January 10, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



547 



Carnation House of Bertermann Bros. Co., at Cumberland, lad. 



great future, 'xhe color is a peach blos- 

 som tint, with deeper centers. Celia is 

 another fine novelty, but will be valued 

 more as a garden rose than an exhibi- 

 tion flower, although for this latter pur- 

 pose it will prove useful by reason of 

 its substantial blossoms and exquisite 

 shape. It is a prodigious bloomer, and 

 makes a thick bush, more vigorous, per- 

 haps, than Grace Darling. The color 

 is a soft satin pink. Both these were 

 raised by William Paul & Son, of Wal- 

 tham Cross. 



OUTDCX>R ROSES FOR CUTTING. 



I wish to raise some roses to cut in 

 the field and desire to know what kinds 

 would give the best results in Maryland. 



B. S. 



Possibly the writer of the above may 

 mean what class of roses is best for 

 blooms outdoors, instead of what kinds. 

 What are known as the hybrid perpetual 

 class are the only truly hardy roses, but 

 their season is short, the earliest blos- 

 soms opening about June 20, in this lo- 

 cality", and continuing to flower for a 

 month. Six first-class varieties of this 

 class are Ulrich Brunner, Paul Neyron, 

 Magna Charta, Mme. Gabriel Luizet, 

 Clio and John Hopper. This list could 

 be greatly lengthened, and all worth 

 growing if properly cultivated. 



Plant dormant stock this coming 

 spring, as soon as the ground is dry, and 

 cut down to within a few eyes of the 

 bud. Don 't expect any great quantity 

 of flowers the first summer. Be content 

 with a strong growth, which, if cut down 

 to within four or five eyes of the pre- 

 vious growth, will be sure to give you a 

 grand burst of bloom the following sum- 

 mer. The first spring after planting the 

 roses should have an abundance of water 

 and a mulch of two or three inches of 

 dairy manure to keep the surface of the 

 ground from baking. Plantings of roses 

 of these varieties should last for years 

 if properly pruned. The trouble is, you 

 are too much afraid to prune. After the 

 second year, when you should get a full 

 crop of flowers, you must prune every 

 spring down to within three or four eyes 

 of the previous year's growth. Straw- 

 ing up the plants in winter does not 

 amount to much and is not worth the 

 t u^* ^^*^^^'* spread six inches of 

 stable manure around the base of the 

 plant. 



While on the subject of real hardy 



roses, I have often thought we ought to 

 have a quantity of the ramblers, the 

 Crimson Kambler, the Farquhar and 

 Dorothy Perkins. What splendid mate- 

 rial a branch of any of these ramblers 

 would be for a decoration. All the prun- 

 ing they need is to cut out the old wood 

 that flowered last summer. 



The tea, or truly ever-blooming roses, 

 are not hardy and must be planted an- 

 nually, but there is another class known 

 as hybrid teas, some of which are satis- 

 factory for summer blooming in our 

 northern states. Best of all is Maman 

 Cochet, the color of Bridesmaid, and its 

 white form. These are especially worth 

 cultivation and protection in winter. 

 La France, Admiral Schley, Gruss an 

 Teplitz, a fine crimson rose, President 

 Carnot, Balduin and Etoile de Lyon and 

 many more of this class could be recom- 

 mended. 



You are doubtless aware that roses of 

 any class do not do well in a light, shal- 

 low, sandy soil and especially unfavorable 

 is a worn-out old garden, however much 

 manure you may add to the soil. 



If you are growjng these roses for 

 cut flowers it will pay to disbud all of 

 them, leaving only the strongest perfect 

 bud; and if you can apply cold water at 

 a pressure of thirty pounds to the square 



inch and apply it' every morning, from 

 the time the leaf buds break into growth 

 until the blossom opens, you won't be 

 bothered with aphis or any other enemy 

 of the rose. W. S. 



THE BERTERMANN PLANT. 



The accompanying illustrations are 

 from photographs taken at the new plant 

 of tlie Bertermann Bros. Co., at Cumber- 

 land, a few miles outside of Indianapo- 

 lis. One of the pictures gives a view of 

 the exterior. Another shows a house of 

 carnations, and the third shows a bench 

 of poinsettias, which were cut for Christ- 

 mas, and also a bench of Spiraea Glad- 

 stone, which also was sold at the holi- 

 days. 



The Bertermann Bros. Co. finds Cum- 

 berland an excellent place for the grow- 

 ing end of the business. It is removed 

 from the city, where land is cheap and 

 soil both good and plentiful, but it is on 

 the trolley line and connected with the 

 city store by telephone so that it is but 

 a matter of a few moments to get stock 

 to the store if needed on short notice. 

 The Bertermanns keep store in first-class 

 style and to meet their demand the stock 

 turned out at the greenhouses has to be 

 a first-rate article. 



FORCING DUTCH HYACINTHS. 



Dutch hyacinths, grown single bulbs 

 in 3-inch pots, are easy to handle, make 

 exceptionally fine spikes and the labor 

 bill is much reduced in comparison to the 

 old method of growing in o-inch pots 

 and boxes. And what is of even greater 

 value, the cost of heating, as grown in 

 England, is reduced by one-half. They 

 are treated in the same way as when 

 growing in water in glasses. 



Grown in this way for the London 

 market, the bulbs are buried in the soil 

 only alK)ut one-half an inch. They are 

 placed in 80 to 85 degrees of heat and 

 given an abundance of water. The house 

 they occupy is matted down with three 

 or four thicknesses, to the total exclu- 

 sion of all light and, of course, serving 

 to keep in practically all heat given off 

 from the pipes. The bulbs are kept in 

 these quarters until the spikes are de- 

 veloped some several inches from the 

 bulbs and the foliage is a couple of 

 inches high, when they are brought into 



Spiraea and Poinsettias at Bertermann's Greenhouses. 



