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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



Di;ri;.Miu:u '21, 1906. 



iii;;lit li'm|i( r;it uic of ■").') ti> (id (lc>ir('i's. 

 ( liailcs X is ]iui|)l(' ill roldi. Iiut forces 

 i!i|ii«li_v. Millie Lei;rav<', |iiiie wiiitc. is 

 the most, ii.sel'iil til tile tiiiiisl. ;iiiil nl' 

 ■ Idulije v;irieties, Miiilniiie I.eiiiniiie is 

 tine. 



1 must :iiiil a WHid aliout tliis t'oiciii'' 

 pidress. We all ran realize tliat liie fur 

 tlior we are in aiUaiice of tlie natural 

 time of flowering llie {greater must lie ilie 

 lieat ami more time must lie ailowctl. The 

 nearer we a|i)iroacli the time ot' liow ciiuii' 



the less foifiuii it re(|iiires. Master is 

 early this year, and tlicse fads must be 

 cousitlcred. We have forced out lilac for 

 .\e\v Year's in a lii^li teiii]ierature, hut 

 two iiioiitiis later much !es« heat is nec- 

 essary and the flower is far liettcr. ^Ve 

 liUM! heard j^ood j^ardeiiers say they could 

 force out a.stillie roots to tlower in four 

 weeks. That is true in the luoiitli of 

 May. liul i', March it is dilferent. Bet- 

 ter allow, this year, ivi\ weeks for your 

 astillie. W. S. 



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

 cessful jilaut ami form roots in the same 

 jieriod of time. The eonse(iueiice.s will 

 lie that the rootiiijr sta^e will be very 

 uneven. 



A euttin<j with three or four eyes is 

 picfeialile to a oiie-eyi'd cutting a.s they 

 make a mori' thrifty plant and do not 

 make .such a soft, rank jirowth, but form 

 a Im^li (|iiicker ■when bem-hed. 



KMbe.s. 



PROPAGATING BEAUTIES. 



The methods of propa}4atin<i Ameriiau 

 lieauties. particularly in the .selection of 

 jirojiayat i ii;^ wood is somewhat ditVereiit 

 from that em|doyec| where leas or their 

 liybrids are coiiceiiieil and m:iny ot' the 

 failuies atteiidiii;^ the propagation of this 

 lose ;irise from the f;ic1 that ihey are 

 treated much in the same manner as 

 Brides. K'ichmoiids. etc In nearly all 

 houses devoted to P>e;iUties there will be 

 found a jieiieiitage of plants which while 

 beiiiy \ery \ jedious in growth, with a 

 wealth of foliage, jiersistent ly refuse to 

 make buds during the winter season and 

 si^em. in spite of all Ireatmeiit. to devote 

 their entire \itality to making wood. 



As a cutting is by no means a new 

 jilaiit, such as we gi't ficun a seeil, but 

 simply a pei|)ei u;i1 ion of jiart of a 

 branch of the idil |ilaiil. we ought to be 

 careful in selecting the woocl so ;is not 

 to jierpetiiate any br.-nich lia\ing any 

 disease, weakness or other undesirable 

 characteristics. Those jdants wiiidi iia\e 

 refuseil to make buds will of course lia\e 

 a lai'ger supjdy of W(io<| than those which 

 have done their |iart in bearing blooms, 

 and conse(|ueiitly present ;i larger hnr- 

 \'est of cutting wood wlii(di. producing no 



reNellUe. ilixites the pld| i.Mga to r to USe it 

 in JUet'eleUce to ilellllding tile jdauts 



which show an iii(diiiation lo produce 

 buds. 



I'laiil- which li;i\e a yood liabil and 



ha\e pli.\ed I ili'in'<el\ c^ flee bloiiinelS 

 .--lliMlId always, be -selected a -^ t he<e dial' 

 .icti'i- will iiiiiliiabi ediy lllldi'l caiel'ul ciil 

 tiv.-ili'iii 111- maintained and possibly ac 

 cell! iial I'll ill ihe yoMiiy slock it' this sys 

 leUl of M-lectioli i'~ tdllowed \ear after 

 yea i-. 



< 'lo--e jointed, well lipilleil Wiod I'rolll 

 thi- clas^ of <|.:,-k \\ill Jirodllce slin-k of 



a mole uiiil'orm vi/,. .-mil habit and the 



plddud i \eness will li" im-leased peicejit- 



ibl\ it this system i< persistently fol 

 hiWid. This st.ltelllent is ileduced from 

 .-ictiial e\|ieriineut and supported by rec- 



ords during a long period of successful 

 iieauty growing. 



Uy confining oul' selection of weod to 

 short-jointed growths v\e are enabled to 

 get L'uttings of a like condition of ripe- 

 ness Avhicli insures a more uniforiii root 

 formation than if long stems be used for 

 cutting ■wooil as it .stands to reason that 

 oiilv a limited number of eves on such a 



POOR SOIL. 



1 am sending a rose |ilant from a 

 bench that was jdanted in June, in soil 

 piled up over winter, then mixed with 

 one-lift h its bulk of rotted manure, 

 mostly horse manure. The jdants weri' 

 gooi! |ilaiits out of 4 inch jiot.s. and at 

 first seemed to be <loing finely, but 

 early in the fall (■oir.meiiced to go back, 

 until now they ar<' mostly in the condi- 

 tion you see. Tiiey have had good atten- 

 tion, plenty of \eiitilation, night tem- 

 perature of oS to ()l) degrees. In the 

 same house is a bemdi planted in dif- 

 ferent soil, soil procured in the spring 

 and manured as the other and used at 

 oiici', a.Il sod soil from old jiasture. It 

 is doing well. The soil 1 am sending is, as 

 you see. full of small insects like tlirips 

 only white. If you can give me any 

 light on this lu.atter 1 would be glad. 

 We had a little of the same trouble last 

 year; same soil. Px'fore this W(! have 

 alwa\s hail fair success with roses. 



1). 1'. S. 



After a c;ii(d'ul examination of these 

 plants and the soil a<-compaiiyiiig them 



Vacant Chair, by Joseph Haube, Charlcroi, Pa. 



