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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



January 21, 1909. 



WHITE KILLARNEY. 



As is well known in the trade, the 

 F. E. Pierson Co., Tarrytown, N. Y., took 

 time by the forelock in the matter of 

 White Eallamey rose and last season 

 bought half the stock of the originator, 

 the Waban Eose Conservatories. The 

 accompanying illustration shows one of 

 the splendid big houses at Scarboro de- 

 voted to White Killarney. The photo- 

 graph was taken only a few days ago, 

 ]U8t after the house had been inspected 

 by the awards committee of the New 

 York Florists' Club. It was a sight that 

 will gladden the heart of any rose grower 

 and the New York committee gave White 

 Killarney a score of 89 points and recom- 

 mended the award of the club's certifi- 

 cate. 



In F. E. Pierson 's eyes there is a spe- 

 cial interest attaching to the illustration 

 on this page, showing the vase of White 

 Killarney roses,- The receptacle is a 

 specimen of Eookwood pottery and was a 

 Christmas gift, last month, to Mr. Pier- 

 son, from his employees at the Tarrytown 

 section of his business. He prizes it 

 above any of the many fine trophies 

 his stock has won on the exhibition 

 tables throughout the country. 



ROSE PLANTS TURN YELLOV. 



Please state what is the matter with 

 the rose plants sent you today. They 

 are of the variety Bridesmaid and were 

 plai^ted in August in a rather heavy, 

 clayey compost, about one-quarter rotted 

 cow manure. They seemed to start all 

 right and I expected to get fair returns 

 from them by next spring, but about 

 December 15 we noticed that they all 

 acted like the enclosed plants, turning 

 yellow and dying, although an examina- 

 tion of the roots showed thfem to be in 

 a healthy state. They were planted in 

 solid beds, were not overwatered at any 

 time and were allowed to dry out occa- 

 sionally. Can we do anything to save 

 them or would you recommend throwing 

 them outt The temperature at night is 

 from 58 to 60 degrees, and in the day- 

 time from 64 to 68 degrees, with all the 

 air possible. Golden Gate and Ivory, 

 grown under the sapie conditions, are 

 doing nicely. E. T. 



After a very careful examination of 

 those plants, I fail to find any trace of 

 disease. The plants seem to have been 

 weak from the start, and when weak 

 stock is planted as late as August it has 

 a hard road to travel. Such stock 

 usually holds up until the short days 

 come, when steady firing has to be kept 



up, and then the strain is too much for 

 them. 



By keeping the surface well stirred 

 up and making no attempt to force by 

 feeding or otherwise, they may do some- 

 thing by spring. The temperature is 

 just right. EiBES. 



MILLIPEDS. 



I recently received a shipment of 

 Asparagus Sprengeri, and upon investiga- 

 tion found the roots infested by a small 

 army of crustaceous creepers, I am send- 

 ing you in a bottle a number of live 

 specimens and I would esteem it a favor 

 if you would tell me what they are and 

 how to exterminate them, and also what 

 danger there is of their spreading to 



other plants. Also, is there danger of 

 their boring into the woodwork of 

 benches, etc.? As a general description 

 I would say of these insects that they at 

 first sight appear to resemble a wire- 

 worm, only they are of a dull color, simi- 

 lar to the common wood louse, which they 

 again resemble in being sort of armor- 

 clad, which crunches when crushed under 

 fo«t. They are slow moving and seem to 

 have difficulty in climbing even the edges 

 of a smooth saucer. They are about 

 tnree-f ourths of, an inch long and with 

 nearly an even width of about one- 

 sixteenth of an inch. On each side are 

 so many legs that the common wood louse 

 is not in it. When touched they coil up 

 iij a spiral, similar to the way the wood 

 louse rolls into a ball. The invested 

 plants seem honeycombed betweei the 

 roots and nodules and the pest has such 

 a powerful grip of the jaws that it is 

 quite hard to pick them out with the 

 point of a knife. Sometimes I cijt the 

 body in half in trying to get the insect 

 out of its hole. E. M.' A. 



The crustaceous creepers you received 

 are commonly known as thousand-legs 

 or millipeds. They are common in soil 

 unuer glass, which has become somewhat 

 old and sour. In tomato houses they are 

 sometimes so abundant as to almost cover 

 the soil surface. I do not find these to 

 be destructive. They can be destroyed 



Rose Wliite Killarney. 



