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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



December 28, 1911. 



THAT THREE-NAMED BOSE. 



A western rose grower asks the pub- 

 lication of the following: 



"Antoine Eivoire is the correct name 

 of the rose frequently offered as Prince 

 de Bulgaria or as Mrs. Taft. The spell- 

 ing, according to the catalogue of the 

 raiser, Pernet-Ducher, is as here given, 

 not Eevoire, as frequently written. 

 There is another Pernet-Ducher rose 

 named Prince de Bulgarie, but it is 

 distinct from Antoine Eivoire. The 

 confusion came about through the va- 

 riety Antoine Eivoire, minus the label, 

 getting into the hands of a Washington 

 florist who gave it the name of Mrs. 

 Taft. Then A. N. Pierson, Inc., Crom- 

 well, Conn., got hold of it and it made 

 a hit. Knowing that Mrs. Taft was 

 not the correct name, and wanting to 

 get it straight, Pierson sought to iden- 

 tify it and accepted the verdict of a 

 celebrated French rose grower, to whom 

 stock was sent, that it was Priuce de 

 Bulgarie. Later it was proved to be 

 Antoine Eivoire. There now seems to 

 be no question about it, so the trade 

 should cease to use the names of Taft 

 and Bulgarie for this variety (there 

 being other though little grown sorts 

 by both these names), and use only the 

 name Antoine Biviore. " 



Submitting the proof of the above to 

 A. N. Pierson, Inc., Cromwell, Conn., for 

 verification of the statements of fact, 

 Wallace E. Pierson writes : 



"Eeplying to your letter of December 

 15, would state regarding the clipping 

 relating to the rose Antoine Eivoire 

 that while in the main it is true, I do 

 not care to advocate a policy which we 

 do not intend to live up to. 



"This rose was called Mrs. Taft be- 

 fore we got it, and is known in the New 

 York, Philadelphia and Boston cut 

 flower markets as Mrs. Taft and is 

 extremely popular. If we should advo- 

 cate changing the name to Antoine 

 Eivoire it would be a shortsighted 

 policy. Whether the name is worth any- 

 thing in the trade or not is the question, 

 but the fact remains that this rose is 

 advertised under that name, and known 

 under that name. Our position in the 

 matter of this rose has been stated 

 quite clearly a number of times. The 

 cut flower business is worth more to us 

 than the plant business, and we intend 

 to continue to call the variety Mrs. 

 Taft to our cut flower trade. Had we 

 been the first people in this country to 

 handle the rose we would have called it 

 bv its correct name, but as it is we are 



only calling it by the name by which 

 it is best known. 



"The spelling is undoubtedly correct 

 in this article — Eivoire — although the 

 catalogues of different rose men do not 

 agree regarding this. This article states: 

 * There now seems to be no question 

 about it, so the trade should cease to 

 use the names of Taft and Bulgarie for 

 this variety. ' I would state in this con- 

 nection, however, that there is still some 

 doubt regarding the correct name of 

 this rose, and would refer you to the 

 Waban Bose Conservatories, Natick, 

 Mass. Alexander Montgomery, Jr., was 

 here a short time ago and stated that a 

 French rosarian visited his father re- 

 cently at the Waban Bose Conserva- 

 tories and saw this rose growing and 

 flatly denied that it was Antoine 

 Eivoire. I would also refer you to Mr. 

 Heller, of the South Park Floral Co., 

 New Castle, Ind. In conversation with 

 him at Cincinnati he told me he had im- 



ported roses supposed to be Antoine 

 Eivoire on six different occasions. 

 Twice he received this rose, twice he 

 received a rose similar to it in all gen- 

 eral characteristics, this second variety 

 being in our opinion Prince de Bul- 

 garie, and twice, he received stock of 

 this rose and another lot of Bulgarie 

 mixed, and he is of the opinion that the 

 stock of the two varieties was mixed in 

 Europe, as they are alike in all general 

 characteristics. 



"We are cataloguing this rose under 

 the name Mrs. Taft, with the name 

 Antoine Eivoire in brackets. ' ' 



Apparently the end to be desired is 

 that the trade should know that, in this 

 country, the names Taft, Bulgarie and 

 Eivoire all call for the same rose, for, 

 if the time ever should come when they 

 do not call for the same rose, there will 

 be "confusion worse confounded." 



EELWOBMS IN BOSE SOIL. 



I should be pleased to have you give 

 me a little information in regard to my 

 American Beauties. The plants are all 

 new. We are cutting a good crop. The 

 benches are five inches deep and are 

 filled with a compost consisting of 

 about one-fourth well rotted manure 

 and three-fourths soil. The roots are 

 mostly near the surface and a close ex- 

 amination seems to show that they are 

 infested with eelworms. Here and 

 there a strong, healthy plant turns yel- 

 low, then loses its foliage and dies, 

 seemingly without any cause. We run 

 the houses at a night temperature of 

 58 to 60 degrees and a day temperature 

 of 64 to 68 degrees. The plants are 

 watered as evenly as possible and are 



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