The Florists' Review 



Mabch 6, 1913. 



HABDY EVEBBLOOMING BOSES. 



I should like to get the names of 

 some roses that are everblooming, that 

 can be cut from summer until frost out- 

 side and that will winter in the ground 

 without injury in this Pennsylvania 

 climate. G. E. S. 



The hybrid tea class will be the most 

 useful for you. These are not quite so 

 hardy as the hybrid perpetuals, but are 

 more persistent bloomers. A few good 

 varieties to plant are: Gruss an Tep- 

 litz, bright crimson; Radiance, cerise 

 pink; Dark Pink Killarney; White Kil- 

 larney; Mme. Caroline Testout, satiny 

 rose; Mme. Abel Chatenay, carmine 

 rose, shaded salmon; Mme. Eavary, deep 

 yellow; Viscountess Folkestone, creamy 

 pink; Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, white, 

 tinted lemon; Konigin Carola, satiny 

 rose. 



If your minimum winter temperature 

 falls much below zero, it is safer to 

 lift and bury these roses, replanting 

 them each spring as soon as the ground 

 is open. In less severe weather, if 

 earthed up and protected with straw 

 they will winter saftely. 



Among the more persistent flowering 

 hybrid perpetuals, Frau Karl Druschki, 

 white; Mrs. R. G. Sharman-Crawford, 

 rosy pink, and Mrs. John Laing, satiny 

 pink, are a good trio. One or two other 

 roses you should plant are: Clothilde 

 Soupert, white, shaded pink, and 

 Maman Cochet, both white and pink va- 

 rieties. These latter are teas and are 

 better heeled in a coldframe over win- 

 ter. Hermosa, pale pink, is also useful 

 for cutting. C. W. 



ROSES FOB MEMORIAL DAY. 



We are desirous of getting a quantity 

 of pot roses in bloom for Memorial day. 

 Can you inform us how they should be 

 handled in order to get them in? The 

 varieties are baby ramblers, Magna 

 Charta, Mrs. Cutbush, Ulrich Brunner 

 and Frau Karl Druschki. J. C. 



None of the roses named will need 

 much forcing to flower them for Me- 

 morial day. If not already potted, see 

 that they are got in readiness at once. 

 Of course, if they were potted late in 

 the fall, they will do all the better for 

 it. Keep them in a cold cellar or pit, 

 as near the freezing point as possible. 

 They will start to grow quickly if 

 given any warmth -at all. The hybrid 

 perpetuals should be pruned back quite 

 hard. Leave three to four eyes on the 

 stronpost shoots and one or two on 

 weaker ones. The baby ramblers need 



merely to have weak and dead wood re- 

 moved and the end of the shoots headed 

 back a little. 



The roses will not. require a warm 

 house to flower them 4Bv Memorial day. 

 If placed in a greenhouse, kept at 45 

 degrees at night the • first week in 

 April and 5 degrees warmer when 

 started, they will be on time. If they 

 seem a trifle early, hold them back in 

 a cold house when opening, and any 

 that seem backward can be given a lit- 

 tle more heat. C. W. 



FOB BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE. 



What roses that are used for green- 

 house planting can also be satisfactorily 

 grown outside for cut flowers, in this 

 Pennsylvania climate, and how should 

 they be handled? G. R. S. 



Such varieties as Killarney, White 

 Killarney, Killarney Queen, Richmond, 

 Mrs. Aaron Ward, Kaiserin Augusta 

 Victoria, Mme. Abel Chatenay, Radiance 

 and My Maryland flower well outdoors, 

 in addition to being good greenhouse 

 roses. Grafted plants, as a rule, are supe- 

 rior to own-root stock outdoors, and 



field-grown stock is preferable to small 

 plants in pots, although the latter, if in 

 3-inch to 4-inch pots, do quite well. I 

 have sometimes seen good results ob- 

 tained by heading back stock which was 

 cleaned out of the houses in April, and 

 planting the same outside. 



The hybrid teas and teas prefer a 

 well manured soil, but a lighter soil 

 than the hybrid perpetuals. Plant so 

 that the grafts are covered two to 

 three inches. Be sure the roots are 

 moist, >and firm the soil thoroughly 

 about them. A mnlch of old m,aiiure in 

 summer is ^beneficial, and if water can 

 be supplied during dry periods the 

 plants will be much benefited. 



C. W. 



PLANTING AND TBAINING SMILAX 



Will you give me some instructions 

 with regard to smilax? How many 

 plants should grow from one ounce of 

 seed? How far apart should they be 

 planted in the beds, for best results? 

 How many vines should be allowed to 

 twine on each string, in order to pro- 

 duce the best possible strings? Some 

 strings that one sees are too matted and 

 bunchy looking. M. T. 



It is not easy to say how marly plants 

 of smilax one should get from one ounce 

 of seed, as much would depend on the 

 condition of the seed and also on the 

 way in which it might be treated. 



Seeds sown now ought to produce 

 plants of good size for planting next 

 July, when they should be planted in 

 the bed in rows ten inches apart, the 

 plants being spaced eight inches apart 

 in the rows. All the strong shoots these 

 young plants will produce may be 

 trained up one string, and will be none 

 too large for the average market. 



W. H. T. 



DISEASED GEBANIUM FOLIAGE. 



Will you kindly tell us what is the 

 disease on the enclosed geranium leaves, 

 and also state what is the remedy for it? 



J. K. & S. 



This is a common disease on geraniums 

 under glass, and also makes its appear- 

 ance outdoors during spells of hot, moist 

 and sunless weather. If your plants are 

 badly affected I would discard the worst, 

 pick the affected foliage from the others 

 and spread them out so that the foliage 

 of each plant will just clear that of its 

 neighbor. Use care in watering; a com- 

 mon mistake is made in overwatering 

 geraniums. If kept constantly moist 

 they make a soft, sappy growth, which 

 is more susceptible to disease than when 

 the plants are allowed to become fairly 

 dry between the waterings. This latter 

 method hardens the growth, toughens 

 the leaves and makes the plants more 

 disease-proof. 



Do not play the hose on your plants. 

 A wetting over may make them look 



nice and fresh, but helps to breed this 

 leaf disease. Clean the plants frequent- 

 ly, giving them a fresh stand, so that 

 they will not become crowded. Let the 

 night temperature run from 45 to 50 

 degrees, not over the latter figure. Never 

 use any shade on the glass; the plants 

 want all the sun they can get. Ventilate 

 at every possible opportunity; geraniums 

 love plenty of fresh air. When propa- 

 gating, do not leave the cuttings in the 

 sand any longer than is absolutely neces- 

 sary after they are rooted. Weakened 

 constitutions may be often traced to too 

 long a stay in the sand. Do not become 

 discouraged. A little rational treatment 

 will clean out this disease. C. W. 



Ansonia, Conn. — Frank L. Hotchkiss, 

 who recently sold his greenhouses on 

 Wakelee avenue to the Ansonia Floral 

 Co., has gone to California, in com- 

 pany with Mrs. Hotchkiss. They ex- 

 pect to remain in California for several 

 months. 



