April 27, iy07 



HORTICULTURE 



561 



Gloire de Margottin, Gloire de I'Bxpo- 

 sition de Bruxelles, Earl of Dufferin, 

 Earl of Pembroke, Eclair, ExiKjsition 

 de Brie, General Jacqueminot, Fisher 

 Holmes, Prince Camille de Rohan, Paul 

 Verdier, Paul Jamain, Pierre Netting, 

 Mrs. Jowitt, Mrs. Harry Turner, Star 

 of Waltham, Victor Hugo, Victor Ver- 

 dier, Tom Wood, Waltham Standard, 

 Mile. Annie Wood, Marie Baumann, 

 Marie Rady, Maurice Bernardin, Mile. 

 Suzanne Marie Rodocanachi, Mme. 

 Chas. Wood, Mme. Leiievre Delaplace, 

 Duke of Connaught, Duke of Edin- 

 burgh, Duke of Fife, Countess of Ox- 

 ford, Chas. Lefebvre, Chas. Lamb, Cap- 

 tain Haywood, Bob Davison, Bruce 

 nndlay, Ben Cant. Baronde Bonstet- 

 tin, Prince de Portio, Abel Carriere, 

 Alfred Colomb, Anne de Diesbach, 

 Chas. Margottin, Eugene Furst, Fran- 

 cois Levet, and Mai-shall P. Wilder. 

 No collection of roses is complete with- 

 out a few of the Mosses. They re- 

 quire the same treatment as the Hy- 

 brids. The following I have found 

 the best: Common Moss, Crested 

 Moss, Graeilis, Little Gem, Muscosa 

 Japonica, Crimson Globe and Blanche 

 Moreau. 



For rose beds in prominent places 

 I would recommend the following va- 

 rieties: Pink and White Mme. Cocliet, 

 Grace Darling, Viscountess Folkestone, 

 Safrano, Hermosa, Gruss an Teplitz, 

 and the Polyantha Baby Rambler. A 

 whole bed of one variety is always 

 more effective than any attempt to 

 mix them, and a suitable edging of 

 sweet alyssura, verbenas, or any low- 

 growing continuous flowering plants 

 will help show them off. A.11 decaying 

 blooms should be frequently picked 

 off and they should always be gone 

 over after a heavy rain. These roses, 

 with the exception of Baby Rambler, 

 are either Tea or Hybrid Tea, conse- 

 quently are not so hardy as the Hybrid 

 Perpetuals, and should be extra well 

 protected during winter. They should 

 not be pruned nearly so far back in 

 spring. 



No class of rose has gained in popu- 

 larity in the last fifteen years as has 

 the climbing roses. This I may say 

 is due to the adventitious Crimson 

 Rambler, which is now no more a 

 stranger to the humble cottager than 

 the millionaire, but the Crimson Ram- 

 bler may justly be credited with the 

 stimulant she created amongst hybrid- 

 izers, the results of which are now 

 demonstrated to us in a vast variety 

 of sterling merit of which the Yankee 

 hybridizer deserves a good share of 

 the credit. For covering arbors, trel- 

 lise, fences, pillars, or planting along 

 side of buildings and high walls in 

 conjunction with other climbers, noth- 

 ing is more effective than these Ram- 

 bler roses. The best and hardiest va- 

 rieties are found in the Rambler or 

 Polyantha class, although some of the 

 Wichuraiana hybrids are extremely 

 useful for this purpose, but some of 

 them cannot be cla.ssed as hardy roses, 

 many having too much Tea blood in 

 them to te able to stand our winters. 

 I have seen large plants of Gardenia, 

 Jersey Beauty and Evergreen Gem 

 completely killed with a moderately 

 cold winter. They are better adapted 

 generally for covering banks and low 

 projecting rocks, and when mixed v.-ith 

 honeysuckle are extremely valuable 

 for landscape work. The following are 

 good varieties of climbing roses: Dor- 

 othy Perkins, Lady Gay, Dawson, 



HOUSE OF LETTUCE AT IRONDEQUOIT. 



