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The Florists' Review 



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OCXOBEIt 15. 1914. 



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: ^^. . wise the plants ure likely tp make u 

 short, weak growth and then eitht 

 stand still or die. Plftnts in this coi 

 dition should not receive any extr 

 feeding, but should be well watere i 

 and then allowed to get fairly dr.- 

 before the next good watering. Whe 

 the plants start to make the secon 



*• growth, a light feeding will b<3 bene 

 flcial. Cattle manure ip liquid forri, 

 would give the best results, but sheet > 

 manure will do if not made too strong 



W. J. K. 



ROSES FOB OUTDOOR BEDDING. 



Are there some varietseu of roses 

 which, when planted in the garden in 

 April or May from 2% -inch pots, will 

 produce good blooms through the sum- 

 mer and early fall! Can you give me 

 the names of the best varieties for this 

 purpose, and at what distance apart 

 should they be placed? S. E. C. 



There are a number of roses whicli 

 will flower well the same season if 

 planted out from pots. You will do 

 better, however, to use stock frojn 3V^- 

 inch or 4-inch pots in preference to 

 that from 2%-inch pots. Place the 

 plants fifteen inches apart each way, 

 and if you keep them well watered and 

 mulched they will repay you for the 

 extra pains taken. A few useful varie- 

 ties for you to grow are: Clothilde 

 Soupert, Maman Cochet, White Maman 

 Cochet, Hermosa, Cecile Brunner, Gruss 

 an Teplitz, Caroline Testout, Mrs. Cut- 

 bush, Orleans, Katherine Zeimet, Kai- 

 serin Augusta Victoria, Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward, Gustav Grunerwald, Dorothy 

 Page Roberts, My Maryland, Prince tie 

 Bulgarie and other hybrid teas. 



C. W. 



TAUSENDSCHON FOB EASTEB. 



Please tell me just how to proceed 

 to have pot roses blooming for Easter, 

 1915. I should like to try a batch of 

 Tausendschon. C. M. S. 



Tausendschon and other rambler roses 

 can easily be had in bloom for Easter, 

 1915. If you have no plants, purchase 

 some good, strong field-grown stock; 

 pot them up as soon as received; stand 

 them outdoors in an open, sunny posi- 

 tion; protect the pots from severe frost 

 and leave outside until at least the 

 middle of November, to get the wood 

 as well ripened as possible. Keep the 

 soil somewhat on the dry side after 

 the plants are established. Store them 

 in a cool shed or cellar until wanted 

 for forcing. 



For Easter blooming, start them 

 early in January in a temperature of 

 45 to 50 degrees. First cut out any 

 dead and weak wood and bend down 

 the remaining canes so that they will 

 break better. Spray until the shoots 

 are well started. A temperature 5 to 

 10 degrees higher can be given when 

 the growth is fairly under way. Al 

 ways avoid cold draughts, as they are 

 likely to start mildew; also avoid a too 

 arid condition, which would breed red 

 spider. As the blooms open, give a 



somewhat lower temperature. Tausend- 

 schon can be forced into flower some 

 (lays earlier than Dorothy Perkins, 

 Hiawatha, Crimson Bambler and other 

 Easter varieties. The so-called baby 

 ramblers, however, will come along 

 even more quickly than Tausendschon. 

 C. W. 



WINTEBINO HTBBID TEA BOSES. 



I have a large bed of hybrid tea 

 roses and would like to know if they 

 can be kept in a coldframe over win- 

 ter. I left them outdoors the last two 

 winters with about eight inches of 

 leaves and straw over them. The tem- 

 perature goes as low as 12 to 16 de- 

 grees below zero and I have lost sev- 

 eral. J. H. 



Yes, your plan of wintering in a cold- 

 frame is an excellent one. Do not lift 

 the plants until the ground seems likely 

 to freeze up. Moisten the soil well 

 about the roots when planting in and 

 leave the sashes off until the sharp 

 weather sets in. Then spread some per- 

 fectly dry leaves over the roses, cover 

 with the sa^es and the plants will 

 winter perfectly. The frame should be 

 ventilated during any mild spells right 

 through the winter. C. W. 



