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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Fbbbdabt 4, 1009. 



ROSES WEAK IN GROWTH. 



Last summer I mulched my rose beds 

 with one and one-half inches of well 

 lotted cow manure, mixed with good 

 jjarden soil and some bone meal. I 

 started them very gently and added now 

 and then a few degrees until the tem- 

 perature reached 60 to 65 degrees. I 

 applied the syringe properly, and on 

 warm days I watered or syringed them 

 twice. All my roses look rather healthy, 

 but wfeak in the growth. 



Enclosed you will find a few buds of 

 American Beauties. What do you think 

 is the cause of their diseased condition? 

 Do you think it advisable to cut them 

 back and how much above the soil? 



W. M. 



You made a mistake in running a 

 night temperature of 60 to 65 degrees. 

 This ought to be 56 to 58 degrees. A 

 high temperature is bound to produce 

 weak growth. Again, the mulching is 

 by far too thick, unless for summer stock. 

 For winter bloomers, mulch lightly and 

 frequently. 



Tlie buds arc infested with greenfly 

 and thrips, and as long as they are in 

 this condition they must fail to develop 

 properly. When fumigating, add a table- 

 spoonful of Cayenne pepper to the fumi- 

 gant. Keep a temperature as near 56 

 degrees at night as possible, allowing it 

 to run up to 75 or 80 degrees, according 

 to the amount of sunshine, but, above 

 all, give plenty of ventilation, both night 

 and day. Ribes. 



BEAUTIES DEAD AT ROOT. 



I am mailing you under separate cover 

 two plants of Beauty roses and should 

 like to know what is the matter with 

 them. We have a house that we use for 

 summer roses and the Beauties have 

 been planted in it. The house was car- 

 ried at a temperature of 65 degrees till 

 about December 20, when we dropped it 

 to 60 degrees. Right after Christmas 

 we dropped it again to 55 degrees, and 

 have been lowering it since until it is 

 now running at 40 degrees. When I 

 first dropped the temperature I began 

 to withhold some of the water gradually, 

 and as I continued to drop the tempera- 

 ture I also withheld more water, until 

 they now get but very little water — just 

 enough to keep them from shriveling. 



As you will notice, they start to get 

 black at the base of the stem and the 

 tips stay green for some time after. 

 Has my temperature been too high for 

 them when I started to withhold the 

 water? There is not a large percentage 



of them affected, only about twelve in 

 a bench of 200. Is there any remedy 

 for this? We wish to start the house 

 again about March 1. G. W. F. 



American Beauties, when not grown 

 in the usual way — that is, kept growing 

 all the time, from planting till they are 

 thrown out — are a cranky crop. The 

 most successful growers keep a tempera- 

 ture of 58 to 60 degrees at night and 

 65 to 80 degrees in the daytime, with 

 ample ventilation, and rarely attempt to 

 dry them off. 



One thing Beauties will not tolerate, 

 and that is denuding the plant of foli- 

 age, either by cutting too closely or prun- 

 ing back. If this has been done, it will 

 be a hard matter to start them again 

 without losing a large percentage of 

 the plants. I can find no trace of dis- 

 ease, but as the plants were dead at the 

 roots, while the stems were green, it 

 looks as if they had been subjected to 

 lieat and moisture while the roots were 

 dormant. RiBES. 



SOCIETY OF AMERECAN FLORISTS. 



Registration of Rose. 



A protest having been filed against the 

 registration of a rose offered by the 

 Dingee & Conard Co., under the name of 

 Charles Dingee, the registration of the 

 same is held in suspense. 



Under the rules of this society, the 

 original matter of the registration and 

 the protest against it have been placed in 

 the hands of Robert Simpson, certified 

 to the undersigned by the secretary of 

 the Rose Society as the chairman of their 

 committee in charge of such matters, and 

 no further action will be taken by this 

 society pending the result of the investi- 

 gation to be made by the committee of 

 the Rose Society. W. N. Rudd, Sec'y. 



NEW YORK. 



