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VOL. v.] 



DECEMBER, 1882. 



[No. 12. 



K O S E S 



It will be remembered that the 

 Directors have offered a rose plant to 

 those who prefer to receive it as one 

 of the articles to be sent to our sub- 

 scribers in tJie Spring ; and so, by way 

 of reminder, this number brings to its 

 readers a beautiful colored plate of 

 this beautiful flower. 



Fortunately there is no need that 

 we tell of the beauty of the rose. 

 Every one treasures bright visions of 

 them, mingled with memories, and 

 intertwined with associations that give 

 a lustre or a mellowness to their 

 beauty, awakening at the very thought 

 of them emotions of pleasure. Every 

 one admii-es the rose ; every one would 

 grow the rose. But it is not every 

 one who grows the rose that grows 

 roses. Success in this, as in all else, 

 is the outcome of a love that ever 

 burns but never consumes. Down, 

 deep down in the innermost depths of 

 the heart, it is ever glowing. The 

 snows of winter may wrap the rose 

 trees with their fro.'Jty mantle, but no 

 chill reaches that love ; nothing can 

 ever damp its ardor. Tenderly the 

 true lover waits on his Queen with un- 

 tiring constancy ; none the less when 

 come the autumn days, with the sere 



and yellow leaf, than when she is just 

 budding into beauty, or glowing in all 

 the splendor of queenly majesty. To 

 those who can thus care for her, anti- 

 cif)ate her needs and guard her from 

 danger, she comes forth in all her love- 

 liness. As an eminent English culti- 

 vator has tersely expressed it, " he 

 who would have beautiful roses in his 

 garden must have beautiful roses in 

 his heart." 



Much has been written on the culti- 

 vation of roses that needs to be modi- 

 lied somewhat to meet the peculiarities 

 of our Canadian climate ; hence a few 

 hints are here given that it is hoped 

 may be of some value to our readers, 

 inasmuch as they are the results of 

 some years of experience in growing 

 the rose. 



Select for the rose garden a spot 

 that is sheltered from the sweep of 

 the winds, yet not too near to grow- 

 ing tiees, lest their roots rob the roses. 

 If it be practicable, let groups of ever- 

 gi'(>pns break the force of the winds, 

 and temper their fury. 



Mulch the gi*ound with a liberal 

 hand both summer and winter ; thus 

 will the roots be protected from mid- 



