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Septjdmbkb 16, 1009. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



MY MARYLAND ROSE. 



Frank P. Myers, of Myers & Samtman, 

 Chestnut Hill, Pa., is recognized as one 

 ot the close observers in floriculture and 

 the stock h^ turns out at his establish- 

 ment has a reputation for quality in every 

 market in which it is known, and that 

 includes New York, Pittsburg and Chi- 

 cago as well as Philadelphia. For these 

 reasons Mr. Myers' opinion on any sub- 

 ject connected with rose growing is of 

 interest to all engaged in the trade. 

 Speaking of My Maryland the other day 

 at Chicago, he said : 



"It is by all odds the most profitable 

 pink rose on the market today. I thought 

 little of It until I heard some of the big 

 growers of the east commenting on it 

 which caused me to' run down to John 

 Cook's place at Baltimore, to have a look 

 at It there. I liked it from the start and 

 the more I have seen of it the better I 

 like It. We put in one house of it, and 

 in one day while I was at the national 

 flower show I took orders for 40.000 

 plants; It might have been more had I 

 known how readily it propagates. From 

 1,225 plants we made 80,000 cuttings, and 

 1 think we might have made 100,000. 

 We stopped taking wood in March and 

 from those 1,225 plants in April we took 

 -0 cents per plant in cut flowers, in May 

 17 cents per plant, and in June 18 cents 

 per plant Could any rose beat thatf 

 Uur plants, you may well iudee did 



GL^^f ?«" «t ^-7 time la'st^'nter 

 Given the right treatment it will give any 

 grower better financial returns than any 

 other rose I know of." ^ 



ROSES UNDER RIBBED GLASS. 



thl fnn!*'"**''® ^r''^ ^°' September 9 

 the Illustration of J. E. Bonsall's rose 

 houses which are gla^^d with ribbed class 

 Son '' W^'n '-^^ «om^ditional LfJrma-' 

 aSt tS,' ^°" please tell uj^ore 



leSfnTf '^"''''*' °^ ^^« ^°"«^8, each 

 west tAT°"'P^°' "'""^"g ««^t and 

 7or\f u^'u ^'^ '°'"^' «°« ^° the cen- 

 n!f«f= A^ ^°"^^' between the purlin 

 posts, and one under each valley. Tbev 



t"eer '' ''^^'' ^'''^ ^•^°«* ^^^^^ b7 

 The glass used is what is known in the 

 market as ribbed or corrugated glass 

 such as IS used largely in factories. T's 

 three-sixteenths of an inch thick and 

 \^r. .t^^: ^^'^ g'««« <^oe8 not form a 



until spring f 

 see. 



I am located in Tennes- r 

 J. P. C. 



as bright as under clear glass, gives good 

 results for summer crops. There are no 

 heating pipes, as t"he houses are used for 

 summer crops exclusively. 



The crops grown are largely Kaiserin 

 and Carnot roses. They, of course, are 

 dormant during the winter, but the 

 ground does not freeze under the manure 

 mulch used for growing the crop. While 

 dormant they are kept comparatively dry 

 receiving no water after the last of 

 October until about April 1, the object 

 being to hold them dormant late enough 

 to prevent much growth until there is no 



It will not matter much when you pot 

 up the roses from the field. If you pot 

 them this fall, wait until they are dor- 

 mant. If you put it off until spring, get 

 it done before they make any sign of 

 growth. I would prefer potting them 

 iate this fall. Do not pot into too large 

 pots. H. G. 



ROSES FOR FUNS£AL WORK 



Will you give me the names of the best 

 hardy roses to be used in funeral work? 

 Can I plant the roses along the side of 

 one qf my greenhouses with success? It 

 gets hot there, as it would be on the 

 south side. Would the roses need any 

 protection in the winter in central Ohiot 



J. A. F. 



' Kaiserin Roses. 



(Grown under Ribbed Glass by J. E. Bonsall.) 



danger of hard freezing under the glass. 

 trea3n.""™" ^^^^ '^^^^ ^^e usual 



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LIFTING FIELD ROSES. 



Please give me some advice about lift- 



Po?ted3/°''' ^'■''" ^^'^ ««'•'' t° be 



Hfl tL^^I"' !Pr.'"^ ««'«^- Would you 



n „ i^T **"^ ^*" an'! cariT them over 



m coldframes, or leave them^in the S 



I would not advise planting the hybrid 

 perpetual section along the side of your 

 greenhouse; in fact, any or all of the 

 hardy roses would do better in a '%iore 

 open location, where mildew and red 

 spider are less liable to attack them. 



A few of the best and reliably hardy 

 hybrid perpetuals are: Frau Karl 

 Druschki, pure white; Mrs. John Laing 

 and Mme. Gabriel Luizet, pink; Ulrieh 

 Brunner, cherry red; General Jacquemi- ■ 

 not, scarlet crimson; Fisher Holmes and 

 Baron de Bonstettin, dark crimson. 



White and pink Maman Cochet are two 

 indispensable tea-scented varieties which 

 will give a constant succession of flowers 

 all summer. iThe everblooming hybrid 

 teas are the most useful of all for the 

 florist who grows for his own home trjide. 

 A few good sorts are: Mme. Abel Chate- 

 nay, carmine rose shaded salmon ; Killar- 

 ney, pale pink; White Killarney, white; 

 Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, white; Caro- 

 line Testout, salmon pink; Bessie Brown, 

 creamy white; Gruss an Teplitz, crimson 

 scarlet; Viscountess Folkestone, creamy 

 pink; Mildred Grant, blush white. 



A few other valliable roses for your 

 purpose are: Mme. Plantier, pure white; 

 Clothilde Soupert, pink and white, a per- 

 sistent flowering polyantha; Blanche Mo- 

 reau, white moss; Bosa Bugosa, Mme. 

 Georges Bruant, pure white, and Conrad 

 Ferdinand de Meyer, pink. Hermosa is a 

 useful China rose with pale pink flowers. 

 Among climbing roses such sorts as Dor- 

 othy Perkins, Baltimore Belle, Hiawatha, 

 Crimson Bambler and Lady Gay are a 

 few of the best. 



The hybrid perpetuals will winter well 

 if earth is drawn up to them just befftre 

 the ground freezes up. The teas, hybrid 

 teas and polyanthas, if dug up and 

 buried in the soil either outdoors or in a 

 coldframe, will come through all right, 

 planting them out as soon as the ground 

 is clear of frost and well dried out. 



C.W. 



AMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY. 



More Special Prizes to be Awarded. 



President Aug\i8t F. Poehlmann wishes 

 to call the particular attention of all in- 

 tending exhibitors to the amended rule 

 which is to be observed by exhibitors. 

 This cuts out the requirement for a sin- 

 gle growth of the current season. The 

 rule, Section 6, now reads as follows: 

 "Any article manifestly unfit to show 

 may be excluded by the management, and 

 the judges shall withhold any premium 

 when the entries are unworthy of awards. 

 The management may at any time order 



