ROSA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



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the climbing kinds wreathe the wails and 

 the dwarfs are grouped in beds and 

 borders solely for effect. None, with me, 

 have ever been protected, but winter 

 winds blow furiously over the garden, and 

 on several occasions more than 20 of 

 frost have been registered among the 

 plants. They may be grown with every 

 prospect of success over quite the southern 

 half of England and in many other 

 favoured spots. The dwarfer kinds 

 prefer a soil more light and open than 

 that usually chosen for other Roses. The 

 plants should be either on the Brier Stock 

 or on their own roots. The vigorous and 

 perpetual blooming climbing kinds are 

 the best Roses for walls and fences. 



to buy strong plants of Tea Roses on their 

 own roots, the trials were necessarily made 

 with good plants grafted on the Dog Rose, 

 but all my experience tends to show that 

 with many of the best kinds I should have 

 been more successful with plants raised 

 from cuttings struck in the open air in 

 October. A simple way is that pursued 

 by cottage gardeners, of putting in cut- 

 tings in a bed in the open air without 

 protection except inserting the cuttings 

 slantwise, in which way they strike more 

 surely. If Tea Roses were struck in this 

 way for a year or two, we should get a 

 stock of healthy plants on their own roots, 

 which we could soon compare fairly with 

 the Roses on the various stocks of Manetti, 



Rose, Celeste. 



Many of the climbing Teas may be 

 grown away from walls, which for such 

 hardy vigorous kinds only furnish support, 

 shelter not being needed. Plant in groups 

 of from three to twelve plants where they 

 have room to develop ; a stake here and 

 there is all the support needed, and they 

 will make huge bushes and bear flowers 

 by the hundred. 



TEA ROSES FOR ENGLISH GARDENS. 

 The following Tea Roses are the best 

 of the varieties opening well in Britain, and 

 the result of a trial of almost every obtain- 

 able kind, many thousand plants and 

 for many years, all tried in the open air 

 without protection of any kind at any 

 season. As it is extremely difficult so far 



Dog Rose, or other kinds. Where, how- 

 ever, we buy Roses worked very low, it is a 

 simple way to get them on their own roots 

 by burying the union of the stock and 

 graft for an inch or two inches below the 

 surface, scraping or cutting off a little of 

 the bark of the Rose above the union. In 

 this way the Roses often root above the 

 stock, and we soon get the advantage of 

 the plant on its own roots. The kinds 

 that are best worth doing in this way are, 

 we think, the Tea Roses and the allied 

 monthly Roses, which give such continuous 

 bloom throughout the summer in the 

 flower garden. The plan deserves 

 trying, above all things in soil supposed 

 not to be good for Rose culture such as 

 hot sands and other light soils, in which 



