ROSA. 
common China Monthly Rose (R. 
indica,) and the Rose a-quatre-sai- 
sons (R. Damascéna). The Bour- 
bon Roses are very beautiful ; they 
are large and rather flat, with rich 
velvet-like petals much darker in- 
side the flower than on the outside. 
They flower in autumn, and they 
grow best in dry sandy soils, unless 
they are grafted standard high on 
the Dog Rose, when they should 
be manured like other standard 
Roses. 
All Roses require a rich and free 
soil, and plenty of pure air. They 
are not so particular with respect to 
light, as they will flower beautifully 
im situations which are shaded, at 
least during part of the day; and 
in fact, appear to prefer partial 
shade to constant exposure to the 
sun. Coal-smoke is very injurious 
to them. Roses are frequently 
planted in Rose-gardens, or Rosari- 
ums, in which each kind of Rose is 
contrived to fill a separate bed, and 
these beds are arranged so as to 
form a regular figure like a geomet- 
ric flower-garden. 
lars of Roses are formed by twining 
the climbing kinds against frame- 
work ; or they may be trained over 
arcades, or so as to form baskets. | 
The Rose is generally propagated 
by budding or grafting the finer | 
kinds on the common brier, or by 
layers. 
raised from seed; and the dwarf 
kinds are propagated by cuttings, 
most of the leaves of which should | 
Roses | 
be left on (see fig. 47). 
should be generally planted in au- 
turn ; but some of the more tender 
Chinese and Musk Roses may be 
planted in spring. A pit should be 
dug about two feet square every 
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Pyramids or pil- | 
New varieties are also | 
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ROSA. 
'should be taken up, their roots short- 
ened, and replanted in fresh soil, the 
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Fig. 47.—Rose Cutting, ready for planting ; 
the dotted line showing the ground. 
old soil being removed; and every 
year, in March, about hal a_bar- 
rowful of rotten manure should be 
laid on the surface of the ground, 
round the stem of the tree, and 
spread out so as to cover the roots ; 
the unpleasant appearance of the 
/manure, being concealed by cover- 
ing it with turf or stones. The 
pruning of Roses is a subject on 
which there are many different 
‘opinions, and Roses are generally 
March, so as not to leave more than 
three or four. buds on each shoot. 
An opinion, however, appears to be 
gaining ground among gardeners, 
that this pruning has been carried 
too far, and that many kinds, par- 
ticularly all the climbing Roses, 
ought not to be pruned at all. Ro- 
ses are so easily forced, that, with a 
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cut in every year in October or” 
way, and half filled with very rotten | very little trouble, they may be had 
manure or vegetable mould mixed | in flower every month in the year. 
with an equal portion of pit-sand ;| For instance, some Moss Roses may 
or if the soil be naturally sandy,| be taken up as soon as they have 
with equal parts of sand and loam. | done flowering, and haying been put 
Every fifth or sixth year, the Roses | tie pots and pruned, they may be 
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