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The Weekly Resists' Rriricw. 



Januast 25, 1912. 



moderately; remove the weak and 

 * dead wood and shorten the stronger 

 shoots a little. Do not give a great 

 deal of heat at first; 48 to 50 degrees 

 at night will suffice. This can be 

 raised gradually to 55 degrees as 

 growth advances. C. W. 



ROSES WITH OTHER PLANTS. 



What effect, if any, have tomatoes 

 and other plants on roses growing in 

 the same house? J. G. 



Though tomatoes and other plants 

 can be grown in the same house with 

 roses, it is much better to grow the? 

 roses alone. Tomatoes want a drier 

 atmosphere than roses and should have 

 a night temperature of 60 degrees. 

 Many growers grow some vincas or 

 other bedding plauLs along the edges 

 of the rose beds or benches, but it 

 would be harmful to plant tomatoes 

 in the same beds. C. W. 



STOCK OF HYBRID TEAS. 



Kindly give me your opinion as to 

 what stock is best upon whi<ih to bud 

 hybrid tea roses to be grown outdoors 

 in this latitude, in the western part of 

 New York state. Would you use Ma- 

 netti or brier, providing they are low 

 budded, as, for instance, the Dicksons' 

 Irish roses? I refer to such varieties 

 as Betty, Bessie Brown, Lady Ashtoun, 

 Lady Stanley, the Lyon rose, Joseph 

 HUl and Jules Grolez, B. E. H. 



Manetti is the stock which I have 

 found most satisfactory, but plants on 

 the seedling brier do well. E. multi- 

 flora, if procurable, also makes an 

 excellent and hardy stock. You will 

 not go far wrong in using the Manetti 

 stock. C. W. 



Portland, Me. — William Ballard, head 

 florist at the greenhouses of Niles Nel- 

 son, was confined by illness to his home, 

 on Glenwood avenue, for a time, but 

 at last report had resumed his duties 

 at the greenhouses. 



AMONG THE ROSES IN EUROPE. 



(An extract from a paper by Robert Py]e, of 

 West Grove, Pa., read before the American Uo»e 

 Society, in convention at Detroit, January 10 to 

 12, U)12, continued from The Ueview of January 

 18.] 



I met Alexander Dickson in London 

 at one of the shows and he told me he 

 had crossed the Irish Sea eleven times 

 in the previous fourteen days, going 

 home to cut and make ready his flowers 

 and going back to England to attend 

 the various shows, for in rose season 

 they are scheduled by the National 

 Society to avoid conflict as much as 

 possible between the more important 

 cities, and the prominent growers are 

 usually represented at not less than 

 a dozen or twenty different shows in 

 the early summer. It is tiresome work. 

 The men go out at 4 o'clock in the 

 morning and have orders to cut every- 

 thing in sight, but this is not the be- 

 ginning, for weeks in advance they 

 have been watching, watering, shading, 

 and they even go to the trouble of 

 using a bit of candlewick to tie up 

 the petals of -a, promising bud so that 

 it will not open too soon. On the day 

 of the show, or the day before, all 

 these carefully watched and nurtured 

 blossoms are cut and brought into the 

 packing shed, where the proprietor is 

 busy for hours in simply selecting, 

 discarding and making up the assort- 

 ment for the show. He usually sends 

 twice as many as are required for the 

 entries and again discards all that are 

 unworthy. When all are in place, and 

 possibly a half hour before the judges 

 are due, the roses that have been tied 

 up with candlewick are freed, so that 

 the petals are allowed to open back, 

 and are even preened so that every 

 curl is as perfect as the human touch 

 can make it. 



I presume that there is a value in 

 these English flower shows to the prize 

 winner that we can scarcely appreciate 

 in full; pictures of the trophy are pub- 

 lished in their catalogues, a list of the 

 prizes won is played up most promi- 

 nently in their advertising literature; 

 and unless a grower can show some 



Jacob Sherman, Supt. ' Frank Hell, Florist. 



The Gardening Staff at Schiller Park, Columbus, O. 



prizes to his credit his chances for 

 good business are slim. So you see 

 the rose shows in England are an impor- 

 tant part of the business; they not only 

 help in advertising the grower, but 

 they help enormously to educate the 

 growers and the amateurs. 



Go with me to the xxational Bose Show 

 held in Begent's park last year. Auto- 

 mobiles were lined up, coming and 

 going, a constant line of not less than 

 fifty or sixty people awaiting entrance 

 throughout the entire afternoon to the 

 tent of new seedling roses, and this 

 tent but a small, though important 

 part of hundreds upon hundreds of en- 

 tries. A military band in attendance 

 made the affair still more attractive; 

 society counts upon it as their day. 



Another feature that appealed to me 

 as most particularly suggestive and 

 quite worthy of impression, where pos- 

 sible, was the tent devoted to roses for 

 use in table decorations, where there 

 were special combinations worked out. 

 On this table would be a study of yel- 

 low with a huge bouquet in the center; 

 smaller ones around the table, with 

 boutonnieres or place roses. 



Boyalty has the first peep, and a 

 real peep it is; so we can not wonder 

 that our fellow growers in England 

 spend time and thought and money and 

 spare no pains in applying manure 

 water to the backward plants and in 

 shading the bleaching sun from some 

 promising blossoms and in inventing 

 every device that will help win the 

 trophy. One other point: that all these 

 shows may work harmoniously, the 

 National Bose Society of England, as 

 I understand, gives its support and 

 cooperation to the local rose societies, 

 and what I believe members of the 

 American Bose Society need to learn 

 is the part played there by the ama- 

 teur. Men of leisure, men of means, 

 society women and many more join 

 with the professional growers, until 

 among numbers of them rose growing 

 becomes a hobby, and their contribu- 

 tion to the success of these shows forms 

 an important factor. It is a point 

 which I think our American Bose So- 

 ciety can not longer afford to overlook. 

 To be sure, the interest among the 

 English in horticulture has reached a 

 much higher development than in 

 America. For example, at the annual 

 show of the Boyal Horticultural Society 

 held at Olympia, ten minutes after the 

 doors had been opened I think there 

 were no less than 2,000 people in the 

 hall; people whose knowledge of flow- 

 ers and whose intelligence regarding 

 their own horticultural requirements 

 was evidenced by their close study and 

 deep interest. They were there with 

 notebooks in hand, already placing 

 their orders for the following season. 

 And here again the value of shows to 

 our English brothers is apparent. And 

 do you wonder that the continental 

 growers publish catalogues in English, 

 send their young men to England to 

 learn their methods and the language, 

 and are making each year a stronger 

 bid for business from the English 

 amateur f 



Gloversville, N. T. — E. Loeben follows 

 mums with a crop of rudishes, and 

 these are succeeded by ten weeks ' stocks 

 for Decoration day. Being a kinsman 

 of Ernst Benary, of Erfurt, he obtains 

 some of that famous seedsman's spe- 

 cialties for trial and reports upon their 

 suitableness for this climate. 



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