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The Florists' Review 



16 



RAMBLER ROSES. 



If you want rambler roses for Easter, 

 1913, you must look well after your 

 plants. If they are planted out, do 

 not allow the canes to sprawl over the 

 ground. They will not ripen there. 

 Tie them up so that they can get sun, 

 to make the wood hard and well 

 ripened. Remember that March 23, 

 when Easter Sunday comes next year, 

 is an unusually early date, and rambler 

 roses to be in bloom at that time must 

 have the wood thoroughly ripened as 

 early as possible in the fall. Of course, 

 plants that are grown in pots are all 

 right; the wood on these will mature 

 much more easily than on the outdoor 

 grown stock, but whichever way you 

 are growing them, tie up the shoots 

 and do not let them wander ad libitum 

 over the ground. 



BLACK SPOT ON EILLABNEYS. 



I have a rose house which I planted 

 with Killarneys on their own roots. I 

 purchased them from a dealer and 

 planted them in the house July 16. 

 They had some black spot when I re- 

 ceived them, but not enough to cause 

 any alarm, but they have grown worse 

 ever since. The bottom leaves are fall- 

 ing and the top leaves are getting the 

 spots on. I leave plenty of air on, both 

 day and night. If the temperature 

 runs down outside to 60 degrees I re- 

 duce the night ventilation. I have not 

 fired up on one or two occasions where 

 it dropped to 56 degrees. I would be 

 thankful if you would suggest a rem- 

 edy or give your opinion as to the 

 prospects of getting rid of the trouble. 



J. J. O. 



The roses were probably propagated 

 from plants having black spot. It is 

 not an easy disease to get rid of. The 

 best remedy is to keep affected leaves 

 picked off as fast as they appear. This 

 is a slow, somewhat tedious method 

 and may give your plants a rather 

 defoliated appearance for the time 

 being, but if you leave any affected 

 leaves, either on the plants or on the 

 ground, the trouble will surely spread. 

 When syringing, be sure to have the 

 foliage dry before nightfall. If at all 

 •lamp, go over and tap them with a 

 stick. Keep a little air on at night, to 

 prevent the atmosphere from becoming 

 too clammy. A little fire heat on cool, 

 damp nights would assist materially in 

 getting rid of the spot. Just enough 

 to warm the pipes will suffice. C. W. 



NEW TOBK, 



The Market. 



The fall season has opened encourag- 

 ingly, and a good deal more life seems 

 infused into the retail trade. Asters 

 and gladioli are lessening in quantity 

 daily and the quality of roses and car- 

 nations is improving. The plantsmen 

 are busy filling their fall orders and 

 already the voice of the auctioneer is 

 heard in the land. The schools have 

 opened, the folks are all back from the 

 country, and the weddings are in full 

 swing. Perfect weather has helped. Last 

 week the Jewish New Year celebration 

 aided in the uplift and September 14 

 saw the market on a better basis than 

 heretofore this season. 



Beauty roses are improving rapidly in 

 quality and values remain steady. The 

 supply of all other varieties in the 

 shorter grades is now abundant, but few 

 are yet up to the special grade. Prices 

 continue low except for the selects, and 

 these are all sold before arrival. Car- 

 nations are scarce and short-stemmed, 

 and most of the arrivals are of poor 

 quality. The improvement is slow, and 

 anything approaching perfection brings 

 good prices. Dahlias are now taking 

 the place of asters and some handsome 

 specimens are seen in the stock of the 

 wholesalers who make this flower their 

 specialty. The shortage in the orchid 

 market is over. From many sources 

 comes a supply of Cattleya gigas and 

 C. labiata of superb quality that has 

 already lowered values twenty-five per 

 cent. Gardenias are more numerous and 

 of better quality. The valley shipments 

 are normal and there has been no 

 change in price. Sweet peas are grow- 

 ing abundant. Chrysanthemums are 

 selling fairly well. 'Golden Glow and 

 Smith's Advance are in full supply and 

 of excellent grade. The earliness of 

 these shipments is abnormal. Mums and 

 dahlias have relegated asters and gla- 

 dioli to the has beens. Hydrangea is 

 perfect and abundant. There seems lit- 

 tle demand for tritomas. 