PLANTS MAKE FOOB STABT. 



I wish to ask your advice in regard 

 to some roses that I have in raised 

 benches. I am growing the Killarneys, 

 Hillingdon and Shawyer. There are 

 four and one-half inches of soil in the 

 benches. I cut the plants back some 

 after setting then) qut, sf htcflf tv^p done 

 in August. They i»»ve^ade extremely 

 little growth arid the nftw growth con- 

 sists entirely of blind wood. I feed 

 them with sheep manure and bone 

 meal, but I only started to heat the 

 house in the last part of September. 

 I am located, you will notice, in the 

 vicinity of Rochester, N. Y. The plants 

 are now twelve to fourteen inches high; 

 should they be cut back more? 



G. K. 



The writer does not state whether 

 thei;e roses are young plants or old 

 stock iphich had been rested and re- 

 planted. If they are old plants they 

 were cut back quite suflSciently if cut 

 to twelve or fourteen inches; eighteen 

 inches would have been better if there 

 is plenty of head room and if the 

 plants had made good growth up to 

 the time of resting^ 



When starting up old stock it is 

 necessary that the plants receive a 

 thxjTDUglr watering, to saturate and set- 

 tle an the soil around the roots; other- 



PBOPAOATlNa OUTDOOB BOSES 



^ease tell me how tojpropa 



fom cuttings takeiB f ron 



plants f Is it necessary 



a hotbed at this season' 



C. M. W, 



tee inches long contal 

 one or two ^pes can be used. Select these- 

 rather than' robust wood; eyes which 

 are not pronounced are best. Wood 

 which has not flowered is good. Bot 

 tom heat is not necessary. Insert cut 

 tings in sand or sandy loam. They 

 will root slowly, but about all should 

 be fit to pot by January if put in now 

 in a close frame or a cool greenhouse. 

 Somewhat earlier in the season, say in 

 August, the hard^ roses root well in h 

 hotbed when the , ,wood is about half 

 matured. Ramblers and hybrid per- 

 petuals can be rooted in this way as 

 well as hybrid teas. C. W. 



OWN-BOOT OB QBAFTED? 



I noted the article entitled "Own- 

 Eoot or Grafted?" in the Rose Depart- 

 ment of The Review of September 3, 

 and I wish to add my testimony to the 

 evidence there given in favor of the 

 grafted plants. This is the second year 

 in which I have been specializing in 

 the growing of roses in the vicinity of 

 Boston, Mass., and I have been experi- 

 menting a little in the use of the two 

 kinds of stock. 



In the spring of this year. May 20, I 

 planted outdoors 200 4-inch own-root 

 roses of fifteen different varieties. The 

 plants were all hybrid teas and were 

 purchased from a prominent and reli- 

 able wholesale firm of rose growers. A 

 little more than a month later, June 25, 

 I set out 250 214-inch grafted roses, 

 also from a well known firm. In this 

 case the plants were also hybrid teas, 

 but comprised only four distinct vari- 

 eties. The conditions of soil and cul- 

 ture have been exactly the same in each 

 case, as the plants are all growing side 

 by side in nursery rows. 



Of the 200 4-inch own-root plants, 

 only two, of the variety Pres. Carnot, 

 have made a record that is worthy of 

 mention. The rest of them have made 

 practically no growth. Evidently they 

 were not suited to the soil. Of the 250 

 214 -inch grafted plants the story is 

 different; about seventy per cent of 

 them are all that could be desired and 

 some of them are of the same variety 

 as the own-root stock. As to the choice 

 between own-root and grafted plants, 

 there will be no doubt as to my selection 

 in the future, except with reference 

 to two or three varieties. 



Wm. H. Jenness. 



FOBCING SFIBiBA GLADSTONE. 



If Spiraea Gladstone is potted now, 

 when will it come into bloom in a tem- 

 perature of 48 to 50 degrees at night? 



