azalea that the thrifty Belgian, with high 

 culture, has prepared for us, but it takes 

 some gardening to start with the dormant 

 rose and finish with a well-flowered plant. 

 Those fine plants three or four feet across 

 that we read of at the European exhi- 



had been lifted in November, potted, then 

 laid down and covered with a few inches 

 of soil and some straw and brought in 

 and pruned about February 1. They 

 were in glorious contrast to some that 

 had been lifted in November, heeled in a 

 cold frame until the middle of January 

 and then potted. The former is the way ; 

 but this is a hint a little out of season. 

 If you buy now for future forcing: It 

 is not the finest H. P. roses that are 

 always the best to force. Here is a list 

 of a few (and you don't want a great 

 variety), that force well: Ulrich Brun- 

 ner, Mme. Gabriel Luizet, Magna Charta, 

 Baroness Eothschild, Anne de Diesbach, 

 Clio, Mrs. John Laing, La Heine, Capt. 

 Hayward and old Jacqueminot. La Eeine 

 is a very old pink rose, little grown in 

 the garden but a grand pot variety. 

 Amaryllises. 

 The fine varieties of Amaryllis vittata 

 that have been so gay with their showy 

 flowers for the past two months are not 

 so generally grown by the commercial 

 florist as they should be. Now is the 

 time to increase your stock. The off- 

 shoots can be taken off and either potted 

 singly or grown a year in flats. When 

 the large bulbs have done flowering they 

 should not be at once carelessly put to 

 rest. Even some liquid manure can be 

 given them now, or for a month or two 

 after the flower spike is cut. It is now 

 they are storing up material to produce 

 the gorgeous flower for next spring. 

 After June they can rest, with litiie 



A Section of Carnation Exhibits at the Boston Spring Show. 



water, until you want to start them grow- 

 ing again next winter. They may never 

 be wanted as a cut flower, but as a win- 

 dow plant they are most showy. Seed 

 is easily saved and from the seed in 

 three years you can have a fine, strong 

 flowering bulb. 



Tritomas. 



If you have room to grow any her- 

 baceous plants, do not forget to have a 

 good stock of Tritoma Pfitzerii. We 

 have had a bed of it and realize what a 

 great improvement it is over T. uvaria, 

 the red hot poker plant. You can cut 

 its handsome spikes throughout the sum- 

 mer and late into fall and a vase of them 

 is a fine thing for your store window. 



Geraniums. 



All your zonal geraniums should now 

 be in their last shift, with us a 3% or 

 4-inch pot. You cannot wait until after 

 Easter this year. It is too late. We fre- 

 quently get complaints that zonals do 

 not bloom. It is principally because they 

 are kept close and the soil is light and 

 too often a third of some rotted manure. 

 They then grow to leaf. Use a rather 

 heavy loam, pot firmly and put a 4-inch 

 pot of bone flour with every bushel of 

 soil; a little more won't hurt. No shade 

 should ever be over these geraniums. 

 You want them tough, hardy and stout 

 for planting out. William Scott. 



MAY JOIN HANDS. 



At the Detroit convention of the 

 American Carnation Society a movement 

 was set on foot to secure the cooperation 

 of the American Eose Society in a joint 

 exhibition at Cuicago, but the plan 

 failed. Since both these societies have 

 voted to meet in Boston in 1906 the idea 

 has been revived and has some earnest 

 and influential advocates. It seems that 

 the executives of the two organizations 

 should have little difliculty in agreeing 

 on a date and certainly neither society 

 will sufi'er by the joint meeting while in 

 all likelihood both will gain. 



ILLINOIS FLORISTS. 



The Illinois State Florists' Asfloda- 

 tion is a new organization, formed a 

 few weeks ago, and one that is full of 

 business. It already has a bill for an 

 appropriation before the legislature 

 which bids fair to pass. Much credit 

 will be due to the lobbying skill of the 

 association 's committee should the bill 

 pass; they went at it like veteran poli- 

 ticians. 



bitions are not produced from plants 

 lifted the previous fall. They are grown 

 at least two years in pots, with the high- 

 est feeding and care. That may not pay 

 here, but very good, attractive plants can 

 be grown from good American-grown 

 nursery stock, purchased in the fall and 

 forced the following winter or spring. 

 If tried, there is no hurry about them now, 

 only order from your nurseryman early 

 enough during the summer so that you 

 will not get the scrubs. Another plan 

 is to purchase now one-year-old plants 

 and plant out on your own grounds, 

 treating them as described when planting 

 for a bed, cutting each dormant shoot 

 near the ground. All you want is five 

 or six strong breaks, these to form strong 

 growths during summer. There is surely 

 an advantage in having these plants on 

 your own place. The writer was quue 

 pleased to notice within a few days 

 some roses about right for Easter that 



Exhibits of American Beauties at the Boston Rose Show. 



(Waban Conservatories' Champion Vase In Center.J 



