THE 



GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



AND 



HORTICULTURIST. 



DEVOTED TO HORTICULTURE. ARBORICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 



Edited by THOMAS MEEHA.N. 



Vol. XXIV. 



JULY, 1882. 



Number 283. 



Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground. 



SEASONABLE HINTS. 



What we said last month about the slowness 

 of the world to learn, and the little encourage- 

 ment the teacher receives as he looks abroad 

 for some impression of his work, is as well 

 illustrated by many other ihings, as by trees 

 and tree pruning. Take the Rose for instance. 

 Just now there is a rising craze for budded Roses 

 — Roses budded on the Manetti stock. It is evi- 

 dent that a vast number of persons do not even 

 know that they are simply going on in the end- 

 less round of the old-new things. As this is the 

 month for rose talk we will copy as perhaps a 

 seasonable bit of advice, suited to the new 

 budded Rose mania, what was given from the 

 pen of the writer over twenty years ago : 



Many persons use the Manetti stock to bud 

 Roses on, — and it is recommended to " bud them 

 as low " as possible. It is better to bud them a 

 few inches above the ground, — for the Manetti 

 will throw up suckers which, if left, will kill the 

 Rose, and they are better detached when we can 

 see a little stem. 



When people will have new Roses at the lowest 

 price, — or where much wood is desired for propa- 

 gating purposes, or where extra fine flowers of 

 weak growing kinds are desired, budding on the 



Manetti is all very well,— but it is all very bad to 

 use the Manetti for the general public. Practi- 

 cally the bed of choice grafted Roses, becomes all 

 stocks in a few years. 



In budding, select strong, healthy shoots, — 

 and let the buds to be used for the inoculation 

 be a little in advance of the stock. Works on 

 Roses mostly still keep up the recommendation 

 originally copied from English works to '' take out 

 the wood " from the bud,— but no American 

 operator does it. 



If you have more varieties than you care for, 

 some of them poor, bud the rejected ones with 

 the better kinds. 



Scarce kinds of Roses may be propagated this 

 month, by eyes of the unripened wood taken ofi" 

 just after flowering, and set in sandy soil in a 

 shady place. Cuttings 'from shoots grown in 

 partial shade root better than those matured in 

 the full light. 



As soon as a flower fades on the Perpetual Rose 

 cut it off". This is the way to have them flower 

 again well in the Fall. 



All this is just as true to-day as when we first 

 wrote it. No wonder so many clergymen are 

 tempted to use up old sermons! When Sir 

 Walter Scott tells us he loaned a neighboring 

 lady the same book four times over in four 

 years, before she came to believe "she thought 



