24 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Prince Leon, Standard of Marengo, Sir John Franklin, Du Roi, Aubefhon, 

 Alexandrine Bachmeteff, Baron Hallez, Glorie de la France, Madame Laffay, 

 Prince ChipetowzicofF, Triomphe de Paris. 



There is much difference of opinion as to the comparative merits of roses 

 on their own roots, and those that are grafted, for an amateur who is willing 

 to devote some time and attention to his plants, the latter are decidedly the 

 best, for the growth is more vigorous and the flowers larger and more 

 numerous. The manetti stock is the best, but whatever kind is used the 

 plants should be set low enough to have the whole of the stock buried in 

 the soil ; a very little attention will be required to remove any suckers that 

 may appear, and an annual or biennial removal of the plants, resetting, 

 with the application about the roots of plenty of well rotted manure, will 

 assist very much in their proper growth. The only advantage of having 

 the plants on their own roots, is that there is no danger of losing the bud 

 by the growth of suckers from the stock, and if a person has not the time 

 or inclination to look after them properly, it is best to grow them in this 

 way. 



The tender roses such as the Bourbons, Teas, China, &c., may be grown in 

 the open ground, and wintered from year to year with very little trouble, in 

 the following manner. Have a frame of rough boards made in sections, so 

 that it can be easily taken apart and set up. About the first of November 

 lift the plants with a good ball of earth and set them in the ground again 

 as closely together as possible, setting up the frame around them ; let the 

 top of the frame slope to the north, and let it remain open till after a frost 

 sufficiently hard to freeze the ground quite stiff for an inch or so in depth ; 

 the top should then be put on ; it should be tight enough to shed the water 

 thoroughly. The sides of the frame should be well banked up with earth 

 to keep the water out and to prevent the mice from getting in. I came near 

 losing my whole collection by the depredations of these vermin, a year or 

 two ago. In this manner I have grown a collection of these roses for the 

 last six years, and have never lost a plant. When the frame is taken down 

 early in May they are alive and healthy to the very tips of the shoots. 

 During this time we have had as severe cold weather as we ever experi- 

 ence, and as my soil is naturally a cold clayey one, there is no reason why 

 anybody cannot have equal success. 



The best of my Bourbon roses are Hermosa, Paul Joseph, Mrs. Bosan- 

 quet, Henri Lecoq, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Csesarine Souchet, Comice 

 du Seine et Marne, Madam Angelina, Dupetit Thouars, Emile Courtier, 

 Geo. Cuvier, Le Grenadier, Cardmal Fesch, Desgaches and Madam Var- 

 engot. 



And among the Teas and Noisettes that do well in the open border are 

 Amie Vibert, Ophirie, Solfaterre, Caroline Marinaise, Adam, Moire, Le 

 Pactole, Goubault, Prudence Roeser, and Glorie de Dijon. 



And now let me say a word or two for the June roses, which of late 

 years seem to be almost entirely neglected. The culture of them is so 

 simple, they require so little care, they bloom in such profusion and are so 

 beautiful and fragrant that no rose grower can dispense with them even to 



