August 10, 1912 



HORTICULTUKB 



175 



ROSE GROWING UNDER GLASS 



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Tying and Staking Tea Roses 



In houses planted in May and June, teas, if not al- 

 ready staked will call for stakes and tying now. We 

 find it pays better to stake teas than to grow them on 

 wires. We have no use for stakes for Beauties, which 

 we find do muchbetter with wires. 



In tying tea roses do not pass a string around the 

 whole plant with the stake in the center; that is no 

 way to do, even though it is the custom on a good many 

 places. Tie each strong shoot separately and low down 

 so that the part left after the flower is cut will remain 

 tied. 



Do not bunch the wood together too much or a large 

 amount of foliage will be lost, thus weakening the plants. 

 Spider is also bound to get in and is very hard to dis- 

 lodge from among the closely tied plants. 



If your teas are on wires be careful to tie so as to be 

 able to reach in very easily when cutting. A great many 

 flowers are ruined by being bruised or torn on thorn.- 

 while cutting. Roses mutilated thus can never be ex- 

 pected to bring the top notch price, which is not so very 

 high at that. 



Manure 



Have you a good supply of manure on hand for this 

 fall ? If not now is the time to see to it for all growers 

 should realize the importance of having the manure at 

 the proper time. Fresh cow manure is not the best for 

 roses and anyone using it should be sure he knows just 

 what he is about. Well-decayed manure is much better 

 all the way around and I cannot see why any grower 

 should neglect getting in a supply at the proper time. 

 Manure that is in heaps now should be turned over as 

 often as necessary. This must be determined by sur- 

 roundings as manure decays faster in some places than 

 in others. 



Soot 



In making out and ordering your list of supplies for 

 the coming season, be sure to include a few bags of good 

 soot. Eather expensive, you will say, but after you have 

 once used it on Beauties and a few of the other roses 

 you will never be without it. Soot can be used on almost 

 anything grown in the gi'eenhouses and many outdoor 



flowers and vegetables like it equally well. A very good 

 way to api^ly soot is to mix it into the liquid manure. 

 Little of it will be wasted in this way, and it will be 

 distributed much more evenly than if applied directly 

 to the bench. 



Outside Roses 



With the cool, dewy nights some mildew is likely to 

 appear. This used to be a dreaded disease on outdoor 

 roses, but we have found a very simple remedy which is 

 very effective — simply spraying with Fungine, adver- 

 tised in columns of Horticulture. We do not wait 

 for the plants to get mildew but spray them every now 

 and then, using a weak solution as a preventive. Keep 

 on feeding and watering the plants as they may require 

 and with little care they ought to produce flowers of fair 

 quality right up to frost time. 



Heating Time Soon Here 



Have you looked over your boilers? If not it is high 

 tiiue that you do so and make every little repair that 

 may be necessary. Do not put this off any longer as the 

 time w'ill soon be here when heat will be required, and 

 remember that the houses must not be run "any old 

 way" as they may have been last spring. Fall is a part 

 of the growing season when the least neglect will show, 

 and many houses can be easily ruined. Do not attempt 

 to rest the plants any during the fall but keep them 

 steadily growing if at all possible. 



Lime 



From now on use lime regularly after each watering 

 or syringing, blowing it underneath the plants just be- 

 fore quitting time, as it is not very pleasant to worlc 

 in the houses after you have been through them with 

 the lime bellows. Always have a supply of dry air- 

 slaked lime on hand. If ever you are caught in a 

 shower and by not lowering the ventilators soon enough 

 your plants get wet, blow a little lime around as soon 

 as they dry off enough to avoid the lime sticking to the 

 foliage. Should the lime be applied while the plants 

 are wet the lime dust will settle upon the leaves, thus 

 giving them a none too nice color which will stick too, 

 and it wall take a number of syringings to remove it. 



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