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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 23, 1910. 



pearance and standing out so stilliv. 

 The plant with Mr. Elliott has proved 

 an excellent grower and continuous 

 bloomer, carrying plenty of 18-iiirh 

 stems. The best proof to be had of its 

 selling qualities is to be found in t!ie 

 fact that it will be much more largi Iv 

 grown at Madbury the coming seasdil. 

 The plants, from which flowers are si ill 

 being cut in large quantities, started lo 

 produce in late September, and the r(.>e 

 looks as though it might prove a good 

 summer variety. W. N. Craig. 



FOR A BEGINNING. 



I want to grow a few roses this year 

 and I Should like to know the best va- 

 riety of white and pink for a beginner. 

 I shall plant them on a solid bench, 

 and I should like to know how many 

 inches of soil is required, how far apart 

 each way and what size plants I should 

 get. J. E. S. 



Killarney and White Killarney are 

 both good varieties and not difficult to 

 grow. On a solid bench the depth of 

 soil can range from four to six inches. 

 The plants should have at least one 

 foot of space each way, and fourteen 

 inches is not any too much. The plants 

 should be from 3-inch or 3i/>-inch pots. 



Ribes. 



THE NEW ROSE PRINCETON. 



The illustration gives an excellent 

 idea of the new rose, Princeton, grown 

 by Stockton & Howe, Princeton, N. J. 

 This rose, which has been described in 

 The Review, is so highly prized, both 

 by the growers and by their commission 

 merchants, Berger Bros., Philadelphia, 

 that a wide 300-foot house will be de- 

 voted to it next season. Size, color, 

 vigor, freedom of bloom are all strongly 

 in favor of the new aspirant. Should 

 Princeton- make good, it is proposed to 

 send it out in the spring of 1911. 



Fliil. 



APHIS ON OUTDOOR ROSES. 



I am sending you some leaves from a 

 rambler rose bush. The plant is at- 

 tacked by aphis. Is the discoloration 

 caused by the aphis, or is it some fungi? 

 Will nicotine clean off the aphis? Please 

 give me some advice, so that I can 

 bring the plant back to normal condi- 

 tions. G. H. H. 



The attacks of aphis cause the leaves 

 to become discolored in this way. Nico- 

 tine extract diluted in water is an ex- 

 cellent remedy to apply. Usually cans 

 containing these give the proportions of 

 water and nicotine to use. Whale Oil 

 soap, one pound to eight gallons of 

 ■water, kerosene emulsion, one part to 

 twenty parts of water, and Ivory soap, 

 one pound to eight gallons of water, are 

 all excellent for controlling aphis. In 

 applying use a syringe or force pump, 

 and be sure to wet every portion of the 

 plants. The aphis cannot be poisoned, 

 but may be killed by contact with any 

 of the solutions named. C. W. 



ROSE MRS. AARON WARD. 



A great attraction in some of the 

 best Boston retail stores during the 

 present season has been the beautiful 

 new hybrid tea rose, Mrs. Aaron Ward, 

 grown by William H. Elliott, of 

 Brighton, Mass., at his big Madburj-, 

 N. H., rose growing establishment. 

 This rose, often erroneously called Mrs. 

 Humphry Ward, was sent out by 

 the French firm, Pernet-Ducker, in 

 1907, and was first listed in America 

 by the E. G. Hill Co., Richmond, Ind., 

 from whom Mr. Elliott procured his 

 original stock. He planted it on a 

 small scale, and during the season of 

 1908-9 sold it in small quantities in 

 Boston. The color took people's fan- 

 cies at once, so that a much larger lot 

 was planted last summer, and some 

 thousands are now growing and bloom- 

 ing profusely at Madbury, N. H. 



The color of the flower can best be 

 described as a rich Indian yellow, occa- 

 sionally suffused or washed with salmon 

 rose. The flower is full and the petals 

 are of excellent substance. Mr. Elliott 

 has shipped consignments as far as 

 Atlanta, Ga., where they were received 

 in first-class shape. The foliage is note- 

 worthy on account of its rich, shiny ap- 



IDENTITY OF ROSE. 



We send you the bloom of a rose wc^ 

 wish to identify, thinking probably it 

 is Vick's Caprice. This rose is pcM 

 fectly hardy here in central Illinois, the 

 bush from which this flower was cut 

 having stood in the open for twenty 

 years or more. A. & C. 



The rose sent by this correspondent 

 is York and Lancaster, a very old Eng 

 lish sort, which was scattered over this 

 country some forty or fifty years ago. 

 It has peculiar spreading habits; that is. 

 it will branch off and come up from the 

 roots and in this way become scattered. 

 This rose is not grown or sold in this 

 country any more at all, but you will 

 find it described in most of the stand- 

 ard works on roses. 



Good & Reese Co. 



ROSES CHANGING COLOR. 



A customer has had four pink rose 

 bushes for the last seven years. This 

 year I moved them to another place, 

 and now they have changed their color 

 to dark red. And a coppery yellow has 

 changed to a cream color. Can you 

 state why they change their color? 

 J. D. P. 



Roses, no matter where planted, 



Rose Princeton. 



