November 3, lulO. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



17 



Rose Hilda, the Deeper Pink Sport of My Maryland. 



Perkins, Farquhar and Lady Gay are 

 all fine; Hiawatha, single, scarlet, and 

 Wedding Bells are beauties. Be sure 

 to get a few of the beautiful Tausend- 

 schon, which will sell on sight. Leuch- 

 stern, with its apple-blossom colored 

 flowers, is also a. charming thing. 



General Outdoor Work. 



In many sections rain is still sorely 

 needed and the extreme dryness of the 

 soil is seriously delaying fall planting. 

 As to hardy perennials, it is now rather 

 late to move peonies, but nearly all 

 other varieties can still be planted and 

 they will give a far better account of 

 themselves if moved now than in April. 

 About all perennials succeed better if 

 replanted every third year, and all ap- 

 preciate ground which has been well 

 manured and deeply plowed or spaded. 

 Far too many put off this work until 

 spring, when a host of other duties 

 crowd. Planting in early November 

 will give vastly better results than 

 planting in April. Try both plans and 

 be convinced. 



With a few exceptions, deciduous 

 shrubs can now be moved with perfect 

 safety. Perhaps in the coldest states, 

 fall planting of these, owing to the 

 early freezing of the ground, may be 

 undesirable, but there can be no ques- 

 tion that over a wide stretch of country 

 much of the work usually postponed 

 until spring would be more profitably 

 done now. With dry soil, of course, 

 watering is necessary. Soak the roots 

 thoroughly and firm the soil well and 



few plants will fail to grow. The one 

 great danger from fall planting is in an 

 insufficient supply of moisture at the 

 roots before tlie ground freezes up 

 tight. Shrubs with roots dry when tlie 

 soil freezes will probably die if no 

 winter thaws allow water to reach the 

 roots. In the case of evergreens, dry- 

 ness at the root causes far more deaths 

 than winter's cold. Even with valu- 

 able plants, which are not to be moved, 

 it is an excellent plan to soak the roots 

 well before winter sets in, unless 

 copious rains reach them. 



HILDA, SPORT OF MARYLAND. 



It will be recalled that Myers & 

 Samtman, of Chestnut Hill, Pa., were 

 among the first large growers to take 

 up My Maryland rose and plant it ex- 

 tensively. From the first time they 

 saw Maryland growing at the Balti- 

 more establishment of John Cook, they 

 never have lost faith in the variety; 

 after their first season with it they de- 

 clared it to be the most profitable rose 

 they ever had grown, and when a 

 deeper, darker pink sport appeared at 

 their place it was welcomed with much 

 joy. After working up considerable 

 stock they gave it the name Hilda, and 

 now are cutting some splendid blooms. 

 The accompanying illustration is repro- 

 duced from a photograph made of some 

 flowers shipped from Chestnut Hill to 

 the A. L. Randall Co., Chicago, who 

 are the western representatives of My- 

 ers & Samtman. The flowers were 

 shipped on Monday, reached Chicago 



Wednesday and were photographed on 

 Thursday afternoon; some of them 

 were good enough on Saturday evening 

 so that they were worn to the theater. 

 Tliese blooms were on stems from thirty 

 to forty inches in length and had the 

 Maryland characteristics coupled with 

 much deeper color. As the vase stood 

 on the counters of the Randall Co. the 

 flowers were examined by many retail- 

 ers and growers, who invariably passed 

 favorable comment on the variety. It 

 is said that Myers & Samtman grow it 

 on solid beds. 



STOCKS NOT FLOWERING. 



My stocks. Princess Alice, do not 

 bloom. They are nice, bushy plants, 

 about one foot high, but no signs of 

 flowers are to be seen. What can I 

 do with them? Can they be trans- 

 planted inside, or potted up? What 

 is the best thing to do with them! 



W. F. 



It would not pay you to lift the 

 stocks. They cannot be taken up with 

 a ball, as they make few fibrous roots. 

 Of course you could pot them and prob- 

 ably get them to live after losing a 

 lot of foliage, but the returns will not 

 pay for the trouble. My advice would 

 be to sow seed of some of the better 

 forcing varieties, such as Beauty of 

 Nice, White Column or early ten weeks'. 

 These will flower in early spring, at 

 the time when the flowers will be 

 quite salable, much more so than in 

 midwinter. C '^y^ 



