March 15, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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broods find no resting place. A weekly 

 fumigation if eflSciently performed will 

 keep greenfly and thrips in check and 

 as our opportunities of using the syringe 

 are more numerous we can easily master 

 red spider. 



A sharp lookout should also be kept 

 for mildew, especially among young 

 stock, as a dose of mildew has a very 

 <ieterr(Mit effect on growth. Painting 

 the pipes once a week with the sulphur 

 mixture and using sulphur in the pow- 

 der form will hold this in check, espe- 

 cially if the stock has been cool grown 

 and ventilation properly practiced. 



Kibes. 



CARRYING OVER IVORY ROSES. 



Will you inform me whether you 

 would advise planting Ivory the seconu 

 year? These plants were grown on u 

 side bench and were badly shaded by a 

 center bed of chrysanthemums in their 

 season, which were early planted and 

 grew very tall. The Ivory did not do 

 much until the past six weeks. They 

 are now throwing up a fine lot of canes. 

 J. H. 



Replanting one-year-old stock is al- 

 ways more precarious anu more subject 

 to failure than handling young, vigorous 

 stock. Eequiring more skill and care 

 to insure success, I have refrained from 

 advising this method of culture. 



To insure success these plants should 

 be partially rested before transplanting 

 and after planting they should be thor- 

 oughly soaked and the temperature kept 

 as near 56 degrees as possible for a 

 week or so, until root action recom- 

 mences. After the first soaking they 

 should be allowed to run medium dry, 

 keeping the syringe going every bright 

 day, which will usually supply all the 

 moisture needed until the eyes begin to 

 break, when the temperature can be 

 raised to 58 degrees at night and more 

 ventilation given. Ribes. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



A paper on "Soluble Fertilizers," by 

 Dudley Malcolm Pray, of the Eastern 

 Chemical Co., has been added to the 

 program of the Boston meeting of the 

 Rose Society since its publication last 

 week. 



THE GARDEN ROSES. 



[A paper by Nell McCallum. read before the 

 rutslnirg and Allegheny Florists' Club, March 

 <i, 1!VI6.] 



The rose has been immortalized by the 

 most ancient authors. Homer's allu- 

 sions to the rose in the Hiad and Odyssey 

 are among the earliest mentions we 

 have. Mr. Paul, in his Rose Garden, 

 gives a translation from the Greek poet- 

 ess, Sappho, who lived 600 B. C. ; it is: 



AVould Jove appoint some flower to reign 

 In matchless beauty on the plain. 

 The Rose (mankind will all agree) — 

 The Kose the queen of flowers should be. 



Historians tell us that those luxurious 

 persons, Cleopatra and Nero, spent im- 

 mense sums of money for roses and rose 

 petals to strew on the floors and seats 

 of their banquet halls. Pliny also tells 

 us that it is necessary to move the earth 

 to a depth of two feet in their culti- 

 vation. Coming down to modern times, 

 Dr. Lindley says the pharmaoopaia 

 could be formed of the rose family 

 alone; and Sir E. Christison tells that 

 it takes 100,000 roses, the product of 

 10,000 bushes of the Damask rose, to 

 yield 180 grains of attar of roses. The 

 Damask rose is parent of the hybrid tea 



Crescent Wreath by J. F. Wilcox^ Council Bluffs. 



roses of to-day ; it was brought to Eu- 

 rope from Syria by one of the crusad- 

 ers returning from the holy wars. 



Roses will do fairly well in almost 

 any soil, providing it is not a wet, or 

 a loose, sandy one; of course the ideal 

 soil is a deep, strong loam and a shel- 

 tered position with an exposure to the 

 morning sun shaded from the fierce rays 

 of the noonday sun. A stiff clay land 

 can be helped by draining and working 

 in long stable manure, decayed leaves, 

 sand and ashes and a sandy or gravelly 

 earth by the addition of cow manure, 

 clay, or stiff loam, but any ground which 

 will grow good cabbage will also grow 

 good roses. 



Best Season for Planting. 



The best season for planting the har- 

 dier roses is the late fall, but the more 

 tender teas should be left until early 

 spring. It often happens when you un- 

 pack your roses from a distant nursery 

 that you discover the bark all shriveled ; 

 it is a good plan to bury them com- 

 pletely, at least six inches below the sur- 

 face, give the ground a good soaking, 

 and leave so for a couple or three days 

 to plump up again. In planting budded 

 or grafted plants, the point of union 

 should be at least two inches below the 

 surface, so that they may eventually be- 

 come own root plants. In pruning, first 

 cut out all decayed, crowded or weak 

 growths, then shorten back as required, 

 observing the rule that delicate and 

 weak growers should be pruned severely, 

 and strong and vigorous growers pruned 

 very lightly. The rose chafer is a tfou- 



j blesome pest when he conios, as hand 

 picking and destroying by coal oil, fire, 

 or crushing is the only remedy for him; 

 for other insects a solution of whale oil 

 soap applied with a syringe will prove 

 effectual in ridding the plants. 



Many Ways to Use Roses. 



There are many ways in which roses 

 can be used to produce decorative effects 

 outdoors, as dwarf plants in beds, as 

 climbers on walls, porches or arches, as 

 pillars, in large, isolated clumps, as a 

 hedge or dividing line, as an edging to 

 other shrubs, or to carpet banks and 

 slopes. 



j Take, first, roses as dwarf plants in 

 I beds; such varieties as Hermosa, Marie 

 j Van Houtte, Madam Lambert, La 

 France, Homer, Malmaison, Perle des 

 Jardins, and the old Agrippina are bet- 

 ter than the stronger H. P. 's, which are 

 good as masses; such sorts as Baroness 

 Rothschild, Mabel Morrison, Merville 

 de Lyon, Rev. J. B. Camm, Louis Van 

 Houtte, Mme. Gabriel Luizet, Alfred 

 Colomb, Marshall P. Wilder, Marie 

 liaumman, Margaret Dickson, Gloire de 

 Margottin, Francois Michelon, Fisher 

 Holmes and Mrs. John Laing being glo- 

 rious during their flowering season. 



The rugosa hybrids are grand and use- 

 ful roses for hedges or screens, lovely in 

 foliage, flowers and fruit, and hard as 

 nails in constitution. The Wichuraiana 

 and its hybrids are splendid as edgings 

 and to cover banks or ugly places. The 

 rambler varieties, with prairie roses and 

 climbing hybrid remontants and teas 

 like Reine Marie Henriette, Gloire de 



