H4 JOTTINGS OF A GENTLEMAN GARDENER 



These ingredients should be pounded up separately 

 and mixed together very thoroughly. The material must 

 be kept in a tin with a tight fitting lid to exclude damp. 

 Some rose growers apply this manure in the winter, and 

 some after the pruning is finished. But all agree that the 

 quantity to use is 3-4 ozs. per square yard, and that the 

 manure should be well forked in at once. 



Uses of Roses : The rose as a cut flower is splendid. 

 But it should not be put into tall thin necked vases, it looks 

 too ornate there, if not ridiculous. Large shallow bowls 

 should be used, and if the water is changed frequently, the 

 blooms will last well. There is something so cheering about 

 a bowl full of bright roses, a cheerfulness which is not 

 conveyed by any other flower to quite the same extent. 



If there are plenty of roses scent may be made by placing 

 them in adulterated spirit, and by subsequent distillation. 



To make Pot Pourri the roses are pulled to pieces, and 

 the petals spread out in trays to dry in the sun. They are 

 then mixed with a compound of spices, such as gum 

 benjamin, cinnamon, storax, and others. The making of 

 this Pot Pourri (which evolves a most entrancing scent) 

 is full of interest, and if the reader is interested he should 

 read the chapter on the subject in Miss Jekyll's fascinating 

 book, " Home and Garden." It deals with the matter 

 fully and gives several old recipes. 



Varieties of Roses : These are legion and I confine myself 

 to mentioning some of those which thrive well in our 

 Midland district. We are only a few miles from iron and 

 steel works, so that what will grow here should grow almost 

 anywhere. 



Climbers : American Pillar (pink) ; Alberic Barbier 

 (white) ; Crimson Rambler (crimson) ; Dorothy Perkins 

 (pink) ; Gloire de Dijon (salmon-yellow) ; Hiawatha 

 (crimson) ; Minnehaha (pink) ; Ren6 Andre (yellow) ; 

 and White Dorothy (white). 



Dwarfs, etc. : A. K. Williams (carmine red) ; Avoca 

 (crimson) ; Bessy Brown (white) ; Captain Christy (pale 

 pink) ; Captain Hayward (crimson-scarlet) ; Caroline 