This illustration shows the new 

 house, 76x240, on the garden farm of 

 Frank Titus, Irondequoit, N. Y. Its 



capacity is 50,000 heads of lettuce. 

 Tlie boiler is 150 horse power, consum- 

 ing 100 tons of coal per season. Built 

 ))y King Construction Company. 



Leuchstern, Psyche, Crimson Rambler, 

 Sweetheart, Debutante, Lynch's Hy- 

 brid and White Wichuraiana. Pillars 

 and various shaped trellises may be 

 covered with roses in the front an 1 

 rear yards of the small cottager, and 

 many of the strongest growing Hybrid 

 Perpetual varieties, as well as the so 

 called pillar roses, may be used foi- 

 this purpose. Some of the best are 

 Baltimore Belle. Queen of the Prairie. 

 Gem of the Prairie, General Jacque- 

 minot, Mme. Plantier, Magna Charta. 

 and Marshall P. Wilder. Climbing and 

 pillar roses must not be cut far back 

 in spring, but the oldest wood should 

 be cut out occasionally, and this Is 

 best done just after the flowering pe- 

 riod, taking care that you have a good 

 young growth from the bottom for 

 every old one you cut out. All that 

 will be necessary in spring will be to 

 cut back to suit the space desired to 

 be covered. 



Some varieties of roses may housed 

 for hedges, but I think there are other 

 plants that adapt themselves better for 

 this work ol: the rose. The best rose 

 for this purpose is the Hybrid China, 

 Mme. Plantier, although some of the 

 Austrians, of which Persian Yellow is 

 the best, may also be used. Rosa ru- 

 gosa can vie with the best of flowering 

 shrubs for ornamental mass planting, 

 of which Alba and Rosea are the best. 

 These should also be cut well back in 

 spring and induced to throw up strong 

 &hoots from the heel. 



The rose, like all other good things 

 in floriculture, has its bug enemies. 

 White scale or rose scale is often trou- 

 blesome on climbing, pillar, or stand- 

 ard roses, where the wood is over a 

 year old it is generally worst. A thor- 

 ough spraying with Pratt's Scalecide, 

 one portion of Scalecide to twenty of 



v«-ater applied with a fine nozzle in lata 

 lall or early spring will kill this pesL 

 Caterpillars must be carefully guard, 

 ed against. I generally find one appli- 

 cation of powdered hellebore sutficient 

 to keep these in check. I'^is should 

 be applied about the 20th of May. The 

 best way I find is to use it in liquid 

 form, one tablespoonful of helleboro 

 tc fourteen quarts of water sprayed 

 on during the afternoon of a bright. 

 dry day. One should not wait until 

 reminded by the half-eaten leaves be- 

 fore using hellebore, as the caterpillars 

 ore sure to visit you about tjie time 1 

 have stated. Another great enemy of 

 the rose is a little white thrips, but 

 this seldom attacks roses in the open 

 garden, but look out for your climbers 

 on buildings or pillar roses if in any 

 way shaded by trees. 1 find strong 

 applications of tobacco water the best 

 for keeping this thrips in check, but 

 generally it has to be repeated at in- 

 tervals throughout the season, com- 

 mencing about the 10th of May. Aphis 

 is sometimes troublesome. If so, to- 

 bacco dust applied late in the evening 

 is the surest remedy. But. gentlemen, 

 the worst of all bugs that we have 

 seen in late yeai-s is the genuine Rose 

 Bug that devours the finished prod- 

 uct and has vexed all admirers of the 

 rose along this section of the Hudson 

 river for the last two years. 1 have 

 seen arbors of roses with the blooms 

 literally covered with these bugs, and 

 scarcely one bloom free from its rav- 

 ages, killing by hand seems to be the 

 only way to destroy this pest, but even 

 this is small satisfaction, for we are 

 unable to save our blooms. If I could 

 prescribe a remedy to eradicate this 

 pest this paper would have been at 

 least worth the ink that has been 

 spilled upon it 



