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Title: The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade
Identifier: americanfloristw44amer (find matches)
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: American Florists Company
Subjects: Floriculture; Florists
Publisher: Chicago : American Florist Company
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igri. The American Florist. 615
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A. N. PIERSONS FIRST PRIZE EXHIBIT OF ROSES AT THE SECOND NATIONAL FLOWER SHOW AT BOSTON, MARCH 31. house and by carefully examining the base of the plants they are found to be discolored, the bark showing black or having a bruised appearance, it would in all probability be better to throw the plants out and try some other crop, as the plants forwarded are small and at this season, even if healthy, they could hardly be expected to produce any great amount of flow- ers until spring. We are inclined to think that the soil is to blame for the diseased plants, as it seemed to con- tain no fiber whatever and appears to have no "life" in it, forming a compact mass on the benches coming under the name of dirt rather than soil, although in this respect we may be mistaken ow- ing to the poor condition in which the samples reached us, and, as stated above, for the same reason we can only guess at the real cause of the diseased plants. E. Roses With Club Root. Ed. American Florist : Our roses, especially Richmond and Golden Gate, have club root. The leaves turn pale and drop off and some of them have the appearance of having been scalded. Can you tell us the cause and inform us what to do to remedy the trouble? C. A. W. This seldom appears upon other va- rieties of roses than Perle des Jardin, but the wild briar, common known as the French briar, invariably clubs at the root. Club root is generally sup- posed to be caused by a fungi in the ground;- Cabbage, turnips and certain weeds -often have club root. In these cases it is caused by a two-winged fly which deposits its eggs in the ground around the stem of the plant which quickly hatching into maggots, work their way down the stem to the root, causing it to club. I have seen Perle doing remarkably well even though badly affected by club root, and do not suppose that this alone would cause the roses to look as described. Roses, especially hybrid teas, drop a great many leaves in the fall, being half deciduous. These drop from the base up and it is a decided benefit to the plant at this time of the year, al- lowing light and air. Golden Gate will oftimes hold onto its leaves until the last moment and then drop them very suddenly, dropping oftimes more than one would wish. We suppose that the leaves to which reference is made are dropping from the young shoots at the top of the plant. If this is the case there is something radically wrong with the roses. They probably have been burnt by gas escaping from the furnace, il- luminating as well as sewer gas has a bad effect upon roses. By the de- scription one would suppose that there had been burning flour of sulphur upon some hot surface, the effect from these fumes would be much the same as is described. Roses at this season of the year, especially with the cloudy weather that we are getting, naturally get weak and soft, and susceptible to injury, great care should be taken of them until the turn of the year to keep them hardy and vigorous as possible. E. W. Denver, Colo.—The park board are making extensive plantings of trees, shrubs and wild flowers in.furtherance of the beautiflcation of the boulevard system. NORRISTOWN, Pa.—Joseph N. King, the well known florist and also coroner, will, in the next few weeks, erect a large greenhouse in the rear of his nursery, which he will devote to the culture of carnations and American Beauty roses. Some Good Red Bedding Roses. As a flower suitable for bedding and massing the rose is rising in popularity year by year. There was a time, not so very long ago, when the rose was regarded more or less as a specimen plant; be it standard or bush, we pro- cured one, or perhaps two, of a sort, and planted them in borders with other flowers, and sought for excel- lence in form, size, and color of the individual flower. We wanted quality, not quantity, and we found what we wanted in the hybrid perpetual. But compared with the modern rose, the true hybrid perpetual has but a short season, the designation "perpetual" simply denoting that, in contrast to the damask from which it sprang, the hybrid perpetual had more than one crop of flowers, not a continuity of flowering from June to October. The hybrid perpetual produced first-rate flowers in its first crop, but the second blooms were only second rate, mere echoes of the first. Ripening set in early; some varieties began ripening at the end of July if the season was dry, and then all was over. But the coming in of the hybrid tea has changed all this, writes a cor- respondent in The Gardeners' Maga- zine. We found in it the hardiness of the hybrid perpetual combined with the activity of the tea, and, moreover, we found also that the second, and even the third crop of flowers was just as good, and sometimes better, than the first. Nevertheless, the suit- ability of the hybrid tea rose for bed- ding purposes was not immediately recognized, and for this reason the hybrid teas, when first introduced, lacked qualities demanded of bedding plants, compactness of growth, florlt- erousness, and brilliancy. We had this brilliancy in the hybrid perpetual, such as Horace Vernet, Al-

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