October 25, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



1467 



Crimson Rambler. 



I have mentioned several times this 

 summer the importance of having the 

 canes of Crimson Eambler roses well 

 ripened in the fall. This applies to 

 plants grown in the open ground. 



As we are having frequent heavy rains, 

 plants in pots should be laid on their 

 sides to prevent their roots getting too 

 much moisture, for it is time now that 

 growth ceased and the wood became 

 ripe. Plants in the field, which are sure 

 to have made a strong growth, also can 

 be helped to ripen the strong canes 

 which you expect to give you the fine 

 trusses of flowers next spring. 



The accompanying illustration is pj-e- 

 pared from a photograph of a Crinmon 

 Rambler grown by Thomas Boland, 

 Nahant, Mass. Mr. Boland has the 

 greatest success with these ramblers lift- 

 ed from the ground in the fall. Of 

 seven plants lifted last year, six were 

 exhibited at the American Rose Socie- 

 ty's convention at Boston last spring, 

 and this one gained the prize for the 

 best plant at the show. It most assur- 

 edly is a beauty. Notice its grand 

 trusses of bloom down to the very edge 

 of the pot. I have no means of giving 

 you t)M dimensions of this superb plant, 

 but, iStrge or small, it is a beauty, and 

 appears, in proportion to its size, to be 

 grown in a small pot. 



Now, I am informed that Mr. Roland 

 does not let the strong growths of his 

 rambler roses wander along the ground, 

 but trains the canes to a trellis, where 

 the light, air and sun will ripen the 

 wood. This is the foundation of his 

 great success, followed by expert gar- 

 dening. If you have any ramblers in 

 the field that you expect to lift about 

 the middle of November, get their heavy, 

 strong growths off the ground so that 

 they can get the full light and sun. 



Azaleas for Christmas. 



There is no better selling plant at the 

 holiday time than a well-flowered azalea, 

 but only a few varieties can be forced 

 into flower for Christmas. The four 

 well-known varieties that can be easily 

 gotten into full flower by that time are 

 Deutsche Perle, pure white; Simon 

 Mardner, deep rose; Vervaeneana, mot- 

 tled white and pink; Hexe, dark wine 

 color. 



These varieties all have semi-double 

 flowers. Hexe is not yet common and 

 agents last spring would not take orders 

 for large quantities unless you also 

 ordered other varieties in quantity. It 

 is fine in color and habit and the great 

 demand will keep it scarce for years. 



You would naturally suppose that the 

 azaleas that you had summered over on 

 your own grounds would be the plants 

 to force, but it is not so. The newly 

 imported plants force much more easily. 

 It is well to give these imported plants 

 a few days in a cool house, but no time 

 should now be lost in getting plants of 

 the varieties mentioned into a warm 

 house. Some plants may need a little 

 more heat than others and some varie- 



ties are earlier than others, but that you 

 can regulate a month hence. 



Start now with 60 degrees at night. 

 Keep the roots moist all the time and 

 spray them, or to use a more correct 

 gardening phrase, syringe them twice a 

 day. The syringing has the same effect 

 a shower has on our shade trees in the 

 month of May. It keeps the buds loos- 

 ened. Syringing must cease as soon as 

 the buds show color. 



In all imported azaleas you will notice 



The great majority of azaleas, that 

 are principally wanted for Easter, 

 should be kept in a cool house. Remem- 

 ber that the Indian azalea will endure a 

 low temperature; anything above a 

 frost. 



Chinch-Bug on Mums. 



Cruel frosts have descended upon us 

 and destroyed all our summer-flowering 

 plants and we have to rely entirely on 

 the product of the greenhouse. Supreme- 

 ly reigns at this day the flower that has 

 been properly dubbed the queen of au- 

 tumn. Many of us would be thankful if 

 our friend and correspondent, Mr. Totty, 

 would tell us how to evade or extermi- 

 nate the chinch-bug. We never were 

 troubled with it before, but this year it 

 is a most decided nuisance and causes 

 great loss. It is too late to do much 

 towards its extermination, but let's have 

 a preventive for next year. It does not 

 make itself prominent until the buds 



Crimson Rambler Grown by Thomas Roland, Nahant, Mass. 



a few extra strong growths that have 

 outgrown the growths which have termi- 

 nated with a bud. The very fact of 

 their not setting a flower bud is the 

 cause of this vigorous growth and they 

 should be cut Mck to conform to the 

 symmetry of the plant. 



show color and from a rather superficial 

 inspection appears to be a sucking and 

 not a chewing insect, which makes it all 

 the more formidable to combat. It has 

 ruined hundreds of flowers of such good 

 commercial sorts as Robert Hallidayaad 

 Polly Rose, and as soon as they are cut 



