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The Florists' Review 



Febkuaky 27, 1913. 



HYBRID TEAS FOR EASTER. 



Please give me a list of hybrid tea 

 roses best for forcing in pots for 

 Easter. J. M. 



The following are good hybrid tea 

 roses for the Easter trade: Mjne. Abel 

 Chatenay, carmine rose, shaded salmon; 

 White Killarney, Bessie Brown, creamy 

 white; Mrs. Christie Miller, blush, 

 shaded salmon; Caroline Testout, satin 

 rose; Killarney, light pink; Prince de 

 Bulgarie, renamed Mrs. Taft, silvery 

 flesh, shaded salmon rose; Viscountess 

 Folkestone, creamy pink; Mme. Jules 

 (Jrolez, satin rose; Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, white, tinted lemon; Mrs, 

 Aaron Ward, deep Indian yellow, and 

 La Tosca, silvery pink. 



You cannot, of course, start and 

 flower these for the coming Easter, 

 which arrives at the earliest date for 

 over half a century, March 2.3. 



Rosa. 



ROSES BADLY MILDEWED. 



I have a bed of American Beauty 

 roses and a bed each of Killarney and 

 White Killarney, which, owing to a 

 draughty house and poor soil, are badly 

 mildewed, in spite of the fact that I 

 have sprayed and fumigated them and 

 have had sulphur on the pipes all the 

 time. As there had been no provision 

 made for the changing of soil- during 

 the winter — not having been here my- 

 self in time — T could make no change in 

 the beds. I intend to clean the house 

 thoroughly and put new soil in the 

 benches as soon as possible, but that 

 probably will not be before April. I 

 should like to have some roses by July 

 1. What would you advise as the best 

 means of attaining this end? A. V. 



If the roses are in as poor condition 

 as described, it would seem as if it 

 would hardly pay to carry them over 

 until April. It is fairly evident that 

 they will never amount to anything, so 

 why not clean them out and get ready 

 to replant earlier than intended? If 

 you have soil prepared to go into the 

 benches, I would refill them as soon 

 as the necessary repairs and planting 

 are done. If this house is a draughty 

 one, it will never prove suitable for win- 

 ter roses, so why not use it as a summer 

 house, to bloom from July until Novem- 

 l)er, and let it rest during the winter? 

 If you can get your benches refilled 

 by early in April, you could plant dor- 

 mant stock of Kaiserin Augusta Vic- 

 toria, My Maryland or Souvenir du 

 President Carnot. These are all good 



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summer roses, better than the Killar- 

 neys. I would not plant any American 

 Beauty; it wants quite different treat- 

 ment from the other roses and is not a 

 profitable sort for small growers to 

 have. If you prefer to plant Killarney 

 and White Killarney or other roses suit- 

 able for winter flowering, and can plant 

 these by the middle or end of April, 

 you would get a small crop of short- 

 stemmed flowers in July from them. 

 Rosa. 



ROSES IN A SMALL HOUSE. 



AVe have a small house for rose grow- 

 ing, in which we grow Richmond, Reid 

 and the Killarneys. On account of the 

 smallness of the house, the Killarneys. 

 both white and pink, are subject to 

 mildew, but Richmond and Reid do 

 well. Are there any other good white 

 or pink varieties which we could grow 

 to advantage? W. M. R. 8. 



Maryland is somewhat similar to Kil- 

 larney in color, but would probably be 

 a failure with you, like that variety. 

 I would advise you to restrict yourself 

 to the two Killarneys as bread-and- 

 butter roses, or to the two red sorts, 

 Richmond and Rhea Reid, if you have 

 a better call for these. C, W. 



It is diflicult to get a variety of 

 roses to succeed well in the same house, 

 especially when it is a small one. The 

 Killarneys are, so far, the best of their 

 respective colors that I have. There is 

 really no other white forcing rose but 

 White Killarney grown now. Bride be- 

 ing dropped by nearly all growers. 



RAMON A, THE RED CHEROKEE. 



The advent of the new single red 

 rose, Red Cherokee, or Ramona, as it 

 has been aptly named, is an event of 

 unusual interest to rose growers, and a 

 few historical facts relating to it ought 

 to be in order. Its place is in the rose 

 garden, where it is a free and continu 

 ous bloomer. The rich color of the 

 petals is strikingly shown up by the 

 mass of golden yellow stamens. The 

 foliage is said to be free from mildew. 

 Those who have watched its behavior 

 under glass say that as a forcing rose 

 it will undoubtedly take a high place. 

 On a dark November or December day 

 a house in full bloom makes a splendid 

 sight. 



Ramona first appeared as a sport of 

 the pink Cherokee in a "Los Angeles 

 garden and came to the attention of 

 Henry Turner, of the firm of Dietrich 

 & Turner, of Montebello, Cal., who from 

 this single branch, or twig- it might 

 almost be called, raised in a little over 

 a year 120,000 plaats. As a propagat- 

 ing feat this is probably uuequaled in 

 the annals of rose growing. Howard 

 & Smith, always to the front in any- 

 thing pertaining to rose culture on the 

 coast, and with the finest facilities for 

 disseminating a variety of this caliber, 

 made Dieterich & Turner such a tempt- 

 ing offer for the entire stock that they 

 could not wjU refuse. It is reported 

 that a large number of plants had been 

 sold to those who had heard of the 

 variety by word of mouth before any 

 general offer was made to the trade. 



H. R. Richards. 



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STARVATION. 



I send today by parcel post four 

 geranium plants from 3-inch pots. The 

 leaves turn red. Last year they did the 

 same thing, but after being planted out 

 they got green again. Kindly let me 

 know what the trouble is and the rem- 

 edy for it. There are just a few that 

 are getting red. I would like to pre- 

 vent the balance from getting the same 

 way. I used a light soil and no manure. 

 Last year I blamed the soil. Do 

 you think spraying with Bordeaux 

 mixture would help them? Do you 

 think the use of a little nitrate of soda 

 would help keep them green? J. Y, 



The foliage on the plants received 

 shows no trace of disease whatever. 

 Starvation at the root, added, perhaps, 

 to one or two dryings out, is un- 

 doubtedly the cause of the red foliage. 



While the use of manure is often over- 

 done, and its use causes a soft, rank 

 growth, and often disease, it is neces- 

 sary to use some fertilizer in the soiJ 

 or the plants will soon present a 

 starved appearance. At succeeding 

 pottings a«ld a 4-inch pot of fine bone 

 to each bushel of soil, or, if you have 

 some old, well decomposed and dried 

 cow manure, add one part of this to 

 five parts of loam. Shredded cattle 

 manure or pulverized sheep manure 

 may also be used, but do not make the 

 soil so rich as you would for chrysan- 

 themums. 



To improve the plants, nitrate of soda 

 at the rate of one pound to fifty gal- 

 lons of water, applied once a week,, 

 will do well. Other suitable foods are 

 the Imperial Plant Food, Clay's Fer- 

 tilizer and Bon Arb^pr. Soot water is 

 excellent for greening up the foliage. 

 It can be placed in a bag and used at 