Various Notes. 



The auction season has opened in 

 earnest with three dispensers of palms, 

 bulbs and nursery stock of foreign and 

 local origin. Tuesdays and Fridays 

 promise to be lively days, from now 

 until Thanksgiving, on Vesey street and 

 at the uptown mart. 



September 25 and 26 the eighty-first 

 annual exhibition of the American In- 

 stitute will be held at the Berkeley 

 Lyceum building. In addition to dahlias 

 there will be shown orchids, palms, 

 herbaceous flowers, and fruits and vege- 

 tables, as usual. 



Wm. E. Marshall & Co. are now 

 located in their new store, at 166 West 



Twenty-third street. Here they have 

 space for their rapidly increasing busi- 

 ness. 



Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Newell, of Kan- 

 sas City, arrived home from Europe on 

 the Baltic September 18 and will spen^ 

 several days in New York this week. 



P. H. Goodsell is still suffering from 

 blood poisoning, at his summer home in 

 Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



The latest addition to the wholesale 

 contingent is L. B. Nason, who has made 

 116 West Twenty-eighth street his head- 

 quarters. Mr. Nason has had several 

 years' experience with A. L. Young & 

 Co. 



Geo. Allen, son of J. K. Allen, has es- 

 tablished a prosperous business at 80 

 Audubon avenue, in the Bronx, co^'uer 

 of One Hundred and Sixty-ninth street. 



Woodrow & Marketos have stocked 

 their big store with an assortment of 

 palms and ferns for the fall retail de- 

 mand. 



Badgley, Biedel & Meyer were dis- 

 playing, last week, the first violets of 

 the season. 



There are rumors, apparently well 

 founded, of a combination of business 

 interests by two of the wholesale houses 

 with headquarters on the Guttman floor 

 of the Coogan building. 



Charles Millang has sold to John 

 Miesem, of Elmhurst, L. I., a combina- 

 tion Ford delivery car. Mr. Millang 

 has the Ford agency for Brooklyn and 

 vicinity. 



B. S. Slinn, Jr., is now established 

 on the third floor of the Coogan build- 

 ing and ready for the distribution of 

 his specialty, the modest violet. 



J. T. Lovett, of Little Silver, N. J., 

 has had a prosperous y«ar, one land 

 scape contract amounting to $25,000. 

 Another, secured last week by Lester C. 

 Lovett, for the estate of Wm. Fahne- 

 stock, of Katonah, N. Y., will run to 

 $10,000. Lester Lovett has bought a 

 75-acre fruit farm near Milford, Del. 



The American Rose Society held an 

 executive committee meeting at the 

 office of Traendly & Schenck September 

 10, Messrs. Hammond, Pierson, Faren 

 wald, Holmes and Traendly attending. 

 1 C. B. Weathered, F. H. Traendly and 

 John Young attended the meeting of 

 the New York Federation of Florists' 

 Clubs last week at Syracuse. 



The employees of the New York Cut 

 Flower Co. and the New York Cut 

 Flower Exchange, all in the Coogan 

 building, will play a game of ball at 

 Woodside, L. I,, and will be the guests 

 of Philip Kessler, who will donate the 

 prizes and entertain them with a dinner 

 in the evening. 



John Lewis Childs and J. D. Cockcroft 

 are among the leading florists of this 

 section identified with the Bull Moose 

 party. 



Wm. Kessler is back from his summer 

 home on the Shrewsbury for the season. 



The Young & Nugent Co. is busy in- 

 stalling bulb stock at 42 West Twenty 

 eighth street. The office of the companv 

 IS in the same building. The trade 

 wishes Mr. Nugent success in his new 

 enterprise. 



Mrs. John Krai, who has been seri 

 ously ill in the Greenwich hospital, with 

 typhoid fever, is convalescing. 



Paul Meconi says the Bound Brook 

 growers already are in crop. 



One of M. C. Ford 's growers has been 

 sending in sL fine lot of celosias in pots. 



Siebrecht & Siebrecht are delighted 

 with their new store, and business has 

 doubled with them alreadv. Geoi-ge 



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