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The Weekly Florists" Review. 



January 18, 1912. 



Planting Field Boses. 



Planting for commercial purposes is 

 similar to garden culture, except that 

 the ground is covered with manure, 

 then plowed as deeply as possible and 

 harrowed, instead of digging out and 

 replacing the soil, as this process would 

 be too expensive. The beds aye usu- 

 ally made as long as possible, with 

 about six rows of plants between the 

 walks, thus giving the easiest manner 

 of cultivation and gathering. The vari- 

 eties which are commonly used for com- 

 mercial cutting are Kaiserin, white and 

 pink Cochet, Detroit and Mme. Grolez. 



The best everblooming roses for gar- 

 den use include the foregoing and, in 

 addition, Antoine Eivoire, La France, 

 Mrs. B. R. Cant, Gruss an Teplitz, Her- 

 mosa, Clothilde Soupert, Rhea Reid and 

 Kaiserin. Among hybrid perpetuals are 

 Paul Neyron, Mme. Masson, Clio, Boule 

 de Neige, Anna de Diesbach, Eugene 

 Fupt, Frau Karl Druschki, Mrs, John 

 Laing, Ulrich Brunner and Margaret 



Dickson. The best climbing roses are 

 Dorothy Perkins, Crimson Rambler, 

 White Dorothy Perkins and Alberic 

 Barbier. 



I have found that roses as a whole 

 do not do well in St. Louis, owing to 

 the fact that it is quite smoky, but that 

 Rosa rugosa, which is used as a shrub, 

 seems to do exceedingly well, no matter 

 where it is placed or in what kind of 

 soil. We do not use many of its varie- 

 ties, confining ourselves principally to 

 the Japanese type and the white 

 variety. 



Of the climbers, Dorothy Perkins and 

 Crimson I^ambler are most commonly 

 used, Dorothy Perkins being the fa- 

 vorite, as Crimson Rambler becomes 

 mildewed and looks quite shabby late 

 in the summer. 



In my capacity as landscape archi- 

 tect, I find that most people desire a 

 rose bed somewhere on their premises, 

 though few care to have a rose garden, 

 as they deem it too much trouble. 



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^■'^^^^^ SUGGESTIONS 



Spiraeas. 



This is a good time to start a batch 

 of such spirseas as Gladstone, compacta 

 multiflora or astilboides. It will take 

 ten or twelve weeks to flower them in 

 a temperature of 55 degrees at night, 

 but at 60 to 65 degrees, which they will 

 stand and thrive in, they will be ad- 

 vanced fully two weeks. Plants wanted 

 for Easter sales should not be started 

 until February 10, in a night tempera- 

 ture of 60 degrees. This will bring 

 them nicely in flower. If, however, 

 the pink variety. Queen Alexandra, is 

 wanted it should have a clear fortnight 

 longer to bring it in season. Always 

 remember, with the last named sort, 

 that in order to retain its beautiful 

 peach-pink color it should be kept in 

 the shade while opening. Spirsas like 

 a generous soil and, when growing, they 

 can hardly be overwatered. 



Marguerites. 

 Any marguerite plants now in 4-inch 

 pots, if given a shift into 6-inch, will 

 make excellent Easter plants. They 

 should not be pinched after this time. 

 A carnation temperature, 50 to 52 de- 

 grees at night, suits them. Larger 

 plants which have their pots well filled 

 with roots should have copious supplies 

 of water and liquid manure; three times 

 a week will not be any too often, as 

 they are gross feeders. A batch of 

 cuttings taken now, selecting shoots 

 which are not forming flower buds, will 

 make nice plants for Memorial day 

 sales. Or, if preferred, they can be 

 planted outdoors in May and lifted in 

 September, and will make excellent 

 Christmas plants. 



Bougainvilleas. 



Plants of Bougainvillea Sanderiana 



and B. Cypheri, the best two varieties 



for spring flowering, should now be 



taken from the cool house, where they 



have been resting, and started in a 

 night temperature of 60 degrees. If 

 the pots are rather small and much 

 matted with roots, give them a shift, 

 but not a large one. Many plants will 

 need nothing more than a good top- 

 dressing of fibrous loam and fine bone. 

 Syringe the plants freely until growths 

 start and give them an open, sunny 

 bench all the time. As soon as plants 

 which were not potted are nicely 

 started into growth, feed regularly with 

 liquid manure. 



