ROSE 



ROSE 



3009 



3475. A well-grown rose-bush. 



Hybrid Teas should be pruned for quality, and the 

 proper time is when the buds are swelling. The amount 

 of wood to leave on the plant varies with the variety. 

 Shortening the shoots to 4 to 8 inches gives fair results. 

 Cut back the weak growers more severely than the 

 vigorous kinds. To provide for good blooms later, leave 

 three good buds in the axils of the leaves at the base of 

 the shoot when removing flowers or withered blossoms 

 (Deal). 



Hybrid Sweetbriers require only such pruning as to 

 shorten back the over-vigorous growth and occasionally 

 to remove some of the 

 oldest shoots to prevent 

 crowding. 



Tillage. 



Just before growth be- 

 gins in spring, the surplus 

 rough manure should be 

 removed from the beds 

 and all the remaining fine 

 particles forked in. Deep 

 cultivation is not desir- 

 able, as the roots are likely 

 to be injured or broken. 

 Three inches in depth is 

 quite sufficient for a bed 

 that has not been trampled 

 on, and this should be 

 performed with a four- 

 tined digging-fork, which 

 is less likely to cause 

 injury to roots than a 

 spade. The beds should 

 then be neatly edged and 

 the surface raked off 

 smooth and even. Frequent stirring of the surface with 

 a sharp rake is all that is necessary afterward, until 

 the buds begin to develop. Then half a gallon of weak 

 liquid manure applied around the roots of each plant 

 just before a shower will be beneficial. The manure- 

 water should be prepared beforehand, and as soon as a 

 good promise of rain appears, all hands should be called 

 into service and every plant given a full ration. One 

 person should dig a shallow trench with a garden trowel 

 around each plant, the next follow and fill with the 

 liquid manure, being careful to avoid besmirching the 

 leaves; afterward the bed may be raked over level and 

 the rain will wash the food to the roots. This feeding 

 may be repeated with benefit every week until the season 

 of bloom is over, after which stimulation should cease 

 and the plants be permitted to perfect the new wood 

 for the next season's growth. Little pruning is neces- 

 sary with "cut-backs." So much wood has been 

 removed in gathering the blooms that but little more is 

 left than needed to keep the plants vigorous and 

 healthy. There is another advantage from the system 

 of close pruning: all growths are so strong and vigorous 

 that they are better able to resist insects or disease. 



The notion that roses exhaust the soil in a few years 

 and require to be changed into new ground is generally 

 accepted, and is true in most cases; but when beds are 

 formed as previously described and budded roses 

 planted, the vigorous feeding roots find sufficient nutri- 

 ment in then- far-reaching growth to support a healthy 

 development of wood and flowers for many years, espe- 

 cially if a generous top-dressing of manure be applied 

 each autumn and liquid manure supplied liberally dur- 

 ing the development of the buds. A top-dressing of 

 wood-ashes after the first spring tillage will materially 

 increase the vigor of the wood and flowers. 



Varieties. 



The following roses are sufficiently hardy for plant- 

 ing, with more or less protection, even in central New 

 York, where all have been tested (Beal) : 



Hybrid Perpetual. Alfred Colomb, A. K. Williams. Anna de 

 Diesbach, Baron de Bonstetten, Baroness Rothschild, Captain 

 Christy, Captain Hay ward, Clio, Dr. O'Donel Browne, Duke of 

 Edinburgh, Duke of Teck, Frau Karl Druschki, General Jacque- 

 minot, George Arends, Gloire de Chedane Guinoisseau, Gloire 

 Lyonnaise, Hugh Dickspn, J. B. Clark, John Hopper, Lady Helen 

 Stewart, Madame Gabriel Luizet, Magna Charta, Margaret Dick- 

 son, Marshall P. Wilder, Mrs. John Laing, Mrs. R. G. Sharman- 

 Crawford, Oscar Cordel, Paul Neyron, Prince Canaille de Rohan, 

 Ulrich Brunner. 



Hybrid Tea. Antoine Rivoire, Augustine Guinoisseau, British 

 Queen, Caroline Testout, Chateau de Clos Vougeot, Chrissie 

 Mackellar, Dean Hole, Dorothy Page Roberts, Duchess of Suth- 

 erland, Duchess of Westminster, Earl of Warwick, Edith Part, 

 Etoile de France, Francis Scott Key, Frau Lilla Rautenstrauch, 

 Geoffrey Henslow, George Dickson, Grace Molyneux, Gruss an 

 Tepliti, Gustav Grunerwald, Hector MacKenzie, Irish Bright- 

 ness, Jonkheer J. L. Mock, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria, Killarney, 

 Killarney Queen, Konigin Carola. Lady Alice Stanley, Lady Ash- 

 town, La France, Laurent Carle, Lieutenant Chaure, Madame 

 Jules Groler, Madame Hector Leuillot, Madame Segond Weber, 

 Marquise de Sinety, Mevrouw Dora Van Tets, Monsieur Joseph 

 Hill, Mrs. A. R. Waddell, Mrs. Wakefield Christie-Miller, Ofe- 

 Gold, Prince de Bulgarie, Queen Mary, Simplicity, Souvenir du 

 President Carnot, Souvenir de Gustave Prat, Sunburst, Vis- 

 countess Folkestone, Wellesley, White Killarney, Willowmere, 



Pernetiana. Arthur R. Goodwin, Louise Catherine Breslau, 

 Lyon, Madame Ruau, Rayon d'Or, Soleil d'Or. 



