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May 24, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



THE YEAR-OLD ROSE PLANTS. 



The replanting of rose benchies ig one 

 of the very consiuerable items of expense 

 and it is one from which many growers 

 seek to escape by carrying their stock 

 more than one year. It was not many 

 years ago that plants one year on the 

 benches were unceremoniously dumped 

 on the ruboish heap, but a -jiier dis- 

 position 01 them x-as been tound. Credit 

 must be given to Lewis Ullrich, Tiffin, 

 O., for showing that the year-old rose 

 plants could be turned into money. Mr. 

 Ullrich read a paper oefore his local 

 ■ horticultural society in wn^ch he told 

 ^liow to handle these plants. The result 

 "was that he has each year sold increas- 

 ing numbers and others in the trade are 

 doing likewise. Frequently he is asked 

 if the plants will endure the winter. His 

 reply is that at the price they are sold 

 the purchaser can well afford to replant 

 each year, for a good showing of bloom 

 is assured from spring planting. The 

 South Park Floral Co., New Castle, Ind., 

 has taken up the idea and sells by mail 

 all over the country, securing its or- 

 <lers by means of liberal advertising in 

 the general magazines. 



ROSE COLUMBIA. 



The rose Columbia is the result of a 

 cross between Bon Silene and President 

 Carnot. The flowers are large and full 

 and of a line shade of pink in color, 

 with a deeper shading in the center. The 

 keeping quality of the flower is excellent 

 and it does not fade. The buds are 

 borne on long, stiff stems, with heavy, 

 <lark green foliage. It is a strong and 

 vigorous grower and produces flowers in 

 abundance during the winter, just like 

 its parent, Bon Silene. It originated 

 several years ago with Paul Niehoff, Le- 

 highton, Pa., who has worked up a large 

 stock and says it is easy to grow and 

 does not need a high temperature. 



SMALL ROSE HOUSE. 



I am about to plant a small house, 

 18x24, with Bride, Maid, Richmond, and 

 Killarney roses. The center bench is to 

 be 6x18, side benches 3x24. My soil is 

 inclined to be light. I have no old cow 

 manure, but have plenty of two-year-old 

 horse manure, and sheep and chicken 

 manure; also fine bone beal. What 

 would you advise me to do? How many 

 plants will it take to plant the house? 



The quality of soil can be improved 

 by an admixture of day, say in the pro- 



portion of one to four. In the absence 

 of cow manure well-decomposed horse 

 manure is the best substitute. Sheep 

 manure can also be used, but this would 

 be of more service if used in the mulch 

 during winter, or when the plants require 

 additional feeding. Chicken manure, be- 

 ing strong and of a very caustic nature, 

 had better be left out. Bone meal can 

 safely be added to the compost at plant- 

 ing time, one 3-inch potful being suffi- 

 cient at that stage to every bushel of 

 compost. 



The quantity of plants required to fill 

 the center bench, if planted one foot 

 apart with a clear margin from the side 

 boards, would be exactly 108. For side 

 benches, giving them the same area. 



inches wide. This is dividing the house 

 in a practical manner, and by planting 

 at the same dii-tance apart, will give a 

 clear gain of seventy plants — no small 

 gain in a house of these dimensions. 



In order to get full advantage of the 

 room on side benches, the plants should 

 be placed in diagonal lines, staggered, 

 as it is called. In a house of this size 

 walks of a width of one foot six inches 

 are ample for all working purposes, 



ElBES. 



NOTES FROM ENGLAND. 



Representatives of Dutch bulb firms 

 are everywhere in England just now, the 

 first of May having brought a large num- 

 ber to our shores. It is very surprising 

 how so many contrive to get sufficient 

 orders to make the thing pay, I doubt 

 whether some of them take enough orders 

 to pay their expenses. One nursery firm 

 told me that last year they had 150 calls 

 from them, and just now he is inter- 

 viewing them, or, rather, dismissing them, 

 at the rate of five or six per day. Prices 

 of all tulip bulbs have been advanced, 

 in some cases more tha» 100 per cent 

 over last year. Scarlet Due sells at 36 

 shillings, Keizerskroon at 45 shillings, 

 and La Reine at 24 shillings. These are 

 absolutely prohibitive prices for the mar- 

 ket forcer to make any profit in the ex- 

 isting state of the market, and it is 

 difficult to see why prices are up to the 



Rose G}lumbia* 



seventy-two plants to each bench would 

 be required; total, 252. 



This arrangement of the benches, how- 

 ever, is sad waste of planting room, 

 giving far too much space to walks. 

 Have two benches twenty-seven inches 

 wide next the walls and two center beds 

 each four feet six inches wide. You 

 will then have three walks each eighteen 



extent they are. Certainly growers in 

 Holland cleaned out their stocks last year 

 extraordinarily well. Frost has consider- 

 ably reduced the crop in Holland for the 

 coming year, but still it is surprising, 

 considering the bad state of trade in 

 England, that such prices should be 

 quoted. 



Speaking further of tulips, that fine 



