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August 31, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



817 



Canadian Horticultural Association in Gmvention at Montreal, August lOt 1905. 



greater care and watelvfulness is neces- 

 sary to keep the soil uniformly moist, 

 BO that the roots may not suffer. 



Syringing will have to be practiced on 

 every favorable opportunity in order to 

 keep spider in check and particular at- 

 tention should be given to comers and 

 those parts of the house where, by 

 reason of extra pipes, headers, etc., heat 

 is likely to accumulate, as these are the 

 breeding places of the pest, and if neg- 

 lected become truly plague spots. 



The administration of fresh air at the 

 proper time should also receive careful 

 attention, as this is the true source of 

 hardy foliage of good texture and color, 

 without which we cannot enter on the 

 short days with a fair chance of suc- 

 cess. 



As the night hours begin to get chilly 

 less ventilation will be required and 

 particular care should be given to 

 morning ventilation, raising the sashes 

 gradually as the day warms, but never 

 so much at a time as to lower the tem- 

 perature. The same care should be ex- 

 ercised during the afternoon, when ven- 

 tilation is being reduced, so that after 

 each reduction there will be no appre- 

 ciable raise of temperature. 



Advantage should be taken of the 

 first application of heat to paint the 

 pipes with the sulphur mixture to 

 eradicate any mildew that may be in 

 the house. A little persistence in this 

 work will soon cause it to disappear, 



ElBES. 



you have done fairly well, this being a 

 fair cut from solid benches. Seeing 

 that you have only been growing for 

 two years you may expect to obtain a 

 higher average with a little more ex- 

 perience. BiBES. 



PLANTS FOR EASTER. 



I would like to know if Dorothy Per- 

 kins roses that were propagated last win- 

 ter can be made to bloom for next 

 Easter? A. J. R. 



Dorothy Perkins is rather more diffi- 

 cult to get into bloom at Easter than 

 any of the other ramblers and to have 

 any chance of success the plants must be 

 strong, vigorous and the wood well rip- 

 ened before they are touched by frost. 

 They should be lifted from the field as 

 soon as they shed their leaves, potted and 

 placed in a cool cellar until January, 

 when they should be gradually introduced 

 to heat and light. Stock of the age 

 mentioned, unless exceptionally strong, 

 would hardly pay for the trouble. Two- 

 year-old stock selected for forcing would 

 be preferable. Ribes. 



CUT FROM TEAS. 



I have been growing roses for two 

 years and am wondering if I am getting 

 a fair crop. I have about 500 plants 

 on solid beds and am giving them ordi- 

 nary rose treatment. The plants stand 

 from four to six feet high. Last season 

 I cut nearly 10,000 roses, and from the 

 present outlook will cut 12,000 or over 

 from the 500 plants. L. 0. 



Assuming that these are tea roses, 



RENAMED ROSES. 



There can be no question as to the 

 beauty of the rose Frau Karl Druschki, 

 a cross between Merveille de Lyon and 

 Caroline Testout, but a doubt has arisen 

 as to its proper name. It appears that 

 it was exhibited at various places in 

 Germany by its raiser, Peter Lambert, 

 as Schnee Konigin (Snow Queen), but 

 at that time it was not in commerce. 

 When Mr. Lambert offered it to the 

 trade he sent it out under the name of 

 Frau Karl Druschki. The question is, 

 which name should have precedence? 

 Was the exhibition of the rose without 

 description or figure to be taken as 

 sufficient publicity? If it was, then of 

 course the first name ought to remain — 

 particularly if the rose was certificated, 

 as it probably was. But the public 



cares little for rules of priority; it has 

 got to know and appreciate the rose 

 as Frau (or Madame) Karl Druschki, 

 and not all the congresses will be able 

 to effect a change. It will be remem- 

 bered that a similar question arose with 

 reference to Mrs. W. J. Grant. This 

 lovely rose was exhibited and certificated 

 and, we believe, be-medaled under this 

 name. The stock was sold to a firm of 

 American nurserymen, who considered 

 that as they had purchased the rose 

 they had the right to name it as they 

 chose, and thus the name Belle Sie- 

 brecht is attached to it in America. We 

 need not enter upon the ethical ques- 

 tion whether the purchasers were right 

 or wrong in their procedure. Assum- 

 ing for argument 's sake that they were 

 within their right, we are equally with- 

 in ours by adhering to the rule of prior- 

 ity of publication, and in our trade 

 catalogues and particularly in official 

 publications, precedence should be 

 given to the English rather than to the 

 American lady. 



Frau Karl Druschki is probably the 

 finest white-flowered hybrid perpetual 

 rose in cultivation. It is a good grower 

 and free bloomer, producing freely 

 long pointed buds and broad petals. 

 Every rose grower should include this 

 grand rose in his collection. It is a 

 fine buttonhole rose. — Gardeners ' Chron- 

 icle. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



[The Amateur Gardeners' Rose Book, by Dr. 

 Julius Hoffmann; $2.50 net; Longmans, Greene 

 & Co., New York and London.] 



The latest book on the rose is by a 

 well-known German writer and deals 

 with rose growing, not wholly amateur, 

 as it is practiced along the Rhine. It is 

 translated by John Weathero, F. R. H. 

 S., and contains occasional notes by the 

 translator pointing out dif'erences in 

 culture or varieties apparent to one 

 whose experience has been in the milder 

 if more fickle climate of the British 



