. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American Florist. 425. lV\t U\R UHV^HOM^H. HER Majesty.—This rose was in at- tendance at the recent Philadelphia show but not numerously or very expansively. If I may venture an opinion, she is about s'teen times deader than "Puritan" ever will be—the latter was out in force, and was certainly fine. KEYSTONE. Budded Roses —Can some one tell me through the Florist whether the White Mermet, Papa Gontier or Cook will do well budded ? I. W. A Pink Moon Flower.—Mrs. J. S. R. Thomson, Spartanburg, S.
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. i888. The American Florist. 425. lV\t U\R UHV^HOM^H. HER Majesty.—This rose was in at- tendance at the recent Philadelphia show but not numerously or very expansively. If I may venture an opinion, she is about s'teen times deader than "Puritan" ever will be—the latter was out in force, and was certainly fine. KEYSTONE. Budded Roses —Can some one tell me through the Florist whether the White Mermet, Papa Gontier or Cook will do well budded ? I. W. A Pink Moon Flower.—Mrs. J. S. R. Thomson, Spartanburg, S. C, writes that she has a pink Ipomcea Bona no:?. The Violet Disease. The violet disease, though more or less general for the last few years, does not yet appear to have reached proportions of sufficient magnitude to influence the New York market, for the reason that during the past winter violets were never finer or more abundant, and prices ob- tained by growers were scarcely up to the average of former years. This would seem to indicate that growers have their own methods for counteracting the dis- ease or else the supply comes from new and exempt location^. The experience of some of our extensive growers of the violet would be most interest- ing matter for many readers of the Florist. For the last few sea- sons I have found that thorough and deep cul- ture with the hoe twice each week through the growing season outside, with an occasional dress- ing of air slacked lime, has brought my plants absolutely free from dis- ease up to the time of planting them on the benches for winter flow- ering, and then the same continual stirring of the soil during the fall and winter seasons has al- ways seemed to main- tain a perfectly healthy condition of my plants. My practice has been to set out the plants so that a Dutch hoe can be run through them both ways, to use the hoe before the surface of the bed has time to become crusted, and when the plants be- gin to flower, gather i
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