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Decetmber 15, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



39 



ROSE MBS. A. S. WADDELL. 



The beautiful hybrid tea rose, Mrs. 

 A. K. Waddell, was introduced by the 

 well known French firm, Pernet- 

 Ducher, in the spring of 1908. Will- 

 iam H. Elliott, of Boston, Mass., tried 

 a few of it in 1909 and one or two 

 of the better class stores were enabled 

 to handle small lots of it. This sea- 

 son Mr. Elliott has a larger batch and 

 H. R. Comley, of Boston, and one or 

 two other prominent retailers are dis- 

 playing it. Mr. Comley thinks highly 

 of it, as does Mr. Elliott himself. A 

 small bunch shown at a recent meeting 

 of the Gardeners' and Florists' Club of 

 Boston attracted considerable atten- 

 tion. 



The plant is quite vigorous in habit. 

 The flower buds are rosy scarlet, open- 

 ing reddish salmon, the reverse side 

 of the petals being of a rosy red color. 

 The flowers are quite large and semi- 

 double. The color is fine under natural 

 light and even more beautiful under 

 artificial light. In England this va- 

 riety has proved an excellent bedder. 

 It is too soon yet to speak of its use- 

 fulness in this line here, but as a 

 forcing rose it has great possibilities. 

 The color is quite distinct from that 

 of any other forcing rose and the flow- 

 ers keep wonderfully. The E. G. Hill 

 Co., in its last catalogue, recommends 

 it as a grand improvement on Safrano 

 and Ma Capucine for those wanting a 

 fancy forcing rose. It will probably be 

 well shown by Mr. Elliott at the com- 

 ing national show in Boston. 



W. N. Craig. 



BABY RAMBLEBS. 



I would like to know how to treat 

 potted roses, Baby Ramblers, so as to 

 have them in bloom by Easter and 

 Decoration day. When should they be 

 brought into the greenhouse? What 

 temperature Should they be kept in and 

 will tobacco smoke hurt them any! 



G. H. P. 



Keep %he plants cool for some time 

 yet. Anything near freezing, or a trifle 

 above it, will be all right. Easter next 

 yeir comes April 16 and to be on time 

 statt the plants twelve weeks before 

 that date in a temperature of 48 to 50 

 degrees at night, advancing it 5 de- 

 grees, or if necessary 10 degrees, later. 

 If the plants seem likely to be a little 

 backward, ten weeks -vrould suffice in an 

 average night temperature of 60 de- 

 grees, but the plants are better if not 

 grown too warm. As they come into 



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flower they can be moved to slightly 

 cooler quarters. For Memorial day the 

 plants will need less time and, as they 

 will be starting naturally alDOut the 

 end of March, that date is suitable for 

 placing them under glass. 



Smoke of tobacco stems will not hurt 

 the roses if given in light doses. A 

 strong fumigation, while they are in 

 flower, will talje the color out of the 

 flowers and also cause them to droop. 

 As tobacco stems, when used for fumi- 

 gation, cause a disagreeable odor for a 

 couple of days, the bulk of growers 

 have now discarded them in favor of 

 some of the nicotine extracts or papers, 

 which are more cleanly, easy to use and 

 leave no unpleasant odor behind them. 



C. W. 



HYBBID PERPETUALS. 



The demand for hybrid perpetual 

 roses in pots for Easter is not what it 

 used to be, but quite a number are still 

 disposed of. It takes considerable nice 

 manipulation to strike a batch just 

 right, when extreme climatic vagaries 

 are taken into consideration. Plants 

 wanted for spring blooming should now 

 be potted; as a rule, 7-inch and 8-inch 

 pots will be found suitable. In using 

 budded plants, endeavor, if possible, to 

 bury the worked portion. Stand the 

 plants where the pots are protected 

 from frost, but where the temperature 

 is as low as freezing, or a little lower. 

 Do not do any pruning until starting 

 the plants, which will not be for some 

 weeks yet. 



A fine Easter seller is that queen of 

 white roses, Frau Karl Druschki. Other 

 varieties that do well in pots are the 



old General Jacqueminot, Mme. Gabriel 

 Luizet, Mrs. R. G. Sharman Crawford, 

 Mrs. John Laing, Ulrich Brunner, 

 Magna Charta and Prince C. de Rohan. 

 Among other types of roses which are 

 suitable for pot culture for Easter are 

 Clothilde Soupert and Hermosa, each 

 of which is old, but hard to beat; 

 Catherine Zeimet, the white baby ram- 

 bler; Souvenir de Malmaison and 

 White Maman Cochet. 



HARDY YELLOW ROSES. 



Will you please send me a list of 

 hardy yellow roses, which are florifer- 

 ous and will stand the Ohio winters? 



J. G. H. 



The number of hardy yellow roses for 

 your state is practically nil. Austrian 

 Copper and Persian Yellow have small 

 flowers and bloom early, but do not 

 flower through the season. Soleil d'Or, 

 orange yellow, sometimes reddish gold, 

 has a fine flower. This will withstand 

 a temperature below zero, but it is not 

 very floriferous. The best of the yellow 

 roses are found in the hybrid tea class. 

 These are continuous bloomers all sum- 

 mer and fall. These would not carry 

 over with you, imless heeled in a cold- 

 frame or buried in the soil outdoors just 

 before the ground freezes up. One or 

 two fine varieties of hybrid teas are: 

 Betty, ruddy gold; Fran? Deegcn, 

 golden yellow; Gustavo Regis, golden 

 yellow. C. W. 



MORE DATA NEEDED. 



I have a bench of White Killarneys 

 which are in seemingly good health, 

 with the foliage rich, dark green, and 

 the new growth rich, bronzy green, but 

 the growths are short— do not lengthen 

 out as they should. What feeding 

 would you recommend to correct this 

 condition? B. H. I. 



This querist has given me no data 

 to go on. Had he been more explicit 

 and stated some of the conditions un- 

 der which his roses have been grown, 

 I might be able to help him. As he 

 does not give these conditions, such 

 as temperature, feeding and ventilation, 

 or whether they are in solid or table 

 benches, it would be ra:sh of me to 

 advise. Ribes. 



^^^M 



BEDDING GERANIUMS. 



With chrysanthemums out of the 

 way, it is possible to give some needed 

 additional space to the little bedding 

 geraniums. It never pays to keep them 

 crowded at any stage of their growth. 

 Spread out the plants and, when doing 

 so, remove dead or decaying leaves 

 from them and loosen the surface soil a 

 little. In some cases the plants, where 

 placed in pots quite early as cuttings, 

 have now made sufficient roots to 

 necessitate a shift to a larger size of 

 pot. Do not use any manure in the soil, 



unless it be a little fine bone, or you 

 will promote a soft, rank growth, which 

 will not flower satisfactorily. Make it 

 a point to let the plants dry out well 

 between waterings. An excess of mois- 

 ture promotes a soft, rank growth, and, 

 if ventilation is not carefully given, 

 may cause damping off. 



Any plants sufficiently strong to yield 

 a cutting can be topgedsand the tops 

 may be placed in 2-incH |^ots of sandy 

 loam and stood where they will get a 

 bottom heat of 60 to 65 degrees. There 

 will be only a small loss from damping 

 off if potted in this way — considerably 



