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The Weekly Florists^ Review, 



July 4, 1907. 



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BABY RAMBLERS. 



I am sending a specimen of my Baby 

 Rambler roses. They are affected with 

 some kind of disease, for which I cannot 

 account. I bought the dormant plants 

 from a nurseryman this spring. They 

 have not done well at any time and are 

 now dying. The leaves look as though 

 the sun had scalded them. Please tell 

 me what is the trouble. P. J. K. 



These Baby Eamblers are not affected 

 with any disease. The trouble with them 

 is simply that they have been forced 

 into leaf before they had acquired suffi- 

 cient root action to sustain the growth. 

 Dormant stock never does well when 

 benched in the spring. The plants should 

 first be potted and kept in a cool, moist 

 house and in a rather dry condition un- 

 til root action is well started, and then 

 gradually exposed to light and higher 

 temperature, when they can use more 

 water and sunshine. 



As for curing them after they get into 

 the condition described, it is almost im- 

 possible. Lift them from the bench and 

 heel them in outside and give no water, 

 a few may survive. Ribes. 



TEMPERATURE FOR CUT BLOOMS. 



Will you please state at what tempera- 

 ture blooms of carnations, roses and 

 mums keep best after cutting? J. M. 



The first and most essential condition 

 towards the successful preservation of 

 cut blooms is to have a good cool room, 

 one constructed on the most approved 

 principles, which must combine dryness 

 of atmosphere and airiness, and the 

 chamber of which must be sufficiently 

 isolated from the influence of outside 

 atmospheric conditions. 



The temperature of the sorting room 

 should, if possible, never exceed the tem- 

 perature of the house the cut came 

 from; in fact, it is safer to have it a 

 few degrees lower. The temperature of 

 the cold chamber should never get lower 

 than 48 degrees, ranging from that to 

 .'52 degrees, above which temperature the 

 flowers will go wrong. 



After being in storage for twenty-four 

 hours the stock should be taken out, re- 

 assorted and have half an inch of the 

 stem cut off, so that they can absorb a 

 fresh supply of water. In forty-eight 

 hours, and especially during the summer 

 months, they begin to enter the salted 

 stage and the less of that kind of stock 

 the grower handles, so much the more 



satisfactory will it be, both for himself 

 and his customers. 



Regarding the right temperature of 

 water to be used for storage purposes, 

 care should be taken not to give the cut 

 a sudden chill by putting the stems in 

 water which is too cold, or to raise the 

 temperature with hot water previous to 

 putting them in the cold room. A safe 

 rule to go by is to strike a medium be- 

 tween the temperature of the house they 

 were grown in and the temperature of 

 the cold room. Thus, if the temperature 

 of the house the blooms were grown in 

 is 56 degrees and that of the cold room 

 is 50 degrees, the water should be 53 

 degrees. As water approaches its great- 

 est density at about 41 degrees, it should 

 never be used near or below that point 

 for storing the cut from a greenhouse. 



These last remarks apply with more 

 force to carnation blooms, they being 

 more sensitive to sudden changes than 

 roses are. Thousands are sent to sleep 

 daily by inattention to these seemingly 

 trivial matters. Ribes. 



BOSTON. 



The Market. 



Little need be written about market 

 conditions, which are now about as poor 

 as can possibly be. The end of the June 

 weddings and school graduations took 

 away any little support remaining and 

 growers are glad to accept any reasonable 

 offer for the bulk of what they are now 

 sending in. "While some nice summer 

 roses, such as Carnot and Kaiserin, are 

 arriving, as well as some nice outdoor 

 hybrids, the general run of indoor flowers 

 has been seriously affected by the hot 

 wave. Carnations are also selling low, 

 although first-class flowers still make 

 moderate prices. Peonies htye been a 

 glut and hard to move at any price. They 

 will soon be over, with a continuation of 

 hot weather. Indoor sweet peas are be- 

 coming poor, but some outdoor ones are 

 already arriving, Sunbeams, Earliest of 

 All and Mont Blanc, while a few days 

 will see all the popular sorts represented. 

 There is no special call for any other 

 flowers and no change in prices of green 

 goods. ,^ 



Rote Show. 



The intense heat and drought brought 

 hardy roses on with a rush, but we have 

 seen better quality flowers than were 

 staged June 29 and 30 at Horticultural 

 hall. 



