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214 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



Juno 15, 1905. 



PACIFIC COAST. 



BUDDING ROSES. 



We are now at the season for bud- 

 ding roses and as this has been a 

 favorable spring for the growth of the 

 various varieties of wild stock used, 

 the stems should be large enough to 

 bud easily. With some of the va- 

 rieties, however, there may be diffi- 

 culty in procuring buds for the same 

 reason, and it may be a couple of 

 weeks before well ripened scions can 

 be depended upon. This is particular- 

 ly noticeable with some of the fast- 

 growing climbers, as well as with a few 

 varieties like Niphetos and Marechal 

 Niel, which seem to have no dormant 

 season during the summer months. 



On the Pacific coast the larger rose 

 growers have discarded nlmost all the 

 wild stocks that succeed well in both 

 the east and Etirope, except Manetti, 

 and even this stock is not used as ex- 

 tensively as formerly. None of the 

 briar roses are planted at all for this 

 purpose, as '*■ has been thoroughly 

 demonstrated that our loi;g periods of 

 summer dryness are not suited to the 

 renuircments of any of the foreign 

 rose stocks. 



We have the native Castilian rose in 

 California, which was also formerly 

 used to a considerable extent, but ow- 

 ing to the fact that it is difficult to 

 root and does not make a large stem, 

 we were compelled to discard it. This 

 rose had many points in its favor. It 

 is very long-lived, makes a perfect 

 union with the scion and was suited to 

 the majority of roses. 



Manetti, of which I spoke, is used 

 only for some hybrids and Niphetos, 

 - variety that does not succeed as well 

 on anvthing else. It is inclined to 

 sucker, but is very tenacious of life, 

 although unsuited to the majority of 

 our most popular varieties. 



Baltimore Belle has been in great 

 favor for a number of years, especial- 

 ly as a stock on which to grow teas 

 or climbers, but is not suitable for but 

 a few hybrid varieties. It is only 

 used, however, for the bush form of 

 roses and it has proven itself entirely 

 unfitted as a stock for standard or tree 

 roses, the objection to it being that it 

 scalds badly in the sun and has a tre- 

 mendous tendency to sucker, both from 

 the collar and the roots. 



Prairie Queen suits a few varieties, 

 but it cannot be relied on to prove 

 long-lived and roses budded on it seem 

 (o do well for a season or two, but 

 eventually they die out. Gloire de 

 Eosamond is still used for a few va- 

 rieties of standards and makes a good 

 stock. 



The best all-round wild stock, how- 

 ever, is De la Grifferie. This has been 

 actively used here for about fifteen 

 years, and has proven satisfactory. It 

 makes nlenty of roots, a heavy stem, 

 but few thorns and does not sucker 

 much from the roots. The only ob- 

 jection to it is that its growing sea- 

 son is shorter than the other sorts I 

 have mentioned, and it must be taken 

 just at the proper time to have the 

 bark lift right. Prom 10,000 to 12,000 

 bush roses are grown on an acre of 

 ground here and about half that quan- 

 tity of standard or tree roses, and this 

 branch of the nursery business has 



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SEATTLE, WASa 



Jottings of Interest 



^he volume of business of the Seat- 

 tle Florists' Association has increased 

 so much that at the regular monthly 

 meeting held on Tuesday, June 6, it 

 was decided to meet twice a month, on 

 the first and third Tuesdays. J. J. Bon- 

 nell was to have read a paper, "The 

 Growing of Outdoor Boses for Mar- 

 ket," but on account of so much time 

 being taken up with the preliminary 

 schedule for the chrysanthemum show 

 it was held over for two weeks. Mr. 

 Bonnell supplies the Seattle market 

 with fine, long-stemmed Ulrich Brun- 

 ners all summer and fall and they are 

 sold in the stores for American Beau- 

 ties. There is an opening here for some 

 one to grow Beauties. A few come 

 from California, but none of the local 

 growers have them in quantity. 



I think the honor of being the far- 

 thest greenhouse north belongs to the 

 small one in Nome, Alaska, on the edge 

 of the Arctic circle, where in winter 

 there are only two hours- of grey day- 

 light. It is about 20x50 feet and is 

 heated from the exhaust steam from 

 the electric light plant. Part of it is 

 used as a chicken house. The prices 

 obtained are startling. Eggs, $4 per 

 dozen; lettuce, 25 cents per leaf; rad- 

 ishes, 10 cents each. 



A good business is done by the flower 

 stores in steamer trade for Alaska, and 

 the call is for Dorothy carnations, 

 which seem to last the best and arrive 

 in good shape at Nome after a twelve 

 days' voyage. 



Ed. Marriott and wife accompanied 

 Al Peterson and family on their Euro- 

 pean trip. 



E. Donaghue, lately employed in Mc- 

 Coy 's flower store, has gone to Nome, 

 Alaska, to get a glimpse of the mid- 

 night sun. 



Mr. Klehm of Olympia, Wash., was 

 a visitor Monday, looking up material 

 for a house 20x150 feet. 



Chris. Jackomson is building two 

 houses 20x100 at South Seattle. 



W. A. Brown, our fruit inspector, has 

 bought two greenhouses from the city 

 dads and is rebuilding them at Green 

 Lake. They will be about 16x100 feet 

 each, with concrete walls. 



The Puget Sound Nursery & Seed Co. 

 has taken a novel way of starting 



FREESIAS 



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greenhouse work. They recently 

 bought a tract of twenty-six acres at 

 Eenton Junction, with considerable 

 timber on it. A sawmill has been put 

 up and they are hard at work sawing 

 out the lumber needed for a large range 

 of glass. They will also move the 

 eight houses they have on Taylor ave- 

 nue to their new location. A. B. 



PORTLAND, ORE. 



The Leuis and Clark Exposition be- 

 came a reality when, on June 1, it was 

 opened with pomp and all due cere- 

 mony and an attendance of 40,000. It 

 was a memorable day in the history of 

 the city, business being practically sus- 

 pended to allow all citizens to participate 

 in the great event. 



On June 3 the annual flower show of 

 the Portland Kose Society took place in 

 Festival Hall on the fair grounds. 

 Heretofore amateurs only have inter- 

 ested themselves in these annual shows, 

 but this year the society and exposition 

 officials induced the florists to make 

 displays by oflFering Lewis and Clark 

 medals. The hall was handsomely dec- 

 orated for the occasion, under the su- 

 pervision of George Otten, who deserves 

 all the credit given him by the local 

 press. The decorative material con- 

 sisted of huckleberry and briar rose 

 branches 8tud<led lavishly with garden 



