December 5, 1907. 



ThcWeckly Florists' Review. 



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form condition both as regards tempera- 

 ture and moisture, the heel of the cut- 

 tings should be placed at about half the 

 depth of the sand. With other condi- 

 tions right, all. the cuttings will form 

 roots in about the same period of time. 



Selecting the Cuttings. 



The care and skill bestowed on the 

 proper selection of wood for propagating 

 are among the fundamental elements of 

 success. A thorough knowledge of what 

 is best, with care and patience in select- 

 ing, being really essential, this duty 

 should never be entrusted to any but the 

 most experienced and painstaking help. 



We frequently see whole batches of 

 cuttings taken indiscriminately, includ- 

 ing strong, pithy flower stems and small, 

 blind wood. These make a very unsightly 

 bench, and while they will form roots, 

 they fail to make good, thrifty plants, 

 and the grower who uses such is courting 

 failure. 



Immediately after being cut, the wood 

 should be immersed in water to prevent 

 wilting, as the least wilt proves almost 

 fatal, for even if the cutting does form 

 roots, it will take longer time to do so 

 and consequently will lose in vitality, 



RiBES. 



THE MRS. FIELD ROSE. 



It has been said that Peter Eeinberg, 

 Chicago, who led the way in the building 

 of the mammoth ranges for which the 

 great central market has renown, was 

 born under a lucky star, but in the mat- 

 ter of the Mrs. Marshall Field rose some 

 little foresight and skill were coupled 

 with good fortune. The rose has been 

 on the place for several years, but has 

 only now come into its own. 



Several years ago the search for nov- 

 elty led to the importation of four new 

 sorts from England. Among these, two 

 were red, one was white and one was 

 yellow. The whole lot proved worthless, 

 but among the plants one diminutive 

 specimen produced a flower of fine form 

 and substance and of a delightful pink. 

 This plant was saved and gave three 

 cuttings for the next year, when the 

 flower again proved excellent, although 

 the growth was as poor as could be 

 imagined. The result was that the fol- 

 lowing season plants were grafted on 

 Manetti. With this foundation they 

 thrived splendidly and gave good stems 

 and fine flowers in abundance. The fol- 

 lowing year quite a stock was worked up 

 and the blooms exhibited at the first 

 Coliseum flower show in Chicago under 

 the name of Mrs. Marshall Field, who 

 was just then occupying a particularly 

 bright spot in the public eye. The choice 

 of name proved an inspiration from a 

 business point of view, for that season 

 and the following one the limited stock 

 made it impossible to supply the demand 

 for the cut flowers. 



This year Mr. Eeinberg has six and a 

 half houses of the Field rose. That this 

 means something may be better realized 

 o« oc** IS stated that the houses are each 

 -6x265. It proves without doubt his 

 confidence in the variety, for no man 

 would venture planting practically 50,000 

 feet of glass with a speculation. 



One of the accompanying illustrations 

 shows one of the houses of the Field rose 

 photographed October 18. No grower 



Z"iT *.^°\' '^g^*- The picturl gives 

 no Idea of the crop the plants were 

 carrying. It is the practice to cut Se 

 buds quite tight for shipping pur 

 poses, 80 that the houses never present 



Mrs. Marshall Field Rose. 



much of a showing of color, but one 

 seldom sees a heavier crop in a rose 

 house than was on at the time the photo- 

 graph was taken. The remaining space 

 in the range, two and one-half houses, is 

 planted to Killarney and Kate Moulton 

 and neither compares with Mrs. Field as 

 a producer. At Mr. Eeinberg 's city 

 store they say they sold over $100 a 

 day of Mrs. Field through August, and 

 through September the sales were over 

 $200 a day. Mr. Eeinberg and Mr. 

 Spencer were disposed to send out young 

 stock of the variety to the trade in the 

 spring of 1908, but Mr. Kill thinks the 

 rose is such a good thing from a cut 

 flower standpoint that they will retain it 

 at least another year for their own use. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



A June Exhibition. 



An invitation to hold a June show in 

 connection with the Horticultural Society 

 of New York, at Bronx park, New York, 

 in June, 1908, was accepted by the ex- 

 ecutive committee of the Amcrica,n Eose 

 Society at its meeting at New York No- 

 vember 25. Various prizes of value will 

 be offered, including the society 's medals. 

 This is a popular show which it is esti- 

 mated thousands of people will visit daily 

 and is a part of the usefulness of the so- 

 ciety planned from the beginning. 



The March Exhibition. 



August Poehlmann, of Chicago, wrote 

 that the people in the west mean to do 



their part to make the annual exhibition 

 one which would leave a name behind it as 

 .to what Chicago can do. It was resolved 

 to issue the schedule of prizes without de- 

 lay. The cash premiums at present reach 

 $700. There are two prizes amounting to 

 $300 in cash, from Philip Breitmeyer and 

 A. T. Boddington, for outdoor roses. 

 There is $25 for the best twenty-five 

 blooms of La Detroit ; $25 for the largest 

 and most varied collections of cut roses 

 of all classes, only one bloom in a vase, 

 variety to count sixtv-five points, from 

 W. A. Manda. The E. G. Hill Co. offers 

 $50 ; Alexander Montgomery donates a 

 silver cup for the best fifty blooms of any 

 variety of American origin, and four 

 other cups are also promised. 



The new life membership certificates 

 were authorized to be issued, also certifi- 

 cates of merit for the roses exhibited in 

 Washington, which were as follows: F. H. 

 Kramer, Washington, D. C, for Queen 

 Beatrice; Myers & Samtman, Wvndmoor. 

 Pa., for Wyndmoor; E. G. Hill Co., Rich- 

 mond, Ind., for Ehea Eeid. and M. H. 

 Walsh, Woods Hole, Mass., for Paradise, 

 La Fima, Delight and Juniata. 



The following topics have boon named 

 to be presented to the Chicago conven- 

 tion: "Practical Eose Growing in the 

 Middle West," "The Raising of New 

 Eoses," "What Is the Proper Size of 

 a Greenhouse to Grow Eoses for Commer- 

 cial Purposes?" "Twelve Best Garden 

 Eoses," "Eoses in the Far West," 

 "Forcing Roses in Pots for Easter," 

 "Eoses from the Retailer's Standpoint." 

 Benj. Hammond, Sec'y. 