M. H. Walsh, usually the largest indi- 

 vidual exhibitor, was unable this season 

 to show at all, his blooms being too late. 

 In his absence the principal prizes went 

 to W. J. Clemson, J. O. Christensen gar- 

 dener, who was first for general display 

 of 100 bottles, twelve varieties, three of 

 each; for six named varieties, three of 

 each ; for six blooms Frau Karl Druschki ; 



for three blooms, any novelty, and for 

 display filling fifty vases. Other success- 

 ful competitors' were E. Lewis, W. Whit- 

 man, M. Sullivan gardener; J. Bazeley, 

 Mrs. J. L. Gardner, W. Thatcher gar- 

 dener, and Mrs. Frederick Ayer, Geo. 

 Page gardener. For 100 bottles there was 

 a spirited competition, prizes going to W. 

 J. Clemson, Mrs. J. L. Gardner, E. L. 

 Lewis, J. G. Wright and Mrs. E. M. Gill 

 in the order named. Mrs. Harriet Foote 

 had a fine table of hybrid teas. 



Blue Hill Nurseries were first and sec- 

 ond for thirty varieties herbaceous plants 

 with good collections. Mrs. J. L. Gardner 

 was first for display of Canterbury bells 

 and thirty vases delphiniums. 



A number of peony classes carried over 

 from the preceding week attracted good 

 competition. For thirty or more double 

 varieties, prizes were awarded to George 

 HolUs, Dr. C. S. Minot and T. C. Thur- 

 low. For twelve varieties, three of each, 

 James McKissick won with a splendid 

 lot; E. L. Lewis, second; W. Whitman, 

 third. Geo. HoUis was first for twelve 

 Japanese singles. For six named doubles 

 J. McKissick was first and T. C Thur- 

 low second. For six rose pink T. C. 

 Thurlow won; J. S. Chase, second. T. 

 C. Thurlow was again in the lead for six 

 salmon pink and six blooms, red or crim- 

 son, J. S. Chase being second. 



There were numerous miscellaneous ex- 

 hibits. E. J. Shaylor filled a large table 

 with a splendid collection of peonies, 

 these comprising many fine novelties and 

 a couple of first-class seedlings, pale pink 

 in color, of large size and equal to the 

 finest productions of Dessert or Kelway. 

 T. C. Thurlow also put up a large col- 

 lection of his varieties, as well as some 

 fine kalmia. George Hollis had a good 

 table, which included Enchantment, 

 double light pink; Admiral Togo, dark 

 red, and Geo. Hollis French, white, all 

 fine seedlings. The last named were 

 awarded honorable mention. Blue Hill 

 Nurseries and R, & J. Farquhar & Co. 

 also had large displays of peonies, the 

 last named firm also having an extensive 

 collection of herbaceous plants, bay trees, 

 palms, aralias and other plants. F. J. 

 Rea had a table of herbaceous plants. 

 Iris orient&lis Snow Queen received hon- 

 orable mention. J. L. McKissick received 

 a first-class certificate for Peony Rose 

 Bonheur, one of the finest in the show, 

 also exhibited by E. J. Shaylor. 



J. E. Rothewell, E. Johansson garden- 

 er, received a certificate of merit for Cy- 

 pripedium Emil Johansson (C. Euryale 

 X C. Philippinense), a very good cross. 

 From the same exhibitor came a large 

 table of cut orchids. As usual 4it the sum- 

 mer shows, however, these attract far less 

 notice than the popular outdoor flowers. 

 E. J. Mitton, J. Lawson gardener, re- 

 ceived honorable mention for well grown 

 Crassula coccinea. Wilfred Wheeler had 

 a fine collection of digitalis, also outdoor- 

 grown sweet peas, etc. Mrs. R. Leason, 

 James Cartwright gardener, received a 

 certificate of merit for a finely bloomed 

 specimen of Oncidium sphacelatum. He 

 also had other fine and rare plants. Mrs. 

 E. M. Gill had a general display of flow- 

 ers. W. H. Heustis had a table of 

 branches of shrubs and trees. Mrs. E. 

 A. Wilkie a tank of nymphaea, Walter 

 Hunnewell tables of rhododendrons and 

 kalmias and several exhibits of sweet 

 William and roses. 



Various Notes. 



Although there are no other prize ex- 

 hibitions scheduled before July 20, there 



