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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 22, 1907. 



SIMMER FLOWERS 



IN QUANTITY 



Easter Lilies, Asters, 



Valley, Gladioli, 



Carnations 



WF M^kl^^irk '221 FILBERT STREET, 

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tate is named, is planted exclusively with 

 hardy plants, native ones being very 

 largely used. Every advantage has been 

 taken of the numerous fine rocks and 

 other natural features, plants suitable 

 to the various locations being planted 

 in some cases, while in others, many of 

 the native plants and shrubs have been 

 retained. Winding paths running around 

 the rocky hillsides disclose some fresh 

 interesting objects at every turn. It is 

 an estate naturally planted and therein 

 lies its greatest charm. It is far more 

 satisfying to any real lover of nature 

 than estates which have upon them the 

 imprint of the landscape architect's art. 

 Such liliums as auratum, speciosum, 

 superbum and Canadense were very much 

 at home in locations where they had 

 been growing for years. On the higher 

 ground, beds of many of the best hybrid 

 tea roses were growing and flowering 

 finely. There are no greenhouses or 

 even coldframes on the place, everything, 

 outside of a few annuals, being thor- 

 oughly ironclad. 



Mrs. Henry E. Foote, of Marblehead, 

 has come into prominence of late years 

 as a very successful commercial grower 

 and exhibitor of hybrid tea and other 

 roses. Her collection comprises over 400 

 varieties, the major portion being hybrid 

 teas. We were much pleased on the oc- 

 casion of a late brief call to note the 

 extreme vigor of this latter class and the 

 freedom with which they were blooming. 

 All the newest European varieties were 

 included and old s^nd-bys seemed quite 

 at home. That old jiopular variety, Gloire 

 de Dijon, makes shoots fourteen feet in 

 length kere. Qruss an Teplitz stood some 

 six feet high, carrying immense heads 

 of its brilliant crimson flowers. Among 

 the newer rugosas, Conrad Ferdinand 



Meyer had shoots ten feet in length. 

 Mrs. Foote has made a specialty of plant- 

 ing rose gardens and this season laid 

 out and planted one of 3,000 plants for 

 W. S. Spaulding, at Pride's Crossing, 

 and another large one for E. C. Swift, 

 of Pride's Crossing, these being mostly 

 hybrid teas. We are pleased to note 

 a continued growth in the culture of this 

 class of roses in Massachusetts, their 

 persistent blooming qualities being the 

 greatest point in their favor. 



Various Notes.' 



The Boston party, which left on Mon- 

 day night for the Philadelphia conven- 

 tion, was quite a substantial one, al- 

 though some who had hoped to make 

 the trip were unable to go. E. L. Pierce, 

 of the A. H. Hews Co., worked hard to 

 secure a good attendance, but the pres- 

 sure of business at North Cambridge pre- 

 vented him from attending personally. 

 The Boston delegation are interested in 

 the proposal to change the name of the 

 S. A. F. and it will receive their support, 

 we believe. 



The annual auction sale of stalls at 

 the Park Street Flower Market will oc- 

 cur on September 7. 



Thomas Roland and J. E. Rothwell 

 were among those returning on August 

 15 from Liverpool on the Ivernia. 



Th« next event at Horticultural hall 

 will be the annual dahlia show, which 

 takes place on September 4 and 5, 



Members of the Gardeners' and Flo- 

 rists ' Club will leave Boston on Saturday, 

 August 31, for North Abington on the 

 12:43 train, for the field day at the 

 Bay State Nurseries. 



One of the worst droughts in late 

 years is now being felt in Massachusetts 

 and other New England states. The 



country has a very burnt up appear- 

 ance. 



The telegraphers' strike has had lit- 

 tle effect on trade at the wholesale 

 houses and markets. The long distance 

 phone has been more called into requi- 

 sition. 



William Nicholson is spending his va- 

 cation in shark fishing at Nantucket and 

 has assisted in some phenomenal catches, 

 some weighing over 450 pounds and 

 measuring nine feet in length. He and 

 some friends landed 407 silver fish in 

 four hours on Great Pond, on the island. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety will hold an exhibition of products 

 of children's gardens on September 7, 

 when a big display is expected. 



We are pleased to report Mrs. W. H. 

 Elliott's recovery from her late accident, 

 and her ability to go to the convention. 



R. G. Leavitt will be the speaker at 

 the next meeting of the Gardeners' and 

 Florists' Club. His subject will be 

 "Hybridization." W. N. Craig. 



SCALE ON ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. 



In looking over our Asparagus plumo- 

 sus we notice a kind of scale on the 

 main stems of part of the plants and 

 would like to know the cause. What can 

 we do to stop it? T. P. G. 



If the scale is large and brown in 

 color, it will be diflScult to kill. The 

 only method is to pick or brush it off. 

 The younger and lighter colored ones 

 can be destroyed by syringing with ker- 

 osene emulsion or fir tree oil, neither of 

 which will injure the foliage. Use a 

 good force of water on your asparagus, 

 through a spray nozzle, and you can 

 blow off much of the smaller sized scalo. 



C. W. 



