May 5, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



TRAINED ROSES. 



Eccentricity in gardening is to be 

 avoided, but a feature,' now and then, out 

 of the ordinary will serve to attract 

 favorable comment. The rose will lend 

 itself readily to such work. 



The variety illustrated, Mrs. P. W. 

 Flight, is a free-flowering garden rose, of 

 the multiflora type. It can be grown in 

 any form, and is suitable for every pur- 

 pose for which climbing roses are em- 

 ployed. The flowers are semi-double, of 

 large size, and are borne in huge corymbs 

 of from twenty to thirty blooms each. 

 The color is bright pink, paUng to white 

 in the center, and the individual flowers 

 retain their beauty for a month, with- 

 standing the effects of sun and rain with 

 no apparent loss in color, and showing no 

 evidence of decay until the last. The 

 standard shown was budded in Walms- 

 gate Gardens, Louth, Lincolnshire, Eng- 

 land, where Thomas Smith is gardener, 

 in July, 1905, and planted in its present 

 position in January, 1907. The picture 

 was made in 1909. The bed beneath the 

 rose is of Viola William Neil. 



Among climbing polyantha roses are 

 many varieties of surpassing beauty; in 

 most cases the growth is vigorous, so that 

 the weeping habit may be most rapidly 

 developed if assistance is given by tying 

 the shoots down to a skeleton framework 

 in the first instance. These artificial sup- 

 ports will be completely hidden when the 

 specimens have made two years' growth. 



FUMIGATION FOR SWEET PEAS. 



Kindly inform us if there is anything 

 that can be used to fumigate where sweet 

 peas are grown. We grow sweet peas 

 and carnations in the same house, but 

 understand that tobacco smoke is inju- 

 rious to the sweet peas. The lice are 

 hard to keep down by spraying, or, in 

 other words, it is hard work to keep the 

 plants sprayed enough to get rid of the 

 lice. W. C. F. C. 



While tobacco stems are liable to burn 

 sweet pea stems, as well as take the color 

 from the flowers, there are other prepara- 

 tions which will '•id them of aphis. The 

 nicotine papers are excellent. You can 

 use any of these with perfect safety and 

 they leave no disagreeable odor behind 

 them, as do the stems. Spraying, if 

 thoroughly done, with any of the many 

 nicotine extracts on the market, is eflBi- 

 cacious. It should be done once a week 

 to keep the plants clean. Many large 

 growers now never fumigate, depending 

 entirely on spraying, using a force pump 

 and fine spray nozzle for this purpose. 

 C. W. 



^ OUTDOOR SWEET PEAS. 



My outdoor sweet peas for the last 

 two years have bloomed beautifully for a 

 few days; then I notice the flower stem 

 below the blossom seems to wither away, 

 allowing the flower to droop away un- 

 opened. Commencing with just a few 

 peas, this disease spreads rapidly and in 

 a short while all my peas are gone. The 

 pea ground is located on a sunny, fertile 

 spot and the peas have had every at- 

 tention. Can you tell jAe what the 

 trouble isf L. M. W. 



Early sowing, frequent cultivation, 

 thinning seedlings where they have come 

 up too thickly, a summer mulch of old 

 manure, straw or marsh hay, and change 

 of soil each year are a few essentials of 

 successful sweet pea culture. Hilling up 

 the plants, as often advocated, does more 



Rose Mrs. F. W. Flight as a Standard in a Bed of Violas. 



harm than good. A well manured soil, 

 deeply plowed, a sunny location, plenty 

 of water if it can be afforded, and a 

 removal of all seed pods are all neces- 

 sary. Are you using the same soil each 

 year? If so, change it; others have had 

 this same trouble and the cause is usually 

 the same — planting on one piece of 

 ground year after year. If you will 

 change your ground, keep it well mulched 

 and afford the necessary moisture at the 

 roots, we do not see why you cannot 

 grow first-class sweet peas outdoors. 



SUPPORTS FOR SWEET PEAS. 



What can I use instead of sticks for 

 sweet peas? I had to cut 1,500 sticks this 

 year. Can I use netting stretched on 

 posts? E. W. P. 



Sticks, or brush, as they are commonly 

 called, make the simplest and best of all 

 supports for outd(^pr sweet peas. How- 

 ever, where brush is expensive or difficult 

 to obtain, wire netting of a coarse mesh, 

 fastened tp stout posts, may be used. 

 You will require netting six feet in 

 height and the two end posts of each 

 row should be stout and well braced. No 

 matter how carefully you fasten the wire, 

 there will be a certain amount of bulge 

 to it. Many people support their sweet 



peas in this way. There is, however, al- 

 ways a temptation to use the same fence 

 each year when once it is in place, and 

 this flower succeeds much better when 

 given a fresh piece of ground each year. 



C. W. 



MAGGOTS IN COW MANURE. 



I mulched my benches with cow manure 

 one month ago. The manure was about 

 eight months old. It is now one mass 

 of maggots. What can they be and how 

 can I exterminate them? B. J. P. 



The maggots are probably larva; of 

 the May beetle, which are often found in 

 cow manure if it is used in too fresh 

 a state. Give the beds a good dusting 

 of lime and soot. Should they attack 

 the roots of the plants, use carbon bisul- 

 phide, pouring a little in holes twenty- 

 four inches apart each way. This will 

 suffocate them, especially if the soil is 

 damp. _;^; C. W. 



York, Me. — Harold Harrison, of 

 Dover, for the last two seasons florist 

 for W. R. Boody & Co., has returned, 

 and will act in that capacity again this 

 year. 



Easton, Pa. — Charles Buenning has re- 

 moved to the Warne building, 5 Center 

 square, where he has a mor^ attractive, 

 better equipped store than, ever before. 



