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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Mahch 17, 1910. 



and this is consistent with the feelings, 

 opinions and practice of our people. 



Wild ROKB. 



Wild roses of many species are in- 

 digenous and flourish in luxuriant foliage 

 and wealth of bloom. The fragrant sweet 

 briers, vigorous and strong, in many 

 places line our country roads. In some 



inated that variety never had any such 

 on his place. ' ' The foliage on the trees 

 and shrubs in the cemetery and the vivid 

 green of the grass Mr. Hill considered 

 perfectly wonderful. 



I think it was Oregon, and perhaps 

 Portland, that first realized all the good 

 characteristics of that fine variety, Mme. 

 Caroline Testout, which is now perhaps 



M. H. Hottetter in Hit House of Enchantress. 



districts of deep alluvial soil, the swamp 

 brier attains a height of twenty feet or 

 more. High up some mountain slope, we 

 find wild roses rioting amid the huckle- 

 berry, salal and other native shrubs. 



The late Dean Hole, a great rosarian 

 and one of the originators of the Na- 

 tional Eose Society of England, in his 

 invaluable "Book About Roses," says in 

 effect that wherever wild roses grow, rose 

 culture may successfully be carried on. 

 Without a doubt there are in our soil, 

 climate and surroundings, qualities pecu- 

 liarly conducive to rose growing. East- 

 ern people are often surprised at the size, 

 perfection and beauty of roses in this 

 country. To emphasize this assertion, I 

 will quote the opinion of an expert, well 

 known to many of you, who visited 

 Oregon in 1903. 



An Expert's Opinion. 



"Portland is the only place I have 

 struck, since leaving home, that I should 

 like to remain in.'' This was the re- 

 mark of E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind., 

 a horticulturist well known to most rose 

 growers of this city, who arrived at 

 Portland, Ore., a few days before, on a 

 tour of the coast. He had heard of the 

 beauty of Portland roses, and the first 

 thing he did after getting there was to 

 look about town and visit some of the 

 principal rose growers. He was fortunate 

 in arriving just after the rain and so 

 found the roses in good condition. He 

 was taken out by James Forbes to visit 

 Riverview cemetery and some of the 

 commercial places, and so had an opj)or- 

 tunity to see the best roses to be found 

 in Oregon. He was delighted and said 

 he had never seen such beautiful roses 

 before, though he had traveled through 

 England and France when the roses were 

 at their best and had passed through 

 southern California on his way to Port- 

 land. Of one grower's flowers he said: 

 "I have never seen such a hedge of La 

 France roses, even in France, and as for 

 the Caroline Testouts, the man who orig- 



one of the five most popular roses in ex- 

 istence. It fairly revels in the warm, 

 moist days of early summer, and re- 

 sponds to intelligent and generous treat- 

 ment with almost continuous bloom from 

 June until the frost of winter. When I 

 was an amateur, or, as we say in Port- 

 land, "a rose crank," and before join- 

 ing your professional ranks, I had the 

 [Continued on page 104h] 



successful grower of carnations and sweet 

 peas. The accompanying illustration 

 shows Mr. Hostetter from a snapshot 

 which caught him admiring a house of 

 Enchantress from which "he has been cut- 

 ting 4-inch blooms all season. 



WINTERICH'S HOUSE. 



Christ. Winterich, Defiance, 0., is well 

 known as a specialist in the growing of 

 cyclamens, but that he also is successful 

 with other crops is shown by the accom- 

 panying illustration. While Mr. Win- 

 terich grows cyclamens in quantity, so 

 that they occupy several houses to the 

 exclusion of all else, the accompanying 

 picture shows one of his houses of gen- 

 eral stock, in which there also are a few 

 cyclamens. 



HOME GROWN HARRISII BULBS. 



HOSTETTER OF MANHEIM. 



M. H. Hostetter is a well known grower 

 in the carnation belt of Lancaster county, 

 Pennsylvania. His town is Manheim, and 

 all through the section he is known as a 



The Hopeful Outlook. 



That the growing of Harrisii bulbs in 

 America is still in the experimental stage 

 must, of course, be admitted, but the 

 latest experiments have been accompanied 

 with enough of success to give a reason- 

 able prospect of establishing the indus- 

 try on a commercial footing. Not only 

 the seed and bulb men, but members of 

 the florists' trade in general, aU are 

 keenly, personally interested in the sub- 

 ject, and recent reports have been hope- 

 ful enough in their character to keep the 

 interest from flagging. The national 

 government's experiments in bulb grow- 

 ing, though not entirely satisfactory in 

 their results, have been suflSciently en- 

 couraging to act as an incentive to pri- 

 vate enterprise and lead to the invest- 

 ment of private capital. Various at- 

 tempts are being made, therefore, to 

 grow the bulbs on a commercial basis, 

 especially in California. 



In May of last year a Chicago whole- 

 sale firm placed on sale a quantity of 

 Easter lilies flowered from bulbs which 

 had been grown by the Santa Ana Easter 

 Lily Co., of Santa Ana, Cal. Of course 

 the arrival of these lilies in the market 

 aroused a considerable flurry of interest 

 among those who were aware of their 



House of Cyclamen and Other Stock at C. Winterich's, Defiance, Ohio. 



