WINTER ROSES IN POTS. 



tave Piganeau, Pierre Notting, Louis 

 Van Houtte, Baron de Bonstetten, 

 Xavier OUbo, Grand Mogul, Star of 

 VValtham, Alfred Colomb, Jean Liabaud, 

 Abel Carrier, Earl of Dufferin. 



4. The 12 best hardy roses highly 

 perfumed. Alfred Colomb, Xavier 

 Olibo, La France, Gustave Piganeau. 

 Margaret Dickson, Earl of Dufferin, 

 Mdlle. A. Wood, Augustine Guinnoi- 

 seau, Mme. G. Luizet, Duchess of 

 Albany, American Beauty, Gen Jacque- 

 minot. 



5. The best Hybrid Teas worthy of 

 garden culture (with slight protection). 

 Cheshunt Hybrid, La France, Augustine 

 Guinnoiseau, Duchess of Albany, 

 Duchess of Leeds, Augustine Halem, 

 Capt. Christy, Mme. Caroline Test- 

 out, La France de '89, Mme. Pornet 

 Ducher, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. 



6. The best hardy climbing roses. 

 Crimson Rambler, Empress of China, 

 and the Prairie roses ; the White and 

 Yellow Ramblers might be included ; 

 they are not as worthy as the Crimson 

 variety however. 



7. The best half-hardy climbers with 

 perfume. Climbing La France, Mary 

 Washington, Climbing Meteor, Gloire 

 de Dijon. 



8. The best Hybrids of Rosa 

 Rugosa. We have grown none of these 

 except Mme. Georges Bruant, this is a 

 very satisfactory and hardy sort, having 

 long pure white buds resembling Niphe- 

 tos in shape. Mrs Anthony Waterer is 

 a new deep red semi-double flower high- 

 ly recommended. Agnes Emily Car- 

 men is a deep crimson colored variety, 

 and the best of the batch of Hybrids 

 raised by E. S. Carmen of the Rural 

 New Yorker. 



9. Hardy Carnations. We have had 

 no experience with the European hardy 

 varieties of the Carnations. 



10. The best three Clematis for 

 veranda. Jackmanii, Henryi and Ker- 

 mesina Splendens, for a large veranda 

 the small flowered variety Paniculata, 

 is quite unexcelled. 



Note. — As a rule not much gain in 

 flowering is noticed in plants of equal 

 size whether budded or on own roots. 

 This pertains to garden culture, from a 

 number of budded plants of the La 

 France and Augustine Guinnoiseau, 

 (White La France), we have had finer 

 and more satisfactory supply of flowers 

 this summer than we have ever noticed 

 before, whether this is the result of 

 being budded has not yet been decided. 



WINTER ROSES IN POTS. 



'OULD you enjoy a few roses 

 in the house during the win- 

 ter ? No doubt you would, 

 but unless you have a very 

 sunny window to devote to them, in a 

 room where you can regulate the heat 

 so as to have the temperature at about 

 50 degrees during the night and 75 dur- 

 ing the day, grow something else. 



But, given the sunny window with 

 the right heat, a few roses will thrive 

 as well as geraniums, but not with the 

 neglect that geraniums will bear. Pur- 



chase the plants in the spring, prefer- 

 ably two-year-olds, because of their size. 

 The yearling plants are as thrifty as the 

 older ones, and will be as good eventu- 

 ally, but of course the larger plants will 

 give more bloom at once. Have rich 

 soil, and four inch pots for the yearling 

 plants, and six-inch pots for the two- 

 year-olds. Unglazed pots are better 

 than the glazed. Put a piece of broken 

 flower-pot over the drainage hole, and 

 a handful of pebbles, or something for 

 drainage, on top of which place a few 



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