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THE ROSE. 



IRECTOR SAUNDERS in his Report for 1895, 

 has an interesting report on roses, and we select 

 several paragraphs : 



Hardiness. — Among the summer roses, all the 

 varieties of Moss roses have been found quite hardy, 

 also the Prairie roses and the Persian yellow. 

 Among the miscellaneous varieties in this class 

 Madame Plantier deserves a place in the front rank 

 for hardiness, vigor of growth and abundance of 

 bloom. The flowers are white, double and very fra- 

 grant. As already stated none of these roses bloom 

 in the autumn, but they flower profusely during their 

 period ot blooming which usually lasts from two to 

 three weeks. 



The Teas or ever-blooming sorts are all too tender for outdoor culture in 

 Ottawa unless they are taken up in the autumn, packed in sand and stored in a 

 cool cellar during the winter. Several of the Hybrid Teas have proven fairly 

 hardy, notably La France and Captain Christy, but of all roses for outdoor 

 culture the Hybrid Perpetuals are by far the most useful and satisfactory, many 

 of them with a little protection are quite hardy, and reward the cultivator with a 

 wealth of bloom which is highly gratifying. The principal part of the crop of 

 flowers is borne from the middle of June to the middle of July, but many of the 

 most esteemed varieties continue to bloom at intervals until late in the autumn. 

 Planting and Treatment. — The rose needs a rich soil; a good garden loam 

 enriched with well rotted manure dug to a depth of twelve inches or more will suit 

 it well. A more or less sheltered but sunny location is also advantageous, but 

 roses will not thrive in the immediate vicinity of large trees whose foliage inter- 

 feres with the free access of sunlight and whose spreading roots monopolise the 

 available plant food in the soil. In selecting roses for planting it is a great 

 advantage to have them on their own roots, notwithstanding that some of the 

 varieties thus propagated are poor growers, otherwise one is continually troubled 

 with strong growing suckers from the wild stocks, which if not early noticed and 

 promptly removed will often weaken and eventually smother out the graft. In 

 planting spread the roots carefully so as to give them their natural positions, 

 set the plant a little deeper than as grown in the nursery, and press the soil 

 firmly about the roots. 



Injurious Insects. — To prevent injury from insects spray or syringe the 

 bushes just as they are coming into leaf with Paris green and water in the 



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