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December 3, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



13 



WEBER AND FIELD. 



Weber and Field are a famous pair in 

 farcical comedy, but this Weber is Fred, 

 the widely known Beauty grower, and 

 the Field he was talking about one Satur- 

 day afternoon at E. C. Amling's is the 

 Mrs. Field rose. 



"You just bet it's a dandy for sum- 

 mer, ' ' said Weber, and everyone listened 

 and nodded in agreement. 



It's the habit of a good many grow- 

 ers for the Chicago market to run into 

 town on Saturday afternoons — take a 

 look around and talk things over with 

 each other and with their commission men 

 — so it's quite the regular thing to find 

 three or four or half a dozen at Amling's 

 on a Saturday afternoon. In such a 

 company Fred Weber always is listened 

 to respectfully. He isn't the most talka- 

 tive man in the bunch — but who is a 

 better grower? He has four big houses 

 of Beauties — and such Beauties — always 

 fetching a price a shade above thp mar- 

 ket. And who grows better teas than 

 Weber used to grow before he confined 

 himself to Beauties? So what Weber 

 says goes. 



""About that Field," said Weber, 

 ^'I've watched it ever since Eeinberg 

 first had it. At the start they didn't 

 know how to handle it, but after awhile 

 they got next, and you bet they had it 

 fine last summer — have it fine yet, for 

 that matter. It 's a summer rose, all 

 right, but perhaps it's a winter rose, too, 

 only it did so well in summer they never 

 tried to do much with it in winter. This 

 season they have a fine lot of it han- 

 dled just for winter bloom. 



"Money-maker, you say? Well, the 

 Alderman certainly made money on it 

 last summer. Get your plants into their 

 second summer and a good crop fixes it 

 80 you don 't need to care anything about 

 anything from those houses in winter. 

 Summer business is getting better every 

 year. I'm thinking of building a couple 

 of houses . for Field and Kaiserin for 

 summer. ' ' 



Fred Weber doesn't believe in grafted 

 roses. "Give me own root teas, handled 

 right, and the other fellow is welcome 

 to his grafted plants. He may beat me 

 out a little up to December, but from 

 Christmas on I'll get the ground shoots 

 and make the money." 



THE LEAVES TURN YELLOW. 



Enclosed you will find a sample of rose 

 leaves, which, as you will see, are af- 

 fected with a fungus on the back or 

 under side, which causes the leaves to 

 turn yellow and drop off. What is the 



trouble and the remedy? We have ap- 

 plied the Bordeaux mixture, but it has 

 not had time to work yet. The four 

 leaves enclosed are at the different 

 stages. M. F. C. 



These leaves were very dry and shriv- 

 eled when they reached me, but they 

 showed signs of being affected with some 

 kind of fungus, in all probability mil- 

 dew. This, however, is not the cause of 

 the leaves turning yellow and dropping 

 off. The usual cause of this trouble is 

 a sudden fall of temperature while the 

 soil in the benches is saturated with 

 moisture. 



For mildew, use the sulphur mixture 

 on the pipes and also dust the foliage 

 once a week. Keep the benches rather 

 dry and keep on ample ventilation, with 

 a night temperature of 56 to 58 degrees 

 and a day temperature of 65 to 85 de- 

 grees, according to sunshine. Kibes. 



MILDEW ON ROSES. 



I herewith send you a few rose leaves 

 which are affected with some sort of 

 disease. Please let me know what it is 

 and what to do for it. The bushes are 

 all in fine condition and are ready to 

 give a good crop of flowers. P. J. K. 



These plants are affected with mildew. 

 The foliage indicates that the house 

 should have more ventilation, both night 

 and day. Diist the leaves with flowers 

 of sulphur and paint the pipes with the 

 following mixture, at least once a week: 

 Flowers of sulphur, two parts; air-slaked 

 lime, one part; mix to the consistency of 

 paint. Kibes. 



OUTDOOR ROSES. 



