IRISH GARDENING 



VOLUME VIII. 



No. 91 



Edited by C- F. Ball. 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTURE AND 



ARBORICULTURE IN IRELAND 



SEPTEMBER 

 !9'3 



Bedding Roses* 



By Dr. O'Donel Browne. 



NEW 



BOTANIC--. I 

 GAKDtiN. 



In all the articles which have appeared from 

 time to time in this paper 1 cannot recall any 

 article on the subject of " Bedding Roses.'' 

 Nothing makes or mars a garden more than beds 

 filled with Roses. Given a good selection of 

 Roses, plant 

 them in the 

 proper w a y 

 and you may 

 look for suc- 

 cess, but un- 

 less you do 

 the thing in 

 a propei way 

 it is only 

 labour lost. 

 Now let us see 

 what are the 

 iequirements. 

 Firstly, be 

 sure to see 

 that y o u r 

 beds are pro- 

 perly dug and 

 prepared. 

 Beds can be 

 of any shape, 

 but it is ad- 

 vis a b 1 e to 

 have them so 

 that they are 

 easy of ac- 

 cess and not 

 on them to 



A Bed of La France. 

 EciKed with Viola Chieftain. 



so wide that one must walk 

 get at the flowers. The best 

 kind of bed is in shape a parallelogram, as long 

 as you like, but not wider than five feet. This 

 will allow you several rows of Rose trees, the 

 question of spacing out between each tree must 

 be governed by the variety you intend planting. 

 Strong growers of course recpiire more elbow 



room. It is a good plan to only put one variety 

 in each bed ; colour, growth and evenness of 

 flowering are more uniform by this method. Get 

 your beds prepared caref idly early in September, 

 and send your order to youi nurseryman and, 



if you like, 

 give him the 

 dimensions 

 of the beds, 

 so that he 

 may judge 

 how many 

 trees to send 

 you. The 

 great mis- 

 take I see 

 most people 

 make is to 

 plant too 

 few in a bed. 

 Roses to fur- 

 nish a bed 

 should be put 

 in closely, 

 not smother- 

 ing one an- 

 other, b u t 

 near enough 

 to furnish all 

 the bed. Let 

 them be 

 pruned very 

 and let all 



hard in the following spring 

 cultural care be given them. 



Now, we must say a few woids about the 

 varieties. Of late years, owing to the increasing 

 amount of hybridizing, varieties have increased 

 enormously and also so have the schemes of 

 different forms. By this I mean that bedding 

 Roses are all varieties now from the single to 



