54 ROSES THAT BLOOM IN JUNE. 



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year's growth. When the pruning of a plant is 

 finished, there should not be one shoot crossing an- 

 other, and every shoot or branch should stand free 

 and straight. The plants require manure or rich 

 compost dug in among their roots once a year, unless 

 the ground is of a very rich nature; in that case once 

 in two years will be sufficient. If some of the plants 

 are pruned in November, and others in March, or 

 after the foliage begins to appear, it w^ill make about 

 eight or ten days' difference in their time of bloom- 

 ing. This practice is often resorted to in Europe, 

 which greatly retards their bloom in cool or moist 

 climates; but with us the results are not so decisive, 

 though quite perceptible. Many of the sorts sucker 

 freely; in such cases the superfluous ones should be 

 removed in the spring, and planted where wanted, or 

 destroved. 



VARIETIES OF KOSA GALLICA. 



STRIPED, SrOTTEDj AND MAKBLED. 



ToKosa Gallica we are indebted for nearly all 

 these curiously spotted, mottled, and striped roses re- 

 cently brought into cultivation. The very old dwarf, 

 Rosa Mundi, is a pure Gallica, and is frequently con- 

 founded with the true York and Lancaster Eose, 