Polyantha or Baby Rambler. Bordure, Catherine Zeimet, 

 Cecile Brunner, Clothilde Soupert, Ellen Poulsen, George Elger, 

 Gruss an Aachen, Leonie Lamesch, Louise Walter, Madame Jules 

 Gouchault, Maman Turbat, Marie Brissonet, Marie Pa vie. Mig- 

 nonette, Mosella, Mrs. W. H. Cutbush, Schneekopf, Triomphe 

 Orleanais. 



Moss roses. Blanche Moreau, Comtesse de Murinais, Crested 

 Moss, Crimson Globe, Princess Adelaide. 



Hybrid Sireetbriers. Amy Robsart, Anne of Geierstein, Brenda, 

 Catherine Seyton, Edith Bellenden, Flora Mclvor, Green Mantle, 

 Jeannie Deans, Julie Mannering, Lady Penzance, Lord Penzance, 

 Lucy Ashton, Lucy Bertram, Meg Merrilies, Minna, Rose Brad- 

 wardine. 



Hardy Yellow roses. Austrian Copper, Harison's Yellow, Per- 

 sian Yellow. 



Bourbon and \oisette. Beauty of Rosemawr, Burbank, Caro- 

 line Marniesse, Champion of the World, Hermosa, Mrs. Paul, 

 Souvenir de la Malmaison. 



Hybrid China and Gallica roses. Madame Plantier, Rosa Mundi, 

 York and Lancaster. 



Rugosa hybrids. Agnes Emily Carman, Conrad Ferdinand 

 Meyer, Madame Georges Bruant, Madame Lucien Villeminot, Nova 

 Zembla, Perfection I'Hay, Blanc Double de Coubert. 



Climbing roses, large-flowered types Baltimore Belle, Christine 



Wright, Climbing American Beauty, Countess M. H, Chotek, Dr. 

 W. Van Fleet, May Queen, Prairie Queen, Ruby Queen, Tausend- 

 schon, W. C. Egan. 



Climbing roses, many-flowered types. Count Zeppelin, Crimson 

 Rambler, Dawson. Dorothy Perkins, Excelsa, Gardenia, Gold- 

 finch, Lady Gay. Lady. Godiva, Minnehaha, Mrs. F. W. Flight, 

 Mrs. M. H. Walsh, Rene Andre, Rubin, Source d'Or, Thalia. Trier, 

 Wartburg, White Dorothy. 



Climbing roses, single-flowered types. American Pillar, Bonnie 

 Belle, Dehght, Eisenach, Evangehne, Jersey Beauty, Hiawatha, 

 Leuchstern, Paradise, Pink Roamer, Silver Moon. 



Tea-scented roses. Duchesse de Brabant, Harry Kirk, Helen 

 Gould, Isabella Sprunt, Madame Lambard, Madame Joseph 

 Schwartz, Maman Cochet, Marie. Lambert, Mrs. Herbert Hawks- 

 worth, Papa Gontier, Princesse de Sagan, Souvenir de Catherine 

 Guillot, William R. Smith, White Maman Cochet. 



Climbing Tea and other tender roses. Birdie Blye, Climbing Test- 

 out, Madame Alfred Carriere, Madame Driout, Mrs. Robert 

 Peary, Reine Marie Henriette. 



Bengal rose-s. Archduke Charles, Douglas. Lucullus, Madame 

 Eugene Marlitt, Maddalena Scalarandis, Queens Scarlet, and 

 Viridiflora. 



Single Hybrid Tea roses. lona, Irish Beauty, Irish Brightness, 

 Irish Elegance, Irish Harmony, Irish Modesty, and Simplicity. 



19 17 15 13 11 9 



20 IS 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 



3476. Suggestions for a variety record in the notebook. 1 to 6, 

 Her Majesty; 7 to 12, Margaret Dickson; 8 to IS, Gloire Lyon- 

 naise; 16 to 20, White Baroness. 



Much of the charm of growing roses is derived from 

 the accurate knowledge of each variety by name. Yet 

 few amateurs ever accomplish this, chiefly because the 

 labels have been lost or misplaced, and not infre- 

 quently a plant becomes known to the cultivator by a 

 name belonging to a neighboring specimen whose label 

 has been placed on the wrong plant. To obviate this, a 

 record should be made in a book kept for the purpose, 



