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As for further pruning any small weak shoot, which has 

 unobserved got a start, should be cut entirely away, as it 

 only takes the strength which should go into the vigorous 

 branches, and will itself either produce no flower or an 

 insignificant bloom. Sometimes even vigorous shoots 

 from leaf axils, mentioned above, or from latent buds on 

 the main body or branches or root fail to produce flower 

 buds ; such shoots are spoken of as blind wood, and should 

 be cut back so as to leave only two or three full sized 

 leaves between the point where the cut is made and the 

 body or branch from which it sprang, the number of 

 leaves left on either a blind shoot or flowering branch 

 before mentioned always depending on the vigor of the 

 shoot. This manner of cutting blooms, and this cutting 

 out of weak shoots and cutting back of blind shoots make 

 low-growing robust bushes, which produce flowers of 

 largest size and highest quality. 



Frequent culture and fertilizing also are important fac- 

 tors in the Summer care of roses. The soil not only 

 closely around the rose bushes but over the entire surface 

 of the bed or border should be stirred once or twice each 

 week to the depth of about one inch and made as nearly 

 fine as dust as possible. This frequent culture and dust- 

 like surface soil will conserve the moisture and leave little 

 necessity of watering. 



Once a month from April to September inclusive there 

 should be worked into the surface of the soil all over the 

 rose bed or border and around specimen bushes on lawns, 

 a generous application of pulverized sheep manure or well 

 decayed cow manure, and half way between these applica- 

 tions a spread of pure bone flour (often called by the 

 seedsmen "Rose bone flour") sufficient to make the sur- 

 face white. 



Well pruned, thoroughly cultivated and generously fer- 

 tilized rose bushes are far less liable to the attacks of 

 disease and insects than neglected bushes. 



The prevalent diseases are mildew, which appears as a 

 whitish powder on the foliage and causes it to curl and 

 blister, the remedy for wliich is flowers of sulphur applied 

 dry, preferably with a pow-der bellows or gun, or fun- 

 gine, and "black spot," which appears as black spots on 

 the foliage, a very dangerous disease w^hich, if taken at 

 its first appearance, spraying with Bordeaux mixture 

 or fungine will help somewhat. 



The most common insects which attack rose bushes 

 are aphis, thrips and several kinds of small worms, and 

 rose bugs. The remedy for the first three is any one of 

 the nicotine preparations. 



For the rose bugs, hand picking has always been the 

 main dependance, but now "Readeana Rose Bug Exterm- 

 inator" is much used and pronounced very eft'ective. and 

 there has been recently placed on sale a new Rose bug 

 killer named Melrosine which is w-ell spoken of. 



Preparing the Buslics for JVinter — Pruning and fer- 

 tilizing should be suspended by Oct. 1st, and when in No- 

 vember the ground freezes an inch or two deep at night, 

 the rose bushes should be put into Winter quarters by 

 simply heaping up the soil a foot high or more around 

 each, a protection which is both safer, as it does not har- 

 bor mice, which often girdle the bushes by eating off the 

 bark, and more effective than manure or leaves. This soil 

 is easily thrown up around the bushes, when they are 

 planted in rows, and even when they are in beds, it may 

 be brought in a wheelbarrow from another part of the 

 garden for banking the center bushes of the beds while 

 the soil aroimd the bed can be thrown up against the 

 outer rows of bu.shes. This soil should be drawn away 

 from the bushes in early Spring as soon as the buds on 

 the tops of the bushes begin to swell, and all dead and 

 weak wood be cut out and the other branches cut back so 

 as to leave onlv one to three eyes (leaf buds I lietween 



where the cut is made, and the body or branch out of 

 which it grows. 



The following lists of roses comprise some, but not all 

 of the best varieties. 



Tea Scented and Hybrid-Tea Varieties. — These are 

 grown for cut flowers, and bedding plants combined. 

 They bloom from Spring till late Autumn more or less 

 continuously, some more freely in Spring, others in Sum- 

 mer and others in Autumn. Under good cvdture they are 

 very satisfactory. 



Red and Crimson Colors 



Chateau De Clos Vougeot. 

 Etoile De France, Crimson. 

 General McArthur. 

 Edward Mawley. 



Hadley. 



Hoosier Beauty. 

 George Dickson. 

 Red Radiance. 



Yellow Shades 



Marquis De Sinety. Mrs. A. R. Waddell. 



Mrs. Aaron Ward. Harry Kirk. 



Rayon D'Or. Lady Hillingdon. 



Duchess of Wellington. Lilian Moore. 



Mad. Ravary. 

 White 



Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. 



Pharisaer. 



Double White Killarney. 



White Maman Cochet. 

 Florence Pemberton. 

 Molly Sharman Crawford. 



Different Shades of Pink 



Belle Siebrecht. deep pink. La France, bright pink. 



Jonkeer, J. L. Mock, Carmine- Laurent Carle, velvety car- 

 rose or "Imperial pink." mine. 



Mad. Caroline Testout, sal- Los Angeles, flame pink, 



mon-pink. Mary, Countess of Ilchester, 



Marquise De Canay. silvery- crimson-carmine, 



rose. Mrs. Charles Russell, rosy 



Prince De Bulgarie, flesh- carmine, 



rose. Premier, dark pink. 



Radiance, pink. Mcountess Folkestone, sal- 

 Lady Ashtown. soft pink. mon-pink. 



Dean Hole, Carmine-pink. Ophelia, salnion-pink-flesh. 



Columbia, pink. 



Hybrid Perpetual Roses 



These give a heavy crop of splendid flowers in June, 

 and some varieties under excellent culture give a limited 

 number of flowers in late Summer or Autumn. 



Different Shades of Pink 



Baroness Rothschild, light Mrs. John Laing, soft pink. 



pink. Mrs. R. G. Sharman Craw- 

 George Arends, soft light ford, rosy pink. 



pink. Magna Charta, rosy pinkish 



Mad. Gabriel Luizet, silvery- carmine. 



[link. Paul X'eyron, clear pink. 



Red and Crimson 



Ulrich Brunner, cherry-red. Prince Camille de Rohan, 



Marshall P. Wilder, crimson. ;rimson-maroon. 

 J. B. Clark, deep scarlet. 



White 



Frau Karl Drnschki. Mad. Plantier. 



Margaret Dickson. 



Dwarf Polyantha Varieties 



These are used for massing in beds or for edging beds 

 of tall growing roses. Their blooms, which are borne in 

 sprays, may be used for cut flowers. 



Aennchen Muller, deep rose. Jessie, crimson. 



Baby Rambler, red. Baby Dorothy, bright pink. 



Baby Tauscndschon, pink. Perle D'Or. yellow. 



Cecile Brunner, bright rose. Mrs. Wni. Konig. white. 



Climbing Roses 



Tausendschon. pink. Crimson Rambler, red or 



Dorothy Perkins, pink. crimson. 



White Dorothy Perkins. Philadelphia, red or crimson, 



white. Dr. W. Van Fleet, flesh-pink. 



Excelsa, red or crimson. Silver Moon, white. 



