ROSE NOTES 



Rose and T ONG ago gardeners decided that, if only one flower could be 

 Hyacinthus grown in a garden, that flower should be the Rose, and this 



not only on account of its beauty and scent, but because 

 many kinds are hardly without flower for six months, and a few 

 can be counted on for eight. The saving of labour and expense, 

 too, may be considerable. If beds are well rilled with Roses, there 

 will be no need to grow annuals, or the more troublesome 

 biennials, or the bedding-out plants, which require a greenhouse 

 to winter them. Once Roses are properly planted, very little 

 labour is needed : in spring, only the digging of the bed and 

 pruning ; in summer, relieving them of dead flowers and 

 straggling shoots, and possibly the administration of a dose or 

 two of liquid manure or bone dust ; in autumn, the covering with 

 manure to protect them through the winter. But, even without 

 such care, in what kindly fashion they will grow year after 

 year ! If time can be given, many another flower can be 

 effectively bedded with them. The sketch suggests a very 

 easy way by which a wealth of bloom may be secured in 

 August, when Roses are resting. The Hyacinthus bulbs 

 can be planted in February, if the weather is open, or in March, 

 and are particularly pretty among rather tall old Teas, either set 

 singly all over the bed, or in clumps wherever there is room. 

 In August their graceful white bells rise above the Rose foliage 

 and last for some weeks, and if the plants are well fed, second 

 or even third spikes of bloom will be sent up. As they are too 

 greedy, it is not wise to mix them with young Roses. Another 

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