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HOW TO GROW EVERBLOOMING ROSES. 



entry and four good bed-rooms. The chim- 

 ney flues are all drawn into one stack in 

 the attic, and the roof is covered with shin- 

 gles. The first story is ten feet, the second 

 nine feet high. 



Our principal object in giving this plan, 



is to show a convenient and compact mode 

 of arranging the interior of a certain class 

 of village or suburban dwellings, so as 

 most to promote the comfort of those who 

 build this class of cottages, and who have 

 little time to plan for themselves. 



HOW TO GROW BVSRBLOOMING ROSES. 



BV AN AMATEUR. NEW-YORK. 



Dear Sir — No doubt many of your read- 

 ers, like myself, think there is nothing, in 

 all the range of the flower-garden, so beau- 

 tiful and so satisfactory as the everblooming 

 rose. A plant that blooms all the spring, 

 summer, and autumn, and whose blossoms 

 are the perfection of beauty and fragrance, 

 is indeed entitled to all the affection which 

 lovers of flowers are likely to bestow on 

 their greatest favorites. 



But some of your readers, as well as 

 myself, may, it is not unlikely, have no- 

 ticed that in some soils these roses grow 

 and bloom almost without care, while in 

 others they are always poor, stunted little 

 things. 



I wish to say a few words about this dil- 

 ficulty in cultivating fine roses, especially 

 as regards strong soils, and indeed all soils 

 that are not very well drained and porous 

 below. 



In my own garden, the underlayer or 

 substratum of which is a fat loam, these 

 roses thrive very poorly, when planted out 

 even in a rich border, if planted without 

 preparation. They make a poor growth, 

 and give but few flowers, instead of grow- 

 ing luxuriantly, and blooming abundantly. 



It was some time before I could discover 

 the reason of this. At last, an experienced 

 rose-grower, to whom I complained, ex- 

 plained the difficulty, by saying — "what 



is at the bottom ? You can never grow 

 roses unless they have a good drainage." 

 A little further inquiry enabled me to dis- 

 cover, that he meant, that when there is a 

 stiff* loamy or clayey subsoil, so that the 

 water does not pass off freely, the moment 

 the roots of the rose touch this clay the 

 plant stops growing. 



Under his direction, I immediately pre- 

 pared three or four circular beds for ever- 

 blooming roses, by laying all the top soil 

 on one side, and digging out and rejecting 

 all the stiff subsoil. This made the hole 

 two feet deep. I then fllled it up with 

 small stones six inches deep, and mixing 

 with the good soil sufficient rotten manure 

 and pieces of sod, chopped fine, to make a 

 good mould eighteen inches deep. I planted 

 the beds, so prepared, with the best Tea, 

 China, and Bourbon Roses. 



The result surpassed my expectations. 

 Every plant grew, as I never before saw 

 those everblooming roses grow, — as they 

 never grew before in my soil, — and pro- 

 duced flowers such as I had never expected 

 to see, both as regards size and beauty. 

 This is now five years ago ; and since that 

 time, I have not planted a single fine rose 

 without preparing proper drainage for it, 

 and I have uniformly met with the same 

 success. I therefore recommend the prac- 

 tice with confidence to all your readers 



