Vol. IV. 8f' 



CHICAOO, JULY 15, 1896. 



SiNOLK Copy 



10 Cents. "*»• 93' 



A HEDGE OP MME. PLANTIBR ROSES. 



Roses. 



NOTES ON ROSES. 



This hedge of Madame Plantier roses 

 has been planted tour years and it is now 

 over six feet high and as much through; 

 when it was in flower it was one of the 

 finest sights we had in the garden. The 

 bushes were completely Hidden with 

 flower, so abundantly did it bloom. It 

 gets very little care. In early spring the 

 long shoots are shortened in a little and 

 that is the only pruning it gets aside from 

 taking out the dead wood. This rose is 

 seldom troubled by insects; the rose slugs 

 don't trouble it much, and as a hedge 

 rose it is one of the best we have, and it 

 is easy to grow. 



Climbing Jules Margottin is another 

 good rose that does well here; it flowers 

 very freely. We treat it as a bush rose 



and it does nicely in this way. Next 

 spring we are to plant a hedge of it. to be 

 a companion to Madame Plantier. 



Rosa setigera (prairie rose) is now in 

 nice flower; it is a good, strong growing 

 species. We also teach this rose to grow 

 in a bush form, and how it does flower! 

 and coming in after the H. P. roses have 

 done blooming, one can scarcely do with- 

 out a few of it as it prolongs the season 

 of roses so well. 



Rosa Carolina is now in good flower; 

 it is another fine single rose and also a 

 native; after its blooms are past a nice 

 crop of crimson heps appear. 



Rosa ruhrifolia (red leaved rose) is a 

 beautiful species with deep purple foliage 

 and red flowers, followed by scarlet fruits 

 which hang on the plants nearly all 

 winter. 



Gloire de Dijon proves quite hard}' here 

 trained on the south side of the little cot- 

 tage and it grows fine and sends up 

 shoots twelve feet long in a season; what 

 a lovelv rose it is! 



Crimson Rambler does well with us and 

 winters nicely; one of the oddest things 

 about this rose is that after the bloom 

 partly fades buds form in the cent r of the 

 flower and open nicely. I have never be- 

 fore seen this spoken of in any garden 

 paper. I enclose a few flowers to show 

 you how it is, and this occurs in mostly 

 all of the blooms. 



Baltimore Belle, Queen of the Prairies, 

 and a number of the other climbing sorts 

 all do well here and flower beautifully. 

 The Dawson rose grows and blooms 

 finely and so does Wichuraiana. We grow 

 a lot of these half-climbing roses in bush 

 form, planting them close together and 

 letting them run all through one another, 

 forming a tangle, and in this way they do 

 well, and such a lot of flower you cd'nget 

 in this way! 



The rugosa roses also do finely here, 

 and give a lot of flowers and plenty of 

 berries; for growingin amass as we grow 

 it here it shows off in fine style. 



Of the H. P. roses we grow about sixty- 



