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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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VARIETIES TO GROW. 



We are just finishing a new house 

 for roses and should like to know what 

 varieties eastern growers are planting 

 most extensively this season — our loca- 

 tion is Montana. Our own idea is: 

 Ked, Beauty, Bhea Eeid, Eichmond; 

 pink, Killarney, My Maryland; white, 

 White Killarney; yellow, Mrs. Aaron 

 Ward. Maryland appears to be at 

 least as good a rose as Killarney, at 

 least as an individual flower, but per- 

 haps it has some drawback, as ap- 

 parently Killarney is more extensively 

 grown. But the important question, 

 to our mind, is: Will White Killarney 

 stand alone as a white rose and enable 

 us to discard Kaiserin and Bride? Just 

 give us a line on the eastern point of 

 view and tell us of any roses we have 

 not mentioned that you think are worth 

 a trial. K. G. 



It does not appear from the inquiry 

 whether or not the subscriber intends 

 to grow in one house all the roses he 

 mentions, but it is presumed the new 

 house is to contain only a part of the 

 stock. The number of growers of 

 American Beauty is increasing slowly, 

 if at all, for few small growers have 

 been able to find any profit in it. Bhea 

 Beid is a variety that has not had a 

 great success as a forcing rose and is 

 little seen. Richmond is the standby 

 in red. Killarney is far and away the 

 leader in pink, none of the several 

 other varieties being comparable with 

 it in the hands of the average grower. 

 When My Maryland first came out it 

 was thought to have a great future and, 

 indeed, some growers still swear by it; 

 but more swear at it because of its 

 stubbornness in winter. It is fine in 

 autumn and again in spring, but no 

 great number of growers have mastered 

 the secret of keeping it going through 

 the winter. White Killarney stands 

 even more alone among the whites than 

 Killarney does among the pinks. It 

 has two faults; it is not pure white in 

 hot weather and it has so few petals 

 that it pops open. But White Killarney 

 has knocked out Bride, just as Eallar- 

 ney has Maid, and some growers are 

 also dropping Kaiserin as no longer 

 needed, though to many minds it is the 

 better rose in the warm months. 



Mrs. Aaron Ward is a rose with which 

 one or two growers have done well, 

 and it will be given a trial this season 

 by a large number of others. Of the 

 new varieties Double Pink Killarney 

 has been of most interest to the grow- 

 ers for wholesale markets, as the in- 



crease in petalage promises to go a 

 long way toward correcting the chief 

 fault of Killarney; it should ship and 

 keep better. Those who received the 

 early deliveries on this variety already 

 are cutting blooms on good stems and 

 feel that their judgment is confirmed. 

 Melody is another that has been widely 

 distributed this season. It is a free 

 blooming yellow and hopes are high 

 that when it becomes known to the 

 public it will result in an active and 

 steady demand for yellow roses. Lady 

 Hillingdon is another new yellow, the 

 demand for which exceeded the re- 

 sources of the disseminator. Prince de 

 Bulgarie is' a rose of many aliases, not 

 quite so new as the others. Shipped to 

 the New York market as Mrs. Taft, it 

 has realized splendid prices. The flow- 



ers are a beautiful shell pink. It will 

 be tried out by many large growers 

 this season. Rose Queen, disseminated 

 this spring, is a lively clear pink, over 

 which some growers became quite en- 

 thusiastic; in fact, the originator could 

 not supply the demand for stock. And 

 there are several other new ones, each 

 of which has its friends, but to try 

 them all a man would need to be just 

 finishing more than one new house. 



ARDISIAS. 



Will you give me some information 

 as to the general culture of ardisiasf 



R. E. P. 



Seeds of Ardisia crenulata, the va- 

 riety used commercially, are best sown 

 in early spring in a warm house, potted 

 off singly when a couple of inches in 

 height, grown along rather close and 

 frequently damped overhead and suc- 

 cessively shifted from 2%.-incb to 4- 

 inch pots and later to 6-inch pots. A 

 winter minimum of 50 degrees is suffi- 

 cient for them; in fact, 45 degrees will 

 suffice. The plants will flower and fruit 

 to some extent the first season, but it 

 will take a year longer to get nice, 

 salable plants well fruited. Propaga- 

 tion of leggy plants can be effected by 

 mossing and ringing them in the same 

 way crotons, dracsenas and ficus often 

 are rooted. Frequent syringing is nec- 

 essary to keep brown scale in subjec- 

 tion. They do well in summer plunged 

 in ashes outdoors. C. W. 



MUMS BUDDING TOO EARLY. 



We are growing chrysanthemums in 

 southern Louisiana, and we noticed in 

 the first week of June that some of the 

 plants were already budding. Kindly 

 let me know why they are budding so 

 early. Should the buds be taken off 

 as soon as they showf 



M. J. G. & B. 



It is by no means a rare thing for 

 mums to bud early in the summer. 

 There are several reasons for this. For 

 instance, if the plants are neglected 

 and the wood gets hard, they will fre- 

 quently go into bud. Some varieties 

 are much more liable to do this than 

 others. Golden Glow is especially trou- 

 blesome in this respect. The only thing 

 to do is to keep all the buds closely 

 pinched off and eventually a shoot will 

 be produced that will grow and make 

 a reasonable stem. 



Chas. H. Totty. 



particularly high, though I presume 

 H. R. knows his market and knows 

 what flowers he can sell to best advan- 

 tage. On Golden Glow the buds can be 

 secured any time after July 20. This 

 will produce flowers about the end of 

 September, which is as early as there 

 is any call for mums. August 20 is 

 as early as it is safe to take buds on 

 Mrs. Bobinson, as earlier buds throw 

 a flower that is decidedly deficient in 

 petalage. Chas. H. Totty. 



GOLDEN GLOW AND ROBINSON. 



Please give me some information 

 about Golden Glow and Robinson mums, 

 with reference to disbudding and other 

 particulars. I am located in southwest- 

 ern Connecticut and intend to grow 

 four stems on each plant. H. B. 



If Golden Glow and Bobinson mums 

 are grown with four stems to each 

 plant, the quality, of course, will not be 



MUMS IN OLD SOIL. 



I should lute to kcow if chrysanthe- 

 mums will do well in a solid bed, using 

 the same soil carnations have been 

 grown in. Can I get a crop if I plant 

 September 1, under the above condi- 

 tions? The location is southern Penn- 

 sylvania. D. H. Z. 



The chrysanthemums will grow in a 

 solid carnation bed with more or less 

 success in the old soil, if properly 

 handled, although D. H. Z. would prob- 

 ably find it would be a profitable in- 

 vestment to replace the old soil with 

 new. Most authorities nowadays agree 

 that chrysanthemums do much bet- 

 ter on a raised bench than on a solid 

 bed, although for the average grower 

 it is not, perhaps, of such great im- 

 portance. 



September 1 is pretty late to be 

 planting mums unless at that time it 



