202 THE CULTURE OF THE TUBE ROSE. 



By a succession of plantings, a long season of bloom is 

 secured. By planting on the eighth and twenty-fifth of 

 April, and the twelfth of May, one may have an uninter- 

 rupted season of bloom from the twentieth of July to the 

 tenth of November. 



Who shall say the end does not warrant the means ? Is 

 any one unwilling to devote the amount of labor to the 

 culture of so delightful an exotic ? Truly there is no 

 flower which, with little trouble, will yield so large a re- 

 turn of beauty and fragrance. The bulbs generally sold 

 in the seed stores are the double-flowered variety. That 

 with single flowers is far more beautiful and equally fra- 

 grant ; it is not so tall a grower, and its foliage is more 

 graceful ; it is, however, far from common. 



After the bulbs have flowered, it is the best course to 

 throw them away, procuring fresh each spring. Our 

 climate is too uncertain to insure a proper ripening of 

 the bulb. 



Offsets bloom the third year. 



The price of the bulbs in the seed stores is a dollar and 

 a half a dozen ; they may, however, be imported for two 

 dollars and forty cents per hundred, costing, with charges, 

 about three cents each. 