Hybrid perpetual roses have long been 

 great favorites of both the amateur and 

 the private, professional gardener, and 

 there need be but little fear that the 

 popularity of this splendid class of roses 

 will show any marked decline in the near 

 future. The class of roses known as 

 hybrid teas have during the last few 

 years been receiving a great deal more 

 attention than formerly, and that, no 

 doubt, chiefly because their usefulness 

 has become better known and their merits 

 more appreciated. 



While they are in bloom, hybrid per- 

 petual roses are simply glorious and un- 

 surpassed in beauty, but the short time 

 during which the greater number of them 

 remain in bloom only intensified the de- 

 sire to have roses of some kind in bloom 

 late in the season. Hence the increas- 

 ing demand for hybrid tea roses. Some 

 people consider there is much more 

 trouble experienced with this class of 

 roses, in their protection during winter, 

 than there is with hybrid perpetuals, al- 

 though, as a matter of fact, there is but 



little more labor required in the protec- 

 tion of one than the other. 



All kinds of roses should, whenever it 

 is possible, be planted in widely sep- 

 arated rows, in order to make both their 

 cultivation and winter protection com- 

 paratively easy. When hybrid teas, or, 

 for that matter, any kind of roses, are 

 thus planted, the simplest way of pro- 

 tecting them from the effects of alter- 

 nate freezing and thawing is to draw the 

 soil up around the plants, so that ridges 

 are formed. In the spring there will be 

 no trouble in freeing the,jjf^lants of soil 

 when it becomes necessary to prune. 

 When the plants are planted zigzag in 

 beds, there is a little more trouble ex- 

 perienced in covering them with soil, as 

 well as in uncovering them. 



Some growers still lift all or most of 

 their hybrid tea roses and keep them in 

 coldframes, or otherwise under cover, for 

 the winter, and there are others who 

 cover hybrid perpetuals and hybrid teas 

 alike with coarse stable manure or leaves, 

 or both. 



Hybrid tea roses are admirably adapt- 

 ed for private places, where it means a 

 great deal to be able to cut a number of 

 good roses outdoors up to the time when 

 snow flies. M. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of I*Iant Registration. 



Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Mich., 

 offer for registration Chrysanthemum 

 President Taft, Japanese incurved, pure 

 white, height five feet, maturing Octo- 

 ber 25. Best bud August 30, but double 

 from later ones. Size, seven and one-half 

 inches. Parentage, Col. D. Appleton x 

 Fidelity. Use of name authorized by 

 President-elect Taft. Objection to the 

 use of this name should be filed with the 

 undersigned within twenty days, other- 

 wise the registry will be completed. 



W. N. RuDD, Sec 'y. 



December 1, 1908. 



LA CROSSE, WIS. 



The florists and gardeners of La Crosse 

 and vicinity held a meeting November 24 

 and organized the La Crosse Florists' 

 and Gardeners' Association, the object to 

 be mutual helpfulness and the advance- 

 ment of the interests of the profession. 

 Officers were elected as follows: Presi- 

 dent, J. S. Medary, who is president of 

 Oak Grove cemetery; vice-president, C. E. 

 Schaefer, president of the La Crosse Flo- 

 ral Co.; treasurer, Paul Zoelner, of Oak 

 Grove cemetery; secretary, W. R. Filers, 

 of the La Crosse Floral Co. Meetings will 

 be held at the Hotel Stoddard the second 

 Tuesday of each month. 



The florists of La Crosse held their 

 first annual flower show in the Masonic 

 Temple hall last week. The display of 

 flowers and plants was large and the 

 quality excellent, the show being a great 

 success and sure to be repeated in suc- 

 ceeding years. 



TOLEDO, OHIO. 



At the meeting of the Toledo Flo- 

 rists ' Club on Wednesday evening, No- 

 vember 18, there was a good exhibit of 

 flowers. Prizes were awarded to Krue- 

 ger Bros. Co. and E. A. Kuhnke for car- 

 nations, to Halbish and E. A. Kuhnke 

 for chrysanthemums, and to Krueger 

 Bros. Co. and the state hospital for roses. 



The club decided to give a show dur- 

 ing the last week of February or the 

 first week of March, for the benefit of 

 Toledo hospital. 