The Market 



Winter arrived February 1 for another 

 visit and is celebrating with a tempera- 

 ture of 5 degrees above zero. In the 

 cut flower market the supply of roses is 

 limited as the week opens and prices 

 have advanced. The best Maid and 

 Bride are selling at 12 cents. Killarney 

 and the other new varieties have gone up 

 twenty-five per cent. Beauties bring 60 

 to 75 cents. If the retail demand was 

 at all persistent these values could easily 

 be maintained. There does not seem to 

 be the general winter buoyancy in the 

 retail section. A few of the society flo- 

 rists gather an occasional function that is 

 national in its scope, but the fortunate 

 ones seem to be few and far between. 

 The rank and file are not yet enthusiastic. 

 Some of the less securely founded estab- 



lishments have crumbled, but the sur- 

 vival of the fit may be depended on. 



Carnations, too, feel the uplift of the 

 seasonable weather, or the Indianapolis 

 convention, or both, for they, too, have 

 advanced in value. 



Violets did not have a good week and 

 prices have been lower than ever. Satur- 

 day night, January 30, the best were 

 offered at $3 per thousand. The cold 

 snap closes the street outlet and gives 

 little hope of higher figures. The same 

 may be said of orchids, which have come 

 from many unexpected sources of supply 

 and have simply for the time being 

 flooded the market. Prices are too low. 

 One good effect, perhaps, is the flower's 

 increased popularity. Orchid corsage 

 bouquets are certainly all the rage at 

 receptions and the opera houses. No 

 excess of supply can ever decrease their 

 popularity. Of all the other varieties of 

 cut flowers little can be added to the 

 statements of a week ago. There is no 

 scarcity of valley, lilies, sweet peas, nar- 

 cissi, hyacinths, tulips, and no advance 

 in asking prices. 



Wild smilax is reported scarce and 

 high. All else in the green goods de- 

 partment, including smilax, is in heavy 

 supply and at reasonable flgure. A 

 steady holding of values on the present 

 average would be gratefully welcomed by 

 the wholesalers and would do much to 

 make a successful Easter, now only ten 

 weeks away. 



Plant Growers' Dinner. 



The New York and New Jersey plant 

 growers are fast establishing a reputa- 

 tion for success in about everything they 

 touch. Their annual dinner, held at the 

 St. Denis, January 28, was an artistic 

 and satisfying reunion that sent its sev- 

 enty celebrants home proud and happy; 

 Anton Schultheis said the society is es- 

 tablished on a business footing. He was 

 twice its president. He gave Chairman 

 Miller praise for the excellence of the 

 arrangements, calling him "a past mas- 

 ter in managing things." He asked the 

 cc( peration of all in adding to the mem- 

 bership and proposed the health of the 

 Nestor and pioneer of plant growers, 

 Julius Koehrs, Sr. 



Julius Roehrs, Jr., the new president, 

 made the speech of welcome. Robert 

 Oaig, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Craig 

 were ])resent, on their way to Cuba for 

 a six weeks' tour, sailing January 30 

 with Julius Roehrs, Sr., and John West- 

 cott. Mr. Craig's address was as elo- 

 quent as ever, and as humorous. He 

 spoke of his experiences of thirty-five 

 years ago, when he first came to New 

 York, and feelingly of the great horticul- 

 turists of his time, Peter and John Hen- 

 derson especially. 



Patrick O'Mara gave one of his prac- 

 tical and eloquent addresses, with many 

 a joke. He spoke of the tremendous ad- 

 vancement in the average intelligence of 

 the florists, nurserymen and plantsmen, 

 and commended the trade press, its free 

 impartation cf knowledge and its hu- 

 manitarianism, and said that the happi- 

 ness evolved and disseminated by flo- 

 rists was beyond all other influences for 

 the betterment of humanity. 



E. V. Hallock, president of the New 

 York Florists' Club, was introduced as 

 the first partner of John Thorpe, and 

 in his address he claimed the honor of 

 having discovered him. He also com- 

 mended the presence of the ladies at 

 banquets. 



Herman Steinhoflf told some interest- 

 ing stories and J. A. Shaw read some 



