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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



February 16, 1911. 



A NEW JEBSEY SMOKER. 



The New Jersey Floricultural Society 

 held its annual smoker Friday evening, 

 February 10, at its hall in Orange, N. 

 J. Nearly 100 were present. Albert 

 F. Larson is president. He called on 

 George Smith to make a speech pre- 

 senting the numerous silver cups won 

 at the society's meetings during the 

 year. Messrs. Walter Gray, William 

 Reid, A. F. Larson, Max Schneider, 

 Frank Drew and Lager & Hurrell were 

 the winners, Mr. Keid being especially 

 successful in that he captured six ol" 

 the cups. The Reverend Mr. Lightipe 

 and Messrs. Schultz, Tricker, Atkins, 

 MacTaggart, Stewart and Shaw were 

 among the speakers. Local and pro- 

 fessional entertainers kept 'the interest 

 up until a late hour. 



There were the usual exhibits of 

 roses, carnations, orchids, etc., by 

 Messrs. Berglund, Schneider, Larson, 

 Jenkins, Reid, Drew, Jones and Lager 

 & Hurrell, some of which are shown in 

 the accompanying illustration. 



SOME NEW THINGS. 



[A paper by E. G. Hill, of Richmond, Ind.. 

 read at the meeting of the Illinois State Florists' 

 Association at Champaign, III., February 9, 1911.] 



As the rose has the right of way by 

 general consent, I will begin by con- 

 sidering a few new Varieties, jboth 

 European and American, which have 

 recently come under my notice. 



Juliet (Wm. Paul & Son) is unques- 

 tionably the finest and most distinct of 

 all new roses. Tt is a garden variety of 

 strong growth, making heavy, upright 

 canes, and has the good quality of flow- 

 ering throughout the season. The color 

 is a marvel of glistening yellow, crim- 

 son and pink. This variety should make 

 not only a fine rose for the garden, but 

 a beautiful market pot plant. It has 

 a strong infusion of Austrian copper or 

 Persian somewhere in its lineage. 



Edward Mawley (McGredy). This 

 rose was declared by all who saw it at 

 the National Rose Show at Regent's 

 Park to be the finest of all the hybrid 

 teas. It is a glowing velvety crimson, 

 of shapely form and good texture. If 

 this variety will force, it will be a fine 

 addition to our winter flowering sorts. 

 No rose of recent years has had such a 

 warm reception as was accorded this 



variety by the English public. It was 

 named for Edward Mawley, the secre- 

 tary of the National Society. It is 

 worthy of trial under glass. 



Two Fernet Hybrid Boses. 



Rayon d'Or (Pernet) is one of the 

 most wonderful advances in color 

 among the recently introduced roses, 

 and, as seen growing by the thousands 

 at Lyons, France, in the raiser's garden, 

 was a sight never to be forgotten. It 

 is a distinct Pernettiana variety — dwarf 

 in habit, free flowering, with a bril- 

 liancy in its yellow ground color that 

 it is hardly possible to describe; it is 

 frequently marbled and flaked with red. 

 It belongs, however, among the hybrid 

 Austrian briars, and it .remains to be 

 seen whether or not it will hold its 

 foliage in our climate. 



Beauty de Lyon (Pernet) was the 

 winner of the Paris gold medal last 

 year and is a notably strong growing 

 hybrid. This and Juliet should, on ac- 

 count of their extraordinary vigor, 

 make good garden varieties. The color 

 is coral red, jshading to yellow; a 

 strong, heavy grower, with ample 

 foliage and a flower large, full and 

 globular; a magnificent bedder. 



Jonkheer J. L. Mock hails from Hol- 

 land and is one of the strongest in the 

 family. It outgrows every other variety 

 on our benches and is constantly send- 

 ing up heavy bottom breaks, each 

 topped with a glorious flower in two 

 tones of color — fiery red within, the out- 

 side of the petals silvery, rosy white. 

 Of fine rounding form; one of the 

 largest in size; a grand rose. Awarded 

 eight prizes in Europe. 



Miss Alice de Rothschild. This is one 

 of the Alexander Dickson varieties and, 

 as viewed in the nurseries at New- 

 townards, looked like a veritable dwarf 

 Marechal Niel. This should make a 

 fine bedding or garden rose in this par- 

 ticular line of color, nothing being in 

 greater demand than a deep yellow rose 

 of fine rounded form for the border. 



Two Notable Yellow Boses. 



Mrs. Aaron Ward is a rose that com 

 pels admiration. First of all, it is a 

 free grower, producing handsome, glossy 

 foliage in great profusion, which it 

 holds grandly when bedded out. It is 



one of the freest varieties that we 

 know, and throws good, long canea 

 readily. Admiral Ward, the greatest 

 amateur rose grower in the country, 

 names it as one of the six best bedders 

 in our trying American climate. In the 

 greenhouse it is a marvel of beauty, for 

 besides having great strength of con- 

 stitution, beauty and profusion of 

 foliage, it forces readily, is extremely 

 free, can be cut tight for shipment, and 

 opens beautifully. The color is a deep 

 orange yellow seen in no other rose, and 

 it develops into a large rosette-shaped 

 flower, glowing orange in the center, 

 shading to a medium yellow on the 

 edges. 



Another aspirant for favor in the yel- 

 low class is Alexander Scott's Melody, 

 which is being accorded a fine recep- 

 tion by the trade. It is notable for its 

 freedom as a forcing variety, and for 

 its good color. Yellow will soon become 

 as popular among roses as among 

 chrysanthemums, when once it is shown 

 in handsome form and size. We can all 

 remember the day when Marechal Niel 

 and later Perle des Jardines were the 

 most popular of cut roses, and a dinner 

 was lacking in elegance without them. 

 Sunrise, Sunset and Joseph Hill would 

 still be fine property for the cut flower 

 man if only they could be grown at a 

 profit. 



The Sports of Killarney. 



The Double Killarneys are awakening 

 interest and will be found most useful 

 for summer cutting, owing to the addi- 

 tional petalage. 



Here is one of the curious incidents 

 regarding the sporting of roses or other 

 plants; these sports often appear sim- 

 ultaneously with different growers, as 

 if a given space of time allowed the 

 variation to work to completion. You 

 will remember that the white form of 

 Killarney appeared at several places 

 about the same time. We found it on 

 several of our plants the same year 

 that it originated farther east, though 

 none of our sports proved pure white. 



Two years ago Richmond sported 

 pink — not a bright shade, but interest- 

 ing — so we tried out a dozen plants of 

 it. One of these pink Richmonds 

 sported double, giving just twice as 

 many petals as the average Richmond. 

 Early this year this double pink Rich- 



At the Smoker of the New Jersey Floricultural Society, Orange, N. J^ February 10. 



