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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



pared for the warmer weather to follow. I 

 would suggest not to leave them where they 

 were planted the previous summer, as fre- 

 quent transplanting will strengthen their 

 blooming properties. This, the June issue 

 of the Horticulturist, will give amateure 

 of the Horticulturist, will give amateurs 



ing seed for their plants for next year, and 

 I only hope many will avail themselves of 

 the opportunity of so doing in order to have 

 one of the finest species of plants in their 

 gardens, not on account of its value as suit- 

 able for cut flowers, but as a decoration for 

 the garden. 



ABOUT EOSES 



MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE MONTH OF JUNE— THE JACQUEMINOTS. 



IT is the time of the roses ! In every 

 garden, ground, and on every lawn 

 they give their beauty and their fra- 

 grance to every passer-by. The first surg- 

 ing wave of the opening summer breaks 

 over our green hills bearing forward the 

 high tide of the blossoming time of the 

 queen of flowers. Roses are the perfect ex- 

 pression of the year's perfect month. It 

 would seem that nature put forth all her sub- 

 tile chemic force, all her arts and resources, 

 all her power, to complete this particular 

 floral expression of perfect beauty. There 

 is but one real season for the roses, and that 

 is brief. It comes in the fresh and peerless 

 days of June- the perfected month — ere yet 

 the scorching heats of the full summer are 

 upon us, or the burning skies of brass have 

 come. The roses bloom when earth anis^ 

 sky are at their loveliest and their best ; aSd 

 of all the charming time and scene, they are 

 the most beautiful. Our northern slopes 

 and meadows are at their freshest, fullest 

 vigor, now — clothing all the world in robes 

 in the deepest verdure. The brooks are 

 full, the singing birds of the morning have 

 not ceased — the thrushes and the orioles ; 

 the rollicking music of the bobolink is heard 

 all day above the buttercups and daisies of 

 the field. June's skies, themselves, with 

 their 



" Far-folded mists and gleaming halls of morn," — 



and the mists, to say nothing of the rains, 

 are unusually abundant, this time — when 

 they do, at times, roll apart, disclose depths 

 of luminous smiling blue, far more charm- 

 ing than the unrelieved glare of the later 

 summer. The season of the roses coincides 

 with this time of general beauty in the land- 

 scape. Brief as it is, how exquisitely beau- 

 tiful they make it! A rose garden is the 

 most attractive part of the scene, wherever 

 one finds it. Take a row, for example, of 

 full-blown- Jacqueminots ! — what other rose, 

 of all the queenly throng, can quite equal 

 that royal flower — so deep, so rich, in its 

 full-toned velvety scarlet. Even its half 

 opened buds are more charming than those 

 of almost any other rose. The "Jack," as 

 it is now tersely and conveniently called, is 

 indeed a splendid variety. One element of 

 its beauty is the peculiar deep shading of its 

 royal red, like some rich velvet. It is as 

 fragrant, too, as it is beautiful. One can 

 only regret that the beauty of the individual 

 flowers is so shortlived. One day only is 

 permitted to its full perfection of glowing 

 color. Then it begins to dull down into a 

 less and less attractive purple, and it is best 

 for the sake of the bush, to remove it so that 

 the crowding succession of freshly opening 

 buds can have the most perfect succession. 



