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REMARKS ON ROSES. 



fifty miles, and empties into Lake Cham- 

 plain, alihough a fine agricultural region, 

 no aj)ple trees can be found within three or 

 four miles from the stream, in a healthy 

 bearing state, and few of any sort. I had 

 often heard this stated, but sujiposed no at- 

 tention had been given to their cultivation 

 — but while at the house of Chief Justice 

 Royce, who resides on a large farm, where 

 he was born, on its banks, he informed me 

 that in no part of the State had the farmers 



and others more faithfully tried to raise ap- 

 ple trees than on the banks of this river ; 

 that they grew well while young, but inva- 

 riably died when grown to the size of bearing 

 trees. This cannot be attributed to climate, 

 as on higher and colder land, three to four 

 miles from the stream, apples are grown suc- 

 cessfully. If any pomologist cangive a rea- 

 son for this failure, I shall be very happy to 

 hear it. Chauncey Goodrich. 



Burlington, Vt., Jan. 1847. 



REMARKS ON ROSES— No. III. 



BY DR. WM. W. VALK, FLUSHING, L. I. 



A FRIEND has intimated that according to 

 his experience, the Damask Perpetvals will 

 flower more than once, if planted in very 

 rich soil, and pruned immediately after the 

 first flowers have faded. We mean to say, 

 that if left to themselves, with but the usual 

 spring pruning, they will not, as a general 

 thiner, flower more than once, yet we doubt 

 not, that with the treatment indicated above, 

 a second crop of flowers may be obtained, 

 not only from the damask perpeluals, but 

 also from several families usually regarded 

 as Sumnn.er Roses only. We have already 

 insisted upon the necessity of growing the 

 Rose in the very richest kind of soil, and 

 again caution the amateur against attempt- 

 ing to grow them in any other, unless he is 

 perfectly indifferent as to the appearance of 

 his plants, and the quality of their flowers. 



We now continue the subject of pruning, 

 having, in our No. 2, remarked on the steps 

 necessary to form bushes, and to give hand- 

 some heads to standards. Next in order, 

 we proceed to speak of pruning and train- 

 ing Roses, on pillars or columns, flat trellis- 

 ses, walls, and the fronts of houses. 



Pillars for Roses are best when made of 



trellis-work, or rods of iron, but they are 

 generally of wood, and should not be less 

 than one foot in diameter. We will sup- 

 pose the planting has been as carefully done 

 as we recommend it should be ; that the 

 plants have been cut down to the ground, 

 or nearly so, and that they are now making 

 their new growth. As the leading shoots 

 advance, they are to be arranged spirally 

 around the pillar, so far distant from each 

 other, as to permit the filling up of the space 

 between with foliage; these leading shoots 

 then form the tree, and all the side shoots 

 bearing blooms, the pillar of Roses is sys- 

 tematically and handsomely formed. We 

 do not assert that all this is done in a year, 

 though some varieties will almost do as 

 much; and here, as in all other cases of 

 Rose pruning, the little weak shoots must be 

 removed, the strongest left on all the way 

 up, and shortened to two eyes. It sometimes 

 happens that the tops die down, in which 

 case they must be cut back to the strongest 

 eye, not to the top one, because this and 

 several others may be weak, and never 

 would be otherwise, whereas the stronger 

 one will grow fast, and soon supply the 



