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ROSE 



ROSE 



leaflets and single flowers of a coppery yel^w color. It 

 is so hardy that it can brave the most rigorous climate 

 where man tills the soil. Persian Yellow, Harisonii 

 and Copper are the most valuable varieties. They 

 should be pruned sparingly. 



Hybrid Climbing Roses. These are especially useful 

 as pillar Roses. The most valuable are Climbing Jules 

 Margottin (See Fig. 2179, page 1567) and Glory of Ches- 

 hunt. 



The Prairie Rose {Rosa setigera) is the hardiest of 

 climbers. This quality, with the rapidity and vigor of 

 growth, has given them a wider popularity than any 

 other climbers. The Gem of the Prairie is the only fra- 

 grant Prairie Rose. Baltimore Belle (Pig. 2154) is the 

 least hardy but most beautiful. Other valuable varie- 

 ties are: Queen of the Prairie, Anna Marie and Trium- 

 phant. The pruning knife should be used sparingly. 



Hybrid China Rose (JRosa Chinensis forms): Many 

 Roses catalogued as Hybrid Perpetuals properly be- 

 long here. If Ellwanger's suggestion that all French, 

 Provence, Damask and Hybrid Bourbon be grouped un- 

 der the Hybrid Chinas is adopted. Rose classification will 

 be much simplified and little will be lost in accuracy. 

 Madame Plantier is the best known and most valuable 

 of all the group. 



Half-hardy Roses: Bourbon Rose (Bosa Botirhon- 

 ica) : This group for the most part is composed of au- 

 tumnal bloomers. They are popular as garden Roses. 

 Hermosa is the freest bloomer. Appoline is the most 

 beautiful. George Peabody and Malraaison are also de- 

 servedly popular. The moderate growers of this group 

 should be closely pruned. 



The Hybrid Noisette {Bosa JVoiseftiatia, var. hybrida ) 

 has made several contributions to the rosarian. Tlic 

 least hardy but the most beautiful members of this 

 group are Madame Noman, Mile. Bonnaire and Eliza 

 Boelle. Rivals in beauty and more hardy are Co- 

 quette des Alpes, Coquette des Blanches. The pruning 

 knife should not be spared with this class. 



The Hybrid Tea Rose {Bosa Chinensis, various 

 forms) is more hardy than the Tea Rose and less 

 hardy than the Hybrid Remontauts. It is a group 

 destined to have many additions in the not distant 

 future. La France, Captain Christy, Kaiserin Au- 

 guste Victoria, Caroline Testout and Liberty 

 are the best of this class. 



Some persons like to train Roses to a few 

 canes and tie them to stakes (Fig. 2173). 

 Another practice is to bud them ^ 



high on brier stocks and to 

 grow them as standards Most 

 Americans prefei 

 the free-growiug bush, 

 blooming from neai 

 the ground (Fig. 2174) 

 Edmund M. Mills 



Another View of Gar- 

 den Rose- Growing. 

 Roses may be success 

 fully grown in any soil 

 that will produce fair 

 crops of grain, vegeta 

 bles or grass. Certainly 

 the best results will be 

 obtained in the more 

 favorable soils and sit 

 uations, but every one 

 who loves a Rose and 

 possesses a few feet of 

 ground with plenty of 

 sunshine can have his 

 own Rose garden and — ■= 



find pleasure and health 

 in cultivating the queen 

 of flowers. Of course 

 the ideal soil is a rich, deep loam, but 

 a good Rose bed can be made in clay, 

 sand or gravel at little expense and 

 labor. Even the city resident, whose 

 house lias been erected on the site of 

 an exliausted brick-yard, can at a 

 small expense secure sufiicient good 

 soil from the outskirts and manure 



from the adjacent stables to make a Rose garden that 

 will grow as good plants and flowers as those of his 

 more favored friends who have acres at their disposal, 

 provided always that the sunlight can reach the beds 

 for at least half of the day. 



The preparation of the ground is the first step of 

 importance. Roses abhor wet feet, and if the soil is 

 wet it must be thoroughly drained. This can be accom- 

 plished by digging out the bed to a depth ot three feet 

 and filling in one foot with broken stone, bricks, cinders 

 or anything that will allow a free passage of tlie water 

 through the soil. If this is not suflicient and the 

 water is not carried away, provision must be made for 

 this bj' tile-draining; but, except in very extreme cases, 

 the drainage before mentioned will be found amply 

 sutfieient. The composition of the soil should depend 

 on the class of Roses to be grown, for the Hybrid 

 Remontants do best in a heavy soil containing clay, 

 while those having Tea blood prefer a lighter, warmer 

 soil. 



The beds may be made of any desired shape, but a 

 width of 4 ft. will usually be found the most satis- 

 factory, as a double row can be planted at intervals of 

 2^2 ft., which will be all that is necessary for the 

 strongest growing varieties, and the blooms can be 

 gathered from each side without the necessity of tramp- 

 ling on the soil. Space may be economized by planting 

 as in the following diagram : 



2172. Marechal Niel Rose (X }4)- 



One of the most popular of tho Noisettes. 



Color yellow. 



The plants will then be 1 ft. from the edge and 30 in. 

 apart, and each plant will be fullj- exposed to the light 

 and air and will not interfere with its neighbors. 



In preparing a bed on a lawn, the 

 sod and soil should first be entirely re- 

 moved and placed apart; then the best 

 of the subsoil may be taken out and 

 placed on the other side of the trench, 

 and, lastly, the portion to be discarded, 

 making in all a depth of at least 2 

 The floor is then loosened to 

 the full depth of a pick-head, 

 tlie good subsoil replaced and 

 mixed with a generous dress- 

 ing of well-decomposed 

 stable manure; lastly 

 the surface soil and 

 sod well broken up and 

 also thoroughly en- 

 riched with manure, 

 and the bed filled to 

 the level of the ad- 

 joining surface with 

 enough good soil added 

 to replace the dis- 

 carded earth. When 

 = the bed has settled the 

 surface should be at 

 least one inch below 

 that of the adjoining 

 sod, in order that all 

 the rainfall be re- 

 tained. The writer be- 

 lieves it to be a serious 

 mistake to make any 

 flower bed higher than 

 the adjacent surface, 

 as in hot weather the 

 soil dries out and the plants suffer 

 for want of moisture. 



If the bed is intended for the hardy 

 Hybrid Perpetual or Remontant class, 

 it sliould contain a fair ])roportion of 

 clay well mixed with the soil. A suf- 

 ficient amount is always present in 

 what is known as a heavy loam. If 



