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Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol. XiX. 



1896 



No. 6. 



GABRIEL LUIZET ROSE. 



I HIS excellent rose made its bow to the Ontario Fruit Grow- 

 ers Association last spring (1895) when a large number were 

 distributed among our members. Some of them should 

 bloom this month, and our readers will be able to compare 

 their specimens with our frontispiece. 



It is still a new rose to many, but is bound to take its 

 place among the most beautiful, and, what is still more in 

 its favor, as one of the sweetest of the hardy kinds. It is admired for its lovely 

 coral red, suffused with lavender pearl ; also for being so double and so free in 

 blooming. 



Many amateurs fail to grow good roses because their soil is too light and 

 sandy. Such soil should be in part renewed and a compost of clay and manure 

 dug in about the plants, if good blooms are desired. 



Then in their display in vases, many mix them in a tight bouquet of other 

 flowers, a most unfavorable style for the best effect. Roses should rather be in 

 a vase by themselves, with long stems, not too closely confined. 



Other amateurs are discouraged because of the aphis, and seem never to 

 realize how easily it may be destroyed by using kerosene emulsion. 



The Hatch Experiment Station reports in its experiments on insects tha 

 twelve rose bushes of different varieties were placed in the insectary greenhojise 

 last April, and as they were infected with plant lice and red spiders those insects 

 were allowed to multiply until the lice literally covered every green twig and 

 more or less of the surface of the leaves. The red spiders also had become 



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