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The Weekly Florists' Revie>^l^ 



April 29, 1909. 



PINK AND WHITE COCHETS. 



I have some Cochet roses, both pink 

 and white, received from a large rose 

 house in the first part of March. They 

 were from 4-inch pots and intended for 

 summer flowering. How shall I proceed 

 with them? They are in a cool house, 

 run at 48 to 50 degrees at night. Will 

 they do better benched or outside in 

 this Pennsylvania climate? I have no 

 room for them inside until after Me- 

 morial day. W. S. K. 



These roses will do all right if planted 

 outside. Of course they would do bet- 

 ter if benched from their present pots. 

 It might be better to give them a shift 

 into 5-inch jHJts until you are ready to 

 use them. Eibes. 



BEAUTIES AT GRAND RAPIDS. 



The Grand Eapids Greenhouse Co., at 

 Grand Kapids, Mich., has had excep- 

 tional success with American Beauties 

 this season, as the accompanying illus- 

 tration will show. It is from a photo- 

 graph made in one of the Beauty houses 

 four and one-half months from the date 

 of planting the house with young stock. 



The Grand Eapids Greenhouse Co. is 

 proving the benefits of co-operation. 

 Having united a number of the green- 

 house interests at Grand Eapids, the 

 management is able to effect a large 

 number of economies and at the same 

 time secure the results of the most suc- 

 cessful of those entering into the ■ or- 

 ganization, improving the quantity and 

 character of output and the methods of 

 marketing. The concern is conducted 

 really as two establishments, which co- 

 operate. One is producing cut flowers 

 and pot plants and the other growing 

 vegetables. N. B. Stover is the manager 

 of the florists ' department and S. J. 

 Perry the manager of the vegetable de- 

 partment. 



RHEA REID IN EUROPE. 



It is well known that the Ehea Eeid 

 rose carried off the grand prize in the 

 Bagatelle gardens contest in Paris, 

 France, last summer, and it seems to be 

 making a decided success everywhere in 

 Europe. To the many growers in this 

 country who have been more or less dis- 

 appointed at the behavior of Ehea Eeid 

 under glass in its first season, the follow- 

 ing from a grower in England will be 

 of interest : 



"For a long time there was a de- 

 mand for a really good dark red hybrid 

 tea or tea-scented rose, and when Lib- 



erty was introduced in 1900 we thought 

 we had the right thing. Good as Lib- 

 erty is, it has not the, grand habit of 

 Ehea Eeid. I grant that Liberty is a 

 deeper and clearer red — almost scarlet in 

 intensity of color, an exquisite shape, 

 fragrant, and a free grower under glass, 

 but it is too tender and erratic in growth 

 to become a popular rose in the open. 



"Five years later (1905) Eichmond 

 was sent out. This is decidedly batter in 

 growth, but with us it is not so good and 

 deep in color as Liberty. Its better and 

 more vigorous habit, however, has enabled 

 it to push Liberty on one side, and to 

 quite surpass it as a forcing rose. You 

 can cut Eichmond with a much more 

 useful stem than is possible with Lib- 

 erty, and not feel grieved that so much 

 of the plant is gone. 



* ' Ehea Eeid was sent out last year by 

 the E. G. Hill Co, the introducers of 

 Eichmond, and they gave it a most glow- 

 ing description : ' As large as American 

 Beauty, as double as Bridesmaid, as fra- 

 grant as La France, as red as Eichmond 

 in winter,' etc. American Beauty is not 

 much grown on this side, but Ehea Eeid 

 has a decided likeness to it in shape. Ehea 

 Eeid is a grand rose, and is almost all 

 that is claimed for it by the raisers, but 

 I think they go a trifle too far when 

 they claim . for it the fragrance of La 

 France, although it- has much of the 

 sweet perfume found in General Jacque- 

 minot. 



"Ehea Eeid has done well with us. 

 We had plants over early in the spring 

 of 1908, full of growth when they ar- 



rived; so much so that buds were taken 

 off and worked upon a few early stocks 

 in the oppn. These grew, and flowered 

 during the same summer, while the plants 

 that were put in the open border con- 

 tinued in flower almost as late as the 

 dwarfer forms of polyanthas. Under 

 glass, too, it was constant, and it is here, 

 I feel sure, it will be most welcome. 

 It. stands remarkably well. As a matter 

 of fact, the fullest blown flower shown 

 at the E. H, S., when it gained an award 

 of merit, was a fortnight old. 



' ' Earlier in this note I mentioned that 

 Eichmond produced good growth for cut- 

 ting from, but Ehea Eeid is much more 

 vigorous. A friend of mine has a quan- 

 tity under glass — some 4,000 plants — and 

 thinks much of it, but it does not oust 

 Eichmond, in his opinion, under glass. 

 It is a little too double, and long in 

 opening "for his purpose, nor is it so fine- 

 ly formed in the bud stage as Eichmond. 



"After only one season's growth in 

 the open it is hardly fair to say too much 

 of this rose, but it is a remarkably free 

 and vigorous grower, floriferous, stands 

 the sun, and lasts well, while that it is 

 hardy is proved by the way our plants 

 and dormant buds have passed through 

 the late severe weather, and I must say 

 they have stood as well as the most 

 hardy of the hybrid perpetuals. 



" It is of ideal habit, vigorous, and yet 

 free, not throwing up a few long growths 

 and unbalancing the plant, as so many 

 do, and this will be in its favor as a per- 

 manent bedding rose." 



Trenton, N'. J.— Easter stock at Mar- 

 tin C. Bibsam's was better and more 

 plentiful than ever before. The prevail- 

 ing prices were not higher than they 

 usually are at that season; in fact, some 

 prices were lower than last year. 



.Macon, Ga. — In contradiction of a 

 published statement, that Easter lilies 

 were scarce here and that they are be- 

 coming less and less popular for use in 

 churches, two florists, D. C. Horgan, of 

 the Idle Hour Nurseries, and C. N. 

 Woodruff, issue the statement that they 

 had a larger supply of Bermuda lilies 

 for Easter, and sold more of them, than 

 ever before. 



Houte of Beauties at Grand Rapids Greenhouse Co. 



