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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBBB 22, 1908. 



flowering. It need hardly be stated that 

 roses, in common with other plants, de- 

 light to have the soil constantly stirred 

 about them during the growing season. 



Some Good Sorts. 



A selection of the best hybrid per- 

 petuals, which I have found to be hardy 

 in Massachusetts, is as follows: Ulrich 

 Brunner, Frau Karl Druschki, Mrs. John 

 Laing, Captain Hayward, Magna Charta, 

 Paul Neyron, Gustavo Piganeau, Clio, 

 Susanne Marie Eodocanachi, Mrs, R. G. 

 Sharman-Crawford, Prince Camille de 

 Rohan, Mme. Gabriel Luizet, General 

 Jacqueminot, Earl of Dufferin and Al- 

 fred Colomb. Of the foregoing, Frau Karl 

 Druschki, Mrs. John Laing, Mrs. Shar- 

 man-Crawford and General Jacqueminot 

 are the most persistent late summer and 

 fall bloomers. 



A few really fine hybrid teas are: 

 Bessie Brown, Gruss an Teplitz, splendid 

 for bedding; Florence Pemberton, Kil- 

 lamey, Caroline Testout, Etoile *de 

 France, Mrs. W. J. Grant, Viscountess 

 Folkstone, Maman Cochet, both white and 

 pink; Mme. Abel Chatenay, Mme. Ra- 

 vary. La France, Augustine Guinoissau 

 and Marquise Litta. 



The Ramblers. 



The rambler roses are growing in favor 

 yearly. Since the advent of Crimson 

 Rambler, which is still the most widely 

 popular variety, there have been some 



splendid additions to this class. Crimson 

 Rambler is handsome while in bloom; 

 the greatest defect is its poor foliagn. 

 The pink ramblers, on the other hand, 

 have handsome, shiny leaves, which re- 

 main bright and attractive the whole 

 season. For this reason many are now 

 using these in preference to the old- 

 time favorite. Of the several pink va- 

 rieties, I consider Farquhar the best. 

 The flowers are larger and of a clearer 

 pink color than Dorothy Perkins. Plants 

 set out two years ago have this sea- 

 son made shoots thirty feet or more in 

 length. Dorothy Perkins and Lady Gay, 

 the latter one of M. H. Walsh's seed- 

 lings, are both good. Debutante, soft 

 pink ; Hiawatha, single scarlet, and Sweet- 

 heart, pink fading white, have all with- 

 stood 20 degrees below zero. The so- 

 called yellow rambler, Aglaia, is, in real- 

 ity, a creamy white color, but is not reli- 

 ably hardy and must be covered, for a 

 temperature of 10 degrees below zero will 

 kill it to the ground. 



All the ramblers do well planted in the 

 fall. As soon as they have bloomed, cut 

 away the old flowering wood. To insure 

 vigorous growth the first season, it pays 

 to cut the whole plant down. C. 



WINTERING BABY RAMBLERS. 



I have a number of Baby ramblers in 

 pots. They have been in pots plunged 

 outdoors all summer. Will you please let 



me know if they can be kept dormant in 

 an underground cellar until about Febru- 

 ary, or what treatment would you advise 

 so as to have them in bloom in March or 

 for Easter? W. B. 



The Farquhar Rose the Second Year After Planting. 



The pot ramblers will keep all right in 

 such a cellar as you describe, provided it 

 is not too warm. The temperature should 

 be as near the freezing point as possible, 

 to keep the plants dormant. If a few 

 degrees below freezing, it will not do any 

 harm. 



To have them in flower in March, it 

 will be necessary to start them earlier 

 than February. House them about Janu- 

 ary 1, starting in a temperature of 40 

 to 45 degrees at night and giving them 

 warmer quarters by 10 degrees when they 

 are breaking freely. For Easter you 

 should get your plants under way by 

 February 1. Winters are erratic, climat- 

 ically speaking, and it is safer to start 

 a few days too early rather than the re- 

 verse. Hard forcing spoils the quality 

 of the flowers, so give them ten weeks 

 from start to finish, in a temperature 

 starting at 40 to 45 degrees and rising 

 to 55 degrees at night. C. W. 



GOLD MEDAL ROSES. 



At the autumn show of the National 

 Rose Society of England in September 

 ten seedling roses were exhibited, of 

 which four received gold medals. That 

 so many should be considered worthy of 

 the . highest award makes the occasion 

 memorable. The medal varieties are de- 

 scribed by H. E. Molyneux as follows: 



Lady Alice Stanley. — A hybrid tea 

 raised by S. McGredy & Son, Portadown, 

 Ireland; a large flower with a round 

 petal of good shape, not quite the usual 

 petal of the exhibition rose, but none the 

 less pleasing on that account, coming 

 well to a point in the younger flowers. 

 The scheme of color is after the style of 

 that old garden rose. Grand Due A. de 

 Luxembourg, or the more modern Mrs. 

 E. G. Hill, namely, having the deeper 

 shade on the outside of the petal and 

 the lighter shade inside, the reverse of 

 the usual color scheme, the color outside 

 being a deep coral rose, inside pale flesh, 

 suffused pink; fragrant, a good grower 

 and free autumnal. 



His Majesty. — A hybrid tea also 

 raised by McGredy & Son; a fine dark 

 crimson flower of great size and good 

 substance; of the usual exhibition type 

 with high pointed center; the plant ex- 

 hibited showed strong growth, with flow- 

 ers produced at the end of each shoot; 

 a very promising variety, fragrant. 



A. Hill Gray. — A tea raised by Alex- 

 ander Dickson & Sons, Newtownards, Ire- 

 land ; a beautiful rose of excellent shape ; 

 delightful pale yellow, fragrant and a 

 good grower; undoubtedly the finest rose 

 stagpd in the class. 



Dr. O'Donel Browne. — A hybrid tea 

 approaching closely to the hybrid per- 

 petuals, raised by Dickson & Sons and 

 sent out by them this year ; a fine-shaped 

 flower, resembling Dupuy Jamain in 

 color and shape, but coming much bet- 

 ter than that old favorite, being particu- 

 larly good in autumn; a good, vigorous 

 grower with strong perfume, and, more- 

 over, free flowering; color rosy carmine. 



Malden, Mass. — Fred R. Kaulback, 

 the junior member of the firm of E. D. 

 Kaulback & Son, has added to the busi- 

 ness the furnishing of canopies for wed- 

 dings, parties and receptions. 



