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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 27, 1006. 



night temperature of 55 to 60 degrees. 

 Charles X is purple in color, but forces 

 rapidly. Marie Legraye, pure white, is 

 the most useful to the florist and of 

 double varieties, Madame LemOine is 

 fine. 



I must add a word about this forcing 

 process. We all can realize that the fur- 

 ther we are in advance of the natural 

 time of flowering the greater must be the 

 heat and more time must be allowed. The 

 nearer we approach the time of flowering 



the less forcing it requires. Easter is 

 early this year, and these facts must be 

 considered. We have forced out lilac for 

 New Year's in a high temperature, but 

 two months later much less heat is nec- 

 essary and the flower is far better. We 

 have heard good gardeners say they could 

 force out astilbe roots to flower in four 

 weeks. That is true in the month of 

 May, but in March it is different. Bet- 

 ter allow, this year, tea weeks for your 

 astilbe. W. S. 



stem can be in a fit state to make a suc- 

 cessful plant and form roots in the same 

 period of time. The consequences will 

 be that the rooting stage will be very 

 uneven. 



A cutting with three or four eyes is 

 preferable to a one-eyed cutting as they 

 make a more thrifty plant and do not 

 make such a soft, rank growth, but form 

 a bush quicker when benched. 



Kibes. 



POOR SOIL. 



PROPAGATING BEAUTIES. 



The methods of propagating American 

 Beauties, particularly in the selection of 

 propagating wood is somewhat different 

 from that employed where teas or their 

 hybrids are concerned and many of the 

 failures attending the propagation of this 

 rose arise from the fact that ihey are 

 treated much in the same manner as 

 Brides, Eichmonds, etc. In nearly all 

 houses devoted to Beauties there will be 

 found a percentage of plants which while 

 being very vigorous in growth, with a 

 wealth of foliage, persistently refuse to 

 make buds during the winter season and 

 seem, in spite of all treatment, to devote 

 their entire vitality to making wood. 



As a cutting is by no means a new 

 plant, such as we get from a seed, but 

 simply a perpetuation of part of a 

 branch of the old plant, we ought to be 

 careful in selecting the wood so as not 

 to perpetuate any branch having any 

 disease, weakness or other undesirable 

 characteristics. Those plants which have 

 refused to make buds will of course have 

 a larger supply of wood than those which 

 have done their part in bearing blooms, 

 and consequently present a larger har- 

 vest of cutting wood which, producing no 

 revenue, invites the propagator to use it 

 in preference to denuding the plants 

 which show an inclination to produce 

 buds. 



Plants which have a good habit and 

 have proved themselves free bloomers 

 should always be selected as these char- 

 acters will undoubtedly under careful cul- 

 tivation be maintaineil and possibly ac- 

 centuated in the young stock if this sys- 

 tem of selection is followed year after 

 year. 



CJlose jointed, well ripened wood from 

 this class of stock will produce stock of 

 a more uniform size and habit and the 

 productiveness will be increased percept- 

 ibly if this system is persistently fol- 

 lowed. This statement is deduced from 

 actual experiment and supported by rec- 



ords during a long period of successful 

 Beauty growing. 



By confining our selection of wood to 

 short-jointed growths we are enabled to 

 get cuttings of a like condition of ripe- 

 ness which insures a more uniform root 

 formation than if long stems be used for 

 cutting wood as it stands to reason that 

 only a limited number of eyes on such a 



I am sending a rose plant from a 

 bench that was planted in June, in soil 

 piled up over winter, then mixed with 

 one-fifth its bulk of rotted manure, 

 mostly horse manure. The plants were 

 good plants out of 4-inch pots, and at 

 first seemed to be doing finely, but 

 early in the fall commenced to go back, 

 until now they are mostly in the condi- 

 tion you see. They have had good atten- 

 tion, plenty of ventilation, night tem- 

 perature of 58 to 60 degrees. In the 

 same house is a bench planted in dif- 

 ferent soil, soil procured in the spring 

 and manured as the other and used at 

 once, all sod soil from old pasture. It 

 is doing well. The soil I am sending is, as 

 you see, full of small insects like thrips 

 only white. If you can give me any 

 light on this matter I would be glad. 

 We had a little of the same trouble last 

 year; same soil. Before this we have 

 always had fair success with roses. 



D. P. S. 



After a careful examination of these 

 plants and thd soil accompanying them 



Vacant Chair, by Joseph Haube, Charleroit Pa. 



