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ni}m\ini) 4^<>i'tienltarist 



Vol. XII. 



MARCH, 1889. 



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THE ROSES. 



;N distributing among our Our readers need have little dithculty 



members the Paul Ney- in projjagating roses by layering, if in 



run and the ISaron the month of July they will bend down 



de lionstetten roses, the branch, and pin it to a shallow 



we hojK> to be the trench in the soil, pressing down the 



means of increasing earth fumly upon it and leaving the tip 



the interest in rose growing upward. Oare should be 



culture. i'oth of taken, however, first to cut a slit on the 



them have been well under side, about an inih long, to the 



descTibed by Mr. Fred. Mitchell, on pith. By thus i)artially breaking the 



l)age 16, and we have now pleasure in connection with the parent bush, the 



giving a colored plate of this latter layered cane will send out rootlets ot 



variety, as a frontispiece to this number, its own, and when cut away in the lall 



It is a splendid rose, large and full, of or spring, will be able to depend upon 



a rich velvety maroon color, and one 

 of the very best hybrid [)eri)etual roses 

 which an amateur can plant. By sel- 

 ecting some such easily grown varieties 

 at the outset, and finding himself re 

 warded with a [jrotusion of beautiful 

 flowers, he may be encouraged to tr\ 



its own roots for nourishment. 



The enemies of the rose are numer- 

 ous, the chief of which are well and 

 briefly alluded to in the following from 

 Vick's Monthly : 



The insects most harmful to roses 

 are the green fly, red spider, rose hoj)- 



other improved varieties recjuiring per or thrips, and the rose bug and the 



special attention. black slug. Now, though combatting 



To have the best success, it is ne these insects involves some little trouble, 



ces.sary to have a good rich soil, made yet succc>-^ will attend all persistent 



by digging in a compost of sods and efforts. 



cow manure. The latter should be The green lly, the thrips and the 



about one year old, and mixeti in the black slug can all be kept under by 



proportion of one load to eight of the syringing the plants with a solution ot 



former, and if the soil is inclined to be whale oil soap. One pound ol soap is 



heavy, add one part to ten of good sharp sufficient for eight gallons ot water, 



sand. Throw the water in a fine spray on the 



