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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Apbil 18, 1012. 



the foliage than any other variety. 

 Lady Hume Campbell, while not immune 

 from disease by any means, is much 

 the most reliable sort grown today and 

 will please you better than any other 

 you could grow. Double violets want 

 quite different treatment from singles. 

 They should not be left out and ex- 

 posed to any frost, but are better 

 housed early in September. While sin- 

 gles do best in a winter night tempera- 



ture of as near 40 degrees as possible, 

 doubles should have 5 degrees more 

 •heat. They flower longer than the 

 doubles; it should be possible for you 

 to pick until well into May. After 

 the middle of March the night tempera- 

 ture can be dropped 5 degrees. Abun- 

 dant ventilation, and, if warm, some 

 shading on the glass, will help to keep 

 the houses cooler and help the flowers 

 to hold their color. C. W. 



SEASONABLE NOTES. 



Pmaing Hardy Boses. 



"With the removal of the winter pro- 

 tection some idea can be formed of the 

 effects of the severe winter on roses. 

 Even the hardiest of the hybrid per- 

 petual class are killed back quite low, 

 but where a close covering of mother 

 earth has been drawn about the plants, 

 sufficient green, plump wood will be left 

 to prune back. Don't be in a hurry 

 about doing the pruning, for even in 

 April we get some frosts of sufficient 

 severity to seriously cripple the young 

 shoots on the eafiy pruned plants. The 

 hybrid perpetuals, such as Frau Karl 

 Druschki, Brunner, Mrs. John Laing, 

 Mrs. Sharman Crawford, Reynolds 

 Hole, General Jacqueminot, Magna 

 Charta and others, give the strongest 

 shoots and finest flowers if pruned back 

 hard. Leave not over three or four 

 eyes on the strongest shoots, and one 

 or two on more moderate ones. Cut 

 out all weak and dead wood entirely. 

 You can prune more lightly and secure 

 a slightly earlier crop of flowers on 

 shorter stems, but when it comes timo 

 for winter protection th^ disadvantages 

 of this system present themselves, as 

 it is necessary to raise the protection 

 much higher than is needed where hard 

 pruning is resorted to. 



The hybrid teas are not, as a rule, 

 either so hardy or so vigorous in con- 

 stitution as the hybrid perpetuals, and 

 merely the dead wood and the ends of 

 the remaining shoots should be re- 

 moved, Gruss an Teplitz is perhaps the 

 hardiest of this type of roses and 

 surely none of them give a larger and 

 more satisfactory return than this 

 splendid scarlet variety. 



The teas want similar pruning to the 

 hybrid teas. They are, with a few 

 noted exceptions, less desirable than 

 the hybrid tea class for bedding, but 

 some varieties grow and flower beau- 

 tifully near the seaeoast; inland they 

 are more or less failures. 



The ramblers have in some cases 

 killed back a little more than usual, 

 but all the wood which was hard and 

 well ripened is perfectly fresh. The 

 young canes which started from the 

 ground are what we should take care 

 of, as these will produce the finest 

 trusses of flowers. Older wood should 

 be cut clean out and if growers only 

 had the courage to do this each season 

 after the flowering period is over they 

 would get much stronger canes from 

 the base. Rambler roses do not want 

 hard pruning. The stronger shoots 

 should be left practically their full 

 length, merely taking off the ends, 

 which are usually dead or dying. Weak 

 wood should be cut out clean. In order 

 to get rambler canes to break more 

 freely, it is a good plan to bend them 

 over. 



After pruning is completed give the 

 soil about all hardy roses a good loos- 

 ening. If you gave them a mulch of 

 cow manure last fall they will not want 

 any further feeding now, but if you 

 did not provide them with any food in 

 the autumn a top-dressing of fine bone, 

 dried blood or sheep manure beforo 

 stirring up the ground will be benefi- 

 cial, for, be it remembered, hardy roses 

 are strong feeders. 



Wanting Hardy Boses. 



While late autumn is a good time to 

 plant roses, particularly the H. P. sec- 

 tioQT, except in the coldest states, it is 

 in spring when nearly all this planting 

 is done. Autumn planted stock, well 

 protected, will winter well and start to 

 grow much better than such as are set 

 out in the spring, but as the latter sea- 

 son is now with us, it behooves all 

 prospective planters to lose not a day 

 in securing and planting their roses. 

 Own root roses do jvell in the warmer 

 states, but for the colder states budded 

 or grafted stock which has been grown 

 in the open continually is far the best. 

 Grafted plants are much more vigorous 

 and possess greater longevity than own 

 root stock. Be sure to have all roots 

 well moistened at planting time, cover- 

 ing the grafts two to three inches, and 

 press the soil firmly about the roots. 



The only difficulty with grafted roses 

 is that they must be looked over occa- 

 sionally and the Manetti or seedling 

 briar suckers removed as they appear; 

 otherwise they will soon cripple the 

 roses, but every bright florist and gar- 

 dener knows, or should know, the dif- 

 ference between the stock and the rose. 



In planting the hybrid teas it is well 

 to remember that they will succeed 

 particularly well on light ground of 

 quite a sandy nature, provided they are 

 well fed and supplied with water. 



BAMBLEBS FOB EASTEB. 



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While Easter was quite early this 

 year, it is much earlier in 1913, coming 

 March 23. This means that some hard 

 forcing will be necessary in order to 

 flower many plants, roses included, on 

 time. The ramblers pot grown through 

 the summer are what is needed for an 

 early Easter, and now is the time to 

 purchase and pot up the plants; that is, 

 unless you are growing your own 

 plants. Give them a fairly heavy and 

 rich soil and firm them well in the pots, 

 which can be 6-inch to 8-inch, accord- 

 ing to the size of the plants. Cut them 

 down fairly close to the ground after 

 potting; then place them in a bright 

 house, well ventilated, and not kept 

 over 50 to 52 degrees at night. Tie the 

 young shoots up as they appear. In 



Ranges of J. J. Btomt and Jacob Hauck at Bloomfield, N. J. 



