78 JUNE EFFECTS ON THE LAWN. 



their growths mingle. The illustration on the opposite page 

 shows an arbor in Central Park covered with Wistaria that 

 always exhibits the flowers with excellent effect. 



Nor should we pass unnoticed on this occasion the sum- 

 mer charms of the two best climbing roses, Baltimore Belle 

 and Queen of the Prairies. There are other excellent 

 varieties of climbing roses, but they do not surpass, and 

 hardly supplement, the excellent qualities of these two well- 

 known kinds. 



Pages might be profitably devoted to the consideration 

 of the June-flowering qualities of hardy roses generally, of 

 the Gen. Jacqueminots, Baronne Prevosts, Mad. Plantiers, 

 and a thousand others, but in the brief way in which we 

 are studying June lawns, we can afford to simply touch on 

 the employment of roses as a class. To their magnificent 

 tints and forms no pen can do adequate justice, and their 

 excellence has moreover become a household word. We 

 may profitably, however, devote a few lines to some brief 

 suggestions for the development of the most abundant and 

 best rose blooms, and for the disposition of rose bushes on 

 the lawn. 



In the first place, to get the best roses, the soil where 

 the plant is grown should be a rich sandy loam and not 

 clay, and then the old growth of last year should always be 

 cut back almost to the ground, or, if the plant is already 

 old, almost to the main stem. Rose bugs and blight are apt 

 to make rose bushes, unless carefully tended, somewhat 

 unsightly objects on the lawn in spite of their grand 

 flowers. Of course this need not be so, but we should 

 recognize the danger squarely, and if we cannot be sure of 



