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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Skptk.mbek 8, 1910. 



LA FRANCE NOT BLOOMING. 



I'lcMsc toll iiic wliJit to do to make a 

 La France rose l)looni. I liavo a jj;ood 

 many rose l)n>^ln's am! all the others 

 seem to orow ami bloom nicely, but the 

 J. a I'rani-e beats me. It is a stroiij^ 

 jirowi'r; it has eiylit or ten canes, four 

 to live feet liijili. at the present time. 

 It dies back about halt'wMV durin<f the 

 winter months. All}' iiiforiiiat ion you 

 mav i:;ive m<> will Ik.' much a])]ireciate(l. 



U. (i. 



I.a France is one of the liybrid te;i 

 roses. These iiMjuire less severe j)run- 

 iiiy: than the hybrid ]ierpetual class, 

 such as (ieneial .lac(|uemi not, b'lau Karl 

 Druschki, Mine, (iabriel Liiizet, ^Irs, 

 Sharman Crawford and Clin. Cut out, 

 at jiruning time, all dead and weak 

 wood, .-ind. instead of heading back to 

 three or four eyes, as in the case of 

 hybrid ]ier[)etuals, leave about half of 

 the wood of the preceding year's 

 y^rowth. If yours kill back halfway, 

 cut a few inches beyond that, so that 

 the wodd is fresh ;ind j^iccn. 



Arc yiiu |.crfcct!y suic that you ar(^ 

 not nursiny .Manctti stock in lieu of 

 La France itself.' Many jrrowers fail 

 to cut out this stock, and as a conse 

 (piencc it socin kills out the rose and 

 usui]is its ]il;(cc. .MaiK'ttis are easily 

 detected. Tlic tlioiiis are more thickly 

 |il;iced lh:in on the ax'craj^e rose. Thev 

 Clime rcdiljsii iu color and the leaves 

 c;irr\- scNcii petiides, while the majority 

 iif hybrid perpetuni and liybrid tea 

 roses c;iri \- but ti\ c ( '. \V. 



STORING ROSE PLANTS. 



('nil ydu tell lis liow Id -.i(ii-(. idves, 

 such ;.s iJride^, li ichuKind'-, < 'li,'itena\' 

 ;ind M;iids, for sjirinj; s;iles.' Thi'v usu- 

 ally w inter-kill. If you liimw df :ui\' 

 way Id jpi'dtect them in the liehl, here 

 in western < 'dldi.'idd, we wduM i;iiher 

 leave them t heie. lldW min-li t'rost 

 shdiild they hnvc iiet'iire diyjiiny.' What 

 temperntiire is siiitiible in the celi;ir. 

 ;iiid hdw much nidistnie. .1. I'. 



'I'd stiire roses in ;i cellnr, they slidiild 

 lidt be lifted from the snil bi'fdi-e the 

 wodd is thorouehly rijie, a condition 

 which is imlicnted by the leaves be- 

 coming deiaidiecl tlint is, when the 

 older l(\'i\es cdiiimeni-e tii fall. The 

 temperature in the cidhir should be 

 from .32 to .38 degrees. 



'I'o ]ireserve them in the liehL tliey 

 shonbl be laid down after the ;ironnd 

 freezes hiird for the first tinu'. and cov 

 cred with some dry litter, su(h as 



leaves, with some liraiudies laid on toji 

 to keep the <-overing from blowing 

 away. If the plants can be kept iu a 

 frozen state all winter ami are never 

 exjiosed to the sun, th{\v ha\(' a good 

 chance to sur\ive the winter. 



Kibes. 



ROSE PLANTS DYING. 



You will find under separate cover a 

 rose plant that has not done well. It 

 has been dying gradually for the last 

 two weeks. It turned yellow and then 

 dried up. The soil is new pasture so(L 

 which was piled up last f.all and 

 chopped this spring, when al)ont one- 

 fourth of cow manure was also mixed 

 with it. T liave been spraying the 

 jdants from three to five times daily. 

 I'lease explain the trouble. C. E. 



The specimen received was entirely 

 dead at the root and must have l)een so 

 when j)lante(l in the lienidi. it also was 

 jilanted too deef). The soil is excellent 

 auil the comjiost ])erfect. 



S|)raying twice a day is suflicient, 

 even during the hottest we.ather. Where 

 you find any jdants behaving as de- 

 si-ribed in your letter, pull them out and 

 replace witli strong, healthv stock. 



'_ Ribe.s. 



A WELL KEPT PLACE. 



^'ou c.an tell from the looks of a 

 pl.-tce what sort of a man keejis it, 

 what kind of a grower he is, and what 

 measure of snc( ess he is making in his 

 business. Did you ever sec unkempt 

 grounds about a really progressive es- 

 tablishment? .Sdine peoj)Ie may tell you 

 that they '"cairt alford to keej) the 

 place lip the way Tom Smith does,'' 

 but they have the cart before the 



horse. It isii 't because Smith has 

 made money that he keeps his place in 

 apple-pie order, but liecause he has kept 

 all things rigiit up to the handle that 

 he has made money. 



The accompanying illustration is re- 

 produced from a snapshot of the green- 

 houses, residence and grounds of T. M. 

 Fitzgerald at Beaver, Fa., where there 

 is a place for eveiything and every- 

 thing is in its jilace. 



SPOT ON CYCLAMEN LEAVES. 



1 am sending under separate cover a 

 few cyclamen leaves that are affected 

 with a leaf-spot of some kind. It seems 

 to spread to plants nearby. The jilants 

 are now in a well ventilated house 

 and the glass is shaded with white- 

 wash. They are vigorous and strong, 

 and are making as good growth as any 

 cyclamens 1 ever had. I should like 

 to know a remedy for this leaf disease. 



C. A. M. 



The foliage shows that your plants 

 are vigorous, the leaves being as fine 

 as anyone could wish to see. This 

 spot is not uncommon. It attacks other 

 plants in much the same way. In the 

 case of cyclamens it may be due to 

 keeping the jdants too much shaded 

 and feeding them too heavily. One or 

 both of these causes would make the 

 foliage rather soft and an easier prey 

 to ])acterial diseases than if they were 

 exj)osed to stronger light and had been 

 fed but little. 



I would advise destroying the liadly 

 affected plants, isolating the others and 

 spraying them with Bordeaux mixture. 

 Let the plants have more light, espe- 

 cially now that the sun's rays are de- 

 creasing in intensity. (Jive an abun- 

 dance of air night and day; never 

 close the house, e;ccept before fumigat- 

 ing. Tlie cooler they are grown the 

 sturdier they will be. Never mind if 

 the temperature falls as low as 40 de- 

 grees at night. Let the foliage be as 

 dry as possilde at nightfall and let the 

 atmosphere also be dry. C. W. 



PROTECTION FOR PANSIES. 



I'lease tell me what winter protection 

 jiansies need here, in eastern Nebraska. 

 Our minimum temperature is 20 degrees 

 liidow zero. Would an enclosure of 

 in inch boards, set on edge along the 

 edge of the beds and filled with straw, 

 be sufficient? I also wish to grow 



Establishment of T. M. Fitzgerald, Beaver, Pa. 