Double Feverfew. 



The double feverfew is a useful cut 

 flower for Memorial day trade. It is not 

 much wanted at any other season, as 

 its odor is rather too pronounced to be 

 agreeable, but anyone who gets his 

 benches of it right for Memorial day 

 will net as much money on it as on any 

 other crop he can grow. The plants 

 should be benched sometime during the 

 present month, and a cool house, 45 

 degrees at night, grows them best. Use 

 any soil that will grow mums, violets 

 or carnations. 



Stocks. 



It is a little early yet to sow stocks 

 for Memorial day, but they are useful 

 cut flowers at any time previous to 

 that date. It will hardly pay, how- 

 ever, to grow them heavily. They are 

 not wanted at all at Easter, and at 

 other seasons, aside from Memorial day, 

 the call for them is only moderate. 

 White and pink Column are good early 

 forcing varieties. Beauty of Nice, of a 

 beautiful pink color, is perhaps the best 

 seller of all. When well grown, this is 

 a really superb variety. Early ten 

 weeks is the strain mostly grown, espe- 

 cially for May flowering; the leading 

 colors are white, pink and lavender, 

 but for Memorial day trade the bright 

 colors sell well. Sow the seeds in pans 

 or flats of light soil and cover with 



sand. If you have any mice, cover the 

 flats with glass until the seeds germi- 

 nate, as mice are partial to them. 



Lilies for Easter. 



If your lily plants are only just 

 through the soil, they will need a brisk 

 and steady heat to flower / them for 

 Easter; 65 degrees at night is not too 

 much. Any which are six to eight 

 inches high are all right, and in a 

 minimum temperature of 55 degrees 

 they will be on time. It is better to 

 do some forcing now rather than later, 

 when the buds are formed. Remember, 

 you should be able to see and count 

 your flower buds by February 20, or 

 you are late; so give all laggards a 

 warm house, to send them along as 

 rapidly as possible. 



THAT THBEE-NAMED BOSE. 



Further regarding the article under 

 the heading ' ' That Three-Named Rose ' ' 

 in the issue of December 31, a contrib- 

 utor writes: 



' ' There is not a shadow of » doubt in 

 my mind but that the rose in question 

 is Antoine Rivoire; we have grown this 

 rose as a bedder for a good many years 

 and think that we know it pretty well; 

 it is quite distinct from Prince de Bul- 

 garie, which we also have had for 

 some years. One thing is sure: anyone 

 having a doubt as to the identity of 

 his stock needs only to send to M. Per- 

 net-Ducher, Lyons, France, for stock 

 of these two sorts and he can readily 

 verify his own. I think that it would 

 be a serious mistake to send the rose 

 to the trade under any but its own 

 name, forming a bad precedent. Our 

 Society of American Florists has gone 

 on record from its inception emphatic- 

 ally against change of name. Only the 

 raiser of a new variety, or the pur- 

 chaser of a variety with privilege of 

 naming, has the right to change its 

 name. ' ' 



SFIDEB ON BOSES. 



We are forwarding by mail under 

 separate cover shoots of roses which 

 are literally covered with webwork done 

 by a small spider. We also send some 

 of the spiders, which have been in- 

 festing two of our rose houses since 

 early last fall. We are at a loss to 

 know of a remedy which will extermi- 

 nate the spider. On bright days they 

 spin their webs over all the rose plants, 

 and over and on everything in the 

 houses, from the benches where the 

 plants grow to the roof. The real 

 damage is done to the buds, which are 

 literally covered with the web and 

 numberless small spiders, which binds 

 the bud so tightly that they can not 

 expand. Other than that we have not 

 observed any damage. However, we 

 are of the opinion that they injure the 

 plants in general. Fumigating with 

 tobacco and spraying with extracts of 

 tobacco does not affect them at all. 

 Perhaps some brother florist knows of 

 a remedy. It will almost be impossible 

 for us to use hydrocyanic acid gas, 

 as our houses are connected with our 

 heating plant, which requires the pres- 

 ence of our night fireman continuously 

 in cold weather. F. F. C. 



I do not know this pest. Perhaps 

 some growers who have had it can 

 suggest a remedy. Hydrocyanic acid 

 gas would undoubtedly be the most 

 likely fumigant to clear it out. 



C. W. 



