THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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Acres of bloom in the rose fields. Storrs & Harrison Company. 
W. C. BARRY ON ROSES. 
At the last meeting of the Society of American Florists, 
Mr. W. C. Barry of Rochester, presented an interesting 
paper on out-door roses. This paper is specially worthy of 
perusal and study for the reason that Mr. Barry is not only 
a lover of roses but an expert in their culture and in the 
knowledge of the various classes and varieties. For 
several years past he has made a personal study of roses in 
the grounds of the Mt. Hope Nurseries and is at the present 
time unquestionably one of the best qualified men to 
speak on this subject that we have in the country. 
Mr. Barry recommends among the ever-blooming sorts, 
Baby Rambler, Killarney, Baby Dor- 
othv, White Cochet and Charlotte 
Soupert. 
For out-door use in exposed sit¬ 
uations, Mr. Barry recommends Rosa 
Rugosa and its hybrids. This,' he 
remarks, should be the rose for the 
million. 
Among the hardy climbing roses 
he especially recommends Crimson 
Rambler, Dorothy Perkins, Lady Gay, Rubin, Hiawatha, 
and Leuchstern. 
In the hybrid teas, Mr. Barry’s experience leads him to 
mention favorably, Bessie Brown, Dean Hole, Florence 
Pemberton, Liberty and Mildred Grant. Mr. Barry also 
takes occasion to specially mention the Lyon rose of Pernet- 
Ducher. It is a hybrid tea with large globular pink 
colored, fragrant flowers. This article of Mr. Barry’s is 
well worth the reading and study by all persons interested in 
rose culture. 
Looking after a small rose order. 
STORAGE OF GRAPE VINES. 
E. H. Pratt. 
Read before the American Association of Nurserymen. 
My remarks will be confined to the storage of grape vines, 
and,incidentally, to the increasing need of better methods of 
cold storage for all kinds of nursery stock. The rapid 
increase of the cost of labor and of all articles used by nursery¬ 
men in growing, packing and marketing their products 
makes it more and more imperatively necessary that there 
should be no loss of stock after it is matured and ready for 
market. It often happens that at the end of the spring sale 
season more or less merchantable stock remains on hand 
unsold. If this stock is dug it will be almost a total loss 
and if undug another year’s growth will make most of it 
■unmerchantable. Can it be safely dug, and if unsold, car¬ 
ried over to the succeeding fall and spring and then sold in 
first class mechantable condition? 
To solve this problem our company made the experiment 
which I am about to relate. On June 7, 1901, we packed 
three boxes of grape vines, mostly two-year, No. 1, each 
box containing about eight hundred vines, and sent them to 
the Buffalo Cold Storage Company, with instructions to hold 
through the summer boxes No. 1 and No. 2 at a tempera¬ 
ture of 33 or 34 degrees Fahrenheit; box No. 3 at 28 degrees 
Fahrenheit. The boxes were 2x2x3 feet i n size, niade of 
ordinary half inch box lumber, lined inside with oiled paper 
to prevent evaporation of moisture. Sun dried moss was 
used in packing boxes No. 1 and No. 2, wet moss in No. 3 
in same condition ordinarily used in packing. The vines 
were dug in October, 1900, stored in our storage cellars 
during the winter and spring of 1901 and were in a dormant 
condition when packed June 7, 1901. On September 26, 
1901, the boxes were ordered returned to us, having then 
been in cold storage three months and nineteen days. On 
opening the vines all were found to be in the same dormant 
condition as when packed, with tops and roots in perfectly 
fresh, healthy condition, even to the small fibers on the 
roots, in every way in first class merchantable condition. 
Our experiment might have success¬ 
fully ended here, but we determined 
to carry it farther. The vines were 
therefore again planted in our stor¬ 
age bins and carried over until the 
spring of 1902. In March and April, 
1902,part of them were used in filling 
orders, being then apparently as fresh 
and healthy as any vines we ever 
handled. To convince ourselves 
beyond a doubt that the vines were actually in as good 
condition as they appeared, the remainder, about half 
the whole number, were planted the last of May in nursery 
rows in the usual manner of planting nursery stock. Al¬ 
most every vine made a strong, healthy growth and was 
used in filling orders in the fall of 1902. I could see no dif¬ 
ference in condition of the stock kept at different tempera¬ 
tures, but am of the opinion that had those kept at 33 or 34 
degrees been packed in as wet moss as those kept at 28 
degrees, the buds would have started somewhat. 
The value of this experiment is simply to prove that 
grape vines, at least, and I believe all kinds of nursery stock 
Soil tenants brought to the surface by the subsoiler. Storrs & Harrison Company. 
