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ROSE 



ROSE 



may also be grown around porches, provided that they 

 can be planted where the drippings from the roof will 

 not fall on them and they are kept free from slugs. 



Climbing Teas can be grown successfully in the lati- 

 tude of Philadelphia only in the case of a few varieties. 



3472. Reine Marie Henriette, the finest climbing Tea rose for 

 the latitude of Philadelphia. This shows the vigorous growth, the 

 trellis being 10 feet wide and 9 feet high. 



Many of the finer kinds are worthless, in spite of all the 

 protection that can be given them, unless they are 

 covered with glass. Lamarque, Bouquet d'Or, Cloth of 

 Gold, Triomphe de Rennes, Marechal Niel, and Reve 

 d'Or have, in the writer's experience, all perished in the 

 first winter, but Reine Marie Henriette, Gloire de Dijon, 

 William Allen Richardson, and Celine Forestier will do 

 well and yield satisfactory results. Reine Marie Hen- 

 riette blooms finely and makes a magnificent growth, as 

 may be seen in Fig. 3472. The trellis is 10 feet wide 

 and 9 feet high. 



Hybrid Sweetbriers, of the Marquis of Penzance kind, 

 are a valuable addition to rose collections. The foliage 

 is abundant, healthy, vigorous, and fragrant, and the 

 exquisite shading of each variety forms a beautiful con- 

 trast with the others. It would be difficult to choose 

 among them, for all are worthy of a place, when there is 

 sufficient space for them to revel. They should have a 

 high trellis and be planted fully 8 feet apart. 



Pruning roses. 



Of the common garden roses, the flowers are pro- 

 duced on new wood of the season that arises from the 

 canes or the crown, or else, in the case of shrubby 

 species, from old trunks or arms. It should be the aim 

 of the grower to secure strong clean canes for this 

 flower-bearing, and not to have so many of them on 

 each plant as to produce much small weak bloom. 



Standard or "tree" roses are sometimes grown, but 

 they require so much care in keeping down suckers and 

 in staking and tying, that they are little known in this 

 country. They are grown 

 abroad when a few excel- 

 lent blooms are desired or 

 where space is limited. 

 These tree roses are top- 

 budded, on strong stocks, 

 to the desired variety. 

 Sometimes an effect ap- 

 proaching the true tree 

 rose is produced by tying 

 up a few very strong canes 

 to a stake, as shown in 

 Fig. 3474. The usual type 

 of rose-bush in America, however, of the Hybrid Per- 

 petual class, is shown in Fig. 3475. 



Pruning the dwarf-growing Hybrid Perpetuals may 

 be begun late in March and regulated by the quantity 

 or quality of the blooms desired. If the effect of large 

 masses be wanted, four or five canes may be left 3 feet 

 in height and all very old or weak growth entirely 

 removed. This will give a large number of flowers, effec- 

 tive in the mass but small and with short weak stalks 

 scarcely able to support the weight of the heads and not 

 effective as cut-flowers, as this sort of pruning is entirely 

 for outside show. After the bloom is entirely past, the 



3473. Illustrating the pruning of 

 the rose shown in Fig. 3472. 



may make good and vigorous wood for the next season of 

 bloom. But if quality be desired, all weak growth should 

 be removed, every remaining healthy cane retained and 

 cut back to 6 or 8 inches. Always cut just above an out- 

 side bud, to make an open head that will admit light and 

 air freely. After the first season's growth, there may be 

 about three canes to be retained, but with good care 

 and cultivation the number will increase yearly, until 

 after fifteen or twenty years there will be at least as 

 many canes to be utilized as the plants are years old. 

 The writer had a bed over twenty years from planting, 

 in which each plant, after close pruning, measured 

 15 to 18 inches in diameter, each cane throwing up four 

 to six shoots 1 to 2 feet in length and sufficiently vigor- 

 ous in most varieties to hold up the largest flowers and 

 to give magnificent specimen flowers for cutting. Roses 

 grown in this way do not need stakes. They are suffi- 

 ciently strong and vigorous to hold erect any weight 

 they may be called upon to bear; but late in the autumn, 

 before the high gales of November arrive, they should 

 be cut back to about 2 feet to prevent their being 

 whipped by the winds, 

 for this would loosen the 

 plant and break the 

 newly formed feeding- 

 roots. The plant should 

 not be cut back to the 

 point suggested for 

 spring pruning, as in the 

 hot Indian summer the 

 upper eyes will surely 

 be forced out and the 

 promised blooms for 

 the ensuing season de- 

 stroyed; so in pruning 

 for protection from No- 

 vember blasts, enough 

 wood should be left to 

 avoid all danger of the 

 lower buds being forced 

 out. The upper buds 

 always develop earliest. 

 Some varieties will not 

 produce large flower- 

 stalks under any method 

 of treatment, notably 

 PrinceCamille de Rohan, 

 La Rosarie, and Rosie- 

 riste Jacobs; but almost 

 all the other kinds do 

 better under this method 

 than any other, if quality 

 is desired. 



Pruning dwarf -grow- 

 ing Tea roses is con- 

 ditioned on the fact 

 that they will not endure such vigorous cutting back 

 as the Hybrid Perpetuals. All good strong shoots 

 should be retained unless they form a very close head, 

 when it is better to remove a few from the center. 

 The canes should be shortened about one-third of their 

 length, the branches cut back to one or two eyes, and 

 after each period of bloom the longest shoots should be 

 trimmed back sparingly. 



Bourbons need even less trimming. Souvenir de 

 Malmaison, Mrs. Paul, and others of this class should 

 have only the weak ends of each shoot removed, and no 

 more wood cut away than is necessary to remove weak 

 and unhealthy parts. 



Climbing roses should be pruned sparingly by simply 

 shortening-in the too vigorous shoots and cutting the 

 laterals back to two eyes. Tie all to the trellis in a fan 

 shape, dividing the space as evenly as possible. Fig. 

 3473 shows the same Reine Marie Henriette pruned 

 and trained on trellis. These continue in flower until 

 November, the early bloom in June being the finest. 



3474. Rose trained to a few shoots. 



